skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This prompt ensures that the article is completely unbiased and written from a neutral point of view.

That comes across as very naive. "Ensures", really?
Yeah, all systemd distros do this unless they for some reason are disabling it for specific services.

It makes a big difference too! I have used openrc and systemd on my desktop machine, and openrc by default is synchronous, it starts services one at a time and has to wait for each one to start before moving along. With systemd, it can start services asynchronously and in parallel! The difference in boot time is significant!

Openrc does support parallel startup but it's disabled by default because it can cause dead locks.
This sounds useful. Does that apply to faux "independent contractors" too?

In Germany we have a word "Scheinselbständigkeit". People are formally self-employed/independent contractor which are actually totally dependent and this is used to circumvent social security protections.

I think something like that might be going on here.
>There is zero incentive for them to pay for it

This sounds completely backwards.

They have to pay because they have to meet their audience where they are. It's how many nouveau celebrities make money. Some use every platform, pumping out vapid content to fans. They aren't going anywhere.
Any (simplest form) fraction q/p less than one can be expressed as a unique sum of two distinct unit fractions if and only if

1. p is prime and q = 1 or
2. p and q are both prime and q divides p + 1.
Amazing that these were forgotten!
I've always heard it described as Ethiopian Binary, surprised to see the wiki credit discovery to Egyptians.
I can imagine the response including questions. Eg “do you mean X or Y, here are the implications”. That way the machine gets better at helping us clarify our thinking. Right now it’s just blurting out a response that fits your instruction with no attempt to clarify.
Seems like the point of this is to work across languages though. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Different languages have their own conventions. Often times there's a reason why one convention might be preferred in a language over a different convention in another
Wikipedia claims the name was inspired by, though, which is inaccurate.
I’m always surprised when these lists don’t include “apply for unemployment benefits”. Which should usually be one of the first things you do when being laid off.
Elm even comes packaged with it's own auto-formatter
Thanks, yea as you say this was a matter of having a library that could reliably/realistically handle the SQL. I found some other libraries but they were a facsimile of SQL rather than behaving like any specific standard. Thanks for the links to those other libraries! I had to fight hard against scope creep to just get this out but I'll def add this to the list for updates!
Good points. OP is arguing for regulations. Regulations failed egregiously all over in the Turkey earthquake and illustrate that they are not a silver bullet.

Setting a minimum threshold for competence makes sense, but when it becomes encoded into a legal system the result frequently becomes a way to enrich incumbents.
There should be a healthy amount of material about unionizing at a future job.
You mean the Trumpian Method, right?
> Without practice writing the characters by hand you’ll have a really hard time remembering them!

Without practice writing them by hand you'll have a hard time remembering how to write them. Reading them is a separate skill; a lack of ability to write the characters will not impede you from reading them.
> for every single 'player' who waited 5 years.

For every player who bought coins and put them in a cold wallet and sat on them? Because otherwise the chances are pretty high that they got scammed, lost their coins in an exchange collapse, lost access to them, or, you know, traded them like every other person who deals with coins who didn't die or lose their wallet keys or forgot about it.
That’s roughly what I was thinking, yes. There’s still a certain appeal to the easy install process but the gap is a lot lower now, the classic PHP way famously lead to security issues, and there’s a vicious flip where once you need to customize anything it goes from easier to harder than the average containerized Node/Python deployment since you need to learn how to run things like FPM rather than just installing a web server package. That also shows up with Composer - the standard library is big but once you need something else, the experience is worse than NPM or PyPI.

The fatal flaw in my opinion was not taking the language itself more seriously 20 years ago. The culture of laxness around things like type coercion, ignoring errors by default, being inconsistent about positional arguments and typing or nomenclature, etc. is so deeply ingrained that major improvement are much harder and will likely require advanced automated tooling. I left the community in the mid-2000s after getting burned out by the endless stream of security and correctness bugs caused by the language and culture – my favorite was the time a detailed bug report for functionality not matching the documentation was WONTFIXed since it was working as the core developers intended & they didn’t feel like updating the docs – but having had the misfortune of being involved with a PHP project again, the only big improvement I can think of was that register_globals isn’t the default. You still routinely see bugs caused by e.g. inconsistent array function parameter ordering causing errors which are silently suppressed despite our configuration having logging enabled for that class of error and the built-in linter won’t report. There was no reason to waste time on that in 2003, much less 2023.
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Personally, I'd be surprised if most mammals weren't generally happier than people. Cats, dogs, and sea mammals seem to have it all figured out. Apes and monkeys, less so - chimpanzees are brutal.

