skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If autonomous driving saves a ton of lives then an extra 1% is well worth it

Your total scope is about 40,000 road deaths. Off the top 1/6 of those are pedestrians most often hit at night. Another 1/6 is motorcycles. A little more than 1/2 are those who are drunk or otherwise impaired. Around a 1/3 involve someone under the age of 24 and male.

People presume that driving is exceptionally dangerous. If you actually examine the data you realize it's one of the safest things we do, given the _trillions_ of miles that are driven every year in the US alone.

From this perspective, it's not at all clear that greater levels of automation are going to improve anything. From the history of introduction into airlines, it will initially make travel _less safe_ until drivers are retrained to use the new systems in a way that doesn't enhance risk. These will often be non-intuitive lessons.

If you put a human in a machine also designed by a human and use it around other humans, you will never eliminate human factors.
IDEA's autocomplete was consistently better and more useful for me than Copilot. I think that out of the 5, maybe 10 times when it managed to autocomplete something, it was correct maybe once.

It will may be better on less idiosyncratic code base than the one I was working on, but at one point I just turned it off completely.
Probably not sub-1-hour, unless you are a fast reader, but this is good:
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
You need to take Wirth's law into consideration.
this is definitely happening (context series A founder from t1 VCs)

Every VC is talking to their portfolio companies right now about this. Text/slacks/emails. Half of them screaming panic telling founders to pull money out, the other half holding the line to stay strong

Most founders i know arent taking the risk and moving money...
It's more slow dominoes from the crypto crash, I suspect. I'm not worrying about contaigion yet, these guys aren't exactly Lehman.
> thinking about how to scale

Having a good plan for scaling is absolutely a great move. Changing fundamental architecture later isn't easy. Implementing it all immediately however ..
I understand the processes required but if you or anyone here knows, what would be the least expensive / most sustainable way to set up a personal VPN & pihole plus a simple website hosted on a server?

I already run a small server at home for NAS / HomeAssistant / PiHole, etc., but I would like to be able to access it anywhere and enjoy the benefits of ad blocking and personal media access on my phone outside of my home network, but I don't want to spend $25+/month for crap tier single 9 service, and at the same time, I don't need flawless service with five 9 uptime guarantees at any price, either.

I'm guessing that I would need a VPS provider that allows SSH access to some flavor of linux server with a static IP or at least a domain name.

Am I on the money with this, or is there something that I didn't consider?

If I am, would you still recommend pair.com or is there a VPS provider that might be a better fit?
Yeah, that fits within the definition of indefinite. It's not a permanent license, and at time of sale, it's unknown when it ends.
This is why big companies love regulation, and why regulation - even when well-intentioned - can be such a disruptive force to market signals.
They're not allowing approval of wires via SMS or their app, and no one is picking up the phone there and most numbers are fast busy. Smells deeply bad. I had an account at a bank that went under a few decades ago and it took a while for ... bofa? to pick up the pieces.
I wonder what sort of horrors or Easter eggs we could wrinkle out by fuzz-testing these interrupt calls?
They get very near the point, and completely miss it at the end.

> It summarizes the standard arguments in the literature by a kind of super-autocomplete, refuses to take a stand on anything, pleads not merely ignorance but lack of intelligence

That is an accurate response from ChatGPT.

ChatGPT, indeed, does not offer intelligence. Calling it AI serves no purpose except personification.

The only thing ChatGPT does is "some kind of super autocomplete". That's all it can do.

The only reason ChatGPT is so impressive in the first place, is that the thing it is "autocompleting" - language itself - is impressive.

Language is data. Inside that data is not simply a collection of ideas: language holds the logical associations that connect ideas to each other. It can even hold an objective perspective on those associations. It can even hold an objective perspective on that objective perspective!

ChatGPT succeeds in finding new paths through that data, but it is walking blind: it doesn't know what any of the data is. It only knows where.

It just so happens that "where" holds a lot of meaning. Language uses "where" to encode a lot of information: "where" is a fundamental building block for grammar itself. It's called "semantics".

Without any other language feature, ChatGPT is able to manipulate and apply the "where" of language to itself. It's able to manipulate semantics.

But that's it. It can't do anything else. And that's a problem. What is semantically valid might be really useful, really wrong, or really nonsensical. The only filter ChatGPT has for those categories is what it has and hasn't read already. Most of that is not nonsense: most possible nonsense isn't written in the first place. Most of what we write has explicit meaning. But nothing stops us from writing silly things, or even lies. Nothing stops language itself from getting the subjects of the logic mixed up. As far as language is concerned, that is not a bug: it's a feature.
It probably can do that to some extent. I wonder what would happen if the GP just asked for that.
That's a really intentional mistake to make.

Another Firefox user
I find his questions to be mostly rhetorical and for that reason super boring. As sincere questions, interesting. But as rhetorical questions in the way he's using them to just make a point, no.

