skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do some of you work in data science or machine learning occupations? You will realize how unreal those predictions sound. It's mainly cleaning data up, getting some random correlations from plugging variables into deep learning algorithms and hoping that it doesn't break with the most silly outputs you can think of.

Many scientists warn that AI is the biggest threat to humanity. I think this is wishful thinking for now.

Let's talk about this in 20 years. I think we will have 2 GAI hypes until it can finally happen (in my eyes it's mainly two problems: computational power and trying to rebuild a biological brain i.e. its structure and pre-trained functional components). I think wetware [1] is very promising in the near future and more efficient methods like IBM's neurosynaptic processors in the middle term.

Machines will do what we tell them to do for a long time. Maybe they will use unconventional methods, but they won't destroy humanity because "they're tasked to minimize suffering and decides that this is the best option". They will search through all laws, assist doctors and even detect depression, but they won't do anything besides their task.

Even Boston Dynamics is mainly using control theory. Making things work with deep learning requires heavy computational power. As long as there is no real-world Umbrella Corp., it's mainly sci-fi. There are a lot more and cheaper ways to do harm. Infiltrating and poisoning groundwater, hacking critical infrastructure, building biological weapons etc.

It's hard enough to build bug-free software, it's even harder to build an AI that is unbelievably intelligent (reminder: we don't have such a thing. Most autonomous cars use rule-based systems, most ML is basically gluing models together which can be easily fooled and most of those things are very shaky and by no means intelligent) and contains a bug which leads to its world domination by accident or something similar. I would start to play lottery if this is even remotely possible because that would be a miracle (probability-wise).

[1]: https://koniku.com
Enya vs. The prodigy

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5knIIyKpSK4

Rave.dj: https://rave.dj/moZFRBY95T53zA

Very pleased with the result.
I have read the prince but I'm not sure I want to foster that kind of company culture... ;) I will definitely check that book out, thank you!
Worked for a prison services company. Enough said.
There was a great Calvin and Hobbes that went something like this. Calvin says he got done reading a sci-fi story where computers take over the world. Hobbes remarks it's pretty scary, then Calvin alarmingly changes the subject to note he's missing his favourite TV show.
SEPA Inst is planned to offer <10 second transactions for most SEPA banks by end of the year. The transaction costs about 10 cents at my bank (normal SEPA is free).
the question was what advantages bitcoin has over gold. one of the answers was divisibility. that answer was rejected by GP's comment because "irrelevant to store of value aspect" i'm just pointing out that this reason for rejection of a valid argument is plain dumb.
You can prepare using ISQTB materials: https://www.istqb.org/downloads/syllabi/foundation-level-syl...

I have never worked as a test engineer but as far as I know most large companies use the ISTQB certification, and it covers most of the basic test know-how.
For me, it's more about telemetry than licensing.
I'm well aware of package locks. However npm has a horrible implementation of package locking. Running npm install will regenerate your package lock unless you removed prefixs from all your packages or you install using --package-lock-only[1].

So my question to you is, have you been using npm package locks correctly? Or do you let npm install generate a new package lock every time its run?

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45022048/why-does-npm-in...
> I'm not saying it would. I was using Enron as an example of a case where people ended up losing a ton of value in terms of life savings disappearing.

You mean like MT. Gox?

Because people are still losing tons of money over Bitcoin.
Everyone should differ between Bitcoin the idea and Bitcoin the coin, only one of many cryptocurrencies.

I don't think cryptocurrencies are ever going away. It's simply too good to be able to accept digital money anywhere from anyone quickly and with low fees. Dark markets for example will always use cryptocurrencies.
Exactly. I like the idea of having VSCodium as an option but I don’t have an urging need to use this fork since just removing a license and telemetry endpoints doesn’t really add any value compared to the official package.
Similar to you I like to work on things which are very intricate. In the quietness of my home I really like to spend long hours thinking about it like you have mentioned on some hobby electronics or mathematical proofs.

Unfortunately most of the people in my social circle do not understand why I open a book or am at my computer again when I come home. It is very hard for them to understand that I really love to get lost in my own thoughts or at the very least daydream.
What is with companies denying remote work but then bringing in some level of management that works remotely? I've seen happen it in a few places and it feels like animal farm half the time
I would agree with this. Seems like a flag on a message that is considered important would be all that is needed.
Compensation is really two things. A) The work you do is valuable but your poorly compensated because of management issues. B) You’re compensated well for the work you do, but you’re capable of doing more valuable work elsewhere.

