skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My second love was LISP. I love me some functional programming.

But I greatly dislike multi-paradigm programming languages. Mostly because I've worked with other programmers.

Borrowing features (idioms) from other languages is great. Pattern matching is nice. For Java, I'm looking forward to (interpolated) string templates and implicit classes. Destructuring would be nice too.

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But for the love of Larry, where are intrinsic regex expressions?

Path expressions?

Most of our work is data processing.

Input -> munging -> output.

Meaning cutting and pasting strings.

So I mostly want new features related to string and data processing.

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The evergreen fetish (kink) with arcana like type systems, monads, and metaprogramming is just so besides the point. That's what Lambda the Ultimate and HN are for.

For "commercial" languages, just give me tools for work.

Fussing with novel languages is for my hobby projects.
>Similar to the Chinese room argument, one can always claim the computer is just emulating understanding.

And you'd be correct. The point isn't what kind of output ChatGPT can produce, the point is what kind of input it takes to create the model.

If ChatGPT were to gain language understanding at the level of a toddler trained on the same number of tokens that a toddler needs, then you could start postulating that the model is really learning, rather than becoming a sophisticated stochastic parrot.
Robotics Course on Wiki
Are all forms of rent control like this? Including rent stabilization or whatever else they're called? Because my impression was that at least some forms of it keep the rent low even if the tenant changes, in exchange for lower taxes or such.
As someone who tends to side with Chomsky in these debates, I think Norvig makes some interesting points. However, I would like to pick one of his criticisms to disagree on:

"In 1969 he [Chomsky] famously wrote:

But it must be recognized that the notion of "probability of a sentence" is an entirely useless one, under any known interpretation of this term.

His main argument being that, under any interpretation known to him, the probability of a novel sentence must be zero, and since novel sentences are in fact generated all the time, there is a contradiction. The resolution of this contradiction is of course that it is not necessary to assign a probability of zero to a novel sentence; in fact, with current probabilistic models it is well-known how to assign a non-zero probability to novel occurrences, so this criticism is invalid, but was very influential for decades."

I think Norvig wrongly interprets Chomsky's "probability of a sentence is useless" as "the probability of a novel sentence must be zero". I agree that we've shown that it's possible to assign probabilities to sentences in certain contexts, but that doesn't mean that it can fully desribe a language and knowledge. This seems to me yet another case of 'the truth is somewhere in the middle' and would be weary of the false dichotomy that is put forward here. Yes we can assign probabilities to sentences and they can be useful, but it's not the whole story either.
Show HN: Doublespeak.chat, a text-based AI escape game
So the questions in your first paragraph are mostly answered by the paper.

And your second paragraph feels a bit like an unfair comparison to me. This is a first attempt at seeing if this concept is even remotely feasible, and it uses off-the-shelf parts for that. It's not a company with a lot of money and resources invested in it that produces mediocre final products where the embodied energy of the solar panels is so much more than any energy it saves over its life-time that it's less green than something that runs on batteries. Which, yes, are an annoying feature of modern greenwashing. But this research project is not that.
> Protestant perspective, that religion is all about consistently following consistent doctrines

Isn't that a contradiction? I thought Protestants were all about grace over works (wasn't it Martin Luther who called James The Epistle of Straw because of it's emphasis on works?). Consistently following consistent doctrines would be works.
Something grating going on with him. I think it might be the way he tries to make it sound exciting for a general audience.
Culture Matters
Your negation is way too strong, an ever-growing number of people do, in fact, take their personal footprint into account for every decision, my family and myself included.

I don't know about your anecdotal joke about some German activists flying 20k miles in half a year, but it's also a fact that flygskam is growing, that people who can afford it reportedly take a train even when it's slower, and that airlines are looking into carbon offsets. Another anecdote, my local XR group has a car pooling mailing list to make sure they attend all demonstrations in a convenient, low-carbon manner.

