skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not necessarily the only solution, just the one Apple has started with. My guess is that at least in part there are technical reasons, since even this structured approach will require overnight processing (source: WaPo) by Apple.

I do think additionally, in the case for a situation like with your dad, Apple would need to verify that he is the same person that there's hours of audio of. That strikes me as a difficult at Apple's scale.
Why not build more housing?
Mass, widespread, unchecked use and subsequent dumping of the chemical was phased out because that practice was understood to be harmful to people and the environment. The fact that it is now used in a controlled and regulated manner is entirely different. You either missed this nuance, or you are deliberately being obtuse to make a point that "it's technically still used" which, obviously, is true, and also doesn't contradict the fact that it was phased out in the 70s once found to be poisonous.
Natural progression of any ecosystem. Along with this step is increasingly heavy regulation and confusing BS.

Eventually, many areas will have locked in incumbents which can’t be dislodged using the existing tech and/or tactics. Those incumbents will get increasingly terrible to deal with due to red tape, MBA types squeezing every drop of profit out in a destructive way, internal core value prop folks (engineering, product, etc.) getting more disillusioned or whatever, etc.

Then along comes some change (in market or tech), and the cycle repeats, with much hand waving and gnashing of teeth from some folks (usually older and more establishment) and with much rejoicing from others (usually younger and more up and coming/flexible.).

Next time will YC be disrupting?

Maybe, maybe not.
The NYT piece implied that, but no, his concern was less existential singularity and more on immoral use.
No, the chemical compounds of those can have quite adverse effects. Sweeteners are linked with insuline problems.
The "answer" button seems to serve to also say "I'm ready to listen" as much as it does to say "I'm ready to say". IMO this kind of goal is better covered by voice messages, or, at least, starting with a voice message. This allows the receiver to pick when they are ready to hear it (including immediately), replay it as needed, and choose when they respond (if at all). Many of these are benefits for the sender as much as the receiver.
Not to mention karma farming bots commonly repost popular posts/images on different subreddits or just repost it at later dates.
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Now you just need drivers.
Is it digitally watermarked so that I know I'm listening to an AI version of someone's voice?

If not, why did Apple think I would not want to know that bit of information.
I was wondering about that. It's using texlive-full, which requires several gigabytes to install and is, for me at least, always the longest step when setting up a new (Linux) computer. It can also make sure to have reproducible builds, which I don't think there is a Latex-native solution for.
Or is there a better approach?
You have grown and your video-game tastes have changed. The old games were cool and bring you nostalgia, but they don't match your taste anymore, so they're not as fun. You need to rediscover what you like.

I've been through this (although I'm not 50), and while some of my childhood games are still super fun to play (e.g., Street Fighter Zero 2), others are just not (e.g., Streets of Rage 2). But for example, in the case of SoR2, I find there are modern variations of the game that are fun to play, like I enjoy playing TMNT: Shredder's Revenge with my kids.

I also find that different games require different "mental states" and so may not be appropriate for certain days. If I'm more in the mood for a "literature" game, I may replay Chrono Trigger or a modern RPG. If I just want to chill and get into flow state I may either just build something on Minecraft in my kids' world (if I'm tired) or play a few rounds of Cuphead. If I want to get my heart rate up I'll play some Street Fighter V online. They are all very different games. If I only have a few minutes I may play a match of Hearthstone.

Also, one thing I realized is that most AAA games do not appeal to me at all. They seem all like the same canned stuff with a slightly different taste. I also concluded that, due to the heavy Natural Selection process of the industry, if an Indie game surfaces and people say it's good, it's generally really good.

Anyway, experiment. Rediscover your taste! There's a videogame for everyone out there!
It's not just "guarantee levels of service", it's permission to sling lots of bits (and of any "type" you like) without being deliberately cut off. It's not like you're just paying for more 9s at other CDNs (or at CloudFlare).

Yes, the free tier is in fact pretty amazing if you have mid-traffic-or-lower site and are mostly serving HTML pages and basic images, js, and css for those pages, and the stakes for availability are pretty low. Which describes quite a bit of the Web.
> Even in a relatively simple modern storage stack, say a single NVMe Flash device on a local PCIe controller, the question 'are these exact bits irrevocably committed to the media?' is pretty much impossible to answer without an NDA with the disk manufacturer and a hefty dose of proprietary IOCTLs (and even then, I would not bet my life on it).

The answer is easy in all cases: No.

Media can always fail without notice.
Is that it? Cars are incredibly expensive and on average people only use them for 12 years? And that's the record?

