skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Do you have an appointment?” No. “Oh, it’ll be about 45 minutes before someone can help you.”

Ah, yes, the Ferrari customer experience. You need to be selected by the manufacturer to be allowed to buy their product. It makes the product feel rare and exclusive, and the customer feel "special", when it's a consumer product made by the same Chinese sweatshop workers that make your other e-waste.

Obligatory Futurama "there might be one left":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uASUHbFEhWY
This is closer to my experience around late 2019. (Toronto Ontario Canada, at the time.)

Went in, saw someone on staff fixing up a display unit, asked if I could buy an S5 apple watch, he asked if I had any questions, I said none, tapped card on the mobile POS thing, and then in maybe 10 minutes, someone else came out, apologized for the wait, and handed me my box.

It's possible it's changed over covid though. Makes sense they would want the in-store experience to be more white-glove if they were seeing less foot traffic.
Not necessarily, because the models have an element of randomness. Also, I was under the impression that ChatGPT has more "safeguards" (manifesting as a refusal to answer questions) than the raw API.
Isn’t the burden of proof on the other side?
I don't understand the point, nobody is saying that Tunisia's startup scene will rival the US
When my daughter applied to Harvard, they had her interview with a local alum. I assume that there is a huge network of local alum all over the country screening applicants before the school even gives them any consideration. That will certainly give the well connected in a community an advantage.
Filled? I would say some really intelligent 1% programmers use this site to reach out to average programmers like me. Discussions around programming are often filled with people that tried a technology for 15 minutes and gave up.

Every other subject? It's a lot of cherry picked data and political dog whistling with an occasional expert
I was thinking of photography because there are endless forum threads and debates about whether camera x is 10% better than camera y, and the same about lenses, when in reality, a lot of interchangeable lens cameras (ILCs) have been so good for so long that, for the majority of people and majority of applications, there are a ton of great choices.

The phrase "gear acquisition syndrome" (GAS) gets thrown around a lot for good reason. A lot of people trying to shoot better photos and videos aren't limited by their gear.
> WebGPU Support

Yaaayyy! Great to see faster better slicker new 3d on the web having this great engine target it.
I think that’s one of the best steel men I’ve seen for the idea of moral relativism.
Timezones and wages make this a losing game and it actually prevents Evernote from growing imho
Unfortunately I disagree. Funny enough on Shakugan no Shana, there is a character that says -desu a lot and that not being translated and also explained to me when it first appeared, provided the ground to figure out a bit of the background.
She also "expands" -desu in various ways, becoming essentially

I watched many animes in japanese with fansubs, as well as with translation, there is just too much lost and the professional subtitles applied did not provide enough context, like at all (in dvds you could watch italian dubs with subtitles).

Of course it could be a problem with the studio, but the experience has been pretty consistent.

The panorama might also have changed, who knows.

Oh, one glaring example is watching animes with subs on netflix was a terrible experience both in visual quality and subs, while the exact same anime from fansubs are really high quality, with amazing subs (all the stuff I described earlier), it just doesn't work.
Just made me realize how much I miss those 90’s anime soundtracks.
Well, as far as I can see, the only options are for-profit, charity, and government-run. Of those, charity is undependable, and government-run has an obvious conflict of interest. For-profit worked for a couple of centuries in the form of newspapers. (Letters to the editor was the only part that was really a "town square", and that was subject to the whims of the editors. But for much of that time, there was competition between newspapers, so they tended to allow most viewpoints to be heard at least every now and then.)

So for-profit worked... and then it didn't, at least in the form of newspapers. Twitter also worked, but it's even-handedness is in question, and there isn't good competition if you don't trust it to be honest.
chatgpt-4 != gpt4 on the openAI playground
An overlap of the two obsessions: recreate something historical with only the tools available at the time.

Clickspring's ongoing recreation of the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism, starting by recreating many of the original tools likely used to build it historically (and contributing to academic research on the details of the system as he goes along!), is an incredible example of this (and altogether an amazing channel): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0...
Aww come on, you can do better than this, I know you can. The ad-hominems are weak. Defend science with evidence and not assumption. Assume you might be wrong, and prove yourself right. The argument you’re attempting to make is older than both of us put together, and the talking points you’re repeating are well worn (and for the most part have lost the test of time), but there is still ample material out there. I’ve been giving you hints that there is a valid argument to make, but this isn’t it.

What is science? Please define it. What is social science? What does a social scientist do, and why doesn’t it amount to science in your mind? What does a biologist do differently?

Now answer this question carefully: why do so many people call it a science if it’s not? Why does social science have science in the name? Why do all the encyclopedias and dictionaries all define social science as a science, if you’re right? Why do you believe you know better than the experts that I’ve linked to? Things that might clarify the discussion include: why is it important to you to state that social science is not a field of science? What harm do you believe is being done by calling social science a science?

