skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not IQ but emotional intelligence. Resistance to high pressure tactics is its own thing. You may be foolish (unwise) if you fall for: (1) the extended service plan when you buy a new car, (2) get convinced you need to pay the IRS or FBI with gift cards, (3) get hit with a one-two punch of love and crypto. You're not necessarily low IQ.

Personally I've had many fun conversations with A.I. that made me feel good, even a little giddy, but I've had my share of experience with getting giddy and can recognize it for what it is. (see [1] for some explanation of what I mean of "giddy") My profile for the person who falls for the crypto scam who is 50+, has been in love and can recall what it feels like (a loveless 25 year old has themselves to blame, a 50+ could have had it and lost it) but is lonely because they've lost love)

My evil twin would say that if you're trying to seduce people your "self" in the sense of [1] can get in the way. For one thing people have a desire to get mirrored which you can not always do because of the "counter-transference", in the sexual space you might find somebody else's turn on is a turn off for you for instance and it can be very hard to suppress that enough to keep somebody on the hook as it shows in terms of tension in your body, facial microexpressions, a faltering voice, etc. If you are lucky they are so self-absorbed that they don't notice; you get hundreds of chances to screw this up and most people find it tiring to keep up the front.

There's a continuous male complaint, for instance, that women often seem to be attracted to "bad boys" who are low in conscientiousness and have sociopathic characteristics. That kind of person just "doesn't give a ----" and they don't worry about things and don't give off tells. Somebody conscientious who is always worried about doing the right thing is worried and radiates that worry. Although the sociopath's behavior leads to chaos in the end, in the short term they radiate calm which makes women feel calm.

I (we? am I becoming a person with pronoun problems?) think the A.I. girlfriend can do a better job of mirroring than most real people because it doesn't have a self, doesn't have a counter-transference, it doesn't get offended, doesn't get squicked out, etc.

I'd say seduction has a lot to do with the popularity of coding assistants. Combine a little obsequiousness with what looks like a mind that's engaged on your projects (appears to take an interest in what they are interested in) and you can feel a kind of satisfaction working with a coding assistant and you can even feel like you're doing something meaningful when it asks for you help with it's tools and you tell it "You're running on Windows, the path does not start with /, it starts with C: and you should use the backslash instead of the slash."

[1] https://monoskop.org/images/9/96/Baudrillard_Jean_Seduction....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_psychology
The fact that people choose the cheapest of something does not mean they don't care about quality. It just means that, in that specific market, the pain of a lower quality product is not enough to affect their purchasing decisions much.

To prove this, imagine if airline A & B had similar very cheap prices (and the attendant poor service that comes with it), but airline B has slightly (and noticeably) better service than airline A. Most people will choose airline B.
To answer this question properly she would have to use both and then make a judgement, no?
And a blog could be updated as many times as you want! Suppose you wrote a post with some kind of a guide a few years that still gets a lot of views — you can still update that, and even re-publish it on your homepage.

This style is more popular with some media sites — e.g. journal.tinkoff.ru (in Russian) does this with their “instructional” posts — but I think it should work for personal blogs just as well.
Well that makes sense. If you bother to look at how much engagement all those fake female accounts are generating it's no wonder that Facebook wants to own that game too.
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Still nothing on "Va, Tosca" or "Der Hoelle Rache kocht im meinem Hertzen". Look them up if you want to see music expressing the minds of villains to perfection.

If Disney understood the art form more they wouldn't be making these mistakes. Sadly too few people have a serious background vs listen to a few current things without getting where they are from.
Fortunately there were much more pressing reasons why humans could not tolerate life on Earth immediately after the formation of the moon. :)
> The reality is a lot of applications simply do not need bi-directional client-server communication but for some reason this abuse has been adopted as standard.

I suspect the treatment as 'standard' is what thread OP is talking about. See my sibling comment in the thread. Unless you absolutely need websocket, SSE is simpler, and due to that, better.

I suspect the reason many select websocket over SSE is due to its limitations (connection limit under HTTP/1.1, no client->server sends), but SSE for server->client events and normal HTTP requests for state fetching is better architecturally for bog standard apps in my experience.
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There is no "the dictionary". E.g.:

desire: transitive verb: To wish or long for; want

- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

desire: verb [T not continuous]: (WANT)

- The Cambridge Dictionary

(et cetera ad nauseam)
Age does matter for experience though.

