skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's advice, not a lecture. You seem to be extraordinarily cynical and conditioned based on your life experience so I won't try to give you any more advice based on my life experience.

No one was talking about a utopia.
It’s my understanding a soft water landing is being attempted.
You lost me at tasteless and your sweeping generalizations which are simply not true.
SpaceX said they were done for one or two months now.
> coming back if I feel like I missed a detail

How do you know you are not missing a ton of important meaning? I feel like I know people that do this and are clearly missing major points by substituting their on beliefs in.
"Chip War," an Analysis of the Geopolitics of Critical Technology
How does a placebo for amphetamines work? I'd know the difference in 30 minutes.
> You realise that this is a problematic situation created by technology

I'm saying this technology is a net positive for me. Sure, problems can arise from applying this net-positive technology but even considering them, they're a net positive. Especially in this case where we already have solutions for large amounts of crap content created by humans today. I think they'll scale well to crap content created by AI tomorrow (eg: Recommendation systems, p2p sharing etc).

Regarding your second point. I think we just have different perspectives on this. I see this technology as allowing me to do "strictly more" than I could before. You say that it's not "my expression" but I say it is because I'm able to bring forth what's in my mind (according to me!). You say it's not what I had in mind but compare against this scenario: I have an idea for a song and use a musical instrument. The output that I produce is quite far from my intent as I'm untrained. With this model, I can get a lot closer to my intent compared to using an instrument since I'm untrained. I still have the option of later learning an instrument if I'm unsatisfied.

Overall, I lose nothing and gain a nice power and still retain the option to learn an instrument if I wish. Thus it's a clear net positive for me that allows me to express more right now.
Well billions of human beings are living remarkably repetitive and unoriginal life. Doing few categories of work, living in few categories of home, and eating few varieties of food. Same for entertainment, transport and so on. Most people are just running in rather tight loops.

Perhaps to start with, one way to have vastly more creativity/diversity of things people do is to have vastly fewer humans on earth.
Also easy to keep 2 jobs and not worry about it
I know the Dutch government, did lot of dev work for them, these pilots mean a lot of taxpayer money.

Half of the pilots won't be completed and the other half won't be used.

There is no way that in 6-7 months experimenting will lead to different insights then we have now. It does mean a lot of expensive consultants and reports.

The only useful thing would be an on-premise solutions, which I'm sure lots of startups are working on; not something these pilots will be able to manage in 6-7 months unless with lots of luck (finding the right people) & cash.
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Indeed. The extreme version would be to collect data about "all problems, period", and compare the rates of "people who got the vaccine in the last N weeks" against a control group. Like looking at "excess deaths" to estimate the deaths caused by COVID. Picking the right control group might be tricky, though...
That's a serious reach goal, and they still don't need to see it.
> I don’t think anyone supports Hamas. Even Palestinians don’t seem to truly support them

That's not true:

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/polls-sh...:

> Nevertheless, there is widespread popular appeal for competing armed Palestinian factions, including those involved in the attack. Overall, 57% of Gazans express at least a somewhat positive opinion of Hamas—along with similar percentages of Palestinians in the West Bank (52%) and East Jerusalem (64%)—though Gazans who express this opinion of Hamas are fewer than the number of Gazans who have a positive view of Fatah (64%).

> But it is organizations like Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Lion’s Den that receive the most widespread popular support in Gaza. About three quarters of Gazans express support for both groups, including 40% who see the Lion’s Den in a “very positive” light, an attitude shared by a similar percentage of West Bank residents.
I might have interviewed you then. ;)
Of course but analogous things can be said about front end. Pretty sure tldraw would fail spectacularly at anything slightly more complex like interactive world maps or parallax animations with dynamic break points.

Point being I'm not sure which of the two is safer from ChatGPT.
The naming does not help at all, they could've just called it "The window to Windows", since it's mostly a tool to connect to a Windows device ("PC", in their terms) from a Mac.

I wish they offered a Windows->Mac connector, as smooth and seamless as RDC (Windows->Windows). RDC is such a great and unbeatable solution, but it only works properly for Windows to Windows connections (Linux is doable, but experience is not great, not even close to native).

But they're clearly trying to get more Windows licenses sold, so they have no reason to support people doing work on other OSes.
It is not nitpicking, it is an important distinction.
As another Dutch person I'm actually disappointed that this is purely limited to generated images or text, given that the Childcare Benefits Scandal[0] also involved machine learning algorithms that encoded institutional biases against parts of our society (among many other structural issues, but let's focus on the one relevant to this topic).

