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> The C++ standard library already exposes a std::optional type. Does this stx::Option type differ from that one?

std::optional is a stack pointer, like other C++ pointers you can straight up deref’ it and get an UB.

It looks like stx::Option is an actually option type, it focuses on safety and will throw if “unsafe” methods are called on the wrong state. It also provides a slew of monadic operators to operate over values.
Cute admission...

You seem to be torn between open discussion (do EV's have negative effects?) and ideological purity (EV's must be only prestented as positive regardless of facts).

You know what you should be thinking (adhere to the Party line) and you are afraid that taking part in free discussion might lead you to conclusions that are at odds.... So you would rather self-censor your thoughts and avoid any discussion.

Welcome to 1984...
It doesn't. Most people I know didn't have plans to ski jump when they are old because they know some physics and have been in the world more than 5 minutes.
Why This NASA Battery May Be the Future of Energy Storage [video]
I agree they don't have to be, but a sense of authenticity of location can really add to the atmosphere of a novel. For example, in "Mrs Dalloway", you can literally retrace the steps of Mrs Dalloway through St James' park and St James' and on to Bloomsbury. The descriptions are incredibly precise and totally accurate. Likewise people walk through Dublin visiting the exact scenes depicted in "Ulysses".

Another example (slightly obscure) from London is "The Book of Dave" by Will Self, which is partly set in a post-apocalyptic future. The geography is very thoughtfully handled, but in this future the Thames has flooded and lots of London is underwater. Part of the fun is figuring out which bits of present London they are referring to when they talk about landmarks etc which survive[1].

Now it's fair to say all those examples are shooting a lot higher-brow than Dan Brown, but another example more similar in genre aesthetic to Dan Brown would be John LeCarre's "Smiley" novels (eg "The spy who came in from the cold" etc). To the extent I know the locations in the ones I have read, they seem to me very authentically described, which greatly enhances my sense of immersion in the atmosphere.

[1] eg "centrul stack" I'm pretty sure is the wreck of the Centerpoint Building, now an empty shell filled with seabirds.
That’s a lot of change in a year for a big tech firm.
Santa Clara county, one of the wealthiest locations in California, has only 211 inpatient psychiatric care beds. Soon, the number will be reduced to 193. Based on population, it should have 960 beds{1]. Is it really any wonder that the current system doesn’t work all that well?

1. https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/02/this-should-be-a-wake...
My discord handle used to be keeb#1337 as an homage to this era..it was a big part of my life.

Now it's just keeb
I am very serious, I too can't shake the idea that you don't get this is a choice. If you choose this, you prepare for it or you have accepted this future. I am not suggesting this as punishment but as an option to existing punishment, to being thrown into jails and asylums. Would you not prefer to be allowed to live in a forest or some set aside survivable place than rot in an institution? I am even all for basic survival training if people choose it.

America was built by people that kept migrating to the west to live out their ways or as punishment. Same with australia. The only thing new in my suggestion is having it be a consensual option.
Yeah, I second this. If anything, the process in the video is painfully under-optimized. It's not that hard to get to the point where you have a few machines in a lights out warehouse with a skeleton staff somewhere spitting these things out like a machine gun.

I am curious what this legendary machined part referring to is though....?
> we just might be able to do both things

Yes. But there is no easy solution. History shows that anything that involves locking up people because they might commit a crime will result in innocent people being locked up and abused.
The root cause is, I think, inequality. See, for example, https://equalitytrust.org.uk/health

"A much higher percentage of the population suffer from mental illness in more unequal countries; differences in inequality tally with more than triple the differences in the percentage of people with mental illness in different countries.

Rates of depression in US states are associated with income inequality (after adjusting for income, proportion of population with a college degree and proportion over 65). The more unequal the state, the higher the prevalence of depression."
I as well, my only gripes with it is there is no firefox persona or some sort of oauth, one of which anybody could contribute to the project without having to sign up. That way everything would be distributed and also easy to contribute and use.
> But honestly, there's a lot of people still out there that think differently. And in some ways, they're gaining influence and power.

They're gaining influence and power, in large part, because the people who would oppose them are advocating things like letting the mentally ill live in tents on the street and do whatever they want. People rightly see that this policy produces bad results and don't support the people who advocate for the bad policy. Unfortunately, that leaves only one other choice in our two party system.

The solution is to stop supporting bad policies, and advocate for better ones instead, that fix known problems while also working to preserve peoples' rights.
If you need to issue charge backs you shouldn't be using them. Painful lesson but call the restaurant. Call a cab. Go to the store yourself. Your modern society is a wasteland to be avoided.
Oh, what did they say?
You're talking about people who work -- the homeless, well, the chronically homeless, are people who don't work.
As someone who used Mercurial for many years when I worked at a company that used because they used BitBucket, you are overblowing the situation.

