skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last time it is recorded as coming here in the type-0 state known as “God” was to make an unsolicited gamble with Lucifer for fun to ruin Job’s life just for being God’s biggest fan, a process so egregious even literal Satan was like “maybe dial it back a bit”

That species gains its power from attention, and that one got its competitors killed and won with Abrahamic religions enjoying uninterrupted popularity worldwide, and to some, Christians by definition, its chimera spawn (type-2 state) has cast a perception of love to replace the history of fear, incongruent with its entire recorded history until that point. No other supernatural being aside from God or its current angels did anything with their supernatural abilities to harm humans in that book. They were just vilified for not being God or an angel. Nothing else killed babies if lamb’s blood wasn't smeared on the door.

It goes extremely long periods of time of inaction (to our knowledge), it does not act in the benefit of human kind and would be better off ignored, or making it an national security effort to guard against it.
They target browsers.

Slinky is very similar to React while Laminar is more idiomatic Scala.
Good for you for chasing your dream
Exactly.

The vast majority of arguments against LaMDA's sentience can be typed as a kind of No True Scotsman (sentience requires nerve cells!) Or else arguments that can be applied to us humans (it's just responding to input stimuli!)

The truth is, we don't know what sentience is. It's possible that no one except you, yourself, the one reading this, is sentient; and all the rest of us are just complicated automatons responding mechanically to stimuli. You probably behave as if we're sentient because it's easier to do so, but it doesn't really matter if we're really sentient or not. It won't change how you relate to the rest of us. Same with AI. Questions of its actual sentience are less important that its behavior.

In fact, the most convincing arguments against its sentience cite deficiencies in its behavior (it takes the perspective of a squirrel!)
Or you can read my actual comment that states that I don’t have a use case for it, and that I de-facto don’t trust it’s corporate owner, whose slogan was literally “embrace, extend, extinguish” a few years after the birth of the web.

Why invent things when I was perfectly clear?
DALL-E Is Now Generating Realistic Faces of Fake People
>This is something I don't quite understand about the Go community: why do people are fine with using Mutex everywhere?
While I wouldn't say I never used Mutex in my life, pretty much all the nice high-level parallelism primities, such as map-reduce, event loop-based workers, signals, cancellation can be emulated pretty well with channels - using Mutex is pretty much never necessary in day-to-day Go programming.
Wish I could upvote you 1000 times - rented a car last week and couldn't figure out how to control the damn AC in it. Gear shift was a turning knob like I was tuning my radio, not to mention the iPad staring me in the face while I tried to drive.

Like TVs, I think there is a decent sized market for "dumb cars" - will any company step up to make them though?
Frankly, it's self-indulgence. Recently, Stallman has been complaining about the diversion of resources away from free software towards retro computing.
There are actually much more reasons for zoning.

For instance, commercial real estate pays much more per square meter than residential, so without zoning you'd end up with no resident in many popular areas. In a similar way, if you just let anybody open hotels you have the same problem as what came in with AirBNB except worse, which is why hotels have been zoned in most cities for a long time. You also have other reasons such as organizing public transports, infrastructure, avoiding tax competing between cities and much more.

Contrary to some belief in here cities in Europe are often heavily zoned. It can go as far as encouraging or forbidding some special kinds of shops / restaurants (ex: limiting number of fast food restaurants in touristic places to maintain a certain "standing", having special tax for luxury shops to have them focus on a few streets to create an exclusive areas growing in the city and controlling the special delinquency that can come with...).
Human perception adapts to everything and turns everything into "normal".

Today all those things you mentioned are "mainstream", thus where are the counter culture things we used to have?
Personally I agree with your opinion. While we're open to code audits with clients, it's not a scalable solution. We'll consider open sourcing the client code.
100% agreed

> I’m not saying that all those ‘underground fringes’ that Anderson celebrated have disappeared—I’m merely claiming that they have less cultural impact than at almost any point in modern history.

The author seems to think about counter culture in terms of large groups like the bohemians and beatniks. Instead, we have an unlimited supply of niche communities people can join. Seems pretty great to me.
Similar story here. We traveled with my wife for 3.5 years. Then we built homestead on 30 acres of forest land in rural WA. Now I am 36 and we bought land in HI to build our second homestead. And it is from scratch again! Most of our income comes from freelance gigs. The last time I visited big city was over 10 years ago. No regrets here.

