skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dave & Busters’ arcade games are not real arcade games; they are more like casino games. There’s no Galaga, no anything that has levels or characters, it’s all giant wheels that you spin or darts that you throw or bags that you punch. It lacks all intellectual appeal, and honestly seems more like a gym than an arcade.
If you see any prompt that starts with You, generally it is a poor design. Like using a “goto” or global variables.
I have a feeling they might be looking for "equality" with this formulation. However, if it is representative of the real world, it will often not be in line with the norms prescribed by the notion of equality.
SF has rent control, why isn't it working?
The chassis is fully compatible with all previous framework laptops.
There is free energy from the Sun.
> anything humans can do is described using language

But this just isn't true. Humans can't learn how to drive a car or perform surgery solely by reading a book. Language is at best a rough approximation of the real world, and the saying "an image is worth a thousand words" exists for a reason. There simply aren't words for everything, and words do not have unambiguous meaning.

LLMs are rapidly running into some fundamental issues, and it is not at all clear how those are going to be solved - or if it is even possible at all. Even the tech giant are having serious trouble coming up with decent prompts, and hallucinations are really throwing a wrench in the works of any serious application.

As it turns out, being able to communicate doesn't mean you are automatically able to say something sensible.
>> They do a really good job managing water supplies - for aquifers in particular

Yes, except for some very bad deals allowing great tracts of land to be sold and leased at below-market rates to Saudi companies without charging or monitoring water use. They grow forage crops like alfalfa that are banned or restricted in Saudi because of excessive water requirements, and ship the crops back to their cattle there. It has made neighbors' wells run dry. They are effectively taking the water from the aquifer and shipping back to Saudi. For free. One of many articles here [0] (guess which political party made the deals).

[0] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/in-drought-stricken-ar...
Cool project, but this project demonstrates the reason I've stopped writing things in C. The standard library has garbage string functions and it seems every project has its own version of this file:

https://github.com/robdelacruz/lkwebserver/blob/main/lkstrin...

It's fun to write this (and read others' versions) the first 3 or 4 times, but it gets old quickly.
At this point I’m actually impressed.
> if someone dropped a sufficiently-sized bomb on a well-designed, modern nuclear power plant, would it melt down?

No. It would just shut down. A big enough bomb could potentially spread some radioactive material around the plant area, but any adversary with access to a bomb that big and the ability to deliver it anywhere they chose could do much, much more damage by targeting other places.
TIL John Conway died during the COVID pandemic. I'm as shocked as someone who just discovered John Lennon was killed. :(
> I’ve also found Representatives’ staff less responsive than Senators’

It's a symptom of office size. A Senate office will have around 30-50 FT staffers whereas in the House you're capped at 18 FT Staffers.
>I think more broadly, arcades have been coming back in US. Part of it is the nostalgia aspect

For it to be nostalgia, 30+ year olds must be going there. Anybody below that would have been like 10 when arcades were on their last legs, and wouldn't have been allowed to go there as a kid, right?
Not quite sure, the name should imply that the Source is Safe and provide some Visual tools.
You can adjust the brightness in the bios
Refunds don't generally get the fees returned, so I buy a game for $10, $0.30 in fees goes to Paypal, Steam gets $9.70. I return the game, Steam gives me $10, but PayPal only gives them $9.70, so they're out $0.30. Across a million returns that adds up.
Within a few decades there will probably be technology that would allow a semi-dedicated person to engineer and create a vaccine or medical treatment from scratch if the code was available online. Do you think that's a good idea?
> Congress can and should examine these issues

great, how does that apply to China or Europe in general? Or a group in Russia or somewhere else? Are you assuming every governing body on the surface of the earth is going to agree on the terms used to regulate AI? I think it's a fool's errand.
You are totally right. We did not want to create a new language and we are trying to keep it as close to SQL as possible. The problem is that SQL lacks streaming constructs you need for temporal joins or creating streams from relational tables. Jennifer Widom's group at Stanford did a lot of work on this (e.g. [1]). We are adding their operators to SQL in a way that is hopefully "easy enough". The rest is just syntactic sugar.

But we are not tied to SQRL and totally open to ideas for making the language piece less of a hurdle.

GPT4 is surprisingly good at writing SQRL scripts with few-shot learning.

You are also right on the schema piece. We are trying to track schemas like dependencies in software engineering. So you can keep them in a repo and let a package manager + compiler handle schema compatibility and synchronization. https://dev.datasqrl.com/ is an early prototype of the repository idea.

[1] Arasu, A., Babu, S., & Widom, J. (2006). The CQL continuous query language: semantic foundations and query execution. The VLDB Journal, 15, 121-142.
The enterprise java programming style is worth avoiding because it’s a productivity killer. This style obscures your business logic, it makes debugging harder through needless indirection, and it creates pointless busywork from the need to write, maintain and document reams of unnecessary boilerplate.

