skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's probably a distinction to be made between being obvious and having no surprises. I agree Python is relatively obvious, and I write a lot of small python scripts for data analysis because if I can figure out what I want to do, doing it in python is usually very simple. But for larger programs I care less about obvious, and more about no unpleasant surprises. Once the amount of code grows larger than I can hold in my head at once, I really want the language to help me avoid footguns. Python mostly isn't great for this due to its type system (with a few exceptions such as its big integer support avoiding most integer overflow surprises).

It probably isn't a popular opinion, but I actually think C++ does a fairly good job of this, so long as you're disciplined in how you use it. That discipline is not necessarily obvious, but I've acquired it over 30+ years, and now I find that I almost never have memory safety issues (I do use sanitisers here, but they rarely show up anything). Perhaps more importantly, C++'s fairly strong typing means I'm generally pretty confident refactoring code as requirements change without getting unpleasant surprises. Sure, C++ could do better in many ways, but it is pretty good at avoiding many of the unpleasant surprises I care about, at least for single-threaded code.
> if people have an alternative to Google Search (very unlikely)

I started using Bing ~2 years ago. At the start, I used Google to get alternate results for about 1/4 of searches. Today? I drop to Google a couple of times a month, at most, usually when searching for something very ambiguous. I don't even live in the US.
From what I've heard even their performance reviews heavily focus on bringing new products to market or working on exciting projects, so even if Google needs it there's a chance you're at the top of the list for layoffs anyway.
I still have the weird issue where I have a google domain with email and stuff, and the same email address is somehow also a separate google account of the personal variety.

No idea how it somehow kinda works and when it’ll finally explode in my face.
Stadia is probably the saddest one. Great technology that was never really given a chance.
Nice to see improvements in podman startup and how the team achieve it...

Constraints (car env) drive creativity !
True, but anything it says is generally easy to verify before you do something stupid. And for things as common and relatively standardized as cars I would expect it to do very well.
Big cars are seen as a status symbol even if one is being driven in them. Even modern electric cars are big. I’m not sure going driverless will change much.
A bit unrelated, but I’m curious if others had small engines or auto shop classes offered in their high schools?
> Yeah you can argue that /pol/ sways far right and you'd be correct, and I don't personally condone most of the opinions that are represented there, but take a look at the general threads, you have a pro-ukraine one and an anti-ukraine one, both with equal representation. I can't think of any other site that has this.

It's not so much the voting that makes things lopsided but when posts are ordered or deemphasized based on those votes or if the actual moderators are opposed to free speech ideals. I can think of at least two low-moderation forums that do manage to host people of opposing opinions for the Ukraine war and other topics so it's not like 4chan is particularly unnique, just bigger and better known.
Happy to see this pop up again here. I think it holds immense potential and I can’t wait so see what people will do with it! Let me know if you have any questions!
You can even make a type of them yourself with rudimentary equipment, by cutting the data lines and connecting/not cutting the power lines. I believe you will lose the ability to negotiate faster charging, and I don't know if USB-C will work at all, but it still works otherwise.
From Perl to Rust (eBook)
Did you miss their point? They merely used UB, correctly, as a term we all do recognize today.

I will utterly kill all humor by explaining it:

They made a funny observation about a thing that happens. The thing that happens is (today) called UB. The funny observation is that that comment kind of exhibited the outward appearance of what the effects of UB could look like.

It began reciting one metaphore, "enough rope to hang yourself" but mid-way unexpectedly switched to a different metaphore "shoot yourself in the foot", producing a combined invalid nonsensical output. As though a program suffered some UB in the routine for looking up and printing metaphores.

The comment author might have done it on purpose. Maybe they intended to make exactly that joke.

The history of the term UB has no more bearing than the history of any of the other words used.
Agreed.

Well, in theory you may have conflicts in the bucket.

And recovering the bucket means a round-trip to memory, which is much more expensive than running over a list.

And in any case, "n" is the length of the word, but has nothing to do with the distribution of the dictionary. So one should use a "m" to capture that.
Part of the problem is when you are in that position it’s also easy to move to other interesting projects internally.

Then the real choice is between doing boring maintenance or useful new things at same pay.
Maybe not "moderately successful", but if I bought a router from Google and it was no longer supported / discontinued, I would probably avoid buying a Google product again.
For kids, it does indeed never happen. You cannot say "children are being mutilated" and then quietly redefine late teens into being children.

> And yes, some of them are regretting that when they grow up. Some of them are even willing to speak up. But I'm sure you will not listen.

You do realize this is literally the spotlight fallacy. 99% have no regrets, 1% do, you would like to focus entirely on the 1% to the point of obsession.

