skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this a GPT-3 generated comment linking to a GPT-3 generated article?
I have heard HTML/CSS mentioned as an alternative and I pray every day this time will never come. Even taking all the complaints leveled at LaTeX at face value, using HTML/CSS looks like pure hell to me. Allow me to elaborate.

1. You mentioned forgiving. One may not like the style of TeX error messages but its tracing facilities are extensive and given enough time and perseverance one can track nearly any layout issue down an correct it. Compare this to CSS silently ignoring incorrect syntax, having different syntax across browsers, etc. I would take strict syntax checking over this mess any day.

2. Many complained that LaTeX has more than one way of achieving the same result. True but how many ways are there of centering a div on a page? I can list six off the top of my head and there are probably more.

3. You casually mentioned '...except for maths things...' but this is far from minor. I cringe when I read engineering papers not written in TeX: the formulas are so ugly that they border on unreadable.

4. CSS may be wider known but unlike TeX CSS is a moving target. Being designed by a committee it carries all the flaws, like kludgy design in the name of 'compatibility', poor choices of syntax to make it appeal to a wider audience, etc. The designers of CSS are so enamored with the 'cascade' but in practice it is rarely used as intended. The 'important!' kludge as a perfect testament to this.

5. LaTeX syntax may be unappealing to some but HTML takes it to a whole other level: whitespace that affects the layout yet no easy way of getting rid of it (HTML style comments are a torture device); too verbose... one may not like the backslash but what about <...> </...> ? Five extra symbols!

6. LaTeX engines produce full featured PDF so hyperlinks are not a problem (most LaTeX documents have them). Yes, CSS has so called 3D graphics but it is anything but programmer friendly. What good are 3D transforms if one cannot even use simple lighting effects programmatically; c'mon, at least give me Lambert reflection! Incidentally, inline JavaScript can be included in pdf documents produced by LateX as well (although ... why?)
There's a big difference between being filmed more generally - security cameras, being in the background of some shot, a festival recording - than being the subject of the recording, mainly being harassed by people making stupid TikTok videos.

The article is primarily about the latter. So this is like telling people to stay home if they don't want TikTokers harassing them in public.

How about just stop bothering people you don't know for 'content'?
Reminds me of an EULA then.
BTC hasn't been around long enough for it to have a past history to be evidence against the belief it will downtrend. Not relative to other currencies or commodities.

That's like putting a match to gunpowder and claiming based on the trend of the first few microseconds, the flame will engulf the world.
It is an excellent book but I think it could have an abridged version for the vast majority of people who don’t need the crazy amount of minutiae in it. I found sections riveting, but in between I struggled with boredom - not every single meeting and letter and interaction is important!
I was comparing the costs to building/operating on a single server to the real Twitter. Twitter is a massive, distributed, hugely complex system, which requires a large team to build, maintain, and operate. That costs $$$. Both for people and servers.

(You are right, servers are cheap compared to employee costs though.)
I recently needed to write C code to interface with a COM library on Windows. While Microsoft fully supports it, the result is very foreign compared with typical C code.

Surely in C one does use tables of function pointers to implement some aspects of OOP. However, a good library limits it and rather exposes some structs instead of requiring multiple virtual methods calls to archive a similar effect.
> In those times of economic chaos, a working class individual could afford a house and food for his family.

Should that really be a surprise when we see the growing disparity in income between the average worker and the CEOs? The rich have been keeping a greater and greater percentage of corporate profits for themselves. And it now isn't being siphoned off by the government because the rich have also lobbied to have the top-income tax rates lowered and lowered.
I find this discussion tends to go in unsatisfying circles. Yes, any one person’s lifestyle choices are insignificant (well, unless you’re stratospherically wealthy at least). But fostering a shared sense that something needs to be done is not necessarily bad. Furthermore, farmers aren’t growing alfalfa just to gratify themselves but to support patterns of consumption we have come to expect.
Act III describes this risk and Act IV addresses how they dealt with it
A Lisp Machine in my browser?!?! And just like that my coming week of productivity was lost. Awesome!
how is the generated data not just worse than already existing data
Daily active users:

Twitter: 238M

Mastodon: 1.8M

To think I had to see all those Mastodon hype posts everywhere!
That depends on how far away the center is and whether you trust the people between here and there.
I suspect there may be some selection bias in the original paper. I base this on the fact that, if I showed up to be a subject in a psychological experiment and saw this list of snoopy questions, I'd bail, and I doubt I'm the only one.
Rant: I'm so sick of the Apple App store. It absolutely pales in comparison to app stores like Steam, Epic Games or GOG. On those stores, you can buy a license, and then use that license almost anywhere. (Except, of course, on Apple Devices.) These stores compete with eachother, so they also sometimes have very good deals. (Hello actually good free games from Epic.)

