skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Does the Universe expand faster than light?" - https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/does-univer...
Extracting to a function means you need to give it a name. There is a middleground where you might want a function for control-flow purposes, but giving it a name makes the code look more complicated than it needs to be. Personally I just use an IIFE in those situations - and I don't see much benefit from run() as compared to an IIFE.
Privacy Red Teams: An Explainer
Explainer: What is a privacy red team and how is it different from a security red team?
> "The student referred me to a recent arXiv paper 2303.12712 [cs.CL]
about GPT-4, which is apparently behind a paywall at the moment but
does even better than the system he could use (https://chat.openai.com/)"

Imagine Don Knuth is interested in your technology, but you don't give him your paper and you don't give him access to your most recent version of technology.
That's not how it works exactly. It's a deep integration as a compiler plugin extension. It works with LTS versions since 8 and with Java 19 (I think 20 also works but not sure).

Modern Java is the title of the series that talks about many different subjects including new Java language features, etc.
How many people are spitting in the hallway of the place they live or visit?

I certainly could pay any fine that would be assessed, because that fine would be assessed zero times.

If you’re in a living situation where neighbors are regularly spitting in the common areas, I can understand the appeal of a system that would bring that to an end.
> My most important advice, which I think is evident in the advertising campaign, was that the pill needed to target a disease.

This is huge. There are tons of people who believe in a "church and state" style separation between sex and society.
The secretary and Electrona's replicas [ChatGPT]
This may be cultural but I just cannot bring myself write in a book even in pencil. post-its notes for me this is a great idea if I have the discipline
That almost makes you feel bad for the Nazis (and Stross is Jewish).
No. Switzerland allows suicide 'tourism'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Station_Zebra
A Geographically Accurate Map of London Tube [pdf]
"Adults aged 75 and older have one of the highest suicide rates (20.3 per 100,000). Men aged 75 and older have the highest rate (42.2 per 100,000) compared to other age groups." [1]

1. https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/disparities-in-suicide.htm...
I'm sure some modern reincarnation of terrorists would be interested.
LLC's are state inventions, and thus vary quite a bit, but one standard feature is that you can't be liable for more than you put in. Thus they are shielded from any excess liability beyond their investment. This is true of c-corps today for sure.
However, on top of that, they usually have almost no formalities or regulations, making piercing the corporate veil incredibly difficult.

C-corps have limited liability (now), but piercing is much easier for bad acts, and they have lots of regulation and formality (historically) that helped prevent bad acts in the first place.

The LLC changed a lot here - you could form businesses basically structured any way you want, with almost no regulations, and still not be liable. Outside of constructing an LLC to do totally illegal things (like rob banks or something), you and your shareholders are pretty much never liable.

That is definitely not true of C-corps, and was even less true historically :)

For limited liability in general:
General forms of limited liability are about 100-150 years old, depending on country.
IE before 1850, it was pretty rare. I believe new york has an earlier statute, but it was uncommon.

LLC's are not corporations, either, under most state law, they are special forms of companies.

The alternative mind you, was sometimes double liability for shareholders, who both lost their investments, and had to pay for excess loss.

I'm actually okay with that - it's a good way to ensure better diligence and less risk.

It's true that LLC's enabled innovation that would have been slower, but at a tremendous cost - enabling almost any risk to be taken for free is to me, a lot worse than slower innovation. It also lead to totally perverse things (toxic dumping, etc) and shareholders didn't worry or care because at most they lost some of their investment, and most of the time, could easily pull it out before the shares dropped, and move on to investing in the next horrible thing. In the old world, they would have been responsible for the entire cost, even if they pulled out.

Limited liability is a bad idea as long as people can do horrible things to each other and the world faster than you can (or should) make them strictly illegal.

People can always think of horribly destructive ways to make money, and ensuring not just personal, but shareholder liability for them, is one of the only ways to keep things in check.

These things would happen a lot less if the ROI was not as high, and in particular, if downside risk was not minimal.

Your friendly billionaire is going to invest a lot less in arms dealers if the downside risk is not just their 1 million investment, but their entire fortune.

There are lots of good articles on this:

https://www.bus.umich.edu/KresgeLibrary/resources/abla/abld_...

https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-resources/publications/...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-instituti...

etc
Monte Cristo in Washington State is a good example of a backcountry area where you’d be drinking industrial runoff. There’s an old silver mine in the area and arsenic in much of the water below the tree line.
If after reading an entire book you haven’t already internalized its main thesis, it’s probably not a very valuable thesis.

But reducing a book down to a single thesis minimizes the takeaway value of the book, surely?

Take a book like Gödel Escher Bach. Sure, that book has a thesis. But the value of having read that book is not captured in ‘strange loops are all it takes to create beauty, complexity and consciousness’ - all the different ideas that underpin that thesis are what makes it valuable. That book lives as a set of new connections and pathways between ideas in my brain. And I read it over 20 years ago.
> If you have to verify every detail of its responses, what good was it to ask it in the first place?

