skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s amazing that in the scene in JFK he talked about how (I don’t remember the scene exactly) presidential records on the JFK assassination would be sealed until the 2030s, and how excited he was that his grandchildren would be able to read it.

And even with all that pushback it’s still true. They keep releasing 70%, making that last bit of the documents that’s unreleased ever smaller. But there’s always something unreleased!
DBT is a good (not great) tool, but DBT Cloud just doesn't provide any value, much less enough to justify $100/seat.

Unfortunately the business is doomed unless they can come up with a new business model. Two friends work there so I take no joy in this.
It's grade inflation and curriculum dilution. College degrees are being used as a proxy for basic employability because having a highschool diploma no longer imoles that you can read and write, do basic arithmetic or show up to work consistently.
Dangerous “Kids Online Safety Act” Does Not Belong in Must-Pass Legislation
Websites change. Perma Links don’t
I helped scale a startup from less than 10 to 200 people as CTO, doesn't make me an expert but means I understand the pressure you are under. Time is your most precious resource.

1. Just get it working without any js.
2. Go back and sprinkle htmx for interactivity if you have time.
3. Launch and start making money
4. If you need even more bling - hire some FE devs and go to town (only *after* your product has revenue to support it)
Possibly a stupid question. But is there a reason you couldn't include 2 engines? And require e.g. a doctype assertion?
> In a memo, President Biden authorized more than 70% of the roughly 16,000 remaining files on JFK's death to "now be released in full."

What about the remaining percentage? Why is that not being released?
Same. I think that the only thing I don’t like about 3 is the need for `:is(aside)` and the like, and I can see that there might be some performance benefit to `@nest {…}` blocks (5). I think the only thing I don’t like about 5 is the required `& {}` block.

I find 5 to be the most consistent and 3 to be mostly cleaner because of what becomes optional.
DWARF is a standard for data to support debuggers, so this crate does effectively the opposite: it uses info normally only available during debugging to provide reflection.
What Would Tesla Look Like Without Elon Musk?
That's only one side of a coin. If a tool is so advanced that it takes away the easy applications, then it's also advanced enough to create novel fields.

Take for example video games. They distracted many people from movies, but also created a huge new field, hungry for talents. Or another one, quite a few genres calcified into distinctive boring styles over the years (see anything related to manga/anime as an example) simply because those styles require less mechanical work and are cheaper to produce. They could use a deep refresh. This tech will also lead to novel applications, created by those who embraced it and are willing to learn the increasingly complex toolset. That's what been happening the last several decades, which have seen several tech revolutions.

>As long as these networks continue being trained on artists' work

This misses the point. The real power of those things is not in the collection of styles baked into it. It's in the ability to learn new stuff. Finetuning and style transfer is what all the wizards do. Construct your own visual style by hand, make it produce more of that. And that's not just about static 2D images; neither do 2D illustrators represent all artists in the broad sense. Everyone who types "blah blah in the style of Ilya Kuvshinov" or is using img2img or whatever is just missing out, because the same stuff is going to be everywhere real soon.
Scala's compiler used to widen prematurely and apply implicit conversions similarly to what you described.

Scala 3 doesn't do that [1]. The new inference algorithm will, however, prefer a generic method over the same named method without a generic argument in scope when no typing hints are present in the source code when there are two possible matches for an inference completion. This can then cause problems when the generic expects some kind of given parameter:

def foo: String = ...
def foo[A:SomeRequiredThing]:A = ...

//in some other place
foo shouldBe("hello") // foo[String](using SomeRequiredThing[String])
// gets preferentially selected by the scala 3
// inference algorithm, which can lead to surprising
// though not "incorrect" results [also 1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMvOykNQ4zs
Early in my career in late ‘80s, I was troubleshooting asynchronous communication protocol used for semiconductor equipment. These where streams of data packages carried over an RS-232 serial cable in a hierarchical format that you can think of like XML. These were request/reply messages, but asynchronous. In order to understand which reply messages paired to which request messages, the protocol allowed for 4 “context bytes” in the header of every message. If you send over a context ID of 100 in a request, the reply or replies will include that same 100. Also for your mental imagery, please see me just a year out of college, sitting by myself in a bunny suit in a massive and noisy clean room, sweety hands in latex gloves, and usually fogged up safety goggles because of the mask over my face.

I was troubleshooting a new interface for a piece of equipment from a company called Lambda Ace. Metrology equipment like this one in semiconductor fabs at that time were poor in this protocol. In this case, the context IDs that came back from the tool appeared to be random and far off from what I was sending. I typically sent small numbers and it was sending me huge numbers. I started looking for patterns in the data and once I looked at this in Hex, it all started to come together. The last 2 bytes were always 0x4C and 0x41. In the text version of the Hex dump, it showed those were the ASCII values for the characters L and A, or Lambda Ace.

I was on an Intel processor which stored bytes in little-endian, so those last 2 bytes were higher order bits making the 4 byte number quiet large. The hack was to figure out the constant from 0x4C41 that I always needed to subtract from my reply's context bytes. I also had to be sure I kept my set of context bits to values that fit in the lower order 2 bytes. It was a kludgy hack for sure and I’m sure broke again with future tools of this type.
And everything else is just copying with either small tweaks or combinations. There’s a reason art went through large jumps in understanding from cave paintings to where we are today.

I was the first photographer I knew of that combined astrophotography with wedding portraiture. That was new. Now lots of people do it - far better than me (I rarely get the chance)!

I’m a small fry so they almost assuredly didn’t get the idea from me, before anyone says I claim otherwise. There were probably a few photographers who thought to do it and now everybody has seen it and emulates it. The true artists put just a little spin on it, from which others will learn. So it goes.
a fully automated world of perfect abundance

Oh boy, are you in for a surprise.

Back in the early 1990s I was convinced that mass adoption of the internet and social media like forums/usenet groups in particular would lead to a renaissance of selfless cooperation, civic involvement, responsive institutions etc. I particularly expected that coupling this with news reporting and allowing people to comment on news about emerging issues would elevate public discourse significantly.
Space Cities Inside Asteroids? Scientists Say It Could Work
The difference between the covid jab and the flu vax has to do with the combination of a) mRNA turns your body into a "factory" to pump out a somewhat-unknowable and individually variable quantity of spike protein, and b) the spike protein "sticks to organs" as you put it (or more generally, is harmful), which is not something that e.g. a deactivated virion does
Four Genes Identified as Heightening Risk of Suicidal Thoughts and Actions
It feels strange watching the roads cross onto what looks at first glance to be water.

The other weird thing is seeing the map as a Mercator projection, since Antarctica is usually displayed in a polar projection.
Maybe you are not affected by it. I occasionally find it frustrating, in various scenarios… very slow sweeps by hand, or things like that. I only have problems with the limitation in certain scenarios with electronic sounds. It’s never a problem with sample libraries.

MIDI has 14-value CCs anyway, it’s just that few controllers generate the messages. I don’t k ow how many synths respond to them.
It's worth noting that there are at least two very different things being expressed by artists, at least on Twitter:

1. This is theft and that's bad.

2. People who do this are getting gains without putting the work and that's bad. (And, per quite a few commenters I've seen, are talentless hacks.)

I have a lot of empathy for the first, and think it has merit, and have a much smaller amount of empathy for the second.

I ended up reading a lot of the quote tweets on this guy the other day: https://twitter.com/ammaar/status/1601284293363261441/retwee...

Here's just a few of thousands in the vein of number 2:

> No talent or passion whatsoever

> He thinks he created something

> Why don't you subscribe to writing and art classes?

> This so ugly and shows real disrespect for people who have made stuff by themselves for years.

> Men will literally sell AI trash and call it "art" instead of go to therapy

> Can’t write or draw but wants to do both

> This is nothing but a HUGE disrespect to all the writers and artists around the world, and all it does is belittle their REAL work and effort.
>
> This is not art.
> Nothing to be proud of.

> I just spent 8 months illustrating a children’s book by hand—working, not “playing”—after a lifetime of training.
>
> FUCK OFF!

There are also plenty people are complaining about "theft", but it honestly, re-reading through it now, it feels like a minority. If this were done using fully public-domain content, does it sound like any of the people I quoted above been okay with it?

There's a clear disdain for "non-artists" creating art in a new way. I very much feel for the people who see their careers going away, and I can also empathize people who spent a long time acquiring a creative skill that's now "unnecessary". Programming has this too—those darn kids programming in Python rather than Assembly, or doing bootcamps that don't teach big-O notation. This is a normal, human way to feel, and I feel that too from time to time. BUT, I also resist that feeling. I choose not to express disdain for newcomers using new technology, or skipping the old ways.

A large (or at least loud) part of the art community seen here is expressing absolute disdain for those of us who are "cheating" not because "copyright infringement" but because we're using new technology that bypasses years of learning and that's very much eating into my empathy for the community in general. I find it toxic in the programming community and I find it toxic in the art community. Right now, it's exploding in the art community in a way far beyond what I've witnessed in programming.
“Some of you will be fired, but it’s a sacrifice we’re willing to make.”
Hey Sytelus, it sounds like you might have installed the wrong app. You’re describing our classic “Readwise 1.0” app, which admittedly could use some design work! (and of course is not a bookmark/reader app)

This post refers to our new Reader app, which you can install here on mobile:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/readwise-reader/id1567599761

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.readermobi...
no, because is a function ("AI") that generates an image of a spectogram given text.

neither a set of MP3 nor a set of spectrograms from MP3s supplies the function arguments

or a connection to a path that uses that function
So you want to relaunch Orkut?
I just had a wonderful and possibly stupid idea. How about pumped hydro with a huge storage tank on the surface and then another huge one at the bottom of a cavern made by an underground nuke test? The main problem of course is that the underground cavern is in the middle of nowhere and radioactive. Maybe you could remediate the pollution in the cavern by filtering the actinides while pumping the water around?
- whoops I replied to the wrong person -
Well, that's certainly an ideal. In practice of course it's difficult to prevent certain kids from falling outside the system. Kids and circumstances are pretty variable.

