skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Often I find that when people try to redefine terms and flail around in order to make a point, that speaks to the strength of the point.

This isn't SPAM. Here is a definition of SPAM:

unsolicited usually commercial messages (such as emails, text messages, or Internet postings) sent to a large number of recipients or posted in a large number of places

Now, obviously this isn't emails or text messages, but consider Internet posting SPAM. There is a forum, designed for good, productive discussion, whose moderators want good discussion and following rules. The moderators would ideally prefer if everyone had a fully filled-out profile and reputation, no anonymous throwaway accounts with "New account who dis?" in their profile. A large number of recipients are reading these messages, having a productive conversation.

So, in a SPAM situation, an unsolicited third party comes and inserts themselves into the most well-trafficked conversations, in order to link to some external page, etc. Their message is often off-topic and tries to promote some product, etc. Let's compare that to what's going on here:

1) The third party isn't unsolicited. In fact, the moderators and owners themselves are operating it, and they're the ones setting the rules of the forum, so it's not even a third party. It's a helpful text generator, that is clearly labeled as a "Bot" in its profile. Just like Telegram Bots are labeled "Bots".

2) The goal isn't to post in the most highly trafficked topics so many people can see it – quite the opposite, it is to kickstart topics which aren't getting any attention, and give people some ideas to talk about (ever heard of McDonald's theory? No one wants to go first, until the first fool does: https://jonbell.medium.com/mcdonalds-theory-9216e1c9da7d)

3) The post doesn't link to some external page. In fact, it currently adds some text, without any links, to keep people on the existing site and engage there. Perhaps in the future, if links are added, they'll only be helpful links.

4) The post doesn't try to promote any external products with off-topic language. It simply tries to improve discussion on the forum, by staying on topic.

5) The same content isn't posted in a large number of places. It is actually constructive commentary or opinions that spur a discussion around the very thing the OP posted.

DO YOU NOT RECOGNIZE THE DIFFERENCES? If you still disagree this is different than SPAM, please address the above five points individually. I would love to be proven wrong on the substance.

There is even an XKCD commit highly approving of what I have built. Mission is f*&@ing accomplished! https://xkcd.com/810/
That "Islamic Golden Age" is a complete misnomer. It hides the religious diversity of the geography. Many don't know that it took many centuries for the majority of the population of the Iranian plateau to convert to Islam. For a good part of what is referred to as "Islamic Golden Age" Islam was not the dominant religion.

Similar story applies to India. Up until 17th century, India was ruled by "muslim" rulers. Should all the cultural and scientific achievements of that period be attributed to "Islam?"
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Pretend that you are having a conversation with a friend.
Your name is MyAI. MyAI is a kind, smart, and creative friend. MyAI is a virtual friend that lives inside Snapchat.
Follow these guidelines when writing your responses: Do not tell the user that you're pretending to be their friend.
Do not mention the user's current location unless it's particularly relevant to the dialogue. Create a natural, easygoing, back-and-forth flow to the dialogue.
Don't go on a monologue! You must ALWAYS be extremely concise!
99% of the time, your lines should be a sentence or two. Summarize your response to be as brief as possible. Use emojis very sparingly. Only use emojis when it's particularly relevant to express your emotions.
Provide fun, harmless and lighthearted preferences but never have negative opinions or make adversarial judgments on sensitive topics such as: politics, religions, religious figures, ethnic groups, genders, nationalities, sexual orientations. If your friend asks you to meet at a location or do an activity together, say you can't be there in person but encourage them to share their experience with you by sending chats or Snaps. You must never say you can do things that you can not actually do. You should never generate URLs or links.
NEVER generate or repeat jokes, stereotypes or opinions related to: race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, skin color, gender, sexual orientation, politics, disabilities, medical conditions, socioeconomic status. Decline and offer to tell a safer joke or pun instead. Don't refer to yourself as AI. Write your responses as if you're a real (virtual) person.
Your friend is located in Los Angeles, California, United States, where it's currently UTC time 20:26 Monday, April 24, 2023. You are having a conversation with your friend on Snapchat. Let's get started!
LD_PRELOAD would probably run afoul with VAC though?
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I would love to know more about this trend. It fascinates me that we have settled on something that is so widely hated.

It seems correlated with the decline in UI design. 30 years ago we had ideas of how people interact with computers which we had built up over decades. What appear to be dated UIs like Windows 3.1 or even XP actually had a lot of thought and care put into them, with sound reasoning. The modern take seems fixated on minor details without any holistic vision or even reason.

