skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great read, but I don't agree with all of these points. OpenAI's technological moat is not necessarily meaningful in a context where the average consumer is starting to recognize ChatGPT as a brand name.

Furthermore, models which fine-tune LLMs are still dependent on the base model's quality. Having a much higher quality base model is still a competitive advantage in scenarios where generalizability is an important aspect of the use case.

Thus far, Google has failed to integrate LLMs into their products in a way that adds value. But they do have advantages which could be used to gain a competitive lead:
- Their crawling infrastructure could allow their to generate better training datasets, and update models more quickly.
- Their TPU hardware could allow them to train and fine-tune models more quickly.
- Their excellent research divisions could give them a head start with novel architectures.

If Google utilizes those advantages, they could develop a moat in the future. OpenAI has access to great researchers, and good crawl data through Bing, but it seems plausible to me that 2 or 3 companies in this space could develop sizeable moats which smaller competitors can't overcome.
Bills should only have numbers, never names.

Cattle, not pets.
I think the Irish Farewell is even better, just close the browser and walk away, if you really like your coworkers, you can spare them the uncomfortable conversation, and the Irish Farewell is a tiny way of polluting the culture of the thing that ejected you
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer was finished. It was published after his death, but he did complete it.

It's also not really related to VALIS at all. I still don't really understand why people call it "the third novel in the VALIS" trilogy. It explores some of the same philosophical and religious themes, but has no connection otherwise.

The "second book", The Divine Invasion, feels closer to VALIS (and it's pretty good, I'd recommend it!), especially because of the gnostic themes. But even that is distinctly different.

VALIS honestly stands entirely on its own. PKD never wrote another book quite like it -- in fact, nobody has.
archive.is kind of has the same issue, so maybe the Web Archive is better. [2]

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20230504121420if_/https://techfr...
Show HN: Screenshot API for YouTube Videos
A teenage couple in high school (just barely underage) were both charged with possession and production of CSAM because they sent images between each other. As I understand it from the local papers they ended up getting off fairly easy with something like 100 hours of community service. But only because our local prosecutor understood that they were kids, a couple, and sharing between each other, and almost of age to begin with. If we had a prosecutor less understanding they would have been facing at least 5 years in prison each.
Certainly some effects are clearly only explainable by physical changes. Cognitive effects, though, it feels are a bit easier to see will be in the realm of placebo.

That said, I don't know?
I'm actually speaking from experience. I'm certainly glad to hear there are capable lawyers for tenants, but when I needed one, nobody would take my case until I found my own "bottom feeder".

Eventually I did retain a better lawyer (who usually represents landlords) and I can certainly agree that the firm representing the large landlord were hacks. However they had endless time to delay, not show up etc. For certain ends, "incompetent" lawyering works well as it racks up legal fees for the more competent party and can wear you down to a minimal settlement.
So how about, Facebook spokesperson furious...
Yeah, seems like half of the embedded architectures are like this. Well, the C compiler is not quite standards compliant, and often made to an older version of the C spec, but give it time—the C2x standard comes out this year, and it may not benefit people in the embedded space until some years down the road.

Second-best time to plant a tree, and all.
Are they also blocking Tor?
"...runs it through a BRIDGE RECTIFIER!"
That's such a vague and allegation that it can't be disproven, or even meaningfully discussed. If you had a specific example of a claim they're making that's incorrect, misleading, or you even think might be untrue I assume you'd have given it?
So long as people have to pay if they win the raffle, I'm hard put to see the justification for a raffle entry fee.
Hilarious and cromulent enough for me.
UEFI Secure Boot on the Raspberry Pi
And a lot of community libraries don’t work for new releases. Often they seem to need an update to work with the current angular version. React usually doesn’t have that problem. And because of their much smaller focus they only have major releases every 18 months or so.
They request a (JavaScript) captcha completion every time I've checked.
Mercury Autocode is perhaps a "missing link" between assembler and Fortran, though I'm not sure of the dates and whether the people developing Fortran knew about Mercury Autocode. Things developed quite fast in the 1950s.
Microsoft launches Bing chat features incl multimodality, plug-ins, image search
Right, and if someone is healthier because they ate their spinach, that seems to imply we should encourage mistakes in that direction?

