skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sublime Text is a commercial text editor. I used it during university, but it honestly just feels weird now to consider daily-driving a non-free (as in freedom and free beer, honesty mainly free beer) text editor when there are so many free alternatives out there. I don’t understand why someone would use Sublime Text instead of VSCode today.

I got into Emacs because it seemed like a neat thing to do. I don’t proselytise people to Emacs because learning it is a time-sink and the return you get is only realised if you really embrace a fully text-based interface, which can be hard and sometimes feels pointless.

That being said, it is my IDE (lsp-mode) for all languages and my git client (magit), and while I have not been able to make effective use of most other features in Emacs (org-mode, email clients, eww, etc.), these two things alone pay for themselves in spades. The learning curve is real, but the idea that you have to spend ages configuring your text editor is only true if you don’t use one of the many excellent distributions out there like Spacemacs, Doom, and Prelude.

I also use Vi keybindings (evil) because Vim is ubiquitous, and all the things people said about modal editing being a boon to productivity and helping you prevent RSI (which Emacs keybindings did not help with at all). I think Nano is awesome, but I never made it my go-to because it didn’t come installed by default on the old RHEL VMs I managed, while an old version it Vim did - go figure.
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This is the crucial point I think. Apple claims its on the side of privacy when it suits them. When it doesn't they don't care. In fact as the only big tech company allowed in China, you could argue they have a much worse effect on privacy overall for humanity than any other tech company.

It's all bullshit, and marketing. Apple is doing this to grow apple ads. That's it.
> You do realize that all this range and depth that purists talk about is just like what audiophiles do when they talk about the "warmth" of a vinyl recording?

Yes, and no. GP is referring to a specific fundamental difference between digital capture and film negative capture that is not vague or woo or wine tasting.

Highlights record differently on film negatives, because they do not clip; they roll off progressively as the negative image gets denser and denser. This is why wedding photographers kept shooting black and white film alongside digital colour for a long time, for instance.

You retain that benefit when you then scan the negative back into a digital form (because the scanner's dynamic range significantly outdoes the range of the developed negative). You can significantly "redevelop" that negative digitally.

I don't know if that specific fundamental difference was what the Dune production was aiming at -- I am guessing that if it was, they exposed their digital files very carefully to maximise the chance of being able to use it the way they wanted to.
Both Google and Apple both already scan your cloud photos for CSAM, and Apple backtracked on their local CSAM scanning plan.
A full tank is safer than an almost empty tank.. Also the tank is designed to keep the vapor part of the gasoline too saturated to explode, this is why there is a latch on the fill tube. I found this Quora post: https://www.quora.com/How-come-the-gasoline-in-gas-tanks-nev...

And even if it can explode in the situation where there's almost no fuel left, in that case it's not as bad as liberating the full energy of a full tank, which is what you'd do if you have a flywheel spinning with the same total energy as a full tank of gasoline. That would be madness.

Heh I came to think of the recent demo of the company that wants to spin up satellites on earth and THROW them into orbit. If something goes wrong in that spin-up, they would destroy the entire launch facility and whatever is in the way.

https://youtu.be/JAczd3mt3X0

I once had a CDROM open while the CD was spinning at like 40x or so, it ejected and went into the plaster wall. And that was just a CD..
Meanwhile 100000 russian troops is being placed around ukraine border, 20% of russian households does not have indoor plumbing and some of people I know still does not believe in pandemic.

Im not sure where Im going with this but somehow I feel that that You should not mistake Your inner optimism with what is really going out there.
I'm most of the way to one, if you mean declarative and the system figures out what needs to be changed.

hof/dm

https://docs.hofstadter.io/first-example/adding-a-datamodel/

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"Understanding the code" might not be that big of a deal as you might think -- we have this problem today already. A talented coder might leave the company and the employer may not be able to hire a replacement who's as good. Now they have to deal with some magic in the codebase. I don't hear people giving advice not to hire smart people.

At least with AI, you can (presumably) replicate the results if you re-run everything from the same state.

There's also a very interesting paragraph in the paper (I'm in no position to judge whether it's valid or not) that touches on this subject, but with a positive twist :

Interpretability. One major advantage of code generation models is that code itself is relatively interpretable. Understanding the behavior of neural networks is challenging, but the code that code generation models output is human readable and can be analysed by traditional methods (and is therefore easier to trust). Proving a sorting algorithm is correct is usually easier than proving a network will sort numbers correctly in all cases. Interpretability makes code generation safer for real-world environments and for fairer machine learning. We can examine code written by a human-readable code generation system for bias, and understand the decisions it makes.
Yeah the running joke about this chain is how centralised it is.

