skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily more. Better in this context means clearer and enforced.

PayPal is the prime example where it's operating very similar to a bank. You have an account with a balance and can send and receive money, but it doesn't see itself as a bank and in many countries doesn't have a bank license. At least in part this is done to avoid the regulatory work that comes with it.

I absolutely want to force payment processors to do work they don't want to do. For example, banks in Germany are forced to provide you with a basic bank account regardless whether they want to or not. That's because a bank account is simply a must have to take part in modern life. If PayPal decides it doesn't want to do business with you, for whatever arbitrary reason, you are effectively locked out of a lot of online stores that only accept PayPal as a payment method. There is plenty of examples of PayPals really sketchy behaviour online. Every few months you can even see complaints on HN about it.
AFAIK it only works on Linux on bare metal M1 (so not on virtualized Linux in macOS).
Schizophrenia can be managed, not treated. Lost in all the talk about mental healthcare and drug addiction are two important topics.

(1) Medicine does not have an answer for all mental illness. Many are incurable, and only manageable.

(2) Sometimes even the management is not good enough.

My uncle is extremely intelligent. Also has schizophrenia. Like Michael... extremely intelligent, PhD (received after diagnosis), etc. It's been many years. He has kids and grandchildren, etc. But... he still breaks from time to time. He's even attempted flat out murder. There's no answer really. His wife (my aunt) can get him to calm down, as can his children. But, it's still there, despite everyone's best efforts.In my view, short of completely numbing his personality and individualism, I can't see how anyone can 'fix' it.

Further lost in our conversation as it pertains to drug abuse is the importance of not creating the problem to begin with. Schizophrenia is no joke. Several commonly available (some decriminalized) drugs can induce schizophrenia. We must do what is necessary to ensure this never happens. The mind is a terrible thing to lose.

EDIT: Also, having also worked at Bain, I do not suggest anyone work in management consulting if they want their sanity.
In China, Young People Ditch Prestige Jobs for Manual Labor
> If you look read the parent comment in this thread you'd get an answer...

I looked and I didn't get an answer. hence my comment.

To clarify, we know what he said his reason was, we don't know if that really was his reason.

When people leave they very rarely voice the actual reason for leaving; the reason they give is designed to make them look as good as possible for any future employer or venture.
I've never heard of this project, so I can't speak to its implementation, however blockchain to handle DB + access api for relatively slow db operations I think is one of the rare great current blockchain use-cases. If done well it has the potential to be a piece of open-sourced infrastructure. And once it's done once well, it could be replicated to every dmv-like entity (IE almost every permit or sign-off based process) in the world. And the comparison to a state-run database, I think many of us would agree that is an area where there is plenty of room for improvement.

But this is the first I'm hearing of this project, so I'm not advocating for it specifically.
I find that Claude is more conversational (better fine tuning), but not as smart as even ChatGPT.

Prompt:

The original titles and release years in the Harry Potter series are:

Philosopher's Stone (1997)
Chamber of Secrets (1998)
Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
Goblet of Fire (2000)
Order of the Phoenix (2003)
Half-Blood Prince (2005)
Deathly Hallows (2007)

Given this, generate a new Harry Potter title, using only the words found in the existing titles. Avoid orderings in the original titles. You may add or remove plurals and possessives.

Results:

ChatGPT: Blood Chamber of the Phoenix's Prisoner

Claude-instant: Chamber Prince Half-Blood Phoenix
https://archive.is/RBYCw
> which mostly comes from a low yield open pit mine in niger.

That's literally bullshit. Main import sources of uranium in France are Kzakhstan, Australia, and Canada. Please stop spouting Russian and/or Greenpeace propaganda.
The SSO tax exists because it's historically been a roundabout way of segmenting the market into businesses vs. individuals and charging businesses more.
Ask HN: Is there a role in big tech for PMs good at 0-to-1 product discovery?
I'm a PM and design generalist who has spent most of his career as a founder (exited company) and on early founding teams. My skillset centers mainly around qualitatively identifying user needs and validating them through designing proof-of-concept products.

I'm looking to transition to a company with more stability, Series A or later, but am having difficulty finding a role that I'd be a good fit for. Understandably, companies at that stage have already found product-market-fit and are in the growth stage of their trajectory.

However, even given that, is there any room for a guy like me? Should I focus more on FAANG-like companies that have experimental teams focused on 0-to-1 / new product discovery ? Am I looking for a unicorn role?
There are no ads. I have a great job. What am I advertising?

