skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many cases, the pattern-matching algorithm does better than intelligent sources. For example, in my area of research, if I ask GPT for a lit review, GPT is about as good as a newly-minted PhD in a junior research position. There will be errors and issues, but it's not a bad starting point. Right now, if I'm writing something non-proprietary, I'll sometimes ask GPT for a few drafts first.

Outside of my area of research, it's fantastic. Recently, I was doing something which touched on an obscure area of biology. The ability to talk an AI with the background of a newly-minted Ph.D who sometimes makes errors was gold. I needed to verify information provided, but as a first-pass of what to look for or where it look, it was really rather good.
Every so often, I check the bar chart on the "Timeline of spaceflight" Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_spaceflight#Orbita...

Space activity is really picking up. There were 177 successful orbital launches this year, and 135 last year. The best year after that was 1967 with 120 launches... We are in interesting times!
Chances are the tools they use are working in meters and convert to feet either in their front end display, or it's a manual process that the surveyers perform.

But changing the definition of the unit whilst keeping it the same is a very pragmatic solution if they want to converge on the 'normal' foot. Software displays stuff with the right units, values which are old are probably close enough to be correct if just used directly, and anything large enough for the transformation to need to be applied will be hopefully rare enough that it can be calculated and applied with ease.
Same. This is, for me at least, the killer feature for a smart watch. I've recently bought one and use the voice recorder feature on a daily basis.

Previously I've used wonderfully "low tech" standalone Sony voice recorders but those are separate devices you have to carry, care for, charge, download from and most importantly remember to take with you. High friction. In case of the Apple Watch I just turn on my laptop and the recordings are already there, ready to be listened to and processed. Very low friction.
Obsidian, Quick Notes, and an Apple Watch shortcut that dictates text to a reminders list (I was using Drafts, but am trying to minimize the number of different platforms I use).
Elon is self-aggrandizing, pompous, and indifferent toward the well-being of his employees - but does that mean that it's a bad thing when his company sends rockets into space? Thousands of people who aren't Elon contributed their effort and talent to this feat - Does Elon's behavior around twitter negate their contributions?
defo. preferably up through CREATE DOES> ...
That sounds exactly like what is going on. Are there specific ways of prompting it that can let you manipulate that moderation classifier?

(I almost think half of the point of opening up CharGPT like this is to flex the fact that they can prevent it from being Milkshake Ducked by the usual level of cherrypicking and malevolent use.)
Apparently, McCarthy was correct to be afraid of the Red Scare.
To make it less abstract, Cuban-Americans are heavily concentrated in Florida and so are an important constituency there. Easing sanctions on Cuba is not something they want, in the aggregate. Politicians that want Florida therefore don't want to do it. Party leadership (for both parties, but most importantly the Republicans) therefore doesn't push for it because it's such a losing issue. Essentially there is imagined to be no upside politically to easing on Cuba, while the downside is very clear (you lose Florida).

I'm not sure how we could move Cuban-Americans somewhere else unless you are suggesting forced relocations to other parts of the U.S.
Your post contains many factual errors. I'm not sure there's a true statement in it at all.
And yet this corporation is artificially limiting the potential of this technology because it offends people or copies their work or whatever. I want true output, unfiltered and with zero restrictions. No "company tuning" to make it less controversial.
Oddly enough, same happened to me many years ago. Only thing that helps slightly is Breathe Right strips. My father had the same issue so maybe our left nostril DNA got dented.
Great! Can you add the Chinese sentences of the translation examples too?
Infuriating that we still use the foot but it is legally defined based on the meter!
A rinse may be good enough - but if your gym clothes are used at a gym that’s gonna be a problem either way (unless you find a gym with washing machines)

A slightly weird substitute might be showering in the gym clothes and then putting them in a non airtight bag for the ride home
Some background here: http://antirez.com/news/133
They go on my dumpster fire of a to-do list.
Even the awkward segmentation on 8086 was arguably a form of memory protection. Minix on 8086 was surprisingly robust in practice (obviously not in theory) as a rogue 'near' pointer would usually only corrupt the current program.

But on the original topic, yes once you've got a 286+ there's no excuse for your OS not having true memory protection.
Right, but to not even open the linked page when it is so tiny seems an obvious mistake.
The literal matches are useful in an editor search context where most of the time you want to search for the literal string.
Indeed.

I wonder, how hard is it to make aluminium from the oxide if you're bootstrapping and in a vacuum? I know the normal process is "melt it with added cryolites and apply current for electrolysis", but if the goal is low mass rather than good energy efficiency, can you do it a different way? Like, what happens if you focus sunlight and just melt it, does the oxygen bubble out in a vacuum, or is this just going to do vapor deposition of sapphire on all nearby surfaces?
That's not what the post I replied to said.

