skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jokes? Writing code? Forget that stuff. Just test it on some very basic story you make up, such as "if you have a bottle of cola and you hate the taste of cola, what will your reaction be if you drink a glass of water?" Obviously this is a trick question since the setup has nothing to do with the question, the cola is irrelevant. Here is how I would answer the question: "you would enjoy the taste as water is refreshing and neutral tasting, most people don't drink enough water and having a drink of water usually feels good. The taste of cola is irrelevant for this question, unless you made a mistake and meant to ask the reaction to drinking cola (in which case if you don't like it the reaction would be disgust or some similar emotion.)"

Here's ChatGPT's answer to the same question:

"
If you dislike the taste of cola and you drink a glass of water, your reaction would likely be neutral to positive. Water has a generally neutral taste that can serve to cleanse the palate, so it could provide a refreshing contrast to the cola you dislike. However, this is quite subjective and can vary from person to person. Some may find the taste of water bland or uninteresting, especially immediately after drinking something flavorful like cola. But in general, water is usually seen as a palate cleanser and should remove or at least lessen the lingering taste of cola in your mouth.
"

I think that is fine. It interpreted my question "have a bottle of cola" as drink the bottle, which is perfectly reasonable, and its answer was consistent with that question. The reasoning and understanding are perfect.

Although it didn't answer the question I intended to ask, clearly it understood and answered the question I actually asked.
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influence over public opinion ;)
>I have yet to hear of anyone being told by a medical professional that they don’t have ADHD but instead simply lack self-discipline.

So you're saying that everyone who feels like this who goes to a medical professional, 100% of the people, will get told they have ADHD?
They've had some really good content... sensationalist, maybe, but focusing on interesting parts of life few other publications would touch. For that insight I am grateful.
Not much, at least not directly. But there's https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/ which is great.
I've never understood why Github would allow anyone to (mis)use it as a dumb hosting pipe?
Maybe they do but the user has to enable it and set a limit. At least I have this, and maybe the NGO had the option too but didn't think about it. We don't know.
That's very recent isn't it?

Even in the early days of Putin's war Germany was still sponsoring Putin by buying many 100's of millions of EUR of gas from him.

They "got rid of Russian dependence in the energy sector" by reopening old German coal mines, firing up coal power plants and shifting gas imports from Russia to the US + importing tons of nuclear energy from France.

Germany only stopped buying Russian gas for > 50% of their energy needs AFTER a war started AFTER the pipelines to Russia got bombed and AFTER they had no other choice.
> Could also put a CDN infront

androidblog.a.pinggy.io is pointing to a AWS IPv4 address, I don't know why the creator did not do this.

I have also tried out direct access to my phone via public IPv6 and it works really well, although the prefix is not static.
Never really liked Vice. Something about the way it is filmed, making reality more "dramatic". Even though it seemed on average good quality reporting.
It's just a characteristic of some of the default voices. I made some perfect French voices by having somebody on Discord check for native accents, because otherwise I can't tell. Once somebody does this for every language it should be all set. (Somebody who isn't me though, it takes awhile and I'm just playing around a bit, don't even have a use case for TTS honestly.)
That's how I found this post. RSS is still far too useful.
I expect the downvotes are because having you glory in the fact that you have decided not to read this book doesn't add anything of value to the conversation.
I'm really enjoying Distrobox. With it, I've been able to develop on my Steam Deck and use it as my primary and only device.

The Steam Deck default OS (Steam OS 3) is a heavily locked down variant of Arch with only a couple of writable directories. With Distrobox, I can run an Ubuntu environment from one of those directories, ensuring that when I install SDKs or tools, they're being installed to a writable area of the OS but require no config to change what they think is intended install location.
Counterpoint to what assumption? To the idea that the brain is complex? Or was it a cryptic way to imply that there might be other sentience with more-advanced “brains”?
This is one of their best videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O16JP0YRKv4

They managed to embed with our elite LRR special forces (our only tier 1 unit) which was very secretive and maybe the only time anyone will see them in action.
we're using mosh
You can do the same with an laptop and LTE card in them, which is much more stable.
> > the branch of science and technology concerned with the design, building, and use of engines, machines, and structures.

> I think it's pretty reasonable to say that "prompt engineering" falls squarely in the realm of "use of a machine".

It's not just "use of a machine", but rather "the branch of science and technology concerned with the use of machines.

That said, I don't have a stake in this battle. I just wanted to point out that it's easy to forget the earlier context when looking at lists like that!
How does it handle EOL distros like Debian 7 for which packages are not available anymore ?