Moving due to B is only needed in small companies, large ones generally have room for people to grow.
trustlessness goes out a window a bit. everything else stays the same.
I assume those guys in the know was talking about the side streets outside Christiania? While drug trade can happen everywhere it is actually pretty controlled in Christiania because it is a tight-knit community which is self-policing. If you want to buy drugs (besides Hash) in Copenhagen you go to the sketchy areas behind the Central Station.
For use in FLOSS distributions like Ubunutu or Debian. Like how Firefox got rebranded as [Iceweasel/Icecat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat) so their logo/branding didn't have to be distributed by FLOSS distributions.
Finally a way to ignore a user!
Ideally, companies would pay for this (of course the lawyer should be completely independent, so companies could pay e.g. EFF which will then pay the lawyer).

However, to get this started, perhaps an organization like EFF or Mozilla can pay for the first 10-100 most popular websites?
AFAIK telemetry can be disabled with "telemetry.enableTelemetry": false
Agreed. I work on both vxWorks and Linux in the defense industry for a very popular armored fighting vehicle, and despite popular belief, the Linux kernel with the RT patch works well enough that both the cost of vxWorks and the issue of finding developers to maintain it isn't exactly justifiable anymore. Without going into too much detail, there have been a good few studies internally to show that our current fire control unit doesn't need the hard time precision it once required on legacy hardware, and all of the Linux ports with the RT patch perform just as well. The biggest hurdle, of course, is not exactly the performance. It's the certification process.
I think it's a common misunderstanding that we must read everything in Slack. You don't have to. If something's important it will come up again, or if it's directly relevant to you then someone will tag you. When someone asks about a Slack conversation you didn't see, just say you missed it. It's a better norm than being expected to stay up to the minute on every word uttered by every employee.
You start by saying that too much is blamed on leadership and then go on to describe the real reason which is a failure in leadership?

FWIW, I largely agree about the "cogs" idea. One particularly frustrating thing is seeing repeated failures and management fails to consult with workers about how it happened. Seeing the repeated problems the workers volunteer their insights to management about the underlying problems and possible solutions. But that info is either discarded (after "careful consideration") or warped to fit an existing but incorrect management narrative. The very idea that people doing the work could contribute anything meaningful beyond estimates doesn't seem to be palatable.
If the whole point of this article is to illustrate a new way that reduces cognitive load to the programmer they have utterly failed.

Observers have staying power because they are easily understood with current common programming language syntax.

To truly replace the observer pattern, we'll need to come up with a simple way to describe a better pattern. I'm unconvinced that RX is the better solution based on this article.
Doesn't it suffice to set the following in your User Settings?

"telemetry.enableTelemetry": false

Honestly I'm very happy to give telemetry data. Microsoft is doing so much to improve the experience, they can make it better with some data.
I think you took the wrong tour. Christania is so much else than pusher-street which granted have shady looking kids setting weed but that's what you get for criminalizing it.. the ones you need to fear there is the police. Christania is a place full of different nationalities and people which are very open and sometimes alternative. Its one of the nicest green areas where you can just go and enjoy a conversation, have a cup of coffee or play some backgammon. they have vegetarian restaurants, non-alcohol cafes, stand up club, some of the best music venues, jazz clubs. they have open air concerts throughout the summer. they have skating and other sports. you can practically sit anywhere and start a conversation with someone. try doing that outside in the city and people will probably look strange at you. is very kid friendly. my toddler can run free around. Its where a lot of us goes to get away from the "normal" city life.
> Docker became popular because of the CLI

Docker became popular because of a ubiquitous CLI. Having good UX is only part of the battle: the massive network effect (and associated tooling boost/community support) is significant and should not be discounted.

I'm sure there are similar things to Docker's all-in-one UX that have emerged on the BSDs. I'm also sure there are programs to configure Dropbox using an SCM and FTP links in a fast, seamless way on par with the Dropbox setup flow, but they aren't going to take off, because the predecessor is not only convenient, but is also pre-existing with massive popularity.

The same is true for Docker:containers. Some competitor may replace them in time, but whoever they are, "as good as" is not going to be their value prop.
> reading hardcopy, but electronic text with the help of an instant dictionary lookup tool (hover the mouse over anything to get to the reading and meanings instantly)

Care to share the tool you use to read and the dictionary tool?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think later Itaniums got OoO and speculative execution too.
A visualization of how re-entrancy happens in Solidity
Actually I think this would be rather useful to have.

I don't use VS personally, but if I understand correctly their binaries are not free even though users can build their own from a free source code. If this "VSCodium" simplifies the building process, and also removes some anti-features in the process such as telemetry, I think it has value.
This was just before the second AI winter. It involved neural networks, prolog, lisp, fuzzy logic, Japan overtaking US in AI, etc.

