skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're suggesting a Likert scale of "very unlikely" "somewhat likely" etc.: no, the data floating around suggests that does not work. People saying "somewhat likely" mean anything between 10 % and 80 %. There's no way to map fuzzy descriptions to calibrated probabilities.

If you're suggesting a Likert scale with alternatives like "10 %", "25 %", "50 %", etc. that are then auto-calibrated against the average human overconfidence (so that an answer of 25 % really means 40 %), then that might work, but what would be the point?
I'm trying to get the point across that not all people come from the same place and don't keep the same connotations and associations with the memes they use. Making them responsible for your associations is in my view fairly aggressive.

If you feel validated by people that think the same thing go ahead, but I think is that the 'meme policing' was unnecessary on a technical response of the content.
Do you have a link that would be a good starting point for "evidence for the resurrection of Jesus"? I am an atheist, but only because I haven't seen any reliable evidence (and I did look for it previously). I'm not looking to argue, just want to give what you have a fair shot.
Show HN: Chrome extension to manage custom instructions for ChatGPT
> [GPT] always fails equations like 4897 x 394=?

In some ways, I think we should treat GPT like a human without access to a calculator.

If you ask a human what 4897 x 394 is, they will struggle.
I agree than tracking detailed purchase data can lead to serious discrimination and inequity especially in a dictatorship. The use case in your example, however, seems fair:

* The person has a choice whether to consume fast food regularly. It’s their freedom, yes, but they should also accept the costs that come with their lifestyle choices. Similarly, if someone chooses to regularly drive at a daredevil speed, they should pay a higher premium.

* This is different than discrimination based on involuntary characteristics. If someone is born with genetic predisposition to get cancer, or happens to grow up in a city with high carcinogen level, it’s arguably a lot less fair to charge them extras.
Thank you for responding.

I actually had other serious problems in my life and I have resolved them in satisfiable manners.

So, I think that this problem is solvable as well.

As an adult, I have found study groups to be extremely helpful. But there aren’t study groups for everything. And each one has one's own journey. I must learn discipline and work ethics for myself.
I noticed that it needs more than 3 seconds to start on my work laptop. Truly an improvement. /s
Even when you do own the company, you are still measured on optics by your customers.
Mostly because the systems are old, limited in the amount of data they generate.
This is already a thing, but it works the other way around. Here in South Africa, the largest private short-term health insurer gives you up to 75% cash back for 'healthy food choices' [1] i.e. they effectively reduce your premiums if you signal that you make healthier choices than other people in the fund.

The law in South Africa says that short-term health insurers can't charge different people different premiums, so this is an 'add-on cashback scheme'.

They integrate with 2 big supermarket chains: when you pay with a credit card issued by the insurer's banking partner, your discounts are automatically processed on a line-by-line product level. They also integrate with a fast food chain in the same way, Nandos, and give you a discount for selecting the 'healthier' food choices on the menu.

[1] https://www.discovery.co.za/vitality/help-healthyfood-health...
The WITNESS THIS INEVITABLE FUTURE button that slowly, then steadily started increasing the date on the graphs is executed very well. Truly hysterical, I laughed out loud.
I used to go to a club in the 90s in Sydney which had a couple of main rooms with DJs in, and then a separate DJ who just played the toilets - that was fun. He was above both male and female sink areas so he could see who was in there and chat to them sometimes or take requests - though we couldn't see into the other toilet.

Then at Glastonbury a few year back there was a big club called NYC Downlow - in there there was a 'secret' backroom with it's own dj, but then off there there was a cupboard you could sneak into which had yet another DJ - we squeezed 17 into the cupboard.

Loved the connectedness you felt with someone who is working just to entertain you. It might just be music, but knowing someone is playing it for you really changes it for me, over just 'musak'.
E492: Not an editor command: blimpy!
Can you elaborate ? It was a very good RTF editor.
The US adopted chip card systems much later. You can still find magnetic readers in use, although they are officially deprecated and I've read merchants that haven't upgraded have higher fees and less protection against charge backs.
Frontpage Express was basically WordPad that saved HTML instead of RTF/DOC.
Try to open an RTF file in Word.
Interesting to hear, I've heard of Swish has been a bit on edge trying to upsell people on merchant accounts and I wouldn't be surprised if some of these reports go to the tax office.

Still for those involved they wouldn't probably care too much as long as there isn't real-time reporting to the police to get events shut down (although with laxer laws in that area that'll probably fade as an concern).
> There are infinite ways to tile windows; one way to stack them.

That's not really true, though; AFAIK KDE/GNOME don't implement tabbed windows or the ability to stick them together.
Good article, good end result dataset.

