skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did this with GPT-4, not directives to assume any type of personality or role.:

I think maybe my key was to just have a conversation such as I would have with a knowledgeable stranger willing to play along with and topic or tangent or whim I explored. Really, just that. I never, at all, explicitly told it anything about myself.

When I tried to model another personality, I thought for a while about the personality attributes, and then the same sort of general conversation— such a person would have with the same knowledgeable stranger, without ever giving personal details.

I’ll post an example soon. Sorry though, for privacy reasons I won’t share the actual chat, but (assuming I’m being honest ;) ) others should be able to reproduce something at least similar— I’ve done so for my own personality multiple times.
Actually, you can factor most bias out of decisions by structuring the process carefully. There is no excuse not to do so.
All three have different topography and climates from the NE or the South. I don't understand why people think what works in one type of forest will just work in another. The trees are different, the climate is different, the weather is different.

There have been big fires in Oregon and Washington in recent years as well, not just in California. And the Tillamook Burn was big, but that was a long time ago.
> The financial transaction / storage side is relatively uninteresting to people because the existing financial system generally works really well for them in terms of risks, fees, uptime etc.

In sane countries that is, yes. And that's where most of the global wealth is, too.

However, there are places where you need to worry a lot more about the government arbitrarily seizing your funds, or the banks just 'misplacing' them.

(I specifically write 'arbitrarily' above, because sane countries also typically want a cut of your income and/or wealth, but they write laws and regulations _beforehand_ that you can read to figure out how much you'll owe in taxes. Of course, some people also use crypto and other tricks to avoid paying taxes.)
> I'm really baffled that sex workers and other groups who provide legal services that payment processors don't like aren't embracing crypto.

These people also need to pay their bills and not have their money stolen or otherwise disappear in the “fraud all the way down” world of crypto. Cash solves most of these problems, as well as basic intermediate layers like LLCs.
Crypto's fate is bound be like those alternative Reddits and Twitters.

What kind of users an alternative Reddit attracts?

1. People who don't like Reddit because of privacy concerns or other ideological reasons.

2. People who are banned by Reddit.

It turns out group 2 is much larger than group 1 and the community rots.

Now what kind of people who cryptos (a.k.a. alternative money) attract?

1. People who don't like banks or the government's monetary policy, and ideologically believe they have to own their own wallets.

2. People who literally cannot safely use normal money, from non-conventional porn artists to scammers and drug dealers.

It turns out group 2 is bigger than group 1 and you know the rest of story.
Is a gigantic safe and armed guards considered paranoid security measures?
We currently don't have PoE but since it's open hardware and firmware people can look into adding it themselves. All documentation is open source.
Pandemic is so over I didn’t even realize that anyone had moved the goalposts to “nose-spray vaccines.”
Check wiki regarding iphone history and specs. Flashlight sensor was added in 3rd generation, gyroscope was in iphone 4 or 3gs - Steve Jobs was showing it off. Selfie camera definitely not yet in second generation. App store was launched with 2nd generation, gps and compass added with second generation. Google maps maybe was in gen 1 but without gps and compass - only for manually browsing maps. First gen iphone camera didnt even record video, or didn't have voice recorder, copy paste didn't work and couldn't send files via Bluetooth as other phones could back then.

My point is many people could see that iphone is gonna be game changer in next year or two but I wasn't that much useful with first generation. In similar way some people also see vision pro will be a game changer in next few years.

Edit: link to wiki iphone spec
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)
On that ZUI - have you ever tried out https://www.switchboard.app/? If so what are your thoughts? I thought it was okay.
"private" trait impls (1) would be a much better solution. You probably never want the impl of a trait for a foreign type to be exposed to other crates, it's so unlikely that forbidding it in the name of coherence would probably work out. But there's apparently many gotchas and no one has clearly written a way around them (2).

(1) https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/493 (although the comment section is kind of unhinged and goes off on distant tangents to modular typeclasses and first class modules)

(2) http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2015/01/14/litt...
You are right in practice. But it sounds an awful lot bit like the old "I have nothing to hide" argument against encryption, too?

