skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't own Tesla, I have a strong Punjabi Accent when i speak English. Many bigger companies phone trees based on voice "commands" are useless for me. It never understands me. My Ford Sync voice controls too struggle to understand me. I prefer buttons.
How was future bleaker in 1983? It was basically a beginning of long economic growth.
Microsoft put a lot of work on backward compatibility, even on games [0].
I'm not saying app devs aren't to blame, but Apple changed ISA under their feet, Rosetta mostly works, but not always. Who pays devs to fix bugs probably caused by Apple decisions?
Even Linus Torvalds says "we do not break userspace" [1], in fact not fixing "bugs" because things are the way they are.

Apple just doesn't care and never had, it's thier way or the highway, and you pay a lot for it, it just must works, no questions.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/windows-95-went-the-...

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75
90%+ of Americans have it overall much worse than in any other modern economy.

Also, the amount of homeless people and violence is shocking.

Edit: educational material:

- "Where to Invade Next?" by Michael Moore

- "Wealth Inequality in America" infographic video https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM

- "Think Grocery Prices Are High Now? Just Wait" https://youtu.be/0_WB84fA7i0
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Perhaps that'll be a future blog post. Also, https://github.com/pypi/warehouse seems a good place to start.
Yes but I think internet population [1] changed all this.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/209117/us-internet-penet...
Is this the same AI that is supposedly a sentient being with rights we must respect?
Prompt OS: prompts so huge and chained in convoluted contexts, accreted over a generation of ChatGPTs, backwards-compatible to other models, the text file is megabytes in size.

ChatGPT gets an import statement.

Prompt Engineers will have to maintain that. It will be written in a nightmare of English, without comments, and heaven help what it means for the tool to "break production."

The reference manual contains a chapter on Forbidden Phrases, but it's marked up on paper, scrawled and crossed out by various predecessors.

Initialization is invoking special phrases, runtime feature flags, to disable whatever behaviors were previously tagged.

Yep: we humans will need to tag behaviors of the AI to describe what is happening, without the benefit of breakpoints.

Where are the breakpoints, anyway? What's our `gdb` of ChatGPT, I wonder.
Desktop apps are a niche, but a well-needed niche. Plus it’s not like there isn’t already a huge amount of Java desktop apps, and those are all running in X instead of Wayland.
I never understand things like this. She looks like a deer caught in the headlights when he asks her the most predictable and basic question about her decisions. How can you be in such a position, make such decisions, and be unable to offer a compelling answer to the most basic questions?

Even if it some sort of a hidden agenda and [further] centralizing banking is just seen as a convenient stepping stone towards CBDCs or whatever, you'd come up with some passable explanation ahead of time. I mean it's not like the Senator there pulled out some gotcha she couldn't have expected.
> never get drunk psychologically

What? It's hard to make heads or tails of this comment. Are you saying that asocial psychopaths wouldn't exist if we'd kept lead in gasoline?

[edit] also realizing this is this account's first HN post... I probably shouldn't be responding
> 2. The government decides that, oops, it printed too much money in 2020/21 and is causing inflation, so it raises rates very quickly.

Printing money doesn’t cause inflation necessarily. Your thinking is based on Monetarism, which has been debunked a while ago.

In essence, it’s not about the amount of money that is created. It's about the amount of goods we try to consume in relation to the amount of goods produced.
> Q: How long will it take before Bard is shut down?

> A: Bard will not be shut down.

Bard is officially qualified to be a Stadia VP.
Maybe you are misinformed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%932023_inflation_su...
> We can write: q.remove();

If that method returns, many tools will complain that the returned value is ignored
Well the anti touch screen camp is more accurately a "don't take my dials and buttons" camp
Nope

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%932023_inflation_su...
Like any language with pattern matching. See Erlang, Haskell etc.
Another one specifically for org-mode would be org-ai:

https://github.com/rksm/org-ai
I got a bit excited seeing this thinking it was new. I think there have been more recent interviews with him. I don't think he made any more maps after this period, but I'm pretty sure ztn went on to work on some other pretty high profile software.
Inkplate 10.
> Is it related to anything more useful?

