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For many of us our pets are our children, or as close as we will ever get. Not everyone can handle the responsibility, is fertile, is free from hereditary disease genes, or wants to deal with the lifelong complexities that come with adoption.

This is hardly the worst attitude to come out of the catholic church, but it's still disappointing. It's not our place to tell other people that they have to reproduce or what their families should look like.
Unfortunately my recent experience with the Windows version was negative. I installed KDE Connect so I could link it with my Steam Deck but the text on the Windows version was completely screwed up to the extent that the UI was completely unusable.

After Googling it seems a work around was to disable hardware acceleration but I was reluctant to do that.

I wanted to revert back to an earlier version (which apparently didn't suffer from thsi bug) but there's no repository for old versions.
We've known that since Star Trek Discovery.
Yesterday, I had a sticky Swift/iOS issue.

Checked SO, Apple Discussions, etc. Then, on a whim, I asked ChatGPT for a suggestion.

> They are also prone to confident assertions of statements that are blatantly false.

It suggested something that referenced a nonexistent property of a standard UIKit class. It wouldn't even compile.

It was quite positive that this would fix my issue.

After refreshing a couple of times (and also mentioning the first one sucked), it finally gave me something that still didn't work, but gave me an avenue that I could explore, and that finally yielded the solution.

I suspect that the reason for the confident assertion that included an illegal property, was because it was trained on Swift code that was extended (I do that a lot, myself. In fact, I ended up creating my own extension that added the nonexistent property).

Modern programming languages allow you to extend even language primitive types, and JavaScript has allowed that kind of thing for many years.

It may be a while before we can entirely trust ChatGPT to give us all the answers.

To be fair, however, it did help me to land upon the correct solution, but I still had to fire up some candlepower of my own.
> the first iPhone, the first gen was bad even by the standards of the day

That's why it barely got over six million units sold.
I found myself being a bit more snappy than usual when interrupted while working on something. I attribute that to my ability to actually focus for once and I resented it when people were taking that away. Unmedicated I’m quite happy to play along with all the distractions people bring my way.
And Bob Iger at Disney.
I bet it is a good implementation of word vectors. I just have no intuition for how word vectors work (does the presence of homonyms which are far from the pairing result in a less close pairing, for example?)
Ask HN: Are you working on a non AI project?
I m personally exhausted seeing al.ost every new startup or project related to AI/LLM/GPT. Curious of anyone is working on a new project that solves some interesting problems but not using AI etc.
Not sure you can do anything more unpopular than lay off 80% of your workspace, saddle your company with 13B debt and drive away advertisers only to bet everything on a $8 subscription paid by right wing simps. Like, what else unpopular would he need a scapegoat for?
I would disagree. As a kid I played OOT to death but never owned a copy of Majora's mask. I have just started playing it and I think it may even be better than OOT (though it is not really even a "Zelda" game.)
Anyone who could answer this with confidence would be out making millions

Billions. Trillions.
That looks a lot like satire but I can’t quite tell.

So, to clarify: if someone is clearly a violent criminal, are you really saying we should feel bad for them and assume they are a victim of “the system”? Do we drop charges? What’s the actionable plan for reducing violent crime?
Not at all.

Anne Other was a pen name used by the author. It was not Anne Shulgin, although that would have been great to have her mentorship in that way. She is a sweet soul.

I loved when she said “falling in love is the psychedelic everyone has access to in this lifetime… and they’d outlaw that too if they could.”

Book is here:
https://www.amazon.com/Trust-Surrender-Receive-Release-Traum...
"g " does whatever you want, and it has cross browser support. "?" does whatever the browser you use happen to do. Typing-wise you may be right, it depends how do you type, or where are your hands.
Ask HN: How to get into top companies with no blue chip names on CV?
What are other signals one can provide to big & emerging tech companies that make up for and possibly exceed the value of having blue chip names on your CV?

