skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is part of it that I agree with.

Downside is those devs forget that in 3-6 months of not working on that part will have the same feelings.

I work on the same system for 10 years now, I moved to a more dev ops position and don't write that much code, when I pick up some ticket I am really amazed to find out code that I am working on changing for the ticket is something I wrote a year or two years ago and I have no memories of writing that because I was doing thousands other tasks in different places of the system.
It's not only overrated, it's a blatant training of the population to overconsume. It's the supermarket checkout line candy and tabloid impulse buy behavior brought to the internet.
Regarding the last two points, I wonder how much this varies between countries? In the aftermath of Brexit, the suggestion that American chicken could be sold in Britain was met with horror by the British press due to what was considered appalling food standards; every supermarket chain bar ASDA (which was owned by Walmart at the time) released a press statement promising to never stock American chicken.
We do allow customers to check order status based on order id. I was just using an example.

The only information paypal is sharing is name and shipping address. We’re aren’t talking significant data here.
It's the technology message board on 4chan, each board has a name like that. /a/ for anime, /v/ for video games, etc.
I want ALL of what Emacs provides, much more than any other "editor" - actually text-centric programmable productivity platform. And I want more than what Emacs provides, e.g. non-destructive editing and collaboration. So yes, there are other interesting editors out there such as Zed. And no, it's not about adding 1 important feature. I'm greedy!
Fine. I was 265. Not morbidly obese, just obese.

The rest of my argument still holds if you change that.

Your contention of “most of them actually are very capable of just eating more healthy diets and exercising more” is a nonsensical assumption, based on no data, and a prejudiced assumption that they are lazy and haven’t tried, ever.

> What we actually need to do is un-fuck our food supply and encourage healthier lifestyles...

Great. We should do that. I completely agree. It will definitely help our kids.

That won’t help anyone get healthy in this lifetime. It takes too long. Obesity would kill you first.

But you’re right, that’s probably better than taking a medication that is clearly helping people change their habits and get healthy, because you feel it would be better if they didn’t have the problem in the first place.

Nicotine gum and patches help curb smoking and change people’s habits. Why? Why not just force everyone to quit cold turkey, like my dad did? Should we just change the way we talk about smoking and produce fewer cigarettes? Sure.

But nicotine patches and gums saved lives and helped people quit that had never been able to before them, and not for a lack of trying.

GLP-1 meds are an aid. The alternative isn’t fixing the food supply, but dying from obesity.
Great question, I’m also looking for the same. Lmk if you find any alternatives!
These are indeed part of the solution and are known as baffles. They have risks of their own, e.g.: https://wccftech.com/baffling-baffles-musk-explains-why-spac...
Is Japans demographic changing? It would be such a shame to lose one of few respect oriented cultures left on the planet to the globalization scheme
https://archive.is/jYivf
Copying the "folder" onto the local machine first wouldn't have helped, though. It would still be an executable, and the user would still be enticed to double-click it (because it would still appear to be a folder which the user expected to contain desired files). We could fall back to "allowing the user to use a GUI to select files seems like a very bad idea when they come from the other side of an air gap", but at some point a concession has to be made to usability.

The problems here are to do with how Windows uses and presents file extensions.
> Does "working class" have a different meaning today?

It’s always had multiple meanings depending on context. Working vs capital class, wealth/income-based, job-based.

Being British, class here is tied strongly to your birth. My dad rents out multiple properties, I earn a good living as a software engineer. However we’re both working class because we were born working class. No amount of money can buy our way into the upper echelons of society because our accent will shut those doors.
I remember it as, "YOU FORTH LOVE IF HONK THEN"
It’s not different. It’s a direct competitor.

These new wallets are all to compete with Apple and Google Pay.
Just as a note, Space Engineers has a mod that accounts for fuel in the tanks and also various orbital mods. If one feels inclined to try it for themselves ;)
That’s how tanks in race cars are made. Another solution is fill the tank with some kind of sponge-like material.
I think the bitter lesson implies that if we could study/implement "how a machine with limitless cpu cycles would make our eyes see something we are currently thinking of" then it would likely lead to a better result than us using hominid heuristics to split things into sub-problems that we hand over to the machine.
> The extreme here is underpaying the professors and researchers so much

The problem is not that those people are underpaid.

The problem is the morass of regulation that prevents people building enough housing where they want to live, which keeps the cost of housing high.

And look - I get it - most of that regulation is there for a reason: it's popular. People like it. People like having rent control, or limited increases in property taxes. People in single family houses like not having apartment buildings go up next door to them. People like seeing green space on office campuses. People like mandatory parking requirements for homes and businesses.

