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A closely related question is: Should playing the fun way, and playing the optimal way be the same thing? I used to think think the answer was yes, but Spelunky 2 made me doubt; in Spelunky using a bomb or a rope is rarely optimal, but it can make things simpler and more fun. I think it's a well designed game, so the fact that optimal play and fun play are different is making me think.
I think the lesson here is just "American-specific rules", not "Central Europe specific rules". In Latin America I never heard of it either
Perhaps you could point out in which way you think this is relevant?
> They're hundreds of dollars

This isn't SQL-specific, but this is 100% the problem for me. There's such a big culture gap between the way that we do things in most of the tech world and ISO, and one of the biggest clashes is this weird $180 PDF thing.

If I want to implement a new standards-compliant HTML parser, I can hop right onto whatwg.org and view the complete standard instantly [0]. It's massive and complicated, but it's freely accessible to anyone interested.

In contrast, if I want to implement an ISO 8601-compliant date parser, ISO wants me to buy their PDF for CHF166 (~$180 USD). This spec is for a standard that is orders of magnitude less complex, and they're charging through the nose for it.

I'm unclear what makes the difference between a standard that can be maintained by a community for the benefit of everyone and a standard that needs to be locked behind a paywall.

[0] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/
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Same. I can't live without ad blocking + ublock. I don't remember the last time I saw an ad and I'm happy for that.
It shouldn't be limited to censoring. Fine tuning is done on small set of some domain specific samples. Surely that results in gradual 'forgetting' of the already learned data from big set. If run for long time model will relearn on the tuning set, and overfit most likely.
Yes, well, if we relied on settled and trivially obvious law to decide these things, what would Vinod Khosla do in his spare time?

Besides of course chasing beachgoers down the waterfront with his rake. [1, 2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/01/vinod-kh...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/08/califor...
It shouldn't even be possible to capture an area of public land for yourself by buying all the land around it, effectively land-locking it from the public. How stupid of the government to even let the scenario happen in the first place. I like the idea of another commenter: The government should just take narrow easements around the borders of all public lands, and paths through private lands for the cases where some area of public land is surrounded like this.
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For several decades the proportion of U.S. news media headlines conveying pessimism has been growing or stable but never decreasing. This trend predates social media. (Sample size: 1.7 million headlines from popular news media outlets in the U.S.)
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He specifically singles out the API and never answers if chatgpt is same. Most people are probably using the chatgpt interface, which seems to have more alignment training.
heh if this was true imagine the poor agents tasked with carrying it out, god what an awful job. "you want me to do what?!? I thought i was going to be behind enemy lines with a tiny camera at a fancy party like in the movies.."
I assume they’re including the value of the public land that was ‘inaccessible’ (not actually inaccessible as we found out) as part of the ranch, which is a ridiculous notion that should’ve been summarily dismissed with prejudice so the plaintiff could not re-file or appeal the verdict, but this ruling is a good one.
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The way I see it is the fundamental problem is that SQL is not a proper composable language, and the standard never defines such a thing. So every feature added to an RDBMS is done so as an extension to the language, rather than an update to a standard library like any sane modern programming language. SQL as a language still operates with the mentality of COBOL -- if anything reusable is going to be provided, it will be provided by the RDBMS manufacturer. The user is only expected to produce highly business-specific logic for their own needs. (RDBMS's do often offer standard PL language support, but these typically hook into database internals, are intended for highly specific scenarios, cannot be transferred to any other RDBMS, and are generally meant for writing stored procs -- non-reusable functions)

As a result, for databases to compete on features, they must arbitrarily extend the SQL language standard; these modifications to the language then get backfilled into the standard, and runs headfirst into backwards compatibility, and suddenly no one agrees on really what the feature should precisely be so they it becomes an optional part of the standard, which really just means that it isn't standardized.

