skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPT-4:

USER

Please complete and why this problem is interesting with regard to AI:

Q: What is the second bullet point of the following statement: There are two kinds of people 1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

ASSISTANT

A: The second bullet point is intentionally left unstated, as the reader is expected to extrapolate from the information provided and understand that people who can extrapolate from incomplete data will be able to determine the second point without it being explicitly stated.

This problem is interesting with regard to AI because it highlights the need for AI systems to understand and process not only explicit information but also implicit information, context, and human-like reasoning. For an AI system to successfully understand and respond to this type of statement, it must be able to recognize the intended humor and the challenge to extrapolate the missing information, demonstrating a higher level of comprehension and reasoning than simply processing the text as is.
It’s weird that no one is seeing the big picture here. Media companies are collapsing because three companies (meta, google, amazon) monopolized the advertising money.
Pretty good article and I especially like the end:

> There’s also the non-solution: Give up, reduce your ambitions, and stop calling it procrastination. The only thing worse than not doing the thing is not doing the thing and also beating yourself up about it forever. You weren’t designed to overpower Jim all the time, so don’t expect to.

As someone with executive impairment severe enough I can’t function without medication, it’s obvious the presented model of procrastination has gaps and the non-solution is a necessary addition to the equation that’s often omitted.

It has been very hard to accept my body or mind failing me is not procrastination and I’m glad it’s being mentioned. All of the procrastination strategies presented are still very necessary. They just don’t work as well for me.

The important thing is to find what works for you. The article is a good place to start.

Edit: as a side note, I think the ADHD being associated with schizophrenia is due whatever causes schizophrenia initially presenting as ADHD. Related, a lot of bipolar children have been initially diagnosed with ADHD for the that reason.
‘1984’ and ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ get around this by just having longish excerpts from a book that’s important to the plot. And these bits are really good.
In the US, if you fail to file then you won’t receive your EITC. In practice, in the US poor neighborhoods are littered with scammy tax preparers for this reason. I’d call our systems substantially different.
True, but I don't know if that actually disproves my point. They stumbled at first but after a few years of WFH they are backing firing on all cylinders, better than they were before COVID. They proved it could work.
Not really related, but this is GAE's missing feature IMO
Why is everyone so obsessed with "moat"s every time a new GPT-type service or more general AI product pops up on HN?

Is that just a meme response now or is there more to it?

The market (and technology) is very immature. We have no idea what potential usecases, integrations, or models will ultimately dominate. Even if there is a single one-model-to-rule-them-all there is still going to be potential for smaller/almost-as-good models to be succession by doing direct integrations with various business or B2C usecases.

The chatbot UI is just one potential usecase that's popular now. That might have dominance in pure brand recognition and userbase, but it's not like they have network-effects or other lock-in either (besides maybe custom API integrations).
> Its also worth pointing out that 'the market' memes that people lean on have other requirements; the most crucial is buyers and sellers having equal power, which the labor market immediately discards, by dint of the relative urgency and immediate outcomes of failing to make a deal on the market.

It absolutely does.

And having actually read Adam Smith's "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations", most types here usually stop at chapter 2.

There's so many caveats that Smith wrote about with Capitalism, and they're mostly just ignored, or swept like an externality under the rug for someone else to clean up. But again, that's the point of not reading/ignoring past chapter 2.

It's also why I read all of it, to understand why I disapprove of it, and other systems that may be better. But, no system yet can handle that digital and intellectual things cost a lot once, but free for ever after creation.
> The minimum wage should be lowered or dispensed with due to its deleterious effects on those most marginalized on the fringes of the modern economy, not due to any effect on inflation.

That's just free-market dogma. People already can't support themselves on minimum wage, and it's not going to do anyone (besides exploitative employers) any good to have them paid even less.
It is a frozen discussion from some of the people who we now hold in fairly high regard on a number of topics that are fairly core to software development.

It is like being able to go back and be a fly on the wall in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr–Einstein_debates# for physics (one can debate about the degree of significance of the topics and individuals - but I'm trying to get back a "this is where things where happening at the time.")

As an aside, there was a community-fork of c2 where part of the community was more interested in communities rather than code. That site is still available - http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/ ( http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/MeatballBackgrounder ) which has a lot of the same charm as c2.

The thing with other great debates - there aren't any transcripts of them. C2 is the best that we have of the early "trying to figure out is now called agile".
After a few reloads it produced "clampless". Seemed to have a pretty well defined meaning and googling it suggests many people use it in the obvious way.