But ultimately, a high cost of living is deeply corrosive to society, and all the little perks that come from these regulations just aren't worth it.
I still wait here in Europe prices like https://asia.nikkei.com/content/1f9ed40b4b44745e1a39fafaf94b... for cars and BRICS-like prices for p.v. at least for those who want to self-construct.

My p.v. is only 5kWp/8kWh LFP because at 2019 prices that's a bit more than a wise economical choice, at BRICS price it would quickly evolve in a 10kWp/30kWh allow me to be nearly autonomous for large part of the year...
I've been doing some things with Whisper and find the accuracy very good, BUT I've found the timestamps to be pretty bad. For example, using the timestamps directly to clip words or phrases often clips off the end of word (even simple cases where is followed by silence). Since this emphases word timestamps, I may give it a try.
Because toxic but well meaning mods at stack overflow made us not want to use them anymore.
Holy confounding variables, Batman
so now managed to save 63% fuel, but score doesn't seem to take this into account (still 51)..
Only needs a few seconds of idle time to load libraries.
Still nothing to sneeze at!
The prompt is actually not that interesting.

"A hand-drawing of a scientific middle-aged man in front of a white background.
The man is wearing jeans and a t-shirt.
He is thinking a bubble stating "What's in a ReAct JSON prompt?"
In the style of European comic book artists of the 1970s and 1980s."

Finding the right seed and model configuration is the more difficult part.
> 7 submarines would have tied with India for possessing the seventh-largest fleet of attack submarines.

> Yet in any real sense the story is false. What PepsiCo acquired were small, old, obsolete, unseaworthy vessels.

Or perhaps compare it to junk Ukrainian army got! Old tanks, fighter jets salvaged from junkyard (Kazakshan) or just before decommission...

Weapons that would give it a fighting chance (F35 and nuclear warheads) were never even mentioned!
Sure, LLMs won't ever get to general reasoning (for pick your definition of "reasoning") unassisted.

I think that adding different forms of assistance remains the most interesting pattern right now.
It’s in the article. 6 classes a year, so presumably a 3/3.
Maybe they just use pressure sensors to tell where the fluid is within the tank.

Even a real-time simulation should have some measurements to self correct to some degree. Otherwise it'll diverge.
Ooof. Some real "forwards from grandpa" energy there.
Full ACK. It has been liberating to be able to chat about a topic I always wanted to catch up on. And, even though I read a lot of apologies, at least nobody is telling me "Thats not what you actually want."
Falcon 9 has already proven that partial reusability is economical. SpaceX has dominated the entire worldwide launch industry and their competitors are nation states with no need to make a profit.

The difference is that they have already proven to be the lowest cost and most reliable launcher due to reuse. This is them lapping the industry with second stage reusability.
The examples I'm talking about come from openly licensed code in sources like GitHub, not from StackOverflow.

I would argue that code in GitHub is much more useful, because it's presented in the context of a larger application and is also more likely to work.
Highway Robbery
Not anymore. More recent research has failed to find any real benefits to intermittent fasting, at least for people who are already at a healthy weight. And it seems to have some negative effects for body composition.

https://peterattiamd.com/ep-300-exercise-nutrition-fasting-m...
I think that's over-interpreting his words
The atmosphere does its bit to slow down the booster as well. It’d be interesting to see a plot of the power output over time on reentry but I’ve always assumed the motors aren’t doing a lot of work other than keeping the booster stable, until the very end.
You've only clicked them by accident? No that doesn't count as using, it's just hard to believe.

It's like the people who have worked in IT for 20 years but 'never used Windows'.
c++ sources are available.
I don't like using smartwatches for HR tracking during exercise. If for any reason blood flow to your wrist decreases it becomes inaccurate
It's my understanding an a-c will usually be bigger parameter wize and more costly to train
You've done a bit of a bait and switch, "fulfill their dreams" and "decent quality of life" are two very different standards. One, sure, we're in a society and sometimes that calls for sacrifice, the other, if we can't promise a decent life we shouldn't be surprised when people break the contract and act in ways that hurt the common good.
We could use a few of those in orbit.
Edited: Was asking what were all these deleted comments.

Got my answer: it's a theory that SpaceX is a partner for the US DoD and is not just an internet provider.
> I'd rather think it's the same argument as open-source and public domain.

In the context of the point I made, it's definitely more similar to piracy, since the point was about taking advantage of something that if not free people would not pay for.
Not that it matters because you don't care and no one uses promises any more but it does really sadden me how much nested promise code I've found over the years.

eg this

function sad(input) {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) =>
foo(input).then((data) => {
bar(data).then((data2) => {
baz(data2).then(resolve, reject)
})
})
);
}

could quite as easily have been written like this:

function happy(input) {
return foo(input)
.then((data) => bar(data))
.then((data2) => baz(data2))
}

But no one seemed to be aware that you can return a promise in the `.then()` callback and have it chain neatly...
Regarding smart quotes: To each their own, but IMHO it’s better to just hard-code the desired quotation marks, like this:

“Oh, *interesting*!”

