skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody is arguing that the article is or should be illegal, just that the article is stupid. Or at least that it undermines its own argument with bigotry.
It’s actually quite sad that the first applications that come to mind are propaganda by totalitarian states and conning people into joining scams.

My own response to this “prompt” is the result of a lifetime of training data.

AI won’t enslave or kill us all. We will enslave or kill each other with AI.
I bought one for my girlfriend's Dyson (v6, I think) - which had terrible battery life from day one, and got worse over time. She was very dubious about it, but it worked a lot better than even when the Dyson was new. Still not great, but better than before.

Eventually I persuaded her that a Henry was the way forward. She bought it and now knows what I mean - I have one as a "garage/DIY" one and another as the house vacuum. There's a reason why professional cleaners in the UK use them!
It's very important for remote areas, especially stables so they can send pics to Musk and he can show to flight attendants what they'd be getting for a handy.

They can't do that without internet access.
"almost exactly the same situation"

Did the Muslims in Xinjiang declare a war against China? did they blow up Chinese buses or shoot thousands of rockets at Chinese civilians ?
Are you looking at the 'fall of the soviet union' newspaper?
It really depends a lot on the upkeep. If stores do no upkeep then in no time you end up with carts that all have one wheel clogged with hair and pulling the cart steeply to one side. With regular maintenance you have smooth running carts that don't have any directional bias and are a pleasure to use.

A supermarket local to me had stickers for a while you could grab as a customer and stick on a cart if it had a stuck wheel. They'd then take that cart out for repair. They don't do the stickers anymore, but I figure they just keep on top of keeping the wheels running smoothly nowadays. Haven't had a cart pull to one side in years now.
I’ve read a statistics that in 2016 it was approving 97% of the law proposals coming from the Commission.

In 2007 I was already employed, with no connection to school whatsoever, I’d say people like me still form the majority when it comes to European Ellections (i.e. people who think that the national parliament and the European one are pretty much the same when it comes to their nature)

Maybe the younger generations will be more knowledgeable when it comes to continent-wide political movements, even though I have major doubts about that (they’re less politically involved than we were, for example).
Things I liked:

- Versioning.

- Time zone identifier instead of just a fixed offset (which are ambiguous for future events).

- Native encoding of binary values.

- Graph notation with support for labels.

- Comments!

- Trying to escape lookalike characters, even though I think that's a lost cause.

Things I'm not so keen about:

- NUL character in strings being platform and settings dependent.

- Line break not being forced to a consistent value.

- The most complicated number encoding scheme I've ever seen (e.g. 0xa,3fb8p+42).

- Entity references are a footgun for anyone writing a depth-first or breadth-first algorithm.

- Arrays-vs-list feels like it doesn't belong in encoding formats.
Life imprisonment is just plain cruelty! There is no rehabilitation in the scope… just plain revenge. If someone is broken beyond repair (or sick) then it would be unjust and cruel to throw them in jail for the rest of their life! Sure they must be kept away from the rest of society but rotting in a small cell with daily abuse and basically no rights in my opinion makes society as guilty as the criminals it tries to punish!
Part of the problem, I think, is that minimalism is only defined with regard to some operation, function, or task, at some level. So what might be minimal for one task becomes complex for another, or vice versa.

I think many languages have some implicit set or class of functions in mind, and some of the frustrations people encounter is in a mismatch between what the language was designed for and what they want to apply it to.

I still think minimalism comes into play as a language design goal for an application domain, in the sense some languages are unnecessarily obtuse. But I also think there is something else — I'm not sure what the term is, but "scalability" or "abstractability" comes close — related to a language's capacity for minimalism at multiple levels of abstraction. That is, can you simplify code as need be if youre not interested in the details, but delve into the details if need be?
> ... simply ...

Might be an understatement?
Hmm, every piece of web infrastructure I just thought of (every browser, nginx, FreeBSD, your HL language runtime, nghttp2, curl, SSL) is written in C.

