skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Error handling absolutely breaks the language for me. I understand why many don't like exceptions handling in many contemporary languages like C#, but I think that if you are going to do a sum type instead and force handling errors as a result type from functions you could at least use a proper Either monad and some form of monadic binding to remove boilerplate and enhance composition. (This was a problem with ColdFusion too. I can go on at length about some of the terrible "circuit breaker" boilerplate in that language and how tough it made handling errors correctly without killing entire applications.)

As for the ecosystem, most of what I've seen is a language that seems built for supply chain accidents (random github.com main branches as far as the eye can see) built by a company with a track record of developer tools that provide terrible developer experience that live in their own little bubble divorced from most of the rest of computing. (These are also things that seem very familiar to me from my brief horrifying time with ColdFusion.)

If golang works for you then that is great, but it upsets me to look at and right now you'd need to pay me a lot to have any interest of maintaining code written in it. I have enough scars from terrible things like ColdFusion on my resume.
> The formula for it seems to be to introduce to new characters one layer up, have them each pick a side, then fill in roughly the same arguments again. Maybe this pattern is just spurious, but I'm deeply curious to find out if we have fooled ourselves already with just your example.

The instructions I gave it were very bare, and it didn't intuit a need to deviate from what it saw. But what it does by default is not the same as what it can do:

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Now write a dialog between Mary and David discussing the dialog between Alice and Bob. Mary and David should hypothesize about why Alice and Bob took the sides that they did. There’s no need for Mary and David to name each other every time they speak. Mary and David should have a very good understanding of what Alice and Bob said. Mary and David are not overly polite or civil, should not rehash the same arguments Alice and Bob made, and are able to snipe at Alice and Bob if they like.

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Mary: So, Alice clearly seems to be on Team Adventure here. I bet she's the kind who loves skydiving and bungee jumping. Probably just trying to justify her own wild side through John's actions.

David: Ha! You might be right. And Bob is definitely the voice of reason, probably a careful planner who can't stand the thought of making decisions on the fly. It's like he's projecting himself onto Jane.

Mary: It's funny how they both missed the point that Jane and John's adventure could have been thrilling and safe at the same time. They got so caught up in taking sides that they didn't even consider a middle ground.

David: Absolutely. And did you notice how Alice kept trying to defend John's intentions? Like, sure, intentions matter, but that doesn't mean you can just bulldoze over someone's feelings. Classic excuse-maker.

Mary: Yeah, it's like she's trying to convince herself as much as Bob. She's probably made similar mistakes and doesn't want to admit it. And Bob, Mr. Sensitivity, is so focused on feelings that he overlooks the possibility of compromise.

David: Right! They both ended up stuck in their own perspectives. It's too bad they couldn't see that being adventurous doesn't have to mean being inconsiderate, and being considerate doesn't mean you can't have a little fun.
American here. My wife is a property manager. All I can say is WOW!!! Here in the States, and we're backward on many issues as you're surely well aware, renters have a lot of rights. If you sign a lease, there are very well-defined laws for eviction. It's a tedious process and it even involves engaging the county Sheriff. No kidding. There are even things as an owner you must provider renters: heat, water, heated water, no major plumbing leaks, no exposure to the elements. The renter may not pay the rent, they must put it in escrow, if these items are not being provided and you cannot evict the renter for non-payment in that case. The landlord cannot terminate the lease because they can make more money doing something else. They investigate "slumlords" pretty rigorously, especially given the real estate market we're seeing today.

I'm honestly surprised to hear the UK doesn't have all these sorts of protections in place for renters.
Living in Southern California is frustrating in that way. It's obvious that the plants here are adapted for regular fires. The native people of this area knew the importance of controlled burns and had incorporated them into their tradition. They likely were doing controlled burns for thousands of years before their lives were disrupted.
We've been doing that in the UK and it hasn't gone well. Office buildings make poor homes. Better to tear them down and build something more suitable.
Just install the bing app.

(never thought I would ever be saying that)
Notoriety is in the eye of the beholder. It doesn't matter whether the police are _actually_ trigger-happy; as long as they have a reputation for excessive use of violence, a threat to involve them is a perceived threat of violence.
These LLMs don't "believe" anything. They don't "think", they are just glorified text filters. This is just a bug, nothing more.
Yeah, the cycle goes:

1. be overly vigilant to a real or percieved threat for an extended period of time

2. "threat-finding" starts leaking into regular life

3. freak out about a normal situation falsely identified as a threat

The 3rd step resolves the whole thing, and is actually good (if nobody gets hurt!). That's a chance to take a breather and shine some light on the situation, or start the whole thing over again.
Starting with this post:

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/using-gpt3-and-shorcut...

I've been trying to adapt it to an offline LLM model, probably a LLaMA-like one using the llm package for Rust, or a ggml-based C implementation like llama.c.