To pattern matching.
I mean if your alternative is no-orm, inline SQL, then the “narrow subset” I’ve chosen is precisely competitive, and is highly effective, and IMO strictly an improvement. If your alternative is a different ORM, then my opinion is moot, but at least I’ve never seen an ORM be worth the headache (which is why we avoiding using the full feature-set in the first place)

I don’t know why one would have an issue with not using the features they’re not looking for anyways. Keeping everyone aligned on patterns/usage is half the point of code review, and it was managed there without much trouble (you can’t really do the truly magical incantations without quite a bit of setup)
Hey open-paren, do you know if the videos on this page are high fidelity mock ups or a demo of the current working beta?

From the wording on the page it sounds like these may be mockups:

> With the beta version of the first Firefly model, you can use everyday language to generate extraordinary new content. Looking forward, Firefly has the potential to do much, much more. Explore the possibilities below.

> Imagine generating custom vectors, brushes, and textures from just a few words or even a sketch. We plan to build this into Firefly.

> We’re exploring the potential of text-based video editing with Firefly.

> Get ready to create unique posters, banners, social posts, and more with a simple text prompt. With Firefly, the plan is to do this and more.

> In the future, we hope to enable Firefly to do amazing work with 3D.
Yeah, social welfare through policies of socialism.
Suicide in Australia: 1907 - present

https://www.aihw.gov.au/suicide-self-harm-monitoring/data/de...

Male rate consistantly ~ > 4x female rate (particularly so pre WWII) - save for WWII years.

Youth suicide in Australia: 2001 - present (ungendered)

https://www.aihw.gov.au/suicide-self-harm-monitoring/data/po...

Ages 18-24 are peak ages for suicide, ~ 2x rate @15-17

Indigenous suicide in Australia: 2001 - present

https://www.aihw.gov.au/suicide-self-harm-monitoring/data/po...

approx 1.5-2.5x non-indigenous.

There's more to be gleaned from the actual full M&M tables, these are just the web tables available re: suicide.

NOTE WELL!! In AU, UK, USofA etc reporting customs have changed with respect to cause of death and suicide over the years, some dips and peaks may be more related to the culture of reporting rather than rates of actual suicide.
and Scala's underscore
The US and many other places have shown that you can quite reliably get people to vote against their interests if you can convince them that it would also benefit some group they don't like.
Same with films. On analog, you have really think what story you want to say. Mistakes was expensive. Nowadays cheap mistakes let you experiment more, but again... Without thinking about purpose of those experiment, nothing valuable is made.
Imo we are focusing on girls because political reasons - people want to ban TikTok and limit social media. It is about politics and nothing else.

I say that, because the debate shows little interest in kids inner lifes, in what kids think, in their actual struggles. Neither for boys nor for girls. It just projects contempt on them, they are all shallow simpletons basically and that is about it.

There is zero interest in trying to teach them or figure out how to talk tonthem either. It is ban or nothing. Which means that is a real goal.
That's a bug in the tools. IntelliJ doesn't and neither does Sonar Cloud.
Probably GPT could give answers about architecting systems when prompted right. But I think it still needs an experienced programmer to discern hallucination from useful answers. In other words, dig shit for gold nuggets. Still useful, though.
Sailboat crew rescued in Pacific after abandoning ship sunk by whale
https://archive.ph/xjSMl
Really liking your approaches and wish our code base followed them more as well.

Mocking leads to “interfaces everywhere”, I agree. The latter also results from the attitude of putting interfaces all over, even if there’s just a single concrete implementation that makes sense at any point in time, like a file hashing routine (which of course should just be a function but that’s not a thing in C#). Dependency inversion gone overboard?

