skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm totally in favor of legalization, that wasn't my point at all. I'm not even trying to tell people they shouldn't take psychedelics.
Hmmm, I’m not sure what you mean?

I thought — maybe you think ChatGPT wrote the comment. But then I thought - maybe you think I used ChatGPT to recall the Martin Gardner quote. Then I was interested to see if ChatGPT would get it right… it failed badly!

I asked it for the Martin Gardner quote about fish and chips… here’s the response I got:

“Yes, I am familiar with the Martin Gardner quote about fish and chips. The quote is:

"I am convinced that the best food in the world is prepared by English cooks, and served in English restaurants. The best example of this is fish and chips, which is nutritious, cheap, and tasty. The fish is delicate, the batter crisp, the chips are golden, and the mushy peas are the perfect accompaniment."

Martin Gardner was an American writer who is best known for his work in mathematics and science, as well as his long-running "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American. However, he also wrote about a wide range of topics, including literature, philosophy, and popular culture, and was known for his wit and humor.”

Nice try chatto, nice try.
Soon!

Oh, you meant good movies?

Not in our lifetimes.
> By that definition, the US invasion began in 2014 too. Who do you think primarily supplied Ukraine with weapons and training?

Im not sure what you think an invasion is, but wouldn't a foreign power, stationing their military in your country without your consent qualify?.

Where as when you invite another military to help you out its not really an invasion?.
SFC takes a while, so `sfc /scanfile=c:\windows\system32\curl.exe` may be more useful for people who encounter this specific problem.
Isn't Windows built this way?

Everything in Windows is an object, on a centralized resource broker Ob.

Windows uses capabilities based access to enable fine-grained control. It is EAL4 - Methodically Designed, Tested and Reviewed.

This by itself doesn't prevent Windows from having security issues.
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> UK programme "NewsNight" had a discussion about it. There proposing the idea was some poor government flunky. There explaining the flaws in the idea was Whitfield Diffie

Aah, the good old days when the BBC was un-biased.

These days you would get a government flunky, and on the other side of the table a pro-government flunky from a lobbying outfit whose real accreditation has been carefully omitted by the BBC and they have been instead been given some generic independent sounding job title.

I'm not joking! BBC Radio 4 famously recently did a "Brexit anniversary programme". Three people in the studio, the presenter and two guests. The two guests were .... Theresa Villiers and Daniel Hannan, two hardcore Brexteers who, of course, spent the entire interview session fighting completely unchallenged over who could give the most sycophantic sunlit-uplands view of Brexit.
Or when you think you've unsubscribed, multiple times, only to see there's a "Preferences" link on their unsubscribe page, where you find out you've unsubscribed from 3 of the 48 categories of newsletters they send.
A counterfactual is that higher IQ correlates with reading ability and language use. Those people are far more likely to know more than one language (because it's easier) and gain access to the deeper, more expansive pool of opportunities that comes with bilingualism.
>cross check it against other sources.

The problem comes in when 99.999999% of other sources are also bullshit.
The North Seas can be the world’s biggest power plant
Politics. Everyone blames The State for anytime a business does something they'd prefer otherwise (Such as building in location A instead of location B; regardless of merit)
I always think of the difference between SOA and microservices as being that in SOA the services often share access to the same database.
Not saying this applies to you, but generally when I see someone espousing this opinion online, they are about to endorse a country who literally has a single king-like ruler, who will throw you in jail if you speak ill about them
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> With Qt you also have to use its own classes for non-UI stuff, like strings and lists.

At least for the parts interacting with Qt components and yes, that can be an annoyance. Tricky tradeoff with compatibility and performance optimizations. On the other hand, it also gives you a bunch non-GUI things that otherwise would need extra libraries.

> It’s also pricey for closed source.

Given the author is clearly talking about Windows (=desktop) applications, I don't see why they think using Qt under LGPL is not an option for them.
Same, but I don't always know where my mistake was. Once I start deleting I need to look. Or with a password just delete it all and start again.
Imagine discovering that obligate carnivores and their prey are both sapient. Trolley problems all the way down...
Hi-Link on Aliexpress has decent modules, also isolated ones, that don’t cost too much and push more than a few milliamps.
Given this is early Morse code, I wonder if these question-answer bits are actually Q-codes being exchanged rather than those exact words being transmitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code#All_services_(QRA%E2%80...
One of the hardest problems in marketing is making the uninteresting interesting. So instead of solving the hard problem (being interesting), a lot of marketers focus on tactical stuff like increasing subscribes to the newsletter.
Just give the leads a quick lick.
Twitter claims dead celebs are subscribing to Blue from beyond the grave
But OP didn’t say that the US is democratic.
No its not, nobody died of it, no one got cancer from it, its just that the lawyers can make big bucks from this law suit, CPAP Lawsuit, so lets make it bigger than it is.
Yes, you've pointed out some of the ways in which the UK is not democratic, and many would like that to change. Democracy is not a 0 or 1 thing, it is a scale.