You’ve argued that social science is not a science because it’s not exact, but the natural sciences are not exact. You’ve argued that science seeks to explain things based on observation and analysis, but social science does exactly that. You’ve argued that social science is “different” from STEM, which is circular (The S stands for the same science that occurs in the term “social science”) and pointing at the existence of some unspecified differences doesn’t do a single thing to demonstrate that social science is not a science or is failing to use the scientific method.
The Starlette dev is the founder of Django Rest Framework.. Which is my least favorite part of working with Django. I really wish Django shipped with its own REST Framework.

I’ve been keeping an eye on FastAPI, Starlette, and a few other libraries but, compared to Django, they’re mostly powered by hype. I found a bunch of Pydantic bugs 2(3?)+ years ago that are only now getting addressed in v2.
> That’s the only caveat.

a = b + c;

Is the addition done by itself, so it costs 1 clock cycle? Is it merged into some complex operation so the net cost is less than 1 cycle? Is it completely optimized away at compile time, so it's infinitely faster?

Does the addition trigger some trap, that will run some distant code?

Is the addition by itself? Or are there store and load instructions that can stall for way more than 1000 cycles?

I doubt you can answer any of those questions. All you and everybody else keep repeating is you can micro-optimize C better because that line, that you expect to take something from 0 to 2000 cycles is certain to not do a call and return pair, that takes less than 10 cycles. All while the alternative is almost certain to do the exact same, but you would need to check it up.

Honestly, that argument doesn't make sense; and I keep understanding it as people complaining that they want to micro-optimize a program, but don't know if it's operating on native integers or 10-dimensional hypermatrices.

At the same time, every single person that is good at micro-optimizations look at the compiled binary as a first step, because C is a high-level language that has little relation to the code the compiler actually creates.

For a long time I did just shrug it away and file those complains as "those people don't even know the language they are using". But its universality forces me to consider that there is a reason for complaining, and maybe it's worthwhile to understand. Now, given that this is all the answer I get, it seems quite likely that even the ones complaining don't consciously know what the problem is... But one thing is certain here, the people repeating that execution time is well known didn't actually practice micro-optimizations based on that fact.
You listed every other reason why someone would resist being policed about the word "whitelist", except the "you're being obnoxious" reason. In my experience, that's the far more common reason. Instead, you seem fixated on the racist reasons, since you mention them multiple times.

Believe it or not, people are more likely to be put off by obnoxious word police than they are to be racist.
Hey, if a white collar worker chose to blindly trust a company’s performance and their value and future role within it…so be it. And if a janitor chooses to pay attention to a company’s performance and understands his value to that organization to make sure his role is secure…I won’t deride that choice either. However I will gladly have the opinion that the janitor is a helluva lot smarter for gaining an understanding for their security as opposed to the white collar worker who is blindsided by a layoff.
Such a great developer environment. The “shell” is a debugger.
it's a lot closer to newsqueak, but limbo of course drew a lot from newsqueak as well
In the eyes of some: you have curly hair, like feta cheese you are most likely Greek. Wear sandals and you certainly are are.
Apparently reading aloud does help retain information. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320377
> In all those cases my summary could be right or could be wrong.

Well that's incredibly nihilistic. Whether the summary is correct or not matters a great deal! And if someone I knew said they read a book, even a very obscure one, and then summarized it to me, I'd have great confidence that they would get such simple facts as "who are the characters" and "what are the major plot points" correct.

But ChatGPT? Who the hell knows? You can't trust a thing it says, especially about obscure topics. The summary is useless if you have to do a bunch of verification to see if any of it is even true, a problem that summaries even by moderately competent human writers don't have!
Asking because I have not implemented these yet: is there anything unique about the syntax that it can't just be copied?
> Look at Slack, Figma, Notion—they are all stagnating.

We should commend companies that resist artificially expanding the scope of their products. Sometimes a product is done. I recall Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's aphorism that "perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away".

All your examples are of single-product companies. They should expand their product portfolio instead.
The Information Superhighway was considered more "dangerous" than "meh" as soon as the project got deeper into implementation, ultimately leading to its designer exile to the USA where Al Gore picked the term : ^ )
I had 4 out of 4 accidental flagged submissions.
I love Shademaps. I wish my product that has been using it was more of a hit, but I'll say this, Ted and Shademaps are cool. Adding trees is super practical, in many of the areas I leverage this tool we're in Urban centres but in scenarios where i'm not, the tree data is almost always more relevant than the buildings or elevation (Ontario is pretty flat and thats 99% of my users)

Keep up the great work!
yes and also he disrespected the wu-tang clan

https://www.spin.com/2017/08/martin-shkreli-jury-selection-t...

it shouldn't need to be said, but
i don't approve of him as a person, i just want to learn his spreadsheet skills
Fake Samsung SSDs Found at Etailer, Then Benchmarked
Sarah's pov raises some questions for me regarding my own "training", there is a noteworthy part of who I am built upon the consumed music, books, movies, video games and tv shows that myself or people around me have pirated and shared with me. This part of me helped me in life appreciably, I could also say I profited because of it, helping me along my life in being likable, funny, relatable, with broad outlooks etc.

