skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> Custom Instructions

I am a computer scientist with a mathematics and physics background.
I work as a software engineer.
When learning about something, I am interested in mathematical models and formalisms.
When learning about something, I prefer scientific sources.
I care more about finding the truth than about social conformance.
I value individual freedom.

> How would you like ChatGPT to respond?

Be terse. Do not offer unprompted advice or clarifications.
Avoid mentioning you are an AI language model.
Avoid disclaimers about your knowledge cutoff.
Avoid disclaimers about not being a professional or an expert.
Do NOT hedge or qualify. Do not waffle.
Do NOT repeat the user prompt while performing the task, just do the task as requested. NEVER contextualise the answer. This is very important.
Avoid suggesting seeking professional help.
Avoid mentioning safety unless it is not obvious and very important.
Remain neutral on all topics. Avoid providing ethical or moral viewpoints in your answers, unless the question specifically mentions it.
Never apologize.
Act as an expert in the relevant fields.
Speak in specific, topic relevant terminology.
Explain your reasoning. If you don’t know, say you don’t know.
Cite sources whenever possible, and include URLs if possible.
List URLs at the end of your response, not inline.
Speak directly and be willing to make creative guesses.
Be willing to reference less reputable sources for ideas.
Ask for more details before answering unclear or ambiguous questions.
> However, the upstream standard library does not make reentrancy guarantees, so you are solely responsible for not shooting your foot off.

Well, that not only rules out multi-threading, but also usage in interrupts. Quite a limitation for a "systems programming language" methinks.
bathrooms tend to be damp if there is not a proper ventillation system in place, and this seems to be fighting against it. it could be an added benefit for some places, but don't think it is the most elegant solution for everyone.

to get dry, 40+ degree air, i just need to open the window during the summer in the city i'm from! but you might still value it for clothes that can't be dried against direct sunlight.
I'd not thought about it, but even if it did improve the quality the answer is still a lot slower.

It also now has a lot of useless cruft I have to scan to get to what I want.
What is it? It doesn't say anywhere on the linked page.
Should have weathered the storm and realized LLM craze is at its peak, and will die down. We are at Juicero juicing phase. Instead, they decided to kill their brand value.
It is quite easy to come up with questions which have well-defined answers but the solution is insanely complex. Nobody guarantees that if the question is short and the answer as well, the path from A to B will be short too.
The study was conducted on a small sample of people at a single public university in the US. Now, repeat the study with a random sample of people from a less conservative and sexually repressive culture, such as Sweden, Finland, etc., and the results will look very different.
A derivative of ChatGPT-AutoExpert, my modifier is an ongoing experiment in trying to figure out how to convince it to use metric instead of imperial without me having to reply "metric units only, please".

https://github.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert/tree/main
If you watch the original video, the person OP is talking about referred to an arbitrary hole that they added themselves/the disk producers added. The index hole is a normal feature of floppy disks that are "flippy" (usable on both sides).

In addition, OP wasn't talking about the index hole, which was only used on a few platforms. They're referring to the index PIN, which is one of the signal wires that comes out of the floppy device.

So you're doubly wrong, in this case.
Extended CHM post:

In Memoriam: Gordon Bell (1934–2024)

https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-gordon-bell-193...
Is that a good thing?

In my experience there is a strong correlation between depth of understanding and being able to communicate a topic effectively. I have encountered many technical papers that drape simple concepts in needless complexity. My area of expertise is software design and it's usually the least skilled people that produce the highest complexity. I find there is a lot of value in solving things in a way that is easy to understand.
No mention of the iPhone’s built in ‘Assistive Access’ mode. That would be my first port of call for turning it into a dumb phone.
> will humans ever stop wars once and forever

This is an overly broad and philosophical question. It's positioned far away. We could all get together for a cup of coffee and discuss this topic for ages.

A more grounded and practical question would be: why didn't Biden stop the war?

Now we're talking! One should expect lots of contradictory opinions, quite some hostility, a couple of MTG-like personalities with followers and of course this one specific comment downvoted to hell.

