skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what people have been telling themselves for over a decade, I think. At least articles on news sites about who should be wary of AI and how much had been quite fashionable back then. And then people would respond with "yeah, it will probably automate away those other jobs and it will be able to do the simple and boring part of my work that unskilled/low-end people in my field do, but experienced/knowledgable dudes like me will always be in demand. It's just that our work will be more interesting." And you would hear lawyers and graphic designers and accountants respond with this same theme. (For some reason, software developers were always thought to be untouchable anyway.)

And then AI came a long way, improved to levels hard to imagine back then, it's already threatening programmers, but people just keep telling the same story. That somehow it will run out of steam below their level. If it can talk to a professional it can just as much talk to whoever talks to the professional now. (I mean, unless it gets stuck at a lower level.)

However, when people talk about the future dangers, they still keep looking at the current status quo and not at how fast it evolves. Of course, it's hard to predict, but it seems like some people don't even try and just judge based on what we have today. While what we have been seeing so far is that it's evolving faster than what most experts have expected.

Replacing doctors is probably further away, because being a doctor is like being an airline pilot: it's about trust big time. And everybody likes to think their doctor (or pilot) is especially good. Oh, and also doctors do have to interact with the real world, like examine the patient. (Programmers don't ;) )
It is true that good money can be made in tech, and that some companies pay > 100K/year out of college, but it's worth pointing out that even in the US this isn't true in general or in the majority of cases. There are a lot of people in tech making less than that even years out of college - it's largely a function of where you live and whether you land your first job at a handful of particular companies.

You can refer to https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/..., or https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... - those people are all in tech, and most aren't new grads. Median salaries for "computer programmers" and "software developers" are 91K and 107K respectively.
> That snippet looks like Python/Lua/C with the for, case and close being used

Not really Python like at all - apart from the one line with for. Python doesn't have a case or when statement, or syntax level regex, doesn't open or close directories, and for files it would idiomatically would use the context manager for file access rather than closing it.

But it also doesn't look like any Ruby I've seen or written either :)
You're right, I was thinking generally, but the comment I responded to specifies "Which was not the case here."
I'm not a lawyer, but there is a legal concept of businesses that are "open to the public" even if they are a privately owned.
Fair enough I suppose. I guess I've been lucky enough to not encounter any show-stopping problems with MySQL, at least that I can recall. Maybe you started using it well before I did.

For what it's worth, in the cases where you need a client-server database, I know that Postgres is supposed to be "better," but MySQL is everywhere and it's always been up for almost any task I've thrown at it. I've found it to always be sufficiently good enough.
Information about the fact that more original work is prevented by copyright than protected by it? Only anecdotes about people I know who gave up on their dreams because they can't afford a lawyer to fight for their right to do art.

Information about the bullet points? That's my first draft of an alternative formulation.
This fits with the view I have from my social circles in America of the Dutch as largely being defiant, proud, and an amazingly fun culture/people :)
Random potassium trivia:

Pot ash manufacturing was an extremely important industry in many countries worldwide from the 1400s-1800s, and potash a highly valuable trade commodity. Mainly for it's use in agriculture as a fertilizer because potassium is an essential plant nutrient.

Potash was originally made from wood ashes by soaking the ashes in liquid and drying it out, leaving an alkali potash residue. Nowadays it is mined deep underground by circulating liquid into the deposits, then evaporated in surface-level industrial ponds.

The first U.S. patent of any kind was issued in 1790 to Samuel Hopkins for an improvement "in the making of Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process". The patent was signed by President George Washington.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potash
Actually, it’s almost exactly the other way around. The Gutenberg Bible may be famous as the first thing printed but publishing exploded in the second half of the fifteenth century across all genres.

The competition was intense and with no copyright law, it was a race to find and publish as many works as possible before they were picked up by competitors and copies flooded the market. In order to keep the presses profitable the printers published tons of material that went against Church doctrine. Anti-Church material was often the most profitable because the printers didn’t have to pay the authors for the content. The printers were driven by economics and the Church couldn’t reign them in.

