skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a matter of fact _module_ is a pure theoretical concept. The fact that we’re discussing at least two different implementations of modules alone proves that it’s at least more abstract than _file_. It’s certainly not strictly related to Node, plenty of languages (and their associated runtimes, if applicable) have modules. Further, it wouldn’t matter what a specific implementation of modules within Node is, nor would 14 years of experience with Node.

You’re missing the point entirely, perhaps intentionally? If you’re using modules you’re already using a “build step” - code that runs before your actual code. Your “perfectly working paradigm” is only such if you intentionally disregard the core reason for modules: modularity.
I'm in partial agreement with you. But I don't think the middle class will shrink, I think it will disappear.

The real threat to humanity from AI is not a Skynet or a Matrix like intelligence. The threat is that Artificial Intelligence WILL make labor irrelevant. When human capital has no value, we will disappear.

Don't kid yourself into thinking that those who owns the means of production will stop to help. If they were interested in that, they'd be doing it now. There's enough money and food to feed everyone on the planet. People still starve.
My father's gas lawnmower is ~40 years old and never had an issue. Snowblower is 50+ years old but has had 1 engine replacement.
Kaspersky is more than AV - we use their Safe Kids app to gain some control over our kids' devices.
Not OP but I think they actually mean non-conforming to deeply held beliefs of an atomic universe a la Democritus

I hope primary school educators are moving past the atomic model, first to subatomic then to quantum fields (even just a hand wavey introduction with no maths)

People hold onto the underlying paradigm they are first taught for an awfully long time even if they logically know better
If you've found a way to participate in society without being constantly surveilled by private companies who frequently leak your most personal information, I'm all ears.
I had a fun one a few months ago (internet or bank or some other normal culprit for requiring customer service). Mildly paraphrasing:

LLM> Hi, thank you for reaching out. My name is <some bullshit>, how may I help you?

ME> <my request>

LLM> That's easy. I just need <seemingly irrelevant information>.

ME> <that irrelevant information>

LLM> I'm sorry, I can't continue without <the information I just provided>.

ME> <copy-pasta of the same information>

...repeated that copy-pasta loop 3x in the off chance that a human somehow made that blunder

ME> Your responses are peculiar. Are you ChatGPT?

LLM> Hold on one moment while I find an agent to help you with your request.

...seemingly normal customer service interaction thereafter (maybe just resetting the prompt? IDK; they seemed human)
How can you tell if a transformer has the right world model?
> respect signals like subscription paywalls, the robots.txt file, the HTML “noindex” keyword, terms of service, and other means by which copyright holders signal their intentions.

And if they disrespect those signals & terms, and lie, what then?

> the copyrighted content has been ingested, but it is detected during the output phase as part of an overall content management pipeline.

Yes, but how can it be detected reliably? Considering there is much to be gained in fooling us. (think parallel construction)
Telegram is a big source of news within Russia for Osint, banning access would be detrimental to journalism
how about a 20% markup that could very well be reasonably defended as a fair premium for a better product over the market, and while doing that we could be buying a lesser-than-average product for this, which we later sell, netting us a higher markup in practice.
Hitting a combination of #, * and 0 seems to still do the trick for most places. That and excessive swearing at the robot.
Improv theater and fencing, you say?

Have you, perchance, ever been involved in an Insult Sword Fight
One thing to note is that this suit is ~16 months old.

From skimming the filing, I'm not sure I completely understand what Tesla is doing wrong when they:

Provide over-the-counter part purchasing to anyone via their EPC website. Presumably, some parts cannot be purchased by just anyone, but most can.

Provide service manuals free of charge to everyone. You can go onto the website and view them. The service manuals include all the information you would need to completely dissasemble and reassemble the car. What other companies do this?

Provide in-car diagnostic via the service menu to allow for most common service activities. Its far more extensive then people believe, likely because its hidden unless you know how to get into it (hold down the trim and type service as the access code).

Provides the ability to subscribe to Tesla "Toolbox" which is the full paid diagnostic and repair suite.

Moreover, there are independent repair shops, and any shop can also be "Tesla" approved. Additionally, in my experience, part costs through Tesla are quite low. Almost at-cost low it seems.
What’s strange is that it’s just a PCB. It should not be an issue for them to stock or quick-build a circuit board. They can’t possibly still blame the chip-shortage bogeyman.
Unfortunately the article is short on details -- I've gotten my Tesla repaired both at independent shops (broken rear triangle glass, which is a tesla part, not a repro), and at Tesla service centers. I've (online) heard horror stories of long parts waits, but it's not clear how or if those waits are different at a Tesla service center vs an indie shop (eg, is Tesla prioritizing their own SCs?). I assume the suit is alleging that independent shops have a harder time sourcing parts than service centers do? If so, it seems like a reasonable case.

