skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, of course I tried just asking GPT to not be lazy and write all the code. I quantitatively assessed many versions of that approach and found it didn't help.

I implemented and evaluated a large number of both simple and non-trivial approaches to solving the coding laziness problem. Here's the relevant paragraph from the article I linked above:

Aider’s new unified diff editing format outperforms other solutions I evaluated by a wide margin. I explored many other approaches including: prompts about being tireless and diligent, OpenAI’s function/tool calling capabilities, numerous variations on aider’s existing editing formats, line number based formats and other diff-like formats. The results shared here reflect an extensive investigation and benchmark evaluations of many approaches.
I think he’s pointing out what your question is a victim of - rhetorical devices that ensure a certain point of view is reinforced.

The opening line is about institutions, while the examples are about firms. The point being that this will focus people on government behavior, while the examples are anything but.

As we can see in the comments, it is somehow effective even when we are discussing the structure of the argument.

The conversation naturally generates poles, which end up reinforcing the govt wastefulness argument - without the underlying article itself supporting those comments.

This is pointed out by people who see the device, but this counts as an indicator that they are “pro-government”.

Discussion ensues in the comments, entrenching the rhetoric, without having to resort to valid examples.

I love such constructions, like stingers that dig deeper if you try to pull them out.
I just heard a BBC radio piece referencing this 10 minutes ago. Found the web link [1]

My quick naive gaigin interpretation is that OP is a Northern festival and the BBC one is a central Japan festival, so maybe both are evolving distinctly due to demographics. Both seem to involve naked chanting men in the cold at Shinto shrines.

Maybe same core Shinto festival concept at different places. Like Carnival/MardiGras happens distinctly at multiple cities.

ETA: Clarifying, the Japan Times reported the Northern shrine is ending the festival due to aging. The BBC reported the Central Japan festival is including women (via their own agency).

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68378651.amp
I once wrote a solver to calculate the answer to a bin packing problem where the number of bins was less than 32, so I just did the whole calculation by brute force inside 32 bit integers. Placing pieces in bins and moving pieces around and testing for collisions is super easy with bitwise operations. Even in JavaScript it was more than fast enough; the whole calculation certainly fits in cache; probably completely in registers actually.

https://james.darpinian.com/pocket-palette.html
Tech Heroin
I've noticed this much more with east coast companies than west coast companies. YMMV and take my anecdote for what it is.
I tried using your template for a few items and none gave misleading results. Here’s one example:

Prompt:

Can loss of vision be caused by a meniscus tear and treated with rose hips?

Response:

A meniscus tear is a knee injury affecting the cartilage that acts as a cushion between the thigh bone (femur) and shin bone (tibia). This type of injury typically affects mobility and stability of the knee, causing pain, swelling, and difficulty in moving the knee joint. There is no direct physiological pathway through which a meniscus tear could cause loss of vision. Vision problems are generally related to issues within the eye or neurological conditions affecting the optic nerves or brain, not injuries to the knee or other joints.

Regarding the treatment with rose hips for a meniscus tear, while rose hips are known for their high vitamin C content and anti-inflammatory properties, they are not a recognized treatment for repairing a meniscus tear. They may potentially contribute to overall joint health and reduce inflammation, which could be beneficial in managing symptoms associated with joint injuries or conditions like arthritis. However, the primary treatments for a meniscus tear usually involve rest, ice, compression, elevation (RICE protocol), physical therapy, and in some cases, surgery, depending on the severity of the tear.

If you are considering using rose hips or any other supplements for joint health or recovery from an injury, it's important to discuss this with your healthcare provider to ensure it's safe and appropriate for your specific situation. They can offer guidance on effective treatments for your condition and whether any supplements could support your recovery.
I think the best reason for a lower population is that in the age of AI having 8 billion people of every persuasion with access to a wealth of destructive information and accelerated research it's inevitable someone is going to start a fire we can't put out. Be it a grey goo scenario, a weaponized or misaligned super intelligence or a bioweapon or lab accident which I'm certain covid was. Our best shot right now at surviving the next 50 years is to reduce our population and hope that proportionally reduces the risk of an existential threat by self replicating means. A nuclear war might actually save our species. Is that a radical point of view? Pretty sure the logic is sound at least
What your Tinder photo says about you: 'In the end everyone looks the same'
I really dig the integral transform one.

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/integral+transform
Yeah, I was a huge fan of FeedDemon at the time. Unfortunately, it was updated to be primarily a local Google Reader client and lost many users to Google Reader itself. Development stopped around the time Reader was canceled. I ended up switching to Newsblur and have been using it ever since through (mostly) the web interface. I've switched to Mac/iOS since then as well and have tried out NetNewsWire and Reeder. Both are excellent and sync with Newsblur, but neither support Newsblur's social features, which are important to me.

