skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> iMessage is the only messaging system free of spam

Just so we’re clear, I receive occasional iMessage spam. I admittedly receive far more SMS spam.
A sibling commenter mentioned the same thing. I actually did the same analysis on "rust" and "remote work", but cut it from the final post for brevity. I've added an addendum now with sentiment on those topics graphed as well!
Of course it’s a struggle when millions are spent every year by capital to actively suppress and demonize unions. There is an active propaganda campaign against them.

It’s not just some innate thing that Americans don’t like unions.
I feel like that might skew the "Crypto" results in the positive direction no? I would think most people here have a generally positive view of strong open source public key cryptography as in many ways its the foundation of many modern technologies and the current internet correct?
You'll notice I did not mention what we do with it when done with it.

Point of fact, we use the (many, free) electronics recycling programs available to us in our area.

Thanks for making dumb and uncharitable assumptions.
You don't have to eat anything particularly "hearty" / filling, though. Popcorn would do. Or cucumber. Just a bit of mass to keep things going.
Using C# is staying up-to-date (because it is by far the best language if you want to be able to go both high and low level with terse syntax, and it runs everywhere too).
Just fail whale it and move on. The dissonance of most folks about how difficult it is to build a product at massive scale from scratch is immense.
An interesting thought, I would expect that redshift would not be a thing if the speed of light was infinite. A lot of other problems too though.
What are the side effects? There's never a free lunch with biological systems...
Animation is smooth as butter for me (M1 Mac, Chrome)
Intellectual property rights will yet turn out to be one of the Great Filters.
Me too, but I'll probably move on when updates end. This was my first pixel after being frustrated by even shorter update lifecycles from other brands.

Beware though, there are lots of posts about sudden death of Pixel 5a phones over on the XDA forum. Just a "black screen" failure to start. They even extended the warranty by 1 year for this particular issue, so it seems like a real hardware failure mode. So maybe this will not be a phone with staying power even for those not bothered by the lack of OEM updates.
Not to mention... a car, as there's a car theft crisis nearly everywhere in the past 2-3 years. I consider the garage just another room in my home. I consider entering my garage akin to entering my house
I certainly consider ChatGPT to be one killer app.

Copilot to be another.

Midjourney to be another - or at least diffusion based image editing tools which can be brought into photo and video editing workflows. The killer app here is probably integration of diffusion models into apps like Photoshop (and eventually video).

Some real virtual assistant applications seem right around the corner (i.e. a real life J.A.R.V.I.S seems like an inevitability within the year rather than a pipe dream, and to me would be a killer app)

And then lots of other killer apps are pretty obvious to imagine with development (e.g. customer service applications like IT helpdesks, Computer game dialogue where you can really influence interactions...)
Because it permanently prevents all bugfixes for a major library class. And java.util.Random has some whopping bugs.

If you need determinism, then the proper thing to do is use your own RNG. There's been a good Mersenne Twister implementation on Java since 1999. But a system-wide generator should never be beholden to determinism.
I'm not sure if you know what those words mean and are asking questions, or just using archaic in non-sequitur way for fun.

But for anyone unsure of the meanings:

whence - from where (similar to Ger. 'woher')

whither - to where (similar to Ger. 'wohin')

wherefore - why, for what reason
> Semaglutide is available in compounded form by pharmacies due to a shortage (without end in sight) being declared.

There's much less oversight over the production of compounded drugs, and people who purchase them may not be getting what they expect, with no way to tell the difference.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/postmarket-drug-safety-information...
This comment has some real "startup based on some light prompt engineering atop ChatGPT gets put out of business by ChatGPT's latest feature" energy.
Is the encryption extension open? Who will manage message transport? Can they guarantee the near zero spam iMessage users currently enjoy?
> they suddenly discover that the old formulation has serious side effects that make it too dangerous to keep making.

Who is they?

> And oh, by the way, we also happen to be introducing a very very very slightly different molecule that qualifies for a brand new patent

Presuming “we” is the companies that own the current patent, what does this have to do with the older molecule’s patent that is expiring?
What I often remembered most from first person shooters is the architecture, and music, even though I didn't focus on it at the time.

I frequently also dream architecture or vistas. I love those dreams. Sometimes I wonder if I chose the wrong profession.

I also love some architecture that noone that I mention it to seem to understand. Those buildings just speak to me in a wordless manner.
I think this is no longer true:

https://www.baeldung.com/java-17-random-number-generators

https://openjdk.org/jeps/356
You really need to teach kids how distributed version control works. For reasons I don't quite understand, UCB EECS come out of school with very bad habits. 90% of the UCB grads I've worked with create new branches by creating a directory at the root of the repo, copying code from a different directory and then modify that. I mean sure, if you copy the directory every now and again and check it in at some point, you do get a series of snapshots of what the code looked like over time, but you lose a lot of GIT's benefits. Same for mercurial. Thankfully they never used BitKeeper or Smalltalk.

