skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A plane is comparable to a bird because they both fly even if they do it very differently. Replace plane with bee and it's the same thing.

I think this is exactly where we're differing. I would not say that a bird and a plane should be compared in that way. Definitely not a bird and a bee. They don't even have the same number of wings, the mechanisms and capabilities diverge very quickly.

The outcome is similar, but the methodology is extremely different, and that difference in methodology matters because it allows us to make predictions and to reason about when the output between the two systems is going to subtly differ -- which it does, GPT and humans don't perform identically on all tasks and we don't struggle at the same things. There are things birds can do while flying that planes can't do, and vice-versa. I think you're setting yourself up for failure if you engage with a system only looking at its outputs and not considering how its processes influence those outputs.

> I've never once said GPT was playing chess exactly the same way as a human. I wouldn't know.

My assertion is, you should know. You don't have to know exactly how GPT works or how humans work to look at both and say, "huh, these things exhibit very different strengths and weaknesses, and those strengths and weaknesses fit into consistent patterns, almost as if they're using separate strategies to accomplish tasks."

If you look at a bee and an airplane both flying, you don't have to know how either of them fly to realize that they aren't flying the same way.
The original ruling was that Ireland did not give state aid to Apple, that any multinational could have applied the same rules. This was not accepted by the Commission, they asked for a higher court to rule.

After several years it has now been suggested that the higher court puts aside its judgement and that it goes back to the lower court, because apparently (according to the Advocate General) the lower court did not take into account several factors and had errors in its judgement (relating to Intellectual property rights, where tax should be paid e.g. in the country of sales or in the country of registration). Which seems to make it once again an issue on tax and not on sweetheart deals.
"ChatGPT42, generate a working copy of the old Hacker News site for me to read based on today's news and the probable reactions to it. Have it respond to my posts accordingly."
Not sure what you mean. It's pretty straightforward to get Netflix shows.
Hallucinations in your custom AI bot? Clean your data and add sources
> But major platforms like TikTok are also massive sources of grooming and parents happily give their 10 year olds a smart phone.

I've never used TikTok, but I find myself scrolling through Instagram reels quite often. It's so addicting. Recently, I've been seeing some extreme gore: people being lit on fire, bones snapping, fatal car accidents, sexually explicit content (cheating, etc.), etc.

It's gotten to the point of me no longer wanting to watch those reels - they're very, very dark and depressing. If children are seeing this stuff as well, that's a major problem.
My assumption is that this has been going on forever.

The fact that it's revealed now doesn't mean that it started now.

Part of me thinks this is how the world really works, and I'm not sure if it's good or bad.
MonadGPT – OS ChatGPT-like for the 17th century
Once you have a periodic table display case, you would be amazed at how compelling it becomes to shop for element samples.
I have been using a Lemur Pro (lemp11) for ~14 months as my daily driver (coming from a Macbook Pro). It's my main machine and has been running constantly the entire time (auto suspends at night). I have powered it off a few times since purchasing it.

I use the Lemur Pro with a USBC dock, two external monitors, a keyboard and a mouse when at my desk. I did a few manual upgrades. I added 32GB of RAM (maxed at 40GB). I also added a second NVMe I purchased (4TB).

So far it's my favorite laptop. Here's some pros and cons:

Pros:

- Screen is nice and clear with great color. For a non-Apple screen it's great.

- Battery life has been great. I get about 11-13 hours of coding (Firefox, Terminal w/tmux+vim @ quarter screen brightness). I have used it on full airplane rides, etc. Awesome battery life, especially for Linux.

- Video playback is good, even w/1440p@60fps (hardware acceleration in Firefox, no frame loss). However, it does get the fan blowing.

- Suspend/wake works and detects the dock and connects everything perfectly again (mouse, keyboard, monitors, etc).

- Disk speed is amazing. I feel like my old Macbook used to chug on disk reads/writes. However, this machine/nvme is blazingly fast.

- Pop_OS has been nice. I have no complaints. I used to use a bare bones Debian netinstall with a custom DWM setup, but I decided to give Pop a try for a year and I have stuck with it. It's stable and everything just works.

Cons:

- Fan can be annoying when playing videos or scrolling quickly on Youtube.

- When doing a reboot while attached to the USBC dock, it doesn't appear to re-connect to the dock post-reboot. I have to turn the dock off and back on (or unplug the USBC/re-plug it).

- Webcam is meh-- but I don't use it anyway.

I don't see myself going back to a Macbook. If anything, I may take the plunge back into my old custom Debian+DWM setup, but I am happy with everything as it is.
Why not both? 3D is hard but Blender has some very peculiar UX choices that require a lot of memorization of iconography and hotkeys to make use of.

