skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's interesting to see 20th century sci-fi depictions of this kind of AI/Search is being short and to the point. I guess they can't have imagined what a mealy mouth world we live in.

The main difference between sci-fi shows and reality is that, in the former, things work in a to-the-point, bullshit-free way, unless plot demands otherwise - because there's no point inflicting extra suffering on the viewers just for the sake of making things realistic. A widget in a movie is meant to do a function, and does that function. A widget in reality is meant to extract money from you, and/or your insurer, and/or your government, and it begrudgingly does the absolute minimum it can to make you even consider buying it.

I've spent last two decades trying to unlearn expectations set by fictional movies, and I'm still not good at it. Star Trek, in particular, gives me a lot of grief, because it often does good enough work of showing how technology, people, organizations and societies would function if they were free of the petty exploitative bullshit. Random example - voice control. Star Trek: "Computer, ${something}". Reality: "${brand 1}, do ${something} to ${brand 2} in ${brand 3}".

EDIT: recently, I've been trying to get less angry at this by thinking about gardens. Why should I be angry about dealing with five different brands for any single thing I want? Should I be angry that there are five different species of plant competing for any given spot in a garden? Nature is inefficient and doesn't give a fuck about individuals. So why should I get worked up about humans just doing things the natural way?
A few more years with these types of 'studies' will bring down trust in science - or at least The Science™ but many people will not make a distinction between science and The Science™ - enough for it to become irrelevant in the eyes of 'the general public'.

Also, what is it with the SARS2 scare mongering these last few months? I realise there is an election on the schedule in the USA and that some people there were quite satisfied with the leeway the pandemic gave them to bend and twist the rules of such events but do they really expect that strategy to work this time around? How is that going to work with the rest of the world having relegated SARS2 to the list of annoying seasonal infections which are just a part of life, no worse than most other forms of the common cold?
No idea. Also not relevant, those bans will never be lifted. We are currently discussing dress codes at public schools so. Make of that whatever you want.
Ah, you're right, brain fart, sorry. Hm, I wonder how easily I could change Harbormaster to deploy on Swarm instead of using Compose...
I think you are forgetting the most common way people realize this: sell house for gain, use money to afford down payment on nicer home, perhaps enough to end up paying a similar monthly payment in the end. People act like you need to go from paid off house to paid off house but thats hardly the case. Partially paid off house to even less paid off house is common especially if you know you will be working for another few decades.
It works out to effectively way more than $75k/yr in realizable income because, in the US at least, long term capital gains on your primary residence are heavily tax-advantaged in a way that income isn't.
Nice. I remember thinking of doing something like this when I was much much more of a novice. I wrote a WhatsApp message parser and thought of doing this with the parsed messages. Unfortunately I knew too little back then, and Llama didn't exist either. Cool to see it!
You should monetize this differently to get mass market appeal like commissions from print and shipping or show them in a popup and pay to download
Definition of "modern" ?
C can obviously parse flags. See for example the plethora of C software that does so, such as many things from GNU Coreutils.

There is no requirement to parse flags for the basic functionality of yes. You implemented that yourself. You can remove your own requirement whenever you want. You don't need to parse a flag, at most you need to parse a string from the command line arguments.

I wonder at this point how you define "flag".
I usually do. Problem is, to do that at all, I usually have to buy men's clothing. I buy men's jeans by default, because they have pockets and the fit and comfort aren't my biggest concerns for rugged practical wear. If I want to indulge in feminine fashion or, gods forbid, look professional, I quickly find that I'm out of options. Most pants that do have pockets, they're barely large enough for my phone to fit halfway in them (and I'm using a G7, not a phablet or something). Many just don't, or even worse, they're sewn on decoratively without actually being open and able to hold anything. Some skirts and dresses, sure, they don't really make sense, but why in the world would decorative non-functional pockets be a staple of so many pairs of women's pants if we didn't like how they look?
I'm imagining a future where this cancer cell reprogramming technology can be used to turn people into dinosaurs.
A sensible endgame is for the state to control all real estate, and we're all effectively renters.

This eliminates the speculation fiasco entirely-- there's no way to bid up a property if the price is determined by a standard, legally-defined formula, and there's no investor to profit from such games. At best, you could try to bribe someone into releasing a unit you wanted in the hopes you could scoop it up.

This also provides valuable levers for other social policy-- rent could be priced to encourage people to live near where they work for environmental reasons, or provide explicit blessings to favoured groups (reduced rent for veterans/schoolteachers/first responders/etc) and leases could be retired when there's a pressing need to replace a property (i. e. unsafe, or needs to be torn down for some new venture)
You said that the model fooled your friends 10% of the time.

