skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping the article was going to present a robot that would do my TODOs.

So I took the list of TODO app criticisms (nicely stated) and asked ChatGPT to generate a list of strategies.

Then I fed it my "troublesome" list of TODOs and asked it to apply the strategies for actionable encouragement.

prompts and results: https://gist.github.com/crucialfelix/e934611ba44abc7952c13fb...

These were in some cases helpful, some a bit off, but all of them gave a spark of randomness to the list I've been ignoring and that made it engaging.

I could easily turn this into a cli and run it from Obsidian with my perpetual list of things I won't do.
You can simply use this in the browser console to get a friendly XPath API:

$x("//my/selector")

Very handy for testing XPath expressions for Selenium or Playwright tests, if there is no data-testid attribute.
And configurable color palette, and some video modes, including a pet-compatible 80 column one.
I love the concept and engineering behind Zed, but considering how software startups tend to fare, there's just no way I'm going to mentally invest in a closed source dev environment.

Even if they succeed commercially, chances are some day Microsoft just buys the whole thing and shuts development down a week later. No thanks.
>Ukraine deployed some nice German canon designed against drone swarms

Bruh, the German Ghepard wasn't some fancy drone cannon but an obsolete anti aircraft cannon designed in the 50's which they scrapped because present day jets fly much faster and higher than those from the '50's but it's perfect for Iranian drones.
Dua Lipa is an English singer and songwriter. Her high level of sexuality has received critical acclaim and media coverage. Considering mentioned and not, above I have created “Desire” a glasses gift set for Dua and her admirers. Also, her cooperation with the legendary Elton John has been a critical impetus and one of the leading inspirations for this project.
Thanks for your feedback, this will prove useful.
Really? Classical liberal economics fails to explain business cycles? Then why is the Austrian School (dyed in the wool classical liberals) the only major economic faction that's developed the most comprehensive expose on how central banks cause malinvestment, booms and busts by fiddling with the money supply?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_business_cycle_theory
You're not, mine is only 10 lines and no plugins.
We had a boss leave the camera on during a poop. We still are not sure if it was a joke or it was real. It sure seemed real.
It only have front-page and end-page.
Where is the content ?
Maybe in some theoretical future world the answer is very little. In the one we actually live in, it's a great deal: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/29/the-air-...

> There are just over 1bn single-room air conditioning units in the world right now – about one for every seven people on earth. Numerous reports have projected that by 2050 there are likely to be more than 4.5bn, making them as ubiquitous as the mobile phone is today. The US already uses as much electricity for air conditioning each year as the UK uses in total. The IEA projects that as the rest of the world reaches similar levels, air conditioning will use about 13% of all electricity worldwide, and produce 2bn tonnes of CO2 a year – about the same amount as India, the world’s third-largest emitter, produces today.
VSCode does the same. And it has nothing to do with HTTP (not by default at least).
FWIW CSS now has “:has” which provides a form of general purpose predication, although afaik it still doesn’t have a :contains (that was proposed for CSS3 or something but I don’t think it got accepted).

A huge part of XPath’s power though, and something you AFAIK can’t do in browsers, is extensibility.

For instance selecting an element on the basis of a class is absolute hell in XPath 1.0 (and not great in 2.0 either, XPath 3.1’s `contains-token` finally made that not hell). But server-side you don’t care because pretty much all implementations allow installing your own functions so you can add your own `contains-token` or even `has-class` predicate and be on your way.
> Canada ... out of fuel

Referencing the Gimli glider. But does vim have any analogous issue? In matters of technical correctness FOSS is usually the more exacting. You won't find a 1 TB hard drive full at 931 GB of used space on Linux, for example.
If you get lost on this 1km island, just pull out your phone from your backpack and call for help. No one will stop you.
Are we talking about Gyrocopters here?
I love XPath, I'd say that alongside of regular expressions, SQL and Excel functions, they helped in my IT career a ton.
"resulting controversy is pretty much guaranteed to terminate the program."

I'm not aware of any controversy that stopped weapon progress. We have biological weapon research, atomic weapons and the US used chemical agents in Vietnam.

The US stopped tactical nuclear weapons because it thought they were not useful, not because of the protests in Europe.

SDI was cancelled because laser weapons were not feasable in the 80s, not because of the controversy.

There are more mines used in Ukraine than ever before - despite "bans". There is cluster ammunition delivered despite a huge controversy.

"clouds or smokescreens."

