skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never see those objections, instead I see the objections "I literally cannot afford the cheapest electric car and will be homeless and starving without a vehicle", "I need to heat my home to keep it habitable in sub zero temperatures in the winter", "I want to eat and not starve to death", "I want to cook food", etc.

i.e. people still need energy, and the renewable options have only very recently been viable for an individual to use, and only in some places, and often at great cost.

The objection to global warming isn't that it isn't real, it's that without fossil fuels most of us will die sooner than the worst case climate change effects ever will and so we have no choice.
A flat tax is a tax hike on the poorest % of Americans if you try to maintain current spending (hint: you have to, because the US is carrying trillions in debt and spends more then any other country on Earth on it's military).

The taxable burden you'll impose on people for whom every dollar is the difference between essential services, versus the wealthy for whom every dollar is the difference between more investment in their offshore bank account (which they have no incentive not to keep using, because why pay any tax if you don't have to?)
I'm curious if our interactions could be biased. For example, we're clients of RH (RHEL & Openshift) so I'm guessing we interact with more presentable humans. Everyone I've met has been genuinely wonderful and supportive across eng, sales, product, TAM, etc. One of the few vendors I enjoy working with.

I used inclusive in this context to mean that a junior engineer is expected to speak up and offer input in an executive meeting if they have something to offer. Cutting through hierarchy, "good ideas come from everywhere". This could be idealistic but it helped me in eliciting input.

I don't know what it's like to be on the inside or close periphery to daily core operations at RH. I agree and understand completely what you are saying. "Free speech" has (recently?) been a guise to act terribly toward each other in a number of settings. Trolls gonna troll. It's important to maintain decorum in the workplace and a culture that defies that can turn toxic quickly.
I really love the Chris Hatfield rendition from the ISS.
empowering for what exactly?
Why do you say profit like it's a pejorative or a moral failure?
The hourly rate is greater for a reason.
> Dumb question, but what is the proper way to handle currency?

In python, for exact applications (not many kinds of modeling, where floats are probably right), decimal.Decimal is usually the right answer, but fractions.Fraction is sometimes more appropriate, and if you are using NumPy or tools dependent on it, using integers (representing decimals multiplied by the right power of 10 to get the minimum unit in the ones position) is probably better.
> At some point they were 90%+ ex-CPSU members, and somehow they are still not communist?

So? China's actual Communist party isn't exactly very communist anymore.

I'd say the CPSU is dead, but some of its members who liked power shifted with the political winds.

I'm not as familiar with Russia, but it wouldn't surprise me if Putin's ideology is power-for-its-own-sake and nationalism, in that order.
Why the opposition to ideologically inclined regulations? Genuinely wondering. Is it just because it tends to make the issue so heated?

I think there are a lot of good reasons to continually regulate animal agriculture so as to be less pervasive because of the environmental impact alone, but the most important reason in my opinion is because it's just wrong to enslave sentient non-human animals.

Is it wrong to use that justification as the basis for change in the industry? Curious what you think.
Source? Have you participated in such discussions?
So Brazilians aren't Hispanic?
Seems like this is less of an "AI that intelligently generates code based on context given" and more of a "google search autocomplete for code".
"Crisis" is branding, it's the same as most causes recently, everyone wants the world to drop everything and focus on their cause, so they adopt increasing urgent rhetoric. Not saying it shouldn't be a priority, but there are other priorities too, and labeling everything a crisis or emergency just makes people tune out.
Hi, was interested in applying but I'm out of the specified timezone. It might not hurt to mention you're looking for UTC+0 to UTC+12 here on the posting.

With that said, the product looks cool. Best of luck!
that's fair. Though I didn't say it was good (or otherwise), just that MS understands the importance of owning it.
One downside with Jukebox: it takes ~9 hours to generate ~90 seconds of audio (even on a NVIDIA V100 GPU) since it's an auto-regressive model making experimentation and 'co-creation' much harder
yeah, in my early youth "IBM" or "IBM Compatible" (for the value shoppers out there, such as my family) was very much a household name...if your household had a computer at all, that is.
you can add anti nuclear environmental activists to that list of being responsible for the destruction of humanity.
Yeah definitely was not x86. It was an embedded DSP
You’re really going off the rails and should stop. If you want to argue the law, that’s fine (to a point). But you’re starting to question others’ motivations and that’s not acceptable.
You might enjoy Ministry of the Future which has a plot line along this type of thought.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
Slavery, the US / American Colonies variety of it, was deeply rooted in racism. Slavery is gone, racism is still there. So I honestly don't see how the western world is doing a bad job at separating the two.

Let's face it, most of the founding fathers were racist slave owners.
I can't even get intellisense to work correctly half the time.
>their crimes against the world

like what? bringing us efficient and cheap fertilizers to stop world hunger? allowing for wide use of polymers? enabling modern drugs? lifting up our whole civilization from the steam age into the information age?
> even at peak IBM it was an office name, not a household name.

