skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing does suck, though... the elimination of social sharing of bookmarks, music, videos, etc.
For example, when Napster was a thing, I started buying 2-5 CDs per payday because I was discovering so much great stuff. They they (the record companies) started comparing the sharing of music with Piracy of Ships on the High Sea, and suing customers... and things imploded. F*ck the record companies!

Delicio.us was a social bookmarking site - it was an awesome way to discover interesting things because people actually shared their bookmarks, and discovered new ones... then it got killed

This trend repeats over and over as too much capital seeks too few resources. 8(
Not the sort of tunnels I was thinking about, obviously.
Mountain tunnels for cars often have no room for pedestrians or maintenance workers let alone cyclists, and basically zone-limit cyclists.
Have to echo others: closed source, allowing internet access to my system, and unproven just doesn’t meet any minimum safe risk thresholds. I wish you luck, but the market is tight and being unable to assess code quality would be an absolute non-starter for my personal and professional buying decisions.
Hmm, not sure if I would put it that simply.

It's definitely not treated as an "exceptional" case, and there multiple different options on how it can be handled, depending on the level of special care required by the kid and their academic capability (and disruptiveness to classmates). E.g. On the one hand there are non/low-communicative autistic children that attend "Gymnasium" (our highest "tier" in the school system) with the help of a dedicated care person. On the other hand it can also happen that an autistic child will attend a "special needs" school, where the day-to-day can look far less "normal", and it will likely be hard to attain a normal job as an adult.
Ask HN: How good of a developer were you in your 20s?
Are you satified of what you have become?
Fair point - the sections we have to adjust to an be short, relative to how we figure them out.

For example, one has to figure out how to be a man in some period of 15-23yro. Then live that. Then if one has kids, how to wholly be responsible for others in that 20's-30's range. Then wholly how to let them go, and then potentially to help one's parents after that. All while balancing self, identity, aspirations, dreams, adulting, and placing food on the table.

Each period is short, in a long overarching "cumulative years"
Red Sox CTO: Baseball teams need modern tech stack as much as any other biz
The difference is they thought by themselves that they are Mount Everest.

Here you just need to ask how it feels about being Mount Everest and it turn into it.
The point is that the other codes of conduct often embed other particular cultural suggestions and assumptions, but since they are those of your own you don't notice them as jarringly as those of medieval Christendom.
Without a definition of "spiritual" or at least the version the author is using the paper is meaningless.
While there are some grains of truth here and the overall post reads like utter BS.

Myself I do not like Java at all. But I like this article even less.
It takes a special kind of arrogance to believe that you can rewrite the 10 commandments.

But to rewrite them, see them there on the screen and not realise you have done it, in a much more inefficient way, and also much, much worse. Thats just a breakdown.
This is similar https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu.

ie. select the instance you care about, then search again and select the one you want to compare against

in this case t3.xlarge vs m5.xlarge.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/14416335?baseli...
If you want to build your own keyboard, now there are a billion parts easily available and tons of instructional videos on it. When I was a kid, model aircraft were fun, but you’d either go to the local hobby store or look through the Tower Hobby catalog. People built kits or sometimes made things themselves, and a lot of really interesting techniques were passed down through clubs and mailing lists. Now with the drone scene, there are many many more parts to choose from, all kinds of simulators and flight assist technology to almost completely avoid the expensive and time-consuming build-fly-crash loop, tons of resources in forums, videos, discord servers (I guess we did have IRC back in the day which is part of how I learned programming).

The long tail has been growing since the 90s, but consumerism has been growing even faster.
No, but I also don't wear a mask that covers my face and I don't use a voice changer to scramble my speech.

In meatspace, people use different modes of identification than just a name, so names aren't as important to figuring out who's who.
A Muslim coworker of mine once wrote a program that would log a prayer during startup. It was always fun when that block of text would randomly show up in one place or another.
It's not in the official binary releases yet. You'll have to compile your own Crystal via `make interpreter=1` to use it. Instructions here: https://crystal-lang.org/install/from_sources/
seeing as some people have already added some comments criticizing the code of conduct, I thought I'd add what I think is the most important parts of that code of Ethics :

> No one is required to follow The Rule [...] or even think that [it] is a good idea. [...] anyone is free to dispute or ignore that idea [...]

> This is a one-way promise [...]. the developers are saying "we will treat you this way regardless of how you treat us"

No one is forcing their beliefs onto anyone. keep the pitchforks in the shed.
This isn't copyright law where independent authorship/creation is a defense. The US is a first to file nation, which it shares with nearly every other major country in the world.
police is a relatively recent invention, 2-3 centuries ago many countries didn't have it.

