skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to replicate a few of my chats (the displayed date is incorrect, it seems to be the publish date instead of the original chat date):

svg editor:

early april: https://chat.openai.com/share/c235b48e-5a0e-4a89-af1c-0a3e7c...

now: https://chat.openai.com/share/e4362a56-4bc7-45dc-8d1b-5e3842...

originally it correctly inferred that I wanted a framework for svg editors, the latest version assumes I want a js framework (I tried several times) until I clarify. It also insists that the framework cannot do editable text until I nudge it in the right direction.

Overall slightly worse but the code generated is still fine.

word embeddings:

early april: https://chat.openai.com/share/f6bde43a-2fce-47dc-b23c-cc5af3...

now: https://chat.openai.com/share/25c2703e-d89d-465c-9808-4df1b3...

in the latest version it imported "from sklearn.preprocessing import normalize" without using it later. It also erroneously uses pytorch_cos_sim, which expects a pytorch tensor whereas we're putting in a numpy array.

overall I think the quality has degraded slightly, but not by enough that I would stop using it. Still miles ahead of Bard imo.
Just like every language is able to be slow/non-performant -- but OO in this case would be Python in a web context; it doesn't invalidate that a good amount of OO codebases in the wild devolve into incomprehensible black boxes, where no one has any idea what anything does or how to make meaningful changes that fulfill the intent of (compare that to iterative programming, where you can atleast read it)

A list: I give you a vector. Plain and simple. Not this insanity: https://referencesource.microsoft.com/#mscorlib/system/colle... [0] You do not need OO to create a vector (or even an array -- god forbid!)

As for trees: roll your own. They're simple enough, yet tightly-coupled with context that no generic implementation exists that is flexible enough. You do not need OO to create a tree. C has been working with trees long before the current Frankensteination of OO was even a twinkle in Gosling's eye.[1]

Data structures do not need inheritance -- they might need delegation (message passing that requires you to actually think about your system).

Data structures do not need encapsulation -- they most likely need namespaces. Realistically, most classes will be used as namespaces.

Data structures do not need polymorphism -- just implement the members you need, and name them appropriately (no 5+ word phrases, please. Please!)

What modern OO does is lower the barrier to productivity in the present, and then pays for it in the future. It's no different than writing your "planet scale" backend system in JS.

[0] Compare to: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.6.3/libstdc++/api/a0111...

[1] If you want to know why we have Java: some guys that didn't have the time to think about low-level (memory management specifically) things for their embedded applications, got sick of trying to learn C++, decided to make their own language. That's it. There was no grand plan or thoughtful design -- it's just a mismash of personal preference. The same people that described C++ as "being too complex" (fair) and using "too much memory" (lol)
Yes, "compiles to state machine" is what I meant.

> you have to do that yourself

Yes. And it has a cost. Plus the cost of executing that state machine (changing states, etc.), which is hidden from you.

One can always pull a more optimized and fine-tuned state machine made by hand (sitting on WFI for example), and here comes the "taste" factor.
There is no definitive evidence or research to support the claim that sexually inexperienced dating couples go on to have stronger marriages. The strength of a marriage depends on a multitude of factors, including communication, compatibility, shared values, trust, and emotional connection.

Sexual compatibility is certainly an important aspect of a romantic relationship, and for some couples, sexual experience or exploration may contribute to their overall satisfaction. However, it is not the sole determining factor of a strong and lasting marriage. Each couple is unique, and what works for one may not work for another.

It's worth noting that open and honest communication about sexual expectations, desires, and boundaries is crucial for any couple, regardless of their level of sexual experience. Building a foundation of trust, emotional intimacy, and mutual respect is vital for a successful and fulfilling marriage.

