skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would they be excited? That would certainly cut their funding.

> UFOS: CHALLENGE TO SETI SPECIALISTS (Friedman, 2002)

> Major news media and many members of the scientific community have taken strongly to the radio-telescope-based SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program as espoused by its charismatic leaders, but not supported by any evidence whatsoever. In turn, perhaps understandably, they feel it necessary to attack the ideas of alien visitors (UFOs) as though they were based on tabloid nonsense instead of on far more evidence than has been provided for SETI. One might hope, vainly I am afraid, that they would be concerned with The Search for Extraterrestrial Visitors (SETV). I would hereby like to challenge the SETI specialists, members of the scientific community, and the media to recognize the overwhelming evidence and significant consequences of alien visits and to expose the serious deficiencies of the SETI-related claims. I have publicly and privately offered to debate any of them. No takers so far.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191222220058/http://stantonfri...
It took me a LONG time to accept what journalism actually is. For

"The danger of delegating education to journalists",

NAW. It's okay. Not entirely joking, we already do that! It's a standard part of nearly all colleges and universities. It's usually called the Drama Department, in particular where the subject is writing fiction. Or,

"How to grab your audience by the heart, the gut, and below the belt, always below the shoulders, never between the ears."

The "long time" was because I had a tough time believing that journalism would replace good information with just emotion, replace documentation of events with drama about the people involved in the events.

This post is partly parody, but not all.

Yup, I'm beyond merely frustrated and outraged at nearly all of journalism.

For the Hacker News audience, there is maybe an upside: Due to current desktop computer hardware, operating system and applications software, one person with just a coaxial cable connection to the Internet and a business account (so that can receive connections) can bring up a Web site with another approach to journalism.

Gee, just yesterday noticed that Patreon has their relationship with 250,000 "creators", say, Web sites. Some of those sites can be new approaches to journalism. I'm guessing that one result will be, call it, a fragmentation of media/journalism.
> Crypto was a remarkably clever way to trick rich people into funding GPUs and legions of software devs.

1) The usage of GPUs for compute is much more preferred to the ASIC-ification of certain computing workloads, as the hardware can be reused for better software / algorithms.

2) (Refer to below for personal views on effort prescriptivism.)

> But there’s real work to do now.

Heavily dislike the authoritarian-leaning connotations that anything other than "real work" is a waste of effort. People are allowed to use their time & effort to do whatever they want to do.
Discord has communities for everything. In the last couple years I've recently taken up learning French and have found that Discord provides conversation on the topic at the same time as practicing the topic. There are servers for everything!

Side note: also a degree in music turned programmer, hi!
Not shown here, the Open Look scrollbars, defined in the 1980s, had the arrow buttons attached to the position indicator. It was probably best that died, but it was distinctive.

Also not shown here, the Motif scrollbars of the same era had the arrow buttons on opposite ends of the widget (like on the Macintosh), but the position indicator was dynamically sized to also indicate the percentage of the scrolled world currently visible in the viewport. This is now ordinary.

Autohiding scrollbars that stopped taking widget space when there was no amount to scroll became popular a little later. They are great when you want many views scrollable when necessary but don't want the clutter of scrollbars when not.

Some modern UX design (i.e., advertising/engagement-driven) introduced a different kind of autohiding scrollbars -- which disappear when the pointer or finger isn't in the scrollbar area, even when there is something to scroll. They are an HCI abomination. Doubly so, when the suddenly appearing scrollbar interferes with the view.
This sort of response certainly seems indicative of a doctor with horrifically bad bedside manner. Families tend to be emotional when the health of their loved ones is at stake. I'm skeptical that a chatbot would help someone who can't grasp that.
> Indeed, one common software development methodology, known as agile, often involved daily in‐ person team meetings.

We’ve found that standup is pretty easy on video.
A bare bones api will sell faster with an example gui and management interface almost always.

It’s a starting point to both see what’s possible, and also a way to maybe have some boiler plate to experiment with right away to help users start using the api by example of usage not just by a call but in a front end.

I appreciate what you’re saying, got me it’s like finding an app and then wondering if it has an api. Both are useful
Thanks for spelling it out, I appreciate it. For what it’s worth, I agree that more accountability (maybe even to the point of piercing the corporate veil) is critical. But I’m not sure how to get that done without more regulation. Lawyers and accountants are so creative, and in a multinational environment have so many options, it’s hard for me to see how this sort of enforcement can happen without strong government intervention. But anyway, I appreciate you taking the time to share your perspective, thank you
I am! It’s on my bedside table. I also made it through the parts of his opus that were published at least 10 years ago.

