skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it" -- Max Planck
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The article appears to be discussing hunger as a force which drives us, and in that respect it is a negative. We need food or we'll die, and while eating the food may be pleasurable once you obtain it, it's not merely eating the food that is pleasurable. It's filling the gaping hole that hunger has caused so you can go back to your default "not hungry" state. A little further down the article they mention:

"The answer is straightforward: somehow, we are unable to experience pleasure, and we therefore confuse pleasure with mere satisfaction."

In light of this point, it is very easy for us to mistake "unpleasure being reduced" for pleasure. The lack of unpleasure feels pleasurable in a relativistic sense, but that's not the same thing as being truly pleased with something.

There may also be something to discuss regarding eating being pleasurable -- biological processes have incentivized us to eat, and to eat things our body finds desirable. Therefore what appears to be a pleasurable desert is our body rewarding us for loading up on fats/sugars as they are calorie dense.

Even if it feels pleasurable at the time, is that pleasure just satiety? When you start adding cultural layers to it, it begins to break down a bit. Birthday cake at a party is pleasurable to eat, and you eat it because you are at a celebration, so it's not really the same as someone eating their daily loaf and gruel for sustenance.
I always took it as a warning that you're about to be asked to make a gigantic leap of faith.
Yes, emotional prompts will work.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760

"This is very important to my career" taking 3.5 from 51 to 63% on a benchmark is pretty funny.

Hey at least we can be rest assured a GPT-X super intelligence wouldn't off us following some goal to monkey paw specificity(sorry paperclip maximiser).
Let’s eat our way out of the climate crisis
The same people who claim they are too expensive also claim they lose their value quickly. While these can both be true, surely they shouldn’t complain if nearly new second hand cars are cheap?

They also claim that batteries are expensive to replace, but if I can buy a nearly new second hand car for next to nothing, why would I buy a brand new expensive battery?

Why are the US writing off wind? We generate a huge amount of electricity from wind in Scotland. Is it not windy is the US?

https://electricityproduction.uk/in/scotland/
https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-09/416694.pdf

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"Query Rewriter interprets query"
https://web.archive.org/web/20231002153731/https://www.theat...
One could make the case that the problem of the day (Habermas does) is that we don't know how to make a political system which is democratic enough to be successful as well as competent enough to be successful.

Habermas was starting to write this at the time the club of Rome was writing Limits to Growth. As much as people thought Limits to Growth was about the 1970s in the 1970s, Limits to Growth predicted things were likely to go to hell between 2020-2050, maybe 2070 if we maximized our coping strategies.
No. This does nothing to the context length itself which is still a sliding window.
> [...] turn extremely pedantic - I have a knack for that

You and me both. :)

Thanks for your reply.
GPT is such a softie haha.

I wonder how CAPTCHA is going to evolve though to combat this long term. A finger prick to take a blood sample to confirm humanity?
What could be a wonderful asset would be a streaming service for games. Google would just have to make a credible, consistent commitment to such a service, commit to it through its initial wilderness period and not shut it down on a reflex, so customers would have the confidence that their time learning the platform wouldn't be wasted.

Then, with something like this launch event for 2x faster Chromebooks, it could emerge as a mature offering whose moment as come. All it would take is discipline not to instantly give up and a willingness to have a vision extending beyond quarter-at-a-time release cycles.
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because the current mess means all their old stuff still works. ASCII is good so long as you only need English (or any other latin languages without the various accents), which was good enough for a long time - and ASCII was also carefully designed to make programming easier - flip one bit changes lower/uppercase for example, but there are more things it makes easy. By the time we realized we actually care about the rest or the world it was too late to make a nice system.
I'm intrigued by this. Asus has been trying to do new ideas and I would like to see what happens with Asus not feeling the need to keep OEMs happy.

I recently built an mATX PC and while looking at smaller cases that worked in the Living Room space I had, I ran across the Asus AP201 case and then bought one. The attention to detail is wild, definitely better thought over than anything else in it's low price range. I would really like to see Asus take further steps into the enthusiast market beyond just components. They have good ideas, I want to see them shipped.
> The Unicode committees have addressed this for languages such as Latin, Cyrillic, and others and stated outright that decomposed forms should be preferred

Yes, and that only makes things worse since the overwhelming majority of documents (99.something% last time I checked) uses pre-composed. Also AFAIK just about everyone just ignores that recommendation.