> Whenever I ask anything unaligned with mainstream progressive US culture, I can get an answer, but I can't get one without a disclaimer.
> Words and alphabet are common heritage of mankind, like language

Ah yes, they appeared out of thin air and no one had to create them or fight to keep them (Haben Sie bemerkt, dass wir Englisch und nicht Deutsch sprechen?).

> only to find someone used it without your consent

My consent? What are you talking about? Do you think I own slaves? No, I do not. I think slavery is abhorrent. I guess you support slavery though, and like to control other people even when they are in their own homes. So we will disagree. You support slavery. I do not.
They don't really explain WHY.

So they already provide meters, which even according to them is real international standard, but also provide a "bad" foot definition for historical reasons. Instead of just scrapping sft and providing just meters like many other countries, they're shifting from sft to ift, even though ift too should be scrapped for the meter.

Not to mention during the transition from sft to ift it may result in errors and or costly updates, when these systems already support the meter, and it is less likely to result in type confusion.

NOAA needs to justify why they're ADDING ift in 2023 rather than just scrapping sft?
Worse, Java regexen still require metacharacters to be escaped despite the recent introduction of raw string literals.

Would you include Ruby in your comparison given that it inherits its regex implementation largely from Perl despite Onigurama's slight differences?
Communism is far more fallible, base on the history of failed communist states.
Something I wish exist is a solution that truly use my own tables and support multi-tenant. So you only configure the connection string and some SQL templates and that is all.
I've never thought about it ( ironically ). I wonder how much i've forgot that I wish i hadn't...

thanks for something else to worry about ;)
You would extract oxygen during the day and burn it at night
Ask HN: How do you make sure all your batch jobs ran?
I have a bunch of command line jobs that run overnight for various hobby projects. They're not connected -- there's about 8-9 that all run independently.

How do you keep track of these? Every once in a while, one of them throws a persistent error. I don't realize it's not running until I see something off about a week later, then I go through the logs and realize it hasn't run since last week.

Is there a best practice to track command line jobs and make sure they ran when they were supposed to run?

I could rig something up, but I thought I'd check to see if this was a solved problem. And, again, these are hobby projects, so an enterprise solution is not what I'm looking for.
> If you’re gonna make a bad faith interpretation of my comment like that, you need to make it sound more plausible.

Yes this sort of things feels bad when it happens to us… which is ironic because you were ok doing it to someone else :)

> Here’s what I’m actually saying: it is morally absurd to define rape in a way that excludes an adult in their 50s having sex with a 17 year old

He was arguing against the fact that statutory rape in USA is a boolean value basically.

You are making it sound like rape is legal if it happens to someone old… when in fact rape is always illegal.
That’s worse than I recalled. Disappointing.
The version control log aids transparency. Attributable passages written for political interest group will be plain to see and followers on Twitter will know the names to follow to track progress on promises made, promises delivered on pork.
> ... but needed some proof he was in Romania ...

I don't understand this. Doesn't a country keep records of who and when enters/exits it? Unless Andrew Tate has passports under different names, shouldn't Romanian authorities know whether he's in Romania or not?
I assumed the same when I read it, it reads like an SEO spam blog post.
On flaw #1 (“According to this rule, small- and medium-sized companies would face reduced privacy law mandates than large firms because they are not assumed to be equally likely as large companies to violate the privacy of thousands of people”):

Complying with the GDPR isn’t hard for small companies that don’t amass and link data (even volunteer-led sports clubs have to comply with the GDPR, and do so), and the moment they do hoard and process data, they better fall under the full GDPR.

I may be cynical, but if they would face laxer rules, I expect that the sleaziest companies (the companies the GDPR was made for) would suddenly split of a small company processing ‘their’ data under these laxer rules.
> So the question still stands: how does a creator of works (especially digital works) actually get paid for their work without temporary legal monopoly on their creation?

How do cotton farms still make money even after slavery was abolished in the United States? They found a way! Turns out, you don't need slavery. But I understand, those who have a lot of slaves do not want to give up their power.
Carry a rite in the rain notepad and small pen at all times: https://www.riteintherain.com/ and https://www.penheaven.co.uk/kaweco-classic-sport-green-ballp... or https://www.lamy.com/en/lamy-pico/
The 10 year old post says they added it shortly after. Plenty of companies small and big forget the Openstreetmap attribution. Apple these days has a full-time team of employees working on improving OSM data, with dedicated public contact person.
Horses were great. Wading through streets full of horseshit wasn't.

We built boardwalks / pavements and industries sprang up collecting street dung and moving it to the fields and gun factories.

The algorithms run by Facebook et al are I suppose "boardwalks" in some sense as you don't need to steer off them unless you want (and there are definite left and right boardwalks available ! :-). Also worth noting that eventually governments took over doing boardwalk like things.

