skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a total disaster that will impact the health of people in the area for generations.

[citation needed]. Vinyl chloride breaks down quickly (especially when it's all set on fire) and doesn't bio-accumulate. That's why the OSHA standards for it are for career-long exposure. Its byproducts are also pretty volatile and should burn through biology and dilute quickly.

There's no 4-alarms here because it's not a 4-alarm situation. It's a disaster, but one of the more well-understood and easier-to-contain ones.
You leave Fat Amy out of this
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That's for the max-size model (6B parameters). GPT-Neo has pruned models 125m and 1.3b that fit into 1.5gb and 6gb of memory respectively.

These models are obviously nerfed, but you can run them on budget ARM hardware and get legible, paragraph-length responses in less than 10 seconds.
The complaint is about the input not the output.
The example provided in the post -- yes. But I can basically demonstrate other language features that are not working with closures, such as generics -- you just can't have generic closures in the same way as you have generic functions, even in a synchronous code. With closures, you have a pretty limited scope of what you can do, considering the rest of the language, so I think it'd be pretty useless to consider closures as a separate mechanism that shouldn't interact with the rest of the language.
Too late. Companies _love_ patents.
Agreed they were low effort, so I put in little as well.
Noticing defects while underway has been automated by trackside detectors for decades, ever since the removal of the caboose and associated crewman. In this case, we know the detector went off as designed, and what happened - or did not happen - next was the problem.
Our sales people had connections in the industry that led us into various "approved vendor" lists. This eventually allowed us to worm our way into getting demos with floor managers who could use some of their budget to buy our software. Word of mouth spread from there and within a couple of years we were driving their IT department up the wall. It was grass-roots and the end-users, the people on the floor doing the work, loved it so much that it spread.
Because it's objectification-oriented. /s
Rust is the closest thing to Haskell that I can run on a processor without an MMU.

There's a pareto frontier of "best available language for a given project", and I think Haskell dominates the portion of the pareto frontier where you don't have super tight physical/memory/real-time constraints, and Rust dominates the portion where you do. This is by virtue of their similarity.
What os are you using those apps on?
There's a big difference between "the US government likes to do this sort of thing" and "here's evidence of something specific they did recently, that Twitter had publicly denied".

If you're already starting with the assumption that social media is riddled with ("ex") intelligence agents doing the govt.'s bidding, and cooperating with (in this case pharma) companies to help their PR and profit, then yes, there was little that was new.

But if you're not, or if you want to convince someone that stubbornly insists this is all a "debunked conspiracy theory of which there is no evidence", then having, you know, actual evidence, is a big deal, not a nothing-burger.

You speak of well informed citizens - but how did they in the first place come to believe things such as those revealed in the Twitter files happen? By the exact same sort of revelations in the past. And there's always someone that will claim "that was long ago, times have changed, we don't do those kind of things anymore".

And for some things, that is true. So it's important to periodically re-open people's eyes.
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OH MY GOD I thought I was the only one who noticed that! I still prefer gmaps for most things, but the zoom out after I narrowed into exactly where I wanted is just infuriating UX. If I wanted that broad of a search I’d just… I dunno… go read a food blog.
A slight confounding factor here is that the green energy transition has been snowballing anyway.

Just as the bad news about climate often uses the "faster than expected" cliche, the renewables stories are often about updates to predictions because they are higher than previously estimated.

It would be easy to assign that increase to any big event that had just occurred. I do notice some changes that I attribute to the war, but it's only pushing at an open door. On a global scale how much does it compare to solar being the cheapest form of energy and other technical, industrial and political progress decades in the making? I'm not sure I see any direct link for EV success. More that all the big manufacturers (with Japan as a weird outlier) with government connections being on board at last and FUD being dispelled.
Or the evergreen GoogleTV -> AndroidTV -> GoogleTV.

