skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Smart drugs” is a poor choice of words to describe them. They are really “executive function support drugs”.

Even on them, a person will need to consciously make healthy choices. These drugs do not magically help you think smart. That still has to come from you.

If anything,
I feel ever so slightly “dumber” on them. They dull my creative thinking and in return, I gain a bit of motivation. It does nothing to my willpower. So I still need to want xyz thing bad, but it makes the act of doing that more fulfilling. Even if it’s a waste of my time but something I must do. The experience is more fulfilling. I reckon it’s the extra dopamine at play.

Regardless, xyz is still my decision and I can very much pick an unhealthy thing. Drugs don’t aid your prioritization skills. They don’t improve your communication. Those are skills that have to be learned. Maybe not, if you won an organized parent lottery. Then at least you will know what good looks like, and can learn to emulate that.
Stuff being designed or made by meat puppets doesn't imply any quality.
The Next Billion Developers
ChatGPT - World Renowned Scholar
> Not to be rude, but did you read it?

Have you?

> You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator.

> [...] the Jews have taken control of your economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense

> We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest"

And there's more of this all over this letter. Just because he mentioned a tit-for-tat rationalization first and addresses American's actions (does it really surprises you in a "Letter to America"?), it doesn't remove the ideology behind it. It's also very ironic to see this letter brought up by leftist/progressive people as a justification for "resisting" the way Hamas does (because that is what is happening on TikTok, maybe you haven't watched the videos and read the comments). Almost none of the values they claim to care about would be left if Bin Laden or the Hamas had it their way.

> There were lots of liberal western countries that didn't get 9/11ed, so "he hated our freedoms" lacks explanatory power if nothing else.

Are you trying to rewrite history that's not even 25 years old? London, Madrid, Paris (to mention only the largest) all had sizable attacks from Al-Qaeda or their sprouts after 9/11, they don't count unless it caused above 1000 deaths or something? With their limited means (relative to the undertaking), they have managed to struck the biggest target they could on 9/11 and cause the most death and destruction in any Western democracy in a terrorist act.
What was it like when cosmic inflation occurred?
>so much potential for software to improve that field

Reading Dr Fei Fei Li's "The worlds I see" really drove this home. And not just ecology, Soooo many fields would benefit from that type of interdisciplinary communication. Medicine, 100k people die a year from medical mistakes. Some would be remedied with something as simple as a sensor that detects when a patient has been still too long.

It's basically a book on the history of computer vision paired with a biography, and it's amazing to see how much early psychological, neurological work went in to the early field of computer vision. And how much cooperation needed to happen for ai to even come near healthcare. Really made me appreciate how interconnected nearly all intellectual pursuits are.
The actual article generating all 190 citations:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12195-022-00754-8

> "Author's note: This article was written by the ChatGPT chatbot, in response to prompts from MK. That human-chatbot conversation is presented here, without editing."
This is the source, and a much better article: https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/11/16/privacy-proton-mail-ke...
Developers can't seem to stop exposing credentials in publicly accessible code
Nice, so now we have OpenAI and OpenSubtitles that has 'Open' in their name and not open :)
The author didn't need to extend his argument that far. That wasn't my point.

What he did is make some statements that are factually wrong. Reality as we know it does not have infinite resolution. This is categorically false.

It points to the fact about how his arguments aren't fundamentally true. His point is flawed because at the low level it's false.

In my argument I took it further. I made the counter point. You probably didn't read far enough.

If you did you would agree with my counter point. At a high level, both of our overall points have truth. But this guy is talking about his point as if it's the one fundamental truth, and he even uses the term infinite resolution which again is false.
UBI would likely only be enough for the barest of necessities of survival. Gardening in an empty lot would be an obvious way to supplement that income, with the same benefits of a gym membership.

The point of UBI is that via automation and reduction in cheap energy, opportunities for useful economic activity will be harder to find. In the best case, most people would have a mixture of reliable but marginal income (gardening) and high-potential but risky activity (inventing) with UBI allowing enough security to make crime a bad proposition.
Of course. I'm just using the simple high school algebra as a kind of metaphor or analogy to the similar concepts and operations in e.g. Lambda Calculus-based PLs. They're formalized in Category Theory but I didn't want to get into all that.
"Blockchain" is one of the current buzzwords that has to be slapped on everything. Not long before they do a v2 with "AI".
That’s true, but I think there are few points of concern here.

Currently, I can detect content farm garbage. Will I be able to when AI starts churning out videos?

Volume is also a concern. If 10x more videos are AI trash, it functionally just becomes harder to find what you want.

