skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is probably how children in the future will study. It's much easier to forget what one reads in books than to forget 1-1 conversations with people. Just add deepfake video/audio and VR/AR as well.
my bad, I didn't read the article, just followed the title
As Jordan Peterson has been championing, equality of outcome is not the same as equality. Better candidates, more qualified students are being passed up because they are male, white, pick your stereotype of privilege here. It’s a serious societal problem leading to anger and extremism.
Why would anyone buy a scooter that they have to pay a subscription to use? Scooters without subscription fees are available for purchase.
The extra physical button on my Samsung S10 is my favorite thing about it. Ordinarily it launches Samsung's voice assistant, which naturally is completely pointless, but you can patch it to do whatever you want. I've set mine to play pause on long press, toggle the flashlight on double press and act as a secondary lock button. I toggle podcast playback without taking my phone out of my pocket dozens of times a day, through the fabric even, which I imagine is difficult with a capacitative button.

I wish every phone had at least four custom physical buttons, two for each side.
> In August 2020, the two of us wrote an article for Technology Review, “GPT-3, Bloviator” where we illustrated GPT-3’s limitations with 6 examples that showed GPT-3 making laughable errors in commonsense reasoning.

GPT by default is a general-purpose model for all kinds of text - it's not a failure that when you set up a humorous story it continues that humorous story (https://i.imgur.com/0PbzIbS.png) rather than only allowing total realism.

This post does show some real failures in ChatGPT (which is set up to aim for thruthful question answering), but mixes those in with examples seemingly using GPT playground without even using the Q&A preset. Compare answers on the Sally's cow example: https://i.imgur.com/0ISivMA.png
We’re all human. People who are in charge today aren’t biologically better/worse people than the people they oppress. Change the social norms and the oppressed group will adapt. Some of the oppressed will seek reconciliation. Others will seek retribution and they might succeed.

To pretend that marginalized groups DON’T work this way is (imo) soft racism/sexism/classism. We’re all the same human species.
The Kinesis Advantage 2 keyboard fixed mine. I also use a Logitech trackball instead of a mouse.
Are you saying you're unable to debug Rust in VSCode, or that it's lackluster to you?
I may be an outlier, but if a random stranger tries to strike up a conversation with me in public I am actually suspicious of their motives.

I don't know whether to attribute that to a defense mechanism that marketing has forced me to construct, or if indeed it is due to 9/10 they are actually trying to sell me something.
I'm sure they'll do it since it saves money.

I had a horrible time teaching my grandparents to use the gesture navigation on their new iPad (they still hate it, they still get regularly anxious because they can't reliably make the "home" gesture instead of clear feedback of a hardware button and there's many gestures they accidentally trigger which cannot be disabled in A11y or MDM settings) - but they saved money and made it cool.

It'll be the same with phones as it is with cars - it's cheaper to provide shitty experience. And it's not like you can go anywhere, Apple owns your data and ecosystem now. So we'll just make do with crappier things to allow the manufacturer to extract more money, like we have to make do with crappier products on other markets.
Noted. I’d like to add some functionality through right click for removing or altering when ai gets things wrong. And drag and drop sorting of blocks.
What does Amazon have to do with BIOS firmware!?
I don’t know what projects you are doing where rust vs python are the options.
Google's stance on machine translated pages has been that they're spam unless a human is in the loop and has curated/reviewed the translation.

Google Cloud's translation API also has a TOS that requires you to tag the output as machine translated if you're publishing it unedited on the web.
I love these class of games, especially the MUSHes. It's weird how there's not really an equivalent to 'shared world that's user-scriptable by its players' in the modern gaming ecosystem. Closest would probably be something like Roblox but even that's really just a pale echo of what a lot of these text games would let you do as a player-creator.
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/sound-silent-attorneys-...
Someone really well versed will have an understanding of how old English sounds for layperson. Also, we are discussing a situation when everyone is more or less fluent in a given [programming] language, and the probable culprit is just flexing their recently gained obscure expressions or constructing overcomplex one-liners.
Using the Raspberry Pi PiKVM with Multiple Machines and only 1 PiKVM
I’ve seen hours replaced by second in terms of communication speed ups by chatgpt. I’m sure that won’t show up on anyone’s productivity metric.

Why? Because the calculation is biased by how atoms move, not information.
S-Q-L, except for products that are pronounced with Sequel (Microsoft SQL server, MySQL, SQlAlchemy, etc.)
It absolutely could. This is just the "slippery slope fallacy fallacy": assuming that all slippery slope arguments are fallacious.

