skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article really works to present the manmade view as dominate, which doesn’t seem to be the case at all. Seems like a fun site to read and imagine though.
I don't know this website but to me there is great chance that it is (Russian?) propaganda spreader.

Opinion is presented as fact that there is nothing to see...

At the opposite, recently there was reports of a strong suspicion of a Russian black ops related to that with a specific set of spies located at a right time in each location where it happened. Around 1000 observation of the Havana syndrome have been reported in different place and time. Even if we can easily assume that a part of the reports are not real Havana syndrome cases.
COVID taught me that we can’t align on absolutely anything.

Problem with climate discussions is that 99.9% of people don’t have any impact whatsoever (drinking through paper straws or buying eco friendly t-shirts doesn’t change a thing).

Nothing is actionable. People who could make an impact won’t because it’s not in their personal interest - e.g. jet flying celebrities or owners of industrial companies.

Maybe Fermi's Paradox filter isn’t some big cosmic event but a simple industry optimization problem. Many planets had intelligent life but industrialization, as a form of energy transformation, boils everyone before they can make a contact or travel through space.
> Electron thus far seems to be the king of “desktop” ui.

For people that want to use the webstack, yes. But that's not everyone.

A fast, fairly simple GUI system thats GPU accelerated is pretty rare

even rarer if you want python support.
The biggest challenge I face with Kafka is constantly having to migrate data. Do you experience this too? I'm hopeful that a shared storage architecture will completely fix this frustrating issue.
Where there are humans, there will be dumb drama. It's practically a law of human nature.
From your landing:

Keywords Page
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Keyword Details
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Your estimated bill

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> Semrush. Save up to 71% of your current bill

While using semrush, you pay 4 times more, but it provides DAILY 3k requests. Your tool provides overall(not daily) 3k requests for the bigger price
My whole undergrad curriculum was essentially about this, so I would say 3.5 years would be a sufficient amount to study it in depth.
Likely the same logic that went into a lot of Western Christian belief about chivalry and witch-hunting - that God (or whatever Assyrian equivalent in this case) would judge innocence or guilt through the laws of nature.

You have to remember that "logic" presupposed magical thinking and religion at the time.
In the current system, where students can anonymously report teachers (most of whom do not have tenure and are afraid) it will be hard to change anything.

Otherwise, you could do a mixture of very strict exams without multiple choice and large individual projects (no group projects).

If you only do exams, people who don't do well thinking in a room crammed full of people at 8am will be disadvantaged.
> Officials in some local authorities are proposing that libraries can be operated at times without any professional librarians, relying on self-service technology, smartcards for entry and CCTV.

Like Amazon's "Go" self-service stores, which are working out so well for them?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/amazon-ends-ai-power...
People are feeling stuck in their jobs
Ever made a side bet with yourself to remove the middleman?
Python also, similar story.
Well, you said something will happen with git and big files, but it seems not much will happen for the majority of users.
Afaik, Lena herself said she'd like her image to stop being used as a test image. And IEEE already retired its use.

Even if you think it's woke, there's good reason to respect the model's wish
6 is 2×3, so 6×5 = 30. Likewise, 17 = 2×8 + 1, so 5×17 = 85.
That’ll break a lot of older devices. Unlikely
I think it's pretty clear that as a tool they can be used very effectively if you have at least some understanding of their limitations.

I will say that wikipedia, as things stand, is way more accurate than chatgpt. So much so that comparing them doesn't even make sense to me.
> It just doesn't look like something people would design
Check out the "altar" of Naupa Iglesia: https://www.dreamstime.com/naupa-iglesia-picture-archaeologi...
To elaborate on the earlier point about Illustrator from amelius.

Illustrator's stroke control is a touch more advanced than most people are aware in that there is full control over the width of the stroke at any point on the line and that includes the ability to independently adjust the width on either side of the path.

That's especially useful for emulating handwork or script without forcing the object into a less editable format such as a filled shape.

To visualise this, see this graphic: https://imgur.com/a/303dgSf

The black thin line is a basic stroke to visualise the path. The light blue area is the stroke with edits to the stroke width showing how each side of the path can be controlled independently. I have kept the tool selection active such that a wireframe overlay is visible to help demonstrate how the stroke width is different on either side of the line.

The last area in the graphic is the pink area. The pink is another stroke applied to the same path. In fact all 3 strokes you see are all attached to one path. Illustrator allows a path to carry multiple strokes, and those stroke profiles be independent from one another.

Side note: This stroke-width information can then be applied to other strokes, and also saved for later use. (Handy if you want a custom swash pack.)
They're on the way out in France, too. New buildings don't get copper anymore, only fiber.