WRT propaganda, I think the past few years have proven that people are just absolutely terrible at resisting political manipulation. I don’t support censorship as a solution to this issue, but at the same time it seems impossible to imagine AI doing anything other than making this problem significantly worse.

I also wonder how much worse AI will make the filter bubble phenomenon. I don’t just mean with regard to political extremism, but also when it comes to basic alienation from your peers. Too much homogenous culture wasn’t a good thing, but infinitely personalized culture is pretty alienating as well.
> I think a lot of those that think firing people is trivial were never in the room when the decisions were made or the conversations were had.

There is so much discourse on HN (and elsewhere) that everyone agrees with and you just read and you're like they clearly have no idea what it is to actually be in the situation they're talking about.
Monkey patching isn't what your library is supposed to do, it's just a mechanic that it uses to get there. This would be like me making a scripting language and calling it "virtual machine". Then when people ask "why is a scripting language called virtual machine" I would say "it uses a virtual machine and the file is called virtualmachine.py".
I'm in the opposite boat. This style nicely mimics how I think. I find the types of fragment in the article align with the boundaries of each unit of thought in a manner that quite clearly approximates my internal dialog.

I think your examples does a disservice, as your breaks do not follow such rules.
Possibly misleading. Opensubtitles.org is still up and running.
ChatWRS+
The status quo they describe is a printing process where material is deposited and then UV cured, then there’s some kind of scraping process. That seems like a hybrid of FDM and lithographic printing from a vat of goo a la FormLabs.

Is that a common process?
It's because the cup is insulated to hold in boiling water long enough to properly cook the noodles. The "cover" instruction is again to retain heat. It's probably? microwave safe if you completely remove the cover. But college dorm rooms don't allow microwaves, they do allow electric kettles.

Typed while enjoying a spicy hot chicken maruchan.
It's largely to protect their brand from bad press (this has hit even Google/Microsoft in the past), but established finance institutions absolutely hate porn, even the "less shady" ones like onlyfans or pornhub have issues with banking.
The simulation only has to simulate one mind with enough details to keep the one mind occupied.
https://nitter.net/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?l...
> It’s all self indulgence anyway.

... he writes ... into the void
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/kavanaugh-protests-u...
Let's just treat everyone who storms the capital and disrupts the function of government the same.
I have one of these in usage as an entertainment center PC keyboard, as an alternative to the media PC keyboard with godawful integrated trackpads or extra coffee table clutter of a mouse.

It’s solid. Not quite to my taste for primary keyboard usage but not bad.
the language to use, it depends what you want to do, right?
Similarly: Felix Grant did a jazz show in Washington DC for decades. He amassed a massive collection of jazz albums that eventually became the Felix Grant Jazz Archive at AMU.

ref: https://udc.libguides.com/FGJA

He's also a figure in the largest jazz festival that no one ever heard of. The Lorton Jazz Festival played exclusively inside a Virginia prison from 1958 to 1968.

ref: https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q="Lorton+Jazz+Festival"
I decided long ago to not take substances such as these, or even caffeine. I also abstain from tobacco, alcohol, and the like.

This forced me to develop skills and discipline over the years to achieve self control, and this has more than paid off. I find I can work a 12 hour day, and then go in the next day and do the same. It doesn't seem like a huge deal to me - especially when I consider family members who are/were farmers where this is quite a normal work day and used to be quite normal for everyone until about WWII.

Am I an outlier? I don't know, but I know others who have taken the same path with similar results.

I've worked with many people who cannot function without caffeine, let alone other substances. They will often claim how it enhances their abilities, but it doesn't come across that way in my observations. They seem to be dependent on a substance for normal, or even sub-normal performance.
... is my enemy's enemy, no more, no less. Maxim 29

https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-12-31

https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-03-08

https://schlockmercenary.fandom.com/wiki/The_Seventy_Maxims_...
how do you put a screenshot into chatgpt?
Put another way, "All models are wrong, but some are useful."[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
Yes, this killed navigation and pressing back. I was on example 4 in rust, and changed it to c++ to look at the differences. Instead, it showed the intro page in c++ and pressing back does nothing, as the history is completely broken.

There was no easy way to jump back to example 4 in rust. I had to change it to rust and click through each example again.
I have been thinking about that a lot recently. Where I work, we spend a very small fraction of our time on building things that are unique to our business. Maybe we are doing something very wrong, but I am under the impression that most of the code that gets written anywhere is extremely low-entropy.

This low-entropy, repetitive coding is not limited to the user interfaces. We do tend to describe the same structures and logic over and over again in front-ends, backends, and databases.