Tiger got to hunt.
Bird got to fly.
Man got to sit and wonder why, why, why?
Tiger got to sleep.
Bird got to land.
Man got to tell himself he understand.

- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

Or as Blaise Pascal put it in Pensées:

>When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves at court or in war, whence arise so many quarrels, passions, bold and often bad ventures, etc., I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
Back in the old days I used physical flash cards I made myself. I was surprised to find that I couldn’t remember a word I was studying, until I saw a stain in the card, and recalled which answer was on the stained card. I think this is why these games don’t really work, they’re scared to have you get wrong answers, so they use the context to help. But as a result your knowledge is too superficial to be practical
Informally, "this thing can solve all your problems" vs "for each of your problems there is a thing that can solve it".

I suppose the argument is that LLMs are not a solution to any problem, they are a complex tool which might be used to find a solution, with non-zero effort.

As an example of non-zero effort: I spent a fair amount of time the other day trying to get chatGPT to advise how to effectively deal with a grey squirrel problem. It was more interested in telling me that squirrels should be treated humanely, to the extent that it suggested doing things that are illegal in my country (releasing a captured grey squirrel). I asked why and it told me all animals had a right to dignity and respect. I couldn't resist getting side tracked by this. After some light trolling I asked it about how it had come to hold these values and it told me that as an LLM it didn't have values, but then restated its position anyway.

In the end I got some more sense out of it with a new prompt where I specifically said I was interested in effective, legal methods of control without any moralising.

If you're concerned, I haven't killed any squirrels and almost certainly won't.
The article spends over a dozen paragraphs rehashing that these beagles suffered but never explained what the purpose of the experiments were.
I definitely recommend trying a hardware accelerated terminal emulator!

It might sound silly at first, but it actually makes a pretty big difference!

Even something is simple as drawing text is not that fast on a CPU, a GPU can do it not only faster but much more efficiently too.
> I do wonder how much drawing with your finger is going to translate into remembering how to do the same thing when you’re holding a pen

Having done it for both Chinese and now Korean, I can say pretty well. I mean you'll have messy penmanship but it does translate. But I think the more important part is that it is forcing you to pay attention to the actual construction of the letters and believe that this is the main motivation for this practice. Similar to how it is good to take notes in a class even if you never reference them.

> My hunch from reading the blog posts they put out is that they’re using Spanish and French to try things out and perfect the course structure and content and once they’ve got something locked in they will then replicate that across the other less popular languages.

They have had a series H, ~200M in funding (over 12 years), a multi-billion dollar evaluation, over 500 employees, and over 10 years of experience. I think this argument would make sense in the first 5 years but past the 10 year mark things need to be better. Honestly, the app does not seem significantly better than when I first used it in 2013/2014.

At this point there isn't an excuse to hire top tier language teachers and have them generate material for the app. They ask for $7/mo and I'll admit I'm impressed that 25% of their daily active users (6.5% of monthly) subscribe when the main selling point is no ads. I'd put money down betting that there's a low renewal rate in subscriptions (probably why the ads have become so much more annoying). Annoying your users with ads is not a successful business model (disclaimer: I haven't started a company and am not a successful entrepreneur while the Duolingo founders are billionaires. So I could be way off base). I've paid for other learning apps, such as Hello Chinese, because those give you more tools and resources. Apps I have paid give you more material (and remove ads) for the service and I'm even willing to pay more for this. I think there's very good reasons why apps like Hello Chinese are more well loved than Duolingo. In comparison, look at Scritter[0]. This is the go to app for Chinese and Japanese, costs $100/yr ($14/mo; frequent discounts of 50% fwiw) and has significantly better learning outcomes while having under 10 employees. There's flashcards, lessons, videos, and lots of reading material. Like I said before, I'm not a successful founder (or even a founder) nor a VC, but I cannot understand how any rational person would continue to give Duolingo money as everything just screams extra fat to me. I can only assume that Goodhart's Law is going strong and there's a huge focus on DAU (something I think apps like Scritter could get were they to have half the marketing department). Forgive me, but I just don't get it (I'm known to be pretty dumb though)

Edit: also surprising to me is that there are things like Duolingo podcast, but that this is not accessible in-app. This is a phone app focused product, so why make your users use spotify to use a different part of your product? I clearly don't get businesses. Never make me a CEO.

