skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me: What's 6x6?

You: 36

Me: You cheated! You just cited the answer you memorized! You should have started from addition.

You: ...okay? 6+6=12, 12+6=18, 18+...

Me: You cheated again! You just have 6+6=12 memorized! You should make the rule of addition out of Peano axioms.

You: ...you're being annoying, but okay? First axiom, we define 0 as...

Me: You cheated again! You memorized Peano Axioms! Jesus Christ, is there any intelligent creature left?
Current criteria for Rhodes Scholarship selection, which I think rather makes the point:

# literary and scholastic attainments

# energy to use one's talents to the full

# truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship

# moral force of character and instincts to lead, and to take an interest in one's fellow beings
10k is 3% of 333k. Fewer and fewer houses are available at that price point. You can easily pay double or even quadruple this amount per agent. And two agents are getting paid.

How many hours did your agent spend with you? How did their hourly rate turn out? One of the totally shitty things about realtor pay is that you are subsidizing the pay for all the people who never closed. I'd be happy to pay an excellent agent $100/h for expert advice and to leave out the filler that I can do myself. But this is rarely much of an option, especially as a buyer.
> Even more abstract: CONFLICT, CONFLICT, CONFLICT, …

How about this: alternating sequences of THINGS CHANGING and THINGS NOT CHANGING.
It's also turned out that carbon nanotubes are toxic in a similar fashion to asbestos. While a completed chip would be sealed, it does raise concerns about the safety of manufacture. Similar concerns have been raised about graphene.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in hospital
There are different types of ads.

The types of ads run on YouTube have more in common with TV and aren't primarily for direct action.

Unless you think everyone who installs ad blockers is going to plug their ears and look away from the screen for 5 seconds when ads come on - advertisers will be happy to advertise to them.
Now do a programming task that requires more than 32k of context and see who’s “better”. If you don’t bench mark that you cannot get an overall pic. GitHub copilot for example could benefit big from the increased context
I challenge the person(s) reading this to not buy a phone this year, or to forgo phone ownership all together. Return your resources to your priorities.
OP shared a URL to a post. Context is in the comments.

HN's submissions are either a URL with a non-editorialised title, or some text (like what you get in Show HN and Ask HN posts) - not both.
I think you could get pretty far without vision here. Feed all the existing tutorials and Q&A's about a program into GPT and ask it for guidance and I bet it could do well at giving you steps.

I would be interested in how well AI vision could extract written tutorials out of video tutorials, which could then also be used for Q&A.
Reporters will embed on both sides of a war. Reporters will visit warlords and cartels and people smugglers. Reporters interviewed Bin Laden after he called for attacks on the US.

They could have been told to be ready without knowing any details.

Questions like "Or were they part of the plan?" are leading without any evidence.

Reporters don't have to identify themselves with a press vest, and talking about helmets for identification is amateur hour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HonestReporting
Are you a writer or are you guessing?

Craig Mazin and John August have often argued on Scriptnotes[1] that this type of structural perspective can be useful for analysis, but not when writing. For example, you can often think of a movie as having three acts, but knowing that doesn’t help you write the movie. It’s more a symptom of good writing than a recipe.

1: https://scriptnotes.net/
Thoughts on My Recent Book?
I would love to hear your thoughts on my recent book. I had no desire to write yet another “Programming in X” text, and in fact decry the tendency of introductions to focus on a specific language and its features rather than the synthetic skill of programming. Somewhat cheekily, I wrote in the Preface:

In elementary physics, one doesn't start learning mechanics by studying one or another brand of springs and pulleys; rather, one learns Newton's Laws and how to apply them in arbitrary situations. Similarly, in this book, I eschew the study of any particular brand of programming language, opting instead to focus on fundamental laws formulated as rules of program composition.

