skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not a wizard but I’m pretty old. After years of scientific programming in Fortran Julia was very easy to switch to. This is not like switching to a (conventional) Lisp or APL, The syntax is quite familiar; you need not use any part of the type system, until you learn more and want to take advantage of it. You’ll need to sprinkle in a few dots to reproduce Fortran‘s array expressions, in places.
That is indeed another vulnerability of Discord.

Discryptor doesn't even require you to be logged into your Discord account (except for the authentication every now and then).
I started to see tiny moles on my arms shoulders and back after going to beaches without sunscreen…. you are terrifying me
Apple’s App Store growth is slowing down
Ford Focus, recent enough to have the Sync3+ software (2018+). Except for the Carplay interface, everything has physical buttons, and even then - the physical media controls (and on-steering-wheel buttons, including a physical "activate siri voice control" button) will do what you expect with the connected device. It has both digital speedometer (as an optional page in the dashboard) and physical speedometer.

However, I haven't looked to see if this is continues with the more recent models/focus line alternatives.
insert Cory Doctorow post that I'm too lazy to look up about how the Ludites weren't against technology, they were against the way it was being used against them

Honestly, most of my concern around AI has very little to do with the technology or its effectiveness, partly because I don't think that technological effectiveness is always necessarily the biggest indicator of what technologies will win in a market. I have zero doubt that a company like Adobe or Microsoft would love to become the gatekeeper of what content gets made and how people make it regardless of whether their gatekeeping actually makes it easier for people to create.

Every big company would love to be the middleperson in-between writers/artists/coders and their creative/professional output.

But even there, there's a big difference between AI being a tool used against normal professionals, and AI taking over the world and putting every programmer out of business. I definitely don't mean to dismiss concerns about access, but I think I'm a lot more bearish about the ability of the modern tech industry to pull off commercializing a genuinely useful, important category of tech without immediately hampering it to the point where ordinary people start to notice and where it stops being a great replacement for the thing it was supposed to replace.
"During my exploration in Europe, I saw plenty of travelers and photographers lugging huge camera bags stuffed with multiple prime and zoom lenses. These folks would set down their bags and fiddle with their cameras, changing lenses, etc.

While they were juggling, I was shooting.

Less is more."

There's nothing wrong with a minimalist approach, but the above comparison is bullshit.

I've been photographing and traveling for 2 decades. If in recent years you still find people with a bag full of lenses, overwhelmingly this is to cover a giant focal range. Thus, when they switch a lens, this is to cover a dramatically different focal length. A wide angle for a landscape, a telezoom for a distant bird. Maybe even macro.

The point being, they're able to make shots that you're simply unable to make at all with your fixed 50mm lens no matter your creativity. Which is a choice, but it most certainly is not "more".

The minimalism claimed here is snobbery instead. You go against gear heads yet crave a Leica. The ultimate snob camera system. You claim speed is important ("I kept shooting") and then admire a camera that is slow by design. You claim weight is important, yet don't use your smartphone. It's one contradiction after the other.

To make the stereotype complete, I'll fill in the blanks. You're principally against auto-focus as it ruins the art. You make prints from your own photos and frame them with a white border 5 inches thick, to magnify the "minimalism".

Guests will think your intentionally blurry grainy B&W photo of unclear subject or meaning is from Ikea, luckily an explanation will follow about the laborious process to achieve this minimalism, whilst in the background the teenage son types into his AI prompt:

"Beautiful landscape with trees but actually sharp and not noisy, not in style of dad, without borders, full rich color, more is more"
Honestly, they shouldn’t be allowed to advertise to teens at all

It’s pretty sick how we have this parasitic industry built around “how can we manipulate developing brains at all costs for our profit?”

What’s the benefit to our society? Mentally damaged youth turning to mentally damaged adults, carrying in a cycle devoid of meaning in life and perpetually addicted.

We don’t believe children should have full freedom because they are a danger to themselves. Yet we allow nearly totally unrestricted psychological manipulation cast onto them from billions/trillions of dollars worth of force.

I’m growing very cynical of the world and the people who are responsible for making it this way.
Sorry for your loss, and +1 to this advice.

It’s pretty quick and relatively pain free to get your moles examined and biopsied if necessary.
OpenAI already taught GPT-3 to perform web searches and look for answers in the results, so I'm pretty sure that using a calculator would be very doable.

https://openai.com/blog/webgpt/
As a non-US person i think OP story was quite interesting, including the gender transition part (because it very much adds to picturing the personality of that steve / jessica and also reflects on a current trend in the US) and the way he told it pretty comprehensive (using other pronouns would have made it much more difficult to follow for example). Please don’t try and censor someone’s speech whose view you don’t agree with, especially when the person is simply telling a story in the chronological order.
no idea, subjectively I always liked hangouts (or whatever the crap it's called this week) much better.

