skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A proposal, dear reader: Create a list of bookmarks linking to websites you find interesting, and publish it for the world to see. You decide what constitutes “interesting”.

> The model is as recursive as it is simple. There is nothing preventing a list of bookmarks from linking to another list of bookmarks.

This + friend-of-friend commenting on shared bookmarks = Google Reader's "Note in Reader" bookmarklet + friends shared items[1] feature.

For the people who used shared items, the RSS feed reader part of Reader was just another way to generate shared items. The shared items list could be public and positive engagement was broadly open, but commenting on shared items was limited to designated friends and their friends.

This made the sharing aspect sticky. Sharing and commenting on items helped you expand your friends list, which exposed you to more shared items, for which you could be the aggregating conduit that shared unique items (including bookmarklet-captured items with no corresponding feed) for people on the other side of the friendship wall.

Those groups grew organically and were socially insulated from abuse. By definition everyone involved knew or had to vouch for each other, even without real names. And aside from blocking individual users, severing a mutual friend connection effectively cut them off from visibility to others.

It was fantastic.[2]

1: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-readers-gets-more...

2: https://www.buzzfeed.com/robf4/googles-lost-social-network
This thread reminds me of [0]

I wonder if there is a way to get ChatGPT to act in the way you're hinting at, though ("You've asked me to do X, but really what you want is Y"). This would be potentially risky, but high-value.

[0]: https://nitter.net/ESYudkowsky/status/1718654143110512741
So does NVIDIA, just turns out NVIDIA can profit more because of their software and the software ecosystem around it adds so much value, nobody can compete.
It's gonna take a lot of work and many years to approach that. Even by leveraging AI. And by diverging with their own chips, they're gonna miss out on the mainstream.
That would likely not work out because the overwhelming majority of criminal cases in the US end with a plea deal instead of going through a trial, which is another problem of its own.

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158356619/plea-bargains-crim...
Machine learning gives users 'superhuman' ability to open and control VR tools
Unkey raises $1.5M pre-seed: Authentication and Authorization for APIs
I agree, it was my favorite site on the web before it was acquired.
It's not a different model, it's just a customized system prompt. It costs basically nothing extra for them to run. Actual fine-tuning is $$$
> 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.

Do you have any references to back that? Because it sure does seem like older founders-- ones more likely to be married and have kids --yield outsized returns.[1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kmehta/2022/08/23/older-entrepr...
Same article:

"In a following letter Walton stated that the government had revamped 24.4% of its requests in the face of court questions and demands in time from July 1, 2013 to September 30, 2013."

"When [the Government] prepares an application for [a section 215 order, it] first submit[s] to the [FISC] what's called a 'read copy,' which the court staff will review and comment on. [A]nd they will almost invariably come back with questions, concerns, problems that they see. And there is an iterative process back and forth between the Government and the [FISC] to take care of those concerns so that at the end of the day, we're confident that we're presenting something that the [FISC] will approve. That is hardly a rubber stamp. It's rather extensive and serious judicial oversight of this process."

https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/is-the-foreign-inte... explains why the final win rate is so high and that it is exactly in line with other ex parte court orders:

"Title III statistics strongly support the basic prediction that a lopsided win rate is a general feature of ex parte proceedings, not a unique characteristic of the FISC. Between 1968 and 2012, state and federal agencies made 50,419 requests for Title III wiretaps, and federal courts approved 99.93% of these requests."

"Ultimately, we should care about the substance of what the court approves, not the frequency with which it does so. And if the substance of what the court does affects how the government selects applications, there’s no reason to think FISC reforms will change the win rate."

That substance is reviewed by Congress.
Hrm. Since I've only seen this in 720p, encoded according to 'scene release' standards, that can't be the reason why I disliked it :-)

The same way I disliked the remakes of Dune and Bladerunner. I don't know exactly how to put it, but despite the gorgeous graphics they felt rather empty to me, like a facade in theme park, with not much behind it.

OR like Nina Hagen once screamed: 'TV, Teeh-Vau, Ich glotz Teeeh-Vaauuuuu... (<-imagine german pronounciation there) ...Alles so schön bunt hier...'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWzPcDtZZZo
Exams and performance reviews are designed to rank the things being examined... why would that possibly apply to a warrant evaluation process?

You think a good process is one where definitionally 50% of the warrants get rejected?

In that case: just file 2x garbage warrant requests so the ones you care about are "correctly" guaranteed to be at the top.
DeepMind's New AI Can Predict Genetic Diseases
A lot of new cars are "Flex-fuel" and will take literally anything short of diesel. They just adjust timing to the octane rating.

In the bay area there's a lot of E85 fuel stations which are ~half the price per gallon (~$2.50) and work with these cars. Slightly less milage but the price difference more than makes up for it. If your car has the 'flex-fuel' sticker you may as well take the cheaper fuel imho.
Smaller, less expensive homes would have less tax avoided than larger, more expensive homes.