Or Hangouts (the massively online public video space) -> Hangouts (the chat app inside GMail) -> Hangouts (the private videoconfering app) -> Google Meet.
We weren't able to reliably install security daemons on a client's machine because the entire automation system didn't account for autoscaling. The issues were raised well before I joined and the project head legitimately didn't understand it as a problem that needed solving. The hosts were for a presidential candidate's webserver, and they noticed the webservers were missing security daemons days before the election.
Okay, that one might catch me. I couldn't tell if an image had a thumbnail stored with it to begin with.
Brand cohesion is important. I'm in your target demographic, and arrived knowing that, but I see stuff like (k6s) up top and immediately I'm bouncing because it's confusing and I have a lot of tabs opened I wanted to see.
And the more photos pop up the more people question real photographs versus AI fakes. Ironic.
If the search product still isn't good enough, why would a ChatGPT panel make the difference? You can always pull up ChatGPT in another tab.
This is really good, and matches up with my primary complaint from the execs I've seen hired out of consulting. They tend to be short timers. They often present wildly optimistic 3-5 year growth plans to the board knowing full well they won't be there in 3-5 years. The board almost never ties their compensation to these plans in any way, so the real thing they spend their time doing is hitting whatever short term metric their compensation is tied to, and these metrics are almost never well aligned with the long term interests of the company. I've been in a company that spent years digging out of the mess one of these guys left behind.
It depends on how you view prison.

Is a life sentence about punishing people for causing harm? Or is it about preventing future harm?
> The military always claims they will have a human 'in the loop' to make kill decisions. That promise will go out the window just as soon as

The promise is already a farce because autonomous weapons that sense the environment and make unilateral decisions to kill have already been in use for decades now. From low-tech landmines to high-tech ship-classifying CAPTOR torpedoes which fire themselves, a weapon sensing its surroundings and deciding to kill is nothing new.
I don't think that's an accurate description of the current state. It generates facts but those need to be evaluated by experts since tech can error as likely as a human.
My whole childhood - the 90s - was computer-free. Pornhub didn't exist back then.
Once I got into Linux I ditched Windows in less time of dual booting than that. The primary reason was precisely this. It has no respect for the computer's owner and will do as it pleases. This is with grub too. It had to be eradicated from any machine I cared about.
This sounds like the HR version of "don't talk to the police"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
It can filter out native search results as well, as long as you tell it what to filter out. It's of course a bit limited since you have to know beforehand what you don't want to see, but it works great if you're looking to, for example, filter out specific websites.
It is a blank page on Safari. Working on chrome and Firefox.

Really cool app.
If they delay doing this, there's going to be irreversible damage. OTOH, it seems unlikely because they just renewed his contract and incentives in November
> Office 2000 and 2003 were great releases, the main applications (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Outlook) were fast and stable as long as you weren't running some weird corporate domain deployment.

Or tried to use Microsoft Equation more than a couple of times inside a single document. The thing was ridiculously prone to crashing on top of producing butt-ugly typesetting.

Of course, that falls under “using OLE”, but IIRC so does using WordArt, which was rock solid (albeit much simpler and in particular incapable of in-place editing).
I think Kotlin is pretty close to that albeit not satisfying (D) and only satisfying (E) if you use a pauseless GC (which you can do, it's just one command line flag). The pervasive use of type inference gives it a Pythonic feel.

My company has a private tool called hshell that's completely replaced bash for my own use. It uses Kotlin Scripting to provide hashbang script-style development along with a UNIX-like API with functions like cp, cd, ls, find, tar, zip, ssh etc. You can also do things like print markdown to the console and it'll be formatted, and it understands how to draw progress bars from various sources like file copies or loop iterators.

You can depend on libraries by just adding

@file:DependsOn("io.ktor:ktor-server-{netty,core}-jvm:2.0.2")

to the top of the file, IntelliJ can give full intellisense and refactoring support for these scripts, they're portable, you can define a CLI by annotating variables and there's a variety of other useful features.

As it runs on the JVM you also get auto-vectorization, although why you'd want that for one-off scripts I'm not quite sure.

It doesn't have zero cost abstractions. As you note, combining all those features together is rather hard if you want to keep a lightweight scripting feel.

Overall it's pretty nice. I wouldn't want to go back to bash or python, the ergonomics of hshell are far better. I'm not sure what to do with it though, maybe release it as a product (but at what price? is there any demand?). I'm pretty sure I don't want to sign up for open source maintenance duties right now.
To be fair, Microsoft's "AI BING" demo wasn't exactly flawless either. But the popular press didn't seem to notice.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/14/microsoft_ai_bing_err...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23599007/microsoft-bing-a...
Technically, we are already there.

All cars sold today are able to run on biofuels: ethanol for gas cars, vegetable oil for diesel.

It is not manufacturers fault if people put fossil fuel in them...

