skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typically you're not at high speeds when those risks are there. And when those risks are there on high-speed highways, they're typically due to poor road design (sightlines, etc.) and not the instincts of otherwise good drivers.
i saw somewhere they were saying it looked too 'on-the-nose' alignment hazard and the simulated test was bait to demonstrate how such a thing can be possible
That would be a lovely outcome. History tells us that capitalist revolutions hardly hit the top of the pyramid, though.
> Now I drive a 27 year old car that has none of these 'features'. It does what I tell it to and when I tell it to, it doesn't phone home, and has no touch screen, but old fashioned buttons.

I second your motion!!!! I was happy with my 1986 Chevy S-10 Blazer until it was badly rusted out by winter road salt.

Now I have a 2001 GMC Yukon. I prefer the Blazer since the Yukon has too many attempts at automation and is too big. But apparently the new cars have so much in automation that they are to be avoided, and cars of the future promise to be worse still.
Location: Toronto, Canada,

Remote: Yes,

Willing to relocate: No,

Technologies: React, Typescript, GraphQL, Tailwindcss, etc.

Résumé/CV: on request via email,

Email: wangleiwan1@gmail.com,
My understanding is that most of the safeguards are inside the model, but there are some safeguards that are outside the model. In particular if you ask the API to generate copyrighted data it will, but then the connection will mysteriously break after the first few words which I assume is a separate system watching the responses.
I've seen chat GPT write terrible code. For simple problem domains where you're coding stuff that's effectively interview questions or basic data handling (like what millions of tutorials describe on the net today) it's fine. But for actually solving novel problems it completely fails. The best way to understand this is the fact that the open AI/chat GPT developers themselves don't use the tech to code itself.

Generative fill is a neat feature for a limited domain. It is not some grand realignment of labor, the truth is there are orders of magnitude more construction workers, dog walkers, baristas, etc. than graphic designers. Generative fill or other related AI tech is useless to most people's work.
I don't know I seem to do just fine coding and playing games using VMs on one machine plus a home lab, why would I need so many machines?
It's mostly salesmanship, boss level.
Ask HN: What are your favourite newsgroups?
On the back of today's earlier discussion on the possibility of a Usenet revival/replacing Reddit (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36153565), I went and created an account on Eternal September.

I've lurked on Usenet a bit before and came to the conclusion that while there's a lot of spam, there are still a few active/well-moderated newsgroups worth joining.

To that end, which high-quality newsgroups do people recommend?
“Applause is the beginning of abuse.” - Japanese proverb.
Right, but I'm curious about the calling-Zig-from-C interop, not the other way around.
I would say Rust is quite high level. You can write entire, useful programs without once having to think about memory, pointers, allocation, etc.

Of course that won't be true for every program, but it's worlds away from asm.
[WONTFIX] Works as designed.
Im in this camp, my impression is it’s a tool that augments me while working, but it’s something that’s incredibly difficult to reliably use in a service: the sandboxing between user data and instructions is a real problem in langchain/react.
You’re right - I assumed this would apply to Gigabyte motherboards so unsecured / public Wi-Fi networks wouldn’t be much of an issue, but turns out that Gigabyte sells laptops that come with this updater pre-installed.
Yes! Thank you for the feedback.

This was just a simple idea and concept that dang encouraged me to prototype an MVP for.

The concept has been receiving really great feedback, and the project is progressing way faster than I had imagined.

The project is still in it's infancy, but the market is helping to drive the rapid developement.

Everything you mentioned above is in discussion or active development: https://github.com/orgs/elegantframework/discussions/49#disc...
I have done some iOS and macOS work in the past using ObjectiveC and C. I have done some DSP work using MaxMSP and PureData.

This morning I decided I wanted to write a simple audio visualizer for my iPhone using SwiftUI, a language and framework I have never used. Within an hour I had through the direction of ChatGPT-4 an app running on my phone using a 3rd party library called AudioKit and drawing some fractal looking thingies, as well as a pretty decent understanding of how it all worked because I asked for detailed explanations of every line of code.