Worth it for the discussion regarding optimal scales for aggregating pixel stats.
That's a fair response. I'm generally okay (some modern connotations aside) with people using the going brr bit. The servers where H.He spends a lot of time in actively use the meme when mocking outside groups (w/ few neutral uses), and it's a bit frustrating as it actively causes rifts that make it harder for me to do professional work.

I bring it up because I'd like to bring light on it if it's sorta seeping into the mainstream, a lot of people adjacent to it sort of just ignore it and leave it be. Like, I've actively seen this meme used in the main AI servers where it's used to push down people who do question blind scaling, for example (which is not what Sutton was talking about). It silences conversation and halts diversity, and it's an actual problem unfortunately.

Thankfully there are other spaces where it's not as much a problem, but since it's pretty well-tied and trickling into HN, felt appropriate to share my 2c. And people may well say what they want (including brr) in response. :)
In the US, it's common enough to encounter swipe-only POS systems that you still have to carry your physical cards.
Note that the prompt is the input to the LLM, it does not specify the task in enough detail to evaluate the result. That's what the resolution criteria are for -- additional information on resolution you are given but the LLM is not.
An electron may localise in any of the points as described by the wave equation, but it may also exist in its non local form. It may also transform into something else, like a photon, or vanish entirely by giving a bit of kinetic energy to a bigger object. The lowest common denominator isn't those localised particles, but the energy they are made of. There is really no reason why consciousness needs to be based on this particular level of abstraction that we call particles.
That bridge is clearly designed in that way to comply with the ADA.

Injecting my personal politics: I've always thought the ADA was a somewhat misguided initiative when it comes to wheelchair accessibility. Seems like if we had taken all the money we spent trying to make places accessible by wheelchair and had instead directed it towards R&D for better modes of assistance for the disabled, we might've solved the problem instead of just slapping a bandaid on it.

Plus we wouldn't have bridges like this, which are worse for the non-disabled.
This feels pretty aggressive, I think we're on a different wavelength here. That's not quite what I'm saying, but it seems best for us to leave it at that.
> With X there’s tons of options for building a minimal traditional floating window desktop, but that has yet to become true for Wayland.

X window managers are a lot simpler than Wayland compositors, even including helper libraries, so I expect this to remain true.
Why should I subsidize parents who choose to raise kids in carcinogenic cities?
UPI payments used to be a little hit or miss a few years ago but they have been almost flawless for me over the last year. Apps have matured and show a warning if the recipient or self network is down rather than initiating a transaction that might never complete. The only roadblock now is to figure out a way to handle large volume days such as new years when the network is overwhelmed at night.
With enough moderators or administrators over a long enough timeframe, banning is semi-random and ultimately inevitable unless the user is Big-Name or the platform dies first. Misunderstandings, technical errors, and administrative misbehavior conspire to make it so.
How about reacting to the message instead of the messenger? Then there is the fact that there are several recent occasions where such "right wing tabloid(s)" turned out to be right while the "good, responsible and professional" left-wing publications were very much in the wrong. Blindly siding with any type of publication just makes you a tool for their use whether that'd be a left-wing "useful idiot" along Lenin's lines or the right-wing equivalent.
My "essentially" was doing some work there. It's been years but I remember something like "within a context" as the general direction? Such as within an area of the ontology (because - by contrast to LLMs - there is one) or within a reasonning problem, that kind of thing.

By contrast, LLMs for now are embarassing. With inconsistent nonsense provided within one answer or an answer not recognizing the context of the problem. Say, the work domain being a food label and the system not recognizing that or not staying within that.
I built a location to words system for fun a little while ago. https://Wherewords.id

I concluded something similar to you and went to 4 words. I spent the most time on the wordlist. I used the Google s2 library to split the world into a hierarchy of points.

I even did an emoji checksum too although these days I'd probably do that differently. I really like the idea of an ECC actually, I might have a look at doing that, although it would remove the hierarchical nature that I like with the current system. Because it's hierarchical, people who know the context can skip initial words. Like two people in the 'decorate' region https://wherewords.id/decorate could just use the last three of the four words, or to indicate a number of locations near each other, you could just provide one location and then the other positions with just one or two words.
+ the Omnisearch plugin for a great search engine in Obsidian. It can index images and pdfs, too
Just have a look at their COC.
UPI is one of the best payment systems invented and in under 10 years has more transactions, use cases and ease of use than cryptocurrencies which is clearly terrible for payments.

This shows that UPI has the potential to scale beyond India yet crypto cannot scale at all.
> But you are smart enough to use a computer or calculator. And AI is a computer. So the naive expectation would be that it would be capable of doing as well as a computer.

