skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal theory:

Many Americans are achieving a level of wealth and income relative to their demands that allows them to block out experiences and people they find fault with, or avoid some of the stress of interacting with others. This has short term benefits and long term pain.

I was reading about the decrease in the population of Ireland in the 19th century and there were some interesting similarities (disregarding the potato famine):

The Vanishing Irish: https://www.historyireland.com/the-vanishing-irish-irelands-...

A part that stuck out to me:

>Changes in the rural economy in the post-Famine decades made it easier for country people to run their farms and to provide for their comforts in old age without marrying or having their own children. People became not poorer, as the Malthusian view would suggest, or afraid of the opposite sex, as psychological theories imply, but simply less willing to accept the burdens of marriage and a family because it was less important to satisfying the economic goals marriage had once served.

Replace marriage with having to maintain a relationship with the grocery store worker, or the milkman, or even your workout instructor - all professions gig'd and virtualized into cough-syrup-sweet anonymity. When was the last time you were lost and had to ask for directions, or had to meet up with someone to catch up vs a phone call/text, or go to a cafe to get good coffee because you lacked the equipment at your house to make it yourself? How far do you live away from others now to protect your peace and quiet? In my opinion, these are the acts of a wealthy society sleepwalking into isolation.

Interacting with other people is varying levels of scary and stressful. With economic pushes towards forming relationships with others removed, it should be no surprise many are drifting away into their own worlds.
I don't think I was being particularly hostile, but honestly? Because I'm tired of seeing another round of programs meant to help students succeed and remain in college, having to sort through lists of journals that are going to be slashed to see if there's any I need to make an appeal for, and having more and more administrative work shifted to faculty in the name of budget cuts while the state economy booms.
Also the same day that the UN was presenting evidence of chemical weapons having been used by Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld was flying there to reassure Saddam Hussein about the US oil pipeline project in Iraq.

I think that the chemical weapons might have been used as an excuse for the first Gulf war by George H.W. Bush, 6 years later ??
Arguably it was always a cat and mouse game, but now it's more like an arms race, where ultimately in the end of the race either the spammers will win or lose, but not anything in the middle. Considering the current situation with CAPTCHAs, I feel pretty uneasy. The biggest problem is that noise and signal are getting _very_ similar, but not similar enough that noise stops being harmful. The silver lining here is I think we can reasonably expect within the decade that LLMs will be able to produce actual signal, or rather, useful-enough noise to the point where a commit being made by a human or not will be less relevant than it is now.
> they can't actually authenticate anywhere with just a public key

Duh, obviously. Sorry about that stupid statement. Yes, public keys are more secure. However, that doesn't matter, because:

> use iCloud Keychain as your password manager

This is exactly the thing that is a total non-starter. A proprietary, closed-source third-party service that can go offline at any time? I would maybe trust that with my hackernews login and that's about it. Not even reddit.

> once while two devices are online together

This is also still a non-starter. What happens when you are traveling with only one device, and lose or break it? I simply buy a new phone, go get the USB drive with all my passwords on it from the hotel safe, connect it to the phone, and I'm back in business. What do you do with passkeys?
> Also this is the first time I saw examples of Julia code and the syntax looks worse than C++.

That's surely an exaggeration, but just for context, most Julia code isn't nearly this macro-heavy. The first half of the final code showcase is all macros and expression manipulation, and those always look a bit weird. Usually, those comprise less than 10% of your code though; and if you're a regular user and not a package author, probably much less than that.
The origin is that the CIA came into existence when the FBI/J Edgar Hoover were at their height of their influence.

The FBI, military, and state department had an effective veto over new powers for the CIA, so the CIA agreed to lots of rules to make them happy: no overlapping function, no recruiting current employees, etc.

The argument was: “combining domestic and foreign intelligence is something the Nazis and Communists do, so it’s bad.”

