skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we're discussing a post that looks at a bunch of moderate-quality evidence in this area. Unfortunately, no one had the foresight to realize that attention span measures would be very important for us to have high quality control evidence before 2000.

So we have some moderate quality measures that say that attention span has become lower over time. And we have higher quality measures that show that low attention span is correlated to consuming short-form video. For example, https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/16/8820

> our attention mechanism is so flawed it can be broken so easily.

In my opinion, our attention mechanism is very weak compared to the demands of academic study and modern knowledge work.
What I haven't seen mentioned yet is Discord.

Many simple questions can be answered in chat, and there are active Discords for many things.

Personally I hate it, but it is popular.
As far as I know, the Mozilla Corporation is owned by the Mozilla Foundation, which is a non-profit with the mission to make the internet a better place, or something along those lines. So shouldn't we look at the boards of things like the Wikimedia Foundation or the Internet Archive instead of bay area CEOs for comparison?

It's also not a particularly good look when your own salary keeps rising while you're laying people off and market share keeps plummeting (in my neck of the woods, Firefox actually used to be dominant at 60%+)...

That said, I haven't looked at this in any kind of detail, and all I know of Baker is what her Wikipedia article tells me, which includes writing the Mozilla Public License, managing mozilla.org on a volunteer basis for a while and being instrumental in the creation of the Mozilla Foundation.
Everybody is aware and have read esr etc. The point is that people who are asking X by Y want to learn Y, with accomplishing X as a side goal at best. It's funny that you call wanting to learn Y a waste of time. Is it because you believe Z is a superior way of doing X? Why do you believe that? Experience, science or mathematical proof?
Pinged a couple of times on that gmail ID but no response yet. LMK what's a better way to reach you.
Thanks for sharing, good to see alternative options popping up. My wish is that the Stack Exchange dataset could one day be provided as a streaming parquet or arrow table, as underfunded grads and post-grads could then more easily/selectively sample the datasets (similar to how Huggingface provides some of its datasets)[1][2].

The Hugginface repo unfortunately prefilters some of the tables/rows according to some criteria, making it less usable for general analytical queries that the BQ or SEDE datasets enable. If anyone knows of an 'XML-streaming' solution that directly samples from the Internet Archive's data dumps, I am all ears.

[1]: https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets-server/rows

[2]: https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceGECLM/StackExchan...
Yup. In Sri Lanka we calls chilies "miris," and pepper "gam miris" (translation: village chilies).

I guess folks originally used pepper as the way to set their mouths on fire; and once introduced, happily jumped over to chilies as a much better way to do so.
It's interesting that many ChatGPT "prompt hacks" also work on other language models. I tried copying the DAN (Do Anything Now) prompt into the LLaMa 2 system prompt, and it worked more or less unchanged: https://twitter.com/thomasahle/status/1683508252821291008
It’s passive-aggressive as hell and I can tell this guy and the idea as a whole are DOA… like even if this scheme didn’t give off strong Amp vibes, Google is the last company we want spearheading something like this. Stop trying to stay relevant, Google.
It was...
There are no international terminals in the US so you will need to enter the US if flying via the US.
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> There is 0 difference in absurdity between banning posts of "Kim Jong Un does surely poop and pee" in r/pyongyang and "Men cannot get pregnant" in r/science.

You've been radicalized. Please get help.
thanks! I sacrificed 2 years of most nights and weekends, with lots of ups and downs, and I'm appreciative of all the feedback from the HN community (both positive and negative) that helped shape the tool into what it is today.
> TL;DR

Too perfect.
Can't you replace it with a b**?
You're mostly right in your experience. I have spent quite a bit of time trying to get ChatGPT to be a worthwhile piece of my workflow, and I guess sometimes it is, but most of the time the basic code or config or content I try to generate, it gets very fundamental things incorrect. It feels like it's mostly just hype these days.
Fujitsu is planned to exit selling mainframe in 2030. NEC also still make mainframes and no plan to exit.
> If you are using union types and you put the results of your expensive computation into your cache, you will not be able to tell when you've done an expensive computation for some key and got a None result, or when you haven't got a result in the cache for that key

This is certainly an issue, but that's an issue for the _overall system_ of a cache which stores T. My claim wasn't that "Union types that Union with None can never cause issues", but rather that, for a function whose argument is `(int|None)|None`, there shouldn't ever be any different behaviour _of that function_ between "passed a T (int|None), which was None", and "passed a None (not a T)". The function itself should still behave the same way.

