skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article left me with many questions about the legal situation. How much autonomy do they have? Abortion is a crime in Honduras, under any circumstances. Can someone step onto this land and have an abortion, free from the jurisdiction of Honduran federal law? And what about security? This is a country where land is sometimes taken by force by gangs, who bribe officials to transfer title and occupy it with their own guard forces.
Any proof that LLVM is chosen now on most universities? Because I also have anecdotes where I was offered a job to work on GCC for a specific hardware architecture and bring improvements. Though I would be more interested on what compiler or license brings the most real value to the society and not which ones brings more money to a small group of mega rich guys.

Why not credit GPL or RMS for the Linux success over BSD ? There are many projects using BSD but still a giant number of companies and projects still use the "evil, cancerous" GPL project when they could use BSD and be selfish.

Maybe open source will win over free software but that this will not prove the free software movement wrong, will prove that money and greed will win as always.
A centralised tax system across the entire EU? Lets not go too crazy at once yet, maybe start with a European Ministry of Finance.
Reducing insolation may lower temperatures but would also impact crop production and solar energy output. Maybe it's better to quit burning stuff.
While morally questionable. Philosophically; Why is this a problem? I suppose I could provide enterprise support for Bash or Midnight Commander without contributing back to these software projects.
This sounds like end-of-history talk. In 500 years, the world will not look like now + sci-fi tech. There may not even be money in 500 years.

It's also strange that getting places in 3 hours rather than 2-3 days is the radical change you predict. If people can get anywhere quickly and cheaply, the posited ultrarich would have to spend an awful lot on security, which will bring up their travel times/costs.
Perhaps everybody except a few top presenters?

I'm speculating based on experience where I live: When contract negotiations in the public sector comes up, the finance ministry makes a point of having its loyal economic affairs journalists and pundits point out how the top paying position at, say, some port authority is almost as high as the prime minister's. But they neglect to mention that 99.975% of employees make a lot less then that; and it was a one-time situation where the guy worked extra overtime; and that they also counted employer taxes rather than what the employee gets etc. etc.
Hmm. I did a quick scan read over the Politico article, but I'm confused. It doesn't seem to be about contracts and the words "contract" and "alliance" don't appear in it. Did you copy/paste the wrong link?

I also tried the two France24 links. They're both 404 Not Founds. The final link is also a 404. That's a bit odd. Where are you getting these links from? At any rate, the result is you've not provided any evidence that AZ is lying, which is a very bold claim to begin with. Why would they do that? AZ is part Swedish and has a Greek CEO, it's not like they're a 100% pure British firm of tub-thumping Brexit supporting patriots who inexplicably don't want to supply Europe with vaccine. Although by now I wouldn't be surprised if they're thoroughly sick of the EU and its games.

Meanwhile the EU has:

a) The motive to lie.

b) A track record of doing so repeatedly, a completely undeniable one.

It's ridiculous how often the EU or leaders of members states have said totally untrue things about this vaccine or the UK, I made a list at some point (see my old comments) and within a week there'd been another two lies coming out of Europe. I'm not the one being fed BS here - in many of those cases Europe's leaders have already admitted they'd said untrue things!
Honestly a standard library was needed since a decade but... I would have preferred a coordinated effort between browsers and node/deno. At this point even if just the browsers and deno get two different stdlib we risk _a_lot_ of useless fragmentation and headaches.
Perhaps I am an anomaly, but for me the love of coding has to do with the creative cycle. The fact that I am creating something tangible, that other people can use and might even find interesting, and out of nothing more than my own thoughts is very exciting. It's probably the same reason why I enjoy finding/buying blank pads of paper and interesting notebooks, journals, great pens, etc. I experience the same feeling composing, performing and/or listening to music. In fact, I believe that coding and music (and math) have a lot in common, and many of the best coders I've ever known are also musicians themselves.
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Depends on what you call tooling. Aren't all the SaaS services needed for modern dev part of tooling? Most companies pay for that stuff. Could be Digital Ocean, GitHub, Auth0, Chargify... To me, those are all dev tools because they do stuff I don't have to do manually, just like an IDE is a dev tool that's more powerful than notepad. They're not standalone services because they don't do anything without me configuring them. And they're really only useful for devs, not anyone else.

Digital Ocean is, to me, a great dev toolbox and keeps me from wasting time setting up machines, IPs, etc. We gladly pay for it. Even tools like Notion are really dev tools just deployed as SaaS.

I think dev tooling has just moved into SaaS and probably gotten more profitable, if anything.
Anti-capialism on hackernews? Brave post! (cool game btw)
Bold move
I've looked up only two (out of pure curiosity), and the combined total is already over $500/year.

Economist: $189, FT: $372
> therefore it isn't really smart and can't actually 'understand' what it writes about.

