skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> turning water into wine is plausible in the slightest?

If you drop hallucinogens into water, it could be perceived to others that people would be getting drunk off water, which would be, in effect, turning water into wine. The story could have come from this, easily plausible.

When people say they "literally did so and so" do you freak out about calculating the possibilities of their specific mention or do you sit back and understand what parables, allegory, and stories are?

Besides, If you don't believe it really happened, what's the point of picking apart the story?
“Cool exploit“? Like net send? :)
It's interesting to examine this website with the thousands of trademarks for "X". Some are extremely stylized while others are just the letter X. Some are specific to particular colors. Some cover very narrow areas. Microsoft has a lot of trademarks here, but Apple shows up too.

https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=X
One of them has been a SWE for only about 5-6 years, probably a smart person but naive enough to be the face of this proposal being pushed by some bigger fish in Google Corp that didn't want their name attached to it.
How can it be 100% ChatGPT? The release dates (November 2022) does not match up with the large drop in traffic starting at around April 2022?
This is a nice idea, but you know it will have both false positive and false negatives, much as "winne-the-poo" does not actually only refer to a drawing by E.H.Shepard.

But, I too would welcome something which quenched some stuff. I have wondered if some kind of post-hoc tagging would fix it but the mechanism to crowdsource trustable tags is .. hard and the burden on mods is high. That said, it could be done at submit times.

Inevitably, systems which start as !elon windup being full regex because <reasons>
If you do the normal walkthrough, currency selector is on the first page.

And it can also be accessed any time via the About You screen (either via Current Finances or the account menu in the upper right).

Is there another location you'd put it instead? Or just not a fan of the information architecture overall?
same with high end luxury watches. i think that these companies just add another layer on top of the standard veblen goods definition making it even more exclusive/desirable, and therefore even harder to get one.
> This is hard to grasp, esp. given the presence of a RAT. You're giving engineering time to add a device specifically made to handle loss of all engines, but don't spend the time to write the corresponding procedure?

I imagine the RAT's primary purpose is to provide the power needed to restart an engine if all engines had stopped.
I feel like it's a "part" or incomplete religion. I'm not sure where it came from but I could easily believe it was a part of a larger set of beliefs.
You deny that investment costs money? You deny that investment makes money? The more you make, the more more you invest; the more you invest, the more you make. Exceptions are irrelevant to the norm.

And somone had to come out the winner in a stochastic Market. It just halpened to be Musk. No competence requirer, at all.
The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth.

For engineering in general, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.
One thing I vehemently disagree with is the crazy hours he makes his employees work. I think it's wrong from a people perspective in general, and as a programmer I think this could only lead to bad outcomes.
I'm citing OurWorldInData article, trusted/reliable enough, backed by research ... try reading it / or at least skimming the graphs present there.
Apple Vision is a failure. It's not a matter of implementation. The whole concept is a failure.

I wonder how much Apple's stock price relies on this fiasco...
I had https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi running last summer with great success. Might be worth a look.
Robo-Taxis are rolling, did you notice?
Well, no, therefore this should cost infinite dollar per year.
No one is removing cow dungs from pastures... At that level it is not that big of an deal...

And they even spread the pig manure all over fields here. The smell tells everything.
I think NixOS might be the ideal system for this, but I'm not sure how to get around the issue of other people not wanting to learn it. People seem to not like learning new complex tech unless they chose it themselves.

I almost think skipping the headless install and dealing with the full ultra-hacky-DIYer process might be worth it.

It's really easy to flash a stock image, log in with a keyboard and mouse, copy a config from a flash drive, and rebuild, even if you don't already know the details, and it's usually pretty trivial to add a package that already exists, or create one that is just python.

I don't know how to handle remote admin though. Nothing seems as well documented as Ansible.
This is a really good comment, I'm sorry you're getting downvoted.

This is literally the underlying context of the discussion
Don't worry.

GPT written code gets committed to github (After human review, so its working code only). Github data gets shared with OpenAI (Microsoft). So GPT continues to improve.

The recent deterioration is due to reduction in parameter count for GPT-4 to save money.
> people are afraid of downvotes

People are afraid of downvotes because people will throw out downvotes without even reading your answer, and once you get the first downvote, everyone else will pile on, also without reading your answer.
I've had some less tech savvy users say they appreciated them. Demo videos might be a good alternative though... until other folks roll up and ask for a UI tour to show them where the demo video collection is :P
Just an hour ago on some news show from a US TV channel, NBC or Fox or what was it, the host said (about the X rebrand) "it doesn't make sense, so there should be a bigger plan here".