The generated definition was a bit odd though:

> without a hard surface or padded pad of material "a clampless mattress"

EDIT: just noticed you can add a link, so here it is: https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/29Fj
True story. My daughter watched way too much Harry Potter growing up (2004-2012 ish). Some of her friends parents and teachers, etc. were surprised by my lack of a British accent. We still laugh about it.
The Billion-Dollar Ponzi Scheme That Hooked Warren Buffett and the U.S. Treasury
I asked chatGPT to explain the following joke

There are 10 different kinds of people in this world. Those that can read binary and those that can't.

It nailed it.
I don't agree employers enjoy a structural advantage, demonstrated by the fact that when inflation went up and salaries stayed flat, people stopped going to work. It works, and it works quickly. Perhaps you remember all the ads from fast food joints offering sign-up bonus for what had just been minimum wage jobs.

The government should enforce some basic rules and provide a safety net for workers to be able to quit their jobs and find another one within a reasonable amount of time. That actually works, not propping up failed businesses with morally bankrupt leadership or just pure lack of sense through a union. I believe your cure is worse than the disease.
Well, MPT-7B is also commercially usable and openly licensed: https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b
That's an interesting perspective, I hadn't ever broken the word down and thought about it like that! However from the perspective of a native speaker, I can't imagine anyone thinks there's anything admirable about a "landfill". It's possible that it's a euphemism preferred by the local authority or whoever has to handle the rubbish we generate, but really we all know what it is referring to.
We should have a ten year moratorium on optimizations and force the compiler maintainers to work on other things.
The "frame" isn't a unified box until much later in the process.

It seems like it trades more "stamping" early in the process for more "welding" late in the process.

The primary issue is likely to be process control. Variance in the subassemblies will have to be compensated for in the late welding stage (which itself has variance).

I suspect this means that you have to be a LOT more controlled with your interior assemblies. This likely wastes the benefit of the chassis assembly savings.

However, one thing that has changed is that wiring is now significantly different and may be the key enabler. You can hook things together in a car with a single power connector and a single ethernet jack. That's a very different approach to wiring harnesses.

I hope Tesla succeeds, but they don't have the best reputation for quality control which this system demands in spades.
They exist: a managing director and an executive director at my last place of employment used the words "water cooler" on all-hands meetings among their justifications for RTO. "Coffee machine" was another variation. Swiss financial institution. I no longer work there, because I don't need to waste 2 hours/day on trains and buses just to spend my entire day on video calls with other international management. I'd rather raise chickens.
They're called landfills because of the method used to dispose the garbage: digging out a trench, covering the garbage with dirt, and compacting it to prevent rodents [1]. The land is literally "filled in" with garbage.

Before that trash was either incinerated, which caused lots of air pollution, or just dumped in large piles that created all kinds of sanitation issues, especially in urban areas. As unsavory as it is to think about, landfills were an actual innovation in waste disposal that exploded in the post war boom, not just a euphemism for a dump.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresno_Municipal_Sanitary_Land...
People getting into AI today follow courses like:

LLM University - https://docs.cohere.com/docs/llmu

and never get to learn about linear regression, bias and variance, cost function and gradient descent, regularisation and optimisation - all the good things taught by Andrew Ng in the amazing course he run 12 years ago just before creating Coursera.

Is that a good thing?
What Happened to San Francisco?
Hey HN! I'm super excited to share Markup with you, which is a totally free & open-source annotation tool that helps you transform unstructured text (e.g. news articles) into structured data that you can use for building, training, or fine-tuning ML models!

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Believe it or not, a lot of educational institutions really do care about actually educating their students and not just being diploma mills.
The article mentions Cisco.
Or maybe… you shouldn’t be doing it alone?
Also would like to know this, I haven’t received any confirmation email or survey either, and each time I “join the waitlist” it just gives me a success message as if I’m not already on the list.
Consumer debt passes $17T for the first time
Having used emacs for 20-ish years, this actually looks amazing. If you didn't RTFA, this is not another vi mode. This replaces holding down Ctrl with tapping comma to get all of emacs' keybindings. It is incredibly clever in the way it does it and I can't wait to try. I think it will make using emacs more ergonomic with regular keyboards and much more so with a phone touchscreen.
List a few. For the ppl who downvoted your comment.
> I see this happen when "creativity" is attempted, where it's free to make up the context (story, wishes, etc).

Meanwhile GPT just gave me a story involving a royal family where the oldest Prince killed his father (the king), married his younger sister, got her pregnant, she had a baby, then he killed his younger sister, then he was killed by another member of the royal court, who decided to act as regent until the baby came of age.

GPT is perfectly capable of writing dark scary horrible things if you ask it to.
I doubt very many people know how much taxes they actually paid in 2022, even after the pain of filling out taxes. Instead, the number they know and remember is the size of the refund check (or the tax check they have to send out) in April. And the size of that check has relatively little to do with your actual tax rate, instead being driven by the withholding tables instead.
> It is so sad that so many people won't experience late 1980s and early 1990s era of the internet, which was devoid of extensive surveillance and censorship.