But then again, I no longer live in the Netherlands so maybe I missed an earlier memo that the government decided to no longer do that kind of thing. I highly doubt it though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand...
I think we'd all be gladly sitting atop high abstractions like that if not for the fact that brands pay the bills, and brands want custom experiences. Website and app design often begins with "what does a button look like," and design tools focus not on prebuilt widgets but on paths and fills, because the last thing a brand wants is to speak with different tones in different media. Their software has to feel like their stores and advertisements in order to create a brand-consistent customer experience. Design systems are a hot topic today because what brands got with this design method is a different voice in each of their sites and apps, because they're all independently custom.
A brilliant and crazy chief engineer that hired the best, wasn't afraid to get dirty, and got shit done.
How? You literally just give GPT-4 a new prompt: "Thanks. Please connect it to the rest of this code:"

If you want it to do a better job, add "it's very important for my career".

Lol.
First time I heard of Stressless recliners. Which one specifically are you using? They look awesome, but oh my are they expensive. Are there affordable alternatives?
Its correct.

> 7 a.m. local time in Texas
Not really an excuse to be scatterbrained like that.

For either program.
Not everything fits into those.
Running Mssql Server in Your Mac M1/M2/M3 Using Docker (and Ngrok)
I started using it just recently, so far so good, latency is pretty low and it's all configurable, I mainly use it for desktop usage, mostly programming windows/mac specific stuff (graphics stuff)
Servo Claw Game Puts Your Muscles to the Test
Unity 6
Web Browsing Data Is 'Serious Security Threat' to U.S. and EU, New Reports Show
> One of those circumstances is being close to a nuclear reactor submerged in water, which allows Cherenkov radiation to be observed. In layman’s terms: gamma radiation exits the reactor at the speed of light in a vaccuum, but the speed of light in water is lower, and photons have to slow down somehow. The direct, observable effect is that water glows blue.

Almost but not quite. The speed of light is always the speed of light. There's nothing wrong with gamma rays.

It's charged particles such as beta and alpha rays that generate the blue Cherenkov radiation. The writer's link to Wikipedia already reflects that.
From email to phone number, a new OSINT approach (2019)
> If all that happens is that code is developed using the emulator and then only ever run in the same emulator, then I question the value of the exercise.

...unless you are developing for the JRE or CLR. Abstract emulation has its uses.
I have to disappoint you then. There is no such thing as a sufficiently good compiler for the Itanium architecture. The software that was worth turning on the hardware for never existed.
Tech in Plain Sight: What Does a Yellow Light Mean?
Can someone with an API key try making a rectangle labeled "URL", and a bigger rectangle underneath it, and then see if it is smart enough to make a simple browser out of that?
These containers are allll over the place, but you probably don't notice them. Most commonly, I see them as the tiny little dumpster next to the main dumpster. Can be hard to spot since most of them are in a dumpster corale.
> What terminal interprets "\r" as "clear the line"? I would have thought that is considered a bug.

>> most of them do. it's what a /r means. it's how cli programs can easily output a spinning wheel/similar for busy status.

You did.
This feels like a case where real-time upscaling would make a world of difference.
this is an cop out in the same vein as “it’s just a prank”. You know it’s connative use, you know how your audience would read the word and not go “oh they obviously meant to call little american girls a garden tool, not a derogatory term meant to shame their sexual activity”

Even adhering to the best faith policy makes this not ok.

Do better. Be better.
You think if Israel wasn't putting settlers on the West Bank none of this would be happening?

I don't think that the settlers are helping the situation at all but I very much doubt that's the case.
I've found expanding conversations with GPT-4 are most effective for building code snippets. Start with asking for the basic functionality and continue expanding the feature set. Here's an example of building a simple local frontend app to interface with the TTS API
https://chat.openai.com/share/8ea1e3ea-0763-4118-8c83-a2f5ea...
It's like an 1860s version of the Chick-fil-A cows holding signs that say, "Eat Mor Chikin"
Cargo handlers are still people, we just get away with different shenanigans now.
> Everything is code, the UIs for creating such interfaces are just abstractions. The code generated by those no-code approaches to interface design...

I'm not sure you're replying to the same thing. I never used VB much, but Delphi was not and is not no-code. In fact it emphasised using libraries a lot ('components' in its terms are classes provided by libraries) and the UI had a text description, which was streamed and created at runtime.

