skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This company leader is announcing his company is failing in the market and has some huge supply chain issues with no resolution in sight. Just reading between the lines here. There are two explanations for this announcement:

1) he genuinely believes this. I don't believe he's that naive/uninformed/ignorant. But I can't exclude the possibility.

2) more likely: he's managing expectations for shareholders in a market where other manufacturers are growing at the cost of companies like Stellantis that have a big urgent problem in the form of an expensive legacy production capacity. Which while still profitable is heading for a cliff around 2030-2035 time frame latest but probably a lot sooner in most of their markets.

In other words, this is a CEO that is preparing for what is about to be an extended period of regular bad news in the form of unavoidable layoff rounds, plant closures, disappointing quarters, etc. combined with a lot of capital investment that is necessary to stay relevant. All while other companies are breaking records in production volume, profit margins, market expansion, etc. And it's not just Tesla that does that.

Stellantis still makes many billions per year of course but if they fail to invest that properly (as opposed to letting share holders get their dividend), they will start having some issues there pretty soon. I don't think they have until 2035 to figure this out. Doing all that while keeping share holders from rebelling is going to be a key challenge.
This is similar to how I’ve been using ChatGPT. If you know what you need to do and how to do it, then you can tell ChatGPT what to do in a descriptive prompt. It gets you there 75% of the way and then you need to tweak things or ask it to refactor. For me, it’s removed a lot of grunt work and I can focus on the problem rather than coding.

It reminds me of working with a junior developer, you need to understand how to communicate with them effectively.
See this comment too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35380063
Nintendo at PAX East this year had about 30 consoles set up for mario kart, and tangentially a pokemon card game setup. No new releases or anything to promote that isn't already heavily monetized.

I'd say the floor of pax was about 20 percent emptier than last year, which was already abouu 30 percent emptier than pre-covid. Indie area was down by about half which was the biggest writing on the wall to me. Tabletop still going strong, but the vendors associated with them where also hit hard.
Because it suggests that the populace is subservient and would rather put up with the charade of pretending one family has a god given right to rule than face the fear of either rebelling against them or moving to a foreign country which is wholly self determined by the people. That kind of mentality is the same mentality that will cave and accept lower pay rather than take a risk and seek out opportunity elsewhere.
Do you see the qualitative difference between all of the following that can cause harm:

* a box of matches

* a handgun

* an assault rifle

* a 50 cal BMG

* an ICBM with nuclear MIRV

Saying that X has a property similar to the one Y has while ignoring the magnitude of the difference is silly.
> "Underlying sex" isn't a particularly coherent concept to begin with. By what potential mechanism could "underlying sex" influence behaviour, other than hormonally?

By that argument, trans people shouldn't exist because they have the hormonal profile of their birth sex, therefore they shouldn't exhibit observable behavioural differences.
it may have been resolved, but while making the account I - Italian - did not give consent to the dissemination of MY data, and that is not in accordance with the GDPR

now I am not saying that they have to stop making use of my data, but at least notify me how and where my of phone is being used?
If those features exist in Nim, you can just use Nim. FFI should probably work on newer libraries too.
Playing games like slime volleyball in grade 9 got me and probably thousands of other kids interested in programming.
Which car? You cannot drop something like this without a source
> It was pretty clear that it would not have any impact on his campaign by the time she was paid in October. So much crap was said about him by then, it would have been a small side story.

All election ads and promotional activities are small side stories in the scope of the overall campaign (and his family heard all the other crap said about him too!). Fact remains that the time Trump's lawyer paid off Stormy Daniels was years after the event but weeks before an election, and Cohen has already pleaded guilty to it being a campaign finance violation. In the scope of campaign finance violations it doesn't sound like a particularly massive one and the reasons for not wanting to declare it are obvious and unlikely to be related to any sort of wider conspiracy, but it stretches credulity to imagine that the election wasn't a consideration.
In the last few decades, there has been an increased interest in the role of prediction in language comprehension. The idea that people predict (i.e., context-based pre-activation of upcoming linguistic input) was deemed controversial at first. However, present-day theories of language comprehension have embraced linguistic prediction as the main reason why language processing tends to be so effortless, accurate, and efficient.

https://www.psycholinguistics.com/gerry_altmann/research/pap...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23273798.2020.18...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009...

https://www.earth.com/news/our-brains-are-constantly-working...

People say ChatGPT is just a next-word prediction machine. But these articles say human brains are doing the same, at some level.
Usually this way of thinking is called "benaltrismo".
More like the bad investment that Mark Twain poured excess income into.