I wonder how well would chatGPT | llama2 do given just the last 5 messages of each and asking to generate the next reply pre tending to be you…

Somehow I don’t think it would be worse?
async is not free. It will turn your code into a big state machine and each thing you await will likely create its own thread.

There is simplicity in a avoiding that and having code that gets compiled to something that is straightforward and single threaded.
Yup and that's not something new either -- it's been pretty standard practice for many decades. But similarly "controversial" from the start for consumers (while basically a non-issue for corporate customers).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37446500

>Coffee affects me strongly. What can I say. I get a cleanse every morning for 3 bucks. Cleansing your digestive tract is actually really good for you. People pay big bucks for cleanses.

sounds like OP

1. knows that he gets uncontrollable diarrhea from coffee.

2. enjoys it. why else do it every morning?
The real problem is homelessness this is just another symptom
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/d...

Minimum normal price is 0.99 and minimum transaction price is 0.49. All things considered they are reasonable limits as those might be actual singular payment transactions.
My suggestion is to send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com
In a sense, an opinionated collection of tools _is_ a solution.
Cats have been domestic pets in the UK since at least the times of Roman civilisation, and have been allowed to roam free for much of that time. It's odd to me that there's such a contrast between attitudes towards cats roaming in Europe (which I would say is completely the norm, particularly in e.g. the UK) and the United States (and now Australia), though perhaps this is just down to different native fauna.

> The EU’s executive said Thursday that it is “a strong defender of free movement rights — including of cats” and “categorically” denied it would ever force cats to be kept indoors or on a leash, as one scientific study suggests.

The RSPB themselves have said:

“While we know that cats do kill large numbers of birds in UK gardens, there’s no evidence this is affecting decline in the same way that these other issues are” (habitat/food loss from climate change)

Research in the UK has suggested cats are mostly preying on the "doomed surplus": https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1474-919X....

> we (4) compared the condition of those birds killed by cats versus those killed in collisions, e.g. window strikes. Mean (± sd) cat density was 348 ± 86 cats/km2 (n = 10 sites); considering the eight species most commonly taken by cats, the mean ratios of adult birds/cats and juvenile birds/cats across the five sites were 1.17 ± 0.23 and 3.07 ± 0.74, respectively

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> Across species, cat-killed birds were in significantly poorer condition than those killed following collisions; this is consistent with the notion that cat predation represents a compensatory rather than additive form of mortality.
Do I understand ARM's business?

They rely on people wanting to design their own ~~ships~~ chips

So if we assume that their ecosystem is healthly and mature at this moment,

then there's potential that customers wanting to design their own stuff will go to them.

So until RISC-V matures, then they'll be making profits, yup?

But is there growth potential? Are companies really interested in designing their own chips except a few startups that already license from them and probably google/amazon/whatever that need highly specialized chips, but already license from them?

What I'm missing?
No, this is a separate challenge and has nothing to do with DEFCON. It made sense to announce at DEFCON (read PR stunt).
I wouldn't speculate on that question if I were taking your position either.
If they doubled the price of their boards, they would simply die to the entire hobbyist market.
He's in jail because he violated the terms of his very cushy house-arrest. So I would say he has been imprisoned for violations, even though he hasn't been convicted of his original crime.
I like telling it to reply in the style of Hemingway
Oh, I know, I have an application to a local range sitting right here! But I have other non-tech hobbies in motorcycling, metal working, and archery... I haven't made the time.
> The problem with garbage collection is that it doesn't work for other kinds of resources than memory

Why is that a "problem with GC"?

Abstracting away >90% of resource management (i.e. local memory) is a significant benefit.

It's like saying the "problem with timesharing OS" is that it doesn't address 100% of concurrency/parallelism needs.
Suckers. I do NFPA25 fire protection inspections throughout NYC and let them know they will be getting a visit from the fire department if they do not let me use their bathroom.

I have an entire map of private luxury bathrooms in NYC I can use now.
I didn't know but I can't say I'm really shocked. It was at least a couple bucks years ago.

And newsstand prices for most periodicals have long been multiples of the subscription price. I'm always a bit surprised there's a big enough market for magazines at grocery stores and airports but impulse purchases I guess.
You are looking at avg gain. I can tell you anecdotally that over the past 25 years there have been markets that have barely budged at all in median prices, and markets that have seen fold change gains in median home prices. In some markets you are doing a lot worse than the index, in others you handily beat the index and these are generally the ones people bemoan in cost of living articles in the media.
I think it's as simple as, if you put it in a PPT, you can rest assured that it will be readable and usable by the recipient, which includes passing them along to other people, presenting it, using the slides in other presentations, and so forth. If you choose some "weird" format, then the burden is on you when someone can't use it for some reason.
I went over the docs and couldn’t find anything about state management and client/server actions.

