skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Digital ID has been used for a long time in many countries (see things like estonias ids or swedens bankid/freja or any of the similar things in other EU countries and the rest of the world). Digital currency has also been around forever.

What El Salvador is trying to try is making decentralized currency part of an inherently centralized system (government identity and banking).

I don't think it'll work but don't confuse their thing with the generally accepted good thing of digital id's (being able to prove your identity to sensitive services like tax authorities, banks, etc.) or digital money (which is what we all have except when using actual cash and coins).
I will check out Zeni Geva, thanks for sharing!
I disagree, while the marketing is carefully worded, it doesn't say that and both Proton's privacy policy and their transparency report detail what kinds of information they gather and how often they hand over that data.

https://proton.me/legal/privacy

https://proton.me/legal/transparency

I standby the assertion that people will believe what they want to, despite there being easily accessible information that contradicts those ideas.
For capitalism to be part of a culture war, it would have to take a side. Capitalism doesn't care about any culture beyond its ability to assimilate, commodify and market the superficial features of that culture as a product. Capitalism has even done it to communism - look at how much Che Guevara merch there is out there.
I don't know what I'm seeing, I missed the Apr/5 xkcd update, but this is fascinating! :-)
I haven’t set it up myself yet, but at least in theory all you need to do is build and push (and sign) images to a self-hosted container registry, and then have your air-gapped systems update from that machine.

I have used GitHub Actions and GitHub Container Registry the way Bluefin uses it to build and push images there. You might be able to even just mirror them from there if you want to punch a hole in your air gap.
Utility scale wind turbines are already about 50% efficient which is close to the theoretical limit of 59% (Betz limit). The loopy blades would be more expensive to manufacture and transport so there's a trade-off and it's not obvious that efficiency would win.
there are several nice libraries that allow you to generate plausible sounding gibberish

this one is particularly nice and easy to use: https://github.com/jsvine/markovify/

you give it a file of existing text and it generates complete rubbish that would pass most automatic filters
Grew up in the Dutch countryside with it's polders, water mills, dykes and extensive network of water. Muskrats thrive in this sort of area, but are rather not welcome as unmanaged they'd pose a thread to life with their tunnelling of watersides and dykes. When I was a kid my dad used to work for the government department responsible for curbing the population of muskrat - known as "muskrat-catchers". Joined him occasionally on his treks through the countryside to check all the traps and cages so this brings up some childhood memories. Surprising topic to come across on HN!
I trust ChatGPT as much as I trust my co-workers. That is to say, I don't need to trust them, because I have eyes and a brain.

"This code doesn't do what you say it will" is not a review comment reserved exclusively for machine-generated code.
Right, hopefully no one is sprinkling eval(prompt) into their codebase.
> Let's say Larson simply parked the winnings in real-estate. How much would that be worth today?

Considering he lived in the booming metropolis known as Lebanon, Ohio, probably not all that much.

It's easy today, in retrospect, to look at all the "winners" of real estate ownership, while forgetting about the Detroits, the Buffalos, the Baltimores. Plus high interest rates, high crime in many cities, lack of conveniences, businesses and services, etc. Places like San Francisco, Miami and most of New York City were NOT particularly desirable places to live 40 years ago.
This can be practiced! I was super into stereograms years back and have decent control now (not intentionally but happened naturally). Can slightly diverge to see smaller/far-away images or maximally diverge for the bigger/close-up images.
They should also sell a model that includes a pair of fake feet that sort of kick at the surface to complete the illusion that you’re a freak of nature.
Cnc kitchen did some tests on brick layers: https://www.cnckitchen.com/blog/brick-layers-make-3d-prints-...

He saw some strength gains, though not huge gains.
There are lots more variables to consider, particularly in lead climbing, even when you have a bolted route. And trad climbing is even more complex than that.
Brexit? The British left Dublin 102 years ago.
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First you said they don't accept recycling.

Now you claim you "went there" and discovered they do accept recycling but only if you mail it.

One of those is necessarily false, since I doubt you went to the Apple Store in between your comments.

However, I suspect both your claims are wrong, because Apple stores absolutely accept old devices to recycle directly. (They also provide mail-in options for people who don't have one they can visit directly.)

