skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I want you all to pay attention, as we move the 'creativity' slider here to the right..." (possibly NSFW)

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I don't buy into that. It sounds like rationalizing contentness with the status quo. We embrace life over death all the time, we fight disease, famine, and other causes of death all over the world. I'm not going to go against that instinct for promoting life because of some theoretical arguments of sein-zum-tode. The existence of such arguments in itself proves nothing: enough opposing arguments have been brought forth as well (like the fable of the dragon, linked in the other reply).

But again, to me the proper response is akin to Moore: I love living. We fight for life everywhere. That has more swaying power than the theoretical arguments of some philosopher concluding immortality leads to meaninglessness.
This is cool for former Smalltalkers: "Advanced class redefinition" (there was previous attempt at http://dcevm.github.io/ to bring this to HotSpot, but Sun/Oracle decided not to increase HotSpot complexity - see https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/159). So it seems JVM is one step closer to the Smalltalk VM...
For all I know most things I know about China could be wrong - I'm certain that a lot of it is (seeing our media uncritically reporting the Adrian Zenz stuff has been mindblowing), but how could I possibly know whether something is true when there is so much disinfo going around? Like, what gives you the confidence that you're not just being fed propaganda yourself?
Nice project! How much time you've spent on it?
AI while producing the last one:

"I think that あ, お, and ま are the same thing, and every line needs to start with it!"
I know little about this protocol.

It seems to make things better like client privacy, server versioning and censorship of good actors.

As usual, nobody bothered to worry about problems it worsens. Do we want more anonymity and less censorship for bad actors?

Good and bad may be subjective, but nearly everyone looks at that issue pragmatically in some instances (to pick an unlikely example: some demented billionaire buying nukes), and in tech we seem incapable of accounting for that.
That's an interesting insight — that the CCP is perhaps the best choice of many bad choices (the "lesser evil" as we say in the US). I do understand your perspective, but I respectfully disagree (though I do admit I don't know that much about how China really works).

Of course, China is a developed economy, and there is a lot of really impressive and legitimate industry in China. The hardware markets of Shenzen, the startups in Shanghai, the generally better-educated (than the US) populous. I want to make it clear that I don't hold a cartoonish "China bad" view, and I definitely don't see Chinese people as bad people — I have a lot of them as friends — nor even every member of the CCP as a bad person.

But I think these "attacks" of China aren't that unwarranted. There is something really foul afoot in China, moreso than the US. Perhaps, if the US didn't have such a strong constitution and democratic backing, it would be doing worse things than China. But it isn't, and that's because of the setup of the US government.

The things that really bother me about China are:

1. The invasion of Tibet (everyone seems to have forgotten about this)

2. The Uighur Genocide

3. Well-documented organ harvesting of political dissident groups like Falun Gong

4. The draconian social-credit system

5. The Great Firewall

6. Parts of the "Belt and Road" initiative, particularly landgrabs from poor African farmers

There is very good evidence for each of these points, and the West doesn't have problems like this.

I do see that the US has a lot wrong with it. I also see that Germany and Europe has a lot wrong with it. I also know that media perceptions are often wrong — I'm half German and hold German citizenship, so I know how strange it is to fly between countries and see how distorted media perceptions are on either end.

But China in its current incarnation is, to me, dangerous and scary, and also very promising. I hope we can patch up the past, but we can't do that by being blind to it.
I use something like this for a metadata search tool serving static data. Its high performance and easy to set up which is the main use case for me.
In Europe there are directives and regulations, and the former get transposed into local law, whereas regulations apply directly. The R in GDPR comes from regulation :)
Mathematicians can, and do, use both, and would arguably be better of with 0-based. Mathematicians sometimes need to use partitioned matrices, and describing the start and end indices of those partitions goes better with 0-based indexing of matrix elements, so that the top left element is at 0,0. It's horrible if you have to work with such things in 1-index based matlab, the amount of nested +1 and -1 corrections you need to type...
Then again the activists have proven to be pretty dishonest themselves. Timnit lied about who fired her, hid the fact that she gave an ultimatum and has now dedicated time to publicly smear and attack everyone at Google, including listing people who should be fired (by name!) on Twitter. Not to mention the abusive behaviour she showed towards the FB head of AI on Twitter who stopped posting as a result. She never apologised, although she demands apology from Google coworkers.

The other activist was fired when she deployed political messaging code in production while hiding the whole process from her team and manager.