I’m guessing this would be similar to LiveView? If so, I’m not sure Python will handle the concurrency as well as Elixir…

Edit: I see now that the goal is to compile this to JS, so I’m assuming it’s going to be quite the opposite of LiveView and will do everything on the client?
I recently bought a local news org.

One of the things I hate about the media industry is the constant "we're dying" or "this is going to die."

Go to a local news conference that's supposedly about the future and it feels a lot like a funeral.

Some other way of doing things will come along. Help figure it out or get the fuck out of the way and stop trying to spread your shitty dark version of the future - because you have no idea what happens next.
Beware the law of unintended consequences.

For example, see the “Four Pests Campaign”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign
> Your code does not have more functionality than GNU's yes as written.

it has flag parsing
Uh, home equity lines of credit are a thing in most places. They certainly are in the US!

Also, renting out rooms. Also ‘granny flats’, etc.
What are you taking "it" to be here?

The transformer architecture on which (I think) all recent LLMs are based dates from 2017. That's only "multiple decades after" if you count x0.6 as "multiple".

Neural networks are a lot older than that, of course, but to me "these things are made out of neural networks, and neural networks have been around for ages" feels like "these things are made out of steel, and steel has been around for ages".
It’s very politically incorrect. But yeah, things work differently in some countries if one does not bring in a bag with money or guns.
When I ask ChatGPT (GPT4) I got the below answers (I regenerated for a total of 5 responses, it was correct 3/5 of them.) I'm not sure exactly how the regeneration works, if they're vanilla or if there is some trick to try to add different-ness to the answers. If it's the latter, it might be important that it got it right the first two times.

> Sally is the common sister to all three brothers. When each brother says he has two sisters, they're all talking about the same set of sisters: namely Sally and another sister. So Sally has one sister. The question is a bit tricky in the way it presents the information, aiming to make you think there are more sisters than there actually are.

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> Sally is the girl in question, and she has 3 brothers. Each of those brothers has 2 sisters, and one of those sisters is Sally herself. So, if you exclude Sally, then there is only one other sister. So, Sally has just one sister. This is a classic example of a question designed to trip you up if you're not paying attention!

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> Sally has no other sisters. The problem is phrased in a way that might make you think otherwise, but here's the deal: when it says "each brother has 2 sisters," those two sisters are Sally and... well, Sally again. Basically, each brother is counting Sally as one of their two sisters. There aren't additional sisters lurking in the background. So, Sally is an only sister with 3 brothers.

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> Sally has 3 brothers, and each of those brothers has 2 sisters. The tricky part here is not to overthink it or double count. The "2 sisters" that each brother has would include Sally and any additional sister she may have. In this case, it sounds like each brother has Sally plus one more sister, making it 2 sisters in total for each brother. Sally herself has just the one sister.

> So, to answer your question: Sally has 1 sister.

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> Sally has 0 sisters. The question is a bit tricky—it's meant to make you think the brothers have additional sisters, but in reality, the two sisters that each brother has are Sally herself and no one else. So, Sally doesn't have any sisters; she only has 3 brothers.
My biggest concern is that they use screws over plastic as fasteners: https://github.com/PCrnjak/PAROL6-Desktop-robot-arm/blob/mai...

Quote from the manual:

> Screws are in this example M3 screws and holes are undersized to 2.7-2.8mm that means that when we screw in the screws we are tapping holes in 3D printed parts.

> There are multiple benefits to this:

> ● Connection is strongest compared to tapping holes with a tap or using brass inserts

> ● It is simple and fast

> ● No need to prepare the hole, it can be printed undersized

> Cons are that you can’t disassemble it a lot of times. In case you feel screws slipping in the hole. Put some super glue in the hole and wait for it to cure. After that re tap the hole.
And where is that cheap place to live in Canada exactly?

Toronto (or the GTA more specifically) was the cheaper version of Vancouver. Now the average house price is north of C$1m in a country where average wages are a fraction of that.

People live in cities often because that's where the owrk is. A lot of people like it too. Some jobs can be remote. Many can't. You can't be a nurse or a mechanic or an EMT or a firefighter remotely. Toronto needs all those so-called "essential workers" too. Where are they supposed to live?

The general pattern has been in Canada (and the US and other places) is that you have starter homes like condos and then you buy a house when you want or need more space (eg you have children). The commenter I replied to buy a condo for just shy of C$600k. At that time maybe a house they might move up to was $900k. $300k is a lot but probably doable. Now their condo is $1.2m that house is probably $1.5-2m. It's actually more relatively unaffordable than at the time they bought their condo.

