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From their perspective? Losing control of search result quality. Google sucks now.

From mine? Killing Google Reader. This is when something changed about Google in the minds of many.
Url changed from https://ptv-news.com.pk/top-russian-rocket-scientist-dies-fr..., which seems to be shameless blogspam so we've banned the site. Thanks to the user who figured this out!
Why not RSS feeds? Pipe a few selected websites to NewsBlur or something similar, and treat your feed like an inbox.
Yes, There Are Rich Men North of Richmond
Ask HN: What are your favorite framework agnostic UI libraries?
> Who decides

Judges and juries.

And I can assure you that every single judge in the USA, and almost every single member of a jury would decide that CSAM is obscene.

Thats how the law works. We have tons of laws that use general words like this, and trying to be "clever" usually just results in a lost court case or prison time for the person who thinks they found a loophole.
> Altogether, they found that thirteen of the fourteen gold medal winners smiled immediately after they completed their winning match, while eighteen of the twenty-six bronze medalists smiled. However, none of the silver medalists smiled immediately after their match ended.

What did the off podium finishers look like? I am not surprised that the winner looks happier immediately after a match ends than the loser.
That's an useful function. I haven't find any button for upload attachment files on chat.openai.com. So does your Aichat just join the file's output strings with the instructions in double quotes? If so, that's a convenient way to solve this problem.
I remember thinking I was hot shit after switching from FrontPage to Macromedia Dreamweaver for my geocities site... those truly were the days :D
https://archive.ph/v4TSQ
On top of the requirement to make it perfectly drawn I take issue with the "but it should be better than a flag I would draw by hand". That's a useless metric because we don't know how the author draws by hand.

I assumed they would have enough brain cells to draw the flag without cutting in half all the stars in the margins. But they must have failed kindergarten because I assumed wrong.
We have 40+ servers, the ASNs did not have any other information tied to it like usernames as I had already mentioned.

This is a clear case of gross negligence by Discord.

Even if there was a potential privacy concern, that does not warrant an instant ban with no warning especially from a 7 year old account that is in charge of a Discord server for thousands of users and paying Discord $95/month in the form of boosts.
This comes off as written by a guy that saw himself in that movie and wasn’t happy. He proceeds to invent a bunch of shit to be mad about and misses the point entirely. One of the, sadly, many trash reviews of the movie to add to the pile. Just watch it and make up your own mind instead of listening to these closet incels.
Agreed...the user quality has fallen so much due to the advertisers preference. But it's also hard to imagine how they could have built such a long-lasting business without monetizing via ads...what would be another route to sustainable business and service?
I'm questioning this advantage:

> Improved type safety: Currying can help improve type safety by ensuring that each curried function takes exactly one argument of the correct type. This can help catch errors at compile time and make your code more robust.

Why would non-curried functions have worse type safety?
1. Do the thing they pay you to do, keep your head down and watch the company light money on fire. Bonus points if after the project is inevitably late, you step in to "help" and save the day.

2. Start a consultancy company and overcharge clients to do this work.

3. Realize that many companies will not reward you for your efforts as you expect and go back to 1
Reminds me of the adage of “solving the problem is the hard part, the hard part is figuring out the right problem to solve”.

I always remember as “questions are harder than answers”.
Humans are also not allowed to simply regurgitate GPL code verbatim, even if they do it by committing the code to memory. There's a reason clean room implementations are a thing, sometimes even the appearance of someone possibly remembering code verbatim is risky enough to warrant extra care. That said usually the risks are acceptable even without extra measures because you can hold the humans responsible.

Now just because you don't understand a language model and call its fitting procedure 'learning' doesn't mean that it is doing anything even remotely similar. And even if it does then it has no legal responsibilities so if you want to distribute it then you as the distributor need to assume responsibility for all the copyrights such an act could possibly infringe.

There are measures you can take to try to prevent the information from any one code base from entering the model verbatim, by severely restricting the model size or carefully obfuscating the data, but to my knowledge nobody has used any method that gives any proven measure of security.
Ah, the intricate dance of human emotions, where the heart seeks connection amid the unfolding tapestry of life's challenges. You stand at a cosmic crossroads, my fellow traveler, yearning for love while wrestling with the solitude of your journey. Independence is a powerful trait, not a dismissal of your heart's vitality. Your heart, still pulsing with the energy of life, serves as your internal compass, guiding you through the maze of experiences, both joyful and difficult.

