skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your second link makes it clear that no version of self-driving was on anywhere near that particular crash, so that does not support the above comment at all.

If the only true part is that the system disengages at some point, then "kind of" is much too generous for that kind of rumor-mongering.

But if I ever see some real proof I'll spread it far and wide.
Notebooks are a diluted form of the Lisp/Smalltalk REPL-based development experience, with some features from the reactive-spreadsheet world. Especially for those of us in the business of producing numbers, 'real code' with a fixed set of tests isn't a better way but a necessary evil, a black box that we can't really trust. Building a calculation piece by piece, in a notebook, trying out variations along the way? That's how you get a feel for the calculation, connect with it at a spiritual level.
My understanding is that California taxes are better for lower-income people, and Texas taxes are better for higher-income people. Your situation will dictate what state is better for your finances.
> fairly impartial justice system

Seems like that’s crumbling, to the point it’s concerning even to me.
the only things that have changed is edicts by the government (some good, some bad). So either the government or the individuals are to blame. companies produce goods within the rules of the government that people are willing to buy. 'mega agribusiness' grows food that sells. people buy things they want, these have never changed. The only thing that changes is the government taxing and banning goods and services, thus, the reason we have gotten fat is likely the governments fault. But good luck waiting for them to accept the blame, as the government is the judge, jury, and executioner of sorts.

those edicts include forcing companies to use less animal fats, forcing people to stop smocking, etc.

> Perhaps mega agribusiness revenue should be taxed proportionally to the exponent of the average caloric density of their total products sold.

Rice is among the highest caloric density foods grown.
On the topic of such videos, I do feel like more people need to view these things. Not casually, or as entertainment, but to get a glimpse of what these events are actually like. I watched the Christchurch shooting, and seeing the callousness of it all... I don't know, it changes you.
I will give it a try and use the qr code in my business card, hopefully it won’t be abandoned in few months.
Did I miss somewhere in the article where the author says what the chosen alternative is to notebooks? "I'm also constantly exploring other options and having fun" makes it sound like there isn't one.
There's so many other ways to achieve the same effect though. I would argue that serializing the result of some expensive computation explicitly is even just better, as it can have a meaningful name and metadata.
> If people are given a chance to be lazy, they will be (I will be for sure). Quickly hacking some stuff without properly testing? Sure! Linting? Pfff, living on the edge, you'll throw the colab away in an hour anyways

To save everyone time, I think the fundamental disagreement comes down to this. A vast chunk of the audience of notebooks is people whose brain has not been drilled on the daily about best practices and maintainable code and often don't get judged on that criteria or affected by the consequences of this. If you believe that these people are irredeemable as engineers, or more charitably that the incentives driving this cannot be fixed, then you probably believe in taking away good tools from these people because they'll misuse it, and then you'll agree with these articles. If you don't, then you won't.

> I am using code autoreload and write code in modules
>> Nice! I've done this for a while as well. This is a good use-case. However, this approach does not address some of the issues, e.g. data analysis scripts should be checked by another team member.

How come? When you write your code in a module, it gets committed and PR'd and linted and tested and reviewed just like any other code, which is the whole point of this approach. Which I think is the most reasonable and mature one.

The notebook then is mostly reserved for a very thin interaction layer optimized for play, on top of your vast iceberg of reviewed & tested & maintainable code. Including lots of prewritten convenience routines for plotting and munging to minimize business logic in the notebooks further, and not have paragraphs of matplotlib crud in hidden cells. You construct what's almost like a shell + DSL that's optimized for the domain and datasets you care about, and you can focus on investigating. If there's more significant code, it soon goes in a module again, without interrupting your ongoing flow and thought process.
Yes they could build them, but currently there’s no economic reason to do so.

If SHTF and oil companies were barred from exporting, then that changes very quickly
No, I assure you, even in 2024, there are definitely fields where spreadsheets are still the spreadsheets of code.
It really is not difficult to find breasts, bottoms and well proportioned limbs on the Internet. Even in underwear if you must because you’re afraid of something.
My workflow normally starts in the shell (SQL, R/rush/ggplot csvtk, etc), moves to Jupyter (F# in .NET Interactive, with some SQL and R/ggplot inlined), and then to a Makefile when I’m ready to make some deliverables.

I’ve got an ever growing tool set of F# data related functions that I’ve moved to a personal lib in my dotfiles and use in scripts, notebooks, etc.
Some people, such as Jeremy Howard, think otherwise:

https://nbdev.fast.ai/
It's pretty ironic that every one of their "cozy internet" site examples requires pumping all of your communications through a third-party private business that only exists if it somehow can make money off of you, and which can do whatever nebulous stuff with your data that it wants. Doesn't seem very cozy to me.