I'm finding that despite co-founding a startup with a successful exit, companies are almost top-level filtering on blue chip experience.
Can you elaborate on how you pronounce "Bca"?
Who was the bad tech Reddit CEO?
Actually I would argue that there isn’t a single reason to use MySQL over Postgres (barring the obvious- it’s what the team already knows, or the company already uses, etc.)
Tesla cancels right-hand-drive Model S and Model X
They are low quality precisely because they are less rich in types of amino acids. Given the option of having animal or vegetable-based proteins you would always pick animal, all other things being equal.

Having a “varied” diet is much easier said than done. Even people who are well off, living in rich and developed countries have difficulty maintaining this balance. This is a personal observation, but I suspect a lot of people underestimate how hard it is to maintain this lifestyle.

Another aspect that I don’t see discussed anywhere is that you need to have diversity of vegetables just to maintain a functional diet, what will happen to people when for some reason there are problems in the supply chain of a specific crop, you have a bad year with low yields and the price goes to the roof?

Another false assumption is that everyone can accommodate a purely plant-based diet.
Are there easy offsite backup solutions for SQLite?

The easy deploy tools (digital ocean apps, doku, beanstalk, heroku, etc) destroy the instance (losing state). You need to configure an offsite backup tool for your db or you have to manually setup a server to live forever.

Having a separate db machine is so much easier to setup and plays better with the diy tools.
I had a Motorola Q at the time and the first iPhone was light years beyond it, even if the only metric used to compare was browsing the internet. Most sites were barely functional in Windows Mobile IE.
I understand your skepticism, here's how we think about things -

* We only send data schema to underlying models: No data is actually sent there, but yes when you connect your database, we run the generated SQL on your database and store results to show those to you. They get regularly deleted though.

* We take security seriously: We're SOC2 Type 2 compliant and publish our security practices online, have a DPA, etc.

* Companies value convenience: We've often seen that companies _prefer_ cloud deploys so they don't have to DevOps themselves. Can be a matter of personal preference.

Hope that helps clarify.
I forgot about him. /. was all up in arms at time. He still in jail?
I imagine something that can provide real-time feedback using voice recognition and AI analysis, possibly monitor physiological signals related to stress that cause stutter
This article is from March 2023, which in LLM terms is pretty old! The "How many bears have the Russians sent into space?" question still returns hallucinations with ChatGPT 3.5 but, unsurprisingly, gets a correct answer from GPT-4.
An iPod, a phone, an Internet communicator. Not so bad if you ask me.
> It's completely plausible that a nation with a wealth of natural resources but an economic system that treats people terribly could win a series of wars and establish its economic system as the dominant one in the world, and then use its power to maintain status quo.

FWIW, Adam Smith has argued that this is unlikely. The world seems to prove him correct.

That said I do disagree with the way GP's argues the point. While the dominant economic system is likely more effective at creating dominating economies, it's not a given that it is good at being fair. Shutting down discussion while claiming that "capitalism is the best so far" because nobody else has come up with an alternative reeks of willful ignorance. It's easy to believe something is the best if you don't actively look for alternatives and demand others to serve it to you on a silver platter.
The Invisible Work of Mothers in Music
Ya I think he's actually unlike most other CEOs. The man does super unpopular decisions in front of everyone.
I think it is the difference between a fine crafted adventure/narrative versus an open world sandbox for you to experiment in.

I am very similar to you in that Ocarina of Time was a game that blew my mind and converted me from "kid who plays some video games" into "video gamer". I couldn't get enough of it. And while I also yearn for that older style of Zelda adventure, I find that because I always loved the puzzles, that experimenting in the shrines and around the world with BOTW brings me some level of enjoyment. However, I agree that I am not as "over the moon" with this style of game like some others are.
> I think both of these views can be true at the same time: ChatGPT (or, LLMs really) are revolutionary and they won't revolutionize the world the way technologists/researchers say.