The crux is that you cannot determine a mechanism to distinguish between this "Chinese room" and someone who actually 'understands'. Therefore, is there a meaningful difference?
Isn't this the Matrix? I suppose fighting climate change is a good stand-in for deadly AI.
Facebook, Google plan new undersea cables to connect Southeast Asia and US
Just an idea, but it would be super cool if we could 3d print large sun shades in space and have them moved into position :)
A great utilization of resonance. I wonder if they installed sensitive vibrational analytics to help understand the optimal frequency for dislodging.
I would love to have one of these eInk displays in my woodworking shop for displaying project plans while I work! I hope this product becomes commoditized soon!
To be fair, he was only re-appointed for a short while before he was cancelled. We don't even know what his plans are.
I think pacing yourself can be important. Sometimes it does help to hold off on that request till the next day.

I have very little open source experience, but I am thinking of the experience of support engineer sending requests to development. If you hit them with too much too fast, you will tend to provoke worries or exhaustion.

That being said, making 3 issue reports when the repo had only 1 besides that doesn't seem like a problem. Developers do like to feel like their work is getting some attention.
“You will rent everything you own and like it!”
- Too Big To Fail Bankers
Javascript embedded scripting for databases .../shivers
Non-text?
Cattle (and sheep, of which there are at least 130.000 stuck at the moment, see https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/stranded-suez-canal-ship...) aren't squeezed in containers but rather shipped on specialized ships (which in turn often are sometimes barely retrofitted other ships, such as car ferries, see https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/spanien-rinder-irrfahrt...).
This is another case of life imitating art. The Simpsons did this decades ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyjJbhuwGkU

The ideas mentioned certainly sound plausible, but they also seem potentially catastrophic in their impact. One of the proposed methods sounds similar to cloud seeding, which could enhance our weather control capabilities. I wonder if these methods could be applied to Venus, perhaps, to make it more hospitable.
I don’t think there’s any evidence that learning Latin helps you learn Romance languages any faster than learning a Romance language does. Why should learning Latin and then French be any faster than Spanish->French ?
I'm not even convinced that all people are conscious. That needs to be solved first
> Individuals are not taxed on a "profit and loss" basis.

Is it safe to assume you have no investments or save for retirement?
https://archive.is/2paor
Speaking as someone who runs a B2C IT company in Europe, what would really help is:

- Standard for English language education across the continent, so that I can hire someone from another country without their children being denied an education because they don't speak an obscure local language

- Set and enforce standards for apartment ventilation, noise insulation, and air pollution, since in many Eastern European countries workers are suffering in sub-standard apartments (including new ones) when trying to work from home.

- Get rid of all payroll taxes, increase the pension age to 70 (or privatise pensions) in order to fund this change. I can't hire a 'rockstar programmer' with a good salary if 50%+ of the labour budget is swallowed by taxes for him and me (instead I will just hire him as a B2B freelancer, which is not something that is scalable, and presents him with an additional compliance burden).

- Reduce sales taxes across the bloc to the legal minimum - 16% - in order to encourage sales to EU customers (instead of American or Chinese customers, where a sale is much more rewarding due to their lower sales tax rates)

- Get rid of the endless series of grants and handouts which reward the companies best at filling out forms and justify the huge EU bureaucracy, instead of those companies best at actually selling products that people and businesses want. (Use these savings to cut VAT)

- Rollback or simplify cookie popup warnings, GDPR, to reduce the compliance burden.

- Increase border security, and disincentivise/punish/reverse irregular immigration flows, in order to reduce the welfare burden on states, and increase the price of manual labour - to incentivise AI and automation. (For example, huge sections of farmland in southern Europe [1] are worked by irregular migrants, for illegal wages and without rights, reducing the incentive to automate these operations - contacts that would go to EU tech companies).

[1]https://www.dw.com/en/spains-sea-of-plastic-where-europe-get...
Then I wonder how it has ended in a situation where a factory is apparently ready to go to produce but is waiting for regulatory approval, and the regulators are claiming they're waiting for paperwork to be submitted. That shouldn't be possible in a genuinely parallel review process.
> I doubt this guy's asset are within reach of either government (UK or US) unless the throw him in a cage until he regurgitates his private keys

What do you think happens when you wilfully violate a court order?

