skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long would it take you to get your plumber to convert his handwriting into a standardized XML?
Thank you for this very important point.

I was going to comment, "was it mutually-beneficial? was it consensual? If so, then where is the harm done?" but your firsthand experience said it much better.

Glad you are succeeding (relatively).
Auth Code.

The only I have used before was django auth (great), but never get anything like that in other langs. I'm in Rust know and is my biggest desire...
> Gemini could have a really cool niche as a protocol which supports a lot of weird and wonderful systems.

To give an example, thanks to its simplicity the IRC protocol was used for a lot of weird and creative things besides chatting. On the top of my head: bootstrapping P2P networks, controlling botnets or as a generic pubsub broker.
800 to a 1000 bases around the world
Uhm. For once, it's... totally unsupported, and nothing runs on it anymore?
And it's still niche at this point.
Wow this is the first I've seen of this, amazing it hasn't come across my radar. Seems like a major consolidation, tied closely to a government institution (or whatever the FRB technically is).
Yes: new management can't un-open-source something. If it's out there, it's out there. They could close future work, but not existing work.
Way too cynical view. Entry Level Grads always have more to prove and there is a lot of supply out there. If every employer is discriminating, then there will be a time when no entry level person can find a job. That is not the case. Not every entry level person is entitled to a 100k job right out of college.
Well, the debugger is a good example, because it’s also not something that concerns the end user, but only the developer.

In the same way, certificate expiration is a problem that can easily and with 100% reliability be handled by operations. A end user should never be confronted with it.
Companies do layoffs in a dehumanizing way largely to avoid lawsuits. If individual managers communicate it, some might say something wrong and invite a lawsuit. Even if they don't say anything wrong, some of the people being laid-off may misremember what they were told, and without a clear record of what they were told, they might win a lawsuit. In contrast, a mass email laying people off has the advantages that lawyers can review it beforehand, and it is clearly document exactly what was told to the employee in the course of laying them off.

The other part is they want to lay everyone off at the same time, so people aren't finding out at different times and wondering if they are safe or not. An email, sent to everyone at the same time, achieves that much better than trying to rapidly schedule a lot of simultaneous meetings.

Perhaps there is a better way, but that is the conventional wisdom that I've heard from folks planning layoffs.
The proceeds go right back into paying for other recreational facilities: sounds ok to me. Maybe have a cap of how much you can spend at the casino per period of time?
Im not suggesting blanket advice for all people either.

I think we might agree, but just be coming at it from different ends.

>stop giving hypothetical advice to the simplest example of a complex problem.

Surely we agree that a lot of fat people could benefit from eating less and exercising, correct? We could debate what proportion of people fall into the simplest example, but that is less interesting. What is interesting more interesting to me is when you think advice can be given and what kind:

Are you suggesting that nobody should ever give this advice to eat less and exercise more?

Are you suggesting that any advice that ascribes individual agency and control is inappropriate?

Are you suggesting that only discussing the complex socio-systemic causes is appropriate?
? is able to be used with Option as of Rust 1.22, released in November of 2017 https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/11/22/Rust-1.22.html
IME most 2D games use uncompressed textures. Looking perfect matters less if you're going to stretch it across a 3D tri and do a bunch of fancy lighting.
Paying your taxes is not an issue. It's called being responsible.
ah yes, the "hindenbug"
> I'm not sure how you'd describe the best mindset here. Pessimistic stoicism?

This is the question I asked myself as well. In my own life I've settled on Stoicism as a philosophy of life (though I am far from the ideal sage). I don't think it needs prefixed with "pessimistic" though. I think that, by itself, it's already the middle ground between the two positions. It says that you should only focus on the things that are under your control, but to do so while working for the greater good as well. Fight the dragons, but also fight your own inner battles.
> There are two kinds of references in Rust, a shared reference (also known as a borrow)

Is that really what they're called? It seems confusing to me: if it's shared (i.e. many people use it at the same time) how can it also be borrowed (i.e. one person has it)?
Tesla Is in Immense Trouble and Musk Knows It
It's not as clever, but if you want to write stories rather than... that.. then I'd recommend you take a look at NovelAI, if you haven't already.

It can't do any significant reasoning. It's no good at writing the story for you. But it isn't opinionated, and it's happy to assist with anything you're writing yourself.
> Pkg-config, on the other hand, is rather small. The initial implementation was bulky enough to annoy people into at least two rewrites, but the concepts are few and the requirements on the host build system practically nonexistent.

yet all these years and it's still a pain on Windows with the Visual Studio world. And if it doesn't work with VS (as in, you can have a VS solution which uses pkg-config automatically to find libraries / flags / ... without having to fudge with scripting it yourself) it's 100% irrelevant to any cross-platform discussion (and thus most of C / C++ / native ... software development).
> That accident was caused by an inattentive driver, full stop.

