skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah... TS is just a bit weird. Seems like the language design decisions have generally been "Why not" and not "how does this improve things?" That's lead to a really complex language ripe for abuse.

C++ sort of suffers a similar problem though thankfully it's gotten way better (probably because it's old and not super appealing for less experienced devs). There's also healthy fear in C++ because, like you point out, misuse can lead to hard to find security holes.

And I'm someone that prefers a more feature rich language in general. But I want that to mostly write boring code with the "neat" escape hatches to help when it makes things clearer.
GPT-4 Hedges More Than GPT-3.5
How does that matter? P-Complete is a subset of P.
In my experience, I notice the most leaking problems with devices that constantly draw power, even when off. The battery becomes totally drained then starts to leak.
Bangle.js 2 – An Open Source Hackable Smart Watch
How does this compare to Brave?
> A few hours ago I wanted to know the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane. Here is the answer: they're the same thing, just in a different ocean. I clicked three or four articles and had to read for a few minutes to get to that answer.

I just googled “what is the difference between typhoon and hurricane”

Top result is from the Red Cross, with this blurb conveniently extracted so I don’t even need to click into the article unless I’m curious more deeply:

If it's above the North Atlantic, central North Pacific or eastern North Pacific oceans (Florida, Caribbean Islands, Texas, Hawaii, etc.), we call it a hurricane. If it hovers over the Northwest Pacific Ocean (usually East Asia), we call it a typhoon.
"nice" just means you don't have personal boundaries, so you go out of your way to try to keep everyone around you comfortable, rather than express your needs, preferences, and emotions and just let other people react as they will.

Codepedency is a genderless phenomenon.
When parties fail, movements step up
Isn't nuclear nearly 20% of the USA power mix? I've never liked fission but it's there and lots of effort to design a next generation of it which would be able to use nuclear waste and maybe make that less hazardous.
>All YouTube recommendations are already what I want to see

I wish I had your experience. My YouTube recommendations can definitely be said to be “my fault” in some sense of the word, but wherever the blame lies they’re still mostly terrible. YouTube will watch me skip a video for a whole week, but keep showing it to me “just in case.” I’d rather it were just a dumb search at this point.
Violating TOS, at least to scrape and use later, is legal.[0] I'm not sure how the ruling interacts with LLMs, but I'm sure OpenAI's lawyers would bring it up.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharysmith/2022/04/18/scrapin...
If you assume that most humans spend the minimum effort possible on their captchas, your gut response is also more in line with other responses than your well thought-out response. Even a matching based on the selected squares would pick up on this.
Are walking interviews a thing? I'd be very annoyed.
So what? So it Chromium but that doesn't stop Google from pushing whatever anti-consumer nonsense they want.
Hi. From iOS 13 onwards camera access can be permanently granted on a per-site basis, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48847388/how-to-permanen...
Cigarettes are not cheap in Australia and they are on the road to making then illegal. That is a horrible example.
You're going the wrong way! Simply write everything in machine code.
The biggest challenge I’m trying to track isn’t on the list: online learning. The difficulties with getting LLMs to absorb new knowledge without catastrophic forgetting is a key factor making us so reliant on techniques like retrieval augmented generation. While RAG is very powerful, it’s only as good as the information retrieval step and context size, which quite often aren’t good enough.
We were I think 8 or 9. We got access to an onion forum on Tor with randomized nicknames, and one person who said they were a representative of a bigger network, but no extra info was given. Then they told us to find some common project to work on; something that would change the world or whatever. We were supposed to discuss ideas and decide by ourselves. Eventually we settled on an idea and started working on it, but we had a shitty forum, a shitty chat, and an even shittier slow git repo. The whole thing was pointless so I just drifted away (it was a very busy time for me).

It made no sense, there was no reason why we should work in secrecy, no infrastructure, no motivation, nothing. I bet the guy who said he was a representative was just a kid somewhere who made up the challenges. I don’t know, I just abandoned it and lost the drive to pursue any further ARG after that.
He lived in the Netherlands
I've been looking for a 'Grafana for personal metrics' (eg. weight, personal finance, etc.). Does anything like this exist? Ideally very simple, stripped-down metrics/observability w/ ability to input data in UI or via API.
Making telcos carry your speech is, thanks to common carrier legislation.

I hope we can see the expansion of this legislation soon to cover the modern ways in which people communicate and the modern town square.
I used to be faithful disciple of the Tab, not least as it separates logical structure (an indent) from display (2/4/whatever spaces).

