skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm fine with dual licensing but not with false marketing.

I love getting source code, but there are places where you really are looking for Free Software, not merely open source. Open core model products are really frustrating because maybe your use case isn't one where the value is high enough to be worth paying for "pro". I run into this often when someone asks about doing charity work. I do really like it though when an open core company is clear about it.
Your answer avoids the ethical dilemma by means of a technicality about temporal ownership; it's not a very good rebuttal. Also its just one example of how voluntary transactions can be coercive, here's a few more just off the top of my head:

- demanding sex in order to give an actress a part in a movie

- offering food to a starving man in exchange for his kidneys

- buying all the food in the market to drive up the price from people desperate to not die

- basically the entire American healthcare system
Rolling Line: A Model Railroad Simulator
> understand by context that we don't mean Greece

Or Albania. Or Romania. Or possibly Bulgaria.
Best place to read more is probably on the Zig project website, specifically this section[1] on how/why Zig's compiler is also a C compiler and the benefits that provides.

[1] https://ziglang.org/learn/overview/#zig-is-also-a-c-compiler
> "tearing people to pieces" is an appropriate response to an incident before the cause is even known.

Or after the cause is known. Unless maliciously done "tearing someone to pieces" is a strange way to deal with managements training failures, lack of procedures or similar.
The go team had the entire power of Google to subtly rebuild their search engine to not suck for this one stupid naming choice. I remember the earliest days after the language’s name was announced… it was nearly impossible to search for anything to do with it. It took months for anything to get better. The early conventions of calling it “go-lang” or “golang” stem from these days when it was just utterly impossible… and then Google realising they were affecting their recruitment pipeline (which Go was explicitly designed to help) stepped in to help fix the search discoverability so it wasn’t impossible to learn about this new language that people outside of Google should learn so Google didn’t have to teach its recruits the language designed for them.

In case the tone comes across harsh, I was trying to hold back just how I really feel. I can read and write in Go, but I hate the entire language and it’s ecosystem. It’s obvious to me that it was designed to be a better Java for Googlers at Google living in a monorepo world… the only positives I have to say about it are that talented people have somehow managed to write excellent and useful tools and software using it, but I really can’t like a language that makes me feel like I’m programming with the accidental child of BASIC and Java. However this isn’t a thread about Go, I just wish the poor choice of name had doomed it to obscurity and a quick death.
0. Try to find what & why exactly is being built

1. Try to find out which framework, architecture, design patterns used - get hold of that

2. Library dependancy
3. Database structure

4. Pick up your favourite editor (be it vim or emacs or vs code or any) in which you have mastery

5. Search for various entry points like routes, or start activity or main function etc & try step thru code (with possible debug tools open)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)

There is another language called "Go!"

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9#issuecomment-66047478

Russ Cox's response was, "The naming similarity is unfortunate. However, there are many computing products and services named Go. In the 11 months since our release, there has been minimal confusion of the two languages, so we are closing this
issue."
That's why you try to write scripts for standard tools and shell features
May be relevant to this, that money probably goes a lot further in the NHS than in US system. Staff are paid less, hospitals run on lower budgets, less unnecessary tests, no billing systems, less beaurocracy (NHS has its serious IT issues, but not probably to the level of US healthcare) etc . The NHS is badly under-funded at this point, and more and more Brits resorting to private healthcare to jump waiting lists, and wards in hospitals are not exactly posh, and getting appointments is harder, and you can see things creaking. But I think I'd still rather be treated by the UK's system than USA, unless I was extremely lucky with the right kind of US healthcare insurance, lived near a particularly good hospital etc... If the US would simply adopt our system that everyone deserves treatment no Qs asked, I think that would make life in the US a lot better, for everyone actually, not just low income people.
> What is being discussed is breathing in sand, that beach sand can cause silicosis, etc.

Who's telling that it can't?

My point was that amount of sand in your body that doesn't cause silicosis yet is not immesurable or undetectable.

You are fully expected to have some sand in your body all the time. Just at levels way too low to cause any symptoms.

And probably it's exactly the same with microplastics.
I absolutely agree that it's a wider, more sophisticated topic today. This doesn't mean that its main concerns have fundamentally changed. The Maddy article linked in a comment above is extremely clear explanation of this.
The original is perhaps the Project on Mathematics and Computation by DARPA https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/project-mac
Pththth!
This is crazy I was thinking of offing myself and was wondering how my parents would be able to contact my work. Would it be a slack message? Idk
> As I wrote this post, I realized that on Big Sur, the dictionary no longer corrects QuickTime like it corrects iTunes or iMac or many other Apple products

This would be odd since the video player in the very latest macOS is still called "QuickTime Player" even though QuickTime is no longer involved. Indeed on Monterey it's autocorrecting completely for me
They also had an excellent field technical staff. After Compaq purchased them it was always a roll of the dice as to whether you were going to get an excellent former DEC technician or an awful Compaq technician. Unfortunately the former DEC technicians quickly disappeared.
> people seem to overlook the fact that superhuman intelligence already exists as human organizations

Culture is faster than meat.

