skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not to beat the constant drum of anti-capitalism, but this is the effect that we get when every company is for-profit and massive growth. curiosity doesn't have a direct path to profit, and so most people are stuck working on moving metrics, and nothing else.

one can make the argument "well you have free time on the side, just do it then if youre truly interested" but realistically most people, myself included, are completely braindead after work. i have a lot of interests and hobbies but i can only find 2-3 hours on the weekends to get into them because i am mentally drained and shot after a day of work full of (mostly) pointless meetings. i don't mind work, i NEED work. but, i also need it to be fulfilling, motivating and the function of those is to me at least, seeing a positive effect on society. i imagine most people deep down inside want to help the world in some way.

this is the life we've created for ourselves in the USofA. R&D/curiosity is reserved for certain demographics, and that's not even saying ONLY the privileged or the rich, that includes young people who have energy and drive before it gets hammered in by <insert corporation>, or the people who are willing to load up on methamphetamines, or the select few people who truly are amazing at having a 9-5 and being cognitively healthy enough to do brain intensive tasks after work.

the point i'm making here is that we are frogs in boiling water. i remember the days (a decade ago) when I was working and exploring new personal frontiers of interest. Projects at the startups i worked on were exciting and interesting even if they were failures. Nowadays I work at <bigcorp> where every work stream is defined by some OKR. Product people have moats and act like feudal warlords. Everything is resume driven development, and the common theme here is more money/income and ultimately capitalistic greed being shoved down everyone's throats. It all sucks. Our culture in America revolves around money and greed, and it's getting worse and worse. Everything glows a certain shade of gray, and soon we'll all be indistinguishable from gray goo
also had the same issue. Figured after the first page it would probably show up but I scrolled multiple pages and still nothing.
Wow, just tried to search organically and there are an awful lot of existing apps already spun up to give you access to ChatGPT. I wonder if Apple will help them be prioritized in the rankings or if they'll be pushed into spending ad dollars to appear at the top of the search.
Oh, I don't think it's quite that grim. When development teams can no longer easily spend their way out of their inefficient code, being able to write high performance code becomes a competitive advantage. I'd even go so far as to say that individual developers looking to get ahead in their careers should pay less attention to flashy tech fads and more at foundational stuff like how to diagnose performance problems and write efficient code.
Ramp Intelligence launches (powered by OpenAI)
As in, the two files in that directory that start with "sum". This is one example, it's also found bugs in my code. See the blog post linked in the original post for more examples.
My point, which you missed: It doesn't matter what Knuth does.

thr-nrg rightly pointed out in their comment that you can place the code wherever you want. You then say, "Knuth puts it at the top" (meant as a criticism of his style).

My point (so you don't miss it again): You can place the code wherever you want when doing a literate programming style. It also doesn't matter what Knuth does with his includes because his style does not dictate your style or my style or anyone else's style. So put it wherever you want. His style does not matter.
Absolutely, but that alone doesn't mean much.
> somehow are here just to post and comment about non-programming topics.

I comment way more on non-programming topics because that's where I think I can contribute - most people on here are better programmers than I am but I have life experiences that are fairly unusual for this particular bubble. I do read the technical posts but I don't have much to say.

As for the 'somehow', I was raised by hackers and I used to be one - I'm too much of a generalist to fully commit to it but I'm 'culturally' a hacker/hacker adjacent. I imagine our ranks are growing for various reasons, which might explain some of the shift.
Actually, a tab only sends its content to a unique offscreen document[0], and because of the single-threaded nature of JS, it works as a queue. So, you are right, throttling might be feasible without too much hurdle.

[0] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/offsc...
A facade cuts out the boilerplate to achieve the same ends as a contract, which is to provide a dependency of some kind.

I agree with the documentation sentiment. The documentation is enough to get one started, but not nearly enough to get the job done well. The community is overran with beginners, and you are left to your own devices once you really want to get your hands dirty.
> completely and utterly unworkable

Pittsburgh used to have a vibrant rail and trolley system. Most American cities that were established before cars did. It's absolutely workable, it's just a question of priorities.

> part immaturity

Explain please?

> degrowth mindset

Not inherently. For many it's just a question of where people want the growth to be, and which modes of transit get priority.

I live about 30 minutes from Pittsburgh in an area that could be called rural (or at least a rural-feeling part of a suburb), and 80% of where I need to travel more or less happens on a straight line of road that follows the Ohio River. There's no inherent reason why that must be a highway instead of a railway.

I have bus stops that are about a mile and three miles away; if one of those was also a train station it would vastly cut down on the amount of driving I'd have to do. I'd enjoy that greatly!
Post author here. I think that's a great description of a "why" for this kind of setup.