There have evolved good reasons for the distinctions. The CIA never engages in criminal prosecution, so doesn’t need to worry about revealing evidence as part of a prosecution. FBI agents, by contrast, are paranoid about what information they are exposed to, for fear it could come out in court.

That’s much more recent, and would have been a surprise to Hoover. In fact, Hoover used the FBI to filter information gleaned from the Vernona Project. The president would receive summaries of analysts reports that were simply “vouched for” by Hoover.

By contrast the DEA was formed during an era when federal law enforcement and intelligence were at a low point in influence, so they stole people, mission, and influence. That’s why the DEA has its own foreign intelligence, domestic intelligence, diplomatic corps, and even judicial system.
Difference is that compressive strength generally decreases over time. Here we have a product where it increases over time. Changes the equation on how you build and maintain it.
(You generated that.)
> here's the thing - that's okay

It's not if you want competency
It uses wolfram alpha to solve math problems afaict.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/chatgpt-gets-its...
If it was that easy to kill Linux it would have happened already. Chad Linux, open source free software, withstanding the full might of the multi billion dollar juggernaut Microsoft.
Customer support is one kind of a service. I was thinking of something like a platform team, which creates complex tooling for other teams. I don't know if you were just joking, but I thought I'd clarify.
First I'd heard of this, but there is some preliminary evidence that saffron has positive effects on depressive symptoms:

https://academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article/77/8/557/5...

But if this was really significant, you'd expect saffron-producing/eating countries to stand out. Iran is #1, are they really all 1,000,000x happy geniuses?
I typo'd 2023, so thanks for that correction!
And then ObjectVision, OWL, and OWLNext. Just don't forget curses or whiptail.

The promises of "easy" and "features" where they don't belong, like using JS and CSS in TUIs is tech debt, security concerns, and resource waste waiting to happen.

Picking on a convenient victim, say Rust, it has: cursive, tuikit, ratatui, and termion that make for powerful, safe, performant, and maintainable code.

It's always cute when absurd things are made possible, but some ideas are impractical for anything beyond toys. If you want toys, sure, do anything and go nuts with it.
Maybe 5% of meetings are useful, in my experience. But when you are calling out 95% of meetings to be cancelled, well… it’s a bad look. You’re not a team player. You are being negative. It especially looks bad to managers who rely on meetings to give themselves the appearance of doing something.
> The two songs are very similar in some ways

This is a vacuous observation. Any two songs are similar "in some ways".

> even Sheeran played them as a live medley

I think that says more about Sheeran's skill as a performer than it does about the similarity of the songs.
The constitution does exist in those environments. Lawyers and judges review plans for covert action, assessing whether it’s constitutional, authorized by congress, and in accordance with executive policy.
It's a myth that GPT-4 can't say "I don't know." Often it will respond that it doesn't know something organically, but in cases where it's extra important to be careful, it can be prompted to do so. It will always make the occasional mistake, as will the man on the street.
I remember it well!! Wow this brings back memories… :')
NeXT already was a killer Internet device. TBL invented the WWW on it after all.
Rick Beato did an excellent comparison of them and how they are very similar. However, similarity is a personal judgement I think.
I think the king should have made the duke point out who actually found the water, and then the king should have stuck to his proclamation and awarded all of the rights to that person.

> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

It doesn't say a transferable right. and "securing" and "exclusive" seem to argue against transferability. Beats me why the courts and congress decided otherwise.
Prompting makes a huge difference. For example, here is an interaction:

I will ask some questions, treat them as logic puzzles. Give me your working steps and then finally answer the logic puzzle.

First question: If it rains, I drive home. I did not drive home. Did it rain today?

ChatGPT:
Let's break down this statement into its logical components.

The first statement, "If it rains, I drive home", is a conditional statement, often referred to as an 'if-then' statement. It can be denoted as:

If R (it rains), then D (I drive home).

The second statement, "I did not drive home", is a negation of D:

Not D (I did not drive home).

