skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was only one game in between. The number of viable titles in this genre are looking almost as bad as RTS which has also taken a big tumblr on popularity over the years. The question will stand if D4 will be able to engage the hardcores more than POE and still be able to attract normals enough to stick around and spend the big money. Time will tell.
> What in the process wouldn’t work with this method?

Testing of EUV lithography machines is very complicated and slow process. You cannot scale it without magically cloning all the test engineers and technicians.
> The same employee also speculated that Blizzard is "tightening its belt right now and they want people to leave", which may affect Blizzard's plans for Diablo IV's post-release updates.

If true, talk about incompetent management. If you need to slim down, ideally you'd want to identify the people and groups that can be laid off with least overall damage and do it all in one shot. "Layoffs by RTO" is a great way to have your best, most-employable staff trickle out over a period of months - constantly reminding anyone left behind that they're stuck working under a bunch of ding-a-lings so they might decide to leave next.

How is Bobby still getting paid "the big bucks" to run ActivisionBlizzard this way?
My grandparents had this accent. It was contextual, they didn't use it with us but I did hear it come out when they would talk to certain friends or tell stories and voice characters.

And then my grandparents on my other side had thick Bronx and Queens accents respectively. I think there were a lot more variations in region and class specific accents 50+ years ago.
Glossed over is too strong for me but subjective. Saying the movie missed the connection made it sound absent.
Well that totally disproves the idea because the USDS would never outsource anything.
The first store to get rid of free returns will be absolutely devoured in the market, especially if they're dumb enough to still have no dressing rooms at the same time.

I just wish they would sell the same damn jeans year in and year out and stop futzing with the sizes and fits.
When I'm surrounded or talking to someone with an accent, I tend to take on that accent. I don't always realize it at the time and it's totally subconscious.
Sure, but you can't try stuff on in store any more, so ... where's the advantage.
Make Your Metaverse
This is lies. Show me top talent that was laid off
It's a joke about Blizzard. "Small indie company" is a meme players use to sarcastically justify why content is delayed, fixes aren't delivered, etc.
You're not wrong.

Its also worth pointing out that 'the market' memes that people lean on have other requirements; the most crucial is buyers and sellers having equal power, which the labor market immediately discards, by dint of the relative urgency and immediate outcomes of failing to make a deal on the market.

A person selling labor has to balance their price against the urgency to secure food, shelter, and access to medical care.

A company buying labor can frequently afford to wait months or even years and it may not even make sense for them to hire some one at market rate - the more you pay someone the more others expect to be paid and the more they expect to see their own salary grow.

It's something to reflect on when people think companies are behaving stupidly for having interview processes that leave unfilled positions for months - the buyers on the market have fewer and different pressures than the sellers, maybe what they are doing isn't stupid just inhuman.
ChatGPT with GPT-4:

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The second bullet point is implied through the structure of the joke. The full statement would read something like this:

Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
Those who can't.

The joke is that the second point is not explicitly stated, requiring the reader to "extrapolate from incomplete data" to understand it.

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You really need to specify the model version when you talk about these things, there's a big difference between 3.5 and 4.

And I don't get why you think Bard is failing, its response seems correct to me.
> Look up "odds ratios"

Sure, compute the odds ratio for committing a violent crime due to being male. It is large, which in plain English means "most violent criminals are male".

But that doesn't mean the probability of a randomly chosen male being a violent criminal is large. It's still small, because you have to multiply the odds ratio by a very small prior (since the prior probability of a randomly chosen person being a violent criminal is very small). So if all you know about a person is that they are male, you still have only a very weak prediction that they might be a violent criminal. In other words, in plain English, "most males are not violent criminals".

What you need to have a strong predictor is some factor X for which not just the odds ratio but the posterior probability of being a violent criminal, conditioned on X, is large, i.e., for which you can say "most X's are violent criminals". Being male is not such a factor.
I used (and use) a similar approach to develop the habit of writing everyday.

For example, if I'm scheduled to write for 3 hours and I feel too much resistance, I write for less time. Maybe 2 hours. If I'm super resistant, I invoke the 'nuclear option' and write for no more than 30 mins, or even less.

Much more important than hitting some predetermined target is writing everyday no matter what. To be forthright, it's not particularly difficult once I get going. The writer in me wants to write; that guy just needs a little coaxing sometimes.

I learned of the 'nuclear option' from an unfortunately titled book by Jerrold Mundis called 'Break Writer's Block Now'. The title is pretty cheesy but the book is gold. It's designed to be read (and applied) over an afternoon, perhaps 3-4 hours. It works. The proof is me. I've been a professional screenwriter for several years now as a result of daily effort.

I guess the most important thing I've learned is that punishment doesn't work (at least for me). But gentle, consistent practice does.
https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/5/15/23721410/return-to-...
I fixed it (rebooted the server).

