skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a scam in this case. John Cleese has signed the work himself, provided video evidence of its authenticity, and minted it on his own behalf. John Cleese is a famous humorist. The owner of this NFT will have a signed, authentic, John Cleese NFT. You can't copy and paste that. Even if John Cleese decides to mint 100 more of these, you'll have verifiable providence of NFT #1 of John Cleese's Brooklyn Bridge.

The drawing, of course, is quite ridiculous. But what else would you expect from one of the masterminds behind the "Ministry of Silly Walks"?
200k emails is not enough to train a model from scratch. If you check out the google colab file in the GPT-Neo repository, it talks about how to fine-tune the model on data which is what you want to do
The original Cisco PIX firewall used modified Plan 9 as the operating system. In fact, despite the official history, the name PIX came from Plan 9, or Plan IX. I know this because the person who wrote the entire PIX software stack, Brantley Coile, told me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
Thanks for mentioning this. I think you missed the actual message where LLVM was offered to the FSF:

https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg00888.html

https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2005-11/msg01112.html

Even within active GNU projects, this egregious incidence of mismanagement is still not widely known, although many maintainers of active GNU projects have their own stories of when Stallman's ignorance of a subject led him to make poor decisions.

For at least a decade, his near-total ignorance of how people (billions of them!) use computers has been encouraged and deepened by the sycophantic acolytes who encourage him to ignore developments in computing, like the ostrich with its head in the sand.

All the while, the FSF and GNU can do less and less for the users who are stuck living in the dystopia that he predicted in the 80s and 90s.

It's as if, after the first time they booted a computer with a fully-free operating system, they declared the work to be complete, abandoning the future.
Neurodiversity – up to some point anyway, some people take it a tad too far – is great, but that also means that different people are, well, different, and are good at different things.

Stallman is good at many different things and he doesn't seem like e bad bloke overall. But he is not good at being a leader. At all. It's just not where his aptitudes lie. As a leader he is not only ineffective, but even counter-productive and harmful.

I feel the entire conversation about the statements surrounding Minsky are a bit of a distraction; what we should really be talking about is something like "is Stallman the best person to represent us as a community?" I'd argue he's not, and has never really been.
This is a good start, but given the breadth of applications this would hardly give us enough to compare, as the goal of these models isn't to simply recite Wikipedia articles. What about language translation? Content summarization? Code generation? Turing test performance?
But it is defined: In the real world, you have a finite dataset, and so have to use it over and over during training. You can shuffle the order, augment it with transformations, divide it into batches, but ultimately you reuse the whole dataset (other than the subset withheld for evaluation) in each training epoch.

I have no idea how "you have a finite dataset" defines "real world generalization". This line of reasoning seems completely incoherent.
Is something cut off in that quote? I don't understand how to read it
There's nothing new about wokeness. It's just what American Protestantism looks like; Americans have always been this way.

Even used to be called the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Awakes
> The reason why they do so is simple: they know they won't be able to make a buck off of it if it was commercial

That's not the reason why someone would choose a copyleft license of the kind the FSF advocates, like the GPL or one of its variants.

You choose a copyleft license because you primarily care about freedom.
Pretty shitty to do this to an actual maintainer, but on the other hand I wish the Linux Foundation started doing this.
The context is the one of the accusation of Marvin Minsky, in a case involving Epstein. The victim was a 17 yo girl, and "if" the condition of sexual slavery of the victim was not made clear, it could have been misunderstood as a voluntary act, and I would indeed understand that a voluntary sexual act with a 17 yo girl does not systematically lead to harm.

What was criticized by RMS was the overly broad generalizations of the harmfulness.
It's usually a matter of priorities.

Neurodivergent/autistic people are usually unaware that what they say could cause offense: they lack either the emotional capacity to feel those emotions themselves, or the ability to empathize and predict that other people will feel them.

Assholes know, they just care about other things more. They might throw their coworker under the bus for a promotion. Or they'll sexually harass women because 1 out of 10 times, it gets them laid. Or they care more about being right than being diplomatic. Or they stop paying rent because there's an eviction moratorium, even though they could, because it saves them money and their landlord has no way to enforce agreements anyway. Or they sell drugs to children because they want money. Or they cut people down because it makes them feel big in the moment.
They might not be trying to insult people with autism but they certainly succeeded. And “it wasn’t malice, it was reckless indifference and dishonesty” isn’t a good defense.
Yes, and John Cleese has made quite a lucrative career out of legitimate satire.