And that indeed sums up so much of the mentality of Elon's supporters. The more stupid things it does, the grander the delusion becomes.
YouTube was banning links to filmmusic – now reversed
Just got this email a few mins ago:

> We wanted to let you know our team reviewed your content, and we think it violates our spam, deceptive practices and scams policy. We know you may not have realized this was a violation of our policies, so we're not applying a strike to your channel. However, we have removed the following content from YouTube:
> URL: ht tps://filmmusic. io/standard-license

Looks like some false positive, Youtube is really banning links to a valid and safe URL.
The "appeal" link doesn't seem to work either. Worst part is that this probably affects thousands of videos using royalty free music, and they are now breaking the license due to deleting the attribution link :(

Any ideas on how to contact YT to fix that?

Edit: they have fixed it!
Stack overflow is still usually the best answer, but surrounded by a bunch of derivative ai generated stuff.
How do we define "failure"? Let's say we can measure how much Mozilla fights for the user and put it on a scale:

|--------------------|
anti-user pro-user

Where on the scale is "failure"? Let's say Mozilla is on the M, and Google is on the G:

|----G-------M-------|
anti-user pro-user

Is Mozilla failing?

The sentiment I seem to see is that anything short of perfect is failure.
>That's great!! Getting involved in web platform discussions is essential to ensure it's built for and by everyone.

Yes, because Google is known for listening to public and talking to non-organisations without posting conversation killers like "the decision has been made and we're going forward with it. Thanks for your valuable feedback."
>It should not be up to the pilot to ground the plane; shouldn't that be up to the airline or chief engineer?

Aerospace engineer here. I've worked in airworthiness and maintenance ops, though never on the 767. "Grounding an aircraft" is usually a colloquialism, but there are several people who can declare aircraft to be unserviceable and that includes both pilots and maintainers.

For the uninitiated, what happens is the maintenance organization does what's called a Maintenance Release[0] which is the legal act of transferring the aircraft out of maintenance and certifying it is in compliance with what's called the Approved Type Design. Because of the real world being what it is, there are legal ways to accept an aircraft that isn't in compliance with the approved type design and these take the form of Minimum Equipment Lists (MELs) which are basically a list of pre-approved deviations from the Type Design for which risk management has already been carried out. For example in some aircraft you can take off without life rafts, if your aircraft carries a legal operating restriction to stay within $distance of dry land.

Upon accepting an aircraft for a particular flight, the pilots do their own acceptance checks, the common term for which is "preflight".

Anyways, the long and short of it is that yes, the pilots can and should ground the plane if it's U/S. But maintenance can and should as well. In this case, the pilots were sanctioned because they contravened the MEL for the 767 which was a contributing factor to the incident.

[0] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-G...
The graph bounces back and forth through the year. This might have been a bigger dip but notice it was on the way up around when ChatGPT launched.

But yes, you're correct 100% might be a bit over the top.
I should get a job at Microsoft and play a mud all day. I'll be principal engineer in no time.
I think I figured out that count(2) is from itertools? I'm new to python.

I think you could simplify the rest like so:

def primesHN():
from collections import defaultdict
from itertools import count
yield(2)
ps = defaultdict(list)
for i in count(3,2):
if i not in ps:
yield(i)
ps[i**2].append(2*i)
else:
for n in ps.pop(i):
ps[i + n].append(n)
Cotton is not as durable as polyster but earth friendly
Congrats. You just killed all small consumer hardware companies with 7 years software support. I mean all the EC crap costs alone €30k, then electronic waste taxes and software support on top. Let the Europeans play with wooden horses then.
Half the banks in my country don’t even have a physical location. And the ones that do are just staffed with low paid service workers who neither care, nor have the ability to do anything about your complaint.
Was going to ask the same question. Verify against what exactly?
This post, to me, is about the rise of ChatGPT — but I do think over-moderation is a huge problem.

I had a hard moment on the gamedev stackexchange where I was stuck trying to learn how to do something in OpenGL. A moderator immediately closed my question as a duplicate because there was a similar question about OpenGL ES, which is a (related but) different API. I tried to plead my case, but was shut down.

Shortly after that, I gave up on the game I'd been working on for a couple years. The mod's decision contributed to that.

I felt stuck by a wall between me and answers to some of my game programming questions. Over-moderation is more than an inconvenience. It can destroy the ability of users to get things done.
At least in software development, SO is/was very useful, as they provide a curated repository of Q/A where the answers follow the current state of tech.

Every time I started out learning a new framework, SO would be tremendously helpful, because in software development, you mostly have questions that have correct and incorrect answers.
Yes, I have meant majority of experts
Well if they served up a high quality site it you'd just go there and might not have ads even. Where the dozen SEO garbage sites they do serve up are all hosting ads google gets a cut of.
> SMS 2FA at best

Because their customers aren't security nerds that have smartphones with authentication apps.

