skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the report, so basically it removed the legal burden on people and police, no need to hide or buy at secret deals, and no need to arrest them all the time for smoking, is it right ?

Are there regulation on the production of cannabis on sale ? concentration and limits in amount of impurities etc ?
I live 30 km away from a Belarussian border (so, for all intents and purposes Russian), so I am biased towards extreme measures, as Russia historically does not respond to anything else.

However, after multiple UK citizens were harmed on UK soil calling that response "significant" anything is frankly a joke.
Sure I have 'a network' at home too. So I am exactly like Google in that regard. We both have 'a network'. Very comparable.
I wrote assembler 68000 during the Amiga demo scene days

I did that too.

And I couldn't be more enthusiastic about the current AI developments.

I have been dreaming about an AI system which reads websites and predicts the next word ever since I got my hands on the web. And tried to predict if that could lead to strong AI.

I even built a somewhat related experiment as my first public web project. A system which asks users for their favorite 3 bands and then predicts the next favorite band of that person. And after talking to a lot of users, it turned out quite useful. That made me even more convinced, that strong self-learning AI would become a thing.

During the dotcom time, I was too inexperienced to fully grasp what is going on. I was doing my own thing, not enjoying the full picture as much as I could have.

But now, with the advent of LLMs, I enjoy experiencing this shift in technology so much! Watching this explosion from day 0. With a much broader horizon than last time.

I actually don't think that tinkering with LLMs themselves is the way to create the next Google.

Yahoo was putting content directly on the web which seemed like the obvious way to create "the" web company. A media company made for this new medium.

But the much bigger business model turned out to be to just leverage all the existing content.

My feeling is that this time, it will be to leverage the existing LLMs and APIs out there and tie them together to something useful.

So the Google of the AI era might turn out to be a good old Python program that makes and answers http requests.
Berlin has a lot of smoking bars, and people frequently smoke on train platforms. Cannabis won't significantly worsen things.
It is, it's just a bit odd that I can be prosecuted while smoking a blunt, not because I'm smoking it but because I have it.
> I think that the Promise API was not the actual thing people directly wanted (and on its own had no compelling reason to be added to the base library), but a standardised Promise API was needed in order to add the hugely useful async/await keywords which are unachievable without changes to the language.

In JS, the async syntax is largely syntactic sugar around chaining promises with `.then()`. Promises alone fixes callback hell and brings structure and scoping to multi-stage async operations - at least to the extent possible in such a dynamic environment as JS. There are only a couple minor additions relating to the main entry points, microtasks and interactions with the runtime, to make the main async/await experience we enjoy today. This is actually a good thing, when you can build abstractions on top of other core constructs, without affecting the rest of the language too much.

There may absolutely be analogous syntactic ergonomic constructs on top of signals, reactivity or observables - whichever is sensible - that could be layered on top to compose really powerful user-facing features in the future. So the success of promises and async is a still a supporting story, in my view. A lot more research and scrutiny is needed, but it’s certainly one of the top interesting ideas.
That is impressive, any chance you’ve documented your journey and collection anywhere? I’d love to learn more.
Americans eat a lot of beef and chicken compared to Europeans who eat way more pork than either of those. And there's good reason for this:

`The best beef in the world comes from places with large open areas. USA/Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil. Having large and flat areas with varied vegetation allows the cows to develop properly. As well as providing the land to grow feed. By contrast, the smaller and often hillier farms in Europe produce a leaner and more muscular cow. Which influences what breeds are raised and used for meat or milk, as well as being subject to each country’s agricultural laws.`

And the US eats about as much chicken as Spain eats pork, but for beef they're more like in Serbia's position.

If Europe had as much flat, fertile land as the US, or were geographically closer to the above-mentioned places, Europeans would certainly be eating more beef and chicken.

Spain, Portugal, Iceland and Poland really aren't that far off from the US in consumption.
From experience as a failed organic chemist (who happily switched to computational chemistry for reasons of self preservation) I can tell you it's plenty dangerous when you're following correct instructions :^)
Wait are you saying that you think inflation in Japan is due to foreigners?

Hint: its not. Hint: Bank of Japan.
I watched other people smoke cannabis, and after producing some foul fumes, they were just passively lying on the floor with a stare of apathy. I decided to NEVER try this, and to this day I have no regrets; I enjoy being in full control of my senses (I also do not drink alcohol and do not smoke).

The only thing hallucinating in my place is neural language models that I do research on.