I also had a conversation with ChatGPT about colonization of Mars, but I wasn't writing an article and trying to make points about humans' superiority over AIs.

So our conversation instead was about different mixes of who exactly would be colonizing Mars: Humans, robots, augmented humans, robot-human hybrids, a mixture starting with one then transitioning to the other… then went on to how these could coexist in different models, working together cooperatively, or competing, evolving together, at war with each other, etc. etc., things you would just not go into if you are only interested in making a point about the superiority of human intellect.

If you want to be down on ChatGPT, you can say it's all just regurgitation of what has been said by others online and in anything offline that's been captured online… and it is... but on the positive side it gives you access to immediately delve into lines of thought that you want to focus on, and bounce ideas around, without the corrupting influence (so far) of a site owner feeling the need to find some way to inject an affiliate link.
It just apologises and tells me it already knew that.

I love it when these bots apologize.

Yeah, yeah. Just like "your call is very important to us."
PoshBrolly – browser UI for shader experiments
Inquery co-founder here. Glad to hear the idea resonates with you! Do you usually just run these command in a local IDE? Would you prefer our solution be a local application or a self-hosted container in your VPC accessible through your web browser?
From https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/09/silicon-valley-banks-share... :

Becker said the bank has “ample liquidity” to support its clients “with one exception: If everybody is telling each other that SVB is in trouble, that will be a challenge.”

Pro tip: if you're CEO of a bank that's facing a bank run, don't tell the press that you'll be in trouble if everybody takes their money out.
> Isn't taking control away from the programmer the entire point of Rust?

Not in my perspective. It is about managing complexity. Rust allows you to take that "ultimate control," and then wrap it up in an easier to use package that doesn't have sharp edges.

There is nothing you can't do in Rust if you want to. Heck, inline assembly is an actual part of the language, unlike in C and C++, where they're both vendor extensions!
Stripping all querystrings would break tons of sites, such as this one we're on right now.
GDB has the "skip" command to help with this but it has limitations.

It stops you stepping into namespaces you don't want to see but doesn't do anything when you step out into them.

It also doesn't handle when code you don't want to see calls back into code you do - and, yes, I've recommended formatting lambdas to allow breakpoints before.

I believe DWARF does support columnar information these days so it actually should be possible to solve the one line lambda given code in GDB.

For looking at any data in C++ it's also very important to have GDB's pretty printers set up (and, likely, write some of your own).

https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Pretty_002dPrinter...

https://undo.io/resources/gdb-watchpoint/here-quick-way-pret... (this one is from my boss)
In theory you should be getting a subpoena for your local storage. Also I'm not sure just deleting the data is really a remedy here since a) there's a good chance people already viewed the recordings and that can't be simply undone so the privacy violation still exists and b) were there to be evidence of some other crime on your interior tapes we know police et al have ways like parallel construction to hide constitutionally questionable searches from making it to court.

A is really my core objection here, the privacy violation of gathering all the camera's data is essentially unresolvable, someone will have at least looked at the footage and at best determined the camera is an interior camera and stopped reviewing it. Personally all my cameras are outward facing (though one is a ptz that could look into the office) and I have only local storage of the video. My other option would be to make an automation that deafens and turns any PTZ camera to the wall unless my alarm system is set to away.
I'm not a huge fan of Dave Ramsey but I had a coworker who listened to him years and years ago - and I remember he made a good point about how everyone focused WAY too much on gas prices. "Remember when gas was $3 a gallon and you felt poor? Well it's a buck 25 now - do you feel rich?". (This was around 2008 iirc)

If we had giant signs showing the price of milk at every intersection people would focus inordinately on that too.
California will kill solar in April 2023 while at the same time mandating solar for new homes.
One very good streaming service for classical music is idagio.com

I can only hope that they won't offer auto generated playlists the way Spotify does. No matter what you listen to - Stravinsky, Stockhausen, 12 tone music, baroque, opera - it immediately starts playing the same 3 or 4 pieces by Vivaldi, Satie, Chopin right after the album is finished

There was a period where classical music on Spotify was really good. The search results were clearly curated by someone - search for Bach, and artists like Gould and Gardiner would come first; Abbado and Bernstein for Mahler, and so on. Now it's much more random - search for Beethoven and you get a lot of "Beethoven for Relaxation" and a lot of recordings that would be no one's first choice - while something as essential as Karajan's recording of the 9 symphonies is pushed waaaay down in the results
Re: your duration point, these loans can be sold, either on the open market or a private exchange.