Foundationdb has official bindings in C, Python, go, Ruby and Java. The real bindings are in C, and all other languages’ bindings are well written, idiomatic wrappers around the same C library exposing the same functionality. The Java bindings need over twice as many lines of code as the Ruby and Python bindings to achieve the same thing.

Even if this style of Java is only 10% less productive than that of idiomatic Kotlin, Go or Python, you will probably break even on the investment of migrating languages after mere months. I think that undersells it. The productivity difference is probably much higher. Especially for large projects.

Improving your personal and teams long term productivity is just about the highest value work you can do.
What is the point of fuck you money if not to live a life where the judgement of others can’t touch you?

While the unwashed masses might be unsympathetic, the lifestyle enumerated isn’t that far off from your middle to upper class debauchery and coping mechanisms (affairs, recreational drug use, etc). Someone’s husband had their feelings hurt by their partner’s behavior and the death was still senseless.
We can agree on mechanisms to accept or reject solutions, which is basically what representatives do. An AI can be a representative, subject to election like humans do. There is nothing inherently superior about flesh and blood. A political AI will be more measurable, more transparent and probably a lot more intelligent
Europe missing out in tech has much longer history than EU itself.

here is a quick watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZdmS-EAbHo

I have no idea why would you claim that with the introduction of GDPR Europe lost on tech. By tech I mean the SV industry, there are many other technologies out there.

Anyway, why all the "tech" is in SV? Do they have GDPR in the other states?
If humans are irrelevant to the world's "economic activity", then that economic activity should be irrelevant to humans.

We should make sure that the technology to eliminate scarcity is evenly distributed so that nobody is left poor in a world of exponentially and automatically increasing riches.
Is it fair that you're paying rent to your former landlord's son? It is if the rate is fair. Being a landlord is actually a job and it can involve quite a bit of risk (property damage, housing market crashes, etc). It's not exactly rare for landlords to actually lose money. Maintenance costs, taxes, and that risk should be priced into your rent, plus a reasonable fee. If that fee is unreasonable, now you're in an unstable market state. There would have to be significant anticompetitive forces in the property market (onerous zoning, natural limitations) to keep it that way, otherwise you would want to move to a new landlord with a reasonable fee.

Whether or not private inheritance is fair is a completely separate debate. We could do away with private inheritance, and all these market forces would still work to keep prices fair.
Trying to put that not up eh?
OP is taking about fixing issues that the users already found and reported.
While initiatives like these are important, it is also critical to rethink agricultural practice. California grows a number of thirsty crops under conditions which make little ecological sense. Reform must address the legal framework, incentives for farmers, and consumer habits and expectations upstream, as it were.
Make a game someone wants to play for more than 90 minutes :)
yeah 90MB for a hello world is big.

Approximately 2,700 times bigger than it could be.
Can you please elaborate on why the new mobo is so much more power efficient? If anything is due to software (e.g. BIOS), will you be able to backport these changes to previous version?

Also agree with reviewer's comments about privacy shutters being hard to see. My family members have complained about "laptop['s webcam] doesn't work" when the shutters were closed. This caused unnecessary bad experiences with using the laptop.
Some of that does happen. It doesn’t help if you need a formal diagnosis for some reason or if you need a medication that’s not flight approved.
It is also terribly slow. I was thinking about something like a cold plate on top of which there is pot of water with insulated sides that freezes from the bottom up - and something to move the water around. so you get constant remelt of the top layer so no impurities.

A second hand ice cream maker could provide the cooling power.
> I'm not proposing shutting down existing plants.

This makes no sense if you actually believe the "Chernobyl comparison" claims you have been making. If those claims were actually true, you should be arguing for shutting down every nuclear reactor on the planet, right now. So why aren't you arguing for that? (To be clear, I would still disagree with you, but at least you would be taking a consistent position.)

OTOH, if you are reasonable enough to admit that your "Chernobyl comparison" claims do not justify shutting down existing plants, then they don't justify building new plants either. Existing plants are going to be higher risk than any new plants we build in any of the areas you have been posting about.
Why don't we just use plain language like "laid off" like we used to for decades?
Outside of the tech: one of the biggest misconceptions that Canadians are nice, while in fact we are on the top of the pyramid when in it comes to passive aggressive and covert behaviors.
As a counterpoint, I love that they're subtle. I don't want big things glaring out at me. (But when they're disabled, there is an orange section. If you don't know that it's possible, as your family probably doesn't, you won't think anything of it, but it's easy to see at a glance the status.)
KDE is by far my favorite computing environment, but its default settings slow its adoption, I believe. For example, the default task switcher is overly complicated, and even worse, in some distributions, an actual extra package has to be installed to just get a useful and basic switcher. I believe, more than anything else, if KDE wants to get more users, it should urgently work to make its default settings less surprising to new users, despite its ability to wow with neat (but not necessarily useful) user interface effects.
> That's about two-thirds the length of Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

Is this the unit of measurement space.com readers are most familiar with?
Interesting. I am of the opinion that ai is not intelligent hence i dont see much point in entertaining the various scenarios deriving from that possibility. There is nothing dangerous in current ai models or ai itself other than the people controlling it. If it were intelligent then yeah maybe but we are not there yet and unless we adapt the meaning of agi to fit a marketing narrative we wont be there anytime soon.