Faster to inculcate. Faster to copy. Faster to communicate. Faster to update.

And it's a lot harder to kill.

The day our primate progenitors began passing down their own knowledge to subsequent generations was the greatest leap forward in global learning rate that our planet has ever seen.

I think the jury's still out on our impact of printing it out into a three ring binder.
Gwern is an international treasure.
I like this approach because it keeps the fact that code is supposed to DO SOMETHING front and center. There is so much temptation (and many excellent reasons) to organize code in various ways but I think the power of route-based thinking should not be underestimated. Obviously depends on what you're building, but for most web-apps, I would trade some code duplication for very clear "this-does-that" organization.
> it's more likely they've replicated whatever makes pop music and television work for a lot of people.

This seems to be a good explanation. TV commercials have figured out some of these tricks, like using a louder volume than the TV show itself, or using a song that's a cover of a more famous, older song.

I find it irritating, but it probably works because older viewers recognize the song and pay attention, while younger viewers mentally attach the cover version to the product being sold.
There's lots of prior art, such as https://wheelmap.org/ -- so I imagine OSM is somewhat open to this sort of thing. Might be worth looking at how Wheelmap edits OSM. I believe it's from a generic account and edits are tagged such to make it clear it's from a member of the public.

You could also implement OAuth (sign-in with OSM) to do edits, similar to how some tools like https://maproulette.org/ work, though you'll get less contributions if you don't have an option for anonymous public edits.
For the N64, you'll want to look into mods that remove the blur effect on the N64:
https://www.retrorgb.com/n64blur.html
Your comment history is soley comprised of talking up GrapheneOS and calling the Librem 5 a scam.

Also, please don't "yell" at me and insinuate that I am a scammer. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you are willing to take a more many-worlds-like view of quantum mechanics, the past (or even just the present) does determine the future. Specifically, the future quantum state is fully determined. This state will be exceedingly complicated at will encode things like “there’s a 5% chance you get that job,” but this can be fully described in the wave function.
But if they are still a customer, they won't give a damn about their losing trust. As long as the company doesn't lose the $$ coming from them being a customer then that's all that matters
> Ruby is not my favorite language, but I would bet real money that without dependence on libraries, nobody could show me Python code which I could not show more logical, consistent, and readable Ruby code which solves the same problem. I say Ruby because it's of the same "type" and follows similar methodologies.

I keep hearing all the stories about Ruby supposedly being more logical and sound than Python. I really would love to see actual source code being cited to back those claims.
That link talks almost entirely about implications for programming and not mathematics. I recommend the Penelope Maddy article linked in a comment above for a more in-depth discussion of the relevant history and aims of the field. She says things much more clearly than I can.
> If .17% are homeless, then its 99.83% that it's 'working for.'

Like I said, the majority of the people who are classed as homeless live in some form of shelter or transitional housing [0]

> the system is working, it must work for 100.0% of the population, not 99.83%. Nothing less is acceptable for a 'working system'.

Have fun in Narnia.

> .17% of 330 is 56000

0.17% of 330 million is 561000.

> Are you saying that 56000 people don't matter?

I'm saying that a system that works for 99.9% of people must be doing something right and that helping the less than 0.1% population should not require a fundamental change.

0: https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...
Lots of great comments here on how social awkwardness fades and changes with age and experience, definitely something that happened to me. Personally I've went from being that shy weirdo to a hyper-social product manager who primarily does presentations, phone-calls, events, coordinates people etc.

My success story was all about a series of customer service jobs in college - foodtruck worker, uber driver, english teacher etc. The social awkwardness wears off when you have to rinse and repeat. And when there is a very good, albeit trivial reason for you to be talking and to being talked to. You learn to create a script in your head, you become comfortable, you try new things and you go off of that script. You learn to fail, you learn to fail fast, and since the interactions are brief, there aren't really any consequences. I basically learned how to not give a fuck.

I would say gym is nice for getting yourself into a certain state of mind, but if you want to make progress in social skill you could probably find that kind of random-stranger-interaction activity. Roles help with this, because people find it easier to talk to someone who is in a specific role and there is a reason for the interaction.

