skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty confident that the probalistic conversational AIs lack what I'd call 'synthesis'.

But at a higher level, talking with a bug or robot or rubber duck, no matter how smart it sounds, isn't very valuable. There is no mind to change on the other side of the conversation. There is no life that is being lived on the other side of the screen, the experience is entirely one sided.

The max possible value, imo, is at the level of playing a video game vs a bot. It could be fun, you'll probably improve at the game, and maybe you'll learn something, but more than that? I am deeply skeptical.
> That is an incorrect assumption, as it clearly does.

That’s my entire point. Compiler is free to make incorrect assumptions.

> It is also incorrect given the standard text.

According to C11 standard, section 3.4.3, the standard imposes no requirements on undefined behaviour.
While C and C++ are languages that are permissive to the point that bugs can be introduced incredibly easily I don't think they need to be replaced in order to eliminate said bugs, and especially not with a language like Rust.

Is it more efficient resource and time-wise to rewrite everything in [Language of choice], or to comb through the currently existing code manually and with special tools to find bugs and fix them? Is it more efficient in the long run? Will the current people working on Mesa be able to adapt to such a change (Likely irrelevant since they'd probably be the ones leading such changes in the first place if they were to occur)? Are the benefits/improvements even worth the costs in the first place? Is it sustainable (C has been around since... well forever, and it has a very rich, mature ecosystem built around it. Rust on the other hand has been around for a fraction of the time, suffers from core team (corporate) drama, and doesn't have a "fixed" standard like C does with C89/90, C99, C11, etc. as far as I know (Things might've changed in the past few months/year))? I personally can't see it as being necessary for high code quality and safety.
The solid red and blue states influence what kinds of candidates can make it to the general election at all. California and the other large, blue states also have significant influence in Washington between elections.
JavaScript is a badly designed language. It was created on the fly over several decades by browser makers. People prefer to code in absolutely anything else.

WASM will probably kill TypeScript shortly.
One of the more stupid accidents. Here a judge decided that security of a radioactive source that belong to company A was secondary to a lease agreement with company B, and so contributed to multiple people dying.

The people who stole and opened the source obviously shouldn’t have, but given the period I think it’s more reasonable that they didn’t understand what was going on. The judge doesn’t have that excuse.
What's most frustrating is the utter lack of accountability or communication to and from these companies. I'd love it if there was a direct line to the leadership of these companies to address and improve this kind of issue.

HN is full of engineers, why can't your perfectly reasonable scenario get escalated and addressed properly?

The people need a voice.
Don't read about the people who are paralysed or die from eating slugs as a dare...
> The latter has historically been perceived as more respectful

Maybe if you only consider Americans. But rest assured, many black people do not want to be called African or American. Because they are neither.
so, I don't know why this isn't brought up, but doing a lot of this kind of stuff in the field on construction sites, I'd have used 5 x 5 = 25 and 6 x 6 = 36 then split the difference so (36-25)/2 = 11/2 = 5.5, then you split the difference again in this process.

For me, most estimation in the field is finding two known facts above and below and splitting the difference. Depending on your required precision, the above gets you pretty close right off the bat.
I love this term and hate that it's true.
Visual Studio Code January 2023
I think we'll see research into how to appraise AI models for what has been weighted. Whether a model creates objectively fair reasonings or creates something harmful. Also data democratization of these models (having them available outside of large institutions) will be important. At the same time harmful: A comment a few down is mentioning how these things will be used to create AI influencers, or how propaganda campaigns could be entirely automated and deployed against other countries. Very real threats. :(
> Would you be willing to rewrite the paragraph written by article's author, because you may be right in a sense that it is hard to judge it based on that one sentence fragment alone?

No, because I don't think I can do better than the original author.

>I am starting to think you may be right in general. This paragraph cannot be rewritten in an impartial manner, because it is at its core very partial. It is arguing with anti-Assange bias in mind.

I don't think the paragraph is necessarily "arguing with anti-Assange bias in mind". It is remarking on a world which has an anti-Assange bias because many powerful people in the world, namely the US government, view Assange negatively. How do you report on that without either repeating or refuting that bias in the world?

Maybe a less controversial figure is a better example of this. The FBI monitored MLK Jr. That is just a fact. How do you remark on that fact neutrally? The FBI as an institution has some inherent level of trust. Reporting simply that they monitored MLK implies to a certain extent that he was implicated in some wrongdoing. Do you therefore try to qualify that? Do you say the monitoring was "inappropriate"? Is that too strong? Doesn't that imply that the FBI is racist or corrupt? Do you say it was "potentially inappropriate"? But doesn't that imply you think it might be appropriate?