I know little about Twain's life (other than his having arrived and left on Halley's comet) but the tale is illuminating. Despite his famed wit and rise to success, perhaps inside he was still that poor urchin who had no discipline when it came to his unexpected wealth.
i’d be concerned about privacy myself.
Yes, you're right and it's slowly happening. But it's a very slow process, and very surprising to me : I expected to be able to read fully written jazz easily, and, well, I can't, because reading fluently seems to be as much about predicting what's next as about knowing the alphabet and syllables!
False; python is the worlds largest community of children programming (\s)
It’s clearly been programmed to give canned answers to these questions. If you interrogate it a bit further on the details of its GDPR compliance it gives the same script every time, and will make outrageous claims about what PII is, and other things like that the right to be forgotten doesn’t apply to ChatGPT.
This is cool, but thank you for introducing me to mujoco. This could be exactly the library I've been looking for when it comes to simulating a fencing engine.
While technically true, and is, in my opinion, one way to avoid jailing political enemies just to take them off the ballot, there's a reason candidates do a lot of rallies while they're campaigning. If a candidate is actually in jail, they'll legally be on the ballot, but they'll face a very steep uphill battle for the practical needs of a campaign.
You nailed it. There's nothing on him so they have to grasp at straws.
Or, like other commenters mentioned, it's an intentional move by dems to increase his popularity (in the hopes that he'll be easier to beat in 2024)
This made for extremely painful reading (I'm not blaming the author), but I couldn't imagine getting given code full of syntax errors by GPT-4 - then asking it to correct them, only to get given more errors.

Co-pilot has been handy for generating structs and boilerplate code.

Where I think these models are currently interesting is in discovering conventions - libraries - approaches. Like an outline, which we know is probably broken - but enough for us to squint at and then write our own version.

Kind of like browsing an OSS repository to see "how it works" for inspiration.

Someone asked ChatGPT to write an OpenFaaS function for TTS - he needed to prompt it with the template name, and even then it got the handler format wrong. But it did show us a popular library in Python. To find the same with Google - we'd have to perhaps scan through 4-5 articles.

https://twitter.com/Julian_Riss/status/1641157076092108806?s...
Pretty much any large-ish city (500k+) will suffer from some variation of it, a little better here, a little worse there.

I'm originally from São Paulo's metro area, lived in the city most of my adult life in Brazil as well, and I wouldn't say it's "way safer". It does feel safer in a way, in some neighbourhoods but in the end it's just a variation of the ever-present dangers of Brazil. Rio de Janeiro is much more intertwined with hills and favelas in between nicer areas of the city, requires you to know how to behave/where to go.

I grew up in a rougher area (not a favela though), I'm not from a wealthy background and in a sense that helped with some street-smartness to live there and know what to avoid.
Yes: just remove that user's data from the training set, throw out the existing model and train from scratch on the modified training set.

As for the more interesting question if you can modify an existing model in a simple way: probably not. But you might get away with just dropping any response containing snippets of the contribution to be expunged, and that is hopefully good enough for the regulator.
Nope.

If I want to sell data in the EU, I can. I'm not subject to their laws unless I have a presence there.

GDPR tries to change that.

See https://www2.deloitte.com/ch/en/pages/risk/articles/gdpr-ext...
I can't see how there should be a reliable pattern in language usage like that. Javascript is more used that ever - who knows were the all-time market share peak is - but we're well beyond your 5-10 year time frame. Could you name any languages that actually have this pattern? Julia maybe.
It’s also worth mentioning the VSS disaster, which ended up setting all of Branson’s space flight endeavors back significantly and you could probably make the case indirectly caused the downfall of this subsidiary

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSS_Enterprise_crash
Ripgrep is already integrated into my editor and muscle memory. Nimgrep is just yet another special case tool that only exists because Nim decided to spend its weirdness budget on inconsequential nonsense.
Keep dreaming, anti-trans and anti-lgbt movements are gaining strength.

Over half of GenZ and alpha think women's rights and LGBT has gone too far.

Generations aren't magic,we have to give them incentives to care.
Good question, but I don't know the answer (yet) because I don't use vscode, sorry.
I think it’s a shame to even waste time talking about that “letter”
Well the human contacts were great when something was really weird, like Apple calendars changed something and our code broke, or something kept getting flagged and you needed someone at Yahoo or such to go bang on something with a hammer.

His complaint seems to be mostly about rate limiting an IP that doesn't normally send in bulk volume. It's a weird behaviour. I would recommend he not use fastmail or gmail, but an actual provider for bulk delivery.

"backing off" people submitting mail, mail resending when failed, these are all really good useful parts of the email system that help you recover when things go wrong, even though it feels like a slap in the face - it's much better than the alternative of whitelist only, or blocking people permanently.

It was frustrating for me sometimes.... free.fr was often on our rbl list, and if I recall it was mostly because a customer (different ones at different times) would send an email to bob@free.fr an that person was actually like bobby@free.fr, so free.fr thought you were sending crap, or spam or whatever. Usually it was just an undeliverable mail.