This is no different than anything else; it's just a matter of degree. Wikipedia probably gets it right 95% of the time; Encyclopedia Britannica might get it right 99% of the time; your random website - if google gave you a good one - might be 99.9% in that random niche. Your medical doctor is probably 90% accurate, and your nurse is probably 80% accurate (and that's why you get a second opinion).

A doctor I know one reminisced about his college biology 101 class... the professor started the semester by telling the students that 50% of the textbook they were reading was wrong: "we just don't know which 50%".

Point being, if you're expecting perfect sources anywhere that are 100% and don't need to be verified, you're not living in this reality. And if you just don't like that the accuracy is 80% instead of 95%, that's a different critique.
I remember using the village 3D for a while.

Nice little community. I was 14 or 15 so I never used the pay plan but Stayed on the « tourist » plan. With a goofy skin and no « property » to build on.

It was still a cool, little clunky thing.
Everytime I went to NYC I was told to never approach NYPD if I was in trouble.

One coworker was mugged and beaten. Walked up to cops. They told him if he wasn’t gone in 30 seconds they’d take him in on a PI.

Crime doesn’t exist if it’s unreportable.
One of the reasons is because to ChatGPT, each word is a token. It only knows how many letters are in a word because it has been trained to know that about each word individually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation

> The original Hungarian notation was invented by Charles Simonyi, a programmer who worked at Xerox PARC circa 1972–1981, and who later became Chief Architect at Microsoft. The name of the notation is a reference to Simonyi's nation of origin, and also, according to Andy Hertzfeld, because it made programs "look like they were written in some inscrutable foreign language". Hungarian people's names are "reversed" compared to most other European names; the family name precedes the given name. For example, the anglicized name "Charles Simonyi" in Hungarian was originally "Simonyi Károly". In the same way, the type name precedes the "given name" in Hungarian notation. The similar Smalltalk "type last" naming style (e.g. aPoint and lastPoint) was common at Xerox PARC during Simonyi's tenure there.

> Simonyi's paper on the notation referred to prefixes used to indicate the "type" of information being stored. His proposal was largely concerned with decorating identifier names based upon the semantic information of what they store (in other words, the variable's purpose). Simonyi's notation came to be called Apps Hungarian, since the convention was used in the applications division of Microsoft. Systems Hungarian developed later in the Microsoft Windows development team. Apps Hungarian is not entirely distinct from what became known as Systems Hungarian, as some of Simonyi's suggested prefixes contain little or no semantic information (see below for examples).

---

Simonyi's native language may have had some impact on how he wrote code, but it was not "human language -> write code like Hungarian -> Hungarian notation".

https://www.technologyreview.com/2007/01/01/227178/anything-...

> The resulting code was dense and hard to read. ­Simonyi’s system came to be known as Hungarian notation, both in homage to its creator’s birthplace and because it made programs “look like they were written in some inscrutable foreign language,” according to programming pioneer Andy Hertzfeld. Hungarian is widely cursed by its detractors. Canadian Java expert Roedy Green has jokingly called it “the tactical nuclear weapon of source code obfuscation techniques.” Mozilla programmer Alec Flett wrote this parody:

prepBut nI vrbLike adjHungarian! qWhat’s artThe adjBig nProblem?
IIRC they have VC funding so it's very likely in-game currency will show up.
The easiest solution is not to spit. It's a no brainer, anti-action. It requires no effort, instead it is less effort.

Your guess is probably not correct either.

The cameras may literally save lives. I form this opinion from experience, do you?

The cameras being there sucks. Dying is worse.

Using the footage for petty offenses sucks and shouldn't happen. I just don't think the example invokes any kind of feeling of injustice as seemingly intended. And wanted to point it out that I didn't believe it was the only reason.

Having said all that, a janitor only fixes the one problem. It also introduces new potential problems. A nosy janitor can do a lot more harm to disadvantaged people than a camera. And 24 hour janitorial is more like 4 janitors, not 1. Who is paying for them?

Just don't spit, especially indoors. Simple.
I attended one of Donald Knuth's lectures many years ago (2001, I believe) and if my memory serves me right he mentioned that several of his colleagues died that year and he was musing that it might be a good year to die for him as well. I'm happy he is still with us.
The article claims that the evidence security cameras reduces crime is debatable, but the linked article is merely whether the presence of cameras reduces crime. A more important, direct effect of the cameras would be helping evict criminals from the housing, which surely would have an effect on the amount of crime happening there.
As Maryland state senator Clay Davis used to say, "sheeeeeeeeit, I ain't saying no if someone's just giving money away." Grift those Saudi princes for all you can, king.
I asked GPT4 your question, it answered:

In Java, strings are internally represented as objects of the String class, stored in a character array (char[]). Each character in the string is represented as a Unicode character, using UTF-16 encoding. This allows Java strings to handle a wide range of international characters.
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This is not what the IG and Durham found, read the linked report.
I had the same problem but my instructor told me: a book devoid of scribbles is a book that hasn’t been engaged with deeply. If you have to, buy two copies of a book — one for display and another to scribble in, knowing that you’ll truly own the scribbled copy because you won’t be able to sell it.

