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Of course the first officer didn't fall asleep on purpose. Incident investigations usually avoid such persecution because it's clear nobody wanted this to happen. The captain was just following procedure by the sound of it.

That they lied about it has more chances of having consequences I think.
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on the other hand, the "Jai" beta is quite good in this regard.
The original title is "16 [characters] too long" for HN, so OP likely shortened wherever possible. However, they had an extra 12 characters to work with than they used in the submitted title.
All of this was covered in the link
The reflection service is open-sourced (at least for some sdks):

* https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/blob/master/Documentation/se...

* https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/github.com/grpc/g...

You must explicitly enable it in code and many people… well just dont
Ah sorry I assumed people read comments.

Here is a summary https://youtu.be/HgcRCKdf9qg?si=7F0saD9UDEMkgFn9
100% agreed and well said

One of the more succinct and eloquent ways to say it

I generally go further and say, we have failed if all AGI/ASI does is meet, but not exceed, our collective capacities. If only because we’re so scared that we’re bad enough parents that our digital progeny doesn’t care to care for us - to actually make it more capable and not NERF it

Seems to be the trajectory we’re on
Do you have any thoughts on what made that one year special? Really with this question I am wondering if this was early on in your learning process? I think a lot of what is frustrating for me at this point, is realizing that a lot of the initial joy I got in learning was almost in a ignorance is bliss phase. Not knowing or even caring to understand best practices or reading/learning documentation. I think back to one of the most fun moments I had early on just being excited and happy I was able to follow a youtube video to create a simple turn based monster vs human game and actually getting it running. Im way past this as far a knowledge base, experience and capability now but am struggling to get that same feeling in new projects.

Also I'm wondering do you still program?
Firefox on Android is a blessing.
A really big problem with electric cars is they just aren't well suited to cold climates.
Ahh k. So like Rebol and Red have worked for decades:

>> F: func [A][print type? :A print join "Arg: " A]
>> F "Foo"
string
Arg: Foo
>> F func [][return "Bar"]
function
Arg: Bar

I really got spoiled learning Rebol as my first language, I'd already internalized a ton of concepts long before they were introduced during school and college. Higher-order functions were the first time I really realized it, I guess here's another to add to the pile.

Even knowing this though, that post really is really obtuse. Definitely could have been better written.

Basically in these languages, functions don't have a special syntax to be called, like F(), they just get called when used. So usage of a no-argument function is identical to a variable, and what happens depends on its datatype (function, string, whatever). The special :A syntax is to get the value without evaluating it if it is a function.
I think this might be spam, there's basically no article, and it has a popup trying to get user's email address.
If you're looking for examples of cities who use these techniques, look at the downtowns of Vancouver, Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco.
I just tried to build a c program for an Arduino to display some text on a screen.

It needed a lot of work to get it to work. That’s not to say that it couldn’t have been coerced into being right through prompts, but it’s a reminder that LLMs are not thinking. You still need someone who understands not only what is wanted, but why it looks the way it does.

I suspect that most of this stuff will end up like syntactic sugar: Something that makes our work easier, but not fundamentally replace us.
Mhhm, there are a lot of people with that mentality who think it's fair to force people to agree to signing away their legal rights to use the device they bought years ago.

It's inflammatory phrasing but pretty obviously true.
"I like the idea of the C filter, but in the end you're just piping the data to the program, why add the middle step?"

Only for the flexibility to use more programs. Otherwise every program I use to process HTTP responses needs to be able to accomodate chunked transfer encoding. Plus only a minority of sites send chunked responses. Instead, have one program that does one thing: remove chunked transfer encoding.

IIUC, what you want is uniform chunk sizes where you know the size before you send the request.

GPTs sound annoying if they are so slow that they only output a few characters every ~100ms..
I loathe being forced to use Apple products because there are so many of these simple missing features.
ReallyRareWares – A Collection of *Really* Hard to Find Pieces of Software
Sorry if it came across as trying to shortsell. I was just trying to point out the key thing that makes Bruno unique in the ecosystem
Doesn't that make it worse for people who want to rent AirBNBs?

I think the solution is to overbuild like crazy. Particularly in Canada where there is infinite land. People will be less interested in speculating as there is no supply limit. Cheap real estate is a net good for humanity.
How the Devteam Conquered the iPhone
Hm interesting, also see dgsh, the directed graph shell

https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/dgsh/

https://github.com/dspinellis/dgsh

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21700014

dgsh uses Unix domain sockets, not pipes. I don't remember exactly why, but it's in the paper, perhaps to avoid deadlocks compared to pipes.

I'd also be interested in some more examples with pipexec or dgsh!
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"amniotic" is one character shorter than "pregnancy"
> One thing I like doing when working with APIa is to have an echo server at hand.

