skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it really stop anything?

Amazon etc can just "take inspiration" from it and develop something from scratch that's almost the same
It's definitely a benefit. But I'd assume it getting old rather quickly for a majority of men. Especially because it narrows down your dating pool to a certain type of woman with a gold digging mentality. Even satisfying sexual desires reliably will mostly just lead to addictive behavior and a resulting depression. It's the same for everything. Sex is like fat or sugar for men. We are programmed to take as much of it as we can - but it won't end well.
Odd how a revolutionary content generating technology is transforming or replacing entire industries except that particular text generating industry we all dread. Notice how articles about replacing journalists have faded from the media?
I barely understand how cars culture work in the USA. Infrastructure costs are huge, yet people in this country do not want to pay taxes and will build schemes to avoid them at all costs. And they don't want to have shops and restaurants at a walking distance from their house.

It can only lead to bankrupting country or cities, drive on barely maintained roads and suffer traffic and lose precious time every day.
It has a much bigger issue: this database has worldwide professional networks of people. And this is own by msft hence big tech.

This should not be allowed to be privately own.
If you're smarter than the hundreds of engineers designing and building the distributed systems powering the world's largest applications then well done.

Personally, whenever I see a system like this I try to look for why they didn't go with an existing solution. And in 99% of cases either an existing solution never existed or they had a unique requirement that necessitated building something from scratch.
Is it like a browser with a nice side bar? On a careful thought I would love such a sidebar with my favourite apps on chrome / firefox.

I think that is not possible with the help of extensions. I would love to be corrected though.
No, you can't. I tried twice. Banks side with the merchants because merchants pay them, not you.
My guess is when enough LLM tools have been created for various use cases, until the insurmountable flaws of their nature are finally broadly realized (of course not implying there's no usefulness to them).
Those who date you because you're famous aren't high quality matches.

There may be an argument that being famous is like being advertised to the widest possible group and that your matches should improve.

But the argument I'd make having seen how fame attracts people is that those who manage to get near you appear on the surface to be high quality matches but beneath the surface are low quality matches.

Also, stalkers. Do not underestimate these, and remember Shakespeare that what seems foul is fair and what seems fair is foul.

There are good reasons famous people date famous people, a kind of mutual safety.
Could be me/cfs, the defining feature is unrefreshing sleep but also "crashing" after overexertion, usually a day later. As mentioned you should look at r/cfs. Many people with cfs like myself have found Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) useful, but it's not widely known about.
Where did you get the information that most guys want to be famous to improve their success in dating? Maybe that's your perceived benefit?
A typical pain point where type hinting fails in Python is with list of some types, it can't be enforced by the language without more checks.

For example, you can't do:

if isinstance(x, list[int])

though it would be super useful
aka "my life as a used-tissue of the lifehacking moment"
That is not performing labor, that is the path to go about it.
>I think no one claims it is not possible

You're correct. I misspoke and apologize.
Other options are:

- Quicklisp -really slick, libraries in there are curated. (with https support here: https://github.com/rudolfochrist/ql-https and here: https://github.com/snmsts/quicklisp-https.git)

- for project-local dependencies like virtualenv: https://github.com/fukamachi/qlot

- a new, more traditional one: https://www.clpm.dev (CLPM comes as a pre-built binary, supports HTTPS by default, supports installing multiple package versions, supports versioned systems, and more)

For recent Quicklisp upgrades: http://ultralisp.org/

Ocicl is very new (5 days) and tries a new approach, building "on tools from the world of containers".
Personally I always click the ads so people get charged for them and it reduces their CRO, which may cause them to not pay Google for more ads.

Then I find my result

That said. I have used Google less than 20x since subscribing to GPT4. AI killed Google for me and I've been using it for half my life.
That sounds like a shitty way to live and a poor set of priorities.
I'm only a handful of paragraphs in and he's already made several factual statements ranging from straight up incorrect to highly dubious. All the while claiming they are 100% definitely true. He claims the environment was only set to improve on the future. We now know this was wrong. He says deforestation is a lie, the data seems unclear at the moment(and seems to have been unclear at the time too).

Then he goes on a rant about malthus and the subsequent explosion in population without mentioning the very important fact that it would've been impossible without the invention of synthetic fertiliser. Instead he says Malthus missed the fairly obvious fact that livestock and plant populations would increase with human populations. But again, this is imprecise at best.
Interesting post, definitely learned some new things, but also came away from the article feeling slightly violated with what was by the end clearly again just self promotion. On brand for Tim too I suppose.

The irony is that he doesn't discuss that he could stop all of this, within a relatively instant moment. Just stop being famous. Stop posting on social media, bring down your podcast and blog and just go live a normal life doing a regular job. Some celebrities can't just quit but at Tims level he surely can.

