skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes it’s a whole scene, but sometimes the only reason for a new chapter is comic timing. Or to shove more jokes in the chapter titles, of course. So I wouldn’t say they were discrete, as a break could come in the middle of a scene.

Seeing Vonnegut use chapter breaks for all sorts of purposes — dramatic, comic timing, scene breaks, suspense, etc — really encouraged me to use shorter chapters in some of my own writing, along with some of the techniques. Just like metadata is data, chapter breaks, line breaks, and white space are text. Of course the more you use it for tricks, the more you see the fourth wall, which might not match your tone — like all techniques there’s always a trade-off. More tonally serious works that use short chapters tend to avoid chapter titles, for instance.
The model where law enforcement officers have to visit ISP facilities reduces the duration and scope of surveillance. Throw in a process where you need to get court approval into the mix, and this provides some level of oversight into the surveillance machinery. (Though abuses are certainly possible with this model, see [1]).

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/05/foriegn-intelligence-s...
That's not any different from the other Quest headsets or anything else for that matter. Show me a VR headset that can run 8 hours on a charge.

You can charge while using a Quest or you can buy an external battery pack if you need to use it for longer periods of time.
Right, should have said that. Germany.
Sometimes these low-code platforms only have one idea of a user. So, maybe you make a app to accept applications for employment. It's reasonable, then, to pay licenses for your developer and your HR staff. But, if you want the candidates to be able to check status of their application, often the licensing is such that you would have to pay for a seat per applicant.
> Why is it easier to monetize professional content?

For the same reason that Twitter is currently under fire: brand safety.

Brands don't want their ads to appear next to people spreading flat earth conspiracy theories, drunken ramblings, hate speech or dangerous "challenges" - just think back to the Tide Pod "challenge", if you were an advertising buyer for Tide, would you want an ad for Tide as a pre-roll for a video where a bunch of morons eats them like candy? That crap alone led to almost 7700 hospital incidents and at least fourteen deaths [1]. Additionally, you have people without a fucking clue what they are doing who upload videos like high voltage arc burning in wood, showing no concern to safety - and at least 30 people died because they were blindly following these videos [2]. Other stuff I've seen are "DIY" YouTubers doing electrical work and even I as someone who's not formally certified but have way over a decade worth of experience in construction and maintenance immediately see just in which amount of danger these people go.

And hell even actual professional YouTubers like HeavyDSparks routinely show a shocking lack of caring about workplace safety. Not wearing proper PPE (helmets, shoes), standing barely a foot away from a winch cable with thousands of pounds of load on it... it's bad enough that people don't care about OSHA guidelines on their own, but showing that on YouTube... I respect the guy and his team for the good work they do to help out people and nature, but they could definitely do way better in promoting safe workplace standards!

Platforms that allow large scale unmoderated publication of user-generated content will always end up facilitating grave injury and death.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption_of_Tide_Pods

[2] https://hackaday.com/2022/05/02/the-most-deadly-project-on-t...
"Picture texting" (next thing they'll be sending pictures in text, oh wait ... )
> That’s not what 10x means to me. It means 10x the median productivity, i.e. 10x a competent programmer.

There are quite a few engineers/devs out there that produces negative net value, when taking into account management overhead and other resources consumed (even when ignoring their salary). Some of these are just in the wrong place, they don't have the talent, skills or motivation to work well with their team, and but might be "competent" in another team.

Even at the median level, output may often lack creativity and inspiration, and add relative little value. The functions they do may be easy to oursource, replace by standardized software or could be built by better developers much more quickly and with higher quality.

I think in most companies who do software development, at least half of net value is generated by the top 5-10% or so developers. (Making them 10x engineers compared to the median). These are the ones that drive new ideas and approaches successfully (instead of chasing cargo cults for no benefit), they are the one that write the code that other developers imitate and build on top of, and they are the ones that contribute to team engagement and cooperation. (Or at least 2/3 above.)

As for the number being 10x the average developer, that's much lower, since the top 10% pulls the average up quite far from the median. I would guess 0.1%-1% is 10x the average, depending on company.

These would be the ones that are able to identify and solve problems others are not even aware exist (or have given up on), the ones that understand the business they're in better than most product managers, and actively drive development of killer apps/features that others didn't even consider. Often they're entrepeneurs or leaders as much as developers.
> he can't force his employees to work under his total control

That is because he actually can force them to be under his control.

> He also can't accept the gain in life capital for his employees in working from home for his workforce and that the future of work for humanity is probably decentralized offices and WFH, not middle managed, over the shoulder, supervised, centralized offices.

I don't think he cares about their lives. Meanwhile, long hours in office have multiple advantages for controlling CEO like Musk. The people are removed from outside influences (friends, family, time to read) and closed in his own echo chamber. Whatever he wants to normalize, it will be harder for them to see is not normal outside of that bubble. It is another variant on what cults, monasteries, armies etc do ... the more they isolate you from outside influences, the better you surrender own agency.