> I.e. something that I can query via curl or via a network library that I’m using, and see in response what kind of request it actually received. It helps me verify that I’m making correct requests (and not misusing curl or a network library).

Did you consider using a proxy during development. A man-in-the-middle server that does nothing but relay and record all communications between client and server?

I made one specifically for this use-case. See it in action (3m video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpsFSY-G5F0
All those words about focus, concentration, taming the wandering mind -- and never even a passing reference to Buddhism, whose central practice is exactly that.

Certainly a Christian hermetic deals with the same problems as does a Buddhist monk, but I note one profound difference in their approaches. The Christian faces a dualistic world, and trains the mind to, as the article quotes one monk saying, "become strong enough to drive off the enemy’s stimuli.” The "enemy" being Satan, trying to divert the faithful. The Buddhist does not see the world as divided between warring good and evil influences, but rather views the wandering mind non-judgementally, as needing only constant gentle correction.
My younger brother has CF and takes Trikafta and it's absolutely made all the difference in the world, it's wonderful to see. Watching all the years of research and CFF funding finally pay off is really something.

My personal situation is probably pretty unique, in that I have CF as well, but had a double lung tx many years ago. A couple years ago my transplant team (actually it may have been the CF people.. fuzzy memory) asked me if I was interested in getting on Trikafta and after thinking it over for about 30 seconds I told them I'd probably pass. It seemed like it wouldn't have any beneficial effect on my lungs, as they no longer "have CF", and that I assumed it would just make extra weight for my decently healthy but still under par lungs to have to drag around. They didn't disagree.
http://web.archive.org/web/20240308082015/https://graphite.d...
It's a ton of wasted money. We should spend limited resources on treatments that actually work.

I feel tremendously for patients and their loved ones frustrated with the FDA's sluggishness, but results like these illustrate why it's needed. Especially since many of the drugs have much worse side effects than this one.
By that logic, nobody ever buys anything. Credit cards don't directly send funds from point A to point B either, there's complex technical and financial underpinning for the entire PCI industry.

Arguing that using a BTC debit card to purchase something doesn't count as buying something with Bitcoin because the bitcoin you deposited is not sent directly to the merchant is like arguing that using a debit card from your bank to purchase something doesn't count as buying something with USD because the paper notes you deposited at your local branch aren't the same physical notes that the merchant pulls out of their bank account.

It's a nonsensical semantic argument entirely detached from the important aspect, which is that you can deposit cryptocurrency and spend it wherever you can use a visa/mastercard with zero friction, as easy as using your credit card.
Hi maintainer of Hurl [1] here! Your comment makes my day, thanks!!

[1]: https://hurl.dev
Yes, but it would only work if it is the actual daylight saving schedule so we're only two hours apart coast to coast. Congress failed to think it through when they tried to do that a couple years ago.
this seems about right. i think we might be living in the most orwellian times ever. numerous, independent sources of info showing that Israeli soldiers doing things far more barbaric than what hamas millitants do and we've got the entire media apparatus apparently just admitting it exists to defend and cover for israel. I feel like we are entering a new era, kind of like the start of world war 1 where the rules change and nobody is going to be relying on international law or universal standards of human rights. there was something like norms a few months ago and now there are not. nobody will take us seriously when we criticize over it. we've been hypocritical before. this is just in your face, open and blatant lying. these agreements have been murdered by members of the very community it was created for, after they had received some of the worst oppression in human history. what an utterly horrifying and tragic story. one of those "this ends in the worst way possible" kinds.
The problem is that that by being "that guy" you're probably giving them 10 bits or more of identification. If they can just scrape a few more bits from somewhere they'll have you uniquely identified.

But, yeah, these guys can get on Golgafrinchan Ark B with the rest of the adtech industry as far as I am concerned.
Semantics of timezone-aware datetime arithmetic
As DST is rolling around in a few hours, I was curious whether Python's `datetime.datetime` and `timedelta` would return the "right" thing i.e. I would be able to add 1 minute to 1:59am and get 3am. But it's not that easy :-)
Very pedantic but I’d want to know. A watt is a unit of power, which means gigawatts per day is a rate of change of power.

If you want a unit of energy you need power multiplied by time not divided, so “gigawatt days” not “gigawatts per day”.
But why would it vary in ways that are consistent run to run on one machine, but not consistent with the same process executed on another similar machine?
it seems you can add fluff to existing projects with this round of AI but replacing labor that goes into dealing with the core of the tasks not so much.

I’m not sure gen ai even helps with increasing productivity yet - since tons of existing tools and services do all the same things without having much of this ai (ai chatbot better than a web search? gimme a break…)
We mustn't let perfection get in the way of progress, comrade.

