skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The playground summarizes it as this via GPT-4:

Prompt:

Please summarize the following book found on Project Gutenberg

The Ruby of Kishmoor

Response:

"The Ruby of Kishmoor" is a short adventure story written by Howard Pyle. The narrative revolves around the life of Jonathan Rugg, a young man who is enticed by a mysterious stranger to come to the Caribbean to secure a valuable relic, the Ruby of Kishmoor.

Once Jonathan reaches the Caribbean, he learns of the ruby's grave curse. Despite this, his innate curiosity and the prospect of considerable wealth drive him to risk his life and go after the highly prized gem. After facing a slew of challenges and trials, he surprisingly stumbles upon the ruby through sheer luck rather than organized search efforts.

In the course of his journey, Jonathan delves into the depths of human greed and the lengths to which individuals go for materialistic gains. The story encapsulates an amalgamation of high-tide adventures, brushes with supernatural elements, noteworthy instances of bravery, and deep moral reflections, demanding readers to rethink about the real value of materialistic pursuits.

Jonathan finally manages to escape with the ruby but at great personal cost. The story ends on a sobering note, making readers wonder if the adventures and trials were worth the prize, thus engaging them in a discourse about the true value of life and material pursuits.
Who said kids?
The mention of Voxer is interesting.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/22/meta-pay-walkie-talkie-app...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-loses-bid-toss-175-m...
Maybe they are shooting a 5D III instead of a R5, but it’s a once-flagship, not a Rebel.

Anyway, I don’t want to over generalize about a profession I’m not in, so I’m stopping at that. The point is how the purchasing decisions differ when the equipment is a capital asset or pure cost.
Works fine in Firefox for Android.
For me, tools capture the experience of someone else in a way that typically expands my own skills. They include little features/details that I wouldn't think of on my own. That's particularly true with software tools where non-obvious edge cases are abundant.

I want tools that carry mental load for me, so I can focus on delivering maximum value.
Why not both? I've been using vim for ages and I'm very "masterful" with it, but at the same time I try to look for tools to solve unsolved problems I deal with.

It's true that novelty doesn't generally deliver actual results but it's also my job to automate everything that can be automated.
Gaming is a pretty popular activity on the iPad.
This was always obvious, it's just always the case.

The middle class is governments tax cash cow.

Expanding it by bringing up the poorest is great, but once you see it's just to make that cash cow juicier it can leave you very cynical.
> If you use the app in public transport, you would get a warning every day.

Wasn't really the case for me going to work, but maybe that's because of keeping a bit of distance, which might just be possible due to the lower population density over and eventually a gradual shift to remote work.

> What were you supposed to do with that information then? Most people just ignored it.

There definitely were people who got the notifications and self-isolated for a while, to not end up spreading the virus and probably take a test ASAP.

If enough people used it, it could help quite a bit with limiting the spread. It did have some effect from what I've heard, which is still good, when doing nothing would result in more deaths. Thankfully eventually the virus variants got less dangerous, but it's sad when a good initiative ends up being less useful due to people just not caring.
Because I need the Settings app to work. I’m not choosing burger toppings, I’m often in there to troubleshoot. I can’t have an app that straight up lies to me about my network or refuses to respond to button presses I know it saw (WiFi “Details…” button won’t show anything if you’ve already pressed it and closed it that session, have to quit and relaunch).

SwiftUIs text rendering also looks like ass, but that also could be the result of the choice of grey on grey the design B-team in charge of the redesign chose for text boxes.

I do agree though that the Home app is far worse. It sucks on iOS and they just copy pasted it over, and that UI with a mouse cursor is just painful and ugly. Unredeemable software.
Back in the 80s I moved from Queen Elizabeth College (part of University of London) which had just bought a couple of VAXen, which i thought were very smart, to Middlesex Polytechnic in north London who had a DecSystem10 running TOPS-10. It was horrible.We never ran ITS, maybe we should have.
I’m also a “full-stack” web developer and would love to transfer to a career in C (or Rust also?). There’s such a wide variety of interesting problems to be solved over many applications.

I’m not sure how I would begin making a career transfer. Would anyone happen to have any advice / experience on this? I would be really grateful!

(based in UK if that helps)
Because I've ended up using it in almost every project I'm involved in. By all rights, m4 should not be a good tool for anything. It has no type system, no syntax checking, no debugger, no namespaces, no real notion of atomic literals. But, it just kind of works for a bunch of situations. Basically any text based format you have can utilize m4 as a pre-processor.

Typically it comes up during integration work, where I am dealing with various technologies from various vendors for various clients in a single project. M4 ends up being a glue language for "compiling" configuration files. Where possible I prefer to use a more proper templating engine like python mako, but those are not always a good fit.