However I have since recanted my heresy, because a space is a space is a space is a space and there is only so much that can go wrong with that.
Google Reader will aggregate articles for you.
Ok cool appreciate the response!
Come back when you prove that tabs are subjectively better, since that’s the only thing that moves anyone to action.
[dupe] from earlier? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37156730
Nah it's fine, firefox has 4% market share, realistically even the french gov doesn't care about them
Interesting, thanks for the recs. Will check them out!
Debian stable + Flatpaks is the most stable Linux experience I've worked with. Thanks to everyone involved in the project.
Guess the conversation's on this dupe over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37161347
Assuming you have uBlock Origin installed - and if you don't you should assuming you're using a real browser - you can you the 'element zapper mode' to remove anything which happens to be in your way. Map this function to a key combination - I'm LeftShift-Alt-Z - and zap away any such impediments.
This has already been the case for a while with "Zero-click searches". It's when you look up a trivial piece of info that can be said in one line. Google will show that sentence on the search results. You don't have to click through to the full page.
And of course there is no way for a publisher to opt-out of this without removing them from the search engine entirely.
> That's an entirely different issue tho, a private company regulating its own product has nothing to do with a gov trying to restrict internet access to its citizens.

That's my point. A private company regulating its own product is fine as long as it is private and independent. My point is that all 'private' companies appear to be following the same script which isn't something we'd expect from private independent companies. What's strange is that someone flipped a switch and all private companies, both political parties and government itself started behaving in the same manner. It's not just online censorship, it's the broad cultural campaign of chaos all under the banner of 'minority, lgbt and women's rights' mostly. Did every company in every industry from motorcycles to hollywood to news all magically decide to speak with one voice. Or is it that they were all directed to.

In china, it's obvious who is in charge. The communist party. They give orders, everyone follows. Who is giving orders to the our private companies, political parties and government?
> For that kind of lowest-common-denominator development JDK8 has nothing that JDK6 doesn't

I see you are also one of the folks who ignores try-with-resources. And, say what you will about lambdas, it is night and day different between pre-8 and post-8 implementations of those various one-method interfaces such as InvocationHandler

Connection fakeConn = (Connection)Proxy.newInstance(cl, new Class[]{Connection.class}, (proxy, method, args) -> { /*something awesome*/ })
There are plenty of use cases so I'm sure it varies.

For example, I often have my browser on the left side and my editor on the right. With only 50% of the width, I sometimes prefer to reclaim the horizontal space and switch back to horizontal tabs.
From what I'm gathering, a lot of people are jaded on the "tech hype cycles". Having come off the crypto cycle which ended with a bunch of thievery and not much good for society if we're frank, it seems to me that people are worried that this new AI technology will either be a bust or be used for the same kind of cons and evil.
it's because rechargable AA is not a proper AA (standard) battery. It's an "all-what-we-could-fit-in-such-a-small-compartment" battery.
I think more people worked on the covid problem which was 3 years ago
Indeed, the discussion on the nature of consciousness was mind-expanding. This topic is the most frustrating in the AI debate - the consciousness is basically undefined, yet used all the time to argue far-reaching consequences.
I'm using opnsense and it seems to have worked for my network.
> But I also flew about 100,000 km per year in the time before COVID and am still on track to fly about 30,000-50,000 km this year

Can I ask why? I struggle to think of a legitimate reason anyone would need to travel that much.

Please don't say it's for meetings.
Yes, absolutely! I 'played' Viridi for quite a while many years ago. I always looked forward to engaging with it - even though it was just for a second before switching to a classic game. The creators were also pretty open in discussing their development and business financials which I appreciated - http://www.icewatergames.com/blog

If you end up building something, I'd love to hear about it :)
> you can hear them complaining in literally every forum for Apple users

My layperson friends seem not to know iOS has any bugs at all. They just seem to think software in general is flaky.

And all those complainers still keep buying these things, so they don't care enough to switch.

> Tim Cook needs a "product guy" to help him round out the management team.

Why? Objectively speaking, why does he need a product guy? The company has been performing incredibly well as-is, and that's all he cares about and all he's paid to care about.

Their brand doesn't seem to be suffering either, so they're doing well in the short and long terms.
Unbelieveble the effort invested in demonstrating that LK-99 is not a superconductor.
Humans work like crazy when the oportunity arises to ridiculize others. If only...
It's not a scam.
There's an xkcd for this: https://xkcd.com/937/
> Rachel Gordon, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Department of Public Works, said that the paving project on Golden Gate Avenue had been marked off with construction cones and that there were workers with flags at each end of the block.
Might take 500 million though.
France should have listened to GNU/Stallman: You can't have an antifeature in free software. If you try, someone is just going to comment it out.
Certainly the problem couldn’t be the long work hours? No, it’s your emotional immaturity that’s causing you to not focus for long hours. This culture in tech is exactly why mental health issues in the industry are so prevalent. Put the blame on the individual for their reasonable emotional responses to ongoing stress.
We've been working on TranscribeMe, a bot that transcribes audios to text: https://www.transcribeme.app/en
https://archive.ph/kaxDb
What you just said is such a well known truism, so it is actually rude to imply that someone on HN would not know that. My point was, however, is from the users point of view Bookworm is very very similar to 22.10 however it is an lts, so for those who want to switch from Ubuntu, this is the experience they should expect.
On what premise? It just says we can't make it economical anytime soon, but you have to start somewhere - or should we all agree that unlimited clean energy is not worth trying because it's a long shot?
The problem isn't the uptime, it's that the downtime strongly correlates across all instances of wind power and across all instances of solar power in a country: https://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
Unfortunately Nitter broke earlier this week thanks to some changes by Twitter: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983