Mostly I've seen it used as a way to avoid having to commit code back into a common "branch". I asked one eecs-bro about it and his response was "it's easier than integrating." Okaaaaaay...

I've not seen this kind of thing from grads at other universities, so I think there's someone wandering around poisoning student's expectations about how they'll be expected to co-operate with their peers out in industry.
Lilly's also working on retatrutide, that has 3 targets in addition to the two that this drug targets.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
This is the rub right here. Huge mental overhead that is often not mentioned.

Not only the potential for great consequence (think errant deployment in AWS S3 that takes out an entire region and costs the company millions), but the requirement to constantly be evolving and learning new things. Not only learning but being proficient at them. All while not forgetting the original stuff you knew.
Speaking more broadly when it comes to corporate metrics in general... I think sometimes the real goal of those stakeholders is the ability to assert to someone else that, the company generates Report X, even if the report has no charts/conclusions they are interested in looking at.
not nice for skimming, but very nicely done, gave me a feeling I just made a trip to a museum, thanks
See - that would work if our TV was sending out DNS requests. It doesn't though!

Like, it seems like it has its own truly internal DNS resolver, which gets updated I presume via OS updates.
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yet that makes it 5.9" instead of 6.1" clever marketing gimmick to fit into the below 6" bracket
That flow is exactly what this article is telling you not to do. Basically the article said "don't do X, do Y instead", and GP said "ok, but if I don't do X, what if Z happens?" and your response is "the proper way to do it is X". If that's true, can you address the reasons the article says to not do X?
> Maybe there is added negativity considering it is a technology where there is clearly a potential threat to jobs on a personal level

I'm not worried about this on a personal level, but I'm very worried about the wider risk of too many people being put out of work too quickly. That's my biggest concern with these tools.
Show HN: Gamified AI Interview Prep Platform
Well, it looks like the MBAs e Marketing Folks are at it again.
Sufficiently advanced “inability to implement it right” is indistinguishable from bad design.
- the best posture is the next posture. Move. (drinking non-caloric fluids, standing during meetings can help with that too)
- firm pillow for the back
- resistance training of any kind (barbell is great)
> obsession with editing random pages

I've been editing since about 2005, so I have a lot of edits (but nothing you could describe as a bazillion). They would seem fairly random, because I edit when I find a page that needs improving. Arguably, it's more likely to be "obsessive" if the edits are not random, but all in one subject-area.

Also, I revert crap edits when I find them, usually when I was not the original poster. You don't have to be the original poster to revert a crap edit; and if you were, there's a smell of edit-warring and proprietorship.
It could be doing dns over https (DoH).
> Substituting online interaction and faux "community" for the real thing is like giving a baby Karo syrup and water instead of milk. It seems sweet and it's even addictive. Eventually, it will harm or even kill the subject.

Agreed, but what community do they have as an alternative? Especially after they leave school.
Not sure what this was since it appears they just have a link to the code of conduct now.

The type of statement isn’t really the issue, but the specific language used being in the form of political slogans and the “Nazi” bit. I don’t remember seeing anything quite like that on the Go page. Or any other programming language’s page.
Free lunches are part of the problem that led us here in the first place.
It also hopefully opens up the door to responsibly talk about how obesity will shorten your life significantly. There isn't a concept of "healthy obesity" when you look at your body's bloodwork. My buddy lost a friend who was only 38 due to complications from morbid obesity. It was tragic.

Cheap, effective interventions like this are incredible for our future populace.
Your argument seems like a form of the skeptical challenge, as it would apply to PhDs also. This makes it look less plausible though.

But besides, it's easy to demonstrate that large numbers of professional philosophers are wrong by looking at the PhilPapers surveys. Mutually incompatible beliefs are held in high numbers, across the board, by many professional philosophers. Both as a group and, to a lesser extent, individuals. They can't all be right, obviously. Is a philosophy BA in a better position to make this observation than the layman? I'd say so.
Any good studies yet on direct causal factors linking the American diet to (what I presume would be called) glucagon insufficiency?
Google has started to do the same thing making my nvidia shield a paperweight to me.
I'd love to see a language model that was only trained on public domain and openly available content. It would probably be way too little data to give it ChatGPT-like generality, but even a GPT-2 scale model would be interesting.
Linux, Chrome. I can't even read the website, feels like it watching animated GIF loading on dialup modem in 1994. It jumps from one area to another randomly
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Recycling the TV is better than not doing it, but not wasting it is even better for the environment.
Yeah? Go to dead_terrorists on telegram and read some comments there, if you want to see Israel's sadism.
It entirely depends on what you're doing. If you're web browsing using Safari, than maybe. If you're compiling/linking a large application or doing anything with larger amounts of database data or running multiple application (micro)services, then no.