1000sqft or 10,000sqft, small rural home or prime real estate, both zero tax. There's no incentive to improve land use.
And the company that maintains those chargers uses that standard. We don't want the standard, we want the chargers that work.
While science does indeed lay out the "available objective evidence", it is highly unlikely that a layman would understand them.
Iowa teen grew 7k pounds of veggies, then gave them all away
Probably some critical typo/paperwork issue (submitted to a suddenly dead judge or something). Once re-submitted, it was stamped.

Or it was a duplicate.
Federal judges are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. They serve for life unless they are impeached.
I'm trying to explain to our IT that we need to match our customers expectations on how to interface with them, not the other way around, that has so far, either fallen on deaf ears or not made it to the correct person.

I have a ticket open about MX Resolution failures on outbound email to a certain subset of customers - IT keeps blaming unspecified configuration errors on the customer side, not a misconfiguration in our infrastructure. If they gave me a RCA and told me what was wrong, I'd be happy to go to the customer and tell them what's wrong. They won't do that though, nor will they open up a ticket with our vendor to resolve or investigate the issue on our end.
I would find eating out all the time to get very old. Even a stovetop and refrigerator would help a lot. I'm fine when I'm traveling--though I like a refrigerator--but I have the advantage of knowing it's not an open-ended thing.
Freeway fire set with 'malice intent,' Newsom says
Fentanyl is Fast, cheap and deadly
Because Biden is, in reality, no different from his republican counterparts. Nor has he ever been.
Google is going to let you annotate search results
"Why did you create the panopticon hive-mind when you could've stopped at any point?"

"Oh... I was going for promo."
> pretty much every driver going through a suburban neighborhood does prepare for a child to chase a ball into a street.

Strongly disagree with this as a general statement. I live on a street near one of the several exits to my neighborhood. It’s not a sleepy street, but it’s also not a major road or anything overly busy. Being objective, I’d estimate that far less than 20% of drivers passing my house are truly prepared to stop for an unexpected obstacle and maybe ~2% are outright reckless (~50mph in a 35, DUI, fixated on phone, etc). The rest, and that’s most of us here, think they’re driving safe but are caught up in thoughts about their project at work, late for kid’s soccer practice, worried about a relationship, etc… and are mostly on autopilot for the conditions they routinely experience, but are not actively prepared for an outlier event.
Can you imagine passing a tractor going 35 on a 55 two-lane country road in a 2500 lb car with 110 horsepower?
I think a used Nissan Leaf from 2020 or so can be had for a reasonable price for this purpose right now. Depending where you are of course.
The real answer is "ok, that is a bad idea for XYZ reasons, what problem are you trying to solve? is there another way we can help you solve for it? Maybe a cheap replica would work for you?"

And look, i have nothing to go off but the justifications and choice of words in your replies. But in my experience this attitude of "high priest protecting the gates of production from barbarians(company staff)" is strongly correlated with obstructionist IT departments that everyone resents and tries to work around, and chokes the company. Resulting in the creation of the shadow IT mentioned in many other replies - because IT doesnt serve the customer needs of the employees. You might not care , or see that as your job, but thats exactly the problem that so many threads on this post are discussing.
Isn't space colonization one of the potential ways to get rid of undesirable persons for whom you would otherwise need that efficient human remain disposal for?
It isn’t a finetuned model.
Not sure what exactly it is, but it seems like just a bunch of prompt engineering.
There is likely zero finetuning: everything GPTs can do can also be done with clever system prompt engineering.

GPTs likely use extra prompt engineering to align everything.
"AI" aka machine learning
> it cannot be won and must never be fought

And this can only be done by convincing others that they will lose should they attempt to fight it.
Network effects drive Tesla sales. In this case, the network of chargers. I was a Tesla passenger for a short trip from Seattle to Vancouver and the charging at the Tesla "station" was quick and easy. Other stations were a roll of the dice and highly inconvenient.
One additional feature that I would like to see: interacting with 2 or more GPTs at the same time where they could perform different tasks based on their specific expertise and capabilities either in parallel or even sequentially as long as the replies/context of the discussion is accessible for further interactions, similar to what can be achieved with the assistants API.
fwiw there’s a ton of upcoming (and heavily debated/not yet implemented/understood) regulations around EV chargers that will absolutely nuke some of the shittier app-centric/not really functional charging systems that people rely on today. I’m not a Tesla fan per se, but it is remarkable how much better life is for Tesla owners vs. the huddled masses roaming the frozen wastes looking for a charger that can actually dispense a charge or provide users with some useful error feedback.
I think the difference in our perspectives is the type of studios we work for. In a AAA studio what you're saying makes perfect sense. But I've worked entirely for small- and mid-size studios where developers are often asked to help out with things outside their specialization. In my world, even having a specialization probably means you're more experienced and thus you're involved in a variety of projects.