However, as I understand it, at least for commercial use, the phone company provides some kind of box that has battery-backing so it can provide phone service for a certain duration in case of emergency.
It's an image used within imaging since the 70s. It's used because everybody uses it. It being part of an old Playboy centerfold isn't the relevant bit here.
Do you not trust the electorate to carefully scrutinize and select qualified candidates?
Wikipedia is generally right and you can check it's sources. Also everything there was written by a human.

LLMs are often wrong and you cannot check their sources. Also since it is generated you can trick it into spitting out falsehoods intentionally.

They are not even close.
The great problem with ChatGPT is that it's a sycophant and aims to please.

If you ask it about something it doesn't know, right then and there, it will concoct a fiction for you. It won't say "I don't know," or "I can't help with that."

If you coach it to respond to something in a certain way, it'll respond that way for you as its top priority.

If you ask it to review a text, it'll usually find a way to give you at least a 7 or 8 out of 10. (Though, interestingly, rarely a 10/10 score. You can upload excerpts from some of the great works of literature and philosophy and see ChatGPT give them an 8/10, just as it gives an 8/10 to your essay or blog post.) Practically the only way to get a halfway critical response is to add the words "be critical" to your prompt.

A more circumspect and less obsequious ChatGPT would solve a lot of problems.
Yeah that's kind of their thing, right? The brand of the SerenityOS community is a safe haven for developers who don't want to worry about ethical or code of conduct issues. And for the most part it seems to work okay. It's like the stupid line about "keep politics out of x" which is of course impossible, but in the case of SerenityOS it kind of works for them.
I'm sure there is a structure and a theme that we don't understand because it's been lost to several thousand years of time and cultural context, just as we no longer get the ancient Sumerian joke "A dog walks into a bar and says, ‘I can't see a thing. I’ll open this one.’”
This fork [1] has considerable progress instead

[1] https://github.com/andrewhummus/fromthetransistor
https://www.wired.com/story/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of...

Lena doesn’t harbor any resentment toward Sawchuk and his imitators for how they appropriated her image; the only note of regret she expressed was that she wasn’t better compensated. In her view, the photograph is an immense accomplishment that just happened to take on a life of its own. “I’m really proud of that picture,” she said.
What I find really fascinating about StarCraft is that players stick to their races, even if they think the matchup is weak for their race.
> I clicked on the comments to complain about all those indies still making pixel art games in 2024.

Why would you feel the need to complain about that? What harm does that cause you?

Indie developers aren’t “still” making pixel art, they’re making pixel art to a level that would’ve been impossible back then, full of particles, light effects, filters, and more. To me it hands down pushes more creative boundaries than the same old boring 3D trying to look ever more realistic.
Am I the only one who almost never experience any hallucinations when talking to ChatGPT? I have to really push it into a corner with trick questions and conflicting instructions about obscure topics in order to trigger hallucinations.

That it would just come up with random false facts about something as common and "basic" as the history of the Greek language sounds like a made-up issue.
Something that is taught to be a self-evident or universally recognized truth
>Hiring is hard, a lot of modern CS education is really bad, and it's hard to find people who understand the modern computer stack from first principles

Ever heard of Electrical and Computer Engineering degree courses, it covers from transistor physics, digital design including HDL, CPU microprocessor, embedded system, operating systems, programming, database web development, mobile applications and machine learning. Heck it also covers Engineering maths fundamentals for your DSP, control systems and wireless systems courses. It's like drinking from fire hose, but it's a very comprehensive, interesting and relevant degree program to be completed in four years duration. Both Lisa Su and Jensen Huang completed their degree in this engineering field.
I also lived through these phases and it makes me feel very, very much the same.

On the other hand I cannot not help thinking that this is similar to the arguments brought forward when the internet was new. How could correctness and plausibility be established if you don't have established trustworthy institutions, authors and editors behind everything? And yet it turned out mostly fine. Wikipedia is alive, despite its deficiencies, Encyclopedia Britannica not so much.

So, is it only old people's fear?
> Maybe Fermi's Paradox filter isn’t some big cosmic event but a simple industry optimization problem. Many planets had intelligent life but industrialization, as a form of energy transformation, boils everyone before they can make a contact or travel through space.

This seems likely. At least it is were we are heading.
I'm no expert, but one would imagine the list grew organically, adding new laws as they became necessary, like an append-only data structure.
As a general summary 2023 average ocean surface temperatures jumped by a bit more than one degree Celsius over the course of a few months. One degree doesn't seem much, but in the climate crisis people are discussing about two or three degrees of warming potentially fatal for human civilization. And also scientists were thrown for a loop because climate models predicted this change not happen so quickly.

Luckily (for some interpretations of luckily) it seems that 2024 ocean surface temperaturs are not rising as quickly as in 2023, but they are still rising. It still seems that we crashed with high speed through several tipping points and continue.

Sorry.
https://archive.ph/NleMx

How does this make any sense in light of Lisbon being now "one of the world’s most unlivable cities"? Seems like it can't possibly be good for the native Portugese.

https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jacobin/blog/040922/real-estate-s...
Isn't that just a different data structure? How do you preserve insertion order in a hash map?
> this is most European website

nice, I love casual exceptionalism in the morning.

> At this point, why not just use web

Because not everyone uses a "web stack". Moreover trying to learn a webstack is pretty hard. Sure JS is easy, but everything on top to make it more "productive" changes every 6 months. I mean yeah I could just use react, but Urgh, its nasty.

However the killer issue issue is hardware acceleration. Its possible to get kivy running at 60 FPS on a pi3. getting something to run at 60fps on web for the pi3 is bloody hard. Even though its python, it runs really fast, something not really possible in the browser.
Perplexity links to sources. All he has to do was show the student the same search on perplexity.

I do feel sorry for professors like this that cannot adapt to technology changes at the rate they are happening
Real money are made by selling fossil fuels.
Well, I can't say that you're the only one, but I can say that I don't even interact with it that frequently and I've had numerous instances of it giving me false information. Enough times that I'm surprised to see you say otherwise.
There are two kind of issues here: one is the preservation of human information fully knowing that sparse books are hard to change/destroy, while digital information on centralized sources is terribly easy to change, and we all know the power of information, so the interests of some to temper it for a large variety of reasons; the other one is the need of a sustainable economics. In certain period of prosperity even low output activities might be tenable, in a deep crisis they tend to be untenable.
You can also check the sources of LLMs, just ask them for it, and then check that.
An LLM is simply more flexible and more powerful than Wikipedia, and thus you have to be more cautious with regards to its results.

"Generally right" is not the same as "reliably right", and therefore if you really need to rely on a fact for something important, I would trust neither Wikipedia nor LLMs.
The problem with not writing yourself isn't that people didn't do the writing themselves, the problem is that they didn't do the thinking themselves that is a prerequisite for writing.

Now of course like any tool this can be used without falling into that trap, but people are lazy and the truth is that if you don't absolutely have to do it yourself most people won't.
I would say 4.27 years would be a sufficient amount to study intensively.
> I wonder if playing a lot of Spanish audio will help her be able to do so.

TL;DR: possibly, but they also learn to speak Spanish a little bit if you want to be really sure.

Well, apparently babies start out being able to distinguish all sounds human languages make, and lose the ability to distinguish them as they specialize in the ones that the people in their surroundings speak (same with distinguishing human faces actually). And if a child grows up multi-lingual, especially if it is very early in their development, the ability to distinguish the sounds will "stick" even if they stop using the language.

I actually have some personal experience with that. According to my parents I spoke Spanish (among other languages) with the nuns running the hospital in Ghana, where my parents worked when I was a toddler. Then we returned to the Netherlands when I was almost four. This is right around the time childhood amnesia[0] is doing its thing. So I completely forgot how to speak Spanish, as well as the local Ghanaian languages that I allegedly also I spoke.

A few decades later, and completely unaware of this childhood experience, I dated a Spanish-Dutch woman, who also studied Spanish at the university. One time she got a Spanish joke book at her birthday party from her friends. So I said "I'm going to torture your ears with my horrible fake Spanish accent now". One (sadly, horribly unfunny) joke reading later the reaction was "is the joke that your fake Spanish sounds better than most second-year students in our bachelor?" And they were serious about it too.

(Another decade later I dated a Spanish woman who said that my Spanish accent still was pretty off, but of course she didn't have the horrible accent of Dutch first- and second-year students of Spanish as a comparison point. She approved of my rolling Rs though)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia
Wikipedia is a marvel of the commons and did wonders for education. hostility to it from academia was surprising
<< They keep coming up with weird “facts” (“Greek is actually a combination of four other languages) >>

Not as wrong as the author thinks. From Britannica.com:

"Greek language, Indo-European language spoken mostly in Greece. Its history can be divided into four phases: Ancient Greek, Koine, Byzantine Greek, and Modern Greek."
Yes ! Unless they are git related, in which cases they are awesome :p
That introduction is a quote with attribution Paul Graham, so the author of the blog did not write that and did not strictly commit that mistake.
Those are features I’ve always been looking for in a tracker
Kivy is old, so its improved more recently, but animation in HTML/JS is not power efficient.

Everything is GL accelerated, so the UI is snappy and fast.
Rust has HashMap with random order and BTreeMap which is ordered by the key. Additionally one can use IndexMap crate if wanting to keep the order of insertion in the map. The issue with the latter is how much memory it can waste in the worst cases. A good example is the serde_json library, if enabling the ordering of the maps. If you deserialize JSON into its dynamic Value enum, the resulting object can be many times bigger than the original string.

