skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Art should have to pass a test: If you saw it in an alleyway, would you think it was art or trash?

It's really strange to me that you've allegedly spent so much time in the art world and still think this is a valid dichotomy. Part of art is context, which should be clear given that's exclusively what you're responding to here. It's also strange that you correlate popularity with some kind of moral authority about the right of a particular art to exist. What does it matter whether it's popular or not, as if that's a ruling on its alleged correctness to some imagined standard? I hope one day you can open yourself to having a genuine experience with a work of art and worry less about whether too many people like it or not.
1. There are a lot of central banks in the world, not everything in the world revolves around the US.

> If the Federal Reserve Notes issued by the central bank were sufficient to meet our monetary needs, there would be no interest in cryptocurrencies.

2. The cynical interpretation would that a large part of that ton of monetary needs that need meeting are criminal activities.
> To build a career, how much do tech stacks matter?

Tech stacks come and go every few years (5 years is a pretty good run for a framework / stack), careers last 20-40 years.

You're going to need to develop skills outside the tech stack that are generally useful and have a longer half-life (like debugging, SQL, shell scripting, source code management), and also proactively switch to a new stack every now and then.
I can't give you hard stats, but in Hungary in the 80s (i.e. socialist times) people were building their own houses in the villages (i.e. with the help from extended family only hiring tradesman when you don't have that trade in family) so there was little reason to cut corners. It also avoided the cookie cutter look of American suburbs. These are brick houses, so they're quite sturdy, and could be modernized by adding external insulation. Most of these houses were built with double glazed windows to begin with, so I was pretty surprised that in Britain or Spain it isn't default.
> You can do some mental gymnastics, define free will as being able to do what you want, define it as being free of various kinds of constraints, call it free if the choice is not computable in advance, if you can not measure all necessary variables, in practice or in theory, ... If you are happy with any of those definitions, fine, then you might have this kind of free will, but I would not consider any of those particularly interesting.

It is quite interesting in fact, as it lets you sensibly assign moral responsibility to those who were acting of their own free will, even if the world is deterministic. Arguably that's the only kind of free will worth having, and what people mean when they talk about free will (not what people say they mean).
> Steam Deck will sell like hotcakes

Pretty sure it won’t. Too chunky for playing indie games on the go, not enough battery to play AAA. And if you plan having it plugged in as a desktop replacement, there’re batter gaming laptops.
It's a bad situation: we don't currently have a good litmus test for good-faith criticisms of Israel (of which there are an overwhelming number) versus treatments of Israel as coextensive with and the mouthpiece of the Jewish diaspora (which it certainly isn't). The former is righteous criticism; the latter is gussied up antisemitism.

Edit: and, to be absolutely clear, it is in Israel's continued interest for us to not have a good litmus test for the two. I believe that most international messaging and the intentional obfuscation of Israeli foreign policy behind Jewish identity demonstrates that keeping the two murky is a continued policy goal of Israel's leadership.
I would guess that a typical good engineer could half-ass their job and still get good reviews. You might lose star status on you team and lose out on promotions, but I bet you could work half the hours and not get called out for bad performance.
As long at Tesla continues to willfully and fraudulently push a product called "Full Self Driving" -- onto a customer base they know to be largely naive and unsophisticated -- they share responsibility for whatever death and carnage inevitably results from this cynical and manipulative course of action.
Does Tesla Autopilot normally stop at traffic signals?

If not, seems pretty cut and dry - the driver is at fault.

If Autopilot does stop at signals, then it's a bit more muddied to me.
> The USPS website was surprisingly snappy and simple. Anyone know how the gov managed to not screw it up like the obamacare site?

The USPS website gradually evolved to support a legacy service which didn't depend on the website, it wasn't hastily assembled as a central dependency of a massive new program with many other linked equally critical supporting pieces (including largely unanticipated needs resulting from active sabotage of the policy), and it wasn't the public portal through which failures in all those other new critical pieces were surfaced.
A long time ago I was thinking about this and how if you could better visualise the relationships between functions/modules, it would be clearer to see where there are issues with coupling and cohesion. I think for the most part it could look fairly clean with nice heirarchical relationships, but then the links to common utility files could get a bit messy.

I took a stab at implementing it in Love2d but didn't get far before getting distracted with UI design/development: https://i.imgur.com/kznL4.jpg
The copyright on the whole derivative is joint, but the the copyright on your contribution only is yours[1, p26]. If your creative input relies on the original (e.g. you interliniated a Harry Potter fanfic into a book), you won't be able to sell only your contribution, because the original copyright includes the characters and so on and extends to your work. However, if you draw decorative borders around each page (that are not based on the original: no Ravenclaw logos!) you could photocopy the pages, isolate the borders and sell them separately, but you could not make copies that included copies of (or copies of derivations of) the original text.