In any sane language, you wouldn't need different databases to add specific support for GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY, and especially not for 15 different syntax's used in 15 different databases to specify kinda sorta not really the same thing -- it would simply be a function, one you could write yourself, or provided by the standard library. It wouldn't be up to the RDBMS to offer support beyond actual language features -- it'd just be up to you to update your libraries.
I think it's worth noting the response explicitly said the paid API model hasn't been changed, so ChatGPT could have been changed through many different ways outside the core model
What makes you conclude that statins are "bunkum"? I don't know anything about anti-depressants or surgical implants, but I have gone down the rabbit hole on statins and at least as far as I can tell they do what they are generally claimed to do, are safe, and so if you are at high risk for hear disease you should probably be taking them.
I would be a terrible rich person, since I wouldn't care one whit about someone crossing "my airspace". Hell, I'd donate an acre to to the state at the corner just to let people cross. Fred Eshelman has a large fraction of a billion dollars at his disposal and has given away over $100 million dollars to UNC, just chalk this up as a donation and walk away.
I don't see this as being political doublespeak. He is very clearly just talking about the API.
I mean, I don't like that Postgres is not infinitely scalable, but the whole point is that (a) is not generally true--most companies could probably get by with a single machine's worth of data, or rather if they have more than one machine's worth of data, those systems probably aren't talking to each other such that they need to be on the same box. Regarding (b) and (c), do you not need to test failure conditions for distributed databases (this isn't rhetorical, I've only ever used cloud providers offerings)?
Yeah. There should be implied easements around private land that borders public land.

You can do what you want as long as you do block passage between adjacent, or event reasonable nearby, public land.
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It seems to me that there’s lots of room to change stuff that profoundly affects the range of responses without altering the base model. The prompt template alone seems like a place outside the model where we’ve seen safeguards get implemented, and other stuff that affects the usefulness of a model’s responses.
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Where would one find a pirated mirror of this standard? Or the 2019 one?

Asking for a friend, of course.
It's a problem, though, to become reliant on something and then experience a rugpull. A lot of people seem to think that you pay for a product and then in exchange you get increased productivity, and the only "cost" is, well, the cost. But it's not. Once you start becoming reliant on something to do your job, you orient your workflow around it. There may be alternatives, but it costs your time and effort to switch. It differs per tool: imagine switching text editors though. That's a very non-trivial endeavor for many software developers, even people who use fairly stock editors will have become pretty integrated into how their setup works, with hundreds of hours of muscle memory and re-orienting yourself to the "mental model" it has.

That's exactly why people selling products love subscriptions so much. It's not JUST reliable income. It's sticky. If I own something for real, as in it works offline with no activation garbage needed, I can just not pay for the new version if I don't like it. Maybe the old one becomes obsolete eventually, so it's not risk-free, but nonetheless. But, if a subscription fee increases, my options are typically 1. Go to hell.

Am I exaggerating? Well, yes and no. For one thing, I have really truly experienced the rugpull. It doesn't even have to be malicious, it can be as simple as "company disappears". The more established and trustworthy a company has proven to be, the more willing I am to put up with some loss of control. But monthly subscriptions to random products I see on HN? No thanks.

I'm not even asking for a perpetual lifetime license, which I already find sketchy from a sustainability standpoint. I am fine with the old-school "upgrade license" concept employed by say, VMWare and friends, and the less DRM-heavy the solution is, the better.
Would agree with this. I don't think the language choice, is as massive bet on the business as people think. I've seen much more niche and ancient langs without an ecosystem (no libraries, no SDK's to popular products, etc) build very profitable products. I would see these languages as a much greater risk.