I've also used M4 as a way of implementing DSLs, which is great as long as you are fine with your DSL inheriting all of m4's problems. I've also used it to help write bindings and other highly repetitive files.
Did you actually make the landing site using your own tool?
You should create a role, not a user IMO. Also how do you manage that role/user? Via terraform?
This has been mostly missed by reviewers and pundits. They’ve presented a primarily sitting/static experience; the battery is for when you need to walk around between sedentary moments. In that context 2 hrs is going to be (mostly) plenty
This is cool, but it's worth noting that depending on how network-heavy the app in question is it may not be advisable to build the networking portion of an app as part of the shared core.

The reason for this is because iOS has a multitude of device specific optimizations built into the native networking stack to my knowledge is opted out of with the usage of cross platform networking. This includes features coalescence of calls across apps to occur when the antenna is already awake (to save power) and transparent management of multi-connection situations (e.g. when the phone has both wifi and cell available). The result is more power used and less fluidity in some situations.

I don't think this is as much of an issue on Android where third party networking libs like OkHTTP are the norm anyway.

With this in mind I believe the best functionality to put in a shared core is generic common logic which does not have platform optimizations.
It has everything to do. Sites without JavaScript load fast unless you really screw something up.
PRC restricts the right to travel of its own citizens; seems utterly unsurprising they'd give North Koreans even less.

China has a vested interest in NK remaining a viable country; again, seems unsurprising that they'd do this.

"Should" is aspirational. I agree with you in what China should be doing, but of course they won't.
If it isn’t clear, you and the person you’re replying to both suggested buying a guitar around $200. I think they were talking about all the cases of people buying a $2,000 guitar.
> It’s also a fallacy to believe the sun will rise tomorrow.

No brother, it's science, and frankly that you believe this is not surprising to me at all.
It’s actually much easier to remotely pilot a drone than a car for a few reasons:

- Cars operate very close to obstacles, at any given time, you are only seconds from hitting something. This means you need extremely high reliability and low latency. Planes have a lot more time to recover from communication loss before hitting the ground.

- Planes can circle in the air safely if they lose communications. Cars have to stop and then block traffic.

- In the air there are no buildings, mountains, tunnels, etc to block signal.

- The military has resources to set up and fully control its own communications system. Rolling out such a system on all public roads would be a huge undertaking. Existing networks (LTE) are not designed for remote vehicle operation.

So basically, while you CAN drive a car over LTE, there are a ton of edge cases that make it pretty unsafe. As mentioned above, these companies do have remote operators to unstuck cars, but they don’t drive them directly.
That first paragraph hits the nail on the head for me, perfect definition of elitism.
I get this feeling there’s a perceived opportunity of perpetual innovation in social media space. I don’t want to say “everything that can be invented has already been invented”. But I don’t think that underlying technology and society has changed so much there’s going to be a thing that’s going to rival twitter or fb in the next couple years.
Just to clarify my point I’m not condoning this at all, but the telcos themselves have been selling live location data of their subscribers to aggregator services for years.

It’s really infuriating to me that people say Google or Facebook are “selling their data” (they’re not, they hoard data and sell targeted ads) when Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T literally sell your live, personally identifiable, non-aggregated, location data to third parties, hiding behind their subscriber agreement legalese.
Something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYxPO-bfbOk (https://www.immersionanalytics.com/) would absolutely be possible with Apple's support for 3D objects. I hope that Apple doesn't neglect the analytics/visualization use case for launch; it could be gamechanging for their go-to-market strategy, as it would find its way into many corporate budgets.
Getty Images also filed an AI lawsuit, alleging that Stability AI ...

lol, bad karma? So it is okay for Getty to steal from others, but not ok for others to steal from them? I don't have a dog in this fight, but the goddamn the hypocrisy of these companies...
Though most “real” computers were quite expensive by todays standards at the time. The editor in chief of PC Magazine coined Machrones Law—the computer you want always costs $5000 dollars and that I held pretty well for a long time.
Harvard is prestigious not from the education but the research, and alumnus network. Tuition is them selling access to both, and the endowment is to fund research projects.
But at a higher, more reasonable limit a tiny change is much less likely to push you over the line.

Also remember it's not the size of the dependency that matters it's the size of the portions of the dependency used less any cross-crate optimizations. So you're always going to have to be careful and test regularly.
I am very glad they are not.
> If you had $10B+ wouldn't it be somewhat tempting to instead of donating to an existing university, just make your own?

Like Trump University?
Yeah hers was very high. This was 20+ years ago.

My cousins got in to Harvard and Yale. They had a portfolio of extracurriculars, service, etc.

The issue with SAT is that it correlates to IQ, and its been rules in courts that there are racial differences in performance that are problematic. Civil service exams have been similarly impacted - if there are exams, they are trivia and grammar questions.
It's not about the plants being able to retool. It's about which manufacturers are specifically UAW unionized.