Between the art of computer programming and the art of electronics, man I’ve spent a prolific amount of money and time. I’m so impressed by the underlying talent.
I think having valid competition might make Hochul a more competent governor and accountability/eyes on her. The idea of an "easy" election never sits well with me unless it is a great incumbent.
Senate Republicans introduce plan to tackle student loan debt
Kyl–Bingaman Amendment
I lost a year of time on a side-project because of WxPython, I built a shim to allow me to make small tweaks without having to regenerate the python code, and it was barely usable.... then I had to change a list to a drop-down (I think), and it broke everything.

I threw all of that time away, and had it all working in Lazarus/Free Pascal in less than 2 weeks.

Most web based programmers have no clue how badly "modern" tools are compared to the VB6/Delphi era. Everything is worse, except for GIT... GIT is brilliant.

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Also, my personal wiki of choice is WikidPad, which is distributed as an executable for windows, and works just fine. I can't move to Linux, because it's distributed as source there, and WxWindows made a breaking change to one of their key parameters to dialog function calls, so none of the dialogs work properly, though it does show text. It's effectively read-only and broken as a result.
I'm trying to experiment with the API but the response time is always in the 15-25second range. How are people getting any interesting work done with it?

I see others on the OpenAPI dev forum complaining about this too, but no resolution.
I carry some electrical tape spooled around a nub of a pencil in my travel kit for precisely this reason.
>The only people that are still upset are the people who just want to continue to use ad-free readers, without paying money.

I am definitely in the minority, but I am upset that Reddit plans to monetize my writing by selling it to LLM companies (without an opt-out).
> In comparison, I had corona last week and it was a walk in the park (I am also quad-vaccinated, that might have helped).

I can attest that somewhere between vaccines, potential acquired immunity and variants having reduced strength, my pair of confirmed Covid experiences (March 2020, July 2022) went from "the sickest I've ever felt, with symptoms recurring for months and persistent-to-present reduced smell capability" to "a mild cold".
You’d potentially have to
load from the side.

Probably more effective to move the trailer wheels to the far back of the trailer.
I own this domain: prompts.run
Do you wanna it?
A great quote I heard recently: “Google has most of my email because they have all of yours.”

Even if you personally control where your data is stored, the people and businesses you interact with are likely to be trawled by the NSA.

There is no escape short of living in a hut in a forest, sans electricity.
How can that be the reason "trust the science" is ridiculed when the people scoffing also refused to wear any sort of mask?
Holden is presented as immortal, a figure for the devil in the Christian sense (in No Country For Old Men, the assassin Chigurh approximates this). Moby Dick's white whale is perhaps immortal, though not a devil figure to any modern reader.

Captain Ahab is mortal and goes down with all but one of the crew of the Pequod, like Glanton who dies along with most of his gang at the hands of the Yuma. Both leaders are proud and defiant to the last and are justly killed (though we have to feel first mate Starbuck at least deserved better).

Both Glanton and Ahab are undisputed masters of their respective expeditions, and both leave behind young families at the outset, though for different reasons: Glanton flees the law, Ahab sails voluntarily.
Bigger vehicles love utilizing "physics right of way" to get what they want and it sounds like that's what happened here. Even pick-up truck drivers do stuff where they basically put you in situations where you give them what they want or they run into you and take no damage. Big vehicles on the road are an absolute problem at all levels.
Grep for ruby on any hacker news whos hiring posts.
Indexed to the public, I imagine they meant. And you can't enter a server (and therefore search a server) without creating an account first.
Compensation was suggested just because of the size of the company and you said, a little passive aggressively I would add, that one should read the licensing terms before commenting, in which ocasion I pointed out that what one is able to do, legally, isn't necessarily what one should do, meaning morality and legality are two separate, sometimes intersecting paths but not always, as in this case.

Context should be clear now.
Trucking is expensive. If you care about cost, you're gonna trade off time to use a more cost efficient method, like a train.

Where trucks do have the advantage is truckers though. You can saddle them with debt and take all their money as varying fees, then reposses their home and get some new rube to take out a loan to buy it from you.

The truckers are plentiful, and willing to bleed our for a couple crumbs, which is a much better deal than trains where the conductors are union employees. It's much harder to make them take out debt to pay you more
I unsubscribed from everything and grouped subreddits I wanted to see into multis.

It helped with the noise.
Where can I buy that laptop running Midori?
It might be urxvt (rxvt-unicode), a popular terminal emulator.
You could boot Windows XP or Linux in that comfortably. Even run an older web browser or computer game. That’s crazy!
What's a good/affordable GPU to run these projects locally?

It seems like building anything on top of these runs into either a big GPU cost for yourself or a big compute cost if you scale for others.
>I've never heard of "perpetual forum dwellers"

oh I certainly have. We call them moderators often, but there are definitely power users who you will see comment on almost every post in a particular group.

