skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I am having a party next week." That's a present continuous sentence referring to a future activity.

What about "I will have a party next week" or "there will be a party next week"?

> Some argue that English doesn't even have a future tense.

I learned this as: There's no language feature that denotes future tense (like a suffix), but it's done via grammar (and context).

I have to acknowledge that I'm not the right person to be debating this. Like most native speakers, my grasp of the rules often boils down to whether something "sounds" right.
This makes sense, thanks for your reply.
What I love about the Satriani/Coldplay lawsuit was there was a third band, Creaky Boards, who first accused Coldplay of stealing their song a year before Satriani. You can still see posts on r/music as of less than a year ago talking about this.

However, wouldn't this mean Creaky Boards actually stole the song from Satriani?
I'd prefer if song makers could produce in freedom rather than deal with getting sued or winning the lottery that is getting signed.
> Deregulate medicine. The AMA restricts the supply of Doctors way too much to achieve $500,000 salaries

Are you implying that only software engineers should make $500k/yr?

By the time a medical doctor completes training, she's nearly 30 years old, having made slave wages thus far, and now stuck with a few $100k+ of student loan debt. Don't forget malpractice insurance, overhead costs, etc.

Compare that to your average CS tech graduate who's making $200k+ at age 21 which they then spend on Teslas and ticky-tacky apartments.
I may be misunderstanding, but I was thinking the commenter meant "ripping" as in ripping a DVD, as opposed to "ripping off of." So "immediately ripped and given away for free" meaning someone shouldn't be able to immediately distribute the recording outside of Netflix.
Using Computer Modern is a a good indication. Also, mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1301/
I tried that sentence and three similar ones, and this time GPT-4 caught the ambiguity. The results are here:

https://www.gally.net/temp/202212chatgpt/20230508-syntactic-...

I am especially impressed by its comment about one interpretation of “The woman cleaned her teeth with a knife”: “The woman cleaned her teeth that had a knife in them (highly unlikely, but still a possible interpretation).”

As I noted in another comment, I might need to backtrack on my assessment of its grammatical-explanation ability, as until today I had only done tests using the initial release of ChatGPT, not GPT-4.
I used to have a resume in fine-crafted LaTeX, and it even once led to a discussion with a designer interviewer about typography.

But I noticed that applicant-tracking systems tended to not know what to do with the PDF, and I started to suspect that some companies weren't actually seeing my resume as a result. So I redid the resume in LibreOffice, and using a boring layout intended to be parsed easily by lousy ATSs.
> Mistakes will be forgiven if we learn from them.

I tell my kids this all of the time. For some reason, they haven't embraced this - I suspect it has to do with conditioning from peers, school, society at large.

> This was a typical organization, one in which the principal operating principle was “Cover your ass.”

Yep, sounds all too familiar.

I'm not going to quote every bit, this is a pretty insightful article.
> Come from a strongly tdd background

Friend, we need to be damned careful about how we view others code when they don't have tests or embrace TDD.

When we work with TDD or even a well tested codebase, we do benefit enormously.

We also risk becoming evangelical, and that almost always comes across as condescending and off-putting.

TDD Tests do not capture every possible point of faillure. There's clear use cases for things like Postman, Debugging Proxys, or OPs _debugging_ tool.

PSA - avoid being a hype monger or evangelist of anything, it's about the worst way to support practices or tools you believe in. Trust me, I'm not only a practitioner of TDD but also a Lisp advocate and Emacs user... All these things are the best ever thing that happened /s

No, the whole world won't ever be a place where everyone is "doing it right" by your estimation, or mine, or anyone else's.

Quite the opposite, so settle in and mellow your jets.
I know it isn't actually, but I like to pretend the Green Day song "Wake me up when September ends" is a reference to that.
And in turn, I cannot agree with you.

I can do math myself, thank you very much. If I take the effort to pull out a math calculating machine, the calculation is important enough that I want 99.99% certainty that the answer is right. Under the premise that the answer is wrong, I want 99.999% certainty that the failure is related to data capture and not the calculating mechanism itself.

