skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of these definitions and groupings are highly artificial and more-often-than-not, mostly manufactured by media interests - who certainly understand that controversy drives engagement, as well as the economic necessity to have a loyal partisan base of subscribers and followers in the internet media age, and that one way to do that is to cultivate anger and distrust of social out-groups. One conclusion of this view is that Americans get served at least as much manuipulative propaganda as Soviet citizens did, and possibly a good deal more effectively as it goes through many different channels, instead of coming purely from the state organs of information.

Getting an alternative view is rather difficult, but there are some tactics that are used by researchers in fields like economics and ecology to get a good sample of their populations. For example, one approach is the 'straight line transect' - i.e. draw a straight line from, say, San Francisco to Boston and sample people's views and opinions from every community/individual who lives within 100 miles perpendicular to that transect. Then compare that to a Seattle-Los Angeles transect and a New York-Miami transect.

This woould, I think, reveal that most people have many common concerns: job satisfaction, housing/energy/food costs, crime and safety, good educational systems, clean air/water/food issues, etc. These topics are often ignored by the media and politicians because they don't drive the kind of divisiveness and negative engagement that they find beneficial.

One interesting question is just how much of the button-pushing emotional-response-driving controversial material is the product of deliberately engineered mass manipulations strategies run by a shady cabal of some sort, and how much just arises naturally and is then exploited by media and political figures?
I've tried Dex as a daily driver. It's unusable. It's slow, doesn't have customization options nor sane defaults. Alt-Tab is extremely non reliable. I ditched it.
Just put the hydrogen in a balloon and it will carry itself.
Such a perfect cartoon.
Startup plans 10k TB cartridges with 'cheap' material used in restrooms
Nice!

So is Figma extremely optimised for 2GB of ram, and that's it? Then it just replicates those efforts per tab until max-ram?

Put another way, is Figma limited strictly to 2GB/further optimisation because of its underlying tech? Web Browser?
> The web was meant to be accessed by automation.

Completely agree.
>Reached critical mass, or even world-dominating: Nokia, RIM, Figma, Skype, Spotify, Hetzner

Not even close. All of those are meh in terms of market cap and have plenty of competition making them easily replaceable by US alternatives.

The likes of Apple, Nvidia, Office365, Google, are irreplaceable in the EU, and they could buy all of those companies if they wanted to.
Yes it can be set up, but my point was precisely that it(LSP servers for popular languages) is not baked into Emacs, instead making them complicated external dependencies necessary to be set up to get a basic IDE functionality of code completion working.

Code completion works out of the box for example in IntelliJ for example without needing to download and install further packages.

The tree sitter approach does sound something along in that direction, that should bode well if it works out.
Quite honestly, probably another tribe. One that is more closely aligned with red and gray on distrust of government. And likely even more than one tribe.

Although the tribes have pretty diverse subtribes. Red has a very poor temporarily embarrassed millionaire quite separate from the actual owners. They still align with some of the same tribal calls and signaling.
No news source is completely unbiased, but I feel like I can put more trust in news sources that are willing to really "call out their own team" when they're full of shit.

For what little it's worth, I disagree with guys like @GlennGreenwald on some topics, but he's fearless in being willing to call out the left when they're stupid on issues like war and many other things. That's the mark of somebody actually attempting to be a newsman and not an advocate.
> Do you expect people to read content that you couldn't be bothered to write?

What do you presume I mean by "use AI"? You seem to have a knee-jerk assumption about what AI can or can't be used for.

I use it for research. To help me think of things from new perspectives. To point out gaps in my writing. To argue and debate topics without pestering my coworkers.

If I spend 3 hours going back and forth with ChatGPT to write the best article I can on a topic, would you still say I couldn't be bothered to write it?

> What's the point of all this?

What's the point of any form of self-expression?

If your assumption is that using AI means "Hey ChatGPT, write me an article about XYZ" and then pasting that in, then I can see why you would find that to be pointless. I would agree.

However, that's not what I'm doing or suggesting.

* * *

Here's a recent example:

> I'm writing a series of email communications that are intended to be sent as a part of a drip campaign. The campaign is intended to nurture leads as they come in.

> The leads are prospective customers who may be interested in buying [Redacted]. They become a lead when they fill in a form.

> The goal is to have an initial response, a follow-up 3 days later, then 7 days, then 14 days, and finally a 30 day follow-up.

> I have access to a lot of supporting blog and video content, including product walkthroughs, reviews, and how-to guides.

> Can you provide a suggested outline for what kind of content would be optimal to include in each email? The goal is to ultimately nurture the lead and get the customer to make a purchase.

It then gave me a solid outline that I used as a starting point. Is that cheating? Is that pointless? I don't think so, but you're welcome to your own opinion.