I personally feel like with a lot of these emerging AI tools I still find myself still in the exploration phase. Trying to understand how they work and what they do, to then wrap my ahead around why I use them. Some of this post is a look into how I've been wrapping my head around the what and how of LangChain. Doing a follow-up digging deeper into the "why" and what benefits folks may see from this kind of setup is a really good nudge for me. Thanks!
So live somewhere else.

I get that this has been talked to death, but it still kind of boils to a simple fact: We live in an actual, physical world. We can't build more than e.g. one apartment in the same physical space.

I would think programmers could understand the concept of 3d collision detection.
>They could probably get away with phoning it in and releasing a crappy mainline Zelda/Mario game annually

Idk, it sure seems like they have been phoning it in. At least if you compare to their quality 20 years ago.
There is probably no other reason to bring this app to iOS and Android. ChatGPT works very well as a PWA added to home screens.
Wow, I disagree with you on almost every point! :) Which is not a bad thing, people naturally have different perspectives after all. I tried to like GNOME for literally years, but as a power user found that it got in my way more often than not:

* Features that I got accustomed to and used on a daily basis got removed in order to clean up some module or another, under the justification that "nobody used it anyway." Well, nobody asked me apparently? Requests to bring these features back were politely declined or ignored.

* GNOME seemed to go all-in on a "hybrid computing" experience because the developers believed that the future was portable devices that you could both carry around with you and then dock to a keyboard and screen at work or home. That never materialized (or hasn't materialized yet) so now a lot of GNOME functionality is stuck _between_ these two worlds and doesn't mesh cleanly with either.

* The GNOME devs' answer to functionality not invented here is to just make an extension for it. Except that installing extensions is (or was?) a burdensome affair, and GNOME breaks the extension API often enough that you might not be able to upgrade your GNOME if the extensions you use haven't been updated by their maintainers.

* As a desktop user, I want to be able to resize windows. But, there are no longer any window borders. Instead, there is an area that you can grab with the mouse to resize the window. But it's invisible, you can't _see_ it unless you hover your mouse over it. And it's on the _inside_ of the window, meaning it actually covers up application controls. Thus, you can place your mouse cursor directly over a scroll bar, click, start dragging, and find yourself resizing the window instead of scrolling the document.

* Don't get me started on the thicc window title bars.

* I prefer focus-follows-mouse and this is just super-duper broken in GNOME, in a number of ways.

I think software developers would do well to get away from the idea that their one project can possibly be suitable for all users. We clearly have users with different goals and levels of experience and it's not a bad thing to more narrowly target those users.
Now do Yemen, Iraq (first and second time), Pakistan, Libya and Syria. Then do Vietnam, then consider the support and armament of Israel and finish up with decades of CIA meddling and installation of brutal dictatorships all around the globe.
Yeah. I saw this announcement, and searched both "chatgpt" and "open ai" (sic, as auto-suggested) in the App Store and gave up scrolling looking for it. The unofficial app logos look waaaay closer to the ChatGPT logo than the official white logo does, and the SEO (ASO?) seems poor. Not sure what either party can do about it though, but it's a disappointing situation.
They have numerous problems. They are wrong a lot and die constantly as prime examples.
Lessons from Netflix's Jewish Matchmaking on Boosting Team Performance
I am working on a smart RSS reader that collects about 1000 articles on a good day from various sources including CS papers from arXiv. It selects about 300 articles (summary only) most days that i browse through a TikTok like interface (i judge one article at a time so I get valid negatives unlike the typing “learning to rank” problem). I can favorite an article to retrieve it later, say i like it to see more like it in the future but not save, or say i dislike it.

It is powered by transformer models and sbert.net, these are used to assign articles to 20 clusters generated daily, i see the top 15 from each cluster. This does a reasonable job of handling a diverse feed that includes CS abstracts, trade publication article, sports news, etc. I have high satisfaction in days that the system gets a lot of articles (peaks on Thorsday) but less on the weekends, sometimes I backfill high-scoring articles from last week then.

I tried using fine-tuned BERT-like models for classification and got them to equal the performance of the embedding-based system after a huge amount of work and a much longer training time. My problem is pretty noisy and there is some limit to how high i can get the AUC.
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Henry Kissinger is a war criminal that shouldn't be anywhere near anything of importance.
When we recently looked into self-storage to store our junk, the high prices per cubic foot (in a very HCOL area) made us recontextualize our junk in terms of how much rent each item was paying to live with us. Far more in rent over a few months then just buying a new one of whatever it was, when we needed it.

We got rid of a lot of junk.
Where is it making a comeback? Are people writing web and mobile apps in C?
Downloaded and wanted to give it a try, and asked for my phone number from the get go. Deleted.
>Some people just expand to fill all available space.

Yeah. There are a lot of people who use storage units (or attics or garages) to store stuff that they have no real plan to ever use. And, at some point, it gets sufficiently out of control that dealing with it becomes such a big project that it's easier to close the door and forget about it.

