skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What kind of experience with a programming language do you expect to have after a mere day? Learning takes time.

It does, which is why you need tooling to get out of the way and let you actually learn. Working out obscure tooling commands to build a hello world app then having to grok the error messages absolutely destroys the learning loop.

For rust it took me approximately 3 minutes from scratch to install, bootstrap a project and run the hello world CLI. The rest of the day was spent purely, 100% learning rust. Not Cargo.

20 minutes to install some beginner level dependencies, presumably with little feedback as to what is going in? Dead.
> "Advocacy of" and "intent" aren't the same standard either!

What's the difference between advocating violence and intending to cause violence?
Ok, what about Google+?
We're running an endless race around a track. For hundreds of years, one member of the race was shackled in chains, causing them to fall behind. Some people seem to believe that now that those shackles have been removed (debatable), the race is fair.

I think it's just a lack of serious education on these issues. If you're born into being watching the race after all this has come to pass, without a deep understanding of the historical context and its effects upon the current state of the race, and you see us suddenly pulling up a golf cart next to that disadvantaged runner, and driving them up ahead to compensate for the gap that was created by those shackles, you may think "wow how unfair, why does he get to ride in a golf cart??"

Even more likely if this is in fact a relay race, and you are having the baton passed on to you by an advantaged runner. You have extra incentive to protect your lead and find anger at anyone else getting help.
Fantastic way to put things, well done.
On the other hand they have the best trackpads, period. I don't even use a mouse when working with an external monitor anymore, I use the external trackpad from Apple instead, and so does most of my coworkers.
I don't need Twitter, since I rarely post on the social, I don't use it for work, and it kind of annoys me too, and if it disappeared I would forget about its existence in two weeks, like I forget about my favorite podcast three days after they started their 3-week summer vacation.
I don't need to go to the gym, but I have been going for about 30 years. If they forced me to spend an extra $8 a month, maybe I would move to another gym where I pay less, but how ridiculous would my statement be, "I don't need the gym, bye"?

Stephen King doesn't need Twitter to publicize his work, and he doesn't even need to work, since he seems to be quite well off. But most celebrities -- "most" is vague, I know -- live to be the center of attention, to be heard, to be considered. And a few years ago the platform was Facebook, then Twitter, after Trump's election, became more and more the place to be if you want to participate in the "discourse."
King needs Twitter now or another platform now or in the future because, apparently, he needs to be heard, to be part of the conversation, to have his old man criticisms heard. But now that platform is Twitter.
See my cousin comment; I just wanted to make the point that working with tree-like data structures in FP feels rather natural.
You get what you want, because you use a Pantone color to match it. Otherwise we wouldn't be having this discussion at all.

However, for Photoshop specifically, the only use of that information is to display an RGB approximation.

(although with uncalibrated printer you'd be screwed one way or another, I guess)
Wrong comparison, I’ve taught enough people both UNIX and JS, and there are many of them who consider JS more easier than to grok and use than bash/unix. Not everyone wants to remember all the commands, and most of them use windows.

Also, no not every system around me requires me to learn unix, I can use my phone, microwave or even my gaming laptop(windows) without ever opening CLI. Unless Im at work or am I tinkering with my PI4s I don’t even have to touch CLI or even think about a unix command.
The expectation that your own words are going to cause the lawless action, rather than supporting an action that was going to happen with or without them.

The entire Brandenberg case is about the distinction, on this particular word.

Like I said, this is a hash of an argument.
While ignoring commands preceded by a space character is absolutely one of my very favorite shell features, it usually isn't enabled by default (YMMV).

HISTCONTROL=ignorespace # bash

setopt hist_ignore_space # zsh

These go into ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc, respectively. zsh is really smart about this and always enables you to retrieve the immediate previous line with arrow-up, no matter whether it's got preceding whitespace or not.
I distribute my music through CDBaby, and looking at transaction history I've been getting $3.65 per thousand streams. That's not nothing, and is much higher than I'd get from radio.

Spotify is taking in a lot of money and paying 70% to labels, which adds up to a lot of money for artists depending on their agreement with their label/distributor. But the per stream rate is still very low because there are trillions of songs streamed annually.
> But you may not have the rights to grant that extra license if CoPilot is determined to violate the GPL

Which is why that second provision is there to shift liability to you. You MUST have the ability to grant GitHub that license to any code you upload. If you don't, and MS is sued for infringing upon the GPL, presumably Microsoft can name you as the fraudster that claimed to be able to grant them a license to code that ended up in copilot.
>It's not a problem with AI. It's a problem with humans. It's not AIs fault

This is a really, really funny defense of AI.
The protestors want change but don't want to be the one who martyrs themselves. Their cowardice is on display when they block roads and hurt the lives of random people who have no influence.

