skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is exactly why I dislike black mirror. It feels very 'pointless' as a show, because the situations and characters are so far divorced from anything real, that it feels like a meaningless critique. Sure, a technology could be used in a particular way, but all black mirror presents is the consequences, and it feels like it neglects the much more important question of how we got there to the point where it feels completely unrealistic

It encapsulates most of what I dislike about horror films as well - so many of them are just a jumpscare extravaganza but without actually trying to present you with anything meaningful, like an underlying critical analysis or anything (or even any characters). Like sure, if we use technology to torture people, that's bad. So what?

Somehow though I don't think a legal drama about the creeping erosion of people's rights and the transformation of society by well meaning but unintentionally invasive technology will have mass market appeal, but at least it would feel like its critiquing something real
I use it in coding. It's pretty good.
The problem was he didn't called them RLHF'ers. That's how the pros get away with it.
I was on a project that avoided making a bad decision because of Black Mirror. The project didn’t succeed regardless but people do get insights from the show even if it’s not always a plausible scenario.
The status quo was working.

Randomly breaking things does not work for government policy.
please put funding here?
Where I live, and it seems in most places in the world, a standard drink is 10g of alcohol.

> The definition of what constitutes a standard drink varies very widely between countries,[2] with what each country defines as the amount of pure alcohol in a standard drink ranging from 8 to 20 grams.

> The sample questionnaire form for the World Health Organization's Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) uses 10 g (0.35 oz),[3] and this definition has been adopted by more countries than any other amount.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_drink
You can access .strings and .interpolations directly and avoid type checks. There is always one more string than interpolation, of which there may be zero.
I'd argue that 2.5 pro is better because it doesn't suffer from GPT-isms, where its blatantly obvious someone used ChatGPT.
Because python dominates AI, and python is dominating because of AI. And prompting really, really benefits from f-strings and templated strings. LLMs as a whole means the rise of unstructured data, and flexible string manipulation is really important for handling that.
I'd like to add, after the first publication for discussion, we got some wonderful involvement from Andrea Giammarchi who brought his deep JS libraries and tools experience into the PEP. In fact, he's deeply involved in the next steps, with some forthcoming demos and libraries that will make a real difference. Exciting times.
Remove windows. And this is amazing.
Not sure about denaturalization, but this is getting pretty extreme already (USCIS, effective immediately, is screening immigrants for criticism of Israel):

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnitedNations/comments/1jw8gyv/all_...
I think they look more like eyes or portals. I guess you see what's on your mind.
And when you put the funding, that's where the valuation is coming from.
Either way, I struggle to find a likely definition of "drinks" where 8 per week does not seem excessive.

Like even if "half a pint of beer" is the definition (unlikely), that means drinking 4 pints of beer per week, throughout a long time? I.e. not just for 2 weeks in a row or so? That does not fit my definition of "social drinking" anymore.

And mind you that that's a purposefully underestimating assumption. The actual definition of a drink is likely larger than half a pint of beer.
It's a nod to the singularity (a.k.a. a black hole). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity. That's all these AI people can think about. Makes sense to me. It's near!
Like the Greendale Flag
I've been banging the drum about how unintuitive and difficult this stuff is for over a year now: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/

I'm one of the loudest voices about the so-far unsolved security problems inherent in this space: https://simonwillison.net/tags/prompt-injection/ (94 posts)

I also have 149 posts about the ethics of it: https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics/ - including one of the first high profile projects to explore the issue around copyrighted data used in training sets: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/5/laion-aesthetics-weekno...

One of the reasons I do the "pelican riding a bicycle" thing is that it's a great way to deflate the hype around these tools - the supposedly best LLM in the world still draws a pelican that looks like it was done by a five year old! https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/

If you want AI hype there are a thousand places on the internet you can go to get it. I try not to be one of them.
single minded react user signing in. When dealing with state in react theres generally a good incentive not to model state exactly like the database model. Does Clojure removing this abstraction improve the application? I can see many pros but not knowledgable enough to see the potential shotgun
Even the Claude one? :)
Yeah seeing that list is a red flag for me. Seems like a vehicle to attach their names to so those companies can pretend that they’re actually innovating in this space, rather than the usual mediocre services offerings.
Yes, fib_slow() will be evaluated immediately, just like it would be if you were using an f-string.
If you have ever manually labeled an image set for ML, it is not far from the truth of the process. =3
Claude wins this competition too.
Liquor is around 40% alcohol, and a shot is supposed to be 1.5 oz, so 17g. A bit more than a standard drink, but not far off.
This headline is way more sure of itself than the actual data.
I'm guessing that's because "talking out of one's ass" [1] applies to current version of this technology more than the others?

1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/talk_out_of_one%27s_ass
12 oz of 5% alcohol by volume water (let's say beer) has what mass of alcohol?

