skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You seem strangely allergic to gun control or gun safety

Because I consider self defense to be a basic and inalienable right, and consider any pretext for disarming the working class while said working class continues to face oppression to be unethical. Glad to hear that you trust police officers to even so much as not actively harm you (let alone actually protect you); if only everyone was so privileged.

> Other countries have simple, effective measures for gun safety and ownership which reduce shootings and gun deaths precipitously.

Other countries also have simple, effective (compared to the US) socioeconomic safety nets which reduce the motivation for all violence and suicides precipitously.

> Social inequality is not solved by more guns

Well it sure as hell ain't solved by leaving the working class even less able to defend itself against the very state driving social inequality.

> More than one social issue can addressed at a time

Indeed, and as I explained in the other comment thread you perused, by addressing socioeconomic inequality you address violence (including gun violence) for free - because, again, people don't kill themselves or each other for gits and shiggles.

That is:

> No person seriously says to the effect that we can't solve all of these murders until we've addressed affordable housing.

People who understand cause and effect absolutely do. Gun control is a distraction - a Band-Aid over a broken leg.
TL;DR: Python is hard because of library dependencies, go is better about that because of compiling to an executable, but is pickier about code quality ("I just want to try something"), and has more issues with library quality.
A huge amount of Software development is CRUD and that will be automated very quickly and soon.
Ever is an exceedingly long time. I would be shocked if 100 years from now, we didn't have AI-authored bestselling novels. Even then, they might not be literary masterpieces, but certainly AI will be able to write formulaic stuff that sells really well.

If you don't believe that, just consider where technology was 100 years ago and what the response would have been if you'd described DALL-E in its current incarnation and asked people if they thought that would ever come to pass.
The nature of reality is a very, very old discussion. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism as an example.
I tried to make my awareness of that clear in my first sentence, but I recognize the difficulties in communicating in a text-only medium such as this.

I guess I'm just saying "I agree"!
I've retired it for a while, I kind of enjoy posting without anyone attaching greater—or lesser!—weight to my words because someone recognizes who is saying them.
They took $10k from us a while back for similar reasons.

We just signed up with a completely different account (with vpn) and fixed the concerns and made 10x more.

You gotta play the game with Google.
When you look at GAN, I could see the data from this endeavor being used to improve it's output. I get it doesn't seem to have a direct application, but I would suspect that it actually is quite valuable to the media and entertainment space in the long run.
It was not! If you look in my history you'll see I talk about my experience starting a consulting company. I had a personal website and brand at the same time, and it was probably a huge waste of time. I never appreciated the engagement I got on comments on blog posts, wouldn't say it brought any new clients, and don't really have anything positive to say other than it was nice owning a domain with my full name.

As I've gotten older, i've come to terms with the fact that's there is really 2 solid ways of earning great money - leet code (yuck but it does the trick) or start a consulting business and build out referrals, most startups aren't worth the time
If you need realtime update, then RSS is probably not the right tool. For polling, I currently do the following:

* with `HTTP 304: not modified` result, I'll come back in 60 minutes
* if there is any update, I'll come back in 4 hours
* if there is no cache control header, such as etag or last-modified, I will poll every 12 hours.
Not at all. Most sites support RSS. There are still people (myself included) that consume most of their web content via RSS.
Echoing @brickbrd this was new to me too, thanks for explaining.
Nicer graphics are already possible from freely available colab notebooks like StableDiffusion. DALLE has the cruded interface possible; it's more a demonstration that the idea works at all than something you could use.
The article describes a really important point, that the actual access can be very different from what the law says. I think the article might still underestimate this issue, especially political polarization around the topic. It's a very different situation in a country where protests near clinics that perform abortions are common and doctors are at times named and vilified for this. There are a lot of ways to add barriers within the legal rules, and that is not easy to compare.

I think the focus on the specific time limit is a bit misleading. I'm not sure about the exact statistics, but the vast majority of abortions are performed early. There are some laws like the "heartbeat" laws that set impossibly short time limits, but a time limit does not have to be an unreasonable limitation as long as it provides very robust exceptions for cases like health complications. That part is tricky of course, physicians do need to feel safe to make reasonable medical decisions here without having to fear legal consequences from overly vague or restrictive laws.
Ask for forgiveness not permission if you want to innovate.
Shocking, lol. I guess if you live under a rock..
I am not sure how you can be so derogatory yet apparently so ignorant. Have you even seen what DALLE-2 (or imagen) can generate? DALLE-2 does not have to 'prove itself' it is clearly on-par with human designers in terms of quality and price. There even is a product on the market right now called Midjourney that is worse in quality than DALLE-2 yet is growing incredibly fast and already breaks even economically.