No, you've been musked. It was Tesla's software that brought the car to a full stop, full stop. It's funny how Tesla wants to claim credit for X million miles without crashes under software control, except for that last mile where there's a problem. That one belongs to the driver.

> Even an FSDb equipped Tesla isn’t autonomous,

So.. you agree that Tesla's video promoting full self-driving was staged. And you agree with Tesla that they have failed to deliver full self-driving:

https://electrek.co/2022/12/07/tesla-self-driving-claims-fai...

> the car in question didn’t even have that.

Sure it did. Your beliefs are not matching the realities. You might want to read the article. Here's another article:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/17/business/tesla-8-car-cras...
Berlin > London...
Even bigger than pollution from e.g. burning coal/oil/etc.?
This is basically an eternal battle when teaching. Personally I prefer to try and stay to only idiomatic code if at all possible, but there's pros and cons to each approach.

(This is one reason why I'm glad other people are also writing books! Not everyone likes my style!)
I don’t see why not? I did point out it’s an exaggerated analogy but a hostile nation having a direct propaganda line of access to a nation’s youth can potentially be used destructively.
In order for moderations to be sustainable and high quality, you need a large number of people who are: (a) intelligent, (b) unbiased, (c) willing to volunteer their time without compensation, (d) happy if someone else makes a profit off their work, & (e) willing to do the job forever.

There aren't many people like that.

More typically, they don't understand (c) or (d) in the context of moderation, or (a) and/or (b) are lacking. And once they do understand (c) and (d), (e) evaporates.
*foot the bill
Usually this then says "No card payment under 10 Euros", but still offer card payment for bigger amounts where the fee doesn't matter as much (which IMHO is completely ok).
Yep, less is more here. Let people ask for detail/clarificaiton if and when they need or want it. For all other times, KISS (keep it simple stupid).
Anecdotally, my brother in the Air Force had a pretty regular and frequent D&D group in the past 3 years. But I don’t know how widespread that is.
Sort of. It really depends. Education funding in the US often comes from several entirely independent sources, with differing constituents, differing motivations, and various rules on allocations. It's not like it's one big bucket with one entity that has the ultimate ability to reallocate.
I always figured the cost of the additional square footage in a home per property tax etc was part of the equation. There's some cost for additional size usually. But if you're already paying that cost better to get some use out of it in the form of bulk storage for sure. I suppose there's a freedom to store in having that space. I like the time saving angle, I was looking at old receipts last month and am always stunned by the slice of life they capture. I had transactions where I'd go buy filtered water. Since buying a RO device I never had to haul water any longer. Such a different time of life, definitely saving time there.
This weirdly reminds me of the human equivalent to big cats marking their territory by scratching trees.
Yes, most of my code deals with graph-like data structures. It is _really_ hard to understand how to write this in Rust. Just doesn't fit in my head.
This isn't true.

All bank transfers and reversible. Some easier then other, but none are no-recurse, regardless what a low tier customer service agent insists. It may require more effort, and maybe someone above their pay grade, but it is possible.

And Zelle itself, like all electronic bank transfers in the US, is subject to regulation E, which puts the responsibility for unauthorized transfers on the banks (minus $50, a sum that most banks would waive). Zelle themselves mention regulation E on their website: https://www.zellepay.com/financial-education/pay-it-safe/und...

Some institutions erroneously claim that regulation E only protects from hacks: that is, if the scam was offline: someone convinced you to send them money, and you did, and got scammed, then it doesn't fall under regulation E. However, it seems the regulators disagree, and banks and Zelle do fall in line once you sternly write to their compliance department and the regulator reminding them of that.
Correct. I called my bank and had them enable this for my debit card. They made sure to clarify that ACH transactions will still go through, however.
Right wing typically doesn’t support gambling, so getting rid of it would be a good thing to them.
What is the rate of air exchange in a closed passenger compartment of a vehicle that is not running?

Likewise, what is the rate of CO2 production from an average sedentary human?

On top of that, what is the rate of combustion byproduct production from burning plant matter in a closed passenger compartment?
I liked the article, while disagreeing with a few parts of it.

I agree with the main premise, having independence from large corporations, in the same way I like individual countries to be autonomous and not beholden to other countries (and one world order/government agencies like World Economic Forum can go to hell…)

I would add Python, Common Lisp, and several Scheme implementations to the list at the bottom of the article.

Nim looks like a very nice language but as a niche language it probably lacks broad classes of libraries that I would like to have available.
Daily New Tesla Inventory Dashboard
Did he have to read the entire thing? Just skim it and mark it as obscene. I don't understand what the big deal is.
Abstract:

Today's large language models (LLMs) routinely generate coherent, grammatical and seemingly meaningful paragraphs of text.

This achievement has led to speculation that these networks are -- or will soon become -- "thinking machines", capable of performing tasks that require abstract knowledge and reasoning.

