skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to think that unbiased news is an intractable problem purely based on information theory: to have an unbiased picture of the world, you need to have all the facts, which is physically impossible; and any layer that simplifies those facts (be it a journalist or an LLM) will add bias (either by journalist, journalist’s employer, LLM’s training data or operator preferences, and so on). In short, when your selection of facts to report is already biased, there’s not much you can do. In even shorter, map is not the territory (and all you have is a map).

However, I realized that’s not really true.

I mean, of course you cannot have unbiased news, and reevaluating the definition of “news” is not going to help you.

It’s just that there is actually a very good mechanism for combatting this—and it’s called “be aware of your bias and upfront about it”. There is any other way around it.
I've created many bots over the years with really sophisticated interfaces in Telegram.

For some reason it works for eastern people but barely for westerners. Every product made had more success with an additional web app. I always assumed it's because bots look all the same, it's hard to find scam indicators.
> 2) languages such as PL/SQL are much poorer than any modern programming language

true but it is for a reason.
For example you can replace/upgrade any piece of code on the running system transactionally. But in a modern programming language, let's say Java, it is not possible.

Should PL/SQL be similar to a "modern programming language" it would lose a lot of its perks.

Generally speaking PL/SQL is not much different from DDL like "create table ...". The latter is similar code describing "business logic"
A hidden switch on the wire behind that fuse would be a lot more ergonomic, a thief would just replace the ignition fuse with any other in the panel, he doesn't need the radio to be on :)
Is there a history or precedent for this in Common Law? Or Chinese law? What’s the origin of this idea?
Relax, no one is really considering meat foods to go away in the next 100 years or so.

It's all about the access to the vegetarian and vegan foods to those who want it, and it happens to become more popular, so market adapts.

But you present it like someone tries to take your food.
i suppose i'm in that 15%. i sometimes drink a tea made from a fresh hop cone to help me sleep. it's not so much that i don't taste bitter, just that i'm not averse to a lot of the flavors people call bitter (and there are a lot of flavors people call bitter.)

i don't know if it's related but i've also noticed i'm much more tolerant of ginger than most people and i can't taste cardamom (seed of the ginger plant, interestingly) at all.

hey, people are different.
>Also, the surgery seemed to introduce dark maggot-size shapes in the periphery of my vision. Switching from near sight to far sight brought on a bout of the maggots, which were hard to ignore at first, but I learned to forget about them. If I’d had this surgery as a child, I probably would have explained the maggot shapes by assuming the scalpel had implanted them in my eyes.

we're not supposed to talk about those.
NTFS is case-sensitive internally and you can have case-sensitive files or directories. Back when WSL1 was the only version, I tried to compile some C++ stuff with MSVC. I ran `git clone` in WSL but cloned to the Windows partition. Visual Studio complained that EXAMPLE.H could not be found, even though it was there, except it looked like "example.h" in Explorer. (WSL2 does not use this feature, since cross-OS file access is done via network shares, and Linux files live in a virtual disk image.)
> vegan meat products saw a 21 percent increase in unit sales from 2020 to 2022

> During the same period, animal-based meat and milk sales dropped by eight and nine percent, respectively

There are likely additional factors at play in the animal based drop

UK ONS shows whole milk at low of 43p/l in 2020 increasing to 70p/l in Mar 23 and minced beef from 609p/kg to 812p/kg in 23 -- but those numbers likely do not reflect the reality of multi-buy discount offers commonly being available in 2020 that are rarer now in 23 -- so the inflation felt by consumers is potentially even higher
Nah it’s probably gnome terminal and the rest of the UI stack, schedulers etc.

See eg https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/
Anecdotally I would say that oat based milk is taking over the world (probably because it is sweeter). But it feels to me like Veganism and Vegetarianism are still quite niche.
Nothing wrong with lactose, even with intolerance it's just unpleasant not unhealthy.

It would be good if vit d is in many more things but don't understand why it's milks job.

Good grass fed butter has some vitamine d.

But most natural food sources will have limited vit d.
> The day after the procedure, I looked out the car window and saw, for the first time from such a distance, individual leaves on trees.

This is how I feel every time I replace an old set of scratched up lenses!
I literally shared on chain data. That's actual users. Even if you assume that all 80k unique wallets that exchanged USDT yesterday were real users, that's just...80,000 users. Niche forums have more users than that.

Anyone who has ever created an account on a crypto exchange has a crypto address. I have accounts at Binance, WazirX, Kraken, Crypto.com, Gate.io, Mexc, ByBit, and probably 2-3 more exchanges I can't remember. That means I have 10+ addresses.

But that's not real users. Any money I've sent to exchanges is just for trading/investing. I'm not actually using the tech.