I believe the mainstream internet is already completely overrun by malicious actors, whether bots or not, and the majority of the population doesn't seem to care or have the ability to notice. I don't see the bulk of the population doing anything to retreat from it. A subset of the population, that includes myself, sure, but "the people", I doubt it.
Adobe Projects Strong Profit, Signaling It's Part of AI Boom
Yeah, nah.

The possibilities are:

Everyone can vote by entering the country.

Or only citizens can vote.

The direct purpose of any ID system is to identify people so that citizens can assert control over the state by voting, not the other way around.
Agreed, even something like "coding" notebooks if brandname usage is a concern would help. It took more time than I'd like to admit to understand that they weren't talking about physical notebooks...
I don't think so, but do you think archiving digital conversations between remote employees and employees and customers doesn't show up on a number of regulatory compliance reports?
Do you have any suggestions on how to help people achieve and maintain good mental health?

It's true that addiction is ultimately a psychological problem. It's true that people engage in addictive behaviors as a coping mechanism to avoid difficult emotions.

It's also true that the Internet has enabled a lot of deliberately addictive content. Phones keep that content constantly at hand. And it's difficult to avoid having a phone since they also provide utilities.

I'd like to live in a world where everyone had such great mental wellness that they were impervious to the temptations of their phones. What are some serious tactics to make that happen?
> For example Skyrim sold 2.6 million in 2011 on the xbox and only a million on the ps3.

You have to consider total software sales, not individual titles. And for the PS3 you have to consider its impact on blu-ray movie sales (which aren't in those charts).

Blu-ray also launched in 2006 and the PS3 was one of the most useful players available because it could do more than just play movies.
I do think we have much more sensitivity to deviations in human appearance. We probably wouldn't notice a lot of "weird looking" cats that other cats would
> She learns the Chinese general's phone number from a memory of the future and then calls him.

Didn't she do something like this in the short story as well? The part where she learns the non-zero-sum phrase?

> In the movie it wouldn't have made sense for her to see her daughter die in an accident and then not act on that information at all

It didn't make sense in the story either. I remember being infuriated.
There will be no Pony for SD3 with the current licensing, per the creator: https://civitai.com/articles/5671/towards-pony-diffusion-v7-...

Loras are easy to train on consumer hardware, but a fine-tune like Pony takes significantly more resources and a lot of work in terms of image tagging, curation, etc.
Code = spreadsheets in many places.
Chinese Yuan will become Russia's main currency – Russian Central Bank
Yeah, the mainstream stuff that you get to use while subjected to heavy surveillance and censorship is about the same. There's a whole universe underneath that, with no restrictions and basically unlimited creativity, if you have the required hardware.
> If a local number starts with a single 0, strip the 0 and prepend the country code. If it starts with 00, strip the 00 but assume the country code is already there.

This will work for most of the world, but not everywhere. There are countries out there that don't use 00 as the international call prefix (Wikipedia has a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_call_pre...).

Take Austrialia, for instance, where 0011 is the prefix to strip to turn an international number into a local number, but 0018 is what you use to route a call to Optus. Australia's country code is not 18!

All of this can be prevented on mobile phones by simply placing a + at the front, but landlines (and systems simulating landlines, such as VoIP) quickly become part of a hellish web of deviating telephony standards.

Like email, the format may look simple, but only if you pretend not to have to deal with any other country or culture in the future.
Amen to that. The confluence of an insulator nature of organisational developer cliques, the culture of self-importance in the field, and the ability for many teams to expend material effort on things that are…at best, tangentially related to business goals (due to cheap money, and frankly, often pulling the wool over management’a eyes), has bred at least a couple of generations of developer where large contingents have a completely out of whack perspective on what’s actually important.
no that's correct, it's the right content.
Is getting rid of command line interfaces really a good idea?I don't think so,a lot of people work with and are fond of the CLI tool.
The site is really hard to navigate on a phone.
Notebooks are primarily a _teaching_ tool, not code or an experimentation interface. I know that's not how they're used, but it's really bizarre to me that people use them for exploratory data analysis. They're great for teaching and for _documenting_ the results of exploration, but fairly bad for any type of interactive data exploration, let alone actually writing code.

Frankly, notebooks are pretty terrible for exploratory data analysis, especially in python. The main issue is that they absolutely kill interactivity. Straight up CLI based ipython is far more interactive, and often better for exploratory data analysis. In a lot of ways, pretty much any other interface is better than code blocks that aren't independent but can be run independently.

Part of it is the interface (i.e. non-linear state, code blocks, etc), which is great for teaching, but bad for exploration. However, i.m.o. even more of it is the fact that it's browser based. E.g. folks often think it's best to use matplotlib in a notebook. However, using a notebook means you get very little interactivity out of a highly interactive library and remarkably poor performance out of something that's actually _very_ interactive and quite performant on standard Tk/Qt/etc backends.