However, I do support the legalization of cannabis, as scientific evidence suggests that can reduce crime and reduce attractiveness of it as a kind of "forbidden fruit", and I think it'd be wrong to criminalize those people who were too curious for their own good. There also seem well-attested cases for medical use.
I'm sure that is also true. But I know the other thing happens too. I've heard about it and read it. Some Indians even asked me for a referral, as a stranger.
need a person with a Scottish accent to take command of it.
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Threads is the gas-leak social network
What a deeply weird comment, these are all tangential remarks at best.

Also what is your obsession with "horn implants" and "third tit"s

> time to bring it back then, alongside horn implants, and third tit.
Up until about a week ago it was, even though they announced otherwise.

However, there was suppressed to be a further push to end it. I haven't walked by Pusher Street since then.

News yesterday (Danish) https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/den-her-gang-er-det-anderl...
Links to all these models you speak of?
FreeCAD.

And also reading the book on Modern Manufacturing Techniques by Groover.

I work as a Software Engineer but somehow I haven't had the itch to write any personal software or work on side projects for some time now. Looking to expand my toolset and get my creative side going again in a new space.
And how do they know it _reliably_ produces code instead of non-code?

I could tell you I back out of my driveway without looking every day and I reliably don't run people over.
Why wouldn't people keep making open source, say "hey, no warranty!", but companies that use it in "load bearing contexts" have to assume liability for their choices, assuming someone enforces that.

Isn't that pretty much the way the world works now? What needs to be fixed?
Depending on how many individual tweaks are necessary for hardware variants of course... but at this level of code & complexity it actually seems pretty reasonable to write 3 or 4 versions of things for different vendors. More work yes, but not pointless.
I seem to have missed these photographs, but "Russian spies found to be in the same cities as US spies" doesn't seem like some huge bombshell.
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So are children working in US factories and processing plants or not?

The context here is whether child labour occurs in the US.
Exactly what I'm doing now - building a sustainable business while also full-time employed.
Their only significant business is cars; beyond that they have a small solar business and homeopathic quantities of semi trucks. But they are clearly a car manufacturer, albeit with some weird hobbies.
I don't claim to offer a perfect solution, but the first step is admitting the problem. I'll be seeking out alternatives myself.

> with good ownership management

This part is questionable. As the advertising news highlights, a private company operates primarily in the interest of its owners. For a venture-captial backed company, you expect to see the cycle of benevolence in order to grab market share, a model that induces lock-in (social lock-in, in this case), followed by exploitation (advertising and the other predatory FOMO stuff they have with the subscriptions).

The writing was on the wall from the get go, but people fell for it anyway. And now I'm hit by it too because I have to use it to hang with my friends.

It's all so tiresome
Paradigms aren’t just technical capabilities within a language, they’re also modelling approaches for real world problems.

Imperative programming lets you think about a series of steps. Structured programming lets you split and name series of steps into known procedures and structures. Object oriented programming (and object relational mapping) was wildly successful because a lot of enterprise programming is about interactions between durable real world entities. Functional programming remains somewhat niche because modelling in terms of pipelines of pure functions is hard to map to real world problems without great discipline.

None of these is right or wrong, nor is any subset or combination. But they’re not just regrettable constraints, they’re valuable ways of thinking. Any language seeking to grow beyond one or more paradigms still needs to offer a clear and consistent way for programmers to reason about the world.
Those are mostly unaccompanied minors who have no other options. If you want to allow them to live here (as many leftists do), how should they survive?

> Dreier estimates that some 250,000 children have crossed into the U.S. without their parents in the last two years, and that the majority of them wind up working full-time jobs.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173697113/immigrant-child-la...
Always .. however the holiday schedule thing does stand out as something that could have been missed by the orchestrators.
And still alcohol is legal despite all proven destruction it causes
This is the last essay by the same author. Same tone. I think he's serious about this: https://www.spakhm.com/bullshit-ratio
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And it was highly vulnerable to denial of service attacks. It didn't check if the mailbox was valid during the envelope phase, so it would queue basicaly everything, then check the mailbox and send a bounce if necessary. Sending thousands of messages to random boxes (dictionary spam attack) would queue thousands of bounce messages that would be rejected by the (faked) sender domain, bringing the Qmail server to it's knees. As me how I know this...

Thing is, in most companies, is cheaper and more efficient to deal with a sporadic vulnerability than having your e-mail system DOSed every other week.

This is the kind of compromises that normal people and companies have to do all the time, but radicals and cryptopunks like DJB can't seem to understand. Sure, he's a brilliant mathematician and cryptographer, but his grasp of reality outside academia seems very flimsy, IMO.
Treat an LLM as a confident smart person who isn’t an expert in anything, and doesn’t have access to resources to check their answer (unless you give it access).

If you assume the above, it’s unsurprising that it doesn’t get your question right.

What’s the correct answer to your question? If you say “research the question before answering” I bet it could probably solve it.
Don't get discouraged too soon.
There's still a long way to go until we reach 'models do everything and make everyone irrelevant'.