This is a classic "reality should adjust to the standard" type of thinking. Previous comments about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36984331

I suppose "e ZWJ %" is a bit better than Private Use as it will appear as "e%" if you don't have font support, but the fundamental problem of "won't work unless you spend effort" remains. For a specific niche (math, language study, something else) that's okay, but for "casual" usage: not so much. "Ship font with the document" like PDF and webfonts do is an option, but also has downsides and won't work in a lot of contexts, and still requires extra effort from the author.

I'm not saying it's completely impossible, but certainly harder than it used to be, arguably much harder. I could coin a new word right here and now (although my imagination is failing me to provide a humorous example at this moment) and if people like it, it will see usage. In 1960s HN when we would have exchanged these things over written letters, and it would have been trivial to propose a "e with % on top" too, but now we need to resort to clunky phrases like this (even for typewriters you can manually amend things, if you really wanted to).

Or let me put it this way: something like ‽ would see very little chance of being added to Unicode if it was coined today. Granted, it doesn't see that much use, but I do encounter it in the wild on occasion and some people like it (I personally don't actually, but I don't want to prevent other people from using it).

None of this is Unicode's fault by the way, or at least not directly – this is a generic limitation of computers.
Well yeah that's why I'm still toiling away in the digital salt mines
They definitely could be part of malware, that's why they are flagged as such. I know the context, I know what's in the archive with it, and I am pretty sure the executable are safe, but the scanner doesn't know, and doesn't get to see the nice effects for conformation. Most people simply turn off the scanner when dealing with these files.

Scanners could discriminate. These productions are often compressed with well known packers. It would be a "simple" matter of unpacking the file and scanning the result executable, which is often just a bunch of graphics and sound calls. But that's significant work for such a niche application. These tiny packers are also way more resource hungry than their size would suggest.
> You put forward a scenario that for whatever reason inspired me to present a hypothetical situation because I was curious what your response would be.

For the record, you're talking to different people. You asked the question to me, and I responded. guhidalg is a different person in the conversation.
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The fork me on GitHub button is too close to the create new node button on mobile.
It is some time ago since I last used it, but I found that too many websites that I want to read require Javascript to even show you the main body of text, or a reasonable layout. Is that different now?
Nah, places I’ve worked are just choosing commodity hardware and geographically distributed systems over (very expensive) centralized ones.
The few I see on European shopping malls, being discounted until someone picks them up.

Always have Linux support disabled on the settings pane, as "this device is not supported" kind of message.
The prompt used: "Write a New Yorker-style story given the plot below. Make sure it is at least {{word_count}} words. Directly start with the story, do not say things like ‘Here’s the story [...]"

They didn't even bother using multiple passes to prompt better quality creative writing like "Write an outline for the story..." "Expand this outline focusing on improving style and tone..." "Here's a story written by an amateur writer. As a professional writer, give it a rewrite improving vocabulary, metaphor, and overall quality."

As with a lot of the LLM stuff I see these days, I have to wonder at how much of what's being measured is the capacity of the tool and how much the measurement of the capacity of its users.

I'd never imagine using a LLM zero shot in a single pass for any creative writing tasks, and measuring the inability to perform in suboptimal conditions isn't all that revealing or novel (pun intended).
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Yep! This is the crux of the problem. WFH has been battle tested and proven to be just as effective if not more than working at an office. But when execs try to throw all logic out the window and strong arm the employee for their gain they're shocked on the push-back (which never was before). COVID changed EVERYTHING. People saw firsthand how short life can be and reset their priorities.
Even more dishonest is including implicit subsidies right next to actual cash payouts.
In Swedish, Å, Ä, and Ö are actual letters of the alphabet, while é is used in foreign words. Like the English dieresis (e.g. in coöperate) is essentially unknown in the US and only occasionally used in England, so doesn't give rise to characters with dieresis on the keyboard.
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Not really. The point of the LLM exercise is to measure creativity. Upscaling is not a creative process, it's basically the opposite of creativity. The only reason to keep the prompt in the same vein as the original story is for the judges, to at least keep the premise in the same ballpark so they're comparing comparable stories.
What do you mean by this, genuinely? They describe in their paper- the literal citation that is given at the bottom of the article, exactly what they did to observe superconductivity in this material.