Sure, you may not be touching those during your web development, but that’s because you don’t know how to have fun and outsourced it all.
1st start by reading: Software Estimation: demistifying the black art" by McConell.

They also have online classes with the same content.

If you do that you will be better than 80% of devs at estimating.

After that read about Montecarlo simulation on software projects.
Can anyone from Cloudflare comment on why the site is down?
Many languages seem to be treated like products ... must add new feature ... must announced new version ... as if the "owner" is worried about getting left behind. Mostly counterproductive.

Many (most?) genuinely widely used languages are more-of-less static. C hasn't changed substantially in 20+ years.

And many of us have worked in projects where a subset of the nominated language is mandated, or certain "features" banned - specifically to prevent the use of overly complex, poorly known, or misunderstood language features.

I'm a fan of "if it works, don't make it worse."
Thats what happens when people always “trust the victim”. It literally requires throwing justice out the window
Turning Back Time on Space
I think they address some of the reasoning behind this pretty clearly in the write-up as well?

> The potential risks of misuse raise concerns regarding responsible open-sourcing of code and demos. At this time we have decided not to release code or a public demo. In future work we will explore a framework for responsible externalization that balances the value of external auditing with the risks of unrestricted open-access.

I can see the argument here. It would be super fun to test this model's ability to generate arbitrary images, but "arbitrary" also contains space for a lot of distasteful stuff. Add in this point:

> While a subset of our training data was filtered to removed noise and undesirable content, such as pornographic imagery and toxic language, we also utilized LAION-400M dataset which is known to contain a wide range of inappropriate content including pornographic imagery, racist slurs, and harmful social stereotypes. Imagen relies on text encoders trained on uncurated web-scale data, and thus inherits the social biases and limitations of large language models. As such, there is a risk that Imagen has encoded harmful stereotypes and representations, which guides our decision to not release Imagen for public use without further safeguards in place.

That said, I hope they're serious about the "framework for responsible externalization" part, both because it would be really fun to play with this model and because it would be interesting to test it outside of their hand-picked examples.
This is my theory as well. There'll be a short period where some of us at the forefront will enrich themselves by flooding the internet with imagery never seen before. That'll be a bubble where people think "abundance" has been solved but then it'll pop as people start to not trust anything they see online anymore and as you say, only trust and interact with things in the real world (wouldn't surpise me if regulation got involved here too somehow).
I have tried to bury kitchen scraps, dead plants and any woody material (old wood, carton paper, dried and chipped Arundo). All of this does help earthworms to multiply.
The change in soil structure was noticeable after deep digging, removing stones and planting potatoes and cover crops (phacelia and rye). Cover the surface with mulch / dead plants material otherwise the sun will bake it to brick-like thing.

This was on a small scale < 100m^2 and frankly without at least some good soil from the outside it is a long, uphill battle to grow plants in it.
Did you see the photo of hundreds of hooded and shackled people kneeling out in the sun?
I'm really proud of this project. Personally, it has been a case study for a long time. It's the absolute epitome of pragmatic engineering solutions that actually works and turn them into a SaaS as an open source project. Well done!
Relevant article. When trying to port a project from C to Rust, I would take a look into Elixir instead of Rust. More clear/cleaner syntax, more minimalistic, functional, less verbose, mild learning curve. We did this successfully in our project: ported the entire back-end to Elixir from C++/Php, while initially we considered Python, Java and C#.
NASA has early plans to send astronauts to Mars for 30 days – Space
if you use a different definition of camp that other people use nobody will understand what you are saying

gaza is under blockade because after israel gave them full autonomy they elected a terrorist government and attacked israel
I don’t think they cared about unencrypted networks, but more about the ssid and macs of devices. Today they use Wi-Fi networks near you to determine your position when GPS is not available.
Feeling good is a distraction that is useful to society. We are not a population requiring 100% productivity at all times. Feeling good can help ease problems, disconnecting through "trash tv" can give your brain enough of a break to come back to a problem you couldn't solve with a clear head. Routine serves humanity very well, and watching blockbuster movies as a reason to get together and watch with your loved ones is amazing.