It could even be fine-tuned or trained to perform better and always output only the json.

This could be a good fit with open sourced tovera when that is released.

I like the idea of supporting natural language commands that feel more natural and don't have to follow a specific syntax.

It can also process general LLM requests, possibly using a third-party LLM like Bard for more up to date responses.
My high school history teacher had us watch and discuss the TV film. Even as viewers, several of us felt a bit of excitement over the transformation in Jones’ classroom early on, and that was unsettling. Effective experiment.

That same teacher ran some other simulations (e.g. French revolution and Nuremberg trials) and those playing the bad guys would often report feeling strange about it afterwards.
Fake iphones don't and won't use any genuine parts. So locking said genuine parts achieves absolutely nothing against fakes, so yes that does means that if that's the goal, it's pointless.

It's not an "effort", it's misdirection.
I'm assuming that taxes, fees, and other standardized costs are not considered harm, as well as other such incidental costs, otherwise no, nothing can be done by anyone that does not cause harm to someone else at the margin.

Mandating that the US postal service deliver to every address at a single price. This results in an efficient single price, efficiencies of scale that private carriers don't even have, and does not harm anyone outside of the externalities that would already exist for mail delivery regardless of who was doing the delivering.
Was it also trained on my/our open-source code repositories and Creative Commons StackOverflow answers? https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing

Does it provide any attribution?
I find the attitude in the article troubling, as if the author is resistant to change.

I can get staying on something because it works, and "if it aint broke, don't fix it."

I also will admit that I don't rush out to get the new version of Windows / MacOS anymore. I've skipped over a few. (But I really, really like Windows 11)

But, in 1990s and early 2000s computing, a big thing you had to accept was that the technology you were using was going to be outdated soon; and that the new version will be different. Change was part of the bargain.
To my mind, management is about having direct reports and doing a lot of work around things relating to that responsibility: quarterly reviews, compensation and promotion discussions, assigning work and suchlike.

Leadership is about leading: helping the company make strategic decisions about what problems to solve and how to solve them, mentoring and inspiring and educating others, generally up-leveling the wider organization but without the direct responsibility of managing individuals.
No, because it is obvious past a certain age or once you know enough about the world. At his age, I want him to learn, enjoy learning, and trust his teachers to answer questions. I want him to learn, more importantly, that he can misunderstand something and it isn't the other person's fault. Schools teach the basics of the world, so by definition, are always wrong; but, with just the basics, you can make it quite far in the world...
A default (i.e. full) Slackware install has blackbox, fluxbox, fvwm, window-maker and icewm available by default along side kde and xfce desktop environments. And twm. And hidden away, not available from `xwmconfig` for some reason, lurks mwm.
I hear your pain, I’ve been trying to get a zero 2W for a reasonable price for almost 3 years now. It’s so disappointing how it’s still an issue today.

Super tempted to try one of these out since I run my own synapse anyway. Paired with tailscale running, I could do a lot with it on the fly but probably would need a Zero 2W to handle everything I’m imagining.
> You'll see a lot of snarky comments on HN about MBA programs but the good ones do instill at least some basic level of competence.

I strongly disagree with this. MBA programs are part of the problem in my opinion. They train people to be good "managers" for a company's interests which is often actively hostile to the people who report into that manager.

The MBA-ification of management and companies is to treat people like units of work not humans.
> becoming a renter again and losing a much larger chunk of their paycheck every month to housing

Except it is now cheaper to rent than to own[1].

If you have to move for a job, you rent for at least a year if not a few years as you get a feeling your job stability. Of course, the main point stands that you can be fired at any time, which is why you never buy a house when affordability is at an all-time low since the crash[2].

[1] https://jbrec.com/insights/demand-shifting-from-owning-to-re...

[2] https://www.atlantafed.org/center-for-housing-and-policy/dat...
I would more be guessing that the narcan is being administered by fellow police officers. There's a lot of blind leading the blind out there.
Schrodingers Eco-Activist: All powerful internationally when it comes to stopping nuclear, completely impotent at stopping basically any CO2e source or other pollution...
I am looking at it from a broad market perspective. Say you produce X, cutting on costs by generating most of it through AI, and your competitor just shipped Y that performs significantly faster (because developers are more involved, for example).

If consumers show a strong preference for Y then market forces will drive demand up for these devs, and you might want to change product strategy to compete against Y.

Of course it remains to be seen what real world effect all of this could have. I'm still bullish on the importance of human-in-the-loop patterns despite future AI progress.
People who get paid well in this business get paid for the big picture stuff. Architecture. Writing good code was never that valuable. My two cents.
> I don't think this is true, or at least it is nonobvious.

Texas capped medical malpractice damages, because surely, all the frivilous lawsuits were the reason for driving up medical costs. This resulted in gems like this guy maiming dozens of people[1].

