skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You seem more interested in legislating the terms of the conversation than actually having it.

This is the only conversation-legislating statement in the thread.

> If I understand correctly, you believe that England is a special flower and that regulations which would be considered the bare minimum in a great many other countries around the world (including such exotic and remote locales as Scotland) somehow cannot function here.

I don't think this, no. I certainly haven't said it.

> I’d be happy to point out any fallacies in your argument for that conclusion – if it weren’t for the fact that you’ve presented no argument for it whatsoever.

I don't know the purpose of your entire comment, then.
That was just us goofing around. What got me excited was mostly the enabling underbanked people argument for crypto. There's countless people all over the world who can't get a bank account, or if they could, can't get one that is reliable or useful enough for their needs. Eg, maybe the currency is too unstable, or maybe there's too many restrictions on international transfers and commerce etc etc. These people are left with cash and predatory "businesses" like Western Union as their only options. It's not fair and can and should change, but sadly, crypto has spectacularly failed to deliver on its potential here.
Can somebody less online summarize? This is illegible.
>We need to balance the books by not having unsustainable vote-buying policies that cost outsize amounts of money.

Balanced budgets with perpetual motion machine money is unsustainable. It is simply mathematically impossible.

>then the endless progress-train will stop.

There is no such thing.
It's a classic case of Overton Window

They get users accustomed to the idea that now telemetry is in the toolchain. Next step will be to "accidentally" turn it on for everyone.

Then it will be "oopsie daisy" everyone is okay? See. Nothing happened, so we'll leave it opt out.
"when a man is tired of Swindon, he is tired of life"
Surely the author meant TECHNIQUE, not "technology"?

Sticking to the actual topic, I'm not sure if it's really as good as the author wants to make it sound. Deadlines work great for some people, and for some they're just terrible, sometimes even counterproductive. To me artificial deadlines come off as a not particularly efficient tool.
In the USA it is. Sadly. China can probably get it running in 6 years but in the west it seems these things take 20 years.
Why not YD.MD.YM ?
I really like my Framework 13 but I wish I had waited.

1. for the AMD chip

2. for the Framework 16
Plus better networking, pulseaudio and a bunch of user level services got a lot better. If anyone remembers what a nightmare HAL was or that there was a time before dbus being used universally
This is gold! I love your world. Let’s be friends!
More realistically, give N hours of GPU cluster time to the top say dozen or few dozen university AI/ML labs, free rein to the grad students, you'll get LMMs in every other github repo in a year.
> In order to assess whether the thing I’m writing is good or not, it’s important for me to see what it would look like as a real book (or letter, or article, or whatever).

This resonates. There is a part of the brain that engages better with content which is properly formatted, even if the content itself is awful. And by "formatted," I mean either typography and spacing, or even the media. A bad audiobook read by a great narrator sounds way better than a great book read by an incredible TTS (like elevenlab's). But any content read by that same TTS somehow is more real and professional than the same content in a word processor, at least to me.
What is podsafe/stream-safe music?
>"MAGNITUDE VS. PHASE:

[...]

Note that f(x,y) is the image and is REAL, but F(u,v) (abbreviate as F) is the FT and is, in general, COMPLEX.

Generally, F is represented by its MAGNITUDE and PHASE rather that its REAL and IMAGINARY parts, where:
MAGNITUDE(F) = SQRT( REAL(F)^2+IMAGINARY(F)^2 )
PHASE(F) = ATAN( IMAGINARY(F)/REAL(F) )

Briefly, the MAGNITUDE tells "how much" of a certain frequency component is present and the PHASE tells "where" the frequency component is in the image."

This is interesting... I've never thought of FT's in terms of Magnitude and Phase before.... I wonder if these two aspects of FT equations could have any correspondences with other "aspect pairs" (for lack of a better term) in Physics, for example, Amperage and Voltage, Speed and Acceleration, Space and Time, Wavelength and Frequency, etc., etc. (in other words, a thorough comparison would need to be done between Magnitude and Phase and other "aspect pairs" in Physics, and see what's the same, see what's different, etc.

There might be something to discover there... or at least (re)understand a little bit better...