I am currently building an open-source project that tries to make the definition of applications from database structure to business logic to user interfaces, much more declarative and compact. If you are interested, you can try it on https://sql.ophir.dev
I wrote extensively about the running costs of a Delaware C Corp for foreigners: https://jmstfv.com/stripe-atlas-taxes

Basically, expect around $800 to $1,000 in maintenance costs per year. LLCs may be cheaper, but open you up to tricky tax setups (you could be personally liable for U.S taxes).

> What is the recommendation for a company to manage an open source project?

I don't think you need that.

There is a non-trivial legal and accounting overhead that you will have to deal with to keep the corp running.
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Found the source [0], I guess the article author made a summary or similar. It was cross-posted to Slashdot too [1] automatically based on the time.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20231116120902/https://fortune.c...

[1]: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/11/16/141213/proton-mail-...
And was considered significantly out of the norm.

And not surprisingly, was based entirely off comments on Twitter.
Wasn’t that because the other person slandered the other one when this person was not present either online or in comments?
Keeping a common ledger that contains potentially untrusted data is one of the few use cases I can see where a block chain made sense.

Way back in the day (and maybe still, I’m not sure) didn’t MIT run a PGP key database? The only problem I had with it was that I didn’t have an expiration date on an old key so it hung around forever.
A classic tactic used by conmen. Make the victim trust you, then snatch their belongings. Easier than open confrontation.
On the other hand, if you "rewrite curl" but only support Linux and Windows on x86_64, well, that task is probably achievable
Robert Oppenheimer speaking at UCLA 5/14/1964 [video]
Yes, he died in June of last year[1]. It seems like his family is running the blog etc. now[2].

[1] https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=54513
[2] https://www.patreon.com/posts/finally-news-85529959
The latest Happy Hacking Keyboard Hybrid with its amazing Topre keys.
> It's not like it's some secret technology nobody else has

Well to be fair, there’s a lot of technology at spacex no one else has. One example, the Raptor engine’s combination of size, efficiency, and thrust is just not available to anyone other than SpaceX. Even if exact schematics were stolen you’d still need to obtain the recipes for the alloys used and how to manufacture them. Companies gave up on full flow staged combustion as just not feasible but SpaceX figured it out and is on v3 of perfecting it.
Bringing more data to the app so that the app filters it instead of the DB server is always wrong.

An app with such solution is a sign of mutliple issues that either the DB schema is wrong, or that the devs don't know enough Sql, or both.

Sql has been there for decades, much less longer than many of the actual dev framework. PostgreSQL (and other DBMS) have also been there for decades, they have perfected the art of fetching data.
I think it is more likely that average human intellect is going to regress in the next few years.
Its a bit of a game changer if you already understand things so can point it to the right tasks and also clock that it's screwed up just from glancing at the code.

I haven't tried Cursor yet, I just get it to write or refactor functions bit by bit maybe that's better for monolithic tasks?
This is so true. If you just want the data then use a different store (e.g. NoSQL) and everything will be quicker, lighter weight and slower to develop…
What is your fear? I have one that "grips" the front and back of the frame and it works really well and has for 1000s of reps.
Gunned down? No.

Ignored and shunned? Absolutely.
One can be quite talented at rejecting reality
Until the new year, when it will be closed down, unless you pay
> Despite what Casey Muratori is trying to argue (and I'm largely sympathetic to his efforts) most line-of-business software needs to optimise for changeability and correctness ("programming over time") not performance.

Then consider listening to John Ousterhout instead: turns out that in practice, changeability and correctness are not nearly at odds with performance than we might initially think. The reason being, simpler programs also tend to run faster on less memory. Because in practice, simpler programs have shorter call stacks and avoid convoluted (and often costly) abstractions. Sure, top notch performance will complicate your program. But true simplicity will deliver reasonable performance most of the time.

By the way, while pushing fors down is mostly a data oriented advice, pushing ifs up is more about making your program simpler. Or more precisely, increasing its source code locality: https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/source-of-readability that’s what concentrating all the branching logic in one place is all about.
Palestinian flags: the article you showed was from the first demonstration (or one of the first). There were many more in future ones and no clashes. FWIW I personally think raising the flag of an enemy state is distasteful, but Israel is a democracy.

The UN still hasn't condemned the October 7th attack nor Hammas's use of civilians as human shields. Not sure about the rest. So I wouldn't call them an unbiased authority.

Politicians in Israel have called for ethnic cleansing, fringe crazy politicians. Marjorie Taylor green blamed California wildfires on Jewish space lasers. I hope you don't let that paint your views on the US legislative bodies.

As for different laws about ethnicities (probably the source for calls of apartheid): it's very limited, the main thing is that diaspora Jews can get citizenship automatically. This law is to help Jews anywhere escape from antisemitism. If you're an Israeli citizen however (muslim, jewish, christian or whatever), you have equal rights under the law.

