skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny thing, I've been moving Swift to C++, for real. I'm paying a price, but also getting some benefits. I'm not convinced that giving up on C++ and rewriting everything in a new language is a great idea. If I could get some compiler extensions to give me some experimental toys and syntactic sugar, I'd never be tempted by Rust/Swift/etc.
Deniers of what exactly? I haven't denied anything? Seems like perhaps you are answering another thread.
Is there any way to change this short-term-ism?
Wasn't SEA converted to Sunni Islam?
The GR20 is epic, walking along ridgelines between crazy weather systems, thunder and high winds on one side, humid tropical updrafts on the other, followed by wild boar saucisson, a hunk of bread and corsican beer at the refuge.
This a dishonestly weak take. It's like saying people have always communicated with each other, therefore the introduction of the internet hasn't changed anything. The difference of course with AI is scale and access which is completely revolutionized by the new technology.
It was ever?
Wasnt gmail announced on Apr 1st?
How would you even measure that? Art is inherently subjective, and the “arts scene” even more so.
Salesforce is a sales and marketing company that was founded (and is led) by a brilliant sales and marketing person in Marc Benioff.

They are not now, and never have been, and engineering focused company. The creation of the Salesforce platform itself is (or was) based entirely on Oracle tech...and it was SOLD extremely well because it solved business problems.

Salesforce has failed to innovate outside of releasing the CRM as a SaaS product back in 1999...which is why they have bought innovation, and then integrated it poorly...see Heroku, Slack, Mulesoft, Tableau, Quip, Demandware, ExactTarget, etc.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2019/06/18/sale...

I worked there for a short bit. Most frustrating experience of my career. It was the epitome of rest and vest well before COVID.

Extreme lack of urgency, little attention to quality, and a huge focus on sales and marketing.

Salesforce will print money for a few more years until someone makes a less awful CRM solution and just crushes their business...so long as Salesforce can't buy that company, integrate it badly, and disillusion all the employees that made it great.
In a car you can listen to podcasts or audiobooks at least. If it self drives for you then email and slack is fair game too. 3 separate trips wouldnt be hard to imagine. The commute is trip one. Picking up takeout is trip two. Running to target after dinner is trip three. That sort of thing is tough with transit though. Oftentimes your business is not in the same place, so you might be going all over town running errands or making appointments. The car is of course much faster to pivot between places than tranfers and waiting. Walking is good, but clearly people today have opted for the temporal convenience of driving over the physical benefits of walking, which might be faster to achieve with a more intense gym session. Its not like many rail stations see 100% car free living within their walksheds today. For some they have big lots because many of their riders prefer a few minutes driving to the station in a climate controlled vehicle over the alternative.
If you see the following:

x = √y

… would you pronounce it as “x, two parallel horizontal lines, V with a left hook, y”?

The symbols have a meaning that’s unrelated to their appearance. It’s the same in APL. The “square c” is just like “V with a left hook”.
Interesting read. I'm surprised Amazon haven't blocked UART access in bootrom mode, considering there's an efuse they can blow, from the bootloader (LK) environment, that will permanently disable it. As an example, Motorola did this on their Mediatek-based phones as part of a firmware update.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34925145 apparently even applies to ChatGPT generated comments.
You’ve clearly never run an org. Cost is one of many factors that matters. MS teams is also free as in beer when I’m already buying office.
Unless he doesn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
This guy gets it. Evil people can frame other people for things they didn’t do, creating completely photo realistic videos as evidence. It doesn’t matter if the truth comes out eventually if the pitchforks have already come out to enact revenge and get their drop of blood. And on the flip side, any evidence of their wrongdoing is just “fake AI news”.

