skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From my readings, Assistant is more of a raw GPT flow with a touch of a persistent state by keeping conversations to a readable thread. It does allow using the Code Interpreter or File Parsing tools if you need those.

The GPTs are more system prompt engineering on top of the existing ChatGPT Plus infrastructure (with its freebies such as DALL-E 3 image generation).
I'll refine it. I scraped a lot of sites and some of them were terrible. I just figured it was better to have the data there and let users decide as opposed to not having anything. I can see scraping some numbers related to traffic and using that for ranking.
Do they read Hacker News, by any chance? Because if so, I think they just found another workaround.
> Paul has written quite a few essays on this subject, so by now I’m really curious what viewpoint(s) he has that he can’t say aloud (and whether I agree). I’ve noticed in Silicon Valley there are quite a few people who—after deeper conversation with them—seem to be independent thinkers, but they pretend to follow the in-group for the purpose of maintaining social harmony; this seems especially common among people born outside the U.S. living in the Bay Area.

Think about this a little more. When you see people being very opinionated against or for something it is most likely in public in broad daylight. They “toe the line” and rally the wagons. But maybe in private—when among friends and they don’t have to put up a front—they can be more nuanced.
It's not the standard that made it reliable for you, it's the company that made/maintained the chargers. The vast majority of these companies are shitty, fly-by-night companies that can't scale up to maintain their network.
Or gamify it, via the charging app: if you report a broken charger, and it's verified, you get a $1 credit.
> That is to say, they're targeting individuals who they have no substantial reason to believe actually did anything wrong.

> That isn't true. It means it wouldn't reach probable cause.

So, investigating a crime should lead you to some evidence that you would than have a substantial reason to request a warrant to target an individual. You're letting the tail wag the dog if they can do the targeting before they know who to target. If they don't have any evidence to target a person but they suspect that person of doing something illegal then that's called a hunch. Scooby doo and his gang were great at following hunches, but that shouldn't be how the FBI operates.
> We have no means of checking whether the FBI is putting any care into their warrant applications.

Congress does.

> Nothing in this world has that kind of success rate without some sort of shenanigans.

That's your assumption. I have a higher success rate of safely driving to work.
Yeah. My body/brain's natural "mental flow" time is really early mornings.

In reality, I generally have too much external distraction around me in the morning to capitalize on this.

So my actual productive hours are basically like, "whenever I am reasonably sure that everybody else will leave me the fuck alone for the next few hours." Which often means, "the end of the work day when everybody is signing off for the day."
Yes, it could be the placebo effect, but placebo works wonders ; )

I detailed better aspects on a question above,

Placebo need you to trust it works (or see a figure of authority to believe it does), in my case I expect nothing and got not much on v.1 (software) by v.3 (hardware) it is surprising.

; )
I'm not sure it's something that can be replicated by software. Human beings like human beings. Physicality isn't just an add-on, it's fundamental to who we are. A person sitting next to you explaining something is much, much different than someone or some thing teaching you via a device.

An AI tutor that passes the Turing Test and communicates via speech is roughly comparable to an anonymous human teacher teaching via Zoom. There's no physicality and no continuity to the relationship.

To use an example: my high school history teacher was an old ex-Marine with a buzz cut and big square glasses. I enjoyed his class because he was a cool guy who seemed to have seen the world, and I was interested in what he had to say about wars and historical events.

With an AI, no matter how realistic it is, there is zero of this context. Sure, it can pretend to be a grizzled ex-marine. But who cares what it thinks? A teenager is going to find it lame and boring, not equivalent to an interesting individual tutor.
I wonder if the Spark shares that flaw with the Bolt EV. When Gig car share had a fleet of Bolts and an agreement with EVgo my experience was that the connections were dodgy and frequently the charging station would claim some kind of fault.
Teaching Postgres New Tricks: SIMD Vectorization for Faster Analytical Queries
Still no mention of the scientific evidence of a ubiquitous driver of insect sterilization and decline: wireless radiation.

Its shown in robust studies that even low-level RF causes oxidative-stress and cell death in insect ovaries. For example, see: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19336934.2016.1...

Excerpt:
"Exposure of adult flies to mobile-phone radiation for 30 min has an immediate impact on ROS production in animal's ovary, which seems to cause a global, systemic and non-targeted transcriptional reprogramming of gene expression, 2 h post-exposure, being finally followed by induction of apoptosis 4 h after the end of exposure. Conclusively, this unique type of pulsed radiation, mainly being derived from daily used mobile phones, seems capable of mobilizing critical cytopathic mechanisms, and altering fundamental genetic programs and networks in D. melanogaster."

Also, this recent review paper:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489...