You're right, of course, that _returning_ an (int|None), where "None" might mean "the answer is definitively known to be None" or might mean "the answer is unknown, and that is represented as None" can lead to unnecessary recomputation - but that's an issue of return types, not of parameter types.
I don't know about arm machines, but Google has control of pretty much the whole stack and end of support isn't based on technical details: models are dropped from support based on time from initial release, not based on the cpu that's in them, and there's not much hardware outside the cpu to have become unsupportable.

And cpu-wise, the only important thing that some cpus might not support is virtualization extensions to run Android apps; but I think that already has the right hooks to hide itself if the processor doesn't support it (or maybe it's just a list of models that are allowed to use it).
> everyone who doubts daddy musk's amazingness and geniusness is a loser and a narcissist
Things that break when you do "just a simple expansion" of the address length because they assume a 32 bit address:

* ARP (goodbye all your switches)

* DHCP (goodbye all your CPE routers)

* DNS (A records don't work any more)

* BGP (goodbye internet backbone routers)

* ICMP (good luck without this)

* etc.

It is impossible to change the length of the address without fundamentally changing how the internet works.
Yes you can. Marriage, military service, or being over age 23 are sufficient in the USA for this purpose
Note that's it's "pyrex" (all lowercase) versus "PYREX" (all uppercase).

The former is soda lime, while the latter is borosilicate.
Which Google stuff requires Chrome? I run even Google sites on Firefox and they seem to run fine.
Like how to use a database as a queue, which generally works much better than any queuing system I’ve ever used, except ones that use redis as the database engine for the queue.

I’m sure if you’re twitter Kafka is actually a better solution, for everyone else, it isn’t.
>You're being repeatedly downvoted throughout this thread

FYI, there's more upvotes than downvotes in total. The most noted visible one was at ~5 then magically dropped to -1. Even though it obviously has merit and hosts a lot of conversation below it, which makes the downvotes a bit suspect.

>narrow reading of peoples comments.

This seems like that KGB tactic of turning one's argument on its head. What is actually happening is I'm putting way more effort to answering to ill-informed comments because I just don't like watching obvious lies, even if comforting to some, on the web. This is more draining than giving I can say ...

>The actual comment you originally replied t....

-Nnope. You picked the subheading right after the main lie: "Musk doesn't build any of that, he's just a source of cash, like a bank crossed with a toddler."

>From your own links etc etc

It takes trying to read what you've read negatively. For a more illuminating view, there's actually a part that partially answers this in the provided video: https://youtu.be/t705r8ICkRw?t=810 (timestamped link). It's his own stake. You're claiming it's 100% confirmation bias that Elon is given any credit. Let me _try_ to present another take:

People remember conflict way better than success. So if it hurts them 20% of the time but succeeds 80% of the time, people WILL remember when it bit them in the ass. Because in that specific instance, everyone was against Elon, and it failed. But in the long the general practice has worked wonders. And obviously turns fail to success faster than a NASA-like forever project process. If I was working in such an inspiring field, I would give a kidney to have a leader that frequently took even half that kind of personal risk to favor progress instead of peace.

_These are qualities I don't just appreciate in Elon, but everyone in power who practices these._ Sadly people usually just pick the conformist path, to avoid hurt feelings, sometimes even if it's their own money (for god's sake!)

If you want to pick anecdotes, from when that video was filmed Raptor 2 has been greatly simplified while its performance has increased IIRC. Among with the cold/hot gas reuse for BFR, idea that was actually spawned through rubber ducking during the EA interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY73exaVpyw

By the way, you just completely dodged the question to your earlier criticism! Did you really have nothing?!
I'm actually still willing to engage in civil conversation. That is what I'm trying to turn this often self-hate fest in to.
Attribution is necessary for advertising to work at all. If you don't have attribution that is independent of the ad platform you bought ads from, then the ad platform will defraud you[0]. This is separate from ad tracking where you build up interest profiles on users, or ad remarketing where sites can buy ads from people who have visited them in the past[1].

Most of these private attribution systems are specifically designed so that the people running the ad can count how many people clicked their ads, but not who clicked them or what other things they did. Safari had a proposal in which you could only have a certain number of campaigns running per domain, so you couldn't set up a separate """campaign""" for each user and fingerprint them all at once. I don't know how the Mozilla proposal differs.

Whether or not user-agents should care about this sort of thing is an orthogonal question.

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/29/google_trueview_skept...

[1] Remarketing in particular is responsible for the "feeling of being seen" from modern ads where you search for one thing and get 10,000 ads for the thing for the next week
That’s appalling. I thought they honored deletion requests. Terrible look on HNs side too.