I was using a self-hosted Nitter instance for the RSS feeds as I deactivated my Twitter account
Do you hade a link to the Youtube video?
It's as popular as it's ever been.
What's awful here? This way it's just a social interaction with both sides satisfied, where's the problem?

I see a problem today, being spammed with shitty commercial "works" whereas I'd like to see something genuine and not just made for money.
it's true: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philip_Morris_Int...
large corporations are not people, and do not have rights, no matter what you or the courts say
I was using Codex for a website builder service. And really freaking out because of the lack of response from OpenAI about increasing the rate limit. But after the ChatGPT API came out, I came to the conclusion that ChatGPT was just as good or better than Codex anyway. So I immediately switched to the Chat API.

I also wanted to use OpenAI's Edit endpoint but now that the models are faster that is less of an issue because it's not a big deal to rewrite most files that fit in context. Also with something like the new function call support, you can make something like a find and replace function call, or find and replace between start and end.

I think the biggest issue people are going to have is that within a few months OpenAI will release fine-tuning for the ChatGPT models, and that probably will work significantly better than the "in context training" (i.e., adding relevant help to prompts per user query) that people are using now, at least for some use cases. So there will be a lot of projects that just finished getting vector search to enhance prompts working and then that will immediately be kind of obsolete. Although it's probably going to be expensive.

But overall I am pleased with the rate of progress and updates from OpenAI.

I am still hopeful that within not too many more months we will finally have really strong code generation from open models. There are definitely some better reasoning open models coming out lately but not quite there yet.
Antivax views have long been present on the left. Quack medicine (like Homeopathy) has a big market on the left. There’s also no shortage of self-diagnoses especially regarding mental illnesses there, which some have taken to adoptint extreme covid paranoia, contrary to actual scientific guidelines.
Master's of Doom. Yes, I know I'm a few decades behind. I read it in part because it gets mentioned here so much.

So here's another mention! If you haven't read it, it's a great story and informative too if you're a founder (on how not to run a company).
What’s the point of a “nuh-uh!” comment like this?

The forest ain’t there. It’s a PR/advertising illusion that vanishes as soon as you engage critical thinking.

That’s my opinion. You disagree. Ok.

“How can I see the forest?” LOL.

[edit] for others reading this: it’s not that I didn’t find anything useful in the book, just that the useful bits were rare and most of the book is unrealistic BS about how effective the techniques are, which were either made up (the “true” truck-buying negotiation story, oh man, what a whopper) or omitted other factors to make the advice from the book seem to have saved the day all on its own. You’ll get the wrong idea if you take the book at face value, plus you’ll have wasted a lot of time reading a whole book that could have been a couple pretty-decent blog posts.
The problem is that families sit in rows together, not usually in columns. And in busy airports it's not very ideal to get split up from your travel partners, especially if they are young, old, need assistance, etc.
> We don’t spend a dime on marketing.

> Basically loosing 2-4% of our customers per month.

So your answer could be in your question. 2-4% might be normal for Shopify Apps, I don't know. You probably need to be actively marketing and talking to customers.
I pick things from the bottom of the list a lot. I really hate when engineers try to guess what I want. I already know what I want. These “automatic” products are terrible.
All modern web browsers descend directly or indirectly from Netscape.
+1
Exactly the same for me.
> If the citizens really cared about the future of their children they would not have elected a government that is a stinking pile of poop

As always, I find myself unsure how many actively voted for the Eton Mess vs how many voted to keep out Socialist Santaclaus and his Singing Elves.

Both have been (de facto) kicked out of their respective parties since the last election, which says something about the terrible state of UK politics.
...and you can get Chromium without Google, easily, because it's open source.

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
Won't AI change the energy market?

Once GPU production is fully ramped up, I would expect AI to become energy bound. Can we install enough renewable energy and nuclear power plants to fulfill the demand to the point that energy will be ridiculously cheap?
This maybe the best comment I have read on HN!
Which is why I'm always using buster[1] when facing captchas.

https://github.com/dessant/buster/
I'm not sure why people think that. I been using sway since the early days. I don't even have xwayland installed. It's been mostly a non-issue.