To me, this is the beauty of UTF-8.
Genetic Associations with Long Covid
>The London Standard brought back the dead journalist with the help of AI. The newspaper’s CEO said this was part of a plan to be “bold and disruptive.”

This is grotesque. :(
HTML has the "pre" element that does this.
> The problem is eventually what are LLMs going’s to draw from?

Published documentation.

I'm going to make up a number but I'll defend it: 90% of the information content of stackoverflow is regurgitated from some manual somewhere. The problem is that the specific information you're looking for in the relevant documentation is often hard to find, and even when found is often hard to read. LLMs are fantastic at reading and understanding documentation.
Yeah, Stackoverflow kinda dug their own grave by making their platform and community very unpleasant to engage with.
It is somewhat popular, so I doubt they will kill it outright. Rather I would guess they "reform" it: lots of variants, much higher price, beaurocratic hoops... and then when people stop using it, say "see, it wasn't so great after all".

Same playbook in the UK, where people like the NHS but certain parties don't.

Same playbook in the US, where "big government" has to be bad, so anything that does currently work well gets sabotaged.
-30 votes would be extremely unusual on SO. That amount of votes even including upvotes in such a short time would be almost impossible. The only way you get that kind of massive voting is either if the question hits the "Hot Network Questions" or if an external site like HN with a high population of SO users links to it and drives lots of traffic. Questions with a negative score won't hit the hot network questions, so it seems very unlikely to me that it could be voted on that much.
This may be the culture, but one can largely choose to not participate in it. E.g. not having social media accounts and curating your news sources with a focus on unsensational, fact-based reporting.
Interestingly, I was about to type a longer answer (why we aren't living in a cyperpunk future) and decided to ask ChatGPT which tv show, series, whatever from the 80's comes close to our actual future.

Top result was, indeed, Blade Runner.

Fascinating~
Nah. What's true for you isn't true for everyone.

If I go on a date in a high end restaurant and hit it off with my date, I might want to show her something briefly or look up something, and we would both be on bored with it and having a good time.

In that case, the phone is enhancing the experience, not taking away from it.
And who pays for this? Is this ye olde privatize the profits and socialize the costs?
Iirc cold gas thrusters are used before ignition to provide some acceleration to force the fuel to the bottom of the tank.
Does each engine have 6 degree of freedom to point its jet?
It might be a reference to that 1977 paper in name, but unlike that Backus paper using math to make its point, this reads like a shallow ad for using the Curry language. The central (and only) point is merely an example of rewriting a Prolog predicate for appending lists into Curry but without even the claim of generality. The rewritten Curry functions however trivially fix determinacy and variables to input and output roles when the entire point of logic variables in Prolog is that they're working either when bound to a value upon entering a predicate call, or can get bound to as many values indeterministically as needed until the procedure terminates succesfully (and then even more on backtracking over failed subsequent goals). The paper also glosses over the concept of unification here. I sure hope the referenced detail papers come with more substance.

The paper title doesn't even make sense? So he wants to "liberate" Logic Programming from predicates? Predicate Logic is First-Order Logic ... ie what YeGoblynQueenne says in another comment.

From a mere practical PoV, who is the author even addressing? Prolog, from the get go, was introduced with NLP, planning problems, and similar large combinatorical search spaces in mind and is used for the convenience it brings to these applications. That FP could theoretically be more broadly used is completely besides the point; Prolog's focus is its strength.
They require a subscription? Why does a mattress require subscription?
This is about as realistic as replacing coders with ai tools today. High level content organizations demand creative precision that even models like Flux can ape but not replace. Maybe to a non-artist it would be comparable, but to a creative team its not close.
I've not used it for websites but have used it for state management in a flutter app, which seemed waaaaaay simpler than learning and then using one of the many state management systems they have (even if I managed to figure out which one to use, paradox of choice always trips me up).

And for data analysis stuff it's absolutely brilliant!

So yes absolutely it's underrated!
The OP has qualified "code" with bad availability of samples online. My experience with LLMs on a proprietary language with little online presence confirms their statement. It is not even worth trying, in many cases.
I wrote my first novel during my daily commute
> Citation needed on this one. Almost all the obese people I know have never seen a specialist doctor about it, so I assume your anecdata have selection bias.

You sure? Nearly every single one I know has seen their primary about it every time they go in and if the primary referred them to a specialist they went.

What they don’t do, though, is talk about it.

Have you asked them?

> I don't personally mind if you or anyone who really needs it and gets prescribed the thing by a specialist takes Ozempic. I don't think any drug use, be it Ozempic, abortion pills, or estrogen, should be stigmatized for the individuals taking it.

Great, agreed.