Another thing is - IPs yes - they have "warm up" as you start sending mail out of it. In fact, providers like fastmail have a bunch of IPs, that way if one was flagged, and they figured out what was going wrong (you wouldnt just flip to the new IP, because a outbound spammer would muck up your new IP instantly), you flip over to the other IP which wasn't on any RBL.

anyway, I'm probably botching the explaination, one time our anti-spam guy drew a giant whiteboard of how it all works and it gave me an instant hangover.

Just to say - yes it's more complex than 'open up the port and start sending mail' but certainly not approaching 'no independent providers are allowed'
SQL Chat
There are warnings raised by default, like this:

test.nim(2, 8) Hint: 'myvar' should be: 'myVar' [var declared in test.nim(1, 7)] [Name]
They pay to send model, at something like 0.1 penny an email does not destory amazon package shipments, but would properly force mailinglists to require payment to be on them.

But more importantly: the list didn't give technical answers, it gave political tradeofs that we never debated. Meanwhile the Gmail team went ahead and did what they did, and now we are stuck with one particular system that people then complain about.
Literally every browser anybody cares about has a passwords/setting sync function. Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Brave, Vivaldi. I don't think spinning a basic feature as a dirty ploy is terribly useful, or honest.
It's like handing out speeding tickets at a racetrack.
“AI isn’t taking jobs”

If by AI we mean things beyond just ChatGPT sure it will, it’s only a question of how long before it happens and how many new jobs will be created to replace the old jobs. For example, AI isn’t going to enhance customer service, you’ll just have better automated experiences and businesses will hesitate less to use them.

Edit: AI isn’t being created for the benefit of mankind. It’s being created in the pursuit of money. This isn’t a utopian fantasy world where we look out for everyone’s best interests, that’s just a side effect most of the time.
PyCharm has a great debugger. I am a longtime Pycharm user and have used VScode from time to time for python, and it seems like only now VSCode is catching up.

Pycharm is still better though in the general language support department. However I feel that if you were already a VSCode user, VSCode has become good enough. Pycharm like other IntelliJ based IDEs has many other QoL features which I can't find anywhere else. But if you haven't been using them already I doubt they would seem to make a difference.
A recent think tank article is "Higher Education and the Law of Diminishing Returns: Shortening the average time-to-degree makes economic sense." https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2023/03/higher-education-and...
u want a coherent reason? look at all the people you could feed with the money instead.
Correct. If you choose the dark theme it looks very very close to VSCode.
Autopeds
What is dead may never die!

Also noteworthy in this context: BEAM robots, which are mostly analog circuits that implement some behaviour like light-seeking with minimal components:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_robotics

https://smfr.org/robots/

https://hackaday.com/tag/beam-robotics/

While BEAM has always been more of a soldering exercise and artform, many interesting principles applicable to general robotics are buried there.
Only those that buy macs instead of paying GNU/Linux OEMs, and then complain macOS isn't Linux.

"Why We Have to Make UNIX Invisible."

https://www.usenix.org/blog/vault-steve-jobs-keynotes-1987-u...

"They said a Unix weenie was code for software engineers who hated what we were doing to Unix (the operating system we licensed)—putting a graphical user interface on it to dumb it down for grandmothers. They heckled Steve about his efforts to destroy it. His nightmare would be to speak to a crowd of them."

https://web.archive.org/web/20180628214613/https://www.cake....
Yes, I continue to use WhatsApp because I have fear of missing out.

Missing out on conversations from my extended family, friends (only about 1/4 use Signal and all groups are on WhatsApp), work (the Health Service in Ireland literally runs on WhatsApp), voluntary undertakings (all of which are organised on WhatsApp), organising stuff for the kids (again all on WhatsApp).

So it's a valid fear based on the reality in my social circle and country. Unilaterally moving to Signal means self-imposed isolation.
I live rural, wicked winters. I never buy a stick car because you need two arms and two feet to drive it. So if you get hurt, you are pretty stuck for a while until your arm or leg get better.
Hi everyone! I’m Adrian, co-founder of Genie Cloud. Genie Cloud is the no-code platform to quickly build & deploy Julia web apps. It is designed for R&D and data science teams using Julia, who need to share their work with interactive web apps.

Genie Cloud is very simple: import (or write) the Julia code, build the GUI with the drag & drop editor, and deploy the apps in one-click. No frontend code, server stack or hosting to worry about. With Genie Cloud you can build anything, from interactive dashboards to ML demos to production-grade apps.

Genie Cloud is built on top of the open source Genie Framework (https://genieframework.com/), the most popular Julia web framework (I’m also the creator and maintainer of Genie Framework).

