skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not actually trust them more than an automotive component, I think most accelerator pedals use Hall Effect sensors (usually two of them in the good designs) that are much less likely to wear out and cause spurious inputs or failure than the basic potentiometers on a game console, especially a very cheap one. Get an X-box controller at least, and have a couple spares wired in, in case the wireless one fails.
Internet or some type of electronic identification device will probably be required in the future for insurance, law enforcement or tax collection purposes. It will be embedded in the license plate.
For 5 more tokens (i.e. two space, four space, eight space, etc.), they could have converted up to 32 spaces into log2(N) tokens.

e.g. 31 spaces would be 16 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 5 tokens; 15 spaces would be 8 + 4 + 2 + 1, etc; but for a lot of code the spaces are an even multiple (such as when a tab = 4 spaces or tab = 2 spaces) so even fewer would be required.

If you took all of the Python code and queried how many spaces are used, I would wager most lines have four spaces, a few have eight, and even fewer have more than that.

If the Python code were written with four spaces = tab, then it wouldn't have cost any more tokens than squashing the repeated spaces (since a "four-space" token consumes the same as a "one-space" token).
I certainly wouldn’t HQ an AI company in the EU, or place any significant foreign investment there. The fines for GDPR non-compliance are non-trivial. And you only know if you’re fully complying with the GDPR if you have a legal team that can navigate the ambiguous definitions.

As a U.K. citizen I’m pleased that we have the opportunity to create better technical regulations that bring us closer to the innovation-friendly environment of the US
It may be a matter of explaining it differently. Maybe just the names! But I never "got" MVC, and I got the one way data flow pattern straight away. Maybe I was just old enough to get the point that time around.
You can say things like this all day long, but to people that think logically and not in the "make-up-numbers" accounting world, this is how things like Enron can happen.

In supply-demand situations like houses, the seller can list a price they are okay with receiving. If it has more interested parties, they can make an offer higher than the asking price. When selling a company, there's similar practices of looking at the current annual income, project growth over a few years, and offer a price based on that. Explaining in terms that are logical, non-accountants can keep up. Making comments of "we value at $500, but paid 2x that for goodwill" just makes no sense
I think you're mixing Infocom with some of the much cruder adventure games of the time. Or maybe remembering an unrepresentative Infocom game or part of one.

Not to say Infocom included AI. They just used a lot of talent and playtesting to make games that felt more open-ended.
This post is of not of sufficient quality to be posted on HN. Shameful.
At that point just watch a video, or drive an unmanned submersible.
I do have a soft spot for the very reduced design of that site and the sister site useit.com had in the early 2000s:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010516012145/http://www.nngrou...

https://web.archive.org/web/20050401012658/http://www.useit....

A redesign should not has been as brutalistic, but keeping the same spirit and personality.
> call/cc is a single instruction that is sufficiently expressive to implement e.g. exceptions, coroutines and lots of stuff for which people typically use monad-style embeddings.

The flip side of this is that call/cc prevents you from relying on a stack, except in cases where you can do heavy static analysis. And you virtually never need the full power of call/cc unless you're implementing coroutines.

This is the main reason that so few languages support call/cc: stacks are a nice implementation technique (as opposed to GCed activation records on the heap), and call/cc comes with a heavy price for very situational value.

One alternative are "escape" continuations, which can only be used during the lifetime of the creating block. These are stack friendly.
I understand the sentiment, but I think plenty of people do in fact need to "settle", because they have unrealistic expectations and are very unlikely to get what they want.
> You’re saying that people tear down successful people by saying they’re privileged or have connections (but implying that they’re not successful because of these things and rather because they took a risk), and then immediately say that if it weren’t for the connections, she wouldn’t be successful?

When people say "oh, they're successful because of their connections," they generally don't mean because they went out did a bunch of customer acquisition work, they mean because they have a dad who's a bigwig at Amazon or something.
You mean like the one that's emailed to me every week?

https://hackernewsletter.com
Most server BIOSes have an option for a random delay on power loss recovery to prevent this exact scenario.
Thanks for the feedback. We will try to get some designers to improve the widget gallery examples.
If you're more interested in horizontal scaling, you may want to look into CockroachDB, which has a Postgres compatible protocol, but still quite different. There are a lot more limitations with CDB over Pg though.

With the changes suggested, I'm not sure it's the best idea from where Postgres is... if might be an opportunity to rewrite bits in Rust, but even then, there is a LOT that can go wrong. The use of shared memory is apparently already in place, and the separate process and inter-process communication isn't the most dangerous part... it's the presumption, variables and other contextual bits that are currently process globals that wouldn't be in the "after" version.