Excerpt:
"Insects are especially sensitive to electromagnetic radiation. An increasing number of reports indicate that flies and spiders, among other invertebrates, disappear from areas that receive the highest levels of radiation from mobile telephone antennas, and these observations are consistent with numerous laboratory studies showing the negative effects of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) on reproductive success, development and navigation"
Someone would just create a bunch of fake accounts to exploit the userbase and redeem all of the free stuff
Duplicate Google, but put a minus sign in front of the ranking formula.
I don't disagree with your assertion that the Executive branch has probably weaponized agencies against political rivals but what we really need is clear evidence of this happening so we can stop it.

Regardless of who is doing it, it is wrong. Even if you think its great that <your party> had their political opponents audited by the IRS, investigated and harassed by the FBI, etc. remember that in a few years the party in control can change and those same dictator-like tactics are now available to them to use against <your party>.
I've told my family they can leave my corpse in the forest for the wolves to eat, or roll it in a carpet and throw down a bridge, don't care one way or the other.

So yeah, cultural sanctity of death is indeed interesting.
The coolest thing for me here by far is the JavaScript Code Interpreter. I had no idea you could attach arbitrary executables and was trying to work out today how I might use some npm packages from inside a GPT - am definitely going to have a play to see what's possible.
Questions:
1) How does Land Tax differ from Property Tax?

2) How do you account for the difference in land value (seaside versus downtown versus suburban, views versus no views, etc)?
YouTube will label AI-generated videos that look real
You are so right. I just had some bizarre activists spend three years on exploiting all they learned using my friends as informants however. You do need to train your buddies the right way to handle a covert narcissist who comes into power, which is to team up not disband. This affects minorities the most. I spent 15 years with the same people, it is ridiculous to think you will have full separation of networks.
This brings to mind the saying "Anything is possible when you don't know what you're talking about."
Turbosheets: Performant spreadsheet editor without WASM
They probably wouldn't be standardized if they didn't have to be. IMO this is a regulatory failure.
Would you believe that any process where 18,742 requests were granted and 4 are denied is because of "the quality of each request"?

What would you think about a class where 18,742 students passed it and 4 failed it, or a company where 18,742 employees have acceptable performance and 4 are fired?
> The intro did strike me as pretty questionable though:

> > For the great majority of people, believing in the truths of science is unavoidably an act of faith.

I largely agree with the statement you quote.

I have a PhD in physics; I understand science well. I believe that man went to the moon. I understand one of the proofs - they left a reflector which you can aim at with a laser.

But.... I've never pointed at laser at it myself. I would probably struggle to obtain such a laser and would definitely struggle to aim it and detect the reflection (by reading up on engineering I probably could do it if I dedicated to it very significant effort). So, on what basis do I hold this belief?

The truthful answer is that I believe I'm good at evaluating other more indirect sources of information. For example, if a scientist claims that they have such a laser and made the measurement, I believe I am knowledgeable enough to read their publication and spot a large class of inconsistencies that could expose their frauds. But.... I haven't even done that. And this is me, who (probably) has the intellectual tools to explore these questions. Imagine someone who doesn't even understand the scientific process.

EDIT: I'm now reading the article and I see that they've made the same points already much better.
Right! Always Sunny is funny (the bells in that scene get me every time), but, in the name of comedy, it skips over the obvious: you can go to natural history museums! They frequently have talks where you can meet people who have dug dinosaur bones out of the ground, and they love to answer all your questions about it.

Sure, they could all be faking it, but at that point you have to question how much evidence it takes to believe in anything at all.
Noise generates a very physical feeling of pain that tires me down and makes it impossible to focus.

It's the equivalent to having somebody constantly punch me in the face: it's annoying and distracting at first, and it eventually turns into tiredness and lack of motivation to do anything other than leaving the room I'm currently in to breathe some fresh air.

I understand this is something that happens to everyone (which is why so many people dislike open offices), but I have good reason to believe my noise sensitivity is worse than average and that it has been so since I was a kid.
If you are founding a startup and you have a wife, you are more likely to fail than an entrepreneur who is single. And if you have even more commitments like kids, or other dependents, your chances only get even worse.

The best way to keep your chances of success high is to ensure your life is very fluid and open to change, and that there are no liabilities that can drag you down. If that is not possible, the only remedy is to be independently wealthy.
I planned to do something similar to it on my blog. The idea being using that page as a public bookmark list. It would contain anything from books to blog posts to youtube videos.

https://mahesh-hegde.github.io/readings/

But I am not a prolific blogger and haven't updated it anyway for a long time.
Ask HN: Whos Moonlighting?
how do you stay laser-focused when not working? explain your process. Thanks
Hmm, maybe that's it. I also am an introvert, though an extroverted introvert - I need some human contact, but I also find it draining in much more than small doses. So maybe that's why I like the checkout line - it's a socially-appropriate human contact that I can cause to happen just by getting in the line.
How to take time off and use it well
GP's comment was edited. It originally said: "That is to say, they're not even investigating a crime."
> That means it is very stable

That means "stable" as in "it is not going to change".