* * *

Here's another example:

> I'm writing the outline of an article called [Redacted]. I've broken it down into Five sections, each with 1-2 sub-items. However, I'm struggling with sub-items 7, 8, and 9. If I paste in what I have so far, can you make recommendations for those missing items?

I then pasted what I had outlined so far and it gave me some good ideas for what was missing.

* * *

Fundamentally, I think you need to understand that there is a difference between "I let AI do all my writing for me" and "I use AI in my writing all the time."

In the context of SEO, I would expect most articles that were 100% written by AI to get very poor results. They're not adding any Experience or Expertise. They're not proven Authorities. If they're presented as being written by a human when they're not, then they also violate Trust.

However, if you use AI to help you write better and more thoughtful posts, I would expect to see good results from that. Treat it as a writing partner, and not as a writer in it of itself, and you'll produce better content in less time. Or at least that's been my experience. Your results may vary, of course.
My understanding is that expensive cars have relatively good voice recognition that allows the driver to easily access functions that might be otherwise buried deep in a menu. This doesn't solve the discoverability issue, but it's good from an eyes-on-the-road perspective. I think it's also used as an excuse for why you need to pay a monthly fee for internet access.
> Since the Neobank doesn’t have its own FDIC insurance and bank charter, the neobank customer’s deposits actually sit on the sponsor bank’s balance sheet

Are you saying that "neobanks" do not record the deposits as a liability? Or that they do not record the cash as assets? I don't understand what you are trying to say.

Are there any public "neobanks" you can point to so that we can see the financials as you describe them?
onlyfins
> Von Neumann was right about everything

For all of the recent attention Oppenheimer is getting, we all are living in Von Neumann's world.
They're actually dead weight that the entire organization carries around, I honestly think in some cases they'd be better off being paid to not come to work.

What I do isn't really relevant unless you're trying to make some personal slight.
Think of the context. WW2 was absolutely a team effort.
I don't think all nation states have spy agencies.

Wikipedia lists them for 122 countries [1], out of 206 [2]. So about 60%. Maybe a little higher if a few are missing.

I do wonder if there's also some kind of commonly accepted division within those that separates the "big guys" vs the "little guys", e.g. if there's a certain key spying ability that takes a certain level of funding and sophistication. I mean, I do have to assume that there is a qualitative difference between the kind of spying done by "major powers" and others.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_agencies

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states
> The UK government has conceded it will not use controversial powers in the online safety bill to scan messaging apps for harmful content until it is “technically feasible” to do so (...)

That would be waiting for a quantum computer and quietly hoping that a) nobody develops a strong enough post-quantum scheme and b) there is still civilization after RSA and ECC are broken? Correct me if I'm wrong.
goldcd> It's not going to suddenly explode into shards of plastic in the middle of the night.

That gives you the impression that goldcd fully comprehended the scope of the inquiry?
"abandons" seems overstated; "The UK government has conceded it will not use controversial powers" does not mean it doesn't claim to have those powers based on the legislation.
Climate change affects the whole world. While rich, industrialized countries can afford to make all kinds of adaptions of the type the author is talking about there is a large number of poor countries with a huge number of poor people who can't. This is why it is essential that the world stop dumping massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.
I'm guessing this will really be hell for whales.
>Cheap foreign factories and illegal immigration drags down wages and weakens unions

But you can't outlaw foreign competitors from being cheaper than you, any more than you can pass a law against the tide coming in tomorrow
I mostly agree, but it's that time of year again when I question my life choices. The rain has started, and suddenly I'm reminded how stupid the wipers can be. Elon keeps promising over and over that they're just about to fix them, but it never happens. It absolutely will be a factor in whether I buy another Tesla.
> I like to keep a scratch file

Thanks. I think I am doing something very similiar and will definitely stay close to bare text (Markdown). Your comment shows me that there is no escape from marking up text (places where sth was deleted or some auxiliary header) and working through text couple of times, probably making some copies along way.

> I'll also use diff tools built into Vim/Neovim

Diffing workflow is completely out of bauds for me, maybe will try to learn some new ways in close future (Vim/Spacemacs in general). If you could say some more on how you quickly see diffs, that would be great. Are you using version control for this?

As a side note, I see that it just takes time to tune mind to work efficiently with bigger pieces these days. Modern times, refocus req'ed.

Your comment was very helpful for me, thank you.
That’s why I mentioned hands free.
Natural language data querying: https://docs.honeycomb.io/working-with-your-data/query-assis...