I need to compile the most recent version possible of rsync (or one with some specific zip support) for Debian 7 but I can't install the build tools in Debian 7 in docker :/. What I got so far:

$ docker run -it debian/eol:wheezy /bin/dash
# apt-get update
E: Method http has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process http received a segmentation fault.
Shortening my counter-counter-point:

If there is no price, then morality does not function a credible signal. It's signalling, not morality, that requires making sacrifice.
lol. What is the logic behind this? Why makes religious organizations special?

The response to this is literally thousands of pages long. However, even reading recent, modern western/europeans
history in depth (last 200 years), will give you more insight here.

As for "why is it still this way?", you would quite literally have to rip rights out of nations constitutions, re-assess endless past case history, get people to vote on it, and on and on.

There is literally no larger change you could pick, than changing the legal roles of church and state.
Jail. Executives need jail. So do the people who hired them to commit fraud.
Boys need to be entertained as well. Bots have been such an issue Netflix started cracking down on password / account sharing between bots.
Seems like you were correct. Article is flagged. I believe it shouldn't be flagged, it should be ignored by those not interested in it.

The study itself probably proposes some interesting observations, although...

> These findings support the provision of far-reaching intervention

...doesn't sound too convincing without context and specifics.
> mixing serious reporting with trash, jackass plain nonsense

That has been their modus operandi from almost day one, though.

I just think they haven't figured the financing out. These reportings are still quite expensive, they don't want to go subscription-based, and when you look at the view counts, they are not that big really. You cannot finance all that just from YouTube ads, as the money then mosty go to Google.
If it were only tax exemptions. Germany pays half a billion every year to the church because of a deal from a hundred years ago. That is in addition to anything with taxes.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/germany-continues-payments-ch...
"He wants Ensign Peak Advisors to pay the taxes he says it owes on the $100 billion built from tithing. If the IRS decides Nielsen is right, he could be rewarded with up to 30% of what's collected"
You do understand that riling up right-wing nutjobs is a deliberate marketing strategy?

Imagine you're a production company working on a low-budget docudrama for Netflix where you know it will be displayed as just one more UI tile among an endless tsunami of similar low-budget dramas from around the world. Which marketing approach do you think would work better:

1) Make a historically accurate show with the little money you have, release it, and watch it sink to oblivion with a slightly below average rating;

2) Add a provocative bait that you know the most bored unemployed crowd on Twitter won't be able to resist; watch everybody talk about your show; enjoy your 11% rating because it came with massive online notoriety and a fat Netflix royalty wire for a few months.
The German example sounds fine. The second code switching example has a German part, which has an accent for a brief moment.
Churches were social security centuries ago: You contribute a tenth of your income and in exchange the church will look after you if you when disaster strikes (illness, crop failure)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithe_barns_in_Europe
Among the reasons is that it comes with great power and authority and therefore attracts the wrong people. It is really effective to slander people for example. Another reason is that an established source of truth is inflexible and hard to change from the outside even if it is wrong, because it is used as reference for the truth (circular logic).

Using Wikipedia as an example: Everyone can edit Wikipedia, however if your edit survives is determined by a hierarchical structure that involves people (with an opinion). It doesn't need a big conspiracy, but only a few people that select which people may act on their behalf. A concrete example would be the Wikipedian Feliks in German Wikipedia who is by now convicted of defamation (via Wikipedia) and still remains part of the "Politburo" of Wikipedia altho obviously violating the official ethos.

In regards to changing Wikipedia, try removing opinions (or just circular citation) from an entry of Feliks or Kopilot (or anyone of the Politburo) and look what happens. Most likely your account is gone, but if you're lucky your edit is just reverted.

Much of it is how Wikipedia is being treated. It is/was an excellent reference book for quickly looking up information about a topic - well, just like an encyclopedia, however it's bad as a source of truth.
I don't understand the topic, I wouldn't comment anyway because I usually don't when I'm not interested or know too much about a topic. But I also didn't get offended by his suggestion because it left room for me to ask questions. Just because HN calls my question a comment is what's making you confused I guess.
Quite useful "How to urinate in Public"-video by lovely and talented Gavin McInnes has been totally cancelled from internets.

It was transphobic, of course, by assuming certain anatomic appendices are common among masculines.
Did I miss an age or copyright is still different from patent?
I get 404 error.
https://archive.is/VFe3E
The person who shoveled coal to a steam locomotive was called a railroad engineer. I guess the distinguishing feature here is how much capital is tied to the process and how much value it creates - not how intellectually demanding it is as such.

If you had a button that switched on a thousand washing machines at a time I guess one could flirt with the title "washing engineer".
The Importance of Cognitive Endurance
>But why non-Germans. Don't they have
their own problems? Who on earth does REALLY STILL fear Germany?