At best, he will have to avoid touching those assets to avoid being detected. They’re tainted on a public ledger.
HN loves their contrarian takes. I guess it's fine when rejecting one techy opinion for another, but it comes off as quite ignorant (and arrogant) when someone who couldn't explain what a Yang-Mills theory is pretends to better understand particle physics than CERN (a collaboration with thousands of the brightest minds in the field).
Node is only just now getting around to adding promise based APIs to the core. Any time you interact with the Node core APIs you have to drop back to using callbacks - that's at least one area where Node is behind the times.
It seems likely it was meant to be seen and fixed.
Seems like the way to fine him is in BTC then.
You are correct if you're only talking about software created by _yourself_. However, most of the software I got on 9-track tapes were collective works, with the usual case being that the copyright owner was the employer of the people who actually wrote the software.
First paragraph: But on Wednesday, a group of scientists detailed how to develop an _insurance plan_ if the world fails to do so.
I'm talking about how we as normal people, and the public, respond when we see something like that situation. Suppose the investor had asked the woman to step down in favor of the man. Almost nobody who saw that situation -- not the woman, not the man, not the other people in the company, probably not the other investors, and almost certainly not the general public -- are going to know about the other situation.

> Answer: because the bias is, that all men are biased.

So, in a discussion where we're discussing the possibility that women might see anti-woman bias where none exists, we have a situation where a man sees anti-man bias where none exists.
I fail to understand why so many people are proposing this alternative as if blowing up tonnes of cargo in the water, surroundings and air would be fine from an environmental point of view.
This sounds like a kind of grim sounding future. We fucked up local ecosystem by bringing in invasive species (knowingly and unknowingly). We fuck up atmosphere, and actively poisoning seas to the point where doctors are dis-advising eating fish due to heavy metal poisoning.

And now we are going into futurama teritory - just drop a giant ice cure into the sea - solutions. What could possibly go wrong -_-'

We just can't seem to break free from the power structures of current capitalism.
Online experiment identifies whether you're a dogmatic thinker
But Brits certainly do use the same kind of highly indirect non-literal phrasing. We're famous for it.

This reminded me of this infamous bit from Yes, Minister, and although it's not actually entirely an example of this, it's too good not to share now i've found it:

Sir Frederick: There are four words to be included in a proposal if you want it thrown out.

Sir Humphrey: Complicated. Lengthy. Expensive. Controversial. And if you want to be really sure that the Minister doesn't accept it, you must say the decision is "courageous".

Bernard: And that's worse than "controversial"?

Sir Humphrey: Oh, yes! "Controversial" only means "this will lose you votes". "Courageous" means "this will lose you the election"!

[1] https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5v4rhe?start=1100
Peeking at sparks.land I see that you're serving .ts files, I assume that's what you mean by using sucrase, you're transpiling "live" instead of building/deploying bundles offline?

I notice your script files are all pretty small, have you run into any upper limits on performance or scalability so far with this approach?
Isn't AI just a statistical model which 'predicts' the most likely outcome based of the input?

Maybe we're like this too.

A consciousness is unpredictable and I doubt it can actually be modeled on a computer.

Complex, most likely. Unpredictable? I think not.
> Seriously the current tax structure in the United States seems to be anti-human being

Companies are groups of human beings, earning income collectively. Corporate income taxes wouldn't be needed if the tax system was effective at tracking all financial flows. If the system worked properly, we'd just tax the money when it was paid to individuals as salary or dividends, which has to happen for it to be used by people; it's no good to anyone just sitting in a company bank account doing nothing.

The focus on company income tax is just a media trick to get people enraged, but it really is a non issue. Big companies generate huge amounts of taxes by merely exisiting, because they move huge amounts of money around that ends up in the hands of other companies and individuals, and plenty of tax gets paid when that happens.
I work in legal tech. The money is in identifying, gathering, processing and letting people search though terabytes of emails, spreadsheets, slack messages, etc. Corporations and law firms pay handsomely for eDiscovery. Ingesting and making sense of millions of emails for example ( think reply, reply to reply ) is a interesting problem.
Full archived version

https://archive.is/2paor
On the other hand I really quite like programming in Postgres's version of PL/SQL which I find to be pleasantly consistent and quite easy to understand.
These are all preprepared boxes, maybe it wouldn't work so well on a random sampling of Amazon packages
I assume if they can build a robot to recognize and pick up individual boxes they can find a way to have it find, connect and disconnect itself from the conveyor...
As the linked article computes, and I know from experience ... no, absolutely not the worst excuse. Windage on these vessels is significant, a large, prolonged gust can move it significantly, and then the "Bank Effect" sucks the bow onto the bank.

Once the bow is stuck, the momentum keeps moving the vessel forward, wedging the bow harder and harder, and swinging the stern to the opposite bank.
> Building a new identity isn't really that hard

No. But he will have effectively given up all his known wallets. If he touches them, he’ll have lit himself up.
Wasn't that more of an ideological than technical split?

