skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does it even matter how art is created?

It's the same with banning ChatGPT from StackOverflow: Who cares and who notices? Art is either evoking some feeling or not and it's different for everybody. An answer on SO is either helpful or not. Who cares how it was written? ChatGPT can easily say something more helpful than me, stable diffusion can easily make something I'd rather have on my wall than Da Vinci's Mona Lisa (or anything more along my preferences). Why do we care so much? What's "real art" anyway?

I always like a colleague's mousepad, it said: "Is this art or can we throw this out?" Always makes me smile.
> Libraries. C++’s stdlib has gotten a lot better, but it still can’t parse json or make web requests or create zip files.

... but rust cannot do this three things either from just the stdlib? I don't see anything related to requests, json, or zip files in here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/#modules

otherwise if you can install libraries, json, zip and web requests are just one vcpkg / conan dependency away in C++ too - and if you want to limit the amount of dependencies you can just use boost which in 2022 does support json and web requests, and can compress / decompress gzip (not zip though :/)
There is no collective or democratic management, unless the tyrannical overlords choose to allow it. "Total private tyranny, with delegation of authority" is correct. What it leaves out is that anybody else can make a competing subreddit, dedicated to the same issue, where they have control.

The only thing getting there first does is prime realestate in the namespace and network effects of having an existing community.
I think the increased prevalence of work from home is a huge factor for meet ups and urban activities in general. If I'm already out and about and likely nearby it's an easier sell to get me to go to a meet up. It's harder if I'm being asked to head to a central downtown just for the meet up, but there aren't enough interested people in my suburb to support a more convient meetup.
Yes, it's total private tyranny if the person who started the subreddit chooses to keep it that way. But if Reddit (the company) doesn't like the way you're running your sub, they can and will replace the people in charge.
Rust by default only does a full build really rarely. Ive gone through days, even weeks, of working on a project without a full build.

Partial builds are of course way faster, especially if you use many dependencies (i know you don't). I mainly work with the bevy game engine in Rust, which has a lot of dependencies. Even if i don't use its dylib feature, i get 2-3s compiles. And that's on a project with multiple hundreds of thousands LoC when you include dependencies. With dylib, it goes down to 0.5-1 second builds.

If your main conclusion is based on full builds, i would urge you to re-evaluate. The normal experience is just "cargo run" which rarely does a full build.
I just toss some orange peels in. Tastes like spa water.
How do free VPNs make money?
Err, banned from a subreddit by a mod who didn’t believe him.

Pretty sure that happens to about 10% of Reddit users every year.
Disclosure: I engineered and delivered a high risk payment processing gateway to a firm specializing in being a cc processor of last resort, also working with merchant banks of last resort.

To be clear, my views on this are not legal counsel, they are simply from having worked in this area for a decade before becoming CTO at a global bank.
> Not "you". Not most. None.

Maybe not "none", but certainly it's only the very, very rare individual. And likely those aren't in the set of people that care about these things. And the intersection set are people who don't even care so much about the music as they do the sound.

I'm older now so I just mentally roll my eyes at these folks, but I used to rage at the people who insisted on 320bps MP3's or would faux outrage at any non-lossy media, then play it in their car.
> I think the problem with public schools is really the teachers. They have put themselves on a pedestal and been conditioned into a serious superiority complex.

I went to public school. Where I'm from our schools, at least high school, performed at or near the top of the state performance (not a state with terrible education). I agree with your analysis. There were only a handful of teachers who were neutral or even good, many were self absorbed and put the role of "teacher", as expressed in the public school environment rather than generally, above all else. If I am able to get married and have kids I refuse to send them to public school, it's either homeschooling or private.
I think the problem with public schools is really the teachers. They have put themselves on a pedestal and been conditioned into a serious superiority complex.

Actually, the problem is the parents who either don't care about their child succeeding, or only care about making sure that their child is taught exactly what the parent feels is should be true (a teacher I know was consistently harassed at the school by a grandparent who wanted her to teach the children that Obama was a terrible president and human being and got angry when she wouldn't).
without using intrinsics? `-O3 -march=skylake-avx512 -mprefer-vector-width=512`
Seems like a normal let's encrypt cert to me.
I think more Rust jobs will come, but the time horizon for that is... 5 years? 10 years? And it's a guess. C++ jobs exist and will dwarf Rust jobs for a long time (I would assume the rest of our lives). Most Rust jobs right now seem like crypto stuff, yeah. :p

So pragmatism says C++, no question.

Which is tragic because Rust is amazing and light years ahead of C++ in usability. Your sanity won't suffer like it will learning C++ (and then modern C++).
I wouldn't say that the actor model is going away. There are several new-ish projects built around it or retrofitting it in more common languages.