0.05 * (12 oz * ~30 mL/oz * ~800 mg alcohol / mL) = ~14 grams alcohol
For me, the whole point of rail is that I get to my destination more comfortably, and am able to do something else during the journey (e.g. work on my laptop). I don't mind if that's a bit slower, or takes longer, than in a car.
I read it as surfing-oriented programming at first and thought the same as well!
So now you are repeating the name of each interpolated value three times (once in the template string, once for the key in the dict, once for the actual value).

Yes, you can do that, but a t-string is much more ergonomic, and IMO, more readable .
You can pay for long term support from private companies.

And your scientific context is a distinct minority for python now. Most new development for python is for data/AI. Considering LLMs get updated every quarter, and depreciated every year, there is no appetite for code that doesn't get updated for 5 years.
I'm thinking "effectuate" could be interpreted as requiring force if necessary. Since this is another country, that would be outside the purview of a court to mandate a military action. They can require that the govt "facilitate" El Salvador's action to return him.
A distinction with out a difference because this is entirely about whether Columbia agrees to do whatever the White House says it has to do.
I laughed until I cried. Thank you.
Exactly. The first two seasons were mostly a dark humour satire of our times and obsessions rather than a grim depiction of possible futures. The first episode is not even SF like also "the Waldo moment". 15 million merits is a metaphor that is not taking place in any real future.

It got much more commercial and literal after that.
I dispute your foundational claim that discovery of things != progress.

I concur that semantics have a) overtaken this thread, and b) are part of my complaint with OP when they claimed all historical progress was the result of specialisation.
Of those who never drank, 40% had vascular brain lesions. Of the moderate drinkers, 45% had vascular brain lesions. Of the heavy drinkers, 44% had vascular brain lesions. Of the former heavy drinkers, 50% had vascular brain lesions.

So, I read this as "If you're a heavy drinker, it's better than being moderate or ever stopping"

Statistics are fun.
Rebooted Digg launches early-access community with $5 fee
This appears similar to Java's String Template preview feature that was withdrawn:

https://openjdk.org/jeps/465

This is probably the best overview of why it was withdrawn:

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/amber-spec-experts/2024-A...
And important.
jeez, from housing to red lobster to veternarians to handymen and HVAC businesses, now fire trucks. Is there anything left that private equity isn't consolidating and squeezing?
>Parser combinators will eventually generate a push-down automaton

No, you can have context sensitivity.
> In a society where people can play back and re-live prior memories, it would not suddenly come up that one can relive experiences with past lovers.

I think this episode was one of Black Mirror's strongest, because not only would it suddenly come up, it does to a lesser degree with the technology we have today. I've been the guy obsessively replaying painful memories from old photos I have. I don't think it was really presented as though the characters are the first ones to ever think of the idea.
It ends with the song "Heaven on Earth" with no distortions or long fade out.

The final scene has, imo, no inherent negative connotation. It seems intended as an hopeful outcome.
Yeah, the fact that 40% get them regardless makes the slight increases seem.. statistically irrelevant?
To be perfectly honest, I am more amazed that it was a valid business model and people were willing not just invest in it, but offer their rather personal information to an unaffiliated third party.
I mean most town squares have no restriction on using a megaphone, and yet town squares have not been drowned out and rendered useless by megaphones. Even if that did happen, it would be a very poor analogue to generic advertising which can not drown out conversation. At best it would be an argument against megaphones over a certain volume, ie certain methods of communication might be reasonable to restrict, but restricting the ideas that can be expressed by megaphone is indefensible.
I know a shop owner and he will tell you that unhappy customers are overrepresented.

He had a problem with someone and half his friends and family left bad reviews that were fake. The worst part is he didn't want to sell something to that person because the product had a problem but that person thought he didn't want to sell to him and got mad.
NYC Council to Establish a Citywide Strategy for Public Bathrooms
Google: Prompt Engineering Guide
One can look at creativity as discovery of a hitherto unknown pattern in a very large space of patterns.

No reason to think an LLM (a few generations down the line if not now) cannot do that
How Janet's PEG module works
My take was that it was not about jealousy or wanting to forget, but about the obsession for an objective truth. The main character was rewatching his memories looking for the objective truth of what had happened, only to discover that all his memories were, in fact, a lie (because his wife was lying to him all the time).
A port of Mbed-TLS for the Classic Macintosh OS 7/8/9
But how are you storing the session token in the browser?
Grok says: `"When a question reveals more about the asker than they might intend, it’s often called a "loaded question" or a "revealing question."`
Makes perfect sense. Looking forward to trying this.
"Gemini, what's the best way to bury this body?"
"Gemini, please count the cockroaches in this kitchen."
"Gemini, calculate my survival chances sprinting across this interstate."
"Gemini, speculate on the percentage volume of pee-pee in this swimming pool."
"Gemini, how many days will this meal set back my life expectancy?"
"Gemini, will these socks lead to my arrest by the fashion police?"
"Gemini, my cat is making that face again -- has it found out it's adopted?"
No. The consent decree will be agreed to ahead of time, and a judge will interpret and police it. It isn't an arbitrary delegation of authority to the executive branch.

