skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

– Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
And historians put him in the top 10 presidents.
It shouldn't ever stop for more than maybe 10 seconds. Try using a task manager to see what it's running. I think some steps take a few GB of RAM, so is it possible you exhausted your memory?
> I would guess the in-car cameras

I didn't know they had those. Wonder if they'll eventually add a mode where you could opt-in to livestream games like Cash Cab or Carpool Karaoke. Would make the commutes more interesting :D
Two questions:

1. How is this different from something like DialogFlow?

2. It feels like, as a standalone product, this is really more of a feature of a more full-featured product suite. Either a cloud native CRM like Hubspot, or an embeddable support product like LivePerson. What are your thoughts about the accessible market, and what is the market you're targeting here?
Yeah the hello world stories are always golden paths. People be making bloated, hard to reason about, hard to understand and debug software for some extra money and I'm digging to be unhappy? ok...
Supposedly Gibraltar was a last stand for Neanderthals in Europe.
The later chapters talk about compilation to byte-code and IIRC how you implement that in a VM in C. But it doesn't talk about memory management and garbage collection. It has a chapter on macros.

SICP goes a little further from compiling Scheme to virtual assembly, a VM and memory management with garbage collection in their last chapter. It's all implemented in Scheme itself, including the VM, but at that point it's low-level enough that you should be able to make the step to C. It doesn't talk about macros.

https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...

Neither one really talks about Common Lisp though and read macros etc. I'm also not sure how similar Scheme and Common Lisp compilers are.
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By ChatGPT do you mean GPT4 or GPT3.5?
State of Open Source Report
Fluent Search for Windows has a feature where typing a letter combination can click any element on the screen. I appreciate it for the same reason people like shortcuts.

Fluent Search is a desktop app and this feature is meant to work regardless of which apps are on the screen (browser, Notepad, whatever else) so I think there's a legitimate point here although it might be a niche one not relevant to you.

(I don't know enough about Windows internals to answer with confidence if a better solution is available like examining the OS accessibility tree, but I guess an advantage of Fluent Search's approach is that UIs from toolkits not implementing accessibility standards aren't excluded. The current approach has drawbacks like false positives too though because the ML model isn't 100% accurate.)
Some resources i used in the past are Linux From Scratch https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
and Yocto https://www.yoctoproject.org/
However i have no idea how up to date these are.
> Now you shouldn’t expect from me the level of academic rigor associated with scholars at e.g. Harvard; on the Internet, we cite our sources.

since you're comfortable making a jab like that, would you mind linking me to specific passages that the Harvard lady failed to cite in her work? the whole scandal is so buried in surface-level coverage that i legitimately cannot figure out what she failed to cite.
Datpiff Privated / Unprivated Mixtapes Catalog Data Scrape (~ 2013/2014)
If you can’t understand that a public utility can’t be compared to market-based examples like gas stations or grocery stores, then we’re probably at a stalemate.

It doesn’t cost differently to provide water and sewage to poor neighborhoods, at least as far as the consumer is aware and in theory for how it’s supposed to work. On top of that there are ample heating/water/sewage subsidies for those neighborhoods, which further invalidates the internet market cost argument. That is assuming the internet is viewed as a public utility at this point. Which, for anyone using it since 2010 or so, is hard to argue with.
I smiled at "Brexit + Politician => Chaos"
Idea behind complexity can be very simple, but at scale work yield in very different results.

To compare Markov Chain with an LLM is kind of like to compare a single cell organism to a human being because we both are based on cells.
Do you really think the government should be obliged to offer water and sewage service to all neighborhoods, let alone for the same price? The price to hook up will obviously depend on local circumstance and in a sizable minority of cases the price would be so prohibitive that it isn't done at all! 15% of American homes get their water from private wells instead of a utility. Even more use septic systems instead of having a connection to a sewage utility.
Do you use the vim plugins in vscode/emacs/webstorm?
Framing it as an internal conflict is the CPP’s framing. Don’t legitimize it.
I despise squashs. It encourages people to tread git commit as a glorified ^S of their work.