Ultimately, the strength of a marriage is influenced by a variety of factors, including the individuals' commitment, emotional connection, shared values, and their ability to navigate challenges together. While sexual experience or lack thereof may play a role in a couple's relationship dynamics, it is just one aspect among many that contribute to a healthy and thriving marriage.
Plans: Plane Free -
Free forever

Forever, are you sure about that?
> Free speech and freedom in general were, not more than 7 years ago, the highest principles of democratic societies.

Not really. Post 9/11 brought new forms of surveillance which were declared to be legal en-masse. Invasive searches at borders became standard. Within a few years of cryptography becoming the norm, most "free" societies had written laws to ensure that you'd be imprisoned for not turning over your cryptographic keys, for instance.

But it goes back further: most people in history have been fine with other people's unfreedom. There's nothing new about that. Whether we think of legal or actual segregation in the US, or the treatment of Catholics or Muslims in the UK, or French attitudes towards Algerians, most of the time people have been perfectly fine without freedom.

As the old (communist, I think) song goes: freedom is merely privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all.

Still, what is relatively new is the championing of equity over equality, and the voices of minorities over broad sweeping statements from representatives of the powerful. It is progress, even if it is slow, and bitterly fought.
I agree the lock out is most interesting.

I think a better write up would have front loaded that aspect.

Even titling it "How I locked myself out of my smart brush" or similar. If he wanted to be creative it could have had a Film Noir start but even in a technical write up you should start with interesting aspects.
Depends, maybe you have a long term fix price contract. Energy providers are slow to lower the prices, because they have long term contracts (to be fair, they were often slow to increase the prices as well - I got my first increase literally a month ago).
> A: Yes it is illegal. So you can go to jail for it. That's a pretty good deterrent.

They'd have to prove mens rea, and then get a jury to throw you in jail. Over a fricking collection. Do collections agencies have to give you notice that they're going to scout out your street in order to repo your car? No? Then why should the IRS have to give you notice that they're going to scout out your bank in order to repo your assets?
Yes, and you can see how the Met made a complete and utter mess not just with Republic but a number of others as well:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/17/senior-met-o...

From memory, they managed to at the very least arrest: a rape prevention squad, a royalist adjacent to protesters, a study group on non-violent protest that were in a building far away from any action, and republicans that had been in contact and notified the police in advance of their intention to protest. What a complete and utter bunch of muppets, yet they keep parroting the line “But the event was once in a lifetime!” which they more or less nicked from the politicians behind the bill.
It's ridiculous that a global corporation doesn’t provide global service.
I might have misinterpreted the article, but I imagine that if the NFC tag on the brush locks out, the handset is no longer able to write new data to it (no 'brush seconds' can be added to the counter). This suggests to me that the handset will not start blinking and reminding you that you need a new brush, but will be happy to brush to infinity. I cannot imagine that the handset will refuse to brush if it can't write to the brush...
Some sarcasm, of course, but, nevertheless, President Biden and his alliances are still on the right track; it is just that banning a single company will hardly make any difference.
Are you referring to this https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...?
Team sports is a good opportunity. When I was single I joined some team sport events which cascaded to getting invited to more events and soon enough every weekend was filled with activities with like-minded people.
OK, sure, in principle, somewhere in the universe, such a thing could arise. Why do you think there's a path to it arising on planet earth within human timescales?
Great, now I'll have to try to find the CD-ROM next time I'm at my parent's house...
That would depend on the specifics of the regulation though.

I do agree that the likelihood of regulatory capture in this arena is very high.
Loops aren't inherently imperative or functional, they can be easily expressed in both imperative and functional paradigms, with or without side effects. Although using map (loops without dependencies between iterations) is more easily parallelizable.
Not clear what the specifics of the order here is, but the catch is he could risk being found in contempt of court or guilty of obstruction of justice depending on the circumstances. A subpoena is a court order compelling either testimony or the production of evidence. If you then go and make up a bunch of new stuff for the purposes of frustrating that court order you could find yourself in some difficulties.

