skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but as a newsletter author, portability means that if this happens, I'll just move to e.g. Ghost or Beehiiv, or another platform.

The portability is the reason I am on the platform, and not on another platform. Take away this portability and I am gone.

The big difference with every other platform like Spotify, Medium, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn etc etc is how those platforms do not allow for this kind of portability by design. They never have done so, and never will. And their take rate is also much higher than Substack's 10%.

Given full portability exists today, why are we speculating about things that are not happening, and what would likely undermine Substack's business model of both attracting and retaining newsletter authors?

And yes: Substack will need to make more money to justify their valuation. Taking away portability to do so would backfire: at least from my view.
> I don't think it could do os/2 "Presentation Manager" for instance.

There was a Presentation Manager subsystem for NT that could run 16-bit OS/2 graphical programs, but it was about as hard to come by as buying a single LTSC license is today.
Yeah, I used it today to interact with some database stuff I have some passing knowledge about and it told me a bunch of wrong things. Though it also helped me solve the task; ChatGPT at least requires you to somewhat know what you are doing and to always be on your toes (I heard GPT-4 is better? Don't have access though)
As they mention in the article, 70% already have their boarding pass on their phone already. It’s actually much easier to add a boarding pass to your mobile wallet than it is to do check-in at the airport. Mostly because you get to skip the line and bustle at the airport and do it at your leisure.

And once it’s in your mobile wallet, a button to access it appears on your phone screen within a few hours of the flight. So it’s just one tap at the airport.

It’s really not a bottleneck, to be honest. It’s a big time-saver for me vs trying to remember where my paper boarding pass ended up.
I appreciate the context you provided about what makes Substack appealing and how it may mitigate some of the threat. However, I believe the main point of the article is that Substack represents yet another example of money being poured into disrupting existing channels. When the funding dries up and the music stops, we may lose more than just Substack. We may witness a diversity of providers going out of business because they couldn’t compete with deep-pocketed investors throwing money around. In the end, we could be left with a spam-riddled Substack struggling to make any money at all, while the old services are gone because they couldn’t survive the onslaught of VC wealth. It’s a bad bet that could leave us with nothing but craters and scorched earth where a thriving newsletter community used to be.
> People concerned about AIs should focus less on how intelligent it is but instead of how large physical claws are we willing to equip it with.

This. But also, if it were smarter than us (or even if people believed that!), then it could program people to be its claws. I don't want to give it physical control of weapons, or even the means of production, but I also don't want it to manipulate peoples' minds.
The application is called MediaWiki.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hac...
Git has one interface for disconnected commits and another one for connected ones. Most of the command set is bifurcated around this. Sure there are places where you do the same act for local and remote but those are more the exception than the rule. It's very exposed. They've done very little no create any sort of abstraction across them, and that's probably the right answer.
How many applications on your machine right now are GPU accelerated?
There is a chunk of silicon that spends almost all its time doing nothing.
> So your "friends" in essence, force you to use these platforms. If you don't you will be treated as a social outcast, a pariah.

We seem to have different friends. Maybe it's a generational thing? Very few of my friends are highly active on social media. At least, not as far as I can tell, because I rarely check the feeds.
Some SAST products cost a truckload of money.

There's a FOSS SAST product for Python already, though, called Pysa: https://pyre-check.org/docs/pysa-basics/
So? Respond to people with reasoned arguments and it doesn't matter who they are.

Trolls win when people think they have to achieve purity of thought - to drive away anyone who believes wrong-think even at the cost of the forum itself. Triggering forums to play purity games and cull the insufficiently aligned is a troll victory.

That doesn't mean you should let politics bleed into every other thread, but in a politics thread just move past the idea of needing to censor people to win.
Spotify Gives 49 Different Names to the Same Song
Langchain with a vectorstore of examples of your DSL.
https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/modules/indexes/vecto...
Only fly planes you have flown before?