The CTO was very vocal about how Mercurial was better, but all the use cases he toted weren't really that meaningful. Eventually when BitBucket removed Mercurial support we switched to git. I'd used git previously and hadn't really understood the advantages of hg, and after we switched to git there was no difference in productivity.

Mercurial wasn't better, it's just slightly different enough to have a holy war over.
In the linux and mac console (via brew) there is also swaks - a simple tool for sending e-mails.

echo "mail body" | swaks -t mail@to -s server -tls -a LOGIN -au mail_login -ap password --from from@mail --h-Subject subject --body -

and mail is send ;-)
You still need only one that didn’t pick up enough real medicine to cause blindness, stroke and/or hemi-paresis.

We have qualifications for a reason.
Hell no and yes.

Asylums in the post were often horrid places of torture and
severe lack of productive treatment.
(Here I define productive treatment, as treatment tailored
for the patient with an aim of improving their quality fo life
and their ability to cope. It might very well not be able to
make the patient able to function in society but it can help
give them a better life)

We have this in a different form now in prisons.
Due to lack of universal healthcare and for-profit prisons
and "what the hell todo"

Prisons are today's asylums, and it has a
severe lack of productive treatment.

Good, appropriate care in a safe environment, for both the patient,
health workers and society.
This works for the majority of cases.

Then you have a small group of patients who are downright dangerous
for all. They can either be kept in a mental health hospital and
drugged into a calmer state (not ideal), or be kept in prison or
prison like surroundings (not ideal). For them we do not yet
have an ideal model of treatment that does not impose a severe
treath to personell.
Doesn't really sound that convincing. Needs moar LLM sauce to make it bullshit better.
Author of Pydantic here, very sorry you've had problems migrating. We were very aware this was going to cause problems, and have done our best to make migrating easier. I truly believe that v2 will be a big improvement.

I think there are two things going on:

1. Python: Python's laxness doesn't make it easy to define strict APIs or know when you're breaking them. The lack of export controls also means defining what's in the API and what's not is hard. Also Python's strong introspection makes it possible to do crazy things further blurring the API boundary.

2. The ecosystem: with pydantic as an example - the library has grown enormously, more than I ever imagined from an experiment in a file in another project to a major library used by thousands of millions of developers, for a very wise range of applications. I never imagined that happening, do I didn't think all that hard about the interface at the beginning, or even at the v1 release. I also knew much less back then.

I'm not sure this kind of growth is very common in other languages except JavaScript.

(Written on my phone, sorry for typos)
How well does ChatGPT operate a lathe? Construct a mold that produces a plastic cast not prone to defects? Tweak a process that suddenly started to produce too much defective output to avoid defects?

Possibly the current approaches to AI can be used in these areas. But I'm afraid we're very much not there yet.
Open source and Design collaboration made easy
It's ~7500px X 4500px.

I don't think it was designed to be viewed on a 1080 screen.
>People here are advocating that the government should have the ability to forcibly commit someone to an asylum.

The state already has the ability to forcibly confine people. We just think that some people would do better in a hospital than a prison.
Come on, isn’t that kind of an argument from the 90ies, when disk space was scarce, and internet connections slow?

I mean like, I have space for millions of kitchen sinks now. Considering that, I kind of refuse to accept that out of all things, bundle size is a valid distinction criterion for VCS‘es.
Yesterday I spoke to a couple, they were having second thoughts about their holiday because there was no mobile internet and no wifi and they booked a week. At first I though their kids (11 and 16) were complaining (couldn't imagine otherwise), but no, it was the 40 y/o parents.

That's what addiction looks like to me, my wife and me were pretty shocked.
I appreciate the detail in your reply. Do you think the recent Warhol "Orange Prince" case[1] gives an inkling into possible future court treatment of the question of "transformative" use for generative AI models? There Warhol's silk screen print of the original Prince photo was deemed not transformative enough as I understand it. One of things about the stochastic nature of generative AI is can be rather hard to notice when the model spits out something very close to the training material.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/may/18/andy-wa...
A History of Neural Networks
I'll assert that, in the current economic environment, you can't staff it even if you reasonably fund it. i.e. you will not find enough applicants who will stick with the job even at insane and unsustainable wages.
> My understanding is that some fairly large and prominent companies (think Fortune 100) keep multiple chiropractors

If their employees want that service mostly, they give them that service. The same way insurance will often include it, even though it is useless. If people are willing to pay for it, they won’t turn down good money.
It's also not replicable.

(A Universe may violate baryon number conservation once, as a treat.)
Our intellectual curiosity is a very powerful thing and with great power comes great responsibility.

