skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely a thing online for people to roll out the "you just don't get it" line in response to a negative review of a piece of media, but I thought it a little more applicable here in discussing whether 1 scene - written by one person - fits thematically with the rest of the film(s) written by other people.

As in: the issue raised with Gosling's writing is that it's portrayal of androids' emotionality is not in line with the rest of the film(s). But to me that's one of the primary themes of both films.
And to clarify in a child comment, yes I dislike Facebook and think it has huge harmful externalities, yes I dislike advertising and think it has huge harmful externalities, but I also dislike that the justification from the FTC I read in this article and in the others I checked against lacks respect for basic human liberties and has huge harmful externalities and I don't feel obligated to overlook that on the basis of any other dispreference.
It's interesting who the USG owes money to. A non-trivial portion is to social security - ie, the government borrowed from the social security trust fund and has yet to pay it back.

So politicians vote to borrow against this fund to pay for an astronomical defense budget then unsurprisingly start "sounding the warning" that social security will run out of money...
That's because the ceiling is a nonsensical concept. They money has already been spent.
What kind of violation can happen in a building lobby that leads to an eviction? I'm seriously confused. Littering?
Oh great, next you’re going to tell me that I AM the product.
You'd think this, but ChatGPT is able to write code in my programming language after I feed it just a few examples. It's not perfect, but it knows enough about adjacent language that it can actually write pretty good code in my language. The problem is you have to keep reminding it about the language fundamentals, or it will start making things up as your prompts get further and further from the first examples.
"Facebook spokesperson does a decent job feigning emotion."
Exactly. Lattner himself has been involved in some of this - Swift for Tensorflow comes to mind. I'm old enough to remember when Swift for Tensorflow was going to be the new ML language hotness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drSpCwDFwnM and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s65BigoMV_I
You are probably correct in that the government MUST recognize that non handicapped AI models are more useful, but to believe so requires looking past what the current representatives are actually saying and doing.

If a person repeatedly says they are going to close a door, walks over to the door, grabs the handle, and begins to pull it closed... Is it really outside the realm of possibility that they may, in fact, close the door?
It communicates an intelligence, but it's someone else's intelligence, not the book's.
I'm pretty sure Nim copied that from D language.

As they always said, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Seems kind of crazy. What are the terms of this agreement? What kind of stability is required to make the agreement executable?
But what's the Mutual fund doing with the money? Presumably chasing yield in CDs and the like. Isn't that putting money back into a bank?
Does this mean Mojo will have something like Rust’s Try trait? :D
There was indeed an anti-GOP article on the debt ceiling in late Nov 2016: https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2016/11/22/the-hole-...
Meta has Facebook News.

Again, the issue is that most people only read the headlines [0], which is exacerbated by platforms publishing tirades of them and nothing else.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/03/19/am...
I’ll wait to hear more details rather than assuming everyone doing anything I have any question about is a liar or a grifter.

Tunnels are cool. Small tunnels maybe less cool - but one can still imagine the uses. Here’s one: put it deep enough only the DOD knows it exists and run oil pipelines without public controversy.
I think the main reason why you split it is that it simply is easier to get the semantics you want, which is roughly what is being demonstrated here. Working on tokens is easier in the parser because things like the semantics of whitespace and lexical ambiguities can be handled by your algorithm of choice.
Having tried to write full grammars using only parser combinators on top of raw codepoint streams, I can say:

- It's completely possible

- BUT the bits that would normally be handled elegantly in the lexing phase are now strewn into every single grammatical element's parser, and it's surprisingly hard to formulate composable solutions that don't lead to undesirable resolutions to ambiguous situations (or rejecting desired grammar, or accepting undesired grammar, etc.)

I think it's possible that with differently defined grammars, it would be fine. For example, JSON should be completely trivial just because of how few tokens there are and how little ambiguity there is; I tend to write JSON parsers directly against the codepoints for this reason, in the odd event I have to write a JSON parser. (Yes, it comes up. Yes, I am aware JSON has some weird edge cases and I shouldn't do this.)
Interest rates weren't this high when we ran up a $33 trillion bill. My fear about this is that as long-term bonds expire, they will need to be re-issued at much higher rates. A significant chunk of US tax revenue goes towards servicing the debt, and that chunk will only get bigger.

The "debt ceiling" is a distraction from the real problem. It's a dumb political football.
A similar thing happened in Georgia a couple years back (embarrassed by Chattanooga's loop) and has paid off well. I live in rural Carroll County and have 2 choices of fiber to my farm. Spectrum (in ground) and CarrollEMC (on pole) now. This is huge for me since I work from home 3 out of 5 days. Previously it took filing a complaint with the FCC to get dsl hooked up because the provider at that time wouldn't do the install (previous owners already had it installed).
Erlang is a nice and unique language, but I feel at its core it falls into the object-oriented/message-passing paradigm, very much in the vein of Smalltalk. Consider these paragraphs from Smalltalk's Wikipedia entry [1]:

> A Smalltalk object can do exactly three things:

> 1. Hold state (references to other objects).

