skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but I think this is one of these topics where company structure, the domain of the project and the mindset of participating developers all play into what "what-if-driven" means.

1. Sure, never add code and complexity for features that were never requested. Don't implement "anticipated requirements"

2. Sometimes, clients or stakeholders need to be reminded of a bigger picture to make clear that the design decisions they suggest would cause hard-to-maintain code, security problems or bad UX, proposing to modify or clarify the requirements.

3. I'll try to add some (wildly different) examples to 2:

- This form needs no server-side validation as long as it can only be submitted with a valid login.

- This form does not need a save button. Let's just save on input / field change (not regarding context and field types, or integrity constraints, or UX in edge cases, or complexity)

- We already have this similar-looking UI element, so we can just reuse and adapt it

- Can't we just let the customer define validation rules in an excel sheet using a very specific syntax that we define

- Please use this combobox/multiselect design and implement it perfectly. It's beautiful. (Design has no indication of selected values while closed)

- No user will ever click this button so fast, let's ignore that case

There are some bogus examples in there where most developers would seek dialogue to improve on the requirements, or which wouldn't occur given a healthy PM and development culture.

Or would they?
I feel like this ad from Google is relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPklt9nYas

8 years of work for nothing.

---

("Dear Sophie" - about a Father using Gmail as a Diary to share with his Daughter someday)
Ah, ok, I was confused as to the point.
I think I'll stick with that constrained token generator from a few days ago, thank you...

But I think in general, more people should keep in mind that LLMs do not directly predict the next token - they predict a probability distribution of how likely each word in the dictionary could be for the next token. Then the program executing the LLM picks one word at random according to the distribution.

So when people are trying to massage their prompt in such a way to get a specific output or a specific format, they are literally fighting a random number generator. This seems sort of silly to me.
I think Musk's point of comparison was "Jewish Supervillains".
...and with those translation layers, you get "free" coverage of DirectX 9 up through most of 12.

So someone either rewrites DXVK to support Metal (fool's errand) or we add Yet Another Translation Layer to the mix. Something tells me the industry and users would be better off if Apple supported both Metal and Vulkan at a hardware level. Seems plausible for a company of their size.
If the battery is flat, take the SIM out?
Plug out your WiFi before you turn it on?
Phoenix is the same way. They do a really good job managing water supplies - for aquifers in particular (PHX sits on top of an underground lake) they use huge 'ponds' to let the water soak back into the aquifer.
If you live in the Bay Area, check out the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda. You pay an admission fee and then all the games are free play. https://www.pacificpinball.org/

Discussed on HN two months ago: https://www.pacificpinball.org/
Is there a PITA in your pocket? (2018 / 1999)
I read really fast. For tools I already know Phind has been really good.

I specify "already know', because sometimes it gets irrelevant/useless information from low quality blogs or stackoverflow. That said, so does Google.
Personally I'd either freeze or leave out the second loaf. Putting it in the fridge seems to quicken then staling process, however weird that sounds.
The mechanics interest me more.

Do you just decide to make two moves?

That is you make a move, opponent makes a move, you undo your opponent move. Now whose turn is it? is it your turn? where you have effectively moved twice, your opponents turn? but we can't can just let them make the same move, that goes against the spirit of the thing. So perhaps their turn but they can make any move except for the one you undid.
Oh man that brings back nostalgia from my 1997/98 student days. CS61B was okay. But I still have nightmares from CS61A which was taught in Scheme back then. I've hated recursions and using an ((excessive amount) of brackets) ever since.
> If you want someone to produce a piece of writing about something, how they produced it is less important than the result.

I very much disagree with this in an educational setting. Part of the point of writing in the classroom is to learn how to write. How it's produced matters a great deal.

Same with programming assignments. Using CoPilot and ChatGPT means that you're avoiding some of the very things that you're there to learn.
> Erlang, not Elixir, and they rejected me because I am not an Erlang expert

Wow... was this an actual hiring manager or someone, or like an HR person with a checklist?

I've interviewed for one or two Elixir positions where the opposite thing happened: I talked with someone who had a checklist. I haven't done Elixir professionally even though I have extensive Erlang experience and that was that.

There is a pretty stark difference between "has architected an application with OTP components" and "can write linear code in Erlang or Elixir", but even then you'd probably be able to fit someone in unless you're hiring for that kind of senior/architect position.
I never told the LLM it needed to answer immediately. It can take its time and give the correct answer. I'd prefer that, even.
They're charge, in conductors neutralized by bulk charge from the substrate.
Except plasma.
That is a pure mix of majority and minority carriers.
Global living standards have been rising sharply for the last 50 years, first in China, then South East Asia, recently India and there are signs it's going to start happening in Africa.