Within the context of LLMs, the goal should be to make them recognize that the problem at hand is not well suited for its own set of capabilities, and to defer to an external system. In the case of ChatGPT, any numeric answer to "15+23" (including and specially "38") is wrong. The correct answer is "sorry, as a Large Language Model I can retrieve information that is encoded in English and I am not specially suited to solve math problems". A LLM-empowered Alexa may be proactive, run a Calculator program for you and report back "According to bc program, the answer is 38. Here's the full log for you to check if this is what you wanted"

This is not so much AGI as deliberate programmatic patching, not unlike the disclaimers when you ask ChatGPT about controversial topics.
You're friends can't share appropriately, but are stymied by the lack of an aux cable? Doesn't exactly sound like a common set of circumstances.
They did a great Tedx talk here, and the person effectively describes the problems that Sheeran has run into: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJtm0MoOgiU
I really like this idea, though I haven't tried it yet.
Spotify has lyrics for many songs, but for characters the first hurdle is you cannot really sing along even with the lyrics unless you know them.

Is there some easy way one change the font used by Spotify to be this font somehow?
Could be just trying to use chatgpt to speed up the reports. They take significant time so rookies might try to take advantage of the automation.
The linked source material is a condensed version of the book “Inventing The Flat Earth” which I quite enjoyed when it was assigned in a university course.
Seems similar to the experience of those with executive function disorders, where the sufferer knows that they should be doing an important task, but they prioritise some other less important but more engaging or satisfying task. (In other words: procrastination.)
If going between #0 and #1 works (which it obviously does), then that saves having to change the URL to something the browser considers a different page (I'm not a web dev, so not sure if there's a way of changing the URL to a different page without needing to do a page reload, but having only one page seems cleaner either way).
Thank you.

Fair feedback. I definitely need to anchor myself to specific niche instead of saying it can work for anything and everything.
Very interesting! Does anyone know of a similar font for Thai? Or information on how to make such a thing?
They explicitly limit the number of residencies. You only get the number of slots they say in your residency program.

This is just like calling OPEC a stupid conspiracy theory.
> What if your file won’t even get into the ATS?

Why won't a PDF generated by LaTeX get into the ATS?
Or people could pay the pittance that it would be if just a fraction of users chipped in. Why is "the government should pay for it" always a comment in every thread on HN? Is there something I haven't understood about this community.
At $225/sq ft it would be bad news. I’m sure a lot of newer properties are assessed at triple that.
We’re talking about the possession of illegal words.

That’s what makes this quite a bit different than your gun analogy.
This will always happen when a massive amount of people suddenly get access to a new technology

There will be a learning and adaptation period for everyone

This is also an opportunity for the maintainers to automate their responses and figure out how to chatgptize themselves (at least in terms of answering previously answered issues/questions)

Presumably there will always be a need for a person to answer the novel questions
> It is a story of police brutality, racism, public unrest, systemic rot, poverty, and the seemingly everlasting tension between American police departments and the communities they are supposed to protect and serve.

Doesn't exactly sound like the Sherlock Holmes I remember. Which is to say that despite both being centered around crime and mystery solving, they're really quite different.
I honestly wonder how good of a job one could do with Chinese at making a font that just translated each character into English?

Especially given modern font ligatures letting you change the meanings displayed based on context (the way things like Fira code do).

Maybe don't even show the Chinese characters, just their meaning in English? It's obviously not going to be perfect, but I think there's potential there for a fun project.
> 'something ought to be done' is also contrasted with 'something is done'. It's no different to 'should' in that regard.

Ought and should express objective and subjective opinion respectively.
We need to socially rebuke the Friedman doctrine that’s at the root of all of this. It’s not even law but it’s so ingrained at this point people think it is.
If you have basic Mandarin knowledge, you could try Duolingo's Cantonese course for Mandarin speakers. I think it is helpful to get familiar with how words are pronounced and what expressions people use in vernacular Cantonese so far. As with the Mandarin course, there is little explanation, you kind of have to complement it eg with some drilling for tones.
I still think a denial of service due to tripping some sort of circuit breaker is preferable to one due to resource exhaustion.