From your many comments, it seems like you have an ideological axe to grind that somehow your device can't be recycled, despite abundant evidence to the contrary and lots of people here trying to help you.
> For len() in bytes or code points and graphemes, which are ALL identical for ASCII, you can calculate it directly on the tagged pointer.

7-bit ASCII yeah, not 8-bit, which it appears are supported in tagged pointers per your original comment.

8-bit ASCII has fun characters like é (ASCII 130, 0x82) which may be 1 grapheme cluster -- but.

There's several ways to represent it in Unicode. You can do it as U+00E9 (NFC) or you can do it as U+0065 U+0301 (the combining acute accent, NFD).

This means it's a byte length of 1 in ASCII -- but several in UTF-8 (since UTF-8 only has direct compatibility with the 7-bit plane). And either 2 or 4 in UTF-16.

Also, it means this string has a Unicode code point length of 1 or 2 depending on context and normalization form.

Again, asking the context-free len() of a string is a meaningless question.

> And you also have random access to bytes, code points, and graphemes in that special case.

You should never make this assumption. You should treat strings as opaque data blobs.

Unicode is just a billion edge cases in a trench coat ;)
>yeah, tp3 is great

Sure was, in many ways. That's why it had so many hardcore fans, and why people still talk about it.

Speaking to your second paragraph, IIRC, TP 3 even had overlays, although I never used that feature, maybe because of being in the early stages of my career.
You said you were not OK to not do it and that bits of food get stuck etc. Thus I suggested you might just try toothpicks instead if you really can't go without and insist that flossing is the only way.

I also mentioned copious use of toothpicking in my original post, though mostly as a replacement for some of the brushing.
So basically, you’re trying to use stuff that came later than the data set ChatGPT was trained on and complaining it doesn’t know things that are happening in the future..
> Who decides this?

Certainly not the techbros, even though they're trying their damnest.
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PagePalooza – Fastest Website Generator
I am a software engineer. I decided to create one of the fastest ways to create a professional and scalable website.

What I wanted in this platform is:
Ability to “Start-East”. A user can generate their website and use the website building playground to bring a draft of their vision to life.
I also wanted the platform to have one-time purchases instead of recurring monthly fees.
No customization limits.
HOW?
You can assign a software engineer on PagePalooza and they can convert the website to whatever your vision is. Actual software engineers who work at PagePalooza will build on top of the website you generated and built.
They are restricting the solutions by encapsulating each problem with boundaries.

1. Create remote work technology that is better than open plan workplaces.

2. Create small self-driving one or two person electric cars.

3. Rebuild the sprawling two story office parks with multistory housing: one desk => one apartment. Everyone can walk to work.

4. And housing on top of schools and shopping malls for staff.

5. Standardized modular homes that can be easily assembled into new buildings and slip into old office buildings.

6. Nasty filters for email, messages, social media posts and replies.

7. Formal verification for software, and hardware that protects it. Penalties for broken software.
I trust it in the same was I trust a junior developer or intern. Give it tasks that I know how to do, can confirm whether it's done right, but I don't want to spend time doing it. That's the sweet spot.
He was a legend as musician, and as producer, despite destroying PJ Harvey's Rid of Me. What a major fuckup!

Anyway, the way he talked and explained the music business was always legendary.
tbf, I don't think he has another job, so if he's only creating 3 comics a week and writing his books, there is def enough time as a side project to put out a fun annual comic that requires a bit of work, obviously it would need to be planned well in advance, which it appears this was not.
US Patent and Trademark Office confirms another leak of filers' address data
OK, but the submission and conversation here isn't about bouldering.

This is about wall climbing where there's lots of choice for moves.
Resistance is futile!
How is a user supposed to know what it is and is not trained on?
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40297027
Right.

> The decision whether to write a design doc comes down to the core trade-off of deciding whether the benefits in organizational consensus around design, documentation, senior review, etc. outweigh the extra work of creating the doc

I'd argue that extra work of creating the doc is an upside because it clarifies your thought process, and design-by-committee is a massive downside.

In fact, I happen to be writing this during a design-doc meeting. I am getting absolutely nothing from it. I was writing code all morning and the background noise now prevents me from continuing productive work.
The Science of Marinades
yes. LLMs are great at giving a template or code block for specific usecase and then I use it after understanding, modifying (if needed) and testing it. I am not sure about ChatGPT but Gemini Advanced even allows modifying code and running it within the answer itself which is convenient to test out minor changes.

Also, getting template of 100s of LOC saves time in writing it from scratch even if I know exactly what I'd need to write.
I mainly use copilot for its ability to figure out patterns. It’s pretty nice when working with frontend code with tailwind. Not perfect but has sped development up a bit. One thing I like is if I put a rem size in css and wanted to comment what the equivalent pixel value is it does the math.
Sure you can, but it's rare to see a GUI app built keyboard first and specifically optimized for the productivity of power users. The list of apps that do this successfully is a tiny fraction of the total.

- Excel

- 3D modeling tools

- Adobe Creative apps

- Programming IDEs

- ?

Also, if you are focused on that metric: the productivity of the power user, then in many cases adopting a more modern GUI framework will not necessarily make it easier to achieve that goal (and in some cases may make it harder).
I can't speak for the US but people absolutely do not act like this in Europe (and Europe has some of the most arrogant self-assured service workers on the planet depending on the country - I won't name names but you can probably guess which country has the most extreme and limiting arrogance around what should or should not be done with coffee).
Yes (at least approximately, I'm fuzzy on the details).

These days it supports both. (IIRC the default is legacy/nonstandard, you select the standard behavior with /fpermission-, and VS adds /fpermission- to newly generated projects)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/two-phase-name-lookup...
You’re right it’s a total guess. It’s based on my experience in the field.

My strong “opinion” here comes from an observation that while calculus may have been a required subject of study in awarding engineering degrees, the reality is, people didn’t really study it. They just brushed through a couple of pages and wrote a few tests/exams.

In America there’s plethora of expert software engineers who opt for a bachelors degree in computer science that is a BA not a BS.

I think that’s complete totally reasonable thing to do if you don’t want to grind out the physics and calculus courses. They are super hard after all. And let’s face it, all of the _useful to humanity_ work in software doesn’t require expertise in physics or calculus, at least until now.

With AI going forward it’s hard to say. If more of the jobs shift over to model building then yes perhaps a back to basics approach of calculus proficiency could be required.
> French company Seabike

They have a .fr domain and a showroom in Cannes, France but the company is headquarted in Italy:

PARITET SRL, Via Giovanni da Cermenate 3, 22063 Cantù (CO) Italy

Also, the French version of the website is riddled with enormous errors, like "For traveling light" translated as "Pour voyager lumière", which does not make any sense and isn't even grammatically correct (the proper translation would be "Pour voyager léger").

The whole thing does not inspire a lot of confidence. Is the product real?
I assume the current Gaza war will be over soon - in that case we can all just forget about it (?).

Not a chance. What's happening in Gaza now will be no more forgotten than all the other trenches filled with civilian bodies (adult and infant) thanks to the various atrocities of WW II.

"Mowing the lawn" it ain't.
> Ask chatGPT if Taiwan is country. Do you think an LLM from China will give you the same response?

Depends what language you ask it in :)
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Or you can treat AlphaFold as a black box / oracle and work at systems biology level, i.e. at pathway and cellular level. Protein structures and interactions are always going to be hard to predict with interpretable models, which I also prefer.

My only worry is that AlphaFold and others, e.g. ESM, seem to be bit fragile for out-of-distribution sequences. They are not doing a great job with unusual sequences, at least in my experience. But hopefully they will improve and provide better uncertainty measures.
Also, Polars has a sane and well thought out API, unlike the hot streaming mess that is Pandas.
From a search, the message seems to have been in place since at least 2017[0] and I'd suspect is automated on detection of mass-deletion.

I can understand the reason for the policy (in some ways SO functions more like a wiki than a forum) and it doesn't seem to have been introduced to quell the protest against OpenAI.

[0]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/296822/287788
i feel sorry for those it doesn't, for me it works like a charm
> Imagine if guidelines from the 80s about how to write software were enshrined in law.

If Edsger W. Dijkstra's wild ravings from the 80s were enshrined in law, perhaps we wouldn't have quite so many fatalities attributable to crap software. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E...

> A number of these phenomena have been bundled under the name "Software Engineering". As economics is known as "The Miserable Science", software engineering should be known as "The Doomed Discipline", doomed because it cannot even approach its goal since its goal is self-contradictory. Software engineering, of course, presents itself as another worthy cause, but that is eyewash: if you carefully read its literature and analyse what its devotees actually do, you will discover that software engineering has accepted as its charter "How to program if you cannot.".
You'd think they'd want to cite specific stats to quantify the language they're using though, no?