I disagree. The AI runs on a computer, but it isn't one (in the classical sense). Otherwise you could reduce humans the same way - technically our cells are small (non-classical) computers, and we're made up of chemistry. Yet you don't expect humans to be perfect at resolving chemical reactions, or computing complex mathematics in their heads.
I don’t like how this thread is just attacks on the author and not a discussion about the language

on the other hand the language is not really publicly available so it’s hard to discuss, I guess
Probably not, but I personally disagree. It's a fully featured application in ~500 lines, with a proper database, web server, and simple yet extensible backend and frontend. Imagine how many more dependencies and complexity you would have to introduce to implement something like this in the traditional way.

Sure, you likely wouldn't want to maintain a more complex project with this stack, but IMO it's perfectly suited for an RSS reader. To me this is a prime example of solid full-stack web development, and I applaud the effort. Kudos to the author for choosing the right technologies to balance the features/simplicity, and integrating them so well.
The data might not be available at the time. And the person did not have a choice when they were a child.

Is the above question rhetorical or do you lean more libertarian?
Ah! Thanks. I always forget the special "this" differences. I still prefer to use function when "this" is not involved though (I find strange to have a function as a variable, if you are not using it as a variable that is.)
Everyone's not voting voakbasda down—the comment has been heavily upvoted. You may have run into the contrarian dynamic:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Jai is an amazing language to work with, I highly recommend checking it out once it becomes publicly released. It's elegant, simple, performant, takes all the best parts of Zig minus the annoying parts (like errors on unused local variables) and adds a bunch of super useful game development libraries as well as a built-in string type (which I really missed in Zig).

Oh, and the compile times are just a joy, almost no other language even comes close to the speed of iteration that's possible with Jai, which is another great reason to use it for games and prototyping in general.
Firstly, that ban would be harder to enforce without centralized intermediaries that can be deputized to blacklist the dissidents.

Second, it is politically and generally legally easier to prohibit a class of interactions involving a subset of the population (e.g. those who refused to be vaccinated against COVID) by way of prohibiting intermediaries from interacting with them. So for instance, restaurants were prohibited from serving the unvaccinated in many jurisdictions, but the unvaccinated were not prohibited from patronizing restaurants. The authoritarian policy was easier to enforce like this, because the direct target was commercial establishments, which is a smaller group whom the population at large is less likely to defend, and a group that is already subject to greater restrictions.

Easier still to enforce restrictions on would be handful of financial intermediaries. Another example would be restrictions on investment. The SEC prohibits companies from selling stock to the public without meeting onerous registration requirements, but it does not prohibit the public from buying stock from companies without SEC approval to sell stock. The ban on the stock issuer is enough to deny the public the ability to invest in non-SEC-approved stock, and it is politically much more viable than imposing prohibitions directly on the public.

The administrative and political cost of imposing authoritarian policies increases in proportion to the size of the set of parties that need to have their actions restricted to effectively enforce the policy.
As an example, I usually keep my code editor maximized, with a 67% gitui terminal to the left and a 67% "compile & run" terminal to the right. This way nothing is too small.

And then I use workspaces for different groups of windows, i.e. messaging apps, the browser, and different projects all go on different workspaces.
They can reason through it they just sometimes make mistakes along the way, which is not surprising. More relevant to your comment is that if you give gpt4 a calculator it'll use it in these cases.
Did someone train LLMs with "access" to a computer? If not, why would you expect them to be able to use something they have never seen?
One user downvoted, and I don't think it behooves anyone to mindread them. Don't forget that misclicks are a thing.
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I suspect that some of the bridges that lead to "parks" may have been leading to schools that no longer exist where those parks are now.

Might be worth digging into the history of those few parks.

Many parks around me in the bay area started life as the field for a school. Then the school closed as the boomers cycled through and it became just a park.
This is quite a case of imagination. One user downvoted, and that's hardly "the renter yuppies of HN"... or any other collective.
'Trust the scientific method' begs the question: what is the scientific method? Duhem-Quine thesis and Feyerabend's criticisms suggest that Poppers falsificationism isn't actually useful in practice. I had the false idea drummed into me that the demarcation problem was solved, and this attitude leads to a lot of epistemological arrogance in many fields.

Lakatos must be mentioned alongside Feyerabend. His 'Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes' is a solution to many of the problems people identify with scientific methods. It hasn't been applied to many fields because of the difficulty of converting existing research into explicit research programmes, but I think that soon digital tooling will make it possible.

What we currently use to determine 'truth' ('scientific consensus') is closer to Kuhn's 'scientific paradigms' which is almost the complete opposite of nullius in verba.

One example of the 'trust the science' is from Australia's chief scientist! Her proposed method to get people to 'trust in science' is to simply make sure scientists have 'integrity.' As if the only thing preventing scientists from making false claims is fraud. I think this attitude is common and fits with the article's criticism of state pressure damaging science. https://www.chiefscientist.gov.au/news-and-media/trust-scien...
Charisma isn't something that's there or not there for everyone, like green paint. How you come across to others will differ based on their biases.

