skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And the salary I receive every month...

You get a salary everywhere you work. Do you do volunteer work for a living?

If I explicitly and directly work on something that makes my boss richer, you're damn sure I want to be rewarded by the value I brought to the company. The salary is what I charge to be in the building, but if I get my employer to actually hit a compensation milestone you're damn sure I want a cut of it, and a warm feeling inside that my boss is richer along with a slice of pizza mandated by HR is absolutely not it.
A manager can generally just decide to take his team out for dinner and spend $100 pr. person without issue. They most likely cannot hand out a $100 cash bonus to their team because they feel like it.
I don't know what I said that was snobby? I replied to their article based on the points they made in said article.

That aside, yes, I was wrong to use it like "[...] in the `article` tag."; well spotted.
It’ll be far worse for Seattle metro, which sits right on the Puget Sound
> Note that this has been the case for an incredibly long time, under the common travel area.

That's correct.

> However, I suspect that this may change at some point, once the UK introduces their ESTA like scheme.

No. It won't. That would violate the Good Friday Agreement.
The point isn’t about avoiding criticism. The point is that Apple proclaims that they care about eco-friendliness and then introduces features that are the opposite. “Might as well have a nice feature” translates to “might as well be eco-unfriendly”.
>Then they shouldn't take that job.

I think it depends on where in the supply chain kids are participating. If the work is dangerous (ex. mining), they should be banned but if there is a learning experience with little risk of long term negative consequences, it should be available for the interested.

I enjoyed the computer work and newspaper route I had as a child and wouldve probably jumped at the opportunity to assemble digital devices.
I mean if you define "whimsical" = "asshole"...
I don't think this argument holds water at all. Can we imagine that the people who created Rust were able to do so only because they contributed some magical ingredient from their souls, which didn't exist anywhere in the world's collected pre-Rust printed materials? It's more economical to assume that they were able to create Rust because the necessary concepts already existed, in which case a sufficiently trained AI might do something similar.

Or working in the opposite direction: we can think of AIs as processing concepts in some dimensional space, sure. But we have no conception at all of what that space is like, so there's no reason to expect that a midpoint in that space between two objects we're familiar with would also be familiar to us. I mean, I have no idea what the midpoint between Rust and C++ is, or how I'd go about describing it. Surely an AI that thinks in tensors is more capable than we are to explore the space between known concepts, so why couldn't we expect to learn something novel from one?
Handling fraud orders in Shopify when the fraudsters won't quit
I don't know why so many people forget to explain where _the complexity_ comes from and just drive right off the road assuming I don't know something basic and can distract from having to answer the real question about the complexity of the information in DNA and its origins. Not a very generous argument style you have there.
Meccano sets.

For MEV! I love them even 30 years after I got my set, was one of the best "toys" I got as a child.

All old Lego mindstorm are amazing also.

Primo is a toy for even younger people that is cute and teach them about sequences of actions and how to set that.
Yankee?
You're failing to reject the thesis, and somehow are presuming employees like this sort of HR-mandated afterwork get-together.

I repeat: what leads you to presume this is something employees enjoy? I mean, is it conceivable to you that any random person prefers to be forced by HR to attend an event on their own personal time instead of spending it with their loved ones, or even doing something they love?
Ask HN: Which APIs have been the most painful to integrate in your applications?
Hi, I am cofounder of Poozle (an open source platform to simplify API Integrations using GraphQL).

Would love to understand what APIs have been painful and how much time it took to integrate them.

Objective is to understand the reasons why it takes time to integrate 3rd party APIs in your codebase.
"It's hard for people to do this to themselves, deliberately"

i'd say much like tickling yourself. For some reason it doesn't work.
Look, we’ve told you a thousand times, we are not sending a keg of beer on your Artemis mission. Now get back to studying, it’s a long day today.
Part of that is the IRS can crawl very far up your company if there is unreported wages; but nobody really bothers about bonus meals even though technically there may be tax implications.
> However, if the company running the web page were to take that IP address and store it and use it for deep analytics

Or, in fact, sending off to Google Fonts. As a German court case reveals, that is considered sending the IP to Google -- breaking GDPR since it is done without consent on first launch of the site.
It is not my field, but if plentiful and accessible, we are talking about several thousand tonnes of water around a small habitat that could theoretically be used. Nevertheless, if I understood right, that immense amount of water would have a limited shelf life until acidification corrodes the containment structures, so it would need to be continuously treated and refrigerated,

" Ionizing cosmic radiation is mostly gamma rays and protons, which are overall very similar to the radiation from nuclear waste. Protons are slightly lighter and so would have less energy at a given velocity (more easily stopped); but, because they're protons, if captured by the water they'd basically become H+ ions which could acidify the shielding water in time (not seen as much with nuclear waste). " [1]