Many payment processors do restrict the business they want to deal with beyond what the letter of the law requires. (And that is their prerogative as a private business!)
The Linux distribution of Prism actually runs in a flatpak by default, which provides pretty OK isolation.
Yup, it's "Divide and Conquer" all the way down. Not even just political, or mainstream media, but everywhere. - Endless distractions to keep us bickering with each other, instead of addressing the bigger issues.
Between WebGPU and WasmSIMD, I think much could be done to make it performant enough.
php and mysql were a much simpler time
Keep in mind that the trend is still increasing --- NYC and the USNE could very likely see much worse in days to come.

The current forecast calls for smoke in NYC through end-of-day Thursday:

<https://archive.is/3PAtG> (NY Times)
Will this make it possible to link in standalone libraries as like a single bundle easily and distribute that without having to worry about local installations?

E.g., I tried to bundle ffmpeg as a library with my voice memo transcription MacOS app^0, but it was too difficult, so I just went with building a standalone ffmpeg binary (~40MB), and instrumenting it with a bash script that I called from the Objective-C code, ha ha ha! :)

0: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wisprnote/id1671480366?mt=12
You can(could?) jailbreak iOS too.
tl;dr Exchange between pilot and ATC with pilot complaining about having to go around twice, i.e., break off a landing approach and go around to try again.

There's not much info other than the exchange between the pilot and ATC. But it's really strange that ATC is claiming that planes on the ground are given priority (for the a runway) over planes in the air.

That doesn't make sense to me: a plane in the air can only stay there so long while a plane on the ground can stay there indefinitely. Seems like a plane landing should have priority over a plane taking off.
This thing still going? I thought we'd moved on to AI.
Why? At least at a personal level, assuming it wasn't already obvious to you, it seems as if it could serve as a kick in the pants to start looking around. A statement that it's going to happen doesn't change the reality.

From a company perspective, it possibly makes less sense because you might prefer the oblivious folks to stay oblivious. But, personally, I'd prefer clear signals especially if it's not already blindingly obvious.
I totally forgot about this! thank you.

there are so many really cool sites from the past that i cant recall what they were but i recall the experience, like that one with the gallaxy cluster of all music genres and how each were related, and each node played an sample for that genre...

/one handed popsicle typing
There Are Better Ways to Build a Toilet
Most customers weren't willing to enter their CC information online in the late 90s and early 00s. It took horny trailblazers to get us to where we are today, to the overall benefit of e-commerce. Comparatively, putting CC info in to Coinbase and putting an address to withdraw the crypto in is far safer than what horny people did back then.
I've had the on-screen keyboard on my phone set to Dvorak for > 5 years, and I just can't switch back to Qwerty. I think it's quite good for the phone.
> a large fraction of all interest in crypto is as a financial asset

In the same class of assets as beanie babies and tulips, perhaps
Please don't cross into personal attack or call names on HN. If another comment is wrong, it's good to explain how it is wrong, in a neutral way that we all can learn from. Also fine to just chalk it up to the internet being wrong and not reply.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Environmental effects on binary black hole gravitational waveforms
IIRC, if P=NP then trapdoor functions do not exist, so proving that one existed would be a huge deal even outside of cryptography.
A 13-year-old spent $64,000 on mobile games without her parents realizing
Assuming SD models are converted to the onnx format (or whatever its called) shouldn't current sd projects offer similar performance? The dominant cost is in generation is inference, not the project runtime I thought.
> user have to manually click a checkbox in system preference to say "I allow app from any developer"

The "Anywhere" option no longer exists in System Preferences/Settings: https://support.apple.com/HT202491

It was removed in macOS Sierra.
> Static linking prevents that, at the cost of disk space and memory [...]

Some deduplication work for disk and memory pages should be able to help here?