Whether that's "most" software engineers in games or not I can't say. AAA studios employ way more engineers per project but there are comparatively way more small- and mid-sized developers out there. It's interesting how strong the bubbles are, even within a niche industry like games.
> Nothing beats html/css for achieving that

Many people would argue that the native iOS and Android UI toolkits beat HTML/css.

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Yes, free markets have fuelled a technological boom that delivered us renewables - an incredible, completely unexpected feat. But it may be a case of too little too late.

The problem is we spent last 100 years spewing CO2 into the atmosphere instead of switching to nuclear due to the nuclear fear-mongering from environmentalists. Now we are facing Climate Change, a civilization-ending danger. And I am not sure the renewable build-up is fast enough to replace hydrocarbon burning, especially since it also has an availability problem.

The rational strategy would thus be a (slow, controlled, careful) cost-reducing deregulation and nuclear buildup in parallel with renewables and closing down of legacy plants.

But we are facing the same resistance and fear mongering from the exact same politicians and ideologues that got us into this predicament in the first place. I am pretty sure no solution can come from the same people and way of thinking that created the problem.
So, you use the salt as a rinse aid?
Fidelity: Revisiting Persistent Bitcoin Criticisms [pdf]
ChatGPT classic still exists for me, I had this new UI since a few days.
https://chat.openai.com/g/g-YyyyMT9XH-chatgpt-classic
Samsung Notes and Calendar are way better than the Google versions. It's kind of baffling to see anyone calling them shovelware. That impression only fits if you haven't used a Samsung device in 5+ years.

It's going to be hard to go back to the Google versions after seeing how much better the Samsung versions are.
A few years ago, I was part of a neurodiversity ERG, and we were gathering recommendations for the new office that was going to be built. I found "Designing a Neurodiverse Workplace"[0]. It is a fantastic design document that told me about things I didn't have the language to express that I needed. One of the points it makes is "have a variety of types of spaces and let people pick and move between them", which the author touches on with regard to hybrid work. Everyone (not just ND people) gets overwhelmed by sensory stimuli sometimes, needs to be alone sometimes, needs to be around people and noise sometimes. I kinda knew "yeah yeah accessibility benefits everyone" but I didn't really get it until then. Highly recommend reading this.

[0]: https://www.hok.com/pdf/download/31839/

If that link doesn't work: https://www.hok.com/ideas/publications/hok-designing-a-neuro...
My advice as a former programmer turned independent who is also married is to keep things safe and not aim for global success. It doesn't really matter anyway. Live more simply and create a bunch of small things that are more guaranteed to work, don't work so hard. The world doesn't need more successful people. ("Success" as defined by our modern western standards.)
How good is the pricing at Optic Fusion? I’m always wary of “contact us for a quote”.
Awesome, thanks. We're due to update the whole marketing site.
.Charismatic leader? Cult-like redefinition of language? These things rarely correlate to anything good.
Yeah, it's pretty clear Tesla is still the best EV experience. I'm just waiting till the next gen of EVs to have proper connectors before I will consider another one. Our model Y is fine, but I don't want to buy another vehicle from them with Musk at the helm, and they don't plan to have a regular pickup anyways.
> 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.

This is worth questioning (and hopefully coming back around to believing in)! Most of the reason I reject the idea of young earth theory is that the incentive to fake the earth's evident age is so vanishingly low my understanding of the rest of society would also have to be rejected. And that's a deeply stressful act to engage in without my own incentive to. But it's worth knowing about yourself that your view of the world is inherently based in your place and comfort within it, even the stuff that people broadly agree about, not some sense of discovering absolute truth. The latter aspect is just a symptom of having a coherent worldview, which people manage with very heterodox beliefs all the time.

It's worth looking into examination of flat-earthers and why they turn to it—it's often linked to myriad other conspiracy theories, each of which support each other.
99% of the charging is at home anyway. People fixate too much on the public charge options (unless you are driving hundreds of miles a day, in which case the public chargers brands are probably the least of your worries).
To be honest that sounds like the easiest thing to do. I remember reading of a similar thing in some invention's book made in 1993 or so. They probably have a working version of it, mostly just need to release the damn truck, and figure out legal for it
Yes, I had it pinned as soon as the UI changed post dev day.
Generally speaking, Valve's vision has amazed to impress me time and time again. Not perfect, but super impressive nonetheless.

Even just simple things like pricing the Steam Deck. They are damn good at that, where the baseline is doable and each incremental improvement is worth the amount of money. Before I realize it, I've talked myself into the top of the line even though I initially went there to buy the entry-level version :-D (and I have no regrets btw)
I guess, downvoted because you dared share an anecdote about how vulnerable EVs are in certain circumstances?