And since we're on the topic of Reddit here: well, you will definitely see the abyss stare back if you look into how many subs the largest moderators run.
This might contain the only original music Tommy Tallerico wrote and recorded for a video game.
I have a 3080, I paid MSRP ($699) for it in 2020 because I got lucky. It will last me a while, but I'm dreading seeing the 5080 next year and having to pay an MSRP that is twice that for the same class of product.

I don't think Pascal cards will be relevant for AAA games much longer now that AAA games are starting to skip last-gen consoles. Ubisoft showed of their Avatar and Star Wars games this week, and both are shipping with ray-traced global illumination.
Would be nice if you could send a back and forth interaction for each key. This approach turns into lots of requests that reapply the entire context and ends up slow. I wish i could just send a Microsoft guidance template program, and process that in a single pass.
I put myself on "tentative" in teams meetings except the ones with my direct team members.

I don't check my email more than 5 times a day: start of day, mid morning, before lunch, mid afternoon, end of day. In your case that's 20 emails to look at each time and I bet adding some inbox rules would break it up into something even more manageable (3 to 5 emails per folder they hit).

Teams and slack chats are muted by default for me unless I'm mentioned and that's what most people expect.

This yields good ~90 minute chunks for me to work with despite all the noise. I don't even block out my schedule. I just let some days be shitty if they're going to be (usually no more than about 3 half days lost per week).
what is the typeface? for the capital title and low case text
> The problem appears to be that our present text conversation climate is such that you must either pick Team Science or Other Team, and should you mention that there are faked results hiding in plain sight, people get upset because they think perhaps what you're saying is "Maybe vaccines do cause autism" and "Maybe HCQ does cure COVID-19".

Assume that you consider yourself unable to evaluate the truthfulness of scientific claims.

Being told that claims you'd thought were properly vetted are actually wrong, then means that you have no way to know if other claims are accurate or not.

If your process doesn't work, then any knowledge based on that process is called into question.
Could a group of Neanderthals with spears contain me in an enclosure?
This hasn't happened with nukes
My view is that due to the insecurity of our computers, we (and the public) always be very afraid of going to anything other than the popular sites for things.

It doesn't matter how hard you push, nobody wants to risk getting hacked, and will stick to the "safe" sites.

It doesn't have to be this way, if you're old enough, you remember the days of shareware floppy disks in the 1980s, when it was reasonable and safe to try anything you wanted. (Why.... we had a very strong and reliable de-facto version of capability based security with our write protectable floppy disks and lack of hard drives) Genode, and GNU/Hurd could get us back to that level of safety, but it's going to be a long, long time before that happens.
Mine kicks in to say that those trucks shouldn't be on the road
If you're a firewall vendor, it seems like a no-lose situation to drop packets with the evil bit. Either someone's experimenting like in this blog post, and you look cool because you implemented an April Fool's RFC, or someone is actually sending malicious packets, and you look like a competent firewall. Imagine if you didn't drop the packets with the evil bit, and a hacker thinks it's funny to add the bit to their packets while they're exploiting some unrelated vulnerability in your software. The post-mortems and exploit writeups would make you look incompetent - "this firewall vendor can't even stop packets that announce their evil intentions!"
You're very welcome. I'm jealous of you, having James to look forward to!
How does archive.ph manage to bypass paywalls so well? It seems to fetch new content using the user's browser.
That's why you bring a gun, to shoot the large truck drivers.

That way you can be both right and alive.
Vietnam pressures TikTok to censor more content or face a ban
The water eruption at the South Pole, is that a permanent feature or seasonal?
The military has a recruiting problem. They also offer free college tuition. That's how I earned my degree. Both parties should be advocating for able bodies to sign up instead of tossing out money. It's not just war either. I responded to many natural disasters when I served. They could join the Guard, Coast Guard and learn some real skills along with helping their community in a crisis but no. Can't do that.
I'm concerned that OpenAI's example documentation suggests using this to A) construct SQL queries and B) summarize emails, but that their example code doesn't include clear hooks for human validation before actions are called.

For a recipe builder it's not so big a deal, but I really worry how eager people are to remove human review from these steps. It gets rid of a very important mechanism for reducing the risks of prompt injection.

The top comment here suggests wiring this up to allow GPT-4 to recursively call itself. Meanwhile, some of the best advice I've seen from security professionals on secure LLM app development is to whenever possible completely isolate queries from each other to reduce the potential damage that a compromised agent can do before its "memory" is wiped.

There are definitely ways to use this safely, and there are definitely some pretty powerful apps you could build on top of this without much risk. LLMs as a transformation layer for trusted input is a good use-case. But are devs going to stick with that? Is it going to be used safely? Do devs understand any of the risks or how to mitigate them in the first place?