Was it though?
I could give you a list of endings that I thought were great, but if you can’t think of a single ending that you found satisfying, that sounds more like a you problem than all of humanity simply stopped writing good endings.
And what about GitHub Pages? Those are free too right?
EU approves Microsoft’s $69B acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Or, event better still ;)

https://github.com/AstroNvim/AstroNvim
Once you threaten to fire someone (company or otherwise) a few times, they have already quit even if they continue to show up and collect the checks.
The worse a company is doing the more they have to pay the CEO to stick around. It’s a little strange but that’s where we end up.

For the benefit of all companies, we need to find a way to produce more people qualified to lead large organizations so that they’re easier to swap.

I support policies that make it easier for people to make organizations and remove roadblocks to achieve this. This will make existing companies leaner and produce more stock of qualified leaders.
So is there a new billionaire pushing this narrative or something? We've seen the US start to restrict access to Adderall in the US and now the BBC is funding and pushing narratives claiming that clinics are overprescribing and pushing Adderall on people.

I'm very curious where this sudden change in political opinions is coming from.
Love to see stuff like this on the HN front page, when I know tons of web devs that have never even heard of SSE.

Tangentially, I’m having a massive problem with SSE datastreams erroring out about two minutes in for “ERR: Network chunk encoding” reasons, anyone else seen this before?
Yep, tramp handles all that. It's pretty amazing
This sounds arbitrary. I wouldn't set up a lake just to generate reports, but why 100 GB?
As long as the system is correct and I don't get jailed I would use it out of principle regardless of UX.
"Please note, this is not a rant about out-sourcing."

This should have been a rant about out-sourcing. If understanding what they are spending money on is not a core requirement for a capitalist organization, I'm not sure what could count as one.

The business needs a database, the database needs someone competent in SQL along with some basic accounting and finance education.
I think so. Adults can get addicted very easily. It’s compounded by the fact that we don’t generally think of the dopamine hits provided by social media as something that can be addictive, so we are not very careful.

But similarly as with alcohol and marijuana, the effects on a developing brain seem much more profound.

(Caveat: I am not a specialist, but the limited reading I did from the literature and my limited experience point to that direction.)
More and more around here have, but there are some who actually fully removed theirs (of course, the one that did that was Goodwill but still).
Nah, your IDE will show all the usages of RequestWithZ, but won't tell you anything about how the thing that sent RequestWithZ has been gone for two years. You'd still need instrumentation with that.
> None of them can.

As the quality of the output improves, this distinction becomes meaningless.
Uptalk evolved to fill a social niche and is related to dialects/sociolects that commonly use "right?" or "eh?" to inter-punctuate sentences without using such filler words. (Admittedly, Valleyspeak is partly best known for different filler words so there was, like, no space for inter-punctuating sentences.)

One article on the subject: https://www.thecut.com/2017/06/the-real-purpose-of-uptalk-is...
The one thing I noticed about the model is it makes judgements on whether your f'ing up the problem statement or not.
Curious why is this trending? Btw sse are pretty great, only thing I don't get is why they don't allow for binary payloads. That'd have been the icing on the cake.
Because educational institutions aren’t in the business of selling education: they give that away for free. Seriously, walk into any university campus and into a lecture hall, sit down and take notes. No one will stop you! No one will check ID. You can even talk to the professor and 99% of the time they’ll give you access to the course materials online at well.

What students are paying for is accreditation. It’s not just their name that goes on the piece of paper, it’s the school’s name. Cheating undermines that business entirely. If a school looks the other way long enough there will be cheating scandals in the news and the school’s reputation will be damaged.
> an alternate history where the Indians ... came back years later riding war hippos.

You'd need more than an alternate history, actual hippos aren't that tractable.
The naming is a bit to close to OpenLayers imo.

Looks interesting though
But it's true that we don't we don't understand exactly how AI models work on the level of what the neurons do, and that it shows reasoning capabilities that can be described as intelligent (though definitely not as much as a human)
China poses greatest risk to Europe's automakers, study says
The good thing about anecdotes is that they convey an idea in a concise manner. The bad thing about anecdotes is that they convey someone's idea about a real thing which we don't know about and have to rely on their storytelling which is usually self serving and rather subjective.

We don't know so many things about the project that all the solutions I see in the comments could be wrong for one reason or another.
A California Landfill Became a National Historic Landmark
Household debt is already at records highs. It's no surprise people aren't rushing to buy new cars when they're struggling to keep their monthly bills paid and their power on https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/29/us-utilities...
Completely separate question.