If anything is applied it becomes a defining ingredient of our society. Products we buy and services we use partially define who we are both personally and collectively.

To me that means that before you create a product or service, before you unleash the curiosity, you might as well ask yourself what kind of people you want to create.

Forget tinkering with whatever random thing is thrown in front of you. Put them all in a bag, carry it around and carefully examine some when you have the time.

There has to be something in the bag that modifies the humans in your preferred way.

What is wrong with people? What is their problem? You decide!
This is potentially a false equivalency. If storing passwords in a notebook is a common enough pattern, they become something a thief might start looking for. I don’t have the statistics, but would imagine that since “junkies” skew younger as a demographic, a good portion of them is computer literate (or knows someone who would be interested in buying accounts).
I tend to think of the mono spaced type on editors as the modern equivalent. I have a single page of green and white line printer paper somewhere, and a punched card I think.
Even simpler in some cases, git and openssh were already installed.
I'm not demanding perfection. I'm literally just asking "what would be different this time", and the only answer I'm getting is "we know better this time around".

Seriously: the reason asylums were so prone to abuse in the past was not because the people running them didn't know better.
Why can't you teach a language to a native proficiency in a year?

There's quite a lot to know, and the speed of learning is limited. Answers to advanced questions which you are ready to provide must be met by the actual questions from the student, which must first form in their head as a result of processing the previous servings of knowledge.
Same for me with learning new language (french) after long day at work... theoretically it should be fine and I know I should do it, but often the motivation is not there anymore at the end of the day, and you need some semi-constant momentum to get anywhere in these sustained efforts.

And once you get kids, they are more effective than black holes with sucking out any time you could have for yourself. Its well spent time, don't get me wrong, most probably the best way to spend it for a parent, but personal efforts suffer correspondingly. And next day is not gonna be different. Same for weekends and holidays. All year, every year.
"A much higher percentage of the population suffer from mental illness in more unequal countries; differences in inequality tally with more than triple the differences in the percentage of people with mental illness in different countries.

Rates of depression in US states are associated with income inequality (after adjusting for income, proportion of population with a college degree and proportion over 65). The more unequal the state, the higher the prevalence of depression."

(https://equalitytrust.org.uk/health)

If you want to actually address the problem you'd look at inequality, and all the many problems that stem from it. But this is the WSJ, so I guess they prefer to throw poor people into jail, err, asylums, when they been broken by the current system and have no economic value.
> it also speeds up load time if your executable doesn't have to load a huge memory image when it starts up

I'm not sure about Windows and Mac, but Linux uses "demand paging" and only loads the used pages of the executable as needed. It doesn't load the entire executable on startup
This does a very good job with everything from GPT afaik, better than the official one: https://openai-openai-detector--f4d78.hf.space

But as we have more non-GPT LLMs, we'll probably need more detectors.
>a place to lock away people who are too expensive or are otherwise uneconomical to treat

Asylums are where people are treated, as opposed to the streets where they're a threat to themselves and everyone around them.
I remember reading on HN, on more than one occasion, that the unit cost of production of lab grown meat is always going to be very high.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621288
Watching large corporations deliberately trip themselves up is great entertainment. I bet they have loads of internal meetings where they constantly refer to themselves as innovative.
Ha. Old Prof. in my department - primary research on silica is a real stickler for the differentiation of these. Loves berating unsuspecting undergrads that talk of silicone.
My first MP3 player had everything I needed
Did Trump do it? Is Ron worse than Trump?
The way its portrayed, Apple constantly comes out like the most powerless $trillion company. Its always, oh the government is gonna veto this or make Apple do that.

How is that never the case when it comes to money or taxes or labor issues or any number of other things they have remarkable control over, but whenever its something good that helps or is valuable to the regular individual they are so impotent or the result is so arbitrarily contingent?

The government is making us take this off the App Store and since we're the only app store, unfortunately this will be the end of whatever for you. Gosh, we're so sad the government will make us do this and we have like zero access to courts or lobbying agencies or god forbid we engage in any dirty tricks like we do everywhere else like everyone else.
For what it’s worth, on windows without wsl you literally have to bring half of a whole unix with you to run git.
I don’t think Twitter has even 1/100th of the potential Tesla had. It’s a different ball game.
Ultimately he didn’t want to buy Twitter, he was forced to resulting from his own incompetence and hubris.
We are probably seeing the end of the Ad funded Content Creation golden age (or spam age depending on your perspective).

The low interest rate/cheap funding regime allowed everyone to get broadcast tech for free. As cheap funds to keep everything afloat dries up, we realize the Actual value of everyones content is quite low.