User input --> bunch of contextual stuff --> API call to openai (could be any model though) --> query executes against user data and they get a result
From the title, I thought it'd be dining solo — from John F. Kennedy's quip at his White House dinner for Nobel laureates: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." [0]

[0] https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-dinner-hon...
I'm not so sure, it's well covered that trust of police is low because of corruption like Burke's history of sponsoring unconstitutional black sites for torturing suspects. And I think the history of redlining and corruption when it comes to investment in education and infrastructure is well known... what would be controversial to say?
I thought we have seen the end of the neobank era?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronshevlin/2022/06/20/the-end-o...
And thank God he did, amazon would have direct without the SOA enforcement.

Scale issues are emergent issues. It's a phase transition.
Isn't globalization and free trade questioned a lot even in the blue tribe today, what with sanctions against russia and china, with self reliance like producing your own chips, being highly priced, worth billions in subsidies?
Toyota Stops Car Assembly Lines After Server Runs Out of Disk Space
This would definitely represent a new source of ad revenue for Google, which of course is always the goal... not to mention a way to further engage its users.
Even that will produce halogens and has the potential to change rain patterns.
I doubt that, it's just marketing.
its actually something thats been discussed before https://twitter.com/floydophone/status/1462928358988156932?s...
Sanders has three houses and net worth of 2 million dollars.
From section IX of the article:

> ... Sure enough, if industry or culture or community gets Blue enough, Red Tribe members start getting harassed, fired from their jobs (Brendan Eich being the obvious example) or otherwise shown the door.

> Think of Brendan Eich as a member of a tiny religious minority surrounded by people who hate that minority. Suddenly firing him doesn’t seem very noble.

> ... When a friend of mine heard Eich got fired, she didn’t see anything wrong with it. “I can tolerate anything except intolerance,” she said.
I really wouldn't like you to monetize my idea. EDIT: /joke
It's a little unclear, but my reading of this is that the power to do it will still be in the law, requiring at most secondary legislation to put into effect (perhaps not even that) if they think they ever have enough leverage over messaging providers, or are willing to spend the political capital. Not a great place to be in really, but better than it actually being deployed.
There wasn't enough pain in his mac and cheese.
So Farewell, TypeScript
Heh. My programmer hubris tells me: difficulty is just a function of time and coffee.
That was exactly my reaction to it: it seemed to require sooooo much background knowledge about the entire system to do anything. And because you were warned about issues with consistency it seemed you were warned about just fudging some things. That it was a quick way to an application that couldn't work. The learning curve seemed daunting.
I was writing that maybe they're using one of their AI models to count, and we all know how they count.
Ha! I think it may be my google video library trying to get me to re-authenticate my chromecast device. When I get home I'll look a little closer at the UI and see if there are any security related messages.

thx to @politelemon and @not1ofU for your suggestions. Crossing my fingers it stops the auth spam and that it really was google sending the messages.
Agreed. However I do give Maher a lot of credit for not being afraid to call out his tribe’s occasional ridiculous hypocrisy. Maybe one only feels that confident as they age and have attained wealth. When you have more to lose (your livelihood) you are going to be more careful with your words and objections.

That said I’ve watched Maher for 15 years and look forward to his show coming back after the strike. I say this as someone who probably disagrees with more than half of his hot-takes.

I saw his stand up at DPAC a few months ago and loved it. He is a funny guy and very entertaining.
> considering surface friction is low enough for pieces to move

Our experience - which include track layouts that occupy a good proportion of the ground floor of our house, a la Wallace and Gromit's The Wrong Trousers Train Chase - is that if you open a section under tension, wiggle the entire track back and forth a bit, even on a solid wood floor it tends to settle into a "more relaxed" state, at which point you can adjust the relevant pieces to close the (often larger) gap...
This essay falls into the same trap I see among a lot of my liberal (as opposed to socialist) peers: it assumes tolerance is something admirable, desirable, or fundamentally good. That's how you fall into the "tolerance of intolerance" paradoxical rabbit hole, and IMO, it's largely performative.

My stance on the subject, in contrast, is that tolerance isn't good enough. I'm not "tolerant" of gay people, as that suggests that their sexual orientation should disqualify them from my in-group, but that I would tolerate them anyway. No, I just don't see sexual orientation as a qualification for my peer group. Same goes for any other immutable characteristic of someone's existence. People, tabula rasa, are people, and that qualifies them for my respect.

But of course, people by the time I'm interacting with them are not blank slates. They have opinions, stances, and world views that they have acquired and incorporated into their identities, which they then act on to form histories. These perfectly mutable facets of their existence are entirely open to judgement. I'm tolerant of the merely tolerant, not because it's some unqualified good, but because it's just not bad enough to warrant exclusion from my inclusive-by-default in-group. People willing to openly state their bigotry towards people I consider my peers disqualify themselves from my respect. People willing to act on those bigoted beliefs cross the line into "evil".