I don't think the objective reporting of facts is nearly as easy as people seem to imply in conversations about media and in many cases it is impossible.
This assumes that my computer isn't allowed to be a time machine. I don't see that in the spec anywhere.
I came across a Cartrivision rewinder in a surplus store once. It was a simple device, with a motor, some limit switches, a key switch, and a counter. The counter tracked how many cartridges had been rewound, for billing purposes.

Other bad ideas of that era: Polaroid once developed a VHS cartridge with a mechanical counter of how many times it had been played. After some number of plays, the tape jammed.
Does anyone know what they're doing for multiplayer? WebSockets or WebRTC?
Does this affect auth with twitter?
Great work: I think this is missing some data crunching on past predictions. Were the predictions correct or not?
You know what is commonly specified with abstract machine semantics now?

Assembly language. See e.g. the ARMv8 Architecture Reference Manuals, where code for an abstract machine is listed right there in every single instruction listing, and a great deal of appendix space is devoted to providing a library of helper routines for this machine, and also specifying things like the virtual memory system using the AM.

C programmers who think abstract machine semantics are bad are completely out of touch with reality. I put them in the same bucket as people who think all CPUs are 32-bit x86. They in turn are like the devs who maintain old COBOL systems, except less useful because backward compat and huge emulation advances have made it unnecessary to actually run such 32-bit x86 configurations, unlike the COBOL case.
Thank you =)!
Why think this by default? I am in a similar situation as OP, 20 years of experience as dev, team lead and engineering manager, yet because I didn't know the intricacies of our custom framework the second I walked in the door, many of my suggestions were dismissed upfront and, a year in, I feel it's an uphill battle to get my ideas treated with anything other than suspicion.
No python SDK yet
Do you have ANY evidence to back up these claims?
I agree our social histronics around crime are quite irrational. But I think the problem is primarily rooted in the media, not car culture.
I'm a daily user of Pop_OS! by System76. (https://pop.system76.com/) It's developed as a desktop system for their range of computers, but you can install it on anything, as I did. It Just Works™ and I didn't have any compatibility issues with it -- as an anecdote, once I was able to connect to a Samsung printer out of the box, while my friends using Windows had to search online for drivers.
This may be the case in some places, and fraud is illegal in general, but should it be illegal to make parodies of politicians using paid actors? I think most people would say no.

Then why should it be illegal to do the same with an AI?
State Machines vs. Behavior Trees: decision-making architecture for robotics
No opinion about your product itself, I have no time to watch a video just yet, but I wanted to point out the unfortunate name clash with https://devdocs.io/
I don't think anybody is denying that innocent people will be killed by the death penalty.

Which is worse: 100 innocent people being killed by the death penalty or 100 innocent people getting killed by murderers? This is the calculation that many underdeveloped countries have to look at.

Allowing a murderer to live in a country that doesn't have the means to support them will lead to additional suffering of the prisoner (due to less resources), additional suffering of those not in prison (due to additional taxes), and an additional risk to additional murders by the murderer (if they kill other prisoners, guards or escape).

It is easy for people in the first world to say we don't have the need to have the death penalty, but to tell the poorest they are too stupid to know better is kind of arrogant.
Funny how every department has the same aligned discourse. From https://www.coe.int/en/web/impact-convention-human-rights/ri...

Governments can only interfere with these rights when it is specifically allowed by law, and done for a good reason – like national security or public safety.

People have been screaming for that since years, but because of the impression that was for a good cause, we accepted. In the beginning was the bad hackers, then the terrorists, then to protect the children, then because of nazis, because of people that dont want be vaxx.. I will post it again, Glenn Greenwald is talking about it in different parts of the world https://rumble.com/v25depn-exclusive-extreme-escalation-of-b..., so either we defend this rights, regardless of who is the victim, or the surveillance will only increase - everywhere in the World.
It's even less serious stuff than this that has me thinking kids' involvement in those leagues isn't net-positive. But I'm sure there are more positive experiences than negative. And I'd probably think differently if I was super competitive or more sports-oriented.
hence the name: Vertical Helical Scan
This view isn't supported by studies in this area. They do find antisemitism on the left and the center of the US political spectrum - just more on the right.

> While antisemitism in the U.S. is often written about through a “both sides” lens, our evidence — the first of its kind in testing hypotheses through experiments on a large repre-
sentative sample — suggests the problem of antisemitism is much more serious on the right than the left. This evidence confirms that the antisemitism that has been on prominent display in white nationalist protests is not merely confined to a tiny group of extremists; antisemitic attitudes appear quite common among young conservatives, and much more so than among older conservatives or among liberals of any age.

* https://www.eitanhersh.com/uploads/7/9/7/5/7975685/hersh_roy...
> It matters quite a bit I think, because otherwise it's an impediment to communication.

