skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, Reddit is a boring platform outside of your personal interests. I myself follow only one subreddit and check maybe other 4-5 for news/updates, but none of these are in the top 1000, maybe not even top 10,000 subreddits. I find Reddit culture to be bland and uninspiring.

Even technical/niche subreddits get absolutely run over by "noobs" and people who have too many questions but too little patience to do research for themselves. And comments on Reddit are beyond bland - they might as well adopt a slogan of "The Parrot Club" at this point.

My point being, Reddit is likely the easiest platform to give up because it never provided any value/intrigue in the first place.
> I came across the Pavlok in 2018. The Pavlok is a wrist-watch that delivers a shock. The device had the right cyberpunk and biohacking vibes to catch my attention. It was primarily marketed for smoking cessation: every time you felt the impulse to smoke, you’d press the device and it would deliver a shock.

Reminds me of the James Woods segment of this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_Eye_(1985_film)#.22Qui...
How to Crash SM64 Using a Pendulum [video]
Local webhook development: A Guide to customizing smee.io for fun and profit
New UI feels very sluggish. For whatever reason it just struggles performance-wise.
While I applaud the effort, I'm really wondering about leveraging something like a ODROID HC4 and don't worry too much about the standby power consumption.

I mean, I even recently purchased an old refurbished i5 enterprise mini PC that consumes about 5W in idle mode, not even standby.

It makes sense as it is leveraging laptop components inside.
But price discovery is a public good.
With RES it's it's truely nice to use the old UI.
r/cpp doesn't allow question-asking threads, except for questions which explicitly invite discussion.
Stability AI Announces Stable Diffusion XL Beta for API and DreamStudio Users
Was it a Windows version or DOS version?
> I hope one upside might be a critical mass of people comes to understand how to value people independently of their economic output.

The cynical in me thinks that all you need is another world war to fix the overly crowded planet. Then things will be quite balanced again and you can keep on judging people by what you call the economic output.
Yep, these are the terms I've always used when whitewater rafting.
> David P. Goldman[: ] «the transformation of disruptive tech companies into rent-seeking monopolies»

I have been thinking along those lines. Economies have thrived under capitalism because they have produced something of value to consumers. There seems to have been a shift of late where the philosophy is one of "how can we get vendor lock-in?" Sure, it is in a sense logical for companies to want to do this, but what value does it have for society? And ultimately, if it has no value for society, then how can it really be successful?

I guess the supreme success of Microsoft, Google, Apple and Facebook have driven this change in mindset.
ACQ Bure is a SPAC, so really what Yubico is doing here is simply "going public"; a SPAC is just a vehicle for doing that, as is an underwritten IPO or a direct listing.
Social tech debt doesn’t mean what you think it means
I disagree. Apollo on iOS is the most potent drug I've ever consumed. It's a wonderful app (kudos to Christian, it's rare for a one-man show to take the throne in the days of companies giving themselves preferential treatment) but I can't have it installed because I'll go back to binging Reddit.
NOte that the NUCs with power saving and wifi have a serious problem: latency. By default in the various Linux OSen I use, wifi power management is enabled. Often times, repeated pings will jump from 5ms to 100+ms (with a very high variance) and network bandwidth will be extremely poor. Even ssh on a LAN can be unusable!
Chunk the PDF text and create embeddings. Get cosine similarity between user query and each chunk, and send the top N chunks to OpenAI that fit within token memory.
>> PowerShell has its own alias, "gci" for get-childitem and just "childitem" would automagically work.

Yeah, I totally keep forgetting those and just use the unix-like aliases.

>> btw. what is the benefit of Louise learning the Ackermann function with successor arithmetics? Ok the successor notation is structurally simple enough to 'learn' ... what does 'learning it' mean and how is that practical or useful?

Holy unexpected question, Batman! :D

The point is that it much simplifies notation, which in turn simplifies the background knowledge. The alternative is to give is/2 as background knowledge, but then you also need to somehow specify all the arithmetic functions it can use, so it doesn't make for a simple example anymore (although I don't think the data/examples/ackermann.pl example is simple, given the flattening; I really need to sit my bum down and write a flattening/unflattening program transformation).

An alternative, while still keeping things simple, is the way it's done in the data/examples/even_odd.pl example, where I just hard-code the prev/1 predicate. But if you do it that way, you then need to extend prev/1 after learning, or the whole learned program, along with the background knowledge, is incomplete (it works only for the numbers in the interval [1,4]).

Generally, those data/examples/ files are meant to be simple examples and I tried to simplify the notation. One could certainly do a better job than what I've done, I think. But they're not supposed to be very useful, they're demonstrations.