In my opinion, this forms a far more consistent world view compared to the "tolerance is an unqualified good" stance.
It's a good point, but the challenge is we sometimes just get street1 from a utility without city/state/postal. We tried USPS and geocoding libraries, but they fail because they often pick a random-ish city which likely will not match.
Quantum computing doesn’t matter. Nothing in the universe can break a one time pad.
Guaranteed the only way they’ll think will solve the issue is higher taxes. The uk has run out of ideas and the only option seems to be taking people’s money away.
Inverse Scott Galloway indx is doing even better
Also their "stack" includes various degrees of AWS (maws, naws, and I'm sure a bunch of snowflake situations innumerable here, I mean do you count corpinfra? Controls?)

Not to mention all the data center logistics
Well, if you divide your power hungry people into enough different lanes, and they spend their time duking it out with each other, and they end up having to compete among the citizenry for support, funding, etc than that seems like a pretty good system.
One of the more annoying/insufferable episodes of "Billions"...
No. It's the other way around. If someone did FEA on the track and showed you a stress map, it would be obvious how uninteresting framing it as an engineering problem is.
Hah nice! I developed https://github.com/ahmetb/azurefs back in 2012 when I was about to join to Azure. I'm glad Azure actually provides a supported and actively-maintained tool for this.
These file systems are not a good fit for large numbers of small files. Their sweet spot is working with large (~GB+) files which are mostly read from beginning to end. I’ve mostly used them for bioinformatics stuff.
This is a complete speculation on my side, but could it be that anti skilled influencers are targeting a different business model? Namely, if they are being paid to promote the products, their incentives would align with reaching as many people as possible. If that holds then we have people who focus on good trading vs people who focus on getting followers... and then the differences are snowballed by engagement algos.
Congrats to the long-awaited release!
Most big US HW/SW companies do have a significant presence in Europe and some other places like Israel, it's not like Europe has a lack of engineers and scientists capable of building this stuff, they are just mostly working for US companies
People love to take these statistics and make them something they are not and complain about how terrible our society is. It makes them feel morally superior.
I built this! Ask me things :D
I think this looks very much like something I was after. Unfortunately it's not available for GNU/Linux. Anyway, I will have a look inside for some GUI/workflow ideas. Thx.
Ask HN: Custom Instructions for ChatGPT Pro?
What are your custom instructions for:

1. What would you like ChatGPT to know about you to provide better responses?

2. How would you like ChatGPT to respond?
The main condition that you're talking about is having a high population. Chicago has a lot of murders because it has a lot of people. The murder rate per capita is a little above 2x the national average, but not an outlier by any means.

Chicago is #28 on the national ranking of murder cities:
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-s-ci...

It is ranked right in between Chattanooga and Buffalo.
I don't see what's particularly terrifying about building on OpenAI.

Yes, services can deprecate or shut down. That's true for any old service and also true for new stuff. They might swap things around but obviously OpenAI will not die of attrition any time soon.

Secondly, it's not like OpenAI has a complicated API. Far from it. Any other LLM API is basically the same, just because the components are so straight forward. So, given enough capability from competitors, as far as SaaS lock-ins go, this is fairly cushion-y.

What remains is a testament of how singularly potent you think the product might be and how much it would advance your stuff beyond what any other product can do. That strikes me as a rather questionable reason to not make use of it, if getting stuff done, efficiently, is what you want.
The problem is that certain people don't care if "others" are getting polio because it's not happening to them

They lack empathy, or even the basic understanding that helping the lowest in society almost always pays dividends.
There probably are, but this comment highlights the problem with OSS. Many people want a phone that just works for a full day, without needing to tinker with settings.

Maybe the default settings for Libre 5 are bad? Maybe the software can be improved to improve battery life?
My natural first reaction is what unknown effect will this have on underwater life? We know other types of sonar have had negative effects. Knowing that, this should be studied and considered when making any new underwater sounding equipment. You don't get to go "we never thought about it" now that we know about it.
> There are certain theories of dark matter where it barely interacts with the regular world at all, such that we could have a dark matter planet exactly co-incident with Earth and never know. Maybe dark matter people are walking all around us and through us, maybe my house is in the Times Square of a great dark matter city, maybe a few meters away from me a dark matter blogger is writing on his dark matter computer about how weird it would be if there was a light matter person he couldn’t see right next to him.

> This is sort of how I feel about conservatives.

Please excuse a touch of extremely relevant self-promo. I am building a site to address exactly this. I'm calling it RedMeetBlue, pairing folks from the light and dark matter worlds for one-on-one chats. Link in profile. If you are interested in this experiment, or want to participate, I'd love to hear from you.
I can't blame Wikipedia for putting all their effort in their sole means of funding, though.
This is why there needs to be a privacy.com for phone numbers. (A single secondary number doesn't work. One per service / one per person, and the ability to quickly invalidate or re-issue compromised numbers, is necessary to truly make reselling useless.)