Yes, because people think that LLMs are almost AGI based on the social media reactions and can't imagine they still have unknown/unsolved problems. But if we take a look at the 14 years of self driving car development, it becomes clear how AI can be both amazing and not good enough at the same time.
Wow! That is fascinating! Reaserachers found that women who "break the glass ceiling" are likely to do so in companies that had an average of 5 months of turmoil prior to them getting the job - meaning that the average experience of a women in the same corporate position has a harder situation to deal with than their male counterparts.

So close yet so far
This is actually a smart model given Musk’s strengths have always been in building things and not in the day to day running of companies.

They are different skill sets.

It’s worked remarkably well to have Gwynne Shotwell run things at SpaceX (she’s an awesome COO and also an aerospace engineer). I have wished for years that he do that at Tesla.

Having an ad exec run Twitter will take care of all the “how do we pay the bills” part of running the business while he does the “fun” stuff of focusing on product.

Update: Updated Gwynne Shotwell's title to COO, not CEO (and fixed spelling of her name).
I always thought that if the same amount of engineering and investment that went into overcoming the 8088 architecture instead was redirected into a more sane CPU architecture, development of the PC industry would have been accelerated by about a decade.

I'm talking products like QEMM, Sidekick (and the whole "terminate and stay resident" industry), expanded vs. extended memory, and other massive engineering efforts by major software (Lotus, Ventura Publisher, etc.). Time spent overcoming the limitations of the 640K barrier, segmented memory, and similar design challenges could have been spent in more productive ways, as could be seen in the development of other ecosystems on a comparative shoestring budget.

Granted I was an Amiga aficionado back in the late '80s/early 90's, so I'm comparing things like the ATI VGA Wonder (1988) to the Video Toaster (1990), or early efforts at GUIs (like GEM) to the multitasking OS of Amiga. But still, I think the point stands.
But then you need to go a step higher and look at how many crimes have been cleared. Even if we have a high true positive rate at the arrest stage, the system may not be working well if the overall clearance rate is low.
I mean thats the "Jussie Smollett case" section and not the "Reduction in incarceration rates" section (which is what Izkata said to look at).

His primary reason (as given by him) is gunshots in the playground and Smollett's case involves neither non-drawn firearms nor sounds of gunshots. As well as Smollett did not commit any more crimes while before the trial ultimately found him guilty (so bail-reform probably doesn't apply).
That’s Gwynne Shotwell, COO of SpaceX btw. Maybe the best that could happen to SpaceX. The other one is Shivon Zilis. What role does she have nowadays?
There's a really good story reason why she's Special and the Only Possible Savior. Much better than "Darth Vader was your daddy" or "you're the Boy Who Lived because your mom loved you a bunch and... that's it, that's all" at least.

[EDIT] As for those complaining about her personality, the sequel actually kinda explores that in some... interesting ways.
I went cold turkey after a couple years of consist medication because I missed an appointment due to being sick and wasn’t able to get it rescheduled until I was unmedicated again. By that point I was back in the rut of useless executive function. Surprisingly I had zero issues just stopping taking it. Obviously the executive dysfunction came back quickly but I had zero withdrawal symptoms dropping 30mg XR. Maybe I was just lucky.
wow don't see a lot of quotes from the sequel in the wild
We ran a Galera cluster for 4 days and it died on the first ALTER TABLE we did. Only option was to reduce it down to a Primary / Replica setup. I really can't recommend anyone using this.
> Crypto tech, including stablecoins and NFTs, will eat the economic world

I support people spending their lives and money validating this claim. But they shouldn’t lie. This article cites specific lies that Andreessen told to sell crypto. At the very least, that should result in fines and sanctions.
My dad had a stutter as a kid.

When he was playing tennis, the kid across the court was mocking my dads stutter. At some point my dad lost it, jumped the net and started beating the shit out of the kid. While he was on top of him, my dad was “mocking” the other kid by talking how he talked… turns out the kid didn’t have a stutter.

