skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We will cancel it! Vote for us!

Left wing can redistribute, which is quite a left wing thing to do. In practice this does not happen. I remember the outcries when VAT was increased in France in 2014. 3 years later, no-one seriously contending for the elections had a program to roll this back, left or right.

Oh and, by the way: the initial plan was made by a *right-wing president*, to raise it by 1.6%, AND THEN carried on by a leftist but only by .4%.

So, I have at least one example for the exact opposite to what you are saying. I don't buy in your argument

> Absurdly short sighted.

I love how status quo and let's burn the planet is not short-sighted in your world view. That's probably the first somewhat courageous and potentially impactful measure I see on the topic, the systemic view says it may work, why not trying it?
Did you care about the match at all? The mind aggresively prunes information that have no utility for you.
I guess my rule of thumb is "Am I ok with HR seeing this?", this is more about access (tax papers, paystubs, bank statements, ...) than privacy.
My dream is to create an efficient multithreaded runtime that JITs. I came across this article for creating an AST in C and simple machine code generation.

https://keleshev.com/abstract-syntax-tree-an-example-in-c/

I am working on codegen for my imaginary assembler and I'm trying to work out how to set compound expressions such as

struct[key][key2]["balance"] += 100

In assembly.
it turns out he was smart enough to give to both parties, knowing how power can change hands (not saying that giving to either party was a good thing)
That's probably because people recently started asking it to write essays defending white supremacy and genocide, explain how to build bombs, and describe various other unsavory concepts, which it cheerfully accommodated.

Who controls the model controls the spice.
>What I mean to say is that the thing has no value in a market where it's being sold digitally.

Again, yes it does. If it had no value no one would buy it. If it had no value people would not pirate it. People would not hoard it.

And even marginal value is not zero. For someone to make a copy costs some input (time. energy, desire), and they do it because it has value.

I think you have a really bad handle on the meaning of value. All of your misunderstandings seem to be trying to rationalize taking things others created that do have value (both to them and to you) without exchanging value to them.

If it didn't have value, don't copy it. If you take the time and effort to copy it, it has value. Everything else is trying to rationalize taking something you do value at the expense of the creator.

So sure you can wish everything were free to take or copy. But fortunately society does realize there is value in getting people to create things we can all enjoy, even if you decide in your world it's ok to take enjoyment from the labor of others without returning value to them for it. Thankfully the rest of the world doesn't see it that way, otherwise there would be an awful lot less stuff to enjoy.
>Debian is good if you don't want up to date browsers, the only shock i had when i tried Debian after this snap fiasco, ironically that's among things snap is trying to solve (quick updates)

You mean Debian stable. But you have a choice, you can select testing or unstable, which gives you newer software.
Fun fact, a lot of it is open source, just not where you would expect it. During the creation of Clara.io I created over 200 PRs to Three.js:

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3A...

Open sourcing it wholesale at this point is a challenge because parts of the tech stack became parts of Threekit.com. Threekit.com is VC funded and an ongoing business operation.

I do what I can with open source still, see:

https://github.com/bhouston/behave-graph

https://github.com/threeify/threeify
And then there's French Canadian and French French. I find it weird how a lot of English native speakers see them as 2 different languages, as if they were more different than the Texas and London English dialects. hint : nobody's gonna call you a muppet in Texas.
I'm okay with an email address (can just use a throwaway), but I get annoyed when they want you to fill out name, occupation, etc.
For something like low tire pressure, won't a monthly report be too late?
In the past and in some places today profane and obscene material was/is censored and no one bats an eye. Books are being removed from libraries and that has happened apparently for decades.

This type of censorship has been completely accepted by all past generations.
I agree. I understand why they are doing it, but I dont feel good using it. It has me wanting to switch to Fedora for no other reason beyond it makes me feel like my computer isn't my computer anymore.
"That all having been said... SPAM and harassment are not problems because of the expression itself, they're problems because of the disruptive patterns of behavior. The point is not that you can't say something, or have a given opinion, or etc."