I do use my attic as something of a staging area for moving things out of the house (as well as for bulky stuff I do use but not frequently). But I try to be deliberate about winnowing things down over time.
Bingo!

That is the bitter lesson.

Thank you for posting this here!
I liked that when a major person in Italian organized crime was arrested, US newspapers called him a “capo dei capi” while Italian newspapers called him a “boss dei boss”.

For example, here’s a book using that title

https://m.libreriauniversitaria.it/amp/product/BIT/978887928...
To add this I recommend people watch Shigeru Miyamoto's 1999 GDC Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9DlhDRZ0yA

They also take into consideration the limitations of the hardware from the very beginning, and not just the engineers, but the designers as well.

"...Although I am not an engineer, I have always included in my designs consideration for the technology that will make those designs a reality. People have paid me a lot of lip service, calling me a genius story teller or a talented animator, and have gone so far as to suggest that I try my hand at movies, since my style of game design is, in their words, quite similar to making movies. But I feel that I am not a movie maker, but rather that my strength lies in my pioneering spirit to make use of technology to create the best, interactive commodities possible, and use that interactivity to give users a game they can enjoy and play comfortably. "
brought to you by the chief executive behind the Microsoft Kinect.

It's a Kinect. It's a head tracker.
> They took the genuine piece and swapped some stuff out and modified firmware, not just made a straight up fake. That's why it was hard to detect, it was a completely genuine device on the face of it.

They could have also made a complete fake as well instead of a partial fake just by keeping the plastic enclosure, this device isn't exactly complicated.

> Yes. But that is tricky (not much free space in the body to add something new) and can probably be detected visually. However if somebody swapped an existing part like a camera for a fake camera that acts like a camera but also spies on you then it would be tricky to visually see, but the phone would warn you.

That's kind of a ridiculous threat model anyway, those targeted attacks are just going to hack the iPhone and stream the camera in software whenever they want with some custom payload.
And yet there's still a Monarchy.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_marker or (German) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermessungspunkt.

They also often are attached to buildings. Partly that’s because high points in the landscape such as church towers are often used for long-distance triangulation, partly because engineers want to track how fast a building sinks relative to its surroundings (such sinkings can be highly local in areas where buildings are built on soft ground or on below-ground sand layers. Bedrock is too far below ground in quite a few locations to build on)
> “Five years ago, it wasn’t like this,” he says about the people openly using drugs around us on Market Street, just outside the Urban Alchemy headquarters, where he sells souvenir photographs of local liquor stores. “Five years ago, a black guy with a pipe got arrested; now the police walk past a white guy with a needle in his arm,” he says.

So, as of the past 5-10 years there are these really progressive district attorneys who really do not like to prosecute people. I'm not going to say who generally funds their campaigns, because I'm tired of being downvoted, but you can find out pretty easily.
fyi, BotW was actually made for WiiU. They ported it to switch and did a double release.
There’s a direct link on the article. It’s not available in my country though. Or at least that’s the error message I got.

Update:

“We're starting our rollout in the US and will expand to additional countries in the coming weeks”
Now do Ukraine.

What about US actions elsewhere makes Russia's invasion moral?
> inflation plus a specified percent

You sure? In NL it's just inflation, anything else means you have the option to cancel. Seems odd that they could specify an extra percentage in their terms of service just for the heck of it, not because of increased costs or so.

Though, in practice, you're with a carrier for a reason (either best quality or lowest price) and the competition also raised prices per inflation, or at least close enough that it doesn't tip the scale, so there's never a point cancelling a contract prematurely. Maximum contract duration is 2 years anyway iirc.
You're reading it wrong. Try re-reading it literally:

> the discrete [sic] nature of it is to allow for greater freedom of discussion.

Meeting in secret greatly increases freedom of discussion for the participants involved. They can talk about literally anything without the media sniffing around.

This has nothing to do with freedom for you and I, nor is that implied anywhere. Their statement is actually refreshingly honest; these people don't bother with gaslighting anymore, they outright tell you they're fucking you because nobody can do anything about it anyway.
There is no "best" per say. People with money are really good at optimizing living costs, especially with the WFH trend, so any "best" city is automatically going to have more people moving in, and costs go through the roof. Look at Austin for example, within the last 6 years, any house close to downtown is $1 million or more.