If NLP tasks make a similar jump in quality as DALLE-2 did when compared to DALLE then they too might disrupt the writer industry.
I mean, Stuxnet is an illustrative example that has been seen in the wild (and the rare exception of one that became public - in general, if you'd be the target of something like this and found out, the results of that analysis would be classified and unpublishable), and there have been almost 20 years to do improvements since Stuxnet was first developed, so there definitely are real attacks aiming to do stuff and/or exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers after "installing a virus on the computer" - and it's quite clear that Stuxnet did achieve a significant practical effect.
I mean, it worked for the Carboniferous, until some cheeky fungus figured out how to digest lignin. But we had a nice 60 million year run, and got lots of useful hydrocarbons out of it, so hey!
It definitely doesn't always happen, but my understanding is that when the anesthesia is extremely deep, the brain's electrical activity can be so low as to be undetectable ("isoelectric").
But, sadly, many jobs and especially bosses in America portray things as if failure means that someone does in fact "die"...and that metaphorical death often is your job.
I think some of the benefits that come from having your own space on the internet can also be achieved other ways. For example, maybe you've got a Github profile with some fun projects or forks. Maybe you just like hawking neat code snippets on Twitter or elsewhere.

So, I don't think writing is required - but I also think it can be very beneficial and we can't deny that.
The problem is a significant portion of people utterly refuse to say those dollars exist, or that they should be picked up.
I'm not! [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsViQD-3roE
Can you talk about your teammates / peers? What were their interests? Personality types?
This is very slick!
Regard to editability of text diagram, brainstorming here: it would be cool to have two-way convertibility between text diagram and svg diagram. so users can use drag and drop like interaction to edit the svg diagram, and convert back to text diagram, so it has the best of both worlds.
I guess roughly this idea already exists — there is program that converts image to ascii, but it lacks precision, as in the ascii to svg and then back to ascii would yield to different set from the starting point.
Password prompts usually don't show the passwords you're typing in.
Amniocentesis can only be performed after week 15, which means you can only test for e.g. Down Syndrome after that. Not allowed to abort then, in Ireland or Florida.
The ones who you want it to matter to and to work with will read it though. Think of them mentioning it as a filter in your process.
It seems an especially dumb move because being sued was absolutely inevitable from the first announcement of this.

Presumably, even if they are hoping to change law with the case - it’s putting up the rest of IA’s (almost irreplaceably invaluable) mission as a gamble on whatever chances they think they have here.
... I mean, at least here, there's a ton of illegally parked Bird Scooters that might be a little more efficient use of your time.
The difference is that the steam engine created jobs that went to humans.

Strong AI, if it does create jobs, does not necessarily create jobs for humans. Any jobs that it creates could also be done by AI, cutting humans out of the growth of the economy.

Now I am in fact a luddite if it means (most) humans become second class citizens and especially if there’s no transhumanist enhancement option for us to stay competitive. Even more so if I’m among the people locked in the UBI class.

I like Altman’s welfare plan. I think it’s one of the easier ways to prevent the riots and emergent fascism that I predicted in other posts.
I created a hugo blog as well (https://erock.io). It's been a great outlet for me to express myself. It has been on the FP of HN before which was a ton of fun to see the metrics.

However, I totally agree that maintaining the blog has been a bit of a chore and since I wanted to write more I feel like it is actually hindering me.

I'm slowly transitioning to use https://prose.sh (disclaimer, I helped build it) exclusively which should make writing a blog post as easy as creating a markdown file locally and calling `scp post.md prose.sh:/`

As far as it opening doors for me, not really. I sit at around 10-20k unique users a month but who knows how many people are actually engaged in the content.
Not to forget that you need to be pretty sure you want to use the ham and cheese in next couple weeks... And if you don't it is pretty much wasted. Inventory management is restaurants problem. Which again makes life simpler.
> although this may be important but public dialogue on this is 4th grade level

Well, public dialog on everything is at the 4th grade level - gun control, racism, trans rights, abortion, UBI, January 6, global warming, Covid... it's all at 4th grade level, sometimes below.

I can't think of one issue where there's actually a mature, nuanced public discussion.
Another Pivot Story
WWII was a time of plenty for the USA (well, for the civilian population). At the very end of the war, the USA controlled more than half of all the money in the world. There has never been a time in history when a single country was as wealthy as the USA was at the end of WWII compared to its contemporaries *. And yes - all that huge wealth and power led to the USA growing ever more wealthy (in absolute terms) and ever more powerful. So no, this quote doesn't apply to the USA after WWII.

The UK after WWII, or in fact France and Western Germany, are better examples, though I think that the huge amounts of money that the USA decided to pour into them through the Marshall Plan were much more responsible for that then "strong men" forged in the war were.