It's easy to parrot things like apartheid, but it's more like 0.001% apartheid in the most technical sense, and not what people mean it when they say this word.

As for the comparison to western democracies: I think Israel is doing very well, even compared to some of the world's oldest democracies (France/Swiss multiple Muslim related bans, US during the trump administration, etc.), but the people drawing this comparison usually advocate for replacing it with Hammas which is a proper terrorist organization that advocates for killing all non Muslims, killing lgbt, etc. It's a classic Utopia fallacy gone to the extreme.
190 citations sounds impressive but considering they mostly come from possibly the two fields that gathers citations the quickest - biomedical sciences and artificial intelligence - this shouldn't be too surprising?

Shalosh B. Ekhad, OTOH, is the real deal -

https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/ekhad.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doron_Zeilberger
Ask HN: Best Offline ChatGPT Alternative?
Hi everyone,

Looking to work on some generative AI use cases like code generation but needing to keep data within our control.

Does anyone have any recommendations on good ChatGPT alternatives? Possibly run locally and on a VM in the cloud.
> I don't really recall what I did with music from Oink's shutdown in 2007 until Spotify came to the U.S. a few years later.

I believe most folks migrated to What.cd until large streaming platforms made music discoverability and accessibility possible again.
They’re all from this paper, which is written by ChatGPT with some prompts from the author: https://oa.mg/work/10.1007/s12195-022-00754-8
My guess is pure ambition. Tends to attract ambitious people who in turn have a higher chance of making those dreams a reality.
I think this is one of the areas the whole "AI revolution" is lacking.

"Cognition", vision and generally the sensor parts are pretty advanced by now, ex: all the latest GPTs and vision Apis. But the actuator parts of the equation are pretty much the same as years ago.

I think a large part of this is the old industry saying: "Software is cheap/easy, Hardware is expensive/hard", These days "robots" pretty much means a robot arm that is either a clunky pile of parts with an Arduino for the hobbyist market or a multi-thousand dollar industrial arm to move card boxes.

I also don't know if human movement is a well understood problem yet, everything I've seen until now looks pretty much a better version of movement from a 's sci-fi robot movie ( I'm not discounting the difficulty of this, just pointing out )

Maybe this is the calm before the storm, now it's all "chat bots" and it's mostly inside our computers, when humanoid robots start to roam the streets and affecting the physical World it will be another ball game.
I don't think most people today realize how wasteful modern software engineering is. They think, it's fine to be inefficient, I'll just get a bigger X. And we are now blessed with technology and solutions that make that a possibility, when for the longest time it wasn't.

But you don't want to have to optimize when you don't expect to. It takes time away from your features and quality, and is risky. You want to predict when you'll need to grow and how much effort it might take, and control costs. That's why software development should be efficient from the start. By only using what you need, you don't run into situations where you have to optimize to survive.

Anyone who says to me "I'll just put everything in PostgreSQL and optimize later" sounds just as naive as the person who says "let's build for scalability before we have any customers". Both are giving themselves problems they don't need, and trying to justify it by thinking it's going to save them time. The former is giving themselves problems in the long term, the latter is giving themselves problems in the short term. Even if these tradeoffs are acceptable to you, they are often unnecessary!
I've got a canned food story. Up until a few years go I never tried SPAM, I thought it was rather vile food and always wondered "who the heck buys this stuff". Then I took a vacation in Hawaii, namely Oahu and had my mind completely changed.

Those guys used SPAM everywhere, grocery stores all sold SPAM musubi and practically every breakfast place offered SPAM and eggs. Turns out it came out of WWII where it was one of the more common rations. I remember thinking to myself "these people have unparalleled access to fresh fish and other super healthy foods, if they are eating SPAM there must be a point to it" and finally tried some SPAM musubi and had my mind completely changed about SPAM in the process. Cooked properly I found it quite tasty, since then I almost always keep a can of SPAM in the pantry and make my own musubi every few months.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231116140232/https://blog.open...
This is different though, because the end game of AI music isn't better music technology for musicians, but replacing musicians.

I'm worried we're going to go into a dark age where society forgets how to make truly creative new art due to lack of incentives, and the AIs won't make anything new due to lack of anything creative to train on. We'll just regurgitate the pre-AI stuff forever.
I disagree that this is a lack of integrity. An organization has no obligation to maintain documents on its website in perpetuity.
That's far more likely to be the emulator failing to handle V8 JIT operations than a bug in Chrome.
[dupe]

More discussion here:

The Guardian Deletes Osama Bin Laden's 'Letter to America'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38284020