skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The weird thing is that in my opinion it can be quite human-like. When needed it can be understanding, compassionate, supportive etc. Those are qualities that can provide certain amount of companionship to people that lack it. One just has to understand that it's not a person - it doesn't experience anything outside of the chat.

You can ask it to come up with an idea for a dinner and a movie for the evening and then discuss them once they're finished. You know, things people do with actual girlfriends. I'm sure it will be more fun than a robotic selfie and a made up story.
Edits might be for sale for things that matter to companies.

Every Public Relations agency claims to 'manage' the content on clients' Wikipedia pages.
I assume people view it as more meritocratic because smart people tend to do more useful things (E.g. scientists, lawyers, doctors, etc), but I don't really think it's meritocratic.

Generally "smart" = born with high intelligence and the right personality traits (I.e. conscientious). I see it mostly as lottery.
Thanks, I've been looking for an article like this for over a year. Whenever I've requested this perspective in the past, the only reply I've received is that I'm an ignorant, brainwashed American.
I think of it as simply entertainment. It won't replace real human interaction with a partner but it's a fun consequence free environment. Tv shows act out dramatic scenes that would be traumatic and have real consequences if you experienced them in real life, but on the screen you get to play around with the idea in your head in a safe area and maybe learn something in the process.
Well, we know this is not true. At least Armando Scannone had a team of 4 cooks to make and rehearse each and every one of the recipes in his famous cookbook [1]. Armando Scannone has a famous Venezuelan cookbook, it is the obligatory reference for those who want to make Venezuelan dishes. I have personally tried many of the dishes and the recipes are correct and the result is just as the book indicates.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Armando-Scannone/dp/B011YUALZS
Most HN readers would probably benefit from MotherGPT.
This is why I follow YouTube videos and not recipe books. They turn out just fine.
I love the 5 minute prep ones. I always joke to my wife, 5 minutes of prep, for a michelin star. Call me chef Marco.
Sure, there can be physical memory at address zero, there can be virtual memory at address zero. (Most modern operating systems and programming tools place a deathtrap for misbehaving code there instead.) There can be no physical memory at address 0 at all, though it is uncommon, and other gaps in addresses. RAM can technically start elsewhere, and lower part of memory can be taken by ROM or other hardware. (For example, see how authors of breadboard computers reason about the choice of system memory layouts and address line operation.) NULL value itself can be different from zero. Therefore, C standard defines nothing about null pointer dereferencing.

On the other hand, most people expect the usual layout that grows from zero upwards. CPU designers are people, too, and make similar assumptions about layout and operation of memory (if they have to), which then affect systems that use their processors. Also, with all its compatibility, C still presumed certain class of hardware. It was not invented as a language for every microprocessor and microcontroller and each odd memory model, the microcontroller evolution was instead affected by alignment with coding in C.

This ugly hack (using the same object to hold the address value that can be operated on, and its own validity information) might be the most well known.
Fair enough. We have our opinions. For me the cooking time starts when I enter the kitchen and finishes when I serve the meal. It's the time I spent cooking the meal.

Your thinking is what enabled a generation of '20 minute meal' recipe books that actually take closer to 40 mins.
If you aren’t great at piano then using a push in note scale mode is fantastic. Another benefit is when recording automation you can turn the knobs to add a human element over something like point and clicking points. It’s an excellent tool for creating music, not just for live.
Perhaps more bearable but ultimately more lonely.
Nobody cares about our concurrency control research [pdf]
As someone who never asked a question in StackOverflow for what are probably similar reasons (despite being in this career for 20 years), I still find that ChatGPT in this regard is still more like a Google or an improved StackOverflow/documentation search…

It can infer some things, modify variable names to match mine, but for the real hairy stuff I still gotta do the legwork myself, normally by reaching out for the source code.
> Seems to me that this technology might make their lives more bearable.