I think the best framework is to not compare yourself to others. And fear of change is a normal, ordinary feeling. Comparing to others makes no sense, just try to do things that YOU will not regret and things that make you happy in long term.
I'm going to add a second data point of deep regret over time spent gaming and playing sports in high school and college. They contributed negatively to my life and put me so far behind where I could have been socially and intellectually which are things older me cares about immensely and it is unfortunate that I wasn't able to consider the future when I was younger. The idea that all leisure activities are equally valuable is a fallacy in my opinion.
Fantastic, and congratulations! We did roughly what you’re doing but backwards, and still had a lot of fun doing it.

However, I’m deeply envious that you can just drill a well. I live in Seattle, where drilling the well requires that you blow the mayor, bribe an inspector or two, buy what they call “mitigating” land someplace else in the state, and sacrifice a goat. And after you found a suitable plot for the well, a $1 million drill has to be towed onto the property to make sure ground is preserved.

Where are you living this beautiful life of you’re?
As another problem of applied CS I also suggest to add "Character Encoding" to the list of strongly underestimated complex problems :)
I've always liked the marshmallow experiment, but it turns out less clear than we may have thought.

If a child trusts the adult will be back shortly with marshmallow in tow, they may wait. But if adults in their lives are less predictable, they may reasonably choose to eat the marshmallow before the adult returns.

The marshmallow experiment may show that kids that can trust adults do better in life.
People spend too much time in their heads and not enough in the real world. We used to say people need to stop reading books and start talking to people.
Of course the Copilot thing is problematic and they should not let be off the hook for it, but Copilot is not even referenced in the blog post.

My read is that they are giving the money to projects they use to develop GitHub itself. And if this has nothing to do with the Copilot issue, why bring it to the conversation?
> it's a massive issue. Millions of shares and billions of dollars in stuff fails to deliver

It’s not. FTD means failure on a particular timeline. Almost all of those shares get delivered in the end.

> You should not be able to sell something you can't deliver

You can trade this way if you want. It’s special settlement and you’ll pay out the nose [1] for zero benefit. But sometimes people do weird things with derivatives and need instantaneous settlement. So someone (usually a bank) with stock certificates will sell them, zero settlement risk involved, for a premium. (This is what someone facing FTD penalties will eventually have to do.)

FTD is a non-issue. It has zero practical downside. It nevertheless serves as catnip for Redditors trying to redirect blame for their gambling losses.

[1] Out of curiosity, I checked with a former colleague. They said they used to charge a flat fee, but recently switched to match crypto fees, since a lot of crypto people have been looking to instantly settle and they’re used to paying massive transaction costs. TIL.
I remember the code of conduct push overnight on all open source projects. It was such a bizarre time. What's worse is that pretty much everyone folded.
You prefer herd mentality, I understand. You'll change your mind if the rest of the flock decide, you avoid personal responsibility that way.
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Exactly. Go and Rust comes to mind immidiately. Both excellent languages in my opinion crafted for the creators need. Although it's maybe not quite what Paul had in mind in 2001, but the world has changed a lot. A community project can't really outgrow these well funded big business language projects.
I wholeheartedly agree. I was about to list it as a reference only, then I forgot.
Russia are already a demonstrably bad-faith and unreliable actor.

I'd not let that stand as an obstruction to re-guaging UA rail.
A Code of Conduct was forced on them by dictate, so they did the right thing and made the process transparently absurd while also complying.

Edit: The unspoken part of the demand was a 'progressive' CoC.
This scares me slightly. When I see a code of ethics bound to faith, I have to wonder what happens if the faith disappears. Experience says lots of people get hurt. I don't wish that on anyone.

Ethical stance must stand alone unconditionally.

As for the actual rules, picking one in particular, respecting someone purely for being senior is stupid. Respect is simply earned. I respect more people younger and in more junior positions than myself.
Don't know where the pig farms are around my town--New England, so a lot of farms are fairly small--but there's a dairy farm down the street alongside houses, people have goats and chickens, there's some light industry including a junkyard just down the road. (With respect to farming specifically, like many Massachusetts towns, it's a "right to farm" community, which means with some restrictions farming activities are generally allowed.)

Now you certainly can't walk places for the most part if that's why you want mixed zoning.
Yeah, nothing of consequence in the last 30 years. Appreciate your overwrought concern, but Londoners aren't too worried about maps of stations being public lol.
>Zimbabwe tried redistributing farms but it turned out horribly for them.

It actually didn't. It tries to buy out land but then noticed that it ran out of money. After that they hired thugs to get white farmers off their farms. They didn't give the new black farmers any method of financing their business which led to failed farms. Finally they gave the land to political allies who don't farm at all.

A simple land value tax would have prevented this nonsense.
Its only available in the USA and few other countries at this point
Lots of Christian theology can get bogged down in the Trinity, what the Holy Ghost part means, etc.