On the horrible Apple App store, you buy a piece of software and you can only use it on some Apple devices. If a developer stops updating their software, odds are you'll no longer be able to use the software at some point in the future.

Even worse, most apps are listed as free, but of course, they're not free. They charge you for them, but only in some way that is completely hidden to everyone who doesn't download and install the software. Either that, or they are free, but you're overwhelmed with huge numbers of ads.

I've come to resent our overpowered iPad. I'd love to install games that I own on other devices, but Apple has chosen to make this impossible. That's extremely disrespectful to me, their customer. They sell me a device that is completely locked down. It's horrible, and in no way the dream of computing that almost everyone had when I was growing up.
Maybe we are talking about different things. Up to an amount you can do this: https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/taxation/vat/vat-digit...
Challenge the assertions of of a shiny-confident-robot and you will be challenged right back with, according to what shiny-confident-robot?

And no, first hand observation doesn't count, because that's mere anecdote.
Instead of price history look at utility history: It’s never been anything other than a speculative asset or a temporary medium of exchange for criminals. There’s no future here.

Future returns on BTC cannot be compared to the S&P!
Can we give a multi-national company worth billions of dollars with a staff dedicated to legal compliance a bit less benefit of the doubt?

It seems like Apple clearly violated the policy it rightly should establish for any software on iOS. They deserve the penalty.
Wish I knew about autoref earlier, it also increases the area spanned by the hyperlink generated to the entirety of "Figure 1" instead of just "1" in the case of ref.
Or you could implement COLA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLA_(software_architecture)

Huh, that page was deleted in Dec 22. "concern was: Old research project. Unable to locate any details. VPRI institute is dead. Been on the cat:nn list since March 2009. No new updates."

Goddamned deletionist activist WP editors tearing down the human knowledge base.

(If you don't know VPRI is (was?) Alan Kay's research org. I think it's a bit notable and important.)

ANYWAY

From the search result (in DDG) snippet I can get the first two sentences of the deleted page:

> "COLA" stands for "Combined Object Lambda Architecture". [1] A COLA is a self-describing language in two parts, an object system which is implemented in terms of objects, and a functional language to describe the computation to perform. [2]

It's a very simple system that gives you the basis for both OOP and Lisp-like semantics. It's fun!

You can see it here: https://piumarta.com/software/cola/

Or check out the VPRI reports, etc.:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220819075633/https://www.vpri....

Ironically their website appears to be down at the moment.
> The left at least don’t pretend to be wholesome and righteous

Funny, I use this same line about the right (at least in reference to politicians) in the US.
NAC has been very helpful for me. I have no idea if it really works, but it is the best option I have found.

It’s really hard to evaluate the author’s experience because we don’t know “what a little tired” means or how much alcohol the bar put in his drinks. A BAC reading before bed would have made this more credible.
Supercell: $32 million / employee

WhatsApp: $228 million / employee. ($16 billion / 70 employees )
Nobody is stopping you from creating an "unrigged" way of shorting crypto. If what you say is true, you will have huge demand.

Also, you can short crypto on CME. Is that rigged too?
How would you approach layoffs?
> scams are not tolerated by society and are eliminated as soon as they show up

This is already the case currently. Once scams are identified as such, then they are eliminated. But the problem of course is that scams start off as seeming legitimate. That's the definition of scam, something that appeared legitimate but wasn't.

Even in "anarco-decadent" societies, scams would not flourish once they are revealed as scams because, why would anyone participate in something with a 100% chance of them losing all their money? The scammers may not face punishment from an overseeing authority like the state, but may very well by individual victims of the scam. Either way, scams can't continue as known scams in any arrangement of society. edit An exception to this is a fully corrupted authoritarian society. In this special case there could be 'approved scams' by some officials or people in power that everyone knows to be a scam, but they have to go along with over fear of violent reprisal.
Indeed - hence the tendency towards caution over what I type

I understand how it manifests... but I find it not that difficult to avoid

My answer to lacking feedback isn't moving forward headstrong - it's verify the delicate combination went through fine
Something existing for a long time increases the probability of it being stable, but does not guarantee it. It could be that Tether falls apart in a certain set of conditions that just has not happened yet, such as FTX/Alameda being exposed by bad crypto conditions in 2022. It took Theranos 15 years to fall apart.

For the majority of folks to be convinced, Tether both has to exist for a long while, and provide a basic level of introspection into how the reserves are handled.
> What you are talking about is Overfitting.

Not really, though that is another legitimate issue.

