skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But to what end are we harnessing the technology that some of our brightest minds claim is more revolutionary than fire? Cheating on exams. Spamming science fiction literary magazines with so many AI-generated stories that they have to pause submissions. Replacing low-level content creators trying to build skills and experience with cheaper machine-generated content.

I get their point, completely, but not sure why their hopes were so high here.

Almost every person in the US has a device in their pocket capable of unlimited, free learning, of anything and everything. Instead we mainly use them for selfies, porn, and memes.
No, software engineering is. Writing prompts to a chat bot is just being a user of that software
It's a challenge. I get over 1000 applicants for every position, I can't read every resume and use a few filters to get a subset to read, but it's a disjunction (top 50 school OR company advanced in our field OR specific technology names).
I've never seen nozzle without a lock in Europe (Croatia and countries close to it).
i blame our reliance on email addresses as usernames for services. i don’t want multiple email addresses, and the idea of switching seems overwhelming.
>So now I associate that word with all the problematic aspects of the book and assume the person using it is either using the word without having read the book or didn't see a problem with the book when they did read it. Neither really makes me think highly of the person.

You cannot separate the book and person reading the book. Its ok to disagree, its ok to have different views.
Yeah my comment isn't about the substance of the article (I read it and don't have any complaints) it's just a general complaint about the concepts mentioned in the title.

And yes, I know this is a classic hacker news trope, I just couldn't help myself
It's very possible, and might be impossible to upgrade a large multi unit building. In most jurisdictions a large renovation would force you to upgrade such things. In this case I would assume simply disallowing a gas stove without proper venting. Though I suspect the permitting process in NYC resembles something out of The Sopranos, assuming the proper permits were obtained.
(My) Evolution of OOP Thinking
> So if humans aren't special at anything, then humans don't really have a purpose

Well yeah, one of the fundamental discoveries of nihilism. Our purpose is that which we make ourselves.
Are they the same target email address though? If not, surely that's not a fair test if the gmail account has been around for 10+ years or so?

(I have the same situation, an 18-year old gmail account and a 6 year old fastmail account, but the reason I don't get ANY spam at all in the fastmail account is I only use it for certain things and it's much newer, so I'd argue at least in my case, that's not a fair comparison).
You have no idea how excited I am about this.
The problem with your theory is that the disparate impact criteria in Griggs creates exactly the same burden for college degree requirements as for IQ tests. (And, secondarily, that that burden for IQ tests is low enough that if they were as suited for purpose as your argument suggests, it would be routinely and easily met.)

That said, I do think that often college degree requirements serve the same purpose as the IQ tests in Griggs: a conscious and direct choice to achieve racial discrimination that isn’t calibrated in any way to the actual requirements of the specific job but has enough of a superficial veneer of neutrality that people aren’t likely to challenge it. (Post-Griggs, while IQ tests are no more illegal than degree requirements, they are more likely to be challenged.)
Veganism is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce our environmental impact, study finds
I enjoy using "ping 0x1010101"
How about shielding and grounding
A branch refers to jumping to a different location. Performing comparing and blending values as a result of them is not a jump.
Here you go (not on mobile):

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/63334.63337 (free access)
I'm waiting on an iteration of this concept that will probably not happen soon due to ethical concerns, but a model that lets you:

1.) Train the avatar's physical appearance (via uploading photos)

2.) Train the avatar's voice (via uploading snippets of someone's voice)

Having Morgan Freeman as an AI assistant would be swell, and having myself as an AI assistant would be trippy as hell

EDIT: Ok, their platform DOES offer this functionality with the premium Enterprise subscription =\ crazy times
Sounds like they are there as a _reactive_ force meaning they act on something happening but they don't seek out issues. They are likely lightly trained and their presence is half the battle. As another commenter mentions, cops are sent to problematic BART stations but constantly end up gathered in a bunch and mostly paying attention to one another.
Greatest Archeological Discoveries Ever
If your experience is from the Cold War then, just offer it as a historical oddity. No need for the melodrama of, "It's misery." Modern scifs can have windows. They can be open. If you had been paying attention you could've seen the articles with the pictures.

And you're complaining about them stagnating and getting stuck on the old ways.
I just recently started self hosting email. I settled on relaying through gmail to all hosts except a whitelist of hosts I know won't blackhole me - mostly just a few niche domains of friends who do the same thing or small organizations they're a part of. Have you considered this? It's not optimal but it's a practical compromise. You get to keep your From: field as your domain too if you set it up right. I couldn't make it into Microsoft inboxes at all before I set up the relay but now I can.