[0] https://skritter.com/
From their forward facing database connected to the web - Yes, it should already be happening since it's been demonstrated time and again, near every security idea put in place, is vulnerable. If there was one common method that wasn't - companies would be moving to it already. Inactive details belong in an air gapped database. Inactive means no third party needs any access to that data, bar the company in case an old customer wants back.

If days of support were like they were thirty years ago plus pre cookie cutter set up, and not much third party processing, there might be a need where the single person needed access to everything. However I don't recall the last time I've ever aimed to get support or answers from billing and the first contact was able to do much, then again if I am making contact when there's an issue, it's typically not on my end.
That wouldn't work in a noscript
Or you could do what one API I just discovered does: embed escaped XML inside JSON!

We truly live in a world
Fretless string instruments like the cello and the violin are notoriously hard to even get a good note out of. Beginners just learning to play tend to produce a sound not unlike a cat being strangled.

Playing a cello takes real skill. Even producing a single good note takes practice. Whereas on a piano, producing a good note is trivial. The skill comes in playing a complex requiring 10 fingers.

So I guess the author of the article expected these new AI systems to be more like a piano, but ue got a cello instead.
Apparently they can't trench deep at the Boca launch site because of a high water table.
Tesla Model 3 is expensive quick car, not fast car. From LA to Vegas Corolla will be faster.
No you are not, the outputs of an LLM are afforded no intellectual property rights protections.

The internet is increasingly covered with OpenAI's outputs and they do not have grounds for a claim to prevent people from using them.
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> Bitcoin gave 25% annual returns

Don't you have to sell them to get your money?
I was expecting this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sh3kx9Qa3UU
I remember once learning that php has a `header` function and have been using 'location:...' since ever (pre-2000) as php was almost always supported by hosters like dreamhost, hostgator, and nearly every Linux install came pre-installed with Apache and the php mod. The meta htttp-equiv was a last resort (like gh-pages). Never really used the JS option unless it was part of the application.
The article in fact acknowledges this. (It says that it came from both Countdown and Des Chiffres et des Lettres, without saying that Countdown itself was based on Des Chiffres et des Lettres. There's also an Australian version, inspired by Countdown but reverting to the French name, called Letters and Numbers.)
The approach I’ve been using is to keep the API requests server-side and to expose a client interface, thus keeping the keys safe, but the response is eval’d client-side so when OpenAI starts referencing document.body in a completion it affects the browser runtime directly.
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But that line is from a comment by "sam" to that article.

So, really nothing do with Poettering et al.
Can you please not post unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait? We're trying for something different here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

Incidentally, HN has had countless wonderful and interesting threads about things from outside "the anglosphere". As HN is an English-language site one would expect those to be less common, but they are well-represented, well-loved, and welcome.
Of course, LLMs are like toddlers, prompt engineering is holding their hand so they get from A->B as best as possible. It's providing important context to frame output, guiding it along to "think" out it's processes, and breaking bigger problems down into smaller pieces. Essentially turning prompts into a series of smaller feedback loops - rather than dumping a big query and hoping the baseline toddler is smart enough to figure it out.

It's just about knowing the person you're interacting with extremely well, knowing their quirks and what motivates them, and carefully guiding them along, so they do what you want. Much like social engineering.
At least in the UK, there are no benefits if you have savings.
Vienna doing what you said doesn't happen proves that it doesn't happen? Have you lost your marbles?
That game show was in turn based on a French show (Des Chiffres et des Lettres), and both are still running to this day, as is the Australian version, called Letters and Numbers.
> GPT4 is deliberately trained as a coding technician, so that it will convince programmers who will become its advocates.

I'm a programmer and I've used GPT4 for a variety of tasks (well, tried to). The results have been mediocre on average, usually syntactically correct, but more often than not, semantically incorrect. It usually ends in frustration as GPT-4 keeps responding confidently incorrect answers and upon the slightest expression of doubt, it tends to spin in circles.

ChatGPT: <Implausible response #1>
Me: Are you sure? Reasons A, B, C [...]
ChatGPT: I apologize... <implausible response #2>
Me: Are you sure? Reasons D, E, F [...]
ChatGPT: I apologize ... <repeats implausible response #1>

I'd like to know what people who are so impressed with GPT-4's programming capabilities are doing? It must be TODO apps, solving leetcode problems, writing basic Express.js routers, some basic React components and code for <one of the top 10 popular libraries>. The kind of things ChatGPT has seen a million of examples of.
The wikipedia entry is wrong. See my other comment.
I was taking a day off work once when the power coincidentally went out. I spent the day sitting in the dark with my laptop plugged in to my backup battery trying somewhat successfully to edit save game files from an old video game. It was extremely different from my usual Google-heavy workout. Having to work through things without a network connection was a fun change of pace.
If it requires interpretation, than it is the "yes+human" system that has the knowledge.