We'll have to wait and see what the consent decree says to evaluate it further.
My reply was to the parent post's SPECIFIC example of Golang's rejected feature request. Please go read that proposal.

It is NOT about the possibility of referencing existing / future (lazy / deferred evaluation) string literals from within the string, but about a format string that would literally evaluate arbitrary functions within a string.
I think you're being excessively generous. According to the linked article,

> But despite Nate acquiring some AI technology and hiring data scientists, its app’s actual automation rate was effectively 0%, the DOJ claims.

Sometimes people are just dishonest. And when those people use their dishonestly to fleece real people, they belong in prison.
that wasn't much "illustrated"—just text with a few graphs.
They are just called "cookie banners".

The storage mechanism is not important.
We did sort of have that, it was called Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Quiet... Chilling... Quiet... I make certain noises as I retrieve the wet food container Meeoooooooooowwwww! races ahead to where the dish is
>a fundamental characteristic of the quantum sME is that its relaxation path includes the so-called Liouvillian exceptional point (LEP). At this point, an eigenvalue of the dynamical generator, which is the Liovillian superoperator that describes the time evolution of the open quantum system through the Lindblad master equation, changes from real to complex. When the eigenvalue of the SDM is real, the system is successfully prepared in the sME. When the eigenvalue of the SDM acquires an imaginary part, the overlap between the prepared sME state and the SDM is no longer zero. The LEP therefore signals the transition from strong to weak Mpemba effect.

Is this the turbo encabulator effect in action?
So what percent of the fund was invested in MBS and how much of that was lost?
We always have moved forward technologically despite doomers. They were there for first person shooter games, the Internet in general, dating apps, etc.

That’s not to say those things didn’t have significant downsides. They do. But it took years to get there and they weren’t an overnight surprise, like they seem to be in the Black Mirror episodes I saw.

Imagine what a few Black Mirror episodes would look like if they were made in the 50s or 60s about some technology we have today. It’d be silly. Our culture and values have changed so much since then over time as the technology came about.
That's very impressive for a new father! Congratulations!

How's your wife's sleep going? Mothers get considerably less sleep than fathers, even with school aged kids.

The subjective feeling is the result of broken sleep and likely the resulting lack of slow-wave power. Your wife may have this worse than you, as it is theorized that there is an evolutionary throwback where mothers have increased cortisol due to needing to be aware to take care of the baby. I haven't seen research in this, but many mothers have said they just felt "on edge" for the first few years.

There is some value probably to "being in bed" longer, Huberman talks about this a bit with reference to his "non-sleep deep rest".

However, our focus is on ensuring the sleep you get is as restorative as possible, even for new parents.
Give me another day and I'll respond in full; but my thesis is taken from the book "Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning" which was written by a group of neuro- and cognitive scientists on what are the most effective ways to learn.

The one chapter that stood out very clear, especially in a college setting, was how inefficient flash cards were compare to other methods like taking a practice exam instead.

There are a lot of executive summaries on the book and I've posted comments in support of their science backed methods as well.

It's also something I'm personally testing myself this year regarding programming since I've had great success doing their methods in other facets of my life.
Bringing back such industry would take a multi decade effort, in the best scenario (which the US clearly isn't now)
I think a bog standard IPA is about 2 “units” of alcohol. I like the old alcoholic “I’ll only have one or two” and it’s a wine glass filled to the brim or a mason jar half full of whiskey
I understand what you are saying here but I think you've missed the point of what Pike was getting at.

I think Pike is acknowledging the practical realities of engineering at scale, and intentionally designed Go with simplicity in mind, which leads to more maintainable code and faster onboarding for new devs.

I'll also add that outside of the popularity metric, Go is not all bad. Fast compile times, readability, excellent standard library and toolchain, backward compatibility, to name a few things.
Jamie Dimon says Gen Z has no reason to be depressed
Would or could a technological singularity lead to a gravitational singularity?

Assuming the technological singularity is always trying to gain more information and quicker than it did the previous clock cycle, I would think it would both expand out to grasp new information as well as make what it has more dense.

Information presumably takes up some space and has some mass. Ever increasing the amount of it and confining it in a smaller and smaller volume of space would I think lead to a gravitational singularity.
I'm not a data scientist but is that not a hotdog emoji?
20 years is a short time for an institution that can reasonably expect to last centuries. Serving the institution means sustaining the endowment indefinitely, which isn't compatible with spending more than you can afford.
No thoughts on this maneuverability debate and totally respect the firefighters in every country, but just chuckling that the trucks on that french page literally look like cute little toys.