At college one professor used a particular engineering class to weed out students from the engineering program. He intentionally made it so challenging it was considered its own prerequisite.

I found the practice abhorrent even in that context.
6. We haven't even thought about the pricing yet
If prisoners can make anything into a poker, or blade, or any kind of implement meant for bodily harm - removing kitchen knives from the homes of criminals will do next to nothing but further increase the grip of authoritarianism.
I think the French k7 is because "k-sept" sounds exactly like "cassette". The fact that the number of letters match is just a coincidence.
Their own hard tokens and authenticator apps.
You might consider trying a muse 2. I bought one used on eBay for $125. There is a very good app mind monitor you can see what's going on quickly and get captures and python options like muse-lsl for doing your own capture and analysis.
Stable diffusion isn't useful at all?
Sensing signals inside of the brain are much less exciting to me compare to writing signals via people's eye balls and ears or reading signals from people's various muscles.

Measuring how "focused" or "stressed" someone is is too much of a gimmick to me.
Having escaped Australia during the middle of the pandemic, I'd like to correct this article: Australia's only long-haul carrier during the pandemic was United.

Thanks United for getting me out of Australia!
It's contributions like this that really show the vast amount of knowledge that can be found on Wikipedia.
We need accessibility more. Unfortunately, despite all CoCs, this has been forgotten in wayland¹².

Sorry for unrelated rant. I know I deserve the downvotes.

(I have a vision impaired relative)

¹ yes I know, the compositor! Unfortunately every DE (usually) needs its own compositor. No unifying API for accessibility on Linux in 2023 anymore.

² but it's secure now
Sure they can. http://sumplete.com is a new puzzle game, which its author says was invented by ChatGPT. If ChatGPT couldn't do anything new, then how did that game come to be?

Outside of a very limited test area and test market, self-driving cars have yet to even be used by the general public. Meanwhile ChatGPT's been adopted by en estimated 100 million people, many of which are using even just the free version to deliver value to the companies they work for. Maybe if ChatGPT was all hyped and unavailable to try by the masses it would sound like a lot more hot air, but it's open to anyone with an account, who can verify claims on their own. Not everyone will or has to walk away impressed, but when it does in a couple minutes what would have taken you a few hours, it's hard not to be.
This is true, but a good subset of tasks can be accomplished by much smaller models. Copilot is 12B!
> And I thought javascript was inefficient compared to C.

JavaScript (and web-age scripting languages in general) made programming more accessible in a fashion perhaps not entirely dissimilar to what we'll see with generative AI.
They also make good tankers when your refuelers strike
https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/03/qantas-uses-a380-f...
The US isn't perfect, but police have long had the power to seize kitchen knives when arresting someone, and it's not at the forefront of the causes of societal collapse.
> Can we start a mega thread of places on the net the new generation missed out on?

Most pretentious thing I've ever read
One of Haidt's points is that you can't escape by deleting your account, because everyone else is still online. Suppose you're a teenage girl. The gossip mill about you is still going to be doing the rounds on social media, so the cyberbulling can't be stopped whether or not you're participating. If anything, being the strange outcast by refusing to go online will inflame things. That's one reason why a ban for those below 16 or 18 is a good idea.
The First Full Length Music Video Made with Generative AI?
> Discovery of carbon-capturing organism in hot springs could lead to efficient way of absorbing climate-heating gas
What a coincidence!

Only yesterday I was reading the WP page on Camel Spiders, saw the chewing animation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Junnn11#/media/File:20220..., and thought it was quite cool!
Are we ignoring how one of Substack's major competitors, Ghost is doing just fine? Bootstrapped, on a $6M run rate, their growth speeding the past years and openly sharing their revenue details [1].

What would happen if Substack went out of business? Newsletters can (and would) migrate to Ghost or other alternatives that are also thriving.

