skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A more conventional notation was planned but never happened:

This is evidence that S-expressions are objectively superior to other serializations. They are objectively simpler (this is why they were chosen in the first place -- writing a parser for sexprs is vastly easier than writing a parser for just about anything else), and the fact that humans who become accustomed to them early on generally prefer not to move away from them is evidence that other representations offer no advantages, and considerable disadvantages in the form of added complexity for no objective benefit. In other words, the main reason people don't like S-expressions is that they are indoctrinated from an early age (like grade school) into objectively inferior serializations, which trace their roots literally into antiquity.

Lisp should be taught in elementary school. Children should be taught to think not in terms of of "two times three" and "two plus three" but rather "the sum of two and three" and "the product of two and three". It would make the world a better place in the long run.
Well, those are the expectations. Low ratings don’t mean being managed out in typical years, but that’s not where we find ourselves. I don’t think the system is perfect, but it is fair. An L5 that missed their expectations is laid off the same as an L9 - there’s no thought of “but they would’ve hit expectations as an L7” just as an L5 doesn’t get credit for being a high performing L3.
Oh, look a TERF wandered in from Twitter.
People who find this interesting might also find the work being done recently by The Companion--a service that specializes in providing fan service (writers panels, behind the scenes stuff, etc.) for popular science fiction content--with some researchers from Google and the showrunner of Stargate on extended episodes for Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

So like, the "obvious problem" with this content for Seinfeld is the "acting" (care of the TTS engine) sucks. Honestly, are the scripts bad? Maybe, sure! But actors actually do a job that can sometimes be ignored by filling in all of the subtle details that make the character the character and even then make awkward interactions suddenly "work".

In the extended work from the Google AI on Stargate, what they did was get some people from the actual cast of the show to be willing to do a table read of the AI-generated scripts (and the AI was then told to limit what it generated to using the actors they had).

And OMG sometimes it was hilarious nonsense and yet it was FUN, because the actors were kind of trying to make it all work, and they were able to lean on their backgrounds doing those characters for a decade and all of the hard-ish stuff of comedic timing but also the easy-ish stuff of how a basic human interaction works.

When we get to the point of being able to have AI actors easily pull off some of those things--having text to speech that infers enough context to know the correct emotions to apply in addition to the appropriate timing and stress as opposed to merely the correct pronunciation (which is always where we seem to be working, practically)--this stuff is going to rock, and it will be scary how well even shitty scripts do (as it isn't like many sitcoms--not saying Seinfeld, but you can easily scrape the bottom of the barrel on formulaic shows people have pumped out--have very good writing to begin with).
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I grew up in a hot country. The peaches that were bird-bitten were always the best
I’ve watched every episode of married with children. But I’ve never watched Seinfeld. Only clipped shared on Instagram and even then I skip over them…
It makes me think of the early days of cinema. It took a while for things to fall into place. Even things that are considered masterpieces like "Metropolis" are a bit weird in contemporary terms; set pieces go on way too long, serious moments sometimes come off as comical, actors stare into the camera, etc. It's not hard to imagine that the non-masterpiece run of the mill stuff was nigh unwatchable in today's terms.

So "Nothing Forever" isn't funny now but I'd be surprised if something like it is more than 5 years away from watchable.
If the police departments are actually fortuitously finding baby ducks, sure...that's smart PR. But if the entire event is staged, that's propaganda instead of PR.
What social commentary did Seinfeld make? It was a 'show about nothing', starring incredibly self-centered characters who cared about nothing.
Disagree. Having seen the wide disparity in skill sets as an interviewer for hundreds of software "engineering" position applicants, I believe that a PE certification along the lines of what mechanical and electrical engineers have to get might be worth instituting in the US.
It's annoying that the word “propaganda” has ended up meaning “PR efforts I don't like”. There was once an era when propaganda was a normal word.
I look at it from the opposite angle.

I want a language that starts as simple and powerful, with simple and easy to use building blocks, that then builds simple abstractions on top of them, ideally allowing me to too.

I'm tired of languages that start simple and weak, then bolt shit after shit on top until you need a phd in FuckedLanguage before you can really understand how to use it.

If you're constantly surprised by undiscoverable expressivity features in your language, this is a good a sign your language is, at its core, both weak and complex - a hilarious combination that most languages are rapidly chasing to keep the "modern" label.
C was not created as an abstract machine
As a "regular" consumer, I couldn't figure out how to use this because I don't deal with the kinds of files it was asking for. At the very least it should provide some links to example files you can run through it.

In any case, I'd like to see something where you select a procedure and then get a way to easily drill down to see pricing (both in and out of network) at different locations, probably within a given radius. This assumes, of course, that the system knows my health plan to begin with, which would be a whole other step needed.
Looks like Apple has it for $12.99:
https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/the-queen-of-trees/umc.cmc.2i7...
Nod.