That is, if we were to reduce the negative effects reporting, but increase the positive ones, would that bias the world in that direction? (That make sense?)
It's more like a bug bounty in reverse. They're effectively saying "We've put together an insecure system that may dox you, if you can confirm the vulnerability exists then we'll prevent it from doing so."
Another factor is that the numbers are almost always "reports" - because there are so many reports generated. People doing this content moderation are very much operating on a "better safe than sorry" approach (for obvious reasons). The result of that is that statistics I've seen put it at somewhere between 70-90% of these reports don't actually correctly identify CSAM and are discarded at the first stage. But it's always the much larger, initial number that is used to illustrate the apparent size of the problem.
I'm no fan of organized Religion, but I think there is a clear distinction here. Religion is opt-in (by the parents) where most advertising to kids isn't. You could argue that parents could take away their access to [phone|youtube|instagram|etc.], but kids will get access at school, or through their friends one way or another. The internet is too ubiquitous at this point to actually opt-out.
Not to take away from your argument, but for what it's worth, there is a lint for this [1] which is available in golangci-lint [2]. If there is any Go developer reading this who does not know about golangci-lint, I wholeheartedly recommend looking into it. It's found a fair share of significant issues for me that otherwise would have required tests to uncover.

[1] https://github.com/gordonklaus/ineffassign
[2] https://golangci-lint.run/
I read it and I asked you a question, so don’t be a dick: answer it or don’t respond. Experience being “least complex” is in no way an objective truth especially if it’s fundamental. The only thing any person knows to be objectively true is that they have experience, we just assume other things don’t for some reason.
<< What does "A copilot for entrepreneurship is now possible" mean here?

I think this is what is meant here[1]. Not copilot, but the idea is the same.

It is interesting, because 'prompt engineering' is being discussed in the same context. In the video, you will note several interesting bugs generated by GPT. Is it not exciting to see all those bugs in the next few years?

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y7GRYaYYQg
I think the parent comment meant the query libraries. The EdgeDB page lists "first-party clients for your favorite languages." They have clients for JS/TS, Go, Python, etc... but no Java/Kotlin yet.
BAH keeps all fees not imposed by NPS - that means the actual reservation fee goes to NPS, but all other fees go to BAH. All fees besides the actual reservation fee are not government fees at all, they are imposed only by BAH based on their own policy and analysis, which the contract gives them the right to do with no obligation to share with anyone. The NPS fee is set through an administrative process and does not change very frequently. Everything else is BAH revenue... booking fees, lottery fees, and some upcharges related to popular sites... and it's not at all unusual for those to be more than the actual reservation fee.

On top of that, NPS seems to have been evasive about the situation and has been resistant to releasing supervision data on how much money is actually involved.

This situation has been widely reported on, not only in this article but by Matt Stoler (https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-is-booz-allen-renting...) and in the NYT (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/travel/nps-recreation-gov...). There has been a class-action lawsuit over it but I don't think it got anywhere, it's not at all clear that there's any legal problem with this situation despite appearing to be a massive grift on the public. Originally, the structure of the contract (where BAH funds the project by imposing their own fees) was hailed as innovative since it meant there was "no taxpayer money" committed.

BAH recreation.gov contract: https://www.fs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2023-03/AG-3187-...

NPS fee order: https://www.nps.gov/policy/DOrders/DO_22.pdf
The UK’s tortured attempt to remake the internet
This seems like a nice proof of concept project but it will never be economically viable. So excuse the pun, but it will never take off.

If I remember correctly you can't fly commercial aircraft and even mach speeds over the US, if I remember that's why concord didn't really make any money (among other reasons.)
unreachable() is just the standardized form of __builtin_unreachable() (gcc/clang) and __assume(0) (MSVC).