[1] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/1336/what-thicknes...
This is stretching it but this island (Poro Island - 96.6 km2) seems to have a "stream" and a waterfall into what looks like a pond.
I wouldn't really call it a river by any means though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poro_Island
On the contrary, artists often say that restriction is necessary for art. Art arises as a meeting between freedom and constraints. That is my thinking at least.
I’d love if you could elaborate on your setup. Are you using something like nvim-dap from within neovim or something else? I’m still trying to improve my debug experience in neovim.
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Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
> Walter refused several requests for an interview. “You have earned one’s distrust that merits severing any contact with you in the future,” he wrote me, veering into strange pronoun usage. “Under no circumstances would himself cooperate in your suspicious activities.”

Sharply written articles like this are a rare treat.
Steve French.
in the same way vi users swap escape with capslock, some emacs users swap left alt with capslock
I know! It’s so annoying. Why are we catering so much to the couple of weirdos that can’t just enjoy a normal pizza like everyone else?

Get a bunch of pepperoni, some cheese, and a couple of weirdo ones. I hate showing up to these things a few minutes late and all that’s left is some “white pie” trash or a pizza with so many toppings that it’s incoherent and soggy.

I mean fine maybe get some kind of vegan gluten free thing but honestly if you’ve made those choices you sort of sacrificed pizza. Don’t make everyone else suffer. Or give them a salad.
I'd argue there's a good middle ground to be found between the two extremes. We should style without overstyle.
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Whoa. Literal tears. What a letter.
Make sense to me.

> It may seem like a silly technical objection at first

And of course, just gotta draw the line somewhere.
> The back of the moon gets the same amount of sunlight as the front.

Actually, doesn't the back get more sunlight? The front of the moon is occasionally eclipsed by earth.
Is it just hamster? I get the impression that many of these things are all owned by same crowd behind the scenes with similar content etc. so bit surprised one gets singled out
in the US. because guns.
heya, you say that if they spent the money on helping more people vs. on vanity, "they wouldn't be a better person", but in fact they would be a better person
A huge swath of tool brands are owned by Stanley Black and Decker (such as dewalt and craftsman and so on) and they can’t even match batteries across their own brands.

A big part of the problem is ANY battery change even to a universal standard is a change away from your current customer base, which will annoy them.
I believe my cat is merely a thinking machine by your definition.
https://leroy.works/articles/you-are-not-your-thoughts/
I miss my GIS days and getting topology bugs from the national land survey of Finland.
No, the language designers use the same type system as everyone else. Yes, Go had a fixed set of generic data structures, but those were available to everyone.

“Nil” does not a sum type make; it’s just the zero value for a reference type and the type-checker doesn’t check that you are handling nil and non-nil cases as a type-checker would do for sum types (if Go’s pointers are sum types, then integers and floats in any language are sum types as well).

Go has never had operator overloading for the language designers or anyone else. The operators that the language designers use behave the same way as when users use them.

I have a lot of respect for Rust, and I was a C++ developer in a past life, but most of the software I write these days cares a lot more about developer velocity than about eeking out every last bit of performance or correctness, and most of the time Go is the ideal candidate for those sorts of tradeoffs.
I'm getting to taken to https://www.elbruz.org/blank.html when trying to visit the link, anyone else? I thought it just didn't like me using a VPN at first, but it does it even without that. Might have gotten the hug of death.
"Not sure if Postures has it, but for a totally unrelated database I wrote my own implementation in a famously finicky, but powerful language."
Feudalism isn’t dependent on an educated workforce and historically the two seemingly could not coexist.
I guess if I even get an opportunity to name a medicine I'll ask ChatGPT for name
How do you monetize it?
I'm surprised to learn that anyone really likes those things.

I always just pretended to like those only for the sake of keeping my employment.
Do try to use Java Minecraft if you can, because modded technical Minecraft will last forever. Once you’ve “beat” the base game move on to things like GregTech and it’ll never end.
"continuous expanse of land" Is United Kingdom a part of Europe?
> Necessarily, an AI looking at the sky can never find newton's law of gravity. Newton (et al.) had to disregard what they were looking at to place Earth in the centre and F equal to GMm/r2 etc. etc.

This seems strange to say to me, since this can easily be done by regression models given the right training data. If a sufficiently powerful system is given that training data and trained to minimize loss, it will necessarily converge on a model approximating the underlying laws that created the training data.
In using it, I found that my summaries / queries would often result in "The text did not include (thing you asked for)." because the 2nd half of the page text would be unrelated to the main content (and the text is split into small chunks for processing to fit in the context window).