- Elixir (and Erlang) https://elixir-lang.org/

- Akka - JVM and .NET frameworks - https://akka.io/ https://getakka.net/

- Actix - Rust framework - https://actix.rs/docs/actix/getting-started

- MS Orleans - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/orleans/overview

- Pony - https://www.ponylang.io/
Managing Your Career Without a Manager
This is a common misconception. AI is not copying anything.
It is studying the images in a similar way that humans do.
Entire size of the stable diffusion model is around 6gb, with pruning it goes down to 3gb. Training set is in terabytes. So it is common sense that no copying is done.

I think artists need to be fair about AI, is there any artist that created their style without ever studying other artists? That is high improbable because humans need to observe to create art. There is even a saying that "Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal".
China’s Thousand Talents Plan to entice researchers home boosted their output
> how much of it is due to decriminalization of offenses and a the resultant drop in crimes reported?

Which violent crimes have been decriminalized?
Documentation as part of Definition of Done?
If open source code authors (and other content creators) don't want their IP to be used in AI training data sets then they can simply change the license terms to prohibit that use. And if they really want to control how their IP is used then they shouldn't host it on GitHub in the first place. Of course Microsoft is going to look for ways to monetize that data.
IRC Network administrators tend to enforce "official" names (owned by a particular group) vs "unofficial" names. For example, "#Ubuntu" is owned by the Ubuntu devs. While the unofficial ##Ubuntu is just fan owned.

This already is a huge step forward compared to Reddit, where you aren't even sure which subreddits are owned by the corporation / official groups, or if they're "fan run". Are you sure /r/Ubuntu is a fan-run subreddit, or does it have official Ubuntu communications?
How much bigger could it possibly be?
After a subreddit reaches a certain size voting tokens should be used to elect officials to run the subreddit.

Quadratic voting with your vote ratio being a derivative of your activity on the subreddit to mitigate bot voting, et cetera.
> Where is the benefit in super-enterprise rj45 connectors?

They're super.
People are waking up to the fact that public school is one of the biggest intrusions of the state into your personal life. Zero tolerance polices of all kinds can land your child in criminal trouble. Truancy laws can have police sent to your home. School boards calling the FBI when you voice displeasure with their policies.

Expensive, world-class facilities. When I was a kid, no school had a swim team because we didn't have pools. Can't put in a new school without state of the art gym, sports fields, often a pool. Giant auditoriums so your taxes can pay whack-job public speakers.

And for what? So kids can learn to read, write, and do math? We steal their childhoods from them so they can sit for 8+ hours per day and develop soul-crushing anxiety, so they have the chance to compete for a soulless career at a corporation?

Good riddance. Public school is a scourge on man kind.
One of McCarthy's proposals that is not mentioned in most news articles:

> buried in the text was another provision that could be highly consequential for the new Congress being sworn in on Tuesday: language that would effectively gut the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), as the independent panel faces pressure to investigate lawmakers who participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

> Last month, more than 30 former members of Congress of both parties requested the ethics panel to investigate the lawmakers who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election

> The OCE was also expected to investigate George Santos, the Republican Congressman-elect from New York who appears to have fabricated large swaths of his biography

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mccarthy-proposes-gu...
Global glacier change in the 21st century: Every increase in temperature matters
Sure. But presumably they're using a helicopter now to patch up spots where the use of snow cannons is not feasible.
Technicality was everything in painting before the advent of the photograph.
Reminds me of the type of stuff r/Seattle mod u/careless would do

https://www.seattleweekly.com/news/seattles-reddit-community...
do you have palm rest? I bought RGB version and became instantly smitten with with it, but I found it a too tall / high to use, and I just couldn't get used to using with palm rest.
> But it doesn't save GitHub Copilot because they're not merely training a model; they're selling access to its outputs and telling people they have "full commercial rights" to its outputs (i.e. sublicensing).

But if you read the source code of 100 different projects to learn how they worked and then someone hired you to write a program that uses this knowledge, that should be legit. I'm not sure if the law currently makes a distinction between learning vs. remixing, and if Copilot would qualify as learning.
Roadmaps Accidentally Make Teams Powerless
May not have been* true
Seems like parent is having their TLS certificate to thetechdeviant.com intercepted and the browser is having none of that.
Also, quite literally selection bias, as public schools don't get to choose which students to take, other than in extreme cases.
It isn't just for cost savings, but it is also for privacy, convenience, and sanity. For example:

Do I really trust Google/Apple with all of my photos?

Do I really trust lastpass/onepass/... with all my passwords?

Do I really trust Amazon/Google to monitor my home cameras to give me notifications?

Do I lose my mind every time feedly changes their interface or nags at me for upsells?

Do I get frustrated when my favorite shows (Star Trek/Psych) suddenly leaves Hulu or Prime?

Also, I don't know how anyone survives using the internet without pihole (or similar dns blocking), especially on an iphone!