Currently my 16 GB MacBook Pro can barely run Slack well alongside my Chrome windows/tabs and IDE.

The iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max both have 8GB of RAM, so are you doing anything on your computer that's more demanding than what you do on your phone?
> "A non-Amazon TV displaying a fire."

The caption to the hero image is particularly hilarious.
> If trans people have such an obvious advantage why aren't they dominating every single category of every single strength-involving event?

Athletes who dope don't always dominate, but it still gives them an unfair advantage. Same as when males compete in women's events.

That said, in some women's sporting leagues these males are actually dominating - see https://shewon.org for a list of the many hundreds of women who have been denied their place on the podium by trans-identifying male athletes.
Experiencing homogeneity is a natural thing. Humans always self-segregate into groups when gathered in large numbers. I don't see anything wrong with people choosing an echo chamber if that makes them happy. It's being coerced into the echo chamber or the open forum that I disagree with.
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The sad, awkward and near-unspeakable problem is that totalitarianism flourished in 20th century Europe partly because the culture was tolerant of it. That culture wasn't totally erased by the Allies at the end of WW2, which is why the EU's history is full of WTF moments like when Jean-Claude Juncker unveiled a giant statue of Karl Marx and then gave a speech defending him, claiming communism wasn't his fault [1]. Were European national leaders up in arms about this? No, not really :( The primary objections came from the Brits, some Hungarian MEPs, and, um, US Congress, three members of whom wrote to Mr Juncker reminding him that Marxist ideology led to extreme violence and the oppression of eastern Europe.

I think many Americans don't realize what the EU's history actually is. Juncker's honoring of Marx wasn't unexpected. The original proposal for the EU was made by communists imprisoned on an island during WW2. The Ventotene Manifesto specifically called for a socialist federation [2]. Spinelli devoted his life to the construction of the EU and spent 6 years as a member of the Commission, during which time he was actually a member of the Italian Communist Party! There is a major building in Brussels named after him, in his honor.

This attitude can be seen in the many disturbing quotes from major EU figures, like these from [3].

Juncker:

- "When it becomes serious, you have to lie"

- "We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided we continue step by step until there is no turning back."

- "Britain is different. Of course there will be transfers of sovereignty. But would I be intelligent to draw the attention of public opinion to this fact?"

Vivian Reding (a VP of the Commission)

- "We must now embark on the road to a United States of Europe."

- "When people ask politicians today “What will become of Europe?” or “Where is European integration heading?”, we usually give an evasive answer. “We don’t want a super state” that is generally the first thing we say. I must admit that I have in the past often resorted to this kind of thing myself.

Helmut Kohl, former German Chancellor

- “The process of Union is like the Rhine flowing into the sea. Anyone who stands in its way is crushed”

Guy Verhofstadt, MEP chosen to represent the EP in Brexit negotiations

- “The world order of tomorrow is not a world order based on nation states or countries. It’s a world order that is based on empires.”

Jean-Luc Dehaene, former Belgian PM and VP of the EU Convention

- "More than that, if the answer is No, the vote will probably have to be done again, because it absolutely has to be Yes."

Raymond Barre, former French PM

- "I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account."

etc etc.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eu-chief-defends-marx-controv...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventotene_Manifesto

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/OutCampaign/comments/36ofm0/quotes_...
This is a great analogy.

There’s some related thoughts on safety practices that would be readily apparent to someone on a job site that apply to software as well. In my personal experience, people who don’t take pride in their work are the same ones that end up creating unsafe situations. The software parallels are easy to imagine.
I'd argue it a bit differently.

The way I see it, we are taught from a young age to fear finance and money. We're told that we need to had it to someone else to store safely (banks). We're told that we need someone else to invest it for us for our future (401k). We're told that our government is responsible for protecting us (military and taxes).

As a result, we constantly hand off the responsibility to others and we don't make the effort to learn and understand it ourselves. We get angry and dismissive when we don't want to talk about something we are fearful of.

Of course, the people who take the different approach, of diving into understand it, are the ones who are benefiting the most from it. Those are the wealthy people on Wall Street. The bankers. The CEOs. The people who keep pushing the fear.

AI isn't about money or finance, it is about knowledge.
Interesting how sentiments gets worse over time for every topic.

Could you check the overall HN sentiment over time, to see if we got more pessimistic ?
I guess sort of with the new proposal.
I don't think any of us can know for sure, since the classification and sentiment analysis were both performed by an LLM, and I'm not seeing validation of the results by the author. You can imagine certain security/cryptography-related terms getting coded naively as negative-sentiment by an LLM ("vulnerability", "breach", "flaw").
If I get access to the GPTs feature then I will be able to experiment and find out. I still haven't got the combined GPT-4 model.