My dad never had a stutter again.

Have you done deeper psychological work to explore what is going on with you when you were 9? Transpersonal work? I’m a coach and would be happy to have a gifted session with you to explore if any of our tools can help.
I use it almost on a daily basis now, and I pay for the monthly subscription. It’s not magic, but it can save me a lot of time sometimes. I use it in my job as a software engineer, and I mostly use it to create unit tests. The code usually needs a lot of love, but it gets me started.
There were literally articles like this about the internet in 1999
Well, ocarina was open world...
I think they are talking about Ellen Pao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Pao

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Ohanian

> [...] He was also a partner at Y Combinator.

> [...]

> On July 2, 2015, Reddit fired communications director Victoria Taylor, an administrator who coordinated celebrity interviews from Reddit's New York office. In protest, volunteer moderators of the IAmA community set their forum to private, effectively turning it off, and other volunteer moderators followed suit because of "anger at the way the company routinely demands that the volunteers and community accept major changes that reduce [their] efficiency and increase [their] workload".[40] The following day, a moderator of IAmA posted that "Chooter (Victoria) was let go as an admin by u/kn0thing [Alexis Ohanian]",[41] an assertion that was not widely reported on.[42] Media outlets such as Variety blamed interim CEO Ellen Pao for the dismissal. Harassment, which was already being directed toward Pao in relation to other controversies, intensified and she resigned a week later.[43] However, on July 12, former CEO Yishan Wong informed the Reddit community that Taylor was fired by "the CEO's boss" and accused Ohanian of scapegoating.[42] In the aftermath of Pao's resignation, Ohanian elaborated on his role in Taylor's dismissal, countering that even though the AMA/IAmA changes came from him, he still reported to Pao.[44] In 2017, Pao criticized Ohanian for avoiding the fallout by attending Wimbledon in the days immediately following Taylor's firing.[45]
Elon just wants to build things, have autonomy and also dictatorial control of the process. He doesn't care about how things are monitized (although in the case of Twitter, where he didn't build it from the start, he has to worry about it quite deeply).

There is nothing more complicated in his decision here. Elon is a visionary and a builder. That's all his ventures.
Ocarina of Time does a fantastic job going from the bright world of young Link to the more serious and darker world of adult Link. This adds a ton of depth to the game. And let's not forget the clever game mechanic of swapping between young and adult Link to solve puzzles.
How much cattle do you think lives free-range compared to how much doesn't?
Is this actually a permitted use of the TLDs?

I guess the answer is a de-facto ‘yes, because it’s done now and we’d have to revoke registrations to undo it, which is too unpalatable’, but at least some of these are not in accordance with the TLD applications:

From https://icannwiki.org/.nexus:

The mission of the proposed gTLD, .nexus, is to provide a dedicated domain space in which Google can enact second-level domains that relate to Nexus-related products and⁄or services. Specifically, the new gTLD will provide Google with greater ability to categorize its Nexus offerings online, and in-turn provide a more recognizable, branded, trusted web space to the general Internet population.

…

Charleston Road Registry believes that given its intended use by Google, the .nexus gTLD will best add value to the gTLD space by remaining completely closed for the sole use of Google.

…

Second-level domain names within the proposed gTLD are intended for registration and use by Google only, and domain names under the new gTLD will not be available to the general public for purchase, sale, or registration. As such, Charleston Road Registry intends to apply for an exemption to the ICANN Registry Operator Code of Conduct as Google is intended to be the sole registrar and registrant.
I'm surprised this article is getting upvoted - it feels like very lazy journalism to me.

> The discomforting reality is that, while Altman and his ilk have been predicting an exponential acceleration of productivity, we have been experiencing a deceleration.

This is a very big claim, and there is absolutely nothing to back it up. The only specific reference to productivity is about an MIT paper that showed increases in worker productivity (but the authors of this just wave that aside as unimportant because they didn't think the work it was doing was important).

