skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I don't have comment functions on my websites so I go where it's discussed instead :P

With auto-hyphens I kinda like justified text on the web. It's just that I'd forgotten to set the html language so it didn't work. I literally built and migrated to this new website template yesterday so there's some bugs to iron out.
I mean this basically just boils down to:

> my belief in the profanity of technology is not widely shared, and that even people who I imagined would have a serious critique of technology often simply don’t

with a vague suggestion that the religious people who dedicate their life to spiritual pursuits are in the wrong
Sure, we could even call those network subnets that way we've got plenty of space for all the internet and expansion since 32 wasn't enough, and have another 64 bits for host identifiers.

This feels familiar somehow...
Oy... medieval music theory is such a huge subject that I couldn't begin to do it justice in a HN comment. The short version is that some time in the 9th century monks developed neumes, an early form of musical notation, to write down the chants they chanted at different times of the day. Medieval music theorists classified those chants according to the last note (what we now call the "tonic") and the most common note (what we now call the "dominant"). There were 262144 theoretically possible melodies (8 notes long, 6 possible notes, but some were rejected for music-theoretic reasons so the actual space was rather smaller) which could be indexed by their sequence in a collated list of melodies ("on the Sunday after Pentacost sing the 7th chant in the Lydian mode" or whatever).

If I had to pick a "best-of" reading list, I'd say the 9th-century "Musica Enchiriadis", Berno's "Prologus in Tonarum", and Boethius's "De Institutione Musica". These all assume a familiarity with Platonic music theory, so at least skim through Plato's "Timaeus" first. There will also be more references to astronomy than will make sense to somebody in the modern age, because music and astronomy were believed to be essentially the same thing. Also more recent research has found that actual musicians of the time seem to have completely ignored the theorists. Some things never change.
He said two more things.
I've thought of just implementing a bunch of different options. I think the solution to bots is to either have some associated cost (whether monetary or effort), or some obstacle like manual email verification.

* hashcash-verification

* manual email-based signup

* domain-based verification

* an ancap dystopia where every query costs an infinitesimal amount of cryptocurrrency

* dunno what else there is, probably more creative solutions
using the "dennis" system to describe the average hiring managers is incredibly apt.

the entire process now is just designed to see how desperate you are. it's impossible to go through it without losing some dignity.
Quite true, but "bait and switch" is an actual legal standard that Kagi likely technically sidestepped, given that (for now) he's still in business. I want to make sure my posts are factual, and I'm not even sure which jurisdiction Kagi operates in, so I won't speculate as to whether the deception technically reached the level of fraud, even though the phrase "bait and switch" is commonly used by laypeople to refer to non-criminal types of deception. Nevertheless, it's fascinating to see "Kagi" and "trust" in the same sentence, and I wonder if this trustworthiness was actually demonstrated somehow. It's more likely we're witnessing some kind of cognitive bias like sunk cost fallacy.
Safer systems programming languages relied on character arrays for lengths greather than 255, as a kind of good enough compromise, since most use cases could fit in 255, and with the help of string libraries it wasn't much of a pain to deal with character arrays instead of strings.

Eventually fat pointers were used instead.

Which even Denis himself proposed for WG14 during the C89 standardization, and wasn't accepted.

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/vararray.pdf
See also: https://www.astrobin.com/7ez0pl/ and https://www.astrobin.com/hhegwl/
They were also taken by a group of amateurs across the world collaborating.
> Unfortunately (according to TFA) they are more allied to Russia and China which take a hands-off approach at best.

I get what you're saying here, something like, "we couldn't change it if we tried" but we wouldn't even if we could. We're fighting a proxy war with Russia right now over access to fossil fuel right now. Releasing tons and tons of CO2 for the right to release more CO2 in the future.
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Really kind–best of luck with this. :)
Middle of last year I got laid off. I just hit up a few friends and got job offers immediately. I was able to delay going back to work for 6 months (the last job paid me out ~20 weeks redundancy, I saved a lot) and just chilled out.

Having friends in the industry helps tremendously.
In the past, not really at the time when discord first became popular. This makes it questionable why they named their user silos "servers".
Apparently there are lots of people who don't know there were two coups in Chile: first Allende's and then the counter "coup" (because Allende had already been legally deposed but refused to leave his post).
> The dismissal of environmentalists as "lol eat bugs" is really fucking sad, to me.