Calling it a duration mismatch is a bit misleading. They took on duration risk and their loans lost value is more accurate. Otherwise they would just sell the loans (which they stated they did, but clearly it wasn’t enough thus the equity raise)
Headline sounds like this might be some meaningful analysis of the death of city life, affordable housing crisis, police violence, etc. But it’s just a rant about people smoking weed.
The Shopify CEO joke has the sophistication of a 6 year old with the breadth of knowledge of an adult.
I checked, about half of the search results for that query are dated.
Tangential by related technical question:

Does something exist out there which is equivalent to a domain name for a website (or an any entity) which is independent of a external entities, like DNS or DNS like servers.

I know that in some sense public/private keys in asymmetric cryptography mimic that feature (the public key being the address of the receiver), but is there anything out of the box? Does Tor have a similar feature?

I do understand that this equivalent to which I'm alluding to, may be an unintelligible string of characters, unlike current website user friendly names. I also understand that the underlying ip address change can be a challenge , but probably not an insurmountable one.
Thank you. I may contact you. I'm already pretty active on this front.
Bug/security risk: Something unexpected just happened when giving this a try. Hoping there's just a default string left in the project and some bad error handling.
1. Created new account in Second linked to my personal github account
2. Created project "newproject" in Second selecting link to exisitng repo
3. Success message "git clone https://github.com/<not_my_profile>/newproject"
4. Create new project now shows the same <not_my_profile> account in the Select GitHub Account select field.
5. Stuck with no log out button

edit: delete cookies, private window fresh login with personal account details still showing <not_my_profile>
Cool to see, I used this one for some years: [0], specifically because it was a Linux phone. That fact never had any impact on the use of it, sadly, I was expecting some hackability back then, while the openmoko remained vaporware...

[0] https://phonesdata.com/en/smartphones/motorola/a780-892/
>Would be cool to see what a tig teaching system would look like

The TIG setup: https://youtu.be/xCbmFFPSF7o?t=77
SVB Panic
On the other hand, you may as well read the Enchiridion cover to cover, since it's basically formulated as a bunch of short tips and one liners anyway.
Is it not a good idea to have money stored with Robinhood now?
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Both Chomsky and Kay are systems thinkers and scientists. Systems are incredibly difficult to discuss, model, etc. with the precision of say quantum mechanics or relativity or any other physical theory.

Many systems thinkers and indeed even entire fields are often rejected, dismissed, or insulted by those used to the precision of say physics. Examples of such fields are biology, sociology, psychology, etc., i.e., as you move up the systems ladder. Fields like physics are easy because they readily allow assumptions to greatly simplify and test theories. We are simply in the infancy of understanding complex systems and being able to discuss and describe systems, so people can often be revolted by the apparent, but not actual, looseness of arguments and theories when it comes to systems. This is not a fault in the persons who study systems. It is not a fault at all. It is simply the facts of nature in that we are just beginning to be able to tackle these subjects.

For Chomsky, I don't think I've ever witnessed someone speak who exudes more intellectual power than him. He seems to possess a near photographic memory, recalling specific phrases from some newspaper or journal article from decades ago. He seems to be quite honest about his own work and addressing things with humility.
You've gotten good answers, but my take:

They're duals. Neither is more or less of a misnomer than the other. It's like one of those sculptures where if you look at it one way, it looks like one thing, but from another angle, it looks like something else.

I also think that Rust had no realistic option other than &mut in order to succeed. Rust already has enough weird stuff in it, and while &mut is a little weird, &uniq or similar would be too weird, and the weirdness would be too exposed to new developers too early.

I kind of believe that, as this kind of thing gets more popular, and more people become familiar with this conception of the dual nature of mutability and exclusivity, that future languages could experiment with terminology around exclusivity, and that they would not pay the same sort of price that Rust would have had to pay.
As an SRE, it's handling the tricky debugging (the kind with awful Google results) that would alleviate the most time for me. The trivial stuff takes less time than going through the slog of prompting the AI in the right direction.

I keep seeing people saying they are using it for technical work. It must be design-oriented and less about troubleshooting because most of my experience with the latter has been abysmal.
For the operator thing, isn't that just because there is no difference between an operator and a method in Scala?
It’s cool that the FCC and the entire DoJ are corrupt because in an efficient market this sale would be blocked and Adobe would compete with Figma.
Yea and it wouldn't get them any closer to actually welding. Just have them... Actually weld? It was pretty easy for me to pick up multiple techniques in high school, no augmented reality system needed
When copying or sharing a link, I usually manually strip out everything after the ? in the URL.

I've been doing this manually for several years now.

Is it possible to create a bookmarklet that does the same thing (i.e., via JavaSript)?
Simple Multimedia Kit (SMK) is a library for developing games in C++.
They've been horrible about communication since the Twitch ban a month ago. And they didn't even reveal anything about their plans to the press leading up to last night while they were promoting their return.