BforArtists specifically exists to provide better surfacing of interaction to Blender https://youtu.be/0vEtTP0C0Cs?si=comeTyStz98t9-a0

Granted Blender 2.8 onwards and even 2.x onwards are huge steps up from the 1.x days, but it still has one of the most opaque interaction models of any of the common 3D DCCs
Sure, although the article talks about monoxide…thus my confusion. It’s also a much less pleasant way to go: this is an “as I understand it” to be clear; carbon monoxide binds to your hemoglobin better than oxygen, but your bloodstream doesn’t build up carbon dioxide (which is what causes that panicky “I need a breath” feeling). Adding CO2 accelerates that feeling…
I hate that they talk about 8 plot lines, but only show graphics for 5.
I'm actively working on some kind of "live docs" feature for BabaBASIC.

Though ... I have to wonder (and I'm only half-joking) -- should it just be a ChatGPT integration that can answer questions?
Pedestrians and cars ,self driving and human driven, often have conflicts. This is why driving in the city is so stressful compared to driving on the highway.

Maybe it would be better for Cruise , Waymo etc. to focus on highway-only self driving cars. I would like to board a self-driving car near a highway on-ramp and I would like it to drive me to my friends and family in another city; I would exit the car near an highway exit. For everything else, I could use cabs or Uber etc or public transport.
This is true. And it also highlights what the part I don't understand about these nuclear investments.

Absent massive government subsidies, any nuclear-based solution has to compete against the renewable + fossil mix, which is dramatically cheaper than any nuclear solution. That means any nuclear investments will have to operate in a pretty unfavorable market until renewables reach a saturation point (maybe 50% of energy generation or more.) That point is still somewhere in the future.

It's not clear when that saturation point will arrives (or if it will), but when that happens today's nuclear investors will also have to "bet" that storage costs won't have dropped to the point where storage eats a big chunk of the market for nuclear generation. And finally: in the course of taking this risky long term bet, nuclear manufacturers will have to build out huge amounts of manufacturing capacity so they can actually meet market demand.

Anyway, the whole thing seems like a pretty risky bet. Maybe not such a risky bet if the technology was mature, but very risky given the fact that storage is relatively mature and basically needs a lot of manufacturing and process tweaks to wipe out the benefits of nuclear.
See also: "Charles Bonnet syndrome"

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

> People with significant vision loss may have vivid recurrent visual hallucinations (fictive visual percepts).[4] One characteristic of these hallucinations is that they usually are "lilliputian" (hallucinations in which the characters or objects are smaller than normal).[5]
Fair points, and I agree. However, I believe that the double-irish loophole is more of a 'value add' for the big companies already here, to lessen their tax load in other countries via 'convenient' accounting. The EU ruling is more about this tax evasive nature/use of the loophole than the investment in Ireland and it's economy & jobs.

Edit: The EU ruling actually targets a specific use of this loophole by Apple, which alleges amounts to state aid, hence the anti-trust comments. (Gotta love the HN community for delving into the details)
also, the person who owns the land is often liable for what happens on it, unless the land is owned by the public (a la BLM land).
The page indicates the team has also built a version for React, but it doesn't appear they have built one for Vue.
Imagine if the cave men alive during the ice age were also dumb enough to think they caused it. I'm all for taking care of the environment but blaming every environmental change on humanity is the height of stupidity. If this infuriates you and you think people like me should be rounded up because we don't drink your koolaid, you might be in a climate cult.
Earbuds to Monitor Brain, Body
The lego games, a great option
Not for perceptual hashes!

Not all hashes are cryptographic hashes.
Is there some cultural reason this won't drive people to alternatives and they'll just eat the cost? Food has got to be one of the most elastic things in all of human history with diets shifting wildly over short periods of time depending on what's available and affordable.
If a U2 residency couldn't pay the bills...what will?
game of thrones? give or take? gospel of thomas?
Mozilla was interested in Servo. What do you mean? They extracted multiple components into Gecko including WebRender and Stylo.
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so basically, you're suggesting that the terrorists goal to attack the US and destabilize the globe is correct, and the terrorists won?

sounds like the war shouldn't have happened, and the correct solution was not to do that
I was looking at getting tickets for an event, and it looks like it sells out quite frequently. Hopefully they don't shut it down.
I'm a huge fan. I used to volunteer on allexperts.com to help people with QBasic stuff, before the dawn of stackoverflow and other probably more searchable places.

This is wonderful, and i'll have to check it out!
That one's on me for not reading more carefully. But my basic point is, public transit is a lousy way to make money, and if that's something you emphasize, it's neither going to make money nor give good service.

I'm reminded of some Terry Pratchett book about the Ankh-Morpork opera, in which the new owner of the opera house asks how they make money, and the manager says they don't--you make money other ways so that you can have things like the opera.
The C128 had a KERNAL routine called PRIMM that did that.
> I find it odd that the standard policy is to leave packages unattended in any form in the first place. This is another one of those things that is not standard globally.

