skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't thank Apple enough for Find My Friends as it is a great way to keep track of my teens. It's the best way to trust but verify.

I do wish the parental controls were better on both Android and Apple, but I also recognize it is a Sysiphean problem.

For us, when the kids got to an age where their activities took them away from home and not necessarily at school, that's where it started to make sense. Practice gets done early, practice gets cancelled, activity moves to a different location, kid gets sick, I forgot my <important thing>, etc. Essentially as they start turning into little adults it reaches a tipping point where they need to be given adult tools along with the information needed to make adult decisions regarding content, time allocation, etc.
I've started using a tool similar to "GPTs" recently, and the quality is definitely higher.

I believe this has to do with generalization — you're encouraged to make your GPTs as specific as possible: only give them access to what they need, and iterate on how they can do it better, both through giving feedback and improving your prompt. This is how you can refine them to be great at a certain task.

The more generalized they are, the worse they'll be at the specific task — this will likely be true until we create AGI, and this is how all these businesses with refined purpose-built models exist and create value.
Your argument had some juice up until the "boomer" slur. Are we still doing that?
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Assuming GPTs are equivalent to the Assistant API (seems descriptively like two views of the same coin, but the info doesn't quite seem complete on that), they can rely on exclusive data resources and tools provided by the implementor that are not public ChatGPT plugins, and therefore can have distinct, and to the extent those data and tools are or leverage proprietary resources, not otherwise reproducible behavior.
Well, you can block on it if you want

That said, I disagree on the usefulness of async: in my experience it does the job and it's my default setup.

There's a complex project where I ended up just using threads because I needed to squeeze performance out but overall async is great for tasks, sequence of async operations.

Still, it had some rough edges: (it's been a while but) using Async Closures wasn't pleasant and I re architected my app to not use them as a result.
There's an argument to be made for this change making my application easier to reason about - but overall it's poor language flexibility.
Seems to me Netflix did just fine at ruining itself. How could Yahoo have done worse?
There were over a thousand Roman hoards discovered in Great Britain alone [1]. Given the scale of Roman mining operations, there are certainly many more out there.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_hoards_in_Great_...
Cold Take has been such an excellent foil for ZP. I hope they continue to do business together.
I don't get it, are those numbers disputed?
Apple Delays Work on Next Year's iPhone, Mac Software to Fix Bugs
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This is a popular sentiment that I share to some degree, but I really wish we could just move on from this discussion. It happens in every post that is even just vaguely about Rust or async. It's like reading complaints about the GIL on a post that is loosely connected to Python! At some point it just gets boring.

"I will forever argue that [...]" -- Why are you forever arguing?

"I feel like I am alone with [...]" -- No, I read it every day on here.
Going from C++ to python is a little unfair. How many examples would a human need to learn python coming from C++? Its probably more than you can fit in a LLM context window.
Thats red herring IMO. Sure, they're GC'd languages, but that does not preclude the fact that both of these approaches from a DX perspective are easier to work with, and that matters in language design.

I didn't say we need goroutines or we need Loom style asynchronous primitives I am however pointing out, that they did a really good job of making async approachable and feel like you're writing the same code as you would in a traditional synchronous model. Thats the real win.

Its not an easy problem to solve, to be absolutely clear, but its a worthy goal, and if that means it adds marginal overhead initially I think its worth the tradeoff (esp. if you can do something similar to how you can use Rust in a `no-std` build, you could do one without a `async runtime` build, spitballing off the top of my head)

Another problem is that generally speaking, async is de facto used a 3rd party lib, and it really should be a first party primitive that everyone feels comfortable using.

To me, this is what matters
Kotaku had the wrong author write a review of a niche video game that nobody cared about. Gamergate was started by people who thought something totally unimportant like that was reason to send death threads to people.
I'll 2nd this. you should add some general protocol to add games. and how no catan?
Of course he has the right to do whatever he wants (as long as it is legal), but he shared it and even monetized it, so we also have the right to comment, including pointing out the parts we didn't like.

I think it is fair, although personal criticism (I liked this, disliked that). The questioning is also constructive. Just look at the replies. They are interesting, as you can see why people liked or didn't like the "fluff". It also suggests a simple, but not obvious answer to the questioning. Creators do this because people like it.
how do you know he's not just deleting things without comments? plus these are posts as dang, and as the admin he could do basically anything he wants.

fwiw i think there is a good faith effort on their part, but you have no way of seeing anything shady if they don't want you to.
LOL - didn’t expect that reference, but it’s perfect :)

And for anyone that didn’t get it, this video will make your day

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
For some reason the Rust project seems to be plagued by glacial development speed, with features taking years and years to be stabilized after design and often even after initial implementation.

Not sure why, progress used to be way faster years ago.

For example, this "four year plan" should be implemented in 6 months at most, not 4 years.

And the "long-term features" that "should be considered carefully, could not be addressed in the next few years" (lol, seriously?!?) should have serious work start right now and be released as part as the next edition in 2024 (since they need an edition break to be ergonomic). These are basic misdesigns of the type system that should have been fixed 10 years ago.

Whoever is managing and paying for the Rust developers needs to fix this.
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I would imagine extreme diets are for viable for those that require extreme weight lose. Someone looking to lose 100+lbs would be able to use it to lose enough weight to become active again and start to make lifestyle changes that will support long term weight management. People looking to drop 10lbs though are very likely to gain it back once they start eating like a normal human again.
The European Space Agency may have a bullying problem
No. The way I'd look at it is that generalization or specifically extrapolation would mean that different features are needed to make a prediction (here, the next token) than what is seen in the training data. Something like a made up language could still result in the same patterns being relevant. That's why out-of-distribution research often uses mathematical extrapolation as a task.
Markets also work best without information asymmetry.
Yup. I was blown away when I spun up five different tokio runtimes in the same app all communicating through channels. I expected at least the tokio-aware channels to be problematic but not in the slightest. It's now humming in prod doing its business. Once you get the basics, it's quite easy to lego stuff out and get the best of both worlds.
Ingenious titanium ring aims to replace your tape measure
There can be multiple BGSes (like there are a few Web search engines) but it's expensive to run so there probably won't be many. Alternative designs are either more expensive or don't have the same features.
https://archive.ph/2kxVn
The way I understand the paper, his is still a domain-specific tasks, and it is interpolating. What (according to the paper) transformer models are bad at, is out-of-domain extrapolation (which given that modern models are basically trained on all the internet is kinda uncommon).
You definitely need at least an ID, and often times they'll want a bigger cash deposit than you might expect, and even then they discourage it/many hotels do not allow it.
I was already looking into doing it but I couldn't find any webpage where custom GPTs are in anyway listed or iteratable. this problem will also be solved by openai likely before next year, I assume
Thanks to the team. Had been waiting for it. Release was delayed several times to fix bugs related to RaspberryPi.
The mentally ill all imagine that they're Einstein 2.0.

They're all telling us that one of these days an actual Einstein 2.0 will come along, and then we'll all be sorry. I suppose it's possible. But I'm quite certain that today is not that day, and I'm not the least sorry.
Do you know what advantage Euclid offers over Webb?

Also, the Lagrange point is where Webb and some other stuff is located — is it getting crowded up there?
> gives me a lot of Snowcrash vibes

I often feel this way also. Snowcrash seems like the future we are cruising towards.
People who complain about "virtue signaling" are nearly always ridiculous. They try to deflect criticism of their own moral failings with vague insinuations of hypocrisy. They mock children for actually holding the values our society claims to teach them. They virtue signal about how much they hate virtue signaling, yet ignore that the most spectacular virtue signaling comes from their "side". Like this:

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867532070/trumps-unannounced-...

That doesn't make it a dog whistle. Everyone knows that accusing someone of virtue signaling is accusing them of being a champagne socialist. The meaning is not hidden.

This is a dog whistle:

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/02/15/we-must-secure-border-an...

Most people won't recognize the riff on the Fourteen Words, but those who do will recognize the call for genocide.
As-per my edit, simply by virtue of using glibc your program is no longer safe. Glibc has had vulnerabilities, and continues to do so (as unknown unknowns - just like all C software). If you're not using any stdlib then maybe.
Sounds nice, but eventually, the button is always taken away.
The federal government has priority when the relevant power has been granted to it by the states. See the Tenth Amendment, which is unfortunately read/followed only slightly more frequently than the Third.
> covid restriction refugees

Is there any data that suggests such a loaded term is appropriate? It seems more likely that people were taking advantage of the new economic benefits of remote work.
So instead, it won’t roll out widely for a decade plus due to active incompatibility, therefore rendering its improvements pointless for all but a tiny number of early adopters?

As I said, dumb.

Next version will likely include degrees of backward compatibility or workarounds, would be my guess. Since you can’t even iteratively roll it out!

That or routers will have parallel radios and 2x SSIDs, which would confuse everyone and add even more to the costs.

Yay for IPv4 vs IPv6 on wifi.
Is there any way async could be deprecated vs piling on more language/stdlib features?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23477578/ ("Marital satisfaction predicts weight gain in early marriage")

https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031593

> Prior research makes competing predictions regarding whether marital satisfaction is positively or negatively associated with weight gain. The health regulation model suggests that satisfying relationships facilitate the functions of marriage that promote health. Thus, spouses should be most likely to gain weight when either partner is less satisfied because marital strain causes stress that interferes with self-regulatory behaviors. The mating market model, in contrast, suggests that weight maintenance is motivated primarily by the desire to attract a mate. Thus, spouses should be least likely to gain weight when either partner is less satisfied because they should feel an increased need to attract a new mate. This longitudinal study of 169 newlywed couples evaluated each possibility.

