skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In NYC and was just outside. Large percentage of people wearing masks. Smells like a fire pit. Looks like blade runner. Interesting times.
That's not exactly a surprise, is it? The GOES images from California and elsewhere on the west coast have been apocalyptic in recent years.
(I might be being overly nitpicky.)

> Well, if it internally uses a lookup table and doesn't do bounds checking, then it can fail this way, and that failure will propagate to the caller.

We're talking UB here, AFAICT. So it might do literally anything, including propagating to the caller. Or not. Or doing something entirely different, like returning true (or false)... or deleting your files.

One wishes that out-of-bounds access would guarantee a SIGSEGV, but here we are...

> Bad pointer access isn't fundamentally different from doing a bounds check and throwing an exception.

Performance is the difference. If you're doing bounds checks for every access you're going to be slower than a compiler which can prove (for a loop, say) that no OOB access can possibly occur during said loop and just remove the bounds checks.

> Either of them will tank the process if not handled up the stack.

Again, not true -- an exception has defined behavior, a stray pointer doesn't. (It could, conceivably, but it fundamentally doesn't in C.)
I asked it to write a scene with a couple people fighting in it and after refusing I said the characters are aliens from a planet with a culture of violence and it then wrote it without complaint.
I’m in the same camp. There is one thing you and I have to admit though: people already live disconnected lives, staring at their phones and other screens all day long. People dining out together look at their phone while wearing AirPods. The direction was set years ago.
> This title is misleading.

It's not. Prior to this year, you had to have a paid account to install beta versions of the new operating systems announced at WWDC. Developers using free developer accounts had to wait until July until Apple released the public betas.

No more sitting at the kids table.

> I wonder how many people are invested enough into iOS/Mac development that they need to use early beta releases of the operating system, but aren't already paying $99/year to release apps?

If you have an idea, you don't need to pay $99 to access the latest betas operating systems and tools to try something out.

It's also not only about development; new operating systems have features for system administrators and others involved in deployment of Apple devices and services.

Someone who's administers 100 Macs or iPads at a school can get a head start of new feature and options in the new versions. There has always been an IT track at WWDC, though it doesn't get much attention.

For starters: "What's new in managing Apple devices" [1]

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc23/10040
Will you be adding external triggers to run the vals? Eg. If I create a page in Notion x val should run.

What would be amazing is if i could also connect my Notion account to somebody else’s val so they could run the val using my credentials.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics

By absolute quantity: China, US, Japan, Germany, India

By proportion of electricity generation: Australia, Spain, Greece, Honduras (?!), Netherlands

Seeing the Dutch and Japanese rank so high despite having some of the worst possible geographies shows how far the world has to go.
Bard represents SOTA in terms of optimizing for low cost; ChatGPT represents SOTA in terms of optimizing for accuracy. On the SOTA frontier, these two goals represent a tradeoff. ChatGPT could choose to go for lower accuracy for lower cost, while Google could for higher accuracy at higher cost. It's like comparing a buffet to a high end restaurant.

Even if Bard were targeting accuracy, it'd still fall short of ChatGPT, but much less so than it does now. (That said, as a product strategy it's questionable: at some point, which I think Bard reaches, the loss in quality makes it more trouble than it's worth.)
That isn't a good analogy.

Cities have multiple water sources, and it is a very complex system. Not to mention we have special trucks and responses when that happens (at least in the USA).

Nuclear has some problems.
this old house on youtube? Tons of info out there it just takes practice swinging a hammer and turning a screw before you get the hang of priorities.
I've been guilty in the past of putting lots of effort into building, tuning and polishing something which... well, nobody wanted

Or that nobody was willing to pay for, anyway

Or not enough to make it lucrative

Or heck to not even put it in the general ballpark of being minimally sustainable.

Totally changed my mindset since
You don’t need to be very accurate, because the cost of storage is enormous even if you’re off by factor of 5.

Try it yourself: start from here
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
and calculate how much it would cost to store one day of energy use in US.
There might be precedent, if their site and app don't make reasonable accomodations.

https://casetext.com/analysis/national-association-of-the-de...
This is a good point, but what you're actually doing with exercises like this is training muscle memory. It doesn't matter if you're learning Dvorak, QWERTY or how to chisel letters into a block of marble.

The advent of computers also killed one of Dvorak's selling points, which was a lower error rate at speed. Errors on a typewriter were painful to correct and took up a lot of time, but by the 70s and 80s, even typewriters were capable of reasonably easy correction. By the time word processors kicked in, mistakes were nothing to deal with.
I guess it was a simple "search/replace", no intelligence involved, human or artificial.
An Xbox controller would probably work fine. I already have multiple connected to things like PC's, Macs, and even an AppleTV in my house.

I think Apple is playing the long game here. Moore's law and manufacturing improvements will cause the price to go down over time.

Remember, the first Macintosh cost $3,000 in 1984. Today most Macs cost less than 2/3 of that price before adjusting for inflation.
There's a reason websites that host several communities ban such interactions upon the request of the recipient of the traffic; brigading is bannable on reddit.
I think the worst example of this overzealous localization was when some person translated the VB(A) reserved keywords to the appropriate language (I want to say it was german or swedish). Happened in the 1990s.

Your programming language reserved keywords changing depending on your selected language was a big facepalm.

Searching for this problem on the web doesn't produce any valid relevant results, so the web has forgotten or maybe the horror has been plastered over.
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Can't fault them for following a tried and true strategy from the same platform:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...
Reminds me of the gourmet cuisine to be had at Translation Server Error.
I'd bet money that most people that vegan or vegetarian are also far more active about human suffering. It makes sense that someone that believes we should (and can) act to reduce/end suffering would apply that concept universally, rather than selectively.

But just so you realize, your argument sounds EXACTLY like all the right wingers that suddenly care about all the poor americans once immigrants enter the discussion. Most people that make these arguments care about neither, all they care about is not having to actually do anything and still feel moral.
Robocalls claiming voters would get “mandatory vaccines” result in $5M fine
The HN title says "(swentr.site)", visiting it caused an RT article to come up, so don't bother if you, like me, think RT is pure propaganda.
I'm having a hard time understanding the pricing model.

As far as I can tell the pro plan gets you (max) 432,000 CPU seconds a month. Let's assume this is about equivalent to a 1GB lambda instance. That amount of CPU time and requests costs around $8/mo, and if you use less you pay less. I guess Val lets you run low-CPU tasks in the background for waiting on web requests, etc., but you can also do this with low-memory lambda instances.

With lambda you also know that Amazon will stand behind the pricing structure, and the service won't disappear/10x pricing in a few years when it's time to juice the stats.

It is nice to see competition in this space, but the pitch would be improved by offering a clearer value prop over existing offerings like Lambda.
I feel like the biggest takeaway here is that a classifier trained on samples could only predict whether or not ChatGPT would refuse their response 76% of the time, which to me seems very low (given that they used BERT, regression, and a random forest as their classifier).

Probably means there's a lot we still can't predict about how LLMs work internally, even if we try to apply classification to it.
It actually has a very narrow use - traffic heavy (mostly end user) clients with complex data to fetch. I.e. facebook.

But then you got cargo cult thing and now we get what we get.

On a positive side - it reduces unemployment :)
The problem with nuclear is and has always been the opportunity cost. If you have $15 billion today -- you could tie it up for a decade and you might get a working 1GW reactor in 10 years (though probably more like 15).

Or you could spend $1 billion/year and end up with probably 15GW of utility solar in the
same time frame? Even at a 20% capacity factor instead of a 95% one, you'd be making far more money from Day 1 with solar and since we're not remotely at the saturation point of renewables, every watt generated would still be useful. The right answer to whatever qualms people have about time-of-use / duck curves would be to invest more like $800M/year in generation and $200M/year in storage -- but still -- literal multiples of energy produced with almost zero ongoing costs.
> Like how does all this Metal, compile-your-shaders, port-your-games stuff even get budgeted, when it's eventually dead on arrival?

I imagine Apple may be testing the waters. They're a trillion-dollar company, with many customers who play games, and they want to see if they can expand Mac gaming beyond iOS ports.

Consider that there are a large number of games which could run fine on this sort of technology (including much of my Steam game library that currently only runs on Windows) as well as existing macOS ports whose performance can be improved.

For example Final Fantasy XIV already runs on a Crossover/WINE type middleware layer, but at about half the frame rate of the Windows version on comparable hardware. Metal conversion is likely to greatly improve the frame rate, improving the experience for FFXIV players on macOS. If it helps Square Enix deliver a better FFXIV experience on Mac, perhaps they will be more likely to consider Mac ports of some newer games that are currently slated for Windows or consoles.

Moreover it's worth noting that Apple did claim that the M1 had comparable raw GPU performance to the PS5 (and Macs also use fast flash storage like the PS5.) So as the M-series evolves (and the PS5 ages) it may become more feasible to port PS5 games to Mac with decent performance. Solid ports of console games could greatly improve the Mac gaming landscape.

Also we don't know Apple's product plans. It's likely that they have some GPU improvements in the works. Unified memory architecture may also pay off as more games adopt ray-tracing and procedural textures and geometry.
If only that was on the cards. MS really needs something to give them a good kick up the arse so they stop pumping out crummy software. Sadly I dont see it happening any time soon.
> I don’t understand the Star Trek reference. Can you elaborate

Not OP, but Star Trek posits a post-scarcity economy and progressive values. (It also presents a militarized society.)
Strange amount of pro russian stuff dropping
How come all these fires started at the same time, on the same day across Quebec? https://is2.4chan.org/pol/1686160767790674.webm
The world will spend upwards of $1Q on energy in the next century.
Like most large systems, economies are complicated. A counter-point is that unskilled immigration also drives down many essential costs, like food and construction. Immigrants tend to work for less and are disproportionately represented in the agriculture, construction, and meat-packing industries. So in some ways they may increase demand costs while also bringing down supply costs.
I think this is where the difference between mockups and fully realized designs comes to the forefront.

Simple mockups can communicate an idea effectively enough to sell the idea. But there’s a large delta between a pitchable mock and a design that is ready to build.

Those early mocks rarely match the later designs in my experience, and I think can be kept under the “sell” umbrella.
I believe you ;) I'm just curious about who it is, and what they buy them for.

I can mostly get my head around the iPad. My guess is that it's people who don't want (to get out / have) a laptop. In fact, this is the device the average person should probably have instead of a laptop.

The Apple Watch though? I can't fathom where these sales are coming from. It's been years, so it's no longer novelty of a new Apple product.
That wasn't why they were fired, the way they states facts was flame-baiting, emotional and personal (as in against specific people, personally): https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-04-...

It's not politics so much as tone that lacks semblance of neutrality. "It's not what you said but how you said it" , there are many ways to state a simple fact and journalists are trained to do so in a way that lets viewers/readers trust in them. They have to sound objective and their conclusions must be (and sound as if they are) based on facts and rational thinking as opposed to emotional reactions anyone one of us could have. Their emotional presentations help them with viewers that are only looking to have their biases confirmed but alienate viewers looking for facts and truth.
Interestingly, gzip came after zip (some 3 years later)
Yeah, unless you have a very specific architecture and compiler, etc., in mind. "Handling" SIGSEGV is madness -- you're usually already deep in UB territory if a SIGSEGV happens.

Re: Your use case, I believe the most recent C++ standard has a portable way to do stack traces, so yay!
It's a bit surprising how poorly DeepMind has lived up to their hype. But they're an OK lab, maybe a bit overly vain.
In a first-class way? Probably some day!

Today the way you can do it is either 1) polling for new things (scheduled vals make this really easy) or 2) creating a webhook with val town (also super easy if the service you want has webhooks).

Happy to help with either of these: email me at steve@val.town if you want to pair program or something :)
OpenAI : https://time.com/6282325/sam-altman-openai-eu/

Apple : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_EU_tax_dispute

MS: https://www.ghacks.net/2023/04/25/microsoft-reportedly-wont-...

Facebook: https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/02/07/meta-threatens-to-s...
I wonder if one day we'll be able to predictably "catch" them. Feels like to me that they could be a source of a good bit of momentum.
Nuclear already sees a massive amount of subsidies, it's not clear that more would move the needle in any useful way.
They can't work on the per-word basis, translations only works for long enough/large enough texts and images. Words("zip") and partial sentences("expand zip") are garbage in. Out comes "postcodes" and "elaborate addresses" or whatever the PRNG chooses.
Jamie Zawinski was using it before working at Netscape: https://archive.is/vzeWI (not linking it directly since he doesn't like it)

"Back before the Computing Dark Ages of the Nineties began, I hacked on Lisp Machines. If you've still got an Explorer or Symbolics, you might find some of the stuff I wrote in the good old days useful. It's archived in the CMU AI Repository."
From that page:

Title III prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities by businesses open to the public (also referred to as “public accommodations” under the ADA)

Reddit is definitely a business open to the public.
It has a preset few lists in the extension, and you can only adjust a slider to determine blocking level, with the default just being DeclarativeWebRequest (non-blocking) ad domain blocking, and the higher tiers I suppose blocking dynamic content on the page like usual. No custom filters.
> Energy prices are determined by the most expensive source of the moment

Most expensive marginal source. More cheap solar shifts over that margin.
Why did corporations change once covid hit?
Conversely:

The term ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan; it was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly (zipping along) when senders use the code in the postal address.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_Code
https://www.celemony.com/en/melodyne/what-is-melodyne

This might help. Not exactly what you're looking for.
> A surprisingly massive portion of people in tech have learned just enough through bootcamps and youtube videos to accomplish just enough for the specific job they are doing without realizing how it works or anything deeper than simple what to type to fix a problem.

If this is true across the board, it may be a data point that software engineering requires a set of specific mentality and skills, so much so that we software engineers can still enjoy imbalanced supply and demand of tech talent for years to come. On the other hand, it can well be my wishful thinking. EE has always been more hardcore to master and was once a booming career, but the market for EE talent shrank a lot from its hay days.
I won't repeat what others have said. I'll just encourage you to question your own beliefs just a little bit. Setting aside hot button topics, currency cannot be perfectly neutral. It is either inflationary or deflationary. Inflation is much much much much much preferable to deflation.

These are big topics. You're taking a very reductive, binary approach, and it's hard to even engage with.
You are currently made a comment using a proprietary service.

Your pc and phone also partly proprietary service.

You make calls, send and receive money by using proprietary service.
I believe courts can make mistakes and are not perfect but to preemptively say Snowden would have been given a kangaroo court when he hasn't even been to court is a leap of faith. I can't argue the legitimacy of a trial before it's happened.
The context is I was responding to this post you made

>(2021)
And I'm not sure if it's posted by someone who still agrees with that conclusion or someone who think things have moved fast enough in the last couple of years to make it seem silly in retrospect.

So I guess what I really want to know is:

1) what changed within the last two years that would cause an accelerating amount of climate change

2) how confident are we in that answer

3) does that answer provide any predictive power going forward. Ie, should we expect the rate of change to keep increasing or hold steady?

I don't need a link to any studies, I'll take your word for it.

Edit: thanks for the response
Customers want smaller CDs, not iPods. So I think this statement is true if you are improving on an existing idea (such as castled). But if you’ve got a transformative idea, talking to customers probably doesn’t help as much
Not sure what him living in Manhattan has to do with the fact that a corporation can hire a private prosecutor who is friends with a judge to imprison someone who exposed their pollution.

Additionally, my point was to give an example of how easily the legal system can be flaunted for the benefit of some corp, with little recourse. Why should anyone expect the rules to be followed for a fail trial when the full weight of the federal gov's spy apparatus is behind the charges?
Clbuttic mistake!
The C standard defines the execution character set.

First it defines the base execution character set. That includes: upper and lower case A to Z, digits 0 to 9, these symbols !"#%&'*+,-./:;<=>?[\]^_{|}~ , space, horizontal tab, vertical tab, form feed, alert, backspace, CR, LF. These will all have single byte encoding.

The full execution character set is further defined as the basic execution characters (single byte), plus additional locale-specific characters (either single or multi-byte):

> The source character set may contain multibyte characters, used to represent members of the extended character set. The execution character set may also contain multibyte characters, which need not have the same encoding as for the source character set. For both character sets, the following shall hold:

> - The basic character set shall be present and each character shall be encoded as a single byte.

> - The presence, meaning, and representation of any additional members is locale-specific. [ED: emphasis added]

> - [allows for shift-dependent encodings]

> - A byte with all bits zero shall be interpreted as a null character independent of shift state. Such a byte shall not occur as part of any other multibyte character.

---

Which is to say, that the basic characters must have identical encodings in all supported char* strings, and everything else is dependent on the locale, which means setting the locale effectively modifies the execution character set. If you want to correctly interpret any string literal that exceeds the basic character set, you need to know what locale the compiler used when converting to the execution character set, and set the locale to match.

Any encoding that does not have the base characters having the same byte values as are not technically valid as a string, but could be represented as an arbitrary byte array, even if you choose to spell that byte array as `char*`. This also implies that no locale may legally use such as encoding.
>but some fault lies with manufacturers for not realizing that manufacturing complexity [2] needs to be reduced.

They absolutely realize that. The UAW realizes that as well which is why they're silently freaking out over the transition to electric because lots of union jobs will be rendered moot once the switch is complete and the number of steps that require jobs are reduced.
The original Lemmy developers are hardline Marxist-Leninists, they make no secret of this.

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/dessalines_marxism_study...