This keeps coming up, so I wrote about my experience. HN comments written on the toilet only do so much.
Open source Socket Runtime arrives, with aim to drop cloud as a dependency
As someone who is a proponent of FOSS, in many cases improving the UI of FOSS projects isn’t practical simply because the maintainers won’t accept UI patches and are sometimes even hostile to suggestions. In those situations your only choice is to fork, and keeping a fork up to date with the parent for a non-trivial project takes more time and effort than many can offer.
Attack Surface Monitoring: The Key to Reduce Attack Vectors
In today’s digital age, cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated and prevalent than ever before. With an increasing number of businesses relying on technology to conduct their operations, the potential for security breaches is higher than ever. In order to keep your company safe from these threats.
> ZFS as a first class citizen, without wondering if Oracle will show up and take the ball away.

Is this still true now that FreeBSD is using the ZoL/OpenZFS tree?
How many giant trucks do you see in major metro parking garages? I typically see them in more rural areas.
Not so much witchcraft, as acknowledging that LLMs are not in fact, as humans are so quick to anthropomorphize, "reasoning", or "thinking" or even "knowing" things, but that they are stochastic sequence completion engines.

Highly sophisticated ones, and useful beyond a doubt, but when all is said and done, this is what they do: They complete sequences.

So coming up with sequences that produce desired results is an important function when considering how to use this tech in products.

Whether we can call this engineering or the tech-version of horse-whispering, is up for debate. But it is acknowledging the modus operandi of the tool at hand, and thus it can help using it to is potential.
Using the top and bottom of the battery adds very little wear. What is bad for a battery is leaving it at high or low states of charge for an extended period. Occasionally on road trips going down to low states of charge or filling all the way before departing is fine.
I studied CS and it seems to me that it did not taught critical thinking all that much. It taught logical thinking. We have tendency to create simplified model of the world, make logical inferences on it and then ignore actual messy real world evidence when it contradicts our theories.

So, the caricature of a STEM student will make theory in his mind and then ignored pretty much all nuance in the article the theory is based on.

Another example would be bias. The history students are specifically trained to deal with bias in source material and accept that every single historical source is biased by own point of view. The amount of STEM graduates who split world into two neat categories "biased" and "non-biased" is staggering.

All of these are elements of critical thinking.
It is a bit of paradox that community colleges are, in theory, what every talking head and commentator are asking colleges to be—direct, cheap, no frill, about the education only—and yet there is no other college type that is seeing a more precipitous enrollment drop off than community colleges and technical schools.

The answer, and no one likes this, is what people say they want and what they actually want as voted by where they enroll are often two different things.
This sort of hand wavy generalizations about such a broad and ill defined market seems very naive/closed minded.

If you're quabbling over how much OpenAI charges for an API today that barely just launched and from which we have barely scraped the surface for applications... I don't know that seems like a failure to think broadly and assumes the market today is what it will look like in 5yrs.

There could be a ton of lucrative businesses which subsidize those operating costs. It doesn't have to be a mega-company like Google that floats it indefinitely off their ad business, or whatever other scheme. We have no idea what the value of those APIs are or if the API is the real business they (and others) are going to be relying on in the long term.
In my annual review: "You need to think about your audience with your communication.

Then Twitter to all contacts that will clearly publicize anything they say:

We contacted Twitter about the lawsuit today. The company continues to auto-reply with a poop emoji to all requests sent to its public relations email address.
gpt4xalpaca is 13B
We get tons of hilarious errors in text from Chinese goods. I don't see why ChatGPT would be any worse.

For a laugh, an granted these all could be fake, but I'm sure you can recall a time you saw a translation issue... https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-chinese-translation-fails/
I haven't owned a car for very long. Are there ever cases where the status of a registration is in dispute? This plan essentially makes their database public, hopefully encrypted, with registrants having means to decrypt their own record. Maybe that could help in some cases.
What kind of safety margin are/were parking garages built with? Were they built to withstand 2x their estimated load? 5x? 10x? 100x?
The title itself is a hint - it’s a reference to Jonathan Swift’s satirical essay known as A modest Proposal, written in 1729.
It’s pretty clear, the words say he was anti, then the company he helped create apparently has marketing material all about being commercialization. Unless he leaves tomorrow for the same reasons it is quite hard to disbelieve that “cash rules everything around me”.
Ethnic slurs?
Judge for yourself: https://youtu.be/gulh7AxESyA?t=103
New build submitted.
> I would think, however, that capitalists would not ignore such an obvious profit center as the sex industry

Because you're conflating capitalism and greed. Capitalism doesn't mean "do anything for money". It means "as much as possible, people get to decide among themselves how to allocate their money and time". Some of them will invest in anything, just as people in non-capitalist countries. Most will only invest in certain things.
Ask HN: What analytics tools are you using for your projects?
Hey everyone,

I am working on a side project, and there are so many analytics providers in 2023, and it’s hard to gauge what is actually popular today.

What analytics tools are you using for your projects?

Are you using more than one provider together?

Thank you in advance!
> Turned out that the average weight of an American had increased in the decades since the Coast Guard had most recently set guidelines.