I think a lot about how the movies I work give breaks to people across all workforces. Those that are trying to solve humanities diseases who need a disconnect from the workload and those that do shift work away from their families both deserve to take some time off their life and be entertained by a ferry passenger trying to escape a sinking ship or a junior exec getting hit in the nuts by a goat.

When I did a sequel of a popular movie I went deep into the hashtags on instagram and found dozens of "we watched this on our first date and now we're married, can't wait to see the next." type stories. Not a bad value for a campy zombie flick.
God is the obvious one.

Arguably god is not an "aspect of nature", but in this case, how do you define an aspect of nature? Something susceptible of an exact mathematical treatment? That's circular reasoning.

If you are an atheist, god may not be in your nature, but it is impossible not to believe in some unfalsifiable idea. I mean, I assume that I am not a Boltzmann brain and that you exist and that you are a human just like me, not just a NPC in a simulation. This is not mathematically quantifiable, but it is essential to make sense of the world.

And there is Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
It’s a typical phenomenon that the original message/idea is often distorted by its replication.

Usually the ideas tend to mutete to be more simple to pass on. So Balance and counterpoint is lost, but sometimes stuff is added because it helps „victims“ to pass on the narrative.

Key example is agile: key ideas are lost (continuous re-evaluation of software development and user/stakeholder interaction), while other stuff replicates under the same label like crazy (sprints, story point estimation ).

At the end of the day I find it’s totally plausible how a „manage your emotions and don’t be permanently negative, stay open and don’t reject things straight away“ can turn into something like „be positive, always, and smile at all the traffic lights on your way to work“ (no kidding)
Optional is an euphemism for dropped, not part of ISO certification compliance, e.g. MSVC is ISO C11 and C17 compliant, without fully supporting C99 stuff like VLAs.
I really don't think the hardware specs is the issue. OSS EDA is miles behind commercial EDA. It's great that there are efforts to create an open ecosystem, and there are some chips that are usable in those flows, but the SW is orders of magnitude behind the proprietary tools.

I don't like that these proprietary tools are thrashed also, tools like Vivado are immensely complicated and surprisingly easy to use compared with other hardware tools. ASIC synthesis would make your cry compared with how easy Vivado makes it for FPGAs. Sure its not perfect, but it is free to use for many devices, and includes simulation, debug, SDKs, etc.
I tried GPT-4 privately. And it also said this:

> I told you I could predict exactly what would be said by the humans in response!
> A well-funded team could create a compelling competitor to VS Code.

And yet they failed. Remember Atom[1] or Brackets[2]? I'm sure they are still used by a lot of people. But it was interesting to see Microsoft grow VS Code so fast in popularity. My vague notion is that addressing developer pain points early and providing first party plugins for popular ecosystems gave them an edge.

[1] https://github.com/atom
[2] https://brackets.io/
You _technically_ can create custom string types ... they just aren't very easy to integrate with other peoples code:
https://pypi.org/project/future-fstrings/
My issue with EA is similar to the posts point - it seems to be a lot of money being moved around between EA organizations finding their own blue sky philosophy research. For example the Future of Humanities Institute is funded by Giving What We Can, which passes funds to some AI orgs in SF, that the guys at FHI collaborate with, etc… I agree with their points but the actual funding of EA infrastructure appears to be a huge circle jerk.
1) What would be the rationale for such a project otherwise, per GP?

2) What especially would be the rationale to put a wardriving expert on the project?

“Data-hungry advertising network grows sensor array with cars” is far more believable to me than “data-hungry advertising network maps the world for free.”

