skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have compared the updated PaLM 2 model directly against GPT 4, and Bard is dramatically worse than GPT 4 at everything I've tried. It refused to translate to a non-English language that I know, so its one supposed strength is not available for evaluation.

Disclaimer: I have no way to know whether Bard is using PaLM 1 or PaLM 2 in "my country". This is because Google knows better, and doesn't want to bother my pretty little head with these irrelevant facts. So, if my review of Bard is in some way unfair because I was unknowingly using PaLM 1, this is 100% Google's own fault.

I tried a bunch of logic problems, tricky sentences, etc... and Bard failed all of them, or at least partially failed.

The current favourite test is to ask LLMs to perform transformations such as translations or explanations of difficult sentences.

Prompt:

For each use of the word bear or its variants in the following sentence, put the meaning after the word in brackets: In an interview with John Bear -- a real bear of man -- of Bear Stearns, said he was bearish about bear pelt futures on the famous Bear Markets of Bern because he saw a bear wandering the streets, indicating that there may be too many wild bears.

GPT 4, first attempt:

In an interview with John Bear [a surname] -- a real bear [metaphor: a large, physically imposing person] of a man -- of Bear Stearns [a company name], said he was bearish [financial term: expecting a decline in prices] about bear pelt futures [referring to the hides of the animal, bear] on the famous Bear Markets [a play on words: typically refers to a declining market, but here it's used as a market name] of Bern because he saw a bear [an animal] wandering the streets, indicating that there may be too many wild bears [animals].

Comment: Spot on, including picking up that the capitals in Bear Markets is a hint that it's the name of the market, not the market decline concept. In some runs it also picks up that city name Bern means Bear in German.

Google Bard as of today, best of 3:

In an interview with John Bear (a real bear of a man), of Bear Stearns, said he was bearish (pessimistic) about bear pelt futures (the price of bear fur) on the famous Bear Markets of Bern (a type of market where bear pelts are traded) because he saw a bear (a large, furry mammal) wandering the streets, indicating that there may be too many wild bears (an excess of bears).

Comment: Muddles things up, combines things incorrectly, missed the bank name, put the brackets in the wrong places, etc... Most other results don't follow the prompt at all, just listing bullet points instead.

To compare reasoning capability, a follow-up question might be "Why might Bear think this about bear pelts?"

GPT 4: "Based on this context, it can be speculated that John Bear's bearish stance on bear pelt futures could be influenced by the potential oversupply of bear pelts in the market."

Bard: "If there are too many bears, they may become a nuisance or even a danger to humans."

There's just no comparison...
I'm probably just old but I've been worried about the cynical and dark nature of the kids for awhile now. Stuff like internet comics haven't struck me as terribly funny going all the way back to stuff like 'cyanide and happiness'. This is the stuff that kids in the US like and tiktok is feeding them what they want.
What about Windows? Bit jumpy with their version numbers
Sure.

Except for the alien ocean in Solaris, the cheela in Dragon's Egg, .. and all the other not earth-animal-like aliens.

Those aside, sure.
Here's some Kudzu that persisted for about 15 years until they recently widened the road. It killed a bunch of trees:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0630131,-84.6891383,3a,75y,3...

This stuff is all over Georgia.
What kind of compute so much compute is good for ? except AI
A lot of carbon could be saved if traffic lights include a camera and software that maximizes throughput.

I see an awful lot of lights that turn red just as a platoon of cars reaches it. And lights that sit there, red, when there's no cross traffic. And lights where one car comes up a side street, and the light turns red blocking 20 cars on the main artery.
Executives don’t lose. They get paid when the company is doing poorly and they have to make “hard decisions” to do layoffs. They get paid when the company is doing well. The most downright destructive executives I’ve ever worked under are still employed. They don’t take pay cuts.

The workers, nurses, doctors, orderlies, etc at hospitals are completely burned out and are reduced to skeleton crews. Hospitals get bought by private equity or big conglomorates and are gutted and their owners rewarded handsomely for churning through people like sociopaths.