The math is simple, every liter of fuel kept in the ground will slow down global warming. There is no "threshold" that we will reach at which point all humanity is doomed.
AFAIK original sin does teach that all men are fallen and require salvation. This doesn’t mean that human nature is all bad and it’s indeed not the same as total depravity. However it’s also not true that men are born holy.
My police union's president has been fired from the force 3 times because he literally abused people, including children at the school he was supposed to be protecting, and each time the union sued and got him reinstated. Meanwhile teachers are fired regularly.
Seconded! I would love to get daily updates.
Brave Search's Summarizer is A LOT better!!!

Try, for example:

where is bill watterson?

in both and compare for yourself!
Came here to say the same about the CPC price.

All manner of fascinating stuff in Amstrad history.
e.g. the 3" disc drive (not 3.5")
Seemingly he found a cheap supply - so we got them on the spectrum, CPC and the PCW.

A PCW was what my father brought home from a computer fair, instead of the anticipated Amiga or PC.
Even more integrated than the CPC with computer & drives built into the monitor and shipping with a printer. A predecessor of the iMac (made in a hell-dimension)
I agree. It seems to lack self awareness, considering how some weeks ago there was a post on his blog about experts in unrelated fields who claimed a wormhole simulation was the creation of an actual wormhole. Aaronson said that believing these claims is an example of Gell-Mann amnesia. Why does Aaronson think he's suddenly an expert in AI, language and consciousness? Being correct in quantum computing topics doesn't translate to this field at all. And worse than that, there are no real arguments here, just misrepresentation of Chomsky and ad hominems.
They have been on the side of encryption since the beginning really.

I think had WhatsApp not added E2EE in 2014, Encryption wouldn't be that wide spread today.
That's the Cuda lock-in solution which sadly works well.
Tomatoes are vegetables and fruit. "Fruit" is a botanical category, including plenty of things that are inedible for various reasons. "Vegetable" is a culinary category, including many things that are fruit (aubergine/eggplant, cucumber, and many more).
God I can’t stand communities like this.
Spotify Reaches 500M MAUs
”Hacker”news in 2023 ;-)
The browser compatability is still a bit of a mess on those OSes. The only way to get the full resolution on MacOS is to use some specific combinations of Safari and MacOS versions. If youre using OSX or using Chrome/FF you're limited to 720p

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742
Is the use of those quoted words what you dislike? Would you have a different sense of it if we replaced those words with "foo" and "bar" so that we could use more nuanced concepts?
Texas Republicans sure do love their "free market" and just hate regulations...
And yet, people younger than the boomer set trade convenience for privacy and such all the time. Just look at social media use alone.

From what I can see, all generations are equally likely to trade some amount of personal freedom for convenience. The exact things they're willing to trade may or may not be different, but the principle seems a constant.
No, the stock cannot be sold until stripe has an IPO. This is the bind employees are in.

Together they have a 3.5 billion tax bill, but don't have the cash to pay it and cant sell the stock.

It is like if I gave you a magic bean worth 1 billion this year, but the only magic bean buyer will come to town next year (hopefully). how will you pay your taxes.
Interestingly I've never heard chimarrão here in Paraná, here it's either chá mate (can be hot or cold) or tereré (cold), so it might be a RS & SC thing.
The RP2040 has 264 KiB of RAM. RP2040 Doom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30672527

PS. although, the RP2040 has 2 cores and programmable IO controllers, which IIRC were pretty needed to deal with the low memory (and sound). I don't know how this chip compares.
Scaleway retrofits 14,000 servers
> Can you point to a very poor place that is safe due to the police?

Most rural areas are generally quite safe and their police are very powerful in the community.
Thats interesting. So like engineering basically
The best were the two German "climate activists" who flew to Thailand and Bali - their explanation was that they flew there as private persons and not as "activists" :D

Well then it's ok if I pollute as well, since I'm doing it only as a private person and not in my quality as an activist!
I like DoveNet quite a bit... fsx is decent as well. Haven't really looked at any others recently.
From the FAQ:

> For Lofi to show currently playing tracks, Spotify needs to be actually running! Start playing something in Spotify (you can minimize the app afterwards) and Lofi should work as expected.