I might have some time this month and the next to improve as much as I can in the documentation and the examples. But real-world applications will have to wait. I might have something in the works. Wish me luck :)
Usenet has great newsgroups with less content but more quality per post. And a much relaxed pace.
Depends on the legislative culture. For example, from the Copywrongs talk from now Felix Reda:

> The other legal tradition underlying the EU copyright system which is the continental European tradition of droit d’auteur (or Author's Rights). In this system, the authors of cultural works have certain inalienable rights that they cannot sell to a right holder. And, importantly, the exceptions to copyright, the interests of the public are written into the law. [...] The problem with the continental system is that it is quite inflexible because every time a new technological development comes about, you have to change the law to allow this type of use without a copyright infringement. So every new way of dealing with culture is fobidden by default. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL_Wxu6x1HU

Whereas other legislative cultures prefer to set a general framework, then leave the details to the Courts and or to Government ministers.
Ethereum smart contract creation code
I got a taste of this pop-culture version in my corner of the world a few years ago, where apparently it meant furniture in all white, fake white bricks on the walls and, above all, offensive amounts of 3000-4000K light from LEDs.
OpenAI really needs to donate its name to Stability.
> Expand your experience.

That's universally good advice, which you should follow too.

But neither of us is going to experience all that exists to experience, so it makes sense to prioritize. I've experienced enough pain debugging Lisp macros to make an educated decision to deprioritize further exploration in that area.

> You can "just" get it wrong when the code is used in many places.

True, which is why I generally use other abstractions to avoid repeating myself.

> Consider this as the hot take: macros reduce the number of characters you have to type. I haven't seen anything that beats macros in this metric.

Sure, but within reasonable languages that's not a metric which matters. Typing has never been the bottleneck of my development. Even in absurdly verbose languages like C++, IDEs generate a lot of the code for you: the bottlenecks in C++ are things like stitching together different ways of doing the same thing which were used in libraries or different parts of the codebase.
No.

Any type of foreign body is inaccessible to the immune system, therefore prone to harbor sources of chronic infections, like bacterial biofilms.

"A significant proportion of medical implants become the focus of a device-related infection, difficult to eradicate because bacteria that cause these infections live in well-developed biofilms."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16353112/

No thanks, I don't want this anywhere near my central nervous system.
Christmas eve with your family is gezellig, but you wouldn't describe it as chill. I'd also call it cozy.
How They Fought: Indigenous Tactics and Weaponry of Australia’s Frontier Wars
On my last project, we built a configuration/collection tool for sensors installed in remote locations. For certain operations, our failure mode was "the user will have to go online so the app can resolve things, then can go back to the remote location and try again".

After folks explained that this could require a multi-day, multi-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars journey for the customer, we re-architected parts of the system to be tolerant of offline failures but still resilient and secure and saved the customer a potential round trip back to the field.
Original title ("How We Converted a GitHub Tool Into a General Purpose Webhook Proxy to Supercharge Our Integration Development") was too long, and just trimming it was losing context, I hope it's within the rules that I got a little creative with the shortening.

Background: We used smee.io for local github app development, and wanted to use it also for slack app and other webhook based local development, we added a few enhancements and though it might be relevant for others as an alternative (for some use cases) to using ngrok.
Well, for starters, old.reddit.com on mobile safari doesn't put an overlay telling you to use the app instead when you get a deep link.

Also it loads much faster. Imagine if HN were re-done with a lot more glitz and current HN was turned into old.news.ycombinator.com? I bet a lot of HNers would prefer the old interface especially if there were some annoying UI patterns in the new one.
I was using it for a while, but unfortunately my muscle memory has gotten too good at disabling it.

Maybe I should do smaller increments like you do though. I was previously setting a limited amount of time per 24 hours, but maybe a few minutes every 4 hours would be better.
It works without JS.
n + 1 feet?
An A100 is about the size of a brick, there is no way we're fitting those 8 bricks in a phone in the next five years, without even thinking about heat management
GitHub owns NPM (And yes Microsoft owns GitHub)
Reddit has one of the worst frontends I have ever seen. Not even from a "SPAs are evil"-standpoint. It's just awful. That has deconditioned me very effectively.
They are on a path slowly killing third party reddit apps. Recent announcement on this. (An Update Regarding Reddit’s API https://redd.it/12qwagm)

Copied from a third party app (sync) dev's comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsync/comments/12qwwjh/an_upda...

It looks like they'll be no more free access so every third party app will have to charge a subscription that goes to Reddit (monthly and with no costing provided yet)
The company can cease operations tomorrow, but the model they open sourced (and all of its derivatives built by the community) will continue to exist. If OpenAI disappears then all of the work they have done goes with it.
I learned this word from Studio Massa https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYXU4Ir4-8GPeP4lKT9ae...
I suspect it is improbable, because an honest, undeniable belief that you lack free will would drive someone stark raving mad. It would represent a fundamental phase change in the way an individual interacts with the world, which I would wager would be antithetical to effective transmission of the belief.