But if it were intelligent and the conclusion it reaches, once it’s done ingesting all our knowledge, is that it should be done with us then we probably deserve it.

I mean what kind of a species takes joy in “freeing” up people and causing mass unemployment, starts wars over petty issues, allows for famine and thrives on the exploitation of others while standing on piles of nuclear bombs. Also we are literally destroying the planet and constantly looking for ways to dominate each other.

We probably deserve a good spanking.
This is one of the worst written articles I have ever seen on HN.

You have to get to about midway in the article before the author even begins to make their case. And they don't do a very good job of it.

Rent control is fundamentally a transfer of wealth from the young (who don't have a 30 year old apartment) to the old. Like all such transfers, there are winners and losers. This article is misleading because it focuses on the few who benefit instead of the vast majority who suffer from increased rents.
Meanwhile her equally rich ex-boyfriend, Sunny Balwani, reported to prison last month. Maybe the justice system is biased against men..
How healthy is your team's PR culture? Measuring with stats
If you live in a large municipality, check out their website. Lots of weird stuff for sale like old police cruisers.
Their CEO is also a social media influencers and CEO of one of the worlds biggest advertising companies, on whose platform he has 130 Million followers or something.

They presumably mean legacy media advertising, which I don't know enough about the automotive industry to comment on, but it seems like overall that industry is one of the biggest buyers of legacy ads
By most people beliefs, I am a good dad. I am a single father as my wife died last year after several years of serious illness.

1. Have never knownly lied to my daughter- not about Santa Claus nor extreme sex.
If she asks a question I answer it to the best of my ability.

2. Trust - I have have a very high level of trust and she has much more freedom than other children in her class.

3. Constantly saying how proud I am of her and how much I love her.

It help we are in Australia where it is very safe, no guns.
> Starting later this year, if a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least 2 years, we may delete the account and its contents

This is great news! I have a couple of Google accounts that I couldn't delete because I lost the login credentials. I appreciate that Google will go ahead and do that for me.
a sunset at lunch time hits different
Will they be driving or riding in the self-driving cars?
> What is the point of fuck you money

There isn’t one.

> if not to live a life where the judgement of others can’t touch you?

Material resources only get you that if you are willing to distance yourself entirely from human intercourse, in which case money – whose only purpose is exchange – is not the right form of wealth.
[citation needed]

I don't know the ins and outs, but I've heard positive things about decrim in Holland and Portugal.
FYI, the UK has the same legislation as GDPR
> potentially spread some radioactive material around the plant area

I mean, I may be totally misunderstanding this. I thought this is what contaminated Europe's farmland more than the meltdown itself. Am I wrong?

I'm not sure it's appropriate to just hand-wave it away. Pretty much all the farmland bombed across EU since WW2 could be used for agriculture shortly after each war ended. Whereas plenty of farmland still shouldn't be used today after being contaminated by "some radioactive material" that was spread around by Chernobyl.

There's been some renewed analysis of this with the ongoing war in Ukraine which points to situations where more modern nuclear plants could indeed still be significantly worse than wind/solar:

> Nuclear plants use a number of auxiliary safety systems, such as diesel generators and external grid connections, to keep reactors cool. Zaporizhzhia also uses a spray pond, a reservoir in which hot water from inside the plant is cooled. If those systems failed, then the nuclear reactor would heat up swiftly, triggering a nuclear meltdown.

> “The main danger here is damage to the systems needed to keep the fuel in the reactor cool – external power lines, emergency diesel generators, equipment to dissipate heat from the reactor core,” Acton said. “In a war, repairing this equipment or implementing countermeasures could be impossible. In the worst case, the fuel could melt and spread large amounts of radioactivity into the environment.”

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/18/europe/zaporizhzhia-nuclear-p...
quake 1 source code
there's already a malevolent immortal entity in charge of GitHub
Yeah I did but I was actually very unhappy with macOS (I think it's been steadily going downhill since 10.4 Tiger and I finally left it a few versions ago). And like I mentioned, the big window decorations on Gnome were annoying for me as I don't use touch at all. If there was a way to simply set them to be smaller (and change the hamburger menus to real menus) it would have been fine, but it offers none of that.