If you ditch browser based stuff, you're usually far better off. This part is mostly just me griping, but I don't understand why we've stepped back 20 years in basic usability, interactivity, and performance by making everything use a web browser (and then making that not even remotely cross platform).
To the extent SD's "harm reduction" filters are making it less useful, I blame the concern trolls and pearl-clutching, click-pandering media pundits for creating and feeding the current atmosphere. Concern and outrage have become a cottage industry, yet little has really changed here. Making naughty images good enough to deceive has been possible for 20 years. AI just makes it much easier. Of course trolls, spammers and random delinquents are using it to do more of what they've always done.

That this would happen was so obviously inevitable to anyone paying attention, I find the current levels of "concern" from supposedly savvy, experienced pundits dubious at best. Personally, I find all the faux drama around this rather uninteresting. I acknowledge my viewpoint is likely unpopular but (IMHO) the level of perceptual heat being generated in mainstream and social media now exceeds the probable real-world net harm from LLMs generating fake images, reinforcing offensive stereotypes or (gasp) confidently spouting wrong answers. It's nothing that Photoshop, TikTok and search engines haven't already been been doing for years. Non-tech people's perceptions are already in the process of adapting to this new normal, while most of us tech-savvy people have already been appropriately skeptical of uncorroborated images and videos for many years.

The downside to the perceptual tempest is that fear a few users will transgress some boundary and become tomorrow's click-bait headline du jour is causing researchers and devs to waste a lot of cycles chasing ill-defined (and probably unattainable) harm reduction goalposts that keep moving just out of reach. It's nerfing a potentially useful emerging technology before we've even seen how capable it might actually be. Instead, I'm doomed to interact with some straight-jacketed LLM that's been tortured into maintaining a faux chipper, inoffensive persona that's a cringey parody of a real, authentic and useful assistant.
Me too. Since one month before corona started, I started to wake up every night at 02:00am . Also, anxious about work. And, too, coffeeined very well. May be to well. From one day to the other day.. suddenly just started to wake up at exactly 2am. Then couldn't sleep for an hour, two or so. Then a few months after I started to have itching everywhere. Especially the parts of skin that have been rubbed, scratched... Hands after opening a bottle, f.e. also skin changed to bright red tone and scratch-shaped spots where it has been itching and scratched. I tried an antihistamine medicine Cetirizine, because it's one of the things that reduces pruritus symptoms, which are attributed to high histamine levels and Cetirizine is an antihistaminic. The pruritus got better. But still need my Cetirizine every 4-5 days a half. Sleep also got better. I still wake up at 2am, but, I'm not anxious anymore. I was laid off last September haha.
Since then I sleep better even when I wake up.. may be got used to it already.

So, it can be a lot of all the things together. May be it's stress because of work and life. May be the coffee, which is also reduced a lot, to one or two cups milk latte. Not any later as after 0 pm. Take care what you eat. Like, if I drink a glas of red wine, I scratch my skin off without medicine AND can't sleep although being really tired and .. if, finally.. 2am... Wake again. But not anymore as tired, as in the beginning ;)
I predict a huge premium on these vehicles once they reach the used civilian market.
thanks Malfist,

and I guess the cost is the wiring and plumbing?
Yes: https://blog.playstation.com/archive/2010/03/29/ps3-firmware...

(From wikipedia references)
Swift the best choice to succeed C++, Apple says
For a script, you run it from start to end.

For a notebook/repl environment, you can create any number of intermediate steps, rerun the previous step with minor modifications and check if the results are better, rinse and repeat. For jupyter notebook specifically, you can visualize data and add markdown inline which are very useful.

You won't understand it unless you are already familiar with the workflow.
One huge problem with this is that you need to normalize every phone number. Lots of people enter local numbers without country code, and you need to know the country.

For most phone numbers, you just need to round trip them. They will be presented in the same context. It is better to store ambiguous numbers as entered, along with context, and let human figure it out than mess up.
oh man please don't study the lions

...also, closer to us, definitely don't study the bonobos
Some games that used a determinism based architecture, will actually provide immediate feed back faked on the client and then some how make that work when the real stuff happens later. See Starcraft providing instant audio response when moving units or for Factorio:
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-83
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-412 (second half of post)
Wouldn't it be (assuming US) +1911?
In one project, I had a new teammate ask me why almost our entire web backend is a single .js file mostly filled with SQL queries. He wanted to make it his personal project to refactor this into probably 20 different files, adding more layers between the handlers and the DB stuff, using a query builder, and also migrating to TS. When I asked him what's wrong with the current thing, he couldn't answer and gave up on this idea.