Also, everyone's on gmail anyway so surprising google somehow just missed the boat on this huge competitor.
Agreed, just looking at specific outliers is a fairly pointless exercise. The only way to discuss the topic reasonably is to look at global trends over a larger timescale. Doing so we can see that starting from the Industrial Revolution global mean temperatures have been rising sharply: https://web.archive.org/web/20200202220240/https://www.clima...
I wouldn’t state it that unequivocally. But any high-dollar B2B operation relying entirely on remote sales either doesn’t need a sales team, or is begging for an aggressive competitor to take their lunch.
Also, what about “right to be forgotten”?
The Paramount Decrees and the deregulation of Hollywood studios (2022)
How to Become a Vegan Eater?
I slowly would like to transition to a vegan diet.

However, just avoiding animal products and eating more and more vegan dishes doesn't cut it as you most likely will miss out on a lot of nutrients.

It looks like I need to supplement B12 and eat stuff such that I get all nutrients.

Sounds easy, but isn't. There are already thousands of B12 supplements, which all seem to be working differently. High dosing B12 seems to facilitate cancer when you already have sufficient B12. I seems like I need to consume small doses. 3 times a day a bit, because the digestive system can only process so much at a time. Most supplements I found seem to work differently, why? how? which one?

Then nutrients.
There are lists of nutrients to watch.
My idea was to go through each nutrient and find dishes for them (i.e. dishes containing certain green stuff, corn and nuts, etc.) or create them by myself (yeah no way) and eat as much as required for each nutrient.

However it feels like I end up with way more food I could eat and it is really complicated. e.g. when I want to gain iron I shouldn't drink tea or other things, because it makes iron reception more difficult. For other things, the opposite is true.
Already eating a for a day or week feels like it requires a scientific project in planning, and at the end of the day I need to make the things I eat, too while still having time for other things.

any tips?
Possibly, but it really feels like they just don’t have a vision.
> People are complaining about California's governance, taxes, and pricing, so what's wrong with encouraging movement to other states?

In short, public golf courses -- moreover -- the protection of public golf courses. That's pure NIMBYism right there. California chose golf courses over housing. Think about that.
Willing to bet big that it wasn't the managers who got the axe.
Is this based on ChatGPT?
Are you a mechanic or similar yourself?

It seems very bold to me to assume that someone who spends their professional life around cars is "blind" to the reality of the cars they drive, when a much more likely explanation is that experts can more accurately evaluate things in their area of expertise than laypeople.
Could you expand on why, and what you used?

I'm looking into a multiplatform app myself, and I've considered egui and iced, but am leaning towards Tauri. I'll definitely be sticking with Rust (this is a front end for a Rust library that I currently use from a cli). But still interested to hear more on Flutter's advantages in general.
In practice, it ends up being an AI that won't do the former for your average person but can still be prompt-engineered to do the latter by a sufficiently determined attacker.
California’s agriculture industry is not only massive but also one of the most profitable in the country, accounting for a disproportionate fraction of the food Americans eat (as opposed to e.g. corn for distillers/biofuels/animal feed) and US exports to the rest of the world. Based on cash receipts, California is #1 in the country overall (Iowa is second followed by Nebraska and Texas)
Hey, it's absolutely not true that the government is doing nothing. They're actively cutting the pay of Nurses, junior doctors, ambulance workers, and emergency services call handlers. This has resulted in a series of strikes further destroying the service as well as causing a recruitment crisis. In response the government is planning to pass legislation to ban strikes that will allow ministers to ban strikes in practically any profession - from tram drivers to the passport office to nurses to border guards. In response to this legislation there will be a general strike, probably causing the government to collapse.
Totally agree. My grandfather was able to write entire applications in ~2000 lines of GWBasic without any external libraries. Achieving similar functionality today with a modern stack would be... pretty non-trivial.

Obviously BASIC isn't a super modern choice for a lot of reasons. But really makes you wonder. Modern development feels like needless abstraction spaghetti in comparison. It's all fluff driven by 'adoption', chained together with endless toolchains. Not that we haven't learned anything good in the last 30 years, but I think we could certainly stand to swing the pendulum back the other way a bit.

Alan Kay has a well-regarded talk called "Is it really 'Complex'? Or did we just make it 'Complicated'?". (Full disclosure, haven't seen it yet, but it sounds pretty topical)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY
I can’t imagine having much of anything to do if your job is “management” and you have 3 to 5 ICs….
> [In Igalia] we have the ability to submit for investments for things that nobody is currently funding but we think deserve funding and deserve to move forward somehow. [...] Initially this came up about doing some work on MathML in WebKit [sic; Blink presumably]. That was years ago. We sponsored all that work, funded all that work, got it done. And then, there was another effort there to try to drive something forward enough to make a proposal and maybe fund it through grants and crowdfunding. So we did an initial thing based on also writing a grant and getting initial money for the project from the National Institute of Standards Organizations and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation. [...] Then we also got small amounts of funding, few thousands from Pearson and APS Physics. And then there was a period where there was no more funding to be had for about a year, year and a half. And so Igalia stepped back in and funded the work. It slowed down slightly toward the end there, but we kept it going the whole time. And then we started Open Collective.