In logic, we have something called the contrapositive. The contrapositive of a statement "If P then Q" is "If not Q then not P". The contrapositive of a statement is logically equivalent to the original statement - meaning that whenever the original statement is true, the contrapositive is also true (and vice versa).

So, the contrapositive of the first statement "If R then D" is:

If not D (I did not drive home), then not R (it did not rain).

Given the second statement is "Not D" (I did not drive home), and from the contrapositive we know that "If not D then not R", we can conclude that "Not R" - it did not rain today.

So, the answer to "Did it rain today?" is No, it did not rain.
Nice proof of concept of opening the BBB but I see they didn't mention anything about the chemo improving survival for these patients yet... I guess that will only be the next phase of the trial?
Elon Musk and Tesla break ground on Texas lithium refinery
Perhaps an attestation of personhood?

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cryptographic-attest...
wonderful article - explains linux (more appeal to "user" than "buyer")

People kicking the tires on linux just won't be as attracted.

also explains flat laptop keyboards, glossy displays, the touchbar, and other things that are sexy but not as usable day-to-day.

I loved the old keyboards that had a slight indent that matched the shape of your fingers. Matte displays seem to work better in a lighted environment, the touchbar -- I don't know anyone that cares about it after the first 15 minutes of novelty.
I did not expect to find a fellow machine girl enjoyer today!

MG is all about the samples and the breakbeats. Definitely not the chords, haha. But I do wonder how that factors in to mixing.
Curses bindings in another language, say Ruby or Python, makes it a lot easier to deal with.

I wrote a disk drive monitor in Ruby in an afternoon using curses to crop the window and reduce flashing of redrawing.
Now it'll be even easier for them to win that coveted T-shirt for Hacktoberfest. SMH....
In addition to sibling comments, an author of a very recent translation has also written an article on xenia in the odyssey https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-ody...

See also their translator's note to their translation
My apologies, I must have mistaken you for someone else.
I wonder if this will fix some issue i have with Linux 6.2 in openSUSE Tumbleweed: whenever i try to update, after the update all OpenGL programs behave with a lot of input lag as if there is some forced vsync, except there is no vsync (tearing is visible) and running some games using DXVK have graphics flickering, not updating at all for several frames, etc.

Fortunately thanks to btrfs i can quickly downgrade back to the 6.1-based setup that works, but i'm ~3 months behind on updates and my lastversionitis is itching :-P.

I tried with live USB setup with latest openSUSE and with other OSes running 6.2 and couldn't replicate the issue so it probably is some configuration problem (though i can't think of what), but since i have this installation for a couple of years now i'd rather not nuke it and spend time reinstalling things again. So i'm just attempting an update every few weeks or so to see if something magically fixes the issue.
I’m still not buying that “most readers” are so familiar with that conspiracy theory that they would jump to “FBI agents have taken it upon themselves to publicly accuse the CIA in involvement in 9/11”

There is so much room for discussion about incompetence and bad systems when talking about 9/11. There was even a whole tv show with Jeff Daniels a few years ago that managed to talk about it without reading like lyrics from an Anti Flag album.
Yeah, it looks like the font is scaled slightly wrong along the x-axis, so that the displayed pixels don't quite line up with screen pixels. Specifically, the text is rendered about 0.5% too narrow, causing a moire-type pattern that repeats about every 200 pixels.

Adding this custom CSS rule seems to fix it for me:

p { transform: scale(1.005, 1); }
Also beware of bad quality SMA connectors from cheap Chinese sources. They may have significant dimension error, and have the potential of destroying mating good ones.
start a busisness
This leverages chatGPT plugins, which are not generally available yet.
By adding dense vector search, the accuracy of smaller models can be improved, because the reference material has more hints in it than the frozen model…
This is no different than using Reclaim.ai or Calendly with your work calendar. Obviously you should do your diligence with what software you give access to your calendar, but this likely isn't the first SaaS that has access these days...
Any idea how I can buy this in India? ( It is not possible for this to be sent to India via Casio.com)
Fugue > Canon anyway
It’s almost too obvious
I prefer slimeballs over scumbags any day of the week
Is it possible that headphones could possibly open or weaken that barrier? Of course it would be a much weaker effect as the sound frequency is different.
Really neat! A clever idea, and it's good to see this kind of work being done.