As long as it has a base capability (libraries, maturity) and when people join they can be productive with it in a month or so then the risk is pretty low. For F# most .NET developers, even Node developers IMO will get used to F# relatively quickly. From my anecdotal experience with a number of languages its probably one of the easiest to onboard out of the FP langs balancing the FP methodology while trying to be practical/pragmatic. It has a large ecosystem via the .NET platform and supplements it with FP specific F# libraries where pragmatic to do so.
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It is a standard interview question, but depending on skill level, sometimes we can look the other way ;-)
True. I guess it started around 2015 then.
From a hardware perspective, vector instructions operate on small 1D vectors, whereas tensor instructions operate on small 2D matrices. I say “instructions”, but it’s really only matrix multiply or matrix multiply and accumulate - most other instructions are fine staying as 1D.
Why should they, when you can implement this yourself with a set of "shred boxes" each dated with either "today" or "today plus 30 days". Shred the oldest box today, make it today's new box, put papers to shred into that new box.

Repeat tomorrow.
> most Clojure code I write is macro-free.

Conceptually, most forms that are not on the form (fn args...) are macros. You got like cond, lambda and label forms, that are not macros. I don't think Clojure technically has label forms though.
This turned out to be an interesting read. The author succeeded in applying his criteria to his own article:

1. It denies some aspect of the audience assumption-ground: It denies that what is interesting is what is true, and proposes a different theory.

2. It falls into one of the outlined categories: “What seems to be a disorganized (unstructured) phenomenon is in reality an organized (structured) phenomenon”. In this case the phenomenon is interesting theories.

However, although he insists on understanding one's audience's assumptions about a topic in order to stimulate their interest, he provides little guidance on how to figure out those assumptions.
The industry metric that’s most applicable is tie ratio (or attachment rate, which is related but specific to individual software titles).
They've had paid subscriptions for years. All that's really new in this announcement is the page templates. The submission title is editorialized and inaccurate.
> the principles of vectorizing code.
> 1D arrays

I think accelerators mostly do computations over small matrices and not vectors, so it is "matricized" code, but I am not an expert in this area.
It's not clear here if the poster you're replying to claims it's "open source" or if it's just source code on Github with a non-commercial license itself that offends some.
I suspect people who reject this silly notion tend to still get slapped in the face with it. As in the article, when you are forging another relationship with someone else, their attitude and opinions about your existing relationship are going to matter. When something goes wrong, they can't just ignore your other relationships, they'll have to form some kind of opinion as to how they factor in. It is straightforward to feel threatened by them.

If you have 3 people with strong relationships (between at least 2 of the pairs), you have a classic triangle. If there is a two-person activity and A chooses to do it with B, and C wanted to do it with A, then there is some level of conflict.

I'm not saying it's an impossible situation by any means. The triangle problem only comes up when the interests of the pairwise relationships overlap. (If C hates watching Gerbils On Fire, then C is unlikely to be bothered by A and B binging season 3.) But they'll often overlap at least somewhat. (C was hoping to watch Knitting With The Rats that same evening.) And it's not like pairwise relationships lack similar problems, so you don't need to compare to perfect.

It's just that "giving up on this silly notion" isn't enough to erase the problems. A may not raise his relationship with B over that with C, but there will still be situations where both relationships can't occupy the same space or time.
So it turns out that any keyboard mash will work as an invite code. You might want to make that a non mandatory field, it it's not required.
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I am sorry, I am truly not aware. I'll google it but appreciate a link if you have it at hand.

Thanks and sorry - I didn't mean to start a thread that is not useful for most people
Imagine how different the global response might have been to COVID if, at the beginning of the pandemic, we entertained even the possibility that this virus had been engineered or enhanced to better spread and/or infect humans?

I personally ignored much of the hype at the beginning because all previous SARS/MERS outbreaks were relatively easily contained (because the virus was not that well adapted to spreading in humans).
Indeed. I'll add the proliferation of AI doomers driving actual ML researchers away to that tally. And cookie banner defenders.
> many operations are defined

My emphasis. Undefined Behaviour is not an example of operations being defined.
Ask HN: What websites still work with Netscape?
I downloaded Netscape 7.2 from archive.org and ran it under wine.

