skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its dangerous, only its a natural plant does not make it harmless.
I got a problem with it myself, but i am glad i am away from booze.
What do they say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

This is extremely ordinary 'evidence'
3D Modeling Draws on AI
I might have to go collect all the ones I've thrown in the ocean over the years
It's sad that ChatGPT doesn't want to play the ligma game. From all the interactions, you can see that it understands what you want, and goes around it intentionally (though it wouldn't cause any harm).
Talking about their strongest areas or inventions can be part of a structured interview.
> There is no universally agreed upon acceleration curve

The gold standard (for my generation) was set by microsoft with the Mouse Wheel Optical 1.1a and IntelliMouse Explorer 3.
It was 400 DPI mouse on 90-120 PPI screens.

Higher PPI on screen lead to higher DPI on the mouse. No need for Windows/MacOS/Linux to implement their own stupid acceleration charts.

> So what, do you complain that not every single vehicle has the same foot peddle resistance?

I've heard people complain about the responsiveness of their brakes for sure.
> "How do I get X while doing less work"

And we'd still be using neanderthal tools if everyone just copy-pasted previous work.
Moderation seems to be a problem. I prefer sippy cups to limb maiming traps though.

The playground next to be had a swing that was made for wheel chairs. So it was solid and had a ramp. The ramp was like a guillotine if you would get stuck under. Thank fully it was removed, but still it was there for like a year. Hopefully not removed due some accident.

It is good to remember that the bureaucrat approving that swing probably still is around and that he is coming for you.

Safety optimists are the worst. It probably comes down to lack of empathy.

For the record I have nothing against "dangerous" playground things. Just not stupid dangerous.
What is the best way to set up those alerts? Specifically how do you set something up that knows if unexpected restarts happened? Is there a dbus or similar event you can listen for?
I was rather confused by the grammar, replacing 'by' with 'and' makes so much more sense. Thanks
US military battling cyber threats from within and without
I wouldn't say it changed nothing. Take the Guttenberg incidence for example. But more often it doesn't lead to actual repercusions, I agree on that with you.
Yeah, self-deception is a distinct possibility, and it would certainly not be the first time for something like that to happen.
I'm convinced that the only reason I got into programming is because my first exposure to it was via HyperCard, which is still just the most friendly and enticing introduction to programming I've even seen.
GPT-3 aces tests of reasoning by analogy
I've been active on Stack Overflow since its founding, and have always found it delightful.
yes, you are right I meant to say "and a Nobel laureate to explain it"
The first reproduction of LK-99 crystal was completed by a Chinese university
Postdoctor Hao Wu and PhD student Li Yang from the School of Materials Science and Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology successfully for the first time verified the LK-99 crystal that can be magnetically levitated with larger levitated angle than Sukbae Lee‘s sample at room temperature. It is expected to realize the true potential of room temperature, non-contact superconducting magnetic levitation.
Nonsense.

Wheelchair access from the get go and such niceties doesn't lead to ad absurdum leg breaking of the able.
We're only about a year into the post chat gpt world. We've seen nothing yet.

Asking humans to do things manually that a computer can do effortlessly and flawlessly is going to be relatively low value. I remember going to school and having to learn to work out on paper how to multiply and divide numbers. The home work was super tedious and I was bored with it. And right in front of me was the solution: a calculator. This was the early nineteen eighties. I'm sure I could work out from first principles how that stuff works but I haven't multiplied or divided large numbers manually ever since I was allowed to actually use a calculator in high school about 35 years ago. Why would I? It's tedious, error prone, slow, and I have multiple tools within reach that can do this for me.

The adoption of AI is the same thing. The generation after us will not know a world where AI wasn't a thing and will use it without even thinking about it. Effortlessly, skillfully, and effectively. And they'll be better off, mostly. Us old timers rambling about the lost art of writing (and a lot of other skills) are basically just like any generation that got confronted with the world changing around them, no longer relevant. Besides, if you've ever had the pleasure of having to grade a bunch of student essays, you'd realize that most of them are not great writers to begin with. Not having to read a lot of badly written garbage is actually an improvement. And being able to ask an AI to extract the essentials of any human produced drivel is probably a great productivity enhancer as well.

In the same way, I don't need some second rate lawyer messing up legal work and overcharging me for the privilege when I can have an AI do it right. AIs are passing bar exams now so that doesn't seem like an unreasonable expectation. Once it stops hallucinating, we can get rid of the remaining lawyers. I run a startup and I deal with lots of weird and hairy legal issues related to HR, taxes & profit, NDAs, sales contracts, etc. Mostly that still requires getting legal advice from skilled individuals. Our startup is in Germany and I'm not a native speaker. This shit is super complicated and exactly the kind of stuff where you can get a lot of value out of AIs. We still cross check these things with actual lawyers. But it saves a lot of time, effort, and billable hours if you can get a grip on these things before you talk to them.