There are also secondary factors. For example, pollution, allergies, e.t.c that can make an otherwise nice place to live terrible.
Yeah, I don't speak chinese, but there are many european languages that use accents to change sounds of vowels. In portuguese, the difference between grandmother (avó) and grandfather (avô) is just in how you pronounce the o. I am extremely skeptical that any language that humans speak could be impossible to create a phonetical writing system for. It may need features that the latin alphabet lacks, but it should be possible.
So far just microphone access if you want to use voice to search.
It's the average IPC improvement from the AMD marketing slides - Zen 2 over Zen, 15%, Zen 3 over Zen 2, 19% and Zen 4 over Zen 3 at 13%, so Zen 3 over Zen is 37% and Zen 4 over Zen is 55% (maybe a typo in the article)
"This app requires iOS 16.1 or later"

Pure laziness.
Detroit has a bright future ahead of it. All the evidence suggests that it hit bottom a while ago and is rebounding. People really should visit and see first hand (in the summer, if the weather is that important to you).
Note that if you use Verizon for your cell phone and have a 5G plan, the price halves. Setting up AutoPay lowers it further, down to $25 best case. (I'm currently paying $35 for 5G Home Plus.)
Its privacy report card is not great.
Jeez, the app is impossible to find among all the fakes. I had to go to openai's website and use the link there.
Public money for universities have actually scaled back over time.

> A majority of state legislatures spent far less on public colleges and universities in 2020 than they did in 2008, an NEA analysis shows. This means colleges and universities must rely on students to pay the cost of college—and those students are borrowing to do it.

https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/state...
NOT loving the excessive vibrations on the phone. It increases my anxiety somehow... I'd remove it honestly or make it 10% of what it is in certain cases only.

I might be alone in this, but we've been trained for vibrations to mean something. Vibrating the phone on every line or response from ChatGPT seems excessive to me (and a battery drain as well!).
How to Acquire Wisdom
This article has more detail:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35990152
I would agree with you on water, gas and electricity, but that's mainly because those installations are bulky and H2O, CH4 and electrons are (relatively) fungible.

On the other hand, being an L1 fibre provider requires a point of presence in the every location where your customers' fibres are terminated because packets are not fungible. Of course, you could expose L2 access by mandating that an independent party such as OpenReach own that fibre terminating equipment and then have them interface with ISPs in an IXP, which is what I assume you're suggesting. That works. Technically. It worked for LLU to privatise BT's existing network, and resulted in a huge reduction in prices to access the existing network.

On the other hand, it was pretty useless for innovation. Nobody had any incentive to build any new infrastructure, so it just languished. My OR connection is still 30Mb/s, rather than the multiple private 1Gb/s+ providers in my area. Plus OpenReach takes weeks to set up a new service and are useless at fixing faults. Even now, OR fibre, in the few places you can get it, is limited to 115Mb/s upload, and it's expensive, whereas the best private fibre company near me is 3Gb/s symmetrical for £50/month. If as an independent ISP renting L2 access from OR, if I want to provide better bandwidth than OR is willing to sell, there's nothing I can do.

Fibre is tiny and easy to install, relatively speaking. There's not much additional cost to having multiple redundant fibre providers covering a street. I do wonder if there's something we can do to find a middle ground, like open access under-road trunking, or having a right to buy the fibre installation from an ISP and port it to another provider.
>very many fake ChatGPT apps

But its for our security to have a closed ecosyste---Walled Garden. Woah there, almost didn't stick to the marketing that we were all taught.
Then if they have something to report on, report on it. As you point out, I think it's 100% fine, and indeed advisable, to be skeptical of people's motives. But what do you suggest, prohibiting free association of individuals?
Five Guys has always been that price, but I agree with your point. As a Brit, the US is pretty crazy too though. I just saw a single broccoli for $7 at a grocery store in Palo Alto.

On my $172k salary I pay $59k in taxes which is roughly $1k more than I'd pay in the UK but in the UK that includes national insurance while in the US I pay health insurance on top. So while taxes sound crazy in the UK it's not actually different to the US - it's all marginal. VAT is only 7.25% in California but then you have to add 15-20% in tips when you're out.
Boomers own a bigger share of the wealth than people the same age 20y+ ago:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charting-the-growing-genera...
> while it's rarely mentioned in polite conversation.

Maybe your polite conversations?
To me it sounds like a format worth considering in other places too. Thanks to the partial secrecy rules, they don't have to parrot populist talking points to receive good press.

If you think about it, the internet used to be like that at some time in the past when the pseudonyms were the default and the content wasn't ranked by popularity or points.
So move out of London. Move to the North where rents are vastly less expensive.
Show HN: Video capture tool for astrophotography (in Rust with GTK)
Hi everyone,
The presented video capture tool is a clean rewrite of my older C++ project, with a bunch of new features. I dogfood it in all of my imaging sessions. Even if you're not into amateur astronomy, the use of gtk-rs (which has been a pleasant experience so far) and interfacing with camera C APIs might of be interest.
Well, and photonics, quantum computing, etc. But they're not there yet.
The media is owned by people that participate in Davos. Can't expect anything other than cover from a mouthpiece.

Of course you shouldn't believe them. Nobody has more interest in your wellbeing than yourself. People saying how the plebs should live have an agenda.

WEF states their goals on their website without actually saying how they will be achieved.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a...