We have to re-think the environmental impact on what appears to be consumable items.
Kinda a weird article to be honest. It seems less like the author is annoyed at having to learn new languages or that their language specific knowledge because less useful as time goes on, and more that they are frustrated their code doesnt live on forever.

I guess I don't particularly care if my code lives on or not. I build something. It's hopefully useful for others or myself for some period of time, then its gone.

It's just lines I've written. Why would that be more important than other lines I've written? In other careers I never thought about how my work was eventually going to be forgotten. That's just how life goes.
> > Single (//...) and multi-line (/.../) comments are allowed.

We can now have different parsers have pragmas that specify different behaviour depending on whether those pragmas are recognized or not.

In case anyone was wondering, the history is that comments were considered an anti-feature by Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON:

> I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would have destroyed interoperability. I know that the lack of comments makes some people sad, but it shouldn't.

> Suppose you are using JSON to keep configuration files, which you would like to annotate. Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser.

* https://web.archive.org/web/20150105080225/https://plus.goog...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford
I think there's a large gap between what teenagers think and care about, and what they'll show to adults + how they express what they think.

Sometimes I feel most people's image of a teenager anxious about their future is some hippy kid with a "save the earth" sign in front of a Starbucks. I think it's probably more a very irritable and groaning kid who's pissed at adults but just doesn't see what they could even do so just spend their time hanging out with their other distressed friends.
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the 40s and 50s were unkind to the american west and to denver, in particular. a lot of the natural beauty is actually west of denver in the places that couldnt be exploited by rockwell, lockheed, and other participants in that military/industrial complex.

i also wonder how much of the environmental focus that denver-boulder is known for is something of a reaction to that exploitation.
The questions present in polls or surveys, especially their phrasing, largely dictate the scope of what's considered debatable politics. When that scope is defined from above, populism cannot exist. Technocrats act under the auspices of "campaigns" and "programs" which start with questions defined by technocratic thinktanks, which are then inevitably justified by the polls due to their imposition of narrow Overton windows, and then operationalized according to the whims of the techno-utopians with their fetishism of statistics (read: tyranny of the majority). It is this pattern that was pioneered by the Clinton administration. It's why everyone now has such gloomy views of "political consultants".
i sold software on cell phones early in my career and it was quite typical for the average small business to track its employees (say repairmen, HVAC people, gardeners, etc) using geofencing to alert if they went to bars, home, etc.
LLMs are better than me at rapidly querying a vast bank of language-encoded knowledge and synthesizing it in the form of an answer to or continuation of a prompt... in the same way that Mathematica is vastly better than me at doing the mechanics of math and simplifying complex functions. We build tools to amplify our agency.

LLMs are not sentient. They have no agency. They do nothing a human doesn't tell them to do.

We may create actual sentient independent AI someday. Maybe we're getting closer. But not only is this not it, but I fail to see how trying to license it will prevent that from happening.
> What do you think about the papers showing mathematical proofs that GNNs (i.e. GATs/transformers) are dynamic programmers and therefore perform algorithmic reasoning?

Do you have a reference?
We built a custom business plan generator that creates a fully custom 12 page business plan with complete financial projections exportable to Google Docs (plan) and Sheets (financial model). Any thoughts and suggestions are appreciated.
ChatGPT’s Sam Altman Calls on Congress to Adopt Safety Standards for AI Systems
At a prior company, this was the case. If you wanted to access a personal website, they had a fleet of repurposed Citrix servers running Windows Server 2012 that had nothing but Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox for this purpose. The account you used was ephemeral and wiped after 4 hours of inactivity with the servers located in the company DMZ. You had full access (less the usual NSFW filters). You could not browse anything that was not whitelisted through your local computer and even then, it all passed through a proxy to make sure it was safe.

You also couldn't use unapproved tools so you were limited to VS Code and PuTTY on Windows.

Eventually they got smart and issued Macbook pros to programmers and implemented zero-trust policies for related internal services. Unfortunately, technical managers and product managers were not so lucky.
I don't think is fair. We actually don't have a lot of data on real world battery lifetimes, but a properly engineered system with good heat & charge mgmt can last a decade for sure. There are 2011, 2012 Chevy Volts on the road like this, with minimal degradation, from my understanding.

It is true that some manufacturers (cough cough Nissan) have been slack on the battery longevity front. But Tesla and GM at least put a lot of engineering into temperature and lifecycle mgmt and I expect others are now doing the same

That and I'm sure in the long run, cost effective battery replacement will become entirely feasible in various manufacturer pipelines, once things mature and standardize.