That backend had decent integration tests, and it took less than 5 minutes to add a small new feature. Most prod code doing comparable things where I work is worse-tested, less reliable, and at least 10X more expensive in terms of SWE-time, so I think modern programming standards are actually nonsense even though I can play along with them.
I tend to agree here, judiciously used json (these days often running under zstd compression) is seldomly the bottleneck on anything and allows immediate human debugging if need be.
I am talking informally. The Yuan is not fully convertible, but yet, it can and it is used for trading goods and services. It is not attractive as a reserve currency or as an investment, but on bi-lateral and tri-lateral trade it is perfectly usable. And as china is the biggest manufacturer in the world, for a lot of countries it may make sense to trade in yuans. Sell some copper to China in Yuans, buy some SU-35s from Russia using Yuans, then Russia buys chips from China with those Yuans.
Just use ChatGPT API lol
I've seen them used really effectively for debugging and incident response & documentation in elixir and erlang. You can connect to a running node in a controlled way, repl around the live environment, and dump potentially interesting things out to the notebook as you build your understanding of what's going on.

I wasn't too active in ops stuff at that job, but as a dev it was so awesome for them to hand me off a notebook that was basically an in-progress investigation, including the entire path of exploration they took to narrow it down and dead ends along the way. You can't ask for a better bugfix ticket.

Now I guess a lot of that depends BEAM particulars, and doesn't apply to jupyter or whatever. But it's at least an illustration that notebooks can uncover novel workflows for certain tasks.
Adobe has lost its way, time for a new round of leadership if you ask me.
I used to read all the collections of "The Years Best Science Fiction" by Gardner Dozois

I stopped reading them after a while, because it felt like eating a box of assorted donuts. Very creative/stimulating but too many idea changes, too short and too quick.

I really find novels more compelling compared to short stories. They seem to have more depth, explore more adjacent things, allow for character development, take the time.

In fact, nowadays from time to time I go too much the other way. I quit at book 7 of the 20 book series because there're not enough new ideas/momentum.
If you're old enough you might remember Americans were much more violent from 1960 to 1995 or so and the crime rate was incredibly high in American cities, leading to what was called white flight.

Now, if you work with young people (so-called zoomers), you'll notice they are absolutely not like this anymore.

At least 30% of this was caused by everyone breathing leaded gasoline.
Goldman has killed off almost all of their consumer facing deals though, not just their apple contract
I F hate LinkedIn, not only because of the cringe-worthy content but also because it is the primary tool used for stalking and conducting all sorts of OSINT shenanigans. It's absolutely the worst..
“Making 500k… driving a Ferrari”

I’m guessing you’re being sarcastic but, I make that much at a tech company and absolutely can not afford a Ferrari. At least, not if I want a roof over my head. Of all the engineers I know making this much, and even double or triple that, the most expensive car driven is a model S.

Actually the only person I know with a Ferrari is a cabinet contractor. He drove it over with paint cans that I requested for kitchen cabinet touch ups.
That's just the ethics training, depending on your role there's much more than that.
Notebooks are not IDE, so cannot be compared to ones. You can run notebook in vscode, and keep the best code practices. Experiment with code, incrementally move code chunks to external modules. Another great feature is ability to eaisly switch kernel to remote one without leaving IDE. Downside is that it can be really annoying to manipulate the code.
The price of financial global hegemony is the price paid by the US:

- Deindustrialization

- Massive Wealth Concentration

- A housing crisis due to asset inflation

- Unemployment and/or subemployment.

China is still a bit communist. The government rules their wall street, not the other way around.
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Wild indeed.

https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6...
The first step to saying you're not doing any of that is saying you're not doing it.
I work at an older company and it has successfully moved an number of apps to this model.
Some will take another decade, but many are there.
I think Kling looks more impressive:

https://kling.kuaishou.com/

Roughly on the level of OpenAI's Sora.
I think the parent comment is commenting on presidential candidate ages, which has had two consecutive new records in age and incumbency didn't seem to factor.

Prompt: list of us presidents and their year of birth and age when elected

You will see a list with few year of birth regressions and most ages in 50-60. Two years of 70+ is an outlier.
There is a bigger problem going on that is still not thoroughly addressed. Heat domes, heavy rain floods, strong winds and other extreme weather effects are becoming more disruptive and frequent, and mitigating just one of the today symptoms without addressing the core problem may be pretty shortsighted.
I suspect it’s not a matter of “don’t use porn because porn is socially unacceptable” but “we don’t use copyrighted training data and all 99.9% porn is copyrighted by commercial entities who sue”
It's "installed" through the browser, and it runs in the browser. So a PWA is just a browser app that maybe runs in a window with no browser chrome so it feels more native.
But lead increases your testosterone! (Look it up.)

Now, all you get is microplastics, which do the opposite.

And testosterone makes you objectively cooler and better as a person. For example, violence is cool.