This is not true.
Yeah, it would be a cool project. Fossil, his source control and ticket manager looks interesting as well. I don't think I would use it, with git so intrenched, but the way it shows diffs on tickets is really nice.
this is why i'll never work for google. Seems like a bunch of left'ist crowed, that just want more and more, goal post is now changed to effect outcome, when it never comes out.
What's an Irish company, in this context?
I don't really understand why you're being downvoted, this was my understanding as well. There are plenty of vegan dog foods that seem to have a history of success and meet all AAFCO standards.

I think as far as vegan cat food, I'm not sure it will be healthy or feasible at scale until/unless there's something like Wild Earth's mouse-meat kibble based on cultured cells (under development, but no time frame given for expected completion).

I'd love to hear the opposing perspective, though.
> I wish there was a digestible way to gather my top 20 so that I don't manually go through all that information while drinking my coffee in the morning.

You know, it's likely most if not all of that can be fed into an RSS reader...
I'm saying the author(s) of this piece shouldn't pass off their speculation, correct or not, as fact.

Heck, my speculation is that the reason this article does overstate the case is to work readers up for more donations, but that's different than knowing so as a fact.
Haha that's the most amusing slippery-slope argument I've seen recently, and it also has a pleasing Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox aspect to it as well. Bravo!
100% agree with you. Keeping a "pet" locked on your home for the purpose of vanity and keeping you entertained for a few mins/day is outrageous. Praising animal rights but choosing to ignore this is the ultimate hypocrisy.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid Protocol Returns Data to the User
Rightfully so, at least for law and medicine. What happened to merit?

We are all minority and majority at the same time for different groups. And that's ok.
The so-called climate crisis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_crisis
By far the biggest software fuckup in Canada's history.
Colour-changing cats and nursery rhymes to warn of nuclear danger
> leaving amidst a chaotic, failed email migration that is impacting sales is not surprising

I'm not sure if you're trying to imply causation here, but vast sweeping changes like this rarely happen in a matter of days - it's far more likely that this has been in the works for a while, and the email mess is coincidental.
I think we're all pretty aware of their poor reputation inside the states. But externally, not as much.

What news sources do you follow?
I don't believe that non trivial apps can be built with conversational programming and we've had plain English programming since COBOL, so no to that either.

The "mind blowing" example of auto generating a "layout" can draw circles with a color fill or an HTML button with text. What kind of programmer needs or would use this? Should I really type, "I need a button that says Login and goes to the login page when you click it" every time that's the case? And for my second button, do I type that again with the new text? This sounds awful. If someone is amazed by an <a> tag, I would question their programming chops.

I have yet to hear even rumors of any AI that could generate anything like a real program from a conversation. Not gonna happen.

I must add here that debugging is 70% of the programmer's job. Conversational AIs don't help there at all. Can you ask it why your function returns weird output when sent something from another function? No, you cannot. Yet these are the real problems programmers face all day long.
This reminds me of the “Goldilocks” strategy the DoD supposedly uses when presenting a President with a menu of military options:

1. Very extreme militaristic response that will surely cause many deaths. Clearly unacceptable.

2. Very weak bordering on non-existent response. Clearly unacceptable.

3. What pentagon has already decided to do. Clearly the “only” viable option.
Holy crap. Water landing a heavy at night (article says 1:30AM). No matter how well trained you are, that has a serious pucker factor.
> I spend most of my time thinking about the problem, how to solve it...

A few years ago, I got a small but painful cut on my fingertip. I thought I would have a hard time on the job as a dev. To my surprise, I realized I spend 90-95% of my time thinking, and only 5-10% of the time typing. It turned out to be almost a non-issue.
wtf hahaha.
My head automatically added "what could possibly go wrong" to the submission title, but this actually looks pretty neat. Gonna give it a try.
Just abolish the income tax. All it does, and will do, is justify the further growth of the surveillance state.
The scandal will not be that they copied, but because they lied about it, though.

Folks already copy things made with photo editing software and filters. It generally isn't a big deal.
> When is the public going to realize the O&G industry is quite possibly the worst conglomerate that we have ever seen.

Ehh, I have more a nuanced view than that.

The internal combustion engine clearly cleaned up cities and improved public health. Almost nothing we do today would be possible without a history of fossil fuels and and fossil derived products (hydrocarbon plastics, fertilizers etc).

So I give them that and they are quite welcome to it.

I don’t even blame them for wanting to expand the use of their product.

The problem is they were the scaffolding on which we built a modern economy/society, and instead of dismantling the scaffolding we have allowed it to continue, and even encouraged it to metastasize.

The fact that they knew there was a problem and covered it up rather than addressing it should be considered criminal, as it should have been with the tobacco companies. But that’s now how society functions, unfortunately.

