skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Javascript annotations are finally landing & they are very much enabling aop like concerns.

Alas none of thr original greatness of javascript has been allowed. The new language features are all 100% special snowflake things, miles apart from the everything-is-an-object world we had. So these annotations/transforms are load-time only. They make a bunch of changes to your classes or whatever as the class loads then they are erased, invisible, totally unable to be seen unless explicitly coded.

Dripping disdain for this weak ass shitty path JS has started following. We keep making invisible unreflective shit & it's all super shit. Private fields can't be reflected on at all. ESM took over half a decade to get any kind of module metadata like import.meta and there is absolutely positively none of the module registry notions we were talking up as ESM was being crafted.

Everything is a huge downgrade for a runtime where you can look around & see what you have. To me, the neat spirit of AOP is when you not just attach some static annotations & compile it away, but when the runtime can keep growing new ways to be self aware. When you can keep compounding & meta-mutating. But the language design keeps shoving us down narrower more limited paths where the runtime actively tries to blind itself. There's such a huge massive narrative here on language design, & it should be in textbooks & screamed out loud, but it's invisible & unseen & the forces of conservative secure encapsulation & hiding are the only ones with any power or say & everyone else is losing. We have AOP about to happen but it's sad AOP, ignorant AOP, blind AOP.

Dynamic runtime AOP is just one of many capabilities - like DI/dependency Injection - where really what we are doing is creating a powerful metaplatform for resources, for object instances (and factories). Having management over objects is intensely interesting & empowering. Declarative code is just a cheap way to explicitly wire up resources/instances, with no management layer. I loved & hope we get back to more interesting & ambitious times when object repositories become powerful interesting object generating & manipulating entities.
Ignore the app developers for a second.

What reddit is doing is horrible for the users. Reddit benefitted massively from 3rd party apps making it easier for users to contribute, comment, moderate, etc. Without those users' efforts the platform is worthless. That is the issue here.
>Would a Republican pass any right to repair bill?

Ironically, maybe, as a way to attack those "woke" corporations.
China wouldn't be solely responsible, this was a US project.
I'm not in favor of banning books, but "it's not the worst thing that could possibly happen" isn't exactly a strong argument for supporting something.
> It's valid in this case because apple is trying to make the case that this device is supposed to be the future of computing. It's telling that you can't actually develop for the platform within the platform itself.

Would you not have said the same thing about iPhone 1? It was absolutely the “future of computing” (whatever the hell that means) in terms of mobile ubiquity, but you could develop anything on the device itself at the time (or really, even today).
Thanks for your encouragement and that is a totally fair criticism - when we say that, we mean two things:

1. We support using Credal with your own, open source LLM, which can of course be fully on prem in every sense

2. We also support using Credal with your own Azure OpenAI instance. As you say, OpenAI aren't giving us the weights, but many of our customers have procured Azure OpenAI from Microsoft and then we point GPT 4 usage at their Azure instance, meaning that the data never goes to Open AI at all.

One of the things that's going to be really interesting to see moving forward is whether the open source models are going to be able to compete with the blistering pace and funding that the closed source ones - Bard, Claude, and GPT-X are going to be able to attract (and maybe Mistral?). For the sake of the industry, I really hope that the OS models catch up but given the amount of funding (and now in OpenAI's case, revenue) the closed source models are generating, its hard to see how that happens
As I understand it, that's what happens in Norway. If a company wants to enforce a non-compete, they keep paying your salary while they do so.
I keep asking myself, "who gives a shit?".

When the virus was first discovered, it was important to pin down who and where Patient zero was.

Now? Pure politicking. It isn't even a slow news day!
> Can't remember ever having a serious issue on macOS.

macos is fine for the most part, but there are some edge cases, such as some sketchy corporate required "security software" that eats up kernel memory or cpu for some unknown reason, a reboot can fix performance issues there

also if you are a dev and apps (like xcode, android studio etc) fill your drive with cache files* or have weird background daemons that eat up cpu, at the least a logout/login (or a reboot) can fix some of those eierd things

you could manually delete them without a reboot but ymmv
Ah sweet. I’ll check those out. Thanks!
I agree with this. I whipped up a small tcl/tk project, used it for years, worked everywhere. Every time I tried some other framework in Python, I always ended up stepping on rakes. Nothing ever felt right.

These days, if tcl/tk doesn't suffice for my project, then I just move onto another environment entirely.
> YouTube tends to order things by popularity.

Well, this is an expected thing when we talk about "regular" search. But I have opened a specific channel. Really disappointing.
If they can charge it, they can show it. Any concerns/issues with municipal fees, taxes, etc. is a completely tangential issue.