How about listening to the 99% who don't have regrets? Why are you so eager to ignore the majority of the people this actually concerns, instead patronisingly deciding you know what's best?
Maybe the new feature 'hx-on' can help with that ?
They need to create a subsidiary of Alphabet called Google Maintenance or something and explicitly it only does boring maintenance and promotes on a mechanized schedule.
From the "Other Examples" section:

> The word or string "ass" may be replaced by "butt", resulting in "clbuttic" for "classic", "buttignment" for "assignment", and "buttbuttinate" for "assassinate".

I shall forever call it "buttbuttinate" from now on.
I agree on the ratings. I struggled with a way to convey that this is not a school where you would even imagine alumni caring about. It’s the school to go to when you don’t get into the state university and don’t get into the secondary state university. Not that it’s bad, it’s just not a place that should have 5 people working on this task.

So at I thought that the ranking shows that they haven’t even gotten to the point of joining the grift of rankings. It’s rated between 400-500.

It’s hard to truly rank universities in general or even in specific subject areas and, for me, it falls into the unquantifiable reputation realm.

I grew up with Bill Gates and Paul Allen and Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs and other successful college dropouts so I always felt I wanted to look at output and production rather than credentials. But of course, I have to settle for medical boards and whatnot and the drawbacks of that as there’s no way I can or am willing to evaluate cardiologists based solely on their work. Artists and coders, sure.
>Government-sponsored was not a US propaganda badge, it was a response to a serious concern about adversarial governments

For most people USA is an adversarial government. You've just confirmed it was a propaganda badge meaning "unamerican".
Google must perform periodic ritual sacrifice of some of its own. It is the natural order of things. Failure to do so would anger the internet gods.
The Prisoner’s Dilemma Wedge: Netflix’s strategy for startup traction (2018)
You may like having a toilet stool
Well why don't you tell me about the hiking trails around my house? Oh you don't know them? It's too specific information and you couldn't possibly know that? Ah interesting...

The trick is to ask it only things that are both physically possible and also possible for it to actually know or provide the required extra context from which to deduce the answer. Otherwise it acts not unlike someone pushed against a wall by a guy with a knife demanding info it just doesn't have. It'll say anything.
The difference in taxis in shenzhen a few years ago astonished me. Either filthy, ragged, diesel VW passats, or incredibly high tech BYD electric SUVs.

They were impressive back then, will be interesting to see what BYD can do with an affordable EV.
Microsoft has had various tools and programs that they sunset (lynk becoming Skype for business becoming teams) but they do try to make a migration path available (or, arguably, they just put window dressing on the same backends).
You don't just shut it down, but discontinue further sales instead so that existing contracts die gracefully.
It would be interesting to see a Chinese manufacturer taking the lead in the automobile segment. Wonder how it will affect politically.
It was all Korean or Japanese dominance till now with KIAs/Hyudai and Toyotas.
American cars brands mostly fail outside the US.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3629299 (via https://twitter.com/emollick)

> Between 1883 and 1919, Andrew Carnegie funded the construction of more than 1,500 public libraries across the United States, reducing the costs of accessing knowledge for millions of people. We study the effect of these libraries on innovation using new data on city-level patenting and a novel control group: cities that qualified to receive a library grant and applied to be part of the program, but ultimately did not build a library. Patenting in recipient towns increased by 7-11 percent in the 20 years following library construction. We show that access to scientific knowledge and opportunities to interact with fellow patrons are possible mechanisms.
ChatGPT and AI vs. API developers – a conversation with Kin Lane
HugNLP is a novel development and application library based on Hugging Face for improving the convenience and effectiveness of NLP researchers.
"These unlucky people have names that break computers" - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-b...

"Hello, I'm Mr. Null. My Name Makes Me Invisible to Computers" - https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/
Sony investment will put AI chips inside Raspberry Pi boards
That's also a good question. Are people here assuming that the interview process can only involve asking a single question to the applicant?

You generally want to cover a range of skills, and technical skills like the ones covered in the article are an important part of that.
It took 8 years for this high profile guy to be caught because he comingled funds in 2020

This article is not the investigative epiphany that it thinks it is
What mechanism or project did you use to automate prompts and capture results of the prompts?
Anything related to crypto/blockchain tends to be a technically very poor way of doing decentralisation.
Thats basic money laundering and HSBC is ready to help you.
Would you call any laboratory at a land grant university that receives research grants from the government a “state affiliated lab”?
> More software is fine IMO. More software on critical path ain't.

Based on the story in the parent, it sounds like this was precisely a problem with software on the critical path, otherwise local mecs/breakdown service would have been able to fix it rather than give up.
It works with the cherry-picked examples. 9-8 for example gives not 1 but its mirror image.
In my experience, asking leetcode style questions is utterly miserable for the interviewer.