On-chain usage is the only real usage. The rest is just banking with more hurdles and scams.
"Over at the SEC, a spokesperson said the agency can allocate civil penalties to one of three places: the general fund at the U.S. Treasury, the Treasury's Investor Protection Fund (which is used to help fund awards granted to whistleblowers), or another separate fund used to repay harmed investors."

According to this, fines are not allocated to the Commission to finance further enforcement activity except that funding awards to whistleblowers might lead to more enforcement actions. Keyword: might

https://www.marketplace.org/2022/08/12/where-does-money-coll...

"What Does the SEC Do With Money It Collects From Fines?

This will depend on the nature of the penalty. If investors or others were harmed financially due to a transgression, the penalties collected will be used to recover those losses and make those investors whole. Until the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, all penalties the SEC obtained were paid to the United States Treasury.

Section 308 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the so-called "Fair Funds provision," permits the SEC to request that certain penalties be added to any disgorgement fund established as part of an SEC enforcement action to return money to shareholders, investors, whistleblowers, or other victims of the defendant's securities law violations."

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/secfines.asp

HN commenters seem to pay particular attention to Matt Levine's ramblings. Here he is dispelling the myth:

"It is not literally the case that the US Securities and Exchange Commission is a for-profit business whose goal is to maximize its revenue, and whose most important source of revenue is fining financial services companies for their misdeeds. But that is sometimes a tempting way to think about things."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-02-02/the-se...
Quite niche, or quiche.
> We’re in a reality distortion field where, for some reason, everyone thinks that the circus trick performed by GPTs is an absolute, it’s here to last forever and it will just get better

Why would it not last forever and improve? Unless OpenAI is currently selling api/chat access at a loss, but I see no reason to believe this.
It's precisely because truth isn't political that the assignment of "observations" and "theories" to "truth" is extremely politicized.
Maybe not with you. But in most modern cities they are actively campaigning against meat, they are mostly using the moral card: you are destroying the planet. How fun.
I am getting a bit deeper into the food industry since I started investing in a startup that plans to produce animal feed with insects. Animal feeds are prepared with specific properties, for instance, fish feed at 60% protein. The impact of different percentages of compounds is measured closely on animal well being, growth, weight… I am quite bothered that we don’t do the same for human foods. We lighlty compare real milk with plant based milk without being honest about the completely different properties of the two. I suspect the difficult conversation we need to be having would be about proteins and how to produce them sustainabily and ethically. Many plant based vegan alternatives hide from the real problem, I think.
Right now, I love seeing two options. Even if NASA cost a gazillion more dollars, we have two mechanics at work : cathedral building (NASA) and Bazaar building (Iterate quick, learn of mistakes)

Personally I think the budget of NASA is inconsequential to say the defense budget. Not sure what the general HN vibe is, but probably mostly leaning towards “waste of my tax dollars / inefficient”
Vegans of HN: What do you supplement and why?

Personally, I supplement VitaminD3 and Iron.

And I make sure to eat salad, carrots and avocado every day.

I came up with this regime after getting my blood work done and after exactly tracking all my nutritional values for a while and comparing those to the suggested amounts.

I also have a long running project in the "statistics of one" space, where I track a lot of treatment effect correlations:

https://www.gibney.org/a_syntax_for_self-tracking

27,899 entries in my log so far.

From all supplements I a/b tested, Vitamin D3 and Iron look most promising at the moment.
Skype for parrots - what a great startup idea! If parrot is in a cage and not sleeping and not talking to other parrots then consider him online. A large sensor display in a cage with image of online parrots, you just peek a bird and go. And of course, any time you are online somebody might call you.
Corporations lobby and bribe governments officials to keep the status quo as is. Egg or chicken first?

With your framing of the issue, I wonder what would be the solution. Smaller government? That just gives more power to corporations.
If you get really good at meditating you can temporarily cancel out tinnitus. Well, the input still appears to be there, but you can shift it outside of your awareness. Have you ever tried using tinnitus as a meditative anchor?
The point is there’s lots of reasons to have your stolen phone not reported, you don’t immediately have to jump to suspicious, you could empathize with that.

I imagine that some folks in NZ may not report to police a stolen phone out of general distrust of police, or a lack of belief that it would help anything.

Of course, if he knew he was going to be busted two weeks later then he should have but… haha
Does this chart look like the volume is growing vis-a-vis the marketcap and marketing?

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactions.ht...
Your link isn't showing up yet , but I can answer anyway with my own survey. I can account for over a hundred different crypto wallets, including a number of duplicates on the same chain, some of which have been active at one point or another over the past decade. At one point about 6 years ago it was close to a thousand. And in the circles I used to frequent (miners and pool ops - often the same entities), this was a middling number, not extraordinary at all.

The simple observation that one runs* into the same several dozen people over, and over, and over again at every crypto congregation whether online or in person, should be a strong indication that this is an extremely inbred space and the sock puppetry amplification from principal to agent is conservatively inflating usage metrics by a factor of 100 if not more.