[1] https://ghost.org/open/
Should I feel anxiety about AI?
There is an ongoing research project to analyze people's potential anxiety toward AI. Elon's recent interview brought this to mind. Here is the link if you are interested in being part of the research.
Those countries are next door to Ukraine, a refugee can literally walk to them vs. someone paying for a plane flight to the US. Of course neighboring countries will have more refugees...
Funny, I kind of enjoy it more. Possibly I'm being boring.

I think he's just older. He tends to sound less sweeping and more reasonable in his posts these days.
My point was that everything they were they were trying to patent was an obvious trick of the trade. They were trying to patent thing along the lines of: generate->filter->rank. It's how basically any recommendation engine works and has been described in numerous existing patents.

But I tried not to be a jerk at all. Every time they asked me about a different aspect of the system, I could just say something like, "We used standard software engineering techniques using an algorithm built in to [common language] to sort things here. It's a fairly common approach to this sort of problem." After a statement like that, the patent lawyers had very little to pull on. They'd move on to another aspect and I'd give a similar answer.
Wonderful illustrations!

Whenever I see someone that is interested in a very specific niche and obviously expends a lot of effort towards it, I'm always in awe. How did they become interested in the topic? Why choose this specific thing? How do they keep their motivation to continue with it?

I've personally never really felt like I've cared enough about anything this much. Because of this, I've always felt like I'm missing something in life. I would love to be passionate about something as much as Junnn11 is about Arthropods.
The difference is where the money goes. You can point to any country that scores high on corruption index and go "well actually, these people made out like bandits".
That's why i think the copilot and chat gpt hype will end up as one big balloon and in ten years time we will have a pile of generated code no one really understands anymore that needs to be fixed. Kind of like after the out sourcing adventure people had in tech in the early 2010s or so.
The 737 and 707 are the exemplar for airplanes. MCDs reverse takeover of Boeing has been a disaster / but safety wise even with the 737 Max debacle the 737 is the lane that took the jet age from only the elites to everyone.
”Access to this site has been restricted.”
Yes. I can't take the "untranslatable" claim for good fish when the article doesn't address this obvious objection: Any Norwegian or Danish reader can see that it's the same word as "koselig", likely even etymologically.
Wait until you hear about the Dutch concept of "niksen" ( https://time.com/5622094/what-is-niksen/)...

Its a type of fluff article that you can find about many mundane words from around the world, trying to make them into some wonderful concept that's just what the US is missing.

I guess the authors of such articles need to pay their bills too, but it's a bit surprising to see one on here.
Damn I hate to be that guy, but now it wont let me sign up. I tried the "Continue with Email" option and when I click "Sign up" after entering my information it just refreshes the page. I tried with Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu 22, two different emails.

Nothing in the console because the page just instantly refreshes
The A380 is pretty smooth, but I found that the way it cruises is not great for me. It tends to surge and glide in a way that prevents me from actually falling asleep, more so than on other smaller planes like a 787. While the 787 might not be as silky smooth taking off and landing, I prefer it for the long term comfort that matters for most of the flight.
I think you’ve missed the point of the article.
That’s only on mac though
Because that would almost certainly start a war...
That's not likely to be true. An AI can create a work that is infringing, a picture of a Marvel character, for example. But that doesn't make the AI or its weights or its training an infringement.
Likewise. I follow several thoughtful creators like Asianometry[0] and haven't seen anything like what GP's describing.

[0] https://asianometry.substack.com/
Well, part of the problem is is passing around quoted forms (ie. `(quote ...)` or in may Lisps, `(...)). If that form contains a macro, and a sizeable chunk of Lisps stdlibs are macros, you probably need to implement runtime macro expansion at least partially. So in order to avoid implementing runtime macro expansion, you need to break the semantics of what a quoted form is, or disallow them entirely. The implementation for the former could get really complicated depending on the cases you want to support, resolving symbols in the corresponding scope comes to mind as being particularly challenging. Removing quoted forms entirely just really isn't an option, it's required for one of the most powerful parts of Lisps in general: built-in syntax templates. So we're back to breaking the semantics of quoted forms, which I think can be done reasonably, if not difficult to implement.
> Case in point, my son and his friends have a small discord server. And they play minecraft on a shared server. This not the same as scrolling TikTok / Instagram. But it's a degree of independence somewhat away from parental eyes. Should I ban them from screens, and send them to ride bikes out in a world with few other kids? Or let them have this niche of a social / independence outlet?