Far more dangerous would be the 90% mark, where understanding of psychological determinism advances to a point where people still believe they have free will, but are wildly effective at influencing others. That looks like advertising today, but worse.
Reddit's comments are extremely predictable because the popular subreddits have such a homogenous personality. But they've really perfected the outrage machine where once you get hooked on reading through /r/all, it's hard to break.
Or perhaps some zealots are also sports fans and transfer their default behaviour onto anything they do
Credit card what?
> 3.24 is now up to the 29th point release with 3.24.29. Kind of an OpenSSL 0.9esque version number...

It's just semver. Gtk 3 isn't receiving new features, so it's frozen at 3.24. It still gets bug/security fixes, so 3.24.x patch releases abound (and it seems the current version is actually 3.24.37). Similar situation with Gtk2, current version is 2.24.33.
I'm very interested to see how this goes, especially since I was not aware of Ireland's particular housing shortage.

I'm a big fan of infill/increased urban density in general, as long as it is ~equally beautiful to the surroundings. (Ex. live-work units can be much more beautiful than single-family homes, but 5-over-1s are usually not)

Some other topical sites I've been reading recently that I'd recommend:

https://missingmiddlehousing.com/

https://www.strongtowns.org/ (North America specific)

One quote I'm unsure about:

> [Popular housing reform] means having strict rules on parking and driving, ensuring congestion doesn’t increase.

I'm unsure whether to read this as strict rules to increase car infrastructure as housing is increased to make way for more people's vehicles, or to make sure new housing development holds steady car flow / implements alternative transportation so as not to increase the number of cars.

The first interpretation would make me concerned about induced demand.
Where does the reputation come from? Is it going to work like our already questionable anti-spam systems?
Well I also think that people underrate how much staff someone at Swift's level employs. We really should think of them as CEOs of their name.

But I also think it's a bit of hindsight snobbery to assume anyone was seriously looking FTX as a securities fraud risk in 2020. Maybe normal fraud, or even just a general ponzi scheme. It was an SEC-approved platform ~~that traded on the stock market!~~
Farouk al Kasim saved Norway from its oil (2014)
The fact that they founded a nation that has last as long and successfully as the USA is extremely impressive, in the same way Apple is impressive even though Steve Jobs was not a perfect person, except the USA is orders of magnitude more impactful.

Simply on the basis of accomplishments, whether for good or bad, the founders rank amongst the greatest people to ever exist.
Sorry for no updates, it is working fine for me, not sure what happened, checked a few minutes later after restarting my PC
No. OpenAI haven't disclosed parameter count of GPT-3.5 or GPT-4, which are models used by ChatGPT. You may be thinking of GPT-3, which is indeed a 175B parameter model.
Yep. It's mostly a information to screen usage ratio thing. There's so much useless "noise" on modern reddit, even if your customize it. Res + old reddit is much better at letting you see what you want to see and move on.

That said, I'm at the point where i'm just converting everything to rss feed readers. I'm sure that's going to be blown up eventually as well, but in the meantime it's probably the best way to just get whatever information you want, quickly, and not be stuck navigating websites.
Exactly that. I already went down that spiral many times and the result is nothing but sadness about the many injustices of the world. But ultimately it's out of my hand. It's out of your hand. The ball is in no one's court.

Focus on the better aspects of life. Take care of your loved ones. Do your best to improve your local community. Contribute to a better state of the world, no matter how small the contribution may be. Pray to a higher being if you believe in one. That's ultimately all you can do.
Most Experimental class crashes are on the first flight.

https://www.flyingmag.com/blogs-fly-wire-ntsb-safety-study-t...

> One of the eye-opening stats was that most accidents involving EAB aircraft happen very early in the airplane’s life, often on the very first flight, and early into that flight. Pilots who survived EAB crashes often said the engine quit or lost power, or that pitch control on takeoff or climbout was not what they anticipated.

Experimental aircraft crashes also account for 25% of GA crashes: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/general-aviation-safety

In the US 51% or more of the construction must be done by the original owner/pilot and they must also complete the first flight and subsequent test flights themselves. These test flights must follow a plan submitted by the pilot and approved by the FAA, but that is a fairly routine/templated process when building from a known kit. If your build deviates from the standard kit you can expect the FAA to require a longer/more rigorous test flight plan.

The test plan is usually focused on verifying the engine and flight controls operate as expected and documenting the stall speed/characteristics for that specific airframe.
What's not mentioned in this lay-man summary, but is mentioned in the original article is glycosylation.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.10994...

Glycosylation is a post-translational modification that affects dramatic impact on protein function, especially their "stickiness."