You want to know why a change was made, or who so that they can explain it. You land on a blob of a diff, with no meaningful commit message (any commit message was squashed to /dev/null to be replaced with the MR title and description). And then off you go to the corresponding github/gitlab/whatever MR only to find a wall of "hmmmm" "why no work?" "try something" etc commits.
I dated a girl more then 20 years ago who was on food stamps, and had a supposedly state-subsidized Internet account. She was paying more than I was for a slower DSL connection while we lived walking distance from each other. We both lived in apartment complexes.

Having said that, it is reasonable to charge more base rate when someone is likely to not pay their bills on time. Companies hate late payers and non-payers.
you dont know what you are talking about
I think that’s the root issue, yes.
Is this one of those instances where people vote against their interests because they identify with the enemy? I don't know of another reason why someone wouldn't want regulation that forces companies to respect their privacy.
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Yes, definitely. It also heavily affects the quality.
Fossil has something a bit like that.
Whatever the free one last year was. I have not played with it too much lately. Probably 3.5?
An experimental framework that integrates native SQL directly and type-safely into Java. Supports queries, DDL, & CRUD.
Literally the first line: A bigger, heavier vehicle provides better crash protection than a smaller, lighter one, assuming no other differences between them

Sure we want a car with crumble zones and airbags, but physics really comes into play: when a car weighs 3x as much as yours, in a collision you will be suddenly accelerating backwards. Brain injury at the very least is highly possible.

A Tesla X weighs as much as a Chevy Tahoe - and while large SUVs are fairly common they usually smaller like highlanders and the like.

It’s fine to price the probability low, but when you are dealing with extremely high consequences to your children, it’s hard to have a dispassionate view of the probabilities.
Windows 95 ran on a lot of systems with 4 bit colour displays. It was 320x200x256 or 640x480x16 back then. Gray was great with that limitation.
Change F# Color on GitHub
HN quality never recovered after the pandemic.
Be that as it may, looking at the comments here, this is clearly not how people make purchasing decisions.
The friend I've written about here before has been occasionally labeled as 'schizophrenic' by the psychiatrists forced on her. The psychiatrists try to treat her psychosis with antipsychotics. In 2018 she figured out for herself that she has the genetic condition of being a poor methylator. The practical implication of this is that she can't turn the provitamin folic acid (used to fortify food) into the usable form of Vitamin B9.

In the real world her psychosis is caused by substance abuse problems. She makes herself psychotic trying to self-treat her Vitamin B9 deficiency with alcohol and other substances.

My friend told me how adding L-Methylfolate to her routine was like flipping a switch from 'depressed' to 'not-depressed'. But the psychiatrists don't care... https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1595562184867971072

The notes on the lab test for folate/folic acid says folate deficiency is associated with chronic alcoholism: https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1595562191050375168 (I note the lab test seems to not be able to tell the difference between the provitamin folic acid and the useful vitamin.)

In 2022 Psychiatrist Chris Palmer published his book Brain Energy, which shares his discovery of the 70+ years of research establishing that "mental disorders" (schizophrenia, et al) are caused by metabolic problems.

https://brainenergy.com/ / https://books.google.com/books?id=FoxlEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT233&dq=B... (link to section about Science's actually findings about substance abuse)

Whether or not "schizophrenia" is actually genetic, the correct treatments for the psychosis of schizophrenia are pro-metabolic therapies, not tranquilizers.
Just look at how much was wiped away by inflation during covid. Every year 3-4% of the national debt simply disappears due to inflation. When inflation is higher, even more disappears.
For me, in the UK it still gives "That’s not something I’m able to do yet." from the prompt: "make a picture of a lifelike bart simpson".

All my settings/location are in the UK.
Chat GPT-4 using Eleven Labs to combine and create an audio of a story [video]
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While that law seems hilarious to us now, and the new restrictions on AI seem equally dumb, we have to admit that the law worked. It did what was intended -- prevented the sale of supercomputers to enemy nations, which in fact held back their weapons and aerospace R&D.

