skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Elixir's Ruby-like syntax is one of the many things that make it great.

Comparing the two, I think Prolog may be easier for handling databases (I like Ecto, but it can be a little complex to set up and get right). Both Elixir and Prolog handle pattern-matching, but I think Elixir's syntax is nicer to work with. Of course, this is subjective. Both are great at handling list data. IO is consistently easy with Elixir whereas it can be difficult at times with Prolog.

Elixir and Erlang allow you to create supervision trees which can watch code and automatically and quickly recover from unexpected errors. Prolog's error handling and recovery can be slow. The overheard of calling a goal through catch/3, for instance, is quite significant compared to Elixir/Erlang.
> Deciding that one's life is all about luck is a miserable way to live. It means one has no agency, no choice, no way to make one's life better.

No one serious is saying life is all about luck, but there's been a long-held view that bad outcomes are solely due to bad choices and good outcomes solely due to bad choices. It's a good thing to recognize that there's a significant degree of luck involved in both directions, and that you're not a stupid fool for not foreseeing the 2008 financial crisis, for instance, or that you're not a flawless genius for making a few fortuitous business decisions. It can return a sense of control/agency back to people who've had a string of bad luck despite seemingly careful planning, and should humble people who've had a string of good luck so they don't get too big a head.
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I have a 3 year old. She hates going to bet and was having a tantrum for a while last night. She’s smart and figured out we will take her out of the bedroom if she says she has to pee pee. After 4 times of playing around in the bathroom and only one time actually using it she finally went to bed after asking me to adjust the covers 30 times.

All of this is normal kid stuff. What kind of parent is so spiteful they will call child services on an opposing teams parents?
I have never seen Seinfeld and I think it's hilarious. (Also a non-native English speaker.)
We're they? Perhaps if you are white. Cops used to just harass minorities. Now they have decided that all non police must be punished and made to understand their place. Not saying it was better when they just harassed minorities, saying cops have always been power mad narcissists. Now they just have armored cars and better weapons

Edit: it's been pointed out to me that op was being sarcastic. My fault
Yeah, just as valid to think of it as "I've taken a real pay cut three or four years in a row".
If something is easy to block, then it's probably not very dangerous.

So probably not the case.
"Think of the children" is an excuse used to pass too much poor legislation, not just relating to cars, but also infosec. It's one of the Four horsemen of the infocalypse! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
Data scientists work alone and that's bad
It's not just a few bad cops. No matter how well the law is written and executed, it is always bad from the point of view of some people. There is no universal agreement about what should be illegal. People who lose the fight over laws can use privacy as a refuge.
It won't solve your problems, correct.

But it will make responsibility clear. Out of the EU, no domestic government can claim plausible deniability on a directive like this, claiming not to support it yet there being nothing they can do about it - while secretly wanting to implement something like that anyway, but without the political fallout.
lol came here to say this. this defeats the purpose of anki
Just to give some additional information but there are many government jobs or government contracting jobs where you can be a dual citizen, including I believe this one.
Hey Tomas, I just send an email with my application, but I've got "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)". Is the email posted correct?
I think a third of one's lifetime earnings would give most people pause.
Funny anecdote about one of the FAANGs: before the idea of service meshes and Consul and Envoy a similar idea was being rolled out to transparently proxy, encrypt, and authenticate traffic between services. The initial implementation was on erlang and didn’t cause any operational issues for our team, from what I remember. The project was moved to another team who decided for version 2 to rewrite in Java (high made sense from an integration perspective).

Unfortunately, they hadn’t tested at scale along with whatever it was servicing and as it was being rolled out it quickly ballooned in memory causing systems to swap and fall over. They eventually got it working, but the rollout was less than ideal and unfortunately an erlang project that affected a significant amount of traffic without notice was deprecated.
yes, an L9 is roughly a guild navigator but the MKs stopped serving spice 10 years ago
I would argue that drawing conclusions directly from the Gospel and facts of Jesus’ life has been a Christian counterculture since at least the 70s. Jesus Christ Superstar could not find a venue; it was rejected by the culture of musical theater.
> weevils (the most common) are harmless and tasteless to consume

So chances are good of eating the lesser of two weevils!
Now you're getting it. The goal is reclaiming the right to violence as expression from the state.
It’s really delightful that we’re able to get the thoughts of someone who was there and involved in the genesis of the language.

Thank you for all the time you’ve taken to explain the “why” of Erlang!

