skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All this horsepower deployed to image generation is interesting but somebody wake me up when there is a stable diffusion for SQL or when on demand generative User Interfaces are spun up on the fly to suit the purpose.
> programming languages that appeal to mainstream developers and companies will always optimize for development teams of wildly varying skill

Does emacs have a hotkey for this sentence? Or why does it keep coming up in every discussion remotely related to lisp?
You led off with:

> If you listen to WikiLeaks people or the greater associated clique, I think it's clear that they're a politically oriented group. It's not a conventional/general journalistic ethos. More like a party publication.

This is the line of attack that's been used over the last decade to build public support for the US government's campaign against WikiLeaks. This culminated in Pompeo's labeling of Wikileaks as a hostile intelligence agency (as I quoted above).

Assange is facing extradition to the US and 175 years in prison for publishing evidence of US war crimes in Iraq. The US government's case hinges on trying to separate WikiLeaks from journalism. Your argument plays right into that.
Talk about cognitive dissonance. If they're going to use those colours on a map the land should be the greenish colour and the sea the blueish one.
That didn't happen for me, either it was fixed in 20 mins or I don't know.
i think eventually someone will do
Its an "input only" type, aka don't return it, but use it as an argument
Alpine Tower is so recognizable that it’s one of just a handful of visual reporting points for helo and low-flying fixed wing traffic transiting the Hudson River. (Verrazano Bridge, Statue of Liberty, Clock, Intrepid Aircraft Carrier, George Washington Bridge, and Alpine Tower.)
There isn't an "easy" solution, but step 0 is recognizing that there is an historic problem that is being dragged with us into the future because of the way our current systems work.

Political solutions are necessary, maybe something like subsidized loans for people from formerly redlined communities to purchase and restore homes, or start businesses. Urban planning projects, like increasing mixed-zoning, pedestrian traffic, and good public transportation would help keep money in the neighborhood. Then there is the question is how to deal with gentrification and increase quality of living in a community without displacing people from that community. It takes a team of experts from various fields, the community itself, and goal-oriented cooperation.
Thank you for the feedback, I'm glad it resonates!

I'm already working on both of your suggestions, hopefully this will be possible within the next 2 weeks :)
And while we are at it - how do we fight unjust NOT-bans, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33727981 ?
> This is more like a copy of some important christian manuscript getting passed down from St Peter to Pope Francis 260 times over the past 2000 years.

That's actually still pretty incredible. There's a reason that large document caches are our main source for the translations of the Bible, today. Preserving even religious documents through all the upheavals of time and politics, is not a small matter, even if they have a large team dedicated to it. (Which early on, was not the case).
Researchers at Stanford Have Developed a New AI Benchmark
I wish it were for me. I love handwriting and I've spent lots of effort to make it look neat and I really like how it looks, but I convince myself that I understand and comprehend everything while I write but if I try to solve a problem or explain to myself what was going on it's a blank. I've found repetition, spaced or not, much more useful both for understanding and retaining information, nowadays I handwrite only if a passage is written in a confusing way or if I need to add more information to the textbook.
The trick is to use shift+right click to access the old context menu. Incidentally, shift+right click also enables to copy the full path to any file in file explorer.
VC money searching out the next gold mine for re-inventing P-Code, IBM TIMI, Burroughs, M-Code, EM intermediate language, JVM bytecode, MSIL, ....
I believe the status quo is non-realistic drawings (think Lisa Simpson) can be illegal.

I don't think the fact that it's artificially generated has any bearing for some important purposes.
"First time is not first, second time is an inaccurate citation." Could we settle on this?
Why are people still using programming languages where concurrency is hard?
Basically what IBM and Unisys mainframes have been doing the last 60 years.
Thank you for saying that! :)
Yes, I think it aids each other.

For me the possible boost in memorization on paper however does not outweigh my ability to re-structure (nested lists in an outliner) and edit text on the PC.

This is especially true if I need the information later again, because full-text search helps and a well structured document also let's me dive back in more easily. Here I also have the added benefit of not needing to digitize it before sharing it.
They can just creat another account then
Wow, funding must be good...

Don't assume all startups in all stages are like that.
This sounds suspiciously like the story of Duke Devlin.
> none of them do what is actually needed in order to fix the situation permanently: "Stop feeding the beast"

You are free to use third party app stores... and have basically no income because very few people use them.

You are free to use more open video sharing platforms and social networks... and have your content not be as discoverable, because once again, very few people use them.

You are free to use third party payment processors... and run into issues with integrating them or what locations they support.

As an individual, the network effects are too large and any attempts to fix the situation might need to start with legislation. As it currently stands, you are simply putting yourself at a disadvantage compared to others who go the "easy route", which may or may not be worth for you in the name of integrity.