There are two other thoughts I have on this subject:

One is that a big tactic that always works against awkward moments is calling them out. Invariably what makes awkward people awkward is that when they do or say something awkward they will pretend it wasn't so or didn't happen. This is only cringe-inducing for the other party, but they will never say anything because they wouldn't want to offend. You can always take control of a social interaction no matter what happens by immediately confronting that you just did or said something awkward. That then becomes a sort of comedic relief and you're free to change the subject, move on etc. When you realize that it is actually that easy, the stakes of any interaction go way down and you become that version of yourself you want to be.

Second, is that for me learning to deal with social interactions has been a bit like getting into cold water of a lake to swim. Inexperienced swimmers will torment themselves inching in and fretting about getting cold. This is only a waste of energy and an internal struggle. Once you realize that the several minutes of cold are inevitable you just jump in and start moving. It's much better to just get an interaction started off on an awkward leg and to warm up whoever you're talking to, than to remain in that stiff anxious place.

From my perspective today I see social awkwardness as a kind of stage in growing up. It did not seem so at the time, but growing out of that time might just have been inevitable and might have happened no matter what.

That being said, growing up out of social awkwardness does feel like finally entering the club of real adults.
Exactly. A commitment by Microsoft to support the Macintosh was more valuable than 150 million dollars.

Such is the power of a good word.
I'm ESL and I wouldn't care if someone made fun of me like this. Let people have some fun, not everything has to be responded with with twitter level outrage.
I think evolution is not an undirected process in that sense because it's an optimization process, that optimizes to create more copies of itself. Superintelligence will likely use some Evolutionary Computation (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_computation ).

Also see Karl Sims 'Creatures' from the 90s:
youtube.com/watch?v=JBgG_VSP7f8
or
OpenAI's Multi-Agent Hide and Seek:
youtube.com/watch?v=kopoLzvh5jY
Thanks for the information. I actually don't know that much about the Atari, so I extrapolated from his NES, SNES, and GameBoy knowledge, which is very accurate (the Pokemon sprite videos are incredibly in depth, including a stream of him manually deciding a Pokemon sprite by hand over the course of three or so hours). Having done NES programming, I was surprised at the level of detail and accuracy in some of those. I suppose he might just be more experienced in the Nintendo home consoles.
All true, but I think you might be misinterpreting this scene. While it's possible Gwern is accidentally exposing his underlying racist beliefs, my guess is there is another level here. I presumed that a "pull request" that leads to world takeover was a social engineering attack by another system, and that the awkward English was an AI's imperfect attempt at pretending to be a human. I heard echo of "How do you do, fellow kids?" Contrast with the later description of Clippy faking video calls, using the excuse of low quality webcams.

On the other hand, I presumed we'd get back to that later in the story; and as far as I can tell, we never did. So maybe a simpler explanation is in order: Gwern intended it as morality play where the lazy racist researcher gets what's coming to him. But while it's a legitimate question whether it's socially beneficial to portray flawed characters in this way without disclaimer, I'm pretty sure that Gwern appreciates that in real life Chinese researchers have remarkable communication ability even if their English is occasionally nonstandard.
This is HN, so perhaps you're not familiar with how fiction writing works, but the things that a character says or thinks are not necessarily the opinions of the author.
> Is it hard to learn? Hell yeah. But everybody does, at least enough to get by.

that sounds like reason to try to evolve instead kf saying "yeah well, we are done"

with some luck alternative tools come up with ideas, which become part of the default tool, maybe the default will change over time.
The main reason a lot of people use DDG is privacy, not uncensored search results. I do think that this move could have been handled better.
..."you will find yourself switched* to...."
Ftfy.
When I was young I listened through The Rolling Stones 100 best Rock Albums. The fact that Pet Sounds even made the top 10 was always baffling to me.
> People are already incentivized to live far from their jobs because of HCOL near their workplaces.

Yes, and now they would be even more incentivized.

> Also, it would be nice if people's choices were as binary as this line of thinking seems to suggest.

What's your point?

> It seems to me that many people would rather have a shorter commute either way.

Yes. But if further incentivized to have a longer commute, they would (in aggregate).
For personal use that's fine. For investigation of competitor that might be illegal.
How do we make "At my skill level in life..." the next viral meme?
> Assuming you live in a building, have ever purchased anything made from plastic, eaten any food produced with artificial fertilizers or pesticides, used fossil fuel-based transportation... basically done anything involving modern life (which includes accessing the Internet), you have contributed to the destruction of life and habitats for other creatures, and done so in a way that is disproportionate to the destruction wrought by other lifeforms.

Was I wrong to eat, travel or use the internet? Should I wring my hands and flagellate myself for my existence?

Do you understand what 'wrong' is? Did I mean harm by the actions I took? No.

Did corporations act without care in providing me those things more cheaply? Yes.