So it's a visualizer, not a player. Can it work without having the Spotify app running?

I'm currently using librespot on my headless rpi acting as a spotify-enabled speaker but sometimes it has sync errors, so I'm in the market for alternative tiny players.
Bought for retail. GoodRx had nothing to do with the transaction, except to enforce a market mechanism on it.

Yes, GoodRx was a bad actor in its misuse of medical data. Absolutely. Unless that practice underlies its business model, which I doubt, GoodRx is, on balance, a GOOD actor. It seems that the business model is sales lead generation, and they have been able to force it’s use by major pharmacies over time.
Embedded and cloud Elixir for grid-management at Sparkmeter
Their goal IS the startup environment. By being in a startup, they have already achieved their goal.

This isn't tech related but I have a friend that buys failing retail businesses and fixes them. She could just chill and make a lot of money but that's just not her thing.
It's injected into the model, you can deviate from no randomness to get "creative".
> No, it’s not.

What's "not"? His statement about the gravitational constant is exactly correct: we have no theory that tells us what the value of this constant should be, we have to get its value from measurements, and doing that is a process of statistical inference.

It is also true that the form of the theory itself--its equations--is not given to us magically but has to be developed by comparing predictions with experimental data, i.e., by a process of statistical inference.

Physicists don't usually describe these processes as "model training", but that doesn't mean such a description is wrong.
It's not straightforward at all because it ignores who has to pay.

You say it's a debt owed, but the people paying the debt are just taxpayers in general. That isn't a debt they incurred.
You can get 1080p with a browser extension that forces it.
I worked in phylogenetics for a while and it was a pretty confusing area. Originally, phylogenetic trees (not the biological trees that are the subject of the OP) were created by finding physical features (yes, just like ML) and using those to build a semi-supervised tree-structure of classifications. However, eventually we began to use DNA sequences to compare organisms, which restructured the tree in many ways, even close to the root. It was a controversial time as the the historical physical-feature classifier group was certain their way was right, and same for the DNA folks. I sort of assumed that the DNA would be a much higher quality source for clustering but it hasn't really always worked out that way.
Halocore/DuoGlot: DuoGlot: A User-Customizable Code Translator
I'm definitely a part of the outliers in those statistics given my monthly use varies.. sometime 800, other times +1200 queries.

The pricing seems reasonable to me although I do not see myself paying 25 bucks for unlimited search. I'll probably stay on the 1000 queries and see where it takes me... The fact that you'll pay per queue once you hit the limit seems to have been missed by some in the thread...

You do not have to upgrade to $25 unless the cost of per queue ends up being more expensive than the tier.

Additionally you can set a soft and hard limit and although it's of course more expensive than the current unlimited plan, it's imo still better than the alternatives.

One thing is for sure, I can't go back to Google, DDG or bing, Kagi is just so much better.
and by your logic, do we need the SUV police?
For all of the Em@iler being disastrous, Amstrad also almost made an internet TV box (functionally similar to the Bush one) in a single-box format like '80s computers. Rumour was that it got right up to release-ready and then AMS said it was crap, so it was just binned.
Image working at McDonald's where all the employee's have their own way of making hamburgers and you are constantly at odds with how they do it.
That just barley scratches the surface of what its like.

The pain is self inflected due to the level of dysfunction and nepotism. Its completely the same as other jobs but also sooo different.
Genius. I couldnt stop laughing at "Tyson Foods Unveils New Vegan Chicken Nuggets Made Entirely from Real Chicken" [0]

[0] https://www.garlicgpt.com/post/tyson-foods-unveils-new-vegan...
The support will get better over time. 10 years ago I couldn't watch any streaming services on Linux with Firefox or Chrome. There was a brief period where streaming services were still using flash so you could sideload the flash player onto Firefox but that didn't last long. Now I run Pop!_OS 22.04 with an Nvidia GPU and I can play almost all my DRM content including Windows games on Steam. While I still experience awful bugs that I wouldn't have otherwise experienced on Windows or macOS I can finally daily Linux desktop.
Ask HN: Normal to feel stuck at Big Tech?
At the beginning of last summer I finally made it into FAANG (one of the A’s, not the fruit). My salary tripled, I was gonna be doing work that affected a bunch of people instead of the small ~1000 person company I worked at before.

