skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No but the right to be forgotten. These companies are not allowed to collect this information on Europeans unless you are doing business with them.

If you are in Switzerland you can use the following letter samples [1] to request a copy of your data and also delete any data they may have of you.

These letters have consequences if the companies don't comply.

[1] https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/de/home/datenschutz/dokumen...
the big elephant in the room.
As a coffee snob with lots of Aussie and Kiwi friends, you _can_ get equally good coffee in other places, but in places like Melbourne and Wellington fantastic coffee is ubiquitous. In other places (e.g. London where I am) you have to go looking for it.
Thanks. Shame it's read only, althought I guess using odbc driver in excel to read sqlite is the way to go
The problem solved is not what openai does with the data, it's what it's telling the users.

The regulation in question required better disclosure which is now available.

Fwiw, the title is wrong too: Italy never banned chatgpt, openai decided to block Italy to avoid legal risk.

(They also added some support to erase data or some such, which either they will do or it will cause massive consequences)
That’s good progress. Can’t wait for a mass produced humanoid robot. Looks like the robotis op3 is not listed for sale at this time. The thormang3 has call for pricing , but is a human size robot.
Based purely on interactions with ChatGPT, interactive fiction isn't really there yet. ChatGPT is not able to tell a cohesive interactive story, because it doesn't understand what's going on. Just for one example, it forgets who is where, and has characters who are not present ("wait in the car") participate in dialogue.

I'm not sure if this is something that can be iterated on, or if it's a fundamental characteristic of large language models.
No, they're ignored because people who can't otherwise get decent Internet want it.
I don't think there's that many cases, because going into Paris by car is such a miserable experience and most suburbs around Paris have a public transportation link to Paris (though some of the lines are unreliable and/or overcrowded). The issue is more from moving from suburbs to suburbs, which is heavily impacted by the reduction in trafic in Paris and the suburbs to suburbs transit is not well developed
Even if you knew back in 1970s the exact specification of iPhone camera, you still couldn't manufacture it because improvement in manufacturing is a gradual self dependent process where the new equipment is built by the old equipment, and you can't make sudden jumps in accuracy or minimization because these things depend on weaker versions of themselves.
It seems to me that from the university's standpoint, a company is considered a plus instead of corruption, i.e. have "real-world" impact, and perhaps the university will have a stake in the company as well (not sure about this). If so, it is a win-win situation for both the university management and the professor, only the student lose, and who cares about that little grad student?
Keep a stack of dirs where u can jump very quickly into.
Twice in the comments you said you wanted to discuss "neopotism" (I'm assuming you mean nepotism). Yet you didn't say that in the main question for some reason. Nepotism wouldn't be a cause of layoffs but a situation where someone was kept on despite poor performance, due to their connections (family).

Over 30 years, I've certainly seen this happen. Usually more about friendships and professional connections than family. But how a person interacts with their co-workers in and out of office hours certainly impacts their standing and their likelihood of staying at a company during a period of layoffs. Those factors are usually far more important than actual performance.

Any supervisor can manipulate the facts of a person's overall performance to seem more or less favorable in order to drive that person out or keep them. Most jobs are not strictly 100% measurable performance numbers to act on (of course there are some).

I'd say that nepotism is almost not worth considering with respect to layoffs. Do your best work. Interact as best you can with your co-workers. Control the things you can control. If nepotism is an issue, that's something specific to the circumstances or company and not likely something you can influence, so if it is a bother, move on.
A bit of backstory on just how far they went, to prepare for that mission-critical bit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Landing_Research_Vehicle

Note how willing they were to risk life and limb in training exercises, and Armstrong's comments on how important the skills gained there were to their actual mission success.
Well, the simplest of 'literotica' is just an uncensored, fiction-writing friendly LLM (Fine tuned on fiction/RP, rather than truthful and friendly responses).