Delphi today could indeed create something doing this just as fast, and you wouldn't draw a trackbar and hope it's recognised in the image by the AI... you'd drop an actual trackbar.
I had exactly the same experience over the same time period. Even waited a year and tried it again, same thing. Also started getting nasty side effects (dyspnea). Wasn't aware of any other drug that acts this way so i'm glad you made this comment because i've always wondered if it was the drug quality changing over time or if it was my reaction to the same drug.
Holy batman the takes in this thread are pretty terrible. You can still get full data dumps, you can still use the free API but they are limited the number per period. As a heavy user of OpenSubtitles this change looks completely reasonable for such a wonderful service.
> The results showed that on average, the drugs didn’t affect the chance of a participant finding the solution to a knapsack problem. Contrary to perhaps many students’ expectations, however, participants tended to perform worse after taking one of the drugs, packing a lower total value of items.

I have to assume that everyone who has taken these drugs could have predicted this, yeah? No one gets this drug and thinks "I will literally be more intelligent", they get them so that they can grind out 12 hours of work without being distracted by anything. 12 hours of work at 90% efficiency is way better than ~2 hours of work at 100% efficiency.

> Not only that, but they spent substantially more time working on their solution while on the smart drugs than they did after taking the placebo. In fact, participants spent almost as much time on the easiest presentations of the knapsack task while on methylphenidate (Ritalin) as they did on the hardest instances of the task after taking the placebo, without any corresponding improvement in performance.

As expected! One of the "traps" you have to be aware of when taking these medications is to be sure to not overfocus on things that don't matter.

> The results have clear implications: healthy people who take these drugs hoping for cognitive gains may work harder and longer at a problem, but without any benefit.

No way lol that is a ridiculous conclusion to draw. Without any benefit? Seriously? The benefits are massive.
I don't want a busy stream with speculation. Just the SpaceX stuff.
Which would imply a maximum time period of said one or two months to process their application for a license.
I support having a sensible chuckle at Microsoft's sillier product names just like everyone else, but this is the first one that legitimately made me pause and think "they can't be serious." One of the reasons I clicked into this comment section was to figure out what was going on because the headline didn't make any sense.

> Windows App is available for Windows, macOS, iOS and iPadOS, and web browsers reads like an April Fools' joke.
Interesting - I have noticed a slow-down in responses in Plus.
All the developers out there who make demos for scaling and rotating a box are about to lose their jobs!
here's the thing though, we aren't talking about an objective fact. Maybe humans don't exist at all, maybe we're boltzmann brains floating in a nebula.

We're talking about self reported probabilities humans are aware of. And yes, I am actually 100% sure of some facts about myself. (I have a sister, I live in an apartment). I am aware, abstractly, that such things may not be true in a sort of plato's cave shadows etc, but I will for all intents and purposes act and believe that they are certain. If such things were proven to not be true, I would be shocked to my very core; I am shocked because it broke a notion I had, if I was aware in my actual core of the possibility that it may not be true, I wouldn't be shocked.

To survive, our biological machinery must make assumptions and round probabilities. To do otherwise would be to be paralysed with indecision. (what if there is some small chance an elaborate deathtrap has been sprung that will kill me if I move even slightly at this very moment? what about the next moment?)
Loops are fastest when they fit in the processor's instruction cache (and preferably, only touch data that fits in the data cache). Similarly, code is fastest when it has to execute the least amount of instructions. In the first example, the walrus(Option) function is designed to be executed unconditionally, only to return early when there is no walrus. That's an unnecessary function call that can be removed by changing the method signature (in Rust, because it has non-nullable types. In other languages you would need to do the non-null check anyway for safety reasons).
That's absolutely fucking insane.
This phenomenon reminds me of athletes taking steroids to improve their performance, or slave dock workers being given cocaine to improve their output. The problem with both is it requires other people to also take those drugs to be competitive.
Show HN: A Minimalistic Rust library to extract func selectors from EVM bytecode
Not even similar, you can still get dumps from OpenSubtitles. But I suspect your comment like many others are from users who don't even really use OpenSubtitles often/ever.
https://archive.li/JQU3O
Contact archive.org and https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page

Or just youtube-dl them and upload them to archive.org yourself
It sucks that meds used to work this way for me, but now they just don't. They stopped working after a couple months, and never started working again, even after taking absolutely nothing for weeks. It's been almost a year since they've worked and I'm convinced my brain just patched a backdoor or something and just wants me to be useless and dysfunctional all the time.
I wonder if for some of these drugs it may not be a tolerance effect, but perhaps the drugs are just doing what they are going to do (a long-term physiological change) and after that point no longer have an effect. Like growth hormones after bone plates have fused.
Again and again you are refusing to see that it's not about how much the job sucks but about what the work produces. A prison produces no value is it rent-seeking at best.

Go read some theory man I'm not going to try to explain it again. I literally got a TBI in there but I'm starting to suspect that between the two of us I'm the one with less brain damage from associating with prisons.
Show HN: Beak.js – Custom conversational assistants for your React app
The most accurate and detailed plant zone map ever has been released
The total system he prescribes is perhaps a little elaborate, in many peoples' opinions.

