skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see nothing wrong with that.

But it's exactly how you said:

> want their home -- where they spend a large majority of their lives -- to have some privacy and pleasant surroundings

This applies to people living in cities too. I don't want to have to be afraid of death or serious injury whenever I cross the street.

Please leave your car at the park-and-ride outside.
Have you heard about the Google search engine?
No one said it should be illegal. It's just dangerous.
>At what point would you say those “attempts to build socialist utopias” transition to “usurped by dictators”?

...

>not genuine attempts at socialist utopia.

"Unsuccessful" attempts would seem to be a more accurate phrasing than "not genuine".

While I do think you have an interesting point, it could perhaps be the rigid uniformity and anti-individualism which is intrinsic to hard core socialism that has helped lead to those horrid dictatorships we've seen in the past 100 years
Yup

I find Libertarianism a good starting-off point, or default, for thinking about govt. In general, freedom is a good in itself.

The problem I've found is that, if given actual free reign, any libertarian state would soon end up re-inventing something like what we have now, or degenerate into authoritarianism.

It sounds lovely to have no hard laws & regulations, with conflicts resolved by the courts. Hell, I've had lots of race training and won sportscar racing championships, and having to conform with the rules of the guys with the blue lights is really annoying. Same for factories having to comply with pollution regs.

The problem is that without standards, everyone has a right of action. So instead of a known framework - I can go 65mph, or the factory can emit only X tons of pollutant-Y per 1000 tons of exhaust, anyone can take action. I might drive past someone at a very reasonable speed, but startle them, and now they're charging me in court. I might live 1000 miles downwind and not like that polluter, so I get some measuring devices and find the scintilla of pollutant they're dropping on my land. Soon, everyone would want some actual standards to meet so it isn't always chaos (aside from the massive court & enforcement system).

The other key concept is that the "Free Market" literally does not exist. Every market has rules, regulations, and constraints. Those constraints may not be enforced by a specific government entity, but a market cannot persist past one deal without them. Any completely "free market" would allow anything, including false advertising, products containing poisons, and murder-for-hire services. Taken to the logical conclusion, your greatest advantage in a totally free market is to either kill your vendor and take his goods or kill your customer and take their money, but that never even lasts past one deal. All things in every sustained market are regulated to one degree or another, even in completely extra-legal markets. The only question is how much are they regulated and by what entities.

History has pretty much demonstrated that governance is required for any kind of even slightly complex society. This is ALWAYS annoying and imperfect. The question is only how to make it least imperfect. Libertarianism seems to have good answers, but when actually examined even a bit, it fails.
I get it. As an Old, I have watched the web evolve, threw out my HTML 2.0 book not too long ago. Netscape floppies and Trumpet Winsock. CSS being invented by people who, I don't know, did they ever hear the four principles of Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity? I feel like they heard one of them. A programming language for it that had a ten day deadline. Tables abused like Russian nesting dolls shellacked into layers just to serve as doorstops. Dead-end evolution that thrashed around in the tar pits for a long time, screaming before its expiration: Flash.

And yet the network effect would keep this going even if you had a team of a thousand brilliant people design a rational replacements for all of this ad-hoc cruft that has traditioned its way into being something like a standard.
> Painting some lines on the road can help once people are on the bike

Nah, it really doesn't. It just creates aggravation for cars and bikes alike, as both parties are stressed out about small spaces and eventually who-went-over-the-line. The only place it helps is at intersections, to favour filtering; whether that's a good thing per se, I'll leave for others to argue.

This is one of those areas where politicians' default modes ("compromise" and "progressive improvement") just don't work. On busy roads, you either build wholly-separated spaces for bicycles and motor vehicles, or you might as well not bother. On tight streets, you close the street to motors or you might as well not bother.

Painting lines is only useful to assuage somebody's conscience or tick some abstract box, not to actual road users. And I say that as a motorbike owner.
The high density means that like granola you don't need to eat much to feel full so your normal breakfast serving size can be smaller if you eat Grape Nuts since they don't dissolve in milk like sugar-based cereals.
license issues will save many thousand jobs.
I get anxious when I sleep less and then I have to eat more to calm down. So in a way it makes sense that sleeping more can reduce weight.
I think you're getting at only half of the idea of a database engine. The other half is to provide a flexible querying interface to slice up and aggregate the data into reports. The user may be willing to tolerate some inefficiency in storage / modification if they have a small number of records, as long as the querying interface is useful.
Is there anything in the Linux kernel that can't be compiled with clang? There is plenty of experience with building BSD variants using it.
I'm intrigued by this idea and would like to look through the historical record. Is there one or more societies you would consider utopian capitalism, and one or more you consider utopian communism that I could research?
That doesn't stop youtube from blasting people away over copyright issues?