I'm not calling for violence, I'm just pointing out how hypocritical and annoying it is when someone wants a change, goes out of their way to inconvenience the wrong people, and complaints again how those people aren't doing enough to help their cause.
Right up until programming becomes so accessible that it isn't even a job any more, it's just something that everyone does.
> Also Discovery is a huge problem: how do I discover people I know? How do content creators who want to build an audience (and so create content that would attract users to the platform) get discovered?

Hashtags play a huge role on Mastodon - discover people by following hashtags and include hashtags in your posts so that people can discover you.
I expected XMPP-like federation where it really does not matter from where you are but it's kinda disappointing.

Software ecosystem is also less "decentralized" and more "schizophrenic"
Yes and no. Yes, because I agree with what you said. No, because it assumes self-driving has to rely purely on normal vision/cameras, which is just garbage². Think LiDAR and other such means to detect obstacles, but things like that are (currently) pretty expensive, so there is the attempt to just do it with (more or less) normal cameras, which leads to what you said (and I fully agree with that). Aside of the fact that safety assumptions+validations towards cameras are complicated in itself already, not only the technology in all its aspects, but also dirty lenses and things like that.
No, because the universities get government aid. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits the government funding racist things.
> You gave up using a programming language after a day? And Haskell after installing/building some dependencies for 20mins...

I'd do the same. It's 2022. There are so many options without this friction, why would you fight your way through it?

If either language had some magic power or library, that'd be one thing, but their only selling point is the FP paradigm, which is only arguably somewhat better than what other languages do. Not only that, but most other languages let you do FP to varying degrees anyway.
The 24a2 engine seems like it adds unnecessary limitations. Just using something like Raylib https://www.raylib.com/ would allow you to create the same simple game just as easily while also allowing you to continue learning and developing more complex games afterward.
On a similar note: I think it's also a mistake that a mass Twitter exodus to Mastodon would actually benefit that platform. Smallish waves, sure. An overwhelming influx of users? Please no.

Anyone who has experienced a tiny forum (or subreddit, or whatever) going viral knows what I'm talking about. Most of the time that experience at the very least transforms the existing local subculture for the worse, and sometimes outright destroys it.

If everyone on current-day Twitter would move to Mastodon at once it would turn into current-day Twitter. Which is not why I'm on Mastodon.

EDIT: can whomever downvoted this tell me what exactly they disagree with here?
I was a big fan of the magic mouse. Doesn't work well outside of apple devices so when I switched to linux I had to find something else.
>If I'm moving, I can rent a truck from Home Depot which has a considerably larger bed for well under one percent of the extra cost of buying a super-sized truck

This is definitely true, but as a former truck owner, I can tell you that's not how it works at all.

"Hey, man, I really need some help moving, can you bring your truck over, I'll have pizza and beer!"

Not to mention the rent-a-truck is pretty new. Yes, UHaul and the others exist, but they don't compete with "oh yeah, I know a guy with a truck."
I have used Mastodon and had my own server for a while. I should take a second look. But a quick look makes me think that, unfortunately, proprietary new platforms like Tribel are more polished.
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3:52, 5:00, 5:13. Compare to 6:15 of this recent SpaceX launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAbM5Noq48. How will SpaceX ever succeed with such miserable, unmotivated staff??!?
why is the sha256sum different?
Yeah, the only analog bouncing around my brain are accounts like that one, and, say, SwiftOnSecurity. There are people who are really big within a particular niche, and become a "sun" within a solar system. I'm blocked from both of those accounts, but I don't know why. (It's odd, because I usually avoid strong comments of ANY kind). The net effect on this sort of behavior on traffic patterns at Twitter works out quite a bit differently than on YouTube. You probably wouldn't block people on YouTube for the same comment you see on Twitter, and when you do it on Twitter, you're hard-limiting your audience.
The goal is to get rid of discrimination, not to balance the statistic of arbitrary identitarian classes. Affirmative action does exactly the opposite.
Are these harms, substantial or not is up for debate, outweighed by the benefits of fueling social mobility for a historically oppressed class of people?
Many of Ive's initial designs of products were fantastic and great examples of Dieter Ram's principles of design.

Unfortunately I think he drank a bit too much of his own kool-aid and "innovated" on the original designs in ways that were user hostile and didn't serve to complement the function of the products.
> yes, AI excels at that

Sorry for being pedantic about the terminology, but AI has been "deterministic", using direct algorithms as opposed to oracular machines, since those times in which the perceptron was relatively weak.