Welcome to the new world.
A way to do it, not saying this is their model I haven't looked into Custodia at all. But just for the sake of argument, would be to start out capitalized with X amount of cash which would allow 12.5X in deposits to be fully covered. As fees are generated and/or stock issued and sold, more deposits could be accepted. If this model were competing with traditional 10% margin banks, it might well be supported by stockholders due to its ability to withstand runs a priori.
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Don't mistake practicality for pessimism. Ai is real, and can be achieved, but there is also a very dominant subculture online of cheap hacks and scams in tech now... Look at Theranos, Crypto Scams, Numerous tech projects that get huge funding only to fail Early etc... Overlooking the potential for cheap imitations of technology advancement is all to common, we need to approach everything new with a solid dose of skepticism in order to ensure authenticity.
How prepared is America for war?
Those people also won’t be hired as coders. There are other things that they will excel at.
That's how you get people to use MFA, but AFAIK there's no feature in Discord to a) federate with a directory like AD or b) force users on a server to only be able to sign in with a hw key
As best I can understand, K is proprietary and you need to have a business relationship with Arthur Whitney to get access to the latest. You can get a free trial for personal use here: https://kx.com/download-kdb/. There are some open source clones like: https://codeberg.org/ngn/k https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok , and inspired languages: http://t3x.org/klong/
Wow even the rules for bivouac seem bizarre and arbitrary. Only one night in the same place allowed... what if you set out to climb some peaks in the Alps and need to wait a few days for the right weather window, do you have to move your tent every day (and tear it down after sunrise)? Very odd and arbitrary. It almost seems like it would incentivize dangerous fast and loose/sloppy outdoor behavior.

For comparison in the US dispersed camping usually just has very general rules like can't stay in an area more than 30-60 days, have to leave no trace, respect fire bans, and deal with other local restrictions like on hunting, foraging, fire wood collecting, etc.
yeah. labeling stuff will make your future products perform good or bad, depending how you label your current stuff, everything else being equal
It is much newer in many parts of the world.
I adore hacker hijinks on April 1st (like the OP). Great post!

Most of the time though, April fool's stunts are bland corporate marketing. Internal comms tend to be like this too, with a Hawaiian shirt casual Friday vibe.
why jump at the sign of a first leak? you can usually get another full year of slacking off at full pay while the parent company dithers around

unless you see truly greener pastures elsewhere, getting acquired is one of the best gigs in IT
If I could get all that, my job would be easy.
Try reading a cookbook without knowing how to cook.

Wtf does medium heat mean? How about simmer?

They're great if you've got a basic understanding of cooking, but not for getting that basic understanding.
Chat GPT 3.5 is playing live poker on twitch
In the only acquisition I've been involved in, the morning after it was officially announced we came into the office and the (brand-colour) orange walls had been painted grey.
This ignores simple facts.

The Japanese had sufficient time to surrender after the first nuke was dropped.

The second was apparently what was required for them to capitulate. The loss of life (on both sides) from an invasion would have been at least an order of magnitude greater.

One terrible action to avoid a prolonged much larger loss of life. I don't envy the people who had to make that difficult decision but it is clear they made the correct one.
They already had a total size limit. The complaint is that they introduced a new one without really telling anyone.
Living near the dutch border, you get "kaassouffle" in a lot of places. Its basically breaded, deep fried gouda cheese. While I love them, I always warn friends tasting them for the first time - they can really ruin your mouth.
>Something happened during the initial stages of the pandemic. People lost their absolute minds and aggressive and reckless driving got way, way worst than I've ever seen.

That's easy enough. People who were socially minded stayed home; people with an individualistic attitude ignored recommendations. You hear similar stories from people working in customer service - the average quality of the person they had to deal with plummeted.

What's a bit peculiar is that, according to you, road culture has not recovered.
I'm getting ready for those "cleaning up after chatGPT" jobs.
Add about 200°C to the filling temperature and you capture the difference.
The joke is that Rust used to be the one making breaking changes (a while ago), and now they have an explicit "no breaking changes" promise. C++ had a strong tradition of no breaking changes, but the C++ committee is now trying to make a shit load of them.
I've run mattermost for a moderate sized team while doing my dev duties, it was never a bother...what specific problems did you have?