My biggest qualm with mocking is setting up a detailed test, where every method called is specified, alongside their order etc. You’re reimplementing the entire method essentially. Those tests I despise.
I have a wireless CarPlay dongle. If you don’t do anything it connects to the last used device if it can find it in 15 seconds or so. Otherwise it connects to any remembered device, and you can pick which one if you have one to prioritize.
As someone with no real interest in finances, would it be fair to refer to something I've often heard: that economics is a jike - no-one really knows what they're doing, and all the theories (whether future, present, or past) count for zip [rather like "management"].

If something worked, they'd do it.
SVB lobbied for a law that changed a crucial regulatory threshold from $50 billion to $250 billion. From ~2016 to ~2020 their assets jumped from <$50 billion to >$200 billion, with most of that happening from 2020 to 2022.

SVB was perfectly capable of restricting the total amount of assets it held. It wasn't a matter of rejecting small deposits; it was a matter of allowing (or rather, soliciting) huge clients to open new accounts to hold hundreds of millions or billions in assets.
Bluetooth interfaces need a way to disable individual devices with a slider.
Teslas aren’t particularly cheap, of course.
Be wary of environmental determinism. It's usually only part of the puzzle.
I've heard reports that the newer models are still broken into at higher rates, despite thieves failing to steal it.
Not an accurate parody, it should say "Bard isn’t currently supported in your 'country'. Stay tuned!"
Did engineers really design the touch screens on Dragon? I feel like those were in the first mock-ups that came out. I assumed that it was just a “concept car” type detail and they would have MFDs in the real spacecraft.

Touchscreens seem like a very marketing/design feature.
This is not really pattern matching, that’s just a regular old if-else.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35133670

This is absolutely possible in Java and the only less-than-ideal part is the generic type having to be specified in the None case (but a trivial method fixes that as well)

This can be used just like rust and similar languages:

switch (option) {
case Some(var x) -> println(x);
case None -> // TODO
}

Hell, you can just further pattern match inside Some, like `Some(Point(var x, var y))`
"Apart from Patrick Hamilton, there is no other twentieth-century British novelist whose cult reputation has never translated into mainstream recognition."

Seconded! Patrick Hamilton's Twenty-Thousand Streets Under The Sky is an absolute masterpiece.
Opinion How to explain the Covid baby boom
Viber keeps them but if you had renamed them they revert back to your friend's original username.
Does telegram keep the way you renamed your contacts?
I think that the next few years will be very interesting where we will see many new companies being created by prompters and many "oh crap" moments when they will be about to hit or start hitting production and just not working, especially if the tests are carried away by the same prompters. Then the hiring pace for programmers will pick up again and we might see a new 2020-2021 boom.
What a mess. The Fed has effectively made the United States into a socialist banana republic. As oligarchs will only trust the government, rather than private enterprises, to be their counterparty when banking.
Biomolecular glass with amino acid and peptide nanoarchitectonics
> The author doesn't seem to understand rhyming too well (cactus practice is a weak rhyme at best)

cactus / practice ?

they rhyme to my mind

skeleton / gelatin ?

also rhyme to my ears

protein / poutine

also rhyme enough to be considered to rhyme

You appear to be operating under the impression that the every syllable of a rhyming couplet has to rhyme exactly for it to be considered a rhyme. This is an incorrect assumption. In fact, the above rhymes are arguably more pleasing because they are inexact rhymes rather than being exact forced rhymes.

In your world the only actual rhymes would be

bold / cold / gold

and

double / trouble / bubble

types of rhymes but the world considers the following to be perfectly acceptable

sent to meet her / centimetre

and so on
Car dependent design predates homes being prisons.

The case of Lenore Skenazy aka "America's Worst Mom" shows that it's the mindset that's the problem.

I don't have the link, but there's a study showing that Americans are split on whether 12-year-olds should be supervised when playing in a park.
Like Samsung "promised" (advertised) keeping the headphone jack?

https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-mock-ads-apple-headph...
> If your explicit goal is to have a modern phone without Google specifically, you really should consider Apple.

Apple is much worse, I don't consider it a viable option. I was gifted an ipad recently, but couldn't use it without even entering my phone number (!). This is a ridiculous level of invasion that I'm not willing to put up with.
My favorite pytest trick: Using jupytext notebooks as tests.

