skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great points, but I'd like to draw attention to the distinction between pirating media and doing so safely.

It used to be that either one required a bit of know-how, but I've personally seen cases where the barrier to entry is lower for just obtaining the media. Safety isn't just an afterthought as much as total ignorance.

In the most alarming case I witnessed, an acquaintance of mine had a friend who "knew enough to be dangerous": they were sideloading an app on their settop box for them that just pulled from some site. I'm sure it would work to watch rips of new movies or whatever, but I doubt it even used TLS.

I had to explain to my acquaintance that not only would it be easily visible by their ISP (and why that's bad), but that it was almost certainly illegal in the first place.

Getting a movie for free sounds obviously sketchy to most of us, but think about the number of gadgets and services that have been advertising exactly that for decades[0]. Understanding the difference requires some technical knowledge.

[0]: The catch usually being that "free" really means "after fulfilling some other obligation", such as signing up for a free trial of something.
In 1979, I saw Robert Fripp play frippertronics at the Washington Ethical Society. The looping Revoxes were there in all there glory. It was a sight to behold and hear. Parts of the performance show up on one of his albums
Slack should invest in Libreoffice and offer a better office suite.
If the judicial and legislative branches were doing their jobs properly, and if the public had some due diligence about knowing what is the proper role of government, and if the media were truly aimed at educating people on the pertinent facts, then these agencies wouldn't be a problem, they'd be properly checked. But assuming we're not going to fix any of those things, then certainly it can hypothetically be an improvement to abolish this or that agency, if it's become even more corrupt than the surrounding political infrastructure.
This has been implemented in some companies as “staff may freely move to another project led by another manager.”

This really puts an emphasis on the “leadership” part of management.
“ Apple can't release a $1,000 headset in a market where $400 headsets exist too.”

They definitely will, especially since Meta’s new kit is $1,500.
> does indeed make it rather weird.

A fascinating case indeed. It’s interesting to speculate about what could explain what happened.

> Personally I found it strange that the piece speculated so much from a psychological angle but didn't remotely mention the spiritual, while my thoughts on reading were exactly that - perhaps the person or place was under some kind of demonic possession and this is the outcome of a spiritual attack.

Because mania and delirium are things that actually happen and can be caused by many things (somebody else mentioned ergotism; there are other things that cause behaviours that can be interpreted as religious); demonic possession does not.

> "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist." - Keyser Söze, after Baudelaire

I would not trust a 19th century poet with syphilis and off his face on absinth to tell me what is true and what is not. Besides the logical fallacy embedded in that specific quote.
Hope this "plan" is not hostile to noscript/basic (x)html browsers...
> (homicides are up like 60% compared to the pre-BLM days).

Where are you getting this statistic? A quick google search doesn’t show any such surge in the murder rate in the United States. 60% is a very large increase. I would expect this stat to have huge ripple effects if it were true.
Both can be true: that the SVP was pursuing a course they thought would protect the company, but that they did so in a cold, dismissive, bullying manner.
> I have heard of people saying they won't date green or blue bubble people

But how many times, really?

It's like the missing iPhone headphone jack. The press and bloggers hammered away at it for years, making sure it was an ongoing meme in all coverage, but... do people really care? Some people, sure.. but enough for the coverage?

Same with bubbles.
Aza talked at length about this when he was working on Enso. The premise is that it’s inefficient from a UI perspective to have an OS with a bunch of silo’d applications that aren’t easily able to share data.

I agree with this and I think it’s an underlying reason why power users are drawn to the terminal or go to great lengths to live in EMACS. They’re drawn to the ubiquitous nature of those UIs over the disjointed desktop experience or the schizophrenic web experience. In fact, in addition to Enso, Aza Raskin worked on a Firefox plugin called Ubiquity.
I guess it depends on the outcome your worried about. Super intelligence or machines that replace the average office worker.
As you know, it’s broke on latest safari/iPhone. Any clues on how to fix without the experimental workaround you mention?
that's a pretty cool utopic idea, but also scary

so we're just here on earth to be matched by an algorithm and live happily ever after? idk
Those VCs are the VCs you don't want money from anyway.
We need public auditing of these organizations.

Organization that operate secretly will always provide some refuge for corruption. There are always blind spots for management.

If the public has no input, how can we ever trust them?
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I'm not sure that the issue is necessarily that someone was selected for "bullying," as opposed to the "squeeze employee, and toss out dried husk" thing, that many managers do. It has happened to me, frequently, in my career, as I am open, enthusiastic, and friendly. Cynical bastards take that as "weak, and easily manipulated."

I learned to guard against it, fairly early on, and have refused to become a bastard (easy to do).