There are also much more basic sects where the theology of the Gospel is considerably easier to preach, and where in particular the idea of God simply being other people, and our love for each other is prevalent. It is surprising to see this kind of Christianity here, in a piece of software. Surprising and uplifting.

It is all quite an Anglican perspective. I feel sorry for people who don’t have better access to Anglican Communion / Episcopalianism. The more deeply theological sects don’t hold a candle to it.
> The law says “purpose to cause” and then lists two things joined by an OR clause.

No, you missed the other “or”

it says “with purpose to cause ... or recklessly creating the risk thereof” and then has the two things connected by the other “or” clause.

The argument is that voluntary use of heroin is recklessly creating the risk of public inconvenience, not that it is done with purpose to cause it.
If this were part of an effort that started last year, or if GitHub had a serious history in donating to maintainers of open source software (either in the 10 years as a private company or 4 years as part of Microsoft), then this would be judged on the merits of donating to open source.

But they don't have that sort of history, so "why are they starting now as opposed to years ago?" is a natural question to ask.
> I have been living in my Van since before the pandemic. It is impossible to find camping spaces now in national parks and even the Wal Marts are starting to get pissed at all the RVs again

I've been doing #vanlife on and off since 2012. Camping spaces in most national parks were already hard to find most of the time. Municipalities and Walmarts made overnight parking illegal in their lots in many places years or even decades before the pandemic.

What you're describing is real, but not new.
I fully intend to. I have a few arguments to have with a few others before i get to him though, he's far from the worst.
If the government cannot mandate it, then many states will. And said states will refuse to let you travel to them if you cannot provide proof of vaccination.

The reality is that vaccination has been a requirement to participate in society for decades. You have to be vaccinated to go to college, your children must be vaccinated to go to school. And if you want to travel countries will demand you provide proof of vaccination so that you're not a walking bag of diseases.
Yeah, there's not a lot of real choices in life once you hit a certain age/condition.

Once you get married and have a family, it's basically just grinding away at work, with chores, etc. Stuff that just has to get done, or the consequences are catastrophic (divorce, medical bill bankruptcy, losing the house, etc).
Probably has something to do with how much time he’s spent “following the DAO”
Free will
Where's the BS? He presents an opinion piece and why he has a particular impression of Java, and even states in the conclusion that he could be wrong.
It's impossible to know whether anything or anyone, other than yourself, is sentient. Attempts at codifying what sentience is may lead us into a world where some committee checks boxes to decide whether your appliances have become sentient.

The best we can do with AI is the same we have always done with anything else. Once it's sufficiently advanced to convince/fool us, simply go with it.
To be fair, Mailinator https://www.mailinator.com has been around since it's inception in 2003. It offers other services now, but the "disposable email" part is still there as it was from the start.
If you have a tool that works for you, why change? Instead of jumping in bed with the newest, shiniest one that's being hyped online, ask yourself "What does this do that my current tool doesn't?" And don't believe the breathless copy about supercharging your productivity or increasing it 10x. That ain't gonna happen.
>But as it is, it's unclear who won the election without fraud.

No it isn't.
Tax benefit could require a doctor test with an attached NPI. Docs are not gonna risk their license to save you $3K on taxes. Also, miscarriages only happen 10-15% of the time.

These documents are also “needless” if a born child dies, doesn’t make them any less required.

Agree on passport, was just picking random examples to illustrate my point.
The book I recommend at the top gets into that in parts two and three. For example, "export discipline"
Drilling a well in the city of Seattle ? Why would anyone ever do that?
How would they be tied together in the first place?
North Korea denounces US 'aggression' as it marks war anniversary
Join the Amish. If you work with technology constant change comes with the territory. You future-proof yourself by adapting.

I’ve worked in the software business for 40 years and I’m happy I’m not stuck with what I learned decades ago.
It's exact in the sense that that is the definition, not in the sense that it defines something in an exact mathematical way.
In my experience, it’s often even worse - there often isn’t even any significant profit, at least not in any coherent, centralized way. There are a lot of individual players who can be pointed out, but none of them individually is ‘the problem’.

Absolutely massive amounts of value is destroyed (and patients harmed) just doing super inefficient shitty processes because no one has the ability or incentive to do any better at a systemic level.

Everyone in the system who has a degree of control gets paid very well keeping the wheels turning and consuming cash.
You do not understand my position at all. I am denying nothing to anyone. Everyone has the autonomy to choose their own moral and political views, including those which I do not personally approve.

What is not granted is the ability to force another to take on those views. I am not forcing you have have a particular belief structure, but you are making an argument that because a group of people have some pretty crazy ideas we all must be beholden to it. When you want to force an ideology -- and my position is not an ideology, it is an anti-ideology at best.

