skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found that there are a few delaying tactics and strategies that help by simply postponing writing code.

Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development (TDD/BDD) are probably the most widely used, and a relatively easy sell to other members of your team, but when your brain is really boiling over it may not be enough to keep you from writing tests that are too specific to the implementation you have in mind.

If that's the case, it can help to take a further step back and start by writing DocTests where the motivating narrative is interleaved with a basic exercise of the code as it is intended to be used (additional unit and integration tests are later added to cover corner cases that aren't part of the main narrative). This can productively be pushed further into an actual Documentation Driven Development process, especially if the code in question is intended to be used by external technical stakeholders.

Literate Programming (where a narrative and implementation are intertwined, rather than a narrative and tests) can also resemble this sort of process, but support in toolchains is uncommon.
In a few years Chrome will be dominant and Google will be tempted to rest on its laurels, remove resources and let it stall. It wouldn’t surprise me if the only free reasonable alternative has another comeback in the cards. If it still exists by then, of course.
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Is that likely to interfere with the forgetting of dreams? I can't imagine how cluttered my mind would be if that bizarre stuff didn't blissfully fade within a few minutes of waking up.
I know that; I assumed from context ("Musl, glib") that the GP has probably just dropped the "c" by accident, since musl is a libc implementation.
> This is what like half the people in first world countries do all day.

Not by choice. That is an artifice of our institutions.

> Any claims to this end are both/either A) purely speculative and B) ontologically nonsensical. It's also not really relevant.

It's speculative, and it's nonsense, and it's not relevant. This claim itself is ontologically nonsensical.
> The author goes on to say they found this pattern lurking in various projects on github.

I'd call it an anti-pattern. If you spawn a process/thread, and never wait/join it, it means you don't actually care what it does, if it crashes, etc. I don't see a problem with Python's behavior here.
Agreed, I’m really surprised at all the comments defending this behavior. I suspect there is a non-obvious reason why it’s this way, but “you should’ve read the docs” and “but why wouldn’t you hold your own strong reference” are weird takes IMHO.
It's perfectly clear it was a correct legal decision. The farmer was deliberately and intentionally trying to evade the patent, as we've explained multiple times in these comments.

Perhaps you could explain why the decision was incorrect? Or why justice demanded differently?
It's not an interesting problem, we in the US already have a legal definition of similarity for the purpose of copywright law, I assume other countries do as well.
They share the same root, and have simply been adapted to allow for more effective exploitation in specific events or regions.

Difficult merchant guilds want a special god of their own? Invent the concept of saints and name a celebrated dead guild member the saint of commerce and prosperity.

Backwards locals won't stop celebrating their fake goddess Ēostre? Create fake story about "Easter" to push instead.
Honestly, I think that Slate article is just pure lazy snark, zero analysis.

Literally just points out things like object-verb inversion and large words and pretends they are intrinsically bad.

Look, if you don't like it, that's fine, but you're going to have to do a lot more work than "Ha! That word isn't in common use!" to convince me that it's bad.
Customer A wants feature X now. Customer B wants feature Y now. X and Y are conflicting with each other.

You can either spend 4x the amount of time to make them compatible (and still follow TDB) OR spend x time and just deliver to each customer the respective feature only (and no longer follow TBD)
> … but never any data to substantiate the claim

There is!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06627

From the paper:

> Based on this evidence, we argue that (1) contemporary LLMs should be taken seriously as models of formal linguistic skills; (2) models that master real-life language use would need to incorporate or develop not only a core language module, but also multiple non-language-specific cognitive capacities required for modeling thought.
So you would think and the prospect doesn't necessarily look that rosy when you do.
> French workers actually on average these days put in a longer week (37 hours) than Germans (35 hours), and are nearly as productive per hour worked.

At least a reasonable sentence, which describes well the reality of work in France.

I guess the problem is actually that France is still a feudal society with many social classes. And soon it will erupt like a volcano in fury.

What I mean is that in every French micro-society such as office work there are people who have the right diploma and who strongly despise those who have a slightly different diploma. For example there are four types of high school teachers, (professeurs certifiés, professeurs agrégés, professeurs contractuels, promotion interne) but you find the same phenomenon more or less everywhere. Contempt is everywhere "il y a les sangs bleu et les autres" Or as said a previous President "les sans dents".

In many companies your salary depends on the school you attended and this criteria will not change all along your life, whatever your achievements.

If you do not speak with the right accent and mannerism you will never be promoted. But everybody in the management will deny it exists.

etc. etc. etc.
I don't think any individual is "legit" in the sense that something inherent in the human made it so they are destined to succeed regardless of how shitty their life was. My parents came from poverty, and are the only economically successful members of their entire extended family. But each of them told me significant adult figures in their lives that enabled their schooling-- doing chores for them so they had time to study, or shelling out a bit extra to buy them supplies.