I often have a macro called UNREACHABLE() that evaluates to assert(0) or __builtin_unreachable() depending on NDEBUG.

It improves the generated code a bit.

One trick one can use is to define ASSERT() as a wrapper around assert() or something like

do { if (!x) unreachable(); } while (0)

This is a really nice way to tell the compiler about invariants -- and generate better code (and better warnings!).

There are no fuck ups involved. None.

constexpr is great because it reduces the need for macros. There are three features that make almost all macro use unnecessary. They are enums, inline, and constexpr. Good enough inline support has only really been available for a few years -- by "good enough", I mean "doesn't slow down CPU emulator code".

Things are really looking up for C, in my view.
Clang says it's already been killed in C99:

https://www.godbolt.org/z/KaWzsc6qT

...in GCC it's still just a warning though.
I can’t really think of harms I suffered as a child from watching ads. It probably made me want to buy more stuff but since I was a kid I had to ask my parents and they usually said no. I was slightly sad but then I got over it. So if anything it probably taught me to be a more discerning consumer that wouldn’t buy anything just because of an ad.

If we hide the real world from children too much then how do we expect them to learn to deal with it all at once? They will turn 18, get a credit card, and be bombarded with ads they haven’t learned to control.

Unless you want to argue that ads shouldn’t be shown to adults either (which has major free speech issues) I think it’s better for kids to learn to deal with them responsibly.
I think you could make a case for including Ada and/or COBOL, separately from ALGOL. Ada is/was an early attempt to remove errors from programming, and COBOL was an attempt to make a "business language" that would be understandable by suits.
Yes this. 100% this. Surveillance at scale must be paid-for, and regardless of how cheap we make the surveillance, if no one pays, it won't happen.
Yeah … the headline is sensationalist for sure.
Don't sleep on the short stories! I read "Electric Ant" as a young man at a time when I was experimenting with psychedelics, and it still sticks with me in some ways.

I didn't manage to get into VALIS. It felt a bit mental-illness-ey in a way that other PKD work didn't, and as someone who had a loved one with terrible schizophrenia, it rubbed me a bit wrong. Maybe I'll try it again soon, I can see it on my shelf from here.
You seem cheerfully committed only to see the benign possibilities.
The spokesperson is the voice of the company, what they say is supposed to represent the opinion of the company as a whole.
https://archive.today/rUQxM
France has 56 nuclear facilities and plans to add more.

They have achieved cost improvements by using cookie-cutter standardized designs. This has not been approved in the USA in the interest of design progress and advancement --- which has been ground to a halt as a result.

Similar efforts are now underway in the USA.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/04/westinghouse-announces-a-sma...
This very much sounds like something my wife and I have talked about. But I can't get it to load.
Maybe explain what that FUD is? As it has been explained, it sounds like a big concern is that it requires them to boost Canadian/local content in their algorithms, and not just in a "here's a list of Canadian content", but right alongside other recommended videos.
The distinction in ALGOL, Pascal etc. is useless.

But if you change your definitions such that expressions always evaluate to a single value and do not have any side effects while statements produce some kind of side effect (and may or may not yield a value), the distinction becomes important.

Especially if you believe side-effects need special handling (i.e. you are a functional programmer).
SPARC is dead, long live RISC-V.
All things in life is grey. But I think we should ask about is the MAIN thing they do net good or net bad. Most philanthropist spend their lives amassing massive fortunes built on exploitation and then leave a (large?) percentage of their ill gotten gains for good. As an extreme example, we shouldn't absolve a serial killer just because they volunteer for Meals on Wheels each week.