Personally, when I want to put a video online or something, I don't say: "Okay, let's fix the world's issues and start with political advocacy." I also don't say: "Okay, let's review all of the video platforms and then spend the majority of my time trying to get more people on the platform of my choice." (some do, with varying degrees of success) I just put the video on YouTube.

Well, to be honest, I also have backups on a self-hosted instance of PeerTube and de-cloud myself as much as possible (e.g. self-hosted Nextcloud) and have all of my VPSes run FOSS in them and be easily replaceable (thanks to local backups), instead of allowing too much vendor lock to happen.. but that's besides the point, when you think about content that others consume in particular, network effect reigns supreme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
It confused me that the letter boxes were divided in 7+3, thus I thought it would be two words while the correct answer was a single 10 letter word. Maybe try to avoid wrapping words.
That's just by convention though, right? C++ doesn't prevent me from storing the std::span somewhere so that it outlives the scope of the called function? IMHO it's disappointing that C++ adds new memory management footguns without first fixing the basics (like at least some rudimentary lifetime tracking to help with such situations).
Bitcoin cannot be frozen by governments, if you control your private key.
It's math.
At 2:34 camera captured reactor failure
Foxconn builds products for many vendors, but its mud sticks to Apple (2012)
Well NYT (along with multiple other outlets) are currently trying to paint it as a $10B oopsies, so you know how that's going.

Shows how much you can trust the media nowadays.
Better educate yourself on the CLR, not only was it designed for multiple languages, including C++, it doesn't support interpeters, only AOT and JIT compilation.
I wonder if handwriting on a tablet has the same effect as doing it on paper.
Not sure of Terminal emulator capabilities on Apple devices, but thanks to the Sixel standard [1] and a recent implementation in the form of libsixel [2], several applications, including emacs very much support image output in terminals.

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

[2] https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel
I did it by getting in slivers of work during the day (I worked at home) then getting startup and music practice during the night. Succeeded, but sleep obviously suffered.
The 2009 book in question is "Three Treasures" [0]

[0] https://www.amazon.com.au/Three-Treasures-Exploration-Focusi...
> The military is a tool wielded by the government. They don't go anywhere without being ordered.

I don't see (the United States of) America being referenced at all. Even with the context of the parent comments, it's fairly easy to mistake this typical HN comment as referring to wider in scope at a first reading.

Your sarcasm also isn't in line with the HN commenting guidelines.
> Weight follow on plays more highly

What if I listen to Black Sabbath and then my niece wants to listen to the Peppa Pig soundtrack after that? What if it's a party and everyone is queueing their favourite song?

The issue with recommendation engines is that they're dumb as rocks. They cannot tell that the Trentemoller remix might be related to War Pigs, but not Peppa Pig, without ears and a brain.

So, to be safe, they go for simple statistical aggregation which creates safe and boring recommendations that are unable to surface interesting connections.
That remains to be battle tested, and there are already some USENIX talks on the matter.
Well, last.fm has been around for 20 years, but at the outset they took no consideration that two "artists" might have the same name. And they still haven't come up with a better solution than relying on users to edit in things like "There are at least 4 artists with the name David Williams".

So, forgive me for thinking their recommendation algorithm may not be exactly state of the art either. There's no inherent reason a recommendation algorithm shouldn't be able to figure out that an omission is intentional.
I found one https://github.com/andrioni/Catalan.jl/blob/master/src/parti...

I just searched for the doi with github search.
I, for example, read Books on iPad when there’s no connection, but with a cellular version that isn’t common. Yet, having mosh connection inside Blink is a blessing exactly for that purpose as I’m always going back to my stuff on desktop.
Should any android people stroll by: the Termux app has a native emacs package, it even gobbled up spacemacs for me. I never really used it though because I don't have a tablet.

For org only users on ios: beorg is soo good. Miss it on android very much.
I'll bet it will turn out to be a piece of chorizo.
No idea how it technically works, but from listening to a few samples it sounds like they've setup an environment with different instruments and generate notes to play those instruments.

The environment in all of the samples I've listened to so far sound exactly the same, as if they all share the same mixing configuration and mastering.

OpenAI's jukebox for example (check youtube for samples) is actually generating waveforms and sounds completely different.

The image equivalent to this is that I feel soundraw.io has a database of transparent stock photo images that it uses to compose a collage image that adheres to some strict rules depending on the genre.

Whereas OpenAI Jukebox is more like Dalle2 and Stable Diffusion.
Interesting, I consider myself to have a really good sense of direction, I can reliably locate north in a city or wilderness (with decent weather) without a compass, and can cognitively map complicated sequences of directions involving left/right turns w.r.t. cardinal direction. I do use directions in unfamiliar terrain but once I memorize, I no longer need them and I can usually improvise in nearby areas. I also sort of make it a game to get lost sometimes and find my way out, and that exercise helps me learn places too. Also also, I have always loved reading maps, I just kind of get lost in them as a pastime.

