skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right side of history was the US immediately after WWII.
> I'm not sure you have to keep pointing to the boogie man of soviet infiltrators to explain power hungry bureaucrats. Those have existed in literally every society since at least the early bronze age.

No, I'd say power hunger is one thing, but what you face now is unique to this poisonous "Soviet Culture." A very special, aggressive brand of social nihilism at the apex of civil society, characteristic of one party/social class governments.

Putin put his own spin on the timeless demoralisation tactic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA ,) an even more aggressive targeting of both the new elites, and the establishment (see Biden Jr. adventures with in Ukraine.) Or plainly speaking playing both sides.
Student debt is the epitome of rent-seeking. You can't even discharge it with bankruptcy. Cancel it.
There definitely are instances of those databases on the west coast. For example: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=product%3Aelastic+state%3...
Not quite, but it’s on and off many times over the years. The complex is more than a mile long so there’s always work in there. There used to be a small Philips fab too nearby, last several years more work has been available in refineries and power plants (natural gas conversion)
127 HTTPS requests, each building a new TLS encrypted TCP connection, makes for quite a latency for anyone not living in Japan (aside from the fact that doing 127 independent requests sequentially just asks for trouble)
This is a great article because it tries to look into not just what the distinction is between “creator” and “influencer,” but also why anyone cares about that distinction.

There are a lot of distinctions that make hard sense in one’s life: between a coral snake and a king snake, or between a car that is parked and a car that is moving.

This is not one of those; no one’s welfare depends on determining whether Marques Brownlee is a creator or an influencer. As such—as a social distinction—it’s bound up in the experiences and values of each person who is trying to make that distinction. So as the article notes, influencers almost always refer to themselves as creators, while their commercial representation invariably refers to them as influencers. The language you use is in part determined by where you stand and what you want.
> Those soon-to-be students who have to pay high tuition, also lose.

There's a significant number who would not afford tuition and not apply. Universities would lose a lot students unless they changed fees significantly.

If it's a proper reset on the debts, we can't expect everything to continue working as before.
AAB supports a code transparency feature: https://developer.android.com/guide/app-bundle/code-transpar...
> Even large networks of 140+ IQ people (who were raised as kids together in gifted programs and went to the same universities) have probably not been that dangerous.

Having been raised from a young age to compete against other bright kids in grades, achievements, and life, we (some of we) continue those rivalries into adulthood and find it more fun to compete than collaborate.
They're not getting paid to care, why should they?
Apparently you haven't seen many of the demos that people are showing off? Because saying that this only occurs when the author is explicitly asking for copied code is blatantly false.
But what about all the bad training data provided too?
The example code is the start of an expense tracking tool...
>you can't take into account the nearness of the the jubilee to not make a loan

What's preventing you from getting a huge loan 1 day before the jubilee?
I thought making everyone cartoon yellow was more empowering.

Especially on the Internet, with pseudonymity, we're all nothing more than the ideas we present.

An egalitarian dream was twisted into a woke nightmare for bad actors to earn free PR by pitting people against each other.
Generating code has never been a problem for developers :)

I'd be more interested in a tool that notices patterns and boilerplate. It could offer a chance for generalization, abstraction or use of a common pattern from the codebase. This is of course much harder.
One downside, apparently you can’t use their (great) app on the basic plan and share the domain with the master user.
> I‘ve been running my personal mail server on a VPS for the past 20 years and never had any delivery issues.

Age may be a factor. I ran email for my domain on my own server for a long time too and generally had no delivery issues.

When I got another domain a few years ago and ran it on the same server it had a lot of delivery issues.
"There's literally no way to know if that was true" - we don't know now, but hypothetically in the future, wouldn't it be plausible to determine such traits from their DNA? We have a full DNA sequence, and wherever (and whenever, in the future) we know what impact particular genes had on some traits in primates, we can check how the neanderthals had it.

Heck, it would not get attempted due to ethical issues, but technically it might be even plausible to clone a neanderthal using a human surrogate mother, there has been some work in cross-species cloning.
That's a lot of supposition. Who has to pick up the tab? Unless you're a large loan conglomerate, I'm not sure you're picking up any tab.

In a rational economic system those arguments should hold water. We have nothing like that now. Paying attention to the last 20 years of egregious hoarding of wealth should make that clear.

Ignoring the strawmen, the systems at issue (school debt, medical debt and government debt) are nothing like a free market. They are so highly regulated, the abuses so entrenched, its reasonable to consider changing them.
>Alternatively, a fire extinguisher is pretty effective in "opening" side windows.

