skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on what you'd consider fundamental. It's true that most of our advances since the mid-80s have been about improving the robustness, data- and compute-efficiency of the training process through optimized architectures and learning algorithms, and in principle in the limit of infinite data and compute you could have taken a model from 1986 and scaled it up to do everything that our current models do. In that sense there have been no "fundamental" advances.

On the other hand, in the limit of infinite size and complexity most mathematical functions can be represented by hash maps, yet to say that there have been no fundamental advances in programming since the invention of hash maps in the fifties would seem like an odd claim to make.
I was replying to OP's assertions, so you might want to direct your post there. But you're welcome to kma also if you're so exercised.
Mike Dixon
Conan among others.
So you walk on your toes all the time? That seems like a really unhappy way to live.
I think there's some good ideas in NFTs but people are going around like it's a magic pricing gun that imbues items with the value they stick on the label.

I can see the appeal to people who feel like owning the Original is far better than owning an indistinguishable copy, but someone really actually needs to want it. If your only concern is as an investment then it could just as easily have been a NFT connected to a different thing rendering it into a non-scarce commodity.
Climate change will increase the rate and extent of wildfires. I don't think anyone is seriously proposing that the entire planet will catch fire.
I think the fact that this maintains type safety, IDE integration and other useful traits of modern C# like zero-allocation primitives gives it a leg up over TypeScript/JS in some cases.
No the problem here is that a business wants X money, to sell thru Apple (and similar) they have to add 30% to what they want, whereas other payment platforms offer a much lower cut.

However Apple does vet apps and focus on security somewhat (altho Google's project 0 seems to do a better job at finding bugs for Apple), however 30% is far too much even for what Apple are offering their customers.

In an ideal world, Apple customers need to be told: "you will be charged extra buying through Apple to help pay for the protections/quality that our platform offers you".

However, Apple explicitly disallows both telling users that they're being charged more and why, and that they could get it cheaper elsewhere.

Regardless of whether Apple are still allowed to charge x%, the first step it to get Apple to allow developers to tell the customer about other payment options and for Apple to explain to their customers why it costs more, then customers can make the decision for themselves.
There's like 50 different ones with different models of what a package is, capabilities, etc. But at least when it's such a pain you don't end up with JS mess where everything depends on everything and deleting a trivial package breaks half the web.
Surely you meant GPT2? We can argue about the definition of "large scale", but calling GPT3 "publicly available" is a stretch at best.
There is a diference between reporting and propaganda
Is it growth though if the robot takes away a human's job?
> Another perspective is that we are watching the real time creation of a new status game. Each individual that would normally drop $50,000 to $1,000,000 to purchase a car, watch, house, boat, etc is now realizing that you can spend the same money on a digital good and flex in front of more people on the internet. Only so many friends can check out your house and be impressed. But millions of people a month will see your Twitter avatar.

I can't name a single person who spent 5 figures+ on an NFT. Unless twitter or insta create a badge verifying NFT ownership, I don't see how it's a flex. On the other hand, I can take a picture of myself wearing a 100k watch and people will be pretty sure I own that watch. For this reason many people reasonable assume it's mostly money laundering or inside dealing. I could create a series of NFTs and buy them from another account and drive up the prices or launder money. An interesting solution to this would be an NFT market that burns X% of the coins to ensure that there is a significant cost to this behavior.

My main issue with NFTs is that when people write about them they obfuscate what is actually being bought and sold. You're not buying a JPG. You're buying a number that some group says is a JPG. Calling it digital property is dishonest, unless that property is a 128 hex number on a particular blockchain that an arbitrary issuer claims is tied to some asset.
> We’re going to have to inoculate ourselves against Hacker News Disease and work on meaningful solutions together.

No, you can't inoculate yourself from stupidity and ignorance. This applies to the author as well.
Workers Want to Do Their Jobs from Anywhere and Keep Their Big-City Salaries
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Q1K3, an homage to Quake in 13kb of JavaScript
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And what’s the propaganda according to you? What’s the goal, and who’s pushing it via the BBC?
How does it compare with a bare-metal C++ threadpool?
I think the word-final sigma has been found in manuscripts dating to the 1st century BCE, but I think its use was only in cursive and not universal. So, I think you're basically right; certainly majuscule scripta continua documents like the Codex Sinaiticus or Vaticanus wouldn't have used it.
But those robots won't pay taxes to support the elderly :)

It's a tough topic for sure. I've heard that German people are a lot better with immigrants and racism is very low.

The wikipedia article is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany
It's important to see the direction we're going in. If the number of activists increased by an order of magnitude (for example), we would be on a great trajectory to reduce these murders. If the number of activists stayed the same, this would be a horrible development.