As for the sale of the physical modified-but-uncopied original itself:

In the EU, this is permitted under the equivalent to the first sale doctrine[2, p880][3, footnote 7], which covers all IP, including trademarks and patents. There's now some weirdness around Brexit which is what document [3] is all about.

The case law actually goes both ways in the US because the concept of derivative work is not conclusively defined in statute:

* It's OK: Lee v. Deck the Walls, Inc. [4] aka Lee v. A.R.T. Co.

* It's not OK: Greenwich Workshop, Inc. v. Timber Creations, Inc. [5], and also Mirage Editions, Inc. v. Albuquerque A.R.T. Company

These cases are almost identical and one on each side even involves the same defendant, but have opposite conclusions. So as usual, the US gets weird and jurisdictional with it. So, indeed, my original comment is actually wrong in that US First Sale Doctrine isn't guaranteed to apply and mostly seems to depend on the circuit you get sued in. TIL.

There are additional rules if the original is limited edition or certain types of art (usually "visual" and "limited"):

* In the US, VARA means certain creators can, in some cases, sue for damages if you destroy or modify their work, even if you own it

* In the EU there's the Resale Rights Directive (which codifies what is often called droit de suite) which gives royalties of each sale to the artist (but this right cannot be transferred or inherited)

[1]: https://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/sme/en/documents/pdf/i...

[2]: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...

[3]: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/brexit_files/i...

[4]: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/9...

[5]: https://casetext.com/case/greenwich-workshop-inc-v-timber-cr...
> The company's internal manufacturing operations can survive only if they figure out how to outperform competitors.

Is outperforming competitors necessary for Intel's survival? There's plenty of fabs in the world doing quite alright well behind TSMC, the vast majority of which can't even come close to Intel's current capabilities [1]. Even if Intel never succeeds with their existing process roadmap - which is not on pace to beat TSMC - they still possess some of the most advanced chip manufacturing processes in a world that's all the more dependant on chip manufacturing.

GlobalFoundries got out of the race on 14nm - a 14nm not as good as Intel's 14nm and far behind Intel's 10nm - and is still posting YoY revenue growth, despite losing much of the volume they were producing for AMD over the last few years.

In addition to that, I suppose that even if Intel merely succeeds in roughly keeping up with TSMC and Samsung (their current 10nm being on par with Samsung's and TSMC's 7nm would classify as "roughly keeping up", I think) there's American national security interests at play. Especially so if Intel's manufacturing capabilities are accessible to (American) third parties. No way the powers that be would let Intel's manufacturing plants go under.

It's a pretty bold strategy at face value, but I think it's actually a pretty straightforward choice and the risks aren't all that existential.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
Cool paper!

Can I bottom line this as: there's nothing here so far, i.e., there are no clinically meaningful subgroups.

I don't mean this as a negative or to put down the awesome work, but this seems like a fair summary?
Finding a workaround is fine but tangential at best, but that doesn't mean we should ignore or stay silent regarding company philsophies/choices/actions we find repulsive.
I am not sure what you mean by "computer-based." We definitely have done various types of analyses: Support vector machines, latent profile analysis, multivariate distance matrix regression, and others. The field as a whole is VERY in-tune with ML, clustering, etc methods...because we need it. Results are somewhat mixed, but this is due to lots of noise in the data, limited samples, and overall copmplexity etc.
I fail to see how Bennett is far right in any sense of the word. Conservative yes, but the far right is inhabited by nut jobs like Smotrich and Ben Gvir. Whether you define support for an active military as militaristic versus actually taking aggressive military action is also another issue - they cannot be militaristic if you accept the second definition.
But free will is a concept, a way of viewing the world. It’s not a physical object or mechanical process that can be tested. It’s why trying to prove it scientifically or through logic is just as impossible as trying to disprove it.

It’s a philosophical debate, not a science experiment. In philosophy, a declarative statement asserting the affirmative is always true is just as big a fallacy as saying the negative is always true.
I add files to the new drive throughout the year. I keep the drive unplugged most of the time but periodically plug it in to add files. I still have a >1 year recovery point in case of fire, but less than that for more mundane data loss scenarios (accidental deletion, etc).
It quite literally is a lisp runtime with text editing stuff. There are many resources on how to implement lisp, but for the text editor part, this book “The craft of text editing” was very good http://www.finseth.com/craft/
Oh you're fine! I didn't think you were being flippant. I've been using One Darker (One Dark with a darker background) for two years and don't have any plans to change anytime soon. Here's the source for the theme if you're interested. It has gotten a little bit more complex than I described in my post, due to supporting various plugins, but it's still pretty easy to understand.