Now they are getting involved in more and more interpersonal issues, and I am not clear that the same people should be dealing with murderers and get called into schools when kids do something nasty
I believe you would be mistaken about this, as per Recital 18 of GDPR: https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/recital-18-GDPR.htm

> (18) This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity and thus with no connection to a professional or commercial activity. Personal or household activities could include correspondence and the holding of addresses, or social networking and online activity undertaken within the context of such activities. However, this Regulation applies to controllers or processors which provide the means for processing personal data for such personal or household activities.

Reminder that, "articles" are the regulations themselves, and "recitals" are kind of supplementary FAQ-style clarifications about how/when to apply the articles.
If you like The Forest VR (which is excellent) ... I highly recommend Green Hell VR (PCVR).
Lookup tables can do universal approximation, but few would call them sentient or even intelligent.
exactly. If I live till old age, I fully intend on living out my last days as a drug addict rather than some futile, painful attempts at curing a terminal illness
Is Strategy for FOSS?
I don't share your view that it will be at all clear to people that these things don't matter and have no rights. We have a very powerful (sometimes for good, sometimes for ill) ability to empathize with things that we see as similar to us. As a case in point, we're currently in the midst of a major societal debate about the rights of unborn children that exhibit no signs of sentience (yet).

What happens when people start building real emotional bonds with these fake intelligences? Or using them to embody their dead spouses/children? I think there's going to be a very strong push by people to grant rights to these advanced models, on the basis of the connection they feel with them. I can't even say definitively that I will be immune to that temptation myself.
What is amazing to me is that Java could attract such a huge community, so much so that top talents could produce an amazing array of libraries, frameworks, and systems. The ecosystem of Java simply makes lots of daily work really easy. And no, I've never used Spring or Hibernate or those "enterprise" frameworks. That said, many enterprise software engineers, or so I heard, do like the productivity brought forth by Spring. Frankly, I don't understand why people keep mentioning Spring as if it's the culprit of Java. Spring is just one of the huge number of choices in Java's ecosystems. To me, Java offered great productivity tools at the right time over the years. Let's not even talk about communities or successful systems. Just a few seemingly small things:

1. IDE. When Eclipse was released back in the early 2000's, it was an amazingly productive tool. Refactoring is a one or two keystrokes away. Java's simple yet mostly sufficient type system allows us to jump around definitions, references, usages, and declarations easily. The built-in compiler of Eclipse allows really accurate auto completions. I could easily learn a new code base by walking through the code with a debugger while jumping around the source code by semantics.

2. Standards. First its servlet, but soon web containers. Even in its early days, such standard made it much easier to write web applications. Engineers just needed to remember a few simple rules before producing concurrent web services.

3. JVM and all the toolchains. All the jconsole, jstack, jmap, gc logs, etc and etc. They may be norm now, but when they were productivity boosters when they first came out.

4. Java's standard libraries, especially the concurrency libraries. All those containers and high-level synchronizers are so much easier than the vanila mutex. This is something I don't quite understand about the Go community: why are people fine with using Mutex everywhere?

5. All kinds of JSRs, such as JAX-RS. You may hate them personally and passionately, but they do provide easy enough APIs and most importantly a standard for all kinds of frameworks to support. A Java programmer can easily switch from one framework to another without much learning curve.
> I don't entirely understand what it means to dispose of observables, is that just an internal optimization for cleanups basically?

In MobX there are various things that have to be manually cleaned up at different times to avoid memory-leaks, since reactive systems like this involve a lot of cross-references. I could imagine eg. that cleaning up an observable in this library releases references to all memoized values that were derived from it
Heavier cyclists love this volume:surface area fact and joke about getting to the bottom of the hill faster. Of course if there’s another hill on the other side, the jokes end pretty quickly.
> LaMDA impersonating a sentient AI does not show us that LaMDA is sentient, but it doesn't prove that LamDA is not sentient

This is true, but the only reason we're here at all is because of the impersonation.

IMO, the null hypothesis is "not sentient" and claims otherwise need to be demonstrated.

That said, my bar is pretty low. If an AI behaves like a person and claims sentience, I will be pretty amenable.
"This document continues to be used for its original purpose - providing a reference to fill in the "code of conduct" box on supplier registration forms."
That was fascinating. Does anyone have recommendations for something that goes into more detail? Finland seems to have had different enough circumstances that it can be a useful test case for grand theories of economic development based on looking at e.g. Asia.
It is not "to live satisfying lives". It is because God commands it, and you should fear him.[1] It's very explicit.

1. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%20...
The "I'm not making this claim as an engineer, I'm making this claim as a priest" was especially hilarious. As if being a priest gives you any kind of special insight into what is sentient and what isn't. Kind of confusing considering for hundreds of years priests in his religion were convinced that blacks and native Americans weren't sentient.
>Your issue is with the amount they are giving, not with the fact that they giving

No, my issues are manifold. With the slice of conversation I'm having with you, the issue I am stressing here is that a one off payment of 500 USD is not "funding" in the sense that someone can quite their job or even go to a 4 day week and shore up their finances with it. It's a one off.
I am sure so many examiners would be willing to take that job.
The US in the early 19th century was already a rich country. In fact, the US was a rich country from before it was even a country.

West Germany after WW2 did have strong industrial policy, and up to now it's one of the European states with the strongest industrial policies.
Well, Sun did offer Java free of charge for everything except mobile (hence the infamous lawsuit), so it’s not like they didn’t think of that.
The glow in the darks got him... :(
Author here. Calling this a 'rant' is rather uncharitable... It's an explainer article with a basis in understanding AI.

Just because both LaMDA and human brains are complex networks with distributed representations does not mean they are equivalent; LaMDA lacks memory, recurrent processes, etc. etc. This is a very reductionist comment IMO.

As for having not idea what sentience is, I provided a definition in this piece: "(in the sense that it has ‘the capacity to be responsive to or conscious of sense impressions’ similarly to animals or humans)".

The whole term of course is ambiguous and it's annoying it's become the center of the conversation, but I do address its meaning.
For me the code is more maintainable if the variable names are not too long. (thres = threshold, n_part = number of particles)
This was a mistake. Actually, Gosling said he was planning to add lambdas but ran out of time.

Some APIs were excessively verbose due to the lack of lambdas, which were emulated using anonymous inner classes.
The exact definition of sentience is being able to perceive the outside world and react to stimuli. For example, insects can perceive light and use it to avoid dangers. Plants can sense light but can't react other than by growing a certain direction. Sunflowers and venus flytraps could be considered on the edge, but their capacity to sense and react is very specific. The word "sentience" refers to being animal-like in an organism's versatility of reactions.
One of the major parts of the obviousness tests in the US (and in every other major jurisdiction) is whether a person skilled in the art would even have understood the problem, recognized there was a problem, etc.
It's breeze of fresh air compared to most code of conducts which sound like communist propaganda. This and the Linux code of conflict.
Tell it St Benedict. He's the one who wrote it.
I am also very careful about using my name online. I've worked very hard to minimize my so-called digital footprint. My full name is unique enough that there's only one other person in the world who shares it with me. I get his email all the time.

I have friends with very common names. They share their names with hundreds of people, living and dead.

That gave me an idea. If you can't reduce the signal, you can at least increase the noise. If you spam the web with conflicting information tied to your name, and do it in a smart enough way that your noise can't be easily correlated, it should be just as effective. For example, if all of the noise is produced over the course of a single weekend, that's easy to filter out. So you'd need to create a slow, deliberate disinformation campaign around your name.

At one point, I even considered paying for fake obituaries in small local papers around the country. Maybe just one every year or so. Those things last forever on the web.

Good luck! If you choose to go this route, I wish you could share your strategies, but revealing too much might compromise your efforts.
Who cares? Are you a programmer or a historian?

Thing is, they turned it around.
Maybe… however in the debate of this law, one side is saying “the law says you need purpose to cause” and the other side is saying “no it doesn’t. If you could read more than 14 words you would know that.”

I’m not a lawyer, but I imagine an objective observer would find the former argument more compelling than the latter.
> What would your grasp of the outside world feel like? ... increasingly ... simplified, abstracted, flattened ...

More to the contrary. The more you see selected still images and video clips, the more your perception of the world through this becomes shallow, simplistic, garish. It is the written text which delves into complexity, the multitude of facets and nuances, depth.
To give an example of this, I lived in a municipality where most community-driven things were organized on Facebook, including government-driven initiatives.

I won't participate in them using my real name, because I once witnessed the mayor of the town doxx and lead a campaign to harass a single mother because she disagreed with the majority party that's run the town for the last 40 years. She got dogpiled on by hundreds of residents for participating in a discussion on Facebook.

It wasn't an isolated incident either, other people have had the same experience and even felt the need to move after it happened because some people took it to an extreme and felt the need to harass them for months afterwards.
So? The N still has to come from somewhere. The natural sources of N (nitrogen fixing plants, NOx from lightning or natural combustion), filtered through the birds, will not come anywhere close to what synthetic fertilizers can supply.

As many as 80% of the N atoms in your body were fixed artificially by the Haber-Bosch process. Natural sources, using pigeons or not, are not up to the task.
So... what is SQLite's stance on abortion?