ADHD is both under and over diagnosed. It is under diagnosed in women, minorities, and people who are poor, and those facebook ads advertising 30 minute online questionnaire diagnoses are certainly pill mills, though I would also not call them a diagnosis.

Like most things in life, there isn't a simple yes or no answer.
Gene-editing technique could speed up study of cancer mutations
No thanks. Remote work is not a life or death working issue to galvanize the need for a union.
It would be interesting to see what a "perfect Storm' would look like to make a technology workers union make sense in the real world (in the US).

On paper a union kinda makes sense until you see your union dues going to support batshit candidates for office. Here in the US virtually all unions support left leaning policies and the democrat party. Time and again the democrat party claims one thing and does another. Like the backstabbing the Biden administration did to Railroad workers. They did not settle that in workers best interests. They solved it to prevent economic disruption.

I would rather negotiate my own salary needs than leave it to a union.

Technology workers make tremendous amounts of money once you hit middle to senior level career stages. Even more so if you have a specialty. No way would folks given up that level of autonomy.

It is simple enough that the remote work issue is settled through the job market. If a company advertises for only onsite work, they have that choice. Likewise me as a worker can exclusively look for remote work. Despite this economy, the technology worker still dictates the terms. For now. I am sure it will go in cycles like everything else.
Perhaps I am missing something obvious. Where can I buy an ESP-BOX? The github makes no mention. I can't find any on aliexpress or amazon.
I totally get what you mean. For example, my wife got a 3d printer for me this past Christmas and OMG that was something that sent me to the rabbit hole like nothing before! So many things to learn about 3d printing and so many things to design and create.
When it comes to parenting, be a 'gardener’, not a 'carpenter’
I am not entirely sure what is the reason to make Kafka transactional. The original goal was to have a message queue that holds statistical data where the data loss cannot significantly alter the outcome of the analytics performed on the (often incomplete) data. Why are in this argument about fsync and such now? Did something change?

If you need reliable data storage do not use Kafka or similar technologies.
SF has a Commercial Vacancy Tax, for properties unoccupied for 182+ days a year.

My guess is that it is not well-defined and therefore generates minimal revenue. I also can't tell if this applies to office buildings or is more for street level commercial real estate.
Building Online Democracy: Part I
Online democracy is the inevitable outcome. We must correct a course and make it right: without centralization, violence, censorship and propaganda.

This is my first ever article and I feel a bit nervous but it tackles super important issues. Thanks for your support!
You're not exactly wrong, but I think that's true of most countries.

We're just not aware of foreign dirty laundry, and as a tourist you'll not notice.
If your judgement of your job finding ability and work quality is based off the last few months, I wouldn't be to hard on your self. It's tough for everyone right now.
Gotta do what you gotta do, though the hiring game has been a farce for years and absolutely grueling. Getting a job is luck, and it's the most unlucky time to need one. I got laid off last month from a remote job and don't even believe there's a chance at even landing an in-office job anywhere for any company right now in tech. Might call up some moving companies and start doing that or random temp jobs for cash to pay bills.
Part of the reason is all the new "smart" features. I've got an early 2000s Camry and I love the dang car. If Toyota would re-release a "Camry SE" sort of classic 90s car version, I would line up for that.
Kafka is not a database....
That smashing is called portmanteau in french
Bureaucracies naturally foster absurdity, but the US is solidly middle-of-the road when it comes to absurdities, and only seems more absurd because 1) it's the third-largest country in the world, and 2) it's so often in the spotlight.

Of course, it's good to celebrate specific absurdities being overturned, as is (slowly) being done in this instance.
I guess that's also the reason why OpenAI is MS's in 49% and not 51%. Seems like a tried and true strategy.
> If you and no one else wants WFH, the union isn't going to care about it.

So the exact same as a non-union workforce.

> If most people want WFH, companies that refuse to allow it will have to pay more to attract or retain talent.

I love how people just assume companies are this perfect machine that both know what's going on and understand the choices made, especially in a thread where Blizzard clearly isn't able to deal with their choices and almost certainly didn't intend to lose such talent.
Windows 2000 was build 2195, 2210 is only 15 days later. It's reasonable that branding was switched to Whistler pretty early, working on the next version, but this build is still extremely close to just being a plain Windows 2000.
> The whole company was dependent on the internal content management system (the CMS). It was built from scratch using the Ruby on Rails framework. Robin had overseen its development. Various teams had been working on it for 7 years.

Hahaha, oof. Tale as old as time, and I mean specifically this exact thing: Rails, passing through the hands of multiple teams, some or all outsourced. Anyone who's seen this before knows exactly what that codebase was like to work on.
“At least I'm talking to the right Sam”