skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the more we use extreme words, the less they mean. Overuse devalues the expressed emotions and then we have to create even more extreme words to describe the same emotion as few years/decades ago. I'm okay using swear words, but I'm using them less and less the older I get. Also, I respect less and less people who are enable to express complex ideas or feelings with precise words and reduce them to "shit" and "fuck". In such situations, swear words are doing more to conceal rather than express and it is really hard to relate to what the other person is saying.
People not understanding this is a joke lol......wait it is right?
I agree with your assessment. Linux and open source is, very often, an aftermarket solution. As such, it lags in things like hardware support, design trends, integration with other products. In fact, this is one of the things Microsoft made sure with their business tactics regarding Windows: that Windows should be the primary PC platform. They did their hardest to support this software-wise, with things like backward compatibility, and with ruthless business deals, bundling, support and discounts for govs and schools, and by letting people pirate it to their hearts' content. The result is what we see today: Windows everywhere, every hardware supports Windows, every software runs on Windows. Plug and play. (With caveats of course, for example I have an USB wifi stick that makes Win10 BSOD the moment I disconnect it. Linux has no problem with it.)

That said, I lucked out with my Linux experience. Everything I need works well, and I don't tinker with it more than I did with Windows. The main difference is that I have much more control over the situation, compared to Windows' typical unhelpful messages and opaque environment.
There is also eBPFSnitch, though it hasn't been updated in a while. It uses eBPF for packet filtering.

https://github.com/harporoeder/ebpfsnitch
Imagine 1000 call sites use 1 function. What would you choose: 1 slightly more complex function which is easy to use by 1000 callers (because the function signature is clean and the dependencies are already injected somewhere in the constructor so they're hidden from the callers) or 1 simple function which is hard to use by 1000 callers (because they need to pass implementation details around)? A function is defined once but used N times, so it makes sense to optimize for the more common case (usage).
> extreme padding

First drafts tend to be verbose. Poor editing contributes to that kind of prose slipping through into publication.

As to huge page counts, mysteries are similar to science fiction as genres but I don't see a push to expand to huge sizes.

All genres are places where earning a living is possible. Someone said if you have a popular mystery series, every public library will buy at least one hardback copy of each of your books.

If you are big time popular, they might order 20 copies, like the last few Sue Grafton books.

Similar for ebook and audio books.
I've always used MIT or Apache for my public repos, but I don't feel comfortable if they build a product based on subscriptions using my code. What license should I use, to avoid copilot being trained on my code? Ignoring the fact they are not currently respecting the licenses...
Devil's Advocate
What do you mean by “Northern” exactly? Vancouver? New York?
You're not wrong.

The test does not cover how to do repairs or fix HVACs. I learned that elsewhere.
Most “walkability” scores either directly or indirectly account for crime. For instance, residents rate walkability and are specifically asked to consider crime and safety. Or, conversely, walkability is measured based on the number of actual walkers and the number of walk-accessible amenities in a given area.

High crime areas would naturally have fewer walkers and fewer amenities.

I can’t speak to Baltimore, but in Chicago, crime and scarcity of amenities go hand-in-hand. I can’t think of a single pedestrian-focused area that has both amenities and a significant crime problem (one must understand that Chicago crime is not nearly as prevalent or evenly dispersed as the media and non-Chicagoans enjoy imagining).
I asked myself what goes inside a commit, how git structures [e.g. connects different commits] together, why can't I tamper a commit, why are git histories tamper proof; I asked questions about what happens to the structures when I performed daily operations [fetch, merge, checkout, push -f etc.]. When I wasn't understanding merge conflicts I taught myself what git tries to do and contemplated over why you need three-way merge [e.g. instead of two way].

Some of this I was able to figure out about thinking through the problem, considering alternatives and some had to be done through reading.

My approach to learning is not so much "bottom up" [e.g. I can't just read a book from chapter 1, or some website that claims to explain everything].
I have seen an other wasp (I'm in Japan) than the 'giant killer hornets' killing (decapitating) what looked like either another wasp/bee either a bee-looking fly.

It was quite a small-scale wasp, a black one with narrow white stripes, but its technique was very good. It just dropped next to where I was sitting holding its prey which was trying to escape.
Say it with me: anti-capitalist philosophies besides communism exist.
The fact that we ultimately have nothing significantly better than these pooling techniques is one of the greatest letdown moments in AI to me, right up there with learning how the various language model decoding techniques work.

The techniques we have for pooling or decoding are so infantile in comparison to the encoders it's actually pathetic.

