skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say what you want about Jobs but he would have respected and admired someone like Kasparov. (He also would not have been dumb enough to buy something like Twitter)

Anyways, this convo right here -- along with the thread one over where people are rushing over themselves to complain about someone going after Copilot with a lawsuit -- is peak what orangesite seems to be becoming. Deference to authority and ego, and lack of recognition of the nerd community and actual hacker culture and its history. Ew.
Instagram is also optimized to show me ads, but it also has an arguably nice UX too, at least much better than Twitter IMO.
Well, that you caught yourself is already something that makes a difference. It would already change the equation if Copilot would send an email saying “Hey, that snippet xyz I suggested yesterday is actually plagiarized from repo abc. I’m truly sorry about that, I’ll do my best to be more careful in the future.”

As far as “citation needed”, humans are being convicted for plagiarism, so it is generally assumed that they are able to tell and hence can be held responsible for it.

Responsibility or liability is really the crux here. As long as AIs can’t be made liable for their actions (output) like humans or legal entities can, instead the AI operators must be held accountable, and it’s arguably their responsibility to take all practical measures to prevent their AIs from plagiarizing, or from otherwise violating license terms.
> because they use ill defined terms

All definitions are ill-defined if you're willing to question the words in the definition.

Maybe the point of philosophy is to uncover the weaknesses in our understanding of the word, rather than gain confidence in understanding it. So, asking "am I free?" helps me uncover my assumptions about the world and find out exactly how many levels deep I'm willing to go before I trust that the words in the definition are true.
It's not that black and white. It's nuanced, it is situational, and it is conditional.
A very rough approximation of a CORDIC step is the basis for this incredibly simple circle-drawing algorithm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15266331
The best way to weather it is to sock away as much cash from your current job while times are good.

If a Bay Area techie at a FAANG can't swing a half a year of unemployment after working the Bay for 5+ years, something is wrong.
How do you mean broken? You mean as in the recommendation algo is inferior to Reels or TikTok?
Glucose is also known as dextrose for its dextral (right-handed) chirality. Which means that left-handed glucose should be sinistrose. What a name!
> Too many people, too fast.

There is no indication of how many people.

> There's no way these are going to be sensible, surgical layoffs.

We have no clue whose going to be laid off.

You clearly have your mind made up, regardless of reality.
When you do a renovation, you don’t try and work around the existing structures. You demolish them and rip it down to the studs - to the “good bones” that hold it all up. Then and only then can you install your newly designed structure inside the old structure. This is how a rebuild is done.
> Today they "emulate" Linux on Windows (WSL2), tomorrow they will "emulate" Windows on Linux (i.e. all the Win32, etc APIs on Linux - think WINE++).

No. Microsoft tried to bridge the Linux APIs to NT APIs in WSL1 just like WINE does for Windows APIs to Linux APIs. But they ended up running into issues and limitations that made them change their approach.

Now, with WSL2, they just have a virtualized instance of Linux running. This isn't even an odd choice as Windows has already been running on top of a hypervisor for anyone who has Hyper-V enabled (new installs of Windows 11 have it enabled by default to support Virtualization Based Security).
Nice gear makes using it a pleasure. If you don’t feel encumbered by the gear, you are far more likely to actually use, and thus get good.

Musical instruments, bikes, motorcycles, computers, and everything else imaginable is the same. If only for the feeling that it feels like it helps you, you should get what you want within the restrictions you have.
Presumably Twitter will be immediately profitable after these layoffs. Enough to cover the interest on the debt? Not sure
> It's a strategy.

Exploiting people is indeed a strategy, whether its with chains, legal loopholes or just taking advantage of their dreams and passions.
The military has the power to stop hyperinflation?
It's almost like Elon Musk _wants_ to drastically shift the work culture.
Canada to introduce 2% tax on stock buybacks starting in 2024
Do you have a crystal ball? How do you know how things will turn out?

I mean, it's not like Twitter had some amazing business plan going forward.
Maybe it counts per day of violation per employee? As in, they’re all separate offences, not one offence against 1000 employees.
Good question, I was wondering this too. From Wikipedia, I found:

> .cc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory. It is administered by a United States company, VeriSign, through a subsidiary company, eNIC, which promotes it for international registration as "the next .com".
this makes the common mistake that there will always continue to be a company with resources for the workers, regardless of how it performs. The company as a concept exists as a going concern, _then_ it can support workers. If the company ceased to exist, the workers could continue to report to work and produce output, but they would be unhappy with the compensation.
You are the product for Robinhood, as they are selling deal flow.
Vladimir Tenev will always put his customers first since they are paying for the deal flow information.

How can you trust any company that has you as the product?
AssertJ: A fluent assertions Java library
This link doesn’t explain much.