Lots of good work with neural networks was done back then:

A learning algorithm for Boltzmann machines
DH Ackley, GE Hinton, TJ Sejnowski - Cognitive science, 1985

Learning representations by back-propagating errors
DE Rumelhart, GE Hinton, RJ Williams - nature, 1986

Phoneme recognition using time-delay neural networks
A Waibel, T Hanazawa, G Hinton, K Shikano, KJ Lang - Readings
in speech recognition, 1990
To give the gift of Health to Youngsters
I think part of the problem is that in most cases there are far too many dimensions at work for us to understand the explanation for anything but the most trivial of cases.

Imagine there is a job to identify Fred Rogers. You train for this job for weeks, looking up imagery of Fred as a young child, young man, and as an adult throughout his career. You become very familiar with Fred's physical characteristics...his posture, his body composition, the way he carries himself, his face and any identifying features therein.

After this extensive training session you are brought in front of an audit panel and asked to explain in excruciating detail how you make positive and negative identifications of Fred Rogers. Not just demonstrate your ability repeatedly, which would just be a sampling method, but to actually describe the approach.
It's true, this might be one of the optimal markets for this kind of farming. You're right about the other niches. There will be a few. Blueberries in Brooklyn. Us hipsters need our avocado toasts and rare fruit brunches in all seasons.

With unlimited power, everything changes. We get the incredible luxury of scientifically produced vegetables. They can be optimized to perfection in harmony with consumer tastes. Every season brings a new designer crop...

Well, maybe it could happen without unlimited power. We can dream.
As far as I've seen, it's been both a centralisation of content and heavy abuse of SEO by large sites to force themselves to the top of basically any search.

I know I have no interest fighting with SEO and I doubt many of the people who host their own small sites do either.
This here is the problem. You shouldn't have to pay for something like this, it should be provided by default in a readable form.

Otherwise ask yourself this: how much are you willing to pay Amazon to not list your address and a list of possible items at that address for the whole internet to see?
Maybe. If you couldn't afford to fix it before, you definitely can't after a few tickets. But if you give up the car then you can't get to your job, so how are you going to pay off those tickets?
Thats almost as good as Sealed Lead Acid.
Expect, Non-disabled is not a protected class so you can directly give the disabled discounts much like how you can give seniors discounts.

And again, discrimination is not the point, the point was discounts is not a way to get around charging X more. If a state can’t charge a fine for doing X the also can’t give a discount for not doing X.
inputrc has nothing to do with Mac Terminal. It’s the configuration file for GNU readline.
What about the patent case?
Anything important enough that should not be missed should be sent in an email. Slack, IRC, and other chat-likes are additional communication channels—they shouldn’t be a primary mission-critical delivery system.
It doesn't look like a fork to me. It only seems to be a build script for building VS (and possibly remove some anti-features).
Another option is to build a set of diffs (Unit::MoveTo,Score::Add,...) based on the existing (immutabled viewed) state, then apply them mutably (possibly checking for conflicts on moveto et al):

diff = differential(state)
state.update(diff) # or state = update(state,diff)
# or state += ∂_∂t(state) if you're feeling overly mathy
Exploiting Freenet's darknet routing algorithm to affect content availability
iTerm2 with the new metal renderer (only added to the stable releases recently) is as fast as Terminal. But if you want to see what a truly fast terminal can be, give Kitty a try: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

As for OMZ, yep, it includes a lot of functionality out of the box which makes it a little slow. I personally use prezto because it's quicker. Give that a try.
I'm one of those people who dislikes pigeons, and it's interesting to read that at least my belief that pigeons can spread disease doesn't hold much truth.

Personally, I can't relate to the explanation that "pigeon haters" don't like nature crossing over into their orderly city environment. For example, I do like the tons of blackbirds and sparrows in my city.
Acoustic Blues - Spotify playlist via rave.dj: https://rave.dj/NX2BLIeTJW_YtQ

Was better than I expected, this is kind of a stress test
Some counterpoints:

* You don't need a bank's permission. There are many unbanked people in the world.

Do we imagine those unbanked people being likely to have bitcoin wallets?

* Eliminates credit charge back fraud, which is a very big problem

That a problem, for sure, but in exchange consumers have no recourse if they legitimately need to chargeback a vendor. This is an anti-consumer feature of bitcoin.

* Nobody can freeze your accounts, like PayPal has done on numerous occasions

Unless you can somehow always keep your money in bitcoin until you exchange it for goods and services, you'll need an exchange to your currency of choice, at which point governments have all the ability in the world to effectively freeze your assets.

* Any business can accept money digitally, for example porn sites and marijuana businesses have had a lot of problems accepting credit cards

There isn't any technical reason that websites can't accept bitcoin today, and yet the number of websites that are offering bitcoin payments is shrinking, for well discussed reasons. I feel it's fair to say that that business have had more (and different) problems accepting bitcoins.
The problem is when your empire loses its weapons but all the others still have theirs. Think China's trade policy is unfair now? Imagine if we had no tools for monetary policy. There would be much laughter in Beijing.