Or it might make their lives even more horrible. We don't know for sure. I guess eventually we will see once the studies are done on this in a few years.
Interesting. Seeing as you need a licence to export certain works of art and antiques (from the UK) I wouldn't be surprised if there's a rule to prevent people from destroying a painting. However, I've never heard of such a rule. Perhaps because it's not something that people usually want to do. (A Picasso might not be old enough to be protected as an antique, of course.)
Where did I say I was a gnome dev?
He made sure that his books are available for the students here in India. Thanks for your great commitment to teaching all the students of the world.
It's about time we put and end to peanut butter and coconut milk. These products have the causing consumer confusion for too damn long. /s
A difference might be that your examples are all trademarked words. Milk isn't.

From a marketing perspective saying something is a "milk alternative" or whatever is mostly to market to non-vegans so that they know what to buy if they're looking to get into that area. [Shaky unverifiable source - I know somebody who develops these products for large companies]
Alibaba’s Cloud Arm to Cut 7% of Staff in Overhaul
But that depends on which interactions it replaces. There are people I don't want to talk to. Not always because I don't like them but because it's technicalities and unrewarding forced interactions. For example, clerks at the tax office who just do their job.

But on the other hand, there are interactions which I really don't want to miss! "Girlfriend" GPT is already targeting the most intricate and joyful interactions in my life: my SO.

Let's say we break up and I fall into a depression. Instead of recovering and moving on, will I install a personal OSS AI companion to save myself the hassle of modern dating? Therefore preventing myself from attempting novel interactions sooner? Or will it help me instead to overcome a dark period and prime me for the future?

Can it help people combat loneliness - a disease widespread and not to be trifled with? Or will it enhance loneliness by effectively fooling your brain into not caring anymore because you can just open an app?

At what point will it not matter anymore because saving someone from depression is more valuable than keeping it "real" at all times?
Hello Fresh is horrible. They keep spamming and calling after I cancelled my trial.
That doesn't make much sense. A MIDI controller generates MIDI notes, like when you press a key there is two MIDI notes being sent, one "on" and one "off". When you use something like an arpeggiator, the MIDI controller would generate one MIDI note each 1/8 for as long as you hold the key.

Or what would be the functional difference between a MIDI generator and controller?
You start it lower abd increasevthe heat after fat is released or just use a cast iron pan.
> code as is not continuously inspected.

That's not what I said, and is not my experience.
See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
Might be, although the UI is certainly different, at least for me on Windows. The page numbers are in the top-left on Firefox but top-center on Chrome.
I'd bet publishers won't do additional print runs on those and might even recall copies not yet sold when the new edition comes out so availability of those will go down (and prices up) if they are made the desirable edition.

Really the prof should just make his own assignments (or rather have his underlings do it). At least that's how it works on this side of the pond. In any case, requiring additional purchases of educational material when students are already paying tuition is absurd.
A road tax wouldn’t be about the revenue collection or government expenditure. It would be a pigouvian tax to disincentivise gigantic vehicles and their negative impact on everyone around them.
> Web scraping needs to be 100% deterministic

Says who?
Very much not correct. I thought it had started with AI boyfriends. The story about those was that, in tapping into what you might call the 'boyfriend archetype', the AIs tended to portray maleness by getting bullying and abusive, sometimes to a shocking degree.

I think there's a lot to be learned by studying all this, but boy is it an ethical minefield.

There's no question that you can get an AI to drop into a 'boyfriend' or 'girlfriend' mode, using the sum total of human discourse as its neural network (okay, using GPT), but in so doing it's revealing more about us than it is about itself. It doesn't know how to male, or how to female, except for what it draws from us. Its failures are revealing on a very deep level.
Imagine the unfortunate child who's been fed peanut butter to only find out it wasn't really butter.
Unlike all your examples, milk is not trademarked.

Additionally, there are a lot of examples where the term milk is used to describe a non-dairy product. E.g. coconut milk.