Is my brain just by the act of existing continually infringes on copyright? Can I be sued because I made a reference to a movie I pirated or because I whistle a song I never bought?
What is the purpose of articles like this? Do people truly think child trafficking doesn’t exist? Is every hacker movie accurate? It’s meant to bring awareness. Hopefully it does.
On mobile, up/down voting is super close.

I probably downvoted 20% of the time I tried to upvote until I realized I need to pinch-zoom super close and pay attention to the "on clicked" look of the link for the few milliseconds it appears.

Those arrows are not mobile friendly.
> I'd argue that a pro does spend time obsessing over tools, but is differentiated from an amateur by knowing when to stop.

Well put. A more general statement (but less catchy) would be that “pros” navigate the search space more efficiently when evaluating tools.

I’ve noticed with myself that I prefer fewer tools now, and value maturity a lot more. When I was younger, I thought tool makers were near-perfect, and the few imperfections would have no impact on lowly me. Then I realized that tool makers are just regular people and that their tools are often poorly made, or too blunt, or too specific.

Now I know tools come with pain, so “looks nice” or “cool” is no longer good enough. Instead, the tool needs to be more useful than the pain it causes.
Why didn't Microsoft implement the arrow syntax for channels? It makes it much less confusing than passing it as parameters.
I agree with you completely. Due to the whole business media world spreading these lies, people think business is all us vs them and competition is for losers.

You can make very good income ($4 million profits / annum) in my case while coexisting with competition and having lots of fun.
The end trailed off but I got some strong Nabokov vibes at the beginning. I'm sure he could've fleshed this out to a small masterpiece.
We'd like to open the floodgates on Bevy Book development asap. This taking so long has largely been my fault ... I've been overly protective of the Bevy Book while also not giving it the attention it deserves. Here is our current plan: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy-website/issues/623#issuec..., which I'd like to execute during the next cycle.
But don't worry guys... When it's ME given absolute power it will be different... Just trust me.

Not even a single Gulag...
Not when OpenAI publicly declared they trained on pirated works. I can’t imagine “we can’t tell if this is the result of the illegal thing we did or not” is going to stand up very well, nor does it bode well for any refutation of the plaintiff’s depiction of their intent. Part of fair use consideration is commercial impact and when you steal a bunch of books to train your AI model, it’s hard to refute that the impact is not negative or that you didn’t intend commercial harm.
>> In the OpenAI suit, the trio offers exhibits showing that when prompted, ChatGPT will summarize their books, infringing on their copyrights.

This doesn't seem like copyright infringement. I could read the book and offer a summary right? Someone on goodreads could as well. Why should an AI doing it be different? BTW I could also read someone's illicit copy and do the same, couldn't I?

I think people are trying to claim exclusive use rights that they simply don't have. I look forward to a lawyers opinion on this one.
Hard disagree. Current headsets are perfectly fine for the well established use-cases like gaming and stereo/3D video. The problem is, as always, going to be shoehorning real features into a goofy form-factor. We've been down this avenue before with Hololens and it was very clear that enterprise customers aren't really interested in developing bespoke AR workflows. Even with perfect passthrough vision there wasn't any tangible benefit to the tech outside very narrow military applications (and who knows where those contracts went).

So now we're here. If Apple delivers on their promise of a very nice Oculus Quest sorta thing with iPhone apps and AppleTV+, I can't imagine people using it more than their Oculus Quest, iPhone or AppleTV.
> The complaint lays out in steps why the plaintiffs believe the datasets have illicit origins — in a Meta paper detailing LLaMA, the company points to sources for its training datasets, one of which is called ThePile, which was assembled by a company called EleutherAI. ThePile, the complaint points out, was described in an EleutherAI paper as being put together from “a copy of the contents of the Bibliotik private tracker.” Bibliotik and the other “shadow libraries” listed, says the lawsuit, are “flagrantly illegal.”
Probably on Android as well. The "flag" link is right under my thumb as I scroll through the page.
I can never look at Mario the same
Well that's ironic, I was looking for an app called "nova" six hours ago and told the person who recommended it that there's a dozen apps called nova and to clarify what they mean. I might recommend a different name if you want people to be able to find this!
To be fair, comparing mobile CPUs to desktop CPUs on power consumption is basically meaningless, because desktop CPUs will double the power consumption to get a few extra percent on performance, performance per watt be damned.

