skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nice that you've decided to throw off the golden veil of "declarative" that so many of the tools try to sell themselves as, while in practice the user still ends up attempting to write imperative logic while harangued by the declarative representation.

Couple things I personally take issue with:

String-embedding of code and templates is just straight up a nonstarter for me. I've seen enough dev/ops people struggle with tools like nomad and helm to know any sufficiently complex setup will inevitably become huge, opaque, usability mess.

Finally, I just don't believe a "mutate the bag of state" strategy is the future of config management or DevOps tech. It's shown itself time and time again to be the weakest part of systems like salt, ansible, and puppet. I can't count the number of hours of my life that have been wasted writing code that attempted to, poorly I might add, perpetuate the lie of determinism this tooling tries to sell on top of the mutable bag of state that is an OS.
In the tip in advance situation I’d be ok with it if it was a contingent tip, that could be adjusted after the fact. I’ve just been burned too many times tipping in advance.

I find the concept of tipping for things where there is little to no service component very strange (takeout food that you pick up, or counter service restaurants). Tipping for paid delivery (DoorDash) seems so very strange as well.

I’m actually pro-tipping, and worked several jobs where tips were a meaningful part of my pay, but we’ve ended up in the land of the absurd.
no, because it's very small phase modulations. The main tradeoff is you need a relatively long segment of audio to detect it.
I worked at a startup where the first CEO, along with the VP of Sales and their entire department, was ousted by the board on a Tuesday.

I think it's likely that we're going to find out Sam and others are just talented tech evangelists/hucksters and that justifiably worries a lot of people currently operating in the tech community.
Then it's not hot staging but maybe sloshing of fuel in the tank just simply.
And the handful of feature incompatible waylands are feature incomplete. You still can't keyboard/mouse share under any of them. That's just one of innumberable things you can't do.
The entire conflict has been a staging ground for juvenile takes. From people demanding one side agree to a ceasefire that the other side never even offered to others calling for indiscriminate attacks on civilians on both sides. At best it is a lot of tough talk from ignorant people with zero skin in the game. The IDF and Hamas are just going to do whatever they think gives them maximum advantage while the world remains hands-off.
ok - casual terms got the negative response.. so we define "common" .. You have legitimate points yes... but I can tell you that California has some of the most expensive real estate anywhere, and there are abandoned towns here.. abandoned rail stations, old homes.. all of that..

you can say "oh this statement is not supported" with rebuttal, but the rebuttal has "stock market goes up" built in.. this is not true over long periods of time generally due to war or other disaster.

more profit - more reason to stay.. Somehow we are not acknowledging Walmart here. In the USA, small towns functioned on having stores and other services.. sixty years later.. whole towns are dying due to a nearby Walmart, where people drive an hour+ to shop.

neither my statement or the rebuttal has all the relevant parts.. under construction. dynamic systems
To me, this rule seems fairly natural, so I'm part of the "surprised at the backlash" camp here for sure. At a high level, "if" is a way of skipping unneeded code, and "for" is a way of repeating code, so why wouldn't you want to skip as much unneeded code as possible and repeat as little code as necessary? This isn't meant to diminish the concerns raised in the comments here, but if the tools we're using to express what we want the computer to do end up working better when we can't use simple heuristics like "doing less stuff to achieve the same results is better than doing more stuff", that seems like a fundamental issue with the tools themselves.
I think there is another aspect to human thinking other than system 1/system 2 though, which is the abstract world model humans have.
system 1 / 2 is more like the process, while the world model is the actual data being 'processed'.

And I think basically, humans have a much simplified, 'low dimensional' world model that consists of a set of objects (let's call them patterns), and then a "list" of essential properties that those objects have, that leads to a constraint on how each object can behave in the world model as a whole.

And this is sort of hierarchical or at least, we can zoom in and out in detail depending on the level of knowledge we have about a particular pattern.

So problem 1 is: It's not clear to me that text or any sort of data would contain all the necessary constraints so that any particular prompt would result in a world model that exactly takes into account the constrains of each object and 2) Even if was, I'm not sure the process of step by step thinking (system1/2) about each object and computing world states could occur in current architectures. This is especially important for computing a set of objects, then abstracting the result, then doing another round of computing with that result, or something like this.

I'm not hard set on this but this is my current thinking.
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> btw is it normal for families to call appraisers? Or was it likely grandma had lots of nice antique things.

It read to me like they were (rightly!) concerned she was disposing of things she didn't want any more inappropriately, without recognising what she had - she couldn't remember where it came from. If they didn't know either, then fair enough and good call I think. Local auctioneer would be a pretty reasonable/cheap starting point (but decent chance of recognising when to consult a specialist) if there's no particular reason to think there's anything very valuable I would think.
> in most other nouns

Yes but it is not a noun

And you don't use it for "his" or "hers" or "theirs"

(So maybe that should be the hint people follow - if you can use "theirs" it's "its", then)
As of a recent update, ChatGPT can do an internet search to answer "find a Thai restaurant near me." Of course, it uses Bing, not Google.