Meanwhile in an EV most other components will have a longer lifetime.
Despite the name, “JSON5” is not an official successor to JSON.
That was the old way. Now we ask ChatGPT to generate it for us.
None of this changes the fact that Poland was invaded by both the Nazis and the Soviets. They may have hated each other ideologically, but politically, they were aligned at that moment. And even if they weren't sufficiently aligned by your standards, the Soviet Union still invaded 5 countries that didn't do anything to threaten the USSR, making the Soviets one of the aggressors of the war.
That sounds like a cost for the company, not the employee.
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Reminds me of when I used to work as an automation engineer at factories. We used to have to work late into the night during new process line installations. One time one of the assembly line workers who was assigned to help us out told me he felt sorry for me. When I asked why, he said no matter how the project was going, he was punching out at 3PM, was going to play a round of golf, have dinner, and not give work a second thought until the morning. In contrast, I was going to be there all night.
In the first class, he uses Sublime Text.
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With due respect, the inventors of a thing rarely turn into the innovators or implementers of a thing.

Should we be concerned about networked, hypersensing AI with bad code? Yes.

Is that an existential threat? Not so long as we remember that there are off switches.

Should we be concerned about kafkaesqe hellscapes of spam and bad UX? Yes.

Is that an existential threat? Sort of, if we ceded all authority to an algorithm without a human in the loop with the power to turn it off.

There is a theme here.
Without appropriate regulations you're just building more AirBNBs.

A little less flippantly, just adopting this YIMBY line without thinking through regulating the market to ensure houses are for human habitation will not address the underlying issues. It will just line the pockets of real estate developers.
The open letter written by their colleagues/friends is also interesting:

http://itam.nsc.ru/about/news/2023-05-15.html

(Use Google Translate)
Language isn’t logical, it’s a subjective expression.

Once you have two conflicting perspectives (especially with the same or unknown weights), a decision has to be made. Sometimes that means the most sound response in that moment wasn’t actually the intended one.
I completely agree -- it blows my mind that the BEAM/OTP is not more widely used. It is such a phenomenally well-designed system and it suits modern use cases perfectly.
You know the algorithm for arithmetic. Are you telling me you could sum any large numbers first attempt, without any working and in less than a second 100% of the time?
> I predict entire vehicles will be scrapped long before an equivalent ICE model would be.

That's a easy prediction today with so many early EV models on the road. As the technology matures so will the life-span.
> The IDE that's written in Java most likely shares nothing with Java ecosystem parts they "hate"

IDK, I think the irony is you thinking IDEs wouldn't use those patterns. I bet you'll find tons of weird interfaces and abstractions in IntelliJ. It is a huge and complicated code base.
> even basic $30k cars

"basic" as in it takes 2 years earning min wage and not spending a dime to afford it
In people's opinions: Would this feature be appropriate to implement, or beyond the scope of what the JSON project should aim for?
Malicious code in PDF Toolbox extension
> you ever get popped then your entire laptop is sent off for forensics, and if you delete personal data it will appear as if you were tampering with it

You have the right to have your counsel filter what’s turned over for personal content.
The replacements for some of those poisons (large amounts of artificial fertilisers) are animal products. In a world without artificial fertiliser you need to have animals to produce fertiliser.

The optimal for this would still be much less animal farming, and a massive shift in how and where it is done. But removing all animal products would be counter productive. (Perhaps this is what you meant by plant based though).
Cars are far more reliable than they used to be. Remember, even through the mid 90s many cars came with 5 digit odometers because they weren’t expected to ever reach 100k miles.

Nowadays a car lasting >200k miles is totally unremarkable.
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There may be performance reasons to still use fsync with O_DIRECT instead of only O_SYNC.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15539828
I think that software engineers need to start strongly considering a professional organization/association akin to Drs and Lawyers.

Do you think that other professionals would put up with this shit? Absolutely not.

There’s also the matter of an association binding its members by a professional code of ethics. The software engineers who are tasked with building systems like these need to stand up and say no when asked to do. These systems will make life worse for you, your coworkers, and society.