This is nowhere nearly as clear cut as you portray it.
It does appear that theyre completely out of ideas and just milking (am I allowed to use that word, lobbyists?) their power to collect favors.

Starmer is a complete dead end though. Ever since he took over he's thoroughly destroyed the viability of the Labour party - possibly forever. The recent elections confirmed that.

So the Tories will probably still win, even though the majority will split themselves between a protest Lib dem vote, protest SNP vote or protest Labour vote.
Without capital controls the EU is fairly toothless.

Of course EU rules ban capital controls.
Many topics that people care(d) about are getting more sophisticated and complicated, yet also blander and more homogenized.

So it's much more fun to talk about the different ways, say, 1980s game consoles handled graphics – each had unique chips and unique ideas, but all simple enough to be explained in a single blog post – than it is to talk about how all consoles today use the same hardware and the same software stack to achieve the same mind-bogglingly complicated results that require years of study to understand.

Same with OSes, cars, cameras, you name it.
Ok fair, but most of the work of music creation is in making it sound good. I suspect the right combination of generative AI plus a little human guidance at the conceptual level should result in music that is good, with minimal effort. And to think I wasted all those years improving my piano ;-)
It’s also good at translating the vagaries of alien poetry into English
Are you replying to the right comment? Armando Scannone's cookbook seems almost entirely unrelated to GC's point.
This is a false-equivalence. "Milk" is not a trademarked brand name like "Coca Cola" or "ChatGPT", it's a category of food/drink. You can't trademark "milk" in the same way you can't trademark "sausages".

A better comparison would be "Not Cola", which AFAIK would be an acceptable name for a drink. See literally all smaller Cola brands which include the word "Cola" in their name.
It wasn't a rummor, political feuds were pretty much common in Nokia, at least until 2011, I can't vouch for how it looks like nowadays.
This Is Why I Teach My Law Students How to Hack
That why I like to watch youtube chiefs like Joshua Weissman or Guga. They try to test at least some recipies.
Everything we do has a negative impact on the environment. The best thing to do for the good of the others is to not exist in the first place. This will never end because it can always be optimized further
> 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.

It's not just you. I'm the same way myself - and was since I can remember. On Internet boards, I very rarely ask questions. I answer, or post tangential thoughts, but don't bother people with questions unless I really need the answer, and exhausted the ways of finding it on my own.

There's another angle to it too - impatience. A big part of my resistance to asking question is the unpredictable, and usually large delay between me asking, and getting any kind of answer. This applies to community Slacks, Discords, etc. Thing is, if I have a question to ask, I usually need the answer right now. If I have to wait, I'll context switch, which is deadly for whatever I was doing at that moment.

ChatGPT is a quite good alternative here. I can ask it a question, and refine it based on the answer if it's too vague. The answers I get either solve my problem or point in the direction of solution (that's true even if AI is having an acid trip). And, importantly, I get the answers near-immediately, with no unpredictable delays. I also don't need to cross some karma thresholds, worry about upvote/downvote ratio (too low -> question dies in obscurity), "use the Google, Luke" answers, moderators locking threads for bullshit reasons (hello StackOverflow), etc.
> […] higher fees for larger vehicles may discourage carpooling and increase traffic.

The average occupancy is 1.5 people per vehicle:

* https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/mobility/perso...

Everybody is already not-carpooling; more not-carpooling is just more of the status quo.
Its likely a combination of many factors.

i) The demographics of the user base. Maybe "Young Hacker News" happens inside discord or whatever.

ii) The fact that the past keeps growing. The body of interesting developments keeps growing and while some stuff is obsolete / nostalgic, other stuff is totally not. In fact revisiting the mindset and vision of past decades is many times very inspiring and educational.

iii) The fact that the present is shrill, exhaustively hyped, manipulated and in a sense damaged. Tech is no longer a force for good and we long for the time when this illusion was available.
A few years ago I was trying if I could port that code to Linux. I made some decent progress, but in the end I got stuck trying to convert the resources (images and audio files) to a more modern format. For example, the PICT format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICT) is not just some pixel encoding but also contains QuickDraw commands. There are some open source converters, but they seem to support only a subset. And then I had to concentrate on finishing my degree so I abandoned that project.

