skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And yeah, you're not going to sucker me into wasting my time arguing with his fans.

I just think JP says a lot of things that make sense, but I am open to opposite perspective, as long as it's supported by strong reasoning. Most criticisms of JP I've seen are either vague or shallow, I never see anyone actually deconstruct his argument.

If you don't have time, I respect that. But I assure you, if you have good reasoning to disagree with his ideas, I'll be perceptive. I don't care much about JP himself, but I am passionate about intellectual rigor, which JP seems to have, IMHO.
I've had this happen somewhere I worked: "ceo: well be laying off a big portion of the company, you'll find out who tomorrow". I don't know the right way to do this, but I know this is the wrong way. What possible good does this achieve?
Sharecroppers complaining is part of what created the Russian revolution.

And as for Spotify you are factually incorrect. Spotify started its life as a C++ desktop application and back then something similar could not have been built on the web.
You don't need to scroll down at all, at least on desktop.

It's right there at the top, very prominently.
I second this recommendation; Cheng's book is probably the most approachable of the recent wave of category theory texts which does not assume the whole edifice of abstract algebra as a starting point.

Most CT texts introduce categories around page 1, and the Yoneda lemma a handful of pages in. Cheng's book builds up intuitions until chapter 8, where categories are defined over the course of several pages, and supposedly (I'm not there yet) ends the book with the Yoneda lemma.

You might think this means the book is mostly fluff. First: if you read it and think that, you're probably a more advanced reader than she's targeting. Second: goodness no, it's packed to the brim with categorical intuitions; there's a whole way of thinking that she's trying to motivate. Categories are just a formalization of this way of thinking; if you're not onboard with the thinking, the formalization is going to be hollow to you no matter what.

Do recommend.
Case 1) FBWorker thinks its a boondoggle, but is neutral on Facebook, and can read the political tea leaves. Your basic mercenary corporate footsoldier. So stay and get FAANGpaid.

Case 2) FBWorker drinks koolaid (mabye because they cant keep FAANGpaid from forming their identity). Probably noob out of college or someone that just wants FAANG on the resume. Stay and build it. Probably not a lot of talent. And get FAANGpaid.

Case 3) FBWorker generally hates Facebook, maybe a holdover from pre-monetization FB days, why stop your enemy from making a huge mistake? Wait, AND you get FAANGpaid?

Case 4) FBWorker who is principled moralist who once believed they could change the world for the better.

One of the reasons Facebook is in trouble, especially if they actually think the Meta pivot is key, is that almost all their employees are Case 1 or Case 3.

Case 4 quit long ago or doesn't apply anymore.

The question is, is there even a semblance of a core of Case 2 in facebook? Doubt it.

So Marky Z is like a dictator now. Yeah he's top dog of his realm, but motivating people to any fundamental degree isn't possible. Money only goes so far. The organization has purged all the truly motivated talent.
What else are laws - even in a democracy - if not "merely morals that are written down and enforced"?
Yes, it is meant to cause panic in general population but with a purpose of them putting pressure on politician s which in turn put pressure on central banks to tone down the rate increases.
Team Rdio right here. A truly great app for music lovers that arrived when the age of apps felt like a bright utopia ahead of us. I truly miss it.
Because in the tweet is the summary
The restricted App Store does add customer value, and that customer value is degraded if there are other App Stores available.

Namely - if a user buys Apple products because they want the security/curation/whatever that comes with Apple's walled garden, that advantage is broken by forcing Apple to have other app stores on their platform because now that user cannot get all the content through their trusted source as they could before.
I wish this guy would take some of his ample spare time and get his engineers working on the support for HomeKit devices that customers have been demanding for years now[1].

[1] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/iOS-Implement-Na...
I had this thought earlier when thinking about negative prompts in SD. Also, it would be really cool to plug in a PFGM as the base in Imagen while maintaining Diffusion Models for the super-resolution chain

As for the addition, in principle it would be as simple as regular superposition given that maxwell's equations in free space are a linear system! Would be very interesting indeed though!
Why isn't Gimp getting more backing like Blender? Pace of development for it is quite slow which I assume is due to lack of resources?
CLI tool to customize the official Spotify client for Windows, OS X and Linux
I agree that he’s not particularly trustworthy but what would be his motivation for lying here? I can’t come up with any.
For most people, non-technical people in particular, their biggest exploit risk is they re-use the same username and password everywhere, one website gets popped and their creds get in the open, and then people use those creds to get into everything else.

Anything that gets them to use unique, strong passwords for everything vastly improves their general security, even if they are using a third party, commercial organization.
I know several people who endured violent bullying as kids until they learned how to stand up to it.
A few years ago I managed a 10TB Postgres cluster backing a moderately high traffic site. I no longer even give the briefest of blinks at any of the fully managed database prices that used to make my eyes water.
Tragicomic hilarity!

