skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, tl;dr, CNET has been using AI to write articles since November. Apparently, they are using a team of editors to oversee the process with “editorial integrity”.

It's tempting but it is irresponsible. This practice also raises concerns about the accuracy and credibility of any content published on CNET, or frankly, on any new site.

It undermines the value and importance of human journalists, who are trained to gather, verify and analyze information, and to provide context and perspective. After, the inevitable job loss for human journalists, who is going to do the reporting?

CNET should stop this practice immediately to save what credibility they have left.
>> All that horrible mess, it seems, because people didn't like to have to close tags.

If people keep burning their faces off it's not the fault of the flamethrower! If they keep hacking each other's limbs off it's not the fault of the chainsaw! If they keep blowing their houses up it's not the fault of the gas bottles! It's not like we need to accommodate every possible failure mode of the human brain, and make things safe just because the next idiot that comes along is going to cause a catastrophe. It's the idiot's fault that they forget to apply the breaks and take advantage of the failsafes, it's not the responsibility of the system to have the breaks and failsafes where any idiot can find them!

I've head that kind of excuse 0 times, outside of software circles. But of course I'm exaggerating because nobody really suffers because of XML other than the people who use it everyday. Like this once junior dev, for example, who was made to create XML by hand by eyballing an Excel document, just because paying a junior dev salary is easier than getting middle management (and clients) to learn to structure an Excel spreadsheet properly.

Sometimes, just sometimes, you have to design a tool with the way it will actually be used in the real world in mind. And all the rest of the time? Well, all the rest of the time you have to do it that way, too.
But isn’t this a feature of every technological improvement? You need fossil fuel energy to be able to extract renewable energy, yes, but there’s no reason to believe you couldn’t replace it with renewable energy down the line.

It’s sort of like how you bootstrap a compiler: the first version of a new language tool chain needs to be implemented in some other language. But then you can make it “self-hosted” by implementing it in itself.
I imagine it to be more like ‘the headset is transparent’ except the effect is digital rather than material.

To your question - we’re only talking about eyes, not the mouth and whole face. Beautification does seem like something to be sold though.
plus if you do this often enough, people with guns will take to a room with free food and board!
Just had a kid, hope she gets to see aliens in her lifetime.
I don't know if I'd say I "miss" XSLT and XPath, but yeah, it was fun and powerful at the time. I made some crazy stuff with Cocoon and AxKit that, if you didn't mind the syntax, were actually pretty elegant.
While it is indeed total insanity it could easily be avoided by putting quotes around all string values.
And what's the advantages over Mapster? (haven't used it yet, but I see it's mentioned often as a "better Automapper" alternative)
Well I like the features it can have connected to my local network like clean specific rooms or setting no-go zones but this should be done local only.
Syncing settings from my phone app to the cloud back to the robot is so dumb...
sorry, my english is very bad :(

do we have next "Apple"?

i mean that nowadays apple became not THE THING, but AVERAGE THING, like M-processors are supergreat, but new mac designs are meh. new macOS versions looks like gnome theme fully bugged. just saw news about adding touchscreen to macbooks - are we became LENOVO YOGA PAD PRO MAX etc.?

maybe i just old man yelling at cloud...
Seems like a good way to end up on #metoo
Same, you'd need to be Don Corleone himself or I'm off.
That's what's called a power play, and it'll get you into a lot of trouble once you encounter someone who will stand up for themselves.
> NOTAMs (Notice to Air Missions)

OT, but didn't NOTAM use to mean Notice to Airmen? It's still that on the ICAO website: https://www.icao.int/safety/istars/pages/notams.aspx

Did it change, or is this a CNN initiative? (And how does one notify a mission?)
1. I dilute my dish soap with water, and put it in a spray bottle. Sooo handy.

2. Keep a pump bottle of 100% aloe vera gel in the WC. Why would you buy chemical aloe vera TP when this is an option?
Not to discredit what you're saying, but everyone seems to forget all the other employees at hospitals.