But from a developer perspective, binding redirects, brrrrrr.... Also, source-level framework debugging tends to break every so often. It is obvious their focus is on the new .NET.
OpenAI Pauses New Signups to Manage Overwhelming Demand
Gas and Oil didn't start off as standardized (nothing does) - got there over time. I'm sure EV will get there - eventually. Needs a standards group like ASTM maybe.
I enjoyed yours.
So, you are proposing a new standard of satire. =)
Curious by which metric(s) you consider Samsung Internet Browser superior to Chrome for Android?
Parental controls are unusable and it's why Congress is stepping in
OK, going to try to be serious for a sec :)

I hear what you're saying, that allowing these newly-formed companies to control their own destinies would allow them to pursue other sources of revenue that's not so user-hostile. I can believe that in the short term.

However, I don't think that can really last over the long term. It seems like every big company eventually trends towards integrated monopoly, and when they get there and get broken up, another one will rise and take its place.

Google today was Microsoft not so long ago, and probably Apple in the not-so-distant future. I don't know who the next upstart monopoly is after them, but it seems like this sort of cohesive, all-encompassing business model has synergies and efficiencies of scale that smaller independent companies just can't match.

Chrome, Android, and the rest of the Google ecosystem all feed into each other, each creating value and lock-in for their peers. It's the same approach used by every major ecosystem vendor, whether that's Google or Apple or MS or Samsung or AWS. And in so doing, they crushed every independent browser vendor, every independent phone vendor, every independent cloud vendor, every independent search engine, every independent smart home vendor, etc. From the business side, all that money helps subsidize upstart business units, all that data and staff helps each unit perform better than their smaller peers, and that name recognition gives them a built-in customer base. Even from the user side, there is a lot of simplicity gained from "one login to do everything I need online". I don't think that fundamental dynamic is going to change, and regulators will never be able to keep up with new monopolies. They can form in half a decade or so, whereas anti-trust enforcement takes decades (and multiple administrations, typically having to wait for a blue cycle).

I'm not much of a capitalist, and it saddens me that this is the reality. The public is always playing catch-up, first enabling these huge mega-corps, then slowly finding they've grown too big, and only then trying to do something about it... but by then, another challenger is already in the works and the cycle begins anew.

I wish there were a "good enough" public alternative for these pieces of fundamental digital infrastructure: a publicly-owned-and-operated messaging network, free email services, social network, online storage, calendar, etc., kinda like how we build roads and bridges. When we depend on huge companies and small volunteer efforts to provide our digital essentials, the huge companies are always going to win. Sigh.

Just thinking out loud...
I don't recommend my solution BUT

Your description is close to what I experience at times, that blinking thing may help you ignore outside the monitor distractions as it is there forcing you to ignore?

Interesting,

Do one and tell me ; )

I cost me $25 or less.... all spares ESP32 (most of them has a LED pinned anyways) and don't bother the heart monitor initially, just set time and rate of descent for the blink.

Cheap test...
> There’s a simple litmus test for independent-mindedness: does the person in question do the continuous work of collating “news” and narratives from all across the spectrum?

Simple? What if they think the entire range to care about are “my conservative grandfather” and “my liberal in-laws”? In other words this isn’t a litmus test unless the person even knows what the spectrum is.

Which is the point at which you return to Orthodoxy Privilege, or rather Ideology as people other than Paul “Not Invented Here” Graham has been calling it for over a century.
Answer to all headlines that ask a question: No
Yeah right, the "deep state." Cry me a river.

If telecoms had even a smidgeon of interest in actually serving their customers instead of milking them (and milking the taxpayers too), this issue would never have come up. This is necessary infrastructure, and should not be used as a cash cow by predatory corporations.
My grandfather specifically chose meteorology as a field because it had the most numbers heh.
They aren't really, it is just that modern engines are incredibly tolerant of what you put in them. Some survey found that the different octane tanks get mis-filled a large portion of the time with other octanes or higher ethanol ratings. Even within an octane rating what is in there varies a lot. The changes needed to make a four stroke work on propane is very small. And an old diesel engine will run on almost any liquid that will burn but not evaporate at stp. The cars will get smarter and be able to do better with different voltages at some point.
PS: I think shouting out neocities on HN just brought it down, lol. IT HAPPENS.
Ethanol is my go to medication. It’s the only calcium, sodium, and potassium ion channel blocker that can enter the brain. These are implicated in bipolar disorder which I have. The trick is to not abuse it just like any other medication.