I had a friend that had a T-shirt that said "Old age and treachery beat youth and enthusiasm, every time."

Since this was done by an exec, I will bet that was the case, here. The fact that he was a young person, and a black person, probably helped with naïveté, and probably helped make him "more disposable," but I have seen exactly this, many times over, and the recipient of the squeezing is not always a marginalized demographic (like me. I am a white male. Not exactly marginalized).

Many people in C-level roles (or aspirants, thereof) are people that seem (in my opinion), to be downright sociopathic. The people around them; especially those at a lower echelon, are considered "disposable assets."

The guy saw him being an energetic go-getter, and used that to extract his knowledge. The death knell was when he asked to be given the guy's "Rollodex," so to speak ("Introduce me at SXSW"). When I read that, I knew exactly what was coming next.

I do believe that there is real bullying, from insecure jerks (I have seen it, and experienced it), but this sounds more like garden-variety usury by a sociopathic upper manager.

Rick Dickerson sounds like many, many high-level assholes that I have met, during my career. Most were actually assets to their companies. They made the company money, and got the results the shareholders wanted, so their personal proclivities were ignored.

I am glad that the author was able to get past it. I have watched many folks absolutely shattered by this.

In my own case, I dealt with something more like bullying, but not exactly the same, when I slammed into the ageism wall, after leaving my company. Many of the folks I dealt with were jaw-droppingly rude. I can easily see people just throwing in the towel, and walking away. In my case, I'm an ornery cuss. It just made me madder, and more energized. Sounds like the author may also be an ornery cuss.

Good on him.
I'll just use intellij products to support engineering companies.
> More expensive to develop for

As iOS developer i disagree, You can develop android app on any platform that support JDK you pay a one-time registration fee of €25, Google Play is faster at approving apps (anecdotal evidence from working on team that support both iOS and Android)

iOS apps have to be compiled on recent Mac with latest version of macOS, you pay a yearly fee of €100 and AppStore review process is more in-dept especially for new apps
It is really easy to tell apart people who despise office politics and people who don't. I have a theory that the best way to run an organization is to remove anyone who doesn't actively hate that stuff regardless of competence level.
Just recommended to a mentee of mine yesterday referring to it as "one of the best software books in the past few years". Weird coincidence. It really is good, but not super actionable by a lot of engineers since they aren't in a position where they need distributed data or message queues or other interesting tech.
> You could much more precise captors

What do you mean by that ? There are only so many particles of ionizing radiation traversing a given surface per unit time (fortunately for us).
There is also spyfall (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/166384/spyfall) which is about one person not knowing what everyone else knows and trying to pretend otherwise. Very popular among my friends.
Nice goalpost changing. Nobody said it wasn’t bundled into code that ships with the iPhone.

There are ads in the App Store - we agree on that.
I hate how Apple is becoming increasingly an advertising company.
That's why the streaming platform can sell those users' data at a premium to a platform like Facebook. When the platform does reach that user with an ad placement somewhere else, that spot is valuable.
Nice try Zuckerberg
Invert can also destroy structure you might want to keep around, for example the LU factorization of a banded matrix will still be banded (lapack will do partial pivoting which will increase the bandwidth, but with it'll only double the number of super-diagonals in L), while the inverse is a full matrix.
I wonder if we shouldn't go back to addressing coworkers by their last names, to restore the lost sense of professionalism.
Would a "widespread upswell in piracy amongst the general public" ultimately be a good thing? How much more accessible can it get? If A.) clicking through a software installer and B.) reading file names is too high a barrier of entry... Streaming services will gladly take your money.

A small-scale solution could be setting up a Jellyfin or similar server for all your friends + family members. Curate it with what they ask for, maybe give them access to a Sonarr instance so they can add content themselves. There are client apps for smart TVs, phones, and a web player. Maybe they'll like it so much they tell their friends, or want to set up their own :)
Only to a geek. I much rather just pay money and juggle the streaming services. I had a Mac Mini running Front Row connected to a TV back in 2005 and then graduated to Plex until 2020. It’s really not worth it when both the AppleTV and Roku have universal search.
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We'll have to see. Considering the amount of negativity I hear surrounding VR, I personally believe Apple is going to have an upwards battle selling their units. Even though people (myself included) hate Facebook, the value proposition of the Quest is a lot easier to sell.

FWIW, Macs still struggle to surmount the number of Windows machines in circulation, much less the number of Chromebooks floating around out there. Maybe you won't buy Meta's headset... but what options will schools make? How about businesses? Gamers? Thrill-seekers? Apple's marketing tactics are second-to-none, but many a business has outsmarted them in the past. Meta might just be next-up to bat.
Interesting point of view about "virtually".