I always use a notebook for notes and experiments when building python packages. By using `jupytext`[0] I can store the notebook as a commented python-file, which I can run from a parametrized test that runs all notebooks in a given folder [1].
Adding a few `asserts`, this gives you reasonable test coverage right from the start.

[0]: https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56813896/212538
> But a couple of years is a huge amount of time. If you put in just 4 hours a week you'll be done in no time.

Sure, if you put 4 hours a week into any activity you’ll soon get good at it. But the crux of the issue is whether that activity is seen as a priority or not.

> Not knowing how to drive in that situation is because of not caring very much, not because of moving around.

They didn’t care because they were moving around a lot.

And frankly it doesn’t really matter what the reason is. Regardless of whether it is a practical or preferential justification, the end result is the same: plenty of people manage just fine without learning to drive.

I find it weird that this concept is so alien to some people. But I guess that’s a good example of the diversity of the readership on here.
That sounds reasonable but I’m not certain. You could be right, especially with lumber export. Does Mexico have similar mixed units for cross border trade?

Seems more likely to me Canadian sizes are the way they are because of the Imperial system and commonwealth history.

The US never used the Imperial system so even when both countries used gallons they were different sizes.
Didn't do this on mobile fyi
The error payload thing isn't terrible. If you really really need it, it's not burdensome to add an error payload parameter pointer alongside as one of the parameters.
I have a 2016 Civic, it's almost identical to the video. All I can say is this is such a non-issue: The "auto" mode they implemented works really well.

I use the temperature knob pretty much exclusively. If it's hot, the A/C comes on. If it's cold, it doesn't. If the windshield needs defrosting, you press that button and.. it defrosts, then press "auto" to get back. I've literally never manually changed the A/C setting, and once or maybe twice in 5 years of ownership have I manually adjusted vents.

The (physical) recirculate button is occasionally useful to manually if you're driving through dust/smoke/smell. But I'll also note the use of this with A/C is automatic: if it's really hot out or you turn the temp down really low, it'll automatically turn on recirculate (so it's cooling the already-cool inside air), but if it's able to use outside fresh air it'll do that instead. This is another thing that Just Works and I basically don't have to think about.

Remote start is similarly smart: When it's cold out, it turns on the defrost and heats the seats up. When it's hot, it runs the A/C. Either way when you get in it's usually already comfortable and it resumes whatever mode and temperature it was set to last time you drove -- and on only a mildly warm day, that might mean A/C isn't on. Manual control of A/C is just something you never need to do.

Sorry, but Honda absolutely nailed it on their climate control.

The lack of a physical volume knob, on the other hand...
Soundly like they’re picking the wrong cars to not allow in that case.
What about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35239578

> A popular nightmare scenario for AI is giving it access to tools, so it can make API calls and execute its own code and generally break free of the constraints of its initial environment. Let's do that now!

I also think that you're assuming we know a lot more about how these things work than we actually do; you seem to think nobody is going to hook these up to APIs that can actually modify the world, despite the barrier to doing so being incredibly low; and you don't seem to have read about the adversarial training that people have been doing between the LLMs.

It's obvious that you think everything is all safe and nothing will go wrong, and I really hope you're right. But I think it's a very dangerous assumption.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
The best way IMHO is to start simple and then add abstractions and interfaces over time. That will mean that, yes, when you come in to a project late there will be lots of those...

There are other practical reasons for using interfaces other than just "patterns" and "testing" though. Perf is one; you can avoid a lot of unnecessary mapping by being able to pass concrete types between modules when the receiver is accepting a shape instead of a concrete type...
If you had a time machine, would you go back in time to kill Hitler or this guy?
Testimony of Shou Chew, Chief Executive Officer, TikTok Inc [pdf]
Show HN: ChatGPT over WhatsApp Service
I connected the WhatsApp and ChatGPT APIs to allow you to connect and speak with ChatGPT over WhatsApp. Have called it ChatsApp. Simply add the number +1 689 267 3467 to your phones contact list, and start chatting with ChatGPT over WhatsApp.