I don't see it as a dismissal of real environmentalists, more a laugh at the hypocrite corporatist ruling class who take their private jets and mega yachts to conferences where they pat one another on the back and tell everybody else to eat bugs. Them, and the army of sycophants and apologists who they've fooled.
There were monks whose job was to chant various psalms at specific tempos through the night so they would know when it was 4am to wake up the cook so he could start breakfast. I don't know if I could ever hate music, but that would get me close.
You can't execute a Flatpak bundle directly. You need to install it, then run it. Try:

flatpak install --user Downloads/nyxt.flatpak
flatpak run engineer.atlas.Nyxt
I most definitely use the browser dev tools extensively. The debugger is just one of those tools, and it simply does not apply when it comes to CSS. The debugger is for JS bugs.
Yes, in the past, so what? It doesn't explain why the "server" terminology was used long past IRC's prime.

Regarding teamspeak, you're wrong. That may have been your limited experience but I saw many actual communities which existed on teamspeak. People used it in many different ways (and still do).
Lol, yes! That language looks like it was optimized for code golfing or something.
Stream your desktop audio to Android (or any other device)
This is a pointlessly religious dimissal of the comment you're replying to. Yes, there's a counterfactual to the comment but this sort of mysticism is ridiculous.
This wouldn't work in the same way in Japanese because characters can have different readings depending on the context. Could that be overcome with font ligatures? Still, even if we could overcome that massively complex task, some groups of characters (i.e. the aforementioned context) can still have multiple ways of reading them.
Thanks for the cool project and extra details :)

I submitted this entry because your search engine has been interesting to follow. And it’s hacker friendly to have a simple and straightforward API like this!
Unless efficiency is significantly improved, I don’t see how community incentives (with community resources) could train a model with that many parameters. Would love it if it happened, though. That would be true Open AI.
At the time discord became popular almost nobody was using IRC for games communities anymore.
Is that really true? I see a lot of abject filth on certain servers to this day, it's hard to see how even a simple keyword search for certain particular words wouldn't catch the messages.

Or is it something like those people are using the old accounts still and it won't be a thing after this cange?
It messed with my head a lot as well. The answer is that it's not possible for ¬Drive Home AND Rains to be true. This is because if Rains were true, then due to the first implication, Drive Home must also be true. Therefore, if ¬Drive Home is true, then Rains must be false.
A word about what? When discord became popular, IRC as a gaming community platform was all but dead.
Well, with private/company data, I for sure would skim the source and keep some network inspector open if I didn't have sufficient grounds to trust the app.

It's not black-and-white for me, more like an intuitive estimate of probability of mishandling data, colored by relevant policies. But some specific examples from work:

- I wouldn't use Trello or GSuite without clearing it with corporate; however, I would still trust the two much more than a random Tinder for Meetings app, because the two are well-known multinationals (read: stationary targets for lawsuits), while that Tinder for Meetings thing is a small thing, and could easily be a scam / data exfil attempt by someone who'll disappear the next day, never to be found;

- I use O365 tools, because corporate has signed appropriate deals with Microsoft and I can safely assume those tools are OK to use;

- I'm not worried about third-party packages from MELPA exfiltrating proprietary data via my Emacs, because of a combination of Free Software culture, Open Source culture, Emacs being niche, and this never happening before to my knowledge;

- I am worried about third-party extensions to VS Code, because it's more mainstream software culture, has mass appeal meaning it's a good target for scammers, and the entire ecosystem is thoroughly infused with analytics and surveillance bullshit;

- I use ChatGPT for various things (via API, through alternative frontend), but I do not use it for generic, non-company specific things, always triple-checking that I'm not accidentally revealing any IP; this is in line with recent company policies;

Etc.
From what I've noticed 99% of "things biting people in DNS" is the way windows domain does it, at least the sentiment for "it's always DNS" tend to be far stronger on windows side of things
Directus become semi-closed source after benefits from open source contributions
that unfair to benefits from open source community contributions and marketing ( as open source project ) then close it source code

I think we need to make fork of Directus before license change
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

Lol. Seriously though, that's how all of these kinds of $DO_SOPHISTICATED_THING in $ABSURDLY_FEW lines goes.
Pressure groups are influencing the World Economic Forum and other globalist organizations to get countries to adopt these laws. So it's not a "conspiracy" of elites, rather that these pressure groups have managed to gain so much influence over the decades, that they in effect get to set our laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entryism
Agreed - I think LLMs may be an important component in our eventual robot overlords, but we're not all the way there yet.

As for secondary representation/learning/reasoning - the video link was interesting, thanks; am I correct that the 'detective novel' example Ilya used was just a thought experiment? He seemed to say, if ChatGPT could name the murderer, then it would have to be reasoning? But we haven't demonstrated ChatGPT actually doing this yet have we? The token window is surely not big enough for an entire novel. So I think maybe they're jumping ahead a little bit there.

Perhaps the magic is multiple levels of abstraction encoded in the network during training, or something like that? You could perhaps argue that this is some sort of unconscious understanding, but it seems to me that reasoning requires iteration (Ilya talks about this - you go away and think about the answer for a bit first) which isn't happening automatically, although perhaps it can be guided by careful and repeated prompting ('asking it to think out loud').