To highlight solanas centralisation as a failure for crypto ignores how big the crypto space is and how much solana doesnt reflect the rest of the space
If AlphaCode had access to full test suite then the result is not surprising at all.

You can fit anything given enough parameters.

https://fermatslibrary.com/s/drawing-an-elephant-with-four-c...
Cursory googling says 1/3 of population
What is Apple's most visible marketing initiate as of late?
I like being able to breathe. Its one of my favorite things to do, goes along well with being able to drink water and digest solid nutrients.
If you want to know the methods to forward Hotmail to Gmail then you can read this blog - https://www.migrateemails.com/how-to-transfer-email-from-hot...
But we're talking about self-driving cars. There's won't be any drivers. When I'm on the train I don't complain about the speed limit because I know fuck all about what speed is safe on that line. Same thing.

Also there shouldn't be a fast road right next to a school. It's insane that such a thing exists.
Sure, I understand that. Everybody and his dog wants you to subscribe and provide a steady income stream.

The problem is that a lot of people, not just me, will violently resist such a scheme even while they'd like to donate.

So you just forgo about every donation coming from somebody who is just hell bent not to enter an additional recurring obligation and I'd wager those are a lot.

So in the end (and unless they change that) you get nothing.

From a fundraising perspective this really doesn't make any sense.
Problem is, to "talk with AI", most developers would need to 'retrain' (to use GP's word).

Writing and training a neural network is very different from writing a common program.
It's not a DSL in Rust. It's just Rust
Are any of these hacks actually illegal? Genuine question, as I have not been able to find references to DeFi hackers that have been chased by law enforcement. IANAL, but if they are illegal, then it suggests that smart contracts are just to be viewed as automatations of some underlying contract which is subject to legal interpretation. But if such a legal contract does not exist prior to the deployment of the smart contract, then how will one determine which uses of the smart contract are legal, and which that are not? Even the hacks are just making the smart contracts do things that they were programmed to, although PROBABLY unintended.
Fortunately the other major smartphone provider is much more ad-friendly
The way you put it sounds so like the P?=NP problem:

If it's easy to tell whether a solution is valid, is it also easy to generate it?
Because the Valve index is very expensive and needs to be tethered to an also expresive gaming PC via cumbersome cables plus the need to install the IR lighthouses in your living-room, and require maintenance of drivers and VR compatible SW(I was a PC gamer, I know). All this expense, physical installation work and general friction is a non-starter for most consumers and that's why yours sits on the shelf unused.

The Quest(2) is not tethered but has the "gaming PC" built inside of it, no need to bolt lighthouses to your living room walls, and has the frictionless ecosystem polish of the PS/X-box. So it sits charging on my couch, always updating itself and the games in the background, and when I have 10 minutes of boredom during WFH, I can slip it on my head and will instantly resume the last game state I was on, no cables, no PC, no maintaining or curating drivers and SW, none of that stuff. Zero friction. And I can also put it in my backpack and take it to a friend's place instead of having the whole setup bolted to my living room.

I also had work colleagues with gaming PCs buy the Index and return it in the 30 day window after getting bored of the nuisance of cables and SW, then buy a Quest 2 and keep it.

The Quest absolutely killed the Index for the mainstream VR market and got Valve to move in the same direction.
The difference is that DreamCoder has a hand-crafted PCFG [1] that is used to generate programs, rather than a large language model. So the difference is in how programs are generated.

________

[1] The structure of the PCFG is hand-crafted, but the weights are trained during learning in a cycle alternating with neural net training. It's pretty cool actually, thought a bit over-engineered if you ask me.
Getting Started with Git Bash
Just an illustration at how much personal data is worth it - things that the normal user does not even think about. It's crazy.
What I occasionally see is that wearing other cultures clothing is seen as appropriation by people who aren't members of the culture, when actual members of the culture appreciate it.

If it is actual members of the culture complaining, it makes much more sense than when non members are complaining on their behalf.
China has very strong privacy laws, though. In fact, Grindr recently stopped operating there because their business model was made very difficult by the new PIPL law.
How One Company Took over the NFT Trade
I don’t see how. Motion sickness is a discrepancy between visual stimulus and signals from the vestibular system. If you show people motion and the don’t feel the motion, they will get motion sickness (to varying degree)
It used to be messenger boys would literally carry piles of stock certificates between offices to settle trades. Fairly sure large boxes of cash in the other direction as well.
Well, I dunno. My friends don't post anything any more. Maybe to instagram, but even that is less now.

Facebook needed to fill that gap with content from elsewhere. That's where influencers and content creators came in. Who are way less interesting than your friends, but they do post content regularly.