NovelAI has been around for a long time, after AI dungeon died in flames. They sell exactly that. They also did the first powerful fine-tune of SD. Now they've got a H100 cluster, and are committed to training a GPT3.5 equivalent.

These companies have difficulties getting investor funding, the good side is however, AI products are so useful, users have an extremely high intention to pay. So these no-investor companies can pure bootstrap themselves with high profitability and high growth.
The CO2 sensor in the View Plus id advertised as follows:

NDIR Sensor (Non-Dispersive Infra-Red):
Measurement range 400–5000 ppm
Optimum Accuracy ±50ppm ±3% within 10 – 35°C / 50 - 95°F and 0 – 80%RH after initial calibration time

Can you tell from that description whether it's a true CO2 sensor?
>Most people older than 40 got a record players decades ago

That seems unlikely. I'm in my mid 40s and I bought my first music on compact cassette, but that was almost immediately supplanted by CDs. I never owned a record player.
Yep, .ai is the TLD of Anguilla (United Kingdom) and .io is British Indian Ocean Territory (United Kingdom).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top_level_domain
This was a great find!
What would you do differently mastering for a CD versus Spotify?

(I'm in the middle of releasing an album, and we don't have different masters for these, but I could imagine that the situation is different for more professional groups)
I mean, only if you can't help yourself and look at the vendor favourably after. If you can't stop yourself from doing that then sure
> That said, the deliberate experience of sitting in your couch, doing/thinking nothing else but the music you're listening, is for me an invaluable ritual. It's like meditation.

This is what we did with cassettes and then CDs. I had dates where we sat on the floor and just thumbed through our CD catalogs and played music for hours. Even today, I still prefer to listen to whole albums.
Brio (never tasted it personally) is said to be quite unlike chinotto (too much sweet), personally even the San Pellegrino made one is a bit too sweet, in Italy there are quite a few almost artisanal brands that are usually much better (in the sense of being more similar to "traditional" chinotto) but they tend to be marketed nowadays as "niche/luxury" and have hefty prices.

What you can do (at home) is to make it yourself, there are good chinotto syrups and you just add sparkling water to make a chinotto that is better than the pre-made soft-drinks.
Walking to/from bus stop surely doesn't sound impressive. You can practice a smallscale shopping with every sort of transport (it depends more on available shopping infrastracture, and economical reasons). And you surely can walk more by choice irrespective of transport (it depends on available pedestrian-friendly infrastructure). Choice is choice, and sitting is still sitting.
Illustrated the exact moment when Turing machine was invented
Hi latexr,
thank you for your answer, these projects are great :)

I think I mis-expressed myself in the original post, the work i was thinking about is more like coding projects commanded by clients, so that I can make immediate revenue from it.
The examples you suggested seem more like personal projects.

Do you think it is possible to make reliable revenue from personal projects? If so I would definitely prefer working on these, but I had the idea that it would be a riskier way.
I think it would prevent an employer from transferring personal data to a third party without justification.
I was wondering, if there was enough cpu power and no hallucinations, a gpt kind of llm would compress better?

Will knowledge be stored in an llm in the future?
I'm just talking from a pedagogical point of view, the current phonebook analogy isn't meant for us anyway.
I was interested in looking up sqlc for python but it seems to be for go? Is there a different version than this? https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc
has any of the recent attempts to the moon given us footage of the lunar lander and other machinery that was left behind from the prior missions?

this would easily put the conspiracy theories to bed
This isn't 100% true - unless you're using a json-schema --> types package then there's a risk of your documentation not aligning with your types.
I follow a bunch of indie devs on Twitter, most of them started an AI product often based on ChatGPT and Stable diffusion.

Many went viral in a very short time frame, but now they are experiencing a huge churn rate, meaning people canceling their membership, also an alarming high refund and dispute rate.

I believe AI startups will loose 90% of their customers soon, as those are only people who where hyped into trying it out but have actually no use case for it.