And at least in Canada, doesn’t show any seizure notice.
Medical leave for burnout sounds great, until they throw you right back in the same environment that caused the burnout. It's not surprising you don't care anymore.

It may be useful to do some budgeting to see if you can juice your savings in the short term and reduce your recurring expenses to give yourself a longer sabbatical timeline. This can be challenging to do if you're already emotionally numb, but I found planning an escape from work to be an exciting escape in and of itself.

If you end up taking a break, you'll have time to reflect on other things you'd like to do that don't elicit the same numbness you're experiencing right now. There are plenty of ways to build identity and confidence that aren't full-time tech employment.
Selling products at a loss should be illegal, it's an anti-competitive practice

In fact, it is illegal, at least in some European countries, as usual, why is it ok for Microsoft?

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/selling-in-eu/competit...
This never occurred to me but it makes sense.

I’m in my late 30s. Not too far from being older than many tech CEOs and I have seen plenty of BS I could call out.

I have a family, mortgage, and am not “wowed” by some slick CEO.
Not with human guard-rails and procedures in place to stop AI 'running away' from us. AI needs human intervention and needs to be overridden by human decisions.
Can Jawbone (or the troll) keep the patent private if it was funded by DARPA / public taxes ?
I'm not sold on this pen & paper idea to be honest.

It looks slow and cumbersome. It misses all the advantages of using a computer.

How would for example code competition, context sensitive features, or refactoring work? How about editing features of a capable editor like this here:

https://helix-editor.com/

It would be very hard, if even possible, to replicate such user experience with "pen & paper" (even if "pen and paper" would be digital).

I think programming could be improved. But not by going back in time.

Instead the "text" (code) should become even more interactive. I really like the ideas of e.g. Bret Victor in this regard:

http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4

Or the ideas behind something like Enso:

https://enso.org/

Or "just" interactive notebooks…

Computers are so much more than pen & paper!

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"Liberating programming form monadic style" was only a pun on the parent post. :-)

If you do FP (functional programming) in an advanced typed language you will likely end up with code written in monadic style, meaning that you wrap all (effectful) computation in some monads.

In my opinion that's in the end not really much better than the usual imperative style—and that closes the circle to the original citation: "Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?" (which was the title of a quite important paper).
Meh. Just anecdotal evidence. Not inherently bad, just limited in what it can tell you.
Yea, hopefully that includes remote access too.
But does you being friends with them mean they are any good?

I mean, not to say you are wrong, but we only have your word for it ;)
Agreed.

> It doesnt help twitter employees happen to be the most vocal, often whiniest, group of people so this is getting megaphoned to death in a way that wouldn't happen almost anywhere else.

Yeah, and it's not just employees. Everyone seems to think Twitter is bigger and more important than it actually is. It's got significantly fewer DAU than say snapchat.

It's also:

- primarily public one-to-many so the social graph is less important than other mutually social platforms.

- mostly ephemeral, so the value of historical posts is.. Low. Much lower than say YouTube.

- no local communities with independent moderation (like reddit)

- primarily immutable text and links, which is cheap and easy to host

Out of all big platforms today, Twitter is by far the easiest to replace gradually, imo, with the least amount of upfront resources and least impacted by network effects.
It's selfish to want people to abide by the license I released my project under? That's pure nonsense.
Definitely my preferred approach. If I'm building a website, creating and managing a build process is almost always an encumbrance.

I work with some younger developers that honed their craft after things like SCSS and modern JS frameworks became commonplace. They can't seem to fathom the idea of building even a simple website without node.js.

For many projects - sure - a JS framework, a CSS framework, SCSS, etc, have their place, but I'm convinced many developers are killing themselves with unnecessary complexity. Just wait until you revisit that old blog site you made with tailwind after a few years without updating the mountain of JS dependencies. Oh boy...

In my opinion all of that extra complexity needs to be justified, and for a very large number of basic websites I don't believe it can be.

None of that is to say I don't use (and enjoy using) things like React and Svelte. I am however loving the resurgence in simpler approaches like HTMX.
Try this link: http://es.b-ok.lat/
Turns out this guy who consistently beat all odds and pushes progress further than imagine, is just completely randomly involved in all these events, as CEO but that's just a detail. And obviously he's a fraud, there's someone else all this time really running the show, probably a lizard.

Elon is brash, tough to work with and doesn't behave in upstanding ways, and I don't think I'd want to work for him; he's a jerk. But all this doesn't make wishful denial become true.
To add more info....