The overall surface is just massive... That doesn't even get into plugin compatibility.
The thing is, there's no expensive proceeding happening. There's no "battle". Apple owns two "apple image" trade marks that were formerly logos used by Apple Records (of The Beatles fame). The Swiss government approved one of them and provisionally denied the other, and Apple is appealing that denial. It's normal every day business proceedings trumped up with fear mongering and hypothetical drama to make a story out of nothing.
That is so neat! I never did read the paper itself on trusting trust or whatever it was called, so I always thought this was mainly a theoretical kind of thing. Didn't know that the man actually made a real-life proof-of-concept for that exploit!
I used the head and shoulders knees and toes song to help teach my kids all the main parts in the song. Then I worked on showing them they had two sets of knees.

The low knees were the ones you pat with both hands in that song. (Your ordinary knees.)

Since they knew that song I taught them that they actually had two sets of knees, low knees and high knees (hiney, LOL). When I asked them to pat their knees they would use both hands to pat their (low) knees and then reach up behind and pat their high knees (hineys). The best part was that they would announce which knees they were patting. Pretty funny for me helping my toddlers attain true enlightenment.

I thought it was funny. My wife didn't at first but everyone who knows me understood why it worked out this way.

I kept on the message that they only had 8 fingers too in the hopes that they would argue with their teachers about it and win by showing those teachers that two of those digits are actually thumbs. I made sure they understood that they have 10 digits but only 8 of them are fingers, the other two are thumbs. Ha ha, whose the smartest now, teacher?
Your first observation is very apt. We are competitive with those in our league and not outside.

And your second is a deep cut Europeans aren’t ready to hear if I understand correctly n
Yes and no - it definitely runs and makes a lot of money, but sometimes things mysteriously go wrong and no one quite knows why (service x is running slowly because service y is running slowly because service z is running slowly and no one knows why service z is running slowly), and it's reached a point where most new work is done in yet another microservice, so headcount keeps slowly growing (usually throwing more offshore contractors at it) to deal with the problem.
Yeah, but like you can subscribe to all those communities, you don't have to just pick one, they'll all show up in your feed. Ans eventually some will die off and others will become dominant. That's the circle of life for a Lemmy community.
Yes it's an issue.
Sadly, I can't fix it. I'm using the closed source "text-embedding-ada-002" model from OpenAI.

As I can see, the longer the input, the more accurate the results.
Perhaps you can try something longer, like "What is a design system for UI?"
I'm repelled by "millennials are choosing experiences over things!" which I perceive as disingenuous and/or vapid.

Let people afford a home and family-raising, and without a lifetime of student loan debt required for BS jobs.

And stop trying to twist the forced economic exploitation of us, to sell us your avocado mindfulness spa package, like a gratuitous insult thrown on top of everything else.
> So many people are tied to companies for healthcare...

If the US passed some sort of halfway decent universal healthcare bill, then I would walk of my job that same day.
I think flux/redux is generally cleaner imo. But have had a tendency to think of it that way. MVC usually feels like spaghetti in contrast. And while Redux/Flux takes some mental overhead, I see so many fewer side effects in UIs that use the approach.
True, but the article said they were not importing refined titanium alloys. They were importing ore, specifically rutile, which is what TiO2 pigment is made from.
They may not be a surface directly encoding the "truth" value, but unless we assume that the training data LLMs are trained on are entirely uncorrelated with the truth, there should be a surface that's close enough.

I don't think the assumption that LLM training data is random with respect to truth value is reasonable - people don't write random text for no reason at all. Even if the current training corpus was too noisy for the "truth surface" to become clear - e.g. because it's full of shitposting and people exchanging their misconceptions about things - a better-curated corpus should do the trick.

Also, I don't see how this idea would invalidate the last couple centuries of Western philosophy. The "truth surface", should it exist, would not be following some innate truth property of statements - it would only be reflecting the fact that the statements used in training were positively correlated with truth.

EDIT: And yes, this would be a huge thing - but not because of some fundamental philosophical reasons, but rather because it would be an effective way to pull truths and correlations from aggregated beliefs of large number of people. It's what humans do when they synthesize information, but at a much larger scale, one we can't match mostly because we don't live long enough.
> More people died during the period of time energy prices rose rapidly recently than during the covid pandemic in the UK

Do you have a source for this? I was looking at https://www.statista.com/statistics/1115077/monthly-deaths-i... which made it seem like that wasn't the case. I've seen https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/05/10/expensiv... which shows that more people died from high energy prices than from covid, but only since energy prices went up, not in total.
I’m sorry if I’m just dumb or don’t understand.

This is dns record pointing at an azure resource that’s been removed, and the attacker resolves your entire zone then goes and tries to provision an azure resource with the same public name or IP.

How is this different for any other provider, like Shopify, wordpress, etc?
Plenty of places can do this with essentially zero environmental impact. If it rains a lot and the rain came from ocean evaporation and the natural water route was a big river quickly back to the ocean, you can pretty harmlessly divert a portion through hydroelectric.