I've been in Canadian healthcare IT for 20 years, and for the past 5-10 we've been overworked, understaffed, denied vacations and sick days...

The past year alone half our department walked out because we just couldn't deal with it anymore.

The users (doctors, nurses, janitors, shipping/receivers, maintenance staff, etc) aren't happy, we're not happy, yet upper management gets a round of promotions.

I feel for you, but the whole system is broken and won't change until someone steps in and overhauls everything. (Or they'll just outsource everything and everyone loses.)
Fun fact: The headline image is the Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart, the nicest library I ever visited: https://www.archdaily.com/193568/stuttgart-city-library-yi-a...
They say they have a way to do it without being very pollutive, that is why they started looking for large deposits to mine and why they now found this one. Likely they will find many more large deposits in the near future.

> The Norwegian company has developed an innovative and sustainable technology to separate rare earth metals that can compete with China's dominating production of these materials, the LKAB press release reads.

https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/norwegian-swedish-cooperati...
Get credit card with excellent travel rewards. Go out to large group meals frequently. Put the whole bill on the card, get everyone else to pay you back. Travel the world for free with all the points you accumulate.
> it should put the driver on high alert or disable the system.

The precedent is there, prior EAP did this. One interstate I frequent; it would do the interstate merge on ramp/junction fine going north; but heading south (with a 270 degree right turn) it would beep loudly and force a driver takeover.
It was unnecessary because he was being too clever & having a good time, versus ever having delivered real production systems in our industry.

It also put devs on a dead end path which they realized pretty quickly.
Do you want to work for years on this team becoming experts in jinja to yaml to in-house DSL you'll never use anywhere else? Or do you want to write some python? If you can't get "promoted" into the team writing the core python engine, then you are obviously a second rate.. why stay?
I've dealt with someone like this and it was a 3-year nightmare.

I'm curious what kind of automated cleanup you did that could make the situation better?
or 1 message that crashes all three on the first try vecause you are voting.
Touch me like that and conversation is over.
This is the main reason I'd like to see asteroid mining take off. Let's tear some uninhabited asteroids apart, instead of the only planet we can live on.
AR is all about location based augmentations.

If I’m in a room with no chairs, there would be no chairs unless one is added visually.

They wouldn’t walk through my bed because they aren’t in my room.
The manual testing really isn't very hard... where it relies on the same logic I use existing logic. Where it's new logic, particularly new UI, testing really can't be automated. Where it's not UI but server logic or DB queries, it's pretty explicit and tested six ways to Sunday before committing. I think the only true unit tests I ever wrote, if you can call them that, were to test pseudorandom behavior across distributions of things like character spawning in games, where player testing wouldn't be sufficient to spot anomalies. For something like that where you're going to have a billion variants, it makes sense to test for oddities on some subset of a million or two. In other words, tests to make sure that output fit a certain curve. Not that logic itself worked or didn't work, because if I can think of a test to write where it might fail, I'd already have fixed it not to fail under that test.
The Swedes helped the Allies also.
Roomba used to make them! I have one - how much cleaner would my floors be with AI?

I'll tell you.

None. None more cleaner.
So argue for more laws, more enforcement, and more funding for government agencies and watch the same people complaining about this "travesty" turn against you
Reliability makes the system and team bigger.
Get a bidet.

Seriously, just get one.
Interesting, my first take was that it's like contrastive divergence in Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs). There's also a chapter for that.
I found it easier to understand your example by comparing to openstreetmap, which seems up to date at that location: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/54.64443/25.05401
> - about 40GW total electricity demand

> - about 100GW of gas

That gas demand should be 70% less, UK has the worst insulation in Europe.

https://theenergyst.com/europes-leakiest-homes-new-study-fin...

