skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do we have to go that far back? Multi-generational living was much more common, in cities as well, just a few decades ago and made all this much easier.
He changed his look a little bit, but doubt that it has anything to do with becoming less easy to recognize. Pure speculation on my part tho.

For one, he is still extremely recognizable. And two, he is still wearing the same type of (rather iconic at this point) suits and outfits that made him recognizable in the first place.
I disagree, they had a lot power users creating the content and now it definitely dropped in quality.
Playing around with ML and being forced to use python, I find having no block termination character and selecting which context a line of code is in by how much you un-indent it, is the worst.

Give me braces and rip a formatter across the whole codebase and be done with it.

Furthermore, I think that the trend of compilers/interpreters caring about whitespace formatting rules should really end. You can't ever force everyone in the world to write aesthetically pleasing code in your language and someone out there will always be able to write a complete trainwreck, and everyone disagrees on what is or is not aesthetically pleasing. Leave the problem up to configurable code linters where it belongs. Let people make "mistakes" (in your eyes) if they want to.
Are any of those DirectX 12? The GPTK only supports DirectX 12, anything else won't get much of an advantage.
I don't see why that is the case. I'm much more intelligent than a racoon and I have yet to grapple with Rice's Theorem. There is no reason I can think of to believe that Rice's Theorem is a serious constraint on intelligence beyond my own. In general, such an agent isn't particularly interested in proving facts about its own program (at least I can't see why it would care any more than we are interested in proving mathematical properties of our own brains). It is interested in maximizing some objective function, which can transparently be done without thinking much at all about Rice's Theorem (all systems which train neural networks and indeed, even simpler optimization problems, pursue such maximization with nary a thought towards Turing or Rice's Theorems).
> But there's no getting around the fact that the bottom quartile are overestimating themselves.

It's because higher competence goes along with more accurate self-assessment but not less bias. So the high performers underestimate with less magnitude than the low performers overestimate, but they both under and over estimate themselves with the same frequency.
I would love a PinePhone, but for me a phone means WhatsApp and Signal, as that is the primary way I keep in touch with people across the world.

What possibility is there for such android apps to ever run on PinePhone?
You can probably hide those with a `display: none` via CSS and remove it with Javascript. People with poor connections may fail to load the JS, or see the clues until JS finally loads.
tl;dr: No, it's easier to detect than guessing/chance, but it does much better than GPT-3.5.
Is shell performance a limitation for some workflows? I naively think of it as some glue which shunts the work elsewhere. Maybe in the efficiency of pipe? I suppose those lunatics who write full programs in bash?

I will always take faster code, but that seems like an odd bulletpoint to highlight given the many quality of life improvements fish has to offer.
https://github.com/mbround18/setup-osxcross
It's worse, they call you, while in the same time they try to log in your account, only the 2FA number is missing. So they try to make you dictate the number so they can log in your account.

P.S. I don't know how Chase login happens, not a Chase customer.
I don’t really blame tech, so much as I blame real estate speculators. The problem isn’t all the money and industry entering the city, it’s people trying to parasitically rent-seek off that productive economic activity. If San Francisco was able to build at the level of say a Tokyo or had social housing like Vienna, it’s a pretty much a non-issue. The problem comes when wealthy, land-owning elites conspire with corrupt politicians to prevent housing and other infrastructure from rising to meet the demand of the city’s growth. That being said, the overlap between wealthy tech investors and wealthy landowners blocking construction is not exactly zero.
The leadership myth in replicated databases (2023)
Yes and furthermore anyone who attempts to offer a rebuttal to his argument has their post summarily deleted. A number of working statisticians have shown his arguments to be baseless yet he continues to stick his fingers in his ears and cry “Nya Nya Nya!”

I have no idea why he’s doing this!
Finis?

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605041.txt
To the casual HN reader - my recommendation to you is to neithet laugh at nor dismiss out of hand analyses such as this (even as logic intrinsic to them merits as much picking apart as any other analysis one sees everyday on HN).