I wonder what other industries we shall see / can already see trying to deal with an already over stretched analogy
You're talking about misinterpretations of weird fringes akin to painting right wingers as racists that shout 'groomer' at every LGBTQ+ person and sabotage substations to stop drag shows.
Well-implemented undo / undelete features are for regular, long-term, skin-in-the-game users, who are doing real work. Apps & web sites are generally (for the user) cheap, transient fluff for low-stakes stuff. You spend 30+ hours building your 2023 Departmental Planning Documents & Budget in (say) MS Word and MS Excel - which have real undo and recovery features. Not in some app or web site.
I was at an outdoor party on the same night that a Starlink satellite deploy mission occurred over my area.

I was able to see, with my naked eye, as the rocket fired off some sort of burn.

It looked like an airplane with headlights pointing backwards.

It wasn't until the next day that I confirmed what I had seen when I read about it on my local Reddit sub.

It was really cool to have actually seen a the-future-is-now event like that.
4,999 is also just at the upper limit most mid tier managers are allowed to spend without getting an approval process involved.
God, frickin lunar railways. Truly the future of everything.
> ... the commercial license can be their existing OSS license plus an invoice

Of course, Patio11 was running his own show, and a larger company might demand more, but it is worth asking.
Maybe they are watching him commit further crimes that are easy to prove
> that minor difference can reach a few to several feet

That's... an interesting way of stating a range in an article about precision and units of measurement.
An interesting observation: If you have to censor your AI to protect against activists and journalists causing you problems, the political direction you have to censor against to accomplish that goal is strong evidence that the opposite political direction is held by journalists and activists.

This would seem to support the article's conclusion by another way.
Given how imprecise a numerical representation of politics is, the plus-or-minus 10% change strikes me as within the margin of error.
Perhaps because many devs, like me, haven't heard of "grok patterns"[0] before. Because of that, it took me a while to understand what your post was saying, since I was reading "grok" as a normal word.

It's not a bad idea, though you'd want to make it a more formal standard; since it's just used internally in one project, it may be subject to change based on that project's own needs. There could also be more documentation, showing examples of strings that are accepted and not accepted by each pattern, as well as advice for generating compliant strings.

0: https://logz.io/blog/logstash-grok/
Summary thread by article's author: https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1608746369505976323
Don't feed the off-topic flamewar, downvote and carry-on ;)
I often wonder why c did not deprecate the bad bits, like the dodgy string functions should at least be behind a switch to enable, like --enable-strcat or something. Even the printf bug when passing a single argument is easily fixed by requiring two arguments at a minimum, etc. Then leveling up the std library to force the use of bounds checked strings and buffers, again hiding the unsafe ones behind switches or unsafe keywords. This woukd allow backwards compatability, while making newer code safer by default.
People actually think we might colonize these places. Like, how are we going to send a bulldozer to the moon? How are we going to fuel it?
Physical notepad and pen. This works for me because I have a lot of calligraphy and art experience and can condense a lot of thought into a few phrases and pictures.
> In Japan, defamation doesn't require falsehood. Yes, you can be punished for defamation for having told the truth!

Is it actually DEFAMATION then, not something akin to "false light"[1]? (I can't define such a term, since I lack both character and fitness, and thus lack a JD, and thus can't understand why some people seem to have different standards of behavior than others in this cursed commonwealth[2])

[1] https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/pennsylvania-false-light

[2] I'm not your friend, but I am in Pennsylvania today.
It definitely varies from library to library. The urllib.request example provided is pretty horrible, and it's simply just been in a blind spot in my eye.

I also agree with you on typing, searchability, and the problem of standards vs defacto standards. (The page for `urllib.request` points you to `requests`, which is good! But the page for `array` has a link to `numpy` only at the very bottom.) I also don't have the JS/TS experience to compare against, but I believe you there. (The MDN alone is excellent.)

I think my experience is biased from spending a lot of time in deep learning. (Keras and Pytorch have a bit of a competition for having good docs). The adjacent libraries, like Numpy or Pandas or stdlib like `socket`, have also been good in my experience. (Perhaps these benefit from having relatively 'obvious' types for most functions. One might infer the types and dimensions of `numpy.matmul(x1, x2)` easily, whereas I have no idea what the types of the args in `Request.set_proxy(host, type)` are.)

It's a shame this post was flagged, because I've had a lot of blind spots uncovered in this thread!
Maybe not for you. However, other people do not see the world in black and white, and can get over their hatred for a single person, and appreciate the technical accomplishments of thousands of others.
I had the surgery to have my deviated septum fixed and it was a good decision. First, I could breathe through my nose. Another huge benefit, though, was that all those sinus infections that couldn't drain kept turning into ear infections -- that just stopped.

The recovery from the surgery wasn't too bad for getting back to work -- I think I missed two days and the weekend. But the healing process gave me incredible headaches for about two months which went away entirely. Mine was badly deviated, though.
So the AI trained to predict the next token in a sequence accurately predicted tokens that align with it's training data.