There is statistically a good chance you are from the US, which has no concept of Lords, but which has its own very serious shortcomings.
A Used Nissan Leaf with ~70-80mi range can be had in the US in the $6-10k range. My family has two, they're amazing for everything within a ~30mi radius (which, it turns out, is 98%+ of driving we do)
I agree, more competition is generally better but the unfortunate reality of accessible tech is margins are usually already very low, and real market not that big [0]. So if a price war starts the result is usually a company deciding to leave the space entirely.

[0] Yes, there is a huge population of people who will benefit from accessible tech, unfortunately very often they cannot afford the technology and the funding is often limited
Ah wait — I realised what you meant.

I pasted the quote into ChatGPT and it understood Martin perfectly —

The reply was

“Yes, adding quotation marks to the sentence would definitely make it clearer and easier to read. Here's how the sentence would look with quotation marks:

"I want to put a hyphen between the words 'Fish' and 'And', and 'And' and 'Chips' in my 'Fish-and-Chips' sign."

By using quotation marks, it becomes clear which words the hyphens should go between, and it also clarifies the intended meaning of the phrase "Fish-and-Chips." Without quotation marks, the sentence can be confusing and difficult to understand.”
I never see a blog post looking at the specific requirements of an application and fitting the architecture, data model, and implementation to those requirements. "Monolith vs Microservices" is like saying "18-wheeler vs 20 Toyota Corollas". There are other forms of transportation, and using just one mode may not serve your business well.

By the way, it's 2023... if you have a greenfield project, you should be using event-driven data processing. We got rid of the horse and buggy, let's please get rid of cron jobs.
Bachelors degrees have mostly been a signal for a long time. The problem is that we have credential inflation, so now you need a masters or phd to send that same signal to employers. As a result, you have fewer people going to college, but a greater percentage of people who go to college are getting advanced degrees.
Has anyone actually experienced this mythical "networking at the conference"? Like, how do you even do it? A talk ends and everyone have a short break before the next one starts. Presenter is immediately surrounded by 5-10 people half whom are his/her friends, half are asking about merch, and half are are the most extroverted people in the room who probably can bruteforce this networking stuff. Others are vaguely drifting around the room and trip over chairs, drinking water and talking to their friends who came together in a group. Who do you even talk to there? About what? It's like a dating site except with no bio details altogether, meaning there is no base point to start a conversation. And if you do randomly engage in a conversation with a complete stranger it's inevitably goes like this - ask each other about general profession, then more specific question about your industry, then name of your corporation, then awkward silence...
Right but hats the point im making - unless a kid is very strictly trying to actually learn a particular subject, no amount of edutainment is gonna give them any kind of professionally applicable skills.

Now if a kid watching videos that are long form treatments on specific subjects and are following allong with a pen and paper doing practice problems, sure, thats a case where youtube might give you some serious skills, but that is a tiny fraction of kids and those same kids would have been doing the same shit with textbooks at their local library. Youtube is waaaaaaaay closer to being purely a distraction than to being something we could consider "educational" in any serious sense.
It seems to me that he's quite mindful of the possibility of failure - he's often quoted as saying that gambled everything on telsa, but only estimated a 10% chance of success (who knows if he really believed that at the time). And I think he's the closest thing we have to a real life tony stark - he's certainly a visionary. I get the impression that his odd tweets, and decisions like buying Twitter, happened after too much "red wine, ambien and vintage records".
Even if you've got the prerequisites in hand to teach on a topic, the pay is just laughable. You're likely expected to lecture, develop a full curriculum, grade their work, and hold office hours. Easily a few hours a week for every "credit hour".

I had a friend who taught at our local comm college for a few semesters and worked out the pay to be less than $7/hr. For an advanced almost graduate-level IT topic. It's a joke. His advice - if you want to teach, do it as a volunteer. Don't hold any illusions about getting compensated.
I think the idea is to put yourself in the user's shoes and try to create the website you, as a user, would enjoy revisiting.

For example, our website, https://www.ratherlabs.com, is made for future customers. So, in this case, it's divided by categories.
True, but without Elon's say so, there wouldn't be 8K slomo and close up drone shots etc. We wouldn't even know it was called starship, or something like that existed.

Anyone on the beach could have made a video of the rocket launch itself, but we wouldn't have been able to get the destroyed launch pad pictures etc. We definitely wouldn't have had any video of the insides of the Merlin rocket factory

(i am not sure that without access to the spacex video feed and launch countdown, nerds would have been able to timely setup cameras to record something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mX5H_Gaicg )

We have shockingly good access to information that no one else gives, imho.
But also it would heavily depend on the context they gave it when asking it to generate that.