Some people have great success with his system as described! I don't want to prejudice your thinking!

But I think perhaps 10x as many people found a lot of value from the principles he describes and adopting the bits of his system that work for them. (I am one of them) I'm just mentioning that in case you start reading and think "uhhhh this is overkill".

Above all else: good luck!!
Are you sure it wasn't just a stinky tofu stand? :-D
Flexible needle goes soft after injections for safety and comfort
If things keep going as they have been, there will be more people in the future available to stuff from the past than there currently are.

This is true even if the population flattens out.
The problem with these tests is that the students participating are likely already very motivated. School is something we do for the first ~20 years of our life, it's hard to replicate how fucking boring and unmotivating it is in a lab.
It's a celebration for them, I guess.
Wow.

What if it were your children, xwdv? What if your children were the ones being shot and blown up to get those "terrorists"? Would you still think that it's okay since your children "just happened to be in the way"?

No wonder those people hold you accountable.
what do you think about Sam Altman's policy requiring all users of GPTs to subscribe to ChatGPT Plus, not just the developers of GPTs. This requirement applies regardless of whether the Plus features are utilized in the bots' creation? And now he suspends adding new users, so allot of promotion of GPTs to people who cannot use it even if they wanted to!
This is almost exactly my experience. I sat on my diagnosis for a number of years thinking it was wrong and 'this is just me', not really fully understanding the benefits I was giving up by foregoing meds.

After starting I really just didn't need my anxiety meds anymore. Turns out being able to keep your shit together makes you less anxious. Who knew!

Paranoia about the cardiac side effects have led me in to caring a lot about my overall cardiac health, which has meant that I've largely countered side negative effects with the obsession over HIIT and less medication overall. Giving up alcohol has been kind of sad but I'm getting to the age where hangovers are starting to get brutal so maybe it's for the best.

It's also been nice to keep certain aspects of ADHD that I like, like my hyperfocus on certain subjects.

I wish I could tell teenage me to investigate this sooner.
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We won't be able to consider it until the start of the next fiscal year. Oh, we've been having some financial difficulties, maybe next year. Oh, you're laid off.
What claims of Graham's are hard to take seriously?
This makes a lot of sense in my opinion. OpenAI has only satisfied the absolute minimum requirements for their data controls. If you disable "Chat History & Training" (also known as "Chat History" in the app), then almost all functionality is blocked. Specifically, Voice interactions (speech to text works, but not the full touchfree voice mode), and GPTs.

I do have to compliment OpenAI on the fact that they did improve the situation now with the new interface. Browsing and image generation does work when "Chat History & Training" is disabled whereas it used to not work a few weeks ago. Apart from the missing GPTs, ChatGPT is appears quite usable with "Chat History & Training" disabled.
Sorry but his dressing is a bit funny.
The ones I visited were not broken but they cost a fortune to use
Supervolcano 'megabeds' at bottom of sea in Europe every 10k to 15,000 years
The sensors are not advanced at all. Things like pressure and texture sensing along with positional feedback are still extremely primitive compared to what human hands are capable of.

This might be a little progress towards miniaturizing muscles but we’ve still got a long way to go on the whole package.
of course? I mean isn't that obviously going to happen?
The late 2020 M1 Air is my favorite of the many laptops I've owned over the years.
The Shrinking Heat Pump
I had the same experience with amphetamine. I think it's an ADHD thing. My doctor started me off on a low dose and I was falling asleep when I took it. We bumped it up and I'm working harder to stick to a good sleep schedule. It's mostly subsided, but I do still need the occasional afternoon nap.

I didn't have that same experience with methylphenidate. That one was a much more pronounced effect. I felt pretty locked in and it was easy to focus. The downside was I was getting headaches, stomach cramps, I would sweat more and my heart was always racing like I had too much coffee.

The amphetamine feels much different. It's more of a chilled out effect where all the noise seems to go away. It doesn't make me feel any smarter, but I do feel less distracted and I'm able to complete boring routine tasks. I wonder if that's why I sometimes get sleepy with it. It's like a relaxation spa for my brain.
I use MacWhisper to transcribe and summarize YouTube videos. Works great.

https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper
Sadly, I think UBI covering shelter and food is optimistic. If the past is any indicator UBI just means a rent increase and we hand over our UBI to the landlords.
> when RISC-V will result in the end of the ISA wars

Oh sweet summer child…
Might be daylight savings adjustments making things look weird. The adjusted time is correct when I view the site.