I don't know of any heroic human that independently accomplishes without any assistance whatsoever. I do know of many accomplished humans that had small but important influences that enabled them, and I think that has taught me as an adult that I need to ensure kindness and generosity towards humans around me.
It draws attention to a problem that a lot of people have created for themselves by not reading the documentation (or not recalling it if they read it). I guess the author could have just linked the documentation but then they couldn't have added the additional context of the github search demonstrating how common it is.
> That's useless for comparisons though. Musk lost billions of dollars when Tesla's share price dropped, we should all pitch in and help him out, because we didn't lose billions of dollars and are therefore much better off, right?

This makes no sense.

> I don't believe that was the intended message of the comment I replied to, but even if it was because strange ideas: China easily tops the US, and so does Russia.

As for Russia, just in terms of military (if that’s what you are referring to): One illegal invasion right now. An incursion into Georgia. The wars in Chechnya. America on the other hand has Iraq and Afghanistan as the most recent wars, and in general it seems that it is easier to count the number of years that the US has not been at war than to count the years where they have. So I think the world’s largest military which is also used in an offensive capacity wins here.

As for China I will probably have to concede the win in case you are referring to the Uyghurs, because the number of Uyghurs in concentration camps worse than Auschwitz must surely number in the hundreds of millions now, if the rhetoric of the anti-China crowd is any indication.
At least Nadella is an engineer. I'd wager he has a better sense of this than ex-management-consultant Sundar Pichai.
It was a wildly popular view here on Hacker New at the height of covid hysteria that even those with natural immunity should still be forced to get whatever injections the governments deemed necessary because "it makes the paperwork easier to track if everyone is required and there is ZERO RISK! ABSOLUTELY ZERO RISK!!!!"

There are still a few holdouts here on naturally acquired immunity being inferior to being given the injections but most of them hinge on a theoretical fraction of a percentage increase in potential protection from having both or upset at the prospect that someone might lie about having had covid previously and use it as an excuse to not get injected. Mostly those who rushed headfirst into mindless authoritarianism are trying to pretend they never participated in the hysteria.
Hedge funds with a college attached aren’t beholden to federal dollars.

Edit: I stand corrected, and I rescind my assertion.

https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/7/Oversight_IvyLeagueI...
> This makes them a drain on taxpayers despite being able to support themselves if they were allowed

I hear this from people who seem to be promoting using the system as a back-door way into a permanent work visa. I'd rather avoid perverse incentives and just support people.

> I think it stays the way it is because of "taking the jobs" of natives

This sounds like something a privileged knowledge worker can sneer at the low-brows for. I think it's as valid a consideration as any other import/tariff type issue and should be examined honestly. Again though, we can avoid the issue by simply paying to help refugees and that's probably the kindest.

If we allow them to work then we're essentially requiring them to work and if they just escaped with their lives they probably have other priorities for a while. The economic benefit for us from more workers is minimal enough that we can forego it to make a better and less exploitative system.

> allows politicians to demonize them as a drain on the public purse

I think there are enough obviously false claims that people are upset about that they're not worried about the costs of the honest claimants.
I think this highlights a big limitation of LLMs. It doesn't "understand" the text. It's just piecing words together based on the probability. In this case, the key word was "its", which it ignored - but makes a huge difference to the meaning of the sentence.
Oh ok sorry. I didn't notice that part, apologies. In that case indeed I'm not sure if ATC would even be involved. Or pilots, for that matter.
Don't you need the defects to have semi conductors? I seen some really cool experiments with superconductors and every computer works better cold. Isn't that why Google's quantum computer is supercooled?
I would agree with this. Follow the language’s official formatter, don’t customize it, run official linters if they exist. Otherwise it’s endless bikeshed.
SingSong: Generating Musical Accompaniments from Singing
I’ve seen lots of cases where this isn’t true. People are promoted to management because of their hard work and continue to work absurd hours.

Some of them really do love work and are workaholics… more commonly they’ll always find a reason why they’re “needed”, because there will always be so much more to do. It’s often tough to tell the difference.

However, I rarely see cases where less workload is a motivation for hiring. Often times it’s practically impossible for it to be… and hiring is really the only way they can get work added.
My approach is to use OS-specific C libraries like Apple’s CoreFoundation wherever possible. CFString is greatly superior to bad old C strings.

If you need cross-platform, depending on your application it may be reasonable to create wrappers for your string usage with platform-specific implementations that use the best option available on each OS and fall back to POSIX.
I expected them to invent a new language just for themselves, or at least some new English words.
Not really considering Britain and its allies declared war on Germany. You can argue they did it for the greater good but it's not like your example.
And this will be very very good popcorn-munching drama.