Complete nonsense. Reasonable precautions aren't a slippery slope. They never have been and they never will be, yet every time one comes up we get people screaming about it.

Another mistake you make is assuming that everybody you talk to on this site lives in the US. I can assure you that not only I was "forced" to wear a mask, in many parts of the world people lost their jobs for refusing to do so.

The vast majority do live in the US. If you choose to refuse requirements of your job, that's on you.

I am not inclined to adopt a technique of uncertain effectiveness and potential unknown consequences

You're literally afraid of change. You see something that requires adaptation and you recoil in horror, and make up a bunch of nonsense to rationalize your fearful reaction. Grow up.
Google’s Wire: Automated Dependency Injection in Go
Hasn’t Lisp been the language of choice for CS 101 for several decade at MIT and other universities?
Note that (CPP reference will also tell you) this only applies to the built-in operator.

If the operator has been overloaded which is easy to write in C++, then too bad - the overload doesn't short circuit.

I think if you can't figure out a way to preserve the short-circuit feature then having a way to overload this operator in your language is stupid. It is, I would say, unsurprising to me that C++ did it anyway.

EtA:: It feels like in say Rust you could pull this off as a trait LogicalAnd implemented on a type Foo, with a method that takes two parameters of type FnOnce() -> Foo , and then the compiler turns (some_complicated_thing && different_expression) where both of the sub-expressions are of type Foo into something like:

{
let a = (|| some_complicated_thing);
let b = (|| different_expression);
LogicalAnd::logical_and(a, b)
}

To deliver the expected short-circuiting behaviour in your implementation of the logical_and method, you just don't execute b unless you're going to care about the result.
... yes?

Are the documents made by a word processor really mine when the word processor collects my input and saves it to disk?
> You can use it in the dark.

You can use Face ID in the dark.
Luckily everyone around me says E-T-C, none of those "etcetera" weirdos.. :-)
Agreed. Just say no to Amazon.
I never had a soap box, but if I did you'd notice I have been screaming that the revolution that comes from human like AI is not that we have magical computers, it's that we realize we have no magic in our minds. We are nothing more than stories we repeat and build on. And with text, you can do that easily.

> Seeing and being seen is apparently just neurotic streams of interleaved text flowing across a screen.

Or, our mind.
What Chomsky and others never achieved was comprehensive semantics (useful mappings of the instantiations of grammatical language to the real world and to reasoning), because semantics is AI-hard. LLMs are picking up the semantics from the mix of grammar and semantics they train on. They literally minimize the error of producing semantic grammatic sentences, which is the key thing no one in the old days had the computing power to do beyond toy environments. The domain of discourse is the entire world now instead of colored shapes in an empty room, and so semantics about reasoning itself have been trained which yields rudimentary intelligence.
Have you tried Crossover? It's a fork Wine with good support for lots of windows games. Very good performance on M1 for lots of games, even in benchmarks the m1 performs is comparable to the highest end windows machines.
hmm i mean all the stuff like numpy and a bunch of other python libs that all the deep fake audio processing stuff uses. https://pypi.org/project/tacotron/
This issue is more deep and important than most would think.
100% this.

I still have last iPhone SE and I love the home button. (it's not my daily driver).

I also had oneplus 3 with very similar home button and genius fingerprint reader. I was able to unlock my phone with index finger without having to lift it up in any way from eh desk and quickly glimpse on the content.

no i switched to new Samsung with has optic under display one and its just an utter failure. very often it can't read the fingerprint and... its location is not tahr obvious before slightly lighting the screen.

with OP3 Or iPhone SE i can find that button without hassle even in the dark.
I am trying and failing to find the entry in the jargon file that says something along the lines of "if you come across a person who pronounces 'SQL' as 'squirrel', you have found a true hacker indeed". Maybe it was not the jargon file. It's been many years.

Along those same lines, I also like to pronounce "varchar" in a way[1] that is guaranteed to put a look of disgust on the face of almost everyone in the room; this is how I find my karass.