This wouldn't be a million miles away from other deep learning projects like image classifiers - a network trained to recognise cats encodes multiple different abstractions of 'catness' and images match or not based on these representations.

Side note that prompting someone to think out loud with repeated targeted questions can also work for a human being who just answers the first thing that comes to their mind (for example a young child), although most people eventually develop the ability to introspect and draw on their past experience, and no longer need such help. We could maybe broadly categorise human intelligence as a combination of

- short term memory, providing context and immediate goals (e.g. 'switch on the light')

- long term memory, encoding all kinds of experience

- learning, which shapes long term memory based on short term memory (the current context; remembering the things that are happening now) and also based on long term memory (relating the current context to previous experiences)

- introspection, which allows iterative 'self-prompting' to improve the accuracy of a thought, before saying it out loud but also during learning

- language generation, which is mainly about word association based on long and short term memory

- what else?

'Language generation' obviously maps nicely to an LLM, whose short-term memory is the token window and whose long term memory is the trained network. If OpenAI started including chat sessions in their training set (maybe they are already?) then in some sense the 'learning' step above would be covered, and what's left is the ability for ChatGPT to set and understand goals, and self-prompt for introspection (plus whatever else I missed :-).
Conversely: I have zero interest in managing the storage of my own password vaults. It's a trade-off I'm willing to make for convenience and durability.

By way of example: I recently moved overseas, and in the process I wiped my desktop and moved to a laptop-only setup. Unfortunately, I managed to back up an outdated Adobe Lightroom catalog, not my current catalog, so I lost about two years' worth of catalog data -- including Lightroom edit histories. Yes, this is obviously a mistake on my part, but I recognise that I make these mistakes, and I'm willing to trade some loss of privacy and security for a significant decrease in a different risk profile.

Removing a local option is shitty, but there's nothing wrong with providing cloud-based storage.
Star Trek was a fiction series that heavily focused on human experiences and relationships. Picard et al famously do a lot of things that actual navy commanders would absolutely never do, like commanding away teams in hostile and/or dangerous territory.

Having an AI to pilot the ship, target the weapons and control away teams robots/holograms would take away from the core purpose of the show which is to tell a gripping story. It's not meant as an exploration on how to use AI in space exploration.
Ancient greek (and etymology) are very interesting. I'd say ancient languages study is worth reviving, not just specific terms.

Why this matters? In Italy, my country, there is much talking of eliminating a type of high school where ancient greek and latin study is central and carried out through all five years of its duration. People that haven't attended such a school fail to grasp why it may be useful to some (and also some who did, but they're a minority).

For the programmers or aspiring programmers out there: what most shaped my problem solving and bug finding abilities is translating ancient greek and latin in high school. The skill of "reverse engineering" an ancient language is very similar to reverse engineering a (short but difficult) program, for instance.
There is a free open source self-hostable reimplementation of Discord, called Spacebar: https://spacebar.chat
I don't understand that point.

Of course you use gamma so that you have a more perceptually correct colorspace, mostly because 8 bit isn't enough accuracy to represent correctly the various shades of black the eye can percieve. Or because it's easier to make a perceptually linear gradient in gamma space.

But the blending in gamma space looks WRONG. It isn't perceptually correct! Try blending at 50% pure white and pure black and the grey you obtain is the wrong one, far too dark. Surely this cannot be what people want.
Yes they're only used in suitable areas.
The options are not only either to respect everyone or no one. We respect animals, for example, but in a different way than humans. They have their own ruleset. Are you sure that dolphins are not sentient? Yet they are not treated as humans (they are respected, or should be, but not in the same way as a human being).

The point is that we are never going to be sure if a machine can feel or is sentient because there will never be one final "judge" to say "sentient" or "not sentient". As such, extending humanity to mean "artificial beings engineered for a specific purpose but which can mimic human beings up to an acceptable extent" seems to me like a mistake. Why should we be so inconsiderate with our own species to lower ourselves in that way?
An Introduction to TLA+ and Its Use in Parties
Oh that's why they have insane salaries
> There also seems to be less effort to distinguish ads from regular links

That is a good thing, isn't it?
I have such a core memory of reading in the back of the car by the yellow sodium lights that take the colours out of everything. They're really efficient even by modern standards but the bulbs need replacement much more often than LEDs and they aren't made in the UK any more so they're an expensive niche import.

I definitely prefer the warm yellow sodium glow to the harsh 'operating table white' LEDs a lot of councils replaced them with but I think they're finally getting the message now because by the time they got round to my street they used much better warm white LEDs to replace the sodium lights.
> Our eyes are the least sensitive to it so it requires more light (which means more overall brightness, which actually makes your night vision worse and limits visibility of everything not lit, because your iris closes more) and it provides poor visibility/contrast and no color vision.