Anecdotes: Ward (My dad) and I recently moved c2 off a server in a colo where it had lived for over a decade because the colo was closing. Now it lives in a cloud provider. It will live on. Eventually I envision It will get moved like the Agile Manifesto to a static site for long lived prosperity as a relic of the early internet.
There's a monopoly to a first-order approximation.

Apparently TurboTax has ~70% market share for tax preparation software, and TurboTax + H&R Block have ~95% market share. [0]

But even that's still a heck of a lot more competitive and responsive than if the IRS shipped the only tax prep solution.

[0] https://secondmeasure.com/datapoints/tax-prep-2021-turbotax-...
True. I wasn't trying to suggest there wasn't a bias here or minimize Confluent's involvement in the project.
I do actually. While I personally am excited about LLMs' potential for good, I think a large swath of the world is ready and equally as excited about their potential for harm / spam / fraud / etc. I'm already seeing bots popping up all over other social channels (Reddit in particular), posting a series of overly-cheery LLM-generated content designed to build up high-karma accounts which then get bought and sold on the not-so-open market so that end users can be further spam'd / defrauded. It sucks.

So I'm personally curious in fine-tuning my own "algorithm" for detecting fake content, and pointing it out is helpful for me and, I presume, others who think similarly (and I know there are others).

In this case I may absolutely have been wrong, but even the comments above added to my knowledge and helped.

So yes, I found it very constructive. I hope others did too.
The point is promote common knowledge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_(logic)
It's a term of art, describing a kind of knowledge. You might think something is common knowledge if everyone knows the thing, but that's not the technical meaning. In the technical meaning, they also have to know that each other knows it and know that the other ones know that each one knows it, and so on. You might think there's no difference, but if you think about it you can imagine some situations where you make different conclusions from 'everyone knows the thing' vs. 'the thing is common knowledge'.
Thank you. It feels like nowadays everyone assumes that remote work is a worker's right, when I couldn't think of a worst future for myself.
That news source is one with questionable facts that caters to a far-right audience. This might as well be imaginary.

Do you have something that actually happened, that can be verified through more than one source, and doesn't involve giving such a website traffic?
Does this work for you? TurboTax has a 100% chance of either: (1) not working; or, (2) completely hosing my filing.
Checking certificates requires that either a) The user have a complete set of CT Logs to check against or b) The user makes a request of a third-party server to verify the certificate. "a" is disk space and download uneconomical, "b" is a privacy concern. Mozilla has decided that it's value is not worth the privacy risk of yet. Time will tell if that's the correct answer; Chrome and Safari are likely enough to keep the CAs honest.
Umm... Robin is a terrible leader. Next.
I strongly disagree, though I'm not a writer, so I'll just give you another quote (from "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser):

Soon after you confront the matter of preserving your identity, another question will occur to you: “Who am I writing for?”
It’s a fundamental question, and it has a fundamental answer: You are writing for yourself. Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person. Don’t try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood to read. Editors and readers don’t know what they want to read until they read it. Besides, they’re always looking for something new.
From the ones I know and myself, it more about where they want to life. If I would be living in the suburbs with a long commute, I'd definitely insist on working remote only. But since we are living around 10-20 minutes from the office by bike or public transport anyway, I enjoy the social interactions with coworkers a couple times a week, working from home the rest of the time.

That said, I'd be perfectly happy to go fully remote as well. Wouldn't come to my mind to advocate that others to have to go to the office, just because I enjoy it once in a while.
Hmmm a 386SX why they gotta do me dirty like that? I wanna DX!
I couldn't help not putting a request into GPT4. I got some pretty good ones, and I assume with some tweaking and/or multiple cycles, you could get a big list.

>Flambition (noun): The intense desire to achieve success or recognition through flamboyant or showy behavior.
Example: His flambition led him to wear outrageous outfits and perform daring stunts in front of the crowd.

Cellivacious (adjective): Displaying a lively and energetic nature when engaging with mobile devices, especially in social situations.
Example: She became cellivacious whenever her phone buzzed, eager to respond to messages and check her social media feeds.

Grumplestiltskin (noun): A person who frequently grumbles or complains about seemingly minor inconveniences, often to the annoyance of others.
Example: Don't be a Grumplestiltskin – it's only a small delay in our plans.

Confluderation (noun): The act of creating a temporary or makeshift solution to a problem by combining unrelated elements in a haphazard manner.
Example: The broken chair was held together by a confluderation of duct tape, string, and clothespins.