Of course, they can't really allege a parts monopoly on its own, any more so than against any other manufacturer, since 99% of the time, repair parts for any car are sourced from the manufacturer via a dealer parts counter. Eventually OE and OEM parts are available through parts stores, but that's an opaque process to the end consumer.

It would also be interesting if the problem here is the lack of a franchise model- in theory I can get my Toyota repaired at one of several dealerships, so technically there's "competition" in the market, even though they all need to hold a franchise to use the name.

And, of course, there would presumably be an outcry if Toyota refused to play nice to indie shops as well.
> All these governments around the world are free to invest tens of billions of dollars, and yet none take up the cause.

It is only expensive in USA, why would anyone else pay to make it cheaper in USA? Until USA changes there is no incentive for anyone else to pay for it.

And a very large share of drug research is happening in Europe, its just sold at high prices in USA as well just like American drug companies do. Just because non Americans makes a drug doesn't make it cheap in USA.
I love space filling curves. Literally takes a dimension-1 object that can create any object of finite dimensions. All perimeter no area/volume.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve
Yeah mine is a Youtube addict, with almost no control and we kept it like that because while it probably kills her attention, it made her English insane (we re both non native, Im French and my wife Chinese, our daughter speaks like an american while we live in Hong Kong), she knows things we couldnt possibly have taught her, and at 6yo she seems to be genuinely benefitting from it.

Ofc the most annoying is her addiction to toys marketed there, but when I was a kid it was the same with tv, you just need one colorful commercial to be a poisonnous little shit for months until "okay fine yes" is uttered at xmas or someth.
Have you had sex wearing a condom vs not? Its gotten better in the last twenty years but it is still noticeably worse
Totally makes sense, since Kaspersky is not just an anti-virus company and it's not just "part-Russian"

They're literally a contractor and consultant to russian military.

https://informnapalm.org/en/alabugaleaks-part-2-kaspersky-la...
TG isn't Russian, I believe they are based in Dubai
It’s a different kind. HIV is a retrovirus in that RNA is reverse transcribed into DNA. Coronavirus transcribes to RNA directly.
It's gradually happening. Look at how many shops and restaurants today are playing cheap covers of recent hits rather than those recent hits themselves.
The middle class is the designation for the part of the population the owning class has duped into thinking they are temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Thoughts on desktop operating systems
> the "bad" abstractions make things abstract away tasks that you really need insight into.

Yup. People say to use langchain to prototype stuff before it goes into production but I find it falls flat there. The documentation is horrible and they explain absolutely zero about the methods they use, so the only way to “learn” is by reading their spaghetti code.
> Then look at productivity during the pandemic vs now and let then explain how WFH hampered those numbers.

I thought in general it was widely agreed upon at this point WFH is at-least a 10% drop in productivity. Stanford has been doing plenty of research in this area. The argument in favor of WFH has for the most part moved on to now cost savings from not having offices lets you hire more people to make up for the loss in productivity.

https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/working-paper/evolut...
What will happen when the last gyro is out? Will it spin out of orbit and crash?
Or GOOG just uses their own chips: https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-is-rapidly-turning-into...
Telegram is barely russian. The founder is basically a russian dissident and a French citizen.
grendellm?
The accuracy of other articles can be higher or lower because other people researched and wrote them. This is why people tend to have favorite reporters and favorite news outlets. They do not trust every thing they read, they look for people who seem to reliably report the truth as they know it, and those people/outlets they _tend_ to trust. People are naturally skeptical. Often they just read to entertain themselves or to gather topics to discuss with friends or coworkers later. That doesn't mean they believe it all. You can read all the UFO articles but that doesn't mean you believe in UFO's. You might instead find them interesting as a sign that the military ignoring UFO's mean enemy spy drones can easily sneak in and spy on maneuvers, a big vulnerability that the military is _supposed_ to be cognizant of, but is apparently ignoring.
It's not profit. Mozilla puts 100% of its income back into the organization. There is no profit at Mozilla, only reinvestment.
I thought NASA was using Drupal, not WordPress.
You didn't seem to be concerned about school and branches when you made your blanket assertion above.
Warm take?

Just reject and ask for an explanation OR pair with the coder to have them explain the code.

If the reviewer can’t understand it without an explanation the rest of the team can’t understand it unless they git blame then ask the coder, assuming they are still at the company!

The “dump 1000 lines of previously unseen and undiscussed code as a code review at a reviewer” method is an antipattern.

Either the reviewer should be heavily involved or break it into smaller, well explained chunks with design documentation to point to.

This saves everyones time in the long run.
> even Fauci has made mistakes he has later had to correct/retract, like his early herd immunity claim.