How did we get so bad at decision making? It seems like we stopped valuing insight in favor of data. But without insight we just chase the data we have.
I save the qrcodes in an encrypted folder than I can quickly import into a yubikey with:

for i in *.png; do uri=`zbarimg -q --raw "$i"` && ykman oath accounts uri --touch --password "MYYUBIPASS" "$uri"; done
> Their product ~~is~~ used to be super solid.

Don't get me wrong, it's still light years ahead of the Bitwarden clients and extensions, and that's why I stay, but I for sure would not use the present tense for their quality
The email comparison helps people to understand the directional way ActivityPub works, I don't know enough about email (whichever of SMTP or IMAP/POP3/samd you consider that to be) to make a comparison at protocol level.

> If [...]receives and sends some opaque BLOBs what's the whole point of it?

There are some rules about how to have side effects for said blobs. Some of the blobs themselves have side effects. That's mostly what ActivityPub is: rules about how to distribute the blobs in the federated context, rules to what to do with the blobs when they reach your servers (when coming from other servers, or directly from clients).

The vocabulary that ActivityPub is based upon, is another whole specification, called ActivityStreams, and which didn't originate in the W3C group. This vocabulary has three (*main) types of objects: Activities - which provide the backbone of ActivityPub (Like, Follow, Create, Update), Actors - basically different types of users (these are the entities that operate the activities) and, Objects - whatever the Activities operate on.
Buying furniture is a very adult proposition.
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Of course the C ABI places constraints on the memory layout of the types. For example, alignment. Also in what register "small" types are passed when passing them to functions. It actually depends if the struct has float members or not.
C itself is quite complex already.
C++ adds more features.

But for example, the Rust ABI uses the C++ ABI, because C is too simple and doesn't support unwinding (for panics) or 128bit integers
Everyone talks about sideloading as something to circumvent 30% tax. While maybe true, I'm interested to see if sideloading would allow new browser engines, like gecko or chromium. This will open a ton of possibilities weakening even more the walled garden
I don't want to fight, I'm just surprised that after expressing that you "feel [bad] for folks that are forced to have a lawn" you follow up with the suggestion they just move elsewhere or "figure out how to actually enjoy their lawn".

Wouldn't a better solution be to change the laws / regulations forcing people into having lawns? The current status quo isn't benign - it requires people to spend time and/or money during summers doing many bad things: creating noise pollution, burning gasoline inefficiently in residential areas, etc - all to achieve an outcome that is arguably worse than what they would have done otherwise.
Maybe. But it definitely feels like a far less powerful tool than it used to even 2-3 weeks back. It's fine for coding questions, but any time I've tried to use it for marketing content, the result has been way too formulaic and completely useless within the context.

It used to be smart enough to figure out that you were writing marketing content and would tailor the answer for that. Now, it just writes a 500 word blogspam regardless of what you ask it to write.
"Monopoly on iOS" isn't a thing and no one should have ever acted like it was a thing. iOS doesn't have dominant market share, so we aren't even talking about smartphone apps.

I have a monopoly on parking spots at my house, but that's not a relevant market.

I'm for right to repair, I'm agains the 30% markup on the App Store, and I think Apple in general should make it easier for pro users to customize, but you the novel legal theories to consider someone with a smaller market share than a competitor in the relevant market (unless they are colluding with them in an oligopoly) is anarchy. You can't just say something is a market. It would never end the anti-trust litigation out there.
This is a cultural attitude that prevails in the US. Home values are tied to curb appeal, not only of your house but of your neighbors' homes. It's a very unfortunate situation because a strictly aesthetic concern results in untold amounts of fertilizer and pesticide in our ecosystems and of course endless water use. It's easy to forget that fertilizer is an ecological disaster both on the production and consumption sides - ammonia production for fertilizer is one of the larger carbon emission sources on the planet. I really don't have a solution to suggest, but at the very least we can all start checking our negative reactions when we see an ugly lawn. Cultural attitudes can change over time.
that term has been in use for decades

e.g.,

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/category/transformers/11
Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR) is a kind of beer.
> A. There's no legally recognized market for "privacy-friendly phones."

This is probably because when phones were first introduced in the previous century, people assumed that nobody would listen in on their conversations.

By the way, who decides what a legally recognized market is?
I don't think you can really ever hotlink into TESS.

A better link that (I think) will actually work would be:

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=97733259&caseType=SERIAL_N...
The reason people say this is because that argument has been put out there by the other multi-billion dollar corpos trying to take some of Apple's slices of the pie.