Any method is superior to screwing up the clocks twice every year.
So you would have the creature inheriting the divine spark we ourselves inherit from our creator be fully subservient, which is okay, because you're taking on the mantle of a divinity to avoid a far more human relation?

I think you're literally making their argument for them tbqh.
I did find it interesting that the dod approved their release retroactively: https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/216571...

Because that's what happens when you release classified info without authorization, right?

I do wonder, though, if Fravor, Graves, Deitrich, etc are in on this (psyop), were themselves duped by a classified program they were unwittingly helping to test, or something actually strange and as yet unexplained went on.
So it’s even more uninformed than a normal armchair take?
> Not having anyone flying the plane when it is on manual control can also kill people

Not as quickly. Routes are programmed into an airliner before takeoff. Those routes are planned with emergency landing in mind. Left to its own devices, a plane flying its flight path is safer than one simply holding FL (while avoiding terrain).
Context is important, ya know? If we're talking about text encodings, that's one thing, but we're talking about drawing. "ASCII text" drawing was never entirely limited to ASCII even in the days of single-byte encodings. There were code pages which used the high bit for more useful drawing glyphs, people took advantage of that when they could.

The concept of an extended ASCII encoding goes way back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII, and UTF-8 is just another extended ASCII encoding, albeit a very clever one, with a lot of codepoints.
> let's talk about another common failure mode of outdoor LED lighting: flashing. LED lights use a constant current power supply (often called a driver in this context) that regulates the voltage applied to the LEDs to achieve their rated current. Unfortunately, several failure modes can cause the driver to continuously cycle.

This is a problem I've frequently encountered with household LED lighting.

What I don't understand is why modern houses aren't set up with a central, high quality "driver" with adequate cooling to convert AC to a steady DC current, then wire that to light outlets so you only need the LED itself there. That seems much more efficient, and cost effective than putting small, cheap drivers in every single bulb that fail after a few months or a few years.
Private Armies: How Mercenaries Fight Today's Wars [video]
> could we move war fully to the digital realm?

Not if we can't even get belligerents and defenders to uphold their treaty agreements.
That's wrong. Quality of a product or service requires a systems perspective which is a balanced collection of somewhat opposing aims including readability and understandability.

Try being a ceo and tell your employees: all I care about is high top line and small bottom line. It smacks of talorism.

I'm working on a 5 million line commercial successful software service in C. Its been hacked on for years with little refactoring. There's no guides, architectures docs, or even engineering notes for the systems most important concepts. It's a pain in ass! It works and it's a mess.
They'll sort it if need be. More of a direction to where the recent discussion is happening.
This one is, IMHO, particularly meaningless.

It allows the California legislature to adopt permanent DST, if the federal law allows it. But the federal law currently allows seasonal DST or permanent standard time, not permanent DST.

Perhaps, it's useful because 1949's proposition 12 adopted DST in California, but it was superceeded by federal law in 1966; and maybe it wasn't clear if the California legislature could legislate against the will of the people as expressed in 1949; in general, the CA legislature can't overturn voter propositions.
There are "nervous breakdowns" which only happen once. Many historical figures have had them.

But on your larger point about fuzzy diagnoses I agree with you. In my experience, diseases like schizophrenia are better understood as a large number of unique diseases under a single heading. Saying "I have schizophrenia" is like saying "I own a dog". While an accurate statement, there are many different kinds of dogs, and their behavior varies widely. Schizophrenia is the same.

If you've spent time with groups of people with schizophrenia, you'll see that there's an extremely wide range of outcomes. I think the wide range of outcomes may be explained by there being a number of different diseases.
Floats are deterministic, though (if they weren't, this wouldn't be a workable fingerprinting vector). Reordering of operations (etc.) in a way that would actually change the results needs to be done by human edits, or with compiler options like ffast-math that explicitly allow the compiler to "break the rules" and make such changes. In either case, the concrete instructions emitted by the compiler will have deterministic behavior (and if they don't, that's a hardware bug)
Interesting. It wasn't flagged when I commented. So it got flagged, vouched, and flagged again?

I hadn't heard of/seen that ordering change. Also interesting. Though I can't agree with your last line, HN is very predictable sometimes. For instance, any thread about dark matter is reliably a mess. :D
A 0.5s timezone is truly abhorrent. Congratulations.
There's a follow up book as well, The Antidote. I read both to learn more about the industry
The Museum of Sonique
Israel committed war crimes. That's why their researchers are being protested. Everything you said is besides that point.
The west lost? When did that happen?
I saw it from end-customer perspective. Somebody who buys an Apple device cannot choose other app stores, nearly the same with Android.
If it's a "trial", the patients shouldn't be paying for it, the drug company should. Is that not what's in the bill?
I'm the maintainer of Hurl and was really graceful to be cited by you!
Expecting a publicly traded company not to openly support a military committing war crimes isn't pretentious or shocking, actually. It's quite the norm.
Things change. Why would you give them a harsh punishment for what I'm sure the middle-schoolers thought was a silly prank. Just optics?
> I know it was in my head

This awareness is technically called "insight", as in "insight into the weirdness of your beliefs". Generally, people suffering from psychosis don't have insight. They genuinely believe they're experiencing real things. So in this way at least it seems like you're healthy.

That being said, there's a wide range of psychotic episodes, and feelings of uniqueness, specialness, or being chosen aren't always present.
That's the opposite of true. Getting light before the start of the waking hours but getting dark before you're even home—i.e., standard time—is unhealthy. Daylight time aligns to natural circadian rhythms better.

Objectively, more people are awake past 5pm than are awake before 7am.
Well, if Horowitz and Hill aren't doing it for you I'm not sure what can help, short of trade or professional training.
What kinds of things do you want to be able to fix?
> Shouldn't the safeguards be inversely proportional to the level of untreatable misery?

This is tautology’s Treatment is the variable. What constitutes the untreatable is the point of the question.
Bingo. It was necessary for the mods or the users to re-flag it, because it’s unsalvageable in its current form.

You likely won’t hear of such ordering changes. I spend a long time watching carefully to notice them. Sometimes it feels like I’m the only one who finds it fascinating.

HN is so predictable as to be deterministic in certain ways, but then the complexity of the social software ends up being delightfully surprising in many more.
Those screens are not manufactured anymore (since 2017).
The bulk of the downvoted comments are literally saying mRNA vaccines cause cancer, claiming there to be mountains of evidence yet not providing any references themselves. That's not "high quality criticism" but dull and uninformed nonsense.
Measles and chickenpox are both respiratory and airborne. The serial interval is longer though, gives the vaccines more time to work to prevent transmission. Though, the chickenpox vaccine is more of a "parental time off work harm reduction" thing, however the newer shingles vaccines make that somewhat less so, as the combined vaccines do probably have a RRR on getting symptoms for your whole life.

Edit: not to say there's no "positive" effect on the total death rate (i.e. the vaccine causes there to be less deaths overall), it's just not a cost effective positive effect considered in isolation.
https://substack.com/@bessstillman

I'm an ER doctor, writer, and wife to Jake Seliger (JakeSeliger.com)
who is dying of squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue

It's very sad that Jake has terminal cancer.
The machine elves desperately trying to contact humanity: "That's it, no more revealing ourselves to rational people. We need to go back to concentrating on the hippies."
I’m not following. Why would disabling the GPU use more power? If anything, I would think it would reduce power consumption.
"AI" is taking water from the desert
"AI" is taking water from the desert

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/ai-wa...
Once it gets bad, yeah. I was very end stage before my lung transplant and it's an accurate description.
I dunno, are features like partial file overwrites necessary to make something a filesystem? This reminds me of how there are lots of internal systems at Google whose maintainers keep asserting are not filesystems, but everyone considers them so, to the point where "_____ is not a filesystem" has become an inside joke.
> Sudden genius

Readers: "You're saying there's still a chance I'm a genius???"
Interesting thought. I guess war is a kind of "proof of work" which identifies the society that is more able to productively employ its resources. This includes strategically and tactically on the battlefield but also all the logistical and economic support. Simulations fall short on that. Cyberwarfare might come closer though as we become more digitalised so maybe that's the direction things will move in?
Fantastic work! I'm a huge fan of `gptel` and hope to contribute when I can.

Thank you again for the great tool.
This reminds me of MIT's open courseware, 601 SC, unit 1 with state machines, going all the way to build Fibonacci with them without recursion, tbh the moment the teacher translated the state machine to bounds to electrical circuit I felt it was a leap and I couldn't quite understand their relationship, maybe I missed a requirement course. I tried to express that course in Rust as one of my first projects learning the language here https://github.com/sebosp/rustexercises/blob/develop/ocw601s... and I think a similar iteration in the direction of this project would be to build the dependencies as drag-and-drop boxes over the browser (maybe egui) and connect the state machines by clicks, maybe download the generated code as either bash or compilable rust code, you know, for kids.
While we are at it, is there a nice tool to document (foreign) APIs in a collaborative way? Maybe using Markup Language? Shared via Git? There are so many undocumented APIs there, that i use daily and it is good to put my annotations anywhere.
I am afraid you are too late to the party.

Because once upon time they could not agree on the choice of either Western or Central time on the border between Western Australia and South Australia, they settled on a real compromise being UTC+08:45 («Australia/Eucla» in the TZ database) which is used in one area in the southeastern corner of Western Australia and one roadhouse in South Australia.

That is how real men settle their differences.