I was talking about 1) the fundamental training and inference process, which remembers pixels, not concepts or techniques. Today’s AI learns to create imagery in a fundamentally different way than people do. And 2) image generation AI based on text prompts like Stable Diffusion can easily be asked to reproduce training data by having a prompt that is narrow and specific enough. This is not over fitting, it’s a function of the fact that some inputs are quite unique, and you can use the prompt to focus on that uniqueness.
How exactly do you still say things like this in 2022. You know like words have a contextual meaning based on how they're used by people?
I ran into the same thing when I tried to have chatgpt boilerplate an Apache airflow operator that sends a message to an MS teams channel on failure.

It hallucinated the existence of a plausible but non existent built in teams integration module.

I asked for a github link to the source and it gave one that was a 404, but was colocated with other MS related modules.

It will be interesting when the language my models become more aware of what they know vs what is inferred to exist..
Care to share the perspective you have on the subject? Speaking with such conviction about something that can have so much real impact on the lives of others, I’d really hope you have some direct and first hand experience.
Readers should note that this is a fantastic app, a tour-de-force in useful visualization of quantitative data — live weather models in great detail — and one of the apps that would keeps me firmly in the Android world (although evidently now being ported to Apple).

No relationship other than satisfied (and impressed ) customer for many years. You've gotta try this!
Yes, and they exist, that's also what the article's author ended up using.
Why do you consider a painting of someone which is not mocking them to be mocking them?
Just please pay attention to your electrolytes while trying this. I'm a big fan of keto. However please learn how the body responds. You may need to purposefully add electrolytes (yes including salt) to offset what ends up being flushed out. Often people can become light headed, experience sick like feelings (aka keto flu), and even pass out. All due to a need for electrolytes.
To a certain degree, the LaTeX environment is already like that. I designed my custom resume style years ago and rarely touch it. I often tweak the actual content which gets poured into the style to produce the final document. The few changes I’ve made to the style have never affected the (separate) content either.
> ... Dogecoin ...

I remember when this blockchain was created. People were transferring Doge to each other for fun. That was the whole point, it was just goofing around and making jokes. And now you can buy it at ATMs in gas stations. What a world we live in.
>As for "stuck with", well, web works, O365 works, Affinity creative suite works with pencil no less, and remote dev experiences work, to name a few.

One chrome book please
Imagine a system of tags and account linking which pair your preferred games and genres (on steam and others) to your goodreads list, your spotify, etc.. and generate assets and narrative based on that, while using existing game engines (and their increasingly complex automations) to put those things together into a multimedia experience. Maybe for a while this could create a genre like "RPGMaker" games did, but it has the potential to be more.

For a while at least coherence and consistency are not within reach of those systems, but that doesn't seem impossible. Perhaps for a little while longer I can see jobs emerging for curator of prompts, able to fine tune the experience for what is being generated and knowledgeable about the rapidly changing state of the art.
> Why is it so hard to accept that some people have redlines

I accept they have, but I'm not obligated to respect them. Imagine a world where it's sufficient to declare an arbitrary redline to force the rest of humanity to respect it.
For KDE Plasma 5.27 we did a big refactor on how the screens are managed
Could you expand/explain this a bit more for the less technically inclined in the audience?
It depends a lot on the wrapped APIs, for instance D3D11 is a struct-heavy API exposed via COM and totally fine being used from C code (instead of C++), even works nicely with C99 designated init for initializing the input structs.
Apple claimed to have integrated Dark Sky's technologies into their Weather app but clearly haven't. I've relied on Dark Sky's rain notifications for years and they've always been remarkably accurate (UK here), but the stock Weather app sends maybe one notification per 100 rains. So far this year, since Apple turned off Dark Sky, I haven't received a single rain notification and consequently I've been absolutely drenched on several dog walks.
I disagree with the alt-right categorization. I am thankful I am not a teacher who has to lead a discussion in a liberal arts school.
I am asian(Indian) and while I have heard / seen plenty of offensive content against my ilk, I have never felt threatened / fearsome or the need to play the victim card like the Ms. Wedatalla.
>“Who do I call at 8 a.m.,” she asked, when “you see someone disrespecting and offending your religion?”

Over the top, much?
Linux Touchpad like MacBook Update: 2022 progress and new poll
> both sides are aruging their group is better.

And/or that the personal work experience they themselves have had, would be representative for people in general.

(Not saying that the posters above necessarily did now)

> couple of things going on here ... few people are actually interested in helping orgs make mone ...

Yes, nicely written :-)

Maybe in many cases they are "right" not to care, if the company doesn't contribute meaningfully to society anyway
And we've learned a lot about what is and is not intelligence, and if we keep it up we'll steadily carve out the space that defines it.
> I awoke at 5 AM with a piercing headache and a parched throat. I drank some water and flopped back into bed but it was no use. I was awake, horribly hungover, and hoping that I’d spent the night drinking plain old tequila. Otherwise I’d have to tell Dahl that his science-alcohol didn’t work.