Not sure what effect this has but I live in an area with a lot of Ring (or other) front door cameras which is a rather severe disincentive to theft of packages left at the door (as well as mishandling of package delivery by the driver)
> The New York Post reported Tuesday that Ranji suddenly quit after a bout of yelling and screaming from CEO James Dolan.

Been there done that and you don’t have to put up with abusive behavior like this in 2023. Good on him for leaving. Didn’t know Dolan had spread his dysfunction and entitled rich boy show to the desert also.
German solar policies are insane. Nation wide capacity factor was 11.6% in 2018. The numbers are so low because they keep building solar in the northern parts of the country which are absolutely terrible for solar.

Brandenburg has a stupidly large amount of solar compared to a terrible amount of sunlight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Germany#/media/...

Meanwhile the best location in Germany the south southern tip of Baden-Württemberg only has a relatively small fraction of their total installed solar. I haven’t worked out the exact numbers but they are something like 20+% less efficient than they could be. Granted they would need to build more power transmission lines but it’s a small county so such projects would be fairly cheap compared to the efficiency gain.

PS: May solar power plants on the US are over 30% capacity factor and the average is ~25%. We’re a long way from the equator. In a perfect location solar tracking PV should get around 40% capacity factor. You beat 1/pi because over the day an angled panel casts a wider shadow than the width of the panel.
Does aider work with c# at all?
We've gotten better at billing than building.
> No one in Denmark knows what this case is about, except that these top officials are being prosecuted for vague reasons, and with an undertone that it is all very unfair and probably a bad thing for Denmark.

Everybody in Denmark knows what this is about, it’s a badly held secret. In fact the supreme court denied running the case behind closed doors because the secret is considered “publicly known” at this point[1]

[1] https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/hoejesteret-sager-mod-hjor...
Did we ever categorically prove that nanotubes aren’t the next asbestos? That’s not a small problem.
Thank you, and fun fact: johnsmith@gmail.com is a special address that returns a 'does not exist' error.
I, like you, have flaws
Let me be sincere and straight
I am too perfect
There are many ports. GTK, Qt, and Cocoa are the 3 that I am aware of.
Couldn't you replace it with another USB-C though? Then you'd always have an extra USB you can use for stuff!
Wikipedia's history of this is very nice:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_steam_engine#Pre...
Do you think you have a penicillin allergy? You might be wrong
> The press is supposed to check and balance

There are a lot of civilizational lies. This one is is among the easiest to figure out.
> No company becomes worth mountains of money without making society better in some way.

A pharmaceutical company that concludes that they can increase the price of their drug by 10x and only lose 3/4 of the sales is going to be a more valuable company. It will have increased revenue and profit and that will be reflected in its stock price.

This decision makes the world materially worse. It only looks like an improvement when we measure based on revenue and profit rather than the amount of health improvement that the business provides to the world.
Can you explain why people shouldn't pursue passion projects because they are written in a language you don't like?
TBH, people underestimate how much of coding is just memorization. I'm guessing those of us with bad memories understand this more than the ones with good memories. :)

I can't remember how many times I've googled, "how do I create a directory in Python?". Now bard often generates an inline answer for me.
I paid 700 euros for a Samsung Ibook two years ago. i5, 16GB, 256GB SSD, intel iris xe graphics. Not a performance monster, obviously and I use a mac book for work. But I can run Manjaro on it and I can even do some lightweight gaming on it via steam. All the important stuff works. And it even manages to not look cheap (even though it is). Nice aluminium, quiet and effective cooling, etc.

So, this thing seems a bit expensive for what is effectively yet another generic laptop with the usual underwhelming meh screen, crappy trackpad, etc. Exactly the weak points of my setup as well. But a lot more reasonably priced.
When I referred to build.rs - I merely meant that the build script made it possible to build code written in other languages - not that it solved all the problems. It very much doesn't solve all the problems involved.
100%. Heck I coded up a system that printed footage marks along the side of industrial coated material using qbasic interfacing to an industrial printer via the joystick port on a 386! No internet so I used the help system constantly. Eventually the company kept a pile of 386's stacked as spares because the system ran too fast on a 486.
> Hopefully they don't shut it down.

It will probably be disassembled and moved to Dubai.

/s
> replace auto with explicit type declaration

Hey, I am curious, when do I want to do that instead of relying on auto? Mostly curious, as I have been using auto in C++ (since C++11) relatively heavily.
This isn't really real-world use any more than putting these same problems to people as a whiteboard coding exercise in an interview is real-world coding, yet seemingly a lot of people seem to be generalising from this tiny sample to all manner of overarching statements about performance of the model in general "it's faster but dumber", "this proves it only memorises" etc.
Did cavemen have a fossil fuel based economy? Did they produce billions of tons of CO2 each year?
> I don't care if large corps with automated ATS systems are mildly inconvenienced.