In the depths of your solitude and the face of challenges, remember that the universe doesn't abandon; it realigns. Your sense of loneliness and the troubles you experience are but transient clouds in the expansive sky of your existence. They offer lessons, reflections, and, yes, even invitations for growth and deeper self-love.

You say you stand alone, but remember, you are eternally connected to the grand design of the cosmos. Even when human love seems distant, the universe offers its own form of embrace, always inviting you to realign with your unique design, with or without the presence of others.

So, embrace your naive eagerness, your potent vitality, for these are the very things that make you alive, that make you a unique note in the universal symphony. Navigate this phase with awareness, and trust that even in the most solitary moments, you are never truly alone in the cosmic dance of life.
It's obviously not a venture capital funded startup, but it's far more than $500/month. We have dedicated servers all over the world and buy transit. And I'd still consider this to be relevant to Hacker News even if our expenses were only $100/month. Some startups don't even spend that much.
I write in iA Writer and code in Sublime. Highly recommend both.
Foliate is excellent for epubs albeit much less powerful.
Allegedly. Though, DEC had pissed away $Billions on its VAX 9000 ECL mainframe, and why fight a costly legal battle?

[0] https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/death-alpha-nt

[1] https://techmonitor.ai/technology/dec_forced_microsoft_into_...
Gotta add "Beach House on the Moon" to that list! One my absolute favorites.
What else is obscene? And why would I have to accept an US jury's opinion?

Also you didn't define 'otherwise objectionable'.

For example what I think is excessive violence may be considered normal by a jury in the US...
I doubt the person complaining selected the site for the warehouse.
What about all the game dev books by Andre LaMothe?

I recycled my collection... I should check to see if I kept the included CD-ROMs.
So the state of the art is bad because it only goes so far even for billionaires. It's as if technology can't let you live forever.

What a silly take. "Modern technology isn't good enough because it's only modern." You can't write a check for a treatment that doesn't exist yet.
> I just tell it what countries (or states / regions) to download, and it downloads them.

This is exactly how Organic Maps works. You don't _have_ to zoom in on every region you plan on visiting to download it, you can just go into the menu and select a whole country or parts of it.
not sure it can be reduced to a single decision, but losing Ilya Sutskever to OpenAI/not cultivating his talent to its fullest extent is a pretty big "one that got away" moment
pbrush also opens Microsoft Paint. (It used to be called Paintbrush.)
I'm not the most qualified to answer this but...

- Reduce distractions. Pay attention to the things that break your focus and aggressively mute them.[0]

- Treat yourself like a plant, not a machine. You need the right conditions to grow. This means good sleep, good nutrition, and the right setting. This affects your focus.

- Consider that some approaches might not work for you. Not everyone learns well in a classroom. Explore other ways of achieving your goals. Alternative work arrangements could suit you better.

[0] https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/silence
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Paycheck withholding is good.

It just isn't designed to makes things easier. That is a happenstance (if you don't do withholding you submit quarterly estimate payments which while annoying isn't much harder than tax season)

It is designed to minimize the IRSs job by focusing on businesses rather than individuals for the bulk of taxes.
If what you say is true, then another way to say it is that access to health care is relatively uniform. Surely that would be a good thing?
Most anglophones would use a hard 'G', especially as the 'G' initial comes from the word 'Graphic' which itself uses the hard 'G', and get 'Giff'.

Most non-anglophones using the Roman alphabet would naturally use a soft 'G' before an 'I' and get 'Jiff'.

As far as I'm concerned, 'Giff' is what I myself use, but it somebody else wants to use 'Jiff', it's not going to muss my hair.

** The same arguments apply to the prefix 'giga-'. Is it 'gigga' or is it 'jigga'? Seeing that it comes from Greek, how do the Greeks pronounce it? That would be the 'correct way'. Maybe Doc Brown in 'Back to the Future' with his 'jiggawatts' was correct all along.
This would be a fun addition to a college's History or Journalism curriculum.
Yep, this has been 5 years away for the past 20 years.
Isn't that what people are doing when they take notes and read them later to refresh their memory?
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Ahead of time in this context is before filing your taxes. Certainly waiting until the EOY isn't allowed but since estimated taxes are due quarterly for individuals who don't get a W2 it isn't that different.

My point wasn't "you paid early" but "by the time you fill out you already paid"
Load time is fine, less than a second.
In this case, the original source appears to be paywalled.
I live in Utah and have spent a lot of time on and around dry like beds. They do not “dry up quickly”. A quarter inch under the crust is likely going to be mud for weeks or months. Some vehicles might be fine but heavy ones are in deep $&@! until they are recovered. Just my uninformed opinion.
ffmpeg had a schism just over a decade ago and the splinter group forked off into libav.