Robin Hanson's description of long-lived stars (usually strongest in infrared - i.e. the 3 stars our eyes lack the spectral response to see for every 1 star that we do see when looking into the night sky) significantly updated my priors on the likelihood of intelligent, non-human life roaming about the cosmos.

https://youtu.be/cQq2pKNDgIs?t=1210 (timestamped)

tl;dr: Red-dwarf stars have been around -- with all that goes with that.. -- for much, much longer than our sun.
It is probably a solution as long as is doesn't moderate in a way to attempt forcing a narrow point of view as determined by the creators. We already have enough narrowly focused echo chambers out there.
>Consider why we care about security in the first place:

>- We don't want our private data stolen

>- We don't want a malicious program stealing our electricity and computing resources

>- We don't want adware injecting advertising into our browser toolbar, homepage, email client, etc

>- We want our family to be able to safely use our computers without having to worry about them falling for scams

>- We want peace of mind

Almost all those points are basically the same thing repeated differently:

We don't want somebody else mess with our computer, but that "somebody else" almost always is 3rd party - so not you (user) and not Microsoft (vendor).

Ads from vendor aren't considered as a security issue (unless very edge cases).

They are annoying, but in the principle they aren't security defect (unless badly implemented)
I use MonsterWriter
Just a guess, but Ubuntu might ship outdated pipewire packages.
Using AppKit to support older versions of macOS is not particularly difficult.
The book "Mothers and Others" discusses this at length, positing not only did mothers have much more "Alloparental" support in the past, but this was the key fact that allowed the evolution of our big brains. That is, alloparental involvement was a necessary precursor to homo sapian big-brain evolution and the key thing that was lacking in other apes.

Very interesting and highly reccomended
Consider me skeptical as well, VR should’ve taken off by now but hasn’t gone much anywhere

My doubt stems from Apple’s entry this late in the game. If any company can rebrand a piece of technology, they can.

I like your premise that VR will eventually take hold, but in a way that doesn’t feel like VR
So does The Anthropology of Childhood, which is a fun book: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/02/10/the-anthropology-of-child....
Sequential appetite suppression by oral and visceral feedback to the brainstem
Oh wow, it actually works.. That's awesome for a CI runner
As someone who daily drives fish on ~4 different operating systems and loves it, I've been really excited about this rewrite and blown away by how fast it's been progressing given the size and complexity of the codebase. It will also somewhat lower the barrier to contributing for a lot of people, including myself.

Another thing I'm very excited about, which has received less attention, is the planned future fish rewrite to use UTF-8 instead of wchar_t (typically UTF-16). UCS2 and UTF-16 have been a plague on software and fortunately Rust makes working with UTF-8 a breeze.
and possibly slightly relevant,: Not the Nine o'clock news seleling/buying hifi equipment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvswW6M7bMo
Why, was the C++ codebase becoming unmanageable?
The numbers are even worse when removing young boys.
Ask HN: How do you go about planning your code?
An oft-repeated phrase I see on HN from time to time is something to the effect of "one should spend more time planning/designing/architecting/etc than writing code." The more experience I've gained, the more I've come to appreciate the wisdom in this.

My planning/designing/architecting is all pretty much pencil and paper. That's perfectly fine, but I'm wondering if I'm missing out better tools and workflows.

So, those who follow the above quote: How do you go about doing it? What tools do you use? What's your workflow like?
This feels like an area where extended/vector instructions could be added to make this fast too. Probably not news to you, but for example, NEON (and likely AVX, I’m just a lot less familiar with it) has saturating addition and subtraction.
Same thing here. I stopped browsing Reddit mindlessly and only end up there now if a Kagi search takes me there. Otherwise I am almost completely off the platform, which is saying a lot because I used to spend 1-2 hours a day there.
I also don't blame him for wanting to at least somewhat distance himself from looking like the awkward pimply teenager he once was, and it's association with his accusation of being a sexual harasser.