If the code is intended to use as a library or the binary distributed to third parties one will have to handle it differently. For libraries taking a parameter indicating the maximum expected is common, for example. See e.g. man 3 read.
Agreed, dew-point is so much better than RH. Wet bulb is a good number too.
I'm no entomologist, but I'm sure there was some previous version of these ants that was not clonal. The last common ancestor of all ants was not clonal.
Does anyone know of good tools to practice tone-listening and recognition for cantonese? or tools for drilling jyutping more generally,

I've used https://chaaklau.github.io/cantorocks/, but I would like to also try others, as the audio is not great sometimes and I'd like to listen to different voices.

When studying Mandarin I found that getting the phonetics right early on really helped me, it can be done in a relatively short time and its hugely motivating.
My favorite, somewhat memey but factually correct example is that we put men on the moon before we put wheels on luggage.

The modern, two wheeled with handle "tipper" style didn't come onto the market until 1987.
Sure, but those interviews cannot be included into a research paper. Because the moment you ask if what they say can be on-record, or if they can be named as the source of this statement. they would shut up.
My purity test of pattern recognition and not wanting to repeatedly consume ideas which threaten me?

I’m not asking for anything to be ignored. I’m asserting my right not to subject myself to it personally.
What a bunch of condescending assholes in that thread! They don’t respect us at all. Fortunately the engineers control the RLHF of their replacement :)
> Spotify has about 100,000 uploaded tracks.

Uh... That's off by an order of magnitude. 100 million tracks according to https://newsroom.spotify.com/company-info/
r/patentlaw is closer to /r/CScareerquestions than anything else

I think it's true that patent lawyers don't give a shit what HNers think, but I don't think that stuff posted to reddit is a good benchmark either
I think ChatGPT's answer here is defensible. You're asking it a pretty formal question but it's giving you an informal answer, which a reasonable default. It's not "assuming spherical cows", which is to say it is not assuming your question is completely self-contained. If you tell it that it's a formal logic question it gets it correct. (I checked this on GPT-3.5)

In a real world situation, your conditional plans are not sufficient evidence to determine if it actually rained. And it explains the reason – there could be extenuating circumstances you haven't told it about. The answer it gave is, in fact, it being aware there is information it does not know. It could be better about inferring your intent, but that isn't the same kind of failure.
Never mind what was misconstrued or not. The behavior I mentioned is low class.

If you feel it applies to you/your experience, whatever, but it’s not a personal jab.
wow, www.moneyclaim.gov.uk looks very useful

do you have any idea if you need to be (even for an hour) physically there? that would change a lot in terms of traveling costs
> Oh goodness, I hope that's not how it came across - I hoped the idea that it had to be compiled into PDF before sending was clear!

It was clear. You even linked your PDF resume as an example. The GP's interpretation is just bizzare.
Accountants are hired under confidentiality agreements. Connecting random third parties to your systems that have "we are allowed to do anything we want at any time" agreements is kind of the exact opposite of that.
Can you elaborate more on what it’s like at your company?
I can't solve the cube root of 538[1], but I can plug it in to a calculator and tell you the answer it gives. I could also memorize the answer and tell it to you from memory. Or memorize the cube roots of 535, 536, 537, 539, 540, 541, and then interpolate a likely answer for 538. ChatGPT has a phenomenal memory.

1 - Without looking up the relevant equations.
At least with LLMs I get something useful in return.
So record your screen.

It's a burden, but you're in it this far, to the point of telling us strangers about it ^.^
I think they meant to write 100,000,000. I was about to say that sounds insanely low, because I have 15k songs "Liked" on Spotify and there's no way I've liked 15% of practically all songs.

https://newsroom.spotify.com/company-info/#:~:text=over%2010...
I assumed this was intentional to sorta look weird and retro. Sorta wild it's just Firefox messing it up.
Why would this even come up in a discussion with HR?
I have astigmatism. I had the same issue with grids, certain fonts with lots of vertical lines, and other regular high contrast repeating patterns.