Did governments wave their behaviour through, while lobbyists re-wrote the laws to ensure that corporations are able to make the people pick up the bill? Yes.

So, who is responsible again?

Instead of allowing yourself to be sent on a guilt-trip for your existence, you should stop playing the martyr and take a closer look at the causes of the problems. There are specific companies, people, actions (governmental and corporate) that have caused problems. If you take the leadership roles, you can't abstain your responsibilities to the weak.

Governments and corporations should bear the responsibility for their actions.
This is great, thank you. I love a good music exchange. And the comment below on Adam Curtis leaves me with hours of digging down this particular rabbit hole. Good stuff.
It means to remove a set of factors from the signal - or the returns of the signal, which would impact its performance or exposure, and are not meant to be captured by the signal.

Imagine a "I have no preference" signal which gives a weight of 1/n to each asset of the portfolio - you have 100 stocks in your basket, you give 1% to each. If you would compute its performance, you would see that this portfolio would roughly make 10% average returns over 20 years. That seems good right?

Well no it's not, because these 10% don't come from anything meaningful that your signal did. It came because you gained exposure to the market, and that exposure "carried" your signal performance.

> What do the need to do to the software to “residualize” it?

Well residualizing overall just means that you want to regress your signals on a set of factors that would carry its performance for no justified reason. In practical terms, you could start by doing a linear regression of your signal against such factors (say beta, country, sector) and only keeping the remaining residuals (alpha).
Can this be used to install a pygame game?

I've used Inno Setup for installing software on Windows before. It's free and works great. I've never tried installing python with it. But I did find a tutorial how to do it.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/convert-python-code-to-a-softw...
Stellarium v.022 Released
Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
Why is Brietbart prohibited? That's rather concerning.
Texas ‘Country Boy’ Helped Launch Personal-Computer Era
This is a good reason to start thinking about corporate lysing. Individual people who do bad stuff will die someday. Corporations don't have that problem and can grow unchecked, like a certain illness.
I think, at least in common vernacular, they are indeed different when placed side by side, much like “listen” vs “hear”.
my fiancée is hopelessly addicted to TikTok and just about everything she shows me from there is wholly devoid of actual authenticity—it's all fake as hell. "cute" moments between couples that were obviously staged and rehearsed instead of being impromptu as implied, young mom's desperately making a big deal out of everything their kids do because she needs Content for the Channel, and more.

I kind of get the feeling that we are passing or have passed some threshold where many, possibly most people can no longer identify Actual Authenticity due to social media overexposure, and I for one find this distressing.
So what? It's scale that matters. Humans are absolutely incomparable to the natural effects you describe. We're brutal. One human is capable of transforming absolutely humungous areas of land in short amount of time. And there are billions of us.
> But mankind, as a whole, is a clippy optimizer already, albeit a manual one. Right now it is us that is destroying life around us, replacing rainforest with cattle farms and suburban developments. We are already working on farming robots to serve our goals. Does the lizard care if it is crushed by a farming robot's wheel or an AI tank's chain?

We already have a built-in solution for this problem: biophilia. People like nature. Once we stop being poor, preserving nature, living in natural environments with trees and animals becomes a high priority. The people "cutting down the rain forest" will stop once they're sufficiently comfortable to prioritize nature over avoiding privation just like the Europeans stopped.

We used to built boats out of wood, now we build them out of metal. There's no reason we can't replace technologies that conflict with our biophilia with those that don't.
I get that, but still not sure Pet Sounds is as revolutionary as that.

I too went through the entire Beach Boys catalog a few years back and indeed you hear the progress of pop music from "California Girls" ditties (Paul teased with the Beatles "Back in the U.S.S.R.") to the more dare-I-say drug addled "Good Vibrations" (and more experimental "Heroes and Villains").

But as I sort of hint at, marijuana, psychedelic drugs could be just as responsible for the trajectory of pop music.

Go through the Beatles catalog and I would argue there is an even more dramatic shift in trajectory with the influences of Dylan, pot, later LSD. It's well known that the Beatles were the biggest influence on Brain Wilson's song writing — it could just as likely be then that The Beach Boys arc was simply following (anticipating?) the Beatles'.

The orchestration in Pet Sounds though follows the McCartney/Martin "Yesterday" by the Beatles as well as Phil Spector's production at the time.

I'm also on the fence regarding Pet Sounds. I'm more impressed by overlooked gems like the Zombies "Odessey and Oracle" than what may be the over-hyped albums like "Sgt. Pepper's" and "Pet Sounds".
Instead of acknowledging that there are talented programmers in JS you doubled down and cite a number made up from your mind that says 7 out of 10 JS devs are shit. I dont think all backened devs are arrogant, but I know one is.