(It might need compiler and linker support to produce binaries that are easier to deduplicate. Eg you might want to disable unused-function elimination for your static libraries and restrict whole program 'Link Time Optimization'? Or you might want your deduplicator to be a bit smarter and store diffs internally, like git does? Or your build system can work this way in the first place and produce diffs against common bases.

I don't know what's optimal or even practical, but you can do static linking and still save memory and disk space.)
As near as I can tell, they've never turned a profit. That cant go on indefinitely.
For those who are remote and who live near a Google office, we hope you’ll consider switching to a hybrid work schedule. Our offices are where you’ll be most connected to Google’s community. Going forward, we’ll consider new remote work requests by exception only.”

now.. maybe it's just me, but re-reading that sentence makes my eye note "AND WHO LIVE NEAR" as well as CONSIDER SWITCHING as well as EXCEPTION ONLY.

Is EXCEPTION ONLY limited? how do we know?

what about "how big is LIVE NEAR" as a cohort.

The article is a hot take I want to believe too, but legalistic reading says its "doesn't want" in the sense of "want, not is not permitting"

nobody is being strongarmed, from whats read above. There's getout clauses a-plenty for any authorised manager to 'exception' their way out of this.

Google doesn't want people to leave en mass, or unionise either. Want doesn't drive hard sometimes. The real world intrudes.
Yeah they are HEPA and according to the link below it’s good for 12-15 months

https://alen.com/products/alen-breathesmart-75i-hepa-filter?...
It's worth considering that the desire to pre arrange those outcome emails may be why a leaker ended up in the circle of trust.

Messy layoffs may involve fewer people aware before the public announcement.
Agree and I like that / will steal it :)
It's the right thing to do, for Microsoft. Their users aren't going to leave them, no matter what, so why waste money on QA staff and testing? It's better for the company's profit margin to just let the users deal with those problems, and the users agree since they're happy to keep using MS products and paying for them.
Retracted: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/15/7754
I built this to deploy a wireguard instance to your digital ocean account. Pick the region you want. It’s free, just pay digital ocean for the droplet…

Https://vpn.democratize.cloud
US doctors forced to ration as cancer drug shortages hit nationwide
Apple Watch? Tim Cook became CEO. The Apple Watch was released in 2015.

The last March End quarter before Tim Cook became CEO was Mar 2011.

Apple’s entire revenue for that quarter was about 24.5Bn (iPhone, mac, software, everything included).

Apple’s wearables alone brought them about $8.5Bn in Mar 2023.

Services, which have largely grown under Tim Cook, is up to $21Bn.
And I had to click 12 times the back buttons to actually get back here.

No hard feelings. But it’s not great.

Otherwise the article is pretty bland.

Not because of this but rather the zeitgeist : I will give Gemini another shot.
Docker is even worse in that they changed terms and started sending goons to recover what they believe they are owed. Didn’t even try to sell the value of what they offer.

I didn’t give them a dime and wouldn’t consider doing so in the future.
My OEM HTC keyboard (TouchPal) straight up turned into malware. It was banned from the Play Store... but was unremovable without adb.

There was never a notification either, I just saw it on a news site.
Gab.com has been banned by PayPal, Visa and MasterCard: https://news.gab.com/2021/08/an-alternative-to-paypal-is-com...

Free speech, no matter how disgusting, is constitutional in the US. This is a legal use case of crypto.

Another is micropayments for content or for upvotes with Lightning Network, for example https://stacker.news
Looks like we got our first Twitter gold scammer
https://twitter.com/boredcateth/with_replies

Here is the 'mothership' account:

https://twitter.com/AlphaMRKTNG/affiliates

you can see the affiliate spam accounts spawned under it

posting the same message over and over to a fraudulent airdrop

$1000 month fee is supposed to deter spammers and scammers, but just the opposite if gold accounts have unlimited posting privileges and no post filtering. a scam can net millions of dollars. $1000 fee is peanuts.
As a compromise, let’s ban cryptocurrency exchanges in all “sane” jurisdictions, because the downsides outweighs the upsides. That seems to be where things are heading already.