They want people that barely get smartphones, or still use feature phones, to be able to access their services with some improved security workflows.
the XY problem-problem

I never saw this term before, but it is perfect. So many times I have experienced it when asking questions in mature tech domains. It is so frustrating. Frequently, my question is asked poorly from the view of an expert, so they sweep it aside as not a real problem. Only after getting help (from comments) to provide more info or improve the writing, does the expert suddenly agree it is an issue.

This is also why I no longer waste my time raising bug tickets for open source projects. You just get shouted down and feel terrible about yourself. I raised many "WONTFIX" bugs in my career against open source projects. What a waste of my time and a harm to my self esteem.
You misunderstood OP. They are referring to making the decision not to fly, or “grounding” the plane.

I don’t think anybody reading this story could have possibly assumed the plane could perpetually fly without fuel…
The article is from 2020, when Al Jaffee announced his retirement. He died in April 2023 at the age of 102.

Cartoonist Brian Carroll (of "Two Party Opera") celebrated him a few days later with a special "One dollar bill":

https://www.twopartyopera.com/comic/fold-this-bill/
"Attempted to kill init!" https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/0b5547c51827e053cc754...
> whether the introduction of the internet may be harmful to cognitive performance

surely the positive benefits outweigh any loss of attention span, in terms of the entire internet as a technology?
I wonder if recent drops in traffic are partly due to Google search rankings updates: 2022 May and 2023 March.
As for what he's doing, I think it's pretty transparent. He thinks Xs are really, really cool. And perhaps that bird-themes aren't very cool. He loves the idea of an everything app 'like they have in Asia'. And he's addicted to Twitter enough that he got stuck buying it.

So now we have this insane situation where he's going to throw away a strong brand that has an outsized influence in global media by converting it to become the do-everything app, and rename it to his favourite, cool letter. I don't think there's a secret plan beyond that.

I have no idea why he didn't just buy Twitter, keep it strong, and then leverage it to push a do-everything app (that could be called X for all anyone cares).
Browser attestation only works if the OS is attestated, though. It has to be an unbroken chain of signed blobs from the TPM / boot loader to the browser - otherwise, you could just use e.g. a kernel driver to modify the behavior of a signed browser.

If WEI is implemented, we will get the combo package.
Yeah. I got myself a songwriting course and it's certainly not compressed, more like 20 - 30 hours in total length. And those guys do a lot of, let's call it, meandering in the topics. Like, one of the basic topics was time signature and time signature notation. And the basics are somewhat simple indeed, but after a minute or two, there's a detour into why german Volksmusik is different about on- and off-beats, and later on there was a detour into irish music and shanteys. This very much reminds me of some of the more advanced university classes - very much stringent about a topic, but entirely ready to look at the flowers left and right.

And while it makes it longer, I find it helps my retention. For one, I have to allocate 40 minutes to an hour for a course part - and that's enough time to make it a conscious decision. And it helps to put new information into context much better, which very much helps retention. Heck, even something like a cat crashing into a keyboard helps remembering things, haha.
GitHub is now getting filled with code generated by ChatGPT which is often not-great. It will keep polluting itself and deteriorate further.

Yes, I agree that isn't what we're seeing now. But we will see it.
If this is true, I have some theories:

- The quality is more random than people would like.

- OpenAI made performance tweaks that caused the quality to drop.
ah, the primordial incompatibility of cultures.

Let's not forget that in india it is not considered wrong to "game" the system, even it is considered unethical by western standards. It is not a coincidence all of these tech support scammers are based in india.

this brings forth an interesting topic, how do we reconcile cultural differences in online platforms ? Nobody can deny they exist, and they create clashes like the aforementioned one.
Wanted to install xroach on my Ubuntu box, but no apt package is available.

There is xroachng though [0], created by: Willem_vermin :-)

[0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/xroachng/
It set off the flamewar detector.

(the usual answer)
But in this case the logo is a character that existed before hand. Nothing was designed or created, an existing typeface is being used as a logo.
All you have to do is not force your stuff to become waste. It doesn't mean major updates, but updating e.g. openssl shouldn't be that hard.

If you can't guarantee that then why should the EU guarantee a market (and recycling) for your product? It's not fair.
Aren’t all those "Company Name" in Helvetica trademarks?
A retnet commit has now appeared in Microsoft's torchscale repo:

https://github.com/microsoft/torchscale/commit/bf65397b26469...
Refactoring without tests: Mitigating trip hazards
Planned obsolescence is pure evil. A broken market, based on broken regulation, based on broken politics, based on broken morals.

We need to find ways to reward the exact opposite mindset and behavior: planned permanence.
I'm sorry, but Occams razor tells me that Google proposed this to further strengthen their monopoly on the web browser market and make sure their ads and tracking cannot be avoided.
The British culture contains NO MORE stoicism, "manhood", "stiff upper lip" or whatever you would call it than any other culture. Saying such stems from imperialism
The thing I was trying to say is that models can be useful without being accurate, in fact you might argue none of our models are accurate, if you drill down enough.