For me, knowing my data is in my control, not having software constantly change or nag me, and always being able to access what I want is incredibly important to me (and my SO).

I spend minimal time administering my server. Usually I spend about 2-3 hours a quarter to update all my docker images, but other than that, it all runs quite flawlessly.
Tried your beta out and enjoyed it for a while but then got hit with the auth wall after ~10 messages. Kind of irrational but I felt insulted that even after I did so my conversation was nowhere in chat history.

People get attached to bots quick I guess! I recommend: 1) communicate to the provisional user how many moore messages they get before having to login and 2) persisting those pre-auth chat histories.
Weird advice but listening to the same song on repeat for the whole road trip can help trigger that.
You would think so, but the quality of software doesn’t seem to be improving.
No. Reddit has too many bot accounts. There's no way to enforce one-vote per real life person.
The problem this is that historically a person will create a subreddit, add other moderators, and then vanish. The other moderators will build up the community and culture of the subreddit, and then one day years down the road the top moderator returns and decides they want to make unilateral changes that the actual moderators are powerless to contest.
There was a study in the late 2000s that suggested kids (later end of the millennials or younger) tended to prefer the sound of music encrusted with MP3 artifacts over a straight digital reproduction, which suggested that what you grew up with is what you like to hear and the criteria for a "good sound" are slipperily subjective.

Try running that by a Gen-X music enthusiast, though, and watch them make a Wojak face and cry "NOOOOOO! Digital can't possibly capture the warm guitars and fat synths of my analog-mastered vinyl Zeppelin album! It HAS to be 100% analog from the studio to my earholes!"
do you mind sharing which KVM worked well for you?

I also keep switching frequently and looking for something similar
It never hit 1990s levels (your own source shows this in its charts), and it's falling again. It shouldn't be that surprising that COVID and the ensuing disruptions caused some fluctuations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/briefing/crime-data-us-ma...
"Human gene linked to bigger brains was born from seemingly useless DNA"

Considering how we've managed to use those bigger brains, that DNA still seems useless.

It would be interesting to use seemingly unused DNA to express genes. But I also wonder if these truly lack a function, or if we just don't know the function.
The amount of great discussions I've seen shut down because a moderator removed the post on some stupid minor infraction is infuriating.
I've been looking for something like this. Is it DIY or something off-the-shelf? My spouse requires absolute darkness when sleeping, but I have SAD and require the blinds to be always open in order to... not want to die.
Vitamin C!
What NAS do you have?
An Acer video projector I bought for 50€.
I also got a few years old Thinkpad X230 for 100€.
Again??? Was there a pause?
> The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by overevolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought, for instance, that certain deer in paleontological times succumbed as they acquired overly-heavy horns. The mutations must be considered blind, they work, are thrown forth, without any contact of interest with their environment.

> In depressive states, the mind may be seen in the image of such an antler, in all its fantastic splendour pinning its bearer to the ground.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/45/The_Last_Messiah
It's mostly a meme. They are good at cooking some things, but frying is not one of them. They're basically an expensive toaster oven.

*Edit: 'are'
why not both? the population of the super wealthy is getting pretty large and they take a lot of flights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBNcYxHJPLE
I got mine a speaker with a microSD card slot. It works well but getting stuff onto the cards is a bit convoluted: if she likes a particular youtube video she needs to run youtube-dl, then pull out the audio track, and copy that to the SD card. Maybe if there was a walkman-format device with a SD card slot that would be better because it would be more private with headphones, and it would be possible to swap mp3s with friends.
H-bombs or chicken bones: the race to define the start of the Anthropocene
As a former teacher in one of the poorest congressional districts in the country at the time (South Bronx, early 2000s), as well as the current parent of a kid in a very different (Midwestern) city's public school systems, this is the answer I would point to.

Teacher quality has always been a distribution, with some good and bad outliers, but the vast majority are sufficient.

What hasn't always been the case is the inability to get rid of kids who are extremely disruptive and make it impossible for education to take place. There also seems to be a bigger share of that disruption now than two decades ago, when I was teaching. I think a lot of it relates to feedback loops: in the suburban schools in my area, as well as the elite public high school in my area (requires an academic test for entrance), these problems don't exist. The problems only seem to exist in the schools where there are higher concentrations of antisocial expectations/behavior. This does tend to correlate with poverty, but poverty doesn't apprar to be causative, merely correlated:

I would point out that poor kids who test into the elite public high school tend to do just fine. But, they are all there for a reason (i.e., it is a self-selecting group of people who want to test), and also worked hard enough to pass the entrance exam.
Fair question. I live in Japan. Frozen deliveries work reliably, and I don't think we'd have frozen croissants at the supermarket.

I order from a store that seems to mostly serve cafes based on their order sizes (their other products are things like a 13kg box of butter).
So I still don't understand why these professors don't have their name second after the student author. It's still prestigious to guiding some of the best minds but also very honest, maybe even have a special symbol to indicate it as such in parenthesis.
Whoooo yes this is exactly what I was looking for! Crap ass mono in is no problem at all, they think those post cards that play a 5 second tune when you open them are top premium audiophile stuff.

A full size deck is a better solution quality wise but I'm adamant at not having a lot of physical stuff around, and it makes it more difficult for the kids than running a 3.5 mm lead from the ipad to this Jensen thing.

Thanks again!!
I go by "build for x2, plan for x10". Unless you're super-super-successful you won't see much more than that. And if you do, well you have a budget now.
These seems a fascinating, full tool, compared to partial, arguably ugly JSON DSL like StepFunctions[1].

But that invites the question: where to execute this?

StepFunctions, whether you love you some AWS or not, provides all the storage, compute, &c resources you need, and then some.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/step-functions/
Without UFCS, if I see obj.foo(), I know I can lookup the definition of foo() in the definition of obj's type, or in its supertypes. Even for foo(obj), there is often a canonical place where such functions are defined. With UFCS, I need to look in both of these places until I can find the right definition.

And sure, the IDE/language server/other tooling can often help, but not always (e.g. if I'm browsing some code on Github). Either way, more ambiguity for no gains is typically not a good idea, even if the downsides are minor (again, I am very much in favor of UFCS where it's directly useful, such as C++ or D).
I'm surprised by how many things mentioned here are things that improved my own 2022 (air fryer, Steamdeck, bone-conducting headphones, etc.)

A couple of things that I haven't yet seen mentioned:

A LifeStraw Home water filter. It removes the slightly metallic taste from my home tap water.

Cable management boxes (multiple brands). These allow me to hide away the unsightly power strips, power bricks, hubs, excess cords, etc, and make my desk/office much more organized.
The service has been around for years, the real die-hards are actually on the IRC (which recently got a tie-in with a Discord server for those who want to chat on there without having the technical knowhow to use IRC).

I personally got it for the webpage, to use as an online business card, and have been loving all of the other stuff that surrounds it like the new Weblog feature
I've said many times that C++'s tooling is a dumpster fire of epic proportions. No-one that wants to use the language should have to spend a non-trivial amount of time a) downloading a build system in addition to the compiler and linker, and b) reading the docs of the build system they've chosen.

It's the compsci version of Hawking's quote 'for every equation I include in this book, I'll lose half the readers' (or words to that effect). For every extra line of setup, you lose some of your potential audience.

Just setting up C++ tooling requires non-beginner level skills.
Whenever I've used Copilot it never seems to copy whole sections of code. Can you provide examples of this?

From what I've seen it is producing fairly generic boilerplate that has been modified based on the rest of the code in my repo so that it works with the other functions and even incorporates other pieces of my code in the same style that I'm using. The boilerplate aspect makes sense because this would be the most common sequence of tokens that it observed during training. It's somewhat miraculous that it can incorporate code on the fly from my repo. I've never seen anything that looks like a direct copy paste from elsewhere though. If you have a different observation I'd love to see it.
Yes, transformative works may be allowed. So I'd guess that creating a model is probably OK (speaking as a non-lawyer!). But using output generated by that model is another matter. The "model" is fundamentally a machine that produces output that is derived from the input it was given. And that output might not be sufficiently transformative to "escape" copyright/licensing restrictions.

In the extreme case, the model's output might be a verbatim copy of a large portion of the original input ("training materials"); but even if it has been extensively modified, e.g. to conform to the coding style of a target repository or to follow a different language standard, this might not be "transformative".

(Compare: A translation of Harry Potter to French looks superficially quite different from the English original, yet it is still a derivative work; and if you're planning to publish one, Ms Rowling (or her publisher) may want a word with you. And that would apply whether you translated it "manually" or pushed it through Google Translate.)
Until you realize most corps turn off macros or only have macros on for a small subset of users.
Nothing is being stolen, get a grip.
did you try this tool "Mouse Without Borders" from Microsoft Garage[0]?

seems to work well for my modest needs. you can either make the mouse move between screens using Ctrl or another key or make it freely roam ...without borders

allows drag and drop of files, shared clipboard etc

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=354...
>What is the point of free software again?

The point of the free software movement, and the licenses, is to make sure that in the future, they will still be free software. It's the Paradox of tolerance[0], expressed in legal language, for software source code. Digital goods, while often posing as tangible goods, actually have near zero replication cost, unlike tangible goods. This, combined with the special circumstances provided by free software licenses, enable a special economy, where the barrier to entry is the lowest possible, and the contributions to it are maximized for further enabling the special economy, for all current, and future participants.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance