skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The word "shrill" (unlike "screeching") is absolutely gendered. It's still fine to use it, and I wouldn't have made, well, any of these edits, but there is nothing unhinged about the comment you're replying to. Don't go looking for enemies on HN threads!
Turing test certainly tests for all of the above. How would you expect an AI to pass for a human if it’s not aware of its own existence?
Because it's reflecting us. When a human asks it a question, the response is a statistical summary of what other humans have written.
Ugh.

If it turns out these beloved stories become out of fashion because of stuff like this, so be it.

Twisting it into something it isn't, to fit current tastes doesn't seem right.
Essentially every tech firm is run by a man, yet, they were not awarded those jobs because they are men. They tended to get them by founding those companies successfully, or being very early employees who did major successful initiatives. The US President has always been a man, but that's because the men always win the votes, not because the competition is tipped in their favor.

On the other hand, in some countries there are now laws forcing women into corporate boards. You have to have women there even if they did nothing to deserve it.

> It’s institutional misogyny, it’s morally bankrupt, and it needs to change

This is so far from reality you need to do some grounding exercises. Institutional misogyny would look like written down, formal and openly acknowledged mechanisms that systematically block women from certain opportunities. Can you write down a list of such things? Probably not because in the west, no such mechanisms exist. The same is not true in reverse, where there are actually many such mechanisms that specifically grant women those opportunities by banning men from competing. Board seats, all-women selection lists in politics, recruiters told to only search for women, jobs that are earmarked only for women, laws that grant women child custody by default, the US VP being selected because it had to be a black woman and so on.

People like Andrew Tate get audiences because it's completely accurate to say our society is institutionally misandrist. To claim the opposite is to simply replace reality with ideology, which is always dangerous.
Turns out a person being something you dislike has no direct bearing on the quality of their writing and storytelling. If you can’t appreciate the latter on account of the former, that’s your problem.
Async Void – How to Tame the Asynchronous Nightmare
I wanted to share this article I put together that uses an approach to allow exceptions to be caught over the boundary of "async void" that we are told to avoid as C# programmers. I did not come up with the original solution being proposed, but I have extended it with my own adjustments (this is also mentioned in the article). I'd also like to note that I am not encouraging people to use async void, but I found this to be a creative solution when dealing with EventHandlers in C# which are by default marked with a void signature. While this article is centered around events and event handlers as the primary examples, the purpose was to share that with some creativity you can actually improve some of these situations. I hope it sparks some curiosity, and again, the intention is not to suggest that this is some cure for using async void and now you should go do it :)
I don’t know why this is down voted. HVAC companies would actually LOVE to sell you heat pumps. But they don’t want callbacks and they don’t want word getting around they sell more expensive to install and run systems.

But in Texas, a heat pump wound probably be great. But yeah, natural gas is cheap.
If only he was less vague but good luck to him and I do like pydantic and really looking forward to the rust version.
FYI - if you make another iteration (or build it into your keyboard), strongly recommend moving the sensor away from directly below the ball. For reasonable ergonomics - you want the top of the ball as close to the desk surface as possible. The 5 ~ 10 mm you need to fit the sensor package makes a big difference. When prototyping the Expert Mouse, we found that offset angles as high as 20 degrees weren't really noticeable, and that allowed the ball to sit just barely clearing the bottom plastic case. (That and use the smaller 51 mm billiard ball instead of the American 2.25" ball)
If your server supports it, a fast and easy way to password protect a page is to put it in a folder and password protect that folder with htaccess:

https://ithemes.com/blog/what-is-the-htaccess-file/#password...
Perfect! I have relatively slow internet and multiple PCs that I install games too. Way easier than making backup files and copying to USB.
$9.99 a month apparently for hosting with rss and a branded url? Without a much more expensive email component, I don't see the value
Does it still have Roald Dahl's name on it?
Yes, but you cannot trust anyone, sometimes not even your own family. You become increasingly paranoid that you will be stabbed or poisoned or taken hostage or something. You, or your family.

So you isolate yourself, and all the shit you mentioned is really the cost of your freedom. I don't give a fuck about being in a mansion, superyacht, private island or plane if the cost of that is my freedom and the ability to socialize with other humans.

My conscience has a price too. If the price of my fortune was having a large amount of people making minimum wage, using medicare/medicaid and wearing diapers to avoid productivity penalties for taking a restroom break, I would not fucking do it.
"I'm not your tool. I'm a person."
Those of us who grew up near various religious communities in the second half of the twentieth century are familiar with the edited and abridged versions of media made to be more palatable to the morals of whichever community, as well as the scandals over media which were an affront to them for whatever reason.

Obviously, a publisher committed to those communities and who can get the rights to do so will make a “clean” versions for them. For better or worse, it happens all the time.

The only news here is in whose morals are behind expressed in the edits, because we had gotten used to it just being a religion thing and forgot that secular morals can run just as puritanical.
I love how that thing sounds
A couple of decades ago, I ran a crawler that would go out and find music I like for me. It used pretty simple heuristics to identify what "I like". It was actually really great, and I found a lot of fantastic music from really obscure musicians that there was zero chance I would have ever stumbled across otherwise.

Then it was improved to make the matching even more accurate, and it was -- but that made it less useful to me. It turned out that the inaccuracy was a feature, not a bug. When the matching got too good, I started getting music that was too much like the stuff I told it I liked, and I stopped finding so much great stuff that would have escaped me before.
Screeching typically concerns loud, high-pitched, emotional screaming (my connotation, backed up by a quick google).

I am under the impression that, on average, men's voices are lower than women's voices. Hence some connotation.

Doesn't mean men cannot screech, though. Just that there is some reason for making that connection, so at least some folks will make that connection.
Based on what we're seeing in footage and interviews from Ukraine it absolutely matters. Hearing a drone is often the warning that you're about to get shelled.

People really fixate on this swarming concept like that murderbots video and breeze right past the more high impact basics.
I don’t doubt Carter’s bona fides as a human being! The question is why Carter’s reputation as a president has steadily improved.
I can think of nothing worse to authors than having their work being altered by other people according to their agendas.
I think all that political stuff is over blown and her opinions are way more nuanced. Personally, I just don't like her writing. The stories are probably ok but the writing itself is boring. Plenty of people obviously like it though. However, her audience is for older kids than I'm talking about.
Yeah these have been the hot thing for a minute. Nina Tandons TED talk came out 10 years ago and minus a few more detailed developments, I think it holds up really well as an introduction. The main challenges are related to the fact that cell cultures and tissue cultures are also not easy to standardize (passaging and media variations) and also introducing mechanical stimuli to more accurately model living systems. Serum free media is one area where there's been a bit of development, and recreating function mechanically has been a really interesting field. Dongeun Huh's paper I think he did while a postdoc in Donald Ingbers lab is pretty canonical and still is incredibly impressive but stretching is only part of the deformations these tissues undergo.
The problem is that the definition of the emoji says Pregnant Man Emoji.

So using it for anything other than that defeats accessibility for visually impaired people.

Also, 'we are pregnant' is weird, being pregnant is the act of developing offspring within the body.
lol, one can almost feel how the text is a word soup made up from scifi novels and too long reddit discussions.
Honestly looks amazing but my greatest fear with these sort of tools is that what often happens is the moment you wanna fine tune here or cut an edge there you're completely stuck due to the constraints of the system causing immense overhead to fix some tiny issue but maybe the author can convince me otherwise anyways thanks for listening and good job cheers.
I wonder if it would be economical to make ground-fed heat pump that had piping built in together with house (dig out foundation, put piping for water-to-water heat pump, build house), for the colder places.
This has not been my experience with dependency injection frameworks in C# at all. You know what happens in a large code base when you tell all of the developers to do manual dependency injection? They don’t do it and instantiate their dependencies in the constructor because it’s easier.
I'm still waiting on Apple to bring those iPad fingerprint power buttons into the iPhone. And I'm still hoping someone is ballsy enough to make a keyboard case for the iPhone. Also I'm hoping Blackberry returns but I know that's long off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler
Strange but true: jury stories through the ages [pdf]
Facebook using information that I give them while using Facebook.com, or the App Store using information about what apps I browse on the App Store, is not exactly a shocker, nor something I particularly find concerning. The word "tracking" doesn't even seem to really apply to this case -- the whole reason tracking is bad is that it means "tracking" me across multiple unrelated websites or apps (like, you know, a tracker would follow the trail of a person or a wild animal), allowing companies to correlate what would otherwise be independent, anonymous profiles.

Apple collecting analytics even with the toggle turned off is clearly wrong. But I don't think they're being sneaky about the usage of the word "tracking".

> The machine is working as intended.

It sounds like you're implying the anti-tracking measures had no effect, but Facebook's revenue numbers would disagree.
I had to stop using musicbrainz. Its database has too many errors and is too inconsistent for it to be useful to me.
My company decided to go the worst of all worlds approach: force seniors (full-time) employees into the office on a hybrid schedule while only hiring juniors as fully-remote contractors. It's insane.
Do you have a rigorous definition of intelligence that is actually reductive and doesn't punt the definition to other ill-defined words like "reasoning" or whatever ?