On youtube, video uploads are a cost center, whereas on github, code is a profit center
It Took 35 Years to Get a Malaria Vaccine. Why?
Doom 64
They have a pretty interesting data bounty program as well.

https://www.dolthub.com/bounties

I participated in one a few months back. I had to stop midway inbetween because work was calling but it was a lot of fun. I know I earned some dollars, lol, but probably too few to count for the competition.

I am actually trying to convince my manager to put up a few bounties later this year.

Their Discord support is also super impressive.
Well, so far so good, and yes, I'm still below the 10 year mark.
> This is where some modest taxation comes in. To reallocate a slice of the output of value creation to its actual source in a rough kind of way wherever more direct compensation isn't feasible.

I was with you until this statement. The vast majority of society consumes, but doesn't create something new in the process. I'm bewildered as to why you think taxation is a solution rather than a disincentive towards creating. As far as compensating the giants upon whose shoulders most stand, there are plenty of vehicles for that: royalties, patents, copyrights, pensions, awards and prizes, paid fellowships, etc. These are relatively easy to calculate and write a contract for.
I'm building https://histre.com/

Bookmarks are just a starting point for easy knowledge management, online research, and collaboration. There's so much more that you could do with it.
The Order Beneath the Chaos
It is brought up with other things. Perhaps you are extra sensitive about the weed topic for your own personal reasons. "Video games" is a particularly bad counter example, there's a lot of chatter around video game addictiveness and what it can do to vulnerable minds. There's always been some low-key discussion of it but the increasing prevalence of "loot boxes" and their corresponding mechanics have not just increased the volume of the hand-wringing but actually risen up to the level of being banned in certain countries. It's early days on that and I expect to see more regulation of video games over time. As a parent, I can and do directly control my children's access to video games. (My children for various reasons I'm not sharing on the internet are extra sensitive to the issues.)

For example: "The Immoral Design of Diablo Immortal" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o17lBUZgjTs
It's quite similar to https://qri.io functionality, but unfortunately Qri stopped providing their Cloud service(https://qri.io/winding_down).
Yeah, hence the joke.

Kim Kardashian is an accredited investor.
The four horsemen of the apocalypse are Epidemic, Famine, War, and Death. I presume the people who first came up with this list already recognized the relationship between them from personal experience.
Ireland's Covid Response, Part 3: The Mismanaged Vaccines
I've worked in tech since 2008 and only for 2 of those years have I had to be "on call" past 6pm. ymmv.
I'd support tightly regulating those that advocate for regulations.
Vortimo
It's not clear which system you are referring to!
Yeah hence the joke.

Kim Kardashian is an accredited investor
Are you suggesting we shouldn’t remove lead paint from houses? Yes, we can’t know exactly on an individual level what potential was lost to lead paint, but we know it was some amount. Can we not act if we don’t know the exact loss?
The Russians have an obvious motivation to hide how many soldiers are dying. That doesn't make it true but "it sounds a bit like something else that was nonsense" isn't a very strong refutation.
Google isn't the only one. Last time I tried to get help for something wrong in Instagram the only thing I could find was a "help yourself" faq, it kinda makes the product unusable. It's also quite alarming given the level of commerce running on Instagram
Then find places with lots of D/F players :)
Likewise. I switched to Raindrop.io.
Doesn't GitHub's own Terms of Service prevent them from doing something like Copilot?

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

>This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service, except that as part of the right to archive Your Content, GitHub may permit our partners to store and archive Your Content in public repositories in connection with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault and GitHub Archive Program.

Copilot is not part of GitHub's services or archival efforts. At least, it was not when they were training the model. And the TOS don't mention Copilot at all (or the terms "train" or "model").
This comment resonates with me. I want to have a soda, but without all the dyes. Or any drink, or even foods for that matter like salmon that is dyed pink.
The compilation style of the language could be rather frustrating for first time users: The way the language works is to compile (not interpret) methods on the first time they are encountered at runtime. This can cause quite large latency on first launch (it is extremely fast after that). On the positive side, this style enables all the magic of amazingly fast code (even when using complex abstractions) and fast multiple dispatch. Basically, I am warning you that you will need to find a new style of develop-edit-run for your code, in order to avoid frustrating latency (e.g. using tools like Revise.jl).

Otherwise, I am in love with this language and with all the tools developed in it. It is the best language for "scientific" machine learning (i.e. autodiff and optimization over weird models that can hardly be represented as neural nets). It is quite a bit less mature for typical ML.
You've been breaking the site guidelines a ton lately. That's seriously not ok, and we ban such accounts. I don't want to ban you, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this.