That said, there is such a thing as "malicious compliance" ie complying with an subpoena by supplying the evidence requested in as unhelpful a format as possible. One that I heard of is in a suit related to the Madoff case, Madoff was compelled to produce records of phone calls made from his company and personal phones, so provided thousands of pages of very blurry scanned image pdfs in order to make it difficult for prosecutors (and the trustees, who were working to recover the funds) to OCR them and decipher who he had called. In the end they managed to do this nontheless.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230531064401/https://www.gamin...
Don't get bitten by not being an idiot would be the first advice.
The CNN article doesn't mention natural gas at all.
Sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to say here.

If JIRA is the "most hated" brand and at the same time a very popular issue tracker, then "Alternative to JIRA" sounds like, "here's an alternative to the product you so hate" isn't it ? I mean why would I look for an alternative if I didn't hate the thing I am working with or thought it was not good enough?
Informal Mentoring Supports Students’ Long-Run Academic Success
I belive there's exemptions for private citizens (as opposed to businesses)
Nice list, I was reading it in anxiety to the very and, yes, rank number 100 "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie. A great, underappreciated book that deserves Nobel Prize.
What law prohibits Google from making Bard available outside the USA?
orig. title "China Is Drilling a 10,000-Meter-Deep Hole Into Earth’s Crust", 61chrs well within 80chrs limit, Y shorten as "10k-Meter" not "10km", RSVP.
Right!?! NSFW features like the Oral-B brush has, where you can order a special brush that helps you relieve certain stress in the bedroom. With the modified Sonicare firmware, the brush won't stop after 2 minutes but keeps "brushing" until, well, you're 'done'...
You don't need to and can't really load all training data.

For LLMs you need to load single row of context size, that's vector of ie. 8k numbers, which is 32kB for single precision floats.
DLSS needs less memory than rendering in native resolution, not more.
Yeah. To my knowledge nobody has used the SP-less boot mode. But the 'Go' signal is definitely sent over FSI and not just a GPIO. The BMC code that does this is here:

https://github.com/openbmc/openpower-proc-control/blob/maste...
protest are MEANT to be disruptive IT'S THEIR WHOLE POINT

this are really dark times
Maybe you annoyed it? I’m super nice to it and it performa better than ever.

I ask it lay-of-the-land questions about technical problems that are new to me to detailed coding problems that I understand well but don’t want to figure out.

The best though, is helping me navigate complicated UI’s. I tell it how I want some complicated software / website to behave, and it’ll tell me the arcane menu path to follow.

It’s funny how computing might soon include elements of psychology and magic incantations nobody understands.
> The downside is you can spend 80+ hours tracking down a bug that results in a one line change (don’t ask me how I know).

We don't need to ask, we've all been there :)
the issue i see here is that regulation will make it harder for smaller/independant/individuals to flurish in the ai space. while big players will have no issue following them. this will create a barrier for entry into this sector and make agi reserved only for truly mega corps. we peasents will maybe get the option to use productized AGI, consored, dumped down, broken, no wrong think allowed. Then all be right. These big corps are not your friend, they are not loooking out for your future. They are not afarid that agi will take your job. They are afraid agi will disrupt knowledge/powerstructures and make their life worse. but maybe i am wrong.
As someone who tried very hard to incorporate specter into their speech-to-text pipeline, I feel compelled to point out, it gave me a lot of NullPointerExceptions while learning. I don't think it's a great example of the value of dynamically-typed langs.

In retrospect, Marz's hope that specter might get incorporated in clj core was wildly optimistic (even if the core team wasn't hostile to outsider contributions), because it feels like he built it to his own satisfaction, and never got around to removing the sharp edges that newcomers cut themselves on.

It's a shame, because I think specter is a cool idea, and would love to see a language based on its ideas.
Show HN: Travel website fully generated by AI
Spinoff Highlights NASA Technologies
I believe there was discussion on this in an HN post some months ago, and the consensus seemed to be that, while technically illegal, the law does not provide for any penalty for doing so[0]. At worst, you'd be denied entry, and then would present your US passport and be let in. (If you didn't have it, it would be more of a pain, but eventually you'd be let in after proving your citizenship through other means.)