No one alleged anything of the sorts that the claim has no evidence- not in the comments, nor in the article.

I think you misunderstood the original reply to your comment. When you said “… another completely unfounded claim of superconductivity,” you were way off base. Lk-99 was not a completely unfounded claim of superconductivity. It was a misguided (or malintented- who knows), non peer reviewed claim of *room temperature* superconductivity.

We know of plenty superconductive materials- finding and claiming one is not super crazy or subject to any undue scrutiny for the most part. Finding materials that are superconductive at room temperature however, absolutely is subject to extreme scrutiny, because it has literally never been observed before, we’re not sure if it’s possible, and we it would literally change the world as we know it if it were to be discovered.

The commenter was signaling you that comparing lk-99 to this is completely unfounded due to this, because discovering a superconductive property of a new material doesn’t even remotely have the same ramifications as the discovery of a room temperature superconductor.
> And if you're looking at character properties, the article says you should be looking at multiple together, which is correct.

I don't see where the article mentions Unicode character properties [1]. These properties are assigned to individual characters, not groups of characters or grapheme clusters.

> Very rarely will you be implementing those algorithms.

True, but character properties are frequently used, i.e. every time you parse text and call a character classification function like "isDigit" or "isControl" provided by your standard library you are in fact querying a Unicode character property.

[1] https://unicode.org/reports/tr44/#Properties
That's as may be, but the person I was responding to was claiming that you needed the source code to detect it.

Clearly you don't.
That's what those who "hate our way of life" wants you to think
That seems like a lot of effort when you could have sent <kissing-lips>, <kissing-cat>, <kissing-face>, <heart>, or any number of other emojis, which is what my point was.
Presumably Intel has some large Enterprise contracts to provide NUC units on an extended timeline and this what Asus acquired to fulfill that need.
Having switched to both Bing and DuckDuckGo as defaults and then developing the subtle habit of searching via Google.com rather than my browser’s search bar, I think I’d have to disagree.

For whatever new niche of programming concepts I’m looking into, google generally outperforms Bing at finding relevant pages.
But typing "ö" (e.g. swiss keyboard) and pressing delete & getting an o would be annoying af
If I’ve read the article correctly, all that stuff seems to have mainly to do with avoiding becoming tied to the particular, distinct norms, methods, and standards of the various disciplines CSS might touch, interact with, or be applied to.

It explicitly opposes having no norms or standards. It appears to be intended to stake out CSS as an independent discipline, rather than a study of pure methods that can end up “living under” any of several other academic areas, with mutually incompatible norms and cultures. (I’ve no idea whether that’s, in fact, a good idea)
Maybe this copy?

https://web.archive.org/web/20200322151217/https://byuu.net/...
Are you me? LOL

There is an ALT+ for it, but I can never remember it, despite needing it at least once a week.
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Yeah, Nick Lutsko is super super funny and a very talented musician. That’s hard to replicate.
Leveraging aid packages for UN votes and political concessions is standard geopolitics. For example, just a few weeks ago, it was discovered that the US leveraged an IMF deal to get Pakistan to back the war in Ukraine:

https://theintercept.com/2023/09/17/pakistan-ukraine-arms-im...
Yes, https://news.yahoo.com/major-airline-faces-backlash-using-22... was quite a crap article. I've changed the URL above to the guardian.com report it points to.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The use case for me is: "take these five pictures and give me one where everybody is smiling and has their eyes open."
Well, one of the loudest voices in American politics has called them criminals and rapists, so it's not exactly a non sequitur.
Okay, that's what i thought.
For context, in many countries outside of the US, you don't risk your student loan or your licence by rocking the boat, whether you're a physician or a researcher. In fact, if you're a researcher, chances are that rocking the boat is how you get exposure, which will improve your chances of a research grant.

Bad science, on the other hand, is how you lose your reputation and your research grants.
Maybe not this specifically, but the history of the last 200 years is littered with examples of capital owners cooperating together to elevate and secure their status as a class despite supposedly divergent individual interests. Perhaps the most obvious is how rich people who commit crimes are systematically saved by other rich people who happen to have the right connections.
Agree, im in my early 30s and jump through most platforms, but very little with tiktok/discord.
but i have to admit a lot of newer content (and tech framework support) has migrated to discord channels. Even some YouTube sports talk shows have their own discord for call ins, etc...