It seems like people will have to relearn the hard way just why gasoline is probably the best energy storage medium ever invented.
I suppose that's Amazon's prerogative, but wow, they're really hanging out the "please recruit from our employee base" sign.

I mean, if you were hiring, you'd be well advised to try and poach folks from Amazon right now.
> let alone less foundational aspects of the faith.

God himself seems to have changed around the time of Jesus, with a really elaborate justification to make sense of it, based on very little that's actually in the Bible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Covenant
No free market for nuclear? Interesting, but not true. Simoly kWh prices show that wind and solar were cheaper than Hinkley C already, what, 5 years ago? Since then, solar is getting cheaper every year.

On electricity markets, which in Europe only take variable coats into account, the ranking, cheapest to most expensive, is: wind and solar, hydro, coal, nuclear and oil followed by gas. So even there, in hard cold numbers, nuclear looses. Even without taking the huge fix costs of nuclear plants into account, or the long term coats like waste storage.

Why do you think even small, and potentially cheaper, reactor projects get axed?
Yes, but that is beyond human perception. A nanosecond is pretty much now. Several billion years is a whole time machine.
In my experience scheduled meetings tend to be longer and involve more people than necessarily.

Also, somewhat contraintuitively, I often avoid starting some new work e. g. 30 minutes before a scheduled meeting, meanwhile without it I just start, and if interruption happens,... it just happens.
Over 800 days in hotel in the past three years. Its a rather difficult life, and hard to explain how it impacts you.

Time difference, doctor/dental visits, mail, family, and work life balance are brutal.

Getting a call when your partner totals a car, and ends up having one of their worst days, and just needs a physical person to see and comfort them really makes it seem pointless. Life happens and its hard enough when you're able to return home everyday.
I'm not sure it's this clear cut.

I'm in the partner and kid stage, and whilst I wasn't when I did my last startup - I was mostly single and could do literally what I want, when I want - which is in a lot of ways awesome if the company is the thing you wanna do...now I am more stable (routine wise?), more driven (for family, as well as wanting a win), more experienced (that's aside from being single or not I guess), but do have more responsibilities. I'm at the edge of starting something new. Wish me luck either way.
Reminds me of one of Norm Macdonald's bits where he would confound an interviewer by saying (and I'm paraphrasing) "I would not convict a rapist based on DNA evidence" and go on to explain how he didn't understand the science behind it so how in good conscience could he act on basically "taking the word of some guy in a white lab coat."
In this new Intel microcode bug, Tavis writes:

"We know something strange is happening, but how microcode works in modern systems is a closely guarded secret."

My question: How likely is it that this is an intentional bug door that was added into the microcode by Intel and its government partners?

I don't know enough about microcode and CPU's to be able to answer this myself, so backed-up opinions welcome!
Can online rating platforms direct patients to higher-quality physicians?
Everyone has kinda answered your question about these old practices carrying over. We're seeing the end of the last surviving hotel residents - recently NYT covered the eviction of an 82-year-old, who took over a contract from his aunt https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/nyregion/stewart-hotel-lo...

Nikola Tesla famously died in his residential room at the New Yorker Hotel, and I recently learned that after his presidency, Herbert Hoover lived at the Waldolf Astoria for 30 years.
Don’t be fooled, older founders have considerably more assets and a wealth of connections in their industry, as well as older more independent children. This offsets the wife and family effects.
Yeah thats kind of how I interpreted it, the flood of "low quality" brands.

I wouldn't be averse to a Chinese brand with a track record (like OnePlus).
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I’m willing to fix that. And by “that”, I mean the fact that you have a Next in your closet :)
I agree they have better features than stock Android too. The biggest for me is the customization of the UX. Simple things like allowing for gestures and displaying the bottom navigation bar at the same time. I use both because it's situational. Or separate volume controls. And Multi-tasking windows have more options and gestures, improving the whole experience.

The customization of the OS really opens up when you download their "Good Lock" app. Because phones don't have bezels anymore, I can customize the dead zone around the edges without ruining gestures. I can customize the behavior of the navbar, the notification drop down, the types of gestures, and so much more. I can use their Sound Assistant app to allow more than one app play sounds at the same time.

The downside is having to ADB into the phone and remove a lot of the preloaded bloat. They really do pack too much garbage on it. Some Samsung apps, especially Samsung Pay, started started having ads in them one day. And now I don't trust any of their standalone apps.

All that being said, as much as I love my years of Samsung phones, I doubt I'll be getting another. New devices don't really offer me anything better than what I already have, except for the removal of more features.
Why BS? It appears to be incredibly useful for a lot of people. You don't seem to have had a long career, let me tell you that it pays to keep an open mind.