skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I’m a bit ate for the party.

But I hope to get a suggestion for switching to the ext language in the real life. Like I’m quite proficient with swift language, I’m making money with it for years, so I consider my proficient comes not just from general computer science knowledge, but it comes from the getting o know the environment as well. Like I known the sdt lib, I know common caveats with the project, I have a pretty much experience it’s it after all.

And so I’ve tried rust. I mean it’s fantastic, it have awesome tooling, concise syntax and well crafted design, but I barely could write script with it. And I’m seeing clearly that this will lasts for a year or something, and even then I’ll suck at it towards an average senior dev focused on it a way beefier me.

So I really can’t crack it myself, like how do you folks switching to a new lang to get paid for it?
> Have you considered the fact that it is you that is paying them for what they bring into your life?

So far they have been mostly stopping what I want to be brought to life. Every time promising game developer gets bought then their games got watered down for mass appeal and ultimately becoming irrelevant.

> Have you considered the fact that it is you that is paying them for what they bring into your life?

That's the problem, there is no other choice! No matter from who you buy it always ends up supporting some billionaire, you can't buy TV from some indie company. The least they can do is pay fucking taxes from that profits. Individual taxes should be not main government income, corporate ones should be.

If they can have privilege of getting profits worked on by whole company the least they can do is to contribute same or more than individuals do to the budget.
Big companies with standardized jobs are great for unionization. Union bureaucracy is a great answer to corporate or government bureaucracy.

Basically, a big, inflexible place is a good unionization candidate. A smaller, nimble org is a lousy place for a union.
Oh, very interesting. Makes sense, since (mostly Japanese) text features in a lot of them. I’ll have to look for those.
Thanks for linking to these. They are certainly in the right direction although they're a bit vague on how much notice to give:

> Even if Douglas’s continued use of Talk America’s service could be considered assent, such assent can only be inferred after he received proper notice of the proposed changes. Douglas claims that no such notice was given. (Douglas v. Talk America)

> But the Court also concludes that, even in light of their agreement to the Special Terms at the time of registration, customers' assent to the revised Terms cannot be inferred from their continued use of safeway.com when they were never given notice that the Special Terms had been altered. (Rodman v. Safeway)

Both cases seem focused pretty narrowly on situations where notice was not given. Is continuing to use an app after an update notification enough? Glancing over a GDPR-like popup? An email? I'd prefer an explicit opt-in to changes once they've occurred.
I'm curious if you could expand on what you mean about it being an accounting fiction. I've never seen anything that didn't show it would be fine without funds getting siphoned out of it.
Covid wasn't very long ago. But yeah, I'm fine with an org deciding to focus on speech.
Oof I saw sports as the 4th thing on the list. I consider that a failure.
Ignoring ESM seems to avoid a lot of headaches
The only actual unbiased news is CSPAN and it’s boring so no one watches it!
There has always been "better quality" news and worse quality news available to people. We simply have more of both now.
> Go 1.21 improves build speed by up to 6%, largely thanks to building the compiler itself with PGO.

Go already compile fast, and it still gets faster release after release, love it!
Are Implicit Operators a Path to Clean Code or a Buggy Nightmare?
And 20 years ago everything was IE (at >90% penetration)
It’s an argument tactic that works on people who need precompiled opinions.

Redefine something in a very qualified way that maneuvers around the issue and that a non-thinking person wouldn’t notice and then say “see! A =! B” and the non-thinking person accepts that new fact and is now accepting of your broader argument.

People who use grammarly are commoditizing themselves and they’re too dumb to notice.
As much as I'd like to have the rug pulled from underneath me in 2 years after investing a ton of resources, no thanks.
i had a copy of 'what do people do all day' as a kid, my siblings and i all loved it! i can still visualise some of the pictures·
This was a fun read. Very pleasing to my soon-to-be-replaced-by-AI-gel brain
It sounds like you have privacy.resistFingerPrinting enabled, an experimental feature which is disabled by default:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-agai...
Didn't say anything about taking all their money. Just making sure they actually pay the taxes and not avoid that in million ways they have, both for themselves and for their corporations. Majority of government tax income should come from corporate, not individuals.
Radio version (my favourite of the various forms):

https://www.wnyc.org/story/168264-theyre-made-out-of-meat/
Got mine recently. Nearly an entire year after ordering. It's alright.
> The USD is on a failed gold standard.

The gold standard was removed in the 1970s. There has been no value behind the dollar since then. During the same time, the US Gov't actually seized citizen's gold.

> The obvious problem is the concept that money from this period should be valid in any future period with no decay or costs associated with holding the money.

This statement is confusing to me. Are you saying that there is not time-cost to the holder of cash if that cash is backed by gold? That is, if I have 100USD (gold backed) there is no downside to holding that cash as opposed to spending it?