This is not unlike how Weird Al would sell more copies of his satirical music than the music he satired.
As a uni president I know once privately put it: "universities are warehouses that store unemployed people"
Both models were trained on Wikipedia, so that's a particularly bad choice. But yes, in practice this is what people tend to do. Take results with a very large grain of salt though, as the domain of the prompts you feed it make a huge difference.
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> I think a lot of the benefit of these types of regulations is to force businesses to commit active frauds instead of passive frauds.

GREAT point. Thanks
I don't even think we should be "advocating for the rights of neurodivergent people".

We should just stop using our prejudice to misinterpret statements, and we should stop putting words in other people's mouths.

Autistic people (who usually talk in a very literal way) would be benefited by this change as a byproduct, but this principle should apply to everyone, not only to neurodivergent people.

Is what the person said technically correct? Yes or no. That's all that matters.
"for" and "with" are different words.
One effective way to do this is to isolate the responsibilities of individuals such that no one but the top few have the whole picture view.

While employees may have doubt, they can justify their actions by thinking they are doing "their" part correctly. Which, I can relate to.

If I am not doing pseudoscience and am working on tech / systems that are good in my domain, why would I bother about the whole picture? Morally, yes. But if you have loans to pay and a family to take care of, and are getting your salary on time, everything else is the management's fault.

I can get a job in a similar field somewhere else.

And, IMHO, it is the management's fault out and out. The reason they get to take the big cheques is because they bear the responsibility.

It's not the responsibility of the average lower level worker to worry about it.
You don't need a high IQ to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_age_of_co... and understand there are huge definitional problems of defining pedophilia.

> Also, please try to show a single example of a person who defended pedophilia and ended up not being one?

You've managed to stuff many logical fallacies into a fairly short statement.

Bravo!
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From at least the 1890s it was common for belligerents to cut one another's telegraph cables. Of course, there weren't any satellites back then.
If that's the case why can't the output of this massive jobs program at least be something comparable to what SpaceX can produce?
The canary has been resuscitated... while I don't agree with everything he says, I think we do need an extremist or two to keep the fringes of opinion where they are.
Is something with billions of parameters actually a "model"? I guess the answer is yes if the data set is even larger than that?
Me too. You’re done for like $100.

They get plenty loud, some audiophile reviews saying they sound “shockingly good” for what they are which means they’re more than good enough for me, don’t need to find and spend money on amps and DACs and whatever else.

Hundred bucks, plug them in the wall, problem solved. I’m not running a sound studio at my desk.
Great quote. I think a large fraction of male programmers would disagree with Selam Jie Gano's characterization of RMS's statements. These kinds of "culture war" battles should not be happening in GNU. Free Software should be happening and people should be willing to leave these disagreements at the door. If you aren't, I am significantly less interested in working with you and I suspect many GNU contributors are as well.
Note that RMS says he doesn't have autism. High functioning autism doesn't look like being rude anyway; it's just some combination of talking for too long and being very sensitive to environmental disturbances.
There is another sentence after the one you quote which takes the edge off it. Dropping that part could be construed as willfully taking his words out of context to makes them sound worse. IMHO taken as a whole I think it says more about his lack of understanding than him endorsing anything. But as you say, that's not blatant lying.
Aren't you just talking about checksums? Your xray anecdote is neat, but the software equivalent of that paranoia is even simpler and easier to operationalize if there's incentive to do so. e.g., https://reproducible-builds.org/
> be sure to give C whole requests, don't ask C for current data, modify it in A and then send it back to C (which is begging for B to send a modification in the mean time)

A simple mitigation against these sorts of race conditions would be for C to maintain a version number alongside its data, then have any update requests send back that version number. If the message's version matches the current, then do the update and change the version number; else, reject the message with a reply directing the sender to reobtain the current data and try again. This way, if both A and B grab data from C and then simultaneously try to update that data in C, you won't lose any data.

This is (relevantly to Erlang) exactly how CouchDB works.
> What if everyone but one says it fits in their head?

"It depends". If the one person is a junior it's maybe not a code issue (unless junior-level people are expected to maintain it). On the other hand if it's a skilled, experienced, senior person saying they can't follow it, there's likely an issue with the code.

> What if you're just talking one on one, and have no idea how many team members it fits in the head of?

> What if the person who is criticizing the code will begrudgingly admit that it fits in their head, but still thinks it's too messy?

The greater point here is is that it's about code maintainability. "Fits in your head" is merely one proxy for that, not the actual goal. There are also hundreds of other things that lower code maintainability -- including being "messy", having bad names, poor or no inline documentation, no unit tests, and being "clever" -- and all of those are things that should be discussed and fixed.

Presumably everyone involved are professionals and working in good faith. If they really can't come to consensus: sleep on it. Involve more people. Suggest alternatives. Pair up.