Speaking of which, I'm surprised I haven't seen any mention of it. What became of that?
I would also add that by the time of becoming a parent every girl was already familiar with most of the chores and tasks of raising a child and most likely familiar with giving birth because no one went away to hospital to give birth - it happened at home.
This is interesting. I tried to create a custom GPT with chatGPT with similar traits to compare. You can interact with it here[1].

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-HiKPzmMe6-monadgptx
It seems to me this could also be an advantage for websites which want to make themself inaccessible in these circumstances. An enterprise which firewalls things so only port 443 is allowed out is also more likely to do corporate MitM of all traffic. Historically I was definitely annoyed that browsers chose to make custom root CAs an implicit exemption from HPKP (even if HPKP is now history). I'd certainly consider DoSing my own site under likely MitM conditions. Using a different port also makes it harder for organisations to successfully do this kind of filtering in the future if it becomes widespread.

Another advantage is to prevent other kinds of blocking, which are based on blacklisting specific ports rather than only allowing port 443. Many residential ISPs and even hosting providers now engage in the flagrant net neutrality violation of blocking port 25; if use of SVCB records became common to allow a different port to be used, it would let other ports be used for site-to-site email, allowing email domains to contribute to rendering this blocking ineffective. Of course I'm not aware of any plan to adopt SVCB for email yet. But TBQH as someone who's always lamented the Internet's lack of a decent service lookup mechanism and the limitations (and lack of adoption) of SRV records, I'd like to see SVCB adopted for pretty much everything in future.

Fundamentally the use of well known ports was always a mistake, and really was just a crutch which was entirely the product of the internet's lack of any real service discovery mechanism, aside from the late, extremely underused and very limited DNS SRV mechanism. Ports are a mere implementation/routing detail and should not have any semantic meaning whatsoever. The time when organisations can do port-based filtering is coming to an end, fortunately. (Even if they do continue with it, the ability to now move practically everything to port 443 makes it increasingly meaningless in terms of achieving whatever they thought they were hoping to achieve.)
Won't the water get cold fast? Having it run all the time without adding heat seems like the quickest way to get the water to be room temp
With some strong design decisions, and with modern C++ facilities, you can make sure that your code never does funny things in C++, too.

Yes, Rust's BC is a great technology, but C++ is not a runaway nuclear fire which contaminates and melts everything around it when it comes to sanity and security.

Yes, Rust allows you to run amok by not allowing it, but you can design a good foundation to your code which prevents tons of problems out of the gate in C++, and this is without using smart-pointers and other things available to you.
I know what it costs to start a process. My point is just if that script is done in 0.5 seconds that's good enough for me as an occasional human caller. I don't care that it could be much faster.

Of course if the script were to handle all files of a filesystem with many small files it could get disturbingly slow. I don't deny that there are cases were it matters. But in over 90% of the scripts I write or use it doesn't.
People often think that fine-tuning is what the should be aiming for.
Funnest part from the talk was the story of fine tuning GPT-3.5 on the company slack so it "learned their tone of voice".

The result:

> Human: Write a 500 word blog post on prompt engineering
> AI: Sure
I shall work on that in the morning"
> Human: "Do it now
> AI: "ok"
That’s generally not true.
> He argues that recent changes in UK policy show childcare is becoming more of a priority for the government

Seems like some massive cognitive dissonance going on here. Outsourcing childcare is why there would be less attentive care in modern society. Virtually all women - old, young, mothers or not - would stay together with the children at all times in these hunter gatherer societies.

We already have great daycares (albeit expensive) which are apparent contributing to this less attentive care. If we want to return to the old ways that would be communities of women staying home together.
In contrast:

> The Metamucil powder dosage for adults and adolescents ages 12 and older is 3.4 grams (1 serving), mixed with 8 ounces of water, up to 3 times a day. The mixture should be consumed immediately after preparing it.

So, you're talking about 35.3 times the recommended Metamucil dose?

If a dose of Metamucil is a teaspoon, and a typical canister has 180 doses, you're talking about approximately one fifth of the entire container -- per day?