> 2. Receive a message from itself or another object.

> 3. In the course of processing a message, send messages to itself or another object.

Replace "Smalltalk object" here with "Erlang process" and the description holds.

> Unlike most other languages, Smalltalk objects can be modified while the system is running. Live coding and applying fixes ‘on-the-fly’ is a dominant programming methodology for Smalltalk and is one of the main reasons for its efficiency.

Erlang's famed robustness similarly owes much to its ability to update code in a running program.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Object-oriented_prog...
Governments should have to earn the right to invade everyone’s privacy and act in authoritarian ways. Give me a 30 year track record of outstanding governance with real, working checks and balances that have resulted in zero abuse or misuse.
This is true in other western democracies if you look at borrowing/expenditure by political flavour.
I believe the point being made is that while it is possible to merge lexing and parsing with recursive descent parser, it is not essential to this style, and separating lexing and parsing while doing recursive descent parser is also a legitimate approach.
As the article explains, MMFs in the EU are very small relative to deposits. Competition in the EU is limited because of the important political role that banks play (if people do move their money en masse out of banks, it will have political consequences as well as economic...there would be no option but to bail everyone out).
Man, if Colorado could get permitless carry and a uniform gun law like Utah, I might consider moving there. They've been killing it with some of their laws lately. Right to repair mainly.

Edit: Upon further inspection, their gun laws are much worse than I thought. Nevermind.
> You folks know other countries don't do this silliness right? They don't have an arbitrary debt ceiling they have to constantly raise or else the government goes into torpor? That's just an Americans thing.

The article says exactly this.
How does this jack up prices and force people out?

The article mentions petty lease violations, but if a tenant is committing "petty" lease violations, then there are lease violations. Neighbors in my building regularly left trash in the hallway. It was gross and fits the bill for a petty violation. The landlord had no proof and so couldn't (wouldn't) enforce.

That said, lease violations go both ways with the added requirements of NYC housing laws. If a landlord is violating either, however petty, they are violating. If hot water is 119 and not the required 120, its a violation. It's binary.

To be clear, I'm not in favor of biometrics for this use case. A key fob, pin code, or dial by name system doesn't seem broken, so why "fix it" and add the risk that sensitive biometrics info is leaked because of hacking/theft/accidental loss.

I'm seeking to understand what the root of the concern for being forced out is over a change in method used to enter the building?
I am exploring way on how to implement this in C (with some extensions) as a library:

https://github.com/uecker/noplate

Certainly not production ready.
Tell me how to win elections?
Increasing tax rates will lower government revenues though as history has shown. It's a maximization problem under a curve not some simple linear equation to determine where tax rates should be set. We are arguably close to already having a rate that yields the most collection.
More likely we negotiate the terms of debt forgiveness, such as tariff reductions etc.

Domestic debt could be traded in for a permanent tax credit.
The Economist seems like it is incapable of not doing a "both sides!" with regards to American politics lately and I find it quite frustrating.
Depends why they're selling the property. Every seller has a different motivation.
This is what has me on edge a bit. The reps of party in charge is seemingly run by people intent on scoring social media points, and the more they get, the more they double down on crazy.

Much like Trump, many of the reps in place seem to lack basic shame, which makes them dangerous. Most of the processes and norms we have in place assume some level of shame to act as a breaker. If you have just one person acting out, the system might survive. When you have dozens, all acting without shame, we get in to new uncharted territory.
"The debt ceiling is complete bullshit"

It has an instant impact to value attributed to the currency, which then impacts imports/export prices, which then impacts economic activity.

Look at what's happening in South Africa - they thought they issue debt/ print money to paper over social issues, and everything would be Ok. They are finding out that analysis was incorrect.
Once or twice a decade really. And when the Republicans (it's always them) tie raising this artificial construct to their political goals, it causes panic. At some point, the madman putting a gun to your head may pull the trigger.

The debt limit has nothing to do with budgeting or spending limits. It is a foolish hack in US law that lets the Treasury borrow money to pay for our spending already authorized.

Ideally it would go away entirely.
For what it’s worth I’ve been using Hue bulbs for about 10 years and have yet to see a single failure.
Roughly lexing handles things that can be recognized with regexes (i.e., that don't have recursively nested structure).
I'm on Fort Collins internet right now - branded 'Connexion'. I have 1 gigabit per second symmetric, for $70/mo. It's more stable & reliable than Comcast's was, and the time I had to call tech support, I had somebody who clearly knew details of how DHCP & IPs worked and was able to collaborate with some investigation on my end.

