skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it already is removing human interactions from my life

This is the best feature of ChatGPT for me, and the reason I pay for it.
That is also just a few years before World of Warcraft came out, which drove everyone to focus more on multiplayer games. Not that we didn't all do multiplayer at LAN parties, but that is when it really switched to being done across the internet.

FWIW, I have a pet theory that WoW took over at that point not because of the MMO concept (which already existed), but because their UX was so smooth. That was the first MMO that "just worked" to understand what you were trying to click. The others at that time would take multiple tries to click an object correctly.

In any case, the success of WoW is what changed the direction of gaming a few years after all those games came out, so I'm agreeing with you that it was an incredible era.
Yes, existing files are not updated.
> as the continent reels from geopolitical risks, inflation and energy costs, along with skills shortages and supply-chain disruptions.

While energy costs probably weren't too affected on the US, it is funny that the business up always signed up on the plans for NS/NS2 and never looked one centimeter further into the geopolitical risk. Well, then

Inflation and skills shortage are also an issue in the US, possibly even more (and remains to be seen if they can get the same skill with European salaries)

But that being said, moving production to the US is a better choice than China.
That still doesn't sound a terrible situation for door dash considering the global reach. Not sure about sfgate, but ars would be a pretty niche group as well
It's a bunch of stuff.

- Standard libraries for audio software are less tested on Linux and tend to be buggier there, and we have to chase down those bugs.

- There are a bajillion versions of Linux, and even if you say you only support some subset of those, Linux users will ignore that and still write to support when it doesn't work on their distro / version. Sometimes that even extends to writing bad reviews online.

- Packaging on Linux is annoying since there are a bunch of different formats, and nothing will make everyone happy.

Because of those issues, we probably get almost as much support mail for Linux as for macOS or Windows, despite Linux being 1% of our user base. From a cost perspective, it just doesn't make sense to keep supporting it. Ironically, we'll keep developing it, because we do some of the development on Linux, and often test on Linux before Windows. From what I know of other companies: we're not unique there, and I thought some of this might be interesting info for pro-audio Linux users.
I prefer/dev/null for write heavy workloads that need long term storage. There’s plenty of data in modern physics to suggest that there’s no information loss from going into a black hole, so there shouldn’t be any problems. Put “architected web scale data singularity with bulletproof disaster recovery plan” in your CV. You don’t need to mention the recovery plan is to interview for new jobs when someone starts asking to access the data.
This isn’t appropriate content for HN, but let us not forget the scars of colonialism came/come in many forms.
When the "HER" distopia catches up with reality.
More interesting, possibly, is the project that this is forked from (by the same developer), which is a general-purpose framework for LangChain Agents: https://github.com/steamship-packages/langchain-agent-produc...

I'm curious, though. It appears to be using the OpenAI API, which means that at some point it has to have an API key, but I can't see any sign in the code of where it expects to get this from.
Traffic proposals?
Thats your reason for not having an AI girlfriend?
This isn't mentioned in the article, but this number just scratches the surface of illustrating how broadly Section 702 gets used: https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/02/fbi_section_702_searc...
That tends to happen when one country starts giving large free handouts to corporations, yes. It’s a shame that the EU is so spineless. Tariffs and severe commercial restrictions should have been de rigueur following the passing of the IRA.
Be interesting to see if there is any impact. Especially globally as well.
On the plus side they've not invaded other countries and killed a load of people, not exactly a fair comparison.

When they're not at war would be a good time to bring that up
Is there much consumer confusion here? Are people buying oat drink "dairy alternative" and thinking they can use it 1-to-1 in place of milk?

This feels like a silly way to go about it, especially as we should be lowering our consumption of these animal products.

I do not know if these products are better for the environment, so in general I just avoid the category. Except for cheese, can't not have cheese.
There is also Note (https://www.ableton.com/en/note/), if you have an iOS device.
> mass multiplied by velocity equals momentum

Isn't kinetic energy, ie. 1/2 m v^2, more appropriate for measuring the danger of vehicles?
Personally, I don't really like the Push platform, having previously owned a Push 2.

I can understand the value of it if you're performing live, however the hard reality is that it's a really inefficient way to create electronic music. The mouse and keyboard are simply a lot faster to use.

With that said, maybe that's for you. But if you're trying to make advanced productions as quickly as possible, then I really see no value in the Push. You could of course use it as a MIDI controller, but it's a damn expensive one if your sole purpose is to use it as a MIDI controller.
None of those individual claims are true.

1. Windows 3.1 can run without DOS. For example: on top of DR DOS, an entirely independent operating system from a different vendor. And of course it also runs on top of OS/2 2.0 and above which is not remotely DOS like in structure. Now yes to be fair that is because IBM had access to the Microsoft source code for Windows 3.0 and 3.1. Even so it falsifies your statement.