Yes, there will eventually be just one application which can 'do everything', but somebody has to build that.

Humans must still review the generated code and figure out the 'business logic' - eg. what they (humans) want from the app, even though the code typing will be largely automated.

Also, for the AI to develop to those levels, society and the economy as a whole needs to keep being relatively stable, which is not guaranteed, given challenges like political instability, possibility of war, climate..

But yeah, things are changing fast for us devs (and many more professions out there), AI makes solving problems easier and cheaper, so demand for problem solvers will inevitably go down.
On the bright side, those same people who are not in demand also have access to these tools, so they can use it to create their own thing with less effort.

As for getting old, yeah, I think about this more than I used to.

I dedicate a big amount of time to staying in shape and doing physical activities, going into nature, using my body.

I feel like I've wasted decades of beauty while typing all that code and not being in nature.
Century-old stone "tsunami stones" dot Japan's coastline (2015)
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Even worse,

> If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future

"we will track you until there is regulatory obligation not to"

The person who wrote this was terrible at marketing spin. But uh, it's good that they are at least open about it, maybe?
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You could get all kinds of network stacks for msdos. Net ware, 3Com XNS, a weird proto Microsoft network I can’t recall the name of, banyan vines, decnet . Weird stuff for ibm token ring networks. And yep TCP as well. When lan manager was released you could run it over a choice of networks TCP included, because the original lan manager ran on Unix as well as OS/2 as the server.
I've gradually migrated all my accounts to pseudonyms over the past few years, also citing arbitrary social punishment and unlimited downside of sharing my identity, combined with (more) limited upside.
Prosecution in Sweden for an act committed in another country is generally only possible if it is punishable in both jurisdictions. Internationally it's a relatively common rule in criminal law. Courts have smacked the cops and prosecutors over this so they don't waste time on such cases anymore.
I wonder what this means for Copilot integrations in Microsoft products?
I'm... not sure... a bit sad, a bit surprised that people think defamation is acceptable. Because election.

The same applies in other circumstances. "Saving the climate should not be a crime", "I was just bringing the kids to school".

IMO breaking the law due to a greater good is acceptable if and only if you accept the punishment with your head held high. IM personal O.
There are no words in the English language that exist that I can use to describe my disdain and hatred I have towards MS Teams. I hate it so much.
I don't think this would work in practice. My employer sends daily deal emails without using a third-party service like SendGrid or SES and what we do is pay a company like Validity who interface with the big email providers for us. They have honeypot emails that get and validate our emails, they get feedback from the providers on how much they like/dislike us, and we get reports on this.

So an attack like this would be very obvious very quickly, even leaving aside that we'd notice a huge spike in email sign-ups and probably kill their accounts (especially since they're not going to be buying anything from those sock puppet accounts!).
:(

C# has been at that for more than a decade and a half already. Java's arrival to the party is extremely late and still lacking in many areas.
The devil is in the details, as always.

There's no downhill slope from where we are now to "AI does all the work." It's an uphill battle, just like automation at large, and it will never truly end.

Software has been eating the world, and AI will eat the world, but humans will shape how that happens, and there will always be new opportunities, new challenges, and new levels of abstraction.

AI will enable us to solve bigger problems. Picture beautiful cities integrated with nature: flower gardens, fruit trees, self-maintaining ecosystems. Picture spaceships capable of interstellar travel and asteroid mining. Picture advanced personalized AI doctors who can detect disease just by scanning your face and can cure you using AI-discovered techniques.

There's a huge amount of coding (AI assisted) to bring us to that world. I understand the nostalgia and fondness for memorizing syntax, but there are more exciting problems to solve, and we're on the verge of solving them. If programmers are problem solvers, then this is shaping up to be our most exciting era yet.
A lawbound state gives me the freedom to live my life without being murdered by someone who knows there are no repercussions for doing so. If you think there is a good reason to allow murder, then please explain what that is. I do agree with you that many laws are overreaching, like those that prevent me from doing something with no negative effect on anyone else, just like the law we're discussing here.
Are there any unclaimed islands left?

Sadly this wouldn’t apply to new islands since it takes a long time for bats to establish themselves.
I had downloaded some LLMs to run locally just to experiment when a freak hailstorm suddenly left me without internet for over a week. It was really interesting to use a local LLM as a replacement for Google.

It gave me a new mental model for LLMs rather than a "spicy autocomplete" or whatever, I now think of it as "a lossy compressed database of knowledge". Like you ran the internet through JPEG at 30% quality.
It’s an awful thing for many to accept, but just downloading and setting up an LLM which doesn’t connect to the web doesn’t mean that your conversations with said LLM won’t be a severely interesting piece of telemetry that Microsoft and (likely Apple) would swipe to help deliver a ‘better service’ to you.
No, the context is whether that labor is illegal. It is, and it remains illegal even with the changes discussed in the article.