If you happen to know of any good references / sources on methods --- for both individuals and organisations --- or even just the right keywords to use for researching the literature, I'd appreciate it. That's information which could stand to be more widely known.

(My search-fu is usually pretty good. There are times when I'm stymied simply not knowing the language / terminology used within research / technology areas.)
Since SF is on the narrow tip of a peninsula and surrounded by water on 3 sides, the temperature fluctuates much less than locations inland or even just along the coast. The temperature basically hovers around 60F year-round, a few degrees cooler in the winter, a few degrees warmer in the autumn.

I didn't know this before moving here, I don't know if I'd call it _amazing_ weather but it's certainly odd to watch the rest of the country deal with insane heat and cold while SF basically just... stays at 60.
Yes these are so good! Highly recommend.
With fresh figs, you're supposed to turn them inside out when you eat them. If you really wanted, I guess you could pick out the wasp if it's still noticeably intact.
Angle Health just raised $58M and is hiring across eng, product: https://jobs.lever.co/AngleHealth/d7e45b67-7301-4da2-8481-fd...
Strict determinism is physically impossible. By physically, I mean you cannot reconcile it with quantum physics.

However, the luck we're talking about is not random chance, it is comparable to a set of overlapping games with stacked odds.
The result is still a chaotic system, that means it will typically tend to end up in one or more attractor states.

This is how both inheritance and culture work. Going against the culture, physical or mental inheritance, or pushing to a different attractor state requires overcoming a vast amount of inertia. Within and without. And sometimes help too.

Certain initial states have much more leeway in shaping the particular trajectory one would take than others.

And yes, ultimate choice of free will is to roll the dice, try something new or create. Determinism is incompatible with that.
> Developers will spend $5 on a bagel but not $5 a day for tools, it's pretty wild

That's because savings-due-to-tools don't scale but rental does.

I can all but guarantee that you're using, daily, some tool that is free. Why aren't you paying $5 a day for it?

You've gotten more value out of bash, grep and related tools than IntelliJ is ever worth to you, and yet if I came up to you and said "here, use my replacement grep, bash, etc for only $5/day" you'd laugh.

Developers who aren't using the expensive tools aren't cheapskate like you assume; they're simply too tired to want or need another rental, because the marginal increase in time savings won't be noticed by them.
Chesa Boudin was responsible for the poor urban planning, poor transit, horrific traffic, high costs of all services, and insane rents for shitty apartments, which were the main factors that made SF unlivable?

I didn't realize a DA had the power to pull so many strings behind so many disparate things that made the city a horrible place to live.

Or that under his successor, any of the metrics that a DA is supposed to be responsible for are actually turning around. Are they? They haven't up here in Seattle, despite everyone insisting that a tough-on-crime DA will solve anything...
Uptick in healthcare organizations experiencing targeted DDoS attacks
I think this every time there’s a “what cool thing should I build with OpenAI’s API?” post.

A nice thought, but once OpenAI decides to pull the rug out from under you, it won’t matter what you built.
Yggdrasil as an Automatic Mesh Fabric to Connect All Your Containers/VMs/Servers
Why does the author not simply send Disney a CCPA data deletion request, either instead, or in addition to the rest of the countermeasures outlined in the article?

With websites such as this one it literally takes less then a minute to do so (disclosure, I'm one of the creators): https://yourdigitalrights.org/d/disney.com
If its not a test you should watch or listen to national tv / radio. In case of water alert and if you are on low ground i‘d seek high ground first. (Not sure about the official recommendation with the second)
Pretty sure that if it convenience stores started hanging the head of the animal you are buying body parts of just over those (e.g. by law) the amount of vegetarians would increase 10 times or more, some of those people who would likely convert know this, for them anything that helps them avoid thinking about meat as recently living beings is a feature not a bug.
I sent my application in just now! I'm open to a 10-15 minute conversation to explain about my experience more.
Seinfeld was a leading TV comedy in the US, and is respected by people in the industry as one of the best shows (or sitcoms) of all time.

It was 'show about nothing', as they described it, about mundane minutiae. It starred three characters, including Jerry Seinfeld, who cared about nothing but themselves. Another description I read was that it was innovative in starring unsympathetic characters.
ed2k link: https://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=The_queen_of_trees
They are technically separate as Moffett Air Field is federal land and not in Mountain View. In practice you can cross a bridge over Stevens Creek and go from one to the other, and they share snacks and bikes so they’re essentially treated as the same campus.