These companies will be free to operate everywhere else.
I guess it's like an entrance fee to stop the club getting overcrowded. Apple Developer support forums, apple developer support, the App Review process...all these things take resources and are probably already overloaded (or pushed to limit). The fee helps keep check of that, like charging people for your side-project development work. Sure, you could do it for free (as you have a main income) but charging clients helps you manage and prioritize your workload.

Incidentally I've made back my Apple Developer fee in app revenue, so that's cool. Ha ha ha! :)
But how much octane 110 fuel can you squeeze from a barrel of oil?
> China has long held a dim view of video games, calling them "electronic drugs" a few years ago. It only allows those under 18 to play online games for one hour, between 8 pm and 9 pm local time, on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
Moving back to USENET makes sense for the devops community.
They observed Reddit making waves and decided to say “hold my beer!”
What if your house burns down with your laptop on it?
Since the bird was named after the country shouldn’t the name of the bird change too?
A centrifugal inline fan is what would be the most common to look for.

They should list a CFM at Inches of Water Column in the 1/4 to 1/2" range to be considered "high static" pressure.

Those blowers from the other comment are like for your iron smelter.
I wonder how long it takes to go from “those who live near Google offices” to “all employees”. Once 80-90% of employees are back at work regularly it’s not a stretch to believe that those few people who are always remote will be seen as less effective and less connected to their peers going into the office everyday. This is likely one step of many.
Oh right, you need to run sudo spctl --master-disable in order to have that option
“complicated”

You have a physical wiper button on the stalk that brings up the UI without fail. One physical press.

And you can learn to adjust the UI for wipers with muscle memory since they always are in the same position by the closest corner after you just push the physical button once.

You can grasp the corner and press a remembered spot on the UI. The buttons don’t jump around. Maybe you won’t do this on day 1, granted, but you can do it.
I am sick of both.

Jailbroken iOS was heaven though. I hear its more difficult now (which is why Apple has lost my business since IIRC the iPhone 6).
But is it Shit-JIS, or are you lucky enough to get UTF-8?
Unfortunately not; my experience is that Quanta is just as prone to these kinds of errors as other pop science sites.
The Terraform Cloud pricing model is absurd. It does not align with how the tool is used or how it provides value. It comes off as rent seeking.

The problem is that, once you know what you are doing and understand the ecosystem, you can build a better experience using open source than they provide through TFC/TFE.

I wish I had a better idea for them…
It certainly hasn't been great for retail investors. I got in with a small investment right after the IPO. I swept it up with a bunch of other doggy stocks I didn't want in my account last year at one point.
It's really insane how if I tried to buy the same house I bought 5 years ago my payment would be right under 3x. At 40 it would be almost cheaper for me to retire than to move -- especially from Austin to California.
Yeah, all Apple users know that "this software needs to be updated" means "the software itself is fine, the developer just needs to pay us money". It's obvious, not misleading or an attempt to create FUD at all.
First time court tourists are often surprised that you can write your own order for the judge to sign, and it sure sounds official, but it's missing the magic signature that makes it go.
It certainly didn't for online poker.
Apple has created its own Proton-like tool to run Windows games on Mac
The SEC action is actually a signal of weakness in USD. This was precipitated somewhat with the pandemic, and more so after there were financial sanctions leveled against Russia.

The reason why currency has relative strength or weakness comes from the idea of a "national balance sheet": if your nation's assets exceed its liabilities, your local currency is gaining buying power, because it can take on additional debt from other countries and therefore, when we measure it in terms of "how much a unit of currency can purchase", we are getting them at a relative discount. You don't necessarily want the currency to be strong if your economy is based on exporting, but as a net importer, the US has assumed the role of strength for some time, and a large part of its system is to "export the dollar" as the international settlement currency.