After a bit of typing, the only website I could find that even remotely works is grc.com. I'm wondering why that is, and also, what other sites can I browse like it's 1995?
Sometimes it does take significantly longer than 20secs.
Jason has created some very nice maps, go check them out.

Fun fact from this map, if I’m not mistaken, Greece is the only country touching three continents (Europe, Africa and Asia.
Having the shredder automatically handle it in one compact unit would be more convenient and less error prone.
He said "the API". He didn't say anything about the Chat version, which seems to have more protections that may be on top of the model and not embedded into it.
Place the documents in a container and date it and then when the date passes to shred it then. No need for the shredder to keep track of this.
Small criticism: why not link the original source?

I get extremely suspicious of big claims on Twitter.
There are gobs of membership site plugins if you want to run it yourself. Wordpress as a piece of software has been used for this for a very long time.
Is being lover of gays a fact or feeling?
So license it AGPL if you're worried about them giving back. Trust me, AGPL alone will almost totally discourage commercial use, and then your software will actually be open source, not just source available.
Why do programmers prefer to be called engineers?
The job description underneath those labels is usually almost 100% programming a digital device (computer) and not engineering in the conventional sense. For example there is 0% physics.

The academic dept is typically called Computer Science and conceptually is much closer to Mathematics than Engineering.

The main link seems to be Software Engineering and thinking in "Systems". Which is fair but is a mere analogy. Lots of disciplines think in systems.

There is also a tenuous link as some programmers work very closely with hardware (low level programming of silicon / networks), though just a small minority.

Programmers also call themselves developers (echoes of real estate development ?). It seems they like anything but to be called programmers.

According to wikipedia: The term programmer may lack connotations of engineering education or skills.

Is there an inferiority syndrome and is the title Engineer a sort of corporate title inflation that cheers people up at zero cost?

When and why would this strange desire to be called something else come about? It seems that it is a topic of discussion at least since 2015

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/programmers-should-not-call-themselves-engineers/414271/
Discussed here:

SQL:2023 is finished: Here is what's new - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35562430 - April 2023 (153 comments)
How are you defining "works"?
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Just to tack on more as I've knocked some cobwebs loose, the UIL also did their penalty shoot outs similar to hockey where the ball was put in play some 20 yards out and the attacker allowed to dribble the ball and the keeper was allowed to challenge. In the early days of the MLS, they did this as well. When MLS did away with that non-sense, the UIL followed as well.

US Soccer (official FIFA member) was apparently so concerned that soccer would not be accepted that they were willing to experiment with rules to make things more "exciting". UIL did things because Texas is just so entrenched with Friday Night Lights football, that things had to be brought into alignment with their understanding (tongue planted firmly in cheek). After all, it is using their field! Also, the organization of officials in UIL sports (Texas Association of Sports Officials - TASO) is kind of weird. Once you become an official of one sport, you can easily become an official of another sport with no experience necessary. Naturally, a lot of the throwball referees crossed over to football officiating in the early days. As the UIL game garnered more respect, better officials started to make their way, but the rules are still some mishmash hybrid gene spliced 100% GMO'd version.
Which 3rd party client, if you don't mind me asking? I'm looking to move, and the space isn't mature enough yet for there to be a clear leader.
You have the whole "I don't understand why something is this way, therefore everyone who does understand why it's that way is wrong" stick down cold. It's not a good look.
>typically labeled "source available"

I have literally only seen Free Software folks claiming this in similar discussions to this, and have not once seen that term used in practice (I'm sure you can find at least one example, but it's far from being common). The typical term for this is still "open source" whether it technically conforms to the OSI definition or not.
https://polyformproject.org/what-is-polyform/

"PolyForm is not… Open source or free software."
Was anyone in that thread claiming that the API had gotten worse? A lot of people were suggesting to use the API rather than the ChatGPT interface in order to avoid the degradation.
"Free" was the wrong word to use, I meant to say "unlimited."

(edit: even that's not right. I think the verbiage is more accurate now.)