Sometime around 2018 or so, I was looking at renting a private car. Prices were all over the place, from $2k (but you had to provide your own chef (or something like that)) to $5k (chef included) for what I'd consider decent accommodations. I was wanting something big enough to fit 5-10 people to have a hackathon. There were several companies that offered this service and all of them were towed behind amtrak. But right in the middle of trying to figure all this out, amtrak announced some "changes" and that drove the cost up a bit and I think several of these companies simply closed shop or greatly reduced their service area so I dropped the idea. Splitting the charges between 5 or 10 people seemed like a fun idea though.
No one is contesting the merits of infra at scale. There are essential teams that would likely be untouched because their job is operationally critical. However, other teams for less vital jobs would be cut. I think you are making an assumption that the core team who manages the infra is being laid off which is not clear.
I had lunch there a couple of times. The food was fantastic!

I'm curious how much damage all this negativity will have on Twitter culture going forward and what it will take to rebuild it. Is it just throwing money at the layoff "survivors" or is it really the mission of building the Internet's town square? I'm pretty interested to see how this plays out!
> I know, and I love ProtonMail (for example) for that, but my use would just be forwarding and not storage or access. In my use case it would feel like overpaying.

It sounded to me like you were _sending_ email as well from your custom domain, which is (in my opinion) the hardest and most expensive part of running a mail service.

If you're only going to use it for forwarding you could just use something like Cloudflare's service as you previously mentioned.
I'm guessing you'll need to watch the upcoming documentary to find out. Or wait for an article post documentary.
I had an opportunity to ride one of these. It was like a private jet except you can live out of it in a way. The train experience is pretty awesome.

Also, rail rights of way are ancient, so you land in the center of major cities.
Kinda!
I know lots of really talented people still there after they got sold to PE as well.
With Starlinks new in-motion service you could have really great connectivity on those trips.
A clean room. It helps a lot. If my room is messy I can't get anything done. Clutter and dirt everywhere is like a mirror of my mind. If everything's messy in my room, so will my code be messy!
Perhaps you are thinking of this story? https://www.inc.com/john-mcdermott/eric-simons-interview-you... - not directly an AOL employee, but an entrepreneur on the office space.
my point was that the architecture and models are so fairly different that at least the title is trivial. Nobody even the original research claimed that.
the suggested research and the paper in question deal with grid cells and how they emerge ...
Still artificial neural networks are summations over functions ... vastly different from our brain neural network. so yes caution is advised, yet that point and the title is so obvious that we don't need a paper for it.

my assumption, the author hides the rather technical contribution of the paper behind a tautology to get some attention. seemed to have worked on hackernews as it's on the front page.
It was the most sensible way to escape nearly 5000 unread emails, and avoid that issue from recurring; iCloud stays at inbox zero.
I just want to appreciate the name, it was clever (at least for my standard, which, admittedly isn't high), and the name was suggested by DALL-E, which have no context on text input
Show an example of the generated id.
Operating Mastodon, Privacy, and Content
GPT-3 Can Talk Like the Philosopher Daniel Dennett Without Parroting His Words
If only there was a name for organisations whos purpose is spesifically to ensure all their resources go to a worthy cause....A charity!
There is a surprising number of big name entertainers who are afraid of flying, and either have their own rail cars, or rent them.

You will occasionally see them parked on the siding by Symphony Park when they're playing Las Vegas.
Do you have a source on Microsoft employing GKH? First time I've heard of it.
Holy grail of sweeteners
Tetra Vaal, 2003
There's a sense in which leaders don't actually make decisions, just tell people what's already happening.

From one perspective Elon is doing what Zuck doesn't have the balls to pull off. The product is mature, has passed peak enthusiasm already, time to stop growing+exploring, and start battening down the hatches?
Kind of like calling someone a pedo because they rescued some kids faster than you
The problem is that right now it's not a valley. It's a downhill slope. Once it reaches a valley, I agree that it's probably a good place to buy, but we're not there yet!
As best I can tell, there are exactly two comments in that file (I don't count the licensing and ahem CVS metadata), and neither of them add any enlightenment at all. Kernel development must be a very special culture. I tried finding the equivalent file in the Linux kernel, but while looking I saw there is at least one example of commentary to go along with a struct: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/torvalds/linux/-/blob/dri...
Our team is preparing the filings. Don't worry will post everything.
I have had multiple conversations with multiple devs about it being ok to use a table tag when the display is an actual table i.e. columns and rows of data with headers etc. It’s semantically correct! One occasion was for a project wherein the lead rejected my code because I used a table tag for tabular data. I was told to use floating divs instead.

I guess the point of my story is that people will misuse tools regardless of what is available to them.
I think I'm smelling what you're stepping in. What made me assume arch was the ease at which everything is 'there' without a snap or ppa via the AUR. Thanks for taking a moment to share a different perspective with me.

I've been trying to have a similar strategy to you with regards to enterprise long-uptime application deployments. I target RHEL and Debian Sid because they move at a almost glacial pace and have quite a bit of documentation.

Do you ever wonder what the trajectory of Microsoft and Canonical looks like with regards to an M&A perspective? It would be a good contender to counter Red Hat's dominance in the enterprise space.
You must be a distinguished individual to have traveled this way!
> Forcing people to quit by dropping arbitrary deadlines without any notice? Notice of 84 hour work weeks? Sleeping in the office?