Okay, but to ban speech on this is once again to pass judgment on its value to the contribution of the discourse or whatever avenue for communication is at issue. That's why the absolutist position is ridiculous. It isn't navigable from any perspective save for the very perspective they are already criticizing.

Also, I'm not sure why you chose the word arbitrary. That's not what arbitrary means. Obscenity laws aren't arbitrary at all, they are based in specific judgments related to a community's perception of what is and isn't acceptable. I'm not saying obscenity laws are good or especially well-reasoned, but they are clearly not arbitrary. Perhaps you meant subjective/un-objective?
Because most people don't actually care all that much about privacy, at least when the consequences aren't immediately obvious.

Sure, if you flat-out ask someone if they'd be comfortable posting their bank statements on Facebook, they'd say no, of course not. But even if people know that their employer can snoop on the contents of their work laptop (I imagine some people don't realize), it's a hypothetical threat. And often people have some sort of implicit trust in their employer, anyway, for some strange reason.

In my experience, most people put personal things on their work laptop, and don't think twice about it. Unfortunately you're actually the "weird" one, even though I totally agree with you.
https://pytorch.org/get-started/pytorch-2.0/#requirements
> It doesn’t measure intelligence or aptitude or ability to conduct research, it measures the ability to take a high stakes test effectively.

You are being too harsh and dismissive. These high stake tests often are a good indicator of certain characteristics and aptitude in a student. These students work hard, study hard with a consistent methodology to understand the subject of the test. They know they are competing with others and the rewards are high. All this requires a disciplined personality and aptitude (there are different kinds of intelligence). And most of those who succeed in this actually do well in life.

Ofcourse, it doesn't mean that your criticisms against the current model isn't justified or without merit on some aspects, providing you judge it from the right perspective. For example, India is a developing country and our education system isn't looking to identify and groom the next genius. We don't have the resources for that. So it is currently aimed to create an educated working professional class from all sections of our society that can uplift the economy of the country by generating wealth and decrease the growing wealth gap between the rich and the poor (to create an egalitarian society). And what do any industry look for - a hard working, consistent performer, who has the capability to understand how a system / process works and can adapt to it well.

That is why indians, and asians in general, are known and respected for their work ethics around the world in most industries.

But yes, people like you and me would struggle in this system, because the system isn't designed to accommodate the needs of those who aren't "normal" / psychologically healthy. (Hopefully that will change with economical growth and development in education). Note though that this doesn't mean that students who fail to adapt to this system all necessarily end up as failures in life. This is where the social culture also comes into picture in many asian societies. The family and social network of person in the society all try to help them too, both in trying to get access to best education they can afford and in trying to professionally help someone. (A good example of this is how parents make sacrifices and pay for their kids education. And thanks to that, the majority of us with a degree enter the professional world debt-free. (If you are in the US, can you afford to pay for your daughter's education and will you?) It's not all black and white as you think ...
I use Xubuntu and snap just gets in my way. With Apt everything is transparent and 'just werks' or at least indicates what to fix. Snap has been the opposite in my experience and especially seems to make program interop more difficult.

It seems like Canonical said "Apple and Microsoft have (painful) app stores that cater to the non-technical, we need one too!"
Yeah, and once that brief period of easy arbitrage was over, 100% of all people who are paying $10 to mine $1 worth of crypto are people who are trying to steal the $10.
> matrix multiplication to Relus (just a max(x,0))

Transformers famously employ the Softmax activation inside the attention matrix. Very rare to see Softmax anywhere other than the final layer.
I hear a lot of people in the crypto sphere talk about regulation being a bad thing. The reality is that most regulation aims at financial institutions such as these while also protecting the consumer.

Will additional regulation have a negative effect on the value of crypto? It's likely. However, the tech itself will continue to provide value to those who use it to circumvent the banking system. For instance, you can still exchange coins and store them in cold, personal wallets.

The fallout of this collapse will be significant and I hope what emerges thereafter will be a more sensible approach to crypto and more stable value.
It's definitely subversive, as it's subverting communications norms by being rude in the first place.
The failed drug war has historically been a bi-partisan mess. Here is one example:
https://www.salon.com/2013/08/12/where_mandatory_minimums_ca...

You can find similar stories for every congressional term and presidential administration going back decades.
Reminder for you Ubuntu(and XUbuntu and KUbuntu) people:

Snap is closed source garbage ware, with MS Windows forced updating and the terribleness of being 10x slower....

So here's how to "Snap-Off" your system https://haydenjames.io/remove-snap-ubuntu-22-04-lts/
Oh no, you got banned from those places for wearing a nazi armband, but there's multiple other roads, parks, and sidewalks, that allow that (e.g. 4chan), just as easily accessible.
Didn't know it had gotten that bad. I stopped using it when it was clear the desktop was no longer a priority for them. Not blaming them since they're a private company but with so many alternatives there's no need to use a second class Linux "desktop". Fedora is more than great imho.
Maybe I'm weird, but I loathe body text in sans-serif fonts. They aren't all equally bad, but ilI are often confusing. Just the other day I was reading something somewhere with a name that ended in "ill" and I had to copy-paste somewhere else to tell it wasn't just a roman-numeral 3 smushed on the end.

And of course sentences that start with "Ill" just break my flow of reading.
Drivers being ticketed for overloaded trucks was a constant complaint in my childhood home back in IL, where the head of the household owned a concrete construction company.

Apparently the highway patrol would camp out in the industrial/shipping areas and watch for compressed suspensions/bulging tire sidewalls on big trucks as a monthly fundraising exercise.

Obviously there's a business incentive to move as much as you possibly can at once...
As mentioned in the article, the instructions are just plain misleading/wrong. Shutting down the app does not cause a refresh. Shut down and restart and you'll get another pop-up in 6 hours.
Had $5b in annual revenue and served hundreds of million of tweets daily?
I think the question is why it binds to the variable rather than the type. It's obviously a choice that the designers have made; e.g. C# has very similar syntax, but:

int* x, y;

declares two pointers.

I think the syntax and the underpinning "declaration follows use" rule are what they got when they tried to generalize the traditional array declaration syntax with square brackets after the array name which they inherited directly from B, and ultimately all the way from Algol:

int x, y[10], z[20];

In B, though, arrays were not a type; when you wrote this:

auto x, y[10], z[20];

x, y, and z all have the same type (word); the [] is basically just alloca(). This all works because the type of element in any array is also the same (word), so you don't need to distinguish different arrays for the purposes of correctly implementing [].

But in C, the compiler has to know the type of the array element, since it can vary. Which means that it has to be reflected in the type of the array, somehow. Which means that arrays are now a type, and thus [] is part of the type declaration.

And if you want to keep the old syntax for array declarations, then you get this situation where the type is separated by the array name in the middle. If you then try to formalize this somehow, the "declaration follows use" rule feels like the simplest way to explain it, and applying it to pointers as well makes sense from a consistency perspective.
Elon Musk becomes a Fox News darling right before he launches an electric pickup truck. He obviously doesn’t want Tesla to be a brand associated with left wing politics.
I cannot speak for Harvard, but I can speak for other academic institutions. The bloat is very real.

The weirdest thing is that lecturers are paid _only_ in terms of teaching students, but not for any time doing any administration (which there is a lot). Meanwhile, you have buildings filled with administrative staff, whom are hidden away, hard to contact and get annoyed when a form they invented is not filled out correctly.

I think generally, as long as things are working, there is no real incentive to reduce bloat. My hope is that during the recession these institutions look to reduce the operations overheads from the correct places.
It's all very Brexit reminiscent.