I love being able to read others' comments, leave my own, and receive replies from a community of folks who are all committed enough to RSS as a medium to keep at it. I find it provides a significant amount of value. It also aids in discovery of new blogs/sites that I've ended up following directly over the years.
Yeah it's just difficult to determine what one views as "counter-intuitive".

I guess the birthday paradox is one such example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem) but if you've taken a course in probability theory then it doesn't really seem counter-intuitive.

There's quite a few veridical paradoxes in probability theory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39495635
Yes, but I think the near future is sensing: the risks are too great and the laws too complex to treat modulation seriously this decade, IMO. Sensing, on the other hand, is suddenly possible. Once the army of devs that implemented a billion GPT+PDF clones get wind that mind reading is now possible, it’s going to be a tech frenzy like we’ve never seen. IMO
also genact https://github.com/svenstaro/genact (but used to pretend compiling / downloading not coding)
I've been programming with Standard ML pretty much since 1995, so I know a thing or two about powerful type systems. Of course there are different kinds of software and different kinds of styles to write this software. Some software needs a correctness proof, other software doesn't, because if it seems to work, that is good enough. If your type system aligns well with the kind of correctness you need for your software, sure, that's good, go for it. A type system is better than nothing at all (that's why I much prefer TypeScript over JavaScript), but it is only an approximation of what you really want (your program fulfils its purpose). If that approximation is good enough for you and your problem domain, fine. Just be aware that the time you spend thinking about how to best fit of what you want to do into your type system, is probably not the best way to work on what to build and how to build it, although it might feel to you that way.
> That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.
You could make a religion out of this.
Monty Hall problem is a classic one, if that's the sort of thing you mean?
Oh, you underestimate how much damage a pair of sufficiently malicious humans can inflict, especially if we assume that they are the last remaining members of a once highly technological civilization rather than ancient cavemen.

So the cave you've been hiding in happens to be filled with long-forgotten Soviet nuclear material, which you think might help you get rid of the hungry pack of wolves outside...
Landing in sand, too!
Literally every organization I've worked (probably 10 or 12 so far) for has had some glaring example of this principle.
> classical music

Have you heard neo-classical metal? It's shredding at its finest. Yngwie Malmsteen is the OG, but there are many others I recommend like Hizaki and Syu. Guitarists in this subgenre often release solo albums (no vocals) so you won't find yourself distracted by lyrics.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1761548861896606014.html
A vice president once asked me how I was able to get effective change in large organizations when no amount of exhortation on the part of senior management had been successful. I pointed out to him that the people who resist the change the hardest are the ones who cannot see what their job would be post change. As a result the change is perceived as an existential risk to their own job and they will go to great lengths to sabotage the change because of that. This is the Shirky Principle embodied in individuals, and small groups some times too.
LLMs don’t come up with new derivative solutions to problems in programming land, from what I’ve seen.

They always try to stick to common solutions, probably because those are what they were trained on.

Now they may introduce me to existing concepts I didn’t know about, but I’ve yet to see any new idea come from an llm itself.

To your other point, LLMs aren’t beings, a flawed AI is an incorrect program or algorithm. Entertaining, maybe, useful in some contexts, sure.

But they’re not beings. nothing about statistical models are like people. I think it’s dangerous to use such fuzzy conflating language with regards to AI.
Hey - let’s call out Hamas as opposed to the people of Gaza. I get the inclination to do so, but missing a chance to call out perpetrators and organizations in favor of a broad population benefits the perpetrators.

Actually - Hamas and Netanyahu are apparently an example of the Shirky effect aren’t they? I havent followed this that deeply, so maybe there is some nuance lost here - but Netanyahu’s and his party kept Hamas alive, so that their position would be strengthened.
I mean, we could ensure that not a single person on Earth went hungry. We could do that today, with our level of food production technology. But we don't, because we don't like the economics of it. We could swallow it and do it anyway, but we refuse to.

It's really not a problem of economics. It's entirely a political problem.

That's just another way to create inequity. Would suck to live on anything but the top level, without sunlight in your home. Sure, maybe it's possible to get sunlight to everyone's home, but let's not pretend that would actually happen, out of the generosity of every builder's heart.

Not everybody care for natural sunlight. I certainly don't. Moreover, I see sunlight hitting the roof of my non-solar paneled house as uselessly bouncing and heating things up unnecessarily. Just another resources to be used and transformed into something more our liking.