But to call it “the worst”… I don’t know. The East India Company and Big Slavery were unalloyed evil. The oil revolution is a mixed evil.
Would you agree to be locked at some place even if "they treat you real good"?
>If Assange were actually standing trial, that’s interesting

His extradition hearing to see if this charge can be tried is currently facing an appeal, and he is still in prison partially for this charge.
It also penalizes people who lived extremely frugally after college in order to pay off their debts and delayed starting many aspects of life. I rented tiny rooms and cooked for myself and drove an old used car and skimped and saved on a LOT of things to be able to pay off my student loans quickly. In such a case I would be penalized for being responsible. Reimburse all student loan and tuition payers if you're going to pay off existing debt. Your sentiment simply does not account for individual variation in frugality and responsibility. We do not want to incentivize irresponsible behavior any more than we already do.
The work of Stanislaw Szukalski adds some interesting info to this topic.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080208204506re_/najmita.150m.c...
Within the EU (and some attached countries) you can return anything you bought online within 14 days directly to where you bought it from and get your full money back. No questions asked.

In Switzerland I can give any returns just to the postal guy that comes by everyday anyway. Couldn't be more comfortable than that. I rarely have to return anything tho
How does a simple, flat tax fix not reporting income?
>I sometimes wonder if our level of technological advancement would even be possible without fossil fuels.

I don't. I'd say that fossil fuels were absolutely required.

Admittedly there was a ramp-up due to water-powered manufacturing and steam engines run by throwing in chunks of wood.
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
Seeking power is the goal. But the way to achieve it is through consensus building. So you need ideas and an ideology to rally people around you.
Like for example these two intellectuals
that overtly had the goal of subverting society. They came up with an actual plan how to go about doing it.

Antonio Gramsci
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdsSIWh_VkQ

Theodor Adorno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YGnPgtWhsw

That intellectual subversion, and propaganda is and was a political tool is fairly obvious to anyone that has lived under a totalitarian government.
Eh, it's not that different. Humans have ineffective fur, and disorders exist that create a lot more of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrichosis

Claims about skeletal differences are probably pretty well supported by physical evidence, and again, it's a reasonably small difference in size and scale.

Differences in facial structure seem likely just from differences in skeletal structure, our face maps pretty closely to skeptical structure. But also, we can see pretty wide genetic variation in facial structure in humans, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Pastrana

Humans are pretty cannibalistic already, I don't buy his evidence that neanderthals were, but a human could survive on an almost entirely meat diet, no reason to think neanderthals weren't more inclined to.

Pupil shape seems like the farthest out there, but there is variation in pupil shape within the human population too. It's plausible... again I don't really buy his evidence as proof https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloboma

In general I don't think this article is meant to say "they looked exactly like this", but "they probably looked monstrous", if it turns out there pupils were the same as humans, but also they had sharper more claw like nails, the point wouldn't change in the slightest.
GitHub Copilot: A Powerful, Controversial Autocomplete for Developers
I looked up what "spraying the stratosphere" means, and I love the leading paragraph:

"The idea is simple: spray a bunch of particles into the stratosphere, and they will cool the planet by reflecting some of the Sun’s rays back into space."

Literally the plot of the Matrix.
This is true. You had an IBM or an IBM compatible PC running DOS and then Windows. I was well aware of IBM at a young age.
Great points. Really makes me question why so many developers were excited / worried about programming jobs being automated away by this technology. I really doubt that many jobs are going to be displaced by what is at best an improvement to autocomplete/intellisense and at worst an unreliable, copyright infringing boilerplate generator. Also agree with point #3 - I could see Copilot steering devs away from new code patterns toward whatever was most commonly seen in the existing codebases it was trained on. Doesn't seem good for innovation in that sense.
Like, knowingly turning the planet into an uninhabitable place, killing millions in the process, destroying huge tracts of property with impunity, knowing they were doing this _and hiding it_.

If that isn't a crime, what is?
> My most obnoxious and spicy programming take is that ints an decimals should be built-in and floats should require imports

I don't care about making inexact numbers require imports, but the most natural literal formats should produce exact integers, decimals, and/or rationals.
Marxism and critical theory are separate but related, and its no accident critical theory came out of a Marxist think tank. Marxism looks to exploit some perceived opressor/opresee relationship in a civilization. Critical theory is about examining a civilization to determine what the opressor/opresee relationships are within that culture.
Bureaucracies aren't "means or production"? It's the rough equivalent of Lenin capturing railroads and other key infrastructure.
That could be interesting but the right structure (off the top of my head) would be a hierarchical layer - not this flat monstrosity!
Exactly such polluted minds thinking they know the totality of society. Where has socialism ever worked. It sounds good in paper, leads to failure of society ultimately.
Googled this, quite a bit less is shared with a chimp.

https://thednatests.com/how-much-dna-do-humans-share-with-ot...
Thanks, I'll definitely make these changes. Appreciate it!
There are many very well funded companies working on merchant non-x86 processors. There’s no reason to think IBM would be any better at it or that customers would prefer to buy from IBM.
O&G producers and investors must answer for the funding of climate change denial (which is a crime against humanity IMHO, and needs to be prosecuted in an international court), but the actual production of oil and gas is the fault of every man, woman and child who ever consumed a fossil-fuel-derived product.

It is futile to bring a prosecution for everyday production and consumption of fossil products, because the defendant list would include everybody, but there is a specific, small group of actors who have knowingly poisoned attempts at collective action and are intentionally blocking the path towards a better world, and those people absolutely can be put on trial.
> You don't know the footprint of batteries for electrical cars. It's certainly no worse than what we use to make the rest of a car.

Have you heard of open-pit mines? I would call the ecological damage of that much higher than a comparable oil drilling site.

I have nothing against electric vehicles, or progress away from CO2 emitters. But EVs are a half-backed solution.

And EVs might even be net-negative for climate change. What do you think mining equipment runs on? A shit-ton of diesel. The largest cost of a gold mine is energy - diesel. I just think the mental gymnastics people use to justify the smaller ecological impact EVs is ridiculous. Heck, I even own a Tesla.
Dual engine failure on climb out. Ditching a 737 at night can go wrong in many ways, glad these guys made it out alive.

https://avherald.com/h?article=4e9bbe04&opt=0
The blog post has some python notebooks links that you can use.
The IBM Selectric typewriter was ubiquitous in offices everywhere, and IBM copiers and printers were quite prevalent.
Or, you could help us fix the issue so that all Mapbox maps work great for you? Could you record a screencap of this issue and submit a GitHub ticket? We honestly have never seen anything like this ever reported.
In the face of the alternative being "it's ok to be a dick sometimes, kids".. no. Say please.

You've not presented any kind of argument. "This is a terrible idea" .. why?
According to research by Harvard, Amazon has the highest favorability rating in the US aside from the military.

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1410453573100609...
My understanding (which, again, is completely irrelevant to this thread) is that Putin and his party are still in complete control of Russia, at least in all ways that matter. But again, I fail to see what Russia’s myriad dysfunctionalities have to do with the topic at hand.
Given how human babies are already at the maximum size a human female can deliver, I suspect you may be on to something. Other species don't have such traumatic births, but human babies barely fit through the birth canal. Neanderthal babies were probably much larger. In particular, their skulls. If a Neanderthal male impregnated a human female, I wouldn't be surprised if it killed her. Conversely, a Neanderthal female probably had an easier time delivering a hybrid baby.
There's also going to be a lot of people complaining that flat taxes are regressive because the marginal value of money is different depending on how much you have. Taking that to its logical conclusion means taxing or subsidizing everyone to exactly the same buying power. I'd rather see a no-deduction, no-exception flat tax that treats all income the same coupled with a UBI to give people a flexible but modestly uncomfortable safety net.

Personally I care less about equality and more about fairness. Getting rid of complexity and giving everyone equal access to the benefits of and the burden to support society while reducing complexity and compliance costs sounds great to me. And it still sounds great if my tax burden doesn't change one iota when implemented.

If society feels that it's bad to have a handful of mega rich people, look at modifying the competition laws that let their empires get too big in the first place.
To me it looks like Amazon is running these businesses without the risk or accountability that comes from that. It’s just another shell game to evade regulation akin to Microsoft’s permanent contractors or gig economy workers
UK’s largest chip plant is set to be acquired by Chinese-owned firm Nexperia
End of an era.

Jeff's concept of the API mandate was such small and pivotal moment in technology, I may put it up there with Edison's lightbulb or James Watt's addition of the condenser to the steam engine.

There is a lot left if Bezos' career. There is no telling what he will do next or what his final legacy will be. But regardless, Amazon is quite a thing. It's not the biggest or wealthiest corporation on the planet, but it is far and away the most important right now.

It's quite a thing he made. It will be interesting to see what Amazon does without him.

(But again, I may have said the same thing about the Gates/Balmer era of Microsoft, but I think Microsoft has arguably done better since).
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Interesting comparison.

Heads up for the author that this skips #6, and goes from 5 to 7.
I just want to add that this is a uniquely US problem. Over here in Russia no one sends SMS or MMS to another person. So, consequently, no one uses iMessage either.
> This would be trivially solved by simple and flat taxes, but the main problem with fair and flat taxes is they lack the flexibility to be used as a political social engineering tool.

How do simple flat taxes solve the underreporting problem? Surely there is still an incentive not to report rental & proprietorship income if it is not well tracked? Perhaps there is a lower incentive if these mostly affect wealthier people and the marginal rate was lower, but the incentive is still there.