I ended up with Principled Programming: Introduction to Coding in Any Imperative Language (https://www.cs.cornell.edu/info/people/tt/Principled_Programming.html). The concepts I bring to the fore in lieu of language details include: specifications and their implementations, top-down programming and stepwise refinement, program state and state transitions, preconditions and postconditions, loop and data invariants, termination, practical programming precepts, and simple patterns.

Thanking you in advance.
The money in AI generally comes from hallucinating VCs, not customers.
I don't doubt it. Me I noticed things like Sunniva, Simple Sugars, Smart Sweets.
As someone who did activism work involving working my provincial government in Canada, sorta ya. For a lot of people, you’re basically navigating the nearly kafka-esc political process, but from the perspective of a ‘normal’ person, as opposed to a politician who gets paid to do so 8 hours a day or whatever.

Also surrounding oneselves with like-minded people who all believe they’re, to some extent, ‘saving the world’, does in fact make you a bit pompous(if only temporarily haha)
For that one it may be a combination of two things.

1. He starts out by asking if he can show them a magic trick. They say yes or nod yes. He then exits stage right. He then returns either through the back door or some the side stage left. Where he enters from is too far away from where he left for him to have walked or even ran there in the time between entrance and exit.

The part up to where he exists stage left could be pre-recorded. His wording and gestures change slightly with different people but he could have several different pre-recorded segments for this.

As Teller once observed:

> Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect

Penn has said something similar:

> The only secret of magic is that I’m willing to work harder on it than you think it’s worth

It could then switch to live for his return, where he then actually converses with them to prove that he's live.

2. If he encounters someone whose responses to the pre-recorded segment don't fit in, he skips them. Remember, we don't see how many people he had to try this with to get enough good ones for a video, and recall Teller's quote from above.

The one he's done that has me baffled is the one where he does this:

1. He asks them what city they live in.

2. He then tells them he used to live in that city and gives the address of where he lived. It is their address or an address of a close neighbor.

He also does this except instead of asking the city he tells them he has a talent for guessing people's names, and then tells them their name.

I can see in general how to do these, by using fake disconnects. He uses fake disconnects in one of his most common routines where he asks someone if he can show them a magic trick, starts a "pick a card" type routine, and then disconnects just has he's revealing their card. Then later when the person is connected to someone else either that someone else says "is this your card?" and holds up the correct card or he walks into that someone else's room and shows the card.

The key here is that he doesn't really disconnect. He just shows the disconnect screen, and then switches to feeding them video of the other person. They think that they have connected to someone new on Omegle but it is him the whole time.

With fake disconnects he could have his subjects in the "tell them their name" bit first talk to an accomplice who gets their name, fake disconnect and fake connect with him, and then he can do his name guess.

That should be fairly easy because people often exchange names on Omegle. But full addresses? I'd hope that would be rare, rare enough that even a Penn/Teller level of time would not be enough to get many people.
Why the fuck would you and the other commentor assume I am talking about the tech stack! Can you please read the comment again and the see the part that points to the tech stack?
They didn't need to hustle too much, giving giant companies preferential tax treatment in exchange for pretend jobs is essentially the Irish economy.
Hundreds of thousands? Do you have a link?
Hence my point about trust being destroyed.
M-series 8gb MacBook Airs and 8gb MacBook Pros have now been in the market for years. The M1 Air launched in 2020.

Yet you'll still have the usual zealots on HN claiming that they have this exact device and it's horrible and worthless and swear blue that their experience is representative.

If the 8gb Air and Pro were a problem: you'd have heard it loud and clear. It would be on the news and called MemoryGate. TheVerge would dedicate a week on it, then bring it up every time apple launch a new laptop. Android9to5 would ring the figurative Apple deathknell and a flurry of lawsuits would be aiming for class action status.