> More dangerously, ChatGPT can make authoritative statements that sound believable but turn out to be false if investigated closely.

We get it! We know! But look, this is a bad use case for GPT. If you pretend that it only has a single use case, and you pick the use case that it's worst at, you will think it's bad. This is just so, so lazy. No references to summarizing docs or writing code/SQL queries/Excel formulas or any of the other things that it's genuinely useful at.

> At best, LLMs can be used for rough first drafts of low-value writing tasks with humans filling in the details and checking for rants and lies.

Rants? Come on - GPT hallucinates, but it's not an unhinged lunatic that goes ranting about stuff. Also, again, this is not all they can be used for - it just ignores all of the better use cases.

> What about Altman's vision of humans appreciating art and nature while most of the world's goods and services are produced by AI? We have a lot more respect for the work that people do than for the usefulness of LLMs.

Huh? It's great that you respect the work people do, but that has nothing to do with whether they'll affect society.

> ChatGPT is entertaining but it is, at most, a baby step towards an AI revolution and, at worst, a very expensive detour away from the holy grail of artificial general intelligence.

What? This is the closing to the article and it just throws out this enormous claim, which is backed up by absolutely nothing. It's demonstrably a big step towards an AI revolution - if nothing else, it's brought a ton of money and interest into the space, which is certainly important for a revolution.

But to say it's a detour away from AGI and then give absolutely no explanation of why that is or what direction AI research should be going? This is very poor journalism.
GPT4 is significantly better at code fyi, not sure if you used default ChatGPT (which is 3.5turbo). Premium ChatGPT gives you access to GPT4, but the API gives you even more access with the ability to edit the "system" prompt which Sam Altman's said is very important and which I can attest to from my testing.
Fun fact, many years ago, Google had a SOAP interface. But it got removed as machines are not interested in Internet Ads. :-)

How time flies...

Edit: http://radar.oreilly.com/2006/12/google-deprecates-their-soa...
Semantic Understanding of SQL
ICANN does not dictate pricing on nTLDs. ICANN gets an (very large) initial fee to approve the nTLD and gets a small cut of every domain sold, while the registry is free to set their own pricing and terms.
That's really impressive, that the emulated M68K is socketed in the 8088 motherboard and talking to all the peripherals through it.
Show HN: Mixing C++ with Angelscript for runtime introspection and debugging
Hey everyone, I created D0 for myself to enable faster iteration and introspection while working on my C++ projects. Particularly, it annoyed me that the simplest change of adding a printf() or trying to view an object required application restart and recompilation.
The project is still in it's infancy and I'm looking for initial feedback. I'm currently working on adding a way to override built-in API's with your own definitions to be able to easily define how e.g types like std::vector should be viewed in the UI.

I've also recently released a Visual Studio integration via an extension and eventually, I want to move as much functionality as it is possible to VS/VSCode/other code editors so that you can access all features from the editor you use to write code.
> It applies if the maintainers if the project sell support.

Support is a gray area. Not only are there different kinds of support that have nothing to do with code, like selling training material, but there is also selling ones expertise of a codebase as a consultant without necessarily making code changes oneself. Presumably one could author a support contract to state that the code is a fork, regardless of whether there are changes or not, and that the price paid is merely a consulting fee.

If you accept the premise that OSS is decentralized, then so is the right to repair. Anyone can learn the code and charge a one-off service fee for fixing a defect. I'm not sure how liable one could be here. If you sell an annual support contact then presumably you're only on the hook for the year and not the "lifetime of the product" which is vague given the decentralized nature of OSS.
I don't see any reason why that wouldn't be possible.
Yeah. Thanks. I was a long time lurker, read years and only back when the incumbents flipped a switch, I had to take some action.
> Firefox's user base has shrunk to the point where it's barely relevant.

it would come back for sure.