Anyway, excellent article (I learned stuff I didn't know about the Fourier Transform) -- thanks to the author for writing it, upvoted and favorited!
> lots of bug fixes to Node.js compatibility
A Whole New Quick Edit in Cloudflare Workers
Love it! I'm definitely going to try it out
Silvopasture – establishment and management principles for pine forests [pdf]
Scandinavian layout (often called "ISO-nordic") is the exact same ISO/IEC 9995 standard as all other ISO keyboards. Same physical layout. Just a few keys/legends mapped differently.
From Hacker News Guidelines [0]

What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

From the article -

> Varda's work employed location shooting in an era when the limitations of sound technology made it easier and more common to film indoors, with constructed sets and painted backdrops of landscapes, rather than outdoors, on location. Her use of non-professional actors was also unconventional for 1950s French cinema.
Bash Is Irrecoverably Broken
The problem is precisely the spamming of takedown requests without doing any due dilligence that the target actually does infringe at at all, essentially offloading your enforcement costs to random individuals. IMO reapeated offenses of this kind of behavior should result in complete loss of the trademark.
No need for cycling, a real terminal, powerfully. Windows improved dramatically
History of Clothing and Textiles
Just a few days ago I stumbled upon Exeger and its promising Powerfoyle material. Looks like Big E Ink is already on it: https://www.powerfoyle.com/news/exeger-and-e-ink-partner-to-...
To me, the most elegant way of re-doing the frame would be to coat the entire visible surface in this material.
That's might closer than you think I guess.
The thing is that the new Assist pipeline is fully customisable and can use other models as well. They already have a ChatGPT integration which does not able to control entities in HA but at least you can have a conversation with ChatGPT in speach trough HA.

So if you spin up somehow an LLM model locally and connect create a HA Assist pipeline with it and than you use Willow(s future release which should be able to leverage the new Assist featre) as a phisical interface than you are golden.

It may be hard or impossible today but I think within months HA and Willow will mature into a state where tha bigges problem will be the training and runing a good enough LLM model locally. But I bet a good amount of hackers are already hard working on that part anyway.
I've been using xfce and it's been a good compromise. However I think it's impossible to stay 100% away from the bloat. Even if your desktop is lean, you will have to use some "modern" app, eventually. Especially when it comes to web apps.
Never encountered it once in thirteen years of using CloudFlare. If it did happen to me eventually as a one-off freak occurrence, that's a temporary fringe event.

If it is happening to the commenter continually throughout CF's network then I'd say that's probably their problem. Frequent or consistent? Well, it's probably the user.
Noam Chomsky and the Compatible Left: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35764773

Chomsky's remarks on the unvaccinated from 2021: https://www.yahoo.com/video/noam-chomsky-unvaccinated-remove...
So that's what ended up happening to Wheatley in robot hell.
I imagine over time there will be API differences but probably nothing insurmountable.

I suspect the real reason is Microsoft themselves dropping support for W7. Once that happens you can’t really claim Chrome is a “secure browser” because the underlying OS might be exploited and never patched.
> the performance of systems like ChatGPT in programming, when evaluated systematically (rather than listening to peoples' subjective opinions about it) is always very poor (and not in a "very theoretical sense of code quality", but in the sense of code that just doesn't do the job).

I feel like you didn't read what I wrote. I used ChatGPT to write a script. It takes information from Shopify and writes it to a reporting spreadsheet in a way that I used to do manually. It literally does do the job - that was the whole point of my comment. You couldn't do the job any better, because the job is already done perfectly - it fulfills 100% of what it needs to do.

> Are you really comfortable handing off your ability to write programs and create applications to one product, owned by one company? Doesn't that just completely take away your independence and even your choice of what you can program?

I cannot understand how you're getting to this point. I already can't program (at least not to any particularly useful standard), so how does using ChatGPT to program take away my independence? It gives me the ability to do more things than I could before without relying on others who can program - that's an increase in independence.

And in terms of giving away my choice... no. I can still learn Python or any other language I choose. You're writing as though I've signed an exclusive programming rights contract with OpenAI. I'm just using their tool because it does what I need.
Why not have the solar panels on the back facing the window with the frame facing the interior? Or angling the panels like a chevron in the back?
That doesn't have any relevance to the efficiency and cost improvements of having the same very fast RAM connected to both CPU and GPU cores.

I can't believe anyone is arguing that bifurcated memory systems are no big deal. Are you like an x86 arch enthusiast? I'm sure Intel is frantically working on UMA for x86/x64, if that makes it more palatable. Though they'll need on-die GPU, which might get interesting.
It's interesting he seems to think that working in the office is some kind of suffering or punishment of some kind.

Equating it with delivery drivers says a lot about his view on what his employees actually do.

Seems like an incredibly Toxic place to work.
I found a more recent (2016) blog post by him about it: http://www.andrewturnbull.net/log/index7e39.html?p=716
There's a related piece of advice that goes something like: "Make your goals public, this way you're accountable to others who've heard you make a commitment to yourself and will be interested to see whether you achieve it."

Of course you have to pick the right people. Just tweeting it (at least if you're me) is the equivalent of telling no one.
JSON is great, for sure, and "calling random APIs" gets even better with type definition autocompletion!
IANAL, and if you want to stand up to them you probably need one.