People who are used to your shenanigans since the foundation of Prussia, Hans. And I don't know about fear, more like fed up. Germany should have never been allowed to remain a state after helping start two world wars. Dismantle into HRE-like micronations or give it to their neighboring nations.
Wittgenstein: “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
Yes, Netflix is doing financially very good, considering the most of it's movies are shitty.
Tax exemption should be a non-issue. Churches shouldn't be for-profit businesses, they should be associations with members contributing to a common, partly charitable goal (although honestly it's also just a club). That's what they conceptually are, and that's how they should work.

They should be treated as charitable organisations at best, and then also held to those standards. Any church run as a business should not be considered a church at all.

(Disclaimer: I'm a member of a Dutch church, and I have no idea what our tax situation is.)
See my upthread response, but that has nothing to do with it.

State control over the church, and church control over the state, is a huge, massive, immense change.

Nothing comparable to any other legal change you've ever hear of.
Neither? Just doing what a big company does, especially after making a bet that doesn't seem to be panning out.
Fdroid is amazing.

If you use it and your download speeds are crazy slow, double check the mirrors. Today I was shaving an issue where downloading was extremely slow, I ended up picking another mirror and my speed went from 2kb/s to instant downloads.
Another week, another pile of crap/vanity TLD's for spammers to use.

Looking at the default spam filters for our email servers at $Job - at what point should our TLD filter default to Blocking (with a short whitelist for .com, .net, .org, etc.)? Vs. our current TLD filter defaulting to Allow (with a too-frequently-updated blacklist full of crap/vanity TLD's)?
The phone part is already there !
https://mlc.ai/mlc-llm/
(granted, this is only a 7b-model running with 4bits)
Add `// -----------------` in between blocks to work around this issue, and IMO provide much better delineation of content blocks e.g. imports vs definitions.

I do miss C#'s use of macros to allow defining arbitrary blocks that can be named and folded though.
Okay but is there a reason to believe this is whataboutism rather than pointing out an additional problem we might discuss? If it were whataboutism I'd expect to see an implication that this excuses the gambling industry, but I don't see it.
You missed the bus.
Everyone should hope that we can throw away tokenization in LLMs
These are interesting but in the current media industry it's hard to finance those without your listicles, clickbait-inducing opinion pieces, etc.
The key use for grids that can't be replaced is industrial use. Some companies need very-high quality power, in terms of frequency stability or downtime. Other companies require high volumes.

For these users, it's much easier to buy service than to start a dedicated service within the company responsible for, essentially, setting up their own grid.

Once you have that, connecting nearby homes cheaply is easy, and it's really a rich person's pastime to build an off-grid alternative with equivalent quality if you can get connected.
Lots of X-to-RSS has popped up in recent years, and a good portion of websites still support it under the hood.

KilltheNewsletter[0] is a great email-to-RSS generator, for instance. And RSSBridge[1] has all sorts of x-to-RSS bridges available. There’s even a website[2] that allows you to turn public Telegram channels into RSS feeds.

[0] - https://kill-the-newsletter.com/

[1] - https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

[2] - https://tg.i-c-a.su/
It's much more phonetic, which removes a huge amount of work in learning to spell.
Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?
I've only used a state machine in code once. Guess what I was writing.

BUT.

Once a state diagram saved my team a whole lot of pain. We were translating a piece of regulation to code. There were a bunch of people directly talking to us that had a little idea (in that case, worse than no idea) of what the persistence of the real system was.

The diagram made wonders: I was able to ask "is this situation the same as this? no? why?" and actually make myself understood when I said "that won't work" instead of getting in a loop.

Best of all: non-technical people got really well what the diagram meant and, after a while playing with it, they liked it.

Big fan.
"The first clause in the Bill of Rights states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”"
Hrm. I used to not understand what state machines were (I don't have a CS degree) and mistakenly think they were adding complexity. I use them regularly now. I make my own, so they don't have default transitions to remove (beyond throwing 'not implemented' errors when I haven't built a particular transition yet), and I'd still say they're less complex than managing state without them.

Thinking about 'remove default transitions' - are you talking about using a particular state machine library? My default model is writing them. It's kind of like using a feature flag library when a hashtable with features for keys and boolean values will do. OK maybe use a library if the library adds realtime control etc, but not for the basic concept of flags - likewise a state variable and a single transition function work very well for state machines.
This is such an amazing book. I found it a profoundly moving and horrifying experience to read. It's amazing to know how accurate it seems from this source to be in many ways.

For those of you who don't know, in a 1999 piece for Salon entitled "Overlooked: Five direly underappreciated U.S. novels > 1960" by David Foster Wallace, there is a memorable review of "Blood Meridian" which reads (in its entirety) "Don't even ask."[1] After his death, DFW's personal copy of "Blood Meridian", complete with all sorts of marginalia and scribbled annotations was sold at auction, and it showed that he had indeed studied it in great depth.