What we are talking about here is very probably Artificial Neural Networks.
He went about 110 km/h faster than the other cars around that turn, pretty sure he also set a lap record by doing that move. The fact that the finish line comes up right at the end of the turn also likely helped him, as it didn't allow his competitors to gain too much speed between exiting the turn and finishing.
You can only download them in explicitly specified chunks (not e.g. one whole state, much less whole country), and they expire if you don't update them regularly.
Looking at how Facebook was fucking with UK elections and brexit, maybe it should be banned everywhere
> Even though i don't appreciate your dismissal of a very real problem

Conservative content producers literally and demonstrably dominate shared content on Facebook and Twitter. And if all your follows are conservative, these viewpoints are all you'll see. What warrants takedowns, shadowbans, and permabans is hate speech, incitement of violent, harassment and spam/platform manipulation. While I'm not saying the platforms do a perfect job, it's undeniably their goal to keep those elements off the site while otherwise allowing you to say what you want to whoever will listen.

If you're conservative, you are free to go on these platforms and call Biden an idiot or whatever. But when you start spreading dangerous misinformation or inciting political violence, all bets are off. I can't tell what's more frightening: the possibility that the people claiming they've been unfairly censored actually WANT the freedom to make hate speech or incite violence on a privately run platform, or that they truly think what they're doing is just fine.
Gonna be honest, this guy lost me at 'I decided to learn Haskell—and needed to do that on a business timeline. This was the most difficult learning experience of my 40-year career...'

like, really?
Yeah I migrated less than a year ago to proton but it is bug over bug (gpg not handled properly), this UID bug, nagging to pay for a larger plan. I'll probably migrate to fastmail (or if you have other recommended alternatives) at the end of this billing cycle.
Sub-textual thought experiment: how big can Hugging Face get?

Can they achieve a Monopoly on Art Production into the Future?

To build their moat: they build the largest supercomputer for image training, acquire the largest image training set (~10B), and then institute an IDF Unit 8200 style Garin Lotam recruitment effort of the best artistic talent on earth to feed new forms into the machine, and everyone else simply forgets they ever knew how to make art in the first place as the drawing prompt becomes as ubiquitous as the google search box ;)
Won't this lead to issues like secretly trained models and proving artwork is not AI generated?
Donald Knuth reward cheque resurfaces on OpenSea for 1.5M USD
What a reward!
Maps should be a common, like any other infrastructure-like software or data.
It's a model that will play off in the long term IMHO.
Only a fourth paragraph before the lede is revealed: racial and gender biases!
> Apple hasn’t made a decent mouse for more than twenty years starting with the hockey puck.

I think that's largely fair (although I do think the magic mouse is pretty nice). But in their defense, they make such great trackpads that many people prefer to use those over a mouse.
This is a good point and I agree it buys you similar safety. The annoying part is it isn’t a monadic data structure. You usually get some syntactic sugar for a limited subset of mapping (optional chaining), but a lot of the time that’s insufficient and you get imperative code.
>Well, a pollutant has no use. That’s the difference.

Every piece of technology that carried your commentary from your fingertips to my eyeballs has a nonzero environmental impact. Some watershed in Asia had to be fractionally (after all, the mine likely supplied material for far more devices than yours and mine) poisoned so you could say that.

Is that sufficient purpose?

Keep in mind modern society exists at the end of a very, very, very long and interconnected supply chain so the raw material from the mine probably (fractionally, of course) finds its way into smoke alarms and pacemakers. Trying to define "purpose" is an unbelievably complex can of worms.
In my experience, it never happens.

I know it's supposed to in theory, but in reality I think the weight of personalization is very small most of the time.

Where I do occasionally see the effects of this type of personalization is programming vs. non-programming content.
I pay for several things on the Internet. Tutanota Email, Domain Renewals, Web Hosting to name a few. I also bought a few lifetime accounts which is refreshing and I'd like to see more services offering lifetime accounts.

The beauty of a lifetime license/account is you don't have to worry about having money 'ready' in your bank for a renewal charge. Sometimes my bank balance literally drops to zero, and I sometimes get caught out after a service attempts to charge me, and I temporarily get downgraded to their free tier and can't fully use the service. This happened with Google One once, and all my files were read-only and I couldn't upload important documents to Drive.

There are caveats to a lifetime account: namely: the upfront charge which is usually quite large, but a worthwhile investment in the long run. Another caveat is: it's not really lifetime, but more: The lifetime of the company/service/product so if the service outlives you, this is a win. If the service goes bust and you're still alive, this is a net loss, but I trust that some services are in it for the long-haul, usually after researching the company. There's no guarantees though. Buyer beware.
From Unix handbook of how to make people hate the community?
C’mon author was good enough to share a script for us to use, he might be just starting in programming, or may be its for a windows use case, don’t have to be so rude like the original commenter which is what I didn’t like.
this happened to me 10 years ago and there is basically no way back
I don't think anyone can know what's going to happen with or without their participation, but granting that for the sake of argument, he also quoted "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action". (Edit: also "organize actions that spill over into the physical world")

The article, IMO, made it clear enough that information that causes violence but wasn't intended to cause violence is protected by the 1st amendment.
Somebody should tell Knuth, maybe he will do something about it.
Immutability, most things are expressions, no nulls. I think this is what they mean, it's a good experience if you want to go purely functional, they took influences from everything though.
> Do you think a of the rights we have today were won by people playing nicely and politely?