So now we see all the content based platforms from youtube/netflix/snap/reddit/spotify/fb(layoffs/starting threads) etc and now twitter trying all sorts of new things.

Doesn't feel like a big loss cuz this period has surfaced enough number of people worth paying attention too, that there is no great reason to fund all this tech, to find more people worth paying attention too.
Flutterflow wasn't good enough for me. Bubble has a lot of nice features for prototyping, but the problem with all these low code stuff is you have to deal with the bugs in the program itself as well.

If you know how to code, coding is fastest these days, especially with a framework. Code is shorthand for communicating with a machine, after all.
> including earlier accounts of Elizabeth's excommunication by Elizabeth I in 1570

Probably more like Pope St. Pius V.
Harder drives is excellent. The comments section of that video is fun to scroll through.
There is an alternative argument that government should be treated like any other financing partner and recieve a share of ownership in such patents with the revenues used to fund further works, thereby driving the majority of funding to things which have the greatest consumer benefits (proven through the value of patents).

There's ways that leaves us with some innovations left by the wayside though, so a mixed system would likely be best to ensure the best net outcomes
The Fail Whale can use a comeback in a new avatar
A lot of problem with Python packages is the fact that a lot of Python programs is not just Python. You have a significant amount of C++, Cython, and binaries (like Intel MKL) when it comes to scientific Python and machine learning. All of these tools have different build processes than pip so if you want to ship with them you end up bring the whole barn with you. A lot of these problems was fixed with python wheels, where they pack the binary in the package.

Personally, I haven't ran into a problem with Python packaging recently. I was running https://github.com/zyddnys/manga-image-translator (very cool project btw) and I didn't ran into any issues getting it to work locally on a Windows machine with Nvidia GPU.
Llama Recipes
It is yes, they've even built a command for it "rebuild"[0]

> Reconstruct the named repository database from the core records. Run this command after updating the fossil executable in a way that changes the database schema.

[0]: https://fossil-scm.org/home/help?cmd=rebuild
Then the author of that script is the one who deals with said complexity in that specific manner, either because of upstream inability to provide releases for every combination of operating system and hardware, or because some people are strictly focused on hard problems in their part of implementation, or something else.

A package manager with “well designed” packages still can't define what they do, invent program logic and behavior. Someone has to choose just the same, and can make good or bad decisions. For example, nothing prohibits a calculator application that depends on a full compile and build system for certain language (in run-time), or on Electron framework. In fact, it's totally possible to have such example programs. However, we can't automatically deduce whether packaging that for a different system is going to be problematic, and which are better alternatives.
Because that's where the money is. You don't get paid for your technical abilities but for how much value you bring to an employer. There are probably a good chunk of researchers that still eat instant ramen at the end of the month that were involved with all those AI algorithms that are all the rage right now for Google Bard, ChatGPT and whatever MS calls their Bing stuff.

I thought about switching to something more low level but as long as I can stomach my current job I don't really see a good reason why. I don't even earn that much money but I'd probably still take a pay cut going into embedded.
Isn't Android on git?
The automatic transcribers have (pretty recently) reached the point where I'd rather have their output than not.

This came as something of a surprise to me - six months ago I'd likely have been enthusiastically agreeing with you.

As an example, the transcript tab on https://www.thebulwark.com/podcast-episode/tom-nichols-jack-... was pretty readable to me in spite of the errors. Whether you'll find it the same is, of course, a separate question.
Oh, the software isn't Chinese at all. You can trust me on that one. Source: I don't work for Volvo anymore, but I've authored both Volvo and Polestar 2 code, some of it in the latest 2.10 update.
I think git gets a bad rep because no one can agree how to use it.

GitHub PRs vs pushing a branch, rebase vs merge are just two examples of tools that do identical things in fundamentally different ways.

And the problem is none of them are wrong. Rebasing minor commits simplifies unnecessary complexity in your history. Merging preserves what actually happened which can provide insight into why changes occurred. Of course reverse merges are the worst but that is a can of worms...

When pushing to a branch you can never force push but you always force push a PR branch...

Hell sometimes the easiest things create unsolvable rifts. I know of the main repo as origin and fork for my fork. Some have learned that the main repo is upstream and origin is your fork.

Neither is necessarily wrong but good luck being clear when origin can refer to two locations with such extreme use cases.
Farming and settling were big mistakes. Should have killed the first person who planted stuff.
I guess this is intended as an alternative to networkx? I've not used nx for a while, it would be interesting to see a comparison. A quick eyeball suggests a not dissimilar API and a smaller feature-set.

What's the use case? Performance? In which case it'd be nice to see benchmarks.
South Pole Signage
I believe it is very clearly social media. Humans aren’t intended to have fake-insights into what people around them pretend to be doing