I’m not sure that I could have had this little app up and working in a single day let alone an hour if I only had a search engine at my disposal.
Ah.. memories. I had a short but entertaining discussion with Henry @ UTZoo who ran the usenet sci.space ("ran": -he was 90%+ of the factual content, and kept people in line but nobody runs usenet) back in the dial-up days.

I proposed plywood and said it was demonstrably suitable for space. There was a lot of talk about out-gassing, and lack of good science around its fit-for-use status. The point being that the increasingly expensive construction techniques of the day were inflationary to space cost when commodity raw inputs were viable. Wood is naturally flexible, has good thermal expansion properties, can be manufactured to make it strong in more than one plane, and weight for weight to strength is inside the set of "good, strong, light" substances we need.

This is long before spacex was doing "lets use sheet stock steel, not some gold plated crystal aligned hi-fi fanatics sources"

I was planed pretty hard, (reasonably I might add) for my extreme optimism. I'd say that microsats and the whole trend to reduced launch cost removed risks, so its more reasonable to do what engineers wanted to do anyway: play with novel construction methods. Once you start tossing sats out on a spring launcher, with unrolling antenna made from .. steel measuring tape...

I am pretty sure pre 1960s space used any material to hand. Wartime, a lot of things were used in aerospace, I have a screw knob for bomber navigator light-stand, which is made out of fabric/urea put into a pressure mould and baked. Its cloth, made rigid with bakelite resin. And of course the mosquito bomber was made out of plywood. If somebody told me the V2 had (ply)wood parts, I wouldn't be surprised. Bulkheads between radio/telemetry/guidance and fuze? sure: why not?
I didn't mean to implicate anything other than oversteer there. My point was that being in an accident is disorienting already, with no extra tech needed. Such that needing full teaching on it is an overly large burden.
> People can be injured directly by the seatbelt, and there's also whiplash to consider.

I don't doubt it's possible, just like it's possible for a seatbelt to trap you in a burning car... but common enough to offset a 38% drop in crashes? I severely doubt it.

If someone can demonstrate that people driving these cars have a dramatically increased incidence of whiplash or seatbelt injuries, by all means, but I'm comfortable saying the burden of proof is on them there.
Wow that's a pretty heroic final mark!
As of now, blocking the sender of the ad has worked out for my Indian number. No repeat attempts to shove crap down my throat.

One problem in ensuring doesn't become a problem or gets solved is that WhatsApp is incentivised to allow Business customers to spam us, as that is how they make money.

It is sad that a subscription based model for comms is not longer economically feasible.
Location: Huntsville
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes, depends where though
Technologies: Python, Django, Flask, Go, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Flutter
Résumé/CV: Can email it
Email: jagolli192@gmail.com
Not homoiconicity and macros. And in the case of TypeScript, not interactivity.

Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?
Keep competitors in the dark, keep money flowing in, dismiss all the complaints and lawsuits that could come from their changes, dominate the ongoing discussions about AI regulation (if outsiders can't even tell whether the model is changing or not, who would listen to them?).
The answer is, be humble, in your comments, and your criticism

If people could read my thoughts, half the time they'd think I was insane, but I know they're insane too :D

It is short term vs long term thinking.

Do you want to feel good for ~ 1 minute, or for the rest of your life?

Just pause, and think, before you answer. Pretend your mother, father, or your children are in the room with you, and you'll do alright
Maybe not wrong, but it's the worst option.

5 is the number of code points, and 17 is the number of bytes. Both are reasonable answers.

7 is the number of code units for utf-16. Seems like the least useful option.
Based on the title, I assumed it was gonna be something about smart quotes, and I thought, "of course, another reason to hate smart quotes!"
They do have a dash notice on the brake engaging. And cars come with a giant book that almost certainly covers it.