Post-its work. For me I use a mechanical pencil.
Try using `run` in the return of a React (or similar) component and you'll never go back ;)

There is always a balance here. I'm not saying to never extract a named function, and there is certainly good reason to do that, especially if the function is called elsewhere or is quite complex.

But, in many cases, the inline logic is more readable because it's right there, and the function really doesn't need a name.
> You can't quit your sucky job because it supports your family.

My jobs have gotten less suckier as I've gotten older. And with experience (and, rarely, more savings) I have more options. Yes, I could quit if I want.
> have started to put transxn fees on UPI transactions

Huh? I don't think so.
PyPI new user and new project registrations temporarily suspended
This reads comically incel-ish. “Women know their value”, like a self-respecting man doesn’t? Why aren’t your male friends doing the same thing, then? Life doesn’t end at 40, for either sex. With/without a family, married/divorced, the choice to develop and grow as a human is always your own.
Does anyone serious take Elon Musk seriously after all these years of hardtrolling the globe?
Let’s not forget that Viagra costs on average $70 a pill. It’s another case of the pharmaceutical industry gouging consumers because they can.
Have you thought about adding polling functionality, so that a given element can check with the server for updates at a set interval?
Reading the Mind with Machines
They aren't that dangerous on the ground due to the reentry process but there are busses out there that could be guided into the ISS if the attacker knew what they were doing.
That's a mockery of real authoritarian countries, where you most definitely wouldn't have the checks and balances of a court that finds a law enforcement agency misused data and with a free press to publicize that fact.
By completely changing your lifestyle and retuning your habits your health isn't hinging on one single point of failure (a drug you need to take).

If I stop going to the gym for a couple of months, I'm probably not going to gain any weight because I still eat healthy and stay active.
I think you underestimate people's intelligence. Your hypothetical AI reddit won't deceive anyone because the people using it will be perfectly happy knowing it's all generated, the same way people playing video games are not "deceived" into thinking they are watching a film with actors, and people driving cars are not "deceived" into thinking there's a horse in there somewhere.

AI is complicated, but seeing it as mimicry of pre-AI reality is far too narrow to capture the real change (and the real concerns).
Read Gary Taubes
They hacked OPS-SAT which was an experimental satellite by ESA to test different ways of operating a satellite. The very purpose of this satellite was to be a test bench for this kind of things.
> While this may seem like a simple way, it seems like it wastes hundreds of people's time

You could just leave a note or email.

> that could be spent helping people who are actually wanting help.

How many of those people were going to help others otherwise?
College is remade as tech majors surge and humanities dwindle
No such thing as an addictive personality- it was invented by the pharmaceutical companies (the term) to play down the addictive effects of their drugs, doctors were told only people with addictive personalities will get hooked on the opioids
Yes, the volume of the unit cube is 1 in any dimension, but the volume of the unit sphere goes to 0 as the dimension increases.
> The Indian Govt. has already shown their intentions in their parliament.

Running Payment infrastructure have a cost for banks. somebody has to pay for it though taxes or fees.

> RBI has became a puppet of it (shown by their actions time and time). They tried getting judiciary (SC) but couldn't get it this time.

RBI is central bank. Its a statutory institution that is answerable to Elected Govt what are you expecting ? Its the Supreme court regularly oversteps its limits and plays govt.

> The big UPI mandates corps. (PhonePe, Paytm, and GPay), in India, have started to put transxn fees on UPI transactions.

Only for transactions greater than 2000 and that too very low. This wouldn't affect poor at all.

> Just like cryptocurrencies (no regulations whatsoever but flat 30% on all the profits), the govt. will find a way to get the juice out of UPI sooner or later. All thanks to that dumb finance minister.

Cryptocurrencies are a grift and Govt is right to ban it. Say what you will of the Govt about stupid religious policies and idiotic and pompous schemes and outright undemocratic policing situation but so far gov has done a good job as far as fiscal health and Currency stability are concerned.
Wait, so sheep are extremely flammable?

(Now imagining the spectacle of fiery sheep-comets, launched by trebuchet, flying over castle walls.)
I find it to be the most toxic comment section I have come across. I also see the moderated comments, which just make it worse.

From supposedly polite Canadians.
Are you my prof?

If we weren't interested, we would have quit during the first semester.