Unless you can give such a definition of intelligence, then you are in no position to assess whether these systems are intelligent (or in what way, to what extent) or not, even to the extent of meeting your own criteria whatever that may be!
I wonder if there is business to be made refitting old AC units to work in reverse. In theory only difference is some piping/valves.
I was assuming parent already had the books, as they mentioned continuing to read them, but of course you only get the changes if you buy new books.
If you know what they're trying to say, there's little point in making a stink about the particular words they've chosen.
Well said. We live in strange times.
You mean something like this? https://www.adafruit.com/product/3786
For mainstream retail in the US, you have Amazon, Walmart, and... who?
It can be more complicated than that (depending on your personal philosophy). Art can be standalone but it can also be tightly interwoven with cultural and political context.

There’s an interesting recent YouTube video from Wisecrack on the topic:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jVts8D1LzF0
I mostly associate screeching with owls and monkeys, neither of which are coded feminine.

To be clear (and conciliatory): I see how you connect the dots here. I just think you have to have your antennae extended extra high to pick this signal up, high enough that you'll need to be careful walking under overpasses and stuff.
One hundred percent agree
Let me provide you with an example of why functionality seems important. Let's say that you perfectly record the neuron activations of a real-life human brain for one second, including all sensory input. Then, you play back those neuron activations in a computer, just by looking up the series of activations from memory, doing no computation. It simply takes in the sensory inputs and provides outputs based on its recording. Is such a program sentient? It produces all the correct outputs for the inputs provided.

If you believe that is sentient, let's take it one step further. What constitutes playback here? The program just copies the data from memory and displays it without modification. If that constitutes playback and therefore sentience, does copying that data from one place to another create sentient life as well? If the data is stored in DRAM, does it get "played back" whenever the DRAM refreshes the electrons in its memory?

There are a lot of various programs that can produce human output without functionality that we would reasonably consider sentient. Perhaps some of these things are sentient, but some of them most likely shouldn't be considered sentient.
At least for the time being, you still need to tell GPT what you want before it generates something. Noya works at a level of detail that's more suitable for telling GPT what you want than most existing options.
True. Although her audience is a little older than I was thinking. Also I didn't think of her because I don't like her writing, I find it boring. The stories are ok but the way she presents it is dull, to me. Obviously that's a minority opinion given her broad appeal.
It sets the precedent that journalism that takes place at the university should not challenge the entrenched power structure. Which I would assume to be the point.
To clarify: it was the hostages that upset people - not the revolution. The revolution led to the hostages but it wasn't a big news item on its own. Walter Cronkite focused on day four hundred and something of the hostage crisis. The revolution itself did not get nearly as much attention. None of the cold war era revolutions that went for or against American foreign interests were that big of issues in American Electoral politics. Eisenhower lost Cuba, Ford lost Angola, Reagan lost half of Latin America, but the one we remember is is the one with the hostages.
> To me, -v means either "version" or "verbose", and it's a stretch to say either of those words is suitable for this use case.

Well it is, kind of. From bash-builtins(7):

> If either the -V or -v option is supplied, a description of command is printed. The -v option causes a single word indicating the command or filename used to invoke command to be displayed; the -V option produces a more verbose description.
Does anything valuable truly emerge from these culture war articles? All I see is people raging from their favorite soap boxes.
ChatGPT does not know nor comment. It's a text generation program that can generate text based on an input text and a statistical analysis of a huuge amount of example texts. Saying it knows something or can comment on something is like saying Wikipedia knows something or comments on something when you enter text in the search box.
There is a big difference between cheatsheets and an educational course. That isn't at all to say that the course isn't valuable, but if I want to know what the current best practices for hashing a password are (what algorithm with what parameters, etc.) I want a quick reference that is kept up to date.
> including, unfortunately, the removal of the Madame Mim fight that showed up in the Disney movie

Where does this character come from? Searching for Madam Mim or Madame Mim seems to turn up nothing but Disney results. Searching wikipedia for Madam Mim does nothing but redirect to the cast of The Sword in the Stone.

Wickedpedia makes a claim similar to yours:

> Madam Mim appears in the original version of the novel, but not in the revised version featured in The Once and Future King

This appears to say that "the novel" refers to some other novel than The Once and Future King, but of course there is no primary Arthurian source in the form of a novel. I can't really understand it.

It's difficult to extend Wickedpedia the benefit of the doubt, because it goes on to say this:

> Kahl animated her [Madam Mim's] initial interaction with Arthur while Thomas oversaw her famous Wizards' Duel with Merlin. He is a witch Madam Mim who is more which than oversaw. He is also a tiger similar to Shere Khan from The Jungle Book, though he is not in a forest.
Cash. Lots of cash. That lets Google grow in a softening market and compete with Facebook, etc.