Plus, people not comfortable with above self exclude. It is win win win for ceo. Not necessary effective, but produces strong loyalty and obeisance. Which has advantages also for productivity.
After reading Cat's Cradle, I saw him speak in 1991. He gave his Shape of Stories lecture. I left believing he was really Mark Twain reincarnated, but he really wasn't. Twain is a parody of Vonnegut.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FslqWztRS8M

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#World_War_II

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SiVasR2Gzo

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Politics
I think it's about the incentive and not about other companies not doing it. Apple decided to move to ARM and the reason is probably in their strong connection to the ARM ecosystem which basically means that they have an edge with their vertical-integration approach when compared to the other competitors. Apple is one of the three _founding_ companies of ARM. Other two were VLSI Technology and Acorn.
Go get addicted to TikTok for a month and find out how high quality the stuff can get. There are farmers, professors, chefs, mathematicians, dancers, artists and so much more doing amazing things on the platform.

Privacy concerns aside, it really is a wonderful nexus of humans.
Having a high IQ doesn't make you immune from cockups.
In the meantime, Talon is pretty good. You can use Vim motions and commands as you normally would, except using your voice (this applies to any editor, really):

https://talonvoice.com/
2006 reddit looks pretty political https://web.archive.org/web/20061109051326/http://reddit.com...
That's more of a 20 year timeline goal for anyone. They can still dominate VR in the meantime by staying at the leading edge in hardware. If they want to secure their future they'll have to continue to invest a lot in developing the systems and apps that people want to use.
Thanks for this, this was quite insightful to an outsider. Not sure if you will still see this follow up question but what do you feel in the production stage that is the most challenging or costly process? Effective and accurate DNA rocombination? Filtering for high yielding cells? Or the purification stage?
> subscriptions account for half of Twitter’s revenue

A lofty ambition indeed. Getting $5billion out of twitter users or an anual subscription of $15 out of 100% of the users sounds like hard work. However, if you drop the avertising revenue to $350 million you can do the WhatsApp $1 a year model.
While it may not be accurate, but for "idempotent", did you mean "invertible"?
Rewilding Your Attention (2021)
Sure. For example, painting a picture is art; painting a wall is craft.
Have you any idea what it takes simply to maintain a machine such as twitter, let alone make even minor alterations? There was a recent telling interview by someone who used to work there who thought it wouldn't be long until the whole thing collapses on its own because there were huge teams dedicated to simply keeping the thing running.
Ok so how is it different from what the USA does?
WHY are you pronouncing it "notify" in the README.md, instead of "nifty" ?! :)
This app is something else. I love it!
> but almost half of it is actually only available in a proprietary build from Microsoft

Which half?

VSCodium works great, so I'd go as far to say 99% of VSCode is actually open source (the name and icons being exceptions). You cannot say proprietary extensions are half of VSCode.
> Is there a real downside to this?

Google figuring out you are not in India and blocking your account
Oh, these tribal migrations have happened before. Most people indeed leave, but some do actually find that they like it more each time such a wave happens.

Fediverse is in the best sense of the word, weird. You have to embrace the weirdness to understand it. Not everyone can, or will. It would take a lot of time for that weirdness to be ironed out so that most people would be comfortable using it, but I don't think many in the community developing it are interested in that.
>The original post that you questioned was related to vertical integration - you could effectively find and replace it to “so you’re saying producers of operating systems shouldn’t be able to make their own web browser?”

I think time has shown MS was correct in making their own browser, but of course incorrect in all the corrupt tactics they used to make their browser succeed over Netscape's.
If you are saying that hypothetical client knows a better song/artwork/code from worse, boy are you in for disappointment...

My point was that insane amounts of curated fully original works were required to get the output of these generative tools to the "occasionally impressive" level it is at now, and those original works exist precisely thanks to copyright. To say "oh we don't need copyright now" is to saw off the branch on which this hinges.

If you are into this stuff and want to see it become better you should rather promote copyright and differentiation of fully original works.
If it chooses to be. This is a voluntary arrangement. If the monopoly becomes destructive (e.g. it raises prices) then there will arise a competitor that sees they can make more money than the buyer can afford to pay by charging less and gaining a large chunk of the market.
We can see that the way a human digs and the way an excavator digs are similar, except for the matter of scale. We don't know if the way humans study code is the same way that Copilot learns. Learning methods aside, humans do seem to be far more sophisticated about the ways they use code (understanding subtleties of copyright, attribution and so on) compared to Copilot.
Infinite value is not possible, so infinite x is only possible when comparing such engineers to someone who produces <=0 value.