- Make a gmail account just for your email server, which forwards anything incoming to your host in case someone emails it directly (you'll be able to discover this gmail address if you dig through delivered emails' headers but it won't be in the From: field)

- Let Gmail authenticate with your SMTP server in Gmail's advanced options, and make sure the options are checked to retain the From: headers of relayed emails

- Generate an App Password and set up your mail server software to use Google's SMTP relay with the email and app password

There are other services to do this too I'm sure, but I'm happy with Gmail for now. And you can always transparently switch it out to another service if Google pulls something.

I plan to write a blog post on the whole process of setting up a mail server to configuring it with a gmail relay like this.
Yes, plenty of countries have multiple currencies accepted as official legal tender. E.g., Jamaica has both Jamaican dollars and US dollars. Poland uses zloty, but euros aren't uncommon tender, despite not officially being a member of the Eurozone.
And NPR told me that the possibility of gas stoves being banned was fake outrage: https://www.npr.org/2023/01/20/1150228734/the-facts-and-stra....
you've made multiple comments in this thread about being unable to find American workers. I'm currently looking for work but looking at your profile I can't find your company. Where can I apply to whatever job openings you have?
> I don't really see humans as being special

Fair enough, but I absolutely see humans as being more special than machines. What interests me in a story, art, poem, whatever, is that it's a human communication. Even if a machine can do it technically as well, or better, I want the human one, not the computed one.

A world where everything is generated by a machine is a dystopian world, in my view.
Anki (and Mochi) are great for names of neighbours, other kids‘ parents at daycare, and people you don‘t meet often. My wife just remembers any name she‘s heeard once. I can cheat.
None of your grandparents would have made it to the US under the current system either (probably)
This reminds me of Wes Anderson movies for some reason.
The clustered primary key (NO ROWID) setup that came in with SQLite version 3.8.2 (2013-12-06) makes it very fast indeed when used for a large persistent key-value store.

And later improvements have just continue to accrue.

This from a guy who just implemented a persistent object cache with it, and was blown away by how well it works. And my requirement was all SQLite versions 3.7 and later, so there's conditional code. (ROWID or not, UPSERT or not).

Not to mention there are probably ten or more of these databases in your mobile phone. We haven't heard, at least I haven't, about any monstrous day-1 vulnerabilities in this code.

A really good design choice, SQLite is, if your application can live with its local file system requirement.
This could be just the reason why Congress is turning their attention to work visas.

IIRC green card problem began simultaneously with H1B problem, between 2005-2008. It makes sense: if the major entry to the immigration pipeline ends up 75% of Indian nationals, of course the exit for India-born (due to per-country diversity rule) is jammed.

I know backlog growth has a few unrelated causes adding up together, but at least 90% of the mess correlates very well with overuse of H1B and L1B (transfers) by odd consultancy businesses. Other factors don’t seem as important, for example, China has the same population size as India, but its wait time has been growing several times slower. Both problems are clearly connected.
Looking forward to the advanced AI tools that are coming soon! AI Fill looks super useful!
Any website you use. I've always wanted to write a CLI tool for vultr to spin up servers with scripts instead of the UI. They may already have their own tool by now, idk
Surprised it took this long! In my last job in academia, people started trying to turn their ho-hum ideas into gold by attaching "deep learning" or related terms around the same time other people started doing the same thing with "blockchain." Some people had great ideas and some of them turned out to be useful. But it was painfully obvious to everybody but the person talking when they were trying to obfuscate mediocrity with fancy words.

Maybe they were there all along and people just stopped ignoring them? Maybe it's all of the hucksters whose absurd coin schemes dried up or never panned out looking for a new hook?
EthereumPoW fork is completely dead in code updates since last year
Perl 5 is still around, widely installed, and maintained:

https://www.perl.org/get.html

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/07/06/why-perl-is-still-rele...

Raku (Perl 6) is also around, but was not widely adopted:

https://raku.org/
It will not. It will serve the capitalist class as an instrument to enrich at the expense of the masses. And it will be done while telling most people that they just didn't "work hard enough".
We have a Winner winner...
@dang regarding pagination

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// Fetch the content from the URL stored in the anchor tag's href attribute
const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', anchorTag.href, true);
xhr.onload = () => {
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I don't even care about it. I just write natural language. I don't have time or the motivation to keep up with esoteric incantations and that too with a limited shelf life, that may be version or release specific.

I do think there is some value in putting the AI in the correct context role if you're using the API for some app.
Super! Mój tata będzie wniebowzięty :)
I trying to point out that urban doesn't imply disconnected from ecology, jusy like rural doesn't imply connected to ecology.

Walking around my extremely dense city, I see plenty of people growing their own food in their little yards, probably more than I see back in my semirural hometown.