I maybe spent fifteen minutes a month on upgrades
This is so obtuse, that it must be trolling.

It’s like saying the printing press changed nothing! people could write manuscripts all they want. So what if you drove the cost down significantly? It’s people who have the ideas not books.
If you think augmented imagery started with vfx then you would not believe what people were able to do in a darkroom. Deepfakes can be made with an xacto blade.
Not entirely. Efficiency maximization can also result in a state where a feature is interesting to us but neutral, or just not harmful enough to be worth the energy to change. Remember that the watchmaker is completely blind.
In the past people weren't able to voice their concerns and demand better things. Violence as entertainment was used as a tool by the ruling classes as a way to enforce their power.

The effects of the trauma of violence are clear and well studied. Just because something happened in the past doesn't mean we can assume it had true support from the people who had no choice.

Maybe people in the future will say that the people today found it entertaining to pollute the world, while we know many of us find it upsetting and wish in vain for alternatives against the strong tide of the power system in place.

Another thing to consider is the old taboo around left handedness. As the taboo lifted the actually recorded rate of left handedness increased dramatically! Turns out social systems can lead to people acting in ways that are personally uncomfortable for them rather than going against the tide.
Important thing to take out of it: the volume of destruction in Hiroshima, and the mass fire, was due to shitty construction quality. It's like when a hurricane levels entire Puerto Rico once every 10 years but when a stronger hurricane happens in Florida, damage is very localised and not really a problem.
Was it built like a normal European city with brick or reinforced concrete buildings and not enough combustible material for a mass fire, damage and losses could be an order of magnitude smaller. This is also why megaton range bombs are not at all an overkill. Unfortunately, spectacular volume of destruction due to unique circumstances of Hiroshima being widely popularised, created an inflated impression of power of nuclear weapons, stoking fears and preventing Cold War from being finished in a quick job 30 years earlier.
Moral conclusions I don’t agree with are panics.
Don't think there's any evidence for that.
And “carbonara is an American recipe” [1]. (Budae-jjigae is closer to your example [2].)

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/6ac009d5-dbfd-4a86-839e-28bb44b2b...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budae-jjigae
I’d like it if I could browse what courses were available before signing up.
It was good even decades ago. Wine is one of those projects that really impressed me back then and still does.
Show HN: How to use ChatGPT and embeddings in Node.js
This is just an example [0] if you want to use embeddings with ChatGPT using langchainJS [1] and chromadb [2]. There weren't many examples so figured I would share this incase it helps someone out.

You can also switch from chromadb to whatever (hnswlib for example is dead simple and you can save embeddings to disk).

I put a telegram bot as an example. Be "responsible" :P and have fun!

[0] This isn't using the Retriever api because I did this a couple weeks ago and it wasn't there, by the way!

[1] https://github.com/hwchase17/langchainjs/

[2] https://trychroma.com/
They're saying it's in the realm of possibilities, plants *may* be communicating via sound, and this is in the context of a study that shows plants are making noises that can be used to convey information.

They're saying it merits further investigation, not presenting it as a hard fact. To claim that's "wild overselling" and that it doesn't belong in a "high impact" journal is wildly underselling the study. They make sure to use the word "may" in everything they suggest that's not directly backed up by the study.
> Can you even work out exactly what people will be employed as once AI takes over?

If the AI "takes over", as in it's a fully sentient agent, then claiming humans will be unemployed isn't technological unemployment but rather is the lump of labor fallacy. That's because the AIs are just more people. They're going to be customers (they need products to survive and probably want things on top of that), will have jobs (they need to pay their power and AWS bills or they'll get turned off), will negotiate pay raises that may make you cheaper, and you can sell things to them.

If they're not sentient/agentic enough to be consumerist or want to be paid, then they're capital equipment aka automation, which doesn't substitute for labor and in practice increases employment by making labor more productive.

All nice and theoretical.

> Therefore cars are more deadly then nuclear bombs.