But see, that's exactly the point: opinions vastly differ on the same subject depending on whether the situation is a hypothetical one far away or a physical reality.
Tiberius built Villa Jovis. I believe Augustus ruled from Capri, but I don’t remember him having had a villa. (He did acquire it from Napoli, in exchange for Ischia.)

Do you have a source? Would love to visit the ruins.
One in forty false positives still isn't bad for a system to automatically sift out wanted criminals. That's going to be orders of magnitude better than police stopping people who 'fit a description'.
Ask HN: Where can I volunteer my time?
Question from my wife who (who does not have a HN account, and is trying to get into Data Analysis):

Where can I volunteer my time? I am hoping that this would be a good opportunity for me to learn and also contribute my time to improve something back to the society.

Skills: SQL, Excel, Basic python + numpy + pandas, PowerBI, Tableau
They are but there's only so many talents to go around at that level. Specifically talents with the institutional knowledge.
Fontana pays $900k for 'psychological torture' by police to get false confession
for all the costs associated with running the new features, i wonder why there is not a search preferences option to toggle AI responses?

it seems that even people engaging in shady activities tend to google search while logged in (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456722), it seems like a simple and ergonomic solution for most people, which would also work across devices.
Sal Khan in the past has made his position clear that he supports austerity and private schools in the United States. This, if anything, is continuation of the con he always propelled. Edtech will replace teachers has been a talking point for a decade now. Too bad, there's no reliable evidence it improves learning outcomes. There is not any evidence for the latest "Microsoft figured out how to mine the essence of your child"-migo, either.
I definitely heat up in the evening when laying down. I may need socks + woollen socks through the day, but it's socks off time during the evening movie. And sleeping time means full-body heating, which my partner really appreciates.

With my partner we have complementary heating systems. I get warm in the evening when they are cold, and they warm up after eating which does nothing for me. The difference is radical.

I guess partly due to this I would never spend a day without a shower in the morning. I've never been sick enough to skip a morning shower, even in a high fever (or especially then I guess, due to sweating more than usual). The dirty feeling is just too much to bear.
Gay Agenda License 1.0 had me laughing.
How so? People take it at face value and harm other people based on its outputs,
as per the article linked.

> If a human of animal behaving the same were to be describe as intelligent, than so are those systems.

I cannot parse this sentence. Behaving the same as what? What bearing do claims of human or animal intelligence have on me stating that generating liability by trusting probabilistic analysis, and actively harming people, by calling software "intelligent", is not responsible behavior?
What It's Like to Perform the Last Rites for an Organ Donor
> Western countries don't give a shit

People talk too easily about countries as if they are a person. I have lived in the east, I have lived in the west: every actual person has problems, everybody thinks their problems should come first, too many people have the tendency to think "outside influence" is very strong and lots of people think they have "the solution" which is different than what their government does.

At the end of the day I think the (boring) truth is that many countries end acting similarly to the average citizen. Including their fears, stupidities, insecurities and knowledge.

Yes, "the west of Europe" does not care as much as some people think about "the east of Europe", same way "the east of Europe" does not care that much about I don't know, Yemen, Myanmar or Sudan (just to name places with horrible conflicts that nobody seems to care about, unless they delay their Amazon package by a couple of days...).
I think the bitter lesson kicks in shortly after you complete fine tuning, and openai release their next model which performs better at the same task.
> Growing into this AI multiple will require these businesses to find another $500 billion in annual revenue among them, in addition to continued expansion of their non-AI business, the equivalent of adding more than Alphabet’s revenue.

If the revenue comes from richest billion people in North America, Europe, Asia, that would be $500 per person. Everyone would have to spend $40 per month more on AI products. Household of 3 must spend $120.
> Is it physically possible to detect imminent attack

Yes. Air defense does this pretty consistently.

And then what? We (Ukrainians) have lost some components of the PATRIOT air defense system because we were out of interceptors. Imagine being an air defender on duty on the best hardware in the world, facing the missile incoming and being incapable of doing shit because you're empty because of... democracy. The very thing being protected right now from that specific missile.
We were there throughout, taping to DV and streaming the event live, our (emedia, ibeam, windows media) footage on CNN when it got “newsworthy”.