I experienced this at the end of February during a roll-over following a collision! We're required to have fire extinguishers in our vehicles (work provided) and one of them broke free from its mounting. Luckily, it made its exit through the side window behind me without introducing itself to the side of my head on the way by. That window didn't stand a chance.
this sounds little bit absurd.
in no way somebody with million mailboxes could migrate to migadu and pay just 19 bucks
Great let's do it. And of course, my parents, who paid tens of thousands of dollars for my tuition, and I, who have paid off tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt will be reimbursed for our absolute stupidity in being financially responsible, right?
That's for the best. We don't want products that pretend to write code for us, while copying other's code without attribution and that may not even work.
I'm not talking about corruption, but the poster above seemed mad that the oil companies made us use oil, beyond just being angry about the oil companies' corrupt practices.

If you drink water from a corrupt company, by all means try to get the corruption fixed but don't blame them that we live in a water based society.
I think you are misunderstanding what people mean by "cancelling debt". They don't mean they will force lenders to suffer a loss, they mean that government will cover the debt.
I completely agree. But there was hypocrisy: Google allowed (maybe still does) conversation on that topic -- but the views he had on that topic didn't agree with the narrative that was/is popular. Those chips fell quite unfairly.
He seems to code an interpreter in scratch and then do the other stuff. Coding an interpreter is a lot easier than coding a game, and after that you really aren't coding in scratch anymore.

Complex minecraft works similarly, instead of working in redstone they make the logic gates and then the bit adders in redstone and then used programming as normal on those constructs.
What about those of us who worked our way through school? Can we get a refund?
I’m not sure I buy it. I mean why hasn’t Mensa taken over the world?

(As another example; humans beat out Neanderthals who supppsedly has bigger brains.)
California is building the largest desalination plant in the US.(2015) Is this ready yet ??

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10343296
The scandal will be finding out that some big time artist was actually just copying works from a custom trained AI.
I am cynical, to quite a extent. Especially when people in power are concerned. Lately so I came to the conclusion that what I see as pure cynicism on there behalf might actually be rooted in honest believes. Not that these believes make any sense or are even remotely logical so. And I think that this self contradictory nature might actually be one of the big driving forces behind these people.
Posting this twice in the same subthread would have been enough. [EDIT:] Thanks for deleting the other references!
Exactly what the game Papers Please is about
You can run big sleep easily on consumer hardware. same with vqgan if you limit output resolution.
Copilot NEEDs to be trained on licensed code,so that it doesn't produce them
I know a scientist using an aimbot when i see one!
Can you point out where in CAN-SPAM checking an address is specifically addressed? I haven't heard of this and a quick perusal of CAN-SPAM doesn't turn this up anywhere
Show HN: Customized Learning – Learn the Way You Want
That's because if you actually start digging at some of these moments, you will quickly find that their arguments fall apart. The only way to prevent this is with the assumption "oh well if you don't already understand then you never will"
There are lots of e-commerce sites though, and many of them are nicer to browse, nicer-looking, have more realistic reviews, etc. than Amazon.

Amazon absolutely competes on price. I've seen it myself. If Amazon sells something for a buck cheaper, lots and lots of people will go to Amazon for that something and maybe pick up something else from it's recommendation system they forgot they wanted, etc.
The proponents might respond that it was only partially bad decisions, but much more a degenerate exploitative system that caused people to take on these kinds of debt.

I am not a proponent. I happily make my payments every month while I enjoy my student-loan-enabled job. And yes, I made some decisions that would not appear to be the most intelligent when it comes to loan amounts.
> (a) I always thought COVID anti-measures including vaccinations are not about death rates but mainly about the "flattening the curve" and protecting our health systems from collapsing, which would result in many more deaths.

What do you mean? In the absence of vaccines or any reason to believe that a vastly more effective treatment would arrive, masks and lockdowns “flatten the curve” in the sense that they primarily defer disease, not prevent it. (Major exception: if lockdowns actually eradicated COVID, it would be all over. A few countries pulled this off, but this is only a long term solution if it worked everywhere.)

Vaccines, however, assuming they work as well as the measles vaccine, prevent deaths outright. Vaccinate 5% of the population and you will reduce the eventual number of severe disease cases and deaths (and long COVID?) by something around 5%. (Maybe more like 2.5% if efficacy is on the low end.). Vaccinate 95% of the population and COVID will resemble measles: a few localized outbreaks will still occur, but most people will never be exposed, let alone get sick.
They're all strangely intention-less on every imaginable level. That can be unsettling.

I've listened to, and made, a lot of music like that. When I want to relax or think, I like music that engages me in some way but has a sort of drift, an ambient (in the Eno sense) quality even if it's slamming Berlin techno. It's different from the prog-rock I grew up with, which was difficult and loaded with intentionality.