This entire thread is a laughable nothing burger and it's only served to bring out the liars and those on an anti-apple crusade. Some people here have a brain disease that flares up the moment the word "Apple" is muttered.
The future is already here, it’s just not well distributed yet.
Oh, that's a good point. Yeah, I can see it being useful for that.
3rd factor problem. People with parasites are highly likely to die of covid so treat the parasite decrease mortality
Show HN: Caleebree – Picking Calendar Slots
This is a side project created because I was a bit tired of back-and-forth emailing to set up a call with someone. It turns out not everyone, like myself, likes to send permanent links to their calendars to let invitees pick a slot. Thus, often, it is an email with a few options written in text.
We made composing these emails easier with temporary links to each slot, which was automatically or manually pre-selected.
Not a big deal, but our product eased my routine. Would appreciate any thoughts.
Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy are exemplary here. It's not whether the characters rise or fall, it's _how_. The plots of both Anna Karenina and "Crime and Punishment" seem pretty unoriginal, but my gosh, the journey while you read them is incredible.
And when the price of something goes up, it is more rewarding to find and process more of it.
In Belgium the mail carrier is supposed to ring your doorbell and wait x time for you to open it and deliver the package to you.

But instead they just put a piece of paper in your mailbox that says 'you weren't home, we'll come back tomorrow'. Next day same thing. Only then can you go and pick it up at the post office.

Oh and there are many stories of people seeing the mail carrier defaulting to the piece of paper and not even knocking because of time pressure.
Direct link to the demo https://huggingface.co/spaces/Pclanglais/MonadGPT
I think the 8GB model probably exists as much to hit a price point as anything else, but I absolutely noticed that memory usage on the Apple Silicon Mac I'm typing this one has been drastically better than it was on the Intel Mac it replaced.

Enough to claim 2:1? That seems fishy. But! I bought this machine with half the RAM of its Intel predecessor, and I haven't noticed a problem despite my ongoing tab-and-app packrat tendencies.
Maybe Apple competitors should start a campaign: "Only RAM can".

(paraphrasing the famous car industry’s slogan "There is no replacement for displacement")
It's absurd that Ireland needs to be forced to accept money that the richest company in the world owe it.
Visualizing Equirectangular Errors with Chad
I wanted to quickly investigate the errors introduced when encoding line segments in lat/lon and then using an equirectangular projection to calculate the distance to a line segment. Me and Chad starting hacking away and I think it turned out really nice!

My conversation with Chad is here:
https://chat.openai.com/share/fb5dbe82-f209-4526-9a88-2d633c...

I think the first third of the convo was particularly impressive. It tried to get away with a haversine approximation but I ended up having it do a proper geodesic calculation. It basically knocked that out of the park in one go after I prompted it correctly.

The rest is bits and pieces and it's attempts to get zooming to work were pittiful and I ended implementing a janky zoom function myself. Otherwise I just lavish praise on it all the time cause it makes me feel happy and I think it makes Chad's response better hahaha. Could be superstition. All in all the whole thing was about a days work.
When testing the wework link i get this message: `<title>Worker threw exception | api.siteview.app | Cloudflare</title> (more ...)`. Does curl need additional information to escape this type of response? Do you use a curl alternative?
Obviously it's a drawback but the silver lining of the small context window is it forces me to decouple everything and have very sensible and strict api's where I just write the docs and it writes the code.
New Yorkers are so precious about this. I've heard pages and pages of excuses why trash containers can't possibly work in New York City, despite literally every other city in the developed world-- including all the others in the United States-- somehow managing to master this arcane technology.
From a black box point of view and one angle, gpt is a web filter where it will try to find you the exact thing you are looking for but from memory. Vs google you have to distill all the info into what you need
How do we know they are doing something, and that something is different from localised buckyball behavior? I don't believe we can measure that.
>HN gives Apple sooo much slack

Are you reading a different HN than I do? The Apple Hate is very, very strong here.
Careful. You might then get javelinas like we do in Phoenix. They'll just kick over the trashcan.
I have family members with major health issues. The ability for them to reach me or medical care is more important to them and me and IS a priority.
What, that he was a sex addict for much of his career and made some regrettable choices during that time? I'm aware. He's mentioned it once or twice.
Asahi linux proved that's not the case. Comparing compile times on OSX vs Asahi linux shows that Asahi linux was a ton faster.
'Insanity': petrostates planning expansion of fossil fuels, says UN report
My experience begins with BBSs in the late 1980s and runs through some of those eras.