Why have hope?
Many went to jail and some celebrities got fines. I'm pretty sure some went under the radar but the prosecution is still working on the years 2016-2019. If you are in the US and you've been involved in such sh*t, you are in really bad position.
> This doesn't explain the reported discrepancy between the feeds of users in China compared to those in the US. Reportedly, Chinese TikTok recommends educational videos and generally affirmative content to teens, whereas the recommendations on American TikTok tend to be much darker.

> Maybe the interests of teenagers in China and in the US differ?

Maybe China has an extensive and well-known censorship and social media control apparatus, that shapes experiences according to the plans of the authorities?

For that reason, ByteDance almost certainly has technology to force the experience in a particular direction, because if they didn't they'd run afoul of the Chinese authorities. So the question is, why have they chosen to have (Chinese) Douyin show "generally affirmative content to teens" but not (US) TikTok? It's plausible that the reason is a program of national demoralization directed at the US. Another plausible reason is the Chinese system is better able to regulate certain self-destructive tendencies that liberal democracies are more vulnerable to.
>This is why, I think, the future is either putting your money (or at least provable identity) where your mouth is

That will become less effective as companies become increasingly centralized, with just a few having many, many brands.
> entirely personal preference

The differentiation benefit is not. Personal preference is what tool you choose to deal with spoofing, eg, you could also use a different font for different symbol ranges instead of colors.

> I've tried it and found it resulted in too many colors for my brain to assign individual meanings to

Well, you don't assign individual meaning to individual colors, but to color ranges which a given type can vary over. For example, going from green to yellow could be the range for variable names, so you associate that range with variables

Which color ranges have you tried?
Unless you're Subaru, then no. For every other company, there is public opinion and public goodwill.
I am not sure what sources are you using for news, but in 2023 Ruby is growing strong and faster than in other years.

There are new books written, new conferences organised, Hanami 2 is out, new organisation created by companies to support Rails docs and marketing, Phlex is a nice way to work with views, someone started to work again on Camping, someone else is working again on a new portof shoes.rb

More content is created everyday: see for example dev.to starting to have beginner articles. A very good sign.

now regarding your fear, what I can say is act like your fear is real and it will be in some way or another.
You actually are lying though, because the goal of leaving fake reviews is to intentionally mislead consumers to give the false impression of genuine experiences with the product. "Fake reviews" are "lying for profit" AKA fraud.
It is probably more than what they made as a "fake comment provider".
As someone who never finished my EE but can basically look at anything electronic and diagnose the issue. I suggest you first learn circuit analysis and how to read schematics because they will be your best friend and give biggest advantage.
Of course he will do that during American elections. Actually, never mind, he will push far right propaganda and reduce visibility of leftists.

He has done as much to suppress Bellingcat and discredit them on the platform when the story about the neonazi shooter in Texas last week came out.

It was never about “free speech”, it was about controlling narratives, pushing far right propaganda, and reducing the reach of “the left”.

Elmo’s actions and behaviour where he himself pushes propaganda and forces people to see his tweets even after blocking him supports the claim above.
If you're claiming to be free speech only, but then start censoring without notifying people then you are intentionally creating a system that is telling people "this is everything that is relevant" but only showing one side, then you are doing something that is objectively worse that shutting down in that location.
Is Netflix 'pushing' the traffic onto the ISP or are the ISP's customers asking for and pulling in that traffic though?
At the end of the day I'm not sure that a lock that prevents you from using non-authorized equipment/refills/whatever is very different from established practice. If they bricked the printer altogether sure, that'd be a new frontier, and it seems like many commenters have erroneously understood that to be the story, but that's not what's going on.
All of these terms are vague.

You are possibly mistaking free will with being an agent that has a (possibly deterministic) method of updating priors in response to new (unknown to the agent, and possibly deterministic) input.
I see forward movements regarding social issues, but I don't think I can recall anything for my entire life, which has been a win against capital.

