skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have it backwards. Java is actually very well designed in many ways, and that means that it's easy to make really good IDEs so they are popular.

In contrast it's really hard to make good C++ code intelligence features. For many many years Microsoft was the only one that had done it (as far as I know).
None of the GPTs can do column-based math, because they can't see columns. Byte pair encoding doesn't preserve characters. "1", "3" and "13" are all different tokens. This is also why GPT can't rhyme.
100 Years Ago RCA Sent the First Voice Message over the Air
We're seeing the fruits of years of relentless climate narratives connecting all energy usage to pollution, and therefore all energy consumption (for any purpose) is considered inherently evil.

Does that mean everyone who plays video games after work is literally satan for consuming energy for mere entertainment?

Life itself consumes energy; does this mean the universe would be better off without us in it?

This is obviously a nihilistic viewpoint once you follow it to it's natural conclusion.

I expect the future will have a combination of both PoW and PoS due to fundamental trade-offs. So I got news for everyone. Proof-of-work exists and isn't going anywhere. You can't just yell at the clouds wishing we could make it illegal for "environmental reasons". PoW is not "incompatible with climate change mitigation", this is obviously a straw-man. There's plenty of energy to go around, and we have to solve the climate+energy crises either way. Not to mention Co2 emissions alone is just one small part of the overall climate concern.

I'm more interested in individuals and organizations willing to actually solve technical problems related to energy and climate, and choose to ignore those just yelling at politicians to solve it for them.
I'd be surprised if this weren't a case taken on contingency (that is, where the lawyer only gets paid if the plaintiff wins or gets a settlement). The lawyer could still benefit from fame/notoriety even if they lose, but their incentives are generally aligned with the plaintiff's.
In foobar2000 it's kinda easy, Preferences -> Playback -> DSP Manager -> Downmix channels to mono [+]. (picture: https://i.imgur.com/FDhxh3j.png)
Everyone in this thread should calm down and just read this comment.
My wife is a good editor who has done assignments for some self-published or indie published novels. It’s tough to make the end product good if the writing isn’t good to start and the writer isn’t generously open to feedback. The power is skewed too much toward the writer as the editor doesn’t have the standing to prevent publishing from proceeding due to quality. The writer is also not usually willing to spend enough on editing to allow for substantial revisions if the initial feedback doesn’t produce immediately better work (editing usually requires assigning rewrites or revisions.)
Your point is valid and well understood, but only applies for some user types.

As a person who uses Notion primarily for myself, lack of multi-user support doesn't impact me, and does truly make this a potential alternative.

Products are sold based on what they hope to be, often not on what they are today. The merits of this approach can be debated, but I get why it's billed as such in the meantime.
“It sends the message that perhaps our true world is so corrupted, so divided and so unfair, that it isn’t worth saving after all. Alternatively, we can photoshop reality to the point we can all pretend everything is as pretty as we experience it in our own heads. Also known as cultivating delusions: don’t worry about your lousy life, come join us in your own dreamworld.”
Department of Health briefs media following president's nation address
No, there's nothing wrong with you. The world does not get to tell you that you have to talk about your feelings. If you don't want to, that's fine.

What's wrong is that, if you are male and you do want/need to talk about your feelings, there's no place where you can do it. That's not a problem for you, but for some males, it is.
It is because amulo has a point is why Cloudflare stands a good chance to disrupt AWS in at least few market segments, if not all.

More: https://stratechery.com/2021/cloudflares-disruption/
I immediately thought of gray goo, of course. What’s to stop that from happening here?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo
> just leftist whining

just rightist whining.

Fixed it for you :) jk but why do people feel the need to make political points out of nothing. You could find tons of examples of things that are evil and not just the few things that fit one persons viewpoints.
A motto is not in any way, shape, or form "a contract".
Thank you for saying this.

Twitter and similar platforms aren't just bigger versions of a soap box in a town square, or gossip circles in a small community. They're categorically different things, with categorically different effects on society.
Vagueness is to be construed against the drafter of the contract, Google in this case.
Rust-analyzer has been improving massively in the last year or two and it's auto-import and code completion are pretty rock solid now IMO.
[South African] Department of Health. HN auto-title preventing that clarification.
Parallels on M1 can run only Arm64 Windows, not x86. So you can't use Visual Studio 2022. But VScode should be ok.