AI is currently what Internet was in 1999.
Is sleep/hibernate working for you? I could never get it to work on mine.
On the other hand, there's no atmosphere on the Moon to speak of, so you actually have to slow down using propulsion against the gravity for a soft landing. Heat from the atmospheric entry when getting back to the Earth is certainly a concern but the atmosphere also takes care of the vast majority of slowing the descent (or ~all of it, if you count the use of parachutes at the end).
What was different about the Apollo missions that they were so overwhelmingly successful, but similar efforts fail today?
I have. If you’re good enough and have decided to leave because you’re bored, this is one way the org can still retain your services and better, if you succeed, they have diversified into one more adjacent problem space with the investment in your startup.
On the last list, the only word that does not comply with the constraints (having 3 'e's) is "Demeanor", which has only 2. Not great but also not as horrible as you make it sound.
> But sadly, NASA was afraid that the site would be disturbed and declared no fight zone over it.

Seems like a reasonable precaution for a industry that brought us “move fast and break things” and normalized endless bugs as an unavoidable natural law.
It probably used that more to figure out how to word sentences, but I assumed it relied more on wiki or academic articles to diagnose.
There's no need to be more specific. Those who are interested in serious discussion will take the plausible interpretation. Those who seek a weaker interpretation for attack aren't worth talking to.
Any explanation on how does it work? Is it via Android’s virtual display feature?
Earth gives you a stupidly wide margin of error, where the Moon gives you none (and Mars very little) - because of its dense atmosphere. Landing on a world with an atmosphere means there is a passive force that tries to get you stop (relative to the surrounding medium). So, as long as you survive the hell of reentry, you can help yourself with lifting surfaces and parachutes. In contrast, on the Moon, you have to zero out your velocity at exactly the right moment. Do it too late? Crash. Do it too early? Crash. Run out of fuel just a little bit too fast? Crash.
Yes! I make pour over coffee almost every morning. It's a ritual where I take a few minutes of quiet and plan my day.
It’s fine on mobile safari.
Fun tangent: this moon lander game was posted here on HN recently:
https://ehmorris.com/lander/
OpenAI is NOT a startup and even if it was, this guide does not apply to a startup led by quite literally the top experts on startups.
> once we’ve realized it doesn’t know everything — and never will — that will be when it starts to become really useful.

I disagree with this. Once it becomes superhumanly smart, that will be when it starts to become really useful.

Of course superhuman intelligence might be dismissed as outlandish science fiction technology which is far away. But three years ago ChatGPT-4 or Midjourney V5 were also outlandish science fiction technology.
Slack's new modular-apps system charges orgs for using 'custom functions'
This World’s Fastest Trash Can Goes 63 MPH, Which Is Plenty Fast
All with a much bigger budget & many more people working on it.

Oh and it wasn't all success. Apollo 13 was a near miss. Apollo 1 had fatalities. Several other apollo missions has near misses. It was a very high risk operation.
Yeah but 1) that ignores the failed unmanned attempts that came before these, 2) these were all manned. I could see it being “easier” to land when you are manually adjusting your descent than when you are entirely relying on sensors and preprogrammed behavior. (Apollo 11 literally would have crashed if Armstrong hadn’t veered off course to find a smoother landing site)
How do we know this article isn't just ChatGPT word salad?
Colony Capital acquired a $1.9bn stake in First Republic alongside General Atlantic, a well-known private equity firm. It was a minority stake [1].

Barrack was also acquitted on the charges of acting as a foreign agent for the UAE [2].

There are endless legit things to criticize the Trump administration of. You don't need to add conspiracy drivel to it.

1- https://www.perenews.com/colony-general-atlantic-finalise-1-...

2- https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/04/trump-chair-tom-bar...
That’s like eating a spoonful of mayo, or drinking a shot of vinegar. That’s not very tasty to most people.

