skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think, no matter how hard you try, you can't produce something like this without it being biased toward your own opinions on the topic. And those of us with different opinions would phrase things differently. I suppose I would fit in his Pessimist/Defeatist category, though I wouldn't call it that. (And I guess deniers wouldn't call themselves deniers either.) I would probably refer to my own take on collapse as depressive realism rooted in observations of climate change. As one observation, take the latest IPCC report.

U.N. Secretary-General, António Guterres described the latest IPCC report as "a code red for humanity." "The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk," Guterres said. [1]

The more you look the worse it gets. We aren't going to be able to reduce atmospheric CO2 without some sort of drastic uncomfortable change. The lockdowns during the pandemic reduced emissions by about 17% at one point. But despite that, CO2 in the atmosphere continued to increase. Whatever we do has to be more drastic than the pandemic lockdowns, and permanent, or it will keep getting worse. I just don't see people being willing to go along with that, especially those of us in comfortable Western societies. I don't know, is that pessimism, defeatism, or realism?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/09/ipcc-report-un-climate-repor...
> confusing messaging what this means for my subscription.

It will go the same way as my Dark Skies purchase. You either move into the Apple walled garden, or make do without that service.

Download your flacs while you can.
That’s the point. You accept it as a picture of someone taking a selfie. Not just of someone taking a selfie but doing it competently.

It’s how I am supposed to picture myself to make a good selfie…and also how selfies are cast as shallow to make them easy to dismiss.

Even though Ansel Adams’ self portraits will hang on gallery walls as dearly priced artifacts.
The equivalent of regulating video game playing times for children would be regulating when a child gets to have their favourite dessert, when they get to go out to meet their friends etc. These are all highly context-dependent individual parenting decisions that the government should have very little say in. Especially in the form of rules like restricting play time to 8 PM on Weekends.

The government can ask video game industry to provide enforcement mechanisms in the form of parental controls, which incidentally are quite widely adopted by most tech companies without government intervention in the West.
> Gaming companies will be barred from providing services to minors in any form outside the stipulated hours and must ensure they have put real-name verification systems in place, said the regulator, which oversees the country's video games market.

Those critical of the Chinese government should take a look in the mirror. Governments around the world, including those in the US, routinely impose restrictions on minors' ability to access online content. These laws are even structured in a similar way: hold the service providers accountable for monitoring use.

> "Teenagers are the future of our motherland," Xinhua quoted an unnamed NPPA spokesperson as saying. "Protecting the physical and mental health of minors is related to the people's vital interests, and relates to the cultivation of the younger generation in the era of national rejuvenation."

It's a favorite tactic of authoritarians everywhere: "Just think of the children!" First get a foothold by selling the thing as protecting children. In the US, we have two other options: terrorism and drugs. With the precedent set, expand the policy and watch opponents scramble to find a foothold.
The nerd in me finds the idea of knowing how to operate a radio vaguely appealing, but once you can do so and are licensed, what do you actually do with it? Just like, talk to a couple other guys about... what they had for lunch today? Is it just a way to communicate with people? Once you've invested the hours and money, what do you have on the other side? I ask this question entirely out of ignorance, sincerely I mean no malice with this.
Elegant and clever code wont live through a maintenance cycle.

I'll take a software developer who writes and structures code so change requests and code are written in a way that the DSL is the same across the organization. This makes changes easy. Clever people should be writing libraries or doing research.

Don't kid yourself, you are either the guy who builds the building and its easy because its greenfield, or you are doing remodeling and the hard part is making the upgrade fit in the building and not look like shit.
> It seems like you could create quite a business being able to crack this software. Companies would pay tens of thousands to get these machines running.

That would be against the copyright holder interests because as you point out:

> Often times the 'new' version of the hardware and software is $100,000 US.

An as per the Disney lobbied US copyright law you would have to wait at least the life of the author + 70 years or 95 years from publication depending on some circumstances.
> so the music has to be interpreted

Just to extend this point: My understanding of the topic might be far off as I haven't ever learned music under a teacher. But to me there's great deal of interpretation even with tempi marks that even good students just aren't thinking.

I sometimes enjoy watching masterclasses of players with wealth of experience.
Andres Schiff is one of the most famous ones. Also Maxim Vengerov the violinist. Anyone that hasn't seen one masterclass should look up on youtube if that sound remotely interesting.
That's the key...in time.