I also have labile hypertension and it’s the only medication I can take that controls my blood pressure spikes.

I feel the same way about nicotine, although I can’t take it because it turns me to up. Nicotine is a stimulant and can be used as a medicine in lower doses. The problem is that people used to do and that sets up the addiction cycle.

I definitely have an issue with a very high glutamate/GABA ratio. My other go to medicine is Klonopin which I use only when I’m in a severe crisis. Like when I had a delusional psychosis when I had Covid.
Well let's just take a look at the public facts and evidence provided to secure these warrants to decide.
SAP Patches Critical Vulnerability in Business One Product
Yes, the morning routine and "at the end of the day" journaling are things that I never successfully implemented.

Thanks for pointing to body doubling and anti planner. They seem like interesting concepts. Do you have any others that are worth checking?
You seem to misunderstand the intent of my comment.

The feedback (from Rust devs, at least) on this language seems to boil down to "But why isn't it Rust?", which also seems to be kind of a resounding sentiment around many different languages that Are Not Rust. Conversations around Zig and Go get derailed (by Rust devs) all the time.

So my question is, if a language Is Not Rust, and ultimately your demand is to use Rust, why even bother complaining? Just use Rust. The rest of us don't want Rust, so languages in this space (this space being defined as "Statically typed, compiled languages that Are Not Rust"), can be interesting. Derailing to poke at all the ways a language isn't Rust is just a waste of everybody's time.
I just eat lowee carb veggies. Fiber suppliments help many people.
One of the best deck-builder games I've ever played and fortunately also the first. Case study in building a fun and engaging game.
A shortcut is to pick one from this list: https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/locations/

If AWS is a customer, you can trust that it's a good well-connected facility, and you have the option of a cheap low-latency direct fiber connection to AWS within the same data center should you ever need it. You'll have your pick of Internet carriers in any of these carrier-neutral facilities. Ask the colocation facility to recommend a local contractor for your installation work and use their Remote Hands service for small maintenance work.
> if science is conducted properly, it lays out in public the available objective evidence for its truths and invite anyone to come and investigate, and falsify the claims if they have sufficient evidence to the contrary

This is true statement, but it doesn't mean any given piece of knowledge produced by science is actually battle-tested. See the replication crisis.

Yet as soon as a published paper gets an idea from their abstract into The News (TM), that interpretation (potentially misunderstood or embellished by the journo) is "facts" and "science."
> If you are founding a startup and you have a wife, you are more likely to fail than an entrepreneur who is single.

At the very least, having to explain and justify every choice and setback to a non-involved yet judgmental person sounds miserable.
What If Money Expired?
And if my grandma had wheels she'd be a bicycle....

>for example if we get rid of money and measuring profits then the profit motive would disappear.

Money is just one particular measure, but it's also a measure of 'something'. If I wasn't collecting money, it would be gold bars, or chunks of land, or widgets. At the end of the day people will find a means of measuring profit. Greed and jealousy will not be removed from humanity any time soon, and possibly ever.

>so legal protection of private data and punishment of abuse will remain necessary.

With that I agree.
Does anyone know why there isn't any competition in paid accounts for AI? Is it because of price? No one can compete on price due to VCs are paying for it?
The Patterns of Reality
This is really interesting! What would be a good example of when I would want to use monkeypatch vs langchain or OpenAI functions?
Two possibilities. Either the government is incredibly careful to only submit requests with sufficient evidence and justification to the secret court or its a rubber stamp. I wonder.
Amazon is blocking promotions of employees who don't comply with RTO policy
Any of them? In 2008, they all had more market share than Android and were all in active development.

Android won because they followed the Windows Mobile model of letting OEMs run the OS with their own hardware and UI flavor. The first successful Android device was the Motorola Droid which had a Blackberry/HTC-like hardware keyboard. Later devices like the Moto Atrix offered a desktop environment inside Android when hooked up to a monitor. This idea was later extended by Samsung with Dex Mode.

That is what OEMs wanted. They didn't want to be an interchangeable manufacturer competing on price, which is what happened to Windows PC makers.
> If they get it right, and the search produces exactly what they predicted, then they get something.

Good grief, I can think of a variety of ways that this incentive would result in horrific corruption. Judicial impartiality is important and all too easily sullied; for instance, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
I wrote a kafka connect single message transform (SMT) to remove PII fields embedded in json messages:

https://github.com/ferozed/mask-json-field-transform
The lack of basic functionalities like generics, sort functions, lambdas, is a hinderance if you got a taste of .net.
> The web is increasingly turning into closed platform unindexable silos.

So it is the quality of the open web itself that has been declining, and search is just reflection of that. LLM doesn't solve that, unless the LLM has access across the silos.