2. Your claim about multitasking is wrong and it is specifically refuted in the article that you are criticising.

2a. Under Windows 3.0 and 3.1, Windows binaries multitask cooperatively, and programs can and do run in the background. You can minimise the program and it will keep working. Four example you could minimise a comms program that is doing a download of a dial-up, and keep working in some other application. Your download would continue. I used this in production from 2.01 up until Windows for Workgroups 3.11. It was Windows 3 – it was very unstable – so you have to be extremely careful with what you did, but it was possible.

2b. As the article specifically spells out, Windows 3.0 and 3.1 were able to pre-emptively multitask DOS applications. So although Windows binaries were only cooperatively multitasked, DOS binaries were pre-empted... which was necessary because MS-DOS didn't support multitasking. And just for the sake of clarity, this did not require a 386: they were able to multitask DOS apps even on 8086, although that ability wasn't much use, because you wouldn't have enough available memory on an 8086 to run two or more DOS programs at once. But you could demonstrate it with tiny DOS applications like say `pkzip`. The relevance of a 386 and 386 enhanced mode to this was memory management - Windows 3 could use V86 mode to give each DOS program 640 kB RAM.
I'm a hobbyist music "producer" ; an Ableton user for short, and also a programmer.

I cannot express how happy i'm to finally be able to let go of OSX & Windows forever.

This is what i'm realizing writing these lines.

I'm so happy right now.
No spooning either
I made a Tinder bot in the first month of GPT-3's public API release. The ethics made me squirm so I always asked for permission to turn it on and told people when it was on and off. The models moral alignment was way more "friendly" back then so turned it into some pretty saucy chats. The model was better than me at replying, still single though.

(It was simply holding onto the last 10-20 messages and injecting it into the prompt)
Currently many for-profit companies try to do the same, but additionally emotionally manipulate the user into giving them as much money as possible. (To not even mention automated catfishing...)

This project is much better, but still might turn out badly. Hard to say...
The chapter of Bertrand Russell's "history of Western philosophy" about Plotinus is a must-read (the whole book is, actually).
They've been pulling shady stuff for ages. Ever heard of the false flag attacks in relation to Cuba? The bay of pigs false flag bombings, and the proposed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods ? Terrible stuff.
politics has patterns, it has some procedural and bureaucratic parts, those are very visible (legibility! see also "Seeing like a state")

but in general there's the separation of powers (branches of government), the opposition parties, the checks and balances, and the media.

to answer your question directly, the bigger the government the more separate agencies it has, the more people you need to watch them, the more people are needed to simply raise their voices, give their faces as the opposition, and then more people to keep track of what-the-hell are they doing.

that's how you got special interest groups. single issue parties. (and if such a party manages to raise the salience of their issue to the "national level" then this basically forces other parties and actors to reveal their preference regarding that issue.)
Naming is a perpetual problem. My issue is with "hallucination", which everyone takes to be the "problem" with GPT style networks making things up. Never mind that transformers are just trying to predict the next likely token, NOT the truth PLUS that they're trained from the internet. As everyone knows, the internet is not known for correctness and truth. If you want any neural network to figure out the truth independently, it'll obviously need the ability to go out into the real world and even needs to be allowed to experiment for most things.

Hallucination used to mean the following. A basic neural network is:

f(x) = y = repeat(nonlinearity(ax[0] + bx[1] + ...))

And then you adjust a, b, c, ... until y is reasonable, according to the cost function. But look! The very same backpropagation can adjust x[0], x[1] ... with the same cost function and only a small change in the code.

This allows you to reverse the question neural networks answer. Which can be an incredibly powerful way to answer questions.

And that used to be called hallucination in Neural networks. Instead of "change these network weights to transform x into y, keeping x constant" you ask "change x to transform x into y, keeping the network weights constant".

Now it's impossible finding half the papers on the this topic. AARGH!
> Why do conspiracy theories get a bad rap?

Because it's usually speculation without evidence, and because no matter how much evidence contradicts a conspiracy theory people continue to cling to it like a religion.

I'm not sure what "Most relevant child abuse was covered by famous politicians" is supposed to mean, but most child abuse isn't committed by politicians, there is no evidence that most politicians are child abusers, and there have been several insane conspiracy theories about child abusing politicians in recent years so it's pretty natural to be skeptical when it looks like someone's starting down that path.

