skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may not look good, but it's a strong argument.

The problem with the current discourse is that we're hung up on things that are largely irrelevant to providing an actual solution.

Arguments like "my IP is being violated" completely fall apart under any scrutiny and are readily abandoned in favor of some other useful proxy-concerns like "It's just copy and paste, not art!". I refuse to believe that the art community is stupid enough to make arguments like that without some existential dread clouding their judgment.

Do you really think anyone would complain if AI art didn't threaten their livelihood, in a space that usually celebrates inspiration and recognizes that IP rights often only benefit the biggest players? Do you really think a significant portion of that group would advocate for the strictest possible IP laws, which will wipe out a significant amount of human art as well, without some deeper motivation?

The ultimate issue is that people are losing their livelihoods and the ability to engage in work that is meaningful to them. We need to develop social programs that ease their fall, not run circles around the emotionally satisfying arguments that would "really show the other side what's what!". Ironically, a bunch of people are reducing one side to money hungry thieves and the other to lazy luddites below a comment calling out this exact behavior.
I'm teaching mine gardening and jiu-jitsu.
>That's an expected phenomenon. What was progressive yesterday becomes conservative today - think of women's rights, interracial marriage, etc. The same goes for 'who' was progressive.

I think it would have been worth it to give this more than a moments thought. A quick glance at 20th century events shows fascism and communist dictatorships being seen as more fashionable and modern than flaky Weimar republics and crumbling empires. The next 50-80 years nevertheless showed history bending haphazaradly away from these trends. In the least, taking for granted that what follows is inevitably more progressive seems a tad rash.

What's far more interesting is examining the thoughts and actions of the inglorious bastards, both young and old, who at the time recognized early on that This Was Not The Way, and with what critera they did so.
Thanks!

How can I read with it for example

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/11005195786562981...

?
A blogpost to better integrate protobuf in your build
Was there ever a study?
It's inhumane and authoritarian, but I would not be at all surprised if sooner or later other countries will adopt similar measures, maybe not in name but in effect. Think 'child tax' (convenient, because it allows the wealthy to pretend it doesn't exist).

The interesting thing here is that there is a lot of tension between on the one hand a graying population that would like to be supported by the next ones and a massive wall in the form of the number of people that we can sustainably support long term. If we don't find a way to support the existing population without a huge push for more people then eventually we'll hit that wall. And that won't be pretty.
> you're not really qualified to talk about what the rest of us meat-eaters would need to switch to more plants

Don't forget that most of those non-meat eaters were in fact meat eaters before.

> They won't if it doesn't hit the same craving

Stop drinking sugary drinks, and cravings for them will, in time, stop. Stop eating meat and dairy, and those cravings will stop too. It takes maybe few weeks, but after that ... you may even find it repulsive, however alien that thought might seem to you now.

> or is more expensive, as we've seen

It may be, it depends on you and on what you choose to eat. You'd find most vegans in the poorest countries.

There's no reason why vegan diet should be more expensive than animal based one. The variety of available processed foods goes up, and prices are being driven down by increased production and demand.

If you're used to cooking your own meals, you can expect to lower your grocery bill. Beans, lentils, peas, tofu, all that is cheaper than meat. Cheeses and yoghuts are more expensive in my area, but you can make it easily from plant based milks youself (it's not so hard or time expensive).
Installing Arch is a great way to learn. As you go step by step you'll learn the parts of the OS, and kind kind of grok why they're there (and when you'll inevitably skip a step, you'll learn more). It's also a great system to have total control over your OS. And since you built it yourself you can fix it yourself.
I have no problem admitting GitLab is doing a better job than we are, but they also have orders of magnitude more investment and have been doing it since their inception vs. since the pandemic. Any examples from a) non-unicorns, b) who have successfully transitioned to remote work?
> Just have to write a 35 page business plan, get it reviewed by capable people, have a good idea, and execute.