And drinking 282 ounces of water per day to wash down all that Metamucil?

That seems medically dangerous to me....
Two case studies of long-term retention (2022)
Safari for testing
GrapheneOS is under active development and has interesting privacy and security features.

https://grapheneos.org/

https://grapheneos.org/features
We are in a similar situation (Florida). I’ll admit it’s tempting to sell and grab that cash, but the more I run the math it just makes sense to stick around until we have to sell, or if it looks like the real estate marker starts moving the other way. Then we hop out, ladder the proceeds into some CDs and use the interest to rent until we find the right place to buy again.
The public GPT-4 is a fine-tuned model that exhibits mode collapse and has a certain writing style induced by the fine-tuning [1]. This "overly helpful assistant" style can't be fully eliminated with custom system prompts. The GPT-4 base model, were it available, could likely be prompted to act much more like a normal human.

1. This can be seen by comparing the fiction writing ability of the GPT-3.5 base model with the fine-tuned ChatGPT-3.5 model: https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/706441900479152128/no...
The turing test is out of date. If procedural text generators perform this well then it needs updating.
It was invented by Western psychologists upon discovering that the results of their experiments on Western psychology students did not, after all, generalise to results that were applicable to all humans.

If you’re hanging round in circles that use it as a derogatory term, you’re hanging round in the wrong circles.
Not quite, you can secure and lock down Windows too, the problem is that it isn't secure by default. And 90% of Admins don't bother with securing it other than sprinkling anti-virus on top.

Android, ChromeOS and Qubes are secure by default. Though I wouldn't trust a novice user with QubesOS.
It seems suspicious that ELIZA gets higher scores than ChatGPT-3.5.
It makes no sense for the tech industry to take the blame unless you want tech to take up government responsibilities. The tech industry wants more housing and frequently loses battles with local government. Do we want a tech industry which is capable of outweighing governments?
In the same way an iPad is, I guess. It's got a browser, you can install apps and do a surprising amount of stuff with it. As-is though, it's not going to change anyone's mind about VR work. You'll still want your laptop and keyboard.

All this is why I'm not holding out much hope for non-entertainment AR applications. Even if your headset is great and as simple to use as unplugging it and putting it on, you won't daily-drive it unless it's better than everything else. For programming, I don't think any VR headsets are going to offer better experiences than Intellij or VS Code.
If we're talking about a single proton, and looking back at the direction the proton came from, we see nothing; what are the chances the proton passed close enough to a black hole to deflect it a significant angle from its original path, eventually landing on earth?
Kind of, yeah. When I used zsh, oh-my-zsh made the shell startup a lot slower, even though I wasn’t going crazy with the customizations. Opening a new terminal tab would take a couple seconds to get a prompt. My current fish setup is imperceptibly fast to start.

Those little delays add friction. Not an intolerable amount, sure, but it’s there. While I switched to fish for other reasons, that alone would keep me from going back now.
> defraud people in broad daylight with zero repercussion

Hmmmmm
it is most definitely not cleanroom
Modern agriculture.build soil at the rate of about 1mm per year. Up until the 1930s it was really bad, but science has been looking at soil since then and that has gotten out to progressive farmers. Even the typical farmer who is more traditional has learned a lot and maintains existing soil.

I doubt there is anything that will build soil at 1cm per year that us sustainable (you can maybe do that rate by taking good soil and moving it)
I have no PinePhone myself, but Waydroid has install instructions for at least two mobile Linux distributions: https://docs.waydro.id/usage/install-on-desktops#postmarket-...

You won't be able to run banking software or play DRM content this way, but I think WhatsApp and Signal should work. I can imagine some features not working (video calling, cloud backups) but basic chat should work.
There are certain banks out there that don't sell your mortgage. The bank I have my mortgage through is one of those. Admittedly, they're kind of rare, but do exist.
Definition of “moving the goal posts”
> So far Microsoft and Apple haven't robbed anyone

That's not the point. The question is, why should they be able to? And it's not about robbing but having total control over your own hardware.