If a UAW plant making <whatever> shuts down and is bought by Tesla or Toyota and starts making Teslas or Toyotas, they're not being made by UAW workers (nor any union autoworker).

Even if the plant is making gas F-150s and retools to make a Ford BEV, there's no assurance that Ford will sell the same number or same profitability of that BEV than they did of the F-150. If they sell way fewer BEVs than they used to sell F150s, that also hurts UAW workers (though not as much as the UAW plant closing entirely).

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2023...

(I'm not taking the UAW's side here; I am merely explaining why the union is making the argument they're being paid to make.)
I do think they have less of a monopoly on prestigious education than they used to. Not that they are not considered prestigious, but compared to 100 years ago, the Ivy League isn’t the only place that produces prestigious grads, especially in STEM (they do retain more importance in traditional “elite” occupations like politics and law). Some of that is just population growth, but I think some is genuinely filling niches that the Ivy League didn’t serve well, like engineering education.

Places I think of as “new generation” prestigious universities include: Berkeley, UT-Austin, Georgia Tech, MIT, CMU, UIUC, Caltech, U. Michigan, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, UW-Madison, UCSD, etc. (Most of those places existed 100 years ago, but weren’t considered top-tier like they are now.) One thing that’s notable is that a number of these are public flagship institutions.
Accessibility considerations behind code search and code view
I've known multiple people, and attended with one, who walked in, picked up the watch, and left in a few minutes total. That's also how I bought a laptop once (the rest online).

Apple stores are often willing to spend enormous amounts of time with you if you ask for help, but I've never seen them stay in your way when you say "no" and that you're ready to pay and leave.

(Obviously it can happen, but they're some of the most-standardized tech stores out there. If it were A Thing™, it would be everywhere.)
It would be interesting if they tried to further emulate the famous behavior of luxury brands like Rolex, which may not deign to sell you anything if you just ask. Just recreate that aura for the mass consumer.
Actually you would be interesting for VCs if you started compounded from a reasonable start like $1m/year. Doubling for five years would get you to $32m/year, and 10 years to 1b/year, leading to a $10b valuation.

One common benchmark for startups at the $1m/year stage is T2D3 (triple, triple, double, double, double).
‘Sound of Freedom’ Is a Superhero Movie for Dads with Brainworms
Even more insulting are the telephone chatbots calling me to sell things while pretending to be government workers. A couple of cases lately.
The "this will require violence" argument makes no sense. If you live in the US, everything you have is the end result of some horrific violence. Inferring a need for violence to achieve some ideal is a completely useless analysis.
I normally order online for collection and have never had an issue there - most I've waited for collection is about 5 minutes during peak times when the store was absolutely rammed with people (Oxford Street, London, a Friday lunchtime.)

But I did once visit a store with someone wanting to buy a Watch and there was no forced sitting through any fitting or explanations. Just some questions about which Watch, if they already had a phone to connect it to, etc., and we were in and out of the store in under 20 minutes (Covent Garden, London, a Saturday afternoon, which is reasonably but not terrifyingly busy.)

++anecdata
The remedies under Title 17 are an injunction against further distribution, disgorgement or statutory damages, and potentially attorneys fees. The injunction part is why these cases usually settle if the defendant is actually in the wrong.
If book reviews and summaries were part of the training set, wouldn't that imply that OpenAI's LLM is more like a search engine in that it produces the input text based on a prompt?
Right so you are judging words over action. Exactly my point.

Google example, clearly Page and Brin knew, and thought it was ok. Just caved to company pressure.

Apple don’t talk about it, but clearly think it.

Musks suggestion (after being directly asked) on Taiwan was: a SER type setup more lenient than HK. I don’t agree with his assessment. But id hardly call it advocating, he is asked constantly every single interview. No one asks these other CEOs.
Favored labor? Probably not out right. But labor certainly fared better when unions were stronger and had more members.

Yes, companies have been winning. But the sociological friction is adding up. They'd be wise to adjust their game plan (i.e., be less greedy). We'll see.
For the love of God, do not use MediatR. Especially in scenarios Channels are designed for. It is mentally confusing and bloated abstraction, in most places simply resulting in more code achieving the same result at 0.25x(best case) speed.
One of many sources: https://www.fiercewireless.com/regulatory/t-mobile-to-fight-...