And "experience" is what allows one software architect to select the right stack, and the other to select something that turned out to be abandonware half a year later. It is what allows one developer to introduce abstractions in exactly the right place, and another to either overabstract or turn stuff into a tangled mess. It's what allows one team lead to estimate the right time and resources for a project, while the other keeps missing deadlines or burning out team-members.

I'm going towards my fifties now. And I have made, or been part of, so many mistakes, failures, errors and stupid decisions. Much more than the average 20-something colleague. I've seen software projects survive 10+ years of continuous change just fine, and others to grind to a screetching halt after even 8 months already.

I'm selling this experience now. As freelancer. I still like to write code. But the experience allows me to often not write it in the first place. Or to write very little of it. Or to map out a path that allows us to write it fast today and continue to do so in the next 15 years.
47 here, and I've worked for the same very small company for about 15 years, in a role where I'm the primary architect and responsible for every layer of the stack. Along the way, I've done side consulting, as much to keep fresh as for the money, primarily for similarly small companies where I usually report direct to the owner. I've been the most miserable when I find myself as a cog in a bigger wheel. The times I've dipped my toes in managing folks it's shined a spotlight on the fact that is not a competency I have.
Most people definitly need more RAM and SSD storage than most Chromebooks offer, specially when most middle range phones and tablets offer the double.
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>Everyone turned out fine.

The mother of all survivorship biases. We have ample statistics demonstrating that no, plenty of people died.

Christ, can't believe I even have to point this out.
It's not centered on a goal (other than getting more invitations to speak at conferences.) I'm not trying to persuade people to take a particular course of action unlike a consultant.

Somebody is going to go a talk like that and receive a bit more than they can absorb. They'll walk out with something that really sticks for them. It won't promote the feeling that "I took four days and spent $X to go to a conference and didn't get my money's worth."
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How are you people breaking so many keys?!
> That's not the question, everyone can. The question is whether you can tell the difference between a 320kb/s, or even a 192kb/s mp3 and a flac. People might say they can, but they'll fail when you test them.

you'll be hard pressed to find anyone who can tell a 320 apart from flac, except on some specially-crafted killer samples. a well-encoded 192 is often near transparent, but much more dependent on the genre / sample. pre-opus, 256 VBR was my go-to.

> that I would usually have to replace yearly

this is a foreign concept to me; i usually buy stuff that's designed to last, and dont mind paying for it.
Some people use the Glass command line client to integrate with Emacs/Vim/VSCode. Internally we have an LSP server that queries Glass, but it's not open source and some work would be needed to extract it. The only non trivial thing it does is position mapping to account for local changes.

The integrations for code review and symbol search are both built for internal tools and not amenable to open sourcing.

FWIW I agree that the lack of open source integrations are the main barrier for external adoption
> It feels like Disney villain songs have become a box-ticking exercise, added more out of a sense of obligation than out of inspiration.

The article concludes with this sentiment, which I think is correct and applies to the entire movie of Mufasa, as well as many other Disney movies being made.

Did we need a “live action” Lion King at all, let alone a “live action” prequel? The whole concept seems mediocre, so it’s fitting that the songs are too.
Do sellers question the ghost account? I've had that happen to me the few times I've tried using my dev account to make inquiries.
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Same here, I am baffled by making llama free for all to use. Only incentive I see for them is to remove barriers to ai slop generation. So, their platforms become stickier.

Risky bet if you ask me.
> now I'm focused on all the schlock-y writing of the latest Marvel movie I'm at with my friends instead of enjoying it

Not enjoying crappy Marvel movies any more is a feature not a bug, it means you're growing as a human being.
This is a sacred text.
I would like to see a similar analysis for alcohol.
> > You may take pride in your craft, but the majority of people physically cannot notice the difference between good and bad design. Not even subconsciously.

> Particularly the "not even subconsciously" part thrown in at the end.

It's a bit of a tautology: people don't notice things that are targeted to guide them subconsciously. I don't know if that's the point the author was making; either way, it was kind of weak.
It says they WILL fine tune a model.

Sounds fishy
Then what is the purpose of the diatomaceous earth?