Because GPT is capable of: doing marketing, math, science stuff, programming and anything else to a junior-semi advanced level, it needs to be prompted and given context to get it into the right "mood" for doing what you want it to.

There's a huge difference between casually chatting to it about various topics before suddenly asking what a good perfume brand would be. Versus providing it with the fragrances used in the perfumes that the brand makes, the general goals/image that the company wants to set, their target demographic etc and _then_ asking for a brand name suggestion.

I'd be keen to see how they asked.
Allegorically it's a cheap bar of soap that tastes worse than a more expensive bar of soap that is dyed to not be an ugly colour.
Do you know the ratio of your annoyed vs. subscribed-via-that-popup users?

I get terribly annoyed by them and always wonder why they don't just add a section to the page where one can easily subscribe, if one seems it to be a worthy thing to do?

Edit: Also, I want to add, that sometimes I leave the page immediately because such a popup pops up. The cookie banners are annoying enough.
this is why I have downloadable or website fonts disabled and in browser, use a singular monospace bitmap font, unifont, and across the entire system. you can do this with your preferred font. also eliminates any risk of security due to font parsing issues.
YouTube is by far the most reviled live streaming platform. Even if you ignore the insane automatic demonetization trap labyrinth and play perfectly by the books, the monetisation is slapped on as an afterthought, such that you have to already be a celebrity to make any real money out of it.

And as for the "how to fix my panasonic..." Style videos the article praises, unfortunately that video which could be 45 seconds and informative is 11 minutes padded in the first minute for keyword and adult filtering sorting terms, drawn out with filler to 10 minutes to get full ad revenue, and the video itself is interspersed with unskippable "sponsored content" detours because creators are forced to being their own ad agency on top of YouTube's ad system.

That is, if you got the right video in the first place and not a speech to text generated copy that utilizes a better subject and preview icon to steal traffic from a video that was found to be useful.

For all the things Meta is doing wrong, even THEY are creating a better curated video content and streaming platform than YouTube right now. One which supports legitimate creators and not algorithm miners.
There are some sites that I am actually signed up for their newsletter, I'll click a link in the newsletter to read the article on the site, and then I still get a popup on the site to signup for the newsletter. Most newsletter links have referral URL parameters. I don't know why they can't detect that I came from a newsletter click and just not show me the popup. I understand it could be "abused" or if the link was forwarded from someone you might want to try and capture new subscribers, but I feel like that's a small enough percentage that it would be better to make the experience less annoying for your regulars.
It is, in the sense that Objective-C was the inspiration.

https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html
I cannot find mention of Microsoft on that page. There's almost 4000 comments, maybe the it's further down in the discussion?
Potential of speedruns: https://hackaday.com/2021/02/17/cosmic-ray-flips-bit-assists...
> The [monarch] doesn’t really have any power in practice

Entirely untrue. The monarch has a weekly meeting with the Prime Minister. There have been many cases of the Queen getting carveouts, influencing laws, and vetting bills. There is no law forbidding the monarch from not granting Royal Assent. This notion that the British monarch has no power is an absolute farce.

There’s also the whole concept of King’s Consent, wherein the King gets to vet every single bill for affect the crown's own prerogatives or interests, and negotiate secretly with the government to change the contents of that bill. The Guardian articles detail this process as well. If you seriously believe the King has no power in practice I have a bridge to sell you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Consent

https://theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/07/revealed-queen-l...

https://theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/queen-lobbied-fo...

https://theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/28/queen-secretly-l...

https://theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/28/revealed-queen-v...
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This is a tiring narrative. They do have power, e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Action_Against_Iraq...

That the royal family is useful for tourism is also laughable
> under Cameron, and Blair, and quite possibly every prime minister between.

There was exactly one Prime Minister between Blair and Cameron, and he (Brown) wasn't elected.
I am aware of that and I hate those apps, because those are worst of both worlds - it works as bad as any overcomplicated web app but they also have access to native apis and information that would be inaccessible through web browser (or at least be blockable)
I am not sure why people jump to extremes like mortality. If there is anything existing behavior has taught me, it is that the more likely risk is that AI just extends the dark patterns that social media algorithms have implemented and used to manipulate the masses for the last couple of decades. LLM's and their administrators may do a better job manipulating people and businesses. And to be clear I am not blaming the LLM and nor should anyone else. I blame their administrators. There is always a human involved in the chain of malfeasance. They will try pointing at the LLM or the data it ingested, but ultimately a human made that happen and the current LLM's can not even show their work or an audit trail.