And for my single query above, ChatGPT searched multiple sources, aggregated the results, and offered a summary and recommendations, which is a lot more than Google would have done.

ChatGPT's major current limitation is that it just refuses to answer certain questions [what is the email address for person.name?] or gets very woke with some other answers.
It's audible in the sense that it exists completely in an audio modality.

But it's not audible in the sense that human ears can't discern it.
“Huge cable bills” - we’re already back there. Netflix is $23, Apple TV just increased to $10c Disney+ is now $14, Hulu is $20, Max is $16, Paramount is $10, Peacock is $6.

You can easily spend $100 /mn on streaming services.
ChatGPT Has Been Turned into a Social Media Surveillance Assistant
https://archive.li/vXSyR
> Thanks grandma!

Because it's grandma who found the art piece and not her grandkids and because grandma live in France [1], grandkids shall see approximately six millions EUR (divided by the number of grandkids) of the 20 millions EUR this would sell for.

Inheritance taxes above 1.8m in France are 45%. Grandma to kids: 55%. Kids to grandkids: another 55%.

I mean, three kids getting 2m each is nice but let's not kid ourselves here: it's the state that can thank grandma as over two generations they'll be taking 14 millions EUR out of 20 millions EUR.

And grandma is not free to do what she wants with the money: should she decide to give the money, the donation would be taxed at inheritance rate (45%: which I'm sure komrades find totally cromulent and probably even not enough).

(which shall greatly help a state-owned entity like the Louvre museum to acquire the masterpiece btw)

Uncle Sam (well, it's french cousin): "Thanks grandma!" indeed.

[1] I live in a country which has zero inheritance taxes and zero taxes when donating money and zero taxes on capital gains (if you held things like stocks/art pieces/collectible cars or whatever really besides real estate for more than six months). Income tax goes as high as 42% though but after you've paid your income tax, your money is yours and you basically do what the fuck you want with it.
Never would have taken Furio to be an art history major in real life :)
See [1] for reference.

First a nitpick that is unfortunately important - diesels' don't have a throttle; what we call throttle is the fuel cutoff ratio, or how long we inject fuel for.

This is important because what distinguishes Otto and Diesel cycles is not the fuel, but the form of ignition. Otto cycle analysis is assumed instant, whereas diesel cannot be assumed instant. Car otto engines are fast enough that a diesel-like cycle is used for advanced analysis.

Low rpm and low throttle improve diesel's efficiency for the same reason - the injected fuel has more time to burn without the piston expanding.

As [1] points out in page 180:

"Study of equation (62) shows that as r e increases, the bracketed factor increases, and the efficiency decreases (Fig 99) Therefore, the lower fuel cutoff ratios are conducive to higher efficiencies but larger ratios result m greater power "

Also, very interesting, Diesel's efficiency is lower than Otto all else being equal. However, due to knocking, gasoline (octane ~ 90) engines have low compression ratios and lower efficiency than Diesels. However an otto methane (octane of 130) engine would kick diesels' butts

[1] https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.134070/page/n1...
"TikTok was slammed for its pro-Palestinian hashtags... But Facebook and Instagram show the same imbalance."

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/13/tiktok-...
That's not an argument, it's an emotional appeal. Hence downvoting.
Arguably Bin Laden got a great ROI on 9/11, what was his budget to train 20 terrorists, and the Dubya/Cheney/Rumsfeld response was lots of trillions of dollars, sending a lot of young Americans to death and disability, and a world that grew to hate the US even more (not just the Muslim world; Europe too, remember "Freedom Fries"?). And damn, 20 years later who runs Afghanistan? Taliban, with surplus Humvees.

So yeah, Hamas is probably happy right now with the IDF response, they don't care about the Palestinian civilians...
I mean they need to be pretty bright to be visible at all. Notice how red leds still look dim at night, but green blue are shining in the dark room. The eye can't adapt well to dim warm light.

And that is the other reason. Those would still make nights look like nights, they should look sort of moonlight like with reasonable brightness.
Either genius or madness, you be the judge!
It's a lesson to any investor that doesn't have a seat on the board, what goes around comes around, ha ha :}
>Amen, but alas we’re not there

What is troublesome is that many places, that many of us probably hail from, “were there” not so long ago, and it was destroyed by duplicitous, malicious political and cultural actors.

Having “safe streets” is not a pipe dream. Indeed not having them is a symptom of people trying to destroy our societies.
It’s actually quite simple. Israel was out of Gaza for years prior to Oct 7. On Oct 7, Hamas targeted over 1.5 thousand civilians including babies and the aged for slaughter and kidnapping. Resulting in a military operation to suppress Hamas.