You see what I mean when rising prices for a basic necessity you cannot live without actually don't increase wealth?
I quite like context managers and try-with-resources style constructs. They make lifetimes explicit in the code in a fairly intuitive way. You can get yourself turned around if you deeply nest them, etc but there are usually ways to avoid those traps.
Using containerd I assume? I've been trying to get RKE2 or k3s play nicely with CRI-O and it's been a long exercise in frustration.
where do you find work like this?
Thanks! Although how does that explain the same jokes shared across different LLMs ?
I do wonder about the pentagon contract though. The author writes like he knows the terms of the contract, but it doesn't seem to be public.

But yeah, some bad and clearly biased writing.
Where did you move?
I wonder if this is the death of public spaces. If you want community you need people to be able to leave their homes for extended periods and join each other in public. It should be stable stakes for any civilised democracy to have public conveniences IMHO
Yes, because race is a social construct. “White” encompasses many unrelated groups, from descendants of people on the Mayflower to Italian immigrants. But when elite Yankees complain about “white” people, they don’t really mean themselves, they mean southern or Midwestern whites. Essentially, they’re “post white.”

Post-whites will do fine under the new system, because they have the cultural capital to navigate the new rules. They know how to write a “diversity statement” that gets them credit for some human rights whatever even though they trace their ancestry to Dutch colonists in New York. But the kids in Ohio won’t have that cultural capital and social connections. They are still “white.”
If we look at per country per capita emissions [1], we can see that Africa, South America and Asia (excluding China and India) have current emissions below the 2C warming. So yes, they don't need to reduce anything at the country level - simply not increase.

North America and Europe on the other hand...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t... Scroll all the way down
My experience with GPT-4 is that half the battle is knowing when to reset the context for a back-and-forth. For things like coding, after multiple revisions of code, it begins to get confused about which instance of the code/context to which it should refer. Resetting things back to a new frame with whatever the next query or request is generally resolves things.

OpenAI’s “magic talking dog” aspect is making you believe it has effective long-term recall, when in reality, it’s fairly limited and impacts reasoning the longer an exchange gets.
There's a touristy little town about half an hours drive from me (NZ not America) that has a few cafes and what not. We used to go there multiple times a year, but recently they cut their number of public toilets down to about a third. Now I just don't go. I don't want to queue up to take a piss with a bunch of tourists.
he thinks whether something is true or not just depends on how much upvotes it gets
In ancient Greece they supposedly ate meat only during festivals. That was not only better for people but also allowed animal populations to recover.

I firmly believe that the level of meat consumption today is unnaturally high, simply because people of the old did not have refrigeration, to say nothing of how the animals are raised today. I eat meat here and there, and I enjoy it, but try to limit consumption to a few times per month.

Another point of reference: the Church forbade Crusaders to eat meat from warm-blooded animals more than two times a week. If a warrior under full armor is good with two portions of meat a week, most of us should be too.
Amazing Article

Really enjoyed reading the post.
> in this context it should never mean "can not happen because it is undefined by the specification".

Even worse, undefined behavior doesn’t just mean “what happens next isn’t defined by the specification”, it is defined, and it’s “anything the compiler wants to happen or that might make the compiler’s life simpler or emit more efficient code”. It's not that there's no rules about what might be emitted, it's that the standard does explicitly say what happens next. And what is specified is an unlimited pass to reorder or transform any input source code that performs this undefined operation, since it was nonsensical anyway.

The “undefined” part is the thing that you did, it's the input not the output. The compiler’s output is defined, and it’s “the compiler can do whatever it wants". And that's actually probably the only thing that could make the situation worse!

It can return a NOP;RETURN; and continue executing code instead of throwing an exception, or generate any other output for this function that makes its life easier, without let or hindrance by ordering or visibility, or by any relation to the input source code, in a reign of terror that makes a smashing blog post. It is valid to emit fdisk because you aliased a variable in an unreasonable portion of the code. It is valid to return 1 or null or anything else immediately and without notice, regardless of how this affects your expected invariants about data safety or code behavior. Etc.

this is, of course, a wildly terrible and terrifying decision to make and Ritchie was absolutely right about that. It's mostly only because compilers have stayed somewhat sane about the code they do emit that this hasn't all come crashing down, but, they get smarter every year.
Part of the issue is wages have lagged behind the market, so hearing that housing merely has followed the market is like a wet blanket when the issue is a lack of wage growth to match asset growth.
Toward the end of the article they mention the investments LEGO are making into developing sustainable, plant-based plastics. They are doing the work. Keep buying LEGO and feel good knowing you are helping to curb the plastic waste problem.
In Japan that's not a problem. It begs the question what they do differently.