Yes. They identified correctly who they need to apply pressure on. If they had harassed the general population, they would have failed. Instead they were agreeable enough that they attracted allies more than they created backlash.
The major cloud providers already offer instances with GPUs. Google is one of the three.

And before anyone says that AWS was an offshoot of Amazon Retails excess capacity, this is an urban myth. AWS was always a separate product with separate servers just for selling to customers.
Right but the users on discord can chat with eachother just fine, while in case of Mastodon if 2 server admins don't like eachother no dice ? Or I'm understanding how it works wrong ?

It seems counter-intuitive to moderate based on "which server user is from" too.
Huh? I use Authy because it allows me to use TOTP codes, from multiple devices, including devices without cell service. I switched to it from Google Authenticator specifically for that reason.
Explainability is not a given in many more traditional complex systems. Decisions are often an aggregation of a large number of signals, and one can often not conceive of a single intuitive explanation for the system's decisions.

A lot is expected of AI systems today, from fairness (how do we even define that?) to universality. In my view we need to develop a practical understanding of what it means to build the system we have in mind: do I understand where I want my system to perform, and do I have the tools to assess whether I am getting there? Interpretability is orthogonal to all of this.

I would much rather have a well tested system, accompanied by online monitoring to detect unusual inputs in an ever-changing data distribution and notify when updates are needed or a human needs to take control, than an unreliable system that is great at providing explanations.
A different job? Go travelling for a while? Travelling is a lot of fun and makes you realize that life is short and that you should make the most of it.

I changed careers and found the change fun. I may go back to coding at some point, I kinda miss the that deep thinking it requires .... but I can do that in my spare time if I really need to.

Or, if you need the money, just phone it in for a while.
Love this software, very easy and intuitive tool. And so much fun!
We're both necessarily speculating here, so I'll counter by suggesting that an enormous proportion of Twitter users don't actually care whether or not they're using Twitter, they just care that the content they want to consume and the people they want to follow are on Twitter. They can't be "using Reddit or Discord if they want to be", because that's not where the community already is. Solving the collective action problem to overcome this inertia is hard, but easier in tumultuous times like these.
Is it? I've used openstreetmap exclusively for the past 5 years and it's almost never let me down, for both day to day and trips abroad.
> once you get into the habit of using a new map+navigation service it seems quite hard to switch or is that just me?

I don't think it's just you. :) I know a fair number of iOS users who switched to the standalone Google Maps app during the, shall we say, rocky first year of Apple Maps, and who I've never been able to convince to look back -- and these are people who live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Apple Maps is arguably at its best.
It's not very different. The hardest thing to grasp is the decentralization.
Both of those subscriptions seem like business expenses to me. As such they are not that non-sensical.

I suppose only a very few people would need a verified Twitter or Pantone in CS without a connection to how they make their livelihood.
In 1963 Marvin Minsky called it “The Credit Assignment Problem” — which, among a multitude of variables, were most important in solving an AI task?
I'm not saying it's what you are implying, not trying to pull a strawman here.
But I disagree with the notion that healthy competition is the successful, stable outcome capitalism has been producing on its own. Works fine in economics books (of which I read my fair share). But in practice, the dynamic is towards concentration of power and resources at the expense of the outside world — not to its benefit.
The Emmanuel Faber case at Danone partly illustrates my point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Faber
Are we supposed to forgive Governor Cuomo who kept putting COVID victims in nursing homes, while that hospital ship in the harbor sat empty? That would be up to all those who lost irreplaceable parents, spouses, grandparents, and great-grandparents because they caught COVID from fellow nursing home residents.
Web-based and free?!! amazing.
That is the way I read this, and Rakuten is a 1.6 trillion yen company. I wonder if they give back to the community ? I am fairly sure they do not, but this based upon the tone of the article :(
The most intuitive and user-friendly 3D software you will ever need. Such amazing results... and to think this is only the alpha!
“Just crashing” is a premise; it hasn't been proven. These are buffer and stack overflows, so I feel some skepticism is warranted.
What do you know, more sensationalized journalism from vice
Womp is easy to learn!It has lots of nice looking materials. Goop technology is revolutionary!
70k users doesn't seem like that many...and I am not sure I'd call them "users" yet, technically I'm a "user" but I checked it out for a few months here and there and don't plan on ever going back. The entire experience felt really clunky to me and moving the pin seems like a tough pull that would take quite awhile. but you know just my opinion!