A history rife with fraud, deception, thievery, and greed.

I feel sorry for the marks that fooled themselves, avariciously put the blinkers on themselves, but it takes a certain attitude to not see the signs.
I never really got physically bullied because this was just understood in our house, so I was confident enough with the option to throw down that it didn’t happen.

There was also the fact that my parents spent beyond their means for “good” schools - but I was a tiny kid and otherwise would have made an ideal target.

I think two scuffles overall, both were the first and last time, and one of the bullies became my friend afterwards. No blood was drawn at any point.

Having the confidence to start a fight with a bunch of classmates/teachers watching makes a big difference, they will usually break up the fight.
Krita is great, but you can't print in it.

GIMP is the only image program I have seen on Linux that shows a preview when printing, and it lets the user freely scale the image to get the desired size on paper.
Notice of Recent Security Incident: Lastpass
Can someone in the know comment here on the succinct and honest scope of breach of passwords stored by LastPass users?
>and they constantly delete music on me.

And this is precisely why I moved to bandcamp. If I can't download an mp3 or flac, then that music will just disappear without recourse.

If anyone here seriously listens to music, I would definitely invest the time into setting up some kind of subsonic server (I'm using the music app with Nextcloud at the moment, Ultrasonic as my phone client and Strawberry as my desktop client, works pretty well for my needs); you can still get all the ease of listening to your music on the go without the fear of losing it.
This is the longest bit of clickbait hoodwinking I've seen from Google in some time.

Spoiler; they claim to have made a situation with a quantum computer that is somewhat analogous to the idea but doesn't begin to approach anything the title promises.

You should be better than this google
> the key innovation of crypto is that it's supposed to reduce the risk of lending by bringing realtime transparency to the assets and liabilities of borrowers

Never heard this definition, where did you read this? Any time the word "asset" is linked to a crypto, people should know by now it's eventually going to zero.
Teaching children to deal with physical bullying includes self defense lessons and also involves teaching them not to be passive if they witness physical bullying.

Maybe the bully is the biggest kid in class but it won't matter if every kid knows how to defend themselves and also every kid will team up to pull them off of someone.
Bitfinex doesn't offer any Ponzi-like features, their "staking" product for example is as conservative as can be.
I've worn glasses since I was a small child and that's not my experience at all. It's comparable to wearing clothes, except they cost me less and are quicker and easier to clean and maintain. I've occasionally had uncomfortable glasses with materials that my skin reacted to, but that's easy to resolve. And I've occasionally lost or damaged a pair of glasses, and that's a hassle, but not as much as losing your wallet or keys. On any given day I don't consciously think about my glasses at all.
The GDPR is entirely about personal data stored by the processor [0]. In principle, if the tracking is entirely client-side, and never produces any traces in how the client accesses your server, then the GDPR alone has no ability to stop it. (Not to say that it cannot run afoul of other regulations.) If the results of the tracking are somehow sent back to your server, then it most likely becomes personal data subject to the GDPR.

[0] https://gdpr-text.com/read/article-1/
It’s amazing to me how many HN commenters think people want their discussions filled with grammar/spelling nitpicks in the days of rampant autocorrects gone wild
I don't agree with it but it is far from baffling.
Yes, but having reader work to figure out basic overview information is quickest way to generate negative information. (even more so when consider product is designed to generate clear/better/faster communication).

Given a stack of academic papers, what would the typical reader do if had a choice between a) read a paper & develop an introduction/abstract before deciding if paper is worth time to read or b)move on to paper(s) with introduction/abstract spend 0 time the paper without an abstract/introduction.

Someone with sales/marketing background (friend, google advice) would be aware of things such as https://www.questionpro.com/blog/beta-testing-community/

Recommended hire or see a consultant with suitable background, because then can assess if there are conflicts (aka competitor) with advice being given before potentially waisting time on a suggestion(s).

Yes, even if end product will be open source.
Seems very "micro" in its outputs, relying on water evaporation on one side of a membrane. But the future is very bright with many of these micro-engineered solutions on the rise. Won't save us from global warming or any of that, but the personal benefits of things like low energy Bluetooth powered by button presses, micro voltages generated from brownian motion, meta-materials controlling sound, etc etc.

Very cool addition to the future tool kit.
Features

Change colors whole UI
Inject CSS for advanced customization
Inject Extensions (Javascript script) to extend functionalities, manipulate UI and control player.
Inject Custom apps
Remove bloated components to improve performance

Spicetify Marketplace
Marketplace allows you to browse, download, and install extensions, themes, and CSS snippets with ease.

Includes ad-blocking.
> Again you are trying to make a strawman, claiming that it's just some minority

Are you implying that it's not? If so, do you have any reasoning to support that claim?