So yes if your level of nuance on this is “Israel is hurting human rights, ceasefire now” and you are oblivious to who broke the ceasefire and how, then it’s not that different than making you drink Tide.
They run with one master user perhaps, but they have multiple users at one time anyways.
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Who is Milman Parry?
Extremely speculative
Wonder if we'll ever have commercial aircrafts with whole aircraft parachutes.
The racing sims include dozens of cars and tracks, Combat flight sims, which simulate entire wars, include terrain and hundreds of vehicles and munitions. There are dozens of games in this package. There's no need to install them all, but if you did, you'd need about 210GB for a single installation, more if you don't delete intermediate installation files
Watermarks can be helpful, but I believe that provenance via digital signatures is ultimately a better solution. Curious why Google doesn’t join the CAI (https://contentauthenticity.org/) and use their approach for provenance of Google’s generated audio files.
What do you see on social media?

On Instagram, I only see pro Palestinian posts. I might have seen 2 pro Israel posts since this whole thing started.

Just for reference I'm from Portugal and my network surely skews a lot towards left-wing people.
Frankly this reads like idolatry and fan fiction. You’ve concocted an entire dramatization based on not even knowing any of the players involved and just going based off some biased stereotyping of engineers?
> That's a shallow take.

deep takes are automatically superior ?
Step 1. Take batteries out of fire alarm.

Step 2. Find two fire-resistant vessels like sink, bathtub, metal bowl, frying pan, sauce pan, etc.

Step 3. Fill first vessel with water, second vessel with the paper.

Step 4. Light paper on fire.

Step 4.1 If fire spreads dump water on fire.

Done
> Can this actually manifest?

Yes. Per rsc (https://research.swtch.com/gorace)

> In the current Go implementations, though, there are two ways to break through these safety mechanisms. The first and more direct way is to use package unsafe, specifically unsafe.Pointer. The second, less direct way is to use a data race in a multithreaded program.

That races undermine memory safety in go has been used in CTFs: https://github.com/netanel01/ctf-writeups/blob/master/google...

These are not idle fancies, there are lots of ways to unwittingly get data races in go: https://www.uber.com/blog/data-race-patterns-in-go.
> giving themselves more cover on the antitrust front

There's no antitrust front on the MV2 to MV3 transition. You're imagining something that doesn't exist.

> Given the ways in which the story has changed about this rollout, my default is to assume that nothing that is projected is set in stone.

That's fine, and Google itself said in the announcement that they're doing a slow rollout in order to collect data and see the effects, but it has nothing to do with antitrust. The MV2 deprecation was delayed because Chrome extension developers complained that MV3 still had serious shortcomings that prevented them from migrating their extensions from MV2, so Google paused to address many of those issues.
Even this doesn't work because its often the case that an employee leaves for a higher salary elsewhere. Instead of trying to add epicycles to a stupid system it makes more sense to shit can it. There are about 338 million people who would benefit whereas the people who truly have anything to gain from such a system could all attend an event together.
> Now I would like to see western car manufacturers lower prices of EVs in unison.

This is not even the interesting thing about lower battery prices. It may happen, but the interesting thing is that it enables different kinds of electric vehicles.

If the cost of the battery in itself rivals the entire price of a subcompact economy car, you obviously can't put one in a subcompact economy car and offer a competitive price in that market. So right now the electric vehicles with significant range are premium products. With cheaper batteries you could have a traditional subcompact economy car with mechanical controls etc. and an electric powertrain.

Likewise, trucks need large batteries to have adequate range while hauling loads. So this gets you to an electric version of the Ford Maverick, for example.

It doesn't just lower the price of the existing models, it allows the low-end models to exist.
I personally find uberFX to be a fantastic project. It isn't necessary for you to write golang with it, but it certainly does provide a great framework for organizing code so that you can ensure that writing tests is as easy as it can be.
But that's actually what Jobs turned out to be? Woz and others were the engineering genius at Apple, and Jobs turned out to be really good at finding and identifying really good sales and branding hooks. See-through colourful boxes, "lickable" UIs, neat-o minimalistic portable music players, flick-flick-flick touch screens, and "One More Thing" presentations.

Jobs didn't invent the Lisa and Macintosh. Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, Larry Tesler etc did. They were the tech visionaries. Some of them benefited from him promoting their efforts while others... (Tesler mainly) did not.

Nothing "wrong" with any of that, if your vision of success is market success... but people need to be honest about what Jobs was... not a technology visionary, but a marketing visionary. (Though in fact the original Macintosh was a market failure for a long time)

In any case comparing Altman with Jobs is dubious and a bit wanky. Why are people so eager to shower this guy with accolades?
this is the kind of noise you get when you decide that an idea is something that can be owned
That's like saying young people being against the Vietnam war was a product of media bias.