> Conclusions: These findings challenge the idea that quality relationships always benefit health, suggesting instead that spouses in satisfying relationships relax their efforts to maintain their weight because they are no longer motivated to attract a mate. Interventions to prevent weight gain in early marriage may therefore benefit from encouraging spouses to think about their weight in terms of health rather than appearance.
My point is still true
async took off when multicore processors came out and C had no first class way of running in parallel, so we bolted on threading libraries that are second class. Take a look at zig’s approach to concurrency, it’s so first class you can write your own event loop without an OS, i.e you could use the language’s async to write an OS.
> For some reason the Rust project seems to be plagued by glacial development speed, with features taking years and years to be stabilized after design and often even after initial implementation.

I wonder if it feels this way just because Rust has such a fast development cycle. But like, most languages takes years and years to do something like async. Rust went extremely fast, relative to other languages.

> For example, this "four year plan" should be implemented in 6 months at most, not 4 years.

That seems kind of insane. What language goes from idea to shipping major features in 6 months? Who even wants that?
Interesting. Thanks for the comment. What if you ask it to add numbers with more digits?
I agree with you in general but you might have missed that this particular video is about an art project. The robot doesn't really have any practical purpose at all. The technical details are not the focus. The robot isn't that interesting from a purely technical side of things.

The video is really about the sense of nostalgia for a past where we had a more optimistic idea of a future. The emotional level is the point of the video.

So please call out the mass videofication of things but this is not an good example of it.
I also find mercurial vastly more pleasant to use - nowadays I’m mostly using Sapling, since that’s basically mercurial’s frontend with the ability to speak the git protocol to git servers :)
fair point, but was it vacant and non-productive? i have no idea about this particular instance except for what the original commenter said, this particularly stuck out:

> razed a bunch of houses that people were living in to build more office buildings

that doesn't sound unproductive or vacant to me?
I think the only legitimate dispute would be that maybe more Israeli children were killed in the Oct 7 attacks? That seems like a reasonable and probably accurate criticism to me.

The article doesn't seem that well-written and seems a little all over the place.
A small pickup, at least with any kind of ICE, is literally illegal to sell here due to CAFE regulations, which are strangely based on the footprint of the car. An actually small pickup would have to be as fuel-efficient as sedans and small SUVs, which isn't going to work out.

EVs will work, but not at that sub-$20k price point.
There was this incident in the news last year.

> Apple Facing Lawsuit After AirPods Allegedly Ruptured Child's Eardrums With Amber Alert

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/17/apple-airpods-pro-amber...
Every day we stray further from god.
K, that was admittedly excessive. My life experience up to now (btw definitely Boomers+Xers who display identical entitlement and offensive conduct) What say now?
It was missing the context.
Well, Yahoo bought Tumblr only, er, 10 years ago. Netflix had some great years since then and and my suspicion would be that Yahoo wouldn't have provided the investment needed to not be completely crushed by the competition.
Anyone collect ancient coins?

I've always thought it would be interesting to own something that was created and handled by someone in ancient Rome or Greece or China.

My wife is 100% against the idea, though, because you don't know where they might have come from and (therefore) you could be supporting grave/site robbers.

(I wonder if a case like this, thousands of coins discovered -- maybe sell some to collectors -- and we can feel good that they haven't been stolen.)
And a bunch of families got evicted, too. Strange how you forgot that part.
None of this had anything to do with Oracle the company, though, not sure why his being an Oracle employee is relevant.
[sigh/]

Stay away from the 3rd rail, Paul. You can't make the world any better that way, but you can certainly make your own life worse.
Why didn't you use the multithreaded executor from Tokio?
If you want to have that discussion, feel free to find the people who think the existence of 1 (one) male character indicates sexism, like the GP described, and discuss it with them. Tbh it sounds more like you want to use the GP's hyperbole as a wedge to open up a (ugh) "culture war" debate and frankly I'm not interested.
An AI NPC Framework for Unity
I've developed a user-friendly framework that simplifies the creation of AI NPC characters in Unity. With this framework, you can enable dynamic, real-time conversations with quick response times

Key Features:
- Fast and realistic conversations
- Cutting-edge tech integration
- Multi-NPC dialogue support
- Keyword parsing for context-aware interactions
- Lip Sync

Fyi, nothing is sped up in the video. The tech stack behind the AI NPC Framework for Unity:

- Meta Voice Dictation SDK: Powers real-time voice interactions.
- ChatGPT API: Enables dynamic conversations.
- ElevenLabs API: Enhances conversational capabilities.
- Oculus Lip Sync: Ensures realistic lip synchronization.