[1] if anyone replies asking for specifics because they are "genuinely curious" I will slap them. Use your imagination.
I wrote a (len(foo == 0)) instead of (len(foo) == 0) in Python yesterday. I don't understand why you would say this.
> amassing an army and arresting them all

This is acceptable. Everyone should have an inalienable right to proof of identity and access to an electronic funds account, regardless of their crimes. If the government wants to seize funds, they can go to court and prove the crime.
honestly, the $20/month subscription fee made me raise an eyebrow, especially considering that the likely implementation is "add a prompt that took 5 seconds to write and 20 seconds to tweak to the top of every request".
Show HN: I Made a ChatGPT Clone Using OpenAI GPT-3
Well, if it met the legal definition for recklessness then the leadership would be sued by the shareholders. That isn't this. This is reckless as in not-smart rather than per se. They will have to pay a price so that lawyers for a thousand other companies can walk into the next board meeting to say "See, I told you and I was right about that fingerprint thing last year!" They will be punished, but the courts will not allow this to destroy the company.
My assertion is that the every change we do towards things like that might involve million results and since it's not a simple logical statement it's rather hard to verify/validate the outcome in a short term due to the nature of dynamic/complex systems.
Scala is barely hanging on. They went too far with FP and language research features that it alienated a ton of users.
That doesn't mean there aren't morphological differences between sex. Men in general have bigger muscles and penises, while women have breasts.

There is nothing logical or scientific that precludes differences in intelligence either. Clearly women are significantly smarter then men in practically every area.
Sure but that's not incentives work in businesses.

If I can get a women engineer onto a certain team of extremely high performing all male engineers at my firm, I can get a bonus of 20k easily, and hit a DIE initiative goal which is good for my career.
It's good for my career unless the team stops performing well, but if I've already leveraged it into another position then who cares ?

These are some of dynamics occurring in reality of many fortune 500 companies right now with recruiters, managers, directors, and executives.
It's not at all the same thing but I try to keep up with whatever PortSwigger is writing on their site, and it's usually pretty high-value.
At least if you capture someone you have to feed them. But if you freeze their money? That's hell
Greater intellectual superiority because of the % entering college?
College is a status symbol and women are buying into it more than males. It shows men are more independent thinkers and feel confident they can get along without a degree. It also because entry level jobs in fields women are interested in require college where men have more options in the trades.

As women are dominating college entry over men a college degrees is less a proxy for intelligence and more for a middle class status symbol.

As companies fight over the pools of women grads the smart companies are picking up the males who are being excluded and reaping the rewards
My fucking washing machine can sense how big a load is in it. Surely the plane could measure how fast it is actually accelerating given its thrust and thus derive its actual mass. If it doesn’t match what it’s been told it should alarm.

Also shocking that the system gives an incorrect answer when it is under load. Lack of load testing is a problem, sure, but an architecture that allows the answer to just be wrong is fundamentally flawed.
The funny thing is that it's _not_ more parentheses, roughly, than one would expect to find in any Algol/C-inspired language, like C# or JavaScript.

This tired trope needs to die. Yes, there are more parentheses, because lisp also uses parentheses where other languages use [] or {} or ;.

The real thing is that people from C-like languages are used to seeing different block markers for different constructs. It takes effort to read Lisp coming from other languages, because those other languages have a richer symbol vocabulary. Learning to read code without those symbols is like reading English where all punctuation has been replaced with a single space. Sure you ll get there eventually but it s a very cheap straw man argument to pretend that the only complaint people have about Lisps is the positioning of the parentheses.
Unless the majority of academy is female, I would guess that you probably have a lower number of women running and a lot of pressure to get more women into these positions. This is what happens when you favor equality of outcome vs equality of opportunity.
Which is not relevant to the question of where it started?
That’s not what’s happening though. It’s a highly imbalanced class, just “the right way”.

You’re also quite incorrect about when DEI programs started, they’re just actually called that now. Women have outnumbered men in universities since around 1980 because of attempts to get more women into college.

Edit: hard to keep up with the ninja edits, the point in the last paragraph is significantly changed.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ch17-00-oop.html
In certain cases Cash takes on almost a freedom of speech importance. Government can just switch off the digital finances of any movement they don't like. Cash makes that harder.
This article is way out of date and wrong, although published recently (at least according to the timestamp).

Google's official position was published on 8 February here:

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/02/google-sea...

It's a much more nuanced position that can be summarized as "make sure you create good content, however you create it". A focus on quality, not process, is reasonable.

Disclosure: ex-Googler in search.
This. If you’re concerned about text based persons, you’ve already lost touch with reality and too embedded in the web.

The article confuses personality (that which is experienced by others) with personhood (that which is) and falls apart from there.
Notice how your comment os not a reason to get these people help and mine is. Unless you think the US government will deliberately punish White people by not helping them if they call foul, which would only prove my point further.
Like when Captain Janeway went to the holodeck to have a chat with the holographic synthetic Leonardo Da Vinci.
The changes from the lawsuit, AFAIK (and the article seems to agree) were removing "view image" and "search by image" from results. Google still had decent reverse image search back then, but now it might as well just throw your input image into Stable Diffusion.
I think a lot of people would like to use rust for web dev, but IMO it’s not quite there for ORM-backed apps.