It will be a lot harder this time around to prevent "super AI" from spreading around the world, but it might slow it down just a bit, which again is the goal of the US government.
It's not just window size. It's the difference between syntax and semantics.

A Markov model, by definition, works only with literal token histories. It can't participate meaningfully in a conversation unless the user happens to employ token sequences that the model has seen before (ideally multiple times.) An LLM can explain why it's not just a Markov model, but the converse isn't true.

Now, if you were to add high-dimensional latent-space embedding to a Markov model, that would make the comparison more meaningful, and would allow tractable computation with model sizes that were completely impossible to deal with before. But then it wouldn't be a Markov model anymore. Or, rather, it would still be a Markov model, but one that's based on relationships between tokens rather than just their positions in a linear list.

Another analogy might be to say that a Markov model can implement lossless compression only, while a latent-space model can implement lossy compression. There's a school of thought that says that lossy compression doesn't just require intelligence, it is intelligence, and LLMs can be seen as an example of that equivalence. Not saying I agree with that school, or that you should, but as someone else pointed out, comparing Markov chains with LLMs are at best like comparing goldfish brains with human brains.
The peer reviews on Mamba's ICLR2024 are pretty interesting, especially with how split the reviewers are: https://openreview.net/forum?id=AL1fq05o7H
Just an aside: is there a vim syntax command to highlight weird unicode whitespace as an error?

Something like:

syn match unicodeWhitespace /[list of unicode whitespace]/
hi def link unicodeWhitespace Error
The case of London has been fascinating to follow.

Set up: A lot of buy-to-let landlords are highly leveraged. Interest rates jump up. What do you rationally expect?

I expected that with IR up, monthly payments for the landlords are up. They can't afford the payments, they sell (presumably to live-in buyers). Selling pressure means prices go down in the near term.

Instead what's been happening for at least a year is that the landlords have been putting rents up. This works for as long as renters are willing to pay up. There's less and less reason to, though. Also, it's normally not enough for buy-to-let landlords not to take losses, so basically they're just betting they can take smaller losses fora a while and it'll all go "back to normal".
> It doesn’t matter what it costs

Everything has diminishing returns. Of course it matters what it costs, no matter what "it" is.

> it should be considered a basic right

Many people disagree that positive rights (that require something to be provided to the right-bearer by the state at the expense of others) are on the same level as negative rights (that forbid the state from imposing some restriction or penalty on the right-bearer), or should indeed even be considered "rights".
This is pretty insane. 230+ countries but not Canada. Too bad none of their talent comes from here /s
I’m unclear how you’re linking private well houses (rural, have the money to drop a well, live off public utilities by choice) to lower income urban-ish neighborhoods. Have you ran into a lot of septic tanks and well houses in urban LA?

Edit - just going to expand this to we’re talking about the consumer costs, not the price to deliver. So, low income consumers within utility systems (ie live in a city like LA) usually have subsidies for every other utility they get - water, heating, gas. It is viewed as inhumane to shut off heating in the winter, for instance. Tech industry and their enablers forced life to run through the internet, but no, that development didn’t turn the internet into a public utility… for sure. That same internet that the US govt by and and large developed and handed over to private sector later. Libertarian market-based technology politics love to forget where the industry came from in the first place, and the role it plays now in people’s lives.
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I'm sorta working on this, but as an RSS feed, since there is a dedicated page per day, with 1-5 comics each day, for example https://www.thefarside.com/2024/01/31

They try to prevent basic scraping but I found a way around it using Selenium. Just haven't published it anywhere. The notice at the bottom has given me pause so I'm thinking of the best way to do this

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How is it the "CPP"'s framing when both sides still claim it as their official position?