Inspiriscope (noun): A mental or emotional state in which one is highly receptive to new ideas, leading to increased creativity and productivity.
Example: After a walk in nature, she felt an inspiriscope envelop her, and she effortlessly penned her best poem yet.
Er how many American movies have a single non-American? The only foreigners that consistently find employment in American cinema are Britishers, and that’s because the British English accent is perceived to have an at least equal prestige to the American one. You’re not going to find many main characters that are, say, Middle Eastern or South Asian or African.
What type of contractor? Micro-entreprise is really simple for side gigs, and if it's your main job, declaring as an SAS and getting an accountant makes it (relatively) painless in my experience
Why do Windows 10/11 windows look like such garbage compared to this? Now window borders are invisible and the title bar is just one single color instead of that nice fade.
> every transaction should, by law, be [reported to the gov.]

Conceptually, and in principle, this freaks a lot of Americans out. But the burden of not doing it is exceeding the alternative, I think. While it may be progressive to automate tax filing, having the government know everything about your financial transactions without proper cause is not considered very progressive (I guess it depends on what you are trying to progress towards).
This website, along with your last one, caters to a fairly right perspective and isn't going to be trustworthy either.
You can do pair programming on zoom too. Also maybe not everyone enjoys dealing with other people, especially nerds?

For me WFH is definitely more productive. For a start, I don't have to commune for 90 mins into office. If I RTO I'll politely remove all meetings from other time zones out of 9-5 because I need to catch a train or drive a car.

Also, by WFH I don't have people who happens to enjoy a lot of chatting and "collaboration in person" to suddenly appear in front of me and request a talk! God finally I can work.
The page works for me in Firefox on Android. What problem are you seeing?
I gave it a try a few hours ago and it hallucinated a method with invalid syntax. Likely better with a more optimized prompt but definitely not what I expected.

However it was close, close enough that I could find the right method trough GitHub that I didn't find before.

Not bad, not amazing, but I see the potential
That's what B-2-B is, which is what I said. And it sucks because then you loose the employment perks of being an employee: sick leave, parental leve, included healthcare, paid time off, etc.
Ah, such a shame.
Oh, so this is how my PII winds up in any number of jointly shared "data lakes"...

Amelia: Okay, but what does this project involve? I mean, really? Have you thought about the details? You want us to get all of your Facebook data, all of your Google Ad Words data, all of your Amazon data, all of your print data? And your entire catalog? And all of your sales data? That’s an enormous amount of data.

Me: Oh, I see. You need a place to put it.

Amelia: We need a place to put it. So we are going to build our own, internal data lake, and we will put your data there. But I’m thinking, wait, does that make sense? We build a private data lake full of your data? Won’t you want access to that data lake?

Me: Yes, of course. If it’s our data, then we would want access to the data lake.

Amelia: That’s what I’m thinking.

Me: Since you have to do it anyway.

Amelia: Exactly. There is no other way we can do it.

what I'm thinking is that there is another way to do it.
> It’s a highly competitive market.

It's a competitive market on a stupid game. The market solutions (maybe mostly just intuit) fight to keep the game near impossible for the lay person to play. They generate "GDP" by making it more grievous than it need be.

At least part of this is a symptom of a broken political system (the current process of voting encourages 2 party system which are incentivized to not experiment)
We’ve completely lost the plot if we’re arguing about whether the government or private companies should maintain a system for filing taxes when ~80% of filers could be sent a bill or refund automatically based on info the IRS already has.
> ... fans have such a massive sense of entitlement that they think they can dictate to an adult who she can and can’t date ...

This is such a bizarre thesis. None of Taylor Swift's fans quoted in the article are suggesting that they should be able dictate who she associates with. They are simply criticizing her choices.
I use Google to auth on mobile Firefox and I don't get logged out constantly.
>Did anyone else expect us to have something better by now?

Yes, and we have it. Its called general internet. You can pretty much learn advanced topics with the source material online. ChatGPT has made it easier to research. Even back in early 2010s when I was finishing my masters, I would often just google things online and find random webpages that explain the concepts better than professors could.

The biggest issue with learning is motivation, which you cannot put into people. If someone is motivated to do something, he/she will learn. Handholding someone doesn't really do anything in the long run.
> a bunch of stores shuttered their dressing rooms during Covid and never re-opened them.

That's interesting to hear. Places I shop in Canada have all re-opened their fitting rooms so maybe it's a regional decision?
Eh, they'd lost their way years ago.
Related:

This word does not exist - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29002776 - Oct 2021 (413 comments)

Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23169962 - May 2020 (342 comments)
It amuses me when people call the news organization that censored booing of Boris Johnson neutral.

The WaPo isnt even neutral by American standards - it has an unusually tight knit relationship with the pentagon.

Essentially those 3 organizations provide 3 different angles on what the pentagon wants you to hear.
Maybe they're still great for some (after all, I'm hardly a teenager anymore) but the times I've been forced by some Apple repair to enter them, they've felt pretty darn dead.
You can use it to (mostly) validate small snippets are the same. See Alive2 for the application of Z3/formalization of programs as SMT for that [1]. As far as I'm aware there are some problems scaling up to arbitrarily sized programs due to a lack of formalization in higher level languages in addition to computational constraints. With a lot of time and effort it can be done though [2].