3rd-party plugins on ChatGPT have repeatedly been vulnerable in the real world, I'm worried about what mistakes developers are going to make now that they're actively encouraged to treat GPT as even more of a low-level data layer. Especially since OpenAI's documentation on how to build secure apps is mostly pretty bad, and they don't seem to be spending much time or effort educating developers/partners on how to approach LLM security.
The same can be enforced for AI. Only it hasn't, and is controversial to enforce.

Access to mining previously was cheap and available.
Do you have to be nasty?

That's a person you're replying to with feelings, so why not default to being kind in comments as per HN guidelines?

As it happens, swyx has built notable AI related things, for example smol-developer

https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1657892220492738560

and it would be nice to be able to read his and other perspectives without having to read shallow, mean, dismissive replies such as yours.
‘. to take you back to where you last made a change
Interestingly SpaceX posted the same animation[1] to their Twitter 30 minutes later. No attribution is included in the video or either tweet, so I can't tell if SpaceX just lifted the video from OP and didn't credit, or if SpaceX indeed made the animation and this reporter somehow frontran them (he doesn't really seem to claim credit either, but also doesn't attribute to anyone else).

[1] https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1668399552771297285
It’s hard to have a serious conversation about black swan events because you’re a fool until they happen. Anyway, if China invades Taiwan, which appears increasingly likely, the availability of GPUs will plummet. If this occurs in about 2 years, it will hit at peak AI (IMO) before supply chains have adapted to new extreme levels of demand. In fact peak demand may be a catalyst for invasion. Hoarding GPUs at this point may seem laughable, but having capacity during and immediately after an invasion will be a competitive advantage of note.
I thought all cars still had OBD II ports? It always seemed to be a huge victory for me that they had to put those in with a standardized protocol and codes. Of course almost as soon as that happened OEMs started making more proprietary tools with more info available but just using OBD II you can fix a lot on your car.
Issue is that's it's not guaranteed, unlike this new openai feature. Personally, Ive found Vertex AI's json output to be not so great, it often uses single quotes in my experience. But maybe you have figured out the right prompts? I'd be interested what you use if so.
> Java doesn't have the weaker atomics support that C++ added

Yes it does, but it doesn't have first-class keywords to represent these modes. You have to use the VarHandle class, which is a bit kludgy.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/20/docs/api/java.base...
There we go. The true feelings come out after all the specious bullshit persuasion tactics. We all know it's there, so come out with it when you begin your bs will you.
Hey Nelson, you haven't really been blogging on that domain since 2001 have you?

If so, that is pretty amazing, and I'll be adding it to my list of retro sites still in existence.
completely agree. the scrollbar has persisted for 40 years not because its useful, but because we just haven't figured out how to remove it yet.

thanks for your helpful comment.
Congress put it in a bill. Not sure exactly what happens if they don't do anything, but I wouldn't be surprised if the car companies sued, because it seems like they've been asking for this for a long time.

H.R.3684 - Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act 117th Congress (2021-2022)

Rulemaking.--Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue a final rule amending Standard 108..[lots of text omitted]..to allow for the use on vehicles of adaptive driving beam headlamp systems.

There's an interesting article about it here. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/18/business/us-approves-smar...
Microsoft and OpenAI Forge Awkward Partnership
Soon this one will be too
Wok users might be rare but gas stove lovers are plenty.
The perils of open-source AI
> You can easily have a rich social life throughout training

This is the complete opposite of my experience, and I’d be very surprised if there were any med schools where this was legitimately possible. When my wife was in med school she had about 40 hours of course work per week, and the curriculum was so dense that she spent nearly all the rest of her time studying. She worked (a job) 10 hours a week during med school and we’d be lucky to have a couple of hours of dedicated time together per week. Most of the time we spent together was when I’d help her with revising. During semester breaks she had mandatory placements to complete, and her school operated classes on all public holidays. It only eased for a couple of months between academic years (when she also had a non-trivial study workload to get through). During her residency this got worse when she had irregular 18+ hour shifts to get through, and just wanted to spend most of her time at home sleeping. This was the same experience that all of her peers had, so either you or my wife must have had an atypical academic experience, or you have a substantially different definition of “rich social life” than I do.

> There are plenty in medicine aware of this, antisocial behavior and toxicity in general

To be clear I’m not referring to toxicity necessarily, or antisocial as in being destructive or disruptive. I mean averse to social settings, and not capable of or interested in participating in normal pro social behaviour. Nearly all of her peers at med school had these characteristics, if somebody told me that 90% of doctors had some form of autism, I really wouldn’t have a hard time believing it. This is very similar to the experience I had in all of my maths, physics and comp sci papers at college, and to my subsequent experience working in software development. Granted it’s not quite as severe in that setting, but the poorly socialised software engineer stereotype didn’t just materialise out of thin air.

People do find these highly contrived LLM outputs to be insightful for their “perspectives” on compassion or empathy, which is totally unrelatable for me, but this just seems like a reasonably plausible explanation.