I don't think facebook had a choice.
What ad business? Don’t they really only show ads in Apple News? How is that comparable to what FB and Google do?
The current attitude towards VR, and the "metaverse" in general, has got to be the second most delusional thing I have ever seen - due in no small part to the close integration with NFTs, the first most delusional obsession I've seen. It's complete and utter vaporware, with absolutely nothing behind it. I have done lots and lots of reading about the metaverse, what it promises, what it wants, and I still can't find a place where substituting the word "metaverse" with "cyberspace" doesn't create the same sentence. But everyone is afraid of missing out on the "next evolution of the internet" that all rational thought has gone out of the window. VR is not the future of anything besides the mentioned gaming niche.
You might not feel so strongly about a non-hypoallergenic (er, allergenic?) breed that it's worth suffering. (Probably you'll end up loving the breed you choose above all others anyway, whatever your feelings on or awareness of it beforehand.)
Poll: How do you package/distribute your app for Linux?
Appimage
Flatpack
Packages for each distro
Zeroinstall
> Who in their right mind would buy a device from Facebook

Probably a lot of people if it was cheap enough and marketed right.
Did it actually? They don’t report this in the ethics statement where you would expect such a thing. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05605-0#ethics
Hey, emailed you 2 months in a row and got no replies. Would really love to get in touch with you guys, maybe there is type in your email adress or something. Cheers.
> Controlling the VR metaverse... I just don't see it. Too much innovation. Too much invention.

Remember FB can always purchase themselves into the market - pick up a few startups and bodge together a consistent product.

I think the problem is that VR tech and apps will take too long to arrive to gain any traction with the wider public, before FB needs it. FB needs hundreds of millions/billions of users, VR hasn't punched out of the 'early adopter'/gamer market yet and even those were balking at having to have FB accounts.
> It can’t. Period. That’s simply not how conversations work.

This is the most pedantic nitpick I have ever seen. Yes, current events can not modify historical events, because time travel is impossible. That said, it is possible to fool outside observers (in the future) by editing a previous comment.
> But the fact that a company can do this to another company at the flick of a switch by changing the rules of the game on a whim is still kind of scary, even if I think it's for the better in this instance.

As a general principle I agree, but this is more a reason to encourage many small businesses over a small number of trillion dollar businesses (other reasons exist for the exact opposite).

But in this specific case, not only do I agree with you that it’s for the better, but I also can’t see how Apple is even going further than just requiring apps on its platform to adhere to GDPR.
Glorified electric golf carts for all
He was socially engineered in-by trusting who was thought a buddy to open a file; who which was maliciously a actor for the N.Korea. I've been a SysAdmin for god-long time, so thank you for respectfully telling me that I am not, when I am full well aware of what I am talking about.

He was socially engineered to open a file. It wasn't Abbacada 123, poof your hacked. It was his fault, he opened the file and that makes him foolish of him to "trust" and open a file.

End result, he got himself infected with an exploit.
Ask HN: John Hopkins study says lockdowns are ineffective. What do you think?
Here is the paper: https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature...

Here is a random article: https://www.dailywire.com/news/johns-hopkins-study-lockdowns...

There is very little coverage in mainstream media, is it because the study is not influential?
Compiler Explorer now supports C#, F# and Visual Basic
If you want to have a sense of how those languages translate into machine code, they have just been made available.

Nothing to do with it, just spreading the word.

https://godbolt.org/

https://twitter.com/CompileExplore/status/1488656420736274437
Freud's nephew and the origins of public relations (2009)
See the poll https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30190968
Thanks for the link. I agree with Seth that consciousness is much like a controlled hallucination - after all, we don't experience reality directly, but through the predictions of our brain. But then the question is, why do you need this hallucination? I suspect that consciousness evolved because it makes an organism more capable than one who doesn't. But what does consciousness offer over just taking in sensory input and making predictions without having qualia (much like a computer does)?
So all the ads in newspapers and on television and in sports venues and public spaces and...don't work? Or did you just mean ads are less cost effective without tracking-based targeting?
Seems like a sick joke as people have zero privacy from the government in China.
Unfortunately the p-values that are significant are only nominally significant. If you do a null experiment enough times it will sometimes look significant - even a broken clock is wrong sometimes.

This doesn’t mean the paper isn’t detecting a real effect, its just that the noise in these experiments is large and the techniques or sample size insufficient to confidently overcome that noise. It’s a great contribution to it’s field, but I won’t be changing my habits based off it.
Maybe. I don't know the specifics of it. I was listening to a podcasts and they were explaining the general principle of how leveraging works with regards to Bitcoin.

The point I was generally making is that more complicated tax laws normally don't tax the people that they purport to target and normally end up affecting those that are a couple of rungs down in the class hierarchy that everyone pretends that doesn't exist in most Western Societies.