I have been a network administrator and have managed our company VPN networks (site to site, as well as client-site). I have considered "Virtual Private Network" to be a "not-physical private network" where one becomes part of that network (whether physical or virtual - since a VPN server can serve as a hub between various VPN clients/sites as well).

With the right settings, one can set up a VPN to carry DNS queries as well - thus effectively giving us a "full tunnel" by design?

Could you share your thoughts and point of view on the above?
This would be impossible to play on Spotify, without several Spotify accounts. It might explain why these tracks has been mixed together on Spotify.
It’s a positive stereotype but still negative. I’ve had a few E Asian buddies who were about as successful as me in that life stage with similar interests (some not wholesome) and their home/social lives seemed so stressful.

They’re ‘failures’ or ‘disappointments’ in their circles despite just being a normal Canadian guy studying what they want, and having some beers and smokes. Meanwhile I’m cool, easygoing and edgy because as long as you aren’t fucking up your life completely, poor white people think you’re doing great.
You mean "generate a Python function that calls a library that does math perfectly, right?
The only thing keeping me from getting upset about this is the schadenfreude from imagining people digging up Elon in 3000 years.
I wonder how these language models would do if we tried to teach them maths the way schools do: Feed them explanations first, then endless sequences of toy problems, see which they got wrong and feed them corrected examples back in.

I'm not at all surprised they don't do well at maths, because while there are maths texts online, I doubt there is enough material to give these models the same experience of repetition and reinforcement to help sufficiently generalise an understanding of the underlying rules.
Also Excel is terrible at encoding MP3s.

It's a language model; why would we expect it do math or try to somehow shoehorn math into the model? Do the language centers of our brain do math?

If something approximating AGI is going to happen, it's going to be a lot of models tied together with an executive function to recognize and send things to the area that's good at working with them.
That kind of rotational system is used in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Every role, from teacher to pastor, in a local congregation is done by lay members. Because each person rotates between various roles over the years, there are no political incentives to try to climb the ranks.

It might play out differently in a workplace setting, but a rotational system works well in that religious context.
It is possible for a person to be right about some things and wrong about other things.
I always ignore Prime Video because you can’t watch everything you see without subscribing to some channel.
This is my dream. Being able to use Fleet/JetBrains's backend as an LSP/DAP for Neovim. It sounds like the architecture is there with Fleet. Please JetBrains friends!
> That's bit icky, because "causes harm" is extremely relative. Any negative attitude (or the shadow of a positive one) causes harm to some degree. Wasn't "microagression" a buzzword not long ago?

Just want to chime in on this bit here, since it's a bone I have to pick with society on some level, and your comment is providing a good way to maybe hopefully explain it. (I agree with you btw, just to be clear) Though to start off first, I want to make clear that I don't intend harm or any sort of 'flamewar' with this comment, though I can see how some people might take it out of hand.

Sure, there may be degrees to which harm is caused depending on the situation and context at hand, but we (logically, as I see it) should not be concerning ourselves with the lesser degrees overly much; as it creates a societal numbness to the more important things when rallied against too fiercely.

It's like the old "Boy who cried wolf" story. Sure, there WAS a wolf eventually, and so the villagers should have just listened to the boy anyways perhaps, but because the boy fooled them so many times at lesser levels of potential harm, they failed to believe him at higher levels of potential harm.

And yes, I realize that old story is about lying, but sometimes there are similar parallels in life that fit the stories narrative to some degree. Claiming that something is harming you, when there is no immediately understandable effect beyond getting emotional about whatever that thing is, is basically in and of itself, a lie.

Example: If you insult me, have you harmed me in any way beyond possibly injuring my ego?

My answer is no, because the ego is a personal psychological construct. It sucks, sure, but it's not hurting you in any way unless you are already in a mental state where such things become magnified. (I.E. some type of psychosis for example.)

Anyways. The reason why I bring this up, is because I've seen similar arguments about harm being used in the past to try to degrade and reduce the liberty of others, all because someone feels they have right to be more 'equal' than those others all due to the supposed harm being caused. I don't agree with the notion that one should be able to constitute small infractions against another as 'harm'.

I think this is why some people here are quibbling over the differences between 'benevolant sexism' and what they see as 'real sexism'. It's all ultimately some sort of ism, but some have different connotations depending on how they are applied. Ultimately, it's all stereotyping of some degree or another.
Can you name the cities that actually defunded the police? Blaming post-COVID crime trends on BLM is just lazy interpretation of data. Most of what you’re saying here is blatantly wrong, there is no post-2014 crime surge, in fact crime was much worse in the decade before and has been oscillating around a mean since: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/crim.... Why lie when the data is public?

EDIT: even more, unfiltered data directly from the FBI crime DB: https://crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov/pages/explorer/cri...

