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Having to audibly name the religion/ethnicity of beneficiaries of charities is a pretty wild requirement for a US charity.

That may have been the judge’s framing, but it seems off from what I typically expect from mainstream US news.

The fact that the organization is Jewish is stated prominently in the article, but I’m not entirely sure why that’s relevant. Many charities in the US have religious affiliations.

The adult matchmaking etc, that deviates substantially from their advertising.

Anthropomorphizing is likely a mistake, but Daniel Dennett’s idea that the most straightforward (possibly only practical) way to create the external appearance of consciousness is a real internal consciousness does float around in my thoughts.

I haven’t yet seen any convincing appearance of one in an LLM, but I think if skeptical people don’t keep an eye out for the signs, we may be the last to see it.

He also wrote about the idea of the intentional stance: even if you’re quite sure these systems don’t have real conscious intent, viewing them as if they did may give you access to the best part of your own reasoning to understand them.

Tool Use Steering via Prompting. I’ve seen that work well also, but I don’t know if I’d quite call it an architectural pattern.

Yes, agentic search over vector embeddings. It can be very effective.

I’ve seen several of these discussions on HN, they’re never particularly illuminating. What always seems to missing:

* Perspective of what it’s like working in other engineering disciplines.

* A clear and shared definition of what “engineering” is.

* Experiences shared by people who do apply significant math and science to their software authorship.

That and also why start with multiplication? String concatenation, addition, list concatenation all make more intuitive sense to a working programmer.

What's a straightforward way to combine a bunch of numbers? Just keep multiplying them to get a resulting volume in an ever-higher dimensional space.

I was also dissatisfied with existing task tracking apps, and built my own:

t-do.com

There are still many rough edges, but it’s extremely useful. One of the best features that a text file has that very few apps support is unlimited sub-task nesting, and that’s a core feature of T-Do.

I disagree. There are many operators that you’ll never use but if you memorize (^.), (.~), and (%~), you’re pretty much set for a lot of real-world software development.

Per Kmett’s original talk/video on the subject, I can confirm my brain shifted pretty quickly to look at them like OOP field accessors. And for the three above, the mnemonics are effective:

“^.” is like an upside down “v” for view.

“.~” looks like a backwards “s” for setters.

“~%” has an tilde so it’s a type of setter and “%” has a circle over a circle, so it’s over.

I’ll also add that my experience in recent versions of PureScript things get even nicer: visible type application lets you define record accessors on the fly like:

foo ^. ln@“bar” <<< ln@“baz”

“.” Is unfortunately a restricted character and is not the composition operator like Haskell, but I alias “<<<“ with “..”

The pretty obvious question with the above is: why don’t you just write “foo.bar.baz”. In my case I use a framework that uses passed lenses for IoC, but I think “%~” is always nicer and less repetitive than the built-in alternative.

It’s wild how much the green color grading used in the film made the daytime location shots look un-Californian.

After many tries I also got into the dashboard, but it's not that usable, constant error pop-ups.

Seems to be affecting functionality of their "Verify you are human" dialogs as well as Workers.

Customers of those services have a lot of considerations, as long as Nvidia doesn’t undercut the prices too much, I think no.

Getting more developers creating more models that can then be run on those services will likely expand business for all of those vendors.