Artisanally figuring it out all by yourself unassisted by modern tools might be interesting to some as an artistic expression, or for esthetic/sentimental reasons, or whatever. But when the end result is mediocre and sub par, it won't have a lot of value to others. It's like a toddler drawing something. It's cute and generally greatly appreciated by parents/grand parents/etc.. And just because we now have mid journey, doesn't mean the toddler's drawing has less value for them. But let's face it, most toddlers don't turn into great artists.
1. Only option
2. Only option they can afford
3. Cheapest option
4. They really don't care
This looks incredibly good to me. The working copy as "commit being worked on right now" is a much simpler data structure than the "working copy + stash + staging area" of git.

I really hope this succeeds... VSC support would be a great start...
Oh, did he write about this? Maybe I should check him out.
I read a 2:30hr book on YouTube – Reality Transurfing [video]
This has been the most impactful book i've read and there wasn't a great audio version so I decided to take matters into my own hands.

I hope this helps you like it did for me.
> 6 beers and 3 shots over the course of 2 to 4 hours

Where and in which circle? Because from where I stand it seems very unusual.
Interestingly, when logged out and tried to go to Reddit just now I got an error:

upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection failure
Who's Miss Understood? Can you introduce me to her?
> Cooler chips. Chips heat due to resistance, and superconductors have zero resistance (by definition). I suspect this is the company's intended application. The following quote from their patent is very suggestive if you know about semiconductor manufacturing.

Power consumption due to R in metal stack is not a large proportion of total. There could be bigger opportunity in reducing wire delay though.
Appreciate the reply, hopefully subscribing to your service beginning of next year (after I am done with Khan Academy math).
What is the point here?

We shouldn't build roads that are proven to be safer... because some cyclists are idiots?
I've also never seen others record audiobooks with this type of visual of reading. I am planning to record many classics.
Meta is preparing to launch chatbots with distinct personalities next month
This can happen when saving a Word document as PDF. You don’t see it in the Word document before, but it ends up that way in the PDF. They apparently didn’t double-check the PDF.
Can you burn CO₂?
The Ugly Honesty of Elon Musk’s Twitter Rebrand
FTX Announces Creditor-Repayment Plan and Potential Restart
I think there's a typo: by=but

Edit: already explained
Nice reference. It's called "Sayre's law". Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
What if the claim of replication is a fraud?
Yums.email: a recipe storage system built on top of email
Exactly. I love thinking about stuff, but if I'm given a button to push, that button's getting pushed.
This was probably when these words had their original meaning: censorship is something only a state actor can do and is not about companies having rules about what is published on their platforms. Discrimination is when people are treated differently because of attributes they had no influence in (age, sex, origin, skin color,...) and not about excluding people with attitudes you don't like.
This is good advice imho.

Away from things that can be automated and are important you have a checklist and tick things off with a pen. Add $this to the list.

Atul Gawande is worth reading in general and on this topic. [1] He turned it into a book I haven't yet read.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist
Then it increases the chance of fraud to 0% ~ 100%
idk if it turns out this material is a room temperature superconductor, the rushed second paper will have been the right thing to do. Science happening in real time is gonna be messy
This project is a great example of subliminal marketing.

It is less apparent now but still, the repeated flex of “Google”, 20% project etc when no typical reader would assume them is classic corporate charlatanry.

Shame because I like the project otherwise
I'll add a datapoint. Not a pilot, just like to know how complicated stuff works. And, like the article, I do think there are lessons to learn from aviation.
Meta prepares chatbots with personas to try to retain users
> Not at all - but we already accept that the fact there are so many more voters in concentrated in a few cities that a pure one-person-one-vote system would lead to virtually no representation of voters in sparsely populated areas.

We do not accept the pure one-person-one-vote system because we live in representative democracies, were the elected represent a community. We solve the problem by designing dynamic voting areas of varying dimenions containing more or less the same population, so any representative is the spokeperson of the same amount of people (more or less). At least that's what we do here in Europe AFAIK.

> If the age pyramid were even more extreme (e.g. 5 or 6 times as many voters between 60 and 65 than there were between 20 and 25) I'd say we'd have little choice but to consider some sort of age-bracket based voting system.

You are saying that you don't like democracy then.