Just as easily, Comcast could choose to simplify pricing... T-Mobile charges "tax-inclusive" rates that give you a nice round number net of taxes/fees. These are free choices and can be leveraged as a competitive advantage should the companies choose.
> There's been massive markdowns to Twitter's valuation since Musk took over.

That valuation was itself at the height of the COVID stock bubble.
So it's just...haskell but different?
One major difference is that with standard lines of credit it's a transaction between the bank loaning funds and the borrower only. With letters of credit, the payee is also a signatory to the contract.

edit: and I guess the payee's receiving financial institution is also a signatory if those are different entities from the payee! Or at least can be, I'm running into Dunning Kruger so I'll tap out now.
The coming of age of the global space economy
> I haven't seen a single discussion of this that doesn't immediately dove-tail into various other conspiracies or whistles.

> None ever will from your perspective if you're citing "head nods" and dog whistles.

It means that if you consider mentioning the lab leak theory an automatic dogwhistle for bioweapon then of course every single discussion about these lab leak immediately dove-tails into various other conspiracies or whistles. It's circular reasoning and you're making it impossible to express nuance.
A suitable Anti-Spying(r) decoupling capacitor costs 5 cents.
The Ecohealth Alliance received funding from NIH for the gain of function research which means it would not be just China to blame. https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-says-grantee-fai...
Isn't it hard to find tenants for office buildings these days? Maybe Musk simply exploits this situation.
Hm, seems pretty similar to me. Especially when the article itself identifies only 1.6% of the books as having a 17+ rating.

[edit] Anyone who believes in freedom of expression and the first amendment should recognize this as a negative step, and a clear thin-edge issue. These are ideological decisions made by partisans with the goal being to shape the corpus of thinking of youth. "Will someone think of the children" is a well worn path. There's plenty of books about this kind of thing, like The Giver, but you know, it's probably on the list.
Another point in the endless war against useless always-on LEDs. (My least favorite was a night light with a switch. It had an always-on LED when plugged in even if you switched the night light off. Instant e-waste.)
Sadly, the word "ban" has been used all too inapropriatley lately. And this website doesn't seem to help as nowhere did I see exactly what they meant by banned, who banned them, or exactly what the ban entails.
> Elon appears to believe he just doesn't need to pay for things

He's the equity anchor for the last cycle's top-tick LBO. He's trying to get to unlevered cash-flow positivity so he can renegotiate the debt from a position of relative strength. (That or wait until a regulator fines Twitter out of existence so he can blame them.)

Either way, he's–perhaps rationally–hyperbolically discounting. Cash today is worth more than that cash tomorrow plus court fees and reputation.
I sometimes think that the real reason ChatGPT scares/excites so many tech business types, is that it has automated the one skill they have and are looking for in startup founders, which is to BS convincingly.
Thats great, the library in question has to call the police multiple times per week for various issues caused by the meth addiction homeless who occupy it. It has completely ruined the concept of library for everyone who isn’t a drug user.
Everyone has a different experience. However, chemo just sucks.

My wife went through it all and asked at the beginning: "Should I take off work?" To which my response was "You can be miserable and bored, or you can be miserable and busy. Your choice." Staying busy, at least, gets your mind off of it if you can swing it.

On the other hand, my wife sailed through radiation with nary a problem while the other folks around her had terrible problems.

Good luck. I hope you fare well.
Yep, it's always always write code / query / function / whatever you need
that you would parse and retrieve the data from an external system.
Yes. Always the same warning signs, because humans always ignore their senses when they are overwhelmed by the same greed. Always.
Yup

I remember my grandfather telling me long before I could drive:

"You don't want to be dead right."
This is unfortunate for the long tail of communities since places like /r/hardwareswap do rely on automation significantly to drive their functionality. Reddit is a little bit like a Craigslist in that sense: it is hard to unbundle, but also it is hard for the bundle to capitalize on the market flow through it.

Interesting puzzle, for sure, and I will be curious to see if there will be a new meta-community that can create the wide range of communities like /r/tipofmytongue, /r/hardwareswap, /r/changemyview, etc.

Reddit may be unable to justify its valuation without being able to drive more revenue but there is a place for a meta-community that is more focused like that without having any of the complex pieces of functionality like federation, etc.
This is a rather mundane and unsurprising line tbh. Finite automata are not Turing complete. Computers are not in reality since they do not have infinite memory and do not have infinite precision. I'm not sure if it'll lead to arbitrary precision machines since the lack of real world Turing completeness hasn't stopped us so far and likely won't.
Hopefully someone has the link, but I heard that the lost revenue from ads is significantly lower than the $20 million bill.
Infertility is a medical condition as well. Why shouldn't we be looking for better ways to treat it?
I have another comment in the thread which got downvoted by someone.