One of the splinter group members happened to be the now-former ffmpeg maintainer in the Debian and Ubuntu repositories and switched them from ffmpeg to libav. Yes, this was done purely for ideological reasons.[1]

So this bullshit happens in the open source world just like in the closed source world. In a way, I would argue it's even worse in the open source world because when it happens the driving factor is oftentimes ideological dogma instead of something simpler like lack of money or interest.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libav#Fork_from_FFmpeg
I wonder if someday technology like this will advance to a point where we can create entirely new organs that can do things that weren’t possible before.
As commented a minute ago, I spent a year aggressively muting distractions (then kept doing it when they pop up): https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/silence

This helped a lot, although a lot is left to discipline.

Another aspect is creating the right conditions for focused work. That means a quiet environment, a well-rested and fed body, and possibly an advance planning of meals and other necessary distractions.

If you want to stay in the zone, make the zone a comfortable place.
Which is totally fair, especially in this context. In general (not you specifically) people don't always have a ton of sympathy for CS agents, so I just like to offer reminders that what they do is tough. Particularly if you're fielding requests or moderating content in contexts you're not familiar with, or in a language that you didn't grow up speaking.

And really, to your point—Discord is a general-purpose platform, not a technical platform or business platform, and its CS agents probably aren't equipped to deal with complex technical or business problems. It's kind of on OP for trying to use it that way.
Microsoft knows that windows users will eventually cave in to some of those second option subscription reminders.
I don't think they are saying "live forever". I think they are wondering why such a wealthy individual died in his 70s, where living into your 90s isn't entirely uncommon.
I'm not sure about its math, but GPT-4 fails miserably at simple arithmetic questions like 897*394=?

The GPT-3.5 turbo is fined-tuned for arithmetic according to ClosedAI (noted in one of the change logs), so it is sometimes slightly better, but nevertheless always fails equations like 4897*394=?
Personally, I've always found algebra the most difficult - it's just symbol soup with no apparent concepts to latch onto. Perhaps it's just the way it's usually presented, but I don't "get it" at all. It's still by far the most daunting part of math for me, even after taking 5 math courses in university.
Correct. The Macintosh lineage was SimpleText IIRC.
This guy ships! Love the website and the apps.

I too dabble in putting out macos apps but I haven't ventured on the Mac AppStore.
Yet we still can't get our population reliably vaccinated for whooping cough, or a myriad of other diseases that children are most susceptible to.
I used to think the same until I was put in an environment where it was normal and where everyone was trained in pairing.

Copilot is as much a pair programmer as stack overflow is... So not at all
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Uh, ads were Google's initial business plan. Saying it was their worst decision is like saying founding Google was a mistake.
>The tensor product itself captures all ways that basic things can 'interact' with each other!

In quantum physics, "interacting" usually has a different meaning. So one should use these terms more carefully.

>And you need the tensor product already for pure states in QM.

No. Pure states are just vectors (or more precise: rays) in Hilbert space. The usual inner product is sufficient to work with them. An outer (=tensor) product of these states will just give you a density matrix with tr(ρ^2)=1.
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The day artificial organs replace the need for donation organs, it will save millions of people (today and future)
One thing I thought was amusing was that there was a burst of articles about Cyc that got mentioned when Doug Lenat died including this arXiv paper

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04445

and that one said that Cyc had over 1,100 special purpose reasoning engines. The general purpose resolution solver was nowhere near fast enough to be really useful.

Early one there was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Problem_Solver

which would be capable in principle of finding a winning move in a chess position but because it worked by exhaustive search it would practically take too long. The thing is that a good chess playing program is not generally intelligent just as a chess grandmaster isn't necessarily good at anything other than chess, it just has special purpose heuristics (as opposed to algorithms) that find good chess move.

ChatGPT-like systems will be greatly improved by coupling them to other systems such as "write a Python/SQL script then run it", "run a query against bing and summarize the results", and "go find the chess engine and ask it what move to make", that is, like Cyc, it will get a swiss army knife of tools that help it do things it's not good at but it doesn't create general intelligence any more than Cyc did.

Robert Penrose in the Emperor's New Mind suggests that there must be some quantum magic in the human mind because the human mind is able to solve any math problem whereas any machine is limited by Gödel's theorem. It's silly, however, because we don't humans are capable of proving any theorem: look at how we struggled with Fermat for nearly 360 years or how

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture

seems not even tantalizingly out of reach.