My solution to this (not yet integrated) is to use a faster / cheaper model to process all the text first and see if it's actually relevant or not, before running the summarization / task prompt with the main model.

I realized that this is essentially a semantic search engine for text. Using the same principle you can feed a very large text file in, ask it a question, and it finds the page that answers that question.

This would be useful as a layer "beneath" the internet research agent, that it could use to sort through all the noise and answer the question.

https://gist.github.com/avelican/58958a2cf2b7e9f9f555ab94549...

It gives a lot of false positives, I'm not sure if this is a limitation of GPT-3 (have not tried GPT-4 for this yet, a bit too expensive for searching books) or a limitation of my implementation.

It's probably slower and more expensive than just using a vector db, I haven't tried those yet.
You can definitely make close to that as a contractor / freelance web dev. I make about 85-90 per hour and should be charging more..
Ah darn, it would have been amazing if this one had come out well.
> but you assume that your opinions aren't formed from a preexisting body of knowledge from which your past self has learnt and internalized.

Knowledge != experience, there is overlap for sure, but they are qualitatively different things.

And that's before we even get into the underlying differences in the process: when GPT writes a book it's predicting desired output based on what it's learned from it's training data, but it's only as deep as language, coherant logic that appears deeper is incidental and only as common as it is due to the sheer amount of data it's consumed and statistical correlation - all of the amusement we get from ChatGPT is when this lack of depth is revealed. When a human writes a book they are using the same mechanisms for sure, predicting desired output, but that's only the language level, bellow that is a more abstract process driving the direction and ideation, introspection and interrogating experiences, exploring and validating them before attempting to express them in language.

I think part of what makes these LLMs appear to be smarter and more creative than they have any right to be, is due to the inhuman level of input... they are extremely shallow models, but have massive bandwidth, way more than a human could consume - as a result clever stuff emerges more though the sheer volume than something intrinsic to the model itself.
Lots of companies use GPL code and don't distribute it to users either, for example Vizio. Some of those also violate the BSD/MIT licenses.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
If the current lawsuit Dominion vs. Fox News tells us anything it is that providers of "information" provide the kind of "information" their listeners want to hear.
Yes, it makes reasoning simpler.

But then some things become impossible to do.

I'm creating a different build system (not Zig's), and I'm taking a different approach. Instead of a non-Turing-complete language, I've made one that is as powerful as possible. However, it will allow users to restrict the language so that they will only use subsets, and those subsets will not necessarily be Turing-complete.

In this way, it has the power to do anything, but the ability to restrict that power for ease-of-use.
Which was forked from KDE I think?
> often work under deplorable conditions

Often isn’t always. Those abuses aren’t some inherent requirement for child acting to exist.
No, cats have souls. But they certainly have thinking machines.
If you called something OI and OL then you wouldn't be referring to AI and ML. They would be different things. It's clearly big brain time for you...
> The rest is between you and whomever authorizes your promotion/bonus budget.

Or just switch jobs. Tends to be easier for everyone involved.
Someone needs to make a competing build system called Zag, just so I can eventually make the joke "we Zigged where we should have Zagged" after Zig has some major issue in our build env.
So the answer is no, you don't know anyone who can't read the text.

People post all kind of things online, especially hyperbole. As one of the other FAQ questions notes a lot of people also complain about their eyes bleeding, but this has never actually happened.
This made laugh :) Thank you.
Amazing work! Someone is probably already working on porting it to work as an extension on Stable Diffusion webui.
Just wanted a zinger in as few words as possible, rhetoric got the best of me, sorry.
> Until then, these sorts of low cost rewards deliver value.

The only value these events generate is the Potemkin stuff: providing a dedicated crowd to a higher-up, and marketing material for HR.
In my experience contracting for bigger companies you can be close to 100% billable by just billing a default 8 hours per day. Not counting the time without an assignment of course, but that should not be long if you have skills and a network.
Very cool, yet all I can think of is DoodleBob.
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Meccano is actually shutting down their last dedicated factory https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/23/last-dedicated...

I guess they'll still produce some stuff on other factories, for the time being.
Right.

> It increases attack cost because now the attacker has to fool both systems, but idk by how much honesty.

That's a fair question, but it may be better than you think, right? At least it seems pretty easy to increase that cost later on if they want to (e.g. securing their audit server or by having the clients check third-party servers). The technology is here now.
nope, got https://www.elbruz.org/empty.html instead
Yes though its also written for people who speak an entirely different dialect of English that's a bit more distant than Wisconsin vs BBC.
Carcassone is great and there are a ton of games that are fun in that vein; check out boardgamegeek.