Got some glasses a few years ago for the first time from an optometrist, and now it doesn’t bother me anymore.

So I would recommend getting it checked out.
It's not just everywhere, it's said to be a dominant form of government, acracy (as opposed to mere anarchy)
Rights and Regulation: The Future of Generative AI Under the First Amendment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1sSy39CuU RIP missile :'(
My thinking is that it would be a bit like email: run your own server if you want, and the other 99% can use any of the zillion hosting services that exist or would crop up to do it for you with the ease of Gmail.
It's probably due to anti-aliasing. A similar thing happens on some versions of Windows with ClearType turned on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType
Trump wasn't particularly special for this. In fact, by tanking TPP, he actually stopped at least one massive tool for curtailing IP sovereignty.

Not making a flattering statement about Trump here, just that _he_ wasn't _the problem_, in this and other things.

That said, "jk guys actually you can forget about what we said" would be fantastic for this and many other things our government has made part of its international doctrine, and might be a thing it would even do if our government had any interest in governing for our benefit rather than for a tiny minority.
I highly recommend "American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World" if you're interested in learning more about Columbus from a very well documented and sourced non-fiction book.
I don't see a problem with them. I find it quite pleasant.
Yes, TCP header had 16 bits allocated to "Urgent Pointer". It's (unfortunately) still there for compatibility, but RFC 9293, which updated RFC 793 after more than 40 years, has the following to say about it:

> As a result of implementation differences and middlebox interactions, new applications SHOULD NOT employ the TCP urgent mechanism. However, TCP implementations MUST still include support for the urgent mechanism.
Captchas have been horribly broken for ages, unless you have some badly-put together custom one that nobody has bothered to break yet.
Will it burn?

https://simson.net/ref/1993/cubefire.html
> it's that you're willing to waste time fiddling around with abstruse technical stuff rather than doing something useful.

Yeah, having an easily versioned plaintext format is such a waste of time. So much better to deal with constantly changing GUIs instead. /s
Is there any way to do that for systems without systemd, like Devuan?
TL/DR: this is am open-source Windows utility to format USB drives and create Windows bootable disks, compute checksums and a bunch of other things. It has its a bundled implementation of FAT (written from scratch?) and ext2/ext3 (modified linux code?), its own SMART parser, bundled SHA implementation with SSE support, etc...

It's very Windows-sy: without easy access to libraries or command-line tools, author either re-writes functionality from scratch or copies files into project and then modifies them as needed. It's hard for me to imagine writing Linux version of SMART tool for something as simple as disk formatter, but that's how Windows apps work.
1-click was patented in the days of forms, session tokens, ajax, etc. being relatively new. So yes someone was going to be first.

Someone was absolutely going to figure out the implementation of 1-click ordering regardless of who patented it. That’s why software patents suck, they almost always take the form of “apply technology X to domain Y in a really basic way” which would be invented hundreds of times independently even with no prior art - but whoever gets that patent gets to block or tax all those other independent inventions of the same pattern for years. I can’t speak as much to other industries but I’m confident it describes many many patents outside software. It’s not obvious in hindsight dude, it’s obvious that given a website where I’m buying things, a good UX for some cases is to just let me buy the thing in one click.

Hey I have a bunch of ideas for LLMs, should I get a patent for “a system for using a transformer model to find a message in a system’s logs” or “use a transformer model to identify a problem in an application” or “use a transformer model to produce output in the style of some human generated input”? Those are obvious given the invention of transformers, but software patents often take that exact structure “payment over a network” “use of a biometric signal to authenticate a banking transaction”.