I posit that forcing women to give birth to babies against their consent is a grave human rights violation and cannot be tolerated in a modern civilized society. It is the same logic of the paradox of tolerance that we cannot permit those to push a their hateful agenda against others, for they will push their ignorance and hate so loud that rights vanish quickly.
“Defund the police” is not the same as “abolish the police”; it means that the piece dedicated to police departments in a lot of places is overblown, taking away other options, like social workers. That sounds like “fixing what’s broken” to me.
There's an element of irony here I suspect. Gravity's Rainbow is (IMHO) a _good_ book but it's a pain in the neck to read as a lot of the writing is... complex.

There's a true point being made that a lot of social media content is incredibly badly written and the brain 'teaches itself' to fill in blanks that you don't have to fill in when reading literature, though.

If you go from reading books (any books, really, anything that's been published) to reading reddit you have to go through an adjustment period as so much of what's on the screen looks like gibberish as it's so un-edited.
Meh. I'm deeply atheist, but if I s/god/luck, s/christ/this-philosophy and s/prayer/contemplative-thought it doesn't seem to me there's much in there that's objectionable... except maybe 11, 44, 45, 57, and 63. Less than 7% drivel by my generous accounting.
All the search engines are moving towards language models. I think language models are on a similar trajectory as sequencing the genome. The first sequences were massive undertakings, 15M USD in 2006, 100 USD now.

https://huggingface.co/blog/large-language-models

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

"Imagine you are remram and are looking to buy insurance, what are three things that could convince you to purchase ...."

You can take the generic "trained on the world" language model and filter it down to the language model of remram.

GPT-4Chan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM
This sounds a lot more expensive and time consuming than broadly regulating by category, and for what is probably marginal gain. Why bother?
> It's going to be interesting to see what rises from the "web 3.0".

The semantic web?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
Western states consume vastly more meat and animal products that poor nations that receive our aid. This is a trash take that will only hurt people.
> There’s C++ programmers and then there’s C++ programmers.

Indeed, there's a subset of C++ (and C) programmers who get Rust almost immediately, because they've effectively been informally using a similar ownership model in their C++ (/C) code already. But there's another subset who write "fast and loose" C++ (/C) on the principle that "it's fine if it works at runtime", and they tend to really struggle.
Candado: Global lock service providing synchronization for distributed systems
What confused me a lot that I remember seeing this as a movie, but it was not the 1968 version or the 2000 TV remake. There is a French remake that's not referenced on the English-language Wikipedia page (Des fleurs pour Algernon, from 2013 or 2014, it's distinct from 2006 version).

It's kind weird when you remember something and the Internet appears to be telling you that it doesn't actually exist.
Your logic is so flawed it’s almost endearing.
It's a fun hobby
previously:

"SQLite: Code of Ethics" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26547201 (March 22, 2021 — 37 points, 23 comments)

"SQLite updated Code of Conduct" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18313131 (October 26, 2018 — 41 points, 89 comments)

"SQLite: Code of Ethics" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18297514 (October 24, 2018 — 34 points, 19 comments)

"SQLite: Code of Conduct" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18273530 (October 22, 2018 — 338 points, 288 comments [flagged])

"SQLite: Code of Conduct" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18273390 (October 22, 2018 — 157 points, 60 comments)
>How does one challenge a patent?

With massive amounts of money, since the PTO has made it impossible for the system to actually be fair.
According to the Search Engine, that's a quote from Seinfeld, nothing to do with SQLite.

https://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheCouch.html
You can just admit you forget about these attacks if you want.
Oracle Query Builder, for example, but there were dozens of tools like this over the past couple of decades.

Except of course that those tools are at least somewhat dependable in what they output, because they were created to generate queries, not a roughly human-looking random text.
I thought about this, it's not enough to limit voting to those that pay taxes because only a small percentage of people pay taxes in an amount anywhere near what they cost in taxes and taxes are not voluntary. You need to make the person voting have skin in the game and that means it need to be voluntary and it also needs to be enough that it will sting if things go badly. I think the best way to do that would be to make potential voters post a nontransferable nonredeemable bond for some number of years (say 10 years) amount of money with the government if they want to vote. I would suggest averaging the last five years of income tax and setting that number at the equivalent of 2 weeks of income with a floor at full time minimum wage so that guys that earn a lot have to put a lot at risk and guys that earn a little have to risk less. then for that whole period the bond is with the government the bond should be at risk if the government runs a deficit above some small wiggle room, say 1% of government revenue. When the next election comes you have to top up your bond.
It's sound. Lining out things and initial and counter-initial makes it legal. Done that many times.