Of course corporate murder is horrible, but the world is on fire (quite literally). Without putting the numbers in perspective, there's no way to tell whether we need to put our resources towards fighting activist murders or, for example, clan criminality.
Uh, immigrants from Europe are also on a H1B as far as I understand it. How do you associate it with racism?
W3C Design System
I've used SweetHome3D to plan various rooms for renovation - it's very intuitive and surprisingly powerful. Definitely better than trying to do building design with a "real" CAD package. The built in library is pretty comprehensive (and has nice scaling features, so even if a bookshelf model doesn't match yours, you can scale it easily to match), and importing custom 3D CAD designs is straightforward.
I do. It's pretty decent. It does go a bit downhill later on, but I'd say in the late S3 and S4 (I blame it on the show being cut short and having to wrap up everything too quickly).

In the genre of "seemingly a crime show, but really a deep sci-fi", I'd strongly recommend Person of Interest, if you haven't seen it already. It contains what I consider to be, to date, the best discussion of the topic of general artificial intelligence, and all its ethical and safety implications.

> It seems a bit low-budget and oldschool TV

It's definitely not big-budget, but there's decent FX in there, just judiciously used. Future tech is impressive, but not crazy flashy.

> (pre-breaking bad quality of TV).

Could you elaborate on that one? I've only seen the first three episodes, after which I gave up, but from those three I thought Breaking Bad is a low-quality and extremely low-budget show.
I think a whole generation of people has been conditioned to click and buy meaningless stuff through "free" games with digital purchases. I think part of the NFT craze hooks up to this impulse.
Robotic lawnmower definitely produces economic value for its manufacturer (probably in China) and designer (might be in China as well actually), but its effect on Danish economy is not that simple. It might actually harm it by taking a job from a person who did it before resulting in less taxes being paid.
Getting Fortran running on WASM is a little bit of an exercise in madness [0], but is possible, if involving a lot of moving parts.

[0] https://chrz.de/2020/04/21/fortran-in-the-browser/
I think the point is that the .NET API for writing a minimal web service is now more minimal, thanks to being designed around lambdas instead of heavy use of OOP. The web server API is just an example of this style of .NET API.
Glad you got it working. I deserve no credit though, I just followed some instructions and linked it here.

It was even easier to setup on my desktop (now running Manjaro rather than Ubuntu because of SteamPlay/Proton et al) and simply `sudo pacman -Sy manjaro-pipewire` followed by a reboot. If it complains about pulseaudio related conflicts, just `pacman -R` the packages it mentions then try manjaro-pipewire again, and then reboot and you're done.
I spent my last week wasting hours on end how i could ship a fork of the aws provider to support some resources that upstream refuses to add (ec2 classic link). Wasted hours on end convincing terraform not to redownload or to not have hash collisions with their built in way to do this so i indeed ended up using nix to patch and ship the terraform provider in the end! Very nice experience.

My edits are purely additive so I have it as a patch file that I simply apply to the nix package definition. So far it has applied cleanly on many different terraform versions I use in the wild.
>Maybe using the dataset to train an AI is fine

If this is true, how much longer until we start purposefully training AI models to be overfit and start returning inputs verbatim?
I have a very hard time deciding which one is worse. At least one of those has the potential of saving more lives than it ruins.
Is this really so hard to understand? Italy is a country whose identity is entirely built on its cultural history. It is not surprising at all that older people dislike the idea of foreigners coming in that have little relation to them, don’t speak their language, and aren’t really interested in maintaining heavily Catholic, traditional Italian society.

The same exact thing happens in Korea, Japan, China, Eastern Europe, Norway, and pretty much any other country that isn’t explicitly built on the idea of immigration and assimilation.
Because those in power define who are the terrorists.
Isn't the Big Blue Room this precisely controlled environment where you're supposed to spend a lot of time in, breathing oxygen?
I like these, they seem just the right size for a tea or coffee

https://sirjohnsgifts.com.au/products/maxwell-williams-willi...
That would be amazingly unpopular. See the yellow jacket protests in France: relatively more affluent Parisians tried to tell the country gas was going to be taxed, but everyone outside of Paris needed gas to go about their life.
This is an old and tired straw man argument. Yes, there are simple minded people out there who oppose immigration on principle and racism. But a lot of people are in fact opposed to indiscriminate immigration. A significant proportion of refugees are criminals, plain and simple. They often have the means to move that simple, poor, hard working people don't.

Taking large waves of refugees with no filtering will gurantee that the honest working ones will suffer by association with the bad ones.

Edit: Huge numbers of desperate refugees will also accept pay and working conditions that put local workers out of options.