Sure smokescreens can only jam low flying drones? If you smoke a target the drone waits for you running out of smoke rounds.
Same with me! Great movie.
You are both right it seems. GP seems to have omitted withour GC. Number one on your list could be Dlang no? Not affiliated.

https://dlang.org/
Banks are heavily regulated and aren't loaning out their own money.
No offense, but I like dogs.
I guess you also deny this happened :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression

Also, china isn't liberal, that's why it does so well. They also don't have intellectual property.
As long as you know your tools and can achieve everything it doesn't matter which tool you choose.

I tend to mentor a lot of newbies and they often use VSCode, but since they are newbies they don't know how to do basic things like search (and replace) and I can't help them since I've only used vim. I have tried to give VSCode a go couple times to get more familiar with it, but I run into same issue as you - I simply can't justify in my head the time and effort to familiarize myself with the editor, figure out what settings to use and which addons to add.
>The problem with that is that for some rarely used action one forgets...

Install https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim and you will always have a popup that will tell you what keys to use next.
The doubling of energy prices pretty much wiped out the heavy industry sector around here. I remember the German heavy industry Rhein area unions protesting this in Berlin without much media coverage a few months ago.
My mother has a dumbphone too. Sweden is soon shutting down the 2G and 3G networks so then it will certainly be quiet.
I read that article, and currently consider myself inadequately informed to analyze the legal and financial implications of the particulars of the J&J issue. It seems rather complex and I’m not a lawyer who has reviewed the relevant filings and documents.

My comment was only intended to be a response to the idea posited that some future hypothetical case should have any bearing on present reality. This belief in imaginary cases’ right to be considered in the legal system is turning up in interesting places lately, and I felt compelled to weigh in.

Apologies if I was off topic or confusing.
Yup. Instead they stop working because of rust, corrosion, wear & tear, or heat distortion from improper storage...

There seems to be an obsession that if a digital key doesn't comprehensively solve all problems, it's terrible, despite the empirical evidence that people are fully capable of using physical keys despite their limitations.
Serious: you should run a profiler on the generation step (or like... for a minute of it and the CTRL-C out). Often times degenerate cases like this exist but are more or less invisible to maintainers, and just saying "the generator takes forever" is not nearly as actionable as "here's the first 60 seconds of the generation process, does anything look weird?"
What Do You Want To Enshittify Today?
WormGPT Is a ChatGPT Alternative with 'No Ethical Boundaries or Limitations'
As another poster mentioned, fuck yes it does. They always were. Roads transport war machines.
That's not an OS. You're describing a desktop environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment
You wouldn't actually want to, because you'd be losing generalizability, and it's a lot of unnecessary work.

I think approach #1 outlined above is the better (more cost- and time-efficient) technique—where a pretrained model already understands JSON (among myriad other formats), and you merely constrain it at text-gen time to valid JSON (or other format).
https://archive.ph/nzdtv
For me vim is a good text editor. You could somehow turn it into an IDE — even into a good one, but that is not what is the core value proposition of vim.

I am mostly using sublime text for programming projects and vim for editing configs on headless servers. If I like to use vim for programming I'd try to add vim keybindings to my IDE instead of adding an IDE to vim.
> I'm well aware I can just turn incoming video off, but most people aren't

I don't have a flaky connection, but I hate having my laptop turn into a jet engine just so I can see tiny thumbnails moving around. On Teams I can easily turn off incoming video, but on webex (web client) I haven't found a way to do that.
You lead with an IF which is what most pop Sci ends with. As IF goes, it's like fusion.

You end with we adapt: the aim of encouraging regulation is to avoid foreseen pitfalls. The problem is getting mindshare so people limp back to skynet because it's getting eyeballs.

Really, the key points are regulation, legislation and taxation. If "AI" no matter what it is becomes vested with corporate person hood and can file patents and own real property, the societal pains won't be about AGI, they'll be about how rich persons leverage it to their advantage.

If "AI" no matter what it is undermines integrity in decision making we wind up with stupid decisions.
Finding Fault: The crash of Korean Air Cargo flight 8509
> Is it telepathy that allows you to claim that you know what I'm thinking?

It's the fact that the driver license fee is paid at renewal, which isn't yearly in any US state for anyone under the age of 79. Moreover, the amount of the fee is such that it's essentially paying for the licensing bureaucracy, which you wouldn't need if you didn't have licensing.

> Proposing an alternative doesn't negate the present practices

Present practices have to be meritorious to justify preserving them.

> it makes sense that as much of the public cost associated with roads should come from those that use the roads the most.

But what does that mean?

If it's contribution to the cost of road maintenance then the cost should be paid almost entirely by a per-mile tax on large trucks, because road damage is proportional to axle weight to the fourth power and passenger vehicles are a rounding error.