> The only known solution is to get rid of cash or to introduce some sort of time bound money like demurrage currencies.

You may like the idea of CBDCs, then. With a centrally controlled digital currency it would be possible to put expiration dates on cash in order to force people to spend their money. Hyper-inflation has the same affect, though. If you look at the Argentine economy and how people spend money with 40-200% inflation year-over-year, you'll see that no one holds onto their cash. They all spend their cash in a very short period of time. People convert the currency that cannot store value into things that can; things like goods, US dollars, crypto currencies, etc.

[edit for spelling]
I haven't heard anyone using that homophobic edgelord word in probably a decade. Maybe a time traveler?
love that the disclaimer has to explain where the perineum is on that one lol
That's basically my experience, except in my case my Chromebook is from Framework. ;-)
Always loved existential futuristic short stories.
If you want to use taxes to cut CO2 the low hanging fruit is the livestock industry (especially beef.)

Of course, most Americans would see that as an attack on freedom, and both parties are afraid of being seen as anti farmer.
Thanks for this feedback. Makes a lot of sense. I'm pretty new to all of this. Do you have any suggestions of effective ways to reach people using these apps?
They should
> Navigation through directories is also a pain I’ve never found a way to make better and faster in a way I can remember.

Zsh auto suggestions make it a breeze for me. Also cd -n to cd to the nth ago directory in the directory stack. If you’re referring to ridiculously nested directories for a one-off visit tho, yea I’ve also been trying to find a better solution lol
Indeed, I have strict mode enabled, uBlock Origin, containers, and the game works completely fine.
I've been able to cut out the news for the most part with a small side project. It combines hundreds of sources and thousands of articles every day to make a concise digest.

In about 5 minutes I can get caught up without doom scrolling.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quill-news-digest/id1669557131
It's actually even less remarkable than that. It was an experiment in having a limited release, to shift the field toward a different release convention.

> Nearly a year ago we wrote in the OpenAI Charter: “we expect that safety and security concerns will reduce our traditional publishing in the future, while increasing the importance of sharing safety, policy, and standards research,” and we see this current work as potentially representing the early beginnings of such concerns, which we expect may grow over time.

> This decision, as well as our discussion of it, is an experiment: while we are not sure that it is the right decision today, we believe that the AI community will eventually need to tackle the issue of publication norms in a thoughtful way in certain research areas.

> We will further publicly discuss this strategy in six months.

https://openai.com/research/better-language-models
Developers who sell out their app to entities like this deserve to be ostracized from the profession.
Flexibility in isolation levels is coming in CRDB :)
YouTube will stop showing videos on the homepage if your watch history is off
Any jackass off the street can just not know things! If you want to get invited to the in-crowd's house parties, you're going to need to do a lot better than that.
Judith Curry: How Climate “Science” Got Hijacked by Alarmists [video]
a monopoly implies domination and zero competition. where do you get that sense?
> Where can this be reported or an existing requested be upvoted? This irks me too no end.

You can't. From what I've seen GTK / Gnome devs are incredibly unaccommodating to functionality that they don't agree with. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754302

The patch I'm using:

https://pastebin.com/cdkH8uXg

https://pastebin.com/Ek1tTcsm - this is 'file-chooser__typeahead.patch' which I sourced from a github somewhere
The time I take reading the news each day (BBC news and The Guardian) is the time it takes me to use the toilet each morning. I scan headlines, and only read articles of interest. I spend way more time each week on this site, than I do reading traditional mainstream news, and usually skip articles with paywalls and just come to the comments section to get a synopsis.

I used to be an avid receiver of traditional news media. I listened to BBC Radio 4 for about three hours a day, particularly Today on my commute into work and PM on my commute home. Then Any Questions on Saturday, and often The World at One at lunch.

I'm done with it all TBH. This site tends to surface most things that I find important or have an effect on my life. I honestly don't need to know what is happening on day X of the invasion of Ukraine. I much prefer reading about what's the latest going on with reproducibility studies of LK-99 than the political machinations of random ministers in parliment.
So this happened to me. I submitted a support request and they fixed it very quickly. My watch history is still off and the homepage is back.

It's still a pretty crappy thing to do.
Do you have a link to more information somewhere? I'd like to know more about what NordVPN is doing, if true. It's certainly not what their customers expect.
What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?
Yeah. Whisper does a good job of removing the pauses and filler words. This is the main reason I chose to use it.
Someone shared this chat with me and it seems like GPT3 has a complete breakdown halfway through?
Thank you for creating this. I've been looking for something that provides a more lightweight alternative to LangChain.
In modern CPUs registers are a high-level abstract concept (see register renaming), so writing to a register doesn't have any specific location to overwrite.