That they don't pull and display stats from their cited sources would be a bad sign, no?
It's sad :(

I preferred the old days better
As others have mentioned - code should rarely involve trust. This is what code review is for. Even your mentor / cracked engineer makes mistakes. Code review and tests are always critical. Whether it's a human or an AI, code and the code that tests it needs to be reviewed / validated.
Yeah I had the same experience and ultimately got rid of an M1 iPad Pro for an M3 MacBook Air. I still have the ease and portability for watching videos while doing the dishes or on an airplane, with the added benefit of a keyboard and OS for productivity in case the muse visits.
It is reminiscent of the very old DOS game "The Incredible Machine": you receive a certain number of various items (fans, conveyor belts, basket balls, tennis balls, cat, mouse (cat would follow mouse upon seeing it), mirror, candles, etc.) and with the items you had, you had to solve a problem like, say: "To win the level, you must send 32 tennis balls above the wall".
Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking
filter and reduce have been in JS for more than a decade now.
If you don’t have major health problems requiring specific doctors, and depending on your place of residence, Medicaid could be a good option too. I had very positive experiences with Medi-Cal in Santa Clara County around 7 years ago: my HMO referred me to every specialist I requested, and the cost to me was always $0.
Makes sense, should have thought of it. Maybe I didn't because I am more of a backend and command line guy.
Yep. OP had to ask it fix mismatched brackets, and is a perfect example of the type of person who definitely should not use LLM for code.
My theory is that late-stage Google is designed to hide monopolistic profits.

This is exactly how I'd design a company if I wanted to burn as much money as possible.
I'm the author of ClickHouse, and this topic is interesting to me.
I agree a hundred percent that domain knowledge is the single most dominant influence to problem solving expertise.
Went straight to the comments instead of the article and was surprised to discover that:

"They’ll invite themselves to live in beaver dams and make for a vaguely tolerated roommate that helps patch up walls and stuff. They’re not as good at the big picture stuff as beavers."
The internet is fine. It's the walled garden websites that runs on the internet that suck.
Our intern uses copilot extensively and its code is riddled with errors. What a pain to review, a lot of time wasted.
This is really concerning for newer generations that are not professionals yet but they trust it because the code looks better than what they are able to do. Worse, they outsource their brain and don’t sharpen their senses. How will they become professionals this way ? As a help it’s okay, as a cheating tool that make them faster …
or even code I had written myself in the past.

Aaawwww hellz no. I hate looking at my old code. I've had too many of those surreal experiences where something breaks, I start looking at how to fix it, and am suddenly stunned to realize "this could never have worked in the first place." There's one or two of those I'm still puzzling over, decades later. :-(
As a nerd, I love to see carefully maintained illusions that give a convincing impression of something much more grand going on than is actually happening. Games that push for more and more realism make me wonder why I don't just wander around the real world. Games grounded in realism but augmented with nonrealism (magic, special powers, added knowledge, selective relaxation of physical laws, ...) are fun.

Your "constrained physics" seems to mean adding constraints to make it implementable. I want constraints aimed at making it cool or fun, and implementable. Which is what this project did.

Plus: if you tell me something is smoke and mirrors, I get excited. "Ooh! How did you time the smoke? Oh, this mirror is half-silvered?! That's awesome, I wouldn't have thought of that! What would happen if..."
Every time...

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.
1. I don't trust code from humans too

2. You can't trust LLM for anything. They are a Large Language Model, you could consider LLMs having knowledge to be a bug. Their architecture is not meant to reason.

3. ChatGPT and co really needs a feedback loop with compilers to drastically improve(http://devin.ai/ is working on that)

4. If you pick a popular language you get good results because they trained it more with those. JS and Python are ok, Rust or Haskell are never correct
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You... might want to inform yourself a bit more before making proclamations about the future.

LLMs have fairly well understood failure modes. They have incredible strengths, too. And they differ very much by what you use. If the ChatGPT you were forced to use was GPT3.5 (and the behavior sounds very much like it was), you literally have no idea what modern LLMs can actually do.
“We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time.”
And Kill Bill.
Henry Rollins