Using averages is scary for anything. There is always that day when the weight-loss club takes a boat trip, and suddenly the average doubles...
> In this article, we will explore

It's just GPT!
One element of lack of critical thinking is taking something you dont understand at all, make bad faith attempt at reading it and then extrapolate the result the the whole of humanities.
I wonder why you don't pay more if you use a heavier vehicle.
On one hand I want to be sympathetic to the author here, who has personal stake in preventing the severely mentally ill from murdering people. At the same time, the author doesn't at all go into the deeply personal and often traumatic reasons the mentally ill may resist being forcibly hospitalized in the way the author suggests should be done to them. The author doesn't go into cases like Brittney Spears's conservatorship, forced to take medication and have an IUD inserted and have her estate taken over by her parents under spurious claims of being unable to care for herself. The author doesn't go into how little oversight there is over ensuring the safety of patients once they're in the healthcare system, many of which go on to develop medical trauma due to rape, assault, etc.

There has to be some kind of middle way where people who are deeply sick can have healthcare even if they are resistant and also heavy guardrails in place to prevent them from being abused while they're vulnerable.
There's definitely going to be a niche of ironic text that the human can tell is not AI generated, looks like AI generated, and it subtly makes fun of AI at the same time.
How heritable is height?

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/26/health/human-height-chang...

For bonus points: why has the heritability of height changed over time and varied by country?
The EU proposed CRA law may have unintended consequence for the Python ecosystem
If anything, it's the exact opposite, although either proposition seems dubious at best.

Critical thinking skills are conferred to children in a much earlier age than the decision whether to pursue humanities/STEM or even go to college at all.

I've certainly met people for whom having a PhD would be like putting lipstick on a pig.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr.

I would argue quite High IQ, still got nowhere regarding normal life due to the problem most of his adult life. Was kept on campus out of respect for his archivements. Finally returned to a state of being able to use his IQ with high age.

The intelligence can do nothing once the hardware goes, except weave more elaborate conspiracies and paranoid fantasys.
Watch an elephant peel a banana with her trunk
Having a better team just means they can manage "the hard part/nightmare" better, doesn't change where the hard part is.

And I mention these two things because the article itself said they're going to "[f]ocus on vertical slices" first and "[d]eferring on performance work". So I was pointing out that it basically means they started with easy part (nothing wrong with it).

I still failed to see what point I said you didn't agree with, other than argumentum ad verecundiam.
> is what people say they want and what they actually want as votes by their enrollment are two different things.

This is a universal truth about everything though. What people say and what they do are not guaranteed to be same.
The reality is that your data privacy gets abused even when you do pay.
My favorite party game is getting couples to explain what each other does for a living. Not just the title, but the actual day-to-day job. You'd be surprised how many people don't really know what their partner does all day long.
You need to air down for these scenarios. I’ve gotten so many people unstuck just by letting them borrow my tire deflator.
Also use something like this on Mac: https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl
Another private company.

The two heavily subsidized projects were:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudwatt

- https://login.numergy.com/login?service=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nu...

For the one still "live", details include French URL names :)

Edit: A Google Translate of the home page. Close your eyes, imagine a homepage highlighting the essence of cloud computing:

Your Numergy space
Access the administration of your virtual machines.

Secure connection
Username
Password
Forgot your password ?

Administration of your VMs
Administer your virtual machines in real time, monitor their activity, your bandwidth consumption and the use of your storage spaces.

Changing your personal information
Access the customer area and modify your personal information in just a few clicks: surname, first name, address.

Securing your data
Remember to change your password regularly to maintain an optimal level of security.
I haven't had to deal with that but I always guessed it was worse.
Every single policy that "activists" enact do NOTHING for the homeless or addicts. They do nothing to help addicts get off drugs or address homelessness, all they do is maintain the status quo so that activist contractors can keep making money by using the homeless like farm animals.

SF is the bastion of far left programs and the situation has gotten exponentially worse. All they know is how to tax people and spend money but get no results. The homeless budget ballooned from $300 million a year to $600 million, and the results are demonstrably worse and crime has only gotten much much worse.

SF is a failed experiment that proves that these far-left policies of "Harm Reduction" actually increase harm, and all of the progressives get in line to fill their pockets with government money and all of a sudden realize they don't want to help the homeless.
"In spite" is a bit of a stretch on 'songwriting' credit, as he 'just' wrote the 'solo' bit. But, rethinking, if we're counting the intro guitar line... it's... a hook. It's not nothing. It's hard to think of the song without that little opening hook/riff.

We could dig further and look at the only (AFAICR) Lennon/Harrison "Cry For A Shadow" as evidence of early songwriting, but given it's an instrumental, it's another stretch.
I press square tiles arranged on a sort of grid on a flat rectangular horizontal object in a careful sequence to manipulate lights on another vertical viewing rectangle placed perpendicular to the tile-pressing rectangle.
I thought it was more like the premise to a Lost derivative TV show
Also reminds me of elevators and looking at the nameplates there. Number of people and then divide with weight under...