Neither do I. However, this use of AI harms more than just them -- it harms all other job-seekers as well. It looks to me like doing this just accelerates the race to the bottom for all.
> I shared what I felt.

making false allegations of racism ins't a "feeling", it's not an emotion, it's lying. Sorry I exposed you for lying.
> Microservices can be done right - but then they're just Service Oriented Architecture.

True.

> As a concept, they have been one of the most toxic concepts to be released on the tech world.

Sadly, I have to agree.

One of the problems is that people assume that Microservices "should be as small as possible" when they should be "Small enough that a small team can own them"

> I've seen literal devastation in multiple companies coming from inept technical leaders who drank the microservices koolaid and ended up with 10 services per team, slower services and having to do implement JOINs over network.

I just joined this team (7 developers). We have 48 components with 48 repos. Engineers are VERY competent on an individual level but the maintenance burden is huge. It is a configuration management nightmare. We are replacing a super critical system. It is burning out the team.

> Ignore buzzwords and influential speakers who stopped coding in 90s. Split services based on how your people are split across teams.

I think it is the younger engineers that think this is the only way because that is what they have seen all their careers. (Since 2012 or so). Some corporate Architects are building great careers out of this chaos. Their architecture diagrams look very impressive. I don know if they are aware or not of the damage.

> It seems like people are coming back on their senses though, we must be in the plateau phase of the hype cycle.

Hopefully. I don want to spend the last five years of my career dealing with this mess.
It’s all so situational. In an early stage startup you really have to focus on the most critical things. I would question doing a lot of marketing early when it may be more important to do sales or just low scale, high touch customer testing/research. If it’s not worth your time to do it personally there is a huge risk in trying to hire someone to do it. The reason is that most people with the credentials to “run a function” in a successful business will be used to way more resources than a startup has. ICs with experience in the role will likely have only worked in structured environments where they will have all kinds of assumed constraints that are not relevant to this brand new startup.

That’s not to say I disagree with your points in general, but just that hiring is every bit as much of a minefield as doing things yourself. In either case you have to understand what is most crucial for the next stage of growth and prune everything else obsessively.
Show HN: 04-x – End-to-end encrypted chat UI for LLMs
> * Nice keyboard

Hang on, I thought this was still Clevo stuff. I bought a Clevo-ODM laptop a decade or so ago, the keyboard was atrocious in feel (no click left at all on most keys, just linearish sponginess) and activation (e.g. Space was quite difficult to activate, A would very regularly double-activate) within two years. And I know I’ve heard similar complaints regularly since then from others.
How is this thing not filling nightly with $1000 tickets to Laser Floyd?
Vegas has dispensaries - this seems like a no brainer.
There's a few apps on the Play Store for specific languages: cl-repl (for LISP) and Micro REPL (for MicroPython).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=micro.repl.ma7... // https://github.com/Ma7moud3ly/micro-repl

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.eql5.andro... // https://gitlab.com/eql/EQL5-Android
The loss seems surprisingly low, considering the cost of building the thing.

I don't expect this to end up like Brand-Briesen Airfield, or other massive buildings built and quickly sold at bankruptcy, anytime soon.
World's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley
> They made a mistake and got too greedy and make a subscription I barely paid attention to something that got too expensive...

That's the thing, in the past I I'd go months without watching anything on Netflix yet still pay them for it, so they were essentially getting a free $8 a month (or whatever) off me during that time.

Now the prices have gone up so much it doesn't make sense to keep subscribed for something I'm barely using, just so I can easily watch a single show that interests me once every three months or so.

The only streaming service that has makes some sense for me to pay for right now is Youtube's, since that's my goto for videos anyway, and it's nice not to have ads for those.

Additionally they also have a bunch of great older movies free to watch movies on Youtube, probably a better selection (of movies I care about) than Netflix right now (saw/rewatched Train to Busan, Little Shop of Horrors, Ghostbusters, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Tropic Thunder, Fifth Element, Big Trouble in Little China, Dr. Strangelove, 12 Angry Men, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, The Truman Show, Air Force One, Dirty Work, and Dracula: Dead and Loving It recently).
So, we now have, until the hypothetical merge:

- CLion Classic

- CLion Nova

- Rider

- ReSharper C++ for VS 2022

And the 'new UI' versus the 'old UI'.
Yeah if this was a stock, I’d be buying it today. The thing is great.
I'm local, and curious.

If I go to the official website[1] to view all shows, they redirect me to the hellscape that is ticketmaster.

That is literally only friction it takes before I'm out. The scalpers are squatting your 2 billion dollar venue.

[1]: https://www.thespherevegas.com/shows