So, with the pandemic, we got a round of fiscal stimulus, inflating the currency. Not necessarily insurmountable by itself. But then Russia invaded Ukraine and the US decided to punish the action with sanctions. That prevents Russia from doing some business, but it also has a blowback to it: if the usage of USD is becoming more restricted, it becomes less appealing as a settlement currency. Many smaller countries have peeled away to alternatives, with a handful even opting to hold BTC. Therefore, dollar strength is under serious threat now. The recent bank implosions have added to that uncertainty: there is a real question, often discussed in the crypto space now, of whether USD is going to survive intact.

Under Gary Gensler's administration, the MO of the SEC has been to swing around a billy club and drum up a bunch of charges against exchanges. The charges aren't very sound in nature: they don't adhere to a consistent framework, and don't suggest cooperation with exchanges like Coinbase that have taken pains to ask for regulatory clarity.

The rationale for why that's happening now is obvious: if the overriding concern is protecting the dollar, the SEC has to burn any possible lifeboats to maintain control of its own currency.

But...if you're doing that, that's the "then they fight you" part of the story. There are several countries where an informal crypto sector has taken hold to handle payments and remittance precisely because it bypasses financial controls. In many cases, people will still prefer settlement in USD, but they can hold a stablecoin if needed.

There is a fate in which USD pulls through without falling into an inflationary spiral, but it requires the economy to do extremely well(with a mix of labor mobilization and technological improvements) so that the balance sheet is fixed and faith is restored. The market reaction in this case suggests that people don't think the US is in control of its money, and they expect the action to be toothless - and they have a point, since if an exchange goes down, they can continue holding in self-custody and wait for the market to provide alternatives.
Yes but the point of controlled burns in California (for example) is that they eliminate fuel as the ecosystem gets drier. In peatlands, controlled burns instead make more fuel available by drying out the peat, causing a death spiral.
Interesting that this refers to "Enhanced intestinal permeability (leaky gut)", which wikipedia insists is very different than "leaky gut syndrome" which it describes as "a hypothetical, medically unrecognized condition"
Cash is not reasonable for internet-based transactions. Payment processors like Stripe and Braintree are better, but they have moralising terms of service and will drop you the moment they find out what you're doing, and good luck getting your money out of that. Banks will frequently give you a hard time or not work with you if you're a sex worker so bank transfers are much more difficult and probably more info than you're willing to give to Johns. OnlyFans bans a lot of (legal) fetish content because of pressure applied by their payment processors, and they take a fat cut (20%) of what you're making on top it.

In an industry where getting fucked by payment processors regularly is part of the business, I think there is obvious appeal to pseudonymous transactions for both buyer and seller. Again, off-ramps are far better in 2023. I can deposit crypto and get cash in my bank account in a working day or two.
> Is your project KoalaSRS?

Indeed it is! Very much a work-in-progress though, whenever my work schedule has a moment to spare.

> I have something similar to a drill mode in my previous product (to learn English) and people use it 1-3 hours a day. Want to incorporate it into Gliglish, just didn't get around to it yet but you make me realize I shouldn't wait!

I look forward to trying it in the future. I'm a fan of tools that let me just "plug in" and immerse for a solid hour via short drills. I wish there was a GPT-enhanced tool like using Anki, but for vocab drills and speaking practice. This was my main motivation for working on KoalaSRS

> Can you expand on this one, please?

Absolutely! When I tried the bakery scenario, I used the Korean word for "bread" but it got misinterpreted as "bell". It's not solely a transcription error (my pronunciation could use a little touch up), but I'm curious if you're using OpenAI's Whisper? If so, implementing a dynamic/context-aware prompt might improve the accuracy, and even overlook minor pronunciation glitches. I've done some tinkering in this area during my own experiments and saw some promising improvements. I'm not sure if you're using Whisper or if you've tweaked your Whisper prompts based on context, but I thought I'd mention that experience to see if it helps you tweak things a bit.

Thanks for your reply. If you ever feel like diving deeper, don't hesitate to reach out. I absolutely love discussing language learning software. I've shared some of my thoughts on my blog and in the KoalaSRS README as well, so feel free to take a peek if you're curious!