Not that I worry at all, elevators have massive safety margins and sensors to indicate when they are truly overload. And even then they should be safe enough.
Debate: Do Language Models Need Sensory Grounding for Meaning and Understanding
Isn't this the same old discussion that was recently ignited again by the Mr beast's glaucoma video? The US is a country where some people just can't afford not to be blind (or mentally ill).

Their largest hope is for a millionaire influencer/Deus ex machina to appear and pay ther treatment.
I use Google Analytics across all my projects, and Matomo on a few client projects.

I am considering exploring Plausible and a few others currently.
As a javascript/typescript developer I took a notion to learn Rust and it has been hard but rewarding on a personal level. Im concerned though that I'm learning somwthing that has very few if any real jobs right now. All I see is block chain nonsense. In your opinion is there much chance that this will change?
fwiw that's a vehicle with a modified exhaust (and not a particularly fast one to begin with)
Dumb Phones for Smart Minimalists
software engineering probably requires at minimum, using conditional logic, using a debugger, looking at stack traces and a profiler, and working with data structures / algorithms.

only doing HTML and CSS doesnt have any of this. things are different once you add JS/TS though.
There is a plan to add DDC to the Linux kernel, so that any desktop can manage external monitors using the same APIs they use to manage internal laptop panels. Hopefully that would mitigate the problems you mention.
Some states do charge you for registering heavier vehicles, and there's the HVUT for the heaviest road users like trucks[0].

0: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/091116/pdfs/fhwatri-fold.pdf
One of the cantons of Switzerland does this, making it much more economical (in tax terms) to have a very lightweight sportscar than an SUV
The way I see it, LLMs are similar to what the boundary between our unconscious and conscious processing is: that voice which snaps to suggest associations, whether they make sense or not, and can, with work, be coaxed into following a path involving some logic or algorithmic procedure.
Look at CFM rise engines, they're essentially turbo fans with huge bypass ratios than conventional jet engines.
The FSF (and GNU) have had plenty of opportunity to be encouraging to new people and ideas but instead they punish you for caring. The FSF office has historically been a revolving door where people enter bright and hopeful and leave disappointed and jaded. The union bargaining unit is mostly powerless. GNU mailing lists (the meta ones like gnu-prog-discuss), are mostly devoid of interesting discussion, preferring endless bikeshedding and resistance to trying new things. Plenty of people who contribute to GNU avoid those lists because they are so toxic. The inescapable founder's syndrome surrounding RMS and conspiratorial thinking that any change is equivalent to corporate takeover stops all change. GNU could be run collectively and democratically, but the old guard prefers to worship the man RMS used to be, when he actually was a brilliant programmer, and let him do whatever. The people who will bring free software into the modern day will come from outside the FSF bubble.
> Corporations will act in their own self-interests just like everyone else.

Corporations are not part of "everybody", except in insane US law which recognizes corporate "personhood".

In other words: A corporation is not just like, or even remotely like, anybody.
what's different about this fork than the original?
Case in point, GPT4 is not saying "hello" with the same prompt.

I mean, if you count as "prompt engineering" being able to describe requirements in a clear manner, then yes. In general all of this reminds me of the "social engineering" term that is euphemism for "fool" or "convince".

I am a human in your first prompt I can't understand what you want as an output. I don't need to be better "prompted" I need you to explain what you want better.
Huh, I didn't know that damage to roads is greater than linear on vehicle weight, reportedly to the 4th power.[a] Hadn't thought about it.

In hindsight, it kind of makes sense, because all the force (weight) is applied at only four points, where the tires touch the ground.

[a] See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525557
“The SSO tax” is the unofficial name for the practice of software vendors significantly upcharging their customers for Single Sign-On.

(No, it's not Social Security Organization tax...)
It's unfortunate that passenger rail has deteriorated so much in the USA.

The city of Atlanta takes its name from the Atlantic railroad!
In Australia we do pay more for vehicle registration, but only a little, and number of engine cylinders is used as a proxy.

Also, taxes make up about half our fuel price, so heavy vehicles tend to pay more tax.
We’ve got a lot of data scientist talent but I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in this particular estimate. If McK is gonna produce a novel insight it’s usually derived from having the input of many businesses across an industry and experience looking at their problems. It’s hard to imagine this one isn’t more or less made up due to the number of assumptions required.
> I can already run gpt4xalpaca on my PC

You can also run your stack on a single VPS instead of cloud, gimp instead of photoshop, open street maps instead of Google maps, etc.

There will always be companies who can benefit from a technology, but want it as a service. In addition, there will be a lot fine-tuning of LLMs for the the specific use case. It looks like OpenAI is focusing a lot on incorporating feedback into their product. That’s something you won’t get with open-source models.