Here, we review the capabilities of LLMs by considering their performance on two different aspects of language use: 'formal linguistic competence', which includes knowledge of rules and patterns of a given language, and 'functional linguistic competence', a host of cognitive abilities required for language understanding and use in the real world.

Drawing on evidence from cognitive neuroscience, we show that formal competence in humans relies on specialized language processing mechanisms, whereas functional competence recruits multiple extralinguistic capacities that comprise human thought, such as formal reasoning, world knowledge, situation modeling, and social cognition.

In line with this distinction, LLMs show impressive (although imperfect) performance on tasks requiring formal linguistic competence, but fail on many tests requiring functional competence.

Based on this evidence, we argue that (1) contemporary LLMs should be taken seriously as models of formal linguistic skills; (2) models that master real-life language use would need to incorporate or develop not only a core language module, but also multiple non-language-specific cognitive capacities required for modeling thought.

Overall, a distinction between formal and functional linguistic competence helps clarify the discourse surrounding LLMs' potential and provides a path toward building models that understand and use language in human-like ways.
Like RPC and IPC and SWIG? We have that.
> The alternative is to keep it open-source

I can't imagine that there would be a reason to close it to work on it at Google. That would be a very unusual situation.

> This isn't just a side project for me.

Then you probably made the right decision to work on it full time, but only as an alternative to working on it part time. If Google would have paid you to work on it full time, there really isn't any risk. If they ever tell you to work on something else, you can still quit.
Zelle transfers into an institutionally insured checking/savings account at a major financial institution are pretty safe and people will get their money back. Zelle transfers from non-BoA accounts will have the records at the other banks to prove the transfers existed and they can be recovered that way. If BoA really lost the records and don't have backups and people lost transfers from BoA to BoA accounts and neither BoA account has a record of the transaction, it will just be a hassle for customers probably having to fill out some forms and wait a while.
We measure books based on number of copies sold. The more books sold roughly means you're more successful than a comparative author.

If I was managing an organization full of book writers then I very well might measure number of lines per day. I've heard people discuss (on podcasts) their process to writing their book and it distills down to the commitment to write N number of lines per day until the book is complete.
Well there is very likely a market for AR glasses that draw "toplessness" over clothed people ;)
Card payment involves fees, and buying an ePoS system, etc.

There's also the parallel EC Card system in Germany, most ePoS terminals only support normal cards, or EC card.

Its easier to just accept cash. Everyone who lives there knows cash is king, and the tourists figure it out within a short span of time.
Why Japan Stopped Innovating: The Internet
I work on Bun. Happy to answer any questions or feedback
IMO all RLHF stuff is mainly about aligning model not to reply with offensive and inappropriate answers, but NOT about making model's answers better.
I've heard more startups taking this route after the new YC deal. 500k buys a lot of ramen.
Replace "Go" with "Internet Explorer", and see how that reads:

"My response to the plea in this article is simply "No thanks." If Internet Explorer gets that bad, I'd be happy to use "works best on internet explorer" banners, or migrate to another browser, or whatever needs to happen. But until then, I'm not going to preemptively switch ecosystems and banish technically good options from my tool belt because I have fears about what could happen.
I want production quality websites and animations. That's hard. Internet Explorer has a high quality library of windows-specific functions. Hard. Internet Explorer has a fast browser which leverages windows-specific optimisations great. Hard. Internet Explorer has an incredibly liberal interpretation of web standards, making other browsers break 99% of the time, affecting most of my target users. Very hard. Some of those hard solutions are self-inflicted by the choices made in the browser, but the fact that they are so ubiquitous and integrated with the microsoft ecosystem so well is what makes it valuable. If the web standards are missing the many lovely MS-specific extensions of Internet Explorer, a more standards compliant browser would have less value. A standards compliant browser with a tiny user base by comparison would be even harder of a sell.

I am by no means trying to say that Netscape is low quality or not interesting for anyone. In fact, I actually think Netscape is cool. It is not the only other smaller browser I like. I have a strong affection for Opera as well. There are unique properties that make these browsers desirable. Netscape addons are really cool for example. I like stuff like this.

But: I also think Internet Explorer is a great piece of production-quality software. I know many people hate the browser now, especially now that the honeymoon has thoroughly ended. But I still like it. I feel highly creative in it, the ecosystem is good, and at the end of the day, I know I can make reliable, flashy websites in it.

Corporate control is a shame, but the truth is that corporate control is not the problem at all. The problem is funding. Because anyone can try to deviate from web standards and implement windows-specific extension hacks in other browsers, but can you pay maintainers? Can you run the CI, the website and playground, host the CDN with the downloads? Etc. Sometimes the answer is yes, especially with how much SourceForge supports a lot of those things, but in general the answer is no.