Of course, I am being sarcastic, but while electric and hydrogen cars seem to be the obvious response, I don't see biofuels being unacceptable (and I've seen several mentions of net CO2 in articles).
For some shows I'd prefer an alternative funding scheme. I bet that some could be supported into further seasons by fan donations.
And how Google Glass replaced smartphones, bitcoin replaced USD, Juicero replaced juicers, Segways replaced walking, and Second Life replaced life.
> This is exactly what the math tells us it will do.

Technically it hallucinates on basic math as well. So a fitting choice of words :)
jeez thats a rough spot to be in. did you stick around to fix it or just get the hell out of dodge after that?
They are looking to fix that problem with keyword generics.
> and many parents neglected to pass on the skills

Or more likely were never taught those skills, either.
>Can you show me a single comment on this website

Ask and ye shall receive, from this very thread:

> This is a total disaster that will impact the health of people in the area for generations.[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34791609
So they can make a solar panel from regolith. Good, but not good enough. Can they build another reactor using only regolith, solar panels and their first reactor?
I've worked in more niche consulting where we brought in specific expertise and occasionally we crossed paths with McKinsey. It's true that they're not dumb and they're not out and out frauds, but it's really hard to see what kind of value they are even trying to bring. One of the biggest projects I ever worked on, we came in at the tail end of McKinsey consultation to do implementation on their strategy. We just redid their whole strategy and reset the execution process they had set even though our remit was just implementation. They had written down all this smart sounding stuff, but it was unworkable and really not fit to purpose.

And on the biggest existential question on the viability of their entire venture, I think they completely whiffed. Likely just told them what they wanted to hear so the project would move forward. Last I read, it has been an absolutely enormous write down for a company previously known for being invincible.
HN samples the C (and Rust) communities, but I don't think we should take HN's opinions as representative of either.
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I feel like Google used to be really big on the "release early, release often" mantra. At some point they turned more into Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. You can look in the windows and see them doing cool shit, but it never seems to make it to the general public.

Of course, most egregiously, they invented transformers like 6 years ago, and they've had LaMDA for over a year, and only let people see small glimpses of it. Also, Waymo has been around for almost 15 years, and seems to have some really neat tech, but people can't actually use it. Calico has apparently made some massive breakthroughs with ISRIB treatments, and bought up all the patents so they have exclusive access to it, but seem to be keeping everything to themselves.

I feel like Google Code could have easily dominated over GitHub, but then they just let Microsoft have it.

Google does so much cool stuff, and I'm grateful for the services that they offer, many of which I pay for. It just sucks that they've gotten so stingy lately about what they release. I hope that changes soon.
One thing a lot of people misremembers is just how long it took. Microsoft Word was launched only couple of years after WordPerfect, in the early 80s. It didn't dominate word processing until the middle of the 90s.

It took more than a decade. They basically built out the features and waited until their competitors made some strategic mistake, of which they made several in that decade.

It was pretty much the same with Netscape and MSIE. That monopoly misuse probably helped, but Netscape also seemed bent on killing itself. Despite the mismanagement, it still took almost five years.

Perl was more popular than Python for more than a decade. Having much of the early web developed on it didn't help in the long run. First mover advantage might be a thing, but it never wins in the long run. And in the long run, ten years is nothing.
Yes, exactly. Not a reduced set of instructions, but a set of reduced instructions.
Google maps on my Pixel 6.

It appears to be multithreaded or multi process, and parts of it freeze or crash without indication.

It has a very sensitive user interface where magic, unmarked pixel "taps" or touches cause it to quit or do something unexpected.

In combination with Pixel phones... inconsistent... Bluetooth hookup it can either not give you verbal info, or suddenly decide to give you verbal info over your car's speakers.

Maps could be beloved, instead, I hate it. I'm about to drop android and get an iphone over this.
Yeah, I used to do that.

Then I realized that it is always a conspiracy theory until it is too late.

If you are potentially impacted, you have to do your own homework, and learn from your mistakes.
Wouldn't doubt it. Far less to crash into when flying a plane. No worries about pedestrians, cyclists. Usually have good visibility, nobody speeding around a corner leaving you no time to react.
This key!

The wealth of formal verification tools in the safety critical c and c++ world is very high. Those tools, not the compilers are what get validated during tool qualification. Ultimately it is about the formal verification, static analysis and dynamic analysis tools, as well as, traceable code execution, robustness tests etc.

A formally verified rust compiler could really be a game changer, but until then, the tools do exist to write safe c and c++, but they are expensive and adherence is low outside of the places they must be used
It’s a thought exercise brought into the real world. Useful to have journalists try these things out and let us know how plausible various strategies are.

“Don’t go” is a valid one but thought-terminating.
Do metros in the US even use the same gauge as trains? Here in Europe they're almost always smaller gauge so sharing isn't an option.

The exception here in Barcelona is Line 1 which is a wider gauge than all the other lines, for historical reasons though it doesn't share any tracks (but lays right beside the train ones at some stations)
> Apple and specifically Jony Ive started the development of a handheld computer in the early 90s. Apple was definitely not a second comer to that market.

That's an odd way to define "not a second comer". The Apple Newton was a PDA, but it wasn't the first to hit the market.

Sure, it was in development before that, but that's true of every device that was released in that generation. And besides, "first mover advantage" doesn't refer to the first to begin research on a product; it refers to the first to release a product into the market.
How bloated software can become is limited by available hardware resources. 20-30 years ago typical RAM size / CPU core count where much smaller than nowadays. If you run desktop software written 20 years ago on modern hardware it would work much faster than modern desktop software with comparable functions (not always, but quite often). But I'd agree that there was plenty bloated software which run slow on hardware most people afforded at that time. May be this happens because software is typically developed on top of the line hardware but users on average spend less on hardware then developers.
They already don't waste time with them, why do they have any need to do further?
The problem is an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I have friends in this industry so I have more context than most.

Railroads were a sleepy corner of the world for a long time, until business types realized that trucking had peaked out from a capacity perspective. These companies are all chasing higher return on assets at all costs.

Motor carriers are much better regulated than rails because the railroads are all consolidated and they can hook themselves to politically powerful industries like coal and oil.

As the parent stated, roads are regulated more effectively and strictly. If you are a CDL driver with a carrier with lots of violations, you can lose your license for a minor brake violation or even a torn seat. That creates a market dynamic where drivers refuse to drive for shitty carriers.
> Android Pay -> Google Wallet -> Google Pay -> Google Pay and Wallet

These all sound like the same thing. If they are different, then I guess it would be confusing.
It's more like: to implement add you need a ripple carry adder. You can't evaluate bit 6 until you've evaluated bits 1-5. So there's a nested dependence that makes the circuit deep. String cap, on the other hand, can be implemented in parallel by looking at pairs of characters independently. So that makes it into a parallel band of small circuits, which we can evaluate in different CPU cores. Also I think the capitalization operation also affects fewer bits of a char (it's just toggling one bit in each char, IIRC).
1B meetings and counting: Otter takes on enterprise meeting automation
You're not wrong, but the scope isn't limited to traditional news. The power of mass media (including social media) plus the ratings/profit-motive led us to expect entertainment at all times, and it's been a long time coming. Back in the '60s JFK's FCC Chairman gave his "vast wasteland" speech, which still rings true:

> When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers — nothing is better.

> But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

> You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons. And endlessly, commercials — many screaming, cajoling, and offending. And most of all, boredom. True, you’ll see a few things you will enjoy. But they will be very, very few. And if you think I exaggerate, I only ask you to try it.

An article I enjoyed about this topic can be found here (non-paywalled):
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2F...
is there anywhere we can see whats being proposed there? I couldn't find anything, but I also may not know exactly where to look
It makes a big difference when you share a code sample, whether in a blog or on an issue, to have a single block of text to copy/paste including dependency declarations.

It also lowers the barrier for experimentation. I have a directory with probably 40+ cargo-script's for one-off reproduction cases of bugs and it is much easier to work with than juggling multiple files and the overhead associated with it.
There's been a lot of work on reliability of complex systems and how they operate. What has been found is that it is almost always necessary to have failure (degraded operation) modes that prevent system failure, and the more complex and more hazardous failure is the more modes develop.

In these systems it is found that they are almost always operating (or transitioning between) failure modes. Often multiple operational failure modes are simultaneous. It becomes very important to test the system in each of it's failure modes and their combinations to maintain high up time.

https://how.complexsystems.fail/ is an example, but there are many.

Human work, development, and maintenance is itself a system that interacts with these critical systems. Frankly, failure to fail causes failure (thus chaos monkey). The mythical man month is almost a sub category of these failures as are HR hiring processes and other BS. Being too successful and not having competition (or similarly sclerotic competition) can be as much of a hazard as "move fast, break things".