I mean, I do think that students getting in because daddy gives a couple million isn't the end of the world.

The college I went to 20 years ago went away from need-blind admissions, which basically meant if you can pay you get some preference. Now THAT was bad, because it affected the general student population. If instead you have a reserved number of "bribe" students and that means pure-merit admissions can be done with the rest of the students, well, ok.

I love how admissions of athletes to play sports gets a total pass. Probably because it putatively is a good means for minorities to get into schools, even if they are separated off into purely sports training tracks and joke academics.

The real issue is the MBAs running the colleges as a profit industry. Except there's no profits, so they pay... themselves.
It's a reasonable hypothesis. Being good at calculating 'What would happen next if {x}' is a decent working definition of baseline intelligence, and the capabilities of language allow for much longer chains of thought than what is possible from a purely reactive approach.

Entering the realm of Just My Opinion, I wouldn't be surprised at all if internal theory of mind is simply an emergent property of increasing next-token prediction capability. At a certain point, you hit a phase change, where intelligence loops back on itself to include its own operation as part of its predictions, and there you go- (some form) of self-awareness.
I have been the person who made the final decision about default browsers for a company several times. You'd better believe after you killed xul I never chose firefox again.
I think America is keeping up just fine… but skipping to the end, America can handle the declining labor force (and other issues) with immigration. American life is built like an ponzi scheme, where the next generation pays for the prior, and that’s when the next big immigrant wave will arrive. America has been pretty successful with immigration in the past, and it’s still a pretty high quality of life compared to many countries, so people would still move here.

Many other countries often cited as having a good quality of life aren’t exactly welcoming outsiders, and despite what Americans think about america’s racism or views of immigrants, many other nations are worse.

America made the mistake of not doubling H1b quotas and simplifying the process to citizenship. I know so many immigrants who are smart and successful that plan to return home. That’s a big mistake to not entice them to stay, both because America needs the tax base and because they make America better.
A cursory search of WW2 airplanes, I am finding plenty of bombers that could operate at 500+mph (probably not when fully laden, but still). Targeting anything when going at that speed by little more than eye is still hugely impressive.
Graeber’s last book, The Dawn of Everything, does a great job of dispelling a lot of these “brutal and short” notions as mostly ideological myths.
Makes sense. And I hasten to add I did not intend my question to shoot down the idea. There could indeed be a trend, but I would want more than a few headlines to establish that.
Another example is the Amtrak Acela. The coaches were built 4" too wide, and as a result the expensive "tilt" feature could not be used along a major section of the route.
Don't think I haven't considered them. :) We jokingly say that we'll get a 'hearse' the next time.

Turning circle and length is why I decide against them.

"Hearse": https://carsales.pxcrush.net/carsales//cars/dealer/7vqz79av2...
Here’s a publicly available overview of the temperance movement and just how insane it was: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK216414/
I would much rather read a transcript than watch a video. It's much quicker and many times more silent
Genuinely horrific.
I have learned to not worry about coding style anymore, not because I don’t care, but because too many people care about that. Having worked with one of the largest monorepo, I’m happy enough to align with others with a standard coding style that is supported by a formatter and just let the formatter do its job. Humans are amazing when it comes to learning new patterns, and coding style is one that can be easily adapted to.
There are a lot of (ok, several :) very good reasons to use setjump/longjump in commercial applications and when you need it, you NEED it.
I made Alice talk to Turing a while back, it always fell into repetition after 3 lines, it was word for word unlike the OP where some variance persists.
I can explain it. Tylenol has been around since 1955 and is only demonstrably toxic in overdoses. The mrna based vaccines have been only used for the past couple years, hence long term side effects are unknown.

Not everyone who refuses the vaccine takes supplements. Your comparison is like saying "why don't you take this research chemical ('molly'), you smoke cannabis already".
Public health insurance seems to work fine for Iceland—a country of less than 400,000. I suspect dozens of thousands should be plenty given a healthy and diverse economy and plenty of preventative care.
> They argue as early as the Carboniferous era (~350 million years ago) "there has been sufficient fossil carbon to fuel an industrial civilization comparable with our own".
> the largest driver of unfairness in the admissions process is legacy admissions and donation quid pro quo arrangements