Like any pop-sci article it's not ment to be rigorous, but provide an interesting narritive. Ideally there would a double blind study with control groups given any combination of normal alcohol and hangover free alcohol but I wouldnt expect that level of rigour from a Vice article.
In addition to making await the default, one could make async the way to split off work:

async foo() {
let y = awaited(); // as in article
let p = async notAwaited();
// do stuff
let z = await p;
}
Apple weather is about as useful as one of those plastic bubble popping lawnmowers. As in darn near useless. They hid the hourly reports a few levels into the app and the darn thing never is right for me. Makes me really hate apple a little bit more every time I use it. “Sunny and clear” no apple, it’s snowing.
I’ve actually talked with ChatGPT and asked it both to output mairmaid diagrams of discussed architecture (context was kubernetes clusters, namespaces and Pods) and also read diagrams and convert them correctly to kubectl commands to build the diagram.
apparently this will fix long-standing issues with multi-monitor setups.

also https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-5.27-Multi-Monitor

release is scheduled for 2023-02-14: https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5#Future_releases
> on earth

Different countries have their own currencies. In most of them, it's illegal to use another's country currency. So this statement doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Regarding most currencies being attached to the USD, it's an old tradition that a lot of entities are trying to get rid of. Some got democracy just for trying to get out of it (Libya comes to mind).
I've noticed this too. I used to do group therapy, and the therapist would say e.g. "Tell us about your most X memory". Everyone else knew immediately what they wanted to say. I'm still thinking about it months later.

I think, metaphorically speaking, my mind may not be indexed in the usual way.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2589850

To be clear work never ended and got really intense for part of the year, but productive labor was limited by raw materials, transportation issues etc.
It's very easy to be cynical and always see the worst in people, but it's still possible that people are reasonable and like to do the right thing.
Everyone’s elite, but not for long. Airlines make travel perks harder to earn
What will the fusion breakthrough do for space exploration?
This is absolutely the sort of thing I wish more developers did - and I think the good ones already do. Most of what you find in blogs will work just fine at 1 request per second (OMG! 1M Hits!!) or 10 requests per second (and I think someone did post their “how I scaled to 10 million hits per month” blog to Hacker News once which sounds impressive until you do the math) but when you get into thousands of requests per second you really do need to understand the network stack, the different storage tiers, your choice of algorithms, how to interact with CDNs, etc. a lot more then any blog will tell you.

When interviewing developers I always ask them what is the largest public web site they ever worked on and then probe about performance issues they encountered and how they resolved them in order gague how far along they are in their skill development.

I would never plan to run a production service on a single server just because coordinating changes in the active dataset among two or more production servers often changes your design significantly, and you want to plan for that because the consumer grade hardware we all use has a nasty habit of not working after power cycles (which still tends to be the most strain a system goes through, even in a world of SSD storage).
That doesn't change the fact that carbon pricing depends on a grand top-down view of the economy - something you seemed to reject.

Read more of that Wikipedia article, including "heavily criticized, particularly by anthropologists and historians":

> Critical scholars note that although taken as a hypothetical example by Lloyd, the historical demise of the commons of Britain and Europe resulted not from misuse of long-held rights of usage by the commoners, but from the commons' owners enclosing and appropriating the land, abrogating the commoners' rights.

as well as the criticism section at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#Critici... with:

> Radical environmentalist Derrick Jensen claims the tragedy of the commons is used as propaganda for private ownership.[189][190] He says it has been used by the political right wing to hasten the final enclosure of the "common resources" of third world and indigenous people worldwide, as a part of the Washington Consensus

and

> Tragedy of the commons has served as a pretext for powerful private companies and/or governments to introduce regulatory agents or outsourcing on less powerful entities or governments, for the exploitation of their natural resources.
Eh, this is a very separate debate. You don’t need OO for modularity. This should be obvious. You need an API/Contract and for re-use you need a “module” (such as a dll or a web interface). For example something like:

int CreateTheStatefulThing(blah* thing);
DoStuffWithThing(blah* thing);
void CleanUpThing(blah* thing);

To suggest OOP is the foundation of reusable code is simply wrong.
Oft-overlooked, but this applies beyond “big tech” too. The US has for decades lagged behind most developed countries on broadband internet speed, largely due to the uncompetitive markets.

Things like Local Loop Unbundling (back when ADSL was a thing) and allowing/encouraging municipalities to run FTTH would improve things a lot, but the incumbents have lobbied hard against such policies that would force more competition.
Am I mistaken in remembering it was prototyped in PICO-8?