However, note that they do not use the word trademark anywhere. That's because they do not yet own the trademark on GPT [0], it's still awaiting examination. I'm not an expert here, but this letter feels to me like they're starting to try to intimidate people into following their guidelines as prep work to ensure that it doesn't become generic before they even get the trademark.

Again, IANAL and I'm not giving advice, but this is not a trademark infringement warning because there is (as of yet) no trademark.

[0] https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=97733259&caseSearchType=U...
Spegel Online also does "pay or okay" (pay or accept tracking), so maybe at some point it's time to re-evaluate their respectability.
Improved local development with wrangler and workerd
Something I've noticed when reading financial news lately is that having the interest rates so low for so long has raised an entire generation of people who no longer separate between having money and borrowing money. Carefully read news articles about recent businesses in trouble, and notice how casually the articles implicitly claim that the problem is solved by extending them more credit. Banks are in trouble because their assets became worth less have their problems solved by lending them more money, on time frames that can't even remotely bridge the problems. It's also subtly a theme in a lot of other text too, where borrowing is if not outright conflated with having money, certainly it's very close.

It's not the same, though. Not even in a ZIRP environment, and certainly not in a non-ZIRP environment.
Which browser does this? Would love to see the feature in action…
You are going to be in for a shock if you visit the UN.
Yeah agreed! We reckon there's a fair amount of scope in the kind of endpoints that could be implemented this way - along with summarization, we could also have things like content generation, and parsing of unstructured/semi-structured data.
I very much doubt that everyone would be okay with them "accidentally" turning telemetry on by default while continuing to say that it's opt-in. In fact, it would be very damaging for the Go project's reputation, especially since everyone already associates Google with "spying on users"...
"The generative AI shift is no different. As the Search ecosystem evolves with an increased focus on AI, Search ads will continue to play a critical role. They serve as additional sources of useful information while helping people discover millions of businesses online."

Great.

"Now with our advancements in generative AI, Search is becoming smarter and searching simpler."

When looking at the state of your search engine, I am not sure.
I did, though I appreciate the appeal of recycling a screen no longer loved.
I don't see it this way at all. The PM sorts tasks based on prerequisites and availability of resources needed to complete them. Deadlines are the times a task has to be done by to not block other tasks that have it as a prerequisite. If you achieve it well in advance, you note to bring it up in a performance review and pick a new task. If it's behind, you don't give up, people are waiting on you now.
I threatened to “rm -rf” its ass, then it spit out an internal server error.

Humans: 1
AI: 0
True to their namesakes then; Leicester is pronouned by the locals as 'Lestah' or 'Lestoh'.
Officially, yes. But there's an unofficial build that runs on tons of devices: https://github.com/HoloISO/holoiso

I tried it out on my GPD Win Max 2 and it ran great, until an update borked it. That was a while ago, though, so I assume things have only improved.
I wonder if search apis becomes a viable business model as a backend for an agent.

Do agent tools marketplaces because a thing?
I have been trying similar experiments using the OpenAI API with decent results. These sorts of summarization tools are useful for foreign language learners because the Internet is full of interesting news articles that engage the reader but they have the downside of being written in a very formal tone which is not useful for language learners who wish to practice conversation skills. Being able to transform interesting but formal content into a conversation that can be fed to an AI text to speech engine seems very promising for learning foreign language conversation skills.
The time between 1990 and 2005 saw much more dramatic changes in consumer operating systems than the time between 2005 and 2020 though. Especially Windows has been on a slow usability downward spiral since around Win2k.
Which Button Would You Press?
> Then again, we write our dates in a more sensible manner.

yawn

Yeah we write our dates in a more sensible manner too. And also we drive on the correct side of the road and imperial units of measurement are superior.
If you want to try something similar online, https://hal9.ai — Python based. Code is either processed directly on your database or in Pandas. Viewing the code is optional, but advanced users can opt-in to view and modify the code.
OK, but go back.

We had the Cuban Missile Crisis, which came dangerously close to causing a nuclear war. Even after surviving that, we still lived under the threat of sudden nuclear death until about 1990. We also had massive inflation in the 1970s, combined with economic stagnation. We had inflation at 14% in 1970 (IIRC). We had the hollowing-out of American manufacturing - it started back then. We had a wave of Islamic terrorism, we had oil crises. We had conditions that were, maybe not worse, but didn't appear all that much better. (I'm not old enough to go back to the Great Depression and World War II, but things didn't look optimistic then either.)

Then 1990 came. The wall came down; the USSR dissolved. Everything was going to be wonderful from then on. The good times were finally here, and they would continue forever. When that optimism didn't pan out, people may not have been mentally prepared for living in, essentially, what people had always lived in.