And no more Bootcamp.
IANAL either, but this isn't nearly as crazy as I thought it'd be based on the headline.

They basically say don't be evil was part of the employment contract (via the code of conduct), the employees fulfilled their obligation to advise Google not to be evil, and then Google fired them.

From wikipedia:

The elements of promissory estoppel are:

* an express or implied promise;

* detrimental reliance by the promisee foreseeable to a reasonable person in the promissor's position;

* actual detrimental reliance by the promisee (worsening of their position); and
for specific performance (as opposed to reliance damages), injustice can only be avoided by enforcing the promise.

Point by point:

* Google promised to not be evil because every employee (including the CEO and members of the board) agrees to the code of conduct.

* The promisee (employees) relied on that when they made their decition to work at google and enter the contract. That was reasonably foreseeable by the promissor (Google).

* The employees actually did rely on the promise when they took the job, and circulated the petition to not be evil, since they were promised all employees agreed to it. No comment on the specific performance remedy since I didn't read that far to see if that's what they're demanding.

Obviously there's points in there that could be reasonably debated, but it seems not-crazy enough to make it past a motion to dismiss.
I agree completely, but it might suit the use case of someone trying to get some work done.
And funny how you just prove the point of the article with your comment
I would for the sake of argument stipulate that "evil" means something, that a court might be able to adjudicate it, and that CBP does many specific things which might be deemed evil.

However, even given all of that, I do not believe it is possible for Google to exist without being complicit with the overall purpose of CBP.

I don't see any particularly salient dividing line between generically working with them and not.

There might be something evil about the details of the particular project, but if CBP as a whole is evil, I don't comprehend how working with them automatically makes a difference when you are based in the US anyway.

I can swallow "a US court adjudicating which acts are evil" much easier than "a US court adjudicating which major parts of the US government are generally evil".

The latter seems like some sort of propaganda fantasy, a snake eating its tail.
How hard is it to compile these days? I recall trying to build several years back for Electron development work on Ubuntu and it was a royal pain in the butt.
I want to be clear that im explicitly against the policy of doing that, but it doesnt look like the person you replied to made any mention of that either.
I keep seeing the argument that Proof of Stake is more centralizing than Proof of Work, but it doesn't really add up with what I'm seeing in practice - Bitcoin mining centralized heavily around cheap electricity sources and companies that can afford SOTA dedicated mining ASICs. In contrast, anybody can become an ETH staker by purchasing the requisite amount of ETH (currently worth around $128,000, previously closer to $32,000) and make profitable return on it. You also retain a liquid asset that can be sold back at a later date. With the staking pools even this lockup amount can be reduced arbitrarily.

For a consumer to participate in PoW based on current miners it seems like they need to buy perpetually out-of-stock specialized ASICs for a sunk cost of $10-15k with the expectation that they'll break even in about a year and probably need to refresh in 3. The hardware management aspect as well as the variable cost of electricity seems to incentivize centralization of mining significantly.

Being able to standup a staking node with commodity hardware seems far more accessible.
I feel this case will backfire on the ex-employees. Instead of explaining the evil that Google is doing, it'll put focus on why the employees were fired. I'm sure that Google has a very detailed file on reasons for the firing (vs. just laying them off etc.) and those reasons were review by lawyers.

Google's revenge will be to display those reasons every time a potential employer google's their names.
Workflowy might legitimately object to the name Appflowy on trademark grounds — there's definitely the potential for confusion there as to origin, sponsorship, or endorsement. (OTOH, the sophistication of potential customers and the care likely to be taken in choosing an app like this could weigh against a likelihood of confusion.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_infringement
The second scam is to create a big loss to reduce tax liabilities in a fraudulent way. Again, you create several different wallets. One of them is linked to your real name and the others are anonymous. You buy an NFT with an anonymous account that you control for $200k, and sell it to another anonymous account you control for $250k. Then you sell it to your real-name account for $500k. Your real-name account then sells it to another one of your anonymous accounts for $200k, locking in a massive $300k “loss”. Your anonymous account can then potentially sell it for roughly what you paid for it, maybe $200k if the market hasn’t changed much since you began this trick. This is a useful tax “loss” (which wasn’t really a loss, since you secretly paid it to yourself) that can offset your real crypto capital gains from other trading areas.