Only multilateral disarmament works for game theoretic reasons. I don't think soft disarmament in areas like aggressive monetary policy can be done until hard disarmament happens, so I write that stuff off until we've had at least 50 years with no major war anywhere on Earth. (Most smaller wars are proxy wars between major powers.)

Like most major innovations Bitcoin is ahead of its time. Maybe on Mars...
When I was there (20 years ago though), diamonds, gold nuggets and hundred dollar bills were fairly common forms of portable wealth. The banks and cash were never trusted (they were shut down when I was there), and the country mines gold.
Docker ruined containers. I've been using LXC exclusively on my server and it's much better than Docker, especially since I don't have to retool and it behaves like any other server while still being a container. If all else fails, I can easily bootstrap it into a virtual machine (basically, install the same distro on a virtual machine, tar up the container and dump the contents at the root, adjust networking configuration, done)
? VSCode is definitely free in the "beer" sense.
First Apple Computer Goes Up for Auction, Expected to Fetch More Than $300,000
Meltem Demirors explains what the Shitcoin Waterfall is
This doesn't suffice unfortunately. That setting has worked inconsistently, or not at all, and add far as I've seen in my own testing it never disables all telemetry. There have been issues open on GitHub about this for a long time, though it's a few months since I checked there for updates (I stopped bothering and just put it in my firewall rules; I still see blocked connections in thy log today).

I'm a very happy vscode user, but this is one antifeature does continue to bother me.
While the code base of a non-unikernel can be larger a mainstream project like Linux also attracts more reviewers, who spend more time reviewing the code (especially in the critical areas, some hardly used device driver might see less attention)
isn't it agains't GDPR having it be like that?
If there's people that use Chromium binary builds, there's people that will use this.
TAMs for Product Managers, and how to use them
Don't feed the troll. She/He's making up pointless points, and she/he also seems to be using a throwaway account.

Just don't feed the troll.
Finally. It obviously is something that flies over the heads of most people here at least by reading the comments. This is great.
> creating an unnecessary risk for Android users in order to score cheap PR points

This seems like an accurate take. Why else would google disclose the bug so quickly?
Silicon valley is not an entity. It's a place. With many different people in it.
I hope this will not combine safety of Bash with clarity of natural language through reliability of machine learning.
Sorry, I mean "free software" I wasn't talking about price.
Thanks I’ll check that out
Because protocols need implementations to be appreciated.
If there's any Eurovision geeks here, I tried putting two Eurovision songs together, and now I can't stop watching "I Feed You My Rhythm Inside" by Margaret Berger vs Loïc Nottet. I must have played this 10 times in a row now.

https://rave.dj/_sYhWmI-iHgq_Q
That's why most contracts contain a clause that specifically accounts for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severability

That said, under German consumer protection laws a ToS may also not contain anything that could be considered "surprising" (which is generally interpreted in favor of consumers) so most ToSes are fairly pointless as soon as they go beyond the basics.
The largest problem the semantic web is tackling is answering the question that is at the end of the article

> If someone has the URI of that thing, what relationships to what other objects is it useful to know about?

In many ways, its really a question about the observer than the page; which means the pages seeking to answer it - even for their own special cases - will get the answer consistently, and often subtly, wrong.

The upshot is that pages will comply or optimise for particular observers- for financial or political reasons. This makes it very hard for observers not fitting the expected mould to make definitive use of the semantic web.

For example, a world in which distributed validation is not immediately politically or financially important (ours) is one in which such schemes as described in the article are faced with a huge problem of being consistently and often subtly broken.

User validation isn't something I'd like to be widely broken.
More interesting result: broken out by company, the "poor leadership and lack of direction" answer ranges from 15-35% of the vote, and it's the companies with a very public lack of direction that top the list.

Meanwhile, Facebook and Uber get great scores on the measure.
This one is great! My grindcore experiment wans't too successful, but it gave me a chuckle anyway.

Nasum & Napalm Death: Face the Children

[0]: https://rave.dj/yjDMS4Pu0a81ZA (Napalm Death: Suffer the Children vs. Nasum: The Masked Face)
Software developers do not write ToSs. Attorneys get paid to make it intentionally overly complicated. The same ones can just get paid twice to turn it back to simple/understandable. Or maybe just get paid once by the company using the ToS and have them come up with something reasonably readable.

And if your job is to make other people's lives harder for no good reason other than to abuse them then yeah, maybe you should be legally obliged to fix that crap for free.
Read the definition of passionate. People mean enthusiastic and misuse passionate. I have no idea why, they do it, other than as a completely arbitrary way to discount others whenever they want.
Their valuation is not going to stay this high...
That's not passion. That's a reasonable, experimental approach to problem solving.