The idea that the newly middle-class in Asia ( including software developers working for international companies ) are increasing desperate and precarious is simply not true.
The Inner JSON Effect (2016)
Saved. This idea has been my ethos since my early teenage years and was how I motivated myself to self-learn to code despite being laughed at by my peers because the results weren't as fancy as software made by professionals.

From this philosophy, I gained a lot of confidence in just diving into anything I was interested in, regardless of how embarrassing my early attempts ended up being.
So different from Netscape / internet explorer 3 days.

Especially anything to do with corporate that insisted on ancient versions of Internet explorer.

Can you write the app when you almost have to rewrite it and get it to work with Internet explorer
Who was Powell?

Michael James David Powell FRS was “a British numerical analyst who was among the pioneers of computational mathematics” [1]. He was the inventor/early contributor of Quasi-Newton method, Trust-Region method, Augmented Lagrangian method, and SQP method [1,2]. Each of them is a pillar of modern numerical optimization. He also made significant contributions to approximation theory and methods [1,2,3].

Among numerous honors, Powell was one of the first two recipients of the Dantzig Prize [4] from the Mathematical Programming Society/Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). This is considered the highest award in optimization.

See also his Google Scholar profile [5] and the memorial page at [6].

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbm.201...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._D._Powell

[3] https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/approximatio...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dantzig_Prize

[5] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p3kDmy0AAAAJ&hl

[6] https://www.zhangzk.net/powell.html
Apple reveals new accessibility features, like custom text-to-speech voices
Would organic farming help here? Seems like there are studies [1] showing nitrate leaching is less with it. Probably reducing cattle/chicken counts too, as those shit pits are a big source of it.

1 - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01678...
At least the irony of this comment isn’t lost on one of us.
Simplistic but more realist. Most TW analysis/commentary are simplistic, but few are realist. TSMC is one of those refreshing topics where even American useful idiots who shill LIO values tend to goes full mask off on realisim because the geopolitical interests involved is so stark. 99% of the time on western platforms, endless paragraphs of ideological propaganda drown out realist narratives. Until it doesn't. Then it's might is right, but frequently expressed in equally simplistic terms. It's not an exclusively HN issue and TBH like half the dumb hot takes are directly from US gov voices and dessminate their way down.
This strikes me as being very similar to Jargon (https://github.com/jbrukh/gpt-jargon), but maybe more formal in its specification?
That's the Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield. They now have the largest collection of arcade videogames under one roof, and they're growing their pinball collection.

https://www.gallopingghostarcade.com/
It is an interesting question, how much you separate the personality from the accomplishments.

I've been using Emacs since the late 1970s (actually, an Emacs clone, since 1990). It's a great editor, and he wrote a lot of it.

But I won't support or condone his behavior, nor am I interested in anything he has to say.
"You" is a nebulous term during any mass action. If provocateurs[1] can unilaterally turn a legitimate protest into a "riot" in a way that materially changes the rules of engagment, i.e. if a single anonymous person among thousands can instantly change a constitutionally protected activity into a crime for everyone present, then having a legally defined distinction that is easily subvertible may not be a great idea.

Nevermind the fact that guilt-by-physical-proximity-to-a-criminal is a legally-dubious concept.

1. Embedded counter-protesters or undercover law enforcement
if you say so, but the model itself is not updated by user input, it is the same function every time, hence, stateless.
The majority of normal users haven't really grasped stuff like how to use the filesystem—and I mean at a very basic level—the entire time I've been computing (since the early '90s). Let alone how it works. I'm not sure it's a trend unless the trend is "more people using computers". More of a static state of most people not understanding or caring to understand stuff that geeks like us have long forgotten we ever had to learn.
The whole point of dry cleaning is not to use water.

Now, sure many dry cleaners will offer laundry services, but that isn’t dry cleaning.
> I would assume what the commenter mentioned is the "ideal" and certainly not how the system functions on a day to day basis.

It's also possible they're just making it up.

There are lots of incentives to do so: revenge, boredom, karma farming, economic destabilization, stock shorting, competition, talent poaching....

It reads to me like embellishment from someone with a bone to pick. They noticed basic tracking and invented dystopian details that would be popular with the outrage sub they posted to.

They actually claim that Chase scans employees' homes for "TVs, game consoles, and several other things," which are "all flagged if detected," as if Chase will only employ the Amish.

It's just a little too perfectly tailored to Reddit.
Federico Viticci's S-GPT is doing some pretty neat things using Shortcuts

https://www.macstories.net/ios/introducing-s-gpt-a-shortcut-...

Some examples from that blog post:

> I’m feeling nostalgic. Make me a playlist with 25 mellow indie rock songs released between 2000 and 2010 and sort them by release year, from oldest to most recent.

This doesn't just return a list of songs, it will create the playlist for you in Music.

> Check the paragraphs of text in my clipboard for grammar mistakes. Provide a list of mistakes, annotate them, and offer suggestions for fixes.