> Language isn't just an opinion of few people

Language is defined by how people use it. There is no central authority for the meaning, or level of offensiveness, of words.

> Spare us the BS.

Who's "us"? And what bullshit are you talking about exactly?

Your demeaning attitude is not appreciated.
Because a large percentage of Germans probably speak English so you can still communicate with them without learning German. This is not the same as a single language country.
Not to squash your enthusiams but this has been done many times in the past and it's just never worked out. I think one reason is, except for a few programmers, the average user just doesn't want smart sketching. Sketching is simple but add all the meta tasks and suddenly it's no longer remotely simple.

Not quite the same but there was even a commerical vector illustration app that tried to add a bunch of "smart" programmable features back in the early 90s. It failed: https://www.google.com/search?q=intellidraw+adlus

Of course that doesn't mean someone won't get it right and compelling eventually. Me, I'd guess it would take some serious ML and maybe voice/gesture recongintion for it to really work for more than a few geeks.
It’s traditional for a father to teach his son that he should defend himself. He may lose the fight, but respect is gained. And, you’d be surprised, many bullies are actually cowards and will fold early.

There are many novels directed at young people that show how to behave in these situations. It’s not clear that anyone reads them anymore.

It’s important to work these things out early in life, before the “events” get too serious. Refer to the Wikipedia article on “The Dozens”.

(I have no idea how mothers traditionally taught their daughters to stand up to bullies, but I’m sure they did.)
Yeah, category theory isn't even broadly well studied amongst actual mathematicians lol. I'm all for learning for the sake of learning though!
>"So how much longer will we look away from this threat to the future of the internet? How many more consumers will be denied choice? There's been a lot of talk. Talk is helpful but we need action," Ek wrote."

This from a man who built a company that has forced most of the artists on its platform to give away their work for pennies. This man has no problem with the "threat" to their livelihoods. And who can forget this quote from him:

"You Can’t Record Music Every Three Or Four Years And Think That’s Going To Be Enough" [1]

He also has no problem propping up the the oligopoly that is "record industry" where only three record companies control 70 percent of the market.

And he has no problem with Spotify having exclusives on things like podcast that were once open to all.

Daniel Ek is a hypocrite and an ass. He is best ignored.

[1] https://www.stereogum.com/2093393/spotify-ceo-daniel-ek-stre...
Come on now. How is that baffling?
How is they had help, from family and other powerful connected people
For many, the ease of setup and maintenance is worth the risk.

The general population is not going to setup their own open source password manager solution. So going with an easy to use commercial password manager is better than not using one at all.
> Mathematics is the mathematics of abstraction.

> Category theory is the mathematics of composition.

I don't know why you're being downvoted (tone?) but you're right. Categories formalize exactly and only the notion of composition; its power is that this notion appears everywhere when you know what to look for. Most mathematical abstractions have composition baked in at one level or another, so I think the author should be pardoned for their phrasing; but I find yours more enlightening.
You'll be disappointed because my use case is pretty simple - move the dock, remaximize all windows on the main screen and move chrome to my secondary screen.

https://github.com/jemmyw/hammerspoon/blob/main/init.lua
People are leaving. In droves. There has been a huge exodus of senior talent in the last year. Zuck mentioned that in an earnings call and rather than assigning himself any responsibility said that those people were unregretted attrition and lazy parasites who were just collecting a paycheck during the pandemic. (I am paraphrasing somewhat; you can look it up if you want his exact words.)

Regarding change from within -- that's what a team dedicated to improving decision making is for.
they never know that i secretly use the name of my imaginary pet from grade 1 rather than my actual first pets name.
I think the thing that confuses a lot of people is that if he's actually savvy, why on earth has he agreed to do so many damaging interviews? He's either (a) naive in at least some respects, (b) actually doesn't care about his legal liability - what he told the NYT today, or (c) is playing some sort of long game where he parlays his apparent innocence into a shorter prison sentence. But I think a lot of savvy people don't see (c) working out for him.
I have to admit, I’m really having a hard time caring about whatever drama is happening in the pretend money world.
> It is intensely weird to me that people hold the opinion that their company is building something that is bad for the world, and yet they stay there and continue to help build it

Show me a big tech company (or any MNC) that is not "building something that is bad for the world". The broader question is why do people keep working for big tech, and that has been answered many times before (lots of money, smart colleagues, interesting problems, and a difference in perception on culpability.)
I have over a decade of experience manufacturing medical, aerospace, and military electronics and I will say authoritatively that he is a hack. His main income stream is from selling Chinese tools (which are garbage), followed by YouTube ads, followed by repairing devices. Just because he fixed something you believe to be difficult the same day does not make him competent.
There's also cost savings that are numbers shuffling on a spreadsheet and then there's cost savings that are actually less money leaving the corporate accounts.
> Elon probably got what he wanted from Apple and everything else is just fud for the masses