But he won't, he won't even discuss that possibility here because clearly all of these drawbacks are nothing compared to the two things fame does bring which is dopamine and money. It's also interesting he doesn't openly mention that he's also rich as hell now, and notwithstanding all the supposedly charitable work he's doing benefits greatly from his money. Like dude are you dedicating your life to help others or just to get another dopamine hit from it while still spending obscene amounts on yourself?

I was thinking of taking a vacation and couldn't bring myself to book a ticket to Europe because it felt wasteful to spend so much money and carbon just for sight seeing. I question if people like Tim ever think that. I'm more interested in an introspection about that, instead of another conveniently timed piece on being famous just days after a charade by the kings of such charlatanism Harry.
Tim Ferris is a promoting a healthy life style (at least from his perspective). So, when he talks about dating he means having meaningful romantic experiences. OP probably means having as much sex as possible. If a man has trouble meeting women then becoming famous will not change anything about that issue - but he will be approached more by women who are looking for ego gratification. And that's not the type of women you can have a meaningful experience with. Given that Tim has been suffering from depression for decades I'd assume from own experience that he also had to deal with a romantic handicap for his entire life.
that's a very non-answer answer to the question of why would China pay $10+ or whatever for my address and my location in the US. To sway my vote? How does this make any sense?
Yes, you can write Python code that runs with missing or wrong type hints. Not ideal, but you can add a static type checker (mypy) as a step in your CI pipeline and reject commits that fail this step. Not much discipline required.
Curious why they decided to blog about tech on Medium and not under own domain, like they do[1] for corporate posts.

[1] https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/
> lot of people that use drugs recreationally.

We all know them. HN is full of them.

They are the reason why the production and distribution of drugs is financially viable, why we have functioning markets for illegal drugs. Consequently they, together with the producers and distributors, bear the responsibility for the cost that the existence of this well-lubricated market has on the weak, on those who cannot handle hard drugs recreationally.
Ask HN: Are App Store anti-steering rules dead now?
After Epic vs Apple's ruling in the U.S. and EU's recent statement of objections ( https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_1217 ), does that mean we can simply use external payment methods for in-app purchases? Has anyone tried submitting an app with alternative payment methods?
The author is famous for his self-helping books. This fact already tells a lot.
90% of what 90% of men are doing is motivated by the hope to have more sex with more women.
Care to enlighten us a little? What is there even to debate? The position expressed by your parent comment is so uncomfortable that it's constantly being challenged, but that doesn't make it wrong. Or are "thoughts" some sort of magical fluff not bound by the laws of physics? Are we constantly pulling ourselves by our bootstraps? Giving birth to entirely new brain activity out of nothingness?

This is just woo woo nonsense. Until someone can find an explanation that makes more sense than "natural selection slowly gave apes the ability to think abstractly and they started thinking about themselves", I won't believe in any kind of free will, and now the meta is reaching the point where we create entirely new brains out of silicon.

"They just repeat stuff!"

So do we
From the Reddit thread [0] -

Github repo: https://github.com/PeterTYLiu/toaster

Every part of the model is an HTML element with CSS 3D transform functions; there're no WebGL or canvas shenanigans!

The editing tools are only available on desktop, and performance will be passable at best (nearly unusable on Safari), but that's what happens when you push browser engines to their limits lol. If you find any bugs that aren't already listed in the repo issues, feel free to create new issues.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/13nc54m/i_made_a_3d...
Google 2022 net income was nearly 60B. 20% down from 2021, when there still was a pandemic, but in 2020 net income was 40B.
They still are making a tons of money while trying very hard to cripple their future of every product but search ads, and everybody says Google search worsened last years.
ChatGPT is still a niche, but when many people will have used it at work they may very well use it at home.
There are things like Skytable which have the same usecases as Redis to my understanding, though it is not compatible with redis.

https://github.com/skytable/skytable
Like every other major city it's halfway there thanks to the "border zone" system (as it's literally on the border), much of the 4th is effectively curtailed already.
You can still do it, albeit not officially supported: https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi
Fascinating story - many truths and behaviors' still sticks
GPT Assistant: GPT-4 Agent Using the Python Interpreter
Hey, I made a discord bot where you can chat with the chatgpt code interpreter. You can drop in Files, it can do stuff with the files, download datasets from a given link or do anything with python you want. I am using isolated sandbox environments for running the code so feel free to try printing the env variables or stuff ;D
No, the worst place to be has to be mega famous. Johnny Depp or Michael Jackson level. Literally cannot just go out for a simple meal without throngs of people bothering you or paparazzi constantly trying to catch you in compromising positions. Crazy people who love you so much they want to wear your skin as a jacket. You can never and will never have a normal life. Moving to some far off destination is your only chance at a modicum of normalcy.
Hey doesn't matter, had sex. Being not famous doesn't suddenly attract high quality matches, it doesn't even attract low quality matches. It only attracts financial scammers.
KeyDB is useful for it's Multi-Master mode, but other than that, I can not recommend it because of how many serious bugs it has.
Agreed! Personal suggestion: try a bag of the Allegro Sumatra Boru Batak, likely available at your local Whole Foods for not too much. It's very different from the South American and African beans most of us are used to.