There are countries where bombs fell, then communism fell, then bombs fell again, then their currency collapsed, and the houses are still better insulated.
The original definition was deemed to be not inclusive by DEI so address that they kept the acronym but changed the meaning.
Sounds like a nightmare, coordinating repayment
In my Tesla, temperature adjustment is also on the steering wheel.
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Geez never make a mistake in front of this guy or your years long reputation gets shredded.
The underground mine has been operating for 70 years, and is according to the company the largest iron mine in the world. The location itself has been a place for top mining since 1642. The site has grown so much that the mining town that was built next to it has been forced to physically relocate their old buildings in order to extend the mine.
Yes, I love these!
Besides the fact that you shouldn't just flat out stop on the highway, how are 8 drivers stupid enough to be close enough to not be able to stop in time? Is there no limit on how close people drive to the car in front of them in the US?

Defensive driving was one of the first thing I learned, before even getting my drivers license, how come others seem to flat out ignore things like that, even for their own safety?
If it works then the human version should be on the table as a tool doctors may decide to use. I won't use it though.

Personally I will never use that stuff, not even in horses. There are much safer and more effective ways to keep FEC scores down in horses, livestock and other grazing animals. daily diatomaceous earth, pyrantel tartrate And there are significantly safer ways to mitigate viral pathogens.
Would I? No. But should you? Maybe. Java is hardly the fastest moving language out there but it's still incredibly popular and heavily used in numerous circles, will keep you employed, and has been modernizing enough to not be too much of a drag IMO (depending on the practices of the companies/teams where you end up using it). Java has a good story to tell in quite a few areas (mostly thanks to the JVM, to be fair) and doesn't deserve the reputation it tends to have in public fora.

If you're going on to the JVM anyway, you'll benefit from at least doing some Java even if you end up doing Kotlin or Scala full-time.
Spiders or bees. Both invertebrates. Bees work together, spiders do not.

Teams need Bees, not Spiders.

(Edit: spider not an insect, noted)
Just to clearly see how much assholes are JP Morgan, buying a startup for its users data to send them unsolicited crap:

Once the deal went through, JP Morgan asked Frank for its customer list so the bank could begin marketing its products and services to those students, the suit says.
> If untrained staff intervene in a theft, they could die. Valuing human life over a tiny amount of corporate profit is not "bean-counter logic".

1. “Trained” staff can also die.
2. What are the chances they will die?

> If community impact is a concern, then the company should dip into their profits to properly staff their stores. They shouldn't be able to demand their employees to get shot or stabbed.

This is a strawman. The topic is about employees intervening on their own and getting fired for it, not the company demanding that they intervene.

Nobody here is saying a business has the right to tell regular employees to intervene.
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Venmo et al. make this trivial. I’ve never had any significant issues with collecting repayment.
Believe in yourself and try to build cash flowing systems. Or... Lots of existing companies that are very scrappy are constantly looking for 'bolt-on' mad men builder types that can get things done. Perhaps looks for companies that have the shortest distance between your actions and revenue generation for the business. ie: sales has 3 leaps. Contact, chit chat, sale. Opposed to a position that commoditizes your time. The latter is a negative option because the supply of available talent familiar with the internet jungle has just multiplied not to mention its been saturated with international talent for atleast the last 5 years.
i want *any* configuration format that can rewrite itself(loaded and written to disk again) with two properties we've seem to have lost when we switched away from xml.

1. keep ordering of document
2. keep comments of document

Does anything like that exist?
Can you be more explicit? Where are you putting the aloe vera?
Politically motivated comment?
Perhaps Functional Programming Language
I tried generating everything on the homepage using ChatGPT (content for all posts and titles) and Dall-E (for all images). People making content for a living should definitely be worried!
No :v

I might have picked the wrong word "measurable". It's better to stay away from ultra-narrow measurement. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" Instead, put the phenomenon in their head. Make it their responsibility. Point out the impact of readability to the team velocity.