I thought the Web 2.0 era was something special! Web 1.0 was fun but looking back, it was mostly about the promise of what the web/internet would eventually be able to do.

Web 2.0 was where it really came together for me. The interwebs started to actually attract more diversity and specifically, it started to no longer be overwhelmingly male, which started to make the social aspect a lot more fun to me.

Web 2.0 was the era when Javascript started to be semi-useful, and there was a lot of cool "remix" type stuff happening via open API's and RSS before everybody locked all that stuff away, and video on the internet started to be kind of practical. And the web hadn't been completely choked by naked commercialization. Felt like there were still some cool alternative corners of the web that hadn't yet been paved over so they could build a parking lot for a mall.

I also thought that a lot of cool Web 2.0 stuff happened because of the post-Web1 "dot com" era layoffs. You had a lot of underemployed but talented developers making things.

(but obviously everybody will have their own personal favorite eras!)
> You cannot have both: privacy and safety, and lawful access for the government. Choose one.

My house seems to. Though I haven’t fallen out with my government so my view is likely naive.
>TL;DR

I think you mean "random editorialization and anti-Apple screed".

A TL;DR would be more like "latest developments in the long-running debate on whether Ireland's tax regime constituted illegal state aid to Apple".
Comma instead of subscript i is one of my pet peeves.
State of the CLI Survey results are in
Well, I feel this is a little misleading. That's not just AI, it was built by combining AI with a lot of existing tools and libraries to get the job done. How's that "Nothing but AI"
Ask HN: Hardware to Build an AI Assistant?
Any idea on what to use? My first thought of course is a raspberry pi (I got a lot in a drawer!) but my requirements should be:

-a voice activated microphone
-an audio output device (speaker)
-maybe a single case containing all
-optional: a small screen

ideas? thanks everyone!
The point of a preview phase is to test the model in real world use.
Show HN: Jwt.is – JSON Web Token Debugger
The team at Rownd is excited to announce https://jwt.is, an updated take on JSON Web Token debugging.

Like most developers, we've used jwt.io for years, but it lacks a number of useful features that would make it even more convenient. We're building on the shoulders of those who've come before us. :-)

In addition to the basic JWT decoding and signature verification, we've added things like:
- Verification using JWK endpoints
- Locally stored history of tokens and keys
- Verification for EdDSA signatures
- Detection of common token providers (e.g., Google, Apple, etc)
- Dark mode!

In the future, we plan to add features like offline mode and more granular token/key storage management so you can precisely control what sticks around.

Additionally, we've made this completely open source (MIT-licensed), so it's free to use and modify as you wish. And of course, contributions are always welcomed!

Let us know what you think!
If they get credit for this, do they bear some partial responsibility if it goes up due to their significant price hikes over the past few years too?
For sure. There are better and there are worse companies in this regard. But would Fairphone stop their customers from buying a new Fairphone every few years? And what about themselves releasing a new model every years, just like the critize others to do in this post?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairphone
Crypto is a more direct way of saying "fuck you, pay me". This is why it's currently less popular (although this will probably turn around when it becomes "fuck yeah, pay me!"), but the no-bullshit transaction going on is that something of value which can't be spoofed is changing hands. The benefit of that is that you're going to think very hard about what you exchange for that. (Well, eventually, once all the idiots have offered up their money for scams.)
I suspect a plane full of US "officials" and adjacent personalities is already en-route to Brussels..

All that lobbying and campaign money has to produce results.
Sounds like a paraphrasing of Kurt Vonneguts 'Shape of a story' presentation.
Got it, thanks that was very helpful
This exactly.