At the moment we are in private beta. You can learn more and sign up to get access here: https://www.geniecloud.io/. Looking forward to your thoughts and questions!
It's worth mentioning that the former senator John Edwards was prosecuted for a similar hush money case. It ended in a acquittal on some and mistrial on other charges. The issue was that it is not obvious what he was alleged to have done was even a crime. And Trump's case is even weaker than that of John Edwards.
Is that a huge problem on the Paris metro? I haven't ridden it in years, so I'm sadly lacking in practical experience. I know it's a major issue over here in the States, though. Similarly, it's difficult to justify biking around in the states, too, because so many metro areas have angle grinder-wielding crazies cruising around, looking for fresh bikes to steal. Hopefully Paris has solved some of that issue.
One tried the reverse and its CEO went to jail.
This is the best PR campaign that openAI ever created
>> same sorts of safeguards as nuclear weapons

Seems impossible. If making a nuclear weapon required merely a few branches of a willow tree and baking powder, regulation would be pretty hard. We would just have to live with the risks. It seems we will be at this level with AI at some point fairly soon.
This is the correct approach to equitable and safe AI, as opposed to the ‘Pause AI’ proposal recently discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35348353
"I felt too disgusted to hold any of it. Holding it would mean being part of the problem."

Lol what problem.

If people don't wanna see adds, surely they can just use a good adblocker.
Correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs
In English, whataboutism.
bubble sort is never as good as insertion sort, not even for almost-sorted data or for six elements

bubble sort is never the way to go

generally in the case you're describing, where you have a few thousand elements that need to stay sorted in the face of insertions, a b-tree would be a better choice, or failing that, merge in a batch of updates whenever the update file gets big enough

either of these can beat bubble sort or insertion sort in this situation by more than an order of magnitude
I'm pretty sure Adobe did build a version even if it wasn't released.
Impressive! Is this only available to Julia users?
Is every drug that Singapore bans an example of "filth"?

Is an authoritarian Brave New World ok as long as people living in it are reportedly happy?
I don't understand why it needs "funding"--I was under the impression it was a subsidiary of whatever the Virgin parent company is, but I guess I was wrong.
Hello, and apologies,

Given our limited resources, we have translated the tutorials (both the spoken language and the written words in the videos as appropriate) into a subset of the languages that Scratch has been translated into (> 50 languages). The tutorials themselves have been translated into Spanish, French, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Russian, Turkish, and more. This includes both the spoken words and the written ones. The specific updates to enable this were done in the last two years, so perhaps your experience was prior to that work?

One of my favorite things to show off is switching between Right→Left languages vs Left→Right languages, I encourage everyone to try it! These translations are also a struggle. It adds a lot of extra data to the downloadable and standalone Scratch application and we cannot assume that there will be a network connection available to enable a just-in-time download approach.
> The US believes it has extraterritorial jurisdiction as well in many places, even in some cases where it isn't their citizens that are affected.

So what? We're discussing the GDPR. Pretty sure the US has no similar law at all. GDPR was considered a first.

> In general countries may well claim that their law applies even if you believe it doesn't, you then break that law at your own risk

You're trying to compare GDPR to general prinicples and it doesn't work. GDPR was a new type of law.

See https://www2.deloitte.com/ch/en/pages/risk/articles/gdpr-ext...

"Let’s say for example that you are a Chinese web shop with a website that is available in German, French and English as well. You also process multiple orders a day from individuals within the EU and ship your products to them. This will make you fall in the scope of the GDPR, even though you have no establishment in the EU and are not performing any data processing activities within the EU."

Yeah, that's unprecedented.
You'd be surprised how many users don't understand what's behind the scenes. Very often it's knowingly obfuscated by the companies. I doubt many of the users understand their input is becoming part of the future models. Keep dunking on GDPR but I really enjoy having it locally and see the day to day advantages this brings to my life. This puts me as a user in control of the data I give to a business. "Take it or leave it" is too weak of an option IMO.
I am not the one having issues with Oracle.

In fact, I am thankful that they at least avoided Java being stuck in Java 6, and MaximeVM turned into GraalVM, when no one else cared to save Sun from insolvency. Only IBM made a candidate offer that was quickly withdrawn.

So people should stop acting as if there was any magic way to rescue Sun assets.

Also the fact they were one of the first GNU/Linux supporters in enterprise context, which allowed us to actually have a couple of GNU/Linux computers among our Aix, HP-UX and Solaris servers, happily running Oracle instances.
When I read Harry Potter as a child, I would feel a sort of melancholy when I finished the book and had to go back to a reality without magic. But as the years went by, I started to realize how much our world was starting to look like the magical world... it really is true that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Moving pictures in the newspaper? We have iPhones and tablets and tiny screens with interactive video...

Talking to people through the fireplace? We have video calls on our phones.

Writing words into a diary and having it write back to you? Well now we've got that too.

Now I'm just waiting for the flying broomsticks. Maybe we can do something with magnets inside an electrified metal Quidditch arena...
I used to do this.
But damn writing articles for other companies can take super long and be boring especially if they come up with the topics.
But good points!