That's not to say it isn't possible, but that it's unlikely should we continue the same way.
> Obviously not.

This is not obvious to me at all. I would expect trouble clearly feeling emotion to directly lead to struggle with meaning.

I am pretty sure this psychologist would agree: https://drjonicewebb.com/do-you-have-alexithymia/

Her book running on empty quite literally states that alexythemia is damaging to a feeling of purpose. She states alexythemia directly contributes to (1) emptiness and numbness, (2) suffering in silence, (3) questioning the meaning and value of your own life, and (4) escape fantasies.
It is clickbait. Nothing borderline about it. Still terrible behaviour from HP, but very unsurprising as opposed to the idea of actually bricking printers.
> I can not recall a single major change to install,

In 2011, bsdinstall(8) [1] was merged into HEAD as a replacement for sysinstall(8) [2] and allowed, among others, easy setup of ZFS on Root. It was a CLI-based process with sysinstall.

Granted, both installers look fairly similar and the change may not have been that visible to someone installing FreeBSD once every few years.

[1] https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?bsdinstall(8)

[2] https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&apropos...
It’s only a black box because our brains aren’t good enough.
If Netflix wasn't sharing costs in upgrading peering links I agree, but I never understood that to be the point of the debate. Instead it's that ISPs want to rate and charge differently for different providers / content types.

This allows them to try and charge the customer more, but possibly more importantly to charge service providers for access to their customer base. The alternative is that you pay your ISP for X bytes and it doesn't matter what they are or who it's from.
None. They should shut down so that they can free from the ideological impurity necessitated by existing in society.
> One's life meaning is traditionally simply their social role. The reason people lack meaning now is that we started determining our social roles by way of market whims

John Stuart Mill noted that liberalism leaves the determination of social roles to individuals because the end result drives more progress than the alternatives.

> Sterile precarity is the problem, not the solution.

What to do instead? Non-sterile precarity as in feudalism?
For me the biggest factor has been understanding how the hedonistic trap limited my options.

It works like this: you start a new job with a nice big bump in salary. You buy a new car, go to fancier restaurants, take dates to "in places", move into a nicer apartment. With each increment of income, expenses increase. Pretty soon you are trapped in an awful job but the pay is too good and you have no savings.

Getting off the hedonistic treadmill is very painful. But there's more to life than staring at computer screens and putting up with shitty bosses.
Assuming that there will be any actual money in those accounts by the time you get to retire is incredibly optimistic. With the way things are developing, everything being wiped out by some event in the next 20 years seems far more likely.

The list of potential causes is long: Bank and government failures, demographic collapse, AI, climate change, war, inflation. Or, some future government might simply decide that they need that money more than you do.

And no, "the people" won't revolt if that happens. They will be far too scared to do so.
Yeah, I've read Dragon's Egg. There are exceptions. But there are an overwhelming number of scifi books featuring aliens that are human except they have a cat head. Might as well have ChatGPT write them.

I also move on when any synopsis says "the fate of the universe hangs in the balance" and "journey to the end of time".

Star Trek, of course, is infamous for aliens merely having an appliance glued to their face. Zzzzzz....
> Otherwise Russia will just keep sending warm bodies into the meat grinder until they either win or collapse. They could drag it on for a decade.

> Russia still could win by just grinding their opponents down. They don’t seem to care how many they lose in the process. Just keep grinding until the West loses the will to keep helping Ukraine or Ukraine loses the will to resist.

At a certain point this will just turn into a huge one sided meat grinder just for Russia if they keep it up, eventually Russia will run out of tanks, armoured vehicles and other equipment they need to properly conduct combined arms warfare.

When that happens the war is over.
> Something that isn't talked about much in the GUI world (outside of mobile development) is how essential multi-threading is to a great application experience.

Yes it is. Heavyweight desktop GUI applications like DAWs or CAD or image/video editing are old established technology.