And these same concerns apply to antilock brakes, no? Getting used to the way those feel took time for folks that were there before.
What was US values back then? If it was fighting USSR then it was a psy-op.
Did you see that reddit post of the pheasnt molting from scales to feathers?

https://www.reddit.com/r/PicsOfUnusualBirds/comments/11d9w60...
The Orion browser has had this for a while and has the best native implementation by far I just hope they don’t remain pigeonholed into apple OS as they currently are
Definitely! If you haven't found it yet, here's the link: https://www.wyd.uscourts.gov/sites/wyd/files/opinions/22-cv-...
> Note about Python 3 added on 2019-09-09: Originally this article claimed that Python 3 guaranteed UTF-32 validity. This was in error. Python 3 guarantees that the units of the string stay within the Unicode code point range but does not guarantee the absence of surrogates. It not only allows unpaired surrogates, which might be explained by wishing to be compatible with the value space of potentially-invalid UTF-16, but Python 3 allows materializing even surrogate pairs, which is a truly bizarre design. The previous conclusions stand with the added conclusion that Python 3 is even more messed up than I thought!
Right, so we automate away mediocre intelectual jobs and keep only the very top and bottom of the pyramid.

And that’s not a grand realignment of labor and comparable to NFTs?
There are good points here on both sides. I'm in your camp, personally. I'll probably always drive older cars, because that's just my preference, for many reasons. Maybe the answer is to require the feature on new vehicles, but also have the option to disable it. Most drivers probably wouldn't, but those that feel strongly about it would have the choice.
It's every third line in this poem/song so maybe you're right about leaving a gap for the music or something.
apparently you've never heard of an easement.
>No they don't seem vastly more powerful.

This is just nonsense, no chatbots before LLM were powerful enough to help me during coding (in any meaningful way); the difference that turns a nerdy pastime into an actual and very useful piece of software.
It's reasonable the first infringing corner reduces the value more than the last, just like the first N miles reduce car value more than the last N
I hope you didn't give up, there's 2 ways to approach this, start with a book of arpeggios and construct some kind of sound, and transcribing and making it your own.
Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences
If it's defeatist, that's only because we've been soundly defeated. Sure lots of things have changed in the past and anything could happen in the future, but I've seen zero evidence suggesting that anything will change for the better in this area, and there is a growing collection of evidence to suggest that it won't.

History is filled with examples of companies getting away with this again and again, and shows us that only with massive amounts of effort has anything ever been done to improve consumer and environmental safety, and even then the few small steps we've managed to make toward change have been largely overturned or worked around.

Today nearly half the country has been successfully manipulated into thinking that strong regulation, government oversight, and holding corporations accountable for the harms they cause is a terrible idea. In fact, often it's the people who are most impacted by the environmental and biological harms created by these companies who would most likely oppose the environmental reforms and regulations needed to prevent them.

They're convinced that the economy will collapse if we make the changes we'd need. They're more motivated to vote against "frivolous" lawsuits and punitive damages than holding companies accountable. They consistently vote to weaken people's ability to seek justice, increase the influence of money in politics, and remove what few regulations constrain industry.

Meanwhile, even when most people are in full agreement that something needs to be done, bribery has been effectively legalized and regulatory agencies are either toothless or run by the same corporations and industries they're supposed to be keeping in line. Regulations are written by and for industry to prevent competitors and protect profits over people.

Yes, it's possible that magically one day things will change, and I genuinely think that would be a good thing, but I have zero confidence that it will because there's nothing to pin my hopes on. What reason is there to assume that things will improve?
is this supposed to be sarcasm?
Lake Cow, and not River Horse?
(Why do you think we have the largest private hedge fund [aside from apple, and those other guys])
Three is no ChatGPT-4, just ChatGPT and GPT-4. The tweet is about GPT-4.
Automatic lane-keeping assist is generally turned on at all times with modern cars.
Ironic. Every time a company measures its employee output with number of lines of code or commits, devs are the first to point out that management is dumb for using a surface-level metric. But you're doing the same thing here, except with execs and powerpoint.