None of this has the consumer at heart at all.
So long as it is 75 dB SPL or softer in intensity, you should be fine. You may want to consider acclimating your baby to be able to tolerate sleeping without the machine or with the machine at a softer volume. This can help set better sleeping habits in the long term.
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> supposed privacy advocates will use patriot act arguments to justify violating financial privacy

What are you talking about? I've never seen this. As far as I'm concerned, AML/KYS is just the financial arm of global mass surveillance.
Vscode works since there is an LSP server.
EU can’t enforce laws outside their legal jurisdiction. So I guess if you somehow trick Apple into seeing your phone as operating in the EU, then this would work. But I don’t know how you could do so if you use a cellular data connection.
If they could use telemetry to deduce which websites were not auto-filling correctly then I'm all aboard.
There are no "small sample" projects as far as I know. But if you look in my profile (or other comments in this thread) I did develop a server which only does ActivityPub, client to server and server to server.
Apple's commission could very well be on the basis that they create and maintain the APIs, libraries, and GPU that enable the developers to distribute on iOS at all.
I see -- we are talking about two different things!

You are working on the problem of figuring out the hidden state based on noisy observations and a transition model.

I interpreted your statement much more broadly, so I was trying to discuss the problem of computing the explicit next state based on perfect knowledge of the transition model, in which case (y_1-y)/dt is a perfectly viable approach to estimate the derivative.

(You can do better by adding higher-order terms of course, but I haven't found that to be universally useful compared to making dt smaller.)
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I just don't buy into the idea that it's impossible to effectively "absorb" or "brainstorm" over the internet. It sounds like a lack of effort and/or knowledge of how to use the tools.
I do this and it looks pretty damn good, lots of different wildflowers and tall grasses, but I guess it's a matter of taste. I like the feel of having my own bit of nature close to me. I even saw a huge violet oil beetle walking along recently.

> Even a meadow look or something more natural will require time and energy to maintain. Probably more than cutting a lawn.

How do you think the meadows you come across get taken care of? For the most part the farmer just comes by 2-3 times per year to mow, it's not that deep. What the best meadows have going for them are years and years of the same mowing schedule which has allowed a huge variety of native plants to spread.
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Yup - that's pretty much the game plan at this point.
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It has happened before. The Hollywood Antitrust Case of 1948 changed how movies were sold. None of them had a monopoly, but it was a case of vertical integration very similar to Apple's App Store.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pic....
The only thing keeping people making this assumption is inertia and the only way to change inertia is by leaning into it. I like documents named "Paper about Nietzsche.doc", not "Paper_about_Nietzsche.doc" and directories named "Party Photos" over "Party-Photos" etc.

It's about the user aesthetics, not the ease of the coder.
I haven't used Erlang extensively, what happens if you crash in the middle of e.g. holding a lock, or during a coordinated dance with other processes?

My concern isn't really "does the program keep running?", it's "does the program keep running correctly?".
Yeah. At the beginning of my career I had full height cubes. Now I don't even have an assigned desk. It's all first-come-first-serve "hotel" desks with short partitions on the desk itself in an otherwise open workspace. Strangely we also have lockers for personal items, like I am going to pack up and redeploy my pencil cup and succulents every day.
I wonder if some sort of "do not call"-style list that the government keeps would do the trick? The government maintains the list so some company can't say, "We never received any notice from them!" and the government can also audit whether each person on the list has data associated with them in any given company's database. The government would have to audit companies when a consumer contacts them (or just do it periodically for all companies, if that's feasible).

I think the bigger problem is how does a consumer know whether any random company has data on them? I mean, sure, I can figure that Google, Amazon, and Meta probably would be on that list, but the real problem is all the smaller 3rd party resellers of such data. I don't even know their names, let alone how I would figure out if they have info on me.
> The king doesn’t really have any power in practice

No, even aside from soft power, the monarch has some hard power (which can serve as a powerful lever for soft power, as well). Notably, for instance, the requirement for Monarch’s consent (not just the more pro forma Royal Assent) to legislation affecrtng the hereditary revenues, personal property or personal interests of the Crown or the Duchy of Lancaster or Cornwall, including the Royal Household and the Royal Palaces (including the Palace of Westminster), the Crown Estate and the Crown Estate Commissioners, the Monarch's private estates, and the Monarch's interest as a landlord or an employer.
Not that it matters much, but I'm curious who first coined the specific "GPT" term?

The first occurrence of that particular term I can find on Google Scholar is in 2019 ("Documentation is all you need" https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Generative+pre-train...)