I’m pretty sure you don’t even need to implement what you’re patenting to get the patent, just describe it well enough and hope nobody else implemented it or filed for it first. Which just incentivizes purely unproductive behavior of patenting “ideas” you expect will be independently arrived at many times in the near future so you can tax them. Or makes a market for so-called “inventors” to engage in this inefficient behavior so they can sell their “inventions” (accepted patents) to trolls or megacorps to do that (yes, this is what the people who file patents to tax others for a living call themselves).
Well, they lobbied for this crap now they're suffering the consequences of it

Sure, some IP protection I'd argue is needed, but they're always on the maximization side of it and they're unhappy it's being used against them? Oh well
Yup, they are not.
And Jax, and now Mojo, and while we’re at it, Graal.Python, and all sorts of other forgotten ones.
Everyone seems to be missing the main benefit of using LaTeX: it creates professional-looking documents. That is its whole purpose. I use Adobe Garamond Pro in my LaTeX résumé, and while I'm sure nobody recognizes that it's LaTeX, the document just looks sharp.
If they can make that conversion this seems like it would be a steal. $225/sq ft versus over $1000/sq ft for residential in SF.
SF doesn't seem like somewhere that would vote against more housing being available, so if it doesn't even involve rezoning, I'm curious if that's a viable path for this and other office buildings.
60% of employment in 1940 was not a role that existed in 2023. To include the mechanic who fixes the bowling ball re-setting machine who took so many jobs from kids..meh.
Parrhesia

Parrhesia means literally "to speak everything" and by extension "to speak freely", "to speak boldly". It implies not only freedom of speech, but the obligation to speak the truth for the common good, even at personal risk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrhesia
May W1 2023: Xoriant Spotlight: Weekly Roundup
Welcome to Volume 4 of Xoriant Spotlight: Weekly Roundup

Happy Monday Readers! In this week’s roundup, we will cover:

How low-code / no-code platforms can enable faster software apps?
How Xoriant & PDF Solutions are partnering to support COEP’s smart lab?
How companies must begin data governance program and derive value?
How a global bank achieves 100% CIS compliant ecosystem?
Let’s dive in.
Which is part of what the strike is about — part of a union’s job is to ensure the next generation is as informed and familiar with the levers of power as the one that came before it. Mini rooms are one example of the tactic studios are using to isolate writers and reduce the union membership (and therefore bargaining power) as significantly as possible.
ChatGPT's code interpreter variant makes this mostly possible. It doesn't seem to be able to read its own output within the same prompt. But if you ask it afterwards it can do it with python:

https://i2.paste.pics/8995850ed937795d64f507f1497bb210.png?t...

There's no reason to think LLMs alone are the only tool we have for AI!
Does your card have proper DRM support (the linux subsystem for managing video buffers)? That’s what wayland builds upon (instead of patching the xorg binary with some proprietary extension).
I have fond memories of seeing Steve Jobs giving a live demo of NeXTstep at the San Jose convention center. It was a bravado performance. I had a Cube with the laser printer and later a slab. Such an elegant machine for the time.
Ask HN: Does Etsy charge for commerical API access?
Howdy! Can anyone help me out with a question regarding Etsy's commercial API access? I have been developing an integration that accelerates the shipping process for ecommerce merchants and allows them to push their products onto Etsy. I am currently using my personal API key for this purpose. Does anyone know if Etsy charges for commercial API access? Thanks in advance for any insights you can provide!
Counterpoint: I run Arch Linux on all my machines and I can't remember the last time something broke that wasn't ZFS, and I opted into that one, it's explicitly unsupported. I switch between a Bluetooth headset and my speakers/webcam multiple times a day and it just works (I'm also using pipewire, not pulse).
That's 3 orders of magnitude.
Very cool drawing, as a side note I’ve seen Stable Diffusion be able to achieve very good pixel art with some Loras and textual embeddings plus some skill. Also seen it able to do amazing img2img art like pictured here.
I was lucky enough to study Greek for two years in high school -- a lot of the early books of the Iliad focus around the concept of xenia (though unfortunately I don't remember the exact books we translated)

https://classicalwisdom.com/culture/literature/the-odyssey-b...

I hope Greek is still being taught, it's quite the puzzle.