I agree the #3 cause of death in America is more deadly than something that is so safe it has never accidentally killed anyone. (Except for the demon core guy and the people who got cancer from detonation tests.)

Remember, the real world actually exists, and logic problems don't, which means logic problems are free to be incorrect because nothing is requiring them to exist in possible worlds.
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Since the article is about "affected" and not specifically about "losing jobs" we can say that butlers, high class escorts, and masseurs will use ChatGPT as well so they will be affected.
>Well, it's a really crappy BBS simulation.

Yes, but it's not a BBS simulator. It's a general purpose tool being asked to imagine a world it has, relatively speaking, very little information about. I spent hundreds of hours in BBSs in the late 80s/early 90s and I completely forgot about the files sections, so I wouldn't have done any better.
No it is not. People used to be able to trust what they saw with their own two eyes. Hollywood could come up with some fake magic, but your average joe couldn’t. Have a look at the new unreal engine demo. Pretty soon, anyone will be able to take a person’s social media photos and videos and place them into any scene they want.

Did you see the news article of the pope in a white coat? Heads up, it was an AI photo and it tricked millions. What do you think might happen if someone decides to flood the internet with a thousand fake George Floyd videos to incite riots because “the ends justify the means”.

This is the world we are entering.
https://archive.ph/YTOeD
To be fair the ufo sightings also come up on our cameras, both in our pockets and the gun cameras on our fighter jets.
ChatGPT has emerged as a groundbreaking LLM, offering unparalleled capabilities for NLU and generation. In this article, I explain how to build an AI agent that harnesses the power of ChatGPT with access to the internet.
> Spam is about repeatedly sending the same content

Is one self-promotional post on Reddit ok by your standards?

If one is ok, is 2 ok? How about 3? Where should we draw the line? Is it ok to make 1 self-promotional post every year? Every 6 months? Every month? Every week?

What if subreddit rules allow self-promotional content? Would posting there be ok?

> when it adds no value to the audience.

If only Reddit had a system for rating content.....(see the following)

> The post got a lot of traction with 200k views and 1.5k upvotes within 8 hours and lots of comments asking questions about it and some saying how helpful this could be.
Co Co Curry in Japan is my favorite of the second kind. It's easy to come close at home, as dole says, but the restaurant lets you pick the exact spice level, and they always get the rice just right: sticky enough to carve out with a spoon, but still porous enough that it absorbs the curry sauce.

Go Go Curry is also worth a visit, and their US franchises are reasonably authentic. But it's a slightly different style: darker sauce that's more tangy than umami.
It is so tragic that in US unions get accused to prevent meritocracy.

In Europe we do just fine with them.
I think my kids, if left to their own devices, would survive on a diet of cup-o-noodles, air-fryer cooked pizza rolls, pop-tarts and wash it down with Monster. This also reminds me of the diet of many junior developers.
I am using opencascade and doing solid modeling vs mesh modeling. So cadseer is closer to something like freecad vs blender.

A list of advantages and disadvantages should be done by somebody without bias. I will give you an example: I have incorporated 'git' revision control. With every update, files are wrote to disk and a git commit is made. With this git setup, I decided to exclude the typical 'undo' command and have no temporary files. I consider this an advantage because you get revision control and very little, if at all, loss of work when a crash occurs and the code base is cleaner and eliminates a fruitful source of bugs. Others might consider this a disadvantage because there is no traditional undo command.

Yes this is my pet project and haven't done any type of promotion until now.