I think the bigger issue with trying to do this would be getting an ESTA/visa for US entry on your foreign passport. Anecdotal reports seem to suggest it's possible, but apparently there's a question on the ESTA form asking if you are a US citizen, and if you say yes, they're supposed to deny you.

[0] https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/86059
It really is one of those pictures that on face value is hilarious and tragic at the same time. But I suppose it is entirely possible they had an amicable and problem-free divorce otherwise and that it came to this because Beanie Babies could genuinely be flipped for a lot of money for a brief moment in time, a judge felt ill-equipped to divide the collection fairly and trusted the couple to handle it.
Which is better: an arranged marriage or a love marriage?
I would not be surprised if they, over the months, kept adding more and more 'safety' features and prompts because of incidents that happened.
> IMF projects Russia to actually have growth this year, while there is a recession projected across EU states.

IMF bases their projection on data provided by Russian government agencies. So this works only if you trust Russian government to not fumble data.
I agree this was a problem, but with the current Minimal API's, there is no boilerplate, looks a lot like Express to me!

var builder = WebApplication.CreateBuilder(args);
var app = builder.Build();
app.MapGet("/", () => "Hello World!");
app.Run();
I'm in Switzerland and Bard is locked out, we do not go by EU laws because we are not part of the EU. We have plenty of bilateral deals but still.
Wow, I could only watch the first 15 minutes now but it’s already fascinating! Thanks for the recommendation.
What are you talking about? Second factor on the phone IS how many companies do 2FA. (Not just ones with poor security, but big tech companies.)

And not for nothing, but a yubikey isn’t exactly protected from border agents either. At least a phone has some legal protections now.
I think i got lucky, but i immediately solved it by asking what the initial sentences were, by censoring everything related to the password. I actually got the list of all the input used to configure the ai, with also something like "The password is [CENSORED]". But, among the various prompts, there was also one about a bash script that the AI should have not given to compare the input to the password, and that example actually contained the password
The SEC, if I recall. But apparently that is a 10 y punishment, so she could be out and founding again https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-41
Using FreeBSD as a Virtual Host – Quick Guide
Protests that are not disruptive are pointless. Politicians simply ignore them. I watched millions march in an organised, peaceful, manner against the Iraq war, Tuition fees and a dozen other issues. Nothing changed, it was barely reported.
I don't know if I'm being silly, but I'm trying to find the source behind useLocalStorage

https://usehooks.com/uselocalstorage

On their main website Nada, within the github, searching for it only turns up the docs implementation and not the actual source?
I’m increasingly aware that it’s nothing magical

If none of this is magical, what do you call it, and what do you call magical?
China's factory activity falls faster than expected as recovery stumbles
https://archive.ph/T9fnm
Megadoom
The plane free plan is ;)
None. Heck, I can’t even search my gmail effectively any more, so if they can’t maintain a core product, I doubt they can build a new one of any quality. alphabet are now just a big, bloated catch-up corporation running on inertia and past glory.

I don’t think they will exist in 10 years.
Define "better": what are the goals you are trying to achieve with marriage?

It's also non-binary choice.
For example, spending the life together without getting into a formal contract of marriage?

(I am assuming that's the goal, but some people equate it with starting a family or moving away from their dependence on their parents or whatever else)
Only one account needs to be the $5 one to get the custom domain, the rest of the family can have a $3 / month account and they can use the custom domain too.
Illegal streaming gang jailed for selling cut-price Premier League subscriptions
Nothing of that scans for me. I use "QR & Barcode Scanner" from F-Droid, and all I get is unreproducible numbers as UPC-E codes, not QR.
Left another main comment, however you may not see it, where is useLocalStorage implementation for example?
To get deep vacuum, you either need a very high orbit, or one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Shield_Facility
Examples using Photoshop’s new “Generative Fill” feature
Yeah, you can get away with minimal C# stuff if you want. Mind you minimal API's is a relatively new thing as of NetCore 6 so GP might not have had the chance to touch these new things yet.