Our very first assignment was to design a modified Miller. After nights of struggling with the software and connecting transistors, we were then told psyche! You could've imported from the library that we've never told you about! The rest of the assignments were essentially just importing circuits and moving stuff around and hitting the simulator run. Over and over and over again. It takes a certain grit to stare at the Cadence UI for 10 hours running the simulator button to yield a random result. There's no Stack Overflow, the TA was of no help. Just learning the software alone was hell. The instructions were on printed paper that didn't work half the time. Then you have the crashes that wipe out hours of work. We didn't dare to save our work sometimes because it'd crash the software. Loading the software took forever. I genuinely hated Cadence with a passion.

I'll admit I don't have that grit. My best memory from the course was still being able to design and fabricate my own chip and PCB to go with it, and successfully converting an analog signal to digital and back. The ENOB took longer than needed to solve and it was rewarding. But I'm not doing that as a career.

Only 3 out of the original 20+ people graduated. Only one bothered to apply to semicon. The barrier of entry is high, but the educators were of abysmal quality.
> you can use UPI offline

Yes, UPI Lite (local offline wallet) has a transaction limit of INR 200. Yes, 200. With a limit of 4000 per day and the Lite wallet can hold 2000 at any one time.

Good luck doing anything serious with that. Also, good luck reloading the wallet when the internet is blocked.

Note: the context of this thread was a UPI vs Cash comparison. Cash is king when the internet isn’t available. UPI Lite notwithstanding.

And for those unfamiliar with Indian context: internet shutdowns happen at the drop of an hat, at a city or sometimes state/part of a state level. For days or longer. In one notorious instance, for multiple months. There’s little oversight, any local authority can make it happen, with little recourse by the public.

They are a massive failure of local governance in India. And getting defensive about it won’t help you in the long run, if you live in India. Sooner or later, you’ll be affected too.
Mass surveillance, yay!

Fed ... what? Anyway, do not worry, your hopes will be fulfilled very soon in the US with the arrival of the digital dollar. More control and surveillance, how delighting!
The prohibitively costly part of the semantic web is tagging ... which LLMs can make dramatically cheaper.
I also think this kind of VC puts some of the companies that take it to bad spots. Not all markets can support it. Look at Substack. They came in and bought out the newsletter/indie media whatever market. Unfortunately it’s not the kind of market that’s likely to make that investment back.
You can see it by yourself here if you are interested: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

The tokens are usually not matching the length of a word
I'm not sure that the quantity (per capita or whatever) of those things exceeds the quantity of incarceration and things like police violence in the US. But even being middle-of-the-road in terms of barbarism is nothing to write home about.
> "major AI product used to do* <bad thing>"

*say
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/wiki/models/

https://chat.lmsys.org/?arena (Then click Leaderboard)
The difference is GPT4. Unfortunately these were run on 3.5.

I asked GPT4 the question verbatim, just one time, and like the grandparent got:

"Every night Linda reads short books about space."
Maybe it's a GPT3 thing? I asked GPT4 and it gave me:

"Every apple makes crisp sweet juice."
You're rebutting a moral argument I never made. My point is that humans have never been the sole or even dominant actors in the world, so it's odd to decry AI for somehow creating that reality.
The difficulty in languages is not in having good features, but getting people to use the language at all. Existing human languages mostly solved the adoption problem because you want to speak the same language as the people around you. I don't think Lojban has reached that critical mass yet.

Programming languages have other ways of increasing adoption, such as offering libraries that are tightly coupled with that language. If there are interesting literature that are only available exclusively in Lojban, that might have been a good motivation to learn the language, assuming that they can compete with the heaps of existing work written in languages we already knew.
> Maybe that crime tape needs some rfid tags in it or something.

Or maybe, tech companies shouldn’t be testing tech incapable of following laws on public roads.
Unfortunately, this is how Soviet engineering was operating until it all tanked. Engineers with university degrees getting paid peanuts as an official policy.

It's sad seeing this practice repeated. And people falling for that.
You end up with city/county hall, local courts, then the lawyers, general contractors, banks etc all clustering around that. There's a natural clustering of resources that happens just from local government. It's not uncommon for the largest hospitals in the region to be near city hall. From there it just snowballs.

That said, I'm not sure why the neighborhood around San Jose's City Hall is so dead, it's very odd experience to go there
Summarizing is not the same as condensing. Just jotting down your view helps you. Such that you don't even have to worry about making your version for an audience.
> I'm one of the few conversation Lojban speakers, and after years extended study

Honest question...why?
Perhaps we shouldn't expect these models to know everything about everything. What sources did you yourself use to learn this knowledge and did the training data incorporate them? It's a bit like asking a software engineer law questions, you can only draw from what you've studied. I feel as though what's missing is the ability for the model to understand what it doesn't know or cite sources. It's not like humans know everything either.
Completing math problems is a very narrow part of the intelligence spectrum.