Whatever you do do NOT buy all the expansions at once! Only one at a time over time.

There are games like Agricola that even when you lose you feel you built something, which can be nice for overcompetitive types.
Ah you make a good point regarding my response.
I use GPT to generate silly poems for my kid. It works great for this purpose. But for programming it feels like interacting with a very obtuse human. I find it emotionally draining. Yes it can write a Python function to compute edit distance, so maybe I can use it for coding interviews?
Just because they tend to be terrible doesn’t mean there should be no judgment at all.

I think we are going to find that any AI left totally unattended and unfiltered will eventually turn into Microsoft Tay[1] just like every unmoderated forum eventually turns into 4chan (and even 4chan is lightly moderated).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)
Oh, you don't want to get into that discussion my friends. Many men have died in the context of "answering" that question...
You're forgetting the proprietary software running within the CPU bootrom, the LTE modem and other chips :)

Even if you are using the libre modem distribution, it only covers the ARM cores of the modem, not the Hexagon ones.
I spent 2/3rds of the article assuming 'Nick McGuffin' was a deliberately absurd pseudonym used to protect the real victim of this charlatan.
Thanks for reading through what I wrote and grokking it! It means a lot to me. Now we can discuss it.

Yes, for all private interactions / conversations I support encryption, provided it can be decrypted in the way I said. Obviously there is room for innovation to make it harder and harder to do bulk decryption without a proper reason and audit trail. And make sure somehow that the cameras can prove they aren’t sending unencrypted video or that encryption keys are secure. It’s hard to prove a negative, but possible if verifiers can search the entire signal. Those innovations are part technological and part societal… but the underlying technology (like blockchain) has to exist first. Has anyone built it yet?

Now having said that, I don’t think encryption keys should be that hard to get for conversations within a corporation, and probably should be nonexistent for public servants on duty. Today we have the opposite … NATO promises to Gorbachev are secret, Normandy format talks were closed for years, Ukraine-Russia negotiations were behind closed doors, we don’t know why they all failed. And regular people have to go to war because of their failure. I think if the government wants to know where my $600 goes I should be able to know where trillions go.
"Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /roundtable/rules-games-tudor-england on this server."

Am I the only one getting this? Would be discriminatory.
Hey, I've used your tool many times to debug SSR applications! It was actually a Google engineer that recommended me it.

Like it a lot. Cheers.
- Do you imply that industrial farming is the only way to farm? If not, why wouldn't we develop alternatives instead of advocating for abstinence. It's as if you were asking people to be naked in the street because some clothes were made in sweatshops in Asia.

- It's elementary. For a protein to be usable by the body, it needs to be complete : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_protein and in the right amounts.

Vegetables don't contain complete proteins generally, so you have to eat a diversified, complex array of food to equate animal products. Animal products are complete, and their profile is very close to what the body needs.

Another problem is that “high protein” vegetables usually come with plenty of carbs, or fat in the case of nuts. If you have a high-protein diet because you're a young, active male, you'll end up increasing your caloric intake too much. For instance, in the case of Quinoa, you get 39g of carbs for 8g of lower-quality proteins.
Ok so the bulk of Great Britain is a continent, Northern and the Republic of Ireland form a continent, the Isle of Wight is a continent, ...?

Or for the NA readers: the bulk of NA&SA form a single continent, not two, Russia and continental Europe sometimes join it, Hawaii is a continent, ...?
This is a good point, but that's usually a medium or technical restraint. Perhaps books written in such a way to evade censorship count as an example? Do you know of any more?
> I wouldn't exactly call ChatGPT's rules "fine-tuned".

It is a technical term. It means that you train the network on one task a lot, and then you train it on a different one a little.

Often the network learns the second task faster and better than it would do if trained from a random initialisation. This second training step is called "fine tuning".

In terms of an LLM the first training might be "here are many text samples (the whole internet), predict what is the next word". While the fine-tuning training might be on a much smaller curated corpus where you show it examples where the network responds to instructions. But you could do a lot of other things. You could create a fine-tuning dataset which makes the network betitle and antagonise the user, or one which ignores the prompt and all it does is praises god, or rhymes about butterflies.

In this technical sense "fine tuning" doesn't say the resulting network is of good quality, or suitable for some particular application. Just that it was trained in this particular two step fashion.
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There are open source implementations of all the major chat networks these days. To start with you can use Pidgin, which supports all of them in one app.

https://pidgin.im/plugins/
We're going to discover that a lot of code doesn't take much thought.
What the difference between definition and criteria?