You couldn't sue him, because lawyers aren't going to front their own money to take on a case like this, when the likely awards will exceed legal costs. Hospitals wouldn't fire him, because he'd sue them, and because they get a share of the business he brings in. Other surgeons couldn't pooh-pooh him, because he'd sue them.

Presumably, if he maimed someone who had enough out-of-pocket money to pay a lawyer, and then vindictively pursue litigation against him, this could have been resolved earlier. That's a lot of 'if's. In practice, he just... Kept on maiming people, shielded by protection from financial liability.

[1] https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2016/novem...
That’s some expensive free marketing
"in Europe" doesn't mean anything because every European country has different employment law. In the UK it's trivially easy to fire someone quickly if they're a recent hire.
Interestingly enough, a large water event before doesn't mean a mild fire season.

In more northern areas, a lot of snow and water means a lot of grass, and that grass will dry out by August.

It's not kindling, but it's the paper.
Oh look, it's me. (I started the SNRI for non mental health reasons but it fucked me up good.)
I live in a country (outside the US) with good healthcare system and accessible and relatively affordable healthcare services. Health insurance is good to have, but not having it will not make a person like me teetering on the edge of poverty.
In my experience, it's a complete myth that requirement gathering can be done in a box.

"Requirement gathering" is almost always influenced by technical capabilities. All but the simplest projects, require back and forth with guestimates about the direction and approach.
Very serious are we right?
I get my news from quite a few sources. But you're here on a social media site devoted to sharing news, commenting on a news article. Are you not getting your news from social media right here, right now?

What I wrote is entirely true, I didn't say that a threat to call the cops is %100 guarantee to shoot somebody. I said that there's a nonzero probability. SWATting, for example, has killed several people who did nothing wrong.

Personal experience: I've had a gun pulled on me a couple times while un-armed and non-threatening. Most amusing one: got pulled over for expired tabs and had a boffer sword (not even remotely realistic looking, mostly red duct tape) in my back seat.
Don't forget in China these little people have way higher attachment to their homes. They are often ancestral homes. The people that would be happy to be 'forced to move' have already moved to the city in most cases, with only those with high connections to their home remaining. In the USA we don't really have the same sort of attachment to ancestral homes and would be more receptive to paid relocation and view it way differently. Those that celebrate China's way and say the relocated people are happy to be moved from their ancestral homes and communities to concrete block apartments don't understand Chinese culture and provide cover to how soul crushing relocation is for those impacted.
>NDISWrapper

That's a name I haven't heard in a long long time haha
> When most people say "a use case"...

Nope. This is the original claim:

> ...there seem to be no contemporary applications of any note...

It is a valid use-case and it is an improvement, otherwise it would not be possible at all, especially when I gave a direct source proving that there is a real world business using NFTs to solve their ticketing problem, especially for anti-fraud purposes and all verifiable on a public blockchain.

> Ticketing isn't exactly a hard problem.

Is that why many are using NFTs for ticketing systems, including Ticketmaster? [0] [1] Looks like a great use case for NFTs and they seem to gain a lot from using them.

[0] https://boxoffice.sitickets.com/

[1] https://business.ticketmaster.com/business-solutions/nft-tok...
That is the context of the subthread to which you responded. Sorry if it wasn’t clear from my original post.
> HN has a large enough number of users for both to happen and it not being hypocrisy.

Why would that matter in this hypothetical scenario? Releasing a feature two years after someone else has would not be revolutionary regardless of which phone someone uses.
> passively enforce speeding by using toll booth data

Some EU countries do that on tollways but don't keep them always-on because they generate too many tickets to handle.
I once worked in a company that when I joined, was bringing in new recruits from seemingly everywhere - LA, Minneapolis, Chicago, Philly, Boston, and Phoenix, to name a few. There was usually some window where said new recruit was given a hotel room for a few weeks but sort of expected to move locally after that window was up.

Except, the company's employee churn was crazy, and I knew a few people who got fired shortly after the relocation. It just seems crazy to me that there are no protections for workers like that - you force them to move only to fire them less than 3 months after they upend their entire lives to satisfy a company. Loyalty is a 2-way street now, employers need to realize that.
> Your company might have a written definition of what good engineering means - written values, and engineering principles. But the clearest indicator of what the company values is what gets people promoted.

This is really the takeaway you should have. Be observant of what is actually rewarded. Companies are made of people. Unless you're in some ultra bureaucratic government position that is 100% impossible to get around - the guidelines are not really that important.

Instead, it's all about your relationship with your management chain. If your management chain likes you (the reason why doesn't matter) then that's all that really is important to your progress in your career. You can be more impactful than any employee, add to the bottom line of any business meaningfully, and still get fired because your management chain doesn't like you. And vice versa - seen folks do nothing to add to the bottom line or make any impact and yet - promos come their way.