> This has the advantage of a project feeling natural to the platform while still allowing for code reuse between platforms

Having written cross platform native applications: This is a pain in the ass to do well - and there isn’t a particular reason this hasn’t been doable in C/C++ since forever - Rust isn’t some silver bullet. “Abstracting” away the native GUI/UX seems to be a common pitfall for junior devs - how hard can it be they think - then they learn why Qt exists.

> It's not too far from the write-once-run-everywhere philosophy of React native, Electron and similar.

Electron is about as far removed from the philosophy of targeting platform native toolkits as one can get.
I think the problem is "an old IBM 4019" isn't a scalable solution. I can't tell my Mom to go to Staples and pick up an IBM 4019, let alone figure out how to chain it to a modern PC, set up non-auto-installing drivers, etc.

Being able to say "the firmware comes from an external "neutral" party is a shorthand for "they have no reason to try to bait-and-switch on consumables". The default answer in the SOHO space is "buy a Brother laser" but that puts a lot of trust in a firm that's no doubt under constant temptation to do the exact same thing HP is doing.

It may also mean "broad support is likely because it's speaking well-documented languages." You can make a potato talk to a PostScript, PCL, or old ESC/P dot-matrix, but if you're outside of Windows/MacOS/maybe certain blessed Linux setups, your random cheapo inkjet is a crapshoot.
It would be super interesting if we figure out that everything in life including language are fractals of molecular biology
This comment is so close to “getting it”. Just for an instant. But you read it till the end and… nope.
There's a lot of information that was only ever posted to Twitter (whether you're a fan of that or not). Even if only 0.1% of it was valuable, that's still an incredible wealth of information lost. Think about how many pages across the internet cite tweets, how many links would be dead if everything was purged.
The site is fixed now. Was down for ~30 minutes (infinite redirection loop).
Everything you wrote is wonderful, but I wanted to expand on this:

> Accept that you're not going to be a hotshot coder/consultant/whatever forever.

I would add that it's likely that you won't even want to be a hotshot whatever forever. Getting older is like every other change in the stages of life. Some doors close, some doors open, but mostly -- what you enjoy and want out of life changes. Embrace that, and don't keep chasing the things you wanted in youth purely out of habit.
Serious question, would re-filling an original HP cartridge do the trick? I am considering buying a printer myself and the two most popular ones seem to be Brother and HP. I have however read Brother is doing similar tactics.
You mean someone stood to gain with all those "covid" deaths? Color me surprised.
> If I have to write TypeScript, then I might just write Java or even C#

You might just write it in an object-oriented way... but OOP sucks.

> Have any of these people watched a beginner and not-so beginner try to pick up "modern JavaScript" or TypeScript?

What are you talking about?
Sure. Here I just meant it to be the being that is currently experiencing one's own existence.
Their approach lines up pretty well with how we do regions in Vale. [0]

Specifically, we consider the "spine" of a linked list to be its own private "region", separate from the elements' region. This lets us freeze the spine region, while keeping the elements region mutable.

This mechanism is particularly promising because it likely means one can iterate over a collection with zero run-time overhead, without the normal restrictions of a more traditional Rust/Cyclone-like borrow checker. We'll know about this iterating benefit for sure when we finish part 3 (one-way isolation [1]); part 1 landed in the experimental branch only a couple weeks ago [2].

The main difference between the two approaches is that Vale doesn't assume that all elements are self-isolated fields, it allows references between elements and even references to the outside world. However, this does mean that Vale sometimes needs "region annotations", whereas the paper's system doesn't need any annotations at all, and that's a real benefit of their method.

Other languages are experimenting with regions too, such as Forty2 [3] and Verona [4] though they're leaning more towards a garbage-collection-based approach, where Vale is more like a memory-safe C++.

Pretty exciting time for languages!

[0] https://verdagon.dev/blog/zero-cost-borrowing-regions-overvi...

[1] https://verdagon.dev/blog/zero-cost-borrowing-regions-part-3...