(https://www.igalia.com/chats/mathml-release)

It seems like some of the work that Igalia did was externally funded, but far from all of it.
The problem I see with the GC and with immutable data structures is somewhat unbounded memory consumption.

In former, and general, case because it takes uncertain amount of time for objects to be released and memory to be reclaimed.

In latter case because of essentially creating and then keeping the snapshots of the same but slightly different data that is also going to be released at some uncertain moment.

In high concurrency scenarios, for both of these cases, peak memory consumption is going to present a problem. Imagine a database kernel servicing hundreds, if not thousands, if requests at the same time. Machine will eventually run out of the memory under see high pressure and at that moment you will either swap or die. Choose your poison.

But to be honest you don't need neither of those to run into such unbounded memory consumption problems. It's enough to litter your codebase with unwieldy use of std::shared_ptr and it will have the same effect.
Agreed - I haven't worked with it in years (I think I started a Plone job not long after 4.0 had been released).

I was just thinking about Plone recently and wondering if it was still around.
Google Meet was there before the pandemic, and Jitsi (for an open source alternative) too.
This is why I also didn't particularly enjoy answering questions concisely at my previous company. I still did, I just hated it.

Documentation can describe a system state, and how to use or approach it, but in my experience it really lacks in capturing the full depth of experience when it comes to interacting with it. All the little shortcuts and workarounds. All the debugging steps. Seeing something, and realising you've seen it before and solving it in 5 minutes instead of the entire day it took you last time. I could write a story about that day, but it wouldn't do anyone any good - they won't learn from that experience like I did and it won't spring to mind instantly. Assuming they even know where to find a piece written about their specific problem.

So when someone says "How do I X?" all I can think about is all the incidental things I've learned when trying to do something else. This builds the bigger picture. I can answer your question, but you'll just paste the code in and be back to ask more tomorrow. I valued the coworkers who treated such things as more of a discussion and learning opportunity than a transactional question-answer routine.
> the reflexive "spending money on war machines is bad" takes are really reductive and signal a shallow understanding of geopolitics and the global security situation

I think if you revisit this comment chain, you’ll find that no one made that argument, and it almost seems like you are defensively projecting a straw man to fight.

The original argument was about should we spend more money on defense (such as f35 development) given that we dominate the next 3 players put together by most metrics. Eg 11 aircraft carriers vs 2 (and yes I know that national defense does not simply boil down to num_carriers)

I’m a strong advocate for the US military being the strongest in the world, but I’m anti the position that we need to be 5x the next spender.

Edit: and yes, I’ll admit my understanding of the geopolitics and defense is indeed shallow, but from where I sit the “experts” got us into War in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam before that. So maybe we need less of this “expert” thinking
What would you say are ways in which an experienced engineer could tell if the PM is adding value or not?
The process of cooking it down that way is creating a derivative work and copyright still applies, it just gets more complicated. (Questions of "transformative" versus "fair use" versus license complications such as "no derivatives" and "share-alike" and much more.)

It's going take to years, if not decades, to sort out the copyright mess of machine learning. I take an extremely cautious approach to it myself, not because I think that the laws or the authorities will "crack down" on it any time soon, but because I ethically want to do the right thing (and took ethics oaths in the past, unlike so many in this industry; it's not fear of future enforcement, it's promises to myself that I'd try to do the right thing).

At the end of the day, it's about respect: I can't tell you what you are doing is illegal or not (and probably not even a lawyer can tell you for sure until far more court cases have tried or worst case you are at the end of your own personal trial on your specific use). I can point out that blog articles come from writers. Even writers not making money on their writing have implied copyrights. Many also have explicit copyright statements on their websites they blog from and sometimes also in the metadata of their RSS feeds (and you can't assume the lack of one implies the lack of the other). Respect the writers as best you can. Don't just treat them as faceless metrics to be compiled into your models. That's your responsibility in training an ML model. I would suggest doing it cautiously, but that's my sense of ethics talking, I cannot tell you what your ethics should be here in this moment, only suggest what I find ethical or not and that I'd probably be a lot more cautious.
>When I was a kid we called them horse-apples or bois d'arc

When I was a kid I had a grove of these in the front yard. I had heard them referred to all of the names mentioned, but never did I see them spelled until much much later in life. To have seen "bois d'arc" spelled out would have been surprising let alone to know it was french in origin.

As a teenager, it was part of my yard work chores to keep the horse-apples cleared from the ground. Being from texas and out in the boonies, "yard" is doing some heavy lifting. The yard was several acres. We had the bois d'arc trees along with texas pecans--the small thick shelled tougher than an aramdillo to crack open kind. So along with the horse-apples, I had to gather all of the fallen limbs. These went into a pile, and when the pile got big enough, we had a bonfire.

>1980 was a hot year in Texas and this day was just another in a record-setting string of days with high temperatures above 100F (37.8C).

This might be the same summer I remember as being old enough to be aware of how hot hot can be in a Texas summer. Maybe it was the record-setting nature that intrigued me, but it definitely sticks out from that time. I would gladly have a summer of a mere 30 consecutive days of triple digits seeing how now we are approaching 90+ days.

>we passed through a town with one of those famously stylish courthouse squares.

So so many towns with the old downtown areas of the courthouse in the center of the square with the shops around it. That number goes down quickly filtering by stylish courthouses. Would this happen to have been Waxahachie, or further north near McKinney? As an adult with much different interests than when I was a kid, I am now attracted to this part of Texas history and how modern day is trying to recapture some of that.
Demo site seems to be down - https://demo.plone.org - wanted to have a looksee but will have to check it out later.
100 people merging into 170 feet of space in front of you[*] is dramatically safer than 1 person trying to squeeze their way into the 20-30 feet of space you're leaving in front of you when you're tailgating.

[*] not all at the same time...
Long time ML worker here. People work in one of 3 ways:

1) Consumer Nvidia GPU cards on custom PCs

2) Self hosted shared server

3) Cloud infrastructure.

There is no "GPU compute only card" that is widely used outside servers.

> company PCs normally ban playing games on company PCs and the overlap of "needing max GPU compute" and "needing complicated 3D rendering tasks" is limited.

The "don't play games thing" isn't a factor. Most companies just buy a 4090 or whatever, and if they have to tell staff not to play games, they say "don't play games". Fortnight runs just fine on pretty much anything anyway.
Awesome, but it's not yet got the text summary feature, which curiously is also missing from Apple's official Dark Sky replacement, WeatherKit:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/weatherkitrestapi

I created the start of a Python wrapper for WeatherKit, if anyone is interested in helping with that effort:

https://github.com/davecom/PyWeatherKit
Or you can make it go away completely with: https://zoom.us/profile/setting and search for 'apps'. Turn off "Zoom Apps Quick Launch Button" and I believe that makes the dock go away, too.
I mean it failed because

> Once people learned the messages were co-created by a machine, it didn’t work. Simulated empathy feels weird, empty.

The distinction between human-authored vs human-edited is only salient so long as it aligns with the "people leaning the messages where co-created by a machine" dimension.

A followup experiment would be disentangling the content from the frame. The control would be human-authored messages framed as such, and the three treatments would be human-edited messages framed as such, human-edited messages framed as human-authored, and human-authored messages framed as human-edited. Whether or not the conclusions are actionable is another question entirely. What would we do if human-edited messages framed as human-authored work just as well or even better? Are there ethical lies?
The sad story of the Gracchi brothers is often considered a turning point in the republic because it "normalized" violence as a political tool. What followed were proscriptions, the Catilinarian conspiracy, civil wars.

I don't think we're there yet, but the last several years have made me a little more nervous. Are we close to groups of people resorting to political assassinations and if so, will it become normalized?

I actually think more about what Donald Kagan said about tyrannies (a tyrant is just someone who seizes power extra-constitutionally): they generally don't last more than three generations. That led me to compare with democracies, and I can't think of many much older than a couple centuries (though I'm claiming no erudition here).
I get what he means. Back in the day I naively looked at Google like it was some kind of technology Santa Claus. Giving a decent email client to the people. Fighting of big bad Microsoft IE with a standard compliant browser etc. As a teenage programmer I hoped I could some day work for Google (or develop games). How things have changed... (still would like to create a game though)
If you're not living in it and using it for vacation homes, it seems eminent domain makes sense.

Now this is "homes" I'm talking about, not other dense living situations like apartment buildings and hotels.
To make things worse: it doesn't necessarily require a source of ignition.

Nor does it require oxygen to burn; from your link:

Cellulose nitrate contains chemically combined oxygen in sufficient amounts to allow burning and decomposition without the presence of air.
Cash a check and browse hacker news.
I have heard both ways. I personaly don't think this is a very useful exercise. Although I have had people tell me that it is a good time to reevaluate ones actions and decide what work and what does not.
Elon has this magical ability to be hated for not truly being technical and taking all the credit for the engineers doing the real work, while simultaneously being the direct fault of anything in any of his companies that goes wrong
Yea, I understand that. I actually run a trading firm but I don't do "long term" bets like that. Also exactly for that reason.
I have never heard of any of the apps in the new app dock.