Deno is more of an ecosystem reboot than a fork, I would think.
Are we dealing with spherical cows here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade
>One proposed sunshade would be composed of 16 trillion small disks at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrangian point, 1.5 million kilometers above Earth. Each disk is proposed to have a 0.6-meter diameter and a thickness of about 5 micrometers. The mass of each disk would be about a gram, adding up to a total of almost 20 million tonnes. Such a group of small sunshades that blocks 2% of the sunlight, deflecting it off into space, would be enough to halt global warming, giving ample time to cut emissions back on Earth.

> Such a group of sunshades would need to occupy an area of about 3.8 million square kilometers if placed at the L1 point. The deployment of the flyers is an issue that requires reusable rockets. With 100t LEO booster a single launch per day would allow to release the required number of sails within 20 years.
yes I came to comment exactly this, Romania is always up in the ranks of fruits and vegetables exports, it should be included.
This is a sea-change I'm expecting to see in my lifetime which will have a lot of flow on effects. The baby-boomers have had an outsized influence on everything since being an oversized generation means not only have they consumed and held onto more of everything finite (i.e. real estate) but they've also stayed as the principle holders of high level positions for longer (since normal sickness/early death doesn't remove them - another boomer is able to simply step into the role on the basis of experience).

We really haven't seen a world where the labor supply follows a more normal age pyramid, and the markets are all assuming that what's true now will always be so.
This is why the field doesn't use the term AI.

Things like RNNs and Transformers that include a temporally linked concept of attention based on input could be said to be "reacting" more than traditional "predicting" architectures.
One where you don't get handed a topic and a lab by your advisor.
As a minority female who has unpleasant interactions with people sometimes forced upon me, this "PhoneTool" gives me the willies. I cannot imagine being a part of a large company with 1M+ employees and having no control whatsoever over whether or not another employee can "reach out" or not. It is awful and I'm surprised Amazon's legal team hasn't shut it down or at least found ways to limit its reach before now. Many things can be the trigger: differing politics, racial views, etc. Would I want someone who holds views which are damaging to my well-being to have the ability to reach out to me directly? Heck no...and yes I realize the timing is terrible, but from the outside looking in we have no idea why this was done. Something else may have happened that we (the reading, judging public) has no idea of...for all kind of reasons.

I think the fact that it is happening during a stressful time for Amazon could be clouding more important issues. EEs at Google used their company access to spy on co-workers calendars, another ex-Googler was using his access to harass customers of Google products. At 1M EEs, there is bound to be a bad/crazy apple in the bunch and it only takes one incident for this whole thing to become a very bad conversation.

Reddit recently added a glowing dot on profile pictures to alert people when you are online, but reddit has awful moderation and women are constantly getting attacked. I shut that light off as soon as I heard about it. This seems so much worse because there is no escaping work place harassers without quitting.

Attacks against individuals of various racial groups have been in the news alot recently and I could easily see a bad actor using this tool to make real trouble for an unsuspecting person. Hopefully, Amazon keeps it shut down and devises a new way for its EEs to communicate.
Do French Guiana, Martinique or New Caledonia count as "France"?
So does Google, and it’s even worse there. In Google, the first page for "postgres window functions" is version 9.1, version 9.3, and 8 random tutorials. DDG has 9.1, 9.3, tutorial (the same as Google…), but then you at least get 12, 11, and then some more tutorials.
I think they should widen the canal. It is too narrow for the behemoth ships that are going on it now.
It's a pointless argument. You had access to all the software with a regular student license, it was obviously never meant for any production workload and never meant to be covered with any kind of support.

Since piracy was/is the norm, you might as well provide a few version.
"I have a sinking feeling"

Perhaps you're also feeling kind of ever-green? :-P
dupe:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26619523
They have many more options. If you go down slightly in size, it's less than half that price: https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper.htm
Haven’t they seen the TNT future documentary Snowpiercer about a failed effort of precisely this kind?
Every time I’ve seen this story pop up it always reminds me of the Matrix. “We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky.” I’m a firm believer that the Sun is our salvation and we should harness it, not block it.
Your changing the history, cancel culture failed to cancel Linus, he had a smart strategy and enough supporters to escape.

For what specific issue RMS did not apologized yet? Let us know the issue, why does he need to apologize for that specific one and why if there is no apology for that issue should he be canceled from his own project?
Competitive mate selection makes this a mostly solved problem.
>If you want fairness, no-one should be forced to pay taxes

Agree

> everyone should pay for the services they use

Usage taxes and VATs are always voted down because they hit poor and middle class the hardest, at least in the US.

> and there should be no corruptible centralised entity who can decide for everyone.

But muh roadz!
Take a piece of paper and write the words "I FEEL SAD" on that piece of paper. Now look at it. Do you believe that this piece of paper is feeling sad now?

In the same way an algorithm can never ever gain consciousness. Just because you manage to make the words on that "piece of paper" change quickly over time doesn't change anything.
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