For immutable data that can fit to the CPU cache, utilizing a sorted vector can be many times faster and uses less memory compared to the maps.
> Nobody in the US has the day-to-day working knowledge of those men of the 1960s and 1970s who produced the Apollo systems that put a dozen or so men on the Moon.

Funny then that the US has be far the largest space industry, produces the most rockets, launches the most rockets, produces and launches the most sats.
Check out this documentary on the Barabar caves in India:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF6qv1CC5_4
Why would the teacher (this is almost certainly not third level education we're talking about here) use a different AI when they already have primary sources? Your suggestion makes no sense.
> LLMs are often wrong and you cannot check their sources.

Depends on which LLM you are using, perplexity and copilot both cite their sources.
USD has been the defacto reverse currency since basically WW1 and even more so after WW2.
How exactly did you decide that the concern was insincere?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude_sickness
Meanwhile Sweden and Finland are investing in their public libraries and these actually look cook
> Often if I think I need an unordered map it turns out to be wrong for some subtle reason.

Huh. This hasn’t been my experience. I very rarely need maps to be ordered. In recent years, the only case I can remember is when serializing to TOML and wanting the keys to be written in a specific order. There have been the occasional other case where insertion order is what I wanted, but I almost never need ordering in map keys.

> I prefer this because it means I don’t have to decide whether I need an ordered map or an unordered map.

I’m the opposite, I prefer to be given a choice so I can make the tradeoffs when I want to or need to. If you don’t want to choose, you are free to always choose ordered map, but even if ordered map is the default, there should always be a choice to use unordered map. It’s been very rare that I started with the wrong one and had to change.

When I write python or JavaScript I typically don’t care and will just use whatever is the default, but when I write C++, I very much do care and the vast majority of cases use phmap’s flat_hash_map, which has superior space and speed over std::map and std::unordered_map. For ordered maps I use tsl::ordered_map but that still comes at a cost over flat_hash_map and its unordered variants.
so it’s the classical “it’s on the internet so it’s true” but on steroids. I remember a US student in the early 2000s citing a geocities website as source for the FACT that aliens created the pyramids of Egypt
It's likely a way for a judge to inject their own subjective judgement into an accusation of witchcraft: The hope is that people that are innocent are more likely to accept a "trial by water" because they hope the deities will help them survive that trial, and the judge can then also add a little of their own subjective opinion, after talking to both parties, to either say "yup they survived the trial, pull them out of the water" or (if they think they deserve it, for whatever reason) let the person drown.
see related - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40623629 (Cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English from the same site; 98 comments)
I'll assume this is only slightly a joke.
My bad for misunderstanding the tone of your comment. I likely wouldn't have gone off in this direction if you asked me what measures I took to check the OTP code in a collaborative/constructive way rather than expressing doubt they way you did. Either way, all good.
And yet with a minimum of common sense one can see that what she is saying has merit. At the very least the video makes one curious enough to read more. That was also one of the points she makes in the video.
In my youth I spent a lot of time in libraries and to my recollection, there were various staff roles. There's a lot of labor involved in running a library and most of it was done by clerks and pages. Actual librarians were somewhat scarce and they weren't just shelving books, a lot of their responsibilities were pretty high level, such as assisting patrons with research, designing the library's various educational programs, and curating collections of significant works.

I can see how automation features like self checkout could replace some of the pages and clerks, but not the librarians. If for instance a journalist or historian (or anyone as it's a public service!) is doing research for their work, and needs to access the microfilms of old documents, the librarian is there to assist, and their function is invaluable - their existence is an investment by our society in increasing the accessibility and accuracy of facts. It seems like we need more people performing that function in the modern day, not less.
Flagging this as it's essentially a 5-year-old outline of a project. It would be great if g. ever really did it.
Second link actually contains the complete code of Hamurabi. ;)
Well the issue is that they seemingly want to be a safe haven for moderate bigots and regressive types as long as they're polite about it, exactly in line with the "keep politics out of x" thing. Their definition of something "political" and deserving of scorn seems to include something as minor as using gender-neutral pronouns in documentation, while assuming that the reader is male is "apolitical" because that's how things used to be.

It seems to be a space designed to avoid anything which the typical 90s white male geek type wouldn't perceive as political. Which in itself is a highly political goal.

"Using Lenna is on-brand for SerenityOS" is not meant as a compliment.
Just to be clear, the "tiny disclaimer" is directly below the prompt box and says "ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info." So it is interesting that anyone would take a hard stance that their prompt results are true facts without checking any important info (particularly after someone highlights this if they somehow missed it).
So your world is either pixelated or 3D? There is nothing in between?

Hint: check the last Monkey Island for example.