https://github.com/raiguard/one.kak/blob/main/colors/one-dar...
Isn't it just this? https://awsteele.com/blog/2021/09/15/aws-federation-comes-to... (https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/249)

Why does SAML.to need to be used?
I'm a bit conflicted on this. If you actually examine what "autopilot" does on aircraft, it doesn't seem misleading at all. Most autopilot, unless it's connected to a terrain database, will happily fly you straight into a mountain. Autopilot usually just maintains heading, altitude, and airspeed.
The plans are to start turning it into real company which hopefully means easier to use software, more learning material and better communication. Till now it was mostly two guys working from home and overwhelmed by it all.
Mine is similar, but 1 is an internal drive, and I have almost no cloud storage.

> It's all manual so sometimes some backups are months old.

Do you at least have a script for backing up the live copy to onsite? Like plug in the drive, enter encryption key, then run script?
> What happens when there's construction and a construction worker gives confusing instructions to follow?

Indeed and I believe this is one of the primary failings of the nascent self-driving car industry; driving is seen as an engineering challenge, rather than an engineering and social challenge. When viewed solely as an engineering challenge, the task is daunting enough, but maybe tractable if you squint and target only a subset of driving conditions. But add in the social component of driving, which is largely being ignored by this new industry, and it's really impossible with today's technology.
Can we dismiss yoga for silliness anyway?
The result of "autopilot" is entirely predictable. The NTSB, NHTSA, CSB, and pretty much every other safety board have repeatedly found that any system that requires someone (anyone) pay complete attention, while also not actually doing anything, will fail in the second part. It is wholly unreasonable to expect a person "in control" of a partially self driving car to have instantaneous response, it isn't even reasonable to expect 90% attention to what is going on around the car.

Add to that Tesla's insistence on intentionally mislabeling things - autopilot has a clear implication, especially given their demos of it, the "full self driving" mode is clearly outright false labeling - and I think Tesla does share liability.

The current model of "self driving" with the expectation the a driver will be able to immediately respond to anything the driving system misses, is inherently unsafe.
I didn't realize at the time how much I learned from my HP-15c manual, which had a similar treatment of its numerical algorithms. Thanks HP!
Because writing operating systems is difficult.
It's a bit more complex than this, the entire GPS fix is 4D since position depends on time and vice versa. The time reported by a GPS receiver, once fix is attained, is not just the time from one of the satellites but the time resulting from the 4D fix in space and time. This eliminates (to within a certain precision) the latency.

A lot of discrete GPS receivers have some nonvolatile storage where they "cache" fixes to reduce fix time. This has the amusing result that when you buy a GPS receiver and monitor its output immediately you usually find out the time and location where QA was performed, as the first fixes emitted without the quality flag.
Small, route-constrained mass transit vehicles would solve 80% of this with 20% of the cost. We could call them trollies or buses.
Dozens of Computers in Ukraine Wiped with Destructive Malware in Attack
How easy is it to access that in Denmark though if you're not a citizen? I moved from the UK to Finland and had to:

- Visit the Imigration office with my passport (as an EU citizen I might add) where they took a copy

- Visit the local registry office with a bit of paper from the above, and my passport, where they took a copy

- Visit the tax office with my passport, where they took a copy

- Only then could I visit the police station with my passport (where, you guessed it) and/or a bank, with the passport (yes the photocopier worked well there too) in order to get access to the E-ID service. Which I will agree does make e-government superior to that of the UK, but, it was not 'frictionless' in the begining.

Also, a lot of EU people get caught out by the first step requiring an appointment which is usually months out (as being non-eu, weirdly you're almost in a better position because you can, or rather have to, get that done before you leave your own country)

Completely agree though that even as a citizen and living there all my life (until a couple of years ago) - the 'gas bill/bank statement' thing is a massive PITA. However a lot of places are trying to work out a better system and will use credit reports and fuzzy logic to validate your information to a threshold they're happy with. This is also something the government themselves are working on. Interestingly, as much as the Finnish system has saved me time, I just don't agree with the idea that the government should maintain some centrally accessible and enforceable registry of where everyone lives.
What is free will but an experience? I think it is completely plausible that organisms that exist in a fully deterministic physical reality still have the experience of free will. Or vice versa for that matter.

Why do "I" have this experience of having a viewpoint and making decisions? That is a mystery that I am not close to solving. However why would any of that define how the universe must work?