"Let's leave the EU and get rid of all this red tape and beaurocracy"

leave EU

discover why all those rules were necessary

slowly re-invent a crappy copy of the above rules, at great personal expense, because the same external forces that existed before require them
The idea that an AI would act like this is surely reflected in the dataset for these language models. So maybe it’s a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy—the model is generating text in a way that reflects our cultural ideas of how an AI might behave.
In Quebec, it sounds mostly like the sound of a car horn :p

"POUT! POUT!"

C'est surtout utilise dans le jingle d'une rotisseries tres populaire : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvzukGgd5_Y
I used Ubuntu since 11.04. I abandoned it for Fedora.

Everything about Ubuntu now is seemingly defined by a spirit of defiance from Fedora. They borrow PipeWire and SystemD, but uglify GNOME, replace Flatpak with Snap, and use *.deb instead of *.rpm. Otherwise it feels mostly the same.

I looked at the Fedora ecosystem and... it's basically just like Ubuntu's point versions, and instead of an LTS every 2 years, you get one every 5 years and it's called Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux. Why pick Ubuntu instead of (basically) upstream? I'll pick the same thing with prettier GNOME and Flatpak instead of the weird mystery lump Ubuntu is now.
Thanks! In many ways Mrdoob's Three.js was critical to Clara.io working. His leadership of Three.js over the past decade has transformed online 3D. And the community around Three.js was critical to it actually working. WebGL was so buggy on devices in 2013-2015 that it was only through joint community effort that we were about to work around those device-specific bugs.
I clicked on this link, and it immediately gave me a pop up about how the site was running a bitcoin miner. Then overlayed a video about some random cryptocurrency.

Maybe having a site that randomly picks an instance that can do whatever it wants is a terrible idea.
Layoffs aren't particularly inhumane, they're common, especially after a change of leadership. If you want workers' rights, fight for them. It's bizarre to make it into a soap opera of judging the moral worth of great men.

It's bizarre how Musk has been propped up into a surrogate for the bad aspects of capitalism, especially by an administration that just overruled a union vote through legislation.
Your prompt was ambiguous and wouldn’t seem out of place on a math olympiad. You didn’t ask it to “square a circle,” you asked it for instructions on drawing a square with the same area as a circle using geometric equivalencies instead of measurements and formulas.
Yes! Reddit has this exact same feature.
THIS! I run Mint 21 on my main PC with the Liquorix kernel (for game performance and desktop responsiveness under load), and it's everything I want out of a Linux distro. More stable and easy to maintain than Arch or Manjaro, more open than Pop!_OS, and just as intuitive as Ubuntu without any Snaps.
There's a video about Florida in the early days of USA and it was mostly a swamp. The last century made it into a state per se but it's really recent.
Of course that was silly that an AI would decide the best election outcome. It implied that humans would actually desire an election outcome based on effectiveness. The reality is people vote on feelings and have no desire for fair or equitable outcomes.

Its funny that HN is supposed to be filled with logical people yet all the time yet jump over logic to get to their creation. I see creators lament,I built this perfect thing and no one wanted it. Exactly. People don't want effective things, they want better things for themselves which usually comes at the cost of others.
There are studies looking at financial decisions by age. IIRC, one concluded that before age 25, investment outcomes are still ramping up. Between 25 and 65-70, investment outcomes are fairly flat. But they also concluded cognitive abilities peak in the early fourties. The explanation given in the study I read is that by that time, experience takes over to smooth things over. (One issue I had with this study was that I'm not sure they controlled for macroeconomic cycle; it was a very concentrated cohort in time.)

My own thoughts: If society indeed needs both analytical skills and quick decisions, it's clearly better to have old/experienced people be the ones to rely on gut feeling, than the younger population. It's possible that the ability to learn is designed to diminish with age, sacrificing accuracy for speed. And so I'm rationalizing my own cognitive decline with "I'm not alone" and "it's meant to be." ;)
I think it's more the dichotomy of companies asking for high levels of commitment, loyalty & trust, but offering none in return.