I ended up experimenting with music that was more generative, doing pretty sophisticated things with a degree of structure but without intentionality: always a random factor, a journey to an unknown goal (typical end result: wandering around for a while)

AI art is like that. We see it wandering around for a while. It's getting better at picking up the trappings of identity, but persistently lacks intentionality.

Maybe the trick is to supply the intentionality instead of the identity? Instead of 'creepy moat', a visual identity, make it do a painting of "you are not going to survive and that's good" or "thank you but I am not worthy".

If you have to feed it words, get a poet, don't describe the picture.
I guess it's the game of the fittest, but why should one have more than, say, 300 missiles? Each of them has a devastating power and just a single one would bring the sending country in danger of embargaments. So why have them in the first place at all?
Aren't discriminatory programs insulting to the intelligence the youth? And communicates to them that cultural stereotypes aren't just stereotypes, they're truths that need intervention programs to fix? Isn't it a put-down to tell the targeted group that they need the extra help the program is meant to deliver? Isn't it a disrespect to someone who wants the thing a program aims to deliver, but isn't part of the target population?

These are fringe concerns?

Fuck me then I guess.

Just wondering though: Are we assuming that the youth are too stupid to notice what we're doing? Or are we assuming they already know the score well enough to bite their tongues when we deliberately foist more of their parents culture war into their faces?
Why do you believe this man is who he says he is? Why do you take what he says to be true at face value?

I find it amusing how people bring up Soviet propaganda in schools and always link this same video to this one person (who criticizes the inability to assess true information), while simultaneously not questioning whether or not they are consuming propaganda themselves. Wouldn't it be funny if this guy is a CIA plant repeating neocon talking points from the 80s?

When I traced back any of the sources that "confirmed" his past, they always dead-ended at his own writing in papers. I'd be interested if you have something else that confirms that this is a "KGB defector".
Copilot appears to be “give more efficiency leverage to the worst kind of coder.”
Isn't that technically illegal according to federal law? I.e. aren't you effectively discriminating against other people based on their sex and/or race (by making their interviews more difficult explicitly because of that reason)?
Not a problem. Just don't use Copilot :)
> What's the alternative to vaccinations?

It's not like there is no effective treatment in case you are infected. After all, we did quite a few clinical trials in the past year, and it's kind of surprising the answer is "let's just do mass vaccinations and nothing else"
“A writer, filmmaker, and activist.” Uh huh.
Anyone else think poorly of HN readers when they see bad articles on the front page.

I can't downvote because I use new accounts for privacy reasons.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/internal-amazon...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27581797
Jim Whitehurst to step down as IBM President
Not exactly a confidence-inspiring reply from someone who just identified themselves as representing the project here!
> The terminology of "cancelling" the debt is the most dishonest, twisted abuse of the English language.

This kind of hyperbole is, itself, an example of "dishonest, twisted" language.

> There is no "cancelling" debt. There's only forcing other people to pay.

If I declare a banana to cost $1,000,000 but you can get it for the low price of $1 with a loan of $999,999 today and that loan gets canceled, does that mean someone else has to pay me the remaining sum?

> The incentives here are entirely backwards. All the people who made good decisions around cost-benefit of their education, all the people who made frugal choices, all the people who worked hard for the delayed gratification of their long-term planning get penalized and have to pick up the tab for the people who spent 4 years partying without any concern about cost of their education or lifestyle.

This kind of moralizing about making the right decisions stigmatizes people who couldn't make it through college for financial reasons and weren't able to find a job afterward and pay off their debt. It stigmatizes grad students who started off with good intentions but couldn't make it through the meat grinder. It stigmatizes first generation college students who had to return home after a year or two. All of these people now face student debts that can't be discharged by bankruptcy.

If we agree as a society to invest in war, but we can't invest in our people, then we will reap what we sow.
This raises for me a serious question, how good "scientists" they can be in their own fields. If they accept the method of cutting corners like this, or pulling data out of whatever, are they able to output trustworthy science in their own papers? I would think rather not, but I also don't know anything else about them.
> you will have constant issues getting mail delivered.

I run my own obscure mail server and have not had an issue in years, except for ATT[1]. I'm super low volume - I run mail for about 20 humans, a few mailing lists, and some other automation that does things with email.

I do things correctly - I mean, I run nearly the same stack/configuration (scaled way down) as I do professionally for my employer, which delivers 8 digits of messages a day all over.

But that doesn't explain why I don't have problems and others do - lots of people get this right and still have problems. And I think that comes down to the fact that mine has been on the net since the mid-90s. So, unfortunately, I suspect the answer to a lot of these problems is 'exist for long time' - until your MX is associated with a bias towards "not spam" in everyone's filters.

I can think of ways for existing mail servers to vouch for new ones, but I don't think there's any reason for established ones to want to do that, so it wouldn't work. I'm not sure what the answer is.