Or maybe, examine if the introduced complexity is actually incidental and not essential. IF it is essential, it makes more sense to upskill the rest of the team. Hold sharing session to hear everyone's thought. Hear what the smart guy thought about the code. Sometimes, what someone need to unlock a heap of more horse power forever is just a little nudge that makes them click. Create team conventions for making things easier for everyone, e.g. indirection through naming in which you need to pay a bit in performance.
It wasn't really necessary.
It also made the core superapp a blocker of essentially every user delivery.
If it has to do everything, then you have to add a lot of features to it.

So you have N devs doing jinja/yaml/dsl and N/4 doing core superapp underlying dev.

For the first Z features/projects, you inevitably see new things that your superapp doesn't support yet, and becomes emergent blockers midway through implementation.

Given the ratio of devs, new blockers were being generated faster than they could be cleared.

Eventually business side pulled the fire alarm and grabbed most of the devs over to use a more common AWS-centric service directly and exit the superapp dev use completely.

IE - if you are going to depend on something, would you rather it be an AWS service with 10s-100s of dev-years behind it, or some internal superapp spun up 3 months ago with 2 guys on it? Which is more likely to already support what you need?
With CTEs, the optimizer won't execute the queries but create one optimized version. If you materialize them, execution times can be many magnitudes higher in cases you only end up using small parts of the queries.
Depends on the exact employer, but nothing speaks against this. Of course, you would have to respect responsebilities and colleagues' holidays.
Yes, the above comment was addressed at most popular use case - that of back-end services where entity to class map 1:1. In fact, there is already mapping in defining DB field types (if non-default) in model registrations consumed by ORM. Worst case it is always an option to project within DB query itself, sometimes even "cheaper" too.

In such cases, having an extra abstraction is both redundant and an anti-pattern that made sense in the age of large monoliths where the scopes/contexts/features where segregated by modules.

Today, where modularity and protection of abstractions is no longer of concern because many teams can easily maintain up to 10 or even 15 (micro)services, the bias towards a certain solution style/architecture that is full of unnecessary abstraction layers, boilerplate and patterns that violate locality of behavior like there is no tomorrow is something that makes using C# much less attractive than warranted.

Ultimately, it comes down to the fact that unlike Go, C# is more than 20 years old, and while it builds upon ideas that were ahead of its time back then like async/await, LINQ and some other, it also suffers from "tradition" which can be easily seen in community resistance to rely on top-level statements (aka Python-style Program.cs), religiously following the rule "one file = one class" (even if it's just 'record User(string Name);') or simply overall creating 5-project solutions for something expressible in 3 .cs files.

Keeping in mind Chesterson's fence, I do acknowledge that the above is a result of likely reasonable and well-thought-out choices at the time, but it does not mean the circumstances haven't changed either.
Yes, agreed. I've found TOML for config to be quite nice.

This is my go-to article for discussions about generic languages vs DSLs: http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-complex...

I'm very iffy on DSLs in general. One that I'm using at the moment has foreach loops but no if statements! And... all the inputs must be specified in a YAML file!
Earth is mostly uninhabited anyways, we can go at it!
The post seems only to provide an opinion about the author. Is that not permitted?
Heat pumps work extremely well in the Nordic countries and are therefore very popular. That's because due to the cold winters houses are already well insulated, though very old houses less so. Which means the houses are in general reasonably energy efficient to start with, so a heat pump providing 3.5-6kW of heat is generally sufficient. That would be to the main area of the house, so yes the heat pump is the primary heating system (for those who use them) in the sense that it's the heater used for the main parts of the house - think living room, kitchen area. There may well be normal electric heaters in other rooms, if deemed necessary, but other rooms (food storage, bedrooms etc) don't usually need much, if any, heating).

Of course in the Nordic countries you also have areas very far from the ocean, and there it can get very cold. Down to -50C in some cases, and regularly -30C or colder. I imagine heat pumps aren't used much there. But elsewhere (i.e. most places) they are great. In those places you see them absolutely everywhere now.
I use a bidet. Not a weird toilet attachment, but an actual tool refined over centuries for the express purpose of washing the human undercarriage after each bowel movement.