> I do think it's a sign of a societal ill that a large majority of the people taking Ozempic are not in that situation.

I don’t think it’s true that “a large majority” of the people taking it are just handed the pills for fun, to lose a few pounds. Your assumption about to whom they are prescribed is my whole issue, as it assumes they don’t need it to lose weight and can “just eat right and work out,” and that is not true.

People who are obese don’t like being obese. They aren’t that way because they don’t care. They aren’t that way because they are lazy. (On average)
So Androids apps can't use the camera?
Thank you. The revisionism in this thread is ridiculous.

There was no oppressive regime forcing you to do anything. There were common sense, effective public health recommendations for mitigating a novel virus that spread faster than anything we'd seen, whose death rate was not known, and for which we had no vaccine or mitigation except for masking/distancing.

No one was forcing you to stay indoors. You were asked to wear a mask around other people, and most private businesses chose to require customers and employees to wear one, as is their right.
I Killed the Qiskit Textbook
Embedding words like Figure or Section breaks not only declensions, but capitalization, too. Germans won't notice it because all their nouns are capitalized, and English speakers won't care because they're traditionally forgiving with unmotivated upper-case words in the middle of a sentence (including titles). But formally it shoud be "Figure 4" in the caption and "as we see in figure 4" in the reference.
Hmm I’m just about to, it seems perfect for my use case and very cheap. Why wouldn’t you general l recommend it?
I hate to say it but it's kind of a meme at this point to hate Make and create a replacement tool.
But of course after hundreds of replacement tools have been made, Make refuses to die.
Do the control algorithms use AI?
In a very real sense, that’s also how human brains work.
Synthetic data without some kind of external validation is garbage.

E.g. you can't just synthetically generate code, something or someone needs to run it and see if it performs the functions you actually asked of it.

You need to feed the LLM output into some kind of formal verification system, and only then add it back to the synthetic training dataset.

Here, for example - dumb recursive training causes model collapse:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y
I think that knowledge hoarding may come back with a vengeance with the threat people feel from LLMs and offshoring.
That doesn't make any sense. Medical care can't really reduce the length of common cold symptoms. It mostly comes down to the effectiveness of your own immune system. Obesity has a number of negative effects on the immune system.
Annual inflation rate drops to 2.4 percent, lowest since February 2021
That's why I remain very skeptical about the easy refurbishing of Starship. Initially, way back around 2016, the plan was to vent liquids to create a cushion around the ship. That sounded more easily reusable.
The whole design process for them is based around launches being expensive and taking a long time to plan. It will be very interesting to see what happens when the whole process gets used to launches being relatively cheap and frequent. No need to spend years making sure the design is perfect and will definitely last a long time if you can launch a new one in a week if you make a mistake.
I learned a bunch of programming languages on IRC, and the C and C++ communities on freenode were by far the most toxic I've encountered.

Now that Rust is succesfully assimilating those communities, I have noticed the same toxicity on less well moderated forums, like the subreddit. The Discord luckily is still great.

It's probably really important to separate the curmudgeons from the fresh initiates to provide an enjoyable and positive experience for both groups. Discord makes that really easy.

In the Ruby IRC channel curmudgeons would simply be shot down instantly with MINASWAN style arguments. In the Haskell IRC channel I guess it was basically accepted that everyone was learning new things all the time, and there was always someone willing to teach at the level you were trying to learn.
There is still publicly available code and documentation to draw from. As models get smarter and bootstrapped on top of older models, they should need less and less training data. In theory, just providing the grammar for a new programming language should be enough for a sufficiently smart LLM to answer problems in that language.

Unlike freeform writing tasks, coding also has a strong feedback loop (i.e. does the code compile, run successfully, and output a result?), which means it is probably easier to generate synthetic training data for models.
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One man's tangent is another man's big picture. It may be the case of course that some people guilty of CoC overreach are shaking in their boots right now because they went further than their corporations wanted them to go.
The fact that you didn't explicitly opt-in to it before you were born does not mean there is no implicit social contract between you and your fellow citizens.
> What do you think might have caused this though?

The rise in web-browser-based code editors, where tab moves to the next field on the form instead of inserting a literal \t character.
Please cite each of those 10% and 100 year numbers.

You can read the text change. It allows duplexes and ~doubled the allowed density on almost every residential zoning type.
Speaking for CA: to drill a new well the company must post a bond that is returned when the company closes the well.

If they don't, the bond is used to close the well.

Problem: the cost of the bond is WAY lower than the actual cost of plugging the well. So companies abandon them, and there is seemingly no penalty.

So society pays for it.

> California’s oil wells cost an average of $68,000 to properly plug and clean up once they are done producing. However, the average bond currently available to cover those costs is only $1,000 per well.

From https://environmentamerica.org/california/resources/mapping-...