In time doesn't help when the majority of your devs are junior which is a common case in large internal dev shops.
Funny enough, one counter example is another card game that's largely seen as part of African-American culture, bid whist. In that game, there's a small pile of cards dealt separately as a kitty, which the winning bidder gets to incorporate into his hand after the bid is done.
I've found similar problems with a bunch of group names. For instance, I want to listen to more Gerry Mulligan, specifically Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band, which had a Complete Verve recordings album that I got from the jazz collection at my university's music school, but Spotify and Apple do not have. They did several other albums and Mulligan had other groups (trios, quartets, etc) but they're hard to correlate together. Many of the jazz greats were in the boat where they performed on a lot of things that wouldn't list them as primary artists, but that's how you need to find them to find 95% of their work -- especially in instruments like my favorite: trombone. Band leader vs band members doesn't even have an ID3 field to the best of my knowledge without just sticking them all into the artist field. Compound that with the amount of jazz out there in the no-copyright state (because of age or racism or both in the distant past) that only exists in a collector's collection as a 45rpm stamping with low-ish quality and it turns out that there's a lot of missing music from pre-1950 or so.
In spades all 52 cards are dealt out 13 to each player, so there's absolutely no way* to change anything in your hand. There's no deck or discard pile to draw from, unlike other card games were you can draw or otherwise pick cards up others have discarded/played, or some games even allow you to play cards off other cards already on the table.

*in some variants you can trade 2 cards with your partner if you are taking a nil
If I had to write that kind of boilerplate every time I had an artistic inspiration, I'd never ship anything!

We are on far apart sides of a wide industry. I couldn't work productively in your dream language but hey, I'm happy we can have our different tools for our different needs. More power to us! :)

> let the IDE suggest to you all of the possible exceptions

So, programming without an IDE becomes untenable. I use a text editor. It feels like you're shifting language features into the IDE. What's the difference between the compiler doing it automatically vs the IDE doing it automatically?
How do I as a candidate compare job offers between an offer in hand vs a 1-3 contract that may or may not result in an offer?
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We already do. The children of the wealthy and influential can just choose not to work.
I spent 25 years online. I'm now 40 with a family of my own.

I don't have the time in the day to find some happy center. I'm happy to cut out video games and wasting my time online except for the odd Hacker News break while I'm at work.

The pendulum might be swinging, but i have a lot less free time now than I used to and I chose to use it more precisely and with more conscious intent rather than just letting the hours waste away clicking around in a digital wonderland.

If i want to read - then i make time for that. I make time for alone time, exercise, being outdoors. I make family time. I do this around work, taking my kid to sports events, school drop offs and pickups.

I look back and see the 20k posts i made on Vbulletin forms and all the reddit accounts I had and all the hours logged on video games and it all just seems like a waste of life looking back..

When i think about the things that enriched me, these things did not.
Deferring to quotes is frequently the tool of a weak argument. In fact I would argue virtually every linguistic device has frequently been used in weak argument.
There are games where you build your deck either before game or during game. Then you have control over what card comes at which probabilities.
On the other hand you can click a link on a web page and have your calendar filled with spammy fake calendar events advertising who knows what.

It's not a failure of the semantic web, but more a failure of no one creating a shared calendar like that. (And Facebook not giving API access to calendar events).
Rules for how online gaming companies can offer their service is kind of the opposite of expecting users to comply voluntarily with restrictions on online gaming?
I work at a fairly small company that hires juniors. We pay them well, and give them more responsibility in pay as we see them improving.

Most of them still want to move on, usually to change technologies or gain more responsibility even faster.

Sometimes they want to move cities for almost random reasons, and they're willing to just find a new job and do it.

So while I somewhat agree that devs don't want to move jobs, juniors devs often do, and I think they're a lot more likely to move jobs than senior devs.
Could also have been a purchase for their licensing or metadata. It sounds like Primephonic has put a lot of work into all of that, and if Apple wants to get into classical then it'd make sense to throw a tiny-by-their-standards amount of money at a known-good metadata set and accompanying licenses for the music.

(Though I agree, it'd be kind of silly for them to not let the people they've acqui-hired keep on working on the "new" app in their domain.)
Looking at a potential inflection point where a trend reversed, to try to understand it (blip? new trend? change caused by change in underlying conditions?) is not cherry-picking. It's being responsible.

"It was worse in the 70s" is "the climate is always changing"-level deflection.

"It was worse in the 70s" is not a compelling argument for a political platform - having nothing meaningful to say in response to new events is exactly what would help "tough on crime" un-nuanced crackdown politicians elected.
This is no more than Sturgeon's law (90% of everything is crap).