* edit: okay this is somewhat dated information, maybe today it's a couple hundred instead of several dozen.
If you don’t buy them from very traditional read very expensive producers it is also very unnatural. Animals are simply used as self replacing bio reactors that are fed the cheapest inputs like grain and animal remains. Even the vitamin d in milk is mostly there because you just supplement the animals. I visit a small farm on vacation a few times a year and they have a bunch of chicken running around. I have no qualms eating their eggs, they are not even slaughtered in most cases as the fox eats them first. They also have a dozen cows on their meadow. But let’s not pretend that is where most animal products come from.
GPTCache
Weird anecdote, in my circle, everyone hates vegan “meat” yet everybody is also reducing meat consumption.
I have all the same config in TTY as in emulated terminal and emulated is nowhere near as snappy and smooth as TTY. Even with GPU accelerated terminals like alacritty, it's a lot better, but still far. If I wasn't working mostly on graphical applications I would just work from TTY.
I want to see the tiktok dance challenges as adapted for parrots.
You waited hours... to play those games? From double clicking the icon to launch? I find that extremely hard to believe.

If you include download time, even that doesn't hold up to your claim.
There used to be an ext2 driver for NT, I think opensource even, but there simply had not been enough interest to keep it updated or built for newer versions
We’re not attempting to replace any of the existing Go logging frameworks. Dazl is an abstraction layer above structured loggers like slog. We could add a slog plugin (we have zap and zerolog plugins already). Essentially, what you would get from that is the ability to configure slog loggers (log levels, fields, outputs/writers, sampling, etc) via dazl configuration files.

But the fundamental role of dazl is really to eliminate dependencies on frameworks like slog as much as possible, particularly in Go libraries. If libraries use dazl rather than a framework like slog, users of the library can then import whatever logging backend they want to use (slog, zap, zerolog, etc). This becomes really useful when dazl is used by multiple libraries depended on by a Go application. Often different libraries will use different logging frameworks (if they even have logging at all), and this can produce inconsistent log messages with no unified interface for configuring loggers across your dependencies. In a perfect world, those libraries you depend on would use dazl for logging instead, enabling the top-level project that depends on those libraries to configure a single logging backend that’s shared across all the dependencies.
Why would "the markets" provide that option? AI corporations will be phenomenally successful predatory value-extractions machines. Shareholders will vastly prefer them over more humane corporate structures.

This already happens. It's why PayPal, YouTube, Amazon, and the rest can shut down small-fry business accounts with no come-back. They're monopolies and they don't care. Because they don't need to.

The next stage will be shareholders using AI to make their investment choices. This will - automatically, with no recourse - drive money towards AI corporations while starving human-run businesses of investment.

Essentially AI is just an amplifier of existing economic and political trends - a programmable automated economic predator. Because many of those trends are dysfunctional and insane, we're going to have a lot to deal with.
Please also check you b vitamins and B12. They are very hard to get and had some friends being defficient without knowing it. Most of the plant based fake meats put it in, so that saves most people. But they were health oriented and also didn't eat those.
It's funny you are worried about the impact of vegan alternatives and not, say, sugars, alcohol, overly fatty or salty foods, too much bad quality meat raised with hormones etc. It's almost like you have a bias against the vegan alternative..

Edit: ok so I was not terribly constructive with this comment, so happy to elaborate. I'm pretty tired of this argument against vegan meat. The nutritional values of vegan meat are not that bad even in the worst case in relation to everything else that is in the market - it's a non issue at best. What I believe the commenters parroting this line really want to say is that they like meat and need a reason not to eat/support the alternatives.

Arguments against eating meat are orders of magnitude heavier than against vegan meat.
GPT4 can talk shop, and demonstrate useful code generation and refactoring, as well as understanding.

For instance, as an exercise, I had it write a maze-generating Lisp program that produces ASCII. I wanted it in a relatively little known Lisp dialect, so I described to it some of the features and how they differ from the code it generated.

For instance, GPT4 hypothesized that it has a let which can destructure multiple values: (let ((x1 y1) (function ..)) ((x2 y2) (function ...)) ...).

In plain English, I explained to GPT4 that the target Lisp dialect doesn't have multiple values, but that when we have a pair of values we can return a cons cell (cons a b) instead of (values a b). I also explained to it that we can destructure conses using tree-bind, e.g (tree-bind (a . b) (function ...) ...). And that this only takes one pattern, so it has to be used several times.

GPT4 correctly updated the function to return a cons cell and replaced the flat let with nested tree-bind.

At the end of the chat, when the code was almost working, I made a bugfix to the function which allocates the maze grid, to get it working.

I told GPT4: this version of the grid allocation function makes it work. Without it, the output is almost blank except for the vertical walls flanking the maze left and right. Can you explain why?