Rollout took a few years to get to me as they ran fiber. But it was a steady pace, doing a neighborhood at a time.

Get yourself some local broadband. It works well. Comcast could have run fiber through the whole city, but they never did. And they charged 2x or more for their slower cable, with worse service and worse reliability.
The United States is the only country in the world where the conservatives vote for a budget, but then when fall rolls around, refuse to pay for it.

It's just a political lever that they discovered, where pulling it damages the country, but somehow scores political points, so they are pulling it over and over and over again.

Stop rewarding them for it.

If they actually gave two craps about the debt, they wouldn't vote for a budget where expenses exceed revenue. But doing that wouldn't score them political points, so...
Does this mean that `word` in

char *word = "xyz";

is a pointer to an array of four `int`s, `'x'`, `'y'`, `'z'`, and `'\0'`? When I evaluate

sizeof(*word)

I do get 1 instead of 4, even though `*word` is pointing to `'x'`. Where are the remaining 3 bytes in memory?
> But the Boring solution is manually operated

The intent is that it's supposed to be autonomous cars moving around, but it seems Elon vastly overestimated the speed with which autonomous cars can actually be delivered, so the manual operation is just a stopgap solution.

Then again, it's pretty telling that he's struggling to recreate the features of systems developed 50 years ago.
GP you originally replied to. He’s not saying the debt doesn’t go up regardless of who is the presidency, but that republicans only make it into an exercise in brinksmanship when a democrat has the Oval Office.
You're right! Republicans are the only ones who play brinkmanship games with the debt limit to hurt their political rivals. Imagine gambling with the well-being of the country like that over funds you've already voted to spend.
For now, but not for long.
Perhaps because FB is actually breaking the law.
Specifically long term devaluation with respect to specific commodity classes.
Venezuela has pretty well collapsed.
Nightlight on the colour & ambient bulbs I have don't go nearly dim enough. I haven't tried the hipster bulbs, but I don't want a lightbulb that calls attention to itself.
> the only factor in that transition was the complexity of the nervous system

It seems likely to me that some arrangement of nerves is possible that's comparably complex to ours, but does not produce consciousness. (I dunno, maybe some organism with much more complex sensory organs than ours that devotes so much complexity budget to that that it only has enough left to devote to general cognition to give it the intelligence of a mushroom, who knows). In other words: I suspect complexity is necessary but not sufficient for consciousness to occur. I don't think that takes away from your suggestion that consciousness in AI systems is _possible_, but I don't think it's the case that it's an inevitable outcome if only we can make our systems sufficiently complex. There's probably something about the specific structure of the complex thing we'll need to master as well.
Have a peek at https://doingmiles.com/hike-sf/ for some longer itineraries like this. Lots of options if you're willing to do a little stealth camping (please be ethical/considerate [1])

[1] good writeup from the same authors https://doingmiles.com/techniques-stealth/
Show HN: ReversePP lets you search UK Planning Application Data nationally
ReversePP is a tool I developed to help with OSINT investigations in the UK by indexing planning application/permission data from local authorities nationally.

The link is to the search tool but you can learn more about the project at https://blog.reversepp.com/

The bit that is the most fun and perhaps of most interest here is that if you flick the "General Search Toggle" you can search applications by key word. A general search for "nuclear shelter" will take you to a planning application submitted to Bexley council in 1933 which apparently just confused them for 47 years.

Have fun and let me know what you think!
I like the passkey idea in the general sense, too. But what I don't like is the involvement of a third party, and the loss of control over my own critical data.
You know how it goes. They're going to take the budget away if it doesn't get spent.
At this point...why doesn't Elon just turn this into a subway?
We are a bit overwhelmed at the moment, but sure, this is something we'd eventually give an llvm devmtg talk about or something. Broadly speaking, there are three kinds of things that matter:

1) Type system. If you go with a constraint based hindly milner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindley%E2%80%93Milner_type_sy...) type system and then add things like overloading etc, you quickly get into exponential behavior. Swift has been fighting this for years now to tamp down the worst cases. This isn't good; don't do that.

2) Mid-level compilation model. "Zero cost abstraction" languages including C++ (but also more recent ones like Swift and Rust and now Mojo) rely in massive inlining and abstraction elimination to get "zero cost" behavior. LLVM can do inlining and simplification and all the other stuff, but it is a very low level of abstraction - generating a TON of IR and then asking LLVM to delete it for you is very slow, and shows up in the profile as "llvm is slow" because you're creating all the llvm ir nodes ("LLVM") and then asking llvm optimization passes to delete them for you. It is far better to not generate it in the first place.