And then the person has $300K in wealth sitting in an anonymous account that they can't spend, because they can't explain where they got it from without explaining their ploy.

If you want to go that route, you could just as easily claim you lost $300K to a hack.
Governments are indeed too incompetent to be trusted with operating core infrastructure reliably, but that's only part of the argument. You can find the original context of this discussion in the search bar to see what I was saying more precisely.
> Our current (Ethereum) clients are a hundred thousand lines or so for proof-of-stake.

Well, not quite. Prysm[1] has a pretty harrowing codebase, but it’s not huge. You can grep all of the ick in a handful of minutes. :)

[1] https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm

edit: I stand corrected! I guess it's been a while since I took a peep. Don't say I didn't warn ya!

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I believe Dune covers this possibility as well.

You might reframe this as an adversarial attack.
So far these are constructed against specific classifiers.

I wonder just how much common taste there is left to mine.
There are a lot of low wattage brains working in an attention maximizing context (the music industry) on pleasurable audio.
What about the increased risk of hitting the side walls hence needing to use the brush? The opportunity cost is too high.
I installed it through flatpak. What is HN crowd opinion on this?
Eliphas Levi is wrong then. That premise is far too thin to stand, it drops scope.

Stalin [insert very bad historical person here] could have certainly utilized reason in the course of pursuing evil actions for example. The scope there is narrowed down to specific actions. If you broaden back out, you can say that Stalin is acting irrational by committing heinous acts in the first place, but that's only the case if you're defining the standard of what is good on his behalf (as opposed to what he may consider good to be). You'd be imposing your standard, the foundation of your morality, on him.

Morality depends on first defining the standard of what the good is. From there you can extrapolate the rest, you can construct a system forward. Stalin and I will disagree on the standard of what the good is, and as such we'll reach different conclusions on a lot of things. From his standard, he can take rational actions, make rational decisions that align with his aims - they're rational as it pertains to what he's pursuing, what his standard is.

One can entirely disagree with the standards that someone else holds, of course. Their behavior may be evil by your standard for example, and vice versa. You could argue that there is one objective standard for The Good (thus everyone else not following that is immoral to the degree they diverge), however good luck convincing most people to go along with that (it'll never happen).

Is putting these people in a gulag rational? Well that depends on what you're trying to accomplish.
The lab leak theory isn't necessarily true, but this analogy isn't as conclusive as you make it sound...
You've not noticed that windows has moved system settings dialogs each version since NT3.1?
Saving a single zip file would work, thanks. But it still seems like a cumbersome workflow in this case because you’d have to unzip to view/upload the site.

I do like the idea in other contexts, just not here.
Just use brave. I don't get why people are still trying to split off a new no-Google pro privacy chromium when there is a Very good option already. If people pushed to help brave even better we would be in a very good world
> He considers proof of stake coins

The author is a she.
Considerably more trustworthy binaries are available for Arch, Debian, and Fedora through OpenSUSE's Open Build Service. Arch binaries are also reproducible.

https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:ungoogled_chrom...

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/discussions/14...

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-arc...
Wow, is she really using the mouse at a 90 degree angle with no problems whatsoever?
the biggest thing about publishing is publishing, not editing.

You might be the most correct entertaining writer ever but if you can't convince a publisher that they should publish your book, your book is going to have a hard time ever getting published.

At least, that used to be true, until self publishing online came about and the entire publishing model was tranformed by it.

I think this author is writing about publishing a book, not having a book edited, which are very different things. The mistakes a good editor (or beta readers, etc) would have caught. Boring writing would never have made it through the slush pile at a publisher. But it would also be accompanied by many great books the publisher doesn't think are in style or didn't hook the editor in the first 5 pages so will never get published...
He said that "leftist activists" objected to a country securing its borders, but that is not what they were objecting to.
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I pay them money to use their IDE and have for some years. No other relationship.

I don't have any problem with you criticizing them. I have a problem with you stating your criticisms in ways that sound like it's more than just your experience.