Was pretty simple to build. Also had to buy a virtual number online to allow setting up a WhatsApp account with. The WhatsApp servers receive the message from the WhatsApp mobile application, which forward a webhook request to the application server I setup. The request gets forwarded to the ChatGPT API (i.e the OpenAI Chat API), and voila, you are now in conversation with ChatGPT

Interestingly, the ChatGPT API does not provide context recognition from previous conversations out of the box. That is something that needs to be built in manually. So currently, the ChatsApp service does not include the context recognition from previous conversations. Maybe something to look at building out in the future.
Or it shouldn't be a private entity.
The EFF, as always, is spot on.

And this is pretty consistent with their opinion on the same issue during the Trump administration.
I would like to know the views of the enthusiasts here.
I am using Sphinx with MyST as I had seen it being used in the JupyterHub.

I have textual on my bookmarks (have a future task to write a TUI for an app and need to choose between urwid and textual/rich [for HPC - ie older OS, lots of security measures around the terminal and access]).

I did a quick search but looks like I cannot use Sphinx directives with MkDocs [1].

I will search some more after coffee break, but there are directives I am using in other Sphinx (reSt and myst-md) that I would prefer to keep using if possible (I've also modified and monkey-patched some directives and loaded locally with sphinx/py).

Thanks

[1]: https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/discussions/2390
>The internet gave me a safe place

Maybe the internet stopped being a safe place? Social media is increasingly feeling like a space designed for manipulation.
Note that despite suffering from it he kept doing stunt in public without realising it was a danger.

Local rationality is a thing. It is not all a plot to suck money out. He believed his own shit.
Abundant energy doesn’t really sound like a problem to me
Plastic Rocks Discovered on a remote island a horrifying marker of anthropocene
I just drove a brand new rented Peugeot 208 and even the manual A/C was touchscreen only so that's ruined too.
It's almost like we should be optimising people getting stuff for creating actual value.
I have a feeling GPT will be used for that soon.

And I will certainly pay for it.
This should only apply to high- and mid-flying executives, not to bicycle-riding, hard-working, people like you and I.
Most people in the US only work 5 days a week and get ~8 days per month off that are not part of annual leave.

The "one day off a month" means literally, one day of not working per month, not one day of vacation time per month.
Is it? We walked into our local Hyundai and they had several models they were selling at MSRP.
People from Google have argued that's exactly why they're failing.

Personally, as someone who worked at a company that was up over 500% during the pandemic, shipped absolutely nothing during that spike, and then deflated below their pre-pandemic pricing, I saw the foley in hiring smart people first hand.

It's not enough to hire the smartest people, and in fact it can be a competitive disadvantage. The smartest people often want their piece of the product to reflect their ingenuity no matter how ancillary it is to the core mission. Unfortunately that often precludes the kind of agility that businesses need to stay competitive.

OpenAI managed to poach Googlers by simply not having fiefdoms built by smart people™. I imagine if Google had built GPT-4, it wouldn't be having downtime today. Because it wouldn't be public. And it might never be public because it doesn't scale for Google scale yet, and the ethicists want their say, and we need to integrate it into Borg and the front end hasn't passed through enough layers of design and...
I hope you're not a manager.
It wasnt vagueness by roket, but rather an elaborated exposition on that section. No need for snark on such an important conversation.
Current list of phrases:

https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/google-waitlist/blob/...
I get that you /can/ use an LLM to generate troll feedback for random projects... but why?
> Aren't there good arguments[1] that lab-grown meat is a long way from being cost-competitive due to fundamental thermodynamic reasons?

And cheap, fairly low processed, easy to make non lab grown fake chicken can look and taste like the real thing enough to be accidentally switched with no one noticing.

It would make more sense to try to make red meat - but I guess that is much harder.
If the author is reading: zero probability and near zero have indistinguishable colors.

That should be considered an error. Any letter that isn't impossible should be clearly labelled as possible. Right now you get lines pointing to semingly black letters, which looks like a mistake in the visualization.