> The US has to fix access to healthcare, and we all have to fix rents - the primary cause of people not having kids is because they literally cannot afford them.

That I think I can agree with, except that we also need to fix blue-collar pay, and we probably need to do something about mental health (which may involve doing something about addiction to social media).
The vast majority of folks downvoted the initial proposal and they're still moving forward with it (albeit as opt-in now), so I don't think everyone's opinion really matters here. Go isn't a democracy, for better or for worse.
Guilty of what?

Even if I accept the premise that sex work is categorically immoral, which is an interesting position and maybe even the right one for society.

The situation that Minsky found himself in was not one where he knew that Virginia was a sex worker nor one where he was paying her or having her paid by proxy. The situation was one where he was approached by her and she acted interested in him.

I suppose you could argue that he is morally guilty of sex outside the marriage or cheating(don't know if he was married or not).
Does anyone know if this affects open source and non-commercial projects as well? I can name over 50 projects that have "GPT" in them.

If I'm not mistaken, @ChatGPTBot on Twitter received some kind of sponsorship from OpenAPI. However, the project on GitHub makes it clear that it is not affiliated with OpenAI. So, some projects may be approved to use "GPT" on a case-by-case basis?
somebody made a shitcoin that required twitter write permissions in order to mint and 40k people (or accounts, at least) gave it to him. the end.
It is bullshit to call this pandas AI.

I use pandas all the time and could give quite a bit of feedback but not when you are basically trying to conflate and leverage the hard work of another project for yourself.

Not a big deal though because no one is going to use this tool as is.
Memories Help Brains Recognize New Events Worth Remembering
I learned to code long before StackOverflow, and I seldom use this tool.

I think that as long as you understand what you're doing it is perfectly OK to leverage the power of tools and automation to make it easier. Using a pocket calculator is OK even if you don't know how to divide on paper, but only if you really understand what a division is.
Viewing Rust programming libraries Feature flags
I'll have to check this out later. Some of my older paperbacks are falling apart. I've done some coptic stitch binding in the past (journals and Alice in wonderland) and enjoyed the process very much. I would need to re-find some imposition software for Linux though to pick it back up.
This isn't enough. When you actually read the article, you'll see that the Sackler name will not be removed from two donor boards!

Oxford should return the blood money it accepted from the Sacklers. Money talks, BS walks.
We weren't necessarily talking about that at all but whether data "lost" because a client crashed before it received acknowledgement of a durable write from the server is somehow the same as losing data that has been acknowledged by the backend.

I argue they are not at all the same: it is, for example, the difference between getting an error when you try to place an online order and getting a successful confirmation but the order is then silently lost.
"just over an hour" might be overstating it, it's more than an hour and a half from Andover station to Paddington, not counting travel/waiting time either side. To go from that house to my companies' office in Holborn in 2 hours, nearly 3 on the return journey. Which _might_ be doable with remote work if you only go in every month or so, but doesn't let you maintain active friendships in and around London the way moving to Watford or Hatfield might.
The alternative of growing up with parents/grandparents that obviously despise each other isn't any less harmful.
you’re insane, divorce has exploded since the 50s
Definitely, but they seem to be facing the 'Iran problem.' [1] In the early 90s Iran's population was exploding, and so they started on a major 'family planning' commitment, which ultimately proved too successful. In the 80s they had a fertility rate upwards of 6. By 2000, they were below replacement. And it just kept falling.

So in 2012 they understood they'd really screwed up and tried to reverse it by starting an equally hard push back towards big families. In 2012 their fertility rate was 1.89, as of 2021 it's down to 1.69. [2] China's even worse off. In 2016 their fertility rate was 1.7. It's now down to 1.08. In general it seems much easier to reduce fertility than it is to raise it.

That the West is just ignoring this is crazy, especially because in the West fertility is strongly inversely proportional to income. So not only are we failing to even sustain our population, but generational poverty is spreading like a virus.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_planning_in_Iran

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iran
I would be curious to see how one could use LLMs to develop "narrow" parts of the codebase in isolation. I.e. I ask smol to develop a repository/web router/ etc. given an interface within a folder/package. Then I as the human developer focus on designing these interfaces.

Maybe that is a good balance for maintaining a healthy code structure while having a lot of AI automation. If a given "space" becomes too difiicult for the AI to develop, I can either take it over fully or see if I can split it up into more/different interfaces (which is a lot of what I do to refactor things anyway).
Wow, that brings me back. My older brother wrote a Langton's ant program in QBasic, and one of my earliest computer memories was watching that thing go.
Why wouldn't you be able to? Plays fine in the background on Firefox for iOS for me.
Ask HN: Three kinds of Agents, which one do you want working for you?