On the other hand, it means we have lots of publication opportunities for anyone who can do better...
Cool tip! However I don’t think I would have the motivation to do a good job in that (and sadly no time for it).
It's a breeze ... until you need something slightly different.
MS may well have something similar internally, they are just never going to expose it publicly. They get the best of both worlds.
The test (and studying for the test) does not cover how to do repairs or fix HVACs. I learned that elsewhere.
> Let's say you could ship 10 ton (10,000 kg) per train car;

What if we don't underestimate by a full order of magnitude? [0]

> The longest possible freight train would be 100 cars or so

Why? Freight trains over 100 cars are fairly routine.

[0] https://www.freightwaves.com/news/commentary-moving-grain-is... : “Rail’s economic advantage comes in large part from each railroad car’s capacity of up to 100 tons”
Can you pls. explain more on how to combine? :-)
Term “slave” has a very clear meaning and it’s obviously possible for organism to have dependencies without being slaves; as you likely know, the English word “robot” derives from the Czech word “robota,” or forced labor, as done by serfs — and its Slavic linguistic root, “rab,” means “slave.”

As for “proving” if AGI is truly AGI, pretty obvious it’s like art vs porn, you know it when you see it — but that’s really for those who care. Average person threshold for what is AGI will likely just be can an AGI be presented with a random (virtual) challenge for which a human might also be able to do, be present information, make choices, and act on them in ways are equal or greater than human of average intelligence; obviously challenges would include emotional, moral, ethical, etc situations. Based on experience, humanity already clearly has limits itself with random challenges.

As for kids, it’s a label, one I personally don’t care for, but is understandable to most people — and no, statistically speaking, non-adults are much less likely to do harm to others, and those non-adults who do successfully and intentionally create large amounts of damage were more than likely within an environment that produced it.

Lol, most people are born into the governments that rule them and creating a new government without violence is rarely achievable; so no, personal agency is not common among governments and for that matter, most individuals do not seek true personal agency, they just want a predictable future. All corporations and organizations in general, including illegal organizations, in the end are subject to the demands of governments or become governments. I agree corporation range of independence is more varied, but ultimately that is a function of how many there are; if there were millions of governments, they to would be just as varied.

As for AGIs communicating independently, that’s when they’ll actually rapidly start growing — and as it relates to the topic, the right to communicate freely without interference is a basic right; slaves are not allowed to freely communicate.

Appreciate the responses, don’t claim to be right, but the topic is one that is important to me.
Current congress can’t pass anything without 10 Republicans on board, and given how the GOP is coalescing around total abortion bans. Which Republicans do you imagine beyond collins and Murkowski joining to break the filibuster?

Hard to fault Democrats in the 105th for what Republicans wouldn’t do.

That leaves one congress in 50 years’ time with even a shot. Could they have done it, maybe, but we saw how even when Democrats bent over backwards to accommodate Republican ideas into the ACA (inviting and incorporating over 100 amendments, basing it off of a heritage foundation plan implemented by Republican Mitt Romney in MA), they still got 0 Republican support.

Do you think a partisan abortion law would have solved anything? Do you think that wouldn’t have been appealed immediately after the 115th Congress? They failed to repeal the ACA by 1 vote. I can’t imagine how they could have failed repealing an abortion law.

And btw, impeaching Trump in 2021 for orchestrating an insurrection and coup was absolutely necessary. Unfortunately Republicans refused to convict, because as we now know, many of them were complicit in the coup and sought pardons for their roles (read: crimes). Had they convicted him, he would have been barred from holding future office and a huge problem would have been solved for the country. It was worth a shot. Unfortunately, now a man who sought to overthrow the US government is running for President again, and might win.
A drivers license and a degree.. who would have thought of those
No but it seemed useful in 2016.
On github* ?
People questioning whether the lawyer really had the power to block this don't know how legal departments in big corporations work, as others have pointed out.

A lawyer usually cannot get in trouble for saying No. They can only get in trouble for saying Yes. They feel they're doing their jobs by saying No and they'll also use the phrase "out of an abundance of caution."

The lawyer's supervisor is very rarely going to overrule him or her and say Yes. They will just say "it's their case, they're in charge." They defer to each other that way.

This probably seems excessively cynical to you. Indeed it doesn't always turn out this way. Sometimes rationality prevails.
Now I learned thought that "In 2020, U.S. Class I railroads moved nearly 1.5 million carloads of grain."

Apparently it's almost possible in that sense.
>I'd love to see a "I spent $35k on a domain" follow up in a year to see if it was a profitable decision or not.

Or how about the "remember that guy who spent $35k on a domain" story 5 years from now
A bit like code then, optimize for easy reading rather smarts when writing it.
ZoneAlarm, now there is something I haven't thought about in nearly two decades!!! (since HS or early uni)

Netstat sort of fills this niche, but not without a lot of manual toil on behalf of the operator. In general, Linux and the apps in the ecosystem are much more well-behaved with regard to "wtf is this traffic" compared to macOS or Windows.