Picture of the package: https://imgur.com/a/dbvO1sm
Lots of comments here are stating that typing is half baked in Python, and that if you gotta use types, you should use another language.

But that's missing the point that Python is still not meant to be the best at anything, but good at most things.

And in this case, it's exactly what you get: optional typing, with decent safety if you need it.

You can quick script or design seriously, you can explore in a shell or commit a public API into a file, you can start with untyped code and add some later.

That makes it cumbersome sometimes, yes. mypy is slow, and the typing system + match / case have many rough edges.

But it also keeps Python incredibly versatile.

It's amazing what you can do with this (not so) little language, and the whole ecosystem is always getting better and better.

Every time I try another language, I keep getting back into Python, because the fields I need tools for are vast, and it's the only one that I'm pretty sure will handle a problem decently in all it's various forms, especially the one I didn't consider when I started.

There is immense value in this, because it keeps opportunities on the table no matter what you do. I often find my self during a project adding something I could only because Python let me do so easily.

Python is quirky, yet it still damn practical.
Arctic Blockades
Well "source available" would probably be better. It is not open source by the definitions most follow in this case the OSI definition. Eg it goes against §6 of their definition. https://opensource.org/osd/
Typescript is of course nice and is a great type system but can’t totally paper over the absolutely impoverished base language that is JS. When you use Python and things like equality do what almost anyone wants instead of checking object identity, it’s real annoying to futz around in TS
This is a great way to to write very unaesthetic Python.
I follow that convention. I've written many functions that accept a list of values and, typically as intermediate processing, build a dict from them. Many rest APIs I've coded for require me to fetch from two endpoints to build my output, and this pattern saves iterating over lists.
"Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community" and such.

There are many contributing factors, not just screens, location mobility, or the decline of religion (churches being civic/social functions).

Parks used to have water fountains. Can't hardly find those anymore.

Children's parks used to have cool installations like decommissioned Korea era fighter jets in the sand pit and crawl-through metal sculptures. Those are all gone, replaced by perfectly safe, commercial, prefabricated sets.
He states it clearly in the article: because many women will use the law against to you try an extort money from you. It's well known that the court is heavily biased towards women in any "man vs women" case.
Please don't try to delude people by changing the definition of open source. While sadly Open Source Initiative were not able to get the trademark for open source, the de-facto definition of open source is practically the same as free software.

Dragonfly is source available which is a completely different thing.
Kagi is fairly recent, something like a year old, so having 15 years in tech won't help you here. I doubt they're astroturfing like you're claiming, they actually have a decent number of users and a good following on HN. You can look at the numbers their previous posts on HN did[0].

Disclaimer: I'm also a happy user.

[0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=kagi
If you disallow “theft” (copying is not theft, let alone training), then as you said, only giant companies can afford to train datasets by licensing or creating data (e.g. Adobe, Getty, Disney).

These statements always ignore that libre AI models exist, and rely on the weakening of copyright laws to let small creators use AI and compete against corporations that will use AI regardless, because once again, they have the resources to license giant datasets and we don’t.
Show HN: 40th Anniversary – Who are you, Mel Kaye?
40th Anniversary to the Story of Mel – On this day, four decades ago (May 21st 1983) "The Story of Mel" was published on Usenet by its author.

For years, "Mel" was considered to be a fictional character. Though some details about him were found, still there was not much known about the life and works for Mel Kaye. Until today, when Mel's identity is finally revealed.

After years of researching, digging into public archives, and searching for actual proofs, Mel’s Loop project publishes a new biographical article – "Mel Kaye – CV", and unfolds the true identity of Mel Kaye (born Melvin Kornitsky, 1931), a child to a family of Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn from Poland and Russia, that grew up in Los Angeles, and became a hacking legend.

Happy Mel day, hackers!
Probably 90% of the lonely men that spend too much time on the internet, are motivated by sex. But for the at large population, many things motivate them, not just sex.

Or maybe you're sitting on some fool-proof research you have yet to share, that proves this theory of yours?
Assange was charged, tried, convicted and imprisoned in 2019.

He was freed from that after serving his sentence. He since been held awaiting extradition after being charged in the US with a ton of crimes

Since then various of appeals have been progressing to extradite him or not, and quite rightly as someone convicted of fleeing bail
He not eligible for bail.
Corporations have almost twice the vote allocation that residents do, and there is
"a named individual who is responsible for nominating the voters for their organisation" [1]

[1] https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/voting-elections/bu...
Humans also invent to make hard things easier. Glorifying toil has worked fantastically as a ranking mechanism for society so far but it is surely going to fail going forward, so too indirect democracy.