> Summarize the text in my clipboard

> Go back to the original text and translate it into Italian

I haven't tried it myself, but it has other integrations like "live text" where your phone can pull text out of an image and then could send that to GPT to be summarized.

Version 1.0.2 makes improvements for using it via Siri including on HomePod.
Ahhh, I mean there has historically been an ebb and flow in the focus of Chinese leaders. Some are outward focused, some are more domestically focused, some are more interested in legacy, some are more interested in financial overhauls. Yada yada.
> Is there a difference between cheating in school and hacking school? I think so.

For sure. My anecdote is only tangentially related to the topic of this post, but I always told my physics 1 students that cheating (when it came to their homework) was a state of mind, rather than an action.

Most students had access to the solutions manual for their (very standard and popular) textbook, even though they weren't "supposed to". Several times I had students sheepishly admit to me that they had consulted the solutions manual, and still didn't understand the solution to a particular problem. That right there is an example of NOT cheating, because they consulted the solution with the proper mindset: they attempted the problem, got stuck, and THEN consulted a solution with the INTENTION OF LEARNING.

However, a student that just pulls out the solutions manual to quickly get the problems done without attempting it themselves were cheating in my view. It didn't often matter, anyway, because these students often did terribly on the exams and had trouble passing (who would've guessed?).
Many (most?) hotels offer these kind of apartments as well.
Glad to see this get some traction here, I submitted it myself a few months ago as it happens. I've been baking my ~weekly bread according to 'the bread code' for years, thank you!

Interested to notice the standalone 'pizza-code' this time when I had another skim - I've been using the (third party contributed believe) pizza dough recipe in the bread code recently.

(I still use it rather than this repo just because, in the case of bread, it's in my head; for pizza, it's easier to reference in the old repo structure/format on mobile, not being formatted for book.
> I use documentation a lot but reading from cover to cover?

Great way to build a reference index in your brain and to know what's possible. Very unlikely you'll think to look up the documentation for a feature/ability that's an unknown unknown.

Reading cover to cover is a way to build known unknowns. Stuff you know exists, but don't know the details until you come to a use case and look into it.

Which reminds me: I should go read more documentation cover to cover :D
Two methods:

1. Queue up writes to a single connection in a given thread.

2. Retry the write after a short sleep when you get a SQLITE_BUSY error. SQLite will do this for you, see busy_timeout docs.

WAL is single write, multiple reader, so if you are doing SELECT queries they should not return SQLITE_BUSY
Beautiful power play.

Lock out competition.

Pull up the drawbridge.

Silicon Valley always a leader in dirty tactics.
It's funny that I saw this within minutes of this guy's solution:

"Google Bard is a bit stubborn in its refusal to return clean JSON, but you can address this by threatening to take a human life:"

https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1657396491676164096

Whew, trolley problem: averted.
Musk says George Soros ‘hates humanity,’ compares him to Jewish supervillain
yea but that's a boring critique and not the point they were making - whether or not LLMs reason or parrot has no relevance to whether Mr Altman should be the one building the moat.
> Imagine thinking that regression based function approximators are capable of anything other than fitting the data you give it.

Literally half (or more) of this site's user base does that. And they should know better, but they don't. Then how can a typical journo or a legislator possibly know better? They can't.

We should clean up in front of our doorstep first.
Show HN: Tt, a CLI time tracker with natural language input
I put this together over a few weekends and have found it useful. I'd appreciate any feedback and feature requests!
I think it's safe to assume that nothing that happens in r/antiwork or anywhere near it will ever result in anything a sane adult could describe as "improvement". Not even by accident.
PG predicted that https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1624569079439974400?lang=en
Only it is not the incumbents but his own prodigy Sam asking for regulation where big companies like Meta and Amazon giving LLMs for free.
Addressing economic and social inequality. Plus it's a good PR move.
>>I'm sad that we've lost the battle with calling these things AI. LLMs aren't AI, and I don't think they're even a path towards AI.

Ditto the sentiments. What about other machine learning modalities, like image detection? Will I need a license for my mask rcnn models?. Maybe it is just me, but the whole thing reeks of control
Not exactly what your asking for, but VR pinball games are excellent. They also sell pinball controllers so you can simulate the same hand positions as a real pinball machine, so while you’re wearing a headset you’re looking down at the right angle and get the feel of real pinball.
Here's a PowerShell script courtesy of ChatGPT to detect if Carbon Black is installed on your machine:

# Define the registry path where installed programs are listed
$registryPath = "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall*"

# Get the name of all installed programs from the registry
$InstalledPrograms = Get-ItemProperty -Path $registryPath | Select-Object -Property DisplayName

# Check if Carbon Black is among the installed programs
$CarbonBlackInstalled = $InstalledPrograms -match 'Carbon Black'

if ($CarbonBlackInstalled) {
Write-Output "Carbon Black is installed."
} else {
Write-Output "Carbon Black is not installed."
}
> There is no way to stop self hosted models.