Some things are better as ingredients than as food by itself.
That book is a little bit controversial. Here is the main criticism leveled at it:
https://gist.github.com/no-defun-allowed/7e3e238c959e27d4919...

> The interpreter uses very dubious implementation decisions, and the language that is created as a side-effect makes reasoning about anything near impossible.

Personally I really like the writing style of the book and had fun following it BUT you definitely shouldn't use it as your primary source to learn about these things.You need to do you own research and figure out why some ideas presented in the book are dead-ends that should be avoided.

It is definitely NOT a useful for those who want to learn the proper way to implement a Lisp, especially a non-toy one.

Alternatives are Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom and MAL (Make your own Lisp). Here is also a good-short tutorial how to write one in OCaml: https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/lisp/00_fundamentals/

Edit: Updated link to the criticism.
I would rather they have money and a business plan. That way it’s more likely it will get the resources needed to develop it, build a community around it, and I won’t end up with a mothballed open source project that’s not maintained anymore.

Nodejs is an open source alternative you can stick with, if you don’t like commercial products.
You can, if you know what you’re doing and can deliver. You’ll have to compete with freelancers who have more experience and a track record. I have freelanced for over ten years. My customers expect me to show results right away. The projects get dictated by the customer. You can either add business value or you can’t. You don’t get to decide whether you work solo or start from scratch because someone is paying you for results.
Didn't take too long to start the 2.0 version. I really like how Rust does not do this.
If I am understanding the issue here I don't believe C# would suffer from this issue since reflection works not only on public method access where those methods use privates internally but in fact could access privates directly.

In C# private is more of suggestion than an enforced concept since you can do anything you want with reflection, which is very useful and necessary sometimes. Keeps normal code clean and encapsulated while allowing one to go under the covers as needed.

Seems very strange that not only can you not get to private members directly in JS but even worse you can't call a public method that use a private though a proxy, bizarre and against what I would think JS to be.
Digital medium has a higher dynamic range and can be used for playback of completely uncompressed orchestral performances, but in practice it also can reliably play audio that is so compressed (maximising perceived volume) that vinyl playback of the recording would be impossible.

Pop producers went off the deep end with this trick during the loudness wars, once it became possible through CDs.
I agree. I have built a 'new tab' website for me and included a widget with the top 3 from the HN best list. So I am very happy with about 1-2 per day ;-)

Btw. this is the way I found this thread :D
My associates at MIT have switched their families to the carnivore diet. Apparently sugar molecules are like little daggers which stab into and get stuck to the arteries and the fat gets clogged in the arteries
because of sugar. No sugar no problems.
> There are quite a few factual errors in this post, like [...] no streaming in REST (not necessarily true).

Where did it say that? I got the opposite impression:

> Handling large data sizes with REST APIs, such as file uploads, is rather straight forward. The received file can be treated as a stream, using very little memory.

Re: streams, I've found that an opaque binary stream in REST is okay, but the moment I want to stream messages, my life is hell. I keep running into this, and it's such a pain. If I have to stick with REST, I end up inventing a bespoke RPC protocol to allow for sending errors as part of the stream, either as part of the message or as a trailer header (and trailers have their own issues like no browser support). And then the semantics of HTTP status codes have to change.

The reason I often stick with REST is that infrastructure supports HTTP/1 much better than h2/gRPC (such as L7 load balancers, caching, etc.). JSON RPC is not always a good answer either as caching POSTs is typically not well-supported and using GET with JSON RPC is discouraged and fraught with issues.

I would definitely prefer to just use gRPC but the poor middlebox support sometimes makes it cost-prohibitive.

What a mess.
deno seems to follow a very similar line to php. you can do a lot with php without dependencies. but if you are not careful, there is a possibility that you will create garbage. i'm sure this will take deno further, similar to php.
Learning Nix from the Bottom Up
> autocorrect has gone bonkers.