Do those strike as a people that will honestly present their story and would be good to work with? Ones that happily lie and fudge the truth to drive their agendas?

Because in my experience people who act like this, no matter what skin color they have, are corrosive and abusive to work with.
> We are already accustomed to R, Python, Node, Ruby, etc. building C stuff at package installation time. I don't have a great sense of where to draw the line, but somehow I feel the Julia convention crosses it.

I'm definitely not accustomed to this, and absolutely hate this behavior. Very frequently installing a dependent package or compiling one via one of these package managers is frequently a good way to build it badly, without respecting compiler flags, ignoring system paths, and so on. It's also hard to customize or force the usage of a shared system library which has been built for the purpose.

Ask the package managers of any linux distro how annoying is to handle unbundling in these scenarios.

pip too.
Just do not use powershell l o l
Yes. Maybe you could increase the sizes of B+ pages ?
The only reason that databases use B+ trees rather than a red-black tree or avl trees is because of the overhead of reading data from the hard drive.
This would be a interesting hack.
I think "protester" is appropriate for people who are protesting a political process in a political building - even if some of them exceeded acceptable behavior, committed crimes, were violent etc.

Using BLM as an example, is it still fair to call them protesters though they sometimes fight with police (violent behavior), graffiti or break windows (vandalism), loot (breaking and entering)?
Brave's noticeably faster than Chrome (because of course it renders less stuff with the low-level content blocking) and on Apple silicon with the new arm64 build the rendering speed is officially ridiculous.

Most sites now feel like they're some hyper-optimised, next.js static site generated build even if they're not.

The web experience is not unlike that first time you switched from spinning platters to SSDs.
The standard, as in what novelists enjoy writing, a software to enhance the writing experience.
From a R&D project to Atman IoT
yo nice reaction!
In capitalist countries, you blame the victims - the poor - for lazyness, lack of initiative, being stupid. The problem is neatly swept away. You're not supposed to feel pity, but contempt for the poor. If you're poor, you're supposed to be ashamed or git gud. Either way you're not concerned with the conditions others live in.
Yes, because there's no precedent of China blocking services for reasons of censorship and top down control whatsoever.
Trump Pardons Levandowski, Who Stole Trade Secrets from Google
Peter Thiel, Palmer Luckey, Michael Ovitz support pardon
Might be useful for services that aren't continually used? For example, month or year end processes. Not convinced I would use SQLite for a service like that though, seeing as AWS has serverless RDS
> So when we do get rid of presidential pardons?

This sholdn't happen to a dog say dogs.

> We've seen "an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president." ~Mitt Romney

It's good to have friends.

> And we've seen pardons put up for sale.[0]

Free market at work.

> Is the US a nation of laws and due process or a Banana Republic where anyone can be acquitted of anything?

Taken into account that it uses it's military and secret service to promote a certain fruit company i will say the later is correct.

> [0]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/politics/trump-pardons...
From the blog comments, I think this is what you’re after https://github.com/c9fe/22120
All: I know this is a little late, but those of you posting ideological flamewar comments to this thread are breaking the site guidelines. We're trying to avoid hellfire here, and we're banning accounts that feed it. Please don't feed it.

HN is not for all types of discussion. It is specifically for curious conversation. Here's a test you can apply: curiosity is equally open to what's true, false, or interesting about anything. If your position is that your side is right about everything while the opposing side is wrong about everything, you have left the spectrum of curiosity gratification and are functioning in the spectrum of political battle. Those do not overlap.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Cloudflare workers run at the edge along with a simple but fast KV store.

We use KV and workers to serve static data (json) to browser based code.

This could be used to filter, sort or aggregate that data before sending the client.

Perhaps for inventory / product lookup on a e-commerce site.
E.g.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/red-meat-and-the-risk-...

and

https://progressreport.cancer.gov/prevention/red_meat

I’m not going to single out studies and pretend that I’m in any way into this field.
People don't pay you to run xyz, they pay you to solve their problems. If you can solve a problem that real businesses have, then as long as you're not charging enough to be a bigger problem than the original problem, they'll be happy to pay it.
I can’t imagine anything closer to “selling THE product” when it comes to Linux than AWS EC2. It’s Linux as a service on different virtual hardware options. It’s directly comparable to the AWS Elastic search service, which is Elastic search as a service on different virtual hardware options. The fact that this isn’t immediately obvious shows how much we take Linux for granted.