Haidt says male use of social media in the form of gaming is categorically different to Instagram/Snapchat/Tiktok-type social media use. Because that social activity is less about performing for the camera and bullying and social comparisons, so he doesn't see it to be a problem in need of a ban.
Personally, I much prefer having the images all download on page load. Lazy loaded images never seem to download before I scroll to them, so I have to keep waiting for them to come in as I go through the page.
I’ve had good luck with temp > 0, getting 5+ responses, and then having a mechanism that chooses the best response.

If the response is expected to be factual then the voting mechanism is just “pick the one with the most responses”, eg, you asked for the code to compute and return the standard deviation of some list of numbers… if four of the responses are 5.4 and one is 5.6, there are more votes for 5.4.
$11,000 EV unveiled by BYD
Smartphones changed access to cameras fundamentally; it went from something you had to specifically go buy to something you already have by default. Film to digital was also huge, for sure, but we're now at a level where >80% of people have a camera(phone) within reach of them at all times.

The marginal cost of taking a photo is now $0. It's a hobby that anyone with a smartphone can now take up.
You are right about my language, it's indeed Afrikaans :)

Interestingly, we also have the word knus, totally forgot about it. We also have "snoesig", which is used to describe being tucked in or wrapped in a blanket.

So your description of geselskap (group of gezellen) is EXACTLY what geselskap means. Its a group of good or fun people, sometimes friends but not always. We don't have the concept of "gezel" though. Interestingly we also have the concept of bad (slegte) geselskap, which describes when you associate with the "wrong kind of people".

We ALSO have vergesel, which is the verb for accompany. We have "metgesel", which is the noun given to the person accompanying you i.e. escort/chaperone or date.

So for those who are not native Dutch and Afrikaans: in the 1650s the Dutch came to South Africa and started a colony. Over the centuries the Dutch dialect this side changed and picked up all sorts of words from local and other imported languages. In the early 1900s it oficially became it's own language. For a long time before that it was known as "kitchen Dutch" among other things, as it was the creole spoken by the slaves and servants of the Western Cape colonists. It's trivial for me to read and comprehend Dutch text, and a speaker only needs to slow down a little and I can follow what's being said well enough.
That is a useful tip that ctrl+space/tab completion supports wildcards.

Also, older versions of PowerShell used to include the ISE which offered better auto-completion UI and I found really helpful for learning at times.

Today the suggestion is to install the PowerShell extension in VS Code if you want the best auto-completion support and a lot of features lit up for .ps1 files. (That's the closest to a modern ISE.) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscod...
You misunderstood. I had several tabs in Gimp, each with an image. I thought I had exported every one (to .png). Gimp told me I hadn't saved any (to .xcf) and Gimp doesn't care about exporting. *I had no way to know if my images were all exported.*
You’re uncritically equating disgruntled to niche. It seems to me that the disgruntled view is the mainstream view.

Jonathan Haidt is an interesting example. He’s basically the foremost expert on an emergent problem.
Ha! What do they do in Quebec?
> Ai isn't an alien.

The goal of the alien analogy is to provide a thought experiment that allows us to expand how we think about AGI without getting stuck in preconceptions.

It is not literally alien in the sense that most people think about when contemplating extraterrestrial life, but there are some strong parallels that are informative to consider.

> It doesn't have autonomy, will or desires

Current-generation AI tech is already teaching itself how to walk [0]. This is not a robot that follows deterministic rules pre-defined by a human, or a robot that was trained to walk. The robot trained itself.