* The USSR had just lost 20 million people - about 10% of its population. Germany, Poland, the UK, Austria and other European countries had been bombed into oblivion, as was Japan. Most of Africa was still recovering from European colonialism, as was India and most of SE Asia. China was still in the midst of its civil war, and had suffered some heavy losses because of Japan.
I could have used this a while back. Will definitely take a closer look.
Enough for cryptographic key material, but not much else.

Still, publishing which methods are a risk, and which ones aren't, is quite useful.
Brilliant observation.

So if you chose ideologues over truth seekers, are you playing a game that rewards or punishes population's intelligence in contact with reality?
> If it's not necessarily true that anesthesia is death, why should it be necessarily true that mind uploading is death?

I think you guys are saying the same thing… Mind uploading is a duplication process, like a fork. The emulated mind has continuity with the original, with possibly some small gap, so yes it's exactly the same as for anesthesia, sleep, etc. they didn't "die" in the process.

But now there are two different entities that have continuity with the original branch. Both can subjectively claim to "be" the person that initiated the procedure. What the grand parent is saying is that the variant that stayed in the flesh is not magically synchronized with the emulated one so they don't have any incentive to suddenly kill themselves just because there happen to be a fork moving on on a different substrate.

There are now two people sharing the same memories up to the fork point, and diverging afterwards. Neither of them should be killed without their consent and neither of them should have any a priori will to kill themselves.
Screentime and blocking/filtering are easier than a lock box, no? I don't understand the last paragraph, sounds like kid sports equals molestation.
Absolutely! I started blogging last year (https://lucytalksdata.com) and it has been a huge help in working out ideas and getting better at explaining complex topics.

But mostly though, it has been super fun! I have a long list of side projects and ideas to work out and I really get a lot of joy out of sharing these with a (small!) audience. :)
I'm sceptical non professional (and most professional) investors have sufficient information to apply it properly.
There's degrees between lightest roast possible and dark roast. Also, bean origin has such a huge impact on taste, you don't need to have floral or citrus flavors even if it is on the lighter side.

I roast some coffee that could be considered to be 'light' from a color/roast temp perspective but has absolutely none of the floral/citrus notes that you talk about. It depends so much on the beans. It ends up chocolatey and vanilla, with a medium body. Very little acidic taste. On the other hand, there's plenty of coffee that is just a punch of acid.

As others have stated, you lose so much bean origin character the further into the roast you get and lose what makes the bean itself special.
I live 100 metres from a store that sells pretty much anything from food to alcohol and then some more. Within 10 min walk I've got access to see much stuff that I would die before trying it all. If I jump in a car, I've got access to enough shopping that I could buy anything from a cake to a sofa. it can be convenient but yes, not everyone would have such access to products.
I'm shocked how different Abortion in Europe and the United States is. It might as well be apples and oranges.
The yaml exists but it isn't free.
You're not wrong, but being morally right has nothing to do with winning a lawsuit.
Here and there, you'll find ball pits that seem to exist for the sole purpose of providing Instagram photo ops and seem to be more for adults than children

Come to think of it, the last time I saw a ball pit was at a party where Lipton was promoting sparkling iced tea (so there was a general bubble theme). You jumped into a ball pit and they took a video so you could post it to Instagram, or whatever.
Maybe I was not clear. The problem is that no one is going to agree to the same definition.

I have already listed several points where disagreements may occurs, and that is just the surface of the complexity.
If man was making said changes at the rate random useful mutations tend to occur in nature I don't think anyone would be concerned. And we typically do more than just tweak a genetic component in a single individual and see how it fares against existing populations - if the change suits our short term goals, we'll do everything we can to ensure that becomes the dominant variant, often destroying the genetic diversity that provides long term durability in the process.
It's not surprising to me. It is an extremely complex topic that touches on so many aspects of rights, norms, safety, poverty, individual vs collective, etc etc. I don't think it will ever be settled, and the best we'll see is the laws vaguely reflecting different trends, but in the end they will rarely have teeth.
Does PHP have a debugger which doesn’t totally cripple performance just by being installed yet?
> Whats the point in doing things if the AI can do it better than you ?

That's not how jobs work (comparative advantage). An AI won't replace you, simply because there's something better it could be doing than replacing you. And, no, it can't do everything at once - that would be a perpetual motion machine.
I had worked at Yahoo with people who had been there forever; did good work and made a good impression. Working on a lot of stuff that needed to be done, but not enough work to have a person or usually do knowledge transfer until it breaks (or needs to move), so lots of interfacing with old timers.

Anyway, I got recruited by four people I worked with there, who had formed startups. I managed to choose the one that had the best exit, but just by luck. One person I didn't want to work with again, one was at a time I was still happy at Yahoo and the product wasn't super interesting to me, the other two called me within weeks of each other (they were both moving to larger offices from an office they shared that was closing) and I picked the one with a realistic commute and the product I liked better.