And compared to those, every engineers that produce >0 value is an infinite-x, making this quite trivial.
How did the sender find your email address to contact you?
I'd like to see how they do with my creative variable and function names.
>Think of a time in the past. Say the 70s. Did everything look the same?

No. At worst it just had a few shared aesthetics (which we associate with the 70s look). But far more divergence. And even the aesthetics were way more open ended (e.g. the color palette was huge, now it's white, gray, 4-5 pastels and generall very similar-looking hues that dominate most industries).

Look at the brand logos for fashion brands in the TFA, for an example of logos looking unique in the past and then changed to totally homogeneous.
If him "composing a scene" means copy pasting clips of the movies he studied and smooth things over, then yes that would be obvious infringement.

And that is what copoilots AI mostly does.

It doesn't "understand the concepts and reproduce something alike" in the sense a human does. It might understand some concepts here and there but it also does a lot of heavy lifting my verbatim "remembering" (i.e. copy pasting) code.

This is also why some people argue that the cases for copilot and some of the image generation networks are different as some of the image generation networks get much closer to "understanding and reproducing a style". (Through potentially just by it being much easier to blend over copy-pasted snippets in images to a point its unrecognizable.)

One of the main problems GitHub has IMHO is that anyone who has studied such generative methods knows that:

1) they are prone to copy-pasting

2) you don't know what they remembered (i.e. stored copies of in a obscure human unreadable encoding, i.e. just distributing such a network can be a copyright infrigement)

3) you don't know when they copy past

4) the copy pasted code often is a bit obscured, ironically (and coincidentally) often comparable with how someone who knowingly commits copyright theft would obscure the code to avoid automated detection

Which means GitHub knowingly accepted and continued with tricking its copilote users into committing copyright infringement under the assumption that such infringement is most times obscured enough to evade automatic detection....
Not to be rude, as I appreciate the motivation behind your work, but your post ironically followed SEO junk format:

1. Enter the discussion on a human level

2. Hook onto existing context

3. Argue issues with existing context

4. Present your own software as a solution to these issues

It is like a date that only wants to offer MLM business opportunities, or a long-form joke that ends with a disappointing "better nate than lever" punchline.
> cross-posting has been around for as long as there have been platforms. It just happens.

there’s a range between “something i posted to my public newsletter/blog” and “encrypted signal chat message”. for most people, crossposting is OK in the former, but a clear norms violation in the latter. ultimately, this can only be enforced culturally — and yet most of us still expect that as viable: “it just happens” is the thinking of a selfish CEO who does something blatantly unethical and defends himself by claiming “but i didn’t technically break the law!”

Mastodon is somewhere on this scale — and quite likely at least slightly closer to the chat end of that scale than twitter is, taken in whole. it also has features to signal what is appropriate (e.g. it’s more of a violation to cross-post something with a lock icon next to it than with an unlock icon than with a globe icon). but new users aren’t likely to have a strong understanding of this visibility setting, so it’s even more the case that a norm violation might be obvious to one section of the userbase while the (unacquainted) norm violator is completely unaware.

yeah, defederating is a solution. in a similar sense that getting a restraining order is a solution to IRL disagreements. it’s more pleasant for everyone if you can reach shared norms and only deploy the stronger tools against those who actually mean you harm.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking is still alive at least in medical practice. Its Nuance Dragon Medical One product is fairly popular in some regions for medical report dictation as radiologists don't like to write them down (sorry ;) ). I've seen a Philips product in that field too. Seems like LG's TVs used their recognition engine for a while (don't know if that's still valid)

The story for the most mainstream-popular dictation softwares is kind of funny. Back in the late 90's there was Dragon NaturallySpeaking and IBM's ViaVoice. In early 00s, after a financial fraud and bankruptcy involving both the then current Dragon owners and Goldman Sachs, they got bought by Scansoft. Scansoft bought Nuance, began to use its name, and then got exclusive rights for ViaVoice (!) from IBM.

Now, in March this year, Nuance has been acquire by Microsoft.
>it's the platform that meta wants, not the "product" they demonstrated (that looks childish from your POV).

you need the exceptional content to kickstart a platform. steam doesn't work without half life 2.
>I can download code, inspect it, install, and then create a RPM package, which can be installed in a safe way by DNF package manager, but I cannot do that with `curl | bash` method of installation.

But you can?
Crash safety standards
It's worth noting that `map` is variadic and acts as an nary `zipWith`. I didn't realize that for a while.

>>> from operator import `add`
>>> list(map(add, range(5), range(10, 15)))
[10, 12, 14, 16, 18]
>>> add3 = lambda x,y,z: x+y+z
>>> list(map(add3, range(5), range(10, 15), range(100, 105)))
[110, 113, 116, 119, 122]
Ha, "conceptually" is perhaps a wrong word. What I meant is that you end up doing the exact same operation, just via a shortcut in the UI.