Also, does the second image in the article change when you click to open it, for anyone else? The normal preview in the page shows as a duplicate of the first, maybe a Substack bug or something.
Appealing an unjust activity from them got me in even more trouble. They had put me in 24 hours FB jail for 'indecent' content against community standards for posting a picture of my son in his bathing suit at the beach -- which their algorithm had somehow misidentified as nudity. I appealed, was denied, and as a result of appealing, spent almost a month with my posts downranked etc.

They are vile.
And honestly even before the advent of LLMs, OP's comment would have come off as a gigantic nothingburger.
Doesn't make me very excited, since I strongly feel standard cron implementations should've been deprecated long time ago anyway. I mean, consider dkron, for example. Forget k8s and web-UI and all that nonsense, its YAML configs are simply way more clear, readable and powerful, than the usual crontab syntax. Why cannot I have the same with plain simple non-distributed cron?!

Also, just as a sidenote I'm not willing to seriously discuss: I seriously doubt I'd personally ever use random ranges in production. I understand what problem it's supposed to solve, but generally I just really don't want anything random in my systems. If it conflicts with some other cronjobs or whatever, I'd like it to break down deterministically — preferably, all the time, so it's easier to spot, track down and fix it. If it causes any load spikes, I'd like these spikes to be regular, so that I can see that and manually tweak run times so that it'll be more even. If any problems arise, I'd prefer them to arise after somebody changed something, and not just magically one Saturday evening a couple of months later.

The only situation I can think of right away when this is acceptable, is if I have lot of nodes with the same cron config, so it's my attempt to spread out workers of the same type that I know would start at the same time otherwise. But then, why the fuck do I have such a degenerate architecture in the first place?! Maybe I should think about replacing that by something a little more sustainable, like, uh, a centralized scheduler? No, I mean, it's definitely a solution — a quick and easy one, at that — but even then it seems like a solutions to a problem that shouldn't have existed in the first place.
Yep, Ancient Greek has great particle game that English just can’t translate at all.

And as you say, they’re really like gesture words, which make so much sense, especially as text is now read/written without any human speaking behaviour at all.

Arguably emojis fill this need, but I’m unconvinced.
Never underestimate the usefulness of a dung heap...
This is amazing and very useful!

Does anyone know of such a font for Manadrin?
How much do you think the lawyers care what HN'ers think? Read this for some honest takes. They don't even care.

https://www.reddit.com/r/patentlaw/comments/12x4361/alice_fa...
Please no. Let's stop with the TPM disgrace. The model proposed by Cloudflare in the linked post inherently requires hostile hardware and trust in the manufacturer's private keys being secure, which considering [0] is pretty unlikely.

Also, ultimately some human behind the scenes is getting prompts into the LLM to produce the content, so any test of personhood simply attests that a human was present to click the button, but not that they wrote what is submitted or even know what it is. Take a look at what happens when CAPTCHAs become commonplace and the cost to solve them with AI becomes too high for spammers [1].

I believe preventing computers from using the internet is a losing game, and improvement of quality resides in:

- In the case of forums, better, manual, human moderation

- In the case of source code, better LLMs that actually produce usable code and/or which could flag which PRs are interesting for review.

- In the realm of news, a cultural shift towards verifying information instead of relying on authority (or the lack of it). This will not happen, but the reality there has been bad much before LLMs.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35843566

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/technology/26captcha.html

Archived [1]: https://archive.ph/NbkLu
>Anyone else have any thoughts on how we can stay one step ahead in this battle?