Recent Zenbleed vulnerability was an example of that — clearing of a register was setting a temporary boolean saying it's zeroed instead of writing actual zeros.
If you violate a copyright and are taken to court, you will find yourself caring very much.

arxiv.org is being sued for things like this, so I have to question why they'd host this.
You can also find the story on Nature[1] as well as a lot of other short fiction they publish[2], which includes stories from such authors like Clarke[3]

[1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/45932

[2] - https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=futures

[3] - https://www.nature.com/articles/46906
Yes, this works. but I want to have it enabled constantly because I like my screen that way.
We all need subtitles now [video]
I used to made of ritual black candles
I don't think I was attacking people, but will defer. In less inflammatory prose, let me say:

There is a problem on the net that is exacerbated by funding models which seek to use free services to do "bad" things. The Ad-Driven model has problems that the needs of the end user are often not considered paramount, but instead the needs of the advertiser are. After all, they're the ones paying the bills. Print newspapers famously had this problem, balancing the interests of editorial and advertisement.

Furthermore, there are people on HN whose enterprises are funded by ad revenue. I worry they (and their investors) err on the side of the advertisers rather than on the side of the users when there is a conflict. I doubt there are many here who would go to extremes such as enrolling customers iPhones into botnets, but there is always that temptation. What if you were a couple weeks away from laying everyone off and a shady partner sidled up to you and suggested such a move. I believe it would be a moral crisis for any entrepreneur: shaft your customers or shaft your business, its investors and its employees.

I am lucky to operate from retained earnings and (at least for the time being) could firmly reject such an offer. I appreciate that I am probably in the minority in this respect.

I bemoan the current state of affairs where so many entrepreneurs could even conceivably be tempted by such a Faustian bargain (without asserting the majority are.)

I am ensaddened that experiments like Bitcoin seem to have devolved into ponzi schemes rather than effective micropayment vehicles. Such a platform could conceivably open up new business models which would allow entrepreneurs to ignore this particular devil.
ohh interesting!
I've only done a quick read through the link, but I think the model they imply is that a malicious user could rent a Cloud VM in AWS/Azure/GCP/etc and then sniff the contents of SIMD registers, similar to the Zenbleed attack which was also disclosed recently[1]. This is a big deal because optimized implementations of strcpy, strlen, and memcpy in glibc all use SIMD registers, and glibc is everywhere.

1: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html
> The layperson is distrustful by default

This sounds like it was written from an alternate reality. It doesn’t match my experience at all
The two hypotheses are that:

1) LLMs do not reason, they provide sequences of apparent reasoned replies R1...n according to the freq distribution given by P(R1|R2...Rn, TextCorpus)

2) LLMs do reason: in cases where P(Premise|Conclusion, Rule(Conclusion,Premise)) are 1 or 0 forall Rule in {Rules of basic reasoning}, LLMs can reproduce this.

I think (2) is clearly false, and (1) clearly true. LLMs never reason. They're always just sequences of conditional selections of replies. These "follow from" earlier replies just because of the frequency of their coincidences.

"Reasoning" is a claim about the mechanism by which replies are given. It is not a claim about whether those replies are correclty sequenced in some cases. Obviously they are.
An issue with these health apps is that HIPAA doesn't protect your data on these platforms so they can sell your patient data (I have no knowledge whether they do but many similar apps do and if they 'exit' new ownership would be able to)

My personal experience is that I have found 50mg Trazadone as needed to be pretty helpful (rarely need at this point, just knowing I have it as backup is nice or if I have one bad night it doesn't become a pattern), some of the Huberman sleep stuff like NSDR, and the usual sleep hygiene stuff (regular bedtime, blue light glasses, cooling the room a bit more).
I avoid the news, I don't follow any news. Not a TV channel, a publication, my preferred talking head, the dude on twitter or a guy who does commentary on YouTube. Big or small, I don't care about the news.

It's not because it's all negative. It's because it's all bullshit. Almost all of it is someone who has an interest in changing my worldview so that I behave in ways that are beneficial to them. Often enough its a thinly veiled business funnel. Sometimes it's not like that, it's just noise that is inconsequential to me. But in every single case it isn't worth actively following; if something is important enough you'll hear about it from a person in your life. And probably you'll hear about unimportant things too, everyone knows at least one person who won't shut up about Trump this Biden that.

I'd say my life is better. I see these news addicts and theyre all just bitter, anxious basket cases constantly chewing their nails to a nub about some shit that their life would not change one bit if they didn't even know about, besides the anxiety they get from knowing about it of course.
Voice activated radio dispatched alarm (VARDA)
One of the better examples of the extremely talented developer who does not understand customers/new users.

Show us a screenshot or a video before putting an install button in front of us.
> They interpret what the law says, not what it "intends."

Within the bounds of the viable interpretations of the words actually written into the law, courts are, in fact, often guided by their reading of legislative intent in choosing which of the superficially viable interpretations is correct.