Was newtonian physics a bad model? Yes it was inaccurate but it lead to soo many discoveries.

I kinda got into this rabbit whole of thinking myself when I was practicing some martial arts and the instructor was kinda into eastern spiritualism. Talking about channels and energies and all that kind of nonsense. But at some point I realized that I didn’t need to believe in the model for it to be useful, following the movements, practices and meditation did help me enormously and get me into better shape. And some of the explanations did have predictive power, even if I knew they were totally made up things.

Knowing lorents transformation and quantum mechanics does not invalidate the predictive power of newtonian physics for solving common everyday tasks, you just know that if you want to get deeper, you need a more accurate model.

Same with astrology, its a model, as others have said its value might not stem from its absolute predictive power, but the social interactions it generates.

People want to talk about personalities and astrology does offer a fun and whimsical way if going about it.

I’ve actually listened in to recordings of people going to see astrology “pros” and it’s remarkable how close what they were trying to do was to psychiatrists, just using different tools.

“Oh, you’re a bit self obsessed and have trouble from your childhood interaction with you parents! This is probably because of this planet doing this”

To laypeople who don’t understand psychology that might sound exactly the same as some scientific term / explanation…

Not saying its the same by any means, just that there is “some” value in the exchange for people, and calling things stupid and nonsense knida misses a lot of nuance.
Incentives really make or break this type of website. Often on the internet I find myself thinking "Thank God this [website specific metric] isn't worth anything so people have no reason to game it".
Hey smt88, we use a similar approach to Cloak AI which is encrypting vector embeddings.

https://ironcorelabs.com/blog/2023/announcing-encrypted-ai-e...
Xfiles Fans doing horrors to branding..
> Seventy-five percent of developers use Visual Studio Code

75% of what developers? Hobbyists? Students? Professionals? Because last one is the only relevant metric as all editors strive towards it.
I think it's a definite possibility given a couple factors:

- for one,
Outdoor Event Signage Ideas to Improve the Attendee Experience
I think it is very bold of him to claim starting from zero would be slower. He has accrued so much hate that if he were to start one I can't see how it would turn out any different than truthsocial or if Biden started his own social media platform.

Although I do think it's doable if he somehow kept the fact that he is at the helm a trade secret as he gradually grew the userbase until reaching a certain critical mass and finally revealing that he's the owner.
It seems like there was a time window when you could actually get upvotes, and if you missed it you'll never be able to use the site as a normal user.
Honestly probably not. I mean never say never.

But I have really limited free time and only work on a language for really specific reasons. Understand, nothing else seemed to try to solve the problem i have at hand.

That said, if the offer is a solid long term employment at good salary, i am open to negotiations. My email is on my blog and my profile iirc
I dunno, some guy named Carl trademarked the letter X: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=90595369&caseSearchType=U...

Why can’t Elon?

I’m not aware of any existing font letter exception.
Friends don't let friends merge code that consumes resources without bounds.
“It was a good measurement, until it became a target”
> The checkout experience in PL is just standard Paddle checkout, so I imagine the feedback about charging after the free trial applies to everyone who uses Paddle?

Yup. It's a manipulative dark pattern. It makes the path of least resistance automatic spending of money rather than making a decision.
> I think it’s only confusing if you use None as a _magic value_ with a meaning dependent on context.

Which is essentially every use of None? Like, the whole point of an option type, an X | None, is that None is not an X, and means something different.

> I think it is known that magic int values always come back to bite you later.

But the reason a magic int is a problem is because it's also a valid value. If you use -1 as a magic value, you will get confused because you can't tell whether it was whatever magic meaning you meant or the actual value -1. The whole point of using int | None is to avoid that problem, because None is never a valid int. Unfortunately if you have inclusive unions then that breaks down - you use T | None because None is never a valid T, but then if you try to use that with T = int | None, whoops.

> Same with None. None means “absent value”. If you use it like that, no confusion at all. Absent value or int is absent value or int.

What does that mean? I don't think there's any universal notion of "absent" that applies to every function in a single program, much less every program.

What None means is context dependent, sure, but that's fine as long as that context is local; after all, what e.g. 3 means in your program is also context dependent (maybe it means "3 users" or "position 3 in the array" or "file not found"). If you have proper nesting options, then maybe you'll compose together three layers and in the end you have some value where None means "not cached" and Some(None) means "error computing" and Some(Some(None)) means "empty collection" - but that's absolutely fine, each layer knows how to handle its own option and knows what None means in that context. The problem only comes when you have union types, because then you can't compose your layers without them interfering with each other.