If it's value of the roads then we're back to general revenues because the value is proportional to economic activity enabled by basic infrastructure which has no real relationship to number of miles traveled. One truckload of electronics is worth more than ten truckloads of scrap iron. One life-saving ride in an ambulance is worth more than a thousand days of commuting.
Trick for those wanting caps lock to be compose instead: ctrl-c also works as escape, and has historically been slightly faster due to sidestepping the escape timeout.
datapoint: lazyvim has had 127 releases since it was first released. Which was in november or something like that, maybe just 7-8 months ago.
>low enough audio lag that geographically distant musicians can perform live with one another on the platform.

This seems like a pipe dream I think, since for low cost audio interfaces people can actually feel the few ms latency with those rigs going straight into their hardware. Anything going over the network has to go through an audio interface first, either with one of these dedicated rigs or the internal audio interface your computer uses for its built in microphone, then deal with network latency which will be significant in comparison I expect.
It probably was Rebol that one. Rebol core is free and open source, the GUI distribution is instead released in binary form, as freeware (and exists only for rebol 2.7, we know about rebol3 only for Core).
The show is mediocre, lots of technical inaccuracies.
Silicon Valley startups explore sales as funding runs dry
The UK has less than half as many road deaths than the US, even after factoring in the difference in miles driven per year. Annual inspection is one of the reasons for that.

There are some perfectly reasonable arguments against the cost-effectiveness of mandatory vehicle inspection, but I have some doubts about the validity of those arguments. Road safety and traffic law enforcement involve a lot of complex interrelated factors; Creating a culture of road safety is difficult to distil into discrete interventions.

There's a libertarian argument that driving a car with bald tires is a matter of individual liberty, but obviously that's a vastly broader argument than the question of mandatory inspection. If you're going to have laws against driving a car with bald tires, it's less onerous and more effective to primarily enforce those laws through administrative rather than criminal justice mechanisms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
https://archive.ph/u90ah
Yes, but that's only because most countries with horrible numbers don't have any data in that column and end up at the bottom. If you sort by anything else the USA is far far from the worst country.
The only benefit is that cutting people off and jumping in at the wrong time is so normalized in our zoom culture, that people just let it happen and even expect it to happen, on both sides of the conversation between the speaker and the person who got steamrolled into silence.
"The day forward"... jeez, what is this a startup landing page?
To do: answer this question.
> When you tick the box the relief is palpable

I don't find this to be true (in my case) for repeatable tasks like chores. Sure, ticking the box may provide a little relief, but knowing that it has to be done all over again the next week, endlessly, doesn't help with finding satisfaction.
I've recently been exploring various neovim distributions and I feel like at this point neovims package ecosystem has gotten good enough that these distributions don't really seem to make my life much easier. Many times quite the opposite actually, as I often find myself fighting with them when I want fo change something.

The experience is still not as painless as effortless as VS Code, distribution or not, but it's definitely gotten a lot better than it used to be.
I don't need an IDE for Python. Of course I can use a plain text editor if I want. Hell, nano even.

But right now, today, at work, I have a large legacy Django project to maintain, and it's kind of nice having little things like auto code formatting and linting to help me as I go and prevent me from making dumb mistakes and saving me a ton of time so I can focus on the problem at hand, not making the code look nice for review and I can hop between buffers to fix up the tests as I change the code.

I can certainly just run black/isort/ruff what have you manually, or with pre-commit, sure. But it's more productive to be able to see changes as I work.

Sure maybe I shouldn't be using Python, and maybe the original developers should have written it in Rust or whatever. Fine. But that's not what I'm being paid for.
LSP integration gives access to completion, linter or compiler warnings and errors, formatting. It adds file browser views. And it preconfigures a nice way to resume an editing session (preserve open files).
> extend my apologies for wasting everyone's bandwidth.

No excuses needed, it is still informative.

Curious question: What are the technical/political reasons to keep ORB/Corba in your project right now ?
Rebol reminds me a lot of Tcl/Tk, but I can’t tell if that is because there’s a dialect that resembles it, or that it takes inspiration from tcl’s command substitution.
I would.

At least in my experience, people who are bad at written communication are bad at communicating, period. The saving grace of spoken communication is that you can quickly see the lacking information and immediately ask for details, instead of going back and forth via email or other async medium.
Thanks for teaching me about `fold`. I've been a GNU/Linux user for 10 years and most days I can still learn something new.
The 2007.13618 Thundercloud Project paper is excellent and has a fairly thorugh breakdown on the various bits of hardware and crystals used at different iterations of the project.

No detailed costings (save for the raspberry pi, mobile card + plan (to remotely relay data)) but a good guide.

As with all such projects I dare say the software costs were $0 being measured in graduate student time.
You get a lot of dropshipping, rightwing content and sometimes outright scams. The advertisers that stick with it have come for the kind of audience that makes up the loud part of Twitter now.