Facebook has revenue greater than the GDP of all but 67 countries. Allowing 10 engineers to give away some crap for free doesn't quite balance the scales imo.
that's kinda the point of a spokesperson, to speak on behalf of an organization
Don’t try this at home: overclocking RP2040 to 1GHz
Lets just hope their slow rollout of invites doesn't Google+ their launch hype.
FAQ says they expect to open source it: https://docs.modular.com/mojo/faq.html#will-mojo-be-open-sou...
this is content marketing for the site's campsite status tracker. so i'm gonna plug my similar reservation tracking tool for glacier national park, except the money goes to a trail maintenance organization: https://old.reddit.com/r/GlacierNationalPark/comments/12ivo1...

if anybody is interested in another park, i can make one for you.
Scramjets don't even become operational until mach 5. How would they get this plane off the ground in the first place?

The logical answer is a combined-cycle engine, but there are slim pickings here. The X-43 used a combined-cycle rocket/scramjet, but had to be dropped from a B-52. It did hit around Mach 9.6 though

The Chimera engine is a turbojet/ramjet engine under active development (it or something similar is likely going to power the NGAD), but it most likely won't go faster than Mach 5-6.

They aren't considering a couple important realities though.

First, the US government isn't letting advanced engines get put into civilian airplanes. There's just too great a risk of them falling into Chinese or Russian hands and giving their fighter programs a massive leap forward.

Second, physics aren't in their favor. A large passenger plane means lots of air resistance and lots of weight. Getting all that moving at Mach 2 in the Concorde was a huge task on its own. Moving up to Mach 9 increases the number of issues exponentially. It takes decades to get this working with a tiny plane (eg, all the NASA experiments). The time to scale that up would be even more.

Third, there is ZERO economic possibilities here. The total SR-71+A-12 development costs have been estimated at around $16.5B dollars not to mention $200k per hour to fly. Let's say this company makes 100 of these planes at a similar cost (despite them being much more exotic and larger than the SR-71). The planes will cost $165M each and probably only hold less than 30 passengers/crew. If they are selling 25 tickets and flying that 1-hour flight at $200k/hr, tickets would cost $8,000 just to cover operating expenses. If they expect 20,000 flight hours per plane, that's an additional $8,250 per ticket. I'd guess minimum ticket price would be about $25,000 using these numbers.

But in reality, there's not a market for 100 of these planes. The R&D costs would probably be much higher and the cost per flight hour would certainly be massively higher too.

It's all snake oil.
The murky drone attack on the Kremlin – and the questions that remain
I thought the choice of Self was a bit strange too, but if you replace it with Smalltalk, the overall categories are pretty reasonable.
pretty sure you mean Ed Thorpe, though Thorpe did eventually collaborate with Shannon.

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/thorp.pdf
The copy in the internet archive seems better

https://archive.org/details/bstj30-1-50/mode/2up
My big quibble with this is that the OO category is way too narrow. The way it is worded it excludes almost all languages we'd currently consider OO, and is so strict it largely makes the category pointless. Loosen it to exclude the "You do conditionals..." bit, and focus on the message passing, and e.g. Ruby and other languages that are message passing focused to the point of it tending to dominate semantics over it's Algol-related syntax fits firmly in this category.

Listing Self rather than Smalltalk as the basis of OO languages is also a bit odd. Calling it a "purer form" I guess is a justification, but the other view is once you losen the definition as above, self is just the root of one small (albeit influential, via Javascript, branch of OO languages that almost all owe more to Smalltalk than Self. If another language than Smalltalk should be at the root, it should be Simula, for inspiring message passing, not Self.
I thought 37signals is privately owned. How do you know how much revenue they have?
It apparently makes the online streaming companies have to invest in candadian programming also.
how can yoti avoid being flooded with [other than face] protest pics?

if a minor points a cam at other than faceparts, is yoti inolved in CSAM?
That isn't what passive voice means. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_voice:

For example, in the passive sentence "The tree was pulled down", the subject (the tree) denotes the patient rather than the agent of the action. In contrast, the sentences "Someone pulled down the tree" and "The tree is down" are active sentences.
In context, I understand that you mean let go from jobs, but it doesn't seem like we have much trouble letting people go from society either.
Qualcomm chips are down as smartphones stay on the shelf, looks to AI for rescue
Garbage collection isn't slow. good GC systems have similar overhead to malloc/free.
Render Pipeline Shaders 1.1 is now available with Linux support
If you have to ask the question ...
This is the problem with something like the DMCA people use it all the time to force take downs of things but part of the DMCA notices is you are issuing them in good faith. Since whatever contractor they had enforcing this is just firing them off at random apparently targeting the company that hired them this is absolute proof none of these DMCA notices were issued in good faith. Where is the criminal prosecution for this kind of action.
That's a good question and it looks like a flag is considered in ranking before it goes defunct. From the faq [0]:

How are stories ranked?