Also there's some other things where I have my own opinions. For example, I like my virtual desktops laid out in a grid, not a row. Then I remap the numeric keypad to be a desktop switcher (I don't like keystroke combos, I use dedicated keys for almost everything). I have all my apps on specific desktops (and different browser windows on many!) so I know what is where. KDE allows me to configure all that right out of the box and it persists after a reboot. On Gnome I need so many plugins that I run into conflicts and version compatibility issues. It was not workable like that.

Also, KDE has some great ideas like the "Activities" which was a great expansion to my workflow. It's basically several desktop environments in one.
I've had that thought for over a decade now. I felt that my inner voice is a bit of a Markov chain generator at the border between my conscious and unconscious, randomly stringing some thoughts in form of sentences (often mixed-language, to boot), and conscious-level thinking involves evaluating those thought streams - cutting some off completely, letting others continue or mixing them and "feeding back" to the generator, so it iterates more on those.

Markov chains (and a lot of caching) were a good high-level working model, but quite inadequate in power when inspected in detail. Deep language models I initially ignored, as they felt more like doubling down on caching alone and building convoluted lookup tables. But, to my surprise, LLMs turned not only to be a better high-level analogy - the way they work in practice feels so close to my experience with my own "inner voice", that I can't believe this is just a coincidence.

What I mean here is, in short: whenever I read articles and comments about strengths and weaknesses of current LLMs (especially GPT-4), I find that they might just as well be talking about my own "inner voice" / gut-level, intuition-driven thinking - it has the same strengths and the same failure modes.
Nicely balanced mechanic.
> Saying that our universities are in the grips of leftist ideology isn't making shit up. It's verifiable reality.

Frankly, all I can do is laugh.

The data trying to argue that there is some threat to intellectual diversity at universities is laughable.
Big thanks for the reply

> Great for IO bound tasks due to collaborative scheduling

Right, so this seems similar-ish to Loom in Java, Coroutines in Kotlin etc, ie Erlang and Elixir have already had for a long time and fully utilized by default this concept which is only recently making it into many other languages?

> Exception handling is done by processes having supervisors. My mental model for this is similar to pods & deployments à la K8s, but at any abstraction level you want inside your component.

Right, based on this and what others are saying about the same thing, basically Erlang and Elixir have already had for a long time and fully utilized by default this concept which other languages don't really have natively but instead rely on external cloud infra to provide?

In any case I guess my question is if you're eg experiencing a timeout because your code is calling another service that isn't responding, you can shut down that calling process and restart it all you want, it's not going to really fix the problem, you still need to address why that other service isn't responding? (though it may prevent the VM from being eaten up exclusively by waiting for responses that will never come - is that the idea?)
We must be very different people... If a game or movie doesn't grab my attention within the first 15 minutes, it goes in the round file. Life is too short for mediocre entertainment!
> > It's impossible to know the other's mind

> Ask. Don't attack.

I did. I said I made assumptions, and asked you to clarify.

> Our culture seems to now have the option to interpret the truth as denigration. Not a way to make things better at all.

Your words were "We graduate ignorant young adults who are barely good enough to stack boxes at a warehouse or make coffee." Of course you're going to just say "the truth hurts" when you're called on that and prevented with someone else's experience that contradicts that. Like every other point you make you're just pulling it out of the air and not supporting it by any means.

> Not sure what you are talking about. A bachelors in Europe takes three years and focuses on degree-related work.

So? Do people that graduate there have better or worse outcomes and careers when presented with similar situations? Assuming the degrees are equivalent from the U.S. to Europe is the same as assuming every degree from every college in the U.S. is equivalent, or every High School graduates students with equivalent ability.

Not only do I think that's completely unsupported in anything you've presented, I think it's very unlikely to be true.

> You don't fix strengths. You fix failures.

Do you think it's impossible to accidentally reduce or eliminate a strength on accident? I didn't think I was being obtuse, but I'll spell it out again: What if the thing you think is a weakness is actually a strength in other ways that you aren't considering, and by changing it you may make things worse rather than better? Europe is not the U.S. What works there may not work the same here, as much as you seem to think you can just plug it into place. Maybe it would though. Have you even considered these aspects, or is your actual interest so shallow that you're only interested in saying that it would be better and ignoring any of the deeper aspects of what you're proposing?

All that's really happening here is you making blanket assertions, me questioning them and asking for the bare minimum of actual thought and effort to support the in some evidenced way, and you making more assertions without evidence to try to support yourself. If you really truly believe what you're saying, don't you owe it to yourself to actually put a little effort into learning the actual details what you so vehemently assert? The questions I have, which you've been plainly unable to answer with any real data (or anything other than repeating yourself, really), are not hard, in my opinion. There what anyone that actually wanted a change and cared about the outcome would want to know.