Last word in that sentence doing a lot.
> My experience is that most digital free speech absolutionists just seem to be upset that they were banned from Twitter for promoting some kind of QAnon conspiracy or for hate speech.

Well, they are the loud and annoying ones but it's easy to miss others for the noise the unreasonable people are causing

> I personally think the ActivityPub/Mastodon approach of "let server moderators decide which servers can't interact with their servers anymore" approach is very reasonable. If Gab and Truth Social want to federate, they can, and if you want to set up your own server without blacklists you're completely free to.

The moderation of instance feed is just fine and required, that's how instance gets its own identity.

What I disagree with is mods having rights to block what people can subscribe to. That forces making own instances just not to be on whim on the admins's political views which is far too high barrier to entry for most.

There is also lack of any identity transfer, if server goes to shit you can move out sure, but none of your subscribers will automatically follow. I'd like something like "here is my DNS entry with public key, this redirects to whichever current server I'm on" so you don't need to host your own instance if you just want to have alias that's not tied to, again, admin's whims.
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Just a small correction. Humans are primates.
On your first point you couldn't be more wrong. LLMs are deterministic. They are run on a deterministic machine and the entailment of that forces them to be so. Also probabilistic does not mean the absence of determinism. For example, for every non-deterministic/probabilistic finite automata there is an equivalent deterministic one.
Ask HN: Games suggestion for a 3 to 6yo child
For desktop, not tablet

Full screen

Easy auto restart

Can be mainly keyboard mouse or both

Does not have to be educational, can just be for fun and coordination
CS is Computer Science not software development or programming or computer engineering.

People/companies commonly treating both the same is IMHO one of the major problems of the current industry.

None of the topic you mentioned are fundamental to CS.

They are fundamentals of software development.

Wrt. to computer science they are at most specializations and even then what you might do in a science context of them might differ largely to what you would need to use them for production focused software development. Through they do contain some fundamentals like, e.g. set theory in relational databases and graph theory in network programming and concurrent programming.

You can (rightfully) have a master of computer sience _without having ever written a single line of code_. And going back ~20years that wasn't even that uncommon.

Now today a lot of universities have realized that this mismatch causes problems and are also teaching the fundamentals of software developments additionally to the fundamentals of computer science. Additionally of lot of computer science today requires the use of tooling which requires some programming and SQL.

Still what the "fundamentals of software development" are is a much less clear topic then the "fundamentals of computer science" (and even there people disagree all the time). And for example "relational databases/SQL" is one of the thing people can strongly disagree on weather its foundational to software development or not (anymore).
In the real world, though, 95% of those with CS degrees are going to work as software engineers, not as computer scientists. So what we really need is software engineering programs, and far fewer people in CS programs.

We need, essentially, the divide between chemistry degrees and chemical engineering degrees. That hasn't happened yet for CS, but it needs to.

And that's what the OP is asking for - people who have software engineering knowledge, not CS knowledge.
Well, Windows jumped from 4.0 to 2000
No thank you. Tried to use this new "auto mobile" and it belched smoke and I got a flat tire. /s
I've seen both approaches used. And in both cases, nothing comes of it outside of the specific project (for an example, see the BNF in the XML spec).

What you end up with is a bunch of small innovations in each project, but no incentive to consolidate these gains (because it's so niche to begin with, and there's no significant business advantage to be had).

And of course anyone who tries will have massive pushback ala https://xkcd.com/927

So everyone just does their own thing and we pretend that it's all fine.
MWI is confirmed in a sense that it exactly matches the Schrodinger equation and doesn't add anything contradictory or ad hoc hypotheses, and is compatible with the rest of science. And the Schrodinger equation is verified quantitatively. This is as far as verification goes.
The other factor is unemployed office workers competing for the remaining jobs and thus driving down wages.
Wow these AI people are really shilling for their “scale is all you need” hypothesis eh? Now they are planting this stuff to gaslight us into thinking the same? :)

https://lastweekin.ai/p/the-ai-scaling-hypothesis
Where does this money end up in? As bitcoin price really does nothing about it existing. It just moves from hands of buyers to sellers or current owners. And those sellers have to also have a place for it? But what is that place?
> So headphones from 5 years ago are more useful than modern ones. Modern ones are so bad, if you stop a song you hear the song still playing a bit after you pressed stop.

