skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy shit, how bad is that? People have been saying that market demand is the reason for rising rents, but in reality it's just landlords colluding to fix prices and leaving units empty to create artificial scarcity?

This is worse than I thought.
Forget picking on one particular line and let's talk about the pages of racist caricatures in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator…

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so%E2%80%A6-willy-wonka-and...

like the oompa loompas aren't just a whoopsie, didn't realize that was racist thing. dude said some racist grandpa shit, there's no beating around the bush on that one lol... and boy he had some thoughts on the jews too... in 1983.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20160912-the-dark-side...

(stolen from down-thread:) https://groovyhistory.com/oompa-loompas-the-original-ones/2

so like yeah this is basically the "difficult literature from 50 years ago" question. Dude was kind of a racist and wrote some shit that would be pretty offensive to write today. On the other hand it's also good entertaining literature that's beloved by a lot of kids, minus some offensive pages and occasional themes. what do you do with that? answers vary - don't teach it, edit it to tone down a few things, or just teach it unfiltered with some flavor of "yeah, product of its time"?

I guess I personally fall into the "teach it as a product of its time" camp but I'm also not the one personally affected either, and over time it may fall more and more out of favor as sentiments on casual racism change, I'm sure there was a "teach it as a product of its time" for huck finn too and nowadays ehhhhhhh maybe we just find a better example for english lit. And that's really the danger if you don't want to tone it down (which, I'm not saying that's a good idea either), that it just falls into obscurity over time as people decide "nah african pygmies are a little too racist for 2050".
"But now that the dust is settling, people are realizing that this technology is not flawless."

Of course it's not flawless, Google isn't and people aren't... and those are the two targets for this tech. People lie, make mistakes and mislead and Google directs to plenty of problematic content.

The thing to watch isn't the position of GPT or any disruptive technology today, but its trajectory. The trajectory of GPT is explosive growth, and that growth will be disruptive to imperfect human jobs and imperfect search engines. GPT does not have to be perfect to be disruptive.

This is especially threatening to Google because they have an organization that has never had to compete, like pandas they just consume. They don't hunt. Look at their vast graveyard of platforms they couldn't sustain even with their monopolistic power and endless money.

Consumers and ad purchasers want competition in search because like Uber and Lyft demonstrate, when you have two technology products competing head to head the margins get compressed toward zero.

Edit: spelling
Anyone that uses terminology like "woke" or "anti-woke" to label others is not concerned with what a fair definition of a person is until they themselves are targeted. I would go further to say most people don't consider what is fair when defining people in general. 99% of people who get called "woke" don't consider themselves "woke" or even use the word so I assume the same to be true of whatever the hell "anti-woke" is supposed to mean.

Maybe the problem you're trying to point out is that, like most labels, anti-thing leaves no nuance. To what level is a person against something? Are they questioning that thing to gain better understanding? Or are they trying to justify their bias?
Transformer learning explained: Coinductive guide to inductive transformer heads
Dance dance revolution is coming up on its 25th year.
This needs support at the language/runtime level to be even remotely robust. Especially when we’re talking about highly dynamic and popular languages like JS/Python etc.
Now this is the type of anti-cheat I like to see.
The hidden background noise that can catch criminals [video]
when you have many loops at the same time, that's concurrency
Is there really a double standard here? The subhead of the wapo article is:

> Apple’s plan to make iPhone apps be transparent about the data they take falls short of being helpful — or even accurate
I think that’s completely off the table in the US politically. Look at how hard it is to even get existing quotas raised or legal immigration processes streamlined. Most of the country would be extremely opposed to such a policy, and many for less “noble” reasons than economics. What matters is real life, and when a huge part of the population suddenly has to contend with labor competition willing to work for 1/4 the price, you’re talking about a civil war.
What you see here is literally the definition of cartel price fixing.

OPEC engages in price fixing. It is unstable, as you say, but nobody would say "OPEC is a perfect example of the free market functioning exactly as it should, with no price fixing or market manipulation going on."
If we started mining the earth’s core, it would seem infinite at first. Can we be trusted to only take a little bit and not eventually hollow it out?
This is close to correct.

Statistics (the old school kind) is just about computing summary metrics for large amounts of data.

Probability is about deriving properties of a sample from the population, based on population parameters.

Statistical inference (what is usually meant by "statistics" these days) is about figuring out what sort of population parameters could have produced the sample at hand -- i.e. probability but backwards.
They didn’t. There is a small group of people that are always looking for the latest reason to be outraged and to point at any of the big tech companies and go “aha! They are evil!” Copilot’s ai was trained on GitHub projects and so these people are taking their turns clutching their pearls inside of their little bubble.