The idea that interpreting what the laws say precludes interpreting what legislators mean seems to implicitly invoke the idea that any given set of words has only one tenable interpetation to start with, so you never need to look to external context to resolve meaning.

This is a not-too-unpopular conceit, but its quite wrong.
wouldn't they just buy the account/password and not let google know?
Put another way, this isn't just "politically choosing where the money goes," this is using the political machinery for us to determine what the cost of something is.

You could argue that we shouldn't use the political engines to do this, but that quickly runs against the fact that politics just means people, at large. Is why even "scientific communities" would have disagreements on what should be prioritized.

I do think we could do better, but I hesitate to offer a concrete better way due to my own ignorance in knowing of one.
> I truly despise this company.

maybe it felt good to say that, but don't expect any change. The number one hated company in the USA for years according to some poll, is monopoly cable TV in many regions. "hate" all you want, they know that, and they hire people who are increasingly immune to feedback.

basically, I agree with you here in California.. with the added content that some of those who hold stock in that company are the ones buying overpriced houses.
Walking around your document is scrolling around using your legs instead of mouse finger, right?

And limited by the size of your wall.
Apart from Apple, having beta testers seems like pretty standard practice, though? They will inevitably leak it, so you might as well announce it.

One could also make the opposite argument that having beta testers is a way to build hype. It all depends on the situation.
Yep! Sorry, didn't mean to imply it wouldn't work at all. I'll edit my post if HN still allows me to.

I'll note that apart from a handful of sites where it causes additional checks and occasional breakage (noted them in another comment below), I'm really happy with that setting. I leave it on by default and only have to break out a fingerprinted Firefox profile on rare occasion.
Welp, guess it can't be trusted anymore, since it contains a third-party proprietary and non-auditable package that will purposefully read a file from your system and contact a third-party internet server with a personal identifier such as an email address.
> Claiming that it affects all users on the internet seems like a massive over-exaggeration, as he hasn't demonstrated any kind of browser based exploit and even if such a thing did exist

He's saying it likely affects "everyone on the Internet" because most servers are vulnerable.
Technically I'm taking a large liberty saying you're "activating layers", all the layers are affecting the output and you don't pick and choose them

But you can imagine the model like a plinko board: just because the ball passes every peg, doesn't mean every peg changed it's trajectory.

When you fine tune a model, you're trying to change how the pegs are arranged so the ball falls through the board differently.

When you prompt tune you're changing how the ball will fall too. You don't get to change the board, but you can change where the ball starts or have the ball go through the board several more times than normal before the user sees it, etc.

You can't see the ball falling (which layers are doing what), only where it falls, but when you spend long enough building on these models, you do get an intuition for which prompts have an outsized effect on where the ball will land.
There is a huge difference between being correct 50% of the time (like a coin flip) and correct 51% of the time. Because in the second case, you can run the model 10,000 times and the median response will be the correct one at least 97% of the time. A coin can't do that. Any papers evaluating GPT-4's responses should be doing repeat trials and building confidence intervals, like any other research. Anything else is just bad science.
I have it set this way as well. But as I'm living a rolling day:), I often experience the light suddenly going on, so I have to reset it again.
I get your point, but let's not sit here and convince ourselves that the front page of HN is the same as the front page of CNN, Fox, or WaPo.
I may put all my open source stuff on GitHub, but hell will freeze over before I willingly let Microsoft get a whiff of my private data, no matter how irrelevant it may be.

GitHub Copilot sounds pretty neat though, I will admit that.
> paired with the universal access that comes with being hosted in the cloud, in a datacenter near you.

How is a locked down vm, that I don’t control, “near me” more convenient than the fast, portable computer in front of me that I can build apps anywhere on, even when not networked?
This article really resonates with me. It lots of ways I want to like gemini but when it really comes down to it the content just isn't very good.

Secondly, the restrictions seem great until you really could use a diagram or an actual equation or a million other things that aren't just plain markdown basically.

I am squarely in the wheelhouse of people who should be into gemini. I love the terminal. I have used vim for 25 years and emacs for a good 5 or so years before that, I have used textmode browsers and extensions like vimium etc to make my non-textmode browsers be more texty. My own website is almost entirely just plain text.

If it was obsidian-style markdown (ie including embedded images, latex and tables and especially diagramming using something like mermaid or excalidraw) it would be amazing[1] but as is, it's just not quite enough to actually be used for anything other than what's on there which is basically people just navelgazing or talking about gemini itself.

[1] And I expect that slightly less restrictive palette would make it attractive to a lot more folks to produce content for and therefore it would be a lot less like a barren technohipster wasteland as at present.
They [effectively] do prevent you from moving - they're guilty of vendor lock-in and running a passive, public man-in-the-middle attack platform (how many folks are using Cloudflare for DNS - either directly, or because their ISP is?)
In the paper, the authors address issues related to the definition of "misinformation".