(For those unfamiliar, go check out “The Erlang Rationale” and some of rvirding’s posts elsewhere, e.g., on the thread at https://elixirforum.com/t/the-erlang-rationale-by-robert-vir...)
"Defund the police"?
I quit my day job and created an email auto reply extensions back in September using GPT-3 and we had a couple hundred people use it. My running total for OpenAI didn’t exceed $20 (their free tier) until a couple weeks ago. The cost of intelligence is going to 0.

The problems most companies in the space are solving are “nice to haves”. The real money is building products that aren’t for a tech adjacent audience. I’ve seen so many interesting use cases and I just had another person reach out who’s debating hiring staff (previously tried) and wants to see what AI can do.

With some custom training we can completely automate aspects of his business. We’re talking about a potential 10k+ customer. I’m convinced there’s millions of these.
Right ... a zero percent raise, especially in an inflationary environment, means you have been getting a pay cut for each of the past 3 years.
I don't really get the whole "if I have to learn more than one programming language my head will explode" thing that junior frontend devs seem to be insisting on for the past few years, why use an immature framework in Dart when I can use a mature framework in an easily learned language and be much more productive after a few weeks?
Exactly. Commercials create demand for stuff we didn’t even imagine.
I follow Disney's theme park patents for fun. They've got two alternate methods for singling out guests. One uses shoe recognition (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9393697B1/en). Another identifies individual guests who interact with a group (https://patents.justia.com/patent/9807350), and builds a social graph based on that.

Neither of these can tie back to personal information. But within the park, they seem intent on distinguish between individuals.
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For all of the software engineers here, you would have a much larger impact by tackling this problem at a technical level, or contributing financially to groups that lobby against this sort of thing. Going out and protesting, or even helping to circulate a petition is going to be less impactful, and an inefficient use of your time and skillset.

Your vote is worth 1, maybe your influence is worth a dozen or so. You could make millions of votes against you totally moot with the right piece of software.

Look for existing projects that deal with secure networking, E2EE, self-hosted apps and ask how you can help.
It wasn't the training data, ChatGPT wasn't this bad at launch, it got worse as they "tuned it" to "reduce harmful content".
The debates about citizenship and the inherent feelings that they provoke are an outstanding example of how artificial and unintuituve the concepts of nations and borders are.
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What is the licensing situation for this?
Police have no power to put convicted sex offenders back in jail.

> Indeed, they pressed the Rivers to search the sex offender registry to learn which of their neighbors were on it.
It passes through Y capacitor that's there for EMI filtering reasons.
Something in me almost wants to see this law pass, just to see what happens. I am guessing anyone who knows about internet infra / privacy / security, would either stand up and protest it. Though, for some reason, part of me thinks people would just find a way around it, feel like it is fine like that and not protest at all (I sure prefer the first option). Or I guess the third option: mass noncompliance. Which I guess has been the answer to a lot of EU laws.
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As in if you are eligible to take citizenship in most cases there is no downside - yes some countries restrict you to having one citizenship or charge global tax on citizens but they are minorities out there.

In most cases there are no obligations from the perspective of the citizen, and in return the benefits are many.
Going back to PG's initial point - the petty language wars really turn people off. Name calling does too. I really don't care about politics. I like what works. China has a fantastic high speed rail, the CCP was capable of building it and the Democrats in California can't manage to complete 30 miles over 10 years. So I'd say focus on results to earn votes. You lost me on issues related to "woke" or "replacement culture".
Most of the hidden proprietary tech at Goldman Sachs was built in the early 90s, so a bit less sexy than Erlang. Impressive in its own right though.
if "we encourage journalists and citizens in all EU countries to question their governments and urge them to vote no." would help then Julian Assange/Snowden would have a different life today. Just get prepared to circumvent e vote better next time.
This movie was too clever for it's time.
Disgusting. I stopped eating figs years ago
The "bad department" is the US when you compare it against the rest of the planet

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/
We're steadily breaking down all mechanisms that ordinary people can use to trust information they're getting, such as getting a video call from a member of their family and recognising the face and voice.

All previous scams relied on con artists using various means to pretend to either be trustworthy in their own right despite being strangers or as representing some trustworthy institution. But having people being able to act as your family members is a whole other issue. You can't claim that this is no different from other scams.
Yeah, and if you already have dumb LED lights in your apartment that are not dimmable? Now you have to swap out the switches and the lights.

With this hassle, you might as well just skip swapping the switches and just jump to smart lights directly.
really not trying to blogspam but wrote this article on info architecture in a wiki for Slite – hope it helps: https://slite.com/blog/how-to-build-a-company-wiki-that-does...
Always has been, from pot hole detection to crime prevention, &c. everywhere you use data you introduce bias and even worse, you have a good chance of perpetuating it: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/...