Powerpoints are just the final output you see. The real work execs do is in the decisions that went into the powerpoint.

No sane board will give decision-making power to an AI they can't blame. Besides, there are probably 100 devs for every exec, so it makes no financial sense to automate execs.
Not sure if HN will handle it, but this empty string's length is 7: ' '

( '\u200b'.repeat(7) )

Edit: HN does not, in fact, handle it.
A number of languages that would have been traditionally compiled (statically typed, produce a native binary by default, etc), have started adding a "run" command.

If your language compiles fast enough, it's about the same experience as running a python script.
It does sound like they intentionally reimplemented HAL-9000.
Personally I don't consider Reddit to be social media any more than I consider Hacker News to be.
the art generation I'd kind of agree with, at least from what I've seen around the internet, although impressive examples usually also involve hours of work. Image generation plays to the strengths of these systems because it doesn't heavily rely on context or requires correctness.

Code and natural language generation I've been much less impressed by the longer I've used them. Errors in code are way too common and unlike art being 1% off in code is as bad, maybe worse than being 100% off. The entire benefit of code is precision. It's like self=driving, 99% accuracy is useless, and likely dangerous.

With natural language the lack of understanding becomes apparent and it hits a weird uncanny valley, generic, repetitive tone that gets tiresome.
I think it is more important to make sure that people can access public land, than it is to protect the wealthy landowners who are using their multiple plots of private property to block access to public land.

These aren't poor innocent bystanders whose land is being ruined. It's wealthy people trying to steal access to our public property. Fuck them.
I worked at Stripe for over five years. It’s a monorepo with multiple services. The marketing site, docs site, and API are separate services.
The point is to gradually remove private automobiles from the transit system by incrementally nudging out their availability, either through expense or added bureaucratic hassle.

The WEF has discussed the need for this repeatedly: don't forget, you'll own nothing and be happy AND safe!
I see this as no different than the Renaissance being funded by Italian bankers and the church.
That means 7 is also a measure of bytes, just slightly more awkward. So it's roughly on par with 17.

For 5, the idea is that while you might want to iterate code points, the total number of code points is less useful than either grapheme count or byte count. I think that argument makes sense.
Old reddit doesn't have many of those newer features in the main reddit ui that's geared to steer users to pay for premium. For example, old reddit users don't see avatars, which can be customized with premium stuff in the main reddit ui. Awards are also less pronounced. As an old reddit user, I'm sure you have no desire to spend money buy avatar gears and more awards. Users of the new UI got exposed to those stuff more often and thus more familiar and more likely to buy them.
This was retail so we also had all the POS store systems, finance systems of course, payroll, collaboration (email, SharePoint and so on..)
> Or maybe they'll buy the most popular cross platform client and retool it to be official.

They did that already. AlienBlue was then the Reddit iOS client that Appllo is now. Reddit bought it, gutted everything that made it good, then released it as the official iOS app.
Holy forking shirtballs - NOOO!!

At least until it is MUCH better. Like 6 orders of magnitude better.

Just watching the "Pre-Collission Warning" red flash and beep on both a Ford Truck and Mazda crossover, there are far tooo many times that it reliably and consistently would brake and CAUSE an accident.

The most common one is where there is a car or obstacle just on the outside of a turn, such as (in the US, left side driver) a left bend in the road with a "Y" intersection going off the right side = outside of the turn, or a vehicle pulling off into a right-side driveway. As I turn left around the bend without much slowing and the other vehicle drives off to the right => "ALARM!!!". It obviously 'thinks' I'm about to rear-end that vehicle, when I know that no such thing will happen (unless I straighten the wheel or turn right for some bad reason). If braking happened here, I'd get rear-ended.

Similarly, I've seen the alert go off on either dirt roads with some random dark spot in the middle, or a regular road with a temporary steel plate over a work trench, or even just a pebble or small branch in the road.