Getting email address, CC info, passwords, names, Wi-Fi SSIDs, MAC addresses, etc all lined up with precise physical locations? That’s of value to the company. Having pictures of houses? Not sure what value that has to the company, and if it had any it’ll be similarly just an input into the same advertising algos.
I'd be a bit more charitable .. I'd label it as toxic if the extreme negative behaviour was a regular occurrence.
> You can encode algebraic data types as pure lambdas, but it's much less pleasant IMHO

Not that much less, since you can manually translate back your Haskell code to lambda calculus. E.g. your

List a = Nil | Cons a (List a)

rewrites to

let
Nil = \n\c. n
Cons = \x\y. \n\c. c x y
in ...

Of course the type system is what helps you write correct Haskell code in the first place, so the untyped lambda calculus will be painful for debugging wrongly typed code.
> Showing that you do care to a certain extend helps people share those feelings.

Unless you don’t actually care and can’t tell them “get your shit together on someone else’s time, dude” because that would be a micro-aggression since they don’t like being called dude.
For those interested in the history of such software, I can recommend "The Billion Dollar code" on Netflix.

It's the story about the team behind TerraVision, a predecessor of Google Maps.

Though the story is not depicted completely accurate, it gives a great hacker vibe from the early days of computing. Can recommend.
She does, because she will benefit from it, even if only indirectly.
Because their having your data is a liability for them, not an asset, which is why they want to offload some liability on you.
GitLab team member here.

We have considered Theia in the past. Here are a couple of related epics/issues:

- https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1619

- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/56812
> They may have a different taste, but that taste is no better or worse than anyone else's.

This is often repeated like it's some universal truth. Enjoying a film (or anything) doesn't mean it's great - this is a very hard to explain idea though, as it's something that is experienced in the core of your being. It's like trying to explain why small talk is important to someone from a low-context culture - there's probably a fundamental disconnect where it will never make sense. Although I can explain it with words, it really only makes sense on an emotional level. It's the difference between criticism by The Needle Drops and Lester Bangs. One is focused only on "objectivity" - "slashing guitars and crunchy snares"; the other is weaving a story.

But I guarantee you that anyone with the ability to convincingly articulate why The Office is better than Rebels of the Neon God isn't arguing in good faith. And there's a reason for that.
I didn't realize you were getting that many requests per second. That's quite remarkable when you only have 18 app cores available. In my experience, you're lucky if you can get Django to service a request in 10ms. So I'd expect closer to 40 cores to handle that level of traffic. I suppose since it is spiky, and not a particularly latency sensitive application, you can get by with fewer cores.
For our scale and request patterns (easily-partitioned / 0.1 qps), no major issues but the JavaScript bindings (which are different to their wasm bindings) that I use leave a lot to be desired. To DuckDB's credit, they seem to have top-notch CPP and Python bindings that even support the efficient memory-mapped Arrow format that's purpose-built for cross-language / cross-process , in addition to being top-notch in-memory representation for Panda-like data-frames.

Granted DuckDB's is in constant development, but it doesn't yet have native cross-version export/import feature (since its developers claim DuckDB hasn't reached maturity to stabilise its on-disk format just yet).

I also keep an eye on https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/ As for Arrow-backed query engines, Pola.rs and DataFusion in particular sound the most exciting to me.

It also remains to be seen how DataBrick's delta.io develops (might come in handy for much much larger data-warehouses).
Two come to mind:

Tomato rice, which is just placing a tomato in the rice cooker when cooking rice. I add more things nowadays like corn, onions, meat, salt and pepper. But I enjoy how easy it is to make and eat it with some sriracha :)

The other one is spaghetti. I do enjoy using high quality ingredients for this one (spaghetti made with semolina flour, bronze extrusion, slow dried), good sauce makes quite a difference. I’ll cook them until barely cooked, right before al dente, then finish cooking then on the sauce and some extras (onions, olives, meat, red pepper flakes).