Someone consistently on the losing side of these discussions -- whether they feel they're constantly dumbing down their code, or that the rest of the team is writing unmaintainable spaghetti nonsense -- should probably reflect on if this is the right team for them.
If you read her post, she was an undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering, and by her own admittance did not ever work nor interact with RMS at MIT.
The fraud goes deep in the Silicon Valley Tech CEO pretending-to-be medical device manufacturer / ventilator hero world:

> "Yaron Oren-Pines, who is listed as CEO 0f InCommon in San Jose on both Twitter and LinkedIn, responded to a tweet sent by President Donald Trump on March 27 calling for General Motors and Ford to immediately begin making ventilators. Oren-Pines responded to the president's tweet, saying, "We can supply ICU Ventilators, invasive and non-invasive. Have someone call me URGENT." Oren-Pines has not tweeted since.

Three days later, according to BuzzFeed, New York apparently paid Oren-Pines $69,102,000 for 1,450 ventilators, or $47,656 per ventilator. It was the second-largest purchase made by the state of New York for coronavirus-related medical supplies, according to an analysis by the Albany Times-Union.

To date, New York has received no ventilators from Oren-Pines.

A state official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told BuzzFeed that New York made the deal with Oren-Pines on the recommendation of the White House coronavirus task force. The state has since ended the contract, and is attempting to recover the money."

* https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/NY-paid-Bay...

* https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/silicon-valley-engineer-tw...

And there's more Silicon Valley Tech CEO medical device wanna-be pretenders:

* https://abc7.com/california-coronavirus-cases-ventilators-me...

And here's ya boy Elon Musk faking-it and never making-it:

* https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article241982586.h...

* https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/04/16/...
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> Who can make a 50's era baseball card?

Any decently print operation? The MLB would come after them if they tried to sell them, of course, but it's not like pictures on cardstock is a tougher technology to recreate than NFT.

Both are only worth something because of their provenance, ease of manufacturing is irrelevant.
FSFLA is actually pretty productive as I understand it. FSF US seems to spend all their time starting irrelevant political campaigns with terrible pun-based slogans.
That quote has been at that url since 2006

https://web.archive.org/web/20060821211348/https://www.stall...
I feel like this whole thread could stand to have people more clearly define the way they are using the term. I don't know of any "immutable" system that literally never changes or something. If Erlang is "mutable" in t sense, what system isn't?

I've seen such ideas tossed around, but I don't think I've ever seen an implementation.
As far as I can tell, both the JAMA study linked in this post and the study I linked are describing antibody responses. I was trying to make an apples-to-apples comparison by sharing a similar study with contradictory results on a broader swath of virus variants.
I thought that the parent post was diplomatic and well hedged, given the sensitivity of the subject material: "one facet [...] certain interactions [...] can cause [...]." Furthermore, the thesis that biology affects fitness is well established and is indeed essential to the process of evolution.
Nature cannot be discounted, but, as I think you intend to emphasize, it's not the end of the discussion when humans can do so much at the application layer.

> [...] acceptance that genders are different [...]

Males are going to have a hard time being wet nurses.

> [...] races are different [...]

The San and Inuit people have some very useful adaptations for their respective extreme environments.

It's kind of challenging to take sweeping offense to a statement phrased using an existential quantifier.
They may have good intentions, but they lack respect for established norms, and spend little time thinking about the function and purpose of those norms. They kick over Chesterton's fence and assume it was there because Chesterton was some sort -ist: https://fs.blog/2020/03/chestertons-fence/
I concur: Wingo's opinion is widely shared within GNU, and I wrote about it a few months ago, too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25193674
Sad to see that the (confusingly named, because they have no relationship with each other) Assembly3 vs Assembly4 split is here to stay.
In the list of 20 replies, only 2 or 3 are serious. You must filter the bad answers more often.
holy fucking HYPE. I'm glad I emailed advocating for him. He actually got back to me because the pansies running FSF's emails had no good answers to any of my questions.
Canada only raised their age of consent from 14 to 16 in 2008. I don't think Canada should be cancelled as a result of this.
The humanities aren't especially good at promoting critical thinking. A very large amount of (I do not use this term lightly) bullshit flourishes in the humanities. The Sokal hoax was 25 years ago and the conditions that provoked it have not improved.
> and the echo chambers isolate further...

Echo chambers are a natural thing. People gravitate to others' who have similar viewpoints. Has always been true, now it's not just true in a physical sense but also digitally. The behavior hasn't changed a bit though.

Also, even people who claim to be "open-minded" would have a very hard time being exposed constantly to contrarian viewpoints: your mental health depends on anchoring, whether you realize it or not.
I think of the laws more like "The 48 Laws of Humans". You don't have to be sociopathic to use these "laws" to your advantage.