However, I still have to use mnemonics to remember which side is port vs starboard (my mnemonic for this is that when facing the bow, aka forwards, port is on the left, because they both have four letters). I imagine this is what you experience when you say you have to think about right vs left, is that pretty close?

Fun little anecdote, my cousin had “right” and “left” tattooed on their wrists because they will forget otherwise. At first I found that unbelievable, but I’ve come to realize how different people can be over the years.
Useful background, if you aren't familiar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

Noteworthy is that the crisis is a huge deal in Psychology - a field which "real" scientists were sneering at a century or more ago.

Personal anecdote:

I once knew a guy who majored in Psychology at a pretty prestigious U.S. research university, back in the mid 1980's. He said that the Psych Dept. there did a big survey of Psych undergrads, asking what they thought of the subject. The most significant finding? That the Psych majors thought the first 2 years of Psych classes were real facts about the real world. But after that - they thought that it was all bullsh*t, and learning how create and spew bullsh*t yourself. (The guy went on to law school, and was quite successful. Which could be interpreted in interesting ways.)
The dataset, LAION-5B, is 240TB of already compressed data. (5 billion pairs of text to 512x512 image.)

Uncompressed, LAION-5B would be 4PB, for a compression ratio into SD of ~780kx, or one byte per picture.
Obligatory YouTube video https://youtu.be/0rliFQ0qyAM
Blockchain is a buzzword, used to trick VCs to pour money in shady bizs.

Blockchain is only good for what Bitcoin does, namely, a distributed ledger for unstoppable, permissionless transactions between peers.

Without a trusted third-party acting as a middle-man.

Is that not enough?
Same here, on Firefox.
I think this is kind of the point OP was making. You mention being in the top 1%—so now we have a definition of 'extraordinary'.

Now look at your life through every facet. Are you really not in the top 1% of anything? 1% is not even that high a bar. You don't even have to be the best on your block to be in the top 1%. Or even tenth best on your block.[0]

It could be anything that you're extraordinary at remember. Even if you want to limit it to creative pursuits, there are so many different musical instruments, art forms, styles of writing, types of dance, that with a bit of effort and specialisation, becoming 'extraordinary' is not that difficult, even before you start 'multiplying' skills (the best writer on running, the best ballroom dancing photographer, etc).

[0]: https://vlesdesigns.com/blogs/facts/how-many-people-live-on-...
Metal snobbery is a legitimate taste, though. It's the sort of thing a recommendation algorithm should consider.
I suspect greesil means resolved beyond a point source. We've so far only managed that for stars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stars_with_resolved_im... .
HCL is the fastest growing language on GitHub, faster than Rust and TypeScript
Interesting project but terrible naming.
I think the biggest difference between building a general intelligence and other engineering problems is that in the latter, the target function is well-defined. With planes, anything that is able to fly safely goes. Nuclear reactors, anything that generates electricity. But with intelligence... What does it need to do, exactly? The 'moving goalpost' is moving because we have no idea where it should be. We're building AI blindfolded. I don't think we're currently solving the problem, simply because we don't know what the problem is.
He has never hidden the fact that he only cares about doing the BEST video ever for YouTube. He doesn't really care about becoming a billionare or giving away $10m a month, he cares that the video will be the BEST ever so if giving away money is a way to make a video more interesting, so be it.
There's hours of interviews with him, if you want to understand him deeper just watch a few. He's transparent in what he does.
https://gist.github.com/estliberitas/98647a02a23c59e8b9a0 claims to be one.

(Used “cool-lex implementation” as search string)
CSAM is a canary for general AI safety. If we can’t prevent SD from creating CP, will we be able to stop robots from killing people?
Another suggestion I heard in this thread is Safari mobile support. With covering both Firefox & Safari this makes a lot more sense to work on. No guarantees though :)

See https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/529
Chronosphere Nudges Observability Standards Toward Maturity
Nice write-up. Useful information even if you've been on the CLI for centuries.
Where can I actually see more about Jai?

All I keep finding are youtube videos and twitch streams, which are the worst way for me to learn about a programming language. I guess it’s still not generally available?
Lol. Each Time I see such software, it's for paid.
Where are open source and open data geek guys?
Imagine this software or Spotify for free and open source and distributed whereas centralised.

Come on geeks
This isn't the case in law in many countries. Whether an image is illegal or not does not solely depend on the means of production; if the images are realistic, then they are often illegal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_po...