From my personal experiences, I suspect the restriction of financial aid based on arbitrary cutoffs affects more people. I know several people who got into ivys, but didn't go because they didn't qualify for financial aid and chose not to take on large amounts of debt, coming from frugal lower/middle class families.
The correlation between code quality and swear words [pdf]
Ask HN: Platforms That Avoid the Enshittening?
What are some good examples of consumer platforms that have avoided the enshittening? Companies w subscription models are pretty good about avoiding this but it seems like being ad supported really corrupts the process.
To me, YouTube is the only one that's really done a good job but I only go there for select videos so I'm not a huge user. Any other ones people can think of?
And any common characteristics between them?
I doubt that it helps their antitrust allegation move forward if they cannot also show that students were denied for needing financial aid, but it might shake some things loose.
They are receiving plenty of dollars from federal taxpayer guaranteed student loans, that they otherwise would not without the government.
your bias is showing here -- guaranteed plenty of elite athletes, intellectual talents, hard workers or charismatic individuals have a whole new life after participating in those places or others.
I think Colin hasn't quite put his finger on what's not compelling about the output. He's interpreting it as a lack of "intuition", and claims that's what separates us from the machine, but that may just be what he was hoping to see in the first place.

Whats missing from its story telling is that it doesn't understand how conflict drives a narrative and what counts as resolving it. Often I find it tries to short circuit the process with "and then the main character learned to be happy with life. The end." No, not the end. In a decent story the characters are a vessel to elaborate on a wider idea. We don't care if it makes them happy or sad. Chat GPT seems excessively averse to any sort of "negativity". It tends to never write tragic endings or disagreeable characters.

It is missing something very concrete, not something nebulous like "intuition".
Cool, Trurl and Klapaucius are having a conversation, just like in the Cyberiad by Lem.
I'm sure it happens, sometimes.

Most of the time, the lawsuits for digging up someone's fiber optic cable or natgas line are so staggering that there are various "free" one-call services that mark buried objects. The public utilities all pool resources to fund it, so it's free in the sense that your utility bills pay for it. I know a guy who had a gig doing that and in addition to locate devices that are kind of like a giant telco wire toner, they do indeed sometimes walk around with a literal metal detector. Doesn't work very well on terracotta sewer pipe but those generally collapse in a couple decades as I've found out the hard way.

Anyway, yeah, a dude with a metal detector walking around with a map of buried pipes in one hand saying "that's odd there's not supposed to be a pipe here"...
If you ask stable diffusion or MidJourney to generate a recent Disney character image, it’s not royalty-free.

For a drum sample, I guess some are so generic and simple that no one can claim ownership. Still, if you manage to reproduce a particular sample, perhaps because of an overfitted model, then you may have some issues. However, the music industry seems to be fine with sampling.
It greatly depends on the railroad. Amtrak car ages average about 30 years. National average for freight is around 20 years. The CTA L is all either built or refurbished in the last 24 years and the bulk of the stock is less than 15 years old. BART, MBTA and NYC Subway are more embarrassing with their 40-50-year-old cars and constant delays to put their complete new orders in service.
I think it depends a lot on what your regular searches are. My recent searches were: a local restaurant, find which streaming provider has a show I heard about and it's ratings, look up website for a business, understand some concept, find a product and compare prices, search flights, search for an airport related service.

Except for one query, I don't think LLM could have helped me with the rest. The rest are monetizable queries, btw.
Boring and useless point.
reminds me of magicleap hype, hope it doesnt end up like them,
ambient computing does sound interesting
> But we don’t have Swedes running our government services, we have Americans. It is what it is.

Gotta love the fatalism that ensures it stays that way. This is really how America lost it's way - acceptance.
They are usually procured in series, but only a few (compared with cars) trains per series are built. For example, there are three configurations for Germanys current top of the line ICE4 high speed train, with 37, 50 and 50 sets built.

Trains seat more people than cars, and they don't spend most of their time sitting idle in parking lots, so you need fewer.
System Shock remake demo fuses modern design to retro FPS/RPG
Even today I was thinking about envy and that I might be envious towards a specific person in my circle.
This person owns and operates a lifestyle business that is currently on auto-pilot and they have a lot of freedom, low stress, a seemingly endless stream of incoming capital and total control of their time.

I don't resent this person of course but in a way I am envious, yes. I know I have it in me to grind into building such a business for myself but the circumstances of my family make it so I'm the sole provider and I have a full-time high stakes job.

Like Charlie Munger said, "What good is envy? It’s the one sin you can’t have any fun at."

but he also said...

"Like Warren, I had a considerable passion to get rich, not because I wanted Ferraris – I wanted the independence. I desperately wanted it."

and so I'm envious. As I'm sure he was once.
With respect, your comment sounds bitterly envious to me.
> YouTube is the only one that's really done a good job

Youtube's only done a good job is you use yt-dlp to download the videos. Watching on youtube the video gets interrupted multiple times for "commerical breaks".
Ah, thanks! That did the trick!
Almost the entire Canadian startup ecosystem is like that (other industries too)