I’d bet that more than 95% of devs haven’t even heard of this “controversy” and even if they did, wouldn’t care.
This is pretty good for a 10th grade literature essay
Highly doubt that, automatization and bots are replacing most of the jobs on scary speeds
Well you definitely have that certainty of your own righteousness we all know and love.

It's funny that you mention religion, because yes I am a christian and so I understand that one day I will stand before god in judgement of my actions. I have no certainty that I am able to do what is required of me, only that I must try and this is what drives me to fight for "the least of these." Why do you lick the boot?
The HDB system's outcomes aren't great if not paired with abundant supply. Singapore market rents are growing fast, HDBs have all sorts of unsavory (to Americans) queueing and prioritization rules, and there are plenty of rent seeking HDB owners who sublet their flats at high prices.
Today we're releasing a new state-of-the-art AI large language model called LLaMA designed to help researchers advance their work. LLMs have shown a lot of promise in generating text, having conversations, summarizing written material, and more complicated tasks like solving math theorems or predicting protein structures. Meta is committed to this open model of research and we'll make our new model available to the AI research community.

I don't know what that means or if he even wrote/read it tbh. I hope it literally just means Meta is actually committed to this open model of research (for now).

Maybe he is being a Machiavellian moat filler, I stand corrected. I think/hope that they don't really have a plan to counter OpenAI yet because I am afraid this attitude won't last once they do and this stuff has recently started moving quickly.
I agree with a sibling comment point that Arduino's main strength is that it simplifies the installation of tooling, not that the code is particularly easy. But, on the code side, I think that embedded-hal is excellent

https://docs.rs/embedded-hal/latest/embedded_hal/

Here are the supported boards

https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust#hal-i...

There's a book on rust on esp https://esp-rs.github.io/book/

Here's how to blink a led using esp-idf-hal, targetting espressif

https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-idf-hal/blob/master/examples/b...

/! Blinks an LED
//!
//! This assumes that a LED is connected to GPIO4.
//! Depending on your target and the board you are using you should change the pin.
//! If your board doesn't have on-board LEDs don't forget to add an appropriate resistor.
//!

use esp_idf_hal::delay::FreeRtos;
use esp_idf_hal::gpio::*;
use esp_idf_hal::peripherals::Peripherals;

fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
esp_idf_sys::link_patches();

let peripherals = Peripherals::take().unwrap();
let mut led = PinDriver::output(peripherals.pins.gpio4)?;

loop {
led.set_high()?;
// we are sleeping here to make sure the watchdog isn't triggered
FreeRtos::delay_ms(1000);

led.set_low()?;
FreeRtos::delay_ms(1000);
}
}
The NLRB ruling can be found on the NLRB website at https://www.nlrb.gov/case/07-CA-263041 . (I find it interesting that the NLRB site shows nothing between the ruling on 2023-02-21 and a response to questions back on 2021-12-10. That's a really long window, but I don't know how this system works.)

The ruling itself spends a lot of space discussing how the union's non-involvement with the furlough process was illegal. This makes sense, as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is supposed to deal with union stuff.

I'm not a lawyer, and I'm unconvinced by my cursory reading of the ruling that "companies can't shut you up using severance pay" is true in all cases, or if it is specific to unionized workforces. The Register is not an organization I expect to have legal expertise, though I could be wrong. Does anyone know if The Register actually has legal chops, or if there is a more lawyerly source on 07-CA-263041 ?
For those that don't want to mod their phone. What I do is set brightness at min + blue light filter set to max.
It's a catch 22. I feel like salaries skyrocket for the top end of people who caught the wave, are already senior programmers, while low level work gets farmed out to india or even if it's not - it's really hard to train junior developers without hands on face to face time like we had in offices.
Sure, but if you said "This art is just trying to be neat", you'd be wrong. What you're basically saying is "how I feel when I look at art is how I feel when I look at art", which is a meaningless statement. Like, sure? But we're talking about interpretations of art, not the validity of your emotions, which can certainly be correct or not depending on the artist.

I think the author has conflated the two because in their art, they are explicitly inviting you to draw your own interpretations. That's not true of all artists.
“Conflict and war benefit no one

To the contrary. China is doing very well in this war. They are selling all kinds of material to Russia in exchange for fossil fuels at well below market rates.