GPT4 correctly explained why my function works: that the function it wrote shared a single row vector across the grid rows, giving rise to sharing. It explained it like a computer scientist or seasoned developer would.

It's like a somewhat dim-witted, but otherwise capable coding clerk/technician, which talks smart.

With GPT4, you're Sherlock, and it is Watson so to speak. (Sorry, IBM Watson.) It can speak the language of crime investigation and make some clever inferences. In the end, you do all the real work of designing and debugging, and judging complex requirements against each other in the broader context. It saves you the keystrokes of doing the tedious coding you're used to doing yourself.

On the other hand, you expend some keystrokes explaining yourself. Some of the chat could be saved and used for documentation, because it captures requirements and why some things are done in a certain way and not otherwise (rejected decisions).
We should rebrand bots, maybe to something like text apps or conversation apps or something like this bots have a bad rep and don’t really represent what these LLM driven apps are.
As someone who actually enjoys the taste of milk and does not consider it a white liquid of unimportant taste to be poured over or into something other: No. Lactose free milk certainly hasn't the better taste and isn't the better product except for the lactose intolerant.
> But that's not real users.

I think we're in agreement here? On-chain data is more or less useless for counting actual users. That's why I was sharing survey data, which is the best approximation we can get.

For actual users using the tech, it's also difficult to know but we can see that the on-chain transaction volume is quite significant (multi billion dollar daily).
That scene from fearless comes to mind: https://vimeo.com/15687220

Enjoying tea is more to do with the individual, than the tea itself.
The point is, you can’t just blindly use forward-slash as a file system path separator everywhere on Windows. It’s not on equal footing with backslash in that respect.

As another example, you can’t use forward slashes in the File Open dialog of Visual Studio: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/allow-forward-...
It isn't a 0 or 1, prob good for you health wise and for the planet to eat a little less meat and a bit more veg. Just look at the data out there.

This last year I am really decreasing how much meat I eat (ill never give it up although I am excited about ground cricket meat and trying that). I am doing it for my health, costs, and because its good for the planet long term.
I don't think it's super weird. I'm lowering my meat consumption by eating more non-meat, and I'm not particularly interested in things that try to fake being meat, when I do eat I prefer meat, not something pretending to be meat. Lots of vegan friends in my circle also complains about companies doing fake meat instead of doing better products not trying to imitate meat.
I've seen it help me once so far in a way I hadn't thought of: basically, the chat completion engine was reading a bug bounty report on my behalf, and believing generic, vague claims. ChatGPT-3.5 didn't "fall" for this, but 4 did consistently.

After failing to improve performance manually, I eventually asked 4 to improve my prompt after explaining the problem and it basically added "Don't assume the existence of any examples".

This makes perfect sense in hindsight, but I had been approaching things from the other direction - directing it to only consider explicit examples in the report, and for some reason that didn't work.
Please, for the love of god, can this scroll-hijacking (or whatever it's called) trend just die already. Just give me a video I can scroll past or watch fluently instead.

Besides that, I love paper titles which don't take themselves too seriously: Birds of a Feather Video-Flock Together
They more or less did. It's just the general public that for some reason still uses these units.
It forces business people to think deeply about every detail, which is the very thing they are delegating. If they were good at that, they would be programmers themselves.
So can GPT4, but not in that bullshit answer it was giving at that time.

It's ironic how GPT4 conforms to the glitch-bot meme.
Milk was one of the hardest things for me to replace, but a few years ago a brand of pea-based milk replacement was released that acts as an excellent substitute for me (for cooking and in coffee). Now, the last thing I'm missing is eggs and to a smaller extent cheese. There _are_ some decent cheese replacements out there, but none quite perfect, and I haven't found anything even close with eggs. But seeing these things only get better over the years, at a pretty rapid pace, makes me confident that they're coming.
In the UK, “Lego” is treated as a mass noun, whereas the U.S. always seems to treat it as countable, “Legos”.

Historically “pease” was a mass noun, before it became the countable noun “peas”.

Drinks can be either, if the unit is assumable: “much water”; “3 waters” (meaning 3 bottles of water).

I suspect that “sheep” and “fish” are behaving the same way, like “cattle”.
Because infinite grow does not exist except in the deceptive narrative of neoliberal economics?

Everyone is SO focused on the immediate byproduct of this new technology, and there's so little questioning if applying it to business can actually make sense in the mid to long term. There are regulation pitfalls waiting to happen. We have no idea how web search and content consumption will adapt to this avalanche of cheap irrelevant content. Yet we give for granted this is the future of everything, based on the fascination with what these machines can do right now.

I'm saying this as someone who's also extremely fascinated and interested in the technology. This is the most excited I've been about tech in quite some time, but as I said, from a business perspective I've never seen so many business minds dive lemmings-style into an alpha-state technology before, and it's worrying how FOMO is pushing everyone to just take GPTs for granted!