Other things I remember:
- Data is mapped directly from files to C structs - this provided some challenges as I had to convert big endian to little endian.
- Classic MacOS handled memory allocations quite a bit different, if one wanted to access a dynamically allocated buffer, they first had to acquire a lock on that part of memory as otherwise the operating system was allowed to move the data to some other address.

My memory on these details is quite a bit fuzzy though, so I can't guarantee that what I wrote here is 100% correct.
Congratulations. But it might be time to "make a peep" internally to other teams about "how we successfully moved to a CD model and what it gave us, and how you can do it too".

Mainly for your colleague's stress levels, and secondarily for the business's success.
"With the imminent introduction of the EU Collective Redress Directive, users will have the opportunity to group their litigation efforts through joint 'class action' lawsuits. This approach not only circumvents the reliance on DPAs, but also possesses the potential for a more impactful deterrent effect than GDPR fines that are largely theoretical."

Indeed, from a quick look of the Finnish law, there are several ways to enact proceedings: (a) several state agencies (e.g., DPA, consumer protection, telecom, medicine, and finance regulators) can litigate on their own for preventive measures and (b) consumer protection agency for normal claims, but also (c) not-for-profit interest groups approved by a state regulator can file claims. What is more, (d) the law allows European not-for-profits to litigate on behalf of Finnish people in a Finnish court and in some cases in any EU/ETA court. The last case is particularly interesting, as in theory it might allow some muscular body like BEUC to proceed with pan-European litigation.

See:

https://www.beuc.eu/blog/beucs-relentless-quest-for-collecti...

And in particular:

https://www.beuc.eu/sites/default/files/publications/BEUC-X-...
as we age, humans reflect more upon the past, probably because doing so helped the tribe to survive... the memories of the older members of the tribe provided information that was important to survival of the tribe, such as hey remember that water hole that we came across 40 years ago etc... thus humans developed adaptively a tendency to reflect upon the past as they age
Definitely learnt from that link, thanks!

That still hasn't won me over from prioritizing definitely-memory-safe languages over "fairly-memory-safe" nim tho.
Right now, we are in a period of upheaval. Everyone knows that everything is about to change, but we don't know exactly how.

Transformers are going to create huge shifts in how businesses work on a fundamental level. The stable diffusion and LLMs could collectively eliminate huge numbers of jobs.

The past doesn't have the same worries, and this tech revolution is not looking good for many.
> The mouse and keyboard are simply a lot faster to use.

It's really up to personal preference and what you are most trained with. I'm sure I could make a full song faster than at least 50% of Ableton users on a Analog Rytm and/or the Octatrack, as I could probably do that workflow in my sleep. But I'm also use that 99% of Ableton users could use Ableton faster than me to create full songs, simply because I'm much more used to using hardware than software.

Just like some people are better with console controllers than keyboard/mouse, even when playing FPS games, it's just a matter of practice (although FPS example has a skill-ceiling I don't think exists in music creation, so slightly shitty example)
Most people seem to like middle of the road pop that consists of the same 4 chords. I would not be surprised if AI makes stuff like that in the future. It's already formulaic, safe, marketable and non-controversial...
I'll suggest it's right. I elected the government in large part to protect...us.

I want them to spy on our enemies. And I want them to roast for spying on us.
> Yup - they're literally saying that the fact of a tiny fringe group that managed to get involved with the Muj in Chechnya -- is equivalent to saying that Ukraine as a whole (or its government, whatever) supported those folks.

Yup - they're literally saying that the fact of a tiny fringe group that managed to get involved with Crimea and Donbass in 2014 -- is equivalent to saying that Russia as a whole (or its government, whatever) supported those folks.