It’s been really hard. I feel stressed all of the time, the codebase I work in is a mess, I have to drive an hour to get in the office 3 days a week. I’ve talked to my manager about it, and she makes it sound like it’s how things are.

It’s tough because I feel like it’s what everyone wants me to do, like what I’m “supposed” to do. And the amount they pay me is ridiculous, in a good way. But when I wake up, I don’t feel happy or excited, and if I’m not feeling nothing, I feel fear. I know there’s a manager track with more money & glory, but I can tell the stress and stays, and probably rises.

My friends and family keep telling me I should stay for a year. I’m not sure if the one year mark is really that special or not. It also looks like the job market is really brutal right now. And even if I find something new, it’ll probably pay less, which I guess is ok, but it still makes me feel like I’m doing something wrong.

Am I missing something here? Is staying for one year really that important? Have people gone through stuff like this before?
Appreciate the investigative interview of ChatGPT. First time I really noticed ChatGPT using "we" (as in "we AI language models"). And yes, having it explain itself passably does support it having some human/intelligence qualities.

Re: "objective reality" your argument can be made even stronger using Kant's transcendental philosophy which says that we are limited at apprehending reality by our fundamental conceptions e.g. of space and time ("categories"). Similarly, perhaps, LLMs are limited by other fundamentals. So we don't even have to bring irrationality into the argument. We both have incomplete grasp on "objective" reality, even if we are being fully rational.
It's relatively easy for people to switch, compared to other social networks.
Excellent point. I fully agree.

It disenfranchises environment/energy/natural resource conservation efforts to associate them with woke topics such as "social equity" and related "governance" efforts.

I am personally a conservative environmentalist. Virtually 100% of "woke" related concepts to me, represent inculcation by foreign governments seeking to destabilize western societies.

The environment must not be politicized. It is the foundation of all biota including humans of course-- it is the matrix we live within.
This is not normalizing deviance but rather part of testing and analysis before standards are set for manned missions. It's okay for you to get closer to your safety margins, that's what they're for. For what it's worth, I think this is a better article about normalization of deviance. https://www.fastjetperformance.com/blog/how-i-almost-destroy...
I rarely hear priests condemn homosexuality. Some do, but most don't. Maybe because the subject is really not relevant to the core tenants of Catholicism. There is so much more to the faith than these political wedge issues. Does a dietitian have mental gymnastics from having a beer or a slice of cake every now and then?
Prior discussion in our "Show HN" post last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34999774
The Centre for Computing History (which provided props and extras for the film) recorded Chris Curry, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser watching Micro Men for the 10Y anniversary: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/news/55409/Micro-Men-10th...
I mean “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” though. Obviously the entire message of the New Testament is that all are also offered salvation through Jesus, but it’s pretty clear that everyone needs saving in the first place.
> would it be reasonable for the police to search

Yes. And my answer would not change for the other case. It's also reasonable for the property owner to demand that the police get a warrant first.

I'm not arguing about whether or not these powers are OK. I'm just arguing that, in my view, both of the situations the OP mentioned are equivalent in that they're both searches of private property.
Software to Manage Expensive Homes
Introducing Cube SaaS - first software to manage villas, hotels or any other property, which has enough complexity (various equipment to maintain).

We are pre-launch looking for a seed investor, who has a vision of Educating people about best engineering practices for property maintenance.
We have an MVP prototyped, which is already pre-sold to few Asian Hospitality customers.