Did any of this happen as a matter of policy? Or are you getting upset about rumors and hearsay?
I'll try that for shits and gigs. I'll let you know how it goes...
Just to play devils advocate:

Musk more or less got trapped into a deal with Twitter that was largely based upon numbers that were fabricated by executives.

From his perspective, the way to salvage this mess is layoffs. Some of the previous executives (Parag) have committed fraud imo, and should face consequences. They won't though.

Lot's of twitter employees will suffer. To varying degrees, many of them played a role in the house of cards that is twitter.
NFTs suddenly now the Beanie Babies they always were.
It will cast a narrative of Musk as someone who is successful only in a low interest rate economy. When interest rates tighten, companies have to show they can deliver more than Treasury notes. That was really easy when the interest rates were close to zero.
There's an outdoor area on the top (11th) floor of our building - the door is always locked during restructures.
Most dot-com stocks went to 0. There's a famous "99 percent club" of stocks that became wallpaper.
Can you elaborate this please?
Specific language expertise rarely matters. I intentionally avoid discussing specific technologies used to achieve results/goals/services unless it's highly relevant (e.g. creating a RESTful web service etc.)

It's good to have your technologies listed, and be honest if your doing something out of your comfort zone... but there really isn't a technology out there that can't be picked up in 1-3 months.
If you find a way, I'd like to join you.
Yes. The reason a social network works is because of its brand, adoption, and network effects—not features (App.net sounds like a Boomer social network).

Twitter is so well-established that introducing a premium paid version would be de-facto successful—if done properly, not like Twitter Blue—for producing revenue. Especially because so many people rely on it to communicate.

A rough example:

Twitter Basic = Free. Follow up to 50 people. Bookmark up to 100 tweets. 140 character limit. Ad supported.

Twitter Pro = $5/month. Follow up to 500 people. Unlimited bookmarking. 280 character limit. Up to 10 minute videos. Customized ads.

Twitter Business = $10/month. Follow up to 2500 people + all of the above.

Twitter Elite = $15/month. Elite Checkmark, unlimited follows, all of the above, + 420 character limit and up to 30 minute videos.

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It can certainly be done, but it requires creativity and speed. Both of which waved bye bye to Silicon Valley about 10 years ago so it will likely be a mediocre version of the above at best.
The reward is the oodles of money you get when you succeed.
on a tangent ... beautiful typography, I love Matthew Butterick's work on legible fonts an his guide to practicle typography.

all the best with the lawsuit.
I dunno, if he just happens to exploit people to do worthy things then that’s still better than most billionaires right?

We don’t get annoyed at the truly bad ones exploiting people, that’s just the way things are (e.g. Bezos), but because there is a disconnect between what we perceive as lofty goals (e.g. exploring space, electric cars) and exploiting employees, Musk gets a ton of (personal) flak.

Of course, it doesn’t help he can be an arsehole.
DNS failure on

https://z-lib.org

https://booksc.org
Promise to pardon Jan 6 insurrectionists?
I set up a gmail adress, and routed all my domains through CloudFlares new Email product. It's free, and lets you route email to as many addresses as you want (? I think...) to other adresses, in this case my Gmail account. I then set up my GMail account with one profile per incoming address, and to automatically use the corresponding address when replying.
For a long time, Microsoft has used software licenses to reap profits from Windows and Office, the two products that enabled Microsoft to capture near-monopolies in their respective markets.

Now, Microsoft is violating other people's software licenses to repackage the work of numerous free and open source software contributors into a proprietary product. There is nothing moral about flouting the same type of contract that you depend on every day, for the sake of generating more money.

Either the entire Copilot dataset needs to be made available under a license that would be compatible with the code it was derived from (most likely AGPLv3), or Windows and Office need to be brought into the commons. Microsoft cannot have it both ways without legal repercussions.
I expect any "perform a conversion of some sort on a byte stream" implementation that uses 0 SIMD instructions and is not memory bound is leaving a lot of performance on the table, especially if one is permitted to mess with the design and layout of the input to make it more amenable to vectorized consumption. I cannot confidently claim that we're missing a a >2x speedup in this case though, it may be as low as ~1.3x or something.
“passwordless” is a great term, but I can't imagine going through my day without ever having to login to something using traditional password/username combos.
You really think he spent more than a few seconds mulling over employee comics?

It seems really doubtful considering he was getting up-to-speed on a sizeable company bought almost entirely with his own money.
They changed something within the ANC codebase, they confirmed as much. It's also not disputed that it's of a different / lower quality than before (if you can tell or not is up for debate).

The APM already have issues with reliability as is so i'm sure this is only bound to make people more upset.