I suspect a lot of art lovers like not knowing that an artist's work has very exact beginnings and egoistic motivations al a marvel movies. Rather prefer the altruistic mystery that muses were involved curating the work out of nothing for the enjoyment of all. Maybe when you know the AI has exact origins it ruins the illusion of art for you because maybe deep down you liked to be tricked by human creativity.

Are you only going to watch certified AI/CGI free movies going forward?
Accusing Chomsky of being a ‘clickbaiter’ is maybe the most absurd thing I’ve heard all month. You think he’s trying to get additional views for his TikTok videos?

His recent political ramblings and Epstein-adjacency are extremely embarrassing (at best), but he's not some kind of cheap online attention whore.
If your goal is to fully utilise the hardware you have then doing some deterministic sharding on top will likely be good enough.

Honestly, redis makes pretty sane tradeoffs, it's not worth the added complexity to add multi-threading as it would almost certainly slow it down while it does locking, and redis isn't typically CPU bound (except potentially the LUA stuff, but that's up to the user), so being multi-threaded doesn't really help much.

If you need multi-threading, there are other solutions, but of course they are slower w.r.t latency and throughput, since that's the trade-off.
Rich and annoynimous is the way to go.
I found this discussion of AI from a philosopher of science & biologist really insightful. It speaks of AI hype and AGI in relationship with systems Biology.
I assumed that was to help get a reasonably long sound level check for the recording.
Despite being brought up in a house full of computers, I still knew Wang best as the shirt sponsor of Oxford United in the 80s.
Second Step Elementary Digital Program: Caring, Connected, and Classroom-Ready
Re NASA that’s factually incorrect. It didn’t occur NASA to fund SpaceX while they were in the middle of it. They had a contract open before that. Electric cars - sure. But we had hybrids and small electrics before this. And I find it questionable if large electrics make sense at all in terms of cost, eco impact and longevity. The propaganda doesn’t match reality. He sure is good at propaganda and empty promises though.
That seems unlikely, especially when getting older, but sure, there are enough men who have that obsession. What is often easier for this goal than getting famous, is to make sure you build some wealth fast and then move to a place on earth where you are considered rich. Easier than getting famous without the drama of getting famous.
"Hotel 22" is the closest in the Bay Area, as it runs from one end of Santa Clara County to the other. https://www.pbs.org/pov/films/hotel22/

It used to be there was a few 24-hour coffee shops, like Happy Donuts, where anyone could hang-out inside. It's no longer 24-hours.

Some people would stay in empty coin-op laundromats where the owners didn't kick everyone out and lock up.

Another option is 24 hour gyms where there are saunas, pools, and such.
Cynically I think if you're paying a subscription you are painting a target on your back for advertising.

HERE BE SOMEONE WITH MONEY

iPhone users are a perfect example of this.
Wolfram pulled that out of a hat in an interview that was just a week or two ago. The data used for training GPT-4 is from before September 2021.

The point Stephen was trying to make was not about any specific sentence.

The point is that while forcing these models to get better through gradient descent, their only option for "going downhill" and improving the loss function is to go above and beyond mere grammar. That's because syntax and grammar only take them so far, and the only available source of improvement is to gain a general-purpose understanding of the world that the text they're seeing is describing.
I dipped my toe into NamedTuple. Where it falls down is that it requires a custom serialiser. Python's json library is a crock of shit once you've used .net.

TypedDict turned out to be the winner. The runtime type is dict but you get all the benefits of type annotations. I dropped it into a crappy codebase without touching the calling methods.
I'm not into the topic of religious text memorization but I do think the tech is pretty neat and could be really helpful in other areas.

I hope they explore those alternative applications.
well i'm not sure if this would make him feel better or worse, but I have no idea who he is
A Splendid Scala Journey – John a De Goes
the program that does the synchronization of files in the background is.
Your idea of "serious company" is outdated by at least 20 years.
Let's switch to YaCy
Having done both, and living in a city with a supposedly functioning public transport system, not being beholden to a time table outweighs all of that so hard that it's not even funny.
The Acid-Base Disruption Hypothesis for Long Covid
Long Covid is no joke. Many have been hoping for a breakthrough. This new hypothesis is trying to explain all symptoms different long haulers experience, from muscle pain, post exertional symptom exacerbation to fatigue.

The full paper:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1150...

FAQ:
https://researchaidnetworks.org/faq/

Lay summary (the explanation for those without a medical or related scientific background): https://researchaidnetworks.org/hypothesis-summary/

Fundraiser for the clinical trials: https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-help-fund-research-into...
I think you're the kind of guy he is afraid of.