[2] https://verdagon.dev/blog/regions-prototype

[3] http://forty2.is/

[4] https://github.com/microsoft/verona
> One definition or property of consciousness I find interesting is that it encompasses “what it is like to be <entity>”. If there is something that it is like to be <animal>, it is conscious.

I think there are problems with this.

Take something like the roundworm, with 300 neurons.

It has senses, and I assume a base level consciousness to process those senses. It would be something to be like a roundworm.

On the other hand, a roundworm likely has no sense of self, no identity, no awareness..no mental self to be able to acknowledge and reflect on those experience, so there is no 'someone'. And isn't that the point that matters?
All my investments are in stocks. People tell me "what if the stock market goes to zero?" Well, then I'd lose everything. But consider this - if the stock market goes to zero, so does the bond market, so does the real estate market, so do hog futures, your NFTs, your collector car, etc.

The only thing that goes up is ammunition.

So sure, it could happen, but I'm not going to diversify, because that won't work, either.
> Tangentially related, I'd to dabble in Rust at some point but the syntax and memory management leave me trepidatious [...]

Assuming your trepidation is because memory management is somehow more manual in Rust I would argue that it's actually not. This isn't something I'm saying because I want to convince you to use Rust; I'm actually of the opinion that Rust doesn't give you enough direct control of memory allocation and has iffy support for custom allocators on top.

Rust's memory management is much more like a garbage collected language in practice, hence why I consider it too indirect.
Netflix couldn't know what the outcome was going to be, so they hedged by creating a technical solution to the problem. They still pay the ISPs, but for colo services instead of the net neutrality ransom. The problem with paying ransom is it'll just keep going up. Colo services could also keep going up, but it's much more constrained because there's an actual good/service being provided and not just paying money to change a firewall/QoS box rule.
Wow, cool, so all you need to do is wire these into your panopticon, and you've got citywide surveillance of anything and everything that moves.

Signed, a guy who's quite uncomfortable with IR detectors on urinals and toilets.
Not sure about Windows. On Linux we use https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount
And here I thought to hallucinate meaning was the whole point of humans.
To believe and to claim to be something different from the rest of the universe.
The absurdist thing is, exactly that very act of hallucination proves her content, to be something different.
That sounds like it would be a very strong incentive for investors to avoid potentially bad actors and instead favor non-criminal investments such as bonds. This is a feature.
Carbon Dioxide and the Climate (1956)
I have an MSI Z370 board. It does not support x8/x4/x4 PCIe bifurcation in BIOS despite chipset support, and using the latest BIOS it fails to POST with an Intel Arc GPU in the first slot. This latter issue is maybe defensible as Z370 doesn't technically have support for Arc, but I've read that 300 series boards from other vendors work fine, so I'm going to hold it against MSI anyways.
What Wikipedia Did
I found Pico-8 to be an enjoyable entry into finishing a game. I’ve just released my first finished game today using it (https://ferm.itch.io/centauri). The limitations helped me to define a scope and really helped towards the end to determine what a completed game would look like. When I would think to add a new cool feature, I’d remember I was near the token limit and prevent myself from doing that.
Depends which side you're on ;-)
If by "simplistic" you mean "how things work and how people expect them to work", then yeah, "simplistic" I guess.
Of course it isn't, nor was it intended to be.
yeah, that's where all those huge font cataloging websites could shine (and also allow you to filter fonts based on this, eg, all zeroes should have some mark in the middle not be confused with the letter O), yet they settle on some bland pangram
This being a 2010 reprint of the 1956 article with a commentary.
Dang, we think battling adds is something new. Byte magazine was 60% ads.
Great piece of work.

Where it kind of fails short, as usual, is when OS IPC, external resources or multiprocessing enters the picture, with the type system not being able to prevent external events from taking place.

The concurrency remains fearless only for process private in-memory data accesses.
TLDR .. "this is why we can not have nice things"
I wonder if your gym will feel the same way about your reserved locker after you pass?