Edit: It seems like there’s a wiggle room, but still terrible. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28293237
I imagine they already exist in EU states. I got one in Finland after my ID card was stolen and someone was trying to buy stuff on credit with my ID. Paid a small fee of like 10€ to get a two-year credit freeze. They also give you a certificate from it that you can use to verify that the black mark in your credit history is a voluntary block. Never actually had to use it, was a student back then and I didn't have any credit to apply to, mobile phone plans to buy, apartments to rent etc.
Yeah except Discord is toxic as fuck and should be banished...
Does that imply that everyone who started with more money than Musk now has even more money than Musk? Or perhaps it implies that you just can't ever get poorer?

I don't think its possible, or fair, to reduce success to a single digestible dimension.
I mostly gave up a very long time ago. Craft an answer, update it to stay relevant and some mod turns it into a wiki. Another mod decides it’s time to move it to a different Stack site so it stops attracting cred on the site I posted it. Honestly I have better things to do.
No worries, I keep re-posting my comment because I really hope someone will share a real-world example of the degradation of ChatGPT.
My personal experience with ad blocking on iOS is that it’s both far less effective overall than ublock origin, and still manages to break a lot more sites. I have 0 tolerance for ads though- so even a 99% success rate on a site is unacceptable to me and I’ll just not use that site on my phone. Maybe 2/3rds of sites fail by that criteria for me. If ublock origin on my desktop computer also fails, then I don’t use the site at all- but that’s a vanishingly rate occurrence.
Sure, but also it would piss off unsophisticated users and also cause a huge increase in customer service issues with people getting locked out. That why it keeps flipping between required and optional.

Way back then we would send RSA tokens to the top users to stop them from getting hacked, but since they cost $10 each and required training and setup with an agent, only top users would get them.
I tried to read it and it was unusable. I had to turn on reader mode to make it at all usable.
Since I apparently did a terrible job explaining it (the link does a much better one) -- it is when someone has a problem that they are trying to solve in a way which will not solve their problem adequately or at all -- it is not when they are using the perceived wrong tool for the job.
OP kinda has a point though they did not phrase it effectively. From my experience, here in Asia we generally don't hang paintings/drawings/anything on walls. Most framed images are photos and these are more likely to be placed on shelves, tables suchlike.
Are these really hacks? This is just using ChatGPT normally and as intended.
feedback: bounced after the sandbox demo, because I did not find a currency selector.
I highly recommend a fantastic indie game called "Turing Complete" (https://turingcomplete.game/)

Its basically a digital logic simulator/playground, masquerading as a game. Early levels have you solving a simple problem with a few and/or/not gates, then gradually building larger components like half adders, registers, RAM and eventually (I'm not there yet though) you end up with a complete CPU with an instruction set you have designed and implemented, and you are solving the puzzles by writing machine code (which you designed) programs for your CPU.

Its been featured on hacker news before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28903296

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28735441
I keep hearing people say this, but I'm just not seeing it. Who are these extremist right-wingers that are now on Twitter? I don't know of anyone to the right of Tucker Carlson, and he's a bog standard center-right civic nationalist.

As far as I can tell the actual extremist right-wingers are on Gab rather than Twitter.
Could someone knowledgeable describe the differences between this new method and “traditional” enrichment of nuclear isotopes? If I’m not mistaken the latter also uses very high RPM rotation, and I believe I have read that the hardest part around managing it is the needed precision/balance of rotating something heavy at such high speed — a tiny imbalance can cause a wobble and make the whole thing break.

What changes?
This is a rehash of a study NASA did in 1989 [1].

The report still advises activated carbon filters (Usually combined with HEPA for particulates) as the proper way of cleaning up large volumes of air i.e. you'd need a lot of plants to have a meaningful result in a regular home.

[1]: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19930073077/downloads/19...
Older looking version: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19930072988
That will only happen when people can't do the things they normally could anymore on the browser. I was/am expecting it to happen with manifest v3, as I understood it it would break userscripts and make adblocking a pain, so far it hasn't happened so I still haven't bothered switching off Chrome.

Assuming this gets implemented, users might start being unable to access certain websites or services because their identity is deemed "insufficient", which would move them to use a different browser that does not have this.
> Attribution is necessary for advertising to work at all.

Something strange. So, radio advertisement, billboards, video panels, and absolutely any other type of advertisement is a scam that exists for few decades and still going good?
How does on get involved to help with the UI challenges/improvements?
I was just going to write the same - not a hack, unless the definition of 'hack' has changed recently
That makes sense. "New visits" are first time users, likely young coders who are looking up answers to things on a search engine, find what they're looking for on Stack Overflow, maybe click on an ad, and leave. They probably don't vote or post much. A sudden die-off there suggests something very bad happened to organic traffic (change in Google? Terrible new SEO scheme? A sudden stop in ad buys?)