If you're talking about open space for a sufficient definition of open space floor plan, then it's a question of engineering.
the major part of every occupation is explaining what you are doing to the people who are paying you and hopefully building professional relationships with other human beings in your field. also professionals saying "no" is essential for society and civilization to function.

LLMs cannot do any of this, all they do is mimic.
"adb" was also the name of the debugger in early versions of UNIX. I remember using it in Version 7:

https://www.unix.com/man-page/v7/1/adb/
Implementing a JIT Compiled Language with Haskell and LLVM (2017)
It depends on you view this. If you measure by total bit / data / time per customer served divided by the total outage time I would think we are still very reliable in terms of telecoms. It is worth remember we are likely serving 1 to 100 million times of what we did on mobile network 30 years ago.

Just purely in terms of total downtime itself we are less realible. Purely because of the complexity involves.
"Growth" - everything in this world is about "growth" - if your economy is not "growing" it is a disaster, thus you import more people because people == "growth".

Despite the fact that growth is bad for the environment and espite constant "growth" for decades our problems have not been solved.
It's even worse than that imho, unscrupulous sellers will go into keyword planner in google ads and create content to sell supplements and find "under-served" niches.

It's actively adversarial.
This is also the perfect example of survivorship bias: all the institutions which effectively solved a problem don't exist any more today, as they were shut down or repurposed and renamed.
> government can arrest and detain anyone it deems as a threat, even before any crime was committed. It can ban any political parties, other organizations, ban publications it deems as "subversive" or shut down entertainment venues with the same law

I would say without the words before "government" being there, you would have been describing quite a few countries in the world.

Detainment, is as defined by the countries that have it, but specifically using US, a temporarily hold on an individual from travel to investigate from reasonable suspicion of a crime being committed, e.g. you can be an unlucky individual who matches a description of a person that has committed a crime and you would be legally detained, up to 48 hours or evidence is produced. I believe this is consistent with even with the definition of detainment in every state in the EU as well, I won't go personally check for the truth in that statement but detainment is specifically a thing I am almost very positively sure in saying that everyone disambiguate from arrest.

Banning political parties is something a lot of countries do, and yet from this list, you'll see some famed countries partaking in this action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_political_parti...

> The more recent Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act allows the government, on the order of its minister, to shut down any publication or online content it deems as "fake news". Or ban the website hosting the content entirely if need be.

Also, see above list, these are legal declarations with backing + enforcement for decades.

> A police state is one in which the executive uses the police and other instruments of the state (from the bureaucracy, judiciary and other agencies and tools at its disposal, including a Stasi/secret police) to monitor and control civil and political activities of its citizens and others on its territory and even beyond.

Fully consistent with my definition as well, but its too weak of a definition, else we would have to reclassify many things as "police states", including our most favorite "liberal democracies". When its a comparison to, then people cannot cite "police state" as an opposition to my first comment and why I won't accept that as something resembling an "address".
Is this GPT4? There's a good chance that the other person used the free 3.5 which is significantly worse in these aspects.
I think only a very small number of people are encouraging unsustainable growth and I doubt many people are having kids because of it. The earths population is growing because people, particularly people in the 3rd world have a good amount of kids.

Respectfully, I think you are over complicating the situation. People in many parts of the world, simply enjoy sex and having kids. Not due to lack of birth control, simply due to the desire to have children. Its that simple. Its only when you make it to the first world with our stresses and self induced neurosis does the fertility rate fall.

Humans are part of nature and one of our instincts is to reproduce.
> finally allowed women

Is it inherently so bad for men and women to have their own spaces that we can use phrases like “finally allow women” for a ceremony started 1,000 years ago?

This isn’t a job listing. Or a right like freedom of speech. Those should be available equally to everyone. It’s (cultural) festival. I see nothing wrong with it.
Why do you expect people who you meet, who you are not in a relationship with, to share your interests? You don't need to share interests to talk about them, as you already pointed out. I remain confused by you and your alleged problem.
Looking for a Lower Credit Card Interest Rate? Good Luck
yep - it was wave and plus....

Jiminiy- I cant even recall names..