It also depends on how much of a percentage they are taking. They might try to take a 70% share or something. So it may not be worth getting involved.

You can look at things like Poe and basically all of the existing chat-based AI startups to see what people will make in the GPT Store.

I was thinking about maybe just building some web-based API and marketing it agent developers instead of trying to build the agents.
Direct methane fuel cells are in the lab, when they hot production you'll get >90% efficiency in electricity generation.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03787...
That comment I made about the money getting bedsores, what would you classify that as? Like I get its exaggerating or something but I can't quite put my finger on what its doing? Seems like a humorus melding of literal/figurative or something
Disable the button and give it a tooltip or some text above it saying why it's disabled. I've seen this pattern and liked it.
Are free ponies available in this magical land you speak of where nothing ever unexpectedly breaks? Please put me down for two.
Anytime someone says, "Blah blah sentiment blah blah... BUUUUUUT", what they're really saying is, "I'm doing exactly what you think I'm doing, but I don't want anyone to call me out on it!"

And just have the goddamned courage to say what you want to say to begin with. You're exactly the problem. You can't even be honest enough to say, "You just want the Internet to be white again!"

We didn't have voice communication when I was young. Sending a single high-resolution GIF took 10-15 minutes. In 1996, it took 28 minutes for me to receive a single 4 MB MP3 via DCC in IRC using mIRC. We didn't know what color anyone was. Oftentimes we didn't even know what nationality someone was. You were judged solely by the quality of your content. How good were your arguments? How cogent was your point? How well do you present yourself in communication.
Yup. LP covers we a genre of art for a time. Famously, the original vinyl issue of the Rolling Stones 1971 album "Sticky Fingers" included an Andy Warhol design of a picture of a man in tight jeans, and had a working zip that opened to reveal underwear fabric.
Is the 10,000,000 user figure accurate?

A quick Google search shows there were approximately 144 million homes in the US. Do wifi door openers really have 1% total home penetration?
That is not universally true, there are some expectations of privacy in some public places. For example, public restrooms, phone booths, dressing rooms, people's person, car, belongings, etc.
Have you ever read the edit history of a page on a topic you know to be controversial in society? The constant back and forth is something to behold. And for people who think Wikipedia is just a static unchanging webpage, they’ll never realize that depending on the minute that you read an article, it could be very biased in one direction or the other versus what your grandma saw when she read it an hour ago and posted a link on facebook.
My personal outlook about how AI has been developing has certainly become increasingly dark with time. I still have a hope, though, that things won't be as bad as I fear.
> Not sure where you live, but every house I've lived in (USA, a few different states) during my entire life has had an exterior-quality door with exterior-quality lock, including deadbolt, between the house and garage.

I don't know if that would do much.

It's one thing to be sawing up a front door that is in plain sight of the street -- passer-bys might call the cops if they saw that.

But if you're doing it from inside a garage? You could shut the garage door and saw away. Nobody would report saw noises coming from a garage because that's super normal.
Again I didn't mention any angst over the restriction I was simply reinforcing the OPs point that those items are not negotiable.
And I really don't see how the points you brought up are comparable. The bing search bar is removable and the iOS sign in is required for functionality.
The issue at play here are features that have nothing to do with functionality and are locked in eating up a large space on a limited space device.
This is just poor design from a UX perspective but great placement from a user habit and marketing perspective.
Its great that you degraded our comments/concerns as "hilarious" and that we are "angry" when the OP was simply sharing a subjective experience, with one part that is factually correct.
ChatGPT has been broken for me for two months, regardless of whether I use the iOS app or the web app. The backend is giving HTTP 500 errors – clearly a problem on their end. Yet in two months I haven’t been able to get past their first line of support. They keep giving me autogenerated responses telling me to do things like clear my cache, turn off ad blockers, and provide information I’ve already given them. They routinely ignore me for weeks at a time. And they continue to bill me. I see no evidence this technical fault has made it to anybody who could do anything about it and I’m not convinced an actual human has seen my messages.
Graham Hancock will be pleased.
Does it matter? LLMs do not understand the game and its rules; they just predict tokens which happen to be the next move in the game. I would say it is quite impressive, especially when some LLMs can play with an 1800 elo. That better than 80% of humanity.
This is a pretty extraordinary claim:

> The oldest construction, Unit 4, likely originated as a natural lava hill before being sculpted and then architecturally enveloped during the last glacial period between 25 000 and 14 000 BCE.

Evidence for ‘sculpted and architecturally enveloped’ seems spotty though, and it’s also an interesting choice of words that carefully avoids saying anything was ‘constructed’