These big teleconference apps are usually hit or miss but discord seems to be the winner currently for actual "social networking", also add in its trend in the gaming community
You still can! People who want more customizations can do so too. Plus it only takes the initial setup per emoji at least.
If you think this is low, you should check out some of the insanity in the US and Canada. Today I read one for a senior dev, $45,000 USD!
So, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday sounds like multiple days to me. If they'd mentioned the number of hours, then you'd have a point. The reality is that 'days' was the correct (even if a little disingenuous) word.
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They will just keep making them harder, more steps, etc. Also, the rise of phone verification.
Oh no, not Rassemblement National, a party literally founded by ex Nazis.
That's not very fair on clowns!
Yeah but generally in cases like this the initial bill is a stepping stone to follow up bills.
Regulation is impossible when the regulators have been captured by the interests that they are supposed to regulate.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

The cloud is a prison. can the local-first software movement set us free? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36984692 - Aug 2023 (206 comments)

Local-First Software (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31594613 - June 2022 (29 comments)

Local-First Software:You Own Your Data, in Spite of the Cloud (2019) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26266881 - Feb 2021 (90 comments)

What if we had Local-First Software? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24790170 - Oct 2020 (144 comments)

Local-first software (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24027663 - Aug 2020 (131 comments)

Local-First Software (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23985816 - July 2020 (9 comments)

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23966558 - July 2020 (1 comment)

Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21581444 - Nov 2019 (239 comments)

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19804478 - May 2019 (190 comments)
Why $2 though? When prices hit $1.50, they’ll just hit up their physical generators instead of your battery?
React has gone down in the amount of boilerplate.
Counterpoint: Oracle Corporation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EchoStar_VII
Right---it's like comparing ten-year-old Hemingway's writing to 40-year-old Hemingway's writing.
Yeah, this is how methods stop working, so it will make it harder for everyone else. This means chat GPT is less useful and captchas will become harder. Lose-lose for everyone.
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How many hours a year would one expect to get this?
This is actually good. Hysterically so.
If you are selling devtools, the best way I've found to succeed with the OJ test is to have a technical person on the first call. Not the second, not gated by a sales rep, but on the first call.

Sure, it's expensive, but if a dev is hopping on a call, they darn well want to get technical answers. You can really really antagonize someone by not helping them out.

Of course, better yet is to allow them to set up a free account or otherwise have access to the tool to determine if it will meet their needs without talking to anyone at all.
ahh never saw that but explains it. thanks
The article offers two examples from "Not California" and neither of them are too scary sounding to me.

Is there any real danger that this "is about to go national"?

I'm out here in middle America with an 8th grader taking geometry and a 6th grader taking pre-algebra. And I certainly haven't heard anything about reducing math opportunities. Quite the opposite, really - they're talking about expanding a program where the school system will pay half the tuition for advanced math classes at the local community college if you end up beyond what they teach at the high school.
With cherry picked results, as always, I presume.
There are many things that I had wanted to find which are not commonly available in FOSS, or are difficult to find, or are just not available at all:

- Simple music playback library like MOD/S3M/IT/XM formats but you will provide your own command stream and instruments (including possibility of non-12-TET music) instead of loading from any file format.

- Non-Unicode SQLite. (Non-Unicode can greatly improve speed of some functions, as well as making some operations considerably less messy.)

- Fonts of TRON character set (especially bitmap (screen) fonts and PostScript fonts). (There does not seem to be a good way to do it with TrueType, although with bitmap fonts it could easily be done, and anyways I like to have bitmap fonts.)

- Program you can other non-Xaw GUIs with Xaw. (Or, a better GUI, like Xaw is; none of the other ones used these days have its features and otherwise like it; in my opinion they are just made mostly worse)

- A Pokemon battle simulator library in C.

- FOSS implementation of BTRON. (There is one called B-Free which unfortunately seems to be incomplete and abandoned. I had forked and only made a single change so far, which is adding the D (64-bit) type. If date/time type is then D instead of W, then the year 2053 problem can be avoided.)

- Zoned spreadsheet.

(I had done a few things related to some of the above, but not much.)
They had the insight to somehow a amass a massive $30 million fortune with a large-scale piracy scheme but weren't smart enough to hide it or move somewhere without an extradition treaty?