It's the exact same operation I use interactive rebase for most often in my everyday work, just limited to a single commit (HEAD).
Yes, absolutely. This is way more fun than anything else I could imagine doing for money. Certainly not for this much money.

I only ever do contracts. Short ones preferably, so that I can have as much time off as I need to recharge. My current one is a part time, 2-3 day week gig with a startup that's building a popular product. It's mostly young kids, so they choose stupid but fun tech to build their thing on, which means there's always lots of fun cutting edge technology to play with. I treat it more as a hobby than a job, so I'm happy if they decide they don't need anything built for half a year

My main income comes from a couple feature complete SaaS products (that are also fun to work on) with enough paying customers to keep the bills paid, built on a sensible, boring, stack so that they don't need my day-to-day attention so that I can spend my days on more important things like bouldering, travel, and family stuff.

But yeah, I couldn't imagine being in this position with any other sort of profession.
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Why Correspondence Chess Is Still Popular Among Elite Players
One would think that "people want to do THEIR business be done with it and go on with their lives", but actually people fall for branding and "aspirational" themes more often than not. Especially the people with the money.
An ergonomic keyboard layout like Workman doesn't hurt either. QWERTY was made with typewriter jamming in mind, sacrificing ergonomics completely, especially for English.
Many technical parts of the company had 80% layoffs last week. The people who quit or quiet quit over this senseless RTO mandate will push the company into an unrecoverable brain drain, if they're not already there.
I'm ready to bet you that most new people will not stay on mastodon because it lacks all what made twitter successful
Or it could be that she is experienced with both software and law, and that her assessment is different than yours.

> Kate’s passion for open source began in law school, under the tutelage of Eben Moglen, long-time attorney for the Free Software Foundation, founder of the Software Freedom Law Center, and author of the GPL 3. She interned at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and helped write the first complaint against the NSA for warrantless wiretapping.

> At VMware and ServiceNow, she dedicated her time to designing, building, and testing internal compliance tools in collaboration with their respective internal tools teams. She is no stranger to writing specs, creating wireframes, and massive amounts of QA. So much so, that Kate and her husband, Steve Downing, co-founded Critterdom LLC, a software company whose Open Sorcerer product substantially cuts down the time it takes to manually review source code for licenses and create a customer-facing disclosure of that source code.

https://katedowninglaw.com/about/
Exactly! Any target metric can be gamed ;)
Microsoft’s unification of .NET advances a little
> as the AI can generated highly specific images of subjects that aren't even in the original training set

I haven't seen any concrete examples of this yet.
On a laptop. On a 30" display, full-screen apps are unusable.:)
I've been running Docker on WSL 2 for a while now, without systemd or Docker Desktop. There's no need to wait for systemd.

You can install Docker following their Linux guide and then in your shell's profile file add:

if grep -q "microsoft" /proc/version &>/dev/null; then
if service docker status 2>&1 | grep -q "is not running"; then
wsl.exe --distribution "${WSL_DISTRO_NAME}" --user root \
--exec /usr/sbin/service docker start >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
fi

Basically the first time you open a terminal it'll pause for 5 seconds while the Docker daemon is started but it'll stay started for the duration of your Windows uptime even if you close your terminal. The next time you open a terminal it'll be instant.
The only time I’ve ever successfully used voice recognition was teaching skyrim to recognize my words of power. Shouting fus-roh-dah ! was incredibly satisfying.
That's true - Portal? I know some people who have it; it seems okay.
Many FreeBSD user do care about jails, but they’re certainly not as easy to use as docker and so they’re not (anymore) going to get anyone rushing to drop Linux and move to FreeBSD.

Docker spanked a ton of VC money hosting the worlds software to create the smooth developer experience that we’ve come to expect from them. I don’t really see how an open source project is supposed to compete with that. Particularly as, whilst they gained a lot of mindshare, they don’t show any signs of getting their money back.
I'm still very unconvinced that gaming is going to be the thing that drives VR adoption. I think primarily social apps will dominate VR in the future and secondarily experiences that you can't have anywhere else like experiencing a nuclear explosion https://youtu.be/pfTCHHy_ukY?t=85
I find so ironic that most people that complain about telemetry are also big Google Docs users, or Web apps in general.

Not necessarly your case, but surely for most complainers.
But where is the limit then?

Counting all the code I have read in my life, it's also quite a lot.
For some people the downside would be using Google, and/or jumping all that hoops.

For that price I rather use Migadu, that has a 19$ Year plan.
Yes, neural network compression is, indeed, very impressive.

> But it is equivocally not just copy pasting from a database of images.

Just because you put a lossy compression step in the middle doesn't mean it's not copy-paste anymore.
I like the term fellow. Like, “fellow feeling” or “hey, fellows!” While mostly used for refer to men, it’s originally gender neutral and has a nice vibe about it.

Hello, fellow!