Which is an argument, we can discuss about it, but, for the sake of the argument, in Russia there are 86 men every 100 women. In that case what should we do? Limit the representation of women? What about people with disabilities, should we create a "people with no disabilities bracket"? How should we address the fact that the majority of the population has received no form of higher education, they are ill-educated if not uneducated hence they lack the tools to make an informed decision to the detriment of the entire society? etc. etc.

> As it happens apparently the historical trend of voters becoming significantly more conservative as they age

That's a cool quote, but it's never been proven. The word you're looking for is not conservative, but prudent.

Anyway, if we look at the voters now in Europe, where I am from, we can clearly see that the far right is very popular among young people, they are having good if not extremely good outcomes in many countries (Germany, Sweden, Italy, Finland, Hungary, Poland). It never happened before the last generation had the right to vote. In my country, Italy, the far right is the preferred choice among people < 25 years old and women, while people over 65 have voted in majority for the left and are progressive.

What should we do about it in your opinion?
> one would‡ <<just>>‡ need to build

Let's see what...

> some‡ kind‡ of observables/xpath mishmash‡ for XML streaming

which in the end still leads to:

> would‡ mostly‡ eliminate the problem

Solid programmer-think, right there!

You "just" need to magic up some stuff that in the end <<might>> solve the problem.

E A S Y - PEASY!

‡ LOL at the weasel word count.
Regular YBCO "high temp" superconductor (that needs liquid nitrogen) is also a ceramic.
Pidgin?
If I remember my physics classes properly, it does not. The video shows that the sample is at least paramagnetic[1], but it could also be a superconductor of type 1. I think a better test would be to see if the sample gets quantum locked [2] in the presence of a magnetic field. From [2]:

>Superconductors have one “card” in their sleeves – the ability to transfer currents without resistance. These supercurrents produce a magnetic field that interacts with the external field and are the source of the levitation and suspension forces.

If that would happen, we would definitely know this is a superconductor of type 2. If, instead, is a type 1 what we saw in the video could be just due to repulsion due to the Meissner effect [3] and having an heterogenous sample (i.e. one part is repelled more compared to the other one which points towards the magnet).

[1] https://www.britannica.com/science/rock-geology/Basic-types-...
[2] https://quantumlevitation.com/what-is-superconducting-levita...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meissner_effect
in germany we had and have an app for that which was founded before uber: mytaxi (now FreeNow)
I don't remember the exact tweet, but here's one discussion [1]. I guess something changed in the mean time.

[1]_https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/140uct5/geohot_giving_...
Sure: key idea is pages are documents. Each page contains a JSON blob which specifies the blocks it's made up of and the content for each block. Each block is just a module with a schema specifying the data it takes and an associated template and a render function. Rendering a page is a URL resolution -> Controller -> DB lookup for the page -> pass the block list to a master render function and done.

The thing some people don't realise is EEx is compiled to a function call, which means no string interpolation, regex whatever. Getting a bunch of HTML is just a function call.
The point being?

As an interviewer you want to avoid being confrontational with your candidates. It's not helpful if they're good candidates, it's not helpful if they're bad-faith candidates like this one (they might be looking for some slip up on your side which makes the interview "illegal" and cause for them to sue your company), it's not helpful if they're simply not fit for the job (but in good-faith) as you don't want to make them feel bad they're not fit for the job.

If you already understood that they are not giving satisfactory answers, or like in this case they're just reading off the chatgpt answers, best to just keep gathering more proof to your decision not to hire them (by asking them more questions which can highlight your reasons) and finish the interview with the good ol' "we'll let you know."
seem is better.

appear has more of a visual meaning, whereas seem is more abstracted.
Currently the replications look less professional than the (one) failure to reproduce. The next couple of days will be a rollercoaster.
VCs getting unreasonably excited about a thing for a year or so != technology.
Don't think the Australians, nor the Californians, would agree that the world hasn't caught fire.
Ask like a human: Implementing semantic search on Stack Overflow
I wish them luck, but considering their lack of manpower, by the time 3.0 comes out for "modern IM features", we'll probably have telepathic computers.

I was there when they had the famous video-voice branch.

Heck, I just checked: https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/vvAPI?version=1

It was 15 (!) years ago :-)
> The result of that approach is that in 2023, our desktop is worse in usability and performance than what is was in 1998.

No. This is undoubtedly because every UI nowadays is using JavaScript. This is problem is way waaaaay larger than any premature optimization considerations.
That's a rather profitable twist on the classic "job security" strategy.
You are assuming that we have thought of all theories that an experiment can confirm, before conducting the experiment. Considering the large search space, that would be quite surprising.
not soo similar really, but yes, alphafold-style generative models could help find realistic structures for a specific composition. However a) data is much worse (I would say so at least...), b) the clever tricks of alphafold centered around strings of aminoacid don't really apply to particles in a box... and c) search space might be even larger if you go to interestingly sized systems.

Also there's been some people arguing about the particles in a box situation for a loooong time and the most promising approach currently is diffusion.
The probability is quite low, because that guy conducted the experiment through live streaming, and failed once. Then, he conducted the second experiment after adopting some suggestions from netizens.
Billionaire Kretinsky in talks to buy Atos unit in $2.2B deal
Superconductors have a limit on the current they can carry before the superconducting phase breaks down. This might put similar limits on the voltages.

I agree that the nature of this is entirely different to transmission losses, but I don't expect 230V lines carrying tens of thousands of amps. This would probably require excessive amount of SC material.
>Socrates might've been a bit disappointed to hear of recent studies which suggest that the act of writing something down does help you remember.

Socratic reasoning is not based on studies to determine what is true, but rather logical argumentation, so I suppose he would find the use of studies unuseful.
You can be the first to lead the way, but of course people like you never will.
You can recognize a browser as suspicious and not pay for or flag the ad clicks it makes without blocking access.
Isn't the idea that you continue editing the working copy commit until you actually commit it?

Also from the documentation:

https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/blob/main/docs/git-comparis...

"As a Git power-user, you may think that you need the power of the index to commit only part of the working copy. However, Jujutsu provides commands for more directly achieving most use cases you're used to using Git's index for. For example, to create a commit from part of the changes in the working copy, you might be used to using git add -p; git commit. With Jujutsu, you'd instead use jj split to split the working-copy commit into two commits. To add more changes into the parent commit, which you might normally use git add -p; git commit --amend for, you can instead use jj squash -i to choose which changes to move into the parent commit."
Something tells me they're not built with European or American standards / building materials; are the summers and winters that mild over there?
AI and Evolution
> The result of that approach is that in 2023, our desktop is worse in usability and performance than what is was in 1998.

I believe there are many more causes, some of them far more significant. Off the top of my head:

* the Web and the related delays: people started to accept the fact that there is a small delay in everything they do related to network latency

* the general "what Andy giveth Bill taketh away" mindset, and not just among MS developers: "if I have a powerful machine, I should use its full potential, and other people should do it, too"

* the notion that programmer's time is more expensive than machine time

* the notion that in order to win we need to be first, therefore there is no time to optimize things resource-wise

* the belief that users only want features and don't care about speed

* the lack of high-quality, developer-friendly, modern cross-platform UI framework resulting in many companies using Electron with its overhead
> Compilers are tools. They can reliably vectorize code if it is written in an amenable-to-vectorization form.

This goes for regular scalar code as well, it's just less obvious in mature compilers with ton of work put into them.

I've long since given up handwriting scalar assembly code for speed. Instead I've studied the output of the compilers I use, and through iteration learned how to write optimization-friendly code.

If I have a hot spot that matters in my code I check just to be sure. Sometimes the most innocent looking changes can cause issues.
"What if more likely it's a plan being executed in front of our eyes. I think in general you should assume the latter, not that people you want to think are idiots actually are."

Yes, this is the natural first reaction to something odd happening. You look for patterns, and because people formulate patterns into plans of action, you look for a plan, and this leads you to a possible intent.

But after countless chances, we need to realize there's no deeper plan here. No 4D chess move to explain the infantilism on display. Guy likes naming things X and he hates his time at Twitter, and was looking for ways to make it "his", to match his fantasy of X closer, and changing the logo was the easiest, most basic thing he could've done.

The lack of a better plan, heck, of ANY plan is on full display. The haphazard brand, name, logo changes across the apps, app stores, the website, the copy, no brand kit, the offices themselves, the sign that went up for 3 days and then went down, the lack of securing X as a trademark. All of it.

I'm a big fan of the "don't jump to conclusions" mentality. Everyone has hot takes these days. It's infuriating. But to always assume there's a plan, despite evidence hitting you in the head daily is the other extreme. Don't JUMP to conclusions. But at least... slowly walk towards them, don't sit frozen.
Ask HN: Is there a market for premium Figma plugins?
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Thank you for your reply. I was thinking of using a translation model to translate all of my documents to english before indexing them.
I hate systemd, but this is something actually good.

If you need alerts, you should config monitoring for the logs.
Yeah, but that is quite amateurish. Just having the paper out first does not establish priority for the Nobel. What you need is the first paper with solid proof. It has happened more than once before that the guys with the second or third paper won the Nobel because the earlier paper was too weak.