The first copyright laws established regional monopolies so that printers could be controlled for the benefit of God and country but governments did it by freeing them from the laissez fare competition that dominated the early printing industry. By giving printers exclusive rights and banning foreign copies, governments created stable revenue streams for the printers so that they had the option of saying “no” to new authors. The Church exploited “for the economy” rhetoric from the beginning.
You are going to be pretty excited over the next few years …
You sound very condescending. How do you know you are not the one staying in the comfort zone?
What you're missing is that the rules are entirely irrelevant since they're just ad hoc machinations from das Muskrat.
It’s already happening. You can’t leave most municipalities without and LPR scan and interstate corridors are covered by face recognition capable cameras. The Feds can track your progress from Maine to Miami in near real time.
There is The Array Cast podcast that covers mainly APL and it's related languages (k, q, J, etc.) that is helpful for learning what is happening in array focused languages.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-array-cast/id15688...
I loved it too
Near me, it's about 20 miles from the metro (25th largest in the US) to the nearest wilderness area. I'm sure there's a lot of folks who'd love to be able to buy up and live out there, it is very hospitable. But thankfully it is almost entirely national forest and protected from development.
You can, and it'll go through the federal courts. Your case might be quickly dismissed, or it might eventually cause a Consitution question to the Supreme Court. Or not.
Does this mean that Japanese investors will sell UST and buy JGB, causing ust rates to go further up?
These things are very subjective. A relevant joke:

> Q: What's the difference between a minor recession and a full blown depression?

> A: A recession is when you lose your job. A depression is when I lose my job.
Barbara Kruger’s Supreme Performance (2017)
Are films in the public domain legally copiable?
That's pretty much it. He's saying that buying US bonds is no longer the obvious choice for Japanese investors. That also makes it harder for the US to borrow and fund our 6.27T budget. 0.25% harder
That's really not much of a rebuttal.

The simple truth is, if a clone of the human race existed on proxima centauri, long enough for signals to propagate, we'd have no idea and that's an extremely optimistic scenario.

Why would a race be casually pointing terawatts of laser at every star around them. Tremendous waste of resources for essentially no gain within human scale lifetimes.
paywall-free link: https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%...
Elon will step down from Twitter as soon as Teslas are capable of full self-driving.
Interest rates being high means the payoff for growth companies is a lot lower and the growth is harder to fuel.
> There's also a whole heap of different laws applying to being a "publication" which Twitter currently skirts by claiming to be a platform not a publication - if they declared themselves a publication (as Musk accidentally did the other day because he's not very bright) they would lose the Section 230 protections.

That's not how section 230 works. See [1] for a decent explanation.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/publisher-or-platform-...
I’ll never see a single penny from WF, but I’ll also never forget they helped turn a smallish life catastrophe into a decade of my life being chaotic hell. They were not the root cause. They weren’t even systemically the worst challenge I faced. They were the gigantic multiplier on both though.

I had a persistent medical issue I couldn’t treat because it was determined by insurance companies that treatment would be elective. Not my insurance, mind you, I couldn’t afford any. But they got to decide whether I’d be able to get surgery on debt versus paying up front.

After months trying to find a solution, family footed the bill, somewhat gofundme style but strings attached. And I was expected to go fund them back. I dutifully obliged, as soon as I could go back to work. I sent the first check, 10% of the surgery…

That check sat gathering dust for over a year. I’ll never know why it got deposited, but WF knew it was illegal to honor it. They knew it didn’t matter what I had already been through, the check was expired and they could not legally honor it.

I had of course forgotten the check was written over a year later. When I got hit with compounding overdraft fees I couldn’t opt out of, they would not discuss the fact that they illegally processed my check. I’m supposed to be good for my checks, they said. So for a decade I was guilty of “fraud” because WF illegally debited my account and then hit me with recursive fees for illegally charging me money they couldn’t charge. My only recourse was to just hunker down and manage my money carefully as I always had, for ten years. 1/4 of my life so far was set back because they knew I couldn’t afford a lawyer to do anything about the law they admitted knowing they broke.

And that’s nothing compared to what they did to most of these victims.
Cool callout. Frankly I'm impressed that a JS game engine is still relevant after more than a decade.
They didn’t have cellphone or internet bills. Financing cars wasn’t really a thing.

Trade offs.
Germany returns 21 Benin bronzes to Nigeria – amid frustration at Britain
Dogs are not gray wolves, not descended from them either. The fact that they can technically interbreed doesn't change the fact that a modern dog is completely domesticated and nothing like a wolf.
Meta: We Still Believe in the Future
A danger is there is a curated and trustworthy internet created and maintained to drive narratives to get a wanted result. Mass and pervasive media being what it is, you can see the potential it has in China where it has people's rapt attention. You have a smattering of dissidents and people who refuse to participate, but the mainstream majority thoroughly overwhelms them. The authorities get what they want.
Sure - it's a long time since I used it so I'll take your word for that. But it demonstrates the principle.
And who determines that amount to pay?

Surely all use cases can't be the same amount. If I write a song and Disney uses it in a Marvel movie presumably, I should be paid more than if some local high school kid uses a 10 second sample of the song during their garage bands production.

What if a bunch of neo-nazis want to use my song in their propaganda video? Shouldn't I be able to stop them? Their use would be a detriment to not only the commercial value of my work but potentially to myself as well.
I think the more likely truth is that people crave utility and compelling novelty. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc. all either had/have usefulness that their predecessors lacked or packaged themselves in a novel way that was enjoyable. No one cares social media is unhealthy because most people realize that 'unhealthy' in this scenario is more akin to the impact of fashion magazines on young women than the way in which smoking is bad for you.

Meanwhile Facebook groups and Facebook market are actually useful, Snapchat is handy for naughty convos, Instagram provided a more streamlined experience for people who actually cared about their wall on Facebook, and TikTok provided a less aggressively progressive video streaming service that offered tools to make content creation easy for Creators while providing Consumers with a wildly better recommendation algorithm than YouTube, mobile first design, and formatting requirements that ensured content is suited to the attention span of people on mobile.
There are some interesting vestiges of the origin of copyright, still floating around in contemporary legal systems.

In the UK, and in other countries patterned after the UK constitution, works of the government are technically under royal prerogative. It's usually called "Crown copyright" but it isn't regulated by normal copyright law. Traditionally, the monarch reserved the right to ensure that laws were duplicated exactly, etc. It's the inherent right of the monarch, and that right has never actually been explicitly curtailed by law. For example, Canada's Copyright Act has a clause, asserting the Act does not curtail any rights or privileges of the Crown.

It's probably the purest form of "intellectual property" that exists. Anything the Crown creates is under Crown copyright. The copyright term is forever. There is no fair use or fair dealing with Crown copyrighted works. [1] The justification for the copyright is not derived from statute but, within the legal conceit we're working with here anyway, rather literally from God and traditional since time immemorial.

Speaking of which, The King James Bible is still under Crown copyright in the United Kingdom. James I paid for it and his heirs insist on their due. The Crown issued letters patent to several printers, those letters were acquired and now Cambridge University Press has the right to print the KJV Bible in England. It's one of the very few letters patent to somehow slip through the 19th and 20th century overhauls; nearly all have been abolished by acts of legislation.

Letters patent are the granting of an office or title or right or property by the state to an individual. The granting of such rights was historically, also another royal prerogative. Scope-limited monopolies were very common. A monopoly on farming salt on a particular beach. A monopoly on collecting taxes in a particular county. A monopoly on dying wool a certain colour in a particular town. Such letters were considered a form of property by the courts, and they could in some cases be traded.

This is, as I understand it, largely the intellectual/legal origin of modern copyright in the Anglo-American tradition. It was, at first, not focused on the work, the text, so much as the economic right of a printer, to have a monopoly on a specific work, and to not have that right infringed with unseemly competition. As more and more letters patent regarding printing were issued, it eventually became formalized and then regulated by statute, taking it out of the Crown's arbitrary hands. At the same time (I think we're at about 1750 AD now?) the proliferation of printing started reducing the economic significance of the book itself vs. the contents of the book, and we started to think more about the author than the printer.

[1] Of course, practically speaking, in modern times, the Crown has issued various directives over the years, culminating in a whole department to manage Crown copyrighted works, and it's policy that verbatim duplication and etc. of laws are just fine. But very technically, that privilege could be rescinded at any time by royal decree, though of course that won't actually happen.
If MIDI is like serial port, is MIDI 2.0 USB or Bluetooth? If USB then it's about right. If it's Bluetooth it's over-engineered and will never get off the ground properly.
Generalist diet of Microraptor zhaoianus included mammals
Archaic hominins maiden voyage in the Mediterranean Sea
If only it would not gobble up so much memory. For an ide that has been around for this long, one would have assumed they would have switched to a more performant non gc language by now.
What does this mean for ethereum? In the long run I mean
Here is the letter https://levien.com/dijkstra-letter.pdf
There was an experiment that I forgot the origin of, but interesting nonetheless:

A hospital used some standardized table on print papers as a medical journal summary. Doctors were apparently very quick at extracting relevant information. Some software engineers came along, and designed a computer system. Instead of this big table, they decided to put the most relevant information and display it first, like a list. This reduced visual clutter, and most non-doctors could now read it better. However, the doctors took longer to parse it than before, and didn’t like the new system. And they were the primary user after all. It turned out that the doctors had memorized were everything was supposed to be. With the new system, there was no way of finding a specific piece of information quickly, even though the total amount was reduced.

The interesting thing here is that all solutions have hidden features, that are useful but we don’t even know that it’s there even if (and perhaps especially if) we use it every day. It seems as if our brains are extremely capable of spatial memory. Of course, there are more such examples, for instance fine motor skills (how would you like a keyboard which rearranged the keys depending on their frequency of use?)