For a while I subscribed to a vegan food delivery service. The food is grown a few towns away and delivered daily by cyclists. There is nothing like that back in my hometown; I'd have to do HelloFresh or something.
I had a chance to canoe to the office for 4 months. The place I was staying at was on the river and they owned canoes. I would pop out at the park, chain up the canoe, then a 3 minute walk to the office. Going to the office was downstream but going home was a workout at times.
Iceberg lovers go wild over photos of the 'dickie berg' off Newfoundland's coast
> Tell HN: Cloudflare is breaking the internet

Fixed that for you. Cloudflare is a dark force of centralization operating under the threat of "but what if my forum with 10 users gets DDoSed?!" or "I'm too busy to set up Let's Encrypt so I let some random third party who leaks secrets all over the open internet terminate TLS on my behalf."

And bonus now we all have to jump through 15 captcha hoops to load some stupid website barely worth visiting anyway. Who gives a flying fuck if bots look at your ugly website anyway?
Cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy Earned a Guinness World Record
> You're kinda railing against locks on doors

No, definitely not. I'm completely incapable of logging into several different services that have Cloudflare's protection (including their own website) if I use Chrome on my iPad. If I try on mobile Safari on the same device (which has basically an empty history), it goes through just fine.

Something is broken.
Yup, this 100% existed at FB in the US while I was there from 2013 to 2018. I worked in Europe and found it incredibly bizarre.
I'm just talking about the mail with my actual name on it. Credit card offers, promo magazines, catalogs, service coupons, etc
Yeah, some iteration may be necessary, but the point is that real engineers have a much better idea of what the outcome will be than these "prompt engineers".
Worth it in an ideal world, in the real world it's a bad advice to compare given vs earned.
We wouldn't have the majority of the companies if the founders didn't have the wealth given for them to bootstrap.
And then X11 was ported to it and everything went downhill. I can't imagine worse graphics subsystem to use.
Can you show me one example of this? I understand 15 mins is probably an exaggeration. Maybe show someone who did it after 24 hours?
It would have been utterly impractical given, as I recall, the distance was about 40 miles and would have involved a few portages around dams. (So probably more than 12 hours even at a pretty good clip.) But I live within about 1,000 feet of the (North Branch of the) Nashua River which joins the Merrimack River in Nashua NH and, for about 8 years, I had an office right in downtown Nashua.
My daily boot into Linux I'm prompted by no end of updates. Hundreds of megabytes of core libraries, fonts, office suites I never asked for but are installed by default, and of course, the weekly or so kernel update and getting to play the lottery as to whether your computer will boot again.
I don't think it is "urban living" so much as just modern living. While people in rural and suburban areas are more likely to have some form of exposure to locally grown produce, they still for the most part live in the same kind of economy as urban areas. I currently live in a suburb surrounded by strawberry farms, avocados, etc. And our grocery stores are just as likely to have strawberries and avocadoes from Mexico.

People in rural areas like where I grew up, might be more likely to have a garden, but most don't, and they still get most of their calories from the grocery store. I grew up on a cattle ranch and while that might give me more "connection" to my food, we still bought a lot of our beef at the grocery store because finishing and butchering a cow is expensive and time consuming and requires lots of long term freezer storage. Today's modern rural family is pretty similar to an urban one except they drive a lot farther to do anything.
This really doesn't happen in technology outside of the US. It seems like way more of a US thing in general, but I can't fully speak to that.
One of the first proof of work systems was Hashcash, an email spam filter. It didn't really catch on for email.
"They come to snuff the rooster. You know he ain't gonna die" - Alice in Chains
Talented prompt engineers DO have a good idea of what the outcome will be - that's a big part of the skill involved in prompt engineering.

(Given how inherently unpredictable LLMs are that's actually pretty impressive.)
Maybe not even going to fully ML/AI but definitely some NLP to understand the intent behind the spam. It's sort of like the approach taken with https://spampatrol.io for forms. Probably can use it for email too.
It matches my experience precisely. Every time I've seen a GUI framework/library chosen that didn't have a huge head of steam behind it and very broad availability of off the shelf components and tooling, the project has either failed, or had to be rewritten after a swerve. This is for relatively mainstream software (consumer apps). Niches are another matter.
I read the Wikipedia page I linked to in my article on Turing Machines. This was my mistake, I didn’t realize how poorly the Wikipedia article was written, and how much is incorrect. I encourage you to read “On Computable Numbers” by Turing.

The description of a Turing Machine as a “tape machine” is merely an illustration and not meant to be taken literally. Turing Machines are merely mathematical models which define state-based transitions, usually in tabular form.

This link from Stanford is a much better description: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-machine/
I'd guess that the value they normally get from junk mail over 10 years is more than the $4 processing fee, so I don't think it's a brilliant scam.
No justification for this.