[1] https://www.salon.com/1999/04/12/wallace/
The whole Metaverse thing was very strange.

It should have been self evident to zuckerberg that wearing a vr headset will never be mainstream.

Metaverse was “Zucks original idea”… a billionaires pipe dream - an average idea backed by untold money.

The Metaverse showed that as they say “once you’re lucky, twice you’re good”.
Don't forget that the introduction of Smoking laws in most western countries have reduced the 3rd party/passive smoking dramatically.
Anecdotally - As kid visiting offices in the 80s I remember nearly every single adult office worker being a smoker and going into office work places thick with smoke. Vaping does not seem to have the same numbers.
I agree with you, the “extended” version of state machines with “context” is the problem with xstate. Modelling state transitions deterministically is great, but context and actions are too closely coupled to machine transitions, making it very hard to write generic or reusable state machines when you actually make use of these features. Had xstate focused on only transitions (like regular FSMs) and left context/data and actions/effects to other application-level abstractions, xstate would be widely compatible with many projects instead of requiring a heavy-duty paradigm shift in terms of how you model your application logic.
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Is that different from a church tax? Many countries levy taxes on behalf of officially recognised churches. If you're registered as a church member, you pay an additional tax that goes to your church. You can generally opt out by deregistering as a member. I think Netherland used to have this in the past, but got rid of it at some point. Some European countries still have it.

I assume there's still some standards for how those churches can use that money though; churches are not meant to be for-profit ventures. Though some of them (older ones especially) are quite rich. Younger churches tend to be poor.
I just run outside these days but I thought that starting conversations at gyms was frowned upon?

Even if it wasn't, most people are wearing headphones. Sustained conversation would be difficult.
AIUI our winters are colder and drier, and prone to heavier snowfall.

Just google el niño Northern Europe
This is a video of a talk from Gerald Sussman in 2011 at the Strange Loop conference. Abstract below.

Though we have been building and programming computing machines for about 60 years and have learned a great deal about composition and abstraction, we have just begun to scratch the surface.

A mammalian neuron takes about ten milliseconds to respond to a stimulus. A driver can respond to a visual stimulus in a few hundred milliseconds, and decide an action, such as making a turn. So the computational depth of this behavior is only a few tens of steps. We don't know how to make such a machine, and we wouldn't know how to program it.

The human genome -- the information required to build a human from a single, undifferentiated eukariotic cell -- is about 1GB. The instructions to build a mammal are written in very dense code, and the program is extremely flexible. Only small patches to the human genome are required to build a cow or a dog rather than a human. Bigger patches result in a frog or a snake. We don't have any idea how to make a description of such a complex machine that is both dense and flexible.

New design principles and new linguistic support are needed. I will address this issue and show some ideas that can perhaps get us to the next phase of engineering design.

Gerald Sussman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How's AGPL a hostile license?
Until this spreads and it backfires.

We had an example at our office several years ago where employee X was a great worker, nothing to say about that, that was having his own "working" rhythm (e.g., until late at night, mornings off, etc.), and was coming to the office only from time to time, just because the manager was really pushing hard, or for certain office events.

This spread and people started to ask - can I work from home?
-> only 1 day
Why? X does more than 1 day, and sometimes X is not available when I need.

... as a manager you can only "yes, but ..." that much. At a certain point people (who I would like to remind everyone again and again: most of the time are people with a high college degree, used to read books, papers, and do things, not 3 years old kids) connect the dots and say "alright, it's time to go". And before they go, they let the entire apple tree rot to hell. If that doesn't happen it might be because this spreads and goes to high management that asks the manager "WTF are you doing?"

That's when either more rights come in equally for everyone, or ... they need to let go of their best employee, or they need to find a compromise. Just having the nicely protected "best" employee is never a good strategy. Eventually people get pissed off and leave, and if they don't, congrats, you have just made the "non-best" employees even less motivated and less productive.
Just because people have a different opinion does'nt mean they 'don't understand'.
Using ox-hugo To Build Websites with Emacs
Show HN: Personal Focus Management
I found, after age 40-ish, that my ability to maintain focus on a single goal over long periods had diminished substantially.

So, I made a small tool to help me manage focus. The link (https://github.com/lelanthran/frame/blob/master/docs/FrameIn...) is to a slideshow of how the tool works.

Because how it works is different enough to all the other personal time/issue/task tracker tools that I had used, I recommend reading the slideshow (5-10m reading) before trying it.

I've been using it for a while now; so far it works very well for me. I hope it works very well for you, too.