Please talk to us if you are interested to use or invest in Cube.
Our team is headed by a Hospitality expert with background in engineering
The issue is that rent control leads to supply shortages since it disincentivizes building new units so you end up with a waitlist to get an apartment. Similar issue that prop 13 creates. No one moves because it is either impossible, or would require paying much more.
D&G are a bad place to start with philosophy. I recommend watching these lectures by the late Professor Rick Roderick for a more accessible introduction: http://rickroderick.org/101-socrates-and-the-life-of-inquiry...
However, it would force people to do something. Restricting supply increases price, and thus alternatives/efficiencies become more viable.

An effective climate preservation campaign would focus on production facilities - coal mines, oil rigs etc. Not necessarily directly - for example the best way to shut down North Sea oil production would be to make it impossible to fly helicopters out there - protest airfields, helicopter maintenance depos, protest to the pilots, disrupt the logistics. Of course this then becomes a national security threat, and would be dealt with accordingly.
I did something similar a while back, except I rewrote it in JavaScript (to test out a JS game engine):

https://jaredkrinke.itch.io/chromium-jsu

Note: I also changed a few things and kept the game fully 2D.
Do you have an accessible example for two different recordings of a composition that each shine in their own light?
Elder.js: An SEO-First Svelte-Based Framework
As I don't like async/await (read: I probably don't properly understand it) I just added two extension methods to Control that took a lambda for updating UI stuff (one for Invoke, one for BeginInvoke).

Probably kind of like this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36107907/2306536

I haven't developed C# for almost a decade, so I probably didn't even have access to async/await back then.
Paper [0] abstract:

> ...We propose a new transpilation approach that offers fine-grained customizability and reusability of transpilation rules created by others, without burdening the user to understand the global semantics of the given source program. Our approach is mostly automatic and incremental, i.e., constructs translation rules needed to transpile the given program as per the user’s guidance piece-by-piece. Users can rely on existing transpilation rules to translate most of the program correctly while focusing their effort locally, only on parts that are incorrect or need customization. This improves the correctness of the end result. We implement the transpiler as a tool called DuoGlot, which translates Python to Javascript programs, and evaluate it on the popular GeeksforGeeks benchmarks. DuoGlot achieves 90% translation accuracy and so itoutperforms all existing translators (both handcrafted and neural-based), while it produces readable code. We evaluate DuoGlot on two additional benchmarks, containing more challenging and longer programs, and similarly observe improved accuracy compared to the other transpilers.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.11220.pdf
I thought that named looked familiar and oh my, they are the RAP NEWS guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6O6sM2Shok

I'm going to lose an hour of my life reminiscing about how Youtube used to be and what it would have been.
Is there any indication that Gandi is insecure?
UK politicians themselves use WhatsApp a lot.

They will strike the law down a day after WhatsApp stops working in UK.

2 days after there will be massive public outrage since everybody uses WhatsApp in UK.

It's an empty threat, just like the internet porn law.
All the Known Unknowns
I use it to help with my newsletters -- cuts down the editing process time by 80%. Mix of notion AI and ChatGPT.
> The Catholic perspective on this kind of thing is more flexible and quite strange by comparison but tolerating hypocrisy around sexual behavior is definitely not new.

The Catholic perspective is not tolerating hypocrisy, it is a knowledge that we are all sinful and broken. I know what the right thing to do is, and if you ask me I will tell you what the right thing to do is, but often I won't do it. I'm not a hypocrite -- I know I'm wrong, I'm weak and a coward.
I think that’s right. The analogy for straight men would be that they may want to love and sleep with many women but that it’s still wrong unless within a marriage.
No, it's just the case that everyone sins and some people's sins are worse than others. Most religions acknowledge this. Even if you murder someone that doesn't mean you're beyond forgiveness, it's about trying to be a better person.
Alright, malloc/free is also garbage collection then.
Waiting for the first fuckwitt to pipe up with "Oh no. It's got a swastika. They must have been Nazis!"