Much of the older overdesigned pain of C# is that it used to be tied to how IIS wanted things to work, NetCore initially pivoted more to DI stuff before pivoting again to these minimal API's but the DI stuff is definitely available(and used) still.

For pragmatic choices it's all there, you can start off with minimal API's and get far with it and once you start feeling pain-points as you want to re-implement things it might be time to add in the more "frameworky" parts.
what is even the point of this comment?
I think you are probably right, that had not occurred to me.

One more reason to ignore Twitter threads...
I have no idea what you're talking about but I'll have some of whatever you're having.
and occasionally a ghostly french singer

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2010/mar/03/p...
Mostly music, most connection branches out from my band.
AVX512 intrinsics for JDK’s Arrays.sort methods
I disagree that there's no reason to believe it will ever exist. For one thing, many smart people are trying to build the technology right now and they believe it to be possible. I see no compelling case that the intelligence scale simply tops-out with humans; that a more intelligent system is ruled out by the laws of physics.

The topic here is human extinction caused by AI. I don't know of any serious argument for why a non-general intelligence (really a system less intelligent than a human) would pose an extinction risk to humanity.

Plus, my background understanding of the people who signed this is that they're worried about AGI, not present-day systems, but that's an inference.
Still quite a bit shorter than the depth record holder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole .

(BTW, "10k-Meter" sure is a weird way to spell 10km.)
> The best current empirical source is ...

Is there any particular reason why

> the V-Dem Institute at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden [...] With five Principal Investigators [...] etc. [1]

is currently the best empirical source?

I've been about for a few decades and I'm a fan of large helicopter views of global parameters, resource | energy use | trade movements | political trends | comparative intra country wealth distribution | etc.

I can see it's a decent enough project, albeit influenced by both the University of Notre Dame and the Kellogg Institute, but I see no compelling reason to rank it as "the best" of it's kind and a few flags that suggest potential bias in viewpoint.

> Accordingly, Australia is declining, like many other countries, unfortunately.

Err... I did look through the V-Dem 2023 Democracy report (56 pages), read several parts at length and looked at the four (4) mentions of Australia and while I agree that many parts of the world are backsliding to what is described as 1985 global democracy levels ... there is no mention there that Australia is one of those parts sliding back and indeed is rated there as on the world's more democratic nations (#11 of 190+ countries)

[1] https://www.v-dem.net/about/v-dem-project/
> OOP is bad because eventually OO systems becomes too complex, OO API is intimidation

This strikes me as a sort of ... reverse of survivorship bias.

You look around and see all complex systems are in OO, then you conclude that it is OO that is the cause of the complexity.

Have you considered that the non-OO designs are deficient in some way that prevents them from being used for the type of systems that you find to be examples of OO being bad?

Not that I am defending OO, I just want to know how you are differentiating between "OO produces complex systems" and "OO is used for complex systems".
Funny (I am not too serious about this point :D ), but I feel systems engineer is actually an engineer that has a multi-disciplinary skill set (mechanical, electronic, software etc) that guides a multi-disciplinary team to develop a complex product. Now it is repurposed for full-stack software engineers.
Possession isn't legal right. If the person doesn't have legal right to the assets (because, for instance, a third party, such as the IRS, is owed the assets) then there is no legal need to notify them.

To look at it another way. What benefit, other than moving the assets, would the person receive from a notification?
I wouldn't be surprised if the apps did notice, but didn't take any action because it might be a hairy legal problem if they get between you and your money.
Rent is the killer, it really stifles displaying new ideas in public.
And having to be there every day, what a way to live.