Yup - they're literally saying that the fact of a tiny fringe group that managed to get involved with the terrorists in Baghdad/Kabul -- is equivalent to saying that Iraq/Afghanistan as a whole (or its government, whatever) supported those folks.

In other words, the person registered "77 days ago" loses their entire awareness of role reversal in an attempt to fit reality into their botched worldview. It would be nice to hear, at least, what Ukraine did do to prosecute the so called fringe group that was threatening foreign relations of the entire state, but that would be too much for you to answer. Especially in the light of knowing that UNA-UNSO got integrated into the governing body of the country [1]. Let me guess: "they are still the minority". Great coping nonetheless.

[1] https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/206070.html
Even the smaller EVs carry 700lbs of battery and weight as much as small SUVs. So while it is a “large vehicle” problem, EVs are on average deceptively heavier than normal cars.
Why?

One of the dairy industry lobbying arms is trying to convince us it's dangerous (e.g. with https://youtu.be/oLjEG8Qu1Qw) but it's bullshit.
The FDA or FTC (forget which) just did a whole thing about whether almond milk and the link can leaglly call themselves milk. Their takeaway was yes they can because people are buying them intentionally due to them not being cow milk so there is no confusion going on.
Can you give some examples of what sort of domain specific rules you want to apply?

The trick is coming up with rules that let you merge concurrent edits in a consistent way on all peers, regardless of the order that any changes come in. Some things are easy - Max() is a valid CRDT. But lots of stuff is much harder than it sounds.
That's why you should only follow recipes from reputable sources.

Some people break down the science of a particular dish and explain in all detail the purpose of every single ingredient and cooking technique. They run experiments and tell you the impact of every single decision and come up with an optimized blueprint.
What? Presumably we need roads and it’s a fact of physics that heavier vehicles put more wear on them.
Clickbait title. So here is the summary (Generated by GPT):

The article discusses the growing concern regarding the increasing size and weight of batteries in electric vehicles (EVs). Ford CEO Jim Farley expressed confusion over the industry's trend of producing EVs with ever-larger batteries to achieve longer ranges, with some models offering up to 500 miles of range. He pointed out that these batteries are very large

There is a growing trend among US automakers to use large batteries to power equally large EVs, particularly electric trucks. The rationale seems to be that electrifying popular pickup trucks would make it easier to sell EVs to the truck-loving American market. However, these big trucks require big batteries to provide the range that potential buyers might expect

The article provides examples of this trend: the Rivian R1T truck and R1S SUV use batteries as large as 135kWh, and the Hummer EV’s 212kWh battery is heavier than a Honda Civic. The forthcoming Silverado EV from Chevy, boasting a range of 450 miles, is powered by a 200kWh Ultium battery. The Ram 1500 REV offers an option for a 229kWh battery aiming for a range of 500 miles
The author argues that this trend is not sustainable, citing several reasons. Firstly, the process of mining, refining, and manufacturing of EV batteries has significant environmental impacts. Secondly, EVs are generally heavier than their internal combustion engine counterparts, leading to increased non-exhaust emissions from sources like rubber tires, road dust, and brakes. Heavier vehicles also pose a higher safety risk when they collide with pedestrians or cyclists due to their larger size and mass

Farley's main concern with the size of batteries appears to be the cost, as larger batteries are more expensive to produce and can impact profit margins. He has suggested that the industry needs to focus on the efficiency of batteries relative to their size and range

Even though Ford has contributed to this trend with its F-150 Lightning extended range version, which uses a 1,800-pound, 131kWh battery, the author of the article expresses hope that Farley's realization might result in smaller, more efficient batteries in future Ford EVs
It looks like the current road tax frameworks of many countries use either CO2 emissions or car price as a main factor for road tax, which presumably correlates with weight - except for EVs. Seems like at least the CO2 bit will have to change with EVs becoming more mainstream.