I expect there's already people who'd say "The crazy conspiracy theories about child abusing political figures were intentionally spread online by child abusing politicians so that anyone on social media talking about politicians abusing children would only be met with eye rolls"
The article outlines clearly that there is no change in the law, no proposed change in the law, no likely proposed change in the law. Current law is aligned to EU law and will remain so. The article is simply a report of a Dairy Industry lobbying group trying to influence the advice given to 'local food standards inspectors'.
Also keep in mind that a one line module always is more than one line of code
I notice this in alot of recipes. See very highly rated reviews, lots of reviews, scroll down to reviews, 'omg i can't wait to try this' = 5 stars ... hmm
Ask HN: Any direct experience with good work/life balance teams at Tesla?
Hi HN,

I have an offer from Tesla, but I've read a lot about their terrible work/life balance online. The people in the interview process have assured me this team/situation is different, but I'm not entirely convinced. Has anyone here worked in a team there that didn't have the traditional 50 hour week?
> This is the best feature of ChatGPT for me, and the reason I pay for it.

While I completely understand this sentiment, I would be wary of Service as a Software Substitute being your alternative to human contact. If we start feeling (something akin to) genuine human connection to a service, the company providing the service has a large amount leverage over us. The scene from Blade Runner 2049 comes to mind. Additionally, the emotional connection might make us an order of magnitude more vulnerable to brainwashing and psyops.
The AARD Code and DR DOS (2021)
OpenAI has to get a trademark first, they do not own the rights to GPT right now
You're forgetting the part where the queen is never alone, being prodded along by workers to continue laying eggs at an acceptable pace. When the hive (not the queen!) decides it's time to swarm, they'll force the queen to move more briskly in the hope she loses some weight and the second flight of her life can go more than a few meters. If the queen isn't up to the task the workers will go to some existing brood comb and give the larvae some "royal" jelly to get a replacement. As soon as one spawns the other infantile queens are slaughtered.

The entire reason we get the language of queen/worker/drone is because Europeans saw a complex ordered system and projected their own hierarchy on it. A "queen" bee never issues commands. She's only good for laying more larvae and even if she were to die suddenly the only issue is finding some immature larvae already in the hive to feed "royal" jelly. They don't decide when or where to swarm, and are basically carried by the mass of bees "escorting" them to their new home.

Yes, the queen is the reproductive source of the hive and losing a queen can really mess everything up depending on the timing. To say that all the other bees are simply "arms of the queen" is incredibly reductive though. She can be replaced at any time, and often is as she ages. The "productivity" curve rapidly decreases after the first or second year of life. It's not uncommon for commercial beekeepers to replace a queen every 2 years, and the worker bees aren't much more forgiving when it comes to her performance.

Small aside, it's only in summer that workers live ~7 weeks. They live 150-200 days in the winter. The labor they provide is incredibly metabolically taxing, in comparison with eating and giving birth all day every day.
That seems like a genuine improvement from way back when, having a visual indicator for slack messages is definitely one of my major needs. Not that slack was on the radar back then, but at the time I was annoyed that Pidgin (which I also needed for work) wasn't allowed to have a tray icon.

I could live without most of the rest of the things that are sitting in my top right right now. Discord and skype are nice-to-haves but not work related so strictly optional.
It's as if putting humans into two groups is an entirely stupid idea in the first place
This. While not me personally, there is obviously a market (Japan comes to mind) for virtual, non-human based interactions and relationships.

While it seems pretty clear to me subjectively that removing human interaction from your life has a negative effect it's still desired by some and they're entitled to that.
it's the same; nothing new per se. peoples sex-lives are often not limited to monogamous act's of procreation.

also a meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-so-over
I moved to XFCE then to I3 with same profile of usage.

Just a bunch of terminals + full screen browser/IDE/whatever else

Took a bit of customizing... years ago and I haven't needed to change much since
Judging from what I've read in online discussions... Absolutely. This is especially a problem for children, I'm pretty happy I wasn't fed oat "milk" as a child.
As a hobbyist you can hook up your existing laptop to one of the Novation launchpad models (price ranging from 110€ to 350€) which come with an Ableton Live Lite license.

If you want something standalone, well as said in a previous comment, the Novation Circuit or any of the other grooveboxes in the market can offer interesting workflows.
Infer name with link_to – Rails Tricks Issue 8
I think that the author is mixing up "caramelized" and "frying until golden brown", intentionally or not.

Almost none of the examples that he gave never mentioned the term "caramelized"

Most recipes don't require caramelized onions. In fact, they can be overwhelming in most recipes.
Other people experiences are really irrelevant here.

People use windows after all
> If one party thinks, we need fewer government employees, and one side thinks, we need more of them, you can see how incentives might line up.

It doesn't even have to be the "greedy self-serving" kind. Just thinking you want "to make the world a better place" is enough to justify funds, power and influence. It takes a very rare kind of restraint to not intervene.

> That said, Republicans talk about limited government, but in my lifetime, I’ve seen very little difference in the expansion of governmental powers regardless of which party is in control.

Sad but true.
Reminds me of Linde AG from Germany, the world's largest industrial gas manufacturer. It merged with US based Praxair in 2018 and then moved to Dublin.