I don't consider charisma very much because I connect it to dishonesty. If someone's put a lot of effort into coming across as charismatic, it means they have considerable skill in psychological and social manipulation. I would value that in a salesman, where it makes sense. Otherwise it's just masking 2.0.

The primary concerns in an interview should be "can you do the job" and "can we bear to work with you". The rest can be worked with.
It could, if you're paying everything with the card. But you always have an option to go to an ATM and pick up some untracable cash.

I assume these apps don't provide such an option.
PJSIP has python support: https://trac.pjsip.org/repos/wiki/Python_SIP_Tutorial
Alt+Tab is in most-recently-used order, whereas with scrolling it's a spatial kind of system.

> since it reintroduces the mouse as a core aspect of window navigation

Not really, why? You switch between windows with binds, just like in a regular tiling WM. Mod+Left/Right (H/L) goes to the window to the left/right, etc.
Thank Stallman there's a package for that! Saved my butt countless times.

https://github.com/progfolio/blimpy/
3/20 and two correct ones were guesses here; I was actually wondering what's wrong with me, asking "Dude, have you ever even seen the AWS console at this point?" (I have in fact stared at it way too much). Goes to show a lot of these icons just aren't very distinctive and don't seem to matter much.
Related: songrec. Similar tool, written in Rust. Haven't used shaq yet but it seems simpler?

https://github.com/marin-m/SongRec
This is a disgusting, victim-blaming excuse for literal hate crimes and you should be ashamed.
It does cost money. Windows licenses aren't free.
Oh no, that’s the first incarnation of this project. It scans the code without committing it.

The project that leverages GitHub secret scanning found a lot more.
Honest question: what are some scenarios you think this will cause a backfire?
I enjoy reading and writing "Functional" code in a language where the ergonomics lend themselves to functional semantics.
That swift code is painful to read.
I'll give some examples (from worst to best.)

Java: (awful, to read and write)

import java.util.function.Function;

public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Function<Integer, Function<Integer, Integer>> add = x -> y -> x + y;
Function<Integer, Integer> addFive = add.apply(5);
int result = addFive.apply(3); // Output will be 8
}

Ruby a. (still not great, but there's many ways to do it!)

add = proc { |x, y| x + y }
curried_add = add.curry

add_five = curried_add.call(5)
result = add_five.call(3)
}

Ruby b. (slightly more concise)

add = ->(x) { ->(y) { x + y } }
add_five = add.(5)
result = add_five.(3)

Elixir (functional programing lang but doesn't lean on currying too much)

add = fn x -> (fn y -> x + y end) end
add_five = add.(5)
result = add_five.(3)

ES6 (say what you want about javascript but they at least did arrow functions right)

const add = x => y => x + y;
const addFive = add(5);
const result = addFive(3);

Standard ML (clearly a lang where currying is a first class concern in its language design)

fun add x y = x + y;
val addFive = add 5;
val result = addFive 3;

and finally Haskell (which, in this case is a joy to read and write.)

add x y = x + y
addFive = add 5
result = addFive 3
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I just would have made my wording less harsh and less sounding like a personal attack.
First of all: your question says you have to fix the discipline problem as an adult. As an adult, I am assuming you're in the context of workplace, and not college.

Second - you claim to have no problem with responsibility. Maybe you have to dig into your own psychology a bit deeper (self-awareness, work against opaqueness of various parts of the mind).

The effort you put in will usually be in proportion to the seriousness and magnitude of your responsibilities. The amount of learning required to handle complex jobs is more compared to simpler jobs. Note that the concept of "learning" goes beyond mere degrees and credentials. In the real world, the best indicator for learning and competence is the power to get complex jobs done.

Say, you're managing a nuclear plant, then you need a totally different level of discipline, compared to a job where you're supposed to keep an office clean. You can mess up a cleaning job, and get away with it nobody noticing. But if your nuclear reactor goes off, then everyone knows it, and you'll not be forgiven. The demands of rigour increases with bigger responsibilities.

Aim for identifying and getting complex and difficult jobs first. If you take these jobs seriously, you'll have to transform yourself.

PS: Recommended reading: https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm
Vitality has spread from SA! I was over there for a few years and used them there, but now I'm back in the UK and have their life insurance.
Wasteland Weekend came early this year
It's not even that hard if you have a discrepancy. Here in the UK, if you end up with a discrepancy (starting. Anew job, or benefits changes) and it's wrong, 98% of the time a single phone call will resolve the issue.
That's not zoom, that's just resizing the window. Instead of making things bigger when you try to zoom, it just adds more things.
There is a similar thing in Switzerland called "Twint".