skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because public transport is a poverty tax where you went to school does not mean buses and especially other transit are inherently for poor people. Buses do tend to be mediocre for longer distances, but the main issue is general quality of service.

I grew up in a region with fairly mediocre transit, but because the living environment is not hostile most things can easily be done by bike unless you need to go to another city. Hell, I biked 8km to school, and while somewhat time consuming it was quite literally free exercise.

When I went to uni, before moving to that city I relied on transit. Because of the low density in the region, trains are only half-hourly (which is by far the most sucky part) and it's on single-track rails so every train stops at all stations. However during rush hour it's still time-competitive with cars, and transfers are generally pretty good because those are the reason transit works in that region at all.

Something like "you need a car to be able to get to (store)" that's mentioned in another comment would be literally unthinkable here. You can get practically anywhere with a bike and a transit card.
Don’t forget “Oops!” — the element of surprise.

The developer doesn’t know what went wrong and things definitely don’t go wrong all the time at Microsoft! This is as surprising to the developer as it is to you!

It’s also pleasantly humane, not like “ERROR:”, meaning it’s more of a silly and fun oopsie doopsie than a systems engineering failure.

Don’t you just feel better as the user seeing that? It’s not the systems engineer’s fault and neither is it yours. It just kind of happened. What even is “it”? No one knows! Computers are weird — eh? Nothing like a whimsical hiccup in your computing to brighten the day.

Whatever you were doing, whether it’s saving work, buying something, or completing critical forms, some of that was probably done, or maybe not, but who really knows? Hehe, not us — we are just as surprised!

Oh, and don’t call support with this stuff. There’s not enough to go on even if you reported it for us to investigate. It’s just one of these things, you know?

Forget about it and move on buddy! You’ve got an essay to rewrite/a purchase to figure out/a critical form to complete again, and who knows what will happen then! Will it go through? Maybe, maybe not. It will be surprising if it doesn’t! Isn’t it just so exciting?
Native Cantonese speaker here, glad that you are interested in learning Cantonese.

I am working with other volunteers to improve Cantonese teaching, and wonder what difficulties you have encountered when learning Cantonese, and what materials or communities would be helpful for Cantonese learners.
Yeah but that would be taking nearly all of the Microsoft out of it ...
But then it's not "anytime you want"
You don't need to be afraid, this is already in use in Singapore and China, for example. In the US not so much with persons as far as I know, but certainly with cars.
Once you find a problem, remember to ask the "5 whys" to get to the root cause.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys
To be fair, I think Google just rolled back a bunch of AI stuff.
Great book and influential to Levin as well. I agree this is where we're headed
The problem is that the message does not speak the truth. If you can read a message it clearly must exist because you cannot read non-existent messages, can you? Can anyone? CAN ANYONE HERE READ NON-EXISTENT MESSAGES?

The message should have said "This message is not saved on the server. If you close this window without copying and saving its text you cannot retrieve it from the server ever again.
The book I'm writing is almost finished and is based almost entirely on production use cases: https://leanpub.com/patterns-of-application-development-usin...
Not only Google search, but also other Google products like Google Maps!

Today while I was driving to a time-sensitive appointment the app all of a sudden changed it's estimate to one that would be 5 minutes late, asking me to do a dangerous u-turn. I'm glad I chose to ignore it because, after stopping at a light and launching Apple Maps, I was able to make it on time without that dangerous u-turn route it was suggesting.
EU Clings to the Pervasive Surveillance Dream
Did you watch the video? I don't think anyone has anti-gravity cloth that lights up on touch in their wardrobe.
https://www.bankrate.com/real-estate/cost-of-living-calculat...

doesn't agree with that. It says cost of living in San Diego is almost 40% lower than living in Manhattan. it pulls from ACCRA.
Not really, top speed has never been a selling point for cars since maybe the bootlegging days. They've been optimizing for either power or gas mileage for a long time.
As someone that’s taken bus rides that are over a day long.

I want good inter city rail.
I want good urban railway or subway in metropolitan areas.
And I want bike lanes for last mile travel.

Once we do that and reduce the demand and congestion on the roads, we can plan new roads accordingly.
If rumours are to be believed, Apple seem to have been pressured into doing something with OpenAI. I just hope it's opt-in or easy to turn off, whatever it is.
> So far I have spent 6 months in Rust and my old tool looks like a toy. How did I ever live without iterators, algebraic data types, the safety of a strong type system, and especially separate types for arrays and hashmaps for god sakes?

I programmed in many languages with similar features (C#, Java, Swift, Objective-C) and programming in Lua is refreshing to me.

In daytime I can deal with doing C# at office, but at home, Lua is more fun to me. Great for hobby projects. Would probably love programming full-time with Lua as well (if I could make money with game dev).
No one is saying that all of AI is hype. It clearly isn't.