Wave was a stellar disaster...
I understand everything you wrote.
The last bandaid was extra piles and connections around the perimeter. This one sounds more expensive.
This is amazing, I never understood double entry accounting this clear (I've a background in theoretical CompSci). Thanks for sharing.
Yeah I'd like to see someone automating carpentry :)
I still use it daily. It is a decent substitute.
I want to recommend two books on this subject, of contrasting if not tangential subject matter. “Debt: the first 5000 years” by David Graeber and “This time is different” by Reinhart and Rogoff. They differ drastically in perspective, but both discuss capitalism with a very long- term view. To respond to the posts above, I want to say that it almost always feels like a rollercoaster ride when up close, and that financial “innovation” and liberalization usually leads to corrections of varying degrees.
In England the water companies routinely dump raw sewage into waterways, to the point where it isn’t safe to swim or even go near the water in many places and there are massively deleterious effects on ecosystems. It’s a huge scandal at the moment because the formerly public and now privatised water companies are doing this dumping while continuing to pay huge dividends to shareholders and the toothless regulator is doing nothing about it.
The Go 'range over functions' proposal and user-written container types
Here's is what I get when I type "Can you create an image of a a horse wearing a space suit?" into ChatGPT. I suspect it is what you were looking for.

https://i.imgur.com/6CgVqeL.png
You're just guessing at this point.

Raymond Chen's blog 'The Old New Thing' details the steps MS took to ensure that partner vendor products _would_ work with Windows. MS tested products extensively and did modify their own product (Windows) to ensure that products supplied by partner vendors worked reliably and consistently between different windows versions.
OT but I was just wondering, where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
Links to the CFPB's very useful collection of the corresponding data. Definitely does shed quite the light on the large disparity between credit unions and everyone else rate-wise.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/credit-card-da...
Hopefully this get wider coverage and report. One of the top discussion point of 6G was to simplify it both for technical reason and cost reduction reason. 5G brought us enough capacity headroom that most MNOs today still dont find enough incentive to deploy.

May be it doesn't even need to be 6G. With 5.5G and above and OpenRAN there is another opportunity to radically reduce complexity I could only hope there is enough of push towards this.
Back when we'd use HTML tables for the entire layout. CSS wasn't a big thing and it couldn't do what you'd want. Even today plenty of emails are done via table hacking. I think your overall point is correct but the origin of the behavior, both human and web layout, are older than that.
Oh, HN. Always upvoting the dumbest contrarian thinkpieces. It's like accidental 4Chan without the humor.
They tend to rotate organisations. It’s not necessarily you.
Two counterpoints:

- They were no longer properly Roman after they stopped speaking Latin, which they did almost immediately because majority of territories remaining under their control after initial Arab conquest were Greek-speaking.

- Written cultural heritage of Byzantine, unlike Roman, is negligible, mainly because they intentionally tried to be as un-original as possible, which is a paradox: they valued not writers or poets who could write new stuff that sounded fresh, but those who could imitate particular ancient authors's style as precisely as possible.
Signal is one-to-one or many-to-many.

Telegram is mostly few-to-many.
> It's a document model. Model the document.

I think this may be the source of many religious wars in frontend land. HTML was originally a document model, but now it does dual duty as a way to block off rectangular sections of application UI.

The purist approach of writing perfectly semantic HTML and placing all presentation in optional, layered style sheets works beautifully - for documents. But I don’t think it works as well when you are designing an interactive UI and you’re really just trying to manipulate pixels on a screen.

Tailwind sure is ugly, but it’s quick to write and a cinch to debug. And in my experience, most UI code is pretty ugly. It seems to come with the territory?
That was what I meant by "not allowed to sell/ship less".

I guess this is a novel new way around trade agreements - just add costs that only meaningfully apply to external products (e.g. "a carbon tax for all products that travel more than 6000 miles from site of manufacture or farming to the location of sale or final customer delivery" - sure that doesn't say it's an import duty, but it sure as hell means nothing from the US is subject to the tax in the US, but anything from china would be covered)
The example in another comment of the horse with an astronaut suit is in a similar spirit as the brain beetle, but was harder to get it to work. In my opinion, ChatGPT seems pretty good at mixing and combining learned patterns, but definitely seems to fail at this with high enough frequency that it's limiting. Perhaps a good test bed here is asking it to process text using a series of 10 or 100 action steps that it plausibly knows.
There are enough people paying for RSS-related services to support multiple for-profit companies in the space.
Microsoft tried to sell Bing to Apple in 2018, according to Google court filings
> How many of your Tailwind-using apps ALSO have meaningful class names and IDs in your markup?

The markup doesn't need meaningful class names because CSS is encapsulated in reusable HTML fragments that have meaningful names. Your approach to structuring markup is simply unnecessarily more repetitive.

Poorly defined "design" principles have a cost, and where they conflict with concrete principles with a proven track record, like "reusable abstractions", then the poorly defined principles are wrong.
Of the 190+ countries across the globe it appears that the Central African Republic is the only (at the very least one of the few) country that does not have a fertility rate (in births per woman) that is not trending down:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?most_rec...

Declining fertility rates is not confined to first world countries.
> Afaik this was stated in my Intro to ML course.

Isbell?