Allow sites to do hardware bans. This increases the price to create a spam account. Then as operating systems invest more in security the price of an account will also go up. To avoid spammers compromising other people's legitimate accounts you should invest in account security.
only just got access to Bard but yes, it gave a good answer to me as well. However trying some others of my stock examples quickly got it into trouble where ChatGPT4 is very consistently correct.
Nyxt 3.0.0
Drupal was very popular for people who reached the limits of what WordPress could do.
True, one of the biggest highlights of the state!
Better idea would be for the company to get its act together and set the right culture and expectations for giving/receiving feedback. Shortcuts like these all cause more harm than they help.
But you still need an actual threat, not just a theory that a person intended for a threat to be implied. If everybody understands the potential consequences of not complying, then a threat isn’t necessarily required.
> Spaces between words is a relatively recent Irish invention (7th or 8th century) in western written language, so it’s not like it’s an obvious thing to have.

Perhaps, but interpuncts between words are several centuries older than that and occur as natural developments in e.g. the Roman Empire. https://loeb-art-center.vassarspaces.net/wp-content/gallery/...

The concept of word separation is an obvious thing to have. Whether the separator is empty space is unimportant.
They're similar in terms of tempo, chord progression, chord rhythm, and chord voicing - despite that the second chord is actually subtly different between the two. When you transpose one, you can hear the similarities.

But that shouldn't even be close to enough to be infringement. I'm one to think they got Satriani/Coldplay wrong as well, though. There are just too many examples of songs that make really good mash-ups. 4 Non Blondes What's Going On and Bobby McFerrin's Don't Worry Be Happy, for instance. I'd say those are more similar that Sheeran/Gaye.
404 for me. Rats.
if you share data structures in this way you're introducing source-level coupling between services

but one of the major reasons to break up logic into separate services is to eliminate source-level coupling

a consumer should not need to import service X's SDK in order to use service X, if that is the case then it introduces all kinds of bad situations like "well if i change my service X's behavior in some backwards-incompatible way, it's fine, as long as i update the SDK appropriately" -- wrong

etc. etc.
It is true that the tone change in Cantonese is largely predictable due to it having the lexical nature. Since the parent raised a question about a generic solution to the tone marking problem, I thought I would use the tone sandhi as an example of a challenge that compounds the matter.

On the other hand, languages such as Hmong exhibit the complex tone sandhi. Tone sandhi is not as pronounced in Cantonese as it is in some other languages.

> Note that the Jyutping standard actually doesn't specify how tone changes are marked.

No, it does not, and whether an asterisk or a dash is used, it is largely immaterial. What is important, though, is that not every Cantonese dictionary marks off a lexical tone change which might misguide the learner or the seasonal reader.
Having to find a website, find identifiers from ones phone, go through the form, and enter the unlock code is a non trivial barrier to entry.

There is a huge difference between the two approaches.
That's a great price for the Instinct 2. I've had my eye on it for a while and $100 off might get me to pull the trigger. Thanks for mentioning that.
Also sounds like it would be appropriate to write to your state's Attorney General, maybe of several states. This is exactly the kind of widespread low-grade fraud that is suitable for them to pursue (much more legal overhead than worth it to each victim, but creating large damages in aggregate).
Yes, it did if you're not a mandarin speaker. The simplification process was biased towards Mandarin and there are some words that were merged that have different pronunciations in Cantonese but not in Mandarin.
No, it doesn't. Watch Rick Beato put them side by side.

(this is not to say it's an infringement; they're just very similar.)
There’s a rebuild of a NeXTcube with 4 motherboards being detailed here: https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=4950.0
Logical reasoning is also the easiest to solve with a program if you can get it into the right format, which LLMs are good at.
Not my site. I submitted this less for conversation—there probably isn't much to say that here hasn't already been said innumerable times—but in hopes that people will contribute to the site's listings.