For example. This was a few years ago. I saw a headline where I think I paid (relatively) a greater proportion of tax from my small Limited Company than one of American coffee franchises paid in the UK. Due to them doing some tax wangling with Ireland. If I were to do the same, I would have HMRC investigating me and I wouldn't be able to afford such an investigation. They probably have a dedicated tax compliance team. I don't.
You can do it with intelij
> Bro, you wanna send a bunch of emails to keep up with your friends. Facebook is and was the truly first social media for the masses.

Facebook was not the first. There were already mass-market social networking websites when Facebook emerged, like MySpace and Friendster.

The younger generation has already dropped Facebook, like their predecessors dropped MySpace. And they are still able to communicate with each other without using e-mail.
Thanks for the hint. In Bose connect the option is "voice alerts". Now just down to a modestly annoying beep.
> a company can do this to another company at the flick of a switch

I briefly started a service. It was an automated tool to track how your tweets affected followers and traffic to one or more sites. It was neat.

Then Twitter changed the auth API. A month later, the throttles changed. Then something else changed in the JSON objects the API returned.

We decided to give up when Twitter announced their own analytics tool, after about two months or part-time work.

So yes, companies can and do that routinely. Sometimes, as it seems to be the case here, they are just acting in their (and their customers) best interest and completely ignoring the effects on other companies.
This is not about being productive. Productivity on its own is meaningless - when I draw I can work really hard but the effects of my work are literally wothless from the point of view of society.

I believe that capitalism works only because people need incetives that are aligned with society needs. Otherwise they will work really hard on stuff that uses resources but will not be part of sustainable system.
My 2 cents, not that it's important, is that Facebook killed it's own product by A/B testing for user engagement. The product went from a cool place to see what your friends were up (bit like insta was for a while), to this sh*thole place filled with junk viral videos, adds, whacky content from a few insane friends, etc. It became like a cheap social porn dumping ground.

I really just want to see what my friends are up to. I don't want to feel that the posts I get are heavily filtered by algorithms or that 'unpopular' opinions are hidden or whatever.

The original Facebook product back in 2008-2010 was really good. If anything, I think Facebook shows how important is it to develop a product vision that is more than just 'clickbait+++' which is basically Facebook's strategy. [Around 2010, I imagine a bunch of overly nerdy socially maladjusted 20-something programmers sitting around Fakebook HQ describing to robotic-Mark how an excel-driven click-bait approach can make Fakebook way more popular than ever. "Look popularity with maths".]

Now the only thing I really use it for is business pages. [I don't even know why Google don't have a slightly better business-page experience on their maps.]

Zuckerberg, I think is a bit of a genius, but seems to lack much capacity or instinct to display technological 'taste'. That rare thing Steve Jobs valued and talked about. It's why Apple is and remains cool and why it's able to handle PR better. Apple are just much more sophisticated at controlling people's perception around the appeal of the brand. Apple provide a 'luxury' brand experience to 50% of the (developed) world. Facebook's brand is so toxic it decided to change it's name to Meta. [Note, timing the change to Meta not long before the growth slows a lot. I'm surprised Facebook was really even growing much. Well I heard most growth has come from outside the developed economies and it's a waste ground among the young in the West.]

Zuckerberg - from afar - looks like a robotic alien trying to work out the grandest legal pump and dump scheme he can pull off. I do salute him because he's so successful and I still think he'll work out how to make Meta's transition. He's got lots of cards to play in his hand and he seems pretty good at business poker. So, I also congratulate him.
Related to "why don't you just..." to solve any seemingly trivial problem, which isn't.
Not being a formally trained mathematician or psychologist but being someone who’s seen plenty of organization/institutional mechanism design:

is it possible that e.g.psychology research might become more mathematically rigorous if there were more incentives for serious mathematics people to study psychology?

I appreciate at first glance that might seem a bit vacuous: but there’s a ton of money and way better policy at stake if we understood behavioral economics better, and that’s at least an adjacent field to psychology right?
I think the GP means that the AlphaStar team stopped working on the project because they felt it was reaching a dead end and unlikely to produce further results, or at least other ventures might have been more promising.

I think that's most likely the case too, otherwise why would they give up?
Note that this device is currently using a 32-bit ARM processor, so it will likely be affected by the Y2038 issue, unless OpenWRT and other distros end up fixing that issue. In addition support for 32-bit in general and 32-bit ARM in particular in the Linux distro space is waning, for example Fedora is talking about retiring ARMv7 support. Presumably OpenWRT and TurrisOS will retain support for as long as possible though. Other Turris devices (MOX etc) use newer 64-bit processors and aren't affected by those issues.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetireARMv7