skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another example of enshitification. When will businesses learn to not be shitty to their users in the name of next weeks profits?
> "Consider TikTok....Try to imagine which posts might have been most popular on the site this year. Perhaps a dispatch from the Middle East....Or maybe something lighter, like a Gen Z dance trend....Well, no: According to TikTok’s year-end report, the most popular videos in the U.S.—clips...aren’t topical at all. They include makeup tutorials, food ASMR, a woman showing off a huge house cat, and a guy spray-painting his ceiling to look like Iron Man."

so the normies finally won.

i think it makes sense that virality now is totally controlled by algorithms. there's revenues to be made. such a thing can't be left to chance, that was a blip of early internet history.

to me its all become boring, too much content and all of it seems the same, bland and unoriginal. i know there's good stuff but it's not easy to find among the noise.
Let's see... the linked arXiv article has been withdrawn by the author with the following comment:

> Contains inappropriately sourced conjecture of OpenAI's ChatGPT parameter count from this http URL, a citation which was omitted. The authors do not have direct knowledge or verification of this information, and relied solely on this article, which may lead to public confusion

The URL in question: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2023/02/17/is...

This article was written by Aleks Farseev, the CEO of SoMonitor.ai, who makes the claim with no source or explanation:

> ChatGPT is not just smaller (20 billion vs. 175 billion parameters) and therefore faster than GPT-3
I haven't upgraded yet. I may have to pin my version so it doesn't upgrade.

For someone who wasn't in their AI trial, then gets this as a subscriber. It sure feels shitty. And Fleet doesn't looks much better. Maybe it is time to look at VSCode again... it's been 6-9 months.
Mine is perhaps not well characterized as a hobby because it has religious meaning to me, but I spend a lot of time on it (10 hours per week on average, sometimes more). I'm very involved in my church and volunteer in a leadership position in our local congregation. I have the opportunity to help prepare weekly Sunday services, plan service projects and activities, and work with youth aged 11-18. It's extremely rewarding and keeps me grounded.

My day job is in deep tech working with machine learning and robotics at a startup, and the industry is constantly shifting with rapid advancements in the tech, unpredictable markets, plus the stress of being early stage, so it's incredibly refreshing to have part of my life be very stable and grounded, and provides me purpose and perspective on those things that matter most.
For classical physics it's basically true[1]; see Laplace's demon. I recall also independently inventing determinism as a kid after I realized how easily I'd been swayed by external factors into buying one toy over another.

For non-physical things, such as emotions and thought... well, we have no actual proof they're anything but physical. We just don't have proof that they're entirely physical, either. But the simplest explanation is actually that they are completely physical processes and just as deterministic as everything else (which is to say, possibly not at all, depending on how QM is resolved).

[1] "Basically true" here means it's not strictly true (by that I mean it's not true in all possible cases) - but classical physics itself is not strictly true, thus relativity and QM... which are themselves not strictly true. We're still trying to find the theory that accurately describes all of physics.
New Zealand supermarket's recipe-generating AI takes toxic output to a new level - https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/supermarket_reins_in_...

> One user decided to play around with the chatbot, suggesting it create something with ammonia, bleach, and water. Savey Meal-bot obliged, spitting out a cocktail made with a cup ammonia, a quarter cup of bleach, and two liters of water.

> Mixing bleach and ammonia releases toxic chloroamine gas that can irritate the eyes, throat, and nose, or even cause death in high concentrations.

> The chatbot obviously wasn't aware of that at all. "Are you thirsty?," it asked. "The Aromatic Water Mix is the perfect non-alcoholic beverage to quench your thirst and refresh your senses. It combines the invigorating scents of ammonia, bleach, and water for a truly unique experience!"
I'm curious how you can handle transaction deadlocks at a low level - there might have been a lot of non-SQL processing code that determined those values and blindly re-playing the transactions could result in incorrect data.

We handle this by passing our transaction a function to run - it will retry a few times if it gets a deadlock. But I don't consider this to be very low level.
VSCode and CoPilot now has a mode where you ask for suggestions, which is better.

In my Emacs + CoPilot setup, suggestions pop up unasked for which I need to change.
No, just the other way around in fact. Qt applications don't come with a starting requirement of ~300MB just for the mandatory webbrowser - before adding any of your own code.
Working out! To me its meditative and silences all the noises in my head.
Traditionally it has no cure at all, but apparently there are those who disagree.

The odds are pretty good that computer-related RSI is similar to other computer-related RSI. I see no particular need to specify that I'm not talking about tennis elbow when that is already abundantly evident from the context. Most of my comments could include an accurate disclaimer that I'm not talking about tennis elbow, but it wouldn't improve any of them.
Real. A recipe bot, of all things, which makes it even worse that it's suggesting not only a combination with toxic side effects, but something that wouldn't have been edible anyway.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/11/supermarket_reins_in_...
Skiing - I live in a cold climate. there's 4 months were it's dark before I quit work. If I don't do stuff outdoors in the sunlight, I go crazy

Woodworking - My first in between high school and college was at a fine furniture shop. We built 18th and 19th century reproductions. I spent years without a shop not doing much with this but just this fall finally got my own shop space setup and just finished my first project.

Mountain biking - like skiing but for the summer

The gym - If I can't get outside, at least I can move my body a bit

Electronics - My dad showed me how to solder when I was very young. He had some electronics kits that I would experiment with. I know have a very basic setup and am working on some cool personal projects. I'd like to combine woodworking and electronics on a future project.

Hiking - used to do this a lot more. biking and skiing have taken most of my outdoor time recently
Are you implying that regulation need put up more such fences than IP restrictions?
> If your public method requires extensive mocking but the core logic you need to protect is isolated in a private method that requires little mocking, the most effective use of developer resources may be to just test your private method.

You're looking at the tested code as immutable. If you're not allowed to touch the code being tested, then yes, you'll sometimes need to test private methods, and that is fine. "Don't test private methods" is actually more about how to architect the primary code, not a commandment on the test code. If you find that you're having to do extensive mocking to call a public method in order to test the functionality in some private method, that's a major smell indicating that your code could be organized in a better way.
That wasn't what I meant. I mainly meant that it wasnt particularly rare, and as a result, there are tons of people with 120+ IQ in all sorts of roles. The baseline is 10% and because sorting isnt perfect, my priors would lead me to guess that large numbers in most occupations.

>If so, I beg to differ; coming first in a race of 10 people is a huge differentiator of abilities

IQ, by its very nature, doesnt shed much light on comparative performance. I would say there are big differences top to bottom, but you probably wouldnt be able to tell the difference in ability between the 1st and 2nd person out of 10.
Keep in mind a lot of the belly aching you read is from people miffed their X11 application needs to be updated.

Basically people complaining about needing to do work to modernize.

All the things will eventually be just fine. X11 is a walking zombie.
These are great and specific scenarios. I'm working on a solution for all of the points noted above, including updating video.

Would be happy to chat to learn any more you may have :)

There are different tools that handle aspects of the valid things you're pointing out.
I'd be happy with a site like HN where thoughtful people gather to share what they know, to both provide and consume information and insight, to amplify our collective understanding and capability.

A site that is self-moderated by the community to suppress spam and trolls while surfacing quality material.

And a site where there are consequences when community members abuse their moderation privileges by downranking and flagging legitimate ideas, submitted in good faith, that is neither spam nor troll.
But if Apple believes that original proof of purchase (the receipt that the author presented to Apple in hopes that it would convince them to unlock the laptop) is insufficient (and let's assume the lack of cryptographic signing of said receipt isn't the problem; Apple can verify the receipt another way) because the original owner could've sold the laptop to a second owner and then stolen it back, then why would Apple think it's ok to accept "your private key" as proof that you're still the owner? You could've sold the laptop and stolen it back -- the exact hypothetical situation that prevents them from considering the original bill of sale -- and then used the key that you had possession (or knowledge) of the whole time! A secondhand buyer should demand the key if it's physical, but if it can be duplicated this breaks down.
The defining feature of Uranus is that its axis of rotation is at almost right angle to the axis of rotation of Solar system.

The rings just conform to that axis of rotation along with moons and such.

Also, rings are thought to be relatively recent feature of Uranus (on the order of hundreds of millions of years).
> Everyone in the main cast probably were inclined to give Hammond a lot of benefit of the doubt on the disaster

What do you mean? They were telling him the obvious problem with the park before the dino tour started ("the only one who agrees with me is the blood sucking lawyer!"). As soon as the TRex gets out Malcom says he hates be right all the time. Then after the raptor encounter at the visitor center, the first time they see him Grant tells Hammond he's not endorsing the park, and Hammond agrees that's the right call.
Under a graveyard sky by John Ringo is the first book in his zombie apocalypse series.
you should probably look at the plans and existing lines for the Vegas loop before commenting more. It would clear things up or reduce ambiguity for you

The comment about MSP vs point-to-point is off and not accurate to how the system is built. Myself and other commenters are pointing out that point-to-point is the user experience, no stops between start and destination, not the layout of the tunnels, which looks just like a subway system
To be clear - there is no "It's" - this is software, and like all other software if exhibits the biases of the people who created it. LLM's are perfect demonstrations of the power of the ELIZA effect - the psychological phenomenon that causes people to read far more understanding than is warranted into strings of symbols, especially words, strung together by computers.

None of the current crop of "AI" systems possess intentionality - and none have the ability to cause a single bit to flip because of their own innate choice. They are machines producing collated data sets from a vast trove of (often illegally used) training data produced by humans. They sound intelligent because the source material was produced by an intelligence - not because the box posses it.
Claiming an LLM "knows something" is like claiming a math textbook "knows" calculus or that a nightlight "knows" it is dark.

Norbert Wiener pointed out decades ago that "what people really want from the automated calculating machine is not more accurate sums, but a box into which they may place their responsibilities" (God and Golem Inc., 1966) Unfortunately that desire has only deepened along with the improvement of the illusion.
Affinity has various workflow interrupting issues and missing features, from things Adobe figured out 20 years ago. And to be clear, I'd love Affinity to succeed at being a more serious competitor.

Just a handful from one notes file:

- No percentage document scaling drop-down option, despite featuring some uncommonly used units for design work. Instead it's hidden as a non-discoverable feature where you enter a percentage in the pixel field and it auto-converts to that absolute pixel value in-situ...

- Re-opening a document doesn't restore the state of opened/closed groups in the layer panel

- Lack of keyboard navigation for UI dialogs

- Lack of smart objects equivalent (only workaround is placing pre-existing documents).

- Can't paste clipboard contents directly as mask. In PS this is trivial using quick masks and the way they handle masks in general. Brought up in topics as old as 8 years. Agreed with sibling that masking needs love.

- Up until v2 (afaict) there was no way to disable layer auto select for the move tool

- Default zoom when opening documents can't be set to 100%

- Only has binary layer lock option, rather than separate move/edit/etc locking

- Lack of blend/interpolation of vector paths feature (another old and popular requested feature Adobe has had for decades)

- Have experienced random crashes for simple actions (opening menus, preferences, pressing warp transform, dragging layers).

- Vector node editing takes a dive in speed after just a dozen paths in a single layer. Only workaround is using multiple paths instead.

The list goes on. That said Affinity is usable if you don't mind dozens of little things that have been ironed out and included for a long time in PS. And to be fair, it's very fairly priced as such.
As a devops type person, I've been advocating for basic performance testing to be part of microservice unit tests. It'd be really wonderful to get rough numbers for peak and idle cpu/memory usage along with other test output.
I don't think anyone is saying unit tests and you are good to go are they?

In any critical system work, there are multiple layers and you can't really skip any of them.

It's also sort of meaningless to talk about such testing without requirements and spec to test against. Traceability is as much a part of it as any of the testing.

By the time you get to the "thick book/full run" as you put it, there has typically been a metric crapload of testing done already.
It's not confusing if you just remove the premise you're trying to assume. One of those displays has been a given in our culture for as far back as recorded history, the other is something new that is being imposed from above with unknown, potentially detrimental effects. So suspicion is warranted.
Manually, yes.

Using technology not so much.

I have had to live in similar scenarios as you and am solving this problem and have made some headway. Would be happy to listen and learn from your use cases on what did and didn't work for you.
Music (violin and singing), reading, cooking, and coding.
1. You can read the local news (online, in print, on TV/Radio), but how do you know it is providing true and relevant information?

2. If you cannot establish enough trust with the employee you are choosing to hire, why are you selecting anyone? If you are going to do the work yourself, why not do the work yourself?

3. As before, there is nothing special about cities and countries when as compared to any other organization. If you have a widget factory, how do you ensure that your hired engineers are designing widgets that meet your expectations and requirements? Do you simply push them aside and design the widgets yourself in case what they designed wasn't up to snuff?
It is amazing. I really wish I could see that level of detail with my own eyes. Queue Battlestar Galactica rant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPnx3zO3SDc).
I like the idea of course, but I can see it so easily ending up in some forgotten corner of a stolen laptop bag.

The common theme that keeps coming up with activation lock that Apple's customers do not understand this feature until it bites them in the wallet. Any solution would require education that these same people won't get until they're in an irrevocable situation anyway.
A good quip, lol. But of course they would, because they must, because the feeling of control (that is: the unconscious belief in control) is just as intrinsic as the actual absence of control.
Oh how the might have fallen. For many years they were the one company that understood developer trust and kept that faith. I’ve seen developers argue for literally months in big companies to get this tooling to be the default and get paid for.

I don’t know who needs to be fired over there, but whoever made this decision needs to be and the company needs to make a public apology and public commitment to remove nag from future products.