For example, here are a few excerpts from the "Law 6 - Court Attention at all Costs" section:

"Barnum understood the fundamental truth about attracting attention: Once people’s eyes are on you, you have a special legitimacy. For Barnum, creating interest meant creating a crowd; as he later wrote, “Every crowd has a silver lining.” And crowds tend to act in conjunction. If one person stops to see your beggarman laying bricks in the street, more will do the same. They will gather like dust bunnies"

"Society craves larger-than-life figures, people who stand above the general
mediocrity. Never be afraid, then, of the qualities that set you apart and draw attention to you. Court controversy, even scandal. It is better to be attacked, even slandered, than ignored. All professions are ruled by this law, and all professionals must have a bit of the showman about them"

"The great scientist Thomas Edison knew that to raise money he had to remain in the public eye at any cost. Almost as important as the inventions themselves was how he presented them to the public and courted attention ... He did everything he could to make sure that he received more attention than his great rival Nikola Tesla, who may actually have been more brilliant than he was but whose name was far less known"

Here's the a link to the book if you're curious: http://free.epubebooks.net/ebooks/books/48-laws-of-power.pdf

Law 6 starts on page 72, and it's quite an interesting read.
Sorry. Edited.
I tried FreeCAD a couple times, it's good but I always find it very frustrating to use because sooner or later some operation just doesn't work and I have no idea why or how to make it work.

So in the end I always came back to OpenSCAD. It doesn't do curved surfaces all that well, its rendering is sometimes really slow, but it just works. With a couple simple Bezier curve functions certain things can look really nice, thanks to its nice commandline parameters and plain text file format you can always just plug it together with bash scripts or other tools. A list of all its features fit on a single page, and you can do anything with those.

It's just a really great program and the only CAD software I don't find unnecessarily frustrating. It has a few quirks but those are really minor details.
Given what the lengths he went through to create GNU in the 1970s, I’m willing to believe it.
The people talking about the outbreak didn't get classified briefings.
Family would be first. I would not have cared for working from home were I alone, but my wife is around. And my son moved back for a bit while changing cities of employment.

Neighbors would be second. I got more of a sense of the neighborhood working at my dining room table, from which I could see people going by on the sidewalk, and from lunchtime walks (other years downtown) and weekend runs (usually in a park that I found too crowded.)
"making women uncomfortable"

Right wtf does that mean? Clearly there was no actual sexual harassment. So you mean he was ugly and hit on you once? God forbid. We need to fire this man and make sure in the future that only attractive men are allowed to act like men lest we make the women feel uncomfortable.
I think we can look to someone for their philosophy on software without them having to pass a wokeness purity test. I also respect and understand these issues are a quasi-religion to many and that they feel differently.
I'm going to venture a guess that:

Patrick is smart, gets things done, writes very well, and attracted an audience -- and that is why he was a natural hire for his role at Stripe.

And for what it's worth, Paul Graham is all of those things, and that is why he was able to start YC.

"Smart and gets things done" are table stakes. The key differentiators are "writes well and attracts an audience" so that your influence exceeds your personal energies.

...if that's the kind of life you want of course. There's lots of SQL optimization work that needs doing too, and some people find that much more satisfying.
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My eldest started kindergarten this year at our local parochial school. We’re so happy they did “in-person”. It was a great success

Effect on my kid:

1. My kid was getting really weird by the end o August, after not seeing other peers since March. Her mental well being changed completely.

2. English is not her native tongue, and KG have her a great opportunity to catch up before starting 1st. grade

The role of the school:

1. The school has had three cases of COVID all year (k-Gr8. Maybe about 320 kids?). There was no spread of COVID to others.

2. The school implemented a strict regiment to ensure safety. They had strict rules, and trusted the parents to respect them.

3. Only once were we asked to go “online” for two weeks because one of the three cases was a faculty member that worked in our class. That person had gottenCOVID elsewhere and was quickly identified due to periodic testing.

4. Parents were (are) offered virtual learning. No one I know took it except a women who gave birth in January; she pulled her kid once the baby was born.

Overall the gratitude my family has of our parochial school is immense. Tuition is very cheap (much cheaper than day care), and it’d be free if we couldn’t afford it.
In practice, I don't think it is for real Erlang programs. If you need total order, route everything that needs that order through one process, and you have it. For instance, you can use that to impose total order on messages in a chat room. As long as "one chat room" is small enough for that to be practical even at your largest size, it works.

If that doesn't work, don't use Erlang. No sarcasm. The process model is nice but does preclude certain high-performance patterns.
That kind of money is hard to spend per person unless we have institutionalized corruption somewhere in there. How do we begin to tackle this problem?