But the facts are that today LLMs are not suitable for use cases that need accurate results. And there is no evidence or research that suggests this is changing anytime soon. Maybe for ever.

There are very strong parallels to crypto in that (a) people are starting with the technology and trying to find problems and (b) there is a cult like atmosphere where non-believers are seen as being anti-progress and anti-technology.
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Agree that your use-case is different. The papers above are dealing mostly with adding a domain-specific textual corpus, still answering questions in prose.

"Teaching" the LLM an entirely new language (like a DSL) might actually need fine-tuning, but you can probably build a pretty decent first-cut of your system with n-shot prompts, then fine-tune to get the accuracy higher.
Example healthcare-app shows only the data(base) structure. How does one define the business logic?
I can forgive most of the Quest's OS limitations because it's functionally an entertainment device.

The AVP should have been a powerhouse like the Hololens, and the $3500 price tag didn't exactly scream anything other than enterprise for mass adoption.
Circa 2003 when we got the first WiFi access point set up (with no password), we started noticing people with laptops appearing next to our homes. It took us a few seconds to realize they found a free WiFi and walked around to find a spot with better signal.
True, but in this case (equipment / structural issues), it's better to be safe than sorry.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaste...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1#Accident
don't forget driving around looking for parking for 20 mins as well
I pretty much only tip at sit down places now. I dont tip at the coffee shop, but then again I just drink black coffee so there is nothing to do other than fill up the cup and I'm not going to tip for that. Why do you tip at the coffee shop, but say not at a fast food joint? It seems to me there is as much work and skill assembling a burger as foaming milk.
I've seen some infographics that shows LLMs practically need to see same data 4 times or less, and once is fine too(trained for one epoch).

And I was like, y'saying, it's a zipped list of edge cases...
> On Thursday, he said shareholders who voted against him were “oathbreakers.”

That's certainly warped perspective.
I'm surprised it took this long for anyone to notice. Maybe that's naive of me. I'd have expected many product safety organizations would be testing products.
Talk to Amory Lovins, Stewart Brand, Bill Gates, Laurene Powell Jobs, or at least listen to what they’ve already said, and examine what they’ve done.
You have to set some baseline. We assume the CPU can divide numbers correctly, even though not all of them did.

Autoconf has set the baseline so low that everyone perpetually pays for the technical debt of ancient buggy platforms. Sometimes it's better to push a buggy platform to fix its own bugs, than to have everyone work around those bugs forever.
It is still very useful to standardize the pronunciations, since people with different dialects had to meet especially those officials in government. There was “yayan” for this purpose.

https://en.wikimedia.org/wiki/Yayan
Yeah I think a key is LLMs in business are not generally useful alone. They require classical computing techniques to really be powerful. Accurate computation is a generally well established field and you don’t need an LLM to do optimization or math or even deductive logical reasoning. That’s a waste of their power which is typically abstract semantic abductive “reasoning” and natural language processing. Overlaying this with constraints, structure, and augmenting with optimizers, solvers, etc, you get a form of computing that was impossible more than 5 years prior and is only practical in the last 9 months.

On the crypto stuff yeah I get it - especially if you’re not in the weeds of its use. A lot of people formed opinions from GPT3.5, Gemini, copilot, and other crappy experiences and haven’t kept up with the state of the art. The rate of change in AI is breathtaking and I think hard to comprehend for most people. Also the recent mess of crypto and the fact grifters grift etc also hurts. But people who doubt -are- stuck in the past. That’s not necessarily their fault and it might not even apply to their career or lives in the present and the flaws are enormous as you point out. But it’s such a remarkably powerful new mode of compute that it in combination with all the other powerful modes of compute is changing everything and will continue too, especially if next generation models keep improving as they seem to be likely to.
It is. I'm contracting for a company right now and they have a number of scripts to automate various day to day things. More than once I've taken a look at them and have been able to 100x their speed due to a little common sense. Caching some things, not pulling ALL the data when not needed, precalculate stuff outside of hot loops, etc. Like really basic stuff.

No one cares anymore. I don't get it.
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>my computer had a public IP until the early 2010s as around these days modems were just models and not routers too.

You realize that wasn't the norm though right?
The best available actually have the fewest knobs for JSON schema enforcement (ie. OpenAI's JSON mode, which technically can still produce incorrect JSON)

If you're using anything less you should have a grammar that enforces exactly what tokens are allowed to be output. Fine Tuning can help too in case you're worried about the effects of constraining the generation, but in my experience it's not really a thing
I tip at the coffee shop because I go frequently enough to be friendly with the staff. It's a positive interaction for me so I tip for that.
Car ownership costs vary widely. If you buy a new $50,000 car every two years, that is obviously very expensive, and then will be expensive to insure, and many of those luxury vehicles aren't amazingly efficient.