"Corporate control" is not the problem itself. Governance is just an outwardly visible consequence. The true control comes from maintainership and stewardship. Because if nobody is stepping up to the plate to take that role of introducing microsoft hacks in browsers, then whoever is doing it today effectively has control over the internet."
Sure, but no one in particular. Obviously there are anti-semitic people in the world, I didn't think that was being debated.
From BofA's website:

"Zelle: A safe and easy way to send and receive money fast!"[a]

BofA forgot to add:

"...unless your account goes into overdraft because we somehow lost your incoming Zelle transfer."

Let's hope that BoFA does right by customers.

--

[a] https://www.bankofamerica.com/online-banking/mobile-and-onli...
The homepod had too much bass for me to comfortably use it in my apartment. At a decent listening volume, the bass was overwhelming. EQ only worked for music streamed via Apple Music at the time. They have added a "Reduce Bass" to the settings for the homepod now, but I returned mine within the 14 day return policy around the time the original homepod came out.

I switched my Alexa devices over to homepod mini's after one too many "by the way" suggestions by Alexa. Homepod mini has decent audio but I wouldn't use it for my primary music listening.

If you care for music quality, buy a decent portable bluetooth speaker and carry it with you from room to room - there is a lot to be said for the flexibility, and you can also toss it in your luggage when traveling.
I think you're reading too much into this. The natural reading is quite clearly that the illegal categories referred to were or included "C4", and it'd be highly unethical for them to have framed the paragraph in that manner if they believed that not to be the case. It's worth noting that OpenAI's PR statement only goes so far as to call the situation a miscommunication, and doesn't directly assign blame to Sama, while Sama explicitly claims OpenAI asked for illegal categories in subsequent instructions.

Also, I'm not up on the laws regarding this stuff, but are the other, awful categories illegal to collect? If not, there's not much room for ambiguity.
Very common in all branches, it just differs based on what the job is. Mechanics? Probably less likely. Intel? Way more likely.
> At no point is it invalidated, and the new arena will now start allocating new stuff from the start of the chunk. Right? And my old pointer still works, and the data inside it is at some point overwritten.

It doesn't allocate at the start of the chunk, it just picks up wherever the last one left off. That allocated memory in the chunk from previous arena allocations is not reused until the chunk as a whole is unmapped and the GC can confirm that no more pointers point into that chunk's address space (if you leave a dangling pointer, you only waste address space). This points-into property is cheap to check, it's equivalent to whether the chunk has been marked by the GC.

Again, I think that MSAN/ASAN should probably just be more strict with these kinds of use-after-frees. You won't crash, but it's still technically incorrect. (Not much can be done about the "GC is in the mark phase" case, unfortunately. Otherwise MSAN/ASAN will complain when the GC inevitably tries to access a pointer into a delayed chunk.)
In case of video games, playing with real life friends makes a huge difference. We are naturally competitive creatures but sometimes our brain doesn't register online players as a threat or competitor. So we don't work as hard.

I am usually very causal gamer but whenever playing with friends, I will naturally work harder, search tips online, and, of course, learn from each other.
A lot of businesses here in LA stopped accepting cash due to COVID and never resumed cash payments. Kind of a bummer.
This is an eye opening response thank you and a great argument for getting valid work to Africans.

The fact that it’s good for Africans doesn’t absolve rich Silicon Valley tech companies from doing better.

Silicon Valley have developed an eye rolling bad reputation for many reasons.

The CEO of such an organization would be a fool not to realize that this looks bad to the rest of the community.

If I was a tech CEO id be extremely wary of paying anyone $2/hour. What about safety, entitlements, conditions, potential for child labor, hours worked etc.

I totally agree that it’s good for African people to get the work but rich companies have to do a whole lot more than just agree to that and pay $2/hour. They have to ensure that if they’re going to do this sort of thing that not only are they paying the $2, they have 100% ensured the working rights of the people.

And if they’re remotely smart they would go well beyond, for example sponsoring computer science university for 500 young people.
Seattle public schools blame tech giants for social media harm in lawsuit
1971 was when Washington really abandoned the Westphalian, internationalist, UN-arbitrated world order in favor of seeking unipolar world domination, by abandoning the gold-backed USD in favor of a violence-backed USD/"petrodollar".
This guy arguably invented the concept of "committing to the bit"
you have any tips for managing expiration dates? Me and the wife were getting into this subject recently. I'm considering buying a barcode scanner and just have an in and out spreadsheet that somehow I manage. Still tinkering with a few ideas. We have a big family and there's potential for a lot of food waste if not managed properly.
Unless you want to, well, use hardware. I've had a hellish time trying to do USB device development through WSL.
If you are fine with using `map` then I don’t see how this is “clever”. `zip` is basically “map2”.
We've been really happy with https://pdfbox.apache.org/ in production, although not .net of course.