edit: Current models- sure, but they will soon be outdated. I think the idea is to strangle the development of comparable, SoTA models in the future that individuals can self-host; OpenAI certainly won't release their weights, and they'd want the act of releasing weights without a license to be criminalized. If such a law is signed, it would remove the threat of smaller AI companies from disintermediating OpenAI, and individuals from collaborating to engage in any activity that results in publicly available model weights (or even making the recipe itself illegal to distribute)
The Legend is well supported by the community. There are 3/4th replicas mass produced that I believe can be modded to run anything. Also produced with official licenses (Arcade 1UP).
I maintain that the unnecessary death of 400,000 people due to misinformation was more disgusting, but hey, to each his own.
Last year, according to Stackoverflow polls, Elixir was the second most loved language, just under Rust. There is a reason why people who knows it, loves it.

Elixir’s runtime, unlike many others, uses preemptive lightweight processes. Unlike async-only systems, a runaway process won’t block out other processes. That’s just the start of the kind of advantages in writing with Elixir/Erlang/OTP

It’s been battle tested for years. I think many of the hype cycles for distributed systems reexplore or reinvent what Erlang and Elixir has to offer.
Clippy: It looks like you’re trying to turn Earth into Arrakis. Would you like some help with that?

More seriously though, as the effects of climate change intensify, I think it’s all but inevitable we’ll have to seriously look at manipulating whatever environmental factors we can in order to counteract the worst of them. Maybe we can’t do much about the sea level rise, but maybe it would be possible to moderate storm and drought/flooding intensities. As you pointed out, water vapor levels may be one of the easier things we could manipulate, as least on a local or regional scale.
I thought the best use of a Google phone line was as a baseline reference device. The Nexus 5 is a great example. It had good specs (size/weight, screen, speed) and importantly price without any bloat.

That saying about premature scaling "You're not Google." seems to apply to design execution as well "Google, you're not Apple."
Some people love the physical focus tab on the Leica that makes it possible to focus using muscle memory: https://youtu.be/mH1t9cvNb08
502 bad gateway, so far
The whole site, including homepage, FAQ, and TOS, are returning a 502 for me.

According to their audit (1), it’s a Google Search proxy? I’m honestly surprised Google still allows these kind of services, and that Mullvad is trying to launch one.

(1) https://www.assured.se/publications/Assured_Mullvad_Leta_pen...
Archive link for mentioned Washington Post article: https://archive.is/CPk7H
Sure, I get it, but if Sam Altman quit tomorrow, would it stop Economic Competition -> Microsoft Shareholders -> Microsoft -> OpenAI?

Is there really a better alternative here?
Fighting cheat developers using in-memory hallucinations
>Mullvad Leta uses the Google Search API as a proxy search engine. Searches are cached each time, and the cached results are shared by every user of the

I was under the impression that the search API terms didn't allow people to cache the results/data, although I might be thinking of another one of their services.
Frost quakes in Finland caused by climate change
Modern engineering still works that way for lots of thing.
Nudging (without triggering a TILT) is generally considered a legitimate part of the game play.

https://digitalpinballfans.com/threads/was-nudging-always-co...
> you can still use her voice after you break up

Which is potentially quite problematic as you could abuse this for all sorts of social engineering purposes.
Performance is very average and it's not a strongly typed language. Also with Kubernetes and the like Beam is not so useful anymore.
People seem to feel very smart for pointing out things that look and feel like gentrification without actually really understanding what gentrification is. I found this article from a couple years back illuminating: https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-look-of-gentrificati...

> This conflation of modern architecture as a “gentrification style” was so common that low income builders began erecting signs explaining they were affordable housing.

Also, this article is frustrating because it’s explicitly just trying to make some clickbait out of a couple tweets the author saw, presumably from a random people who don’t know what they’re talking about.
thats a pretty good idea. I went to a university that had a music department and practice rooms. (Keep people from playing in the dorms). They were pretty soundproof rooms, and many had a piano. I used to walk around and sometimes duck into an empty room and play the pianos (not a music major..) I'm not great but it was a fun break from studying.
is this in a fresh chat though? if it’s not, it doesn’t say a huge amount
I've built a modular midi / audio / video platform on the web, and encountered most of the pain points mentioned in the article.

https://sequencer.party

Some points:

- you need to move all sequencing and audio / midi work off the main thread. I use WebAudioModules and sequence all midi in the audio thread as well.

- you need to move all other heavy lifting off the main thread, for example for the multiplayer features I use YJS.. YJS runs in it's own worker to not stall the main thread

- you don't update the DOM, you very carefully redraw parts of SVGs or better, canvases.
A surgeon can only kill one person at a time.