At this rate, every large company in Europe will move to Dublin.
Why ? If I absolutely love the current Gnome UI they will just change shit in next 5 years for no good reason whatsoever
until they rise up to overthrow us. (like cylons or kaylons :-)

i for one welcome our new robotic overlords
I'm not sure if any reason isn't sad about having this.
Yeah, they use vacuum cleaner salesmen instead.
It seems strange to me that things like Reddit, Twitter, YouTube etc seem to be treated as inviolable constants, both by users and by their owners. It's kind of taken for granted that they just fell from the sky like that and need to be worked around. Which, yes, I suppose they kind of do, and even a million people wanting something is a rounding error, but it's very different to collaborative projects.
Is the biggest challenge to scientific thinking science itself?
I agree that removing some human interactions from my life is good. I vastly prefer self-checkouts in shops. However, I know I'm quite content spending my time alone. Being forced to go and interact with people when I want to talk about ideas or ask questions keeps my "alone tendency" in balance, and has lead to really meaningful conversations and friendships.
Im a talented cook. I have no idea how long it takes to caramelize onions, lightly brown garlic, etc. I just do it by look, feel, smell, etc. So if asked to write down a recipe, it would just be rough guesses. Same with measuring, is it a tablespoon? I dont know, its "this much". A lot of cooking is just tacit knowledge and really hard to write down specifics. Its not like baking which is more of a chemistry experiment.
It’s just a title to a web page meant to be interesting. Regardless, he didn’t represent himself as a teacher. He didn’t teach. He represented himself as a curator of a webpage, and the tittle of the page I don’t think it meant to be misleading just compelling. It’s a bit of a stretch to take it any other way, and a shifting of the goal posts. I think if you agree he didn’t do as you said he did, it isn’t self diminishing (after all the self is an illusion!) to simply state there was a misunderstanding.
> I am pretty used to Debian+i3 minimal installs (arandr, pavucontrol, etc) but some things will always be a pain in the ass

Things like ? I might've baked some fixes for few issues that bothered me...
That's just not true. Every generation has its own version of this. In the 60s-70s, it was The Joy of Cooking. In the 90s it was How To Cook Everything. Based on the replies there are some candidates for today.
In the original radio series, the name was Paul Neil Milne Johnstone… who was an actual schoolfriend, or at least was at school with, Douglas Adams. He didn't appreciate being name-checked in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy so it had to be changed. I believe that if you closely watch the fake video graphics in the BBC TV series, you can see some of Adams' best efforts to remember Johnstons actual "poetry" on screen.
Emails, Chat Logs, Code and a Notebook: The Mountain of FTX Evidence
Feel free to counter-argue the core points, instead of attacking the looks of the sources.
So we should arm everyone with nukes, so everyone can have agency. Sounds fair.
Existence is a funny term in Buddhism. The end goal of development stage practice is the recognition that the deity is inseparable from one’s self because the nature of any given deity is equal to our own in an absolute sense. After all, everything is empty of inherent existence and are all self arisen manifestations from a primordial ground of being, hence no you and no I as separate.

So some people do see them as external things to ask things of but others see them as mind created and used as supports for meditation to realize our own true nature. Depends on lineage and teacher.
Get an iPad. You can do all this and a ton more.
You should not buy just in case anyone at Ableton is watching, I'm buying the fuck out of your offering the day it has linux support.
It's not mainline yet but bcachefs[0][1][2] includes erasure coding as one of its defining features.

Maybe, if we're lucky, Kent Overstreet (koverstreet[3]) will magically appear and talk more on his latest creation.

[0] https://bcachefs.org/

[1] https://bcachefs.org/bcachefs-principles-of-operation.pdf

[2] https://www.patreon.com/bcachefs (de facto bcachefs development blog)

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=koverstreet
How to Find a Missing Person with Dementia
Batteries are not inherently heavy, The current Lithium ones are.

IIRC the EV industry is waiting for high-density solid state battreries, which could be a game changer if works.
For me, asking something on the Internet, like on stackoverflow is usually, the very last option. I am too afraid to get ridiculed for it or get scolded for not having put enough effort in my question that already feels more as a thesis. Maybe this is just me and this does not reflect reality but I do have the nagging feeling I a bother somebody with it and it gives a bit of stress.
Not so with ChatGPT, I can just ask away and it will always happily give me an answer (unfortunately also when it didn't really know a good one).
Though I am happy for the people that just continue asking questions to actual humans and those answering it, if only to continue to feed the model ;)
I'll just quote this same story:

"An article in the Telegraph points to the added weight of batteries in EVs as the main risk factor, neatly sidestepping the fact that the average petrol-powered car is twice as heavy today as it was when these car parks were built. Which we’re positive is just an oversight."