It sounds like we agree on the problem but disagree on the solution. I would argue most of the impediment to communication on this subject is exactly because people are trying much too hard to brand a certain conceptualization "free will" and trying to delineate different contexts and scenarios far too little. It's absolutely worthwhile to clarify what context one is referring to when using the term. It's absolutely a waste of time to try and assert this context is the only correct context to do so.
I guess I mean like commenting out a whole line like in JavaScript
Yes but I'd be very surprised if this isn't a heavily "clapped" post on their LinkedIn profile already :p

Also, it's citable, if I'm not mistaken. Still counts.
Hey all, this is from a team member of mine at Polymath Robotics.

Ask/comment away!
The important difference between the LM and the content moderation system (itself built on top of an LM) is their training objective. LM is doing next-word prediction (or human-preference prediction with RLHF), whereas the content moderation is likely finetuned to explicitly identify hate etc...

So while the LM is not supposed to output "truth", the content moderation system should correctly classify "hate" because that is its training objective
Also, conservatives tend to be older, and older people tend to be the ones who watch cable news.

Cable news ratings are meaningless in trying to reflect media bias.
> One to generate the 3d scene. One for the lighting. Three for cameras. One for each actor acting out the given script along with a set amount of "improvising" and "randomness", one to generate background royalty free music based on the emotional context of the scene, one to serve as a Foley artist for environment sounds.

One for each hand to maintain the appropriate number of fingers.
Works! I pasted a rough draft brain dump that I had in my notes for a first post about product management bullshit:

https://colors.notepin.co/product-management-bullshit
> While antisemitism in the U.S. is often written about through a “both sides” lens, our evidence — the first of its kind in testing hypotheses through experiments on a large repre- sentative sample — suggests the problem of antisemitism is much more serious on the right than the left. This evidence confirms that the antisemitism that has been on prominent display in white nationalist protests is not merely confined to a tiny group of extremists; antisemitic attitudes appear quite common among young conservatives, and much more so than among older conservatives or among liberals of any age.

* https://www.eitanhersh.com/uploads/7/9/7/5/7975685/hersh_roy...
You can see my other reply above if you care. But I do take issue with this

>By any measure these two aren’t wealthy

That's objectively so wrong. They are basically set for life on money or will be before too long with more sales rolling in over time.

The vast majority of people will never see anywhere near that amount of money.. yet we don't want to call it wealthy. Ludicrous.
Mastodon#, using ActivityPub.Net, which is quite like the normal one but with more annoying capitalisation?

(That would really be more of an old-MS move, of course)
This whole act of ignorance, incompetence and "smart stupidity" on politicians side infuriates me so much, I feel seriously sympathetic towards going underground devoting the rest of my life to trolling the shit out of the EU gov'ts.
I feel like its much more just reskinning Gnome though, or at least all that is the part I like about it. I haven't tried it myself, but there is no reason I think you couldn't run their DE, tiling, and Launcher ontop of Arch or Nixos.
That doesn’t sound like sound logic to me. The compiler assumes that at the point you have the arithmetics, they won’t overflow. This hinges upon all the former state of the program. If it can prove that the given integers won’t overflow (e.g. due to a previous, redundant check) then it can indeed remove a conditional, but the compiler can’t change the observable behavior of the program.
How could you trust something like the fairness doctrine in practice? The Kennedy administration for example created Citizens Committee for a Nuclear Test Ban to specifically file FCC complaints against broadcasters that aired criticism of the Limited Test Ban Treaty. Nixon used it as a whip against anti Vietnam War activists[1]. And one could go on, but it was intended to and used to suppress speech the government didn't like. Calling it the "Fairness Doctrine" is a great case of giving a malicious law a name that makes it sound unobjectionable, like the Patriot Act.

[1] http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped...
Can't talk for USA being European living in EU BUT: anyone have ideas, "sides" etc. Journals as well and that's perfectly FINE as long as there are MANY different sources with different ideas.

Facts might appear in some, not in others, because of relatives sides, but false fact appearing on some will be normally demolished by those of another side. Some facts will be depicted in positive or negative way, the same fact, depending of the side, but the reader still elicit the fact and distinguish if he/she want the reading part from the factual part. In that case we can "trust the press", simply because having most parts of the spectrum covered, we can read facts and opinion and form OUR personal opinion.

When the press is a pravda, essentially al journals tell the same story, omit or cite the same facts, with the same side etc than we can't trust the press. NO MATTER if those who write are honest or not. Even when they tell the truth they will be considered mendacious.

Nowadays the trust debt the press have gained, the self-inflicted reputational damage is big enough to be irrecoverable. A new press must then emerge, a press who represent various different opinions people do recognize, not just mocked actors like wrestlers. Until this happen the level of trust will be the same of any dictatorship press by their people. Below zero.