From a day-to-day perspective, they treat each other as separate countries in practice, if not in name.
Relocation of .nl domain names to Amazon causing unrest in Dutch internet sector
if the opposition is fragmented but there are consolidated entities making lots of money, it will go to the consolidated
All metrics can be hacked.
The distinction between navigation and action seems rather blurry. Two pages often have often different views of the same entity. You’re not really “going somewhere,” particularly if it’s not a full page reload.

But I guess the main point is not to use buttons in your nav bar.
I did do just that!

I also had a formal footer setup added to every email, so it looked really legit.
Gap between GPT-4 and Markov Chains is huge though. Even gap between GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 seems obviously huge to me in terms of what they are able to do.
> With plausible deniability scenario, you could have encrypted two wallets, one that you afford to lose. You can give it up and it's possible the attacker will be satisfied and you can keep the wallet that you care about.

The observation here is that there's a _very_ narrow slice of adversaries that satisfy the following constraints:

1. Are willing to force you to hand over private key material;

2. Are ignorant to the underlying thing they're looking for;

3. Are ignorant to the fact that your choice of encryption scheme allows for plausible deniability.

This model assumes all 3, when in reality almost any adversary that satisfies (1) is not going to satisfy (2) or (3) -- they almost always have a sense of what they're looking for (i.e., they know the wallet isn't empty or they wouldn't waste their time on you) and, given that, they aren't going to be fooled by a scheme that explicitly supports plausible deniability.

We can always contrive exceptions, of course. But part of secure design and threat modeling is having a reasonable conception of your adversary.
All of the things you listed had incredible drivers for competition
That already exists. The merge into main is a single merge commit. You can view the merge as a single unit, or unpack it into the individual commits that comprise of the feature branch.
google photos?
TIL! Nothing to be sorry about, I'd rather know than go around the Internet misspelling it all over the place. :)
I wonder who thought that removing button outlines from headerbar will somehow improve things? Now it looks like a strange title with icons mixed with text. Still hoping that GNOME accessibility initiative might result in some sane improvements to GNOME UI.
FTC moves to ban location data sales raise new broker duties
I agree, the axiom of choice disincentives us from striving for more elegant solutions.

That said, the axiom of choice is always available in Gödel's sandbox of "constructible sets", and by "Shoenfield absoluteness", some results can escape the sandbox.

For instance, the result that every vector space has a basis is equivalent to the axiom of choice. We have it in Gödel's sandbox and we don't have it outside, if we prefer to not use the axiom of choice in our meta theory. But every purely number-theoretic consequence of that result flows from the sandbox to the ambient universe.

In this sense, the axiom of choice can be regarded as a useful fiction. Not necessarily true in a literal sense, but true enough for many purposes.

I gave a 37c3 talk on this topic: https://www.speicherleck.de/iblech/stuff/37c3-axiom-of-choic...
I agree with you that searching across commit messages happens rather rarely so return on great commit messages might be questionable

where great commit messages like the one in the blog post make perfect sense are pull requests. If the commit message explains the whole thought process that the author had while working on it, it saves so much time on pull request review.
I imagine the same way they do for actual photographs in which they haven’t identified the victim, which I’d guess is a pretty big percentage. Stuff like this is never cut-and-dried, but the law deals with ambiguous situations all the time. The test for what even constitutes pornography compared to, say, medical images involving genitals is a good example.
Taiwan has its own MILITARY FORCE, government, rule of law, economy, alliances for 70 years now. It is de facto an independent country. Unless someone brings that tired argument of Taiwan claims China as its own - no, China threatened to invade if Taiwan relinquishes that claim. And no, just because China forces other countries to not recognize Taiwan as a country, doesn't make it so. (if anything, most countries are now starting to freely associate with Taiwan, now that China is in decline)
Yeah, that’s the talk!
Question: is tea only targeted at the subset of open-source projects that are available through package managers? (I.e., libraries mostly.) Like npm packages, Rust crates, Debian packages, etc.?
3.5 is absolute garbage. It is puzzling to me that OpenAI continues to make it available, simply because of the reputational damage.
Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future (2017)
Google Maps is getting 'supercharged' with generative AI