My enthusiasm on this topic borders on Cosmo Kramer territory.
IMHO, this is really more a documentation of the original behavior and maybe a test for consistency of later implementations against the original one. But it's not about validity. I'd call it a "traditionality test".
"Yeah, that's interesting, but could you fuck off off of my arm?"
Strawman. It's more joyful than production incidents.
Systems where we try to "outsource" the piloting of a vehicle seems to have a big problem with naming. "Auto Pilot" in planes does not mean that the plane pilot itself automatically, it just means you can pilot "less" than if you have 100% manual control.

Seemingly Tesla is copying this, with "Self-driving" doesn't actually mean the car will drive by itself, but that the driver can drive "less" compared to before.

Deceptive marketing at best, fatal at worst.
This. And additionally, the tesla driver didn't seem to be aware what was going on with his car, if he is unable to react in the 5 - 6 Seconds it took his car to completely stop.
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

- Douglas Adams.
It is maddening, and puts the burden on people who do try to maintain a reasonable following distance. If you leave sufficient room, there's an endless line of cars that will pop into that space, and now you're adjusting again...in a loop.
I think they used impressive colloquially. I guess more fitting would be "interesting/amusing"

Although, I think yours is a far bigger offence: being intentionally ignorant for the purpose of being an asshole online
Most problems are less computationally intensive than one would think
Thats a lot less cheaty, biologically speaking, than full backprop. This Hinton guy sounds like he knows what he's talking about.

"Context drift as data distribution changes" sounds a hell of a lot like real life to me.

Normalized = hedonic treadmill on long view

At the micro scale, data that overflows the normalization is stored in emotional state, creating an orthogonal source of truth that makes up for the lack of full connected learning.
The Rommel Myth
This command is a lot of words to say "I don't like it" without giving any reason to believe you.

If it's not new or novel, why aren't people using it? If it's bad, what's wrong with it?
It is not impossible to leave space. Granted, you need to do it every time a car moves in front of you. But such is life.
You might be in for a difficult discovery about how unreliable consumer-grade connectors have always been across all the history of EE-land, compared to professionally installed (or even amateur installed) wire nuts.

(edited, not to say its impossible; perhaps your innovation would in itself be the world first reliable connector...)
Changing lanes and then slamming on the brakes means you are 100% at fault (assuming there is evidence). It's the most common car insurance scam and it is completely indistinguishable from what the Tesla did in this case
Get current local time, weather, time zone, upcoming holiday and other information. Convert times between different time zones.
Which interestingly is called Volfram in Swedish.
>I still have about 3 days during which I can switch my insurance for 2023; was thinking of switching to a high-deductible plan since I don't anticipate using my plan much in 2023)

If you have sufficient cash flow and savings to afford out of pocket maximum (usually $10k or so for a family), and you can max out contributions to an HSA, it is always advantageous to opt for an HSA eligible plan (which are legally defined as High Deductible Health Plans, but they will say “HSA” in the name of the plan).

This is due to the triple tax advantages of an HSA, which surpass any other type of investment vehicle.

You can put pre tax money in an HSA, all investment earnings are tax free, and withdraw all of that free of tax to reimburse yourself for healthcare expenses you incur at any time during your life.

So you keep a spreadsheet of all your healthcare expenses, pdfs of receipts, and do not touch it until you absolutely need to. Use a free Fidelity HSA to have access to all investment options (you can continuously transfer from any HSA your employer uses to fidelity HSA).

In the absolute worst (best?) case that you simply do not have healthcare expenses, the HSA functions as an IRA, and you pay regular income tax when you withdraw after age 65.
> With that logic anything we do for the climate is green washing

If the goal is to stay in our "growth forever and ever and ever" scheme then yes