BTW similar reputational damage have happened to "international" institutions, local governments and corporations. That's why we are near to the point of a civil war OR the rise of classic local dictatorships with their classic parabola.
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I am seeking a position as a mid or senior-level front-end engineer. I have 8+ years of experience working at various levels of responsibility as a front-end developer throughout my career. My previous work was as the creator of a thorough visualization of MMA matchups (https://mmabetsharp.com). The work encompassed a large breadth of skills including core front-end work, design, visualization, scraping, data structuring, as well as social media engagement via public discourse and other various channels.

I consider myself a generalist in the front-end space. I have a good knowledge of web technology fundamentals, but I also rather appreciate the higher level tools brought in by the React-era.

I have experience in ecommerce, both as a developer and administrator. I have worked on the development of inventory management tools for online clothing retailers. I have also used the Shopify platform to create a portal to sell woodworking products.

I have enough maturity as a developer to balance the cost of writing maintainable software with the need to write effective software quickly. I understand software is inherently complex, and if neglected, tends to devolve into something very difficult. I also understand businesses and companies, especially smaller ones, operate with limited resources, and that the ability to drive a product forwards can be essential.

I've been thinking about... The nature of complexity in software. How can we apply functional programming concepts to a domain that is largely event-driven and mobilized by effects? How can we reduce excessive "wiring" between components and increase modularity? How can we create a level of abstraction over system components that ensures logical consistency while avoiding excessive overhead? How do we balance the need for "correctness" (typing, tests, refactoring, experimentation) with the need to deliver a product within limited time and resource constraints?

Aside, I also have some experience with physical goods, having created and operated a small woodworking company for 3 years. During the time I received unsolicited praise for the top quality of my work. I apply the same ethic to my programming work:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DSP6WSP#customerReviews

I value clean design, code consistency, architectural durability, and simplicity whenever possible.

I describe myself as... Easygoing, reliable, flexible, adaptable, and a clear communicator.
From the new hire side, the way I explain it is that they should ask the people with 2-3 yoe first since they're the ones closest to the code + have onboarded most recently. It's not that they can't even ask our senior devs questions, but we want to minimize random questions that anyone else on the team can answer. We also try to utilize slack/updated runbooks to make sure everyone learns the answer to questions vs answering the same questions over and over in dms.

Are you trying to be hands on and involved in everything to meet your standards? You have to trust the rest of the team and delegate things, and only step in when shit is completely unacceptable or you'll never get any work done. You should definitely talk with your manager about how much time you're spending on this and make sure that they are aligned with you on your priorities.

Lastly... are you still a new hire? Generally it's better to listen and learn as opposed to telling people to do it your way.
From the first sentence of the related post — “The European Commission is currently in the process of enacting a law called Chat control. If the law goes into effect, it will mean that all EU citizens' communications will be monitored and listened to.”

Level headed person would see that the next step is logically that all communications regardless if they’re in private, in person, etc should be monitored. If that’s not an authoritarian state, I am happy to be listen to why.

As for a vast percentage, I mean that topic like this would not even see the light of day if there wasn’t source of significant support; hint, there is.

I have neither have preference over given political party, nor would I be affiliated with a given group; that is, I am fine independently observing, understanding, evaluating, and if needed, acting on any situation as needed.

Not sure understand you point 3, please feel free to clarify.

As for point 4, I covered a possible reasoning why current democracies might be viewed as unjust; if you missed that, might be worth reading my OP comment again.

And yes, nationalism is toxic. It treats other humans as subhumans by default, that is non-citizens are not treated equal, and for sure not as citizens by default. If there was a country that treated all humans as citizens, equally, fairly, etc - I would be happy to reevaluate my beliefs related to nationalism.

And for your two cents, I prefer plain-English and first principle reasoning, not reference to historical ideologies, list of ism’s, etc. Said another way, I don’t understand what you hoped I would understand, but happy to listen.
You're a journeyman or a master with apprentices, embrace it and schedule your time accordingly.
Good catch! That's likely an artifact of the LMS state being quantized[1] at every frame border. I will look for ways to improve this.

[1] https://github.com/phoboslab/qoa/blob/master/qoa.h#L324-L336
I've used this is control systems where I wanted the square root of a signal. Given that the signal should not change quickly (may even have a low pass filter on it) doing one iteration of this is much quicker than doing a regular square root computation each time step. Obviously, the usefulness of an approximation depends on what you're doing, but this does converge to the exact solution over time ;-)
Product Management Bullshit
Wow, never knew this was a thing. Do they have a website/can you share?

Are you insured through your employer or via an exchange?