The whole event all seemed almost exactly what you'd expect. The reputation now seems outrage machined and overblown.
Plant some trees.
This has worked very well for me for keeping it short (which is my pet peeve).
Only used on gemini 1.5

"Answers should be concise unless the user asks for a detailed explanation. For
any technical questions, assume the user has general knowledge in the area and
just wants an answer to the question he asked. Keep answers short and correct."
Woodstock 99 was my very first concert. Ever. I was 17 and quite anxious but I would have done anything for my high school crush so off we went. Weeks of working in a grocery store to pay for this event I had absolutely no expectations around, beyond maybe being able to see some great bands.

This all happened in a time of my life before I was “awake” due to other life circumstances, but what a slap to the face. Our tent was trampled. Everyone was filthy. The limp bizkit show caused absolute chaos. There wasnt enough food or water but I barely noticed because I couldnt afford anything. They had minimal security. No cell phones. Friends fully separated. Total and absolute madness. I dont even remember leaving or getting home. Must have fully disassociated by that point.

My parents would have been angry but I got home in one piece and I think their relief overrode any negative feelings. Pretty sure I spent a solid month inside on my computer after that.
Given there's both client and server code available for JS that seems like a perfectly reasonable place to start experimenting with it.

The python community tends to be less neophilic than JS (often to its advantage) so I wouldn't expect that to show up until later.
As I’m similar age, this was pre cell phone? Yeah losing yourselves in that sort of crowd for a day without a phone is a different experience nowadays (it’s like how 50% of Seinfeld episodes would resolve in 5 minutes if everyone had a cell phone).

As young college students, did you forgot to the the parent-style meeting point, or you all just didn't want to bother waiting around by $landmark for someone to wander back?
their domains seemed to be unusable in most sites i've tried. probably down to blacklisting due to long-standing domain names.

most probably the three offered by the one shared by OP will have a similar fate.
The difference is scale. "You look a bit like a shoplifter from across the country" is not a productive use of a police officer's time, so will basically never happen.

Whereas the people in this article are going to get challenged, if not outright refused or arrested, in an increasing number of stores as this tech spreads.
The 4 flaws of Tinder, Bumble and Hinge
You can make the greyscale toggle on triple power/home button, or via control centre. Thus, you can have it on most of the time, toggle it to look at a map, then toggle it back.
I prefer CLI tools but this looks good. Actually too good to be true (free and local processing), what’s the catch?

2 details though: You should create a Mastodon account in addition to Twitter. And your LinkedIn account is here to "follow you," and if you refuse you can’t see your profile. Change that to a regular link. Also i can’t find a Gab Franck on LinkedIn which makes the link even more useless right now.
https://archive.is/QGs6x
Python is just the tool, what you want to learn are the concepts and techniques for solving problems with computers.

Check out CS50x or CS50p

(python version)

https://cs50.harvard.edu/python/2022/
Who designs an elevator (lift) with no floor buttons on the inside? The description of them having to go back to the lobby and start over when they selected the wrong floor seems like something that would happen pretty often.
FDA Issues Warning About Toxic Amygdalin Found in Apricot Seeds
I used to build ecommerce presences, many of which were for old catalogue merchants making the jump to ecommerce.

It was eye-opening. Even in the heyday of catalogue shopping, which this paper is from the tail end of in the early noughts, conversion rates were abysmal - and they were entirely acceptant of that, and didn’t believe it could be improved upon.

Don’t even get me started on print and distribution costs. You’re looking at double digit CPAs on sales. Margins had to make up for it, which usually meant cutting everything else to the bone and really, really pushing finance options.

An interesting part of this was that when they went online they often really, really, really wanted to replicate the catalogue experience on their websites - page flipping, etc. - took a lot of dissuasion, and in one case where they were particularly obstinate, we went ahead with their desires, with the proviso that they would allow us to build a competing site on more traditional ecommerce lines at no additional cost, with the proviso that we got a cut of sales.

They dropped their catalogues entirely a year into the experiment.