Just my opinion, but I wonder if the changes were their decision so they could own and monetize their "original" ip.
Augmented Reality Concrete Scanning
For Japanese, at least, ChatGPT is better than Google Translate because it considers the context of each sentence, while Google Translate translates each sentence independently. DeepL is still the best, though.
Others have provided great examples of what I meant.
Wouldn’t be surprised if some tech or crypto whales stated this, to show that banks aren’t more “save” than crypto
Do you actually have any data to back up the 'net saving of power' part?
oops, meant to say "were NOT very good yet when I switched to a different industry". Apparently I failed at typing and paying attention to a meeting at the same time. :)
Look up "keyball" custom mech keyboards.

If I could buy a prebuilt, I think it'd be my endgame.
I think you overestimate the expense of scrap metal for laying practice beads. This simulator is waaaay more expensive
Oops, sorry, thought I linked to one of the pages that show price. Octopart has a few: https://octopart.com/search?q=AFIG-0007&currency=USD&specs=0

Around fifteen bucks each.
Maybe Hanukkah Bush is a totally valid taxonomic classification.
I don't know where you're getting 40,000 road deaths from, because:

> According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in 2016. That is, one person is killed every 26 seconds on average. [1]

I also don't know what the breakdown you give has to do with. If we can save the lives of pedestrians, drunk people, and males under 24, then amazing.

Also, a quick Google search reveals that in the US:

> Deaths and injuries resulting from motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for persons of every age from 3 through 33 (based on 2003 data).

That sounds pretty dangerous to me if it's the leading cause of death. Maybe not that dangerous per-mile, but clearly those miles add up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Thus is all the fault of Laetitia Halliday, ultimately.

If she did not sue Valentin Lacambre, he would not have abandoned altern.org.

If he kept altern.org, gandi would have been an association, not a corporation.

And the world would be a slightly better place.
I've been doing a lot of comparisons between ChatGPT and a fighter jet lately.

Unless you have some amount of skill and awareness around the domain you are intending to operate in, it is likely you won't even be able to get the metaphorical engines started. Anyone who has previously mastered some domain is almost certainly going to find various degrees of value here. Knowing it doesn't give you 100% answers is half the battle. Being able to derive the actual ground truth is the other. Those stuck somewhere in between may be most at risk of LLM hallucinations talking them into Narnia-tier solutions - i.e. crashing the jet.

For example, I'd consider myself semi-experienced in software development. I don't use ChatGPT to write C# methods and then directly paste them into the codebase. I use it to quickly document abstract concepts which has the amazing effect of clearing my mental cache. I find I can usually type my 500 word brain dumps verbatim into chatgpt, append "as pseudocode" and then press the GC button on the side of my head. I can't recall the last time I've been this productive.
Yeah, the language changes seem pretty minor and incremental. I think the more interesting changes in the last few years have been with engines. All major browsers now support ESM modules and custom elements.
This instantly puts me off WhatsApp from a reliability perspective. Your identity needs to be decoupled from something someone else controls.
I don't think the AI hype bubble is anything like the crypto hype bubble. For one thing, this AI very likely has actual uses.
In this piece Chomsky, the intellectual godfather of an effort that failed for 60 years to build machines that can converse in ordinary language.

Woah there. When did Chomsky ever take an interest in building machines to do anything? What is he even referring to here?

From the get-go, this piece sounds like an ad-hominem slam.
Perhaps I'm overly skeptical, but everyone should know that all banks have the risk of 'if everyone takes their money out, the bank won't be able to make it work', right?
It's even worse than using random query strings. Last year, Facebook, Amazon and some other sites started using encrypted URLs that can't be decoded and modified before hitting the server. The good news is that this won't work with just an analytics JS snippet, but the technology will get easier to implement and spread over time. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/07/facebook-is-n...
And few tourists and the roads are nice. You can go rent a car, drive to a national park, hang out by a watering hole with a ton of wildlife, and have the whole thing largely to yourself. Completely different experience from Kenya and Tanzania. (at least, 20 years ago when I went).
Try compiling a program that prints Hello World to the console and see how many bytes it takes in both source and shipped form. JS/TS will indeed win every time in those metrics.
I have an app I use to monitor my clipboard and rewrite certain URLs if sees, placing the clean version back in the clipboard (being sure not to end up in an infinite loop).
Yes but people rationally pulling money from a failing bank is very different than a subreddit banding together to kill the bank on purpose.
By sorted sets/maps, I think they are referring to a binary-search-tree-backed implementation that is efficient for operations like find all keys between x and y, e.g. something like Java's SortedSet[1].

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/SortedSe...
Pretty much, yes. Operators being methods of stdlib classes and being a guest language on the JVM are two things that let the spec be shorter by omitting details a developer needs to know.
Seems like a good opportunity for Mercury.

Been using Mercury for a couple of years, as a customer I can recommend their excellent support & services. That said, I know aprox zero of their balance sheet or those of their backing banks Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank & Trust.