I mention LLM's because in my opinion AGI that does anything other than mimic human behavior will not likely exist on a human time scale. I suspect we will have first evolved into something else, probably augmented tech cyborg like humans and that will have it's own security and privacy implications. I predict we will see people slapping themselves in the face and so much worse. The unknown for me is what we will call people integrated with tech. Previously there were glassholes. What will the people with Internet of Things connected to their brains be called?
He could have fashioned a tooth brush out of a small stick by just mashing up one end of it. Very nice writeup.
Yup. I got reprimanded once for replying honestly to this.
Most importantly: Buttons.

I'm still wearing mine.
> People who are not interested in truth because it doesn't fit their world-view, will never be interested in the truth, no matter what medium it comes via.

Interestingly, this claim is self-referential.
The king does have some power, but it's mainly lobbying. Big party donors in America have far more power.
Whenever I get a comment about a pre-existing bug in a code review I make a ticket to fix it and thank them for pointing it out, but I never fix it in the PR. It gets too messy for the other reviewers and too confusing for QA when you end up with a bunch of unrelated fixes in one update.
As someone who used to work in marketing, this. Anecdotal, but in my experience working in marketing it was often funny to me how little we had to validate the numbers we presented. My boss didn't care how many people actually clicked on the link in our newsletter, as long as we had a lot of subscribers we were good.
I think that could work well for cheap B2C products, but it could be difficult to get businesses to buy without trying it out first. Especially when you consider the often bureaucratic procurement process.

The strategy I've been using so far is to get people to try the app and ask their employer to buy the licenses.
Eh, as a hobby and something to mess around with I can see the novelty of this. However, the main reason I use a smartwatch is for the gps (typically I have a Garmin). I track my mountain bike rides, hikes, runs etc.

Personally, I would just use an analog watch over something like this. It seems to not be "smart" enough to actual be all that useful.
Tongue contact might be sufficient (in linguistics, two of the axes of "pronunciation space" are "dental" (whether the tongue makes contact with the teeth) and "palatal" (whether the tongue makes contact with the palate).

There are a number of other dimensions however that are equally important in the creation of word-sounds (e.g., whether the lips are pursed, whether the vocal folds are vibrating, whether the teeth make contact with the lips, where the tongue is located in the space of the mouth [for vowels], etc) and would make determination just from the dental/palatal axes pretty difficult I think. But maybe with enough context, you could get something predictive that is more than good enough, even if it's not into deterministic territory
I'm not saying that one should use a file as long as possible but a real DB from the start for anything the system writes is not always warranted. Yes, with a file you'll need to think about either escaping or data validation but there is an option to use json-per-line at a price of higher overhead (compare to TSV) and a JSON library will take care of serialization (including escaping). Locking is not required (on Linux/BSD) if the file is opened in the append mode and each line is written as a single write request (which is atomic).

> But now its harder to change than it would have been to do the right thing at the start, and the sunk cost fallacy means that everyone's brain is resistant to throwing away all the work that's been invested

With "proper" implementation suck cost fallacy can be even stronger because more effort was spend to make it right from the beginning.

IMHO switching from a file to say ClickHouse would be as easy as switching from MySQL to ClickHouse (or my be even easier).
I believe putting the LLM in any kind of “role playing” mode would get rid of it. I asked it to answer just in binary 0 or 1 and it did not start blabbing about how it’s an AI model even for silly questions. It was very bad at giving just true/false statements by the way. Even for basic API questions that any Jr engineer would know
I always turn the filters off, prior to that I couldn't even visit the Ubuntu forums.
I agree with you entirely, but my post was in response to someone saying that a kid could finish high school with professional skills due to youtube... thats just not realistic. Sure it might pique their interest but so can books, television, talking with adults, school, etc. So I still do not think youtube is a particularly effective "professional skills education" tool
Yeah, banking apps are currently in worst possible spot, neither truly native not truly web
> I also feel a bit bad for the astronauts that have to gamble whether these rockets are safe. Did this actually pass safety checks or is my life a sacrifice Elon Musk is willing to make?

isn't that an unfair assertion? Elon does not have the ability to rate his rockets "human safe", NASA did it. They make the final call, imho.
With this analogy everyone should use popups. But why all the big respectable brands, like Apple, Stripe are not using them? Maybe they care about UX?
I would have thought so too, but losing 6 minutes out of 10.5 hours in just 25 years is a pretty major change on the timescales that planets operate on.
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It doesn't have to be either/or. Commercial real estate could have a vested interest, and there could be real downsides with many companies' implementation of work from home.

At that point, if the problems are real, dismissing the article, not because of who wrote it, but because of who you suspect wrote it, seems rather narrow-minded.
Nah, wired ear buds are quite popular again. They're just so easy to use, cheap, and not have to fiddle with remembering to charge them.