I feel like Elon going Apple HQ is not a sign that he got what he wanted, it's a sign that he was summoned there to be disciplined. If he had some form of leverage over Tim Cook, it would be Cook that would be doing the traveling.
I would answer them Raspberry Pi is the only standardized-config, also fairly widespread and reasonably affordable computer. Standardized config is a must for a custom OS (so it is reasonably easy to fully support the hardware), price is among things which killed Be, vibrant community of geeky enthusiasts of all levels is a great bonus. RISC-V doesn't have any of these, it hardly even exists.
Guess what, they will keep getting hacked and it doesn't even matter
The way I see it the users have two crappy options based on business model:

1) Apple's freedom from inspection: they control your device and their ecosystem because they make money off the ecosystem. The take a cut of the phone/computer/watch you buy then anything you buy in their ecosystem because the ecosystem is their product. Your data is (mostly) safe from advertisers because that's not their business.

2) Google's device freedom: you can do whatever you want with your device because your are the product. Sure you can load a complete separate system of mail and chat clients and not sign into google, but really, will you?

Of course there's option 3, linux. Neither the ecosystem or you is the product, but where's the money in that. No one is going to spend billions of dollars to get you to buy Linux.

Whether Apple or Google (or MS or w/e) is the arch villain is really just a matter of perspective. Is two or three options a great place for consumers? No, of course not, it all sucks. I think a system built around who-gets-the-most-money-wins is the real problem.
> It's a 100 page paperback book, with illustrations and text, on facing pages. The pages are yellowed, so it's not an option simply scan to PDF - they'll need to be cleaned up.

If is a repetitive task it looks more like a job to automatize on imagemagick. Gimp can do it also with plugins, but I would meditate first about imagemagick instead to repeat the same sequence of commands 100 times on Gimp.

Then use a quick script on Perl or your preferred language of choice for writing the main part of the tex file for you. Something like this on pseudocode:

open file output

print $output "lines of preamble";

for each $file in directory "pagesofbook"

{print output.tex "\begin{figure}\includegraphics{$file}\end{figure};\n;}

print output.tex "\end{document}";

close output.tex;

then fine-tune the texfile
> It's a common observation that many mathematicians and maths students tend to fall into either the algebraic or the analytic camp

(we don't talk about the topologists)
Yes, but whether you legally must get consent is a separate question from whether you can count unique visitors while still being unable to tell them apart from each other.
in what other tech stack is it a good idea to have all your eggs in one basket?

that's why it's baffling. The convenience is outweighed by the possible loss.
Why would Spotify allow you to replace payment processor? App developers make this complaint about Apple and Google because the App devs are actually selling something. In this case you are buying a service from Spotify. It literally makes no sense in this case.
1. Get access to build infrastructure (e.g. via supply chain attack)

2. Inject code in build to export user's passwords to remote server after update is installed
Are there instances of apple disallowing criticism of Apple?
A bias towards the party that isn't actively trying to dismantle Amercian democracy? Ooh, scary.
“Too late” in this case is being paid not to work for 4+ months.
Hilariously, in my circle of friends none of the die hard progressives own an EV, it's the three firebreathing Trump supporters that are all-in on electric vehicles. They drive a lot of miles and appreciate the tremendous cost savings. None of them strike me as particularly sanctimonious. I think you're just extremely ideological and you see what you want to see.
bear market is one thing recession means the economy is shrinking.
If pugs fly then yes to the color blue
Publications are not always a requirement for being granted a PhD.
Holy cringe at the ChatGPT answer.
You could say pretty much any corporation in America is like the CCP in that they are undemocratic and take unilateral action at the expense of stakeholders. Karl Marx has a lot to say about this. Complaining about Apple in these terms is missing the forest for the trees.
Yet Another Cheathsheet tool (150 cheatsheets on a single page)
I have seen a lot of cheatsheets and tools but I just need to create my page where I have everything I work with in one place. Searchable, minimalist and can just be my home page at work .. hope it helps :)
Unicode doesn't have the flag of Taiwan, it has a way of encoding "tw" in the context of an ISO county code.
even with everything, given the norms of lock files for even the most basic of web apps, you're still at "need to roll out a client update".

Now that's not to say that something can't be sneaked into other work! But the bar is a bit higher than "take over a dependency"
I don’t think trying to fix a species-wide issue is a productive approach at all.

The reason people bully is the same reason people kill is the same reason people commit genocide.

If you’ve got a solution for that, I’d love to hear it. Seems to me that teaching resilience is a much more productive approach.
Seems to me that a product/knowledge that can save that kind of money ought to be easily portable to places where it will be properly valued.