(I have to admit I was very confused how someone might get the acronyms all correct and misattribute the city…then I spotted that you pulled this from Google’s data.)
Alexander the Great versus the Elephants
The article is evidence that they do not.
Has anyone gotten around to cracking HP firmware in the same way that John Deere firmware is being cracked?
You don’t need to get that complicated. Just demand a list of who they sold to, then who they sold to and so on until the trail goes cold.

If you can’t get an answer, sanction everyone involved and you’ll find they’ll stop selling to unknown customers very quickly. It’s similar to banks and KYC rules.

That was one solution off the top of my head. I’m sure the government has something more sophisticated in place that could be more effective.
Show HN: 1-Click Deploy for Langchain LLM Agents from Google Colab to Web-App
We’ve just released Berri AI - a Python package https://github.com/ClerkieAI/berri_ai
that makes it easy for developers to quickly deploy their LLM Agent from Google Colab to production (Web App and API Endpoint).

Building LLM Apps can require working in online coding environments, like Colab, due to local environment limitations (e.g. running pytorch on older Macs). This can cause long dev cycles when deploying the app to production, as ported changes can only be tested once it is deployed after lengthy (>20min+) Docker builds.

Berri lets you deploy directly from your coding environment, eliminating the need to download, transfer your code to a wrapper, deploy and debug. Taking an LLM app from your notebook and sharing it with people is made easy.

How it works?

Just install the package, import the function, and run deploy.

At the end of the deploy (~10-15mins), you will get:
A web app to interact with your agent
https://agent-repo-35aa2cf3-a0a1-4cf8-834f-302e5b7fe07e-4524...

An endpoint you can query
https://agent-repo-35aa2cf3-a0a1-4cf8-834f-302e5b7fe07e-4524... is obama?"

Want a more detailed walkthrough? Check out our loom - https://www.loom.com/share/fd4375b4a77f4ea7802369cb06a16d43

We’re still early so would love your feedback and opinions. Feel free to try us out for free – and if you need help building an agent / want a specific integration, just let us know!
If you can call working many hours, creating nothing, earning just enough to get by a success. It also ignores others - human relationships.

This is why so many people push it back onto their children to have it better, but it typically does not work for either them or their kids.

Having minimal means to survive, including health, is but a necessary condition for being a whole, successful person.
I have a dozen or so DRM channels programmed into my SDR. Even a couple of MW AM ones.

And I tune through them every day or two.

The problem is that the performance of DRM is terrible. It takes a hugely strong signal before it is free of drop-outs, plus is very intolerant of any interference on the same channel. And of course drop-outs with DRM are very jarring, as they lock up the channel for many seconds.

When compared with a conventional AM Transmitter from the same city, at the same power, the AM TX is far more pleasant to listen to.
The EU version of the culture war :)
Is this beat-poet anti-Microsoft thing a character or how you are in real life?
I once found a caterpillar in a (non-organic) ear of corn from Walmart
s/can’t/aren’t ”expected” to/
Does it know anything about the company to which it is writing?
Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
Strict mode is not something that should be avoided. In the future versions React will do stuff that it does with strict mode today. Of course you can use a regular async function in useEffect but you'll quickly notice that it's called twice in strict mode. And you'll want to abort running fetch. Then you'll notice that responses can arrive out of order and your state updated with outdated response which happened to arrive last. It's easy to use async code in useEffect. It's not easy to use it correctly.
San Jose still feels somewhat better. There seem to be more suburban areas where parking is easy, the weather is nice, and there are restaurants and coffee shops that are in good repair. Also, San Jose seems more spread out (and does have 170k, 20% more population), so the homeless problem seems less concentrated.
Brendan Eich doesn't say he was fired. https://brendaneich.com/2014/04/the-next-mission/

Mozilla doesn't say he was fired. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/faq-on-ceo-resignation/
Yeah, from what I can surmise, I wouldn't be surprised if an L9 was earning salary equivalent to a top pro athlete (easily 7 figures). You better be writing some historic, market bending shit to get paid like that. Figure 10 years of a $2M salary, you've paid for everything money can buy, in cash, up to the private jet level.
Makes sense, thanks for the reply! Pricing may be steep compared to diy but as a comparison, Airbyte Cloud seems to charge $10/GB or $15/1M rows transferred[0] which seems like it would be even more expensive.

I'm doing some more research but will keep ya'll in mind and reach out if I have more questions!

[0] https://airbyte.com/pricing
My sense is that the simple building blocks are more trouble than they’re worth.

The main example I look at is call/cc in Scheme. It’s simple, it’s elegant, and it can be used to build all sorts of things like exceptions, coroutines, and backtracking. However, if you build all sorts of abstractions with it, the abstractions will interact with each other in unexpected ways. It also “contaminates” your library code and makes it hard to write certain higher-order functions—if your library function is not a leaf function, it might call call/cc, and call/cc might return multiple times.

I’d say call/cc is powerful like dynamite is powerful. I don’t want it in my toolbox.
this is really cool.

my first thoughts without thinking are:

1. how easy to set up ubuntu linux and using firefox lol. this is more on anki being somewhat frustrating sometimes.

2. i have tried using notes that i didn't make myself and there were pros and cons but bigger cons

3. that generated note didn't abide by the 20 rules which I find to be a pretty good guideline. that seems pretty fixable though!
We already knew how to write useful software without user-level generics, we have been doing it for decades since FORTRAN came to be in 1957, no need for Go to prove anything beyond the stubbornness of its designers.
I'm surprised it isn't using something like https://fakeyou.com/ already.
Yes, we want everything for free /s

I think it absolutely worth 20 bucks/month. It's an absolute helpful tool. To write text, but as I discovered yesterday, to write code. Over a long chat with many iterations, you can produce code,test code or pseudo code. I used yesterday in a meeting with some colleagues, while discussing a new feature. The code produced after our initial spec was pretty good to make sure we all understood what we wanted.
How to find a tiny radioactive source while doing 70 kph
I assumed the chat was informing the AI in some
Way, so if there is a consensus or popular phrase, it gets worked in.
Oh I‘m not antropomorphising. It feels more like a GPS - a tool I wouldn’t like to be without when driving unknown places.

I work mostly alone on projects, at least currently. While I have friends I can bounce back general ideas on, it‘s hard to get good feedback on a small problem that I‘d be stuck with for, let’s say, 5 minutes.

So far, the choice has been between disrupting others‘ flow (who might not even work with the tech I‘m using), or exploring the issue myself. Problem solving is certainly not a skill I want to atrophy, but figuring out framework specific intricacies is more a chore than an interesting problem. A chore I can get stuck on. And that’s where the bot often points me in the right direction.

An example: I‘m dabbling in the PETAL stack with a side project, and Ecto‘s DSL still feels foreign to me. ChatGPT is actually really good at fixing my Ecto queries and recently made the suggestion to use the „dynamic“ function. It applied the function in a slightly wrong way, but that made me read up dynamic query building, which is already bearing fruit.

I could have read all of Ecto‘s documentation and wouldn’t need the bot, but that’s out of scope right now. I‘m currently working with native iOS, Android, JS/TS (Next), Flutter, and Elixir - if I read all the documentation, I wouldn’t write any code.
I searched *Press A* in Kagi and it shows that website at the top for me

https://wtf.roflcopter.fr/pics/o4jKTW7y/C6N4W6W5.png
No offense but I think you are being obtuse. When applying for an H1B for an employee you need to pay the prevailing wage, or the application will most likely be rejected by USCIS. At this point, the costs of hiring an H1B are much much higher than offshoring to cheaper locales like Canada or India or Europe. As such, any sort of downward salary pressure is less due to immigration and more due to globalization.
Huh? You think 1/100 people who make it to retirement have had a false sexual claim made against them publicly?
What neighborhood do you live in? It's interesting that this is your experience because part of what is prompting this is getting back from a NYC trip and sort of decided, and this is really shallow, but it was just way too much brick. I just like how buildings look in SF a lot more. Transit is totally better in NYC and probably many cities on the East Coast, but it isn't bad, I can get around without a car and rent one the few times I need it which is basically enough. I also have gotten around the lack of transit by biking around a lot more sense the pandemic which has definitely improved my opinion of the city as well (no crashes yet, though I did have a bike stolen). I think part of the difference is maybe some of the things I care about don't match up with you. I'm not that into food, SF has seemed fine in that regard, though definitely more expensive than NYC for what you get.

edit: and I'll add SF seemed actually significantly below NYC prices now. To get a similar level of apartment to what I have in SF I'd either pay 2-4 hundred extra or move out far enough that it doesn't seem obvious to me I'd have more amenities and public transit within say 30 minutes of me.
The Machine is Us/ing Us (2007) [video]
Seinfeld was the first good sitcom.

That's such a silly thing to say I'll assume it's intentionally provocative and not intended to be truthful rather than representing genuine ignorance.

But for anybody young enough/daft enough to take it seriously, check out

Fawlty Towers

Young Ones

Blackadder

Yes Minister

Dad's Army

Etc

Etc

That's just a quick UK list off the top of my head, I'll leave others to correct the parent comment with US (Bilko?, Cheers?, etc) and other national
(Let The Blood Run Free?) suggestions...
If it were my company doing layoffs, I’d hold on tight to the best and most senior engineers and lay off the entry level ones if I had to. Knowing what you have to do and why is much more important than the details of how you get there
How are Trads a new counter culture when they range in age from 16 to 85?