It is clear that all of these miscellaneous items can produce the appearance of an obstacle about to be hit, but that does NOT mean that braking is appropriate.

It looks like instead of moving forward to an all-electric vehicle, I may be going back to restore some early 1990's vehicles and run them until the petrol market is no longer sufficiently viable to support common corner petrol stations.

Just a few hours ago, I saw an pristine but old Porsche 911 with antique plates. Obviously still way fun to actually DRIVE. Seems like a good way to go!
>That's been well documented, for decades

I've been hearing bad faith arguments asserting that claim my entire life. I've never heard any compelling evidence that it is the case and been called a racist for asking for it.
Not looking to be hired, but I posted here last month and am now working at a nice job because of it. Happy that this recurring post works!
There's a "boxing" workout, but yeah it tore apart the third-party band I was using. Since then I have used my older Apple bands for boxing workouts and it survives. The watch itself is totally fine
It’s pretty useful for doing grunt work in domains that you know pretty well.

https://chat.openai.com/share/aff14574-4f3e-496e-a11c-aa8ee2...

I could have done the work by hand, but instead I played some guitar while it updated the labeler software for the ML project I’ve been working on.

In fact, I think ChatGPT and Copilot wrote the majority of the code in this project:

https://github.com/williamcotton/chordviz
https://kai-greshake.de/posts/puzzle-22745/
What if the killer rabbit bit proves this is a tongue-in-cheek modern forgery
Modern art extends roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s.
I would say we’re not anywhere near peak LLM and are still in the very early adopter stage. In tech we heard about it 6 months ago, maybe you had even already read the relevant papers on arkxiv.org. That’s not the peak, the peak will be when your grandma uses it to write you a custom birthday card at Walmart.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we gather today not to mourn, but to celebrate and venerate an unsung hero in the sphere of software engineering: the slow software engineer. This tribute seeks not only to appreciate their worth, but to question our collective obsession with speed and instantaneity.
Wanting to have control over the vehicle is not some "gearhead forum" thing at all. I barely care about cars and I still care about this.

I'm the driver, I should be in control and there's literally no need to justify it any further. Anything that forcibly takes away control is automatically wrong from a basic human dignity perspective. I couldn't care less what governments or insurers think, I'm the goddamn human and I should have total control over this machine. I'm driving, not being driven.
Once again, strings are not simple sequences of characters. It's also useless to "index" into a string without specifying what you're indexing for the same reason.
This is untrue. Even the smallest subreddits are beholden to Reddit’s ever changing “rules”.
Perhaps the part about it needing lookups of the unicode database and being dependent on the version of the database used?
https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/proverbs/t.6.1.05.html#t6105.p...

73-75. A dog entered a tavern and said: "I can't see a thing. I'll open this one!"

It's not, but probably because this is a mistranslation.
If it’s all ad-based surely you are sharing, selling, or selling targeted access to, users or groups of users - right?

Which contradicts your response to my question on the validation process.

I would love to hear there’s no data sharing but don’t believe it when ads provide the revenue.
I love Voronoi diagrams (and Dirichlet sets.) been in my toolbox for a long time. used in a few of my games and game prototypes.
New details of Jeffrey Epstein's death and the frantic aftermath revealed
5 makes perfect sense to me; the author's complaints seem kinda silly.

An area this makes sense is, what do you expect to get if you do something like:

emoji = " "
print(emoji[:3])

Should this throw an error because there's only one displayed "character"? Should it return only a partial codepoint by returning only the byte data for the first 3 bytes?

Modern strings are complex objects that have evolved a bit past char[] or byte[].
Cool! Curious — has anyone done something similar in Python?
I follow comp.os.vms
and sci.electronics.design is always hot. I think there's probably a lot of little corners of usenet which are still pretty active. I was sad to see comp.dsp die off, but it's been equally more active by the same people on stackexchange.
Here is some more detail,
https://www.usenix.org/techsessionssummary/challenges-integr...