Immigration is not a good thing just like it's not a bad thing. The devil is always is the details.
Where is the option to create a new course in Pathbird? I registered but only get an option to join an existing course with a code.

I write a lot of Jupyter notebooks at my main job and I also lecture at a university thus Pathbird seems relevant.
All you wrote is exactly why you want to know the base rate (or several, against different possible hypothesis). Otherwise, it's not possible to even speculate about these things productively.
What is a bare-metal C++ threadpool? Is that a specific library you're referring to?
So I was a little curious about some of the names from my country. I checked out the name of Isravel Moses.
According to The Wire.in, an online publication, whose credentials one would not doubt when it comes to criticizing the government or corporations had this to say

> On the night of November 8, Moses was hacked to death by alleged drug dealers, as a fallout of his reportage on the distribution and sale of ganja and the illegal encroachment of poramboke lands.

ganja is weed for those who don't know.

https://thewire.in/media/tamil-nadu-journalist-isravel-moses...

Though he was an activist, I am not sure he was an activist against global warming.
His death is regrettable and India has had an alarming rate of murders of journalists and activists along with a rise in nationalism. And most people never really hear about it, which is even worse.

Though this country has never been good to whistleblowers, journalists and activists. This has been happening for decades, not something very new honestly.
Sooo... Use a notebook or printouts?
Your hindsight is 20/20. Congratulations.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this! It's like someone wrote the article designed solely to test bias confirmation. At the end of the article, I still don't know what apple lost, or what the author thinks that apple will have lost (other than "the war"). It didn't tell me what apple did win - other than "exactly what everyone knew they would win" - gee, thanks for that one.

I can't see what people are downvoting on this comment.

Basically, you cannot read that article without any bias on this topic and expect to have learned something new. Maybe if I followed all the links in it, that might explain the situation - but the links are:

- a series of tubes

- [the next battle of] Apple v. Epic.

- just maybe

- they need to say

- given the Japanese settlement

- continues

- real reforms to the App Store

- they’re a lot smarter

... etc. There is absolutely no context to this non-article, and no hints where to go to get the context.

Sorry. I usually try not to rant about the content that people put on the internet, but please HN community - you're usually much better at filtering the bull than this.
This patient getting infected with alpha and delta after being vaccinated has to be an extremely rare occurrence. This individual must have a severe immune suppression if a past infection and vaccination provided no protection.
So is the number of politicians. What do you propose ?
> So “idiots” reflect the population.

That's what I fear the most.
And in modern English, the use or absence of the Oxford Comma can critically affect meaning.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/us/oxford-comma-maine.htm...
I don't think that it's the threadpool's fault that an application uses it incorrectly. Also, I think there are a lot of developers who have not considered that on today's machines, just spawning as many threads as there are cores is the optimal amount of threads in a thread pool for every use case. I wouldn't say it's the case of bad software but rather software that was written for the CPUs of 5 years ago. And generally, I don't think this will be an easy problem to solve due to the variety of heterogeneous and non-heterogeneous topology of modern SoCs. In fact, I don't see this specific threadpool doing anything to optimize for the disparate core clusters of your threadripper, or to acknowledge the disparity between core clusters on the M1.
> backed by governments and law

aka violence.

its eerie to slowly see the emerging threats over the past couple of years from people who have put their faith in the governments and law, which is understandable as it brings them security and comfort. but there are many many people in the world who never had that security from their government and law, because they were born in the wrong place, or with the wrong desires.

I'm increasingly seeing people appealing to authorities re:crypto - "it needs to be outlawed", "they are morally wrong", "Stop them". People in the 1880s feared the mass production of clocks.

It wont solve everything, of course it wont, but we can work together, without borders, with these trustless systems. That underlying math is pretty great. Those who like the sound of that can opt it and participate. If you dont want to thats ok too.

(for the last point, most of us in the world are not in the US. and a lot of people working in crypto dont ever have any expectation of protection from the people at the top, nor do we want it. isnt that the point of "land of the free"?)
It’s not Java in the browser, it’s the Java virtual environment required to run Java apps.

If that’s not the JVM then my mistake.
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It's hard to understand if you believe that not embracing it will basically destroy the economic fundamentals of the country and the social benefits which so many people depend on. What's better, accepting some immigrants (many of whom will assimilate; maybe not totally but somewhat) or having the state become insolvent and not provide pensions?
We’re talking about “dark patterns” here, not crimes against humanity. I think this is unambiguiously evil, but that doesn’t automatically make it as bad as murder.
Birmingham Children's Hospital and Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool had also given thymus glands, removed from live children during heart surgery, to a pharmaceutical company for research in return for financial donations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Hey_organs_scandal
> The less exciting perspective is that monetary and fiscal policy has created a manipulated financial environment
Just mow the leaves once or twice. Grass gets the light, and the leaves get decomposed more easily.
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> A significant proportion of refugees are criminals

Probably good to actually give any sort of evidence for your frankly outrageous claim, otherwise it just looks like you too are incredibly racist.
Not exactly. Most of our apps are some form of client/server architecture which means most of them are moving to JavaScript clients, but typically it’s react, angular or vue.
> But at least when it's such a pain you don't end up with JS mess where everything depends on everything and deleting a trivial package breaks half the web.