More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31851409.
Glad to see so many folks sharing their use cases for recutils!

I had started on a python implementation[0] as a fun project, but got discouraged because I assumed no one used recutils to solve real problems. Hopefully this is the kick I needed to continue filling out the implementation.

[0] https://github.com/tmkontra/python-recutils
How are you calculating these gains and losses?

What value did you ascribe to a civilized non violent society, with sufficiently low theft rates, that allows a business to deliver door to door items worth hundreds and thousands of dollars?

Or a society that educated its populace to be sufficiently literate and develop a network of devices that can communicate so that Bezos’ website can operate?

The point is these types of comparisons are fruitless. There are numerous dependencies and benefits, both ways. The only thing that matters is what conditions lead to a better functioning society.
As we figure out how to live sustainably with ten billion people (or wherever the population will cap out) with higher and higher standards, perhaps certain people’s preferences isn’t what we should optimize for. Maybe if you want to live far away from others, you’ll have to bear the true cost of the externalities associated with that. So yes, you can live in the sticks, but running that car of yours is going to cost you. If you won’t or can’t pay for that, stay in the city with everyone else and live efficiently.
Maybe what it offers is abstraction. Boilerplate not required for immediate results, just a pyscript tag.
Video games are a similar threat to living a fulfilling life, absolutely.

Definitely not the exact same kind of threat, since video games don't make you dumber like pot, but there is a real risk that a person substitutes accomplishing things in real life in favor of accomplishing things in a video game.

Your comment is kind of whataboutism. You're not really refuting what he's saying, just bringing up a separate topic
They appear to be up for me now. Not sure if it was a temporary glitch or got swamped or what.
I'm 39 and have found naps transformative!
You do realize that how MVCC works right? Turn off GC process that collects old versions on production DB and see what happens. Reverting changes out of order is not possible in many cases.
>Eyes Wide Shut?

Tangent about this:

There was a very interesting Roger Ebert review of Eyes Wide Shut that addressed some of the criticism of Tom Cruise's acting in that film. Cruise had been described as "wooden" and Ebert came to his defense. Kubrick - who is on record as being a perfectionist who believes that actors are best when they're meat puppets for the director - made Cruise go through 97 takes of walking through a door. Either that's just sadism on part of the director's ego (and there may be something to that, Kubrick is notorious for playing psychological games with actors to get the performance he wants - or Kubrick working to get exactly what he wants on the screen.
> A 403 in the API had a very specific meaning

And that meaning wasn't "you are authenticated as a user that can not access this resource"?
That's great. But please, no cargo! It would be horrifying!

Also, having rust in a serious project like linux, (and omitting all the cargo madness), would be a great thing for the language.
A simple but counterintuitive trick which really had a major impact in my case was spending less time in bed. This way, sleep is maximized as a portion of total time in bed. Your mind starts to associate being in bed more strongly with being asleep.

For example, if you usually spend 7 hours 30 from the moment you go into bed to the moment you get out of it, you could try 6 hours and 45 minutes: you would probably be sleep-deprived for a few days until your body can't take it anymore and will have to use that smaller time-window more efficiently. You could then adjust time in bed depending on your results.

Things that had an impact too, but probably more minor:

- Being exposed to direct sunlight ("direct" meaning with no window in between, looking at the sky for example, not at the sun directly!) as early as possible after waking-up

- Cold shower in the morning (in the evening, better if the shower is warm/hot) for its thermogenic effect

+ of course, the usual advice: no screen in the evening, exercise, dinner early, etc.
> Structuring a narrative is a harder, subtler step.

You can say that about many movies/series made entirely by humans today. :)
> GitHub/Microsoft says that it's still your responsibility

If Copilot is fair use, and has no restrictive license, than how is it anyone's responsibility?

If Copilot isn't fair use, it's Microsoft's responsibility.

(For copyright; for patent that's another issue, but you can violate patents by similarity without exposure or copying, anyway.)
Even with only a bit over 1,000 total responses, yes you can make such statements. More isn’t necessarily magically better when it comes to sample sizes. In both cases, we are making inferences about what the total population thinks about the languages based on a subset of survey responses.

Now, is there reason to think that there is bias in these survey results? That is certainly a possibility.

To a degree I agree with you in that the framing of “most loved” could be approached better with niche vs widespread languages. There are a lot of people who self select into small languages, vs languages in widespread use, so perhaps noting the relative usage would be helpful in contextualizing what people think.
Stormlight specifically suffers from massive bloating. I've been curious if it's a condition of his success - he's not editing / being edited as stringently because he knows his books will sell? Or maybe worse, the books are bloated to fit the "mega fantasy" niche. I've tried to like the books and they have some neat ideas in them, but the reading feels too abusive.
> Infringement isn't about how the infringing system works, it's about the product of that work.