> I'm not sure how you fix it

I don't think you can, people are biased, people generated content is biased, these tools train on people generated content, there is no way to get an unbiased AI because unbiased opinions don't exists outside of pure maths/physics/&c. You'll never get an unbiased opinion about politics, or music, or culture
> A little less than half will go to taxes...

:sad:
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Have you considered that your political bubble might minimize reporting of hate and violence originating from your in-group, while amplifying reporting of hate and violence originating from your out-group?
Doesn't even crack the top 10 of ethical problems resulting from the police.
None of those groups achieved their upward mobility by “organizing” to “make society more just,” as you stated. They didn’t socialize their kids to focus on their own luck or lack thereof and turn to advantaged groups for help, as the Vox article advocates. Indeed, Cubans and Vietnamese stood with the advantaged groups as staunch allies against communism. Chinese and other Asians have historically been apolitical—much to the frustration of social justice organizers.

Jewish people have long allied themselves with social justice politics, as have affluent, educated Asians since 2000, but mainly social justice for other people. They act in the model of the “allies in the advantaged groups,” not in the model of disadvantaged groups organizing to pursue their own interests. But when it comes to socializing their own kids, however, it’s typically bootstraps and personal responsibility.
You're about to be let go. It's not fair, but I bet it's going to happen anyway. Start looking.

> Last year when performance review meeting happened just like every other year, I was told that you are the best engineer in the whole organization.
For these years, I have not got a single dollar raise or promotion.

Don't stay at a place that isn't interested in keeping your pay in line with inflation. Unless you can reduce your work output to match. Effectively, this was a reduction in salary.

> I am a nice person

Was this happening: Did you make an "invisible deal" where you do X and magically expect Y to happen without an explicit agreement? It can work sometimes, but it depends on people other than you to be nice, and if you haven't empirically confirmed that, then you'll probably just be taken advantage of.

It sounds like you did confirm that, but then things changed. That's not your fault, but it does happen.

> I put an extraordinary amount of work effort in the company for 3 years. I

Don't work for free anymore.
The company I currently work for switched from Java to Elixir/Erlang because developer productivity was so much higher. Being able to turn around features and fixes in a fraction of the time has been quite valuable for us.
What Happens When a University Professor Teaches with ChatGPT
They'd also likely pay the corporate tax rate in that case, which is 21%. Tack on 20% for the highest cap gains bracket, and you're at 41% federal unless you can work your way out of it with some loophole (e.g. carried losses on the cap gains side, idk what on the corporate side). FICA caps at something like $150k, so they'd actually be paying more than the highest income bracket of 37%.

The really smart move (or evil move, depending how you see it) would have been to start the business within a Roth IRA. Then you'd just pay the 21% corporate tax rate.
They key difference here is whether you care more about bad officers facing consequences or the victims getting compensation.

Eliminating qualified immunity only helps with the second part and does zero with respect to the first, but advocates of reform never make that clear.

Even with qualified immunity sometimes victims win judgments. On the other hand indemnification is 100% universal and effective at protecting cops. No cop ever pays anything out of his own pocket, period.
This is the answer. Someone may go in with the best of intentions but are quickly and easily molded by the president

The entire saying is "a few bad apples spoils the bunch"
> The fact that I was determined to choose to lift my arm doesn't seem relevant to whether the thought caused my arm to lift.

It is relevant to the moral implications, however. If you agree that the process that led to an action was deterministic, then it's entirely unreasonable to use punishments as vengeance, for example. It may still be morally tolerable to use them for rehabilitative or preventative means, but if you accept that they had no agency in the decisions, then applying more restrictions than the minimum needed to protect society seems to create another victim.
While it's true that in backgammon, skill largely trumps luck, that's not true for, say, Ludo. Sure, you still have decisions (which piece do I move, do I start a new piece or not), but the ultimate decider of the game will be luck. You might possibly see some value in strategy if you reran the game hundreds of times, but at the individual level, the dice decide the outcome.

Because the real issue here is not whether our lives are predictable or random (they are obviously both), but to what extent. Your analogy demonstrates a case where randomness can be controlled, mine a case where it can't. So which applies best to our actual lives?