Perhaps you mean when comparing to the “all Silicon Valley companies” I mentioned, but that still leaves AWS, GCP, Azure, Heroku, and every serverless provider out there as direct comparisons to this situation.
https://play.aidungeon.io/main/landing

It uses not a GAN but a different deep learning mechanism (the concrete language model is called GPT-2). See also https://datascience.stackexchange.com/questions/48005/which-...
The science museum is not a tiny organisation.. they're one of the top museums in the UK funded with taxpayer money.

They're closed right now due to covid, and they ought to be digital/online savvy and able to handle a few million clicks in a day for this kind of thing.
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Why do you think Google reached out to the press?

I’d bet the employee leaking documents did, and Google just responded to a request for comment.

It’s more the style of those players.
I think you’re referring to GDPR article 22, which prohibits decisions based solely on automated processing but imposes no constraints on the transparency of such processing. [1]

[1] https://gdpr-text.com/read/article-22/
Have you tried KDE connect?

You can share links and files with any connected device. Use it as a remote control for music players and presentations. Ring your phone from your computer to find it and more.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

(edit: add second paragraph and link)
Hi Roy,

Um, that was my point

slowhand09 spoke of this being Orwellian, but as you point and jf22 point out, these actions are done by private actors, not government

So read that Bradbury quote again, in the context of private companies burning books or deplatforming private citizen speech

"It didn't come from the Government down... Technology, mass exploitation and minority [referring to interests not races] pressure carried the trick"
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> Is this why they say

No, why they say is because they have zero experience with Lisp, in any size project.

And there exists no tool using which some people have not made big, huge mess. We can easily lob this criticism at anything, quite randomly.

Imagine a tool which has the property that a team of doofuses, no matter how large (in head count and doofiness), cannot make any sort of "horrendous mess". What sort of limitations does that entail, and could any of us here live with them?
So it's just like the US but they don't outsource the third world and don't let them starve
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It's pretty swift in a number of European countries, days not weeks.

Fact is the civil service is not being swapped, just the political leaders of the departments. Perfectly fine to just swap ministers in a matter of days.
Although it might be tempting, you can’t really send people to prison for disagreeing with your ethics.
It's about the status of people in the video and the general expectation of public of how they usually presented themselves. People of this caliber usually comes up with carefully craft image, along with good production. It's the same no matter where you live or born.

The Bezos and Gates example is just that, and example of famous people that we familiar with and that's it.

Chill man. Not everything is about race.
For 2), in Julia, there is "mod1" function which acts as modulo, with 1 being the smallest value instead of zero. It doesn't really make sense mathematically, but is very useful for looping over circular arrays.
It depends on your audience. To be fair, I have no idea the breakdown of audience for modern console games. As a young kid, my parents and grandparents would be between me and getting a game (I had no money). So having a store in a mall where I could walk in and show them what I wanted meant I was more likely to get it and it wouldn't be incorrect. My parents are also very big on giving physical gifts.
> I think you’re confused about this project

You’re the second person to say so, and it’s entirely possible I’ve misunderstood the language I quoted that’s nearly verbatim in almost every new lisp that addresses static types at all.

> When this gets typing

I’m not entirely clear that there’s any intention of it getting typing. Am I missing some statement that “not implemented” is temporary?

> Calm down.

I’m sorry I took my exasperation out on this project which I’m sure is awesome. It’s just a very general frustration I feel about the priorities of the FP+lisp community generally. Like I expressed, it’s exceptionally common to announce a new lisp (language or syntax) where static types are explicitly called out as a headline non-feature.

It’s disappointing because every time I see “lisp”, especially “Clojure like”, and I see types addressed explicitly... I keep hoping someone’s come along and married a syntax and (hopefully) state management approach I adore with a static analysis DX I also adore. And 100% of the time so far it’s been... “Types? Glad I got your attention, this isn’t for you!”

I’m well aware I’m not entitled to other people building the language I want. I’m even well aware I could build it myself, probably on top of these existing lisps.

I’m just disappointed to see so many projects explicitly identify something I want in a way that feels hopeful and bury the “nope we didn’t actually bring a type system to something like clojure” behind the headline.

I’m not losing sleep over it (other than to type this between falling asleep on the couch and proper bedtime), but can you understand how that messaging is a disappointing thing?
My knee jerk reaction to this is also to be upset, but if I try to view his sentence from a perspective of rehabilitation vs punitive action ...

His original sentence (6 months ago) was 18 months. I don't know if the extra 12 months here changes anything.
Google is doing something unethical, even if Google wasn’t doing something unethical before they decided to name and blame an employee on a personnel matter before completing an internal investigation to establish the facts. There’s a good reason why even under direct questioning with the most serious internal indications but an ongoing internal investigation, companies simply decline comment on personnel matters.