You can tell a lot about a media's users/viewers by the ads they show.

There are also few big ones that advertise to avoid ruining relationship with Elon and his companies. Like Disney and Apple. But they've reduced presence.
Yeah, in my experience you get out exactly what you put in. If you want to be good at listening to people, then you need to spend your time listening to people. So this seems like a good hint that Duolingo is pretty different from actual people.
> Were the subjects actually exposed in a meaningful way to another source of asbestos, or did the corporate lawyers go fishing through past address history, purchases, etc.

Ideally that should be part of the research paper if done diligently, refuting them even before people doubt them.
It doesn't matter their method of study, the question is legit nonetheless. Spoken language is harder to learn.
There is no binary for ARM Macs so I guessed it is dead. And the site timestamp is frozen at 2020.
One of my "back of the head" idea is to build a nerual net that could translate the SID commands into the sound it produces. Anybody know what would be the most suited NN architecture to do that (I've looked around a bit, but didn't find anything "ready-to-use")....
You already have to agree to biometrics processing for entering most places that you could travel to, so I'm not sure it really is that bad if the EU side collects them, too, and not only US, Singapore, China, (and probably plenty others).

Similarly, I thought that having a digital covid vaccination certificate but with the option to print it out yourself was pretty reasonable. Authenticity was checked via QR codes that are signed by a government certificate. I could imagine the same tech being re-used for ID cards.

But despite how the article makes things sound, I am 100% sure that passports aren't going anywhere, simply because target countries require them to enter.
I did a POC project with it recently. The guidance on gpt-3.5-turbo and gpt-4 models isn't as functional as plain gpt-3. I found I had better results using https://github.com/piercefreeman/gpt-json and it doesn't require multiple calls to the API. Not as feature filled, but it may meet your needs
Utter nonsense non-journalism feeding the hype.

The mechanisms of current AI methods are not only well-understood, there are explainer videos that get posted here on the regular that can even explain it to you, the credulous Vox reader.

Indeed, the fact of the matter is that we have had this tech for a very long time, but we have dedicated our compute capacities to other important matters, such as fake money for criminals.

It is extremely comprehensible, and the people who are currently huffing VC money about it are trying to sell an image of wizards conjuring daemons to gull a Terminator-groomed public into begging the friendly capitalists to please control this monster and save us all from Skynet!

Embarrassing.
An iPhone is specifically designed to cope with primarily outdoor use. It rains outdoors. Outdoors is "an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water".
While most people are terrible at written communication, I think there are even fewer people that can have a nice efficient meeting. I've been in so many meetings that amount to "so whats new?" What a complete waste of time. Those meetings by definition have no agenda. I update what is new, and inevitably there are all these follow up questions, and time spent sitting around not speaking and merely thinking silently about the situation. Meetings like these can be anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours. I'm not getting anything from this process that I wouldn't have gotten from emailing my update out in some bullet points, and responding to follow up emails on specifics where I perhaps have more time to come up with good responses that doesn't come at the cost of everyone else sitting there in the meeting.
Employees are not in bussiness. They are employees. Employers are in bussiness. They get all the risk and the profits. Now they just want to push the risk to the employees, but keep the profits (all recents official and unofficial layoffs)
Many people complain about the time you need to have a proper vim.
In computer security, I learnt to make my own tools, to develop my own script that match what I want to do/scan.

For vim, this is exactly the same. I started with Python so my vim became the best Python IDE (for me) and that's all. What I said to junior dev is "Here my vim conf, you are allowed to copy/paste only what you understand". Then I did some Typescript and added a configuration that works for me. Thus, some pain point came from my old config in python, I found new good plugins and added them. And so on with rust and ruby.
Everything is commited so now, on a new machine, it takes me the time to copy/paste my config and write :PlugInstall.

Everytime I test vscode, it does not do what I want and when I look into it, I can't configure it correctly. Vim has always my back.
>All western weapons get less useful by the minute.

Currently the west seems to be using Ukraine to offload their old inventory and get more recent replacements, which is why we see
lots of old soviet fighters (e.g. by Croatia and Slovenia I believe?) being donated and replaced by the F-35.

Also why Ukraine will be (probably?) using the F-16 - I personally thought it would be a great opportunity to battle test the F-35, but the US doesn't seem to be interested in that.
Interesting that's even possible. As we all know pre-NT Windows could not be trusted to remain on for long periods of time. Pre-X Mac OS was not a very stable system either.

In fact Apple shipped Mac OS X "server" years before the "client" version because even as an unfinished product it was much more suited to work as server than anything else Apple had at the time.