The photos might have some tilt-shift-like effect going on.
Louisiana prison board uses algorithms to determine eligility for parole
Pretty crazy hearing Moravec/Kurweil stuff from Jamie Dimon.

Can't tell if he's the CEO of JP Morgan Chase or if he's the sales rep for a cryonics company.
Whether 8 standard drinks per week becomes heavy or not would seem to depend on one's own body mass.
They already "accidentally" deported a citizen in Maryland and are arguing they can't get him back because he is in El Salvador where they have no jurisdiction. It is a test to see if they can get away with it.
Oh, I could’ve sworn that they meant the Space Shuttle
Please read the context of my reply again.

The Rejected Golang proposal cited by the post I'm replying to. NOT Python's present PEP or any other string that might resolve magic variables (just not literally eval / exec functions!).
I agree that, obviously, large scale asteroid impacts and other major cataclysms have exponentially bigger immediate destructive outcomes. Ridiculously so.

That doesn't mean the atmosphere itself, and the weather systems governing them, don't have to be kept in balance from the inside. It's a different kind of threat, man-made effects on the planet, sustained and over time. Two different systems – one where the life-sustaining systems suffer an acute disruption but then can naturally restore itself over time, and another where the nature of the system itself could slowly be adjusted, potentially compromising its basic life-sustaining qualities.

I wouldn't say it's a bigger threat than large asteroid impacts or cataclysmic events – though, those are relatively minuscule percentages, where the other is something approaching 100% on our current trajectory –, but that doesn't mean it can be dismissed as a threat in itself to the planet's life-sustaining properties. Every threat merits attention, regardless of how they compare.

And the threat is not about human effort, it's about ignorant human hubris.
Most people don’t think that one per day is excessive. 8 is only a bit more than that.
The it should be called PTDEATHSIG not PDEATHSIG, and there should be a way to ask for the child to get killed when the parent _process_ exits -- that is (would be) very useful.
Engage defensive skepticism mode!
Yup. And this is why I think the "last mile" problem in AI is basically unsolvable.
r/CreditCards is a good place to find latest offers.

The current hot offer is the 100k points signup bonus for the Chase Sapphire Preferred card.
Yeah, OpenBSD says no to that.

> If during parsing lines in the script, ksh finds a NUL byte on the line, it should abort ("syntax error: NUL byte unexpected").

https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=202409241057...
After much deliberation, we decided to wait to get our daughter her first phone until she started high school (9th grade, a few months after her 13th birthday). I'm very glad we did. If anything, I wish we'd waited a little longer however, the logistics of not having a phone had already been increasingly inconvenient for at least a year and starting high school pretty much forced it.

Prior to that we controlled screen time of all types pretty carefully, at least compared to some of her peers. She did have quite a bit of exposure to console gaming, PC gaming, television, tablet and did homework on a school issued Chromebook in middle school. But none of it was 'free feeding'. For things we didn't do as a family (TV / gaming), it was either limited time per day or weekends and holidays-only during the school year. We're also not a home that has a TV on most of the time or TVs all over the place. For example, we've never had TVs in bedrooms or the kitchen. Our television viewing, whether with her or not, has always been 'appointment style'. We turn it on only to watch a particular movie or DVR/streaming show and then turn it off when it's over. We think growing up this way has made it easier for her to gravitate toward better habits.

We're pretty happy with how this has worked out. Today she's almost 16. We think she's still a little too obsessed with her phone and social media but it's definitely not as bad as most of her friends who had their own phone earlier and/or had less controlled screen time much earlier. We can also confirm the studies which report social media generally tends to have more negative than positive impact, at least for teenage girls.
The whole idea of the government bringing manufacturing back to the US is central planning. The free market approach is to remove barriers to trade and let things develop as they may.
> or wherever isn't tariffed.

Since he's even taxing empty islands, I doubt the end result will be anything else than either not selling to the US or selling to the US with a grey market.

If you put tariffs on the whole world, it's basically the same thing as a global economic sanction, similar to what Russia suffered.
Basically the web app builds a fingerprinting cookie with a super short lifespan in the page as a hidden DOM. On a set schedule, or with every request, the credentials that are baked into this "DOM cookie" are rotated. When the user stops sending requests the session is closed.

Let's say the cookie expiry is 10 seconds, or until the user clicks a button on the page.

Any MITM attack is going to have to intercept the HTML over clear text http in order to steal the DOM cookie. That attack would also work on a regular cookie. But with my design the attacker only has 10 seconds to deconstruct that cookie and use it to steal the session. With a regular cookie they have a lot more time.

The only other way to hijack the session would be local malware or browser extension, which would also work on a regular cookie.