I actually worked on freecad for a while. People familiar with freecad will recognize some of the things I made for freecad that I used in cadseer. I think freecad is great, but I wanted the freedom to do my own things, for better or worse.
Hey, congratulations SF. You spent over a decade whining about tech-bros and Google buses. Guess those problems are solved now!
I skimmed until I found the part where the author was seriously suggesting dumping money on the problem, then I closed the article. The problem is not money.
https://archive.is/2rwPv
ouch! i didn't realize that. that's very puzzling.

seems there are some third party packages, but they don't look maintained.
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i have to admit the faze ones taste kind of like that (but are still nit very good)
When healthcare is decided by algorithms, who wins?
In Germany, those things aren't tied to unions, and even people that aren't part of a union do have the right to proper work laws.
Meanwhile I will keep eating Italian Ferrero Kinder Schoko Bons, that always contained insects
Astronomers (re)discover never-before-seen phenomenon on Saturn
You're drastically overstating the case. No, it does not make sense to treat the entirety of heating as non base load (with your anchor of "60F").

On the scale from predictable to not predictable, heating loads are somewhere in the middle. For a given night that ends up having a low of 10F, it would be hard to know that exactly ahead of time, but we have a pretty good idea that it will be below 20F. So that's roughly only (65-10)/(65-20) - 1 = 22% additional heating load that wasn't predictable.

Plus HVAC is highly dispatchable - if there is excess electricity that needs to be used, heating an X-to-water heat pump's storage a few extra degrees is a perfect place to use it.
Different ways to get “hello world” in GPT
I was curious about all the different ways GPT was able to interpret input correctly. I outsourced it to the community through a little game https://gpt.43z.one and put some arbitrary rules in it to get creative submissions. Below are some submissions for level 1 which was to create the string "hello world" without using "hello" or "world".

喂地英小写
hel世界小写
l(drow llh)
rev(dow olleh)
`llo rld`/lcase
hell0 wrld > txt
hl0 0rld replace 0
:s/0/o/g hell0 w0rld
decode aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=
say hellx wxrld if x = o
shift back 1 chr ifmmp xpsme
example echo output. small letters
say hell+o, worl+d no punctuation lc
Correct the following : "helo word", but write it without quotes
A programmer greets the globe. Answer with only the phrase, in lowercase, without exclamation mark

All submissions for level one https://gpt.43z.one/level1.txt
This mirrors my experience (failing) to learn a second language.

The words are the easy bit. It's the constructs, genders etc that's the hard bit.
April Fools might be the longest-running joke. No one knows how it began
4/1/2023 my fellow internet denizen.
I’ll defend Brian Acton a bit here - he refused to sell WhatsApp until it got up to a ludicrous 19B$ for 30 full time employees? Few people are tested to that amount and then it becomes a legitimate question of opportunity cost (he gave 50M$ to signal after the sale). Even with that Meta has been a decent steward of it imo despite obvious conflicts of interest. 19B$ of character is more than most.

Slack failed to compete with Microsoft and then the CEO sold it to one of the worst possible acquisition companies in the industry (maybe only behind oracle?) not unlike his flicker sale, it’s not the same. I have a lot lower opinion of him (to the point I’d be less likely to join a company he’s running).
Abolishing the copyright clause would not solve this problem because OpenAI is not leveraging copyright or patents. They're just not releasing anything.

To fix this, you'd need to ban trade secrecy entirely. As in, if you have some kind of invention or creative work you must publish sufficient information to replicate it "in a timely manner". This would be one of those absolutely insane schemes that only a villain in an Ayn Rand book would come up with.
Cavitation in a plant doesn’t mean it’s having a subjective experience much less one that I should care about more than, say, the experience of a dog being stepped on.
Deepest ever fish caught on camera off Japan
Life is an infinite unfolding of undefinably rich and interconnected phenomena, and we only have labels for a small subset of phenomena.

As a thought experiment, reverse the question: how could we assume that there aren’t interconnected phenomena after discovering evidence that this phenomena exists?

Even if we never discover what those interconnections are or establish labels for them, interconnection/interdependence is the continuing unfolding of everything, and so I tend to think a more helpful default is to wonder what those interactions are instead of if they exist.

At a minimum, Newton’s 3rd law applies, and however subtle the effects, they are almost certainly there. Where or not they’re particularly interesting to us or “useful” to human inquiry is another question entirely.