So, I guess make an impression that you can get stuff done with smart, entreprenuerial people.
True but to apply 1A it had to be determined that the constitutional protections were applicable at all which hinged on the level the area had been "dedicated/opened to public use" more recently other qualifiers have been added such that a company needs to exercise "powers traditionally exclusive to the state" to be held to constitutional standards. There were cases back years ago like Cyber Promotions v. America Online that allowed companies to limit speech on their platforms that would already cover cases like this too.
> they should have reached out to the closed public libraries

How exactly?
If libraries hadn't already been in existence since antiquity, copyright holders would never have allowed them to exist.
This is pretty much why I stopped donating to them, not like they'll miss the sporadic $50 they'd get from me. Getting sued is a pretty obvious result of their decision to ignore copyright laws.

If they didn't realize that they'd be sued then they're hopelessly shortsighted (there's no "emergency" exemption to copyright laws, even if you can make the argument that morally there should be). If they did know that they'd be sued, the message they're projecting is that they have enough leftover money to burn that they can branch out from their core competencies and try their hand at legal activism.
I believe there are certain large corporations(far larger then Harper Collins et al.) which would benefit from an enlarging of the domain of fair use around now.

Those pockets are large, and the display of the dollar does more to sway Judges than any real interpretation of the law.

It is safe to say that they will succeed in their (seemingly useless) endeavor.
The world is full of people we could let in.

We don't need to make new workers with a 22-year lag.
Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan, for slightly less injuring idea of handicapping everyone
It's disappointing to hear, with the number of people here claiming how IA has run afoul of the copyright law, that it's an open-and-shut case and there is nothing more to discuss. I feel like the air of the hacker spirit on the website is greatly diminished when we take an ice-cold approach to a difficult problem like this.

I for one commend them for doing a noble thing in a very turbulent time. We didn't know how the pandemic was going to play out early on in 2020 and they went ahead to help out in any way they could. Perhaps the US Federal Government will give them some kind of an exemption (if such a thing exists). I'm sure they can find a case where their action is justified in the eyes of law.
Just curious why Lua is frequently used as plugin script? I would like to use an already familiar one like Python instead of to learn a new one.
Modern word processors haven’t suddenly and dramatically increased the number of great books available. They save a lot of time and effort relative to a typewriter, but such drudgery isn’t the bottleneck on creativity that you’re suggesting.
> That's 140 million people. That's 140 million potential voters. It's amazing how well democracies work considering this.

Why is it amazing to you? The question is literally totally irrelevant to any practical modern-day political question or decision.
Five tricky topics for data members in C++20
RSS never seems to work on Windows. Funny when it is so simple. I did not realize this before. A simple client that fetches a feed, parses it, and searches the content for a keyword took me ~25 minutes to implement.
The recruiting part actually starts in elementary (there's about 7 different schools in the area):

> Mr. Frazer searches for prospects in elementary school and
steers them to accelerated math classes in middle school.

> Mr. Frazer’s insight was to connect four levels of education: The kids he scouts in elementary school develop in middle school, compete in high school and take specialized classes from college professors that he brings to Buchholz’s campus.

Sounds about right that he'd push them to the same magnet school if it's the only good one in the area.
Or be sued into oblivion.
I wish there was a nice YouTube video of this attack being explained.
Google, Mood Me Up: AI Trained Moodboard Search
> Right after I was laid off, I purchased a course on Udemy to teach myself Kubernetes.

Isn't that the point of the project though?
I had listened and downloaded full music albums from the Archive. Don't know why is possible.
Then we should seek to change the law? I completely agree with your sentiments for the most part, but the legal footing of the IA has always been shaky in places.

I know I've taken advantage of getting software from the IA that is still commercially sold on places like gog.com, so while overall I regard the IA to be "morally in the right", there's little doubt to me personally there is a ton of content on there that shouldn't be.
> Ask for forgiveness not permission if you want to innovate.

That only works if you are capable of handling the legal trouble that results.
You don't need physical access, but you can't do it via Internet. An intercepted/faked software CD/USB would probably be a good vector. They have to install software somehow.
Very tangential, but I personally hated using Apache's WSGI module (or whatever it's called). Gunicorn was always just easier for me. Maybe it's just me, but I didn't like the mental overhead of Apache for anything other than a proxy, and at that point, nginx is my best friend.

Goofy article though - helps break up the day!
Visual Code, I guess obviously. Has mostly overtaken both Emacs and Vim.
IIRC, IA had already been doing that for years. This lawsuit is happening because they stopped limiting digital loans to the number of physical copies IA and their partners had on hand