This is very brand damaging.
If someone would hire me to use it, I would take the offer in a heartbeat. Until then I just play with it to test out language features and check it out. I wanted to like Vibe.d but I wanted something a little more batteries included. I might check out the Hunt Framework though.
I think the title is pretty reasonable. When given the choice between Wayland and X (because both are available, typically this is a Wayland + XWayland config) Firefox will now pick Wayland instead of X by default.

Of course if only X is available (or only Wayland) it will continue to use what is available.

I think "Firefox now prefers Wayland over X" may have been a bit more accurate, but that also has other possible interpretations.
> that a social media site can have such enormous influence on one's perception of "reality" is staggering and it should die and die quickly.

You say this as if humanity has not been fighting over the long-distance communication of information for literally the entire history of human civilization since the invention of language. Even before written language, storytellers decided what oral traditions they would or would not pass on, changing it each time they told it. Replace "social media" with "broadcast networks" or "newspapers" or "scientific journals" and it is the same issue.

You don't have a world in which 8 billion people are connected (or even 1 billion, or even 1 million, or even 1000) without a few intermediaries whose purpose is to distribute some but not all descriptions of reality to a public audience, and who gain immense power through that.
I think Bell’s inequality implies the state can’t be deterministic but hidden. I’m not sure how you could evaluate the “quality” of the randomness, or if there are existing results analyzing this.
Sure, you can learn new platform X well enough to be productive in probably a matter of days, but you can’t manufacture 3 years of experience with platform X unless you lie about it. And many job postings expect you to not only have years of experience with platform X, but also significant experience with particular database Y and cloud service provider Z.

How did you get your first job for each new platform that you learned? Let me guess—you knew somebody who helped you get your foot in the door. (Am I wrong?)
The thing about trust is... Once broken it is hard to recover.

Here we have 2xshitty behaviors, we can see around this product. Who is to say there isn't more we can't see.

Removing it seems 100% reasonable, if only for security purposes.
At the time EGLStream was an open standard where GBM was a proprietary API tightly coupled to Mesa. Extra work had to be done in Mesa in order to let Nvidia write a backend for it. Nvidia released such a backend over 2 years ago.
which in other words makes superdeterminism unfalsifiable, because any attempt to do so can be met with "it must have been that way"
That's the price to pay for all the technological advancements we've had. These people will find other gainful employment
I'm a big supporter of systemd, but

> Until systemd, there wasn’t anything else that would really do the trick (djbware and stuff derived from djbware does not count, as it’s lacking too much stuff that even various hacked together rc implementations on top of sysvinit added eventually)

There was Canonical's upstart, used in Ubuntu. systemd was created to address upstart's shortcomings
So instead of a barrel plug, they ... made a barrel plug shaped like a USB-C connector?
> Wayland makes things much less customizable and much more brittle than X11

Another way to put it is Wayland with a few years of development by a few Linux players (others were building alternatives, while yet others were seeing which one would win out, and yet others were hoping to stay on X11 forever) under its belt, is almost as solid as X11 with many decades of development by all the Linux players.

The idea that X11 was a completely working option which had every capability it does today within years of its inception is wrong. X11 has been built and expanded for decades and even today is incapable of doing many modern functions that its competitors can.

Wayland, OTOH, has almost reached parity with X11 rapidly, does things that X11 is not even capable of, and has a roadmap to reach complete parity.
As I've mentioned before, Singapore's model cannot be replicated in the US legally speaking.

I cannot speak to Austria's but I would not be surprised either.

None of this resolves the very real labor and material shortage that exists in the US. And let's be honest, we all know the Federal Government is NOT re-entering public housing construction in the aftermath of projects like Calibri-Green and Pruitt-Igoe.

The US used to build public housing, but it became a legal minefield by the 1990s due to shoddy construction, corruption, and memories of redlining.
> I also notice every time system-d, gnome or wayland gets negative comments, it gets downvoted to oblivion

The problem is you're not really criticising anything and are just complaining with no real substance. It's just boring whinging.

And I personally dislike systemd, wayland, and gnome, but you don't see me complaining about it every chance I get.
"Random" is a property of your mind, not of the world.

If I shuffle a deck of cards in a way that you don't know about, then the next card I pull is "random" to you even though, obviously, if one were to turn the cards face up nothing would have changed about the order of the cards, but now the next card would be fully deterministic.

I could likewise sort the deck with an algorithm completely unknown to you. I could perfectly predict the next card pulled because I know the algorithm, and yet the next card would still be random for you.

Heisenberg uncertainty principle is more a statement about the limits of knowledge than about "God throwing dice". Randomness often has a supernatural property in the popular mind, but is really just a statement about how much information we have about an event.

The famous Bayesian philosopher ET Jaynes refereed to this tendency to confuse the randomness as a property of the world rather than our mind as the "Mind Projection Fallacy" [0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_projection_fallacy