China has the ability to end this war, and they're just about the only ones who can. Instead they are profiting off of it, and issuing weak, belated protestations to pretend otherwise.
> await approval

Sure seems like RealPage is price fixing then
We're obviously using extremely different definitions of the word "completely". Flatpak sandboxes more than just file system access.
I'm wondering how much money trafficking and theft happens in the traditional finance world. It's great that we can analyze so much of what's happening in cryptocurrencies as most are open for the world to see.
Do the modern Pokemon games still appeal to you, or are you done with the genre in general?
And this is totally fine as long as the supply side of the market is allowed to react and build more supply in response.
How to Microwave Rice
I don't even want to use 'plain' IMAP authentication, because it doesn't support 2FA.
I think most people do feel that way about Tor, both in terms of assuming that 99% of its users are criminals and that it should be demonized. It's interesting to me because I think most of those people don't feel the same way about encryption in general, which of course enables Tor and all sorts of criminal activity in other contexts. Everyone has something to hide from someone and wants to see the green lock symbol in their browser's address bar along with other assurances of some degree of privacy. I don't know how most people decide where to draw a line.
It's been several years since I created an AppImage, but I think these were already available back then:

Installation, launcher integration:

https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/run-appimages.html#inte...
https://docs.appimage.org/reference/desktop-integration.html

https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/faq.html#question-how-c...

Updates:

https://docs.appimage.org/packaging-guide/optional/updates.h...

What was missing was convenient sandboxing. Firejail was recommended but with the responsibility entirely on the user to install and use it.

Flatpak doesn't limit access by default (or rather it does but apps can just ask more permissions at build time and it's not prevented by default IIRC) but offers the user some options for being more strict without needing extra tools.
>Encouraging the sort of thought police present here sets off all sorts of alarm bells.

What is the difference between "thought police" and simple editing?

For example, if I wrote a book and used a word like "gypped", I would appreciate an editor saying "Change this word to something like 'swindled'. 'Gypped' is derived from 'Gypsy' and is inherently an insult to the Romani people." Is that the editor being the "thought police" or them doing their job well?

Is the objection to the Dahl changes simply that this is happening after the books were already published?
Guidelines for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency Submissions
I wouldn't characterize it as a stunt. I believe this review was initiated around 2020, back when "woke" was still a compliment. They brought in a firm that specializes in sensitivity readings, and they've now announced the results of the process that began several years ago. I'm sure they planned for the possibility that there would be a loud backlash, and they are now walking back their initial announcement.

This may result in some additional sales, as people scramble to get the old versions. But it also puts egg on Puffin's face, and may hurt their reputation among buyers and authors. Overall, it seems more like inertia and incompetence rather than a finely-tuned publicity stunt.
See also previous post [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34925944
Canonical bans Flatpak support, Snap only
I'm not saying Apple's implementation should be the gold standard, just that characters that the Unicode specification allows to combine into one character, should be counted as one character.

I understand that technical limitations will sometimes cause a combined character to be displayed as more than one character, as it happens in Safari with that ninja cat, and in those cases, it's preferable to decompose the emoji, or use a tofu character, than changing it for another.
Apple's main business was selling computers. Should they not have been allowed to branch out to sell phones or before that music players? Netflix had a dominant business in shipping DVDs to customers. Should they have not branched out to streaming?

It's silly to say that companies should never be allowed to branch out to other businesses.
Your mere existence without profiting others is practically criminal.
> Nordic rival Nokia (NOKIA.HE) has not announced any plans to lay off employees.

This prompted me to think, is Nokia still around? Then I looked it up and:

> In 2020, Nokia employed approximately 92,000 people[6] across over 100 countries, did business in more than 130 countries, and reported annual revenues of around €23 billion.[4]

Ok, that was surprising.
>It's hard to imagine a clearer, more blatant description of cartel price fixing.

Uh, OPEC?
> But what if you could get the original text cancelled? No right-thinking publisher would print it, no God-fearing bookseller would stock it

Modern book "cancelling" is not (yet?) so effective as that. Huckleberry Finn is a popular target for cancelling, yet is still widely available. Being in the public domain gives the book relative safety; even if one publisher gets cold feet, another will jump in to fill the demand. The real threat is to books which aren't in the public domain and won't be for a long time.
I met somebody irl who works in the space (detecting, authenticating, restoring, repairing, at a world class institution you've heard of) who made their initial reputation and living being a forger. You might even say their art intelligence is artificial :)
I love this. I generally dislike art; there are a few notable exceptions.
ChatGPT for Creative Writing – The Good and the Bad
You act as if it's even possible at this point to "right the ship." I can't see any way for the trend to actually reverse, unfortunately. It seems far more likely that things continue to get worse resulting in either totalitarianism or (most likely) a complete collapse.
This is the natural result of policies that make it difficult to build new housing. Landlords only have immense power in areas where demand outstrips supply.
I love this project and generally agree with the idea that art is up to the viewer.