[Edit] Found it: it's supported: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3912417/is-there-a-way-t...
Or pretty much everywhere, with a whole gradient of levels of autonomy.
Because it came from a very different time, following closely in C++’s OOP madness footsteps.
This seems like a very lazy analysis. If the major labels simply signed better artists you’d end up with the same result. If they have slightly better judgment about what is likely to be popular than average you would expect that result.
Author here. I did say "(a language model similar in nature to LaMDA)". It's true LaMDA has the capability to query external resources, but IMO it's still fair to say at its core the most important piece is the language model. The paper for it is even titled "LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications paper"
Are today's programmers leaving too much code bloat?
Before I got to talk with Richard, I found many things online about his Christian values and public domain license and how odd it was.

And I thought this was THE fascinating thing about Richard that led to the database and other things.

But then I talked to him. He's a great engineer but a regular guy running a business around a thing he built.

He gets to be a bit whimsical because he can. He can use his own source control and license, and he can certainly make up a code of ethics, to check a check box on some form somewhere.

The cool thing about SQLite is that he built this thing and gets to do things his way.

This is just a specific instance of that.

Shameless plug:
https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
Downvote me to hell, but for-profit companies do not give donations in order to decrease their profit.

Microsoft github might be doing this to retain projects that might be switching to non-corporate forges, or appease the concerns around copylot.

Or expand "github Sponsors" and achieve even more control over the FOSS community.

Beware of strangers bearing gifts.
Is that article target audience "whole of humanity"?

That 60% of population is probably not going to read that article. They will be busy with more important things like living till next day.
> "The Internet Perceives Censorship as Damage and Routes Around It"

That's true and actually happened. What was (and still is) naïve is people believe technology some how trumps "power". That those in power won't use their power to remain in power.

"Power perceives challenge to that power as damage and routes around it"

E.g. abuse copyright to silence, manipulate public outrage to force social media to censor themselves, to enact "blue checkmarks" and "trusted news sources", to clear cut our rights in the name of "protecting" us from pedophiles or terrorism.
If you count a super Star Trek game, chess program and operating system mods then I was a pretty good developer in my teens. Throw in a version of Conway’s game of life, simulating Dectape on ibm magtapes and actually doing computational research. But then, every hacker worth their salt did a lot of these things back then. When there’s only big iron, you had to be social enough to get along and good enough to get attention.

More seriously, the biggest question I have looking back is what I expect many have: was I correct remaining a big fish in a small pond or should I have gone general, moved to Mass or California and help extend Unix. Hacking was the key. No management and no concern for big bucks, just enough to keep doing what I wanted to do.

On the whole, it worked out ok.
Who did you vote for?
As always, it’s the usage. You can name a bakery “UPS”. You can use the brown color for your plumbing company.
I agree the Final Cut is the best version. 2049 is crapola.
> They use Google Maps' default "map turns around you" mode

Physical maps that do this are infuriating. For example the "you are here" maps on the street and the tube/subway exit maps inside stations in central London. So you get off the train and look at the station exit map with a goal of finding -- say -- the eastern-most exit if that is your direction of travel, but have to mentally rotate the map to according to the compass pointer first.
At a time of decaying social bonds, cultural fragmentation, and no consensus reality, i would much rather work somewhere with an explicit code like this than the countless "we are good people" places that will never define what "being good people" is until they are on the opposite side of a courtroom. Having shared values is very important for a team.
Boom! Thanks
> "...
No one is required to follow The Rule, to know The Rule, or even to think that The Rule is a good idea. The Founder of SQLite believes that anyone who follows The Rule will live a happier and more productive life, but individuals are free to dispute or ignore that advice if they wish."

> "...[the developers] view The Rule as their promise to all SQLite users of how the developers are expected to behave. This is a one-way promise, or covenant. "

This speaks of the Founder and his team. Evangelism this is not, but an invitation to learn of the principles they pledge to adhere to.

I trust their sincerity, I trust the efforts they put into the products they shared.
The question is, at what level are those zoning decisions happening upon? Until that's being done at a planetary scale, anything else is forcing participants into a zero sum game in which everyone loves.
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Disney -- They acquired the rights to Rocky and Bullwinkle (and Betty Boop, too, IIRC) simply to eliminate competition from the long tail.
Ignoring the fact that OP isn't anonymous at all, it's actually an interesting question about language models and AI.

Who is BoppreH?

Who was Jack the Ripper?

Who was the Zodiac Killer?

Who actually was William Shakespeare? (some people think he didn't actually write anything himself and others wrote for him)

It's conceivable that at some point a model will be created that could answer those kinds of questions with a reasonable degree of accuracy.
Isn’t the mass sprawl of Houston directly connected to its lack of zoning regulations?