The reason why some of us find these control rooms almost soothing is precisely because modern technology have depraved us of these neglected features: things are in the same place, physical dials, everything is predictable.

This is closely related to my hate against anything “smart”. In adding features (sometimes for good reason) product managers and engineers don’t consider that they’re removing hidden features, often related to predictability, that are much more valuable than the features they added.
> While I understand that tech companies have serious and legitimate concerns about corporate espionage, it appeared that OpenAI—probably the buzziest tech firm at the moment—believed that an unpublicized address and a buzzer had effectively rendered them an impenetrable fortress.

The far more likely reality is that no one who was qualified to speak on the record on behalf of the company was available at a random time of day... because you need to make an appointment for that... just like they said.

Hell, they might not even have been in the building at the time. With remote work all the more prevalent, they could be working out of town. I'm baffled why a reporter in SF believed any modern tech company would just sit down for an interview in the middle of the day because they showed up to their office unannounced.

The behavior observed in this article is exactly what I'd expect from any responsible company. It has 0 to do with "corporate espionage." Just standard security practice.
Now that the Nest Hubs are running Fuchsia, I wonder how feasible it would be to keep the kernel and boot other userland modules to run your own code.
I'm reasonably used to investigating a handful of Stack Overflow answers before finding the one that actually works. This doesn't seem that much different.
Small sample size, but many of the people that I know that are that age and own a home inherited it, they didn’t buy it.
Now you made me think horrible thoughts: What if the signals to the LCD happen to be AC coupled into the cartridge pins enough that you can filter them out and reconstruct the image from it, at least with some level of fidelity.

Probably not though. For starters, the interface to the LCD is most likely parallel, and you have to be really lucky for them to be discernible over unintentional coupling.

For example, it could still work if the individual digital signals have slightly different phase and amplitude, in which case what you get from the cartridge pins is "just" quadrature amplitude modulated multiplexing of all pins. And you'd need some high quality test equipment to sample that...
I had typed out "Don't say 'hack', it's not a software expl-" but yes if a Social network is infiltrated by Sentiment Bots, that certainly might be called a "hack"
Some people have such slow metabolism that they still get overweight when eating nothing.
This brought me to my first programming experience (outside of college computer labs while on field trips) - the VIC-20.

http://cini.classiccmp.org/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20User%27s%2...
> MIDI's issues in a notation context

MIDI is not a notation protocol. It's a stream of real time events (plus sysex metadata). Let's evaluate it that context.
So, how does the U.S.A fare in this kind of thinking? There isn't such a vast history to pull from there, how can you justify an analogous nationalistic identity/moral character for it without such a big story?

Also, what is the argument for being able to collapse culture and state together, such that the state can/will manifest this trans-historic character of a group of people? Or rather, if we grant that relation either way, does the argument have anything to say about any of the tumultuous events of politics and culture in Russia or China in the 20th century? Are they just hiccups along the overall trend? Such that the CCP isn't an authoritarian regime from without which harms china now, but an inevitable symptom of some trans-historic Chinese culture?
Yeah, the Remarkable looks like the most likely candidate to be able to displace a sheet of paper but my hangup is that the lack of colour will hinder its usability too much for me. I always use a few coloured pens when I scribble my notes.
Trying to extrapolate how people would feel about a new law based solely on the existence of a similar law is disingenuous at best. You're ignoring that the law was massively unpopular, was seldom enforced, almost never respected, and it was the only amendment to have been repealed.

Saying that Americans would take a ban on tobacco because they banned alcohol doesn't hold up because alcohol was never actually banned. The law existed, yes, but alcohol was always available to pretty much everyone.

Repealing a constitutional amendment is massively difficult. That should tell you a lot about how Americans felt about it.

I'm saying prohibition is a perfect example of why Americans won't support a total ban on tobacco because it very explicitly and very definitively shows how much they did not support a total ban on alcohol. They hated the ban so much that they had to change the constitution. You can't get any more definitive than that.
Thanks, I had never heard the follow up excuse that comes after

"but Twitter is a private company, they can censor whomever they want"

"well actually they were getting paid to censor whatever the government told them to"

And a pivot to capitalism at the end too, nice
That's clean modern Go.

Doesn't seem very complex, but I'm unclear the reasoning for some things....

I'm not clear, and wondering why, it has to use unsafe pointers? Is it because the hashed types get pushed to the stack?
I remember in 2008ish my older brother wrinkled his nose when I mentioned I wanted to learn programming. He said something about programmers just did what they were told and it wasn't a good career choice. Sure glad I didn't listen