JS doesn't have real issues, when I say JS I say in the context in which it was created, AKA the browser. Browsers have an huge API where everything and its contrary are possible.

The problem is Node.js delegating the most basic things to a for profit company, NPM and it was 100% by design... with Node.js, you can't even parse a multipart request without a 3rd party package... the whole "unix philosophy" for packages was purely marketing bullshit and someone got very rich exploiting Node.js bad choices (Isaac...)
Western Germany maybe because of the Marshal Plan and a general interest of the US to build up an economic and military stronghold against the Soviet Union in Central Europe. Eastern Germany on the other hand...
Do they want to pay lower taxes? Or do they not want to pay higher taxes? I think every percentage point over about 40% starts to really niggle people—more in magnitude than getting a 1% break would please them.

In other words, fear of going from 40-45% is greater than hope for going from 40-35%.
I switched about three months ago from pulse to pipewire. Since then I've been experiencing no audio output almost every day I resume my laptop from suspend (s2ram). I did a few tests: reinstalled all the pipewire packgages, removed configuration directories, upgraded to latest available version (Manjaro = 0.3.34). So far nothing did help. The only I can do to fix this is restart the pipewire services. I'll wait for 0.3.35, but if the issue still persists then I'll switch back to pulse...
Yes. Note that the one I linked to is weatherised (IP65), and claims "Corrosion resistant & ﬁre retardant,
Impact resistant design" ... so it should be rugged enough to survive in typical apartment parking lots.

Obviously bollards will cost more, but something like this would be suitable if you have parking spaces up against an existing wall.
There's one such comment on there, from someone who's made a donation to the project. I don't see the problem.
So I did a little digging. This post is stolen? Word for word? lol

Original article by user matmaroon in 2009:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100824103317/http://mattmaroon...

Spurred by their own comment in the original thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=586154

And first posted to hn by matmaroon also in 2009:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=588752

Sort of unrelated to the digging - the comments in the original thread on warner / lessig are pretty well balanced. Very little to no prescriptive law talk, which is the only law talk worth attacking from the perspective of the authority and knowledge of law and its application. There's nothing at all wrong with speculation around the outcome of dmca notices, using whatever legal knowledge you can dig up. It's not legal advice to either party. This goes doubly so in 2009 when all of this was much less understood. Seems like a pretty bad example case for the OP (OP).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=586100
> Do you think that these murders (as stable or as decreasing as you believe them to be) should not be reported on?

Personally, I don't like this kind of discourse. It gets people excited, anxious, and not thinking clearly, as intended. That would be ok with me maybe, if there ever were some good results from that (e.g. effective environmental control, or good legislation), but there never, ever is.

I could go through and answer your questions as if we were talking for real, but your response is kind of a poison pill, designed to put me on the defensive ("Oh, of course I didn't mean...")

No. The adults in the room do need to know if activists are being murdered at an ever increasing rate, or if we can devote our limited time and attention to other very important matters. We don't like to be guided to the "proper" opinion by people who will shout But it's murder,
you cold-hearted nerd! if we go off track and ask for accurate information
It's the sort of thing where "if we don't do it, someone else will". These sorts of things are better to research and make known to the public so that they can be legislated etc etc.
Both are German names, following the same specific sense of naming. And looking around, Hrmpf seems to get inspirations from Grml, maybe even is a clone with different foundation?
> but they don't want to accept younger people to work

if you're an EU citizen you can move to germany and work there. this creates high incentives for workers from poorer eastern european countries to work in germany but send a huge chunk back to their family. some industries would not exists without this model, most notorious asparagus harvesting or private nursing services.

Germany accepted millions of migrants since 2015, but it's highly doubtful that this will be a net positive within the next century. Most of them are unskilled and only granted asylum which is temporary and by german law asylum seekers or migrants with temporary resident status are heavily restricted from taking up work. I guess the argument once was, why allow them to work if they will be deported anyway soon. But usually this is a long legal process leaving them in a limbo state for years. There are special programs however to train them to be nurses to obtain permanent residency. But it is unlikely that then german refugee policy from ~2015 will be a net benefit for social security etc.
I was about to comment the same thing. An incredibly bold statement with 0 evidence to back it up.