Much like a finite being can hold thoughts of Cantor's classes of infinities in her finite brain. The domains in question are unrelated.
Emacs is a great environment for live coding music (not exactly a DAW, but more like a music REPL I suppose).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix2b_qFYfAA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjf-NJNfOP4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imoWGsipe4k
Ironically, I have an LG that was considered top-of-the-line when I bought it ten+ years ago, and the drum is the thing that broke. Still no idea what happened but it had a huge gash. Think I had to pay some kind of service fee but basically a free replacement.
Not that I use any apple hardware in the first place but I'm definitely not going to trust that assertion. Just buy a shitty burner
We use aurora actually. It's a lot more scalable, but also pretty expensive. The IO layer is multi-tenent, and unfortunately when it goes wrong, you have no idea why and no recourse. I think I've never had a positive experience with AWS support about it either. We've had IO latency go from <2ms to >10ms and completely destroy throughput. Support tells us to try optimizing our queries like we are idiots.
The web browser went from being a way to browse hyperlinked documents to a virtual machine used for application development. The scope for both has ballooned to the point where you would need a large team and some kind of feature to attract enough users to make it worth building something new.
Roadmap: Open-Source (2020)
Could you source that anecdote?
Blizzard's (not sure about Activision games) ongoing support for most of those platforms has been pretty crap recently anyway. Diablo2 Resurrected removed mac support but they did add consoles.

OW only support Windows.

I guess SC2 and D3 had support for many platforms, but not Linux.

It's a crap situation that I don't think is being improved or worsened here.
This is how competition is snuffed out - the companies that realize this have already completed the switch or have started it and they'll be the ones to outlast all their competitors that have fallen behind with slower processes.
Oh I accept that, but I'm also wary of theories that seem to handwave material reality. I've found Dione Fortune's writings the most useful in that regard, though she can be... obscure. Quite influential all the same.
I think Rigol gave in to the hackers? Last year I bought a DS1054Z from amazon and it came with all the options permanently enabled.
It’s not about caring, it’s about results. Capitalism is the only system that pulled both countries and people out of poverty, because it’s the best system at motivating people to create value.

Redistributing systems are naturally demotivating. The balance is being tried indeed but it’s a slippery slope in a democracy where people just learn that they can vote more money in their pockets.
That's a great example, thanks!
Washington proposes ban on targeted ads
> My take is not nearly as strong as the fsf's.

Your take is much stronger than that of the FSF. The FSF advocates for people to choose free software, and for governments to not force people to use non-free software. You say that non-free software (i.e., software for which you don't have the key) should be illegal. The FSF has never advocated for such an extreme viewpoint.
MJPEG is just a stream of JPEG pictures, delimited by some boundary.

Therefore no audio and compression/quality is shit. Also, MJPEG stream doesn't have timestamps, so it's impossible to provide smooth playback of MJPEG stream, or synchronize it with other streams.
In Oklahoma, anyone can sign up! No background check required. Today the governor said he's going to start moving other state employees into schools to sub... Our school district was asking parents to come in. I am fortunate to be able to keep my kid home because it's basically just babysitting at that point. When I send him, I'm making the decision to risk covid for education, having untrained random person watching my kid all day changes the outcome of the equation.
While disturbing, I feel the real issue is a bit deeper. People are forming emotional attachments to software. They're interacting with software as if it were human. They're having extreme emotional responses to software mimicking human social interactions.

Frankly, the word for that is delusional.

We all talk to imaginary people, I think. We might even get a bit attached to our imaginary friends. Authors speak of great pain when killing off a beloved character they've willed to life for many years. But still, how often do we go on extended abusive tirades against them to the point we feel guilty? Or how often do we break down in tears because of what our imaginary friend said to us? When that happens, we start worrying about a person's relationship to reality.

Even very mild cases of this worry me. A friend's roommate (about 20 years old and grown up with these things) thanks his Alexa unit after he makes a query, routinely. And he then smiles when it responds to that. It creeps me out. Who, exactly, is he talking to? Himself. Aloud. In front of other people. To someone who isn't there. He's smiling because of what his imaginary friend just said to him.

The only hesitation I have to slap the label of possible mental illness on this is that the software is exploiting an aspect of our psychology that seems quite unready to deal with these things. Emotional manipulation by people who don't exist, but physically seem real. It seems to fall into a new category.
I think that's reasonable. If you abuse the refund system you should get banned.

But I don't think that it will happen a lot because piracy is already incredibly easy with GOG. If you want a free game why bother with buying it at all?
I think you're right about automation coming for office jobs, but it's not that odd that physical labor would be the focus, a couple hundred years ago, like 95% of people worked in agriculture, and automation is the reason only 1% of people do today. It's harder to suss out how many factory jobs have been automated away compared to how many are just being done elsewhere, but a lot of factory labor has been automated as well.

It's almost like automation is coming for office jobs because it already claimed the low-hanging fruit elsewhere.