This dish is one I really really enjoy but cook it less often since it takes a bit more time
For the very skilled yes. But a lot of low skilled artists of content creators will have the rugs pulled out from under them. (And how will we ever get high skilled artists trained in the future if they can't make a living from their lower tier output before they reach mastery.)
For anyone who is curious, this already includes the container image on the Docker Hub.

https://twitter.com/n_copa/status/1528822310957891584?s=20&t...
absolutely brilliant idea! Also love the implementation.
As far as it concerns me, as a TA in a CS university, this is truly an inspiration to make technical matters way more fun and appealing. Please continue to work on such matters!
“Why did you leave?”

A better opportunity presented itself.

Or, “Why are you looking?”

Exploring better opportunities more suited to my skills and personality.

It’s fairly easy to not lie and present things in a favorable way.
Politicians want more than control, they want informational weapons.

It's clear now how these Israeli zero-day exploit software power politicians' informational armies against their political adversaries.
It seems to me the only reason to not predict an economic downturn is the belief that the economy is unpredictable.

Almost a type of religious belief in the absolute stochasticity of all possible states of the economic system.

"Maybe the gods will favor us and leave a few favorable draws in the urn. Only the gods can know"
It’s okay if altruism is inherently selfish and for a warm fuzzy feeling or social media points as long as the altruism takes place
I guess the definition should be revised to "extreme behaviour, directly having an overbearing effect on another person's wellbeing".

Maybe there could also be a side definition for running competitively in a nuclear contamination zone though!
no worries. I appreciate the feedback.
https://archive.ph/M6U1q
Be aware, the first entry on the linked site is an April fool's joke
Or even with words. "yes" and "no" are much easier to distinguish at a glance than thumbs-up-emoji and thumbs-down-emoji.
Decisive action ? We are far too economically dependent on China for anything comparable to Russia.

In fact the only products the West depends on Russia, gas and oil have not been sanctioned !
I've discovered the "original" recipe probably 1 year ago and is definitely my favourite for it's taste and time to cook.
If you have data that granular, please share. If not, a top-level analysis seems better than none at all.
Todd Howard must be spinning in his cryo-chamber RN.
Thanks mate. Appreciate it.
If you're into Morrowind, I highly recommend the youtuber Sorcerer Dave[0]

He recently completed an epic, multi-chapter, role-played morrowind series[1]. Hundreds of hours of content, and all with an overall story arch. Was a constant of my life for almost a decade and it's still weird to me it's done.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/SorcererDave

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w08TwfG3KDA&list=PL0VJ_-KbXC...
How Pornhub Changed the World
GitLab team member here. Thanks for the feedback.

It would be great if you could share your insights and feedback on the public epic for the strategy for remote development: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/7419
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This perfectly illustrates the cultural difference between Rust and Go: Rust wants to be "correct", Go wants to be "good enough".
https://twitter.com/kannbwx/status/1528832246936920065 ok this doesn't look good at all, time to stock up people. preppers were right after all.
How mature is the tooling/libraries for Elixir?
in as much as Javascript has paid my bills. and in as much your child Django is pleasurable to use.
maybe it's time to move on from these languages that lure as into a false sense of productivity.
yeah initially you can move fast.
but after that it's clusterfuck of fighting your environment every 6 months.
syntax wise JS ain't different from modern C++/Rust/Go etc

as an industry we keep fighting nature and not working with nature.
how much money has been spent trying to optimize python, ruby, js build tools / environments etc.
you wouldn't need docker, web ide's and all the other crap if a language could ship a single executable.
if we moved away from dynamic linking that's linked to the 80s thinking of limited storage to static
linking.

whereas going back to saner defaults would've saved
much of this headache.
It's not the tracks that cost you. It's the idlers, sprockets, etc.
How to upload your first library to Open Source
I said “very profitable”.

“Surveillance capitalism” earns nothing compared to how much cash Apple makes, but there isn’t a field of studying “cell phone capitalism”.
> Native American Indians used a technique borrowed from South American Indians where they refused to do monoculture, instead they grew 3 to 4 crops in the same field.

Are you talking about crop rotation or growing multiple crops in the same field at the same time?