Not everywhere is the American west where it doesn’t rain a lot and water sources are being used way past their capacity.
San Francisco Wants to Ticket Robotaxis but Says Its Hands Are Tied
The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI
Raph Levien's Io was along those lines (but conciser). (Different language than a newer now better-known Io.)
Unfortunately Christian Selig, creator of Apollo, doesn't seem very interested in doing this. I guess he just wants to move on to something else entirely.
Do any fediverse clients span both Mastadon style posting & more forum based systems?
In another language I think your proposal could be quite reasonable, but it requires using patterns that aren't common in JavaScript, which would complicate the language more than the alternate proposal.

The biggest problem I see is that to use the feature in a class you'd be forced to define a static factory method to produce the object-disposer tuple. To be effective, a static factory needs to be paired with a private constructor, but JS has no first-class support for those, which means you have to go to contortions with exceptions to make sure people don't accidentally instantiate a non-disposable instance of the class.

The existing proposal uses a well-establish way to interact with language features—the well-known symbol [0]. It's compatible with any way of defining an object, and doesn't require using any particular pattern that may be unnatural for a subset of the community.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
So it’s like “with” in Python
Well you are maybe placing a few bucks in some English person's pocket where there was already money long gone to the Russian economy, and reminder that most people in Russia don't even support the war so it's not like you are making an impact outside of buying an Englishman tea after he already paid a Russian for his... idk what they prefer to drink over there other than Vodka. :P

Even in Russia, it's mostly a cottage industry, they aren't shipping thousand's monthly and definitely are not funding a war machine from that small investment, it also costs them raw resources when they do eventually manufacture. War has a way of getting funding much greater than from it's exports.
Mr Morality: the astonishing mind of Derek Parfit
Scaling Memcache at Facebook (2021)
There is no launch vehicle to design in the ocean.
This is the second “panic, panic, Azure is insecure!” article posted by a green (new) user in a week. [1]

Feels like YCombinator is becoming the new target for Astroturfing now that Reddit is a wasteland of API protests.

[1] the other one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36347915
The professions most likely to be paired up in marriage, and more
7/9 here.
Well there's a thought. A zorklike where the game content is whatever generative ML hallucinates (instead of the built-in fixed maps & interactions) -- as long as a second ML system agrees that the answer follows some more general rules.

For example: Rules say "In the beginning, the Enemy has a diamond. User cannot get the diamond from the Enemy if the Enemy is still alive. The Enemy is a fierce opponent and hard to kill." but nothing about the details of the enemy, shape of the map, or the available tools. Re-generate each response until it succeeds the verification.

Let the adventure be randomized by the hallucinations, while keeping some basic challenges in place.

An acid-tripping D&D dungeon master coming up with plot twists, combined with a rulebook-reading lawyer. Bonus points for adding generated "cut scene" visuals every now and then.
Nice to see a good common sense point of view so aptly summed up. It's very much the same that gets a lot of use around my way with those who spend less time outdoors.

Still one encounters some farmers who believe though there's change, they've been temped by ideas it's all natural and part of large cyclic weather patterns, and or the planet has been undergoing a desertification pattern at least a couple millennia in the making. In my locale I have to give a number of farmers who are sceptics a bit of leeway since their local experience of a couple of scientific studies have been somewhat flawed. (aka bad science mostly from unintentional bias and incorrect extrapolations.)

Recently I talked to one farmer who thought man made climate change was a little bit nonsense ... but is the very one who informed me and one who readily points out the reason some of the coast below me misses out on its usual summer storm rain was due to the large heat bubble over the vast open mining coal pits west of where he had a farm - presently storms from the west hit the bubble and split north and south, where once they used to move west to east unhindered.
Because reactionaries successfully channeled discontent about declining material conditions into a reductive scapegoating of the EU and faced no meaningful opposition from what is now a center-right Labor Party, post Blair.
Hang on, Apple don't calibrate each display individualy. They profile a characteristic display, and then apply that characteristic profile to all of their displays.

If you want a calibrated display you will need to buy some calibration hardware! Displays change over time too...so frequent calibration is needed.

Edit: If you want to prove this to yourself grab the display profile off another mac and compare it. It will be the same.
$LASTJOB had one & only one note - checker as far as I can remember - and it was about wringing out sponges. It was delightfully amazing & over the top. I wish I had a copy of that amazing note. We loved it.

Have a roommate now who I need to start talking to. I've been putting it off for months. It's hard. I've had many roommate conversations & there seems to be such a real chance that it makes things worse. Shitty people tend to get shittier.
No. I actually went and played Zork again to be sure. Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy had me pulling my hair out as a kid. It was definitely Infocom.