1. https://github.com/AliveToolkit/alive2

2. https://sel4.systems/
> I’m sure somebody will train a model that actually maps an input text to the Bark semantic representation,

But, clearly, that’s already part of the Bark model, so in the abstract one should be able to leverage the existing model with appropriate code to do that, rather than developing a new model. This seems too simple but…isn’t that just “generate_text_semantic” from the existing source (with None as the history_prompt. since you don’t want it in the context of some pre-existing speaker)?

EDIT: Looking at the SERP voice clone, that’s what they are doing. The one thing that I’m intuitively skeptical about (and this is way out of the kind of programming I do normally, so I could be way off) is that the temp they use is kept at the level normally used for synthesis (0.7). I’d think you’d want the temp low, since you’d want generating a baseline for a new speaker to be more deterministic than generating content from an existing speaker.
ACM code of ethics and a discussion about it below. Otherwise a good general article. We (developer related jobs) need to be able to push back. But then again, some people just don't care, as long as they get paid. I still think a guild, union, or some similar organization is necessary.

https://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/software-engineering-c...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32783007
Well, I've noticed an increasing number of people (particularly the younger ones) who have bailed out of dating apps entirely because of the problems that come with them.

There will certainly be at least some places who want those people to buy drinks at their establishment.
The difference is that if the IRS provided the only filing solution AND adjudicated taxes, there'd be no adversarial tension.

Right now, the IRS is forced to establish some sort of data interchange format and adjudicate incoming tax filings equally, because they're required to work with TurboTax et al. (even if only required from a practical standpoint).

If they also provided the only filing solution, that pressure would be gone.

IMHO, the best possible outcome is definitely IRS-supplied free file + private options, if users would like. Keeps everyone honest and on their toes.
random(random(random(random())))
As an American, I find it most noticeable/funny in Helen Mirren's Fast & Furious franchise role. You can tell she's having a blast putting on the intentionally worst working class accent she can (in a way that it sometimes seems like she assumes Americans aren't in on the joke and it is mostly just for herself) to fit her role as Jason Statham's "mum", and there are definite fun moments of "Is she intentionally parodying Michael Caine here?" that do give me (as an American) silly, brief moments of "Americans still think that sounds posh", plus it does serve to more directly connect Statham's accent to Caine's. I don't think a lot of Americans notice how close they are and yet do notice that Statham and Caine have very different stereotypes in American cinema.
This moment will never come if you just sit and wait for it. Practice in writing is just as important as in coding. Unfortunately, as many great arts of the past, writing is dying due to the publics' interest shifting away from reading (reading fiction in particular) to something else.
There are tricks you can do to better utilize the smaller context window, such as sub-summaries and attention tricks. That's how there are already products on the market that consume entire big PDF's and let you query them. Granted, a larger context window would still work better, but it's possible to do.
https://pragmaticstudio.com has some of the best courses on Elixir, OTP, Phoenix, and LiveView. I'm not affiliated with them in any way. I've just used their courses to get software engineers without any previous Elixir experience successfully trained in the language.

https://elixircasts.io

and

https://elixirschool.com

are also good resources.
Bard's context length is equal to that of GPT-3.5.
I once stopped in a small town in New Brunswick a couple hours drive south of the Quebec border. To my surprise, not only did they all speak French there, but the people we were trying to order lunch from didn't speak a word of English. I never realized that there were French-speaking places that far into New Brunswick.

I had an easier time communicating even in smaller towns in Quebec, where it seemed that most people were capable of speaking a little English, even if they spoke French all the time.
I like to point out that AVR micro's reading and writing to address 0 is legit.

On the ARM Cortex I think address 0 is the initial stack pointer value.

My opinion is NULL being something special in the language is mathy CS academics trying to turn C into a mathy abstract language. Which it ain't.
Building django as open source is also quite charitable.
https://archive.is/wbM1c
https://archive.ph/lv6pn
Americans Will Always Do the Right Thing — After Exhausting All the Alternatives

-- Winston Churchill (probably not[1])

1 - more likely a generic version of this was posited by Israeli diplomat Abba Eban in the 1960s and mis-attributed to Churchill sometime in the 1980s
Yet public commentary was requested and even required to be evaluated. Therefor, fraud existed. Either is was the US government implying this was a democratic process, or the perpetrators of identity theft committed a crime. Which was it?
They also have a newsletter covering Networking concepts that are not commonly discussed:

https://systemsapproach.substack.com/archive
How Elon Musk Turned Twitter into the Post-TV Fox News