You get new evidence and you update your beliefs. This is literally how science works and progress is made. If you had to put every student of science on the spot for everything wrong they said/did, there wouldn't be as much progress.
It's good that they mentioned babies hearing in the womb. I've known many mothers that read to or play music for their babies. They say they feel them respond to some things, too, where they seem to sense their surroundings. I'm just reporting what they told me since I haven't studied the literature on this stuff.

One thing I didn't like was the paragraph on how they differentiate words with no formal training. I feel that gives a false impression. Parents usually teach their children a lot about language. They give them visual cues, speak at varying rates, change their own tone in some situations, and so on.

The babies are soaking up the world on their own using one set of mechanisms. They also often receive highly-supervised training from a trusted source. Later, they get formal training on top of that. Even when not training, much of the content they see and hear is presented in a structured way that helps connect ideas. For instance, listening to the radio or TV with their parents would let them hear a lot of structured speech.

Babies are highly trained. They might also do the statistical learning. They're a mix of the two.
Last week I oversaw and architected a number of STDIO Python scripts for ingesting PDFs page-by-page into postgres tsvector, searching, and displaying the text and metadata that was entirely written by an LLM.

I didn’t “fight” with the machine and I focused solely on the bigger picture. I read the output like I was performing a code review.
I just say “representative” for every spoken request they make and that’s never let me down.
There are Tesla authorized repair centers, so I don’t think franchising is the issue either.
When I read about people using AI to write code, it always seems to me that it would be a lot faster and less hassle if they would write the code themselves, without even considering the fact that it would give them more experience and make them better.

I have used some of those tools myself, and for the code that I could use help of an AI tool, I, again and again, receive junk: code that looks plausible but that does not compile, uses apis or libraries that do not exist and so on. In the end, it just made me waste time.
Then practice rounding out your skills. Read as much code as you can. You can really only get paid more by transitioning jobs. I don't want to start a whole thread about getting paid more at the same company, it is possible, but not probable. Level up, take on incremental more responsibility and then boost yourself into a new higher paying role somewhere else.
JWST took 20 years to build. Could be many more but still not bad at all.
> short bombing campaign

> It is one of the best examples of foreign interference

During my visit to Syria, Iraq and Libya, I noticed something common between the people of these countries - when I told them I was from the US, they all said: "Thank you for your bombing campaigns, we are liberated now!"
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The case is already dead.

If you bought a Tesla, you have no right to a court of law involving Tesla. It will go to arbitration, where the case will be secret, but Tesla will know the arguments and results of of all attempts against it, but not you. It will go to arbitration, where the arbiter may be blacklisted from future cases if it rules against Tesla. It will go to arbitration, where the arbiter's ruling is final and the law does not apply. Capricious? Does not matter.

The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act is superseded and voided by the American Arbitration Act. You, as a citizen owner of a Tesla, are barred from using that law against Tesla.
The Sherman Act is superseded and voided by the American Arbitration Act. You, as a citizen owner of a Tesla, are barred from using that law against Tesla.
No court of law will ever be permitted to apply those laws against Telsa by a Tesla owner.

This case was already dismissed once in Sept of last year when the motion to compel arbitration was granted. They're trying again with some sort of attempted resurrection, but its just a waste of money, because Tesla owners are barred from courts of law. They will go to a privatized pseudo-court where they will lose and where they can't do class action unless Telsa wants it.
Meta makes the Threads API available to all developers
And the design has a bunch of really egregious flaws that haven't been addressed at all, and a few that are utterly bone-headed.
Interesting. I was about to shrug it off and then saw your had a web playground and so gave it a shot.

Very well executed.

More examples would be nice. For example, I was easily able to get it to extract titles, but then I was curious--how would I get titles and links, combine them, et cetera. https://getlang.dev/query?c3cNUcgoKSkottLXTypKTc6uLM3LLCnWS8...

One high level thought:

There are 2 kinds of behaviors in this world:

1. the good, trustworthy behavior of people wanting to share data with you.

The better long term solution for people with this habit, IMO, is to start moving to what comes after the web (a new language to replace HTML, where data is pristine - https://breckyunits.com/wws.html).

2. bad behavior of trying to restrict/hide/exploit/hoard data.

IMO AIs/LLMs are the counter to this.

I am not sure if there is a big enough market to thread the needle with your thing, but if there is, you've certainly demonstrated you are the person to build it. Nicely done.
I have terrible memory so writing things down is my only way to stay floating.

1. cheats: https://cheats.geekodour.org/
(it's a fish script that writes things into a org file which gets
exported into html, i use fzf to lookup while in the cli)

2. a toolchest page: https://geekodour.org/docs/tools/primary_toolchest/ (haven't updated in many months now)

3. wiki: https://mogoz.geekodour.org/posts/

wiki(3) gets updated daily, cheats(1) get updated whenever it's a command or tactical stuff, toolchest(3) gets updated very rarely like once a month but helpful to organize the various things i work on etc.

most effective has been cheats and wiki in day to day use, i use ripgrep to search through my wiki, no fancy search.
What does high trust society mean?
That's not coding, it's prompting.
What a silly question to ask. They learn by training on the entire web, hiding one word at a time.