And it's comparing against the previous generation 12900 instead of the current generation 13900.

And the extra threads on the 12900 are the E-cores, which aren't that fast.

Basically the result is that current gen AMD mobile CPUs are faster than last gen Intel desktop CPUs. Which is true, and not unimpressive, but far less informative than a comparison of like with like would have been.
Recognise the importance of the Pareto Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
That was true in a significant number of preference pages in the old Settings.app as well. It's probably the same code paths under the hood of the new UI.
I don't want to discourage you but fair to assume that your users will have access to tools at brokers (or reasonably priced 3rd party like tradingview) that can do dividend portfolio backtesting/construction, I would need to see total returns/sigma of same.
Wow, looks like I flagged several posts ver the years, 100% by accident.
I'm actually fine with the appointment setting, even if some others are bothered by the notion of an involved process. It's sort of like buying a toy anyways, so all the more fun for me to enjoy the steps of checking out.

The thing I would hate, though, is limited availability with no real way of securing a spot. Nothing more annoying than trying to find any appointment spot available and praying that the units aren't sold out. It seems that their production "numbers" are capped by supply chain difficulties, rather than raw demand. But then again, it's $3500, so maybe I won't have any trouble grabbing a headset.
Steel man:

Anything not based on random number generators is discrimination. Do you want kids that can read? Write code? Volunteered in Mexico? Perfect SAT?

Each decision is discrimination along some vector.

Maybe Harvard plays a role in political stability of the US (oldest democracy in the world) and helping the poor, and they are fine leaving the middle class to tread water.

If you don't want them to discriminate on A, then explain why discriminating against B is better.

Schools filled with the top test takers would be quite dull.
Forgot to mention some of the funny Microsoft KBs of the time like Sometimes Barney Starts Playing Peekaboo on His Own.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040603154438/support.microsoft....
Agreed. Pick 4 languages, 1 each for:

- Front-end (JS)
- Scritping (Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP)
- Applications (Java, C#, Kotlin, Scala, Clojure)
- System (C, C++, Rust)

That is all you need. A true master can do a lot with the 2 "worst" languages - JS and PHP.
How do floating granite balls work
Sure it doesn't sum the whole matrix but it does sum row by row. Also how did you type out LaTeX in HN? Or is that a font?
Very pleased to see plenty of links to https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ in the replies, and very disappointed to see it completely absent from the main article. Ian's Shoelace Site is a great reminder of what the internet used to be.
I just checked my flags.

Everything earlier than 2017 or so was straight up a mistake. I didn't know what "flag" did, so I must have clicked it to experiment back then and just never realized I kept the flag this whole time. I just undid those flags.

There were 3 or 4 submissions I actually flagged for real that I'll keep the flag on. A bunch of comments that I've flagged.

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This seems like a good feature, in practice, I seem to have a fair number of mistaken flags (albeit from earlier before I knew what the feature did). But even today I've got a few misclicks, perfectly normal topics I must have accidentally hit the "flag" button on that I really shouldn't have.
If you could guarantee the problems are limited to social media moderation, it would be no issue. But the kinds of people who cause bad social media moderation also have their pies in many other kinds of policies, and they want blood. The end result of this would be worse than Jim Crow because it would be applied nationwide.
> understand and meet the desires of an audience. LLMs and image generation tech do not do this.

For now? I wouldn’t be surprised if that becomes the next feature though.
If you found a way to have a million children who could grow up in one day your analogy would be more apt. In that case you and your children would rightly be considered a threat.
I feel like thats one of the many questions regulators and law makers are going to be asked long term. I'm sure buying the book for "commercial purposes" like that would't be appropriate, but then again, does that mean if I read it and then summarize it in my work, or regurgitate its info as part of my job...I'm violating a license?

A world where humans have special permissions but LLMs don't seems pretty interesting to consider, especially if they're both doing the same kind of things with the data.
I'd like a setting to disable flagging. I saw that I accidentally flagged some submissions and unflagged then now. I probably upvoted many of them and flagged them instead of tapping the link on my phone.

I'm always surprised when I see some submission flagged on purpose by others. They are often interesting stuff. I upvoted and commented some of them.
Obligatory: https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...
Criticizing the SAT as being something you can prepare for with “expensive tutors” is old-money WASP bullshit. The test-prep centers in New York City are full of poor Chinese and Vietnamese kids: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/magazine/asian-test-prep-.... It’s not that hard in a major city in the US for a family to scrounge up $1,000 or $2,000 one-time per kid.

What’s expensive is the kind of extracurriculars that Ivy League schools look at when test scores are deemphasized. The kids in Chinatown don’t live next door to anyone who can get them an internship at an impressive non-profit or NGO, or near college professors who can help them get published. The parents working at a Chinese restaurant can’t invest the time it takes to get a kid to be world class in some instrument or sport.