And those are mostly unaccompanied minors, with no other way to support themselves, so it's not so simple as saying they shouldn't be working.
Occam's razor says that the perpetrators likely didn't spend years building up trust to hack some early adopters before the releases got more stable.

It would be like spending hours baking bread only to eat it before it goes in the oven.
Sort of.

They basically had "Quality" as a part of their entire culture. Each person was expected to do their part in the Quality ecosystem.

The spec process could take months; years, even.

Once a spec was written, it became Holy Writ. It could only be changed or amended with buckets of blood.

The projects tended to be about 50% spec, 20% initial development, 30% post QC, and then, 50% fixing the problems found by QC.

We tended to deliver software that people wanted, eighteen months ago. It worked to spec, but didn't do much else.
And next, in our series of having overconfident famous people bloviate about stuff that they know nothing about, we’re asking Kim Jong Un how to make the perfect omelette!

One of modern media’s more irritating behaviours, this. Musk, who is at this point pretty much a human LLM, is particularly good at providing ill-informed nonsense, confidently stated, but it’s a wider problem.
I think what has happened is that you have come to terms with your own mortality. It isn't something which comes early in life, or even at all for some people. As time progresses a bit more you will realise it changes nothing, because nothing has changed! There are things we will never see, or experience, or do. That's life.
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I was thinking about cpm online software too! what hardware do you run it on? any links?
I've been a discord user since the very beginning - I joined in July 2015. In almost 10 years of using discord, I've never had to do anything, even a required updated. I've paid for Nitro on and off over that time, and am currently paying $3/mo. I think less than a take away coffee per month for a decade of hassle free chat is worth it, and it's less than running even the cheapest of cheap VPS's
I think the original point was to make a typesafe printf that's still reasonably efficient without creating a bunch of small temporary strings. Like, if you printf like this:

printf("Number %d, String %s", n, s);

but the types of n and s aren't int and char*, all hell breaks loose and you have the origin of a million CVEs. But how do you make that function signature typesafe, without the tools of modern templates? You sort of can't. One thing you can do is do string append stuff, but the syntax then is annoying:

print("Number " + to_string(n) + ", String " + s);

This also creates a bunch of temporary strings, which is not ideal (and still relies on operator overloading, btw). In this world, using operators for this does make some sense:

std::cout << "Number: " << n << ", String " << s;

Like, seen from this perspective, it's not the worst idea in the world, it does work nicely. The syntax really isn't too bad, IMHO (the statefulness part, though, really sucks). It also allows you to add formatting for your own types: just overload operator<<!

Clearly, properly type-safe std::format is vastly superior, but the C++ of the 90s simply didn't have the template machinery to make that part of the standard library.
> I hate ads, I hope they will limit them to a small amount for free users

Do you hate them enough to pay to not have them?
Don't you think it just serves to highlight that Cpp2 is just C++? That it's explicitly not some new language with C++ FFI like Carbon.
There's a T-shirt for that: https://dribbble.com/shots/2672066-Exposure-Bucks
Why does SSH use xz? Should it? Is it really that important?
Same with many other drugs that has medicinal value, IMO. We can have a war on opioids all we want, but there are people who do need it, right? There will always be people who abuse it, be it cannabis or whatever else. I know for a fact it makes me lazy, so I do not use it.
I replaced a keyboard on a unibody MacBook pro. 52 absolutely tiny screws to hold it in.
It's just weird to expect the owner and employees of some random pizza place to suffer for your convictions but not be willing to suffer for them yourself.
I think you're completely wrong in almost every way possible.
I agree with everything you said here. I mean this guy chose to be a movie critic -- probably the dyingest corner of a dying industry. And of course they can pay people nothing for this, because there are a billion people who would love to do that job, making it hyper competitive.

Your comment about automation also made me reflect on the nature of job competition in the future. Now we compete against each other, but soon, we may be competing with an algorithm that pound for pound we can't beat. What's the value add for a human?

This has been the case already in some sectors, like manufacturing...but it seems we white collar guys are going to be facing the music soon ourselves.

Also it makes me wonder what kind of job kids these days should target. Trades? Manual labor? Areas where regulatory structures will soon work as welfare-esque gatekeeping (medicine and law come to mind)?
After reading this I’m more convinced than ever that switching from twitter to nostr was the better choice indeed.

Nostr is a protocol, not an app. A good way to get started with it is https://primal.net/
antitrusting by default untill too late design patterns