My take, having seen a lot of these posts on yelp, is that people leave such reviews because restaurants are offering something which they are not familiar with, or does not match their notions of "normal" (however narrow that may be). You see this less at restos which serve burgers and pizza, and more with places serving non-American food.

I just took a spin through the couple of Asian places in my town, and they have relatively high numbers of 1 star reviews. Digging into them, what you see a lot of are is complaints like:

"This is the worst Asian food I have ever had because (proceeds to describe exactly how the dish is supposed to be)". Also a lot of complaints about these Asian restaurants being "dirty" (which they aren't - as I'm only reading through places my wife and I go to / order from frequently). It was like this specifically with Asian food in the last town I lived in as well. I recall one complaint about how they romanized a Thai word, insisting "pad see ewe" was misspelled (ORLY!). It's bizarre. Mexican restaurants by comparison, get complaints about the food being too spicy, or the decor (at takeout places no less) being bad. And, of course, "dirty", which again, the places I frequent, aren't.

I can't help but conclude that people who write these reviews are judging things based on their own biases, of which they are not self-aware. A more harmless example is a review from a great Thai/Chinese resto where I used to live where someone suggested the place smelled "musty". Well - it was in a sublevel of a large building ("basement" is the word they used), but it was not in any way musty in the 10 years I spent going there. None of my friends ever took issue, even a good friend with a really sensitive nose.
Yup. The cost of failure is too damn high. Nuclear plants, despite our best efforts so far, don't have a reputation for graceful degradation.
>We Reviewed All of Them

Am I blind? Where are the reviews? The website is also utterly broken on my device...

What I always find interesting is what exactly "banned" means. Certainly there is no government which punishes distribution, printing or reading of those books.
Perhaps traffic flows smoother because there is just less traffic altogether on Sunday. And anyway, who is operating these trucks that would be driving on Sunday if it was legal, but instead don't drive at all? If trucks aren't driving on Sunday anyway then there is little need to ban them.
Its kind of funny to ban books when so few specially kids actually read. Clearly these policies are far more symbolic, an act of signaling.

People feel powerless and have no actual control, but going after the local book-shelf gives a feeling of accomplishment.

Not at easy to ban content from TikTok or Youtube.
My team has installed a lot of LED lights in tugboat engine rooms. They fail often. They don’t seem to handle heat and vibration very well.
There is going to be a huge difference here between what these investors say they'd invest in vs. what they actually end up investing in.

ChatGPT4 isn't going to change which school you went to or who your friends are which are both much better indicators of actual investment decisions.

If you think you are going to use this to elevate your startup compared to others, well, if everybody is a super-hero nobody is.
> "it's not the worst thing that could possibly happen" isn't exactly a strong argument for supporting something

Point is if your kid has the initiative to go into a library and find a book, they're probably fine. If they're not, they're going to get far worse from the internet and their peers-the library isn't your problem. Raising them to believe libraries are unsafe is more likely to backfire in the specific aims you're pursuing.

(Going out on a limb and assuming most of the people pursuing these book bans don't have kids in school and, if they do, they aren't in the top 90% of students checking out books from any library.)
> Book banning seems like a strange red line to have forgotten

Has book banning ever been a red line? Many Western countries, from Canada to France through US and New Zealand have banned many books for most of their existence.
It sounds like you're describing small claims court in the US.

Basically no lawyers, only you and only up to a certain amount (varies by state, usually ~5-10k$).
They're not cheap, but they exist.

https://www.coolmitt.com/
Licensing, regulation, inspections and certifications ; all good things…but also accidents, technology changing before construction is over.
I think you’re focusing on your usecase a bit too much - consider the whole “add ‘reddit’ to your google search for better results” dynamic, and the effect of invested users on it. I totally agree with everything you said tho, just not that /r/popular lurkers interested in 15 minutes of memes are the only users important to their bottom line.

After all, it’s important to remember the network effects that made Reddit big could just as easily make something else big to replace it. And think about how my shitty websites there are for midtier memes, and how they don’t hold a candle to Reddit in terms of size or cultural impact - 9gag, Imgur, and even 4chan immediately come to mind
Not sure why virtue signal is being used ironically? Every political and social group is capable of virtue signaling. Plenty of folks left, right, and center who Virtue Signal their beliefs.

IMO, it's a useless term, since it's essentially saying, "someone did something they didn't genuine believe in", but there's little to no ability to demonstrate someone's actual intent.