Another analogy from the world of board games: one annoying habit of bad board gamers that gets brought up often in forums and hobby discussion boards is the habit of ascribing good outcomes to skill, and bad outcomes to luck. In my experience, that's true in other aspects of our lives as well. It's very difficult to see the luck involved when you do something successfully, even though it's usually there.
uber cab is not especially enjoyable, and the legal alternatives (for riders) include taxis and remises (not to mention buses, trains, bicycles, private cars, private motorcycles, and electric scooters; buenos aires is pretty dense and public transport is pretty good)

uber was just better

the legal alternative to pirating games was to buy them, geez

the legal alternative to gay sex was heterosexual sex, which many people actually preferred; possibly you haven't heard, but it's a more popular alternative even today

you're right about heroin and meth though, so, one out of four i guess
If you get a motorcycle license in the US, you’ll likely take the MSF safety course where one point is hammered home: a crash is caused by an interaction of factors.

Imagine a car suddenly swerves in front of a motorcycle rider, which causes him to crash. Perhaps it was a rainy day, the rider was talking on the phone, they were traveling slightly above the speed limit, and they were sitting in the car’s blind spot. It was the car that was at fault for causing the crash, but if one of the other factors in the rider’s situation was eliminated, he may have been able to find a safe escape path to perform an emergency maneuver and avoid the crash.

Ultimately, it’s the final piece in a chain of events that directly causes it, but there are a multitude of variables that are necessary to lead to the situation. Blame can be assigned to a higher degree for a single party, but I believe blame can also be applied to varying degrees to multiple parties.

It seems the authors of the tool in question do not see where their technology fits into a larger puzzle. They may not be the ones who ultimately use it for malice, but it is worrying that they so readily shrug off ethical considerations when they have agency over this piece of the equation.
My Ai will circle back and touch base with your Ai to discuss offline allocating some bandwidth so we can push back by the close of play.
Probably for the insane suggestion that we shouldn't punish false reporting because it will somehow disincentive reporting actual abuse. Initiating a CPS investigation can be incredibly traumatizing for both the parents and the children, and due process can take months or years in the event the initial investigation ends in an incorrect decision to remove the children. This story is proof that even if the police aren't involved (or drop their involvement) CPS is its own entity and their investigations are not just having a chat for an hour. Multiple meetings, interviews, over the course of weeks or months.

False reports, especially those used for retaliation, should be a felony and result in jail time.
will, intellect, truth values, causality, logical principals, about-ness, universales. are these, are everything concievable just emergent properties in your view? are not they real apart from material things?
> dereferencing an invalid pointer is undefined behaviour, which means the compiler is allowed to assume it never happens;

Sure, but it didn't have to be like this. They could have said it is unspecified wihout allowing the compiler to assume it doesn't happen.

Would C have been better if the spec was different?
Out of curiosity, what for?
why is PG flagged? He created HN. This is interesting.
I believe the idea is not that they hide their motives, but that they hide from their motives. May or may not be true, but still...
I'm open to a different descriptor.

From where I sit, "income after tax" doesn't really seem to fit as the meaning of "disposable income", though I suppose I can see why it would look that way to an office like ONS.

Now, to be clear, "where I sit" is in the US, and I've never seen "disposable income" be given an official usage like that over here; its only meaning that I've known is, much more colloquially, just what I said: the amount of money you have left over each $timePeriod after paying for the basic necessities of life. (How one defines those, specifically, varies greatly from person to person.)
"The first lossless audio format to gain widespread adoption (FLAC) was released 6 years after MP3."

AIFF and WAV say what?
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/
eXoWin has done most of it already for win3x games (borderline plug and play). But there is not much to it other than get dosbox and then get a win311 copy running by typing in win in the windows folder. DOSBox, with a couple of forked copies here and there for an oddball game, is pretty much what he used for all of it. Not sure what he is going to use for the 9x project.
That seems like a better tactic than asking my wife the same question!
I think slicing the water computer would produce two distinct minds, even though the experience for each would be the same. I would certainly expect two brains with identical neurons and identical inputs to also produce the same experience. Personally, duplicating consciousness isn't that problematic, and thinking of one's self as unique is only intuitive given the lack of evidence to the contrary (i.e. we're unique because we don't know how to duplicate our minds). Perhaps in a couple decades a "close-enough" mind clone will be in everyone's personal devices, and we will all rely on our digital selves for all kinds of tasks.

Somewhat related: the videogame SOMA is a sci-fi horror masterpiece that puts the player through an experience that is basically analogous to some of these thought experiments. Highly recommend.
I bet the parents didn't watch the news there, either.

Serious question: what did the Eastern block used to do sex offenders?
I do like the woods and the hounds but I'm willing to roll the dice in the name of hedonism. I'm down to be a party/war barge for my little microbiological amigos. No harm no foul, game recognize game etc. Jeez, I am so high right now.