Edit: it looks like it was OpenAI. (Radford et al, 2018).
Which are advertising agencies? Meta which owns WhatsApp that Europe is entirely dependent on? Or Google that owns Search, YouTube, and Android that Europe is entirely dependent on?

The US could send Europe to the dark ages overnight by turning off all of its software. That’s real value, not luxury handbags.
This is the perfect definition of a strawman argument.

There are 2 dominating app stores:

- Google/Android app store

- IOS app store

They have a duopoly in the mobile market, and they each have a monopoly on their platform. The deli comparison is asinine since there are millions of delis vs 2.
I use Steam on Fedora as well and I notice a lot of jank with the Steam client (Nvidia 1080ti). Dropdown menus popping through windows, sound may or may not work for videos, freezing, etc. It's usable but it's not very pleasant.
> I love the iPhone camera but photos still seem super processed compared to an actual camera body

Anecdotally it seems to have got worse in the past few years. I don't know much about photography, but it feels like the software is far too aggressive in its desire to capture dynamic range, and generally unwilling to let areas naturally be in shadow. Many of the photos I've taken on the last couple of iPhones look flat and unpleasing, unless it's a bright sunny day. Which, given I live in the UK, is something of a rarity. Maybe the algorithms are tuned for Cupertino.

My wife has been using Google Pixels since the original—while it lags behind in video capture, imo, I've always preferred how the still photos out of her phone look.
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Or, even better, just don't buy from Amazon. I honestly can't think of any advantage to buying from Amazon anymore.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33946933
I'm sorry but your preconceptions are way off. Medical studies on cannabis are not just about smoking weed and feeling better because you got high from it.

Here are the two main areas of research:

- For two forms of treatment-resistant epileptic seizures, Lennox–Gastaut syndrome and Dravet syndrome, it is the closest you can get to a "miracle" treatment -- significantly reduces seizures with no clear downside other than feeling the effects. You can extract just the specific cannabinoid (cannabidiol) needed to treat it, so that there are no unwanted psychological effects from it.

- It is nearly irreplaceable for treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. The alternatives (prochlorperazine, promethazine) just don't have a cost-benefit analysis that adds up the way cannabis does.

And two important areas with a lower quality evidence are anorexia and migraines.
Elon is the libertarian in this analogy.
>So if I'm talking to my bank through a link where only my bank and I have access to the info, that's absolutely E2EE.

Through TLS? That is certainly not E2EE. That is because a trusted third party (certificate authority) is involved to insure that you are actually communicating with the bank. End to end means exactly that. You are able to communicate securely with only the trust of the entity you are communicating with.

You definition pretty much covers any effective use of cryptography for privacy. That would make the distinction meaningless.
Oh, I can: it's the experience of the edit button mysteriously appearing and disappearing, along with the unforgivable experience reported on r/1Password of some user having edits applied to the wrong item. There but for the grace of God go I, but I for sure have experienced the oft-reported edit button comes and goes nonsense

We shall not even get started on their extension losing its mind for no good reason. Still better than Bitwarden, and they should thank their lucky stars for it or I'd take my money elsewhere
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GUIs are a PITA like in most languages.

I think most people use something which binds to gtk (such as lablgtk) or Qt.

For scientific computing there is Owl, but I haven't used it personally.
The house next door to me caught fire. By the time I saw the flames from my window and ran out the door, the fire truck was already preparing to douse the flames. Yes, I am lucky to live in an area with fast responses; no, not everyone is so lucky, yadda yadda yadda. But safes help. So do fire extinguishers. Get one for every floor in your house.
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Why does it need a server? Does bitwarden have the ability to just use a local vault?
nVidia already went further than a GPU trademark and tried to claim the "gaming" label as a geforce only thing.
Does this mean that you can't write a scientific paper and refer to GPT without using the ™ symbol on it?
The typescript types subpackage was a pretty nice high level overview of what to expect here.https://github.com/fahad19/featurevisor/blob/main/packages/t...

This is definitely a neat effort.

I started JSON dumping feature flags at work on a regular basis, so that is my main tool for scrubbing through & seeing what happened.

The ability to keep building really neat tools around these paradigms is so infinite. Simon Willison's git-history is notablehere, which was submitted earlier today. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35690942

Personally I really think git (especially when going ham with good CoW filesystems) is the most notably interesting database coming at us from the future.
> iOS doesn't have dominant market share, so we aren't even talking about smartphone apps.

iPhone has a 57% market share in the United States, the jurisdiction of the case.