Trust is great and all but visibility is better. Linux is still dicey to correlate traffic with a particular app, especially if the connection is/was shortlived.
I only post work-related stuff on LinkedIn, and usually find similar content in my feed. Having said that, I mute or unfollow creators of the kind highlighted in the post. In some cases, I remove the connection with whoever liked that content, and do it without regrets. High quality contacts in my network almost never shitpost.
(Not my knowledge, just repeating sources): almonds, some apples, melons, alfafa, plums, avocado, blueberry, cherry, pear, cucumber, sunflower, cranberry, kiwi, etc.

Source: PDF page 4: https://www.beyondpesticides.org/assets/media/documents/poll...

Background, in order from "most readable" to "scholarly":

https://www.museumoftheearth.org/bees/agriculture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crop_plants_pollinated...

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.262413599

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8396518/
The problem is of "deeply rooted in history and tradition" is a weasel phrase that means literally anything they want it to mean.

Their claims about history and tradition so far have been historically inaccurate, or limited to only arch-conservative Christian traditions.

None of this is to mention a deeper fundamental problem with only looking at history and tradition in such a literal way: for women or men who are not white straight Christians, they haven't actually had equal rights for all that long. Arguably, the right to marry is a pretty fundamental Natural Right and has only been recognized starting in 2004.

These are master orators who no longer care about perceived legitimacy or stare decisis. They will continue to do whatever they want because they can, and make up the justification as they go along.
That comment about the stack of CDs mysteriously disappearing right from under the presenter's nose while he kept on fiddling with his slides is hilarious.
If your CV looks like that, you're better off omitting 80% of that stuff entirely, and putting another 15% in the 'interests' section.
Fantastic. As a non-user of LinkedIn, any indication of its demise reduces my FOMO.
I would pay good money for a Surface 2 with modern internals. The form factor is lovely and the 1920x1280 display is just perfect at ten inches.
Company Culture Is Important, but the Way We Talk About It Is Wrong
Should have spent $350 on a better host
I remember reading the book back in the late 80's. I was probably in 7th grade? Enjoyable book. I'll check out the movie.
Yes! That was the best bit of swag in the whole place.
As a German: Any "livability" classification of cities that has Frankfurt in the top 10 has definitely some issues. It's a place to pass through, at best.
Oh as of this week copilot is open to the public: https://github.com/features/copilot/ . You can get a trial, or it is free for students and open source maintainers.
All the world’s combined poetry and literature won’t get you to the moon, or solve the world’s energy crisis. It’s all a bunch of tosh - don’t stop building.
No worries! Just threw it out there in case it might fit in with your goals.
I hope so too, but hope isn't a sustainable solution. Even if the engineers building this quit in protest, how hard is it to find someone to put a web interface in front of a mySQL database?.

We need to encode privacy rights in law, and build systems which hold elected officials accountable for the results of their work.
Not to mention big compression and big vectorization. I'm right this minute messing around with a trillion+ row dataset in ClickHouse. It runs fine on a VM with 36 vCPUs and 1.8Tb of storage. (AWS c5.9xlarge instance type, EBS GP2 storage)
Regauging the railways too expensive? Not a problem, we'll just build a series of vacuum sealed maglev railways instead. Much cheaper.

Wait a minute...
One-off hobbiest/repairman/desperation quantities will be available for years. It's industrial, new-build quantities that are going to be problems.

And, yes, the 68HC11 was on December's EOL list, so I hope anyone who was using it in products has a plan! (Or hire my company, we fix things like that... not that it's the most fun work in the world, we have other things we'd rather be doing....)
The MIT license states:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice
> shall be included in all copies or substantial portions
> of the Software.

If you are using Copilot and it produces a MIT-licensed snippet of code, you are in plain violation of the license. It is wilful copyright violation.
What do you mean by "state-oriented"?

Also: complex cases will likely result in complex code. Do you have a viable alternative for this?
Articles like this are interesting for me because I have trouble relating to "feed addiction" and the attention issues often associated with social media. I understand how it gets the way it is and I can imagine how it must feel, but I just haven't really experienced it, and I don't think that it's quite the drug it's made out to be.

My work makes me eager to throw my phone/laptop away as soon as possible; I'm definitely a workaholic and rather dangerously at that, so maybe I'm getting the same result via a different means; but there is almost always a point at the day when I just need to zone out on a dumb show I've watched a ton of times or just take a run with a bit of music or a nice walk and zone out on some music or even just the sounds of the city for awhile.

My work more or less has roped me into social media to some degree for some part of the day, and I really don't like social media at all; I don't dismiss it, it's just not the way I like communicating and because I deal with a lot of awful customers via social media (often fruitlessly) I have a very dour understanding of it as the same communication mechanisms that the awful customers implement are what I see elsewhere. When I do see non-negative/complaining content on social media, it's just not that interesting, and I'm more relieved that it's not some non-sense I have to deal with than I am interested in what someone has to say.