Beyond that no, you cant do GPT-3 or Yolo or even MNIST[1][2] with a dumb heuristic.

> almost everything produced by ML could have been produced, more cheaply, using a very dumb heuristic you coded up by hand, because mostly the ML is trained by feeding it examples of what humans did while following a very dumb heuristic

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNIST_database

[2] http://vision.stanford.edu/cs598_spring07/papers/Lecun98.pdf
Why hasn't New Zealand shown any interest in developing or widely deploying vaccines? I wouldn't take Kiwis for being vaccine skeptics. Seems like they just wanted to lock down and pretend it wasn't happening rather than finding a solution. Bizarre strategy.
Former independent software contractor turned real estate agent here... I am not a mortgage lender, but I work closely with them. You've likely need (at least) two years worth of bank and tax statements and a good credit score and then they'd be a-ok. Regardless of whether you are self employed or an employee, build those relationships with lenders early so they can advise appropriately.
Recommendations and restrictions to limit travel before good vaccination coverage aim to reduce serious illness from the virus while vaccination progresses, no? Countries are not homogenous, especially travel from high incidence areas can worsen the situation in better off areas.
I'd almost rather physically writing on a whiteboard than using something like Google Docs to pseudo code in. I don't know how someone even remotely technical would think that was OK.
I think mailspring is decent (definitely not perfect but at least the UI is prettier than thunderbird)

But it's desktop only
You may think so, but it turns out not to be the case.
Yeah, there's basically no way the pandemic is ever going to end without broad vaccine mandates. I would expect China to be one of the first countries to move in that direction, but we'll see.
Hi! If the animations are too long, you can shorten them. So for the cursor animation, the default is 0.3 seconds. You can shorten it to, let's say, 0.1 seconds by using the command

:NvuiCursorAnimationDuration 0.1

That'll reduce the duration to 0.1 seconds. The animation also runs at a specified frametime in ms (divide 1000 by FPS), default frametime is 10ms (so 100FPS). You can modify this using

:NvuiCursorFrametime 5, for example, for a 5ms frametime (200FPS).
It will take a hit but certainly won't disappear. Success in Dota 2 nowadays is not based in having fast reaction times and dexterity but in strategic planning and team cohesion. If top teams have a young player, it is usually in position 1 or 2, and many older players are also currently succeeding at those roles.

Besides, this regulation does not appear ban things such as a Dota club at school (online play would be forbidden, but local lobbies would not).
> it was far more complicated than expected

I ran into this myself being involved in a highway project along the Oregon coast. There was a very fine balance of paint reflectivity, traction, and wear resilience that had to be met and it turned out it was very, very trick to hit the right spot.

E.G., the paint itself has very poor traction characteristics when wet, which it often is on the pacific coast. Adding texture coatings to it then impacts the reflectivity, but reflective additives within the texturizer cause it to wear faster..

We were only paving 4 miles, but I saw several inspectors grow a lot of gray hair over the course of a few months.
I used to hate spades, because I would get excoriated by my partner, for every mistake, and never given credit for doing well.

I preferred Hearts, where I got to "stick it" to others.

Yeah...I have issues.
The caption says, somewhat ambiguously, "Example of a selfie".

That could mean "this image is an example of a selfie" (which is false). Alternatively it could mean "this image shows an example of a selfie being taken" (which is true).
The parent made a specific claim:

>"Temporary and mild authoritarian measures during a once-in-a-century pandemic make complete sense, even to very libertarian people. "

I have not seen any (even centrist) libertarians supporting these measures; having checked the most mainstream libertarian publication (Reason). Additionally, 'very libertarian people' are minarchists, who definitely don't support these measures.

Have you actually seen/heard 'very libertarian people' endorsing these measures? Is it possible that the parent is projecting their beliefs onto others?
Depends on a number of factors. Each person is different goes thru different experiences, it's not "just do that".
How about Discourse as a solution for #27? Seems to be doing well.
Let me also chime in with a free and open source decent alternative to LightRoom - https://www.darktable.org/ ...
In a global marketplace though, if you can't sell your GPL-derivative in one large market, the fact that you can sell it in a smaller market may not be much comfort.
Would an acquihire make sense though? Apple already has expertise streaming music.

It’d be quite expensive simply growing the Music team by buying a profitable company.
Missing from almost every calendar hosting thing I've used is the ability to publish free/busy information to allow others to schedule me into meetings without needing to be on the same system.

I'm pretty sure vCalendar supports this, just no one has implemented it.