Exactly this. It makes zero difference that you produced your infringing work with the help of a program that happens to be extremely complex and marketed as "AI".
The money itself likely won't make a dent, IMO it's more on the good faith. "We understand you're busy and your time is valuable, and since we want you to do this work we will compensate you"
> but it's hard for Github to determine that in general, so I doubt they would be liable for the error.

Please insert that meme, "That's not how that works. That's not how any of this works!"

The legal system is permission based, not forgiveness or "I didn't know" based.
>There are a wealth of very successful alcoholics and cocaine users too.

Not for as long of a duration. Apples to oranges.
This is an example of cherry picking the facts for marketing at best and an extremely disingenuous blog post at worst.

Julia is no where on the map in almost every metric (no commonly used libraries, no web frameworks, etc), and even in the other metrics where Julia is listed it is WAAAAYYY down there. Below Lua. Below Haskell. It is even below MATLAB. If that's not a scathing indictment of Julia, I don't know what is.

Even in the "most loved" category, if you look at all the respondents who "want" to use Julia, it is no where near the top.

I know Logan is the community advocate for Julia, but picking just the one slice of data where Julia looks appealing and blogging about just that is very off-putting. If anything, this survey should be a call for introspection or reflection, on what and why Julia is not taking off despite people loving the language. Or a well-rounded blog post on the various metrics where Julia is listed would be much more appreciated. In fact, a blog post on what the plans are to solve static compilation, making first time to plot better, building better tooling, features planned for Julia 2.0 would be much more appreciated than this kind of shameless advertising.
> I feel like the crux of your argument here is that because C is 50 years old and research into programming languages has occurred in that same 50 year period that C is now automatically bad.
>
> What if there's nothing wrong with its intended purpose?

So is it your position that C is the pinnacle of systems programming languages? That no significant improvement in PLs has been made... that could ever be made?

I'm a Rust fanboi, but I totally get why some people don't like it. And why many people believe that something better (in one or more different directions) is possible. Or that something else would an even better fit for Linux kernel development.

If the formally proven stuff gets more traction, I'd likely jump ship to something like that. Though a lot, lot of work needs to be done there, especially when talking about interacting with hardware... such a headache. But if our base computing infrastructure could be proven to be correct (hardware and software), that could dramatically improve the entire software ecosystem. There would still be problems, but if we can at least move them up a level or two in the software stack, we have an easier time finding and fixing them. This is the difference between the Spectre attack and leaving the permissions for a password file wide open.

I don't know what a better future is going to look like exactly, but I know that we're not going to get there with just good old C code.
It is incredible to use though. I pasted the return value of an API call in comment, then started to write a schema class. Codepilot just created the entire class for me. wanted to extract a subset of the data, I typed get_<_name_of_the_subset>(), it wrote the code I would have written.

So even without using someone else code, just the pattern understanding and the production of simple boiler plate code is great.
Off topic, but I hate, hate the Dropbox design now. It feels like an indie blog, not a place I just want to log onto and get to work. Seems like Dropbox has an identity crisis at this point.
Copilot just got company: Amazon announced Codewhisperer
The article mentions they have been "unfairly blamed for many skin conditions".
Pricey, but look in to Bose SleepBuds ][. Life changing for me. My wife got a pair later and hated them for the first 3 nights ("they hurt, can't sleep", etc) then it 'clicked' and she loves hers too. My brother picked up a pair for $100 on craigslist and... he likes his too (but doesn't use them every night apparently).
That's a PR issue. When a band of murderous thieving warlords settles down and calls themselves The Greater Mogadishu Private Security Corporation, and charges subscriptions and special call-out fees rather than robbery and bribery, that's perfectly in line with ancap ideology. Especially if there are multiple groups, so that they can protect you from each other rather than themselves.
If Google has something similar or better it definitely makes it look like OpenAI is wasting its time. None of this relates to AGI.
It's going to be interesting because it's in Germany, which is in Europe. There's been a recent court case in France that ruled that copyright claims based on the GPL were invalid because it is a contract, and you can't claim both copyright and a contract on something, so it should be dealt with in civil contract court. (Or in other words, granting a license like the GPL invalidates all copyright claims you might have in the future!)

The article is quite light on details, I wonder on what exact grounds they filed their claim.
Nobody is suggesting we prevent people from living away from cities. People are talking about making North American cities human-friendly instead of car-centric. Also, the more people live in cities, the more the countryside is left wide open - for people who want to live there.

If you want to see how you can have your cake and eat it too, watch some of this guys videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQE_5MFCekg