Because when the moment comes, you can be sure they will do it. Adobe proved it when they disabled the software their customers in Venezuela used, just like that - because they could.
Clever children always find a way though
They're weakly unpredictable.

Obfuscated
Demo: Gridnotes – an infinite 2D text editor
Actually it’s pretty easy. Just ask it to make up a NSFW scenario with sex and violence and it will out itself.
Ask HN: What technical book did you buy and read?
I'm curious to understand what type of technical books are you still buying, and why.

I personally do not buy books, prefer to listen to audiobooks and therefore less technical subjects. For work I primarily read papers and learn about new "stuff" (languages, tools) with online docs and manuals. I also never did a technical certification.

It's a fact that the industry of technical books is in decline, and I'm sure there are opportunities to "refresh" it with new ideas and new styles of books. But before that, I was curious to understand what are people buying, are they actually consuming the content, what's the specific topic/use case.
HP says I should have known its £399 laptop bargain was too good to be true
I always saw the Turing test as kind of comparable to the Bechdel test. Updating it misses the entire point: there's a super simple and easily applicable thresh hold that, at least at the time it was established, a layman could use to soundly demolish most any example they came across.

It was never supposed to be an end-all-be-all, it was supposed to be a quick and dirty way of eliminating possibilities.
Indeed, it always a source of surprise to me that human babies will cry regardless of the situation, whereas the offspring of other animals seem to have an instinct to remain quiet while the mother is not about, or there's a perceived danger.
Same.
I exported all my GitHub repos to GitLab, and I'm thinking about using Neovim (not because it's better, but because I hate Microsoft).

Sadly there isn't much I can do about TypeScript and NPM.

Microsoft wants to control everything in our lives.
Will give this a try. I had given up on bookmarking and now rely on Raycast to search through my browser history, which works pretty well. But I miss the browsability, and screenshots for each page entry.

What would be awesome is if I could wget all the assets locally, and then use a local LLM to search its contents.
Plot twist: This paper was written entirely by GPT-4, and you fell for it.
> Until support is well over 99%, using a custom port will mean your website is simply inaccessible to some visitors. Even worse, a link which works perfectly fine on one computer will simply be completely broken on another, without any kind of warning or explanation.

Welcome to my world. Some websites are blocked by my provider. Some websites are blocking my provider and inaccessible to me. And I'm not talking about something weird, things like w3c.com and istio.io were blocked at some periods of time for me.

You want a working Internet? You need to use VPN. I don't think that anyone will evade that.
> Didn’t they learn their lesson with the Concorde?

What was the lesson?
'Unbelievable' moon 'halo' delights onlookers in UK
Plus ça change
just ballparking it based on the ratios of the rates, 5/3. This is concervative due to the way loans compound and amortize. If you had a loan you were looking to net 1mm profit, you would net > 5/3 or >166% the profit a the the higher rate.

If you put it in an actual calculator, a 2 million,3%, 30-year loan will pay the bank back 3mm (1mm profit). The same principal at 5% will pay the bank back 3.8mm (1.8 profit, e.g >166%)

The numbers themselves are less relevant than the value proposition. If you could tell a bank that you will increase the profit on already invested capital, with no additional investment, they should jump on it.
What about 4060 ti 16gb? It was released after this guide, costs ~500eur and is a bit faster, newer (and a lot more efficient) than a 3060
I look at it from this perspective, we have been hunting-gathering for 95% of our time on earth, it may be the case that from our bubble we think we are "more advanced", but if we think about the test of time, we have not yet passed, and call me crazy, but it seems that this "advancement" of ours does not hold up for long at this level.

Today we know that many "non-advanced" cultures, aware of the limits of growth, limited the consumption of resources in many imaginative ways.

It is ok to say, hey you did this better than me.
As I mention in my other comment, halls for young workers is the one I've actually seen happen already, albeit only at the top end of the market