The AGI conversation is a conversation about the future where each of the specialized fields of AI converge. Much like we are massively complex interdependent systems, I suspect AGI will be the culmination of integrating focused fields of AI technology into a single system.

Will and desire are human feelings that ultimately stem from our goal-oriented behavior. The absence of these feelings in a robot do not matter if the robot behaves in a goal-oriented way. Problems emerge when its goals are not aligned with our goals. This isn't about some hokey robot overlord scenario, but one where a robot sees humans much like humans see ants when going about our days.

Most humans don't go out of their way to destroy ant colonies, but neither are we very concerned when we run the lawn mower over one. Malice is not required for a misalignment of goals to be a serious issue.

> This AGI doomsday nonsense is becoming more of a religion every day.

None of what I've described is inevitable, but all of it is possible. We're now in the moment where we'll decide what is next, and if we'll take this seriously enough to bake in appropriate safeguards. I think Stuart Russell has important things to say about this [1].

While I'm not a doomer, I'd strongly encourage you to dig deeper into this subject. I was shrugging most of this off for awhile, but things have changed.

- [0] https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/step-step-berkeley-robo...

- [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISkAkiAkK7A
In the UK it is a criminal offence to carry a kitchen knife around and it'll get you jailed.

However, it is of course perfectly fine to keep kitchen knives in your kitchen, which is what this proposal seems to target... even if you can go to the supermarket and buy new ones at any time.
I suspect that the people arguing here that Norway should direct that huge volume of money internally are not Norwegian residents. Those of us who live in Norway, most of us anyway, recognize that doing that would be a disaster and would just fund short term spending and fuel inflation.

The UK and the Dutch just spent the money they got from the North Sea oil and at least the UK has little to show for it.

Anyway, the Norwegian economy is doing just fine without it, we bounced back from COVID faster than practically everywhere else and everywhere I look there are new commercial and industrial buildings going up.
I always wonder: isn't programmability a security risk? What if a malware puts a backdoor in my programmable key?
in the 90s, there was microsoft messenger. real time, point to point (and maybe ptmp) chat, audio, and video. What replaced it? I have to run a coturn (STUN) server just to be able to talk to my friend in a private way, which means now i gotta deal with some provider for hosting both coturn and, say, Matrix (Synapse).

I also run a PBX, just in case coturn decides to stop working from lack of use. Now i gotta make sure i start the PBX app (3cx) once a week otherwise android helpfully removes notifications for me!

AIM, ICQ, etc were great - and i'm discounting "presence", because that was a small part of it. realtime communication for "free". I've been running chat servers for over a decade, and right now, there's three people on my matrix server, me, wife, and my best friend. there's five people on my PBX, same three plus my youngest child without a SIM card, and grandma, so grandma can call kid and vice versa. I've run ircd, matrix, rocket.chat, mattermost, a couple of the jabber systems, ventrilo, teamspeak, hand-rolled garbage.

we've had people sign up and chat once, but as soon as notifications stop working we never see them again. Heck, i have 3 PUSH accounts just to make sure that notifications go through everywhere.

Meanwhile, 20-25 years ago, load up trillian or AIM/ICQ and there was everyone, literally everyone. I know facebook ate that lunch, but i refuse to have any facebook apps on my phone, and most people i know refuse as well, so that's a non-starter. Texting is still spotty, because VoWiFi tends to just magically stop working if you leave the wifi area a couple times in a day, so texts will sit in limbo until you realize. Phone calls are the same way (except via PBX, those always seem to work for some reason...)

running out of IPv4 and the ubiquitousness of CGNAT have killed what the internet was. And that's sad; "nostalgia" isn't necessarily a negative thing. It used to be better, at least in the West. Maybe wechat and signal and telegram and whatever work better for the rest of the world now than any of our stuff from 25 years ago, i wouldn't know, because i know exactly zero people on any of those services - i've checked, once every couple of years.