/s
wait, what's scrollsets?
Yeah I agree it could be presented clearer. Maybe make the analogy of multiplying the factors together and "covering with a post it" more explicit
Safari outside of iOS is tiny. Edge is Chrome with a Microsoft skin and Microsoft advertising swapped for Google's.
It really depends on what you mean by real. Many philosophers have adopted the stance that if a concept provides a useful way to talk about reality, it's real. There's no such thing as tables or chairs, but we consider them real because doing so is useful. By the same token particles are real because they are a really useful way to subdivide reality, even though their appearance is just a consequence of field theory.
Hm, is it saying "hamster" is /æ/ whereas "ham" is /æː/? I can't actually find a source that uses IPA yet bothers with vowel length right now ...

Even in dialects where it is not traditionally transcribed (such as American - partly because long vowels are most common in place of a disappearing /r/), usually there is in fact an audible difference when you aren't thinking about it. This is part of why computer speech always used to sound so terrible. The most blatant example is when comparing vowels before /t/ vs before /d/, which means that "matter" (short) and "madder" (long) are distinguishable even in accents where /t/ is pronounced like /d/ in this context.

Note that this is orthogonal to stress (since both syllables are stressed in this example), and also orthogonal to the badly-named "long vowel, short vowel" taught in school (which is actually for completely different vowel sounds and which omits several other vowel sounds).
That’s just the worst reasoning I’ve ever heard. Your if.. then statement just doesn’t logically follow.

Honestly this whole thing reeks of the satanic panic type moral scares of the 80’s or the anti communist rhetoric of the 60’s repackaged in new form. Moral panic over something or other is an American tradition; right now it’s tiktok but god knows why.

Set yourself a reminder to come back to this comment in 10 years once the fervor has died down and you will read your own comments with bafflement.
A ship off Israel's coast could shed light on the navigation of ancient mariners
Independent shops don't wory on Teslas. Any body damage leads to camera alignment stuff that shops don't want to touch.
I find annoying that to this day there's computers sold with only 8GB of RAM

I wouldn't bother too much if software (and specially web pages) weren't getting bloated continuously

It's like there's a great stagnation in the amount of memory increase after each generation, but the software devs didn't get the memo
What GP means is it is a Programmable Interface, any interface you can interact against is an API. That means any programing complete language is an API, so are sign languages or human languages.

While nobody does it , SQL implementations have network API, authentication, authorization, ACL/RBAC, serialization, Business logic all the things you use in RESTful apis can all be done with just db servers.

You can expose in theory a direct SQL API to clients to consume without any other language or other components to the stack .

Most SQL servers use some layer on top of TCP/IP to connect their backends to frontend .libpq is the client which does this in postgreSQL for example .

You could either wrap that in Backend SQL server with an extension and talk to browser and other clients in HTTP[1], or you can write a wasm client in browsers to directly talk to TCP/IP port on the SQL server

Perhaps if you are oracle , that makes sense, but for no one else, they do build and push products that basically do parts of this .

[1] projects like postgREST basically do this .
> the world is changing much faster now than it was in 01936

Hardly.

In most ways things were advancing much more quickly in 1936. Look at say medicine, cars, aircraft, physics, nuclear power, even computers and communication systems, and if anything things are currently slower right now than back then. In 1905 the fastest aircraft did 30 MPH and had troubles traveling 30 miles in bad weather, by 1965 we could fly ~1,000x as fast and that’s ignoring interplanetary probes etc. 1935 sat in the middle of that transition but fly somewhere today and there’s good odds you’ll be in a 30+ year old airplane with some new paint an arguably upgraded interior.

Walk into a Walmart today and ~99% of the stuff sold had direct equivalents 10 years ago. Most of it is minor improvements on stuff available 50 years ago. That really wasn’t the case in 1935.
He posted on that his source was unreliable and he retracted his articles.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/final-thoughts-on-ubiqui...
> Just remember, if you're ever debugging something and some values in a Class/Object/Group of them are set and others are unset the state machine avoids that issue.

You don't want a state machine for that, you want sum types. Using state machines give you the worse problem of not being able to tell how you got into to a given state, not being able to take meaningful stack traces, which is generally an even worse problem.
https://www.amnestyusa.org/updates/one-in-four-men-admits-to...

This is explicitly referred to as a risk factor in the study, although they say "gender-based violence"
isn't the issue that capitalism is amoral? you're saying the capitalists (should be) helping by now if they wanted to. They don't do it because capitalism isn't directly incentivizing it?

growing economic power is supposed to help "all of us" in proportion to our input value.

All this to say, i agree, but it means we need to augment capitalism - not speak to help and morality?