Call people hypocrites (if that matters from you) or unauthentic.
To move away from sophistry and towards some concrete understanding, which of the sample books they provided for that blurb would you say is "true negative"? Others which aren't explicitly highlighted would also be acceptable.

- Enough! 20 Protesters Who Changed America

- Gays and Mental Health: Fighting Depression, Saying No to Suicide

- I am Martin Luther King, Jr.

- Peaceful Fights for Equal Rights

- Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
What the attack is measuring is basically the transmission delay to the device and back. The device (or the mobile network operator) doesn't know that delay, so they can't cancel it out. If you add a constant wait time you only accomplish something if the attacker doesn't know about that, otherwise they simply subtract that. And random variance just makes the measurement noisier, send enough SMS and the noise averages out.
Truth. The best thing about the pandemic is that it somehow brought his column to my attention.
Yes and always.

Apart from true medical conditions, I am always a fan of "do it if you can". What better way to advance the species?
And what is the chance _ANY_ of the cash the RIAA or NMPA extracts from Twitter is seen by actual recording artists or songwriters?

Approximately zero.
Not to mention using the % key for jumping to the matching bracket. Or tree-sitter for navigating scopes
Yeah, that was my understanding, and is what I had. Was odd to find I could breath just fine, but couldn't smell coffee.

Had a similar thing happen a year ago, where I couldn't even smell menthol rub. Could breath, just couldn't smell. That time, though, I was testing and never got a positive test. I thought, at the time, the general idea was that loss of smell wasn't a thing, anymore. Maybe not?
Am I evil? Yes I am

Am I evil? I am man, yes I am...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMW0FtvU5iQ
Heaven Is a Social Death Network (2016)
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Same. I'm sure there's claims out there, but they've got to be few, and I wouldn't imagine that all of them have all the same details.
To move fast, use the mouse[1]. Trust me. I've played that game of always trying to find the most efficient way to target something on the screen in Vim. If you haven't already learned about EasyMotion, tried it, and gave it up, you probably haven't tried to perfectly optimize your movement in Vim. It's not a game worth playing. Figuring out how to navigate your screen with the keyboard is a Vim problem: editing text now is something you have to think about, a lot.

[1]There is no conclusive evidence that Vim's motions help you type nor navigate faster
Removed from one percent of middle school libraries (138 out of ~13000 school districts).
> Certainly there is no government which punishes distribution, printing or reading of those books.

Yes, state and municipal level governments have banned books in the US?

Here's a list of some example laws in, e.g., education: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tj5WQVBmB6SQg-zP_M8u...
I'm sorry to hear about that!

I'm not on any Amazon team, but I actually reduced my development efforts on our last startup for these exact reasons.

We had invested 10 years of development time, and millions of dollars into internal software systems that we used to start and grow a 4x Inc 5000 ecommerce business.

A number of our clients and contacts in our network had been inquiring about our systems for years, so we piloted a multi tenant MVP for Fortune 500 type companies with tight ISO requirements to run their own 3rd party FBA operation internally.

We hit a number of unresolved bugs and issues within their api, and found a number of undocumented features.

It got to the point that a number of bugs were blocking our innovation, so we flew out to Seattle to meet with the Seller Api Teams as a final hail mary.

I believe it was at the top of the "closed for private Amazon event" Space Needle that my co-founder and I realized that they really didn't actually care about fixing our issues, and that our destiny would be in their hands if we continued investing into it :(

The startup and app still exists, and it still has daily active users and sign ups... But major innovation has paused for now, and I've put my focus into another idea for now.
In an interview with biologist Richard Lenski (of the famous experiment), the latter discusses controversial research on selecting H5N1 viruses for greater transmissibility and their potential to be airborne viruses that are of public health concern [1]. That was in 2017...

I have no definitive opinion on the origin of Sars-Cov-2 (will we know the truth one day?), but I don't think the lab leak theory is crazy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQr8ldEeO04
Okay, what was the actual uptime? :) (:E)
I've had great luck with nvim-dap and nvim-dap-ui.
> there is no social component required for consciousness

I didn’t suggest that it was required. I think?

> And where exactly are those thoughts occurring?

Idk but they sure never give me a choice in which ones I get! They’re also in English. I wonder what humans “thought” before the invention of language? Grunts? Hollers? Is it any different than w old thinking “bark”?
Ticket closed. Works as designed.
Thank you, I've never seen this before, looks interesting and suit my needs.
Or it could do the opposite. Both Taibbi and Shellenberger are independent investigative journalists with no party loyalties. Their funding comes directly from readers rather than corporations or billionaire owned outlets. They can make a few mistakes from time to time but own up to them. Their opinions are their own, but they rarely report anything not factual.