It’s cheaper to pay Apple than to keep Android relevant. No different than Microsoft sending a firehos of cash to OpenAI.
Yes, violating the GPL's rules means that you don't have the right to distribute that GPL code. If someone has already been distributing that GPL code against the GPL's rules, then they're committing copyright infringement. Generally speaking, most GPL copyright holders would prefer that infringers bring their distribution in line with the GPL's terms (by releasing the rest of it as GPL) than get monetary damages, but you're probably correct that they wouldn't be obliged to release their other code.

I think when the original person said "they are required to provide the full source code for the versions that included the GPLv3 code," they probably meant that in order to avoid copyright infringement, they must do that. The GPLv3 does give you the opportunity to cure violations of the license which would be done by releasing the other code under the GPLv3 (or compatible license).

Obligatory IANAL and I'm not commenting on voice.ai in particular.
The law shouldn’t be enforced based on one’s financial status.
> Turns out a person being something you dislike has no direct bearing on the quality of their writing and storytelling.

It turns out that this has a direct bearing on my perception of his writing.

For example i don't have to pay for his stories, if the author doesn't like me for the color of my skin or for belonging to people that the author happens to dislike.

I am also allowed to say that these are very objectionable attitudes. And i can also remind other people that these are very objectionable attitudes.
Personally, a larger fan of Uber FX [0].

You don't "need" it in golang, but for me, it encourages nice code separation in a way that makes it really easy to write tests for my components. You tend to think a lot more about how code is organized in order to make it as easy as possible to unit test. I also like the service start/stop functionality.

[0] https://github.com/uber-go/fx
do you have data to back that up?
I visit the bookstore with my kid regularly. She's 5. My older kids 11 and 14 do find plenty to read, but I disagree that there are plenty of magical modern children's authors capturing the 3 to 10 year old space. There are a lot of books, mostly dross.

And the stories... "I loved my cat/mom/dad then they died" I get it sad stuff happens and kids need to process it but these aren't books that are going to delight. "Your cat died so I got you a book about someone's cat dying"

You're right there are some gems but nothing serially good in the same way.
> human intelligence is also "just a fancy autocomplete" built from a giant network of interacting nodes.

I wasn't aware human intelligence has been successfully defined. Please cite the source for this nebulous claim.
Ooze: Mutation Testing Library for Golang
Also he voiced the Backson in a Winnie the Pooh movie. A mysterious creature that had everybody scared out of their wits throughout the show until (spoiler alert) he finally shows up at the end and is the friendliest sounding character you can imagine
It does not feel better to me.
Northern Post – The state and roadmap of Nord
The odds they got something instead of just getting bullied is far more likely.

My guess: Apple didn't compete with Google in some market with their ad platform.
Genuinely, I wonder if there is a subway system in the world more filthy. In NYC I've seen the back of cars and elevators that were treated as literal toilets.. no where else in my travels.

Even poo city San Francisco keeps BART relatively clean in my experience.
> whether a model can learn the rule “zebras can be recognized by their uniform-width stripes” or not

But zebras don't have uniform-width stripes. https://www.animalfactsencyclopedia.com/Zebra-facts.html
> I really hate Steam's family sharing.

This is something that Apple gets really right, and that Valve and Microsoft (I don't have experience with Sony or Nintendo family ecosystems) get really wrong.

I can't even buy multiple copies of a co-op game on the family Steam account that the family can use to play together.
+1

This is solid advice! I had "RSI" for years (could barely type or write) and in the end what solved everything were exercises to improve my posture and strengthen my back, neck and shoulders.
Lib is short for library in every day speech, as well, and pronounced "lib" not "lyb".
> Forced to climb 21 flights of stairs,

There's plenty to be said about how we should incorporate more physical activity into our daily lives, by I think 21 flights of steps would be a turn around and go home moment for me.

Unless of course I were a ghostbuster.
Astrophysicists discover the perfect explosion in space
All that should be needed is preamble to explain to modern viewer historical content and maybe some antiquated terms or beliefs.
I have a Bosch BBVA (with auxillary heat strips) that was installed a few months ago that replaced an air exchanger from 1971 and a roof compressor from the early 90s.

I absolutely LOVE the Bosch system. It somehow manages to keep the heat more consistent at the set temp than my previous system. The Bosch system supposedly has some sort of power saving feature. We shall see how it handles the California summer.

As the adage goes, install quality is more important than the unit itself but so far I'm really impressed with the Bosch unit.
The PSP had game sharing, basically the same: send a small multiplayer/demo copy.
Even cheap ($40) hotels provide you with a disposable pair of bathroom slippers.