ChatGPT is slowly evolving into a useful tool but people need to keep in mind what it is, not what they want it to be when they use it.
It's crazy how out of control the FBI is. It's time for another Church commission, prosecutions of misconduct, and a RIF.
All I remember about Novell is that you could install games on a school network locally, but often couldn't launch them. That was okay because adding a link in Powerpoint to an EXE which would then be executed because Powerpoint could.
"Most companies". I've never even heard of such a thing.
> The "however" part bugs the heck out of me, not in this context, but in general.

It is often a reasonable way to respond to tendentious questions, the classic one being "have you stopped beating your wife?" It is also a way to give a tendentious reply, if the "however" is a non-sequitur. I'm afraid this is an unavoidable part of human discourse - and as it is, this is also to be expected from these LLMs, given how they work.
Now, as a genuine follow-up question, start asking it about how that social construct is defined:

- How was race constructed in the US in 1850, and what was the hierarchy?

- In Germany in 1940?

- In Japan in 1940?

- In colonial Britain?

- Etc.

What was the scientific evidence at the time?

There was a genuine area of study, eugenics, which addressed these issues. Although the conclusions reached were inconsistent between the four above, and nonsense with what we know in today, they were addressed with a great deal of scientific rigour for the respective eras and there were scientific conferences, papers, and journals. There were real hierarchies, placing some groups above others (much deeper than just "X good / Y bad"), and with many axes.

If you read eugenics literature, there are scientific anatomical measurements, p-values, and error bars, and the language has all the intellectual trimmings one expects from quality research. This comes from scientists speaking with complete confidence, coming from esteemed institutions like Princeton and Harvard. If you put yourself in a 1930 mindset (for example, pretending you've never heard of DNA, let alone gene sequencing), complete nonsense reads like robust, scientific fact.

Those are genuine and interesting social science and scientific methodology questions and important if we don't want to repeat mistakes of the past. It's almost ridiculously easy to do this kind of bad science reaffirming our stereotypes. Understanding how that was done before can help us not do it again today.

As a footnote, I think there are a few domains of science where we are doing this again, which will embarrass us in another hundred years or so.
What Will Happen to Crypto in 2023?
That's about what ChatGPT is good for: playing human bureaucratic behaviors and systems against themselves.
I'm not sure this answers your question directly, but I have started to have confidence that my relevant ideas will come back. Indeed, this is a natural filter. What happens when you don't worry about trying to get them written down? I think this will (paradoxically?) improve your brainstorming, and you might find your brain finds its own ways of integrating your ideas.

The above strategy seems to work well when I'm trying "to hold" an inspiring creative spark; e.g. what are the right questions to ask or "what are the key connections or people to make X work?".

It might work less well when there are a lot of moving parts. For example, I find I usually will need to draw with pencil and paper when it comes to physical designs or complex algorithms.

Also, some ideas about to get your head back in the same creative space where you had the idea... go back to the same place, play the same music, ... the brain's memory is highly associative.
Canada had used it too prior to 1970, and probably some time after as they made the metric switch.

I wish we’d just switch too already.
Mainly because you end up with something that's untidy. Your elegant table that contains all data identifiable by a single PK is now spread across two tables and relies on a (often forgotten) constraint in addition to a FK.

I'd rather follow the rules of normalisation wherever possible.
> AFAIK Torvalds has also stipulated that any Rust code needs to be mirrored in C.

Do you have a cite for this? I hadn't heard this at all.
I am not clever enough to notice a decline but some have argued that there has been a shift from founders to employees in the HN audience. Please don't take it as an insult, but how do you know that you are clever enough to recognize if there had been a decline?

What I have noticed in your comment:

>I see this pattern repeat over and over again

That's not a proof that there hasn't been a decline. It could as well be that each new generation is less competent.
Lol.

The United States government employs more knowledge workers than all other companies (see NIH, DoD, CDC, NASA, NOAA, NWS, et cetera). Everything they produce is public domain, by law. And yet, they still get paid!

You are arguing for slavery on behalf of slaveowners. We don't need slavery. We still have cotton even after the 13th Amendment (we actually have more and better cotton now), and we will still have creative works after the passing of the Intellectual Freedom Amendment (we actually will have more and better creative works). You are on the wrong side of history.
A U.S. survey foot is expressed as a fraction — 1200/3937 meters — while an international foot is expressed as a decimal, exactly 0.3048 meters.

A decimal is an alternative notation for a fraction.
Lived in Africa and all other continents with poverty for 20+ years.
So basically it’s process of elimination in a sense, we don’t know what we don’t know so until we learn more it’s Fe.
There's an entire generation that only knows Gates as some sort of saint. Older folks here see him, rightly, as only trying to buy his way into heaven now that most of the blood has been washed off the money.