Whereas you can usually find a reliable and efficient used car for under $5000 and keep it for quite a bit more than 2 years, with a good driving record and the lower cost vehicle it can cost less than $1000/year to insure, and maintenance is dramatically less expensive if you do it yourself. And I mean the difference is $60 for a part on the internet vs. they charge you $250 for the same part and $500 for the labor to put it in.

By contrast, a monthly NYC subway pass will run you a little over $1500/year, which will in most cases be less but not necessarily a whole lot less. Plus whatever you get stuck paying to Uber whenever you have to go somewhere the subway doesn't.
Also see a full web rendering engine (modern HTML + CSS + the whole layout engine) made in pure Python, that can export to PDFs: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint

They even support a lot of properties that aren't in Gecko/WebKit/Blink, like the @page rules.
Unless your great grandparents were born after world war 2, they had it worse in every aspect. People starved in the Great Depression. The only people who starve today are those who refuse to ask for help.

Infant mortality back then was atrocious, my grandpa had two (out of 13) siblings die at birth. He grew up working on the small family farm that was the family’s primary food source with the little excess produced sold to buy supplies for it. A bad harvest meant the whole family starving for months. Healthcare was essentially non-existent.

Step into the 50s during the baby boom and the huge economic boon that came from the post war rebuild and things started to look up, but they were still crap compared to today.

The houses they could so easily afford looked quaint but were absolutely trash quality on average. The ones left today are the nicest from that era. The average ones were gone by the 70s. That’s available today too, go get a manufactured home and it will be roughly the same quality but with better insulation, plumbing and electrical.

>I couldn't afford 14 kids even if 10 died instantly.

You absolutely could if you fed, housed, treated, and schooled them the way they were back when this was common.

Job security was also terrible back then. There was a reason unions were more popular.

You’re really getting a rose colored view of the past and I’m not sure where it’s from.
Except conventional CPUs aren't really glorified PDP-11s, except in the sense that they're Von Neumann machines with untagged memory; and the conventional CPUs started lapping the Lisp machines around the mid-80s, when 32-bit microprocessors started becoming common and Lisp compiler technology evolved to better support them.

And even the "untagged memory" bit might not hold; with things like CHERI, a LispM style architecture is due for a major comeback.
My dad lived in a Colorado suburb and took the bus to work. He saw firsthand how the bus deteriorates when bad policy doesn’t fund public transportation. When he retired in his sixties, he was running on the order of 50 miles a week or so for his morning commute.

Our governor adopted budget cuts that forced the public busses to run private ads, then called them an “eyesore.” People—especially poor people or families that don’t want to rely on cars — need reliable public transportation!
“According to the labels, these tapes should have interviews with Bill Gates, Timothy Leary, Douglas Adams, Bill Atkinson (creator of MacPaint), Steven Levy (journalist), Jack Tramiel (Atari), John Reese (Tronix), Joel Berez (Infocom), and many more.”
Get off your fucking ass and move like everyone back then did. They didn’t all sit around and cry that they couldn’t afford to live in Manhattan where their great grandparents lived.
This reminds me of the queue used by libuv: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61163161/how-does-the-li...
The biggest problem with public transport is usually the public.

Segregated services for commuters are great, but catching a bus to shop/recreation/restaurants is miserable and restrictive.

As as aside, developing mass transit always has the problem of being at the whim of the next political goal (subsidised bus routes especially). Roads are physical easy to understand, so less subject to political vs.
Yeah so this is both the "in charge of your own environment" and using luarocks, which is ignored by a big portion of the lua community.

A common situation is wanting to distribute a script that can be loaded and run by a lua-using environment, say a game client or something along those lines. What can you depend on? Can you expect or demand that users of your script have luarocks installed? If not then what is the path? On windows too? Do you maybe need to vendor that? Can you even? If the module is pure lua then fine, but lpeg isn't. Is the OS going to allow the host program to dlopen an unsigned C bin?

Lua is used for so many different things you could possibly never run into any of this stuff. But in my experience it's a major headache for a lot of uses. Partly this is a consequence of lua succeeding on its own terms, and being embedded in a lot of highly variable situations. But it still sucks in practice.
Yeah CSS variables are great, and enable a bunch of super dynamic stuff without needing any JS!
Maybe it was 6gu.nz (site broken) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afXzeCuUuhU. I wrote it about 5 years ago and probably mentioned it in a couple of comments here. It had draggable tables on the normal 2d grid, with references between them.
Chang'e-6 probe lands on moon aiming to return first samples to Earth
Some good passes at UX copy in this thread, but for this application, I’d recommend against trying to explain the underlying technical mechanism at play and instead frame it in terms of outcomes.