Of course, if they weren’t trying to poison the well about an imminent revelation of some greater unethical behavior on their part, they probably wouldn’t have engaged in the obvious unethical behavior. So...
Seems the comments here are mostly negative — saying his pardon is an example of corruption and that he should be in jail.

Personally, I think that the ability for gigantic corporations' ability to not only sue their former employees or influence justice to get them thrown in jail by the government is a much bigger problem.

And generally I feel like prison sentences for white-collar and non-violent crime is in almost all cases excessive.
The white supremacy sign is a white power sign because white supremacists use it to signal each other. It is called a "dog whistle" because people like you cannot hear it accurately.
> Levandowski but not Snowden or Assange. Sigh.

Snowden and Assange have no value in the market economy. Lewandowski, on the other side, has some interesting skills
Yes. That is the point. It could even be more nuanced.
GPT3 is the world’s most powerful bigotry generator. What should we do about it?
Excision.
Freedom of speech should not guarantee 'right to global reach'. People should be allowed to say what they think to an amount of people who they can have personal relationships with, their neighbors, relatively close colleagues and similar. Deplatforming should not take this away, it should just take the biggest megaphone away mankind invented to date.
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> I personally know people whose parents were stupid enough to go for such "anonymous grievance boxes" just to get a knock on the door from district committee enforcers the next day.

Okay, do tell. I'm being genuine here.

If those boxes are anonymous, why do they know who sent it?

What were the grievances? Why would they get in trouble?

What did the district committee enforces actually do?

How long ago was this?

> If Beijing ever cared about freedom from poverty, China wouldn't be so poor as a result of its actions.

> Then, why it is doing it?

That's a long list, let me go into a few.

North Korea is not an example of China exporting its governance model. If North Korea actually follows China's governance model it would be far more open than it is today. What happened is that during the Vietnam war, China allied with North Korea to prevent the Americans from setting up a base at the Chinese border. That's not "exporting governance model".

Naxalite: where's the evidence that this insurgency is supported by China. Just because they're Maoist doesn't mean China did this.

What do African countries have to do with this? Are you talking about this "debt trap" thing? China doesn't want African countries to default. China has even provided debt relief this year, without asking for anything in return.

China hasn't fired a bullet across its borders for over 30 years. That's more than I can say about the current hegemon.
It’s interesting how people focusing on Github representing the spirit of free information and an open internet, while the very same Github blocking Iran developers’ work, breaking every good ‘virtue’ it calls itself stands for, not even mention it’s just another American company, bounded by American laws, which means your data is forever at stake, if yourself, your country, being targeted by the USA, or the company it self. No one can stand that right? In fact, no one should put his data solely on a hosted platform out of his control, worrying one day even not being able to access it just because he’s not one of them who controls. You can social interact, share, collaborate on such platform like GitHub, but I think it’s completely logical and understandable trying to protect your data by building your own platform or storage no? Or should Github, or the US dominate all code hosting?
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We should ban all ISP also. They pass the files to users.
Bitcoins biggest threat may be the decriminalization of drugs, as that is the only use beyond hoarding "HODL"ing right now.

This is such a tired and over used trope.

How about being the best store of value humans currently have access to?

The world's reserve currency--the dollar--is being inflated by trillions and trillions of dollars, with no end in sight.

Savings accounts are paying essentially 0% interest; if you take inflation into account, people are losing money everyday they leave their money in these accounts. Countries in the EU have negative interest rates and it won't be too long before we have negative rates in the US.

Meanwhile, bitcoin is on its way to becoming a reserve asset and is being seen as a must-own asset by the best and brightest money managers and companies.

Bitcoin has been a lifeline in countries where the local currency has failed--like Syria, Venezuela, Argentina. It's allowed people to stay ahead of repressive regimes like in Hong Kong and Nigeria.

And it's going to allow people in the United States who's currency is being debased and where inflation is eating away at savings and retirement to have a fighting chance at being able to support themselves in the future.

You might want to understand how theft-by-inflation works [1].

Or how the dollar is gradually losing its status as the world reserve currency [2]. It's not going to be pretty.

[1] "Masters and Slaves of Money"—https://breedlove22.medium.com/masters-and-slaves-of-money-2...

[2] "The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System"—https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/
And how many people use them? We are talking about the duopoly.