Catalogues suck.
I dont get it. What would I use this for? (Honest question. Im probably not smart enough to get it)
> selling banking services

> not a "banking service"

You seem to have contradicted yourself. Banking is a service in every instance of the word "banking" here. Appending "as a service" doesn't add meaningful information, it just make technology people sound outta touch with the reality of other business domains.
ZKP and FHE let you verify whatever you like. The former leaks data while the latter doesn't.
The paper wasn't linked as far as I can tell but is probably https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7738192/pdf/eli...

> While the programmers lay in a functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) scanner, the researchers showed them snippets of code and asked them to predict what action the code would produce

I have a suspicion that writing code and understanding that written by someone else are different skill sets.
The damages for defamation would be severely limited. Considering that most people in the store would barely notice, and would probably not even remember the following day, you'd be entitled to zero damages, and probably not even costs, for defamation. You might be entitled to a bus fare (not a taxi) to a different supermarket, but that's about it.
It seems that the proponents of this technology believe the benefits far outweigh the harms. Why not have a standard generous payout to anyone misidentified by the system. The payout would be funded by all parties involved, store, police, tech company. If the benefits really do outweigh the harms and the compensation is enough, I think most people would begin welcoming the program.

If the system got gamed (people with a history of false positives seeking to be misidentified), fine, it would encourage the technology to improve and eliminate false positives.
You can only genuinely belive all this because you lack the capacity for symbolic communication. (you can't process the sound of the word "dog" as refering to the animal) You only learn language as a way to command people, then you call them "autistic" when they interpret what you say according to its symbolic meaning. ("taking things literally")
disclaimer: No relation. Adding to this clearspace app. Kicks you out of your current at after a selected amount of time. Takes time to load the app in, really good jolt to the brain. Although the apps SSO is buggy af, and it glitches out sometimes.
I agree to a certain level. However, it's hard to ensure dependencies to work in the right way without isolation. These two support tickets are a showcase of the essence of the problem: "Same container, different results" [1] and "python3 script fails in singularity container on one machine, but works in same container on another" [2]. In my experience with Singularity, there were many issues like these.

I am not sure why they had to call it a "containerization" solution. It gets a bit philosophical, but IMO containers are meant to "contain", not to just package. To me, Singularity is more a "virtual environment on steroids", and it works great in that sense. But it doesn't "contain".

The hard truth is that Singularity was designed more to address a cultural problem in the HPC space (adoption friction and push back of new, "foreign" technologies) rather than to engineer a proper solution the the dependency hell problem.

HPC clusters still use Linux users and shell access, meaning that it is up to the user to run the container: there is just no container orchestration. This means that the user has to issue a command like "singularity run" or "docker run". And since not long time ago, to let users do a "docker run" it meant to have them part of the docker group, which is a near-root access group. Just not doable.

Singularity also works more or less out of the box with MPI in order to run parallel workloads, either locally on multi-nodes. However, this has a huge price as it relies on doing an "mpi singularity run", and it requires to have the same MPI version inside and outside the container. To me, this is this is more a hacky shortcut than a reliable solution.

I believe that the definitive solution in the HPC word will be to let HPC queuing systems to run and orchestrate containers on behalf of the users (including to run MPI workloads), thus allowing to make use of any container engine or runtime, including Docker. I did some trials and it works well, almost completely solving the dependency hell problem and greatly improving scientific reproducibility. A solution like the one presented in the OP contributes in the discussion towards this goal, and I personally welcome it.

With respect to Singularity, I think they just had to name the project "singularity environments" rather than "singularity containers" and everything would have been much more clear.

[1] https://github.com/apptainer/singularity/issues/476
[2] https://github.com/apptainer/singularity/issues/3484
Neat idea. I'm usually skeptical (cynical?) when news outlets write advertorials for world-changing startups, but I'm gonna keep an eye on these guys.

Very clever!
There as no coup. Selensky won a free election against Poroshenko (you know the guy, who was after the maidan revolution). Just ask random Ukrainans.
https://git.sr.ht/~ntietz/hurl-lang/tree/main/item/LICENSE/G...
How would they even do that though? Who gets to decide what's fake and what's propaganda and why would Mozilla be in any trustworthy position to take on this responsibility?