I would stop in an instant if someone could come up with a better option.
thanks god cardiology isn't my calling
For context injection, don’t we just want the best tool for the job to find relevant snippets from the source material?

This isn’t exactly a new problem, just about any content management system will have this capability already. If a vector database is better for search for context injection, shouldn’t we start seeing cms products adopting it for their native search features?
So why is it hosted in Germany and not, say, China?
Bard should have been released as an upgrade to Google Assistant imo. Imagine how much better a voice assistant would be if you could actually hold a decent back and forth conversation with it without having to know the exact phrasing needed to accomplish something.

Google Assistant still feels so stunted and lifeless when I know Google can produce more realistic generated speech audio, interpret requests in plain English and respond in a helpful manner.
They used to do public betas. I remember Gmail being labeled beta in the early days.
Which has nothing to do with the fact that it's an EV.

Modern cars have a lot of embedded systems in them. A small fraction of them is drivetrain related, like battery controller and inverter control on an EV.

Actually ICE is way more complex than EV.

But I think people get confused with EV and autonomous driving.
I can't understand this sentiment at all.

You studied field X to work in field X, and in a job interview the "smarmy git" considering to employ and pay you has the temerity to ask you things about field X to see whether you've understood the basics of field X, can apply them, explain your reasoning, and think on your feet?

And that engenders (and I quote) hate, sadness, anger and despair?
On Suicide
I'd be very very curious to follow the life of all these "chatgpt does 80% of my work" people.

Unless you code to-do list and sudoku html "apps" all day I doubt it's anywhere close to true
according to the article, they are refunding all Stadia hardware and software purchases done through their store

they don't say the same about their wiretap wifi router thingy
When my kids started Elementary school we had a Principal, a superintendent, and teachers, The superintendent both retired and we now have a Principal, a superintendent, a vice-principal, and a few specialized directors. This happened over 10 years right before my eyes. The new Principal claimed the job was just too big. We are small town with fewer than 600 students. I feel like such a grumpy old man doubting these peoples work effort. I think people that do poor jobs hire more people to create more confusion. I'm not proud of my cynicism.
I think if you open up a Tesla infotainment system you would find something eerily similar to containers. Remember that what you and most programmers think of containers is merely one possible assembly of a bunch of kernel features. There exists not just a gradient between plain processes and containers but a whole solution space with different tradeoffs.

I happen to know a small amount of the Tesla internals and they are using cgroups, namespaces, app armour and ebpf based syscall filtering to secure various processes on the car.

You almost certainly should not use docker or podman to manage processes on a car but that doesn't mean you shouldn't embrace the subsystems they are built on in order to increase security resilience and defense in depth.
Now I really really want a Suzuki DR-Z400. Thanks!
> Note - for the same reason, big-O analyses of sorting algorithms don't usually take an extra O(log n) factor (in n being the size of the valuespace) for the time it takes to compare entries, even though obviously it takes 'longer' to compare two 64bit numbers for size than two 32bit numbers

This is a great point. If you're sorting an array of strings, you would never add an extra m in that complexity analysis for the size of the longest string, in bits (not length, because unicode)

The OP seems wrong to make candidates do this
This is a great comment because in my motorcycle group of roughly ~60 or 70 people over the years, maybe 25% have owned a Miata. Apparently the motorcycle+miata crossover is huge. Usually along with an SV650 or DRZ at some point as well.

I never had a Miata but I did buy a DRZ and have a blast on it for about 4 hours. The following morning it wouldn't start and after spending all the time I was willing to spend on doing valves/carb/etc, I decided that the 450 kit was to blame, so I just traded it for a 2stroke! I do hope a sumo will be in my future now that I live in a city, though.

Good luck on your Miata endeavors, I'm sure you wont regret it!
It's not just Stanford. Change some details and this letter could have been written about any number of universities today. With no disrespect to the writer, they came across as if they were just stumbling into the problems of modern universities and attributing it to Stanford in particular. This maybe adds to its appeal, though, as it highlights the absurdity of it all — as if someone responsible is just stumbling onto all of this and is like "what the hell is going on in here?"
> Surely the people working at Google understand how all these shutdowns look to outsiders, right?

Yeah, outside of tech enthusiasts, the majority of people don’t care.

Street view was an app for marketing. In 2010 it looked really cool and helped their image.

None of these projects/products looked financially feasible. And a code jam? Jesus Christ, my public library hosts code meetups.