The only real pain for me was screen sharing, and that's been a solved problem for a few years now.
Thanks Ken, that's pretty fascinating info. It makes me wonder if, with modern design software, a modern 64 bit CPU could be made without any microcode either.
Stop Comparing the West to Rome
Just use

cat | gcc -

Sidestep the entire debate completely.
"Per-developer visual indent width" feels like the strongest argument for using tabs on a project, as virtually all editors let you choose the visual tab width.

That said, the visual indent width seems like something that ought to be solved with editor software regardless of the tab type. Editors already transparently solve many problems with indentation (e.g. automatically detect the indentation type, indent x spaces when you press tab, continue indent on newline, unindent when you type a closing brace, etc).

Good editor support for indent width preferences would help folks comfortably work on any project regardless of its indentation type.

And as a side note, it would be nice to reserve big ol' wide tabs for tabular data. Using them as logical indentation feels a bit like a shoehorn.
There was a lot of air in iOS 7, and the fonts were so thin they were waving in the open breeze.
> Laws exist at deterrents don't they? An extreme example: if we removed all laws, would there be more acts of crime (as judged by the laws that were removed)?

> I bet yes. Which means, the laws existence does deter people from doing certain things. It doesn't deter 100% of people, but the percentage is greater than 0.

This is exactly the point. The objective of these laws is not to deter illegal possession of firearms. That's already super, duper, triple, illegal. It's to deter the law abiding from exercising their Constitutional rights.

There is no situation in which a criminal could be charged with these laws, where the criminal would not already be facing decadess of prison time for illegal possession of a firearm. It's already illegal for a criminal to be in possession of a firearm. It does not matter if it is manufactured at or purchased (and the latter is potentially a crime on the part of the seller).

In contrast, this type of blanket ban on otherwise legal activity turns yesterday's law abiding into de facto criminals. And many would not even know they're criminals unless they go out of their way to read the fine print on defense spending bills.
> some evil magic

It can be. Summarizing process can be tweaked very slightly to give more space to certain POVs, make them sound more reliable than others via word choice etc. The subtlety can make it undetectable, yet it can have strong effects when applied on mass scale.

I don't know how this will look like, but it is a very powerful technology to sway the public opinion one way or another.
Show HN: Are you Whatsapping yourself notes? This might be better
That's quite a revisionist history. The early web was heavily moderated, just on a smaller scale.

>Hate to say it, but once the tech elite ( or more like the money elite controlling tech ) started talking about minority, lgbt and women's 'rights', they all started censoring, deplatforming, oppressing.

There's nothing stopping you from creating yet another "free speech" website. They typically fail because what the "tech elite" realize, along with most people, is that "free speech" websites devolve into people spamming racial slurs. Most people don't want to be around that.

>Of course to fight 'hate speech' - whatever that means

There is huge amounts of discourse on hate speech and what it means. There is plenty to read on the subject if you truly don't understand what it means.

>It's like someone or some group flipped a switch and everyone from business to politics started singing a different tune.

There was no switch. As the internet grew and became more diverse, the people who are typically the targets of hateful speech on the internet grew in their ability to influence companies. Back in the early 2000s, women avoided using a microphone because if they did, they would receive abuse or unwanted sexual comments. As the amount of women in video games increased, corporations become focused on the needs of their audience and how to make them feel welcome and buy more games. It's the same story for pretty much every other aspect of tech.

What you're imagining as some conspiracy to "oppress" (lol) you because you can't spam racial slurs or spread race-based conspiracy theories is actually marketing executives realizing that catering to the extremely small "freeze peach" audience that wants to post odious content isn't an actual winning strategy for growing your business.
I share your frustration, but it's hard not to be pessimistic about this. Regular internet users will flock to these tools, just like they flock to social media, even though it's a clear detriment to our personal and collective well being.

If the Snowden revelations did anything is to show that people ultimately don't care about being exploited, as long as they can continue to enjoy technology. Trading convenience for privacy is not something most people would even consider.

Things will quickly spiral out of control once everyone has their personal AI assistant, that is controlled by a major corporation with government ties. It's the wet dream of any aspiring autocrat, and we're building that future.

Here we are, on a tech forum among people who work at these companies, and all we can do is type at the void. These companies continue to build products that on the surface seem enticing and useful, which is surely how they also pitch it internally so engineers that build it have a clear conscience, yet lead us to a further breakdown of society in ways we haven't imagined yet.

I'm not sure if all this is over the top, doom and gloom thinking on my part, but it feels frustrating to be part of this industry, seeing how it's tearing apart society, and having the concerns ignored and dismissed by both users and companies alike.