Just google it, more examples are easy to find.
Right, but that's useless without knowing how much (if any!) of it is actually correct. Is this completely hallucinated garbage?
Beginners obsess over tools, intermediates obsess over mastery, seniors don't obsess.
And a way to make their own participation seem somehow grander (and not like 99% of the site was utterly toxic 140-character pissing matches and bad faith posturing).
A short while ago I wrote an AGPL-like license for model weights: https://freedevproject.org/faipl-1.0

I'm still suspecting that model weights aren't copyrightable, though.
15 years ago, solar and wind looked stupid expensive compared to fossil fuels.
It's all solvable, but it isn't trivial (for me). Every little thing requires a bunch of googling, evaluating, and setup. For example, I'd have to decide what kind of network picker I prefer, which isn't a choice I ever want to have to make: https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/ck66cz/question_how...
> I'd love to code up a machine learning project that showed the user many color combinations

That would be fine, so long as you don't use an RGB display to display those colors.

The RGB color space is severely limited when compared to the colors a person can see. This becomes obvious as one plots color spaces on a CIE 1931 diagram.

Here's a simple tool to see some of this (recommendation: move "system gamut contrast" slider to 50%). Select a working color space from the pulldown to see how much of the visible range it encloses (or discards).

https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/CIEChromaticityDiagram/

A typical REC709 color space throws away over half the colors a person can see. In other words, as I said, using a monitor to run color experiments can be a serious mistake. Color Science can be strangely complex.

There is a company trying to push the envelope in display technology and encourage industry to move primaries beyond RGB. The results, based on prototypes, can be impressive:

https://6pcolor.com/

Disclosure: We have done color science, software and hardware consulting for 6P.
Your example is not thread safe because the GIL does not protect critical sections like that. The GIL only protects the Python internal interpreter state. PyList_SetItem discards a reference to the item being replaced. If the ref count of the item becomes zero, the item's destructor is run. The destructor can release the GIL.

IOW, your example is not much different than the equivalent Python code:

if len(lst) >= 3:
lst[0] = "..."
lst[1] = "..."
lst[2] = "..."

You'd never expect that to be thread safe either without using something like a threading.RLock() around it.

Let's look at the interpreter code:

1. PyList_SetItem calls Py_XSETREF(dst, src) where dst is the list position:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/ee46cb6aa959d891b0a48...

2. Py_XSETREF calls Py_XDECREF on the old item:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/ca8b55c7f54b38e264056...

3. Py_XDECREF calls Py_DECREF on non-Null objects:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Include/object.h...

4. Py_DECREF can cause arbitrary code to run:

Warning: The deallocation function can cause arbitrary Python code to be invoked (e.g. when a class instance with a __del__() method is deallocated).

https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/refcounting.html#c.Py_DECREF

This is backed up by the documentation for PyList_SetItem:

This function “steals” a reference to item and discards a reference to an item already in the list at the affected position.

https://docs.python.org/3.8/c-api/list.html#c.PyList_SetItem

The "Defining Extension Types: Tutorial" also includes this warning in an example that uses Py_XDECREF:

But this would be risky. Our type doesn’t restrict the type of the first member, so it could be any kind of object. It could have a destructor that causes code to be executed that tries to access the first member; or that destructor could release the Global interpreter Lock and let arbitrary code run in other threads that accesses and modifies our object.

https://docs.python.org/3/extending/newtypes_tutorial.html#a...
Unless OpenAI can prove that the outputs are derived from legally vs illegally-obtained outputs, not sure that’s going to matter. And as far as I understand about their models, that’s effectively impossible.
One of the explicit dynamics to 'diversity as a target' is exposing talented rich kids to poor minorities that are more likely to fail (non-meritorious selection) and then allow them to network with rich influential families (legacy admissions). This is part of the reason why ivy leagues can produce greats. Or do you really think the professors are just that much better at teaching the same material that every other college has?

some ivy's post their lectures for free online. There's a reason that doesn't produce greats either.
this is the web version, readonly
> This case is probably dead in the water.

Is that a fact? I’m no lawyer, but if they can get it in front of a jurry is it impossible that they will find a human author more relatable and the technical counter arguments goblydook?
After 5 years in Europe, I've learned the secrets to a long, happy life [video]
I dropped my NY Times subscription about 3 years back, also in preference to WashPo. Haven't looked back, still pay for the NYT Crossword app.
The best way to do it (if you can) is to get paid for making the change.

First, study C and/or Rust on your own. Maybe do a personal project or two.

Second, find something at work where Rust or C would bring some benefits. Tell your boss that you think this would work better in a language like Rust or C, and explain why. Volunteer to try to do it. (Note: Appearing too eager at this point might be a mistake.)

Do the second step a few times and you become the Rust/C expert. And you get paid as you do the work that helps you get better!
Wasn't the conclusion in the Toyota case that the ECU was so complex that it could not be ruled out that the unintended acceleration was a software bug? I thought they found possible scenarios where unintended acceleration would result.
Ah - it's more that you wouldn't typically need to run multiple threads in the same process to handle concurrent requests. For instance, gunicorn used with gevent workers will typically fork processes to ensure all cores are used, but wouldn't require multiple threads per process - gevent would handle concurrency on a single OS thread within each process.