[1] And after many, many years of attempting to resolve it, they can bite me. I got annoyed enough that they get a custom bounce from me now on the rare occasions someone tries to spam me through them.
Buying from a retailer that doesn't work with such perverse incentives and inhumane practices could benefit the consumer it turns out.
All servers are located in Latvia. We don't use cloud and all servers are managed by us. Discount is available for quite a long time. Maybe even year but can be disabled in near future but I do not know specifics
I can't remember the brand. I think it was one of the cheaper Roku tvs produced by a Chinese company I saw when I was looking for a replacement for my parents (reminds me of the issues with Onyx Boox devices).

At this point, I just assume everything is spying.

(Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to harvest your data, I guess.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/18/you-wat...

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/skyworth-tv-spying
>This is dangerous territory to comment on perhaps

It's a dangerous time when it's considered dangerous to express an opinion.
Location: Switzerland
Remote: yes, 100%
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: Rust (currently learning)
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1--NAyBotenoIEfRn6NB55BNRD6xo0gB_/view
Email: dhofstet@gmail.com

Hi, I'm Dan and I'm looking to return to software development after a very long break (10+ years). During that time, I worked as a self-employed investor on the stock market (sounds fancier than "reading most of the time"), but in the end I failed. Meanwhile, programming took a back seat, and I often didn't do much more than the annual "Advent of Code" challenges (in Haskell, resp. Rust last year).

In my previous tech life I did a four year IT apprenticeship (Pascal/Delphi, Java) in the industry, worked two years as a software engineer (ASP) at a web agency, got a B.Eng. in CS (mainly Java), did some freelancing (PHP), was a core-contributor to two open source projects (PHP), and wrote a tech blog.

My focus right now is on returning to software development in a backend role. However, I'm also open for other opportunities as I'm currently at a point where I have to reinvent myself anyway.

Thanks for reading.
Ask HN: Open-source projects that handle monetary values properly
What are some big Open Source projects that are dealing with monetary values that are worth checking out?

I'm especially intrested in seeing codebases written in Java or Python talking to Postgres and MongoDB with modern web frontend.
It would be also interesting to see how javascript (standard and node.js) handles this in production grade code.

I'm aware that there are few strategies for this, but I would like to find out what are consequences of them when codebase grows.
Interesting is relative. In fact, many might find main stream media to be the opposite of interesting.
you'd get a bigger tax bill.
Obviously it's a principled stance so you have to give up some convenience.

Every item on Amazon is available somewhere else. Every retail / online shopping experience can be contactless these days. You might have to wait 5 days instead of 2 for a package but that can be okay.
It is probably based off GPT-3 with a layer on top trained for programming specifically, like what is done with AI dungeon.
Assange was an interesting story with him trapped in the embassy and his cat pooping but now it consists of more mundane legal proceedings. One is a made for TV spy thriller. The other is discussion of paperwork.
> When is the public going to realize the O&G industry is quite possibly the worst conglomerate that we have ever seen.

From an ecological standpoint, I'd tend to agree.

Without them, we'd still have a sub-one billion human population, the pollution level of the 18th C., plus you probably couldn't type that comment without winding up the computer first.

With most of the easy EROI gone, you do have to wonder how humanity can crawl back up from it's next collapse.
Would it though? The government paid for my college then wrote down I own them. They want me to give them that money back eventually. Are they using my promise to borrow money somewhere else? Or is it just an expense for a budget year that gets added as income years later?

Also how much interest have we paid collectively on that 1.5 trillion? If we've paid that much already then what? Can't we just consider it an investment with a negative adjusted return and move on?

In other words macroeconomics doesn't make sense to me in a lot of ways.
Curious if Microsoft is training Co-Pilot on my private repositories.
That's bonkers. And the beauty of it is that now someone could realistically do a GDPR Erasure request on the Neural Net. I do hope that they're able to reverse data out.
This analysis fails to make the case that having a witness recant is irrelevant. It is also full of nonsense hyperbole, as though it were written by a very passionate person who does not command faculties of reasoning.
> I don't get Amazon's play here.

Shareholders, probably.
Proponents might say that its not about helping those who have helped themselves, but about helping those who still need help. If you could manage without loans, you aren't in a situation where gov intervention is required.

I'm not of that mindset. I'm content with my loans.
In the UK there is an often-repeated statistic: the 20% of girls who take A-level physics outperform the 40% of boys who take it.

And of course they do! It's like saying a team comprised of footballers from the top division will beat a team comprised of footballers from the top two divisions.

The few women who go into tech or board rooms or whatever will typically be the women who are good at it, and they will typically outperform the larger cohort of (necessarily) more average men.

You don't need tales of struggle or diversity to explain this. Minority groups will tend to perform better.