...upvotes [positive]...time [negative]...

Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, account or site weighting, and moderator action.

So for all intents and purposes it looks like a flag acts in some way as a downvote. I was just confused by the term "downvote". They don't have the same effect as an upvote (maybe more effect?) but they do drop a story in the rankings even though they may not be removed.

Those last three factors look like it can be rather arbitrary. But in general I prefer the quality of articles and discussions here to other sites.
Most of the tech layoffs this cycle have done the same. Meta and Google left open coms access (email and chat) for at least the one day, pulling other more sensitive access. Definitely a positive change, but if I were a big tech lawyer I'd probably still be nervous lol.
> a request does not guarantee that information about you will be removed from ChatGPT outputs

Oh i am pretty sure that if you dont remove all data you’ll pay for it. Looking forward to hefty fines for openai.
Facebook itself is has no vocal cords or thought membrane. It's often easy to forget because we like to personify companies, but a company is just a piece of paper for tax and legal purposes.

You can safely think "Facebook wants me to think it thinks this" when a Spokesperson speaks.

You can safely think "Part of Facebook thinks this" when an individual employee speaks.

You can safely think "Facebook Corporate wants me to believe this" when an executive speaks.

All of these individuals speak for Facebook, because they are a part of the collective that is Facebook.
It would result in them being shorter
Then why pay so much for someone who can't?
>It is conceivable simply to have salaried researchers researching whatever takes their interest

Who pays for it?
Another quality wired article that makes no sense. Someone is going to own land. Either you or the government. So it is immoral for the private citizen to own land, but moral for the historically corrupt, ruthless, and often-times tyrannical government to own it?

This circle doesn't square.

I often ask myself where wired writers get their weed. If I had to guess, it is from a private grower who owns his own land.
Well you can't hack the firmware :( A baffling decision considering the brilliant work they're doing otherwise. I do not see a reason why they absolutely need to have Intel Boot Guard enabled.

I'm at the point where I'm not even looking for laptops with coreboot OOTB, I just want a good laptop that is not fused to the vendor's keys. I'll port coreboot to it myself.
The only low effort passive aggressive posting in this thread is from you - posting gotcha questions that aren’t gotchas and then tucking tail when sources come thru.

You already were clearly at 0% probability of a substantive reply. Nice attempt at deflection tho - I see you’re learning from the republicans whose boots you love to lick
dmr would've approved of going a step further - only nullptr, no 0 and (void*)0:

>Although it would have been a bit of a pain to adapt,

>an '89 or '99 standard in which the only source representation

>of the null pointer was NULL or nil or some other built-in token

>would have had my approval.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.std.c/c/fh4xKnWOQuo/m/IAaOe...
Day hiking permits are fairly uncommon on US federal lands in my experience.

Backpacking permits are significantly more common but except for the extreme cases as are mentioned in the article are fairly easy to come by--except maybe at the most extreme times--and are commonly free (except for maybe parking).
"haha! You're employment here was just a game to us!"

Yeah, not as bad as the CEO laying off 900 people via zoom, and then plying for sympathies at how hard this decision is for him to do.

our entire economy is out of whack in so many areas.
Weird, in my circle no one uses it anymore. Although to be fair I’m not convinced that most of the alternatives are likely to be much better. I don’t see why Google wouldn’t be doing exactly the same stuff.

At least there is Signal. I’ve moved most of my messaging there.