This blog post is boring and weird. It comes off as a
weak attempt to find more reasons to hate Google.
I cloned my friend's voice a few weeks ago using Tortoise-TTS using 20 seconds of audio and Google Colab: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts

Other friends said it sounded really like him.
Agreed — but evidently the other 99.999% of humanity loves them.
For some reason I find this answer very funny. "I am like lion, I was born knowing".
To be honest, the author is literally fiddling knobs to enable existing features described in documentation and mentioned everywhere on the net. All the “performance tuning” here is done by SQLite developers.
With prompting it knew about the snorkel trail here (it is well documented online and in local media) but blended facts about the snorkel trail, with facts about the local windfarm. Some sponsorship from the windfarm had gone into promoting the snorkel trail, which may have led to the confusion for the model, but they are two very different things in different locations.
Some think entire categories of careers are at risk of being less valuable or eliminated. In a society that didn't treat obsoleted professionals like used condoms, that would less daunting. We don't live in that society and won't by the time many people have to deal with the ramifications of this.
> Because half the crap Google ships are “side projects which didn’t work out,” a list which apparently now includes its cloud.

What do you mean by this? It seems GCP has around 10pc market share and growing.
At some point, maybe you decide that life is too short and you change the name. Cities have been renamed before. In addition, even if a word is itself inoffensive, if it is close to an offensive word, it can be a problem. There is a word that starts with “n” that means stingy, but because it is close to another word that is a horrible racial slur, you would be a fool to use it, even though it has a different meaning.
Whom do I have to contact to get acquired for 100M by Google and then shutdown with a full stock vesting after 6 months?
If the coffee is hot enough to burn or scar, you've got a case that is far, far more serious than a disciplinary action could possibly encompass.
Stadia, for one.
Just got a new car with Android Automotive and this is incredibly aggravating. Maybe it's for the best that I use a dummy gmail account with the service but it just shows I'm paying Google to be a lesser class citizen and maybe it's time to migrate the whole thing.
First image of a black hole gets a makeover with AI
I would gladly pay for such a course.
Texas county weighs shutting down libraries to circumvent judge’s order
Sure, it’s obviously be a better choice to not use an image.
I wonder how accurate this approach is.
One thing is being trained on someone's art, another is getting hints from the rest of the whole collective knowledge of how that artist works.

checking the V5 tab I almost immediately found Akira Toriyama, and the art is ... well, sure on one of the four drawings there are some Goku-like hair on ...some cheeks (not the face ones) drawn in the style of Terry Gilliam?

Then of course, for older artists the match is much stronger, and for some of the modern and famous ones too. But it seems to me that the whole method could be heavily biased.
Stadia. Many game developers had spent months or even years of their life developing Stadia ports or exclusives and then it was cancelled without any warning.

As to whether it was successful - I mean, it didn't exist long enough to answer that question.

Other things that come to mind are Chromecast Audio and OnHub.
I wonder what's the simplest Langchain agent that can recreate this?
>It’s interesting to me that they continue to spawn and nix products like this despite the reputation damage it causes.

I guess this means a "reputation" doesn't influence their profits. Some companies aren't in impression-making business, or even pretending-to-be-trying-to-make-their-customers-happy business.
This is amazing! I've been fed up with the SEO soup google has been serving up the last few years. There are good results on there, but you need to dig to find the good bits you care about. For code debugging stack exchange is often my go to, but for concise code examples and good explanation of how to do something with code, I really like the way phind summarizes the information in a straightforward way.

Makes me want to start coding more in my spare time, as my biggest hurdle is often finding information about how to start or how to do something more complex. I see it as a great way to learn. If it hallucinates something it's not the end of the world, and I'll usually catch it pretty fast.
What a weird article. Tesla rates 9 mentions, Toyota rates 17 against 20 for BYD, the subject of the article. It's laced with references to Toyota but doesn't really say much about the BYD vehicles themselves besides that they are not yet sold in the United States.

I haven't seen a single one of these and with the Chinese market as large as it is I'm sure that they could stay away from other markets for a long time without exporting their BEVs to countries where they will have to face competition from established Western brands.

Toyota itself is way behind the curve on BEVs, their JV with BYD is mostly Toyota hedging their bets that their Hydrogen path ends up being a dead end.

If you want to know more about BYD the wikipedia page is a lot more informative than this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Auto
Just like some people are hypnotized by the Steve Jobs reality distortion field, you are blinded by your dislike for Steve Jobs and it is impossible to calmly talk about the things he created. All that is left is a screaming match ‘my guy is better’ ‘no my guy’. That is useless.
Containers do isolation in userspace, its a pure software thing. Its not doing any kind of hardware isolation nor is it able to.
Who cares? Stanford has one administrator for every student. Professsors are a fraction of that. If they want to shut something down, start with the DEI office and then the law school since they are both a disgrace.
This is perfectly supported.
I don't understand the rationale of preventing a user registration because you found a forbidden string in the name/address/town field. I can understand not wanting "offensive" usernames (that would be displayed by your service) but surely they aren't sharing user's addresses publicly?