Better to be bankrupt than inhumane.
Most websites are not clear-net. But regardless, people who do not fit social appearance norms are routinely not welcomed in businesses, often legally.

Here's some real-life equivalents to a web application firewall:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ibran/595450232/

https://www.manythings.org/signs/im/shirt_and_shoes_required...

https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/restaurant-dress-code-p...
https://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html explains what it wants to happen.

Note in particular that multiple processes can read at a time, and only slowly escalate into a write lock which is held as short a time as you can before going back to the normal state. While NFS assumes that if you read, you may write, and may not take care to make sure you have the most recent version WHEN you write. (These are all important assumptions to make for random programs written by random programmers. Few programmers can be assumed to take the care that databases do around getting locking logic correct.)
no rejczel :)
Computing has such a bad challenge in general. We sell so much software by saying, gee it's a so hard, pick this tool & you'll never have to think about things again, everything will be easy & amazing!

It sells on fear. It sells on telling you things are hard.

Engelbartian software defies this. It says, this isn't easy, but we can grasp it together. We can see & learn better. I can help you Augment Human Intellect so we all can gain real expertise.

The industry has grown enormously selling tricycles and training wheels. It's changed the world. It's been amazing. But we really need to also be helping build better real bicycles for the mind, that we can push off under our own power with.
April Fools: Evidence of Pi Varying over Time
A humorous paper (2009) on the time variation of pi by Robert J. Scherrer of Vanderbilt University.

Published for April Fools day 2009
Russian navy ship photographed near Nord Stream pipelines before blasts
yep, these kinds of discussions are frustrating for me, because it seems so clear that open honest communication proves them a non-issue. If you can't afford something, say so. If you'd like compensation or reciprocation for something, say so. If you want to cover everything, say so.

Letting fear of the conversation prevent you from having it makes the issue worse, not better.
Worthwhile posting the counter-essay to Moloch, I think:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/17/the-goddess-of-everyth...
> What interests me in a story, art, poem, whatever, is that it's a human communication.

I guess we are different in this case, as I primarily read something for its content, rather than its author (although the author is often a good proxy for the quality of the content). A world where I can instantly generate whatever content I want is a utopia for me, rather than a dystopia.
There is an equivalent to this in full text search where you can give different weights to different parts of the query (solr).
Chicken chicken? Chicken chicken chicken chicken. Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken. Chicken chicken, chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken. Chicken!
> I absolutely see humans as being more special than machine

Can you explain why exactly? Is it a religious view? Seems to me we're just meat robots.
Other OpenAI-based projects does that too, and there's an option to not provide your API key as well https://chatuml.com/early-bird
Amnesty International (tho I really don't like their fundraising tactics) and Doctors Without Borders don't send money to sociopath's accounts. They pay for housing for board certified medical doctors who decided to make $0 and heal people while being bombed on.

I also like Animals Asia which saves bears from captivity and sends me cute videos of the bears swinging on the swing I donated to them!

If you have low confidence in large orgs, donate directly to small orgs near you like a little league team in a rough part of town.
Yeah, they are very definitely not production grade! But we had laser cutters, mylar sheets, pots of solder paste, questionable quality spatulas and way too many different prototype PCBs. A means to an end.
Thank you, I'll check these out!
Why choose? I’m sure Musk can do both!
> Christianity and "civilization" were not introduced to benefit the Hawaiians, but to control them.

King Kamehameha was not Christian.

> And similarly to how our culture cherry-picked from the cultures that came before, so should also the Hawaiians be able to retain elements of their culture and their heritage.

Nope. This is not what was happening. Protestors basically invented nonsense about Mauna Kea being the most sacred something, even though there was no evidence that it was anything but utilitarian. There were no cultural sites at the top of the mountain, but there were sites of several stone-age quarries.

> Actually, Hawaii was sending resources to the mainland US back then.

In exchange for goods and money, just like any other trading country.
Yeah, particularly the language ones. You do have some non culturally sensitive ones like Ravens matrices, but they're not the default.
This reminded me to check my gmail spam folder. It included a short message I sent to myself as a reminder and a message from my health care provider.
Is creativity not a mashup in and of itself? A human brain learning a bunch and then combining what it knows throwing some randomness in there to create something... "New"

In pure scientific reasoning I agree the models need to be able to encode logic somehow.

In any event, by mashing things up you might concede that these models can at least encourage human creativity
agreed, especially when you are trying to BUY something. the modal popups trying to get you sign up for newsletters, the demand to prove you are human, fuck right off.
This reminds me of the lines said by Fletcher in the movie Whiplash when he and Andrew are talking in the nightclub. He said something like “the worst phrase in English is ‘good job.’”
> going home was a workout at times

Like going to the gym after work to relieve the stress of the day!