The GP's post implies some sort of causal relationship between placing the cover on the mattress and the bugs then being forced to crawl over the DE. I still do not see what the relationship is.
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More derailing than baseless, whether or not Xi did it on purpose or if the CIA did it or if aliens did it has no relevance to how they handed the event after it happened.
No, there are people on Facebook really do like AI slop.

My Nonna unironically loves the AI Jesus gifs and AI gifs of dogs washing babies.

Many elderly people, I think, don’t know or care if an image is AI generated.
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That requires knowing the song, beyond the words provided. Would you flunk an eighth grader for getting it wrong?
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It might be heavy, but I really like the idea of someone building this to run offline and completely on-device. Maybe branded as a sort of 'personal journal with an audience'. My experience with mobile diaries is the biggest challenge is encouraging the user to keep up the habit. I'm very curious if this could be solved by introducing a new cycle of feedback from AI peers who would feign curiosity about my life.

Could you see people using that?
Best Disney villain song IMO is Kaa's "Trust in Me". He's not the main baddy of the Jungle Book, but he is every bit as compelling as Shere Khan.
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The only thing I can take away from this message is that literally everybody is a boomer. By inference

- post boomer: dead

- boomer: old

- aspiring boomer: middle-aged

- spiritual boomer: almost middle-aged

- pre-boomer: young
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It's a good test for whether someone actually cares about the budget or whether they just want to dodge taxes.
But a few do. And if you put extra care into the taking and selection of photos that you publish in what remains of the social media scene for me (small Whatsapp groups and Strava) and one person notices and comments favourably, that makes it all worthwhile. As feedback to a a creator. Of course, if this was about money and you could produce two crappy things that earn $1.50 for the effort of producing one good thing that earns $1... do the math.
It's impressive what you can do with open science as opposed to secretive lab cock ups.
This is not at all what I was expecting.
I think the distinction in the examples given (corporations, military), science is being done but much less open.
Yes, words often mean more than one thing. "want" has several commonly used meanings, not to mention that the author can define it however he pleases on the spot.
Cool! Nice project.

Sure, please add it to the documentation and in the "implementation status" of the Internet-Draft!
This has been my life for the last 10 years and I know who my children really are. They're evil and I love it.
Whatever their motivation is, disabling TPM from Bios is the safest way to avoid upgrading to Win11.
Are you talking about big companies like Accenture, Deloitte, etc? Or something else?
That's about commoditizing the competition. Also it wasn't the original plan potentially, the LLAMA weights leaked and maybe they shifted strategies as a result.
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I work for a place very similar to what you described. Its a really good gig
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Yes, that's what I meant.

There's a whole can of worms here around the "what is a microservice, anyway?" but I tried to avoid more philosophical questions and used the term as shorthand for "small deployable unit following some version of 12 factor for horizontal scalability." It's not super comprehensive but matches what I've seen in practice over the last decade+
Such a dire outlook. There is a huge chasm between Domino's and great pizza, and between great movies and Netflix assembly-line productions. A lot of people care enough to land somewhere in between, not at the lowest common denominator. There is room for both pop culture and art.

The comment on the photography is also clearly misguided: people might not be able to explain why, but the vast majority will feel that the more professional picture is pleasing/better in some way.

My take: people "don't care about the details" when it's beyond understanding, but the outcomes are still materially different and meaningful at a subconscious level. Ask anyone on the street to name a movie Elvis was in... meanwhile [insert your favorite movies here] still show up in popular vote even decades after going out of fashion. Selling mediocre products might be more lucrative, but not everything is about money.
This is where Project Farm provides its value. Consumer Reports ostensibly once filled a similar niche.

But building trust in brands like Project Farm or Consumer Reports suffers from the same bootstrap problem.
> while most Linux users are quite happy remembering long unique disk encryption passwords thanks very much.

Which brings something up: how do you get back in if you suffer a traumatic brain injury or something like that? I feel like a lot of software assumes the operator can do things like remember unique passwords for a long time.

Sure, I can do that NOW, but will I still be able to in my seventies?
I once had a great presentation about this very topic!

The presenter gave us both the Tufte book and a detailed handout.

The idea is that you use the PowerPoint like you would an overhead projector, details that would otherwise be on slides are better as a handout that people can read/annotate as they want.

This was part of a summer REU and focused on academic talks, and this all falls apart in a remote setting - but I think there are ways to capture the essence of this style on Zoom.