Don't forget that pornographic images and videos featuring children may be used for grooming purposes, socializing children into the idea of sexual abuse. There's a legitimate social purpose in limiting their production.
I thought of this one: https://youtu.be/ZFvqDaFpXeM
Might as well use Erlang?
It's fair to not take any UX advice from the person responsible for the Win8 start menu serious, that was a much bigger UX turd than Win10 or Win11 could ever hope to be.
Not AI, at least not for the composition process. It algorithmically combines a library of loops using genre templates:

https://napolitano.de/2021/11/12/soundraw-ai-music-creation-...
Delightful wife & kids. Sweet smell of air in the morning. Not being beaten or raped. Chickens. Modern medicine. New roof. Heated toilet seats. Thyroid medicine. Not having to wear a catheter. Food shopping with my wife. Szechuan cuisine HALLELUJAH. Not being incarcerated. The Constitution.
Happened to me, chrome on Android. Likely there is some precondition required to trigger the bug other than winning the game, since it doesn't seem to happen to everyone
It’s wrong as often as it is right.

And for some damn reason they refuse to stop changing "ok" to "OK" like we're all octogenarians on Facebook.
science fiction is easy. the reality would probably look very different.

in my opinion statism is at fault because it is the manifestation of "let us, here, very locally, protect each others shit, while exploiting all the others"

this thought, or concept of "us and them", (for some it starts even more locally: "mine/yours") divides ppl and funnels assets to those that can afford them.

average downvoter "but mlatu, dont you own a car? what if someone took it from you?"
me:"in this society? that would be theft, and i'd have to call the cops and my insurance company because im still paying that rustbowl off! but imagine instead, if i could trust that there was a different car available so i still could get home, i wouldnt mind it, or if i could trust that there was another as-good solution to getting home as me driving my car there, let me use it!"

society could be based on sharing instead of on hoarding... one if these days ill have the time to develop some societal simulation model or something...

"owning property" used to be very important, when there were only a couple hundred million of us on this rock, but i believe, the longer we remain on-planet, the more important it gets to overhaul that in favor of equaly sharing all resources.

all in favour of fully automated luxury gay space communism say "where's mah figs?"
I'm not aware of any way a cable can damage a device unless it's incorrectly assembled, which almost any cable could do.

Most devices are backwards compatible and will run at USB2.0 speeds. Almost any cable will work, just slowly. That's a pretty big advantage.

Since I don't have much of anything that uses the 3.0 speeds, having everything on one connector is worth it, it's a great charging port, it's great for 2.0 speeds, and you can do 3.0 if needed with some effort.

When monitors hopefully switch over there could be some confusion though. I would imagine they'll need to actually start using the cable marking spec, and things will get a lot easier.
I would assume that most regimes would produce works about themselves, if nothing else. The lack of literature in the middle ages suggests a social and governmental collapse, not the reign of totalitarian dictators purposefully harming their populations in the name of some strange idealism.

A modern nuclear or orbital engagement could very well bring this about, although, I would assume it wouldn't last as long as the middle ages did.
> The trade system which maintained large cities broke down for reasons that will be forever debated re: the decline of the Western Roman Empire. But that is the key, and why it probably deserves to be called a Dark Age.

The normal use of the term "dark age" refers to a time period for which historical records are not available. This makes it difficult to see in the dark age.
Plato's Socratic dialogs are certainly not meant to be taken as a transcription of dialogs that actually happened. Socrates is used as a literary device. It's quite likely that earlier dialogs are more in line with Socrates' actual character but the later ones are what you might call fan fiction for sure.
For a completely different account of Socrates see Clouds by Aristophanes.

I find Socrates a very fascinating character and Plato's dialogs very entertaining to read. He is such an expert troll (no wonder they sentenced him to death).
His personal history contextualises his point, which is distinct from criticising his personal history at broad.

For example, had I said "Barry designed the new start UI. He also has received several speeding tickets" you could make the claim that I am making an ad hominem attack on Barry, since the only reason I would bring up the speeding ticket is to make Barry seem less responsible. His speeding does not affect his ability to design a start menu nor does it influence his design decisions.

However, if I said "Harry has been seen criticising the new start UI for being inconsistent. Harry previously designed the new Settings menu in Windows, which was also inconsistent", there are some important differences to take account of. Specifically, the fact he was involved in the development of another feature in the Windows product, AND it can also be criticised for the same failing that Harry has now applied to the start menu gives us information ABOUT Harry's criticism.

Now we can say "Harry is going to come at this from the perspective of someone on the team" and "Harry has made the same mistake before". Depending on the details of Harry's comment, that could make his comment less trustworthy, but conversely it can also make it more valid.

Calling that an ad hominem is, in my opinion, excessively reductive, and in the case of contextual data being added that is contextually relevant, not appropriate.
Nice, the ancient version of "if you use too much GPS you will loose your sense of orientation"