I also, as a kid, write a lot of Infocom-style games, so I can appreciate how good of a job they did. but I've also looked at their source code since it has all been released and I wasn't too far behind them.
Boss: We "can't afford" free snacks in the break room anymore.

Also Boss: How come none of you come into the office anymore?
MVC is one-way. Some people think MVC is two-way data binding. That's MVVC actually.
For the same reason you probably want your domain registrar to prevent the registration of РayРal.com even though the SSL certificate would surely indicate that it was a russian scam site rather than the barely better american business.
> I personally think siring a child at ~50 is fine but only if you think you'd be a better parent.

I think most people would be far better parents if they waited until at least around 30. At 50, I think their only problems would be their health and lifespan, which is not as big of a deal in my opinion. If you know what you're doing as a parent and have your finances straight, your kids don't really need you after graduating from college anyway.
What did Brexit do to the UK, and why is the rest of Europe nearly as bad off?
> I think it is trivially obvious that civilization has decayed since their use became popular and widespread.

I mean, the public has been exposed to a number of other mass psychological experiments in the time frame I think the author is referencing, social media and its hooks into our reward centres being the most notable for being both more pervasive and more ingrained into day-to-day life

I'm not saying the author is wrong on all accounts (though I also think psychedelics such as MDMA and Ketamine have shown much more promise for PTSD and depression than the other pharmaceutical treatments for those disorders which were integrated into the social fabric for decades before psychedelics became "popular")

But the suggestion that the decay of civilization has been caused by the uptick in availability of psychedelic treatments has as much evidence as "wet streets cause rain" or "economic growth causes traffic congestion"
Steve Jobs was indeed a programmer at one point in his early career, working for Atari. But of course what he became known for was being the product/sales/vision guy.
The tyranny of the rocket equation. Or simply put you don't have to carry fuel to carry fuel to carry fuel to get you to the bottom of the ocean. Simply carrying some ballast will do just fine.

The pressure hull isn't the major engineering challenge in getting to space.
Apollo can be quality content with dedicated users, and Reddit can be for the masses.
MVVM uses two-way data binding. By now it is widely acknowledged that one-way data binding is better.
Is it normal for loans to be wiped clean in a bank failure?
I'd like to work on one that maybe uses ai/ml to basically learn the stuff that I'm interested in, and then rank it by most interesting - again based on previous interests. Essentially clone myself on the app, and then only see the stuff that is probably worth seeing the most.
Their AWS deal in 2020 probably isn’t helping, nor the GCP deal in 2018. I shudder to think what their hosting costs must be. Apparently GCP is 200M/yr alone.
Colorado River deal forever changes the price of water in the West
That’s sounds crazy complicated. In engineering is it like software design where you can get very far just being bad? Like do companies hire just crap engineers who don’t know all this stuff and call it a day? (Kind of like hiring offshore to build mvp for cheapiest crappiest quality possible)
Indeed you did; half of my brain capacity is currently being used by a background process sifting through everything I remember ever thinking or learning that's associated with computers, to re-evaluate it in context of the difference between "users" and "operators".

Seriously. Until your comment, I thought the two terms to be synonyms.
Hard disagree. If anything you'll find that the most knowledgeable members get burned out answering the same questions over and over again, so they begin to simplify their answers until they just become copy pasta.

You can still have channels open to welcoming new people while at the same time having a large archive of answered questions so that over time a reservoir gets built.

Saying that the same questions getting asked over and over again by new people is somehow a more welcoming community, is like saying that there's any meaningful interaction happening when two people say "What's up?" followed by the response "not much". It's a handshake protocol equivalent without actual depth.
RCTs were not required and were rarely performed prior to 1962, and yet that period from roughly 1940 to 1960 is still today widely known as "the Golden Age of drug development." How did they know, back then, that new drugs work? Simple: They have sufficiently powerful (in a statistical sense) effects in a patient population. Very powerful effects require a very small population -- this applies to ALL drugs that are curative -- whereas moderate effects would require a large population. Reasonably sized safety trials and extensive postmarketing surveillance are entirely sufficient.

> How would you weed out the snake oil?

The current paradigm is "better 10,000 people die of neglect than 1 person die of snake oil or quackery." I'm okay with a little bit of snake oil if it means that more drugs are being introduced more quickly, and I trust practitioners and patients to, more often than not, determine the therapeutic regimens that are right for them.
Idk Apple history all that much but, this 1997 article in NYT also refers to Mr. Markkula as a co-founder so at least it is not the first time that someone calls him that.

> Armas Clifford (Mike) Markkula Jr., the third and perhaps least understood co-founder of Apple Computer Inc.

https://archive.is/jazes

(Also, it's funny how 1997 is actually closer to 1977 than it is to our current year of 2023..)