Maybe it was true, and it was a good thing.
there's zero (or negative?) technical debt, it's all social debt
I guess you could call it a bandage? The point wasn't to bad-mouth it or undersell it - bandaids are awesome. The point is that we need some external thing to patch holes in the underlying system.
>Do fast-food companies actually require this?

It has happened although it's probably a "man bites dog" sort of thing that made it into the news.

I'm not sure it's good policy in general to discourage people from working--especially in the area they presumably have some expertise in.
how in the hell does uber need engineering problems solved?

mad
It seems like for a basic setup I need:

- an intel-based PC (can be a minipc, doesn't need a powerful CPU)

- a USB Coral TPU ($60)

- some wired PoE cameras (from $60 each)

My question: what do people typically use to power the cameras? A single PoE switch, or multiple PoE injectors?

My Arlo Pro 2 cameras are apparently EOL and might stop receiving free cloud services in a couple of months. So this seems like a good time to upgrade to higher resolution cameras.

(The Frigate docs advise against using Wi-Fi cameras, which would otherwise be my preference.)
Frankly, if it can be detected, it can be removed. Makes sense no?
what is the disagreement
“Care” about a tragedy is entirely meaningless. Protest of your government’s policies to perpetuate a tragedy is slightly more meaningful. Not by much, granted. But slightly more.
Probably because it’s received far more widespread coverage since Israel - a wealthy, prominent country - is involved.
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Going into detail in a talk and discussing AGI may have provided crucial context that wasn't obvious from a PowerPoint bullet point, which is all the board may have seen earlier.
So are the wonders of polyglot programming, too many devs are too focused on the one language for everything.

Since 2006 that the projects I work on follow a similar approach, Java, C# and nowadays node as well, coupled with C++ when required.
This was one of the most satisfying headlines of the year.

I hope the whole world will ban noncompete employment agreements. I always felt about them like I feel about WallHackers(.exe) in Counter Strike.
Complete nonsense. Which anyone with even cursory interest in Starship's development can confirm.
Been remarkable to see various political commentators freak out about this, lunging to conspiracy theories that Tiktok is brainwashing people, then immediately pivot to attacking the US government for not being in control of its own brainwashing social media service.

The polling is pretty clear. The public, especially the young public, has moved on this issue and is out of step with the positions of the elderly political class. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/israel-hamas-gaza-canadians...
People are not pro Palestine or pro Israel, most people are simply not psychopaths and young don't carry the crystallised opinions of the older generations that "know" who is right and resort to denial when exposed to contradicting information.

In social media we have bubbles but these bubbles leak because they form by huge number of categories, that is, someone in the pro-gay rights bubble isn't necessarily in the pro-immigratin bubble for example.

This results in people having exposure in multiple types of propaganda, so even if you are huge Shapiro fan you end up listening to Bassem Youssef too. The media needs all the views, not only the libertarians and they actually put them on the same screens.

The scary part for me is that in the West, once claiming to be the epicentre of freedom of speech and human dignity, now expects people to be exposed only to the "right" kind of propaganda and its considering the alternative opinions a danger and looking how to limit it. Isn't this McCarthyism 2.0?

Those who are only pro-Palestine or pro-Israel are the extremist minority as far as I can tell. Most people are anti human suffering. Now that I feel scared of backlash or getting my account limited once again, I can't even express freely my opinions on the conflict even though I'm very fond of the Jewish culture and even the country of Israel. I feel like I have to make a choice between genocidials and the terrorist. There are active institutions going after people for having the wrong opinion and people who no longer aspire to do great things but to preserve what they own are feeling scared of it.

Young people don't feel that.
Sure, and if you read what I wrote carefully, I didn’t say anything about the algorithm having anything to do with why young people are pro-Palestine.
Is there any movement in the language spec to address this in the future with Nil types or something?
Ideally they wanted the booster to touch down on the ocean.
Young people are pro underdog - color me surprised!
I don’t really buy the usefulness of trying to statically detect possible nil panics. In their example of a service panicing 3000+ times a day why didn’t they just check the logs to get the stack trace of the panic and fix it there? I don’t see why static analysis was needed to fix that panic in runtime.

What I would really like golang to have is way to send a “last gasp” packet to notify some other system that the runtime is panicing. Ideally at large scales it would be really nice to see what is panicing where and at what time with also stack traces and maybe core dumps. I think that would be much more useful for fixing panics in production.

There was a proposal to add this to the runtime, but it got turned down: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32333
Most of the arguments against the proposal seem to be that it is hard to determine what is safe to run in a global panic handler. I think the more reasonable option is to tell the go runtime that you want it to send a UDP packet to some address when it panics. That allows the runtime to not support calling arbitrary functions during panicing as it only has to send a UDP packet and then crash.

I could see the static analyzer being useful for helping prevent the introduction of new panics, but I would much rather have better runtime detection.