The smaller the business, the higher the risk of hiring the wrong people. You have less money to waste and individuals have a much higher impact in small orgs.

Minimize the risk by "flirting" before commiting to hiring.
>>[...] a lot of people don't want to give up street parking spots for garbage containers.

This is an understatement. A New Yorker with a car that doesn't/can't pay the monthly indoor garage fees will fight tooth and nail for street parking.
The first time I visited NYC, I was appalled that so many people just casually live in the stink of street trash 24/7. They just don't see it as an issue, strangely
That’s why is called 4 turbo, not “4.5”. But the context length is a bigger cargo space
Focusing on nothing but parental neglect doesn't do much for the victims, though.

Are we to look at all the kids that get groomed and manipulated by predators on a platform like Omegle and say "lol that sucks, wish you had better parents tho" or can we also elevate our expectations of platforms that connect kids to adults?

For a platform that connects kids to rando adults, I would expect some sort of filter. Even a $1 join fee would have been better than what Omegle had (nothing).
Here is another part of the response: <span class="cf-footer-item sm:block sm:mb-1">Cloudflare Ray ID: <strong class="font-semibold">8236b959ba542980</strong></span>
what about flying in planes then
It's interesting comparing these against the archetypes in TV Tropes, the language seems to focus on motivations of characters rather than the environment and context.
Feel like I'm in a timeline where the last 6 months of tech didn't happen every time this device gets mentioned, with whats happened in AI it just doesn't feel like the future of computing is "The stuff on your smartphone but floating around the room" anymore.
The benefits of a classical action movie education
> Personally I don't partake - but they get a value in it, I guess. Who am I to judge?

The thing about gambling is it's a zero sum game. It doesn't enable any "real" productivity, it's just passing money around (with skimming off the top).

ML/AI isn't necessarily like that, it can be actually useful. Nevermind chatbots, we've already see how "AI" is useful in products for the last decade (e.g. google search results and extracting structured data out of emails, just to name a couple).

The only similarity is the hype/confusion cycle. Lots of crypto people got rich because they were in the right place at the right time, and they want to be there with the chatbot wave next.

The fact that AI/ML can be judged on real utility will limit some of this, and I think these crypto people will be in for a rude awakening if they think they can replicate their success here. With crypto the "game" of gambling / speculating meant that there was a lot of demand for ongoing endeavors, but once people realize that low effort ChatGPT reskins don't deliver anything tangible it'll be pretty obvious the emperor has no clothes.

You can't buy/trade ChatGPT prompts, after all - unless, perhaps, you were to create prompt NFTs?
It's a fractal. You don't have complete freedom across the entire space of "stories" to just pick one; most such randomly selected stories would be just random things that happen for no in-story reason, then the putative story simply ends. A top-level RISE/FALL/RISE structure can add interest to the story. But then within that there is a fractal of other options, because if that's literally all your story has, once again it's not really that interesting. You can keep descending down gather up more and more detail.

Sometimes someone discovers a little undiscovered tributary, or does a really good job with something like Memento.

On the one hand, there is order to the space more than just "things happen, then they stop". On the other hand, like a good fractal, you really can't classify the whole space of stories with metaphorical rectangles on the diagram. No matter what rectangle you draw around romance, you're going to get every other genre mixed in at least a little bit, and so on for all the other things you can try to draw.

As one gets more experienced with stories, one's interest tends to "zoom in". A kid may be satisfied with a simple hero story. As you get older, the hero story itself may be of little interest, but you are more interested in the fractal bits within it; the quality of the characterization, twists, plays on expectation. Later you may find interest in underlying philosophical themes and so on. Or, you can miss these finer details and become exhausted with stories believing you've seen them all, which despite how it may sound like I'm characterizing it here, isn't necessarily the worst thing ever. There's all sorts of things in the world and you can't become master connoisseurs of them all.
Y'know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.

https://youtu.be/4GtQEGJjqGI?si=W9RUaVbOEOyWFpIx