It is impossible to see 2014 as anything but a deviation from the mean rather than some bizarre starting point for BLM ruining the country when you look at the data for more than 5 minutes.

As for your proposed solutions, every single drop of funding sent to police departments goes towards their further militarization. There are many small rural towns with tanks now. Anti poverty programs have never been popular in the U.S. No neighborhood wants to host the abuse prevention or mental health centers. So where do we go?
Congrats on the name, I mean, the launch! :)
> this lawsuit would have been quashed

What gave you the truly outrageous idea that justice department has the capability to "quash" lawsuits such that they can't be appealed?
I'm sure it was only last week on another apple thread some person got downvoted for suggesting apple will succumb to ad money. Seems the fabled apple can't resist the extra revenue.
It’s a complete fabrication of course.
Women create society, women ARE society. A few chosen men (rich, powerful, handsome) hold key positions in this society, meanwhile most men are just outside, looking for a way in. You can buy your way in by being productive and hard-working. Or by dying for the society. Note that in times of war, women were handing out white roses, not putting on their combat boots. The rich and powerful were likewise found nowhere near a battlefield.

We try to get past our wild roots, the fact that we don't have harems in most of the world is how we became civilized.
Emacs keys would be awesome...
A flatter system actually tends to avoid the key man problem. A team of 20 is almost certain to have someone who can take the lead's job if he leaves. A team of 4, not so much.
They aren’t playing the same game as the other streaming services besides Amazon. Both Amazon and Apple are using streaming to get you into their ecosystem and make the bundle more attractive.
Last that I heard, Raspberry Pi with VPN installed along with PiHole that you SSH/VNC (via iOS app) in to is your best option.
For the record. I had zero infractions on social. None. All allegations were made up and unfounded.
No. The LEAP Technology was one of the more obvious differences with previous text environments. For me, the more interesting feature of the Cat / Swyft is it loads the environment exactly where you were when you last saved it to disk. Sure, MacOS-X and Chrome do a half-hearted attempt to do the same thing these days, but in 1987 this was a revolutionary idea.

My guess is they focused on the LEAP stuff 'cause you can't make a whole video about booting up to where you last left off.

Other things I like about my Cat:

* Integrated FORTH development environment.
* After getting used to the "text / document oriented interface" I kind of like it. I turn my Cat on and just start typing. Later on I figure out where I want to move that text to.
* The dual cursor thing makes it easy to figure out what you're going to delete when you press either delete or backspace (one deletes the character in front of the "regular" cursor, the other deletes the character under the "regular" cursor.)

But a few things I don't like:

* I love LEAP, but would also love to have had arrow keys.
* Connectivity to my leenucks box is kind of bad. I had to write my own FORTH comms package.
* Importing other people's code into your environment is a confusing process of swapping disks and trying to not confuse yourself or your Cat.

And Surprisingly:

* I've had my Cat for decades and I've yet to lose data. Just remember to hit the "Disk" control key before ejecting the floppy and you'll be fine.
* Virtually all my floppies still work.
Whatever the specifics of this particular situation, it may be worth observing that this seems to be in the context of rather early social media days. "When Twitter was launched, I was an early adopter."

And a lot of companies were really feeling their way into social media at that point (and by no means were their strategies necessarily broadly agreed to internally). I've seen first hand how many companies did not have well-articulated and specific policies and individuals were sort of on their own to do the "right thing" the interpretation of which was likely to differ depending upon what exec you asked.

It's hard to say what exactly happened in this case but in the mid- to late-2000s, it would have been very easy for an enthusiastic social media user posting about company matters to run afoul of someone used to company communications happening through tightly controlled channels.
What you describe is exactly what state of the art has done. They even lied and said it was "solving math problems" by calling numpy methods.
JetBrains Compose UI is using Skiko, not Skija: https://github.com/JetBrains/skiko
I was considering CLion, but decided against it because I frequently need to work with a bunch of different programming languages in a single project, not just C or C++, and not just the languages they happen to have an IDE for. It seems like Jetbrains does this so you're forced to buy multiple IDEs if you need support for a multiple languages. I don't even know how that's supposed to work. If I need to switch to editing Python, am I expected to open a second IDE? CLion supports plugins, but it doesn't seem like they offer a plugin that brings it on par with PyCharm (because if they did that, they couldn't sell you a second product)

For highly specialized development teams I guess it makes sense, but for me it'd just be a waste of money.

That's why I use Sublime Text, since it's the only (good) editor that's compatible with anything I need it to do. An alternative like Fleet is very interesting, but it's still too early to make a fair comparison (Also that Adobe-esque "toolbox" app isn't winning it any points)
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