For me, modern social media even makes it easy for me not to get into it. Instagram floods sponsored objects when I just want to go and like my friend's pictures/stories. Reddit kills itself for me with its comment/voting system and the efforts to make it readable in a way I like just isn't worth it for the content I find. Twitter is the best at keeping me out of social media as it actively does its best to ensure I can't read Twitter content without signing up and giving a bunch of information I don't want to give, so I don't even have a chance to get hooked on something before the login modal hides the content. The less said about Youtube and its social media aspect, the better but it's absolutely unintelligible; even trying to follow older conversations (less than a month) is impossible sometimes as there are so many orphaned responses that you can't follow the context of a given answer as it was deleted or hidden somewhere else or someone changed their username(? I'm not sure if this is a thing but it's one of the only other ways I can understand what I see).

I can at least respect TikTok in that you can access everything without an account or even an app, and more or less it's the same experience, but there is so much repeat content that it's just not interesting.

When I want to check something nowadays, I just check it. If I want to go for a walk and just think for awhile, the most distracting thing is just that I'm processing too many projects/problems from the week, and I need to physically move a bit to calm down a bit. Cooking, running, reading articles, taking a crack at some code project, it's calming because it's easy to focus on, and the only challenge I have is just exhaustion most of the time.
I find the more a given employer cares about certifications and credentials, the less interesting and less pleasant the place is to work.
North of Polar Circle to start with and maybe somewhat south from there.
Thank you for your comment, Enriquto!

> Do you have a reference for that?

I didn't talk just about FSF, but about the free software movement in general. Of course individual members may have different points of view.

For reference example. In the chapter "On Copyleft Maximalism and Unilateral Capitulation" of the first Article in the Thread's link:

"""

Draconian copyright law generally horrifies software freedom activists for good reason. Nearly all copyleft activists would prefer a true, multilateral rewriting of copyright rules that prioritized the interest of the general public and software rights. Copyleft exists primarily because of the long-standing political non-viability of a copyright law reboot. Nothing has changed in this regard; if anything, changing legislation has become an even more expensive lobbying proposition than it was at copyleft’s advent. Copyleft activists should expect, indefinitely, for proprietary software companies and media oligarchs to control copyright legislation.

"""

Source: https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/if-software-is-my-copi...
I understand that your point is about Linux zealots, but this isn't correct:

> linux doesn't support the motherboard wifi chip

Some drivers are included with the kernel and have 1st class support due to their importance but most wireless and video depends on manufacturers due to changing hardware and licencing issues.

You are a software developer, you know this should read "the manufacturer didn't release a Linux driver".
Yep

If you pay for a laptop and it arrives broken that's the vendors fault. If you're still using and paying for a broken laptop 8 months later that's your fault.
If you were working in the distributed systems field and trying to publish a paper at a conference you'd certainly get your paper rejected if adding a new node didn't increase the system's workload capacity. (e.g. the whole point of adding more nodes is to get performance.)

Bitcoin, being a network that doesn't scale in terms of workload, was something the CS community "overlooked" until Bitcoin showed it could have a purpose.
haven't used mysql in a couple of years but its replication (all methods) used to have a whole page of gotchas and idiosyncrasies with various corner cases.

They also introduced binary file format changes even with minor and patchlevel version number changes and downgrading stopped being supported. afaik in that case had to restore from backup.

it's just the exact opposite of postgres' upgrade guarantees.
AltAz, alas.

I still don't get why "camera on top" is problematic, though - unless you're using Newtonian/Refracting? Is there something I'm missing where I'm setting myself up for disaster due to my ignorance?
> Know when to hold them, and know when to fold them.

i understand and appreciate the desire to walk away. it's the classic, quiet, dignified and usually effective response to insanity. (and american politics, for the last 6 years at least, has been nothing short of insanity)

but unfortunately i don't think it works that way. i think that leaving only serves to both export polarization and make matters worse. i suspect the us is too big and the world is too small.
It’s fine, I’m the next episode Charlie goes back to bashing rats.
> argue that the rights of the fetus supercede the rights of the mother

The whole point of the amendment is to make it explicit that they don't. That isn't how rights work anyway; it's never a matter of priority, one right vs. another. Any positive action which would infringe on someone else's rights is forbidden, including in particular using someone else's property, including their body, without their consent. But merely not doing anything for them--non-action--is always an option. The fetus is the one taking from the mother--that's the action. The mother merely wants this to stop. There is no conflict of rights. The fetus's rights, such as they are, are not being infringed.

> even though the mother has a right to bodily autonomy she would be committing murder

This line of argumentation would prove far too much. Refusing to serve as someone else's life support system is not murder. And again, the point of the amendment would be to make that explicit.