(Diesel is nowhere near the ergonomicity of Django for example.)
Ask HN: Is clickwrap really the best way for users to accept a service contract?
We offer hardware as a service. We ship them hardware and they pay us monthly.

Right now we send new customers a DocuSign agreement before accepting payment. While this feels legally strong since they have to actually sign the agreement, it creates significant friction in the sales process. It's surprising how many customers say they did not receive the contract.

We could put a clickwrap checkbox in our order form, but that feels legally weak and I know that means most customers won't read the contract.

What does HN think?
Schmorgleville is such a Rick & Morty-style neologism. Neat.
> whose job was it to continuously monitor all the state/local laws and ensure compliance

For a company over 100 years old with 10,000 employees? I suspect the answer is their compliance department.
I think they meant “hundreds more [comma] larger [than average] sites”

Rather than “hundreds more larger [than YouTube] sites”
I don’t care, that’s not the point. The point is Bird retained ownership of all its scooters, and so it retained liability for its scooters, which is why it’s having to pay fines. If they’d managed a business model that doesn’t maintain a giant scooter fleet and all the liability on their books, this’d be a different story.
This type of judgment call by a single person has also helped avoid nuclear war on at least two documented occasions. [0,1] Again, food for thought.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83
If weight calculation is so crucial for take off, it seems like redundancy of the weight calculation is needed - a different weight calculation from a different company using a different method to verify against the main one.
> I also kinda want to be able to not subside other's use of it. So a fee for using cash or something perhaps.

This sounds like... a poor choice of a hill to die on? The people who need cash the most tend to be poorer; asking them to pay more would be just cruel to many of them. There are lots of things (like taxes in general....) where some people benefit more than others from them, but we ignore that and just distribute the burden equally as a matter of principle instead of asking everyone to pay proportionally to what they use.
Concurrency is one source, yes, but integration is another possible source. If the vendor software interfaced with Alaska's software then the interfacing layer could imperfectly handle pagination, assume ordering where there is none, and other such data source problems.

A trivial error could be "list all active planes", "list current luggage weight for all these plane IDs", and have the latter give responses in a different order than the input list. Or perhaps "fuel load" returns in a different order. Or something.

Concurrency seems like the obvious one, but it's not the only source I can imagine here. And ultimately, the max is under 300 planes. You can do that serially unless the integration layer is slow.
Rust has C libraries which interface easily...
Anecdotally, some people really loved them as a source of raw materials
I’m not sure why you are getting downvoted. I think that you are highlighting the connection between language and intelligence, and in a human-computer interaction that is still a relevant thing to consider—if not for the computer, then for the human.

We are forever now joined with computers. We must consider the whole system and its interfaces.
> First there was the fire, the smoke billowing infernally into the Appalachian night. It just kept burning. Days of insatiable flame. A black pillar of fumes took up residence above the town like an inert tornado. At its heart, we learned, was the corpse of a train, fifty cars off the rails

To me, even Shakespeare’s Richard III didn’t begin with this level of overly flowery poetic structure.
I think what the author is pointing at (with the wrong end of the stick, admittedly) is that there is nothing magical about human personhood.

It's not that these are magical machines, and TFA shouldn't have gone that direction, it's that "what if we are also just a repeated, recursive, story that endlessly drolls in our own minds"

> Seeing and being seen is apparently just neurotic streams of interleaved text flowing across a screen.

... Sounds to me a clunky analogy of how our own minds work.
They don’t. But it’s pretty obvious Google didn’t care until 2 months ago
> If games were so much easier to write that way we would see tons of them, especially among the better games, but we don't.

Functional programming only started going mainstream a few years ago. Give it time, it will make an impact. You can already see the influence of functional reactive programming in UI frameworks like React, where the screen state is a pure function of the program state. That's exactly what games have been doing for years, ie. rendering every from based on program state, only now we have a purely functional model of how this works.

Some of the "purely functional" aspects will be optimized/compiled away at various layers, but the programmer would still be able to work with the high-level model without attending to those details.
I'm surprised there wasn't any human or general guardrail around the calculation that would have flagged such a significant weight difference. No one looked at the passenger count and the weight calculation and thought "whoa, that doesn't look right?"