Stop trading your conscience for cash.
On an Android smartphone you can disable it usually, via *#*#4636#*#*

There's a frontend for this on F-Droid if you prefer that [1]

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/pl.lebihan.network/
The original reason is that they didn’t want people to use comments for processing information.
Ok, I think this is a good thing for the most part. Cars last so much longer nowadays. More interesting would be the average mileage of cars on the road, though.
Turns out I didn't even need to wait for China to start a war.
Plugged in and logged on: a history of the internet on film and TV
You can remove JSON, when is SQLite adding proper date type?
I'm not for panicked reporting, but in the face of the stated facts (as far as true) your comment is overly dismissive:

the chemical solvent trichloroethylene (TCE)—common in soil and groundwater—increases the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease. The movement disorder afflicts about 1 million Americans, and is likely the fastest growing neurodegenerative disease in the world; its global prevalence has doubled in the past 25 years.

It’s used today mainly in producing refrigerants and as a degreaser in heavy industry.

But in the 20th century, TCE was used for many purposes, including making decaffeinated coffee, dry cleaning, carpet cleaning, and as an inhaled surgical anesthetic for children and women in labor. TCE is highly persistent in soil and groundwater; inhalation through vapor from these hidden sources is likely the prime route of exposure today. However, it’s detectable in many foods, in up to one-third of U.S. drinking water, and in breast milk, blood, and urine.
We're all aloud our pipe dreams, the future is built on them.
X history and how we got here
Thanks for confirming that euro nationalism is at the "murica fuck yeah" stage that was common back in the 2000. Though it is even less grounded in reality in this case lol.

(As a Muslim your comment is especially funny!)
Made into a nice little video here: https://vimeo.com/85040589

Hugely useful if you are starting to get into something new or are young and frustrated that your X isnt as good as you think it should be.
> Comments in JSON? Why isn’t this everywhere?

Comments were considered an anti-feature by Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON:

> I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would have destroyed interoperability. I know that the lack of comments makes some people sad, but it shouldn't.

> Suppose you are using JSON to keep configuration files, which you would like to annotate. Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser.

* https://web.archive.org/web/20120507093915/https://plus.goog...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford
These algorithms work best on smooth functions with mid-to-low 100's of variables. They are very sample efficient, often obtaining superlinear convergence using just a linear number of evaluations of the objective function.
I am pretty strong with Elixir, and I've done a little bit of Erlang. Anyone who understand the basics of Erlang features that get used in Elixir should be able to program in Erlang with a bit of a ramp up period.

Not too long ago I interviewed with a company that only uses Erlang, not Elixir, and they rejected me because I am not an Erlang expert. There wasn't anything I could say that would change their minds. I even volunteered to do a coding challenge of some type & they still wouldn't consider me further.

Sometimes a talent shortage is a state of mind.
Agreed. If (approximate) 1st-order information can be obtained in any way (even by *carefully* deployed finite difference), then gradient-based methods should be used. It is wrong to use DFO in such cases.

> DFOs tend to have issues past a few dozens variables.

It seems that the PRIMA git repo https://github.com/libprima/prima shows results on problems of hundreds of variables. Not sure how to interpret the results.
"> Objects may have a single trailing comma."

Any arguments against this one? My knee jerk reaction is 'yay'
Colored vs. underlined links, or why the latter is better
Sure, but you have to somehow prevent investors from snapping it all up. Vancouver is a perfect example of what not to do.
Depends how you define « optimum ».

For IPCC it’s GHG mitigation and the vegan diet beats them all, while « all diets needs to provide full complement of nutritional quality, including micronutrients ».

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/4/2022/11/SRCC... (Page 488)

Edit : translate giec to ipcc
Fidelity does it too
This is not for productivity measurements. Banks are regularly paying billions in fines for various infractions, like money laundering, insider trading, trader collusion, sanction violations, workplace harassment etc. This is their attempt to reduce those fines.
The below is not an endorsement of any particular regulation.

It is a tool which allows any individual to have nearly instant access not only to all the world's public data, but the ability to correlate and research that data to synthesize new information quickly.

Without guardrails, someone can have a completely amoral LLM that has the ability to write persuasive manifestos on any kind of extremist movement that prior would have taken someone with intelligence.

A person will be able to ask the model how best to commit various crimes with the lowest chances of being caught.

It will enable a level of pattern matching and surveillance yet unseen.

I know the genie is out of the bottle, but there are absolutely monumental shifts in technology happening that can and will be used for evil and mere dishonesty.

And those are just the ways LLM and "AI" will fuck with us without guardrails. Even in a walled garden, we honestly won't be able to trust any online interaction with people in the near future. Your comment and mine could both be LLM generated in the near future. Webs of trust will be more necessary.

Anyone who can't think of about five ways AI is going to radically shake society isn't thinking hard enough.
Bridgewater famously had pretty obscene levels of tracking and monitoring and were open about it, lauding it as part of their company culture. This seems like the same type of thing.