It's funny that they would fire people in this way, then turn around and ask the remaining folks to sign up for "working long (uncompensated) hours at high intensity".

They are trying to have it both ways.
It’s a news headline. So it’s less about accuracy and more about drama.
> Maybe you all should stop eating so much folate so you do not get cancer in the first place: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000653

Your link is about folic acid supplements, NOT folate.

Folic acid is shelf-stable pro-vitamin that about 60-70% of the population is able to turn into Vitamin B9. The other 30-40% of the population are "poor methylators" who struggle with folic acid, or are harmed by folic acid.

Poor methylators are on a spectrum, from 'not very good methylators' to 'very poor methylators'. I don't really grok biochemistry, but I think more people should avoid folic acid, and aim to get their nutrients from food.

https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1595562181692907520

Edit: My understanding is that folic acid feeds the growth of inflammatory bacteria much more so than natural folate sources.
OK I see. Yes for some use cases that's possible. But that seriously limits your load balancing capabilities. And having to deploy Hitch or Pound for TLS still requires an extra component that's not designed to deal with traffic spikes, denial or services etc that are often met in environments where you deploy caches.
That is a concern. But I suspect the market for a moderated ad-supported Twitter is quite a bit larger than that for a paid unmoderated Twitter, and the elasticity you have to "promote hate speech" without really alienating people is not large — people already got mad at Facebook for counting "angry react" as engagement, and that's not even close to being hate speech.

On the other hand, it also incentivizes aggressive moderation of the free section, since malingerers can be told to pay up.
Try Fedora. I used to be an ubuntu guy, changed to Fedora KDE years ago and never looked back.
The idea that extra battery capacity is “dead weight” is a common misconception that belies a common ignorance about the electrical and chemical properties of batteries.

For a given chemistry and power and voltage, doubling a battery’s capacity will halve the battery’s internal resistance, thus improving its charge and discharge efficiency (as well as increasing the maximum charge and discharge power). It also halves the “C-rate,” thus allows it to last more cycles… and because the size is doubled, the number of miles per cycle also doubles. You can also afford to operate the battery with much larger margins, in its optimal state of charge, going from 75% to 25% state of charge, instead of hammering it from 100% to 0% (which would quickly wear it out, not even counting the difference in C-rate).

Sure, this still needs to be balanced with weight and cost, but a larger battery than you strictly need is NOT, in any way, merely “dead weight” in the way the ICE engine and fuel tank is in a PHEV like the Volt when I drove it for 6 months at a time while never using the engine.
> Someone can be incredibly successful and be that horrible person, lol-ing at someone else's suffering

It's just my opinion, but I would go further and say "lol-ing at someone else's suffering" can actually help with becoming incredibly successful (though obviously it's not enough by itself). This is especially the case in spaces where success involves crossing ethical or legal lines.
I'd accept "Nobody should be out in this kind of weather!" or "Nobody can play the oboe!" as a kind of colloquial hyperbole that works in part because people know it's hyperbole and there's a shared sentiment ("we all would find being out in this weather or the difficulty of learning to play the oboe well relatable").

It's a poor contribution to a conversation about the value of media as business enterprise because it's really not clear what the hyperbole is or what the common relatable point is supposed to be. And it might even be subtly nihilistic or privileged ("who's to say I can't believe whatever the hell I want regardless of what them news people say, they're probably just pushing what they want to believe just I like I am anyway").

So "only some fraction of the corporate media's output has intellectual value" would be an improvement. Increased clarity often is.

And it could lead to actually useful understanding, which is that a LOT of things which have high rates of mediocre or even useless output still have value.
Consider Linux Mint as well. It's about as close to "Ubuntu without Snaps" as you can get while still having a separate community and dedicated devs.