The ChatGPT and Eleven Labs API in Unity were built and provided by Stephen Hodgson (https://github.com/RageAgainstThePixel). To bring characters to life, I rigged models in NVIDIA Omniverse using Audio2Face and generated animations with Mixamo and NVIDIA Omniverse's Audio2Gesture. I've also included avatars of friends created with Avaturn and ReadyPlayerMe.

Altogether, the setup is simple, fast, and easy to work with.

Please feel free to criticize and provide feedback!
How does an instruction set solve supply chain trust?

I suggest you reconsider [1] & [2], but apply the thought process in the context of a physical CPU. The problem is not source access or patents, the problem is you don't have an electron microscope to look at these nanometers-wide elements; even if you did, it's still an insanely difficult process.

[1]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

[2]: https://research.swtch.com/nih
In theory anything could happen, sure, but that would effectively kill the largest current use-case of the language in industry. Others are catching up, but it would be an absolutely disastrous decision.
Tech talk: Mutator Sets offer new approach to scalable, layer 1 privacy [video]
This talk was given at Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis 23 by the architect and lead cryptographer of the Neptune.cash project.
Nah, I was saying I dont use the onboard wifi on the Pi, it sucks. I use RJ45 to a Mikrotik Hap, then configure the hap as an AP using WPA3 etc.
Because "stabilized" means that the feature is effectively frozen and every subsequent change must be backwards compatible. Even edition changes are restricted by the need to ensure that the vast majority of code at least can be forward-ported by automated means. So you really don't want to stabilize a new feature unless you're super confident that every part of it has the absolute best design.
You're missing the point. The people in the area often do support building new housing, they just don't want it where they are. This is a fundamental paradox, as it has to be built _somewhere_, but seemingly none of the people who agree there is a problem want to disadvantage themselves to fix the problem.

Anyways, can I just say how absurd it is to call the government allowing developers to build new houses "tyranny"? Seems like a hysterical reading of the situation.
I've been a huge fan of Fedora, and it seems this release does 90% of what I want, but since I'm on a Framework 13 with a weird screen resolution, I once again fall into DPI scaling hell. GNOME locks fractional scaling behind an experimental option, apps like Signal are blurry and apps like Steam just seemingly ignore any attempt to scale properly.

For what it's worth KDE seems to handle at least the blurry X scaling issue and supports fractional scaling by default.

Maybe one day, everything will just work...
Some Thoughts on Software Expertise
Maybe you misunderstand me. I'm not saying there shouldn't be a non-blocking version. I'm saying async is not a silver bullet. Some programs/teams/environments have different constraints than you.

Would you also advocate for the kernel to deprecate blocking i/o?
Yeah the point of government services like a central bank or a public healthcare option or what have you is that they provide a floor of "this is the worst service/bargain you can possibly get", and then the private sector needs to compete against it (sometimes by dishonestly implying they have a better product when their product is worse, but that's its own can of worms).

For basic necessities to modern life, there needs to be a state provided minimum quantity of access, so that you can't be screwed over by corporations just deciding you aren't profitable enough, or cornering the market and price gouging, etc.
Hi, thanks for posting.

A mantra I use that some might find useful is:

"To the work you are entitled, but not to the fruits thereof."

Good luck on your journey!
It seems that's indeed the direction. And it makes sense. When saying that their overarching goal is building _an AGI_ there's an implication that there is really only one model / interface / entry point, and that how it does its magic (one neural network, several similar neural networks, an ensemble of various neural networks of different architecture and training + some glue code to tie them together) is an implementation detail and not something we should concern ourselves with as consumers.
I recognize and have done my best to help my kids recognize that technology of all kinds can take over your life if you aren't making cognizant choices. That stated, for parents and kids on the go these devices can be a huge help. How many times already this week have I texted my kids to update them on schedule changes? How many times have I checked in with them about something going on where there input is needed? I think too that generationally, kids are comfortable texting in ways that can be therapeutic. If they need to text me or a teacher or a peer something that might be difficult in person and that gets them the breakthrough that they need, then I'm not going to complain that they should be calling / talking rather than texting.
Not a user story?
Glad to see this! Waze, while still an excellent routing and traffic utility, has felt stagnant and neglected for years. There’s so much room for improvement over Google or Apple Maps with features like this. I’d say I’m surprised by the lack of innovation, but acquisitions left to languish is well known to be Google’s playbook.
Netflix is still around 2/3's of its max valuation and has a PE ratio of over 40. It is doing just fine if you step outside of the HN bubble.