If I could host a lightweight javascript app that let you browse the information until your client supports it properly that'd be cool.
> DDOSing caregivers

What an awesome phrase - will have to steal this.
The administration of the governmental organization negotiates the interest of the public. They sometimes do a great job and sometimes they don’t. My union’s contract must be approved by the state legislature. One party is actively opposed to unions and that fact alone means that negotiators from the state Department of Education must be tough. We certainly don’t get what we ask for simply because we ask for it. For years our pay has lagged behind pay increases of comparably educated private sector workers while required paperwork and busywork has increased.
Wow fascinating. What do you ideally want to see in terms of datasets enabled by user data?

Having vendors vacuum up my data is sub-optimal from a privacy/ownership standpoint. I'm curious how to enable models without giving away my data. Open source models owned by society? Numerai style training (that I don't understand) https://numer.ai/ ?
Well, I think doing things way above your level "works" sometimes in the sense that there's a subset of things that a learner happens to be most receptive to at any given time, and immersing yourself at the deep end is a bit like brute forcing through the entire subject matter until something happens to stick. But this is inefficient and not guaranteed to yield any results at all.

I have some insight into language learning myself, having had both positive and non-positive experiences. On the one hand, yes, games and movies did help me pick up english vocabulary, but this is because I also studied english from an early age in school, the fact that English borrows vocabulary heavily from romance languages (with which I am fluent), and perhaps most importantly, the fact that I've immersed myself in it quite deeply during my teens, often preferring to read and write in english. Ironically, though, learning through entertainment media left me with some curiously weird learning gaps. For example, I only learned in my 30s that "down" (as in Final Fantasy's "Phoenix down") refers to a type of plumage and not some weird in-universe usage of up/down/left/right.

Now contrast this experience with this: As a kid, I also learned Japanese (though not to the same extent as english, let alone the extent required to master it coming from a romance language). At one point, my dad brought over some Japanese RPG games from a business trip to Japan, and while I did have basic schooling on hiragana/katakana, the teen-level kanji from the games was way over my head at the time, and I ended up learning virtually no Japanese from those games (I had to quite literally sit down to actively study kanjis to make any sense of what the game text said). I also consumed quite a bit of anime and not a whole lot stuck with me either, due to a lack of what I can "active practice" (i.e. my exposure to the language was mostly on a as-needed consumption basis, with little to no active effort to write or speak).

In short, I do think games can help nail down stuff you've learned elsewhere, but upleveling language skills from games alone is very difficult.
I didn't downvote it, but I strongly suspect it was because of the sarcasm, the meta-sarcasm, and ultimately the unwillingness to believe that interesting opposing arguments might exist. That is, the post didn't encourage interesting and educational discussion, just derision. The merit of the resulting conversation was despite the initial post, not because of it.
Guys I've the solution.. Companies should do an ISA agreement. And see JR and interns as students. The new model works like this...

- If you leave/fired < 4 months no responsibility.

- If you stay after 4 months you agree to ISA agreement.

- Agreement is that if you leave within 4 years you agree to share 20% of income up until you have paid $60k.

- ISA is valid for 4 years. Then it's VOID.

- ISA is also valid if you get a tech job.
I wonder how much this eases the problem of self driving, if the car itself and other cars are all moving slower.

Feels like you could reduce speed yet increase throughput.
I was working in that space two years ago, and we estimated from triangulation of sources that they had around 10K paying users.
The beads get scraped off by plows after a couple winters and are just as invisible in the wet.
So I ski. I don’t really define my life or personality around skiing, but I would be a little miffed if I could only ski for 3 hours a week in the winter because the government thinks I’m not being productive enough.

For children, it’s common to participate in sports for way more than 3 hours a week, and yet the government does not feel inclined to involve itself there.

Allowing leisure time to be dictated by the government is not a good path to go down.

No matter the health benefits, allowing people to go down a suboptimal path that makes them happier is the essence of a free society.
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People want to be useful, and people don't want to do the same thing for the rest of their lives. These are statistically true generalizations.

UBI would allow people to expand their career paths since basic survival would not be on the line. Personally I've got minor health issues from being in front of a computer too much, would absolutely love switching it up with a more physicaly demanding job if I had UBI to make sure a drop in wages wasn't threatening my family's basic survival. This also assumes universal healthcare.

"You cannot have both an opt-in working class and an opt-in nonworking class and have a healthy society."

So I agree, but I do not think it would become a real problem. If it does become a problem we could implement a lottery system that swaps workers out every so often.