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For reasons, in my own ideal world, the biggest experts on a particular child (their parents) would be more involved in their education to begin with. Long story I won't get into here.

But in that particular scenario, one would frankly still need (some) schools. This is for the same reason as before: some kids would end up falling outside that system too.
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I think this may be the case, the AI will figure out what the legacy code does and then completely re-writes it using whatever modern standards and ability to host it all in the cloud.
> endless consumption of automatically generated art, food, sex, drugs, love, etc.

I think that not all human desires are a matter of consumption. Some wise people say they even got rich by giving. At least love is such a thing.

My stance is that art and love cannot be consumed, it is what happens to one. Now don't ask me to quantify or proof that. I will leave that to a future AI, but for that it needs to be a perfect, transcendental mind.
Elegant pun!
It's not just myself but my family and descendants who will also be impoverished.

If the holders of capital who are best positioned to reap nearly all the benefits of automation aren't willing work towards some more equitable result why would I want to help automation at all. I'd rather work against it.

"just ignore the rising inequality and complete collapse in value of human labour we can work out the details later once I hold all the cards" is not a compelling story.
If there's a minimum length (the Planck length?) then space is discrete and the measurement bottoms out at some point, it would be infinite if space was continuous and infinitely divisible.
Slightly disappointed this isn't about a Santa's North Pole-themed paperclip optimizer for toys, which is what I first assumed :)
> Mandarin isn't "widely" spoken. It's spoken by a large number of people, almost all of which reside in a single country. This makes it utterly useless as an international standard.

The norm for international communication is that zero people on either side speak the language. Internal communication anywhere in Achaemenid Persia took place in Imperial Aramaic, which was spoken by some subject peoples in the west of the empire.

International communication between Mitanni (speaking an unnamed Indic language) and Egypt (speaking (Afroasiatic) Middle or Late Egyptian) took place in (Semitic) Akkadian.

International communication between Japan and Korea took place in classical Chinese, spoken by neither side and unrelated to the languages spoken in either. Similarly, international communication between Vietnam and China took place in classical Chinese, spoken by neither side (though closely related to the languages spoken in China).

Treaties between early modern Russia and China could not be concluded in classical Chinese, so they were concluded in Latin, spoken by neither side.

It just isn't an expectation that international communication will use a language that is spoken by any party to the communication. This is for the obvious reason that anyone who wants to join the conversation uses whatever is already in use, even if the language currently in use has been dead for a thousand years.
> I'm using Insteon personally, which is mesh networked but relatively similar to Z-Wave. (And it's entirely proprietary still.)

One of the benefits of non-proprietary (especially IP based) is that you're more immune to company failures, like when Insteon shut down.

> I don't want my home automation hardware speaking IP or anything like it

Why? Its just a protocol? It doesn't mean a cloud is involved, it doesn't even have to be networked to your main LAN.

> Home automation hardware should be simple, take simple instructions over local communication bands, and then a single central controller should bring the greater intelligence and access.

IP seems the simplest option. Even though its more layers than a binary protocol, the interoperability and easy ability for most software people to create IP software means longer future.

> It cannot be updated or reprogrammed. But it will accept commands (no different than button presses on the front of it) over the RF protocol, and of course, send its sensor data and operating status.

What was your plan when Insteon went belly up? The lack of ability to reprogram means you couldn't update it to work with a newer hub/protocol.
My bad, yep you're right. So you could only either give 2 people different git repos that should be the same or I guess you could submit a collided file into a repo you can submit changes to (eg a public one that accepts PRs) and give someone else the other version.

Given the limitations, really not too practical.
https://diagrams.net/ ?
> but you're attacking the wrong problem

No, I am not.

I do not believe it is possible to accidentally plagiarize something (it cannot be by definition). I do not wish to live in a society where you can face legal consequences for picking up a musical instrument and simply expressing what's on your mind. Or as another commenter put it, dropping bricks on a piano. It's insane but it's rather familiar, sadly.