This does not match very common naval practices, nor my experiences. I believe the underlying mechanism is that the iris responds much more strongly to blue light because that is more prevalent in daylight.
Specifically this is about using red light to shine on things to see them. I could imagine that has very different requirements from the color of text on a HUD.
> Turkmenistan isn't producing all that energy for domestic consumption
> It's the consumers, not the producers per se that are the problem.

Irrespective of which party is the proximate cause of energy extraction in Turkmenistan, the large volume leakage of methane according to the article is not an inevitable byproduct of oil drilling. What’s more, the incremental costs of controlling methane emissions are tiny. And finally, consumers couldn’t go re-light methane flares at the drill sites even if they wanted to.
Then we just need to allocate some land to plant one trillion of trees and let them in peace and the problem will be solved in 80 years. Or maybe two trillions and will be solved in 40 years... The sooner we start to do it and respect the plants as more than just goat food, the best chance to survive as society in the near future.

Why is this so difficult to understand? Maybe because many "lets plant trees" projects are just logging companies in disguise. Maybe because many people still expect low-effort magical solutions, and charity and free children work for environmental projects. Allocating just the minimum resources possible into building a future to reach the "feel good" point, is stupid. This is not entertainment, is the future of humans.

We need to plant more trees, period. Now. And we need to protect the precious trees that we have. We will need to think about replacing all the trees killed in the Ukraine genocide, for example, not only the buildings. And we will need to start punishing arsonists and "captain chainsaw" wannabee tools. Allowing arsonists or overgrazing just because their grandpas did it, will lead us to a mad max scenery with much better killing machines.
Is there a well known tutorial/repo that takes notion data and connects to GPT?
(Many) startups use notion as their wiki and a GPT based solution that people can ask questions to about things at the company (e.g. what does this TLA stand for?) and hooked up to slack sounds like something that would be first to be solved. Aware of langchain, and other pieces, but is there like an open source repo where I could just like build a source adapter via an interface or something?
I've only started reading Pynchon lately. I'd seen too many comparisons to James Joyce, and I struggled and gave up on Ulysses at least 4 times.

Anyway, I picked up a copy of V at a second-hand bookshop recently and, so far, I'm enjoying it. It's definitely densely packed and not a quick read, but I think he's just carrying on the post-modernist tradition of Proust and Joyce.
Another interesting term is kairos, or "the right moment", which is crucial for the good outcome of an action.
4000K is too high imo. In France the maximum is 3000K for example. For some cases (natural parks, building illumination etc) the limit can be lower 2700K or 2400K.

https://www.darksky.org/france-light-pollution-law-2018/
Oh yeah, great - put the AI overlords in space where we can't easily reach them and shut them down when they go crazy and start dropping satellites on us.
Then after the Wii U shop closed, how can I buy a copy of Pikmin 2 for the Wii U or Switch?
I kinda want to expand the API...

There's a lot of stuff that could be exposed that would make it much more useful. Tricky part is how to keep it simple.

I have plans to allow customizing the ranking algorithm parameters. Could for example make it possible to add a bias toward recent results (or old results). It could also be fairly trivial to limit the search to a list of domains. But that's probably just going to be a per api key thing, not something that's included in each request.
> The one month gap in your resume nobody cares about. Seriously, don't be so insecure! How do I know this - I just had a massive 8 months gap in mine, and still managed to land a contract

Thanks mate. I'm happy for you.

> In fact, you should have done it before they fired you. The signs were clearly on the wall.

Honestly... not really. One day its "take all the time you need", the next it's "why are you using Firefox? That is a red flag on you, and please leave right now".
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TIL there actually is a “Christian Workers Party” in the Netherlands but it only operates in Bunschoten
Not quite the same, but related.

In the 18th Century Presbyterian Church, they only sang Biblical psalms set to simple (but distinct) tunes and without any musical accompaniment. This was known as exclusive psalmody.

The psalms weren't the prose-style you'll find in any print Bible though, they were their own translation called the Metrical Psalms. Its 1650 edition proved very long lasting.

Many of these psalms were set to common metre, meaning that if you found such a psalter and tried singing it to some well-known tune it will very likely 'fit' the lyrics. You could try Psalm 23 set to the tune of The British Grenadiers, or Amazing Grace, or even The Star-Spangled Banner: https://thewestminsterstandard.org/psalm-23/

This was actually how the psalms were practised by congregations in my home country. The psalm lyrics were considered too sacred for practice, so they set the same tunes to other (sometimes comical) lyrics and practised those during the week. Then on Sunday the minister would say something like 'we will now sing Psalm xx to the tune of lilies', and the congregation would know the tune even if they hadn't memorised the psalm lyrics.