It’s gone feral with punctuation, and things like “they’re” get changed to “there” or “their”. Common misspellings seem to appear when they weren’t typed.
This all reminds me of my friend, who doesn't really have a programming background, but uses Tasker (an Android app programmed through a UI) to automate tons of stuff and is incredibly happy with it. Meanwhile, I've had tons of ideas of things I'd like to automate, but never did, because Tasker is clunky and not "reliable" or "the right way", and a "proper" approach would be "better" or Tasker "might stop working / be unreliable". In the end, he has accomplished a lot more than I have, even though I supposedly have a much better foundation for accomplishing those sorts of things.

That is to say, I admire your approach here. I appreciate that you've just gone with it and did what many people on here would look at and say "that's insane".

There's a lot of power in just doing something, in the environment that's most readily available to you, and not getting hung up on the best way to plan it out and do it and make sure it's reliable and durable. You're exactly where you want to be, and the other person is sitting back at the start still planning.

Thank you for sharing.
Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings
Apparently it's just a single, but "La' Mig Rulle Dig" by Pharfar.
Great point. I'm annoyed every time I listen to Biggie and the songs have been changed. Luckily I have most of the original CDs, but have been too lazy to re-rip.
I am confused. This is simply how all human interactions work to some degree: In good faith.

Any entity has some angle to be a crook (no matter if company, country, handyman, physician, programmer, spouse, kid). It's really easy to find answers to both the how and the why, and while fraud and lies are ubiquitous, our world is simply not set up to be managed by front loading all the proof.

I don't know how that would work. I don't think anyone does.
> There is a workaround to the electrical noise: try running the CPU at a lower speed... When running the CPU slower, the noise is much less severe.

That holds true for all my devices. And I noticed that performance for ~90% of applications doesn't really suffer. I only run computationally intensive stuff every other day or so, and when I do I turn the setting back to "performance" (if I remember). The only exception is for some reason... Gmail. just doubles or triples the already slow time of opening the site. Which is not a dealbreaker for linux laptops. It's a dealbreaker form gmail frankly.
Those were supported by a 400k people workforce, a basically unlimited budget, and the political and moral support of the most powerful nation on Earth.

I'm not trying to discount Apollo here, I myself can barely comprehend their achievement at their time. But the magnitude of the effort was much much larger than this one mission.

And let's not forget Grissom, White and Chaffee. NASA was _not_ on a successful path pre Apollo 1, as shown by the post-disaster analysis reports. Speculating here, but most likely we would not have gone to the Moon had Apollo 1 not happened.

Space is _incredibly_ hard.
I understand you are being snarky, but this actually proves my point.

How far down the road of uniform waste of energy have we not gone when public specifications are encrypted.

After 4 years of HN defending Googles war on HTTP, these are the arguments I'm still met with.

I think this is the end of the road for me on HN.
People are let go through a mixture of rank & stack, how good you are at your job, your reputation, who you know, what you know, amongst others. There's no single formula that will allow you to keep a job in all settings. To survive then you need to get into a position of being somebody who delivers, is trustworthy, is well-known, isn't an agitator, knows a lot. Basically the list of all things that could get you RIF'd.
In Canada where we have a couple large banks and no real choices or competition, that sounds like a dream. Unfortunately it looks like the U.S. is moving rapidly in that direction too. That’s a shame. I can tell you, it’s much worse when a small number of giant companies control the market and lock out competitors.
> This was not in the background when NASA astronauts were tragically lost before they got to the moon the first time.

I don’t follow. Are you suggesting NASA mission control didn’t mourn the loss of Chaffee, Grissom, and White?
What stands out to me is:

> Even if a lander makes it to the vicinity of the Moon, it still has to navigate its way down to the surface with no global-positioning satellites for guidance

Was/is such a constellation ever planned? If not, why - due to the difficulty orbiting the moon?
I don't know; AI Dungeon was quite good for interactive fiction and role-play, and that was in GPT-2 and early GPT-3 era.