It's in fact you who are falling victim to the common misconception that copyrighting the performance of a riff by recording it grants you rights to attack others' performance of the same riff. And that if I perform the same riff you performed I have somehow plagiarized it. To use your words, if you copyrighted the expression of one idea, then how can you possibly attack someone else's expression, that is not your expression, of the same idea, hmm?

I am lamenting the fact that it's even possible to become so confused with the current state of copyright law (and juries do). And that it's even possible to bring a case against someone in the first place (it is). That is a problem and that's what I'm attacking.

As a thought experiment, consider: https://libraryofbabel.info. Should the author be entitle to copyright over every combination of characters imaginable simply because they wrote them down?
Neat! The example generated email is a work of art. Something only a computer could write lol. I, too, appreciate being thought of as a valuable community member. Let us follow one another on a journey through Hacker News. Thanks for sharing!
Fascinating - saving the planet by adding iron chloride to the mix of pollutants emitted by diesel-powered tanker ships in order to convert methane into CO2. I can't imagine many more ways in which the approach could be unintuitive, but if it works and the side effects are thoroughly understood, I appreciate the pragmatism!
I never understood how the algorithm could be so simple, using just IEEE floats (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotting_algorithms_for_the_Ma...)

These programs do thousands of iterations. How does one prove that the images show the Mandelbrot set and not some artifact of issues with numerical stability?
This is not a way to moderate Twitter or any social plattform. That‘s the pertinent point. It‘s awful governance even if his personal perspective may be understandable. But that doesn’t matter. Still makes this awful governance.
His timing is, for want of a better word, impeccable.
Very curious to see what this means for ROS.
Don't think of it as a "climate intelligence" system. It is really an "analyze complex dynamics in the physical world at global scale" system, one application of which is climate intelligence. Everything is fundamentally anchored to space and time, and connected by it.

The applicability cuts across industries. It would enable managing many kinds of risks that have nothing to do with climate.
If you get an account on Bottomless Abyss BBS [0], the message base has a USENET archive, but it only goes back to 2019 for comp.lang.lisp. So, useless for historical research, but fun for reading recent stuff.

[0] https://bbs.bottomlessabyss.net/
And you think the machine owners will just give up their big economic advantage without lobbying and running PR campaigns? If anything, prices on computers and chips sold to consumers will go way up because 'we must tax automation' so experimenters and new market entrants will be hit with a big fiscal moat while incumbents pay nothing. Dissatisfaction will then be blamed on government. (You can already see this dynamic operate on HN in regard to some topics.)
MIDI doesn’t force you to use 12TET anyway. You can use MTS. Support seems widespread, at least among the equipment and software I use, some of it dating back to the 1980s.
More likely than not she just got lucky and made a terrible decision which turned out perfectly.

Just a bad beat.

This audit seems pointless to be honest, but when there's an accusation of cheating not much else to do.
This is one of the points...

Everyone wants to limit who can send informatiom.

But no one is interested in limiting himself to 10 people or so.

It is not only about Elon or Ye - even grandmas want to have a thrill of publishing post that will reach hundreds of people. Social network that limits outgoing communication has 0 chance of success. Social network that has great tools for limiting what I want to see has some possibility. Ideal social network would be one where I don't need to use any tools to see what I want ... which I think is the idea behind algorithmic feeds they came up with ... unfortunately these algorithmic feeds turned out to be not what "I want to see" but "what they want to show me" or "who paid the most to stuff his things into users faces".
I think he takes issue with the theoretically infinite cost of a graphql query.
Yes. You'll get a message saying that "you're posting too fast." That's because you've been limited to only a few (four or five) posts per hour. You'll never be told when this is applied to your account, or what the limit is, or when it's lifted, if it is. They also used to purposely slow response times as a way to drive certain posters away but I think they've stopped that. They also shadowban, but at least that's reversible. Unless you vouch for the wrong people, then you lose your vouching privileges.

Basically, the mods will tweak anything and everything they can to either increase the quality of your comments or decrease the damage they do, with banning outright as a last resort.
> We coerced vaccination in the strongest possible ways shy of physical force.

Totally.
Tesla is limited by the processing power contained in the chip of each car. That's not the case for language models; they can get arbitrarily large without much problem with latency. If Tesla could train just one huge model in a data center and deliver it by API to every car I bet self driving cars would have already been a reality.
TL;DR: golang tooling and environment (libraries, open source projects, ppl, etc) is way better than SBCL's.

I did play with SBCL a bunch, and other a bit more "esoteric" lists too! [0]. I just feel like langs that are not in some form of top ten and with big corporate sponsoring are pretty much always super behind when it comes to tooling.

You can get one or two or three AMAZING golang IDEs to work with (VS Code with Vim plugin is what I use). For SBCL, it HAS to be emacs. And I have mixed feelings about emacs, even when using Evil mode.

0: https://extemporelang.github.io/
What do you define as shit posting?