What really happened here is that a human wrote down, "a cat is an animal," and then another human read it, understood it, and believed it. And so the knowledge moved from one human to another. `yes` was only a conduit for that information to travel through.
Not sure why you were downvoted for what seems like an honest question.

Stable coins and other tokens which are not native blockchain assets are referred to as cryptocurrencies (shiba inu is one such example of this which is not a stablecoin).

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and a bunch more are also the native token of their blockchain. In other words, they're the primary mechanism for rewarding participants in the blockchain at the node/consensus level for their efforts, and they're also the currency used for getting transactions included into blocks on their blockchains (for paying the transaction fee, also called "gas" on many chains).

Blockchains which have the capability of running user-submitted code are said to have "smart contracts", bits of code which execute when certain conditions are met during a transaction. Most chains with smart contract functionality also include standards for deploying what are referred to as "tokens" which are essentially smart contracts which provide a conforming interface for interacting with the token and tracking the balances of users on that blockchain.

While all tokens provide the same basic interface, they can also have custom code which affects the behaviour. In the case of most stablecoins (the centralized ones), that means privileged parties who can do things like mint new tokens, or blocklist addresses from being able to transact those tokens.

USDC for example, operates by allowing users to create an account with the issuer (Circle), deposit USD, and then have Circle "mint" new USDC tokens to your address. They also let users go the other way and redeem their USDC. However, not everyone who wants to hold USDC needs to mint it; they can also buy it on a centralized or decentralized exchange (decentralized exchanges also being governed by specialized smart contracts of various types).

There are also "algorithmic stablecoins" which, in theory, don't have privileged issuers, and use various protocols to attempt to "peg" the price to the price of some stable asset / USD (these are complicated, have many different methods of operation, and are not really proven to be completely resilient at this point). UST/LUNA was the big one that exploded about a year ago, vaporizing several billion dollars over the course of a few days.

So, "stablecoins" are a cryptocurrency, but not a native blockchain asset (unless there's a chain that primarily accounts in a stablecoin which I'm not aware of), and the primary stablecoins people hear about are also not decentralized.
those will still exist. they will just become ultra luxury, like bugghatis today
Religious people would say the same thing about non-believers.
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Having seen my daughter progress from a 4 year old beginner on the cello to eventually playing in a state orchestra and now teaching it, I guess my take is that fundamentally it is a beautiful instrument. It is designed to resonate close to the human voice. But like the voice, there is an infinite amount of variation - on where to press the fingerboard, how to move the bow. Just like learning to speak and sing with articulation takes years of experience. She became extremely proficient, but just giving her a well made cello didn't achieve anything much. It was only with many hours of coaching and practice refining the input based on the output.
Probably, that's what we're using at work for a lot of things.
> I guess the circulatory system is like that too...

I have some news for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_Willis
Pelé, Chadwick Boseman, Norm Macdonald, and probably others have also posthumously subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number.
Would love to see a photo of this, is there a term I can google image search or photos?
> I studied Chinese for a year on Duolingo and now I can barely recognize a few characters

That is a terrible learning outcome. I guarentee you that if you spent the same time with Remembering {Traditional,Simplified} Hanzi [0,1] you would be able to read more than a handful of characters. You'd also have intuition for novel (zero-shot) characters.

But I do agree you should practice writing, though -- as I argued in another comment -- I think the finger tracing is more about learning character shape rather than focused on teaching to write. That part is even important for reading. Though I do think Scritter, which uses fingers, will result in decent writing skills.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Traditional-Hanzi-Meaning...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Simplified-Hanzi-Meaning-...
It's a puzzling observation, isn't it? By now, every at-will US employee will have internalized that they are disposable, and yet they continue to identify as a member of $COMPANY family. It's just bizarre, and I just can't think of an explanation.
The problem is that Twitter is not pay to use but pay for privilege.

I’m also in the camp of “pay for the service” but so far Musk was not actually able to figure out the product.

In his implementation, Twitter doesn’t act like the telephone company which would not care who you are talking with and what you’re talking about as long as you’re paying the bills.

Instead it acts like a match making service where we are matched to people who are overly eager for attention and willing to pay.
NB: This isn't an example of chiasmus.