For example, you wrote, "you need to muck around too much to get them working properly". This is not true. I don't need that. You apparently did need to do some mucking around that was too much for you.

Or you write, "JB makes tons of assumptions and attempts to be helpful in ways that just are not". Again, that might not be helpful for you. But it's very helpful to me. And clearly to lots and lots of other people given how popular their tooling is even though it costs actual money.

I think this sort of universalization and projection is unhelpful and ask that you not do it.
Why would I write an article about my own limitations :P
Pretty easy to turn off the crypto stuff
Wisdom of crowds though — there's enough eyes on the stuff built by "internet randos" over at Mozilla to have a larger level of trust in it Vs an unknown fork of Chromium
My favorite definition of music is the one given by Schopenhauer:

"Absolutely direct experience of the will is impossible, because it will always be mediated by time, but in first-personal experience of volition and the experience of music the thing in itself is no longer veiled by our other forms of cognitive conditioning."

There's also a less poetic, but I believe a more accurate definition in the blog you've linked:

"Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which doesn't know that it is counting." (Gottfried Leibniz)
I can see what you mean to an extent.

But we men are also pretty coy about some of these things - if I'm running a men's divorce support group, but I tell everyone it's a golf club? Well of course people are going to assume it's a golf club.
The court doesn't need to determine what it means in an absolute sense, just what Google meant by it (or could reasonably have been presumed to) when they put it in the employment contract.
Because the pictures are bizarre. Take a look at the one I linked to - his chin line merges with his neck. The bags under his eyes are weird. He looks like he is added on to the background. And the background itself is super weird.

The other one that I think is generated is the picture of "Pop culture critic Ian Williams". Gillen's is ok.

> I did a reverse image search just to double check, and the only existence of the photos are on the cbc site.

The reverse image search didn't return anything precisely because they are generated. Search for the other image - that of the writer Kieron Gillen. You'll find it.
> Anyone may show at your home and steal your crypto currency at gun point, you may pay for items that are not delivered, your employer may not pay you. Authorities and the rule of law are fully needed for any functional society.

In a crypto anarchist’s dream world, the employee’s income claimable token could be resold, purchased by a loan shark, and the loan shark could provide another permission-less contract where anybody can upload a picture of the employer’s knees being broken, likely verified on chain by some other pain oracle.
"Cat's in the cradle"
I trust a homeless person on the street more than I trust google.
Your wife was an editor for hire. I don't think people self publishing are looking for someone to have power over whether they can publish or not - they're looking for someone to edit the book and give them an opinion, but not be bound by those opinions. Otherwise they could just go through a publishing house.
Thanks for posting this. All of the knee-jerk comments are hurting my mind.
Your parenthetical statement casts a large shadow over the rest of your statement, because yes, control varies, and people with low control (correlates with low education) are precisely the ones who fall prey to cynical propaganda.
"Get a form check " is definitely good advice and if that's all the person I responded to said I would have agreed with them.
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You make a good attempt at joking here, but ultimately fail. Your absurd position: "we live in a post-Crhistian/post-religious society" is just way way too far as an initial gambit. Maybe try toning it down at first? Or alternately going way further at the start. This just hits poe's law too hard.
Love the style and configs! Feature suggestion that I think fits the minimalist style.

Support an optional “footer” argument in ‘site.json’. Useful for copyright, social links, ??
That's a motte and bailey. The motte is "a few men have a disproportionate amount of power in society", the bailey is "all men have more privilege than women". It's important to be clear about what's meant by patriatchy because people often use different definitions, sometimes in the same conversation.
>Also, 'professional' editors are, at most, just people who've attended a one-year degree program

I don't think this is true of people who work for the big publishing houses. I've watched podcasts talking about it - there's a lot of fancy school names and knowing the right people involved, but 1 year programs aren't really whats going on there.
Oh yeah! The "Put Away" command. That was indeed a cool feature.
GitHub Actions free tier comes with ~34 hours of free compute time with 500MB storage. Pro comes with 50 hours and 1GB. Enterprise comes with much more. Building on Windows or macOS divides those compute rates by 2 and 10 respectively.

For a project with frequent point releases, building Chromium via GitHub might require a monetary commitment.
That’s just centralization without extra steps.
And where do most Chinese exports go to?