There are distinct genes which are responsible for encoding glycosyl transferases, which "decorate" the proteins after they are made. The fact that whoever wrote this article thinks these are not "glue genes" is a fallacy of composition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition

The article mentions that the proteins in question are highly glycosylated and concludes "Divergence in material properties likely also involves selective gene expression, post translational protein modifications, and differences in the rates of extrusion of constituent glue proteins."

Therefore, the title is click-bait.
Let me share a story about this from one of our customers.

My customer asked me about writing a smart contract but we did not had the capacity to handle it.

A few days after that, my customer gets back to me sharing a basic smart contract he managed to create using ChatGPT, since them, my customer has kept iterating over this, it took him a few weeks to get the functionality he wanted.

My customer explained to me that ChatGPT usually got the wrong details but he used to came back and explain the problems to ChatGPT, ChatGPT proposed many solutions until one of them was the correct fix.

Overall, my customer is very happy with this experience, he sees ChatGPT as a personal teacher, my customer is know very motivated to keep learning programming.

While I haven't been affected negatively, I'm sure that we'll hear more stories like this one.
Labor is the single biggest cost component for most white collar industries.

Training a model once and then putting it to work will be vastly cheaper than hiring thousands of employees.

Accenture had 750k employees last I checked. A 10% reduction in headcount would mean saving billions annually.

How much compute does an annual $3B budget buy?
You do OS development?
That's around 1 in 8 registered airframes. The derived designs were even worse, 6 of 31 berkuts have crashed.

Ultimately a big factor is they aren't usually built as kit planes but rather full scratch builds. Each builder is independently sourcing materials and composites are very unforgiving. Kit planes are generally not that bad as the number of ways you can fail in construction is relatively well bounded and there's a lot of feedback into the design side to mitigate these common errors. I'm working on an RV8 and the errata is really something to behold. It's an older 90s design but the factory is still changing parts out on me occasionally as they discover issues. This is much more in line with how certified aircraft work so it stands to reason that they would enjoy a better safety record.
Have you used the “new” ui directly? For me the gallery links somehow manage to crash Firefox on mobile more often than not. Links to comment threads also load only 2 threads deep and I have to constantly click on load more buttons to continue the conversation. On top of all that there’s a ton of space wasted on the sides to just have the thread be in the center?

If I was using Reddit solely to view images it might be an improvement but it’s nearly unusable if you are using it primarily to read comments
This does not work for me because I despise how mobile apps can't have multiple tabs open so I never use native apps.
AutoGPT reminds me of the promise of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) many years ago.

The potential is certainly there. But agents need API endpoints and auth credentials to deliver on value.
Since those numbers don't assemble from previous numbers, they could as well start assembling earlier. Apparently the designer thinks it's visible long enough (he's wrong).
Thank you for calling those out – will get that fixed right up!
Also because of the extremely irritating animations, which some found impossible to disable.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein is Windows. Using the Quake 3 engine.
I tried with a sample boleto PDF (a popular payment method for bills in Brazil) then asked it what's the due date in the file, and it wrongly answered with the "Do not receive payments after" date. Beautiful.
Should a toggle button show current state or the state to which it will change?
I already paid for sync reddit app. It works great. But I'm pretty sure I'm not going to pay a monthly subscription for reddit. That's just taking a bad habit too far.
Completed training is. These are early "Alpha" checkpoints.
Generally, the CPU has instructions for loading memory into registers and storing registers into memory and they specify how much memory to read/write.

eg:

ARM (32) has LDR (32-bit), LDRH (16-bit), and LDRB (8-bit)

68K has MOVE.L (32-bit), MOVE.W (16-bit), MOVE.B (8-bit)

There are also some architectures (early Alpha for example) where memory can only be read in aligned 32-bit chunks or aligned 64-bit chunks. If you want to read 8 bits... well the compiler will generate a 32-bit read and then shift/mask the data to get the 8-bits that you care about.
> Why isn't the SEC going after the politicians that accepted donations from FTX?

Because that's not the SECs job. It may be FEC’s job to do something about that, and it may be current FTX management's job to do something about that, but its definitely not SEC’s job.

> Did those politicians ask any questions at all or just happily recieve the money

They weren’t from FTX (corporations can't donate to candidates) but from individuals, and often through cutouts specifically to conceal the actual responsible individual (SBF) to avoid the questions that would come, including from the recipients, about the pattern of donations.
Parinfer only helps you write parentheses, it doesn't help you read them.
There's no such thing as "untranslatable words", and every text which claims existence of one, immediately translates it. The linked story is no different, of course.
I suspect the community will start creating lower precision/quantized versions of the model very quickly. LLaMa 30b quantized to 4 bits is runnable on a 3090/4090.
Ironically, I actually also use HN's mobile site not because I'm trying to break my usage of it but because I like opening multiple stories/comments sections in new tabs throughout the day and slowly reading through them when I have time.