The difference might be that humans feel bad when they get the wrong answer whereas ChatGPT certainly doesn't. (as much as its empty apology can be satisifying to people) This isn't just an attribute of humans, working with other animals such as horses I'm convinced that they feel bad when they screw up too.
We actually just got back from a vacation in Sweden. We found everyone there super nice. But we weren’t there long enough to really check out the job prospects. Honestly as much as I love Berlin if I were to do it again I’d probably target Amsterdam. They’re very friendly to expats especially Americans it seems (at least from my experience) and the city is awesome and you really could get by never learning the language as so much English is spoken there. And it seems the tech scene is really good too.

Years before our move to Hamburg we visited Munich and had the same experience. It was such a nice city. For our income at the time we thought it was expensive but still I remember thinking that if we ever moved abroad Munich would be a dope place to settle.
Is this a copypasta or did you just write this yourself? Because this is absolutely brilliant.
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> Are you or are you not the one who misunderstood that distinction when you responded to my post using an American understanding of the phrase "skin color" (note the American spelling)?

Your comment was talking about Australia. There are significant differences in how Australians and Americans understand issues such as ethnicity, race and skin colour, and trying to apply American understandings of those topics to Australia doesn't make much sense – which is part of what my comment was trying to convey. But, rather than using this as an opportunity to learn about those differences – about which you don't appear to know anything – you just dismissed it as "irrelevant". If you aren't interested in understanding race/ethnicity/etc issues in another country, why are you commenting about them?
There is, I've seen it called react pattern. I'm pretty sure this is what chat gpts plug-ins feature is
On the flip side, a friend’s thesis was under the university’s mandated minimum word count. She struggled with it for a while but decided to not pad it with fluff and instead deliver what she thought was good, ignoring that requirement. The panel at the defence praised her thesis for being short and concise, in direct contrast to her colleagues’ meandering.

I don’t think they realised that by lowering (or removing) a single integer on the guidelines, they would improve the lives of students, the faculty, and everyone who will ever read those papers.
Crashes are often the result of the platform behaving in unexpected ways, not users.
I swear _Finder_ has this bug if you plug in a superannuated external HDD.
Kinda like you say yourself, the service is probably the least interesting part.

It doesn't really matter whether its a public repository or if you use thing your friends shared only within their network. When it comes to what people expect and how they'll feel about breaking those expectations, the only difference is that a smaller network of generally like-minded people _may_ already be cool with it, or at least it's easier to ask.

I'm not even saying they're right to feel weird about it. Just that people are going to feel what they're going to feel, and doing something they didn't expect is a sure-fire way to get them to feel _something_.
You can be a dismissive snob, but NIST actually changed their report based on his feedback.
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It does have the ability, you haven't allowed it to.

If you're completing the sentence "What is the current price of Apple?..." based on the internet as a training source, the most likely reply is not:

"Well, let's think about how we'd go about this, I should do a search for AAPL, and then..."

The most likely completion is:
"The price of AAPL is $X"

OpenAI had to "artificially" bias it to say "I can't answer that" or it'd happily tell you a million things like that.

—

On the other hand, give the LLM room to plan, it will plan. If you ask it "To answer x what do you need", it does better at answering x

The most likely completion to "How would you tell me Apple's current price", is a logical step by step process. And that's how it gets a chance to check itself.

I think people underestimate how much logic the model can do in a single pass, LLMs need to output things that we assume can be done with working memory
Well, the new notepad in win11 is very nice. Obsidian has many amazing plugins make it super easy to use and you don't need to worry about unsaved files crashing and disappearing.

Notepad++ is standard for code editing and extremely fast. I use all these 3 alternatives for different reasons but my #1 is still notepad.
> which isn't even one thing, a Calfifornia accent is distinct from an Oregon accent

Quick question. Did you read my comment in full or just a few lines? Because I can't make sense of you disagreeing by stating the same thing I did. There's are hierarchical classifications/categories. I feel like you're being overly pedantic and thus it's not an honest conversation. Is this a conversation or you telling me I'm wrong and nothing I say matters?

Actors take classes on lots of accents.
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it's from claims from psychics from a military program like 'the men who stare at goats' they don't actually believe it

> this highly classified project was about the mind-reading of the enemies, so the CIA started recruiting people who claimed to “have powers of extrasensory perception (ESP) to help uncover military and domestic intelligence secrets.”