The new content rate been dropping at a dismally constant rate for a long time, but the first few months in 2023 were awfully grim. I wonder what might've corresponded to that.
Until Apple allows other browser engines, everything is still limited to the same set of blockers you can get in safari. None of them are remotely good enough compared to ublock origin. My current phone probably has around 6-12 months of life left in it, and if Apple doesn’t have a solution by then I’m dropping the iPhone and either going with a de-Googled android build or giving up on smart phones altogether.
I haven't. Because (free, as in free beer) chatGPT is extremely slow, I have to make a rather extensive proompt to get the result I want to, and then I still have to debug most code.

That's not very convenient, atleast for now. I got so used to search engines by now, that it only takes a few keywords to get the expected result. Be it a SO-answer or a documentation page. And as people have mentioned, chatGPT was learned on the stuff that's on the internet, so if there will never be any new stuff, because people just use AI, then it will not learn and won't answer your new questions. For some edge cases I might try AI here or there, but usually it's not for me.

Hell, there comes even an example to my mind. I recently just asked chatGPT what a single-issue 5 stage pipeline on a CPU actually means. I wanted to know if, especially, the "single-issue" meant that only one instruction is present in the pipeline at a time, or if a new one gets shifted in on every clock cycle (if there is no hazard). It just couldn't answer it straight-forward. It was also kinda hard to find the exact definition on the internet. I found it in a book from the 90s which was chilling in my book shelf (Computer architecture and parallel processing by Kai Hwang). Hint: Single-issue just means that only one instruction can be in one stage at a time, but still multiple get processed inside the pipeline. The keyword is 'underpipelined'
> Too many people are ignorantly relying on IPv4 NAT as a layer of protection.

Too many people think pulling out works every time, too many people think what not using the seat belts because they aren't going far or fast is safe, yada, yada.

What the attack scenario? For the most part the machine is firewalled anyway by built-in firewall (if we talking about any modern Windows and Linux) by default. Most attacks need the actual vulnerable software and this is the browser nowadays => it's client initiated anyway.

Sure, a properly configured router would block the incoming traffic (with or without NAT, there are routed IPv4 too, you know? I have five /24 there and a bunch of smaller ones, no NAT on them), but again, the onus here on the default configuration of the router. There are still 'DMZ' buttons in some routers what would DNAT everything to the machine, there are people who do that without understanding what this opens up their machine (despite being behind the NAT) ie 'make it globally routable'..

I didn't touch home/soho routers for almost a decade so I can't say anything about that, except what Zyxels have the sane defaults and what Mikrotik is shipped with IPv6 disabled altogether.

Don't forget, most of the 'hacks' are happening by scanning the IPv4 subnet and then meticulously probing everything. It's easy with IPv4 (hell, /16 is only 65k hosts), with IPv6 this is...

Here: 2a10:1fc0:6::/48

I have a machine there, go, find it.

The only feasible way for someone to find your globally addressable machine is for the 'victim' is to first trigger something, eg by accessing some website. Yes, in this case the owner of the site (or the malware which infected the site) would know your IP. But same applies to IPv4 and in both cases you need something which is:

vulnerable
accepting packets from anywhere
not firewalled

And you still need to lure the victim to your site first.

You would have more chances with sending Nigerian prince letters and you would be way more profitable.
Agree. I hope she is at least very generously compensated.
Yet everybody has an idea what (or how much) it means. Including you.
As someone who actually writes haiku, I hate the "write a haiku" ChatGPT example as it produces these stilted, lifeless eighth grade poems that people nevertheless copy-paste into their work.
Look at all of the albums Apple has pushed on people since then.
This is an old strategy, and I doubt anybody would want to use a powerful AI to search a resume instead of a simple regex.
No, they are dogmatic, zealos, and emotional about a ... computer.

I want a Unix system because I prefer that for programming, I want a laptop because I want to change between offices, and I want to get started asap and get my work done without having to worry about hardware compatibility too much, so I prefer macOS over Linux. Simple as that.

Yes, Apple is expensive, but my company pays that MacBook so I don't care about that either. I get a well-functioning Unix with great usability and nice specs, with hardware and software from the same manufacturer. It works for me, so it's ok for me.
Rayon doesn't do GPGPU offloading.

https://www.openmp.org/updates/openmp-accelerator-support-gp...
Usually prefixed by a condescending "why would you want to Y?"
I think it’s only confusing if you use None as a _magic value_ with a meaning dependent on context. Like if you use -1 as a magic value of an int which means not a negative one (which you can do arithmetics on) but as “infinity” or “default value” or “use alternative method of calculation instead”. I think it is known that magic int values always come back to bite you later.

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. However, if in some places None means “absent value”, in others “error value”, in others “infinity”, in others “empty collection”—due to programmer’s laziness instead of using proper types, then _surely_ it will be impossible to reason. But not due to union types, I think.