3) Code generation: Reasonable codegen is O(N^2) and worse in core algorithms like register allocation and scheduling. This is unavoidable if you want high quality of results (though of course, llvm is also far from perfect). LLVM is also very old and single threaded. If you don't do anything to address these issues, you'll be bottlenecked in this phase.

These all have good solutions, but you have to architect your compiler in anticipation of them. Mojo isn't just a syntax or PL step forward, it is a massive step forward in compiler architecture.

-Chris
Where will the 7 institutes be located?
> The vast majority of people who casually throw around the word "fascist" are very happy to have a large, interventionist state that controls society. All "fascist" seems to mean here is that the interventions chosen don't align with the speaker's values.

Respectfully, I think this is overly reductionist. Words have meanings, and in many cases I believe "fascism" to be the appropriate classification for a number of hard-right moves in recent years, such as womens health rights and restrictions among other political bombs.
Sure. But they’re showing you the front door being closed and aren’t letting you in that there is a back door they’re not telling you about which they intend to keep open. Politicians may shake ands and kiss babies, but they're total "killers" and not the nice people looking after you or their constituents as people think.
Government gets involved in cutting edge technology and insists on (and funds) a "diverse workforce" initiative in an area where less than 1% of software engineers have the capacity to work on these systems at a low level. The end result is often (not always) roles created where these new hires are so far removed from core activities that, as a matter of job security, they have to justify their roles with initiatives and requirements that cause all manner of dysfunction in the organization; and that establish a power dynamic where the company's mission shifts from customer and safety focus, to pacifying employee agendas.
#embed is a great feature and should have been added ago.

Knowing how much memory your numbers take up is important for many applications, so I find things like "auto i = 5" to be questionable.

Fancy compound literals seem like a solution in search of a problem.

Removing ancient unused misfeatures is good.

I don't have strong feelings about the rest. But I think people are reacting to the process more than the specific features. There's always a good reason for new features -- that's how feature creep works. Over time, adding a few features here and a few features there is how you go from a nice, simple language like C to a gargantuan beast like C++. C has around 35 or so common keywords, almost all of which have a single meaning. C++ has many more keywords (80+?), many of which have overloaded meanings or subtle variations in behavior, or that express very fine distinctions -- const vs. mutable or static/dynamic/const/reinterpret_cast, for instance. All of this makes C++ a very large language that is difficult to learn.

In a world of constant feature additions and breaking changes in programming languages, C is largely the same language it was in 1989. For some applications, that's a good thing, and there isn't another language that fills that niche.
For sure. I sincerely hope we look back in 5-15 years (sooner the better) and are aghast at letting children and teens having unrestricted total access to social media. Hell, even adults I hope it is frowned upon - at least social media in its current state. It feels like it will be looking back at smoking and being like what the hell "you just LET people receive push notifications from the worlds largest companies who have teams of PhD data scientists optimizing the content delivery tho maximize your engagement (ie addiction) !?!? Fucking irresponsible!"
Facebook doesn't really have any shortage of content to show to users though. Users generate their own content and the feed algorithm scoops it up and displays it. If Facebook banned all news links tomorrow most users wouldn't notice but the news sites definitely would!
Why is FTC making sure the biggest social media company plays by the rules that they continue to break? I find it hard to believe that this question is in good faith.
I don't know why people give so much favoritism to carbon-based intelligence. One row lower on the table, silicon, is just as viable.
This logic only applies to generative pre-training, behavior cloning, and other training methods which rely on learning to mimic well-structured content from the real world.

It does not apply to intelligence gathered through methods like RL.

How does the author think about the intelligence of AlphaGo, for instance, which was trained entirely by self-play?
“The first wearable computer was conceived in 1955 by the author to predict roulette, culminating in a joint effort at M.I.T. with Claude Shannon in 1960-61. The final operating version was tested in Shannon’s basement home lab in June of 1961. […]
The Shannons and Thorps tested the computer in Las Vegas in the summer of 1961.”

It was just an idea before they jointly developed it.
I will not use this. This sounds like another facebook.

(At least from where I come from), we can only speak the truth when our identities are fake.
Are you saying you would prefer them to be more one-sided?
Nice article, and I'm not just saying that because I wrote something extremely similar myself a few years ago. ;) The one thing I'd add is that the "defer" construct deserves a mention. It's not a comprehensive error handling mechanism by itself, but can often augment or even stand in for one.
There’s been outrage on this for decades and it never goes away. In fact it’s worse than ever thanks to patriot act and similar
> Vanguard can't loan those funds out.

Yes it can, and that's the point of a money market fund. Money market funds invest in short-term debt securities. That's a mechanism for lending money.
How is that possible? Don't long ads cost the advertiser more? It doesn't seem reasonable that you could launch someone into a 44 minute tangent of your choosing.
Could it be that in the majority of cases both these political parties are actually more self serving than civil serving?