Getting to staff and beyond is entirely about politics. It has little to do with your actual work. I'd highly recommend finding an organization that aligns to you. If you feel like an outsider in your company - switch companies until you find one where you feel accepted. If this is not possible (and it often enough isn't possible) - then ask if it's worth it and start wearing a costume and play whatever part you think will get you further. (Even with this attitude - it might still not be possible to advance. We live in a unjust world.)
My issue is that the disorders/symptoms interfere with my ability to do "everything considered healthy."

The ADHD makes it impossible for me to stick to exercise routines as well as other routines. The depressive symptoms make me feel like I am carrying a ball and chain and every little thing requires so much energy.

The worst part is that I am treated for ADHD, and even that has basically any negligible difference anymore.

I feel like I am trapped in a negative feedback loop that I cannot escape.
Why wouldn't non-native species also be adapted for fire?
To Ableist and Sexist we now can add Temporalist. I'm in.
But the burn will happen anyway. It'll just happen at a different time, when it hasn't been prepared for, with less control and more particulates as well as destruction of communities.
If you try anything violent they will kill you and claim self defence. Maybe they win the court case maybe they won’t but you will be dead.
Imagine getting stopped by the police on the way home from borrowing some confectioners sugar or something and you just put it in a normal white ziplock bag and the police open up the bag and immediately one of the officers falls to the floor saying they can't breathe.

That's basically what's happening. They are getting so scared by the idea of fentanyl that they're having panic attacks at any powder.
Yea, so I might have believed you except I can ask GPT-4 to step by step explain its reasoning. It is really weird to say it doesn't understand but "I do" when the response it can give is better than the average human would give to prove they understand.

You might say it is just predicting based off of old data it has, to which I say this sounds like a semantic jostling. What is "understanding" then in human beings if not us doing some form of predicting off of old data we have in our brain?

Also I recommend reading Geoffrey Hinton on this
thank you for knowing how to interpret texts
I agree with you. I should have put "chemically addictive" in scare-quotes to make it clear that I think the distinction is silly.
You make it sound complicated, it's not. Refunds are automated, buying games is easy. Piracy still involves external tools. We're talking about people already having steam accounts, refunding games they've completed just because they can. Not those who have to specifically create a new account entirely for it.
Well, the calf would have spent 22 months in the uterus of the mother, and passed through the mother's birth canal. I suspect anything spending that much time there would smell approximately similar. Also, I find it unlikely that the elephant is doing some "does it smell like an elephant" test on the thing that it knows it just birthed. Maybe some creatures with less intelligence might actually behave that way, because they might be happy eating the babies of an unrelated mother of the same species, but don't want to eat their own. But I suspect elephants don't have that evolutionary pressure, especially considering that they help raise the calves of other members of their group, and have been known to adopt orphaned baby elephants that they're presented with in one way or another.
not sure if you're using iOS, but I already made one for iPhone.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dashmap/id1638360259
Part of that I imagine is the same problem deno has.

ICU locale data is pretty hefty and there aren't says to trim it down.
I imagine it's frustrating to describe to people who don't understand the degree to which your own brain works against you.

Too many assume it's a lack of willpower, but willpower can only do so much to fight the tide (depending on the severity of the illness).
I got excited for a moment to run Colab in vscode. I was sad to see it was typo
> Implementing laws without being able enforce them is not only ridiculous but harmful [...]

Not all crimes are preventable, which doesn't mean the laws aren't enforceable. Example: even though murder is illegal, people still commit murder, but they are rightfully punished for it, as the law mandates.

> [...] harming their own economy.

Do you have any proof that tech regulation is detrimental to the economy?
I'm interested in the potential uses of WebGPU for gaming. WebGL is a pretty limited API compared to what you have when using opengl, DirectX, etc. WebGPU should help fill that gap.
I had to look up "tl;dw" and realized it meant "too long; didn't watch" and not my first AI-laden instinct of "too long, didn't write" :-D
so, if e-paper != e-ink is e-paper "a digital screen you can read text on" ? or.. I'm confused. (actual question not being a jerk)

I, too expected an e-ink screen and was disappointed to find it was an LCD.

Wikipedia seems to think that e-paper and e-ink are in fact the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper
Magic Pocket has been around for a while [0]! I'm curious if there is anything especially new that prompted the QCon talk and this blog post or if it was just a good time?

[0] https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/inside-the-magic-pocket
oh noooooo.

Anyway...
Sometimes Bing thinks I founded Pagerduty (I did not).
By this logic, you go around here posting about the perversion of western societies in comparison to asia, only because you yourself are a pervert and are trying to hide that fact.
they don't sell an API? i m sure they could bring a lot of customers to a computing provider