At the same time, I believe that artist have can often have a unique ability to see/perceive reality in a way that escapes the general population, and can convey those perceptions to the rest of us through art. I’ve been blown away by how an artist is able to portray a situation in a way that it’s never occurred to me and the enlightenment resulting from it is very valuable to me.

So, I think that both are needed, art that gives freedom to the observer to makes sense of it, and also art that conveys such deep perceptions/insights that artists seems to have more often that the rest of us and thus enlightened us too!
> I don’t know what could practically be done about all of this

Make your government ensure market competition, and stop it from harming said competition an declaring winners.
look into the software your HR dept uses to know how much to pay you
This reminds me of a paradox in my understanding of gravity. I often read about the pressure inside the earth resulting from the mass above, but the gravitational force inside a spherical shell is zero [0], and the only force acting at a given radius from the center is the mass of the sphere inside that radius.

[0]http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Mechanics/sphshel...
"Consumer surplus" is the term you're looking for. Minimizing consumer surplus leaves you vulnerable to undercutting by competitors.

There are plenty of competitors to See's candies. Just buy from them.
i do that same with just css. it's not every day i use good ol' plain css scroll-behavior: revert-layer;
C isn't for cartel
When have you ever gone to get your phone replaced and have them ask you "do you want the model with the long battery life or the model that's thin?" The failure of niche competitors most people have never heard of is not consumers voting with their wallet, it is anti-competitive behavior entrenching established players.
I mean, that's like saying an author steals the open source alphabet and charges you for reading their ordering of letters, as if the ordering of letters isn't where all the value is.
If I had to give an example of the difference between price-fixing and expedited price discovery, I'd say software used by vendors with significant market power that not only suggests a price based on other clients' prices, but actually sets it and bills based on it, whilst actively resisting clients trying to bill lower amounts would be a pretty good example of when it becomes fixing (the fact it's apparently documented in training programmes with cheesy computer voices saying, in essence "think of the long term benefits of the cartel, not your tenants or vacancy rate" and implemented by demanding clients seek "approval" for their own prices and not just through poor UX is the icing on the cake)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34927442

Edit: I didn't want to litter the thread with copypaste, but my reply to a similar comment was:

In 1960s Germany, students where so outraged by the absence of Nazism from their history curriculum that they turned violent. They rioted, bombed, and killed because they felt they where being denied their right to learn their recent history. And they blamed this on the fact that their teachers and parents had been Nazis and thought they where trying to erase their crimes. In a flash of cruel irony, the state's desire to shelter the students from political violence ignited it again in the streets and in the hearts of their students.
We have dunped so much mercury into the ocean, that you can get poisoning if you eat tuna too often
That’s working as intended. If you expand the profit margin you just expose yourself to competitors.

See’s candy isn’t the only candy company, nor is candy a necessity.
I think erosion is a good word for this.

How do we deal with erosion in other situations?

Another thought I had just now is that historically prices were static until an event happened to cause in increase, now prices are becoming dynamic and monotonically increasing unless an event happens.

Edit: The price collusion is greed/growing pains for prices being dynamic by default.

This is another social norm that is being discarded by modern society. You don’t go to a store two days in a row and see different prices without a good reason.
That's a good way to do it personally, and I might start taking that approach too. The Tailwind syntax for some of the more complex stuff is appalling.
Man oh man, if you like stories about sentient dogs and dubious military groups, you'll love We3 by Grant Morrison. It's easily one of my favorite graphic novels.
> why erase Rudyard Kipling instead of having a conversation about the historical context of racism.

This sounds like critical race theory. That gets people far more fired up than changing a few words in some kids books ever will.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory
Going one level up, isn't the subtext here that advertising corrupts the media it supports?
Add Iain M. Banks The Algebraist (his only non-culture sci-fi, as far as I know). Much of the book takes place in a gas giant populated by a race of long-lived creatures that are basically two octopi glued together.
It may be a totalitarian dictatorship, but this is totally expected behavior given the sanctions in place against them. Sanctions that amount to collective punishment, which is supposedly illegal under international law. Perhaps if the sanctions were reduced/removed, they’d feel like this sort of activity was less necessary/justified to get hard currency.
Wow. That's nuts. An open-source model as competitive as 540b Palm? Sign me in. Wish they made it easy to access it, though. Not sure if I would be able to put my hands on it solely as an interested individual.