“This message has been deleted, but you still have a temporary copy. If you need to save anything from it, you should do so before discarding the temporary copy.”
To be fair, the project sounds completely pointless.

Why is why I absolutely love it.

It's the true hacker's spirit - about testing the frontiers of what's possible. Note what was said as well:

> This is really just a bit of fun and a way to write CSS in Go. I wanted to see if it was possible and it is with ease.

And I thought this was aspirational as well:

> CSS written in Pure Go. No JS builders, no preprocessors, no linters, no frameworks, no classes, no variables, no overrides, no plugins, no dependencies, no javascript, no templates, no bs, no nothing. Just Go.

Rust people are all about "let's rewrite it in Rust". I don't see why Gophers can't have their fun as well.
Kind of a tangent, but kind of interesting is when you walk in to Supermarkets and places that sell household goods in countries in East Asia, except Japan, is the smell of chemicals coming from things like sandals, shoes, patio goods, etc. It's overwhelming to me, but locals seemed nonplussed.
Same, I kept thinking "Are there really that many people still on Twitter to make it slow or do they just lack funding for infra".
They could do a density test with water if there are concerns about whether a substance is really gold.
Sounds like weekly tests, not sure for how long though. Do you have more information suggesting it’s been happening for longer?

> South Korea – where Seoul authorities have been conducting weekly inspections of items sold by platforms including Shein, Temu and AliExpress.
I turn mine off each evening before I go to bed, and turn it back on some time during the next morning. Saves battery power too.
Yeah you can't use words like that. Even many people who won't panic at the word "server" don't really understand what it is.

"This message no longer exists in your Inbox. If you close it, you will not be able to open it again."

What's more amazing is that this state actually happens often enough in Outlook that somebody wrote code to detect it, and to create a message box for the user to warn them about it.
> Just two days ago I flipped through a slide deck from a security conference where the author, Jossef Harush Kadouri, found that using a model from a place like Huggingface means the author of the model can execute any code on your machine.

Proceeds to link to pdf of unknown origins
Can you say more about flow?

I'm curious about practical use cases, could you share some examples?
No, it really doesn't outline anything. Just vague statement from former employees speculating about bias, but not actually any evidence of gender discrimination. The closest it comes to actually layout out specifics is:

> The complaint also said male managers and colleagues “repeatedly” removed her from emails and meetings.

There's loads of legitimate reasons to remove from meetings and email groups, but the article doesn't go into any details about why these removals were discriminatory.
Python notebooks for fundamentals of music processing
I agree with the first part of what you said, but disagree with your closing comment. I think a lot of people underestimate how significant construction costs are. I planned was infinite and there were no zoning regulations, my home would only give up like a third of its value.

Materials and labor are a huge component of housing prices
I don't think so. He's shipped a few quality games. He can speak from experience.

That's not to say I agree with all his opinions.
Don’t you mean SNL authorities?

https://youtu.be/MKTN2OiR2R8?si=FXeLzKUI9gO-J4ci

Kinda surprised this made the front page; we’ve had Amazon cloth pencil cases contaminated by lead, random drop shipping ultra cheap goods sure would seem suspect.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90347745/amazon-agrees-to-remove...
It makes me chuckle to think you’ve done an analysis of this article for provocativeness.

Thinking about a real human spending their time trolling threads to tell someone their critique isn’t interesting..well that’s a bit less humorous.
What about localization? What if a release of the browser changes the string?
Man, I tried at Bloomberg to get my managers to let me incorporate lua into Tradebook's trading system. They just simply couldn't get it. I'd try to explain and they would look at me like I was from mars or something.

Eventually they got tired of me pitching for it and fired me. How did you ever get managerial buy-in for something like this?
Would this have anything to do with some of the exploits not persisting past reboot? Like the one I run regularly to jailbreak my PS4?
What is the cost for someone running a botnet to probe for old OSs also? They can just take something off the shelf and run it on someone elses machine.
Out of curiosity, do you have a landline?

I was alerted to a garage break-in because a push to my phone went to my watch, and then I called the police immediately.
I was just trying to find a way to turn it off last night (doesn’t seem like you can on mobile safari).
You don't. Explaining what happened is not going to help the user at all. You can only explain what options are available to the user. Something like the following

"Sorry, this message can no longer be saved. Copy this message before discarding it if you will need access to it later."
Before YouTube (and Google video..remember that?), Super Smash Bros Melee players shared matches and combo videos on a DC++ hub. It was THE place to find footage of people pushing the game to its (then) limits.

Another DC++ use that persisted well beyond streaming and torrents was Dtella, the file-sharing network on Purdue dormitory intranet.
AI-Enabled App Can Help Parents Bond with Their Children
So now the user has to remember to not only open a private window or tab in their browser, but also open the whole browser in private mode?