I have similar observation. 3-5 years ago it was easier to find headphones with that support multiple codecs. Now aptx is kit always supported.
Ok, so, given that comment I've just got to ask even if only for the sake of my own curiosity: that username ironic or (modulo ordering) literal?
TA is the primary form of analysis for all financial markets. The idea is that the price contains all of the information, hidden on publicly available. It's a requirement for taking the CFA.It's widely accepted by regulators, academics, and industry professionals.
I don’t put much stock in the claims about GPT4 “passing” professional exams. Many copies of previously administered exams are available, and the exams are formulaic in their construction (to make them stable, predictable targets).

A compressive copy of the internet brute-forcing its way through an exam (which it may even have digested already) is really not interpretable as performing well on the exam. It’s a meaningless measure because the tests were not designed with this use in mind.
you get an edge over size with binary formats, but it's a pain to edit on the fly - svg has relatively low barrier to entry in this respect.

perhaps a TVG niche could be around embedded, low-power, slow-connection devices where content is mainly read-only.
- Human, named ProductDesigner, describes the problem specs in vague English

- Another human, named Programmer, generate some solution based on his expirence.

- ProductDesigner, refines the spec to get closer to "the thing he has in mind"

- Programmer, while annoyed, tries to his best effort to write a close solution

- And we call it iteration of development

Is it really that different from your experience? Ok, maybe not your experience, but in the world of outsourcing works it's really kinda like that.

The solution to the above is never "ProductDesigner should learn to speak a deterministic language." It's "when Programmer feels the spec is too ambiguous, he should give feedback to ProductDesigner."

You can't eliminate the "vagueness of natural languages" from the equation. The only differences are, to me, 1) AI is really not that smart yet. 2) AI doesn't admit it doesn't know something. Humans are reluctant to admit it as well, but as least we do it when it's necessary.
I wonder if it is demoralising. Imagine any project you worked on for multiple years - and someone suggests it could be rewritten (and better) in a long weekend. How would you feel and respond? I might laugh a bit, but I probably wouldn't spend much time on it.

The part of FOSS I think would be demoralising for me would be dealing with all the people who assume that the maintainer of a piece of software is a customer service operative who exists solely to reply to them in a timely fashion.
Ok, so an independent, world renowned, reputable journalist with a flawless track record reporting something isn't evidence. If that's your bar then I don't know what to tell you. I guess just keep believing whatever corporate media tells you to believe. It's never been dishonest and biased before.
Very few understand this, at their own peril. I would like to add that it is now the second best performing behind Ethereum. It's unwise to ignore it.
Ask HN: What does potential NordVPN takeover deal means?
Nord Security, parent company of NordVPN is approaching Kape Technologies with a potential takeover bid. If the deal to go through, the VPN industry will mainly be owned by a single company. How such deals usually work? Will there be some antitrust scrutiny or does it solely depend on both companies?
New study by researchers in Canada finds artificial intelligence still can't match the powers of human vision despite deep learning's ability with big data.
The staggering ignorance, posted publicly must be demoralising after a while. E.G.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Scree...
It can also boot Plan9 over the network from another Previous instance, if you’re into that.
> “I think you could replace 99% of the uses of Curl … with like 100 lines of Python or Rust or Go”

Assuming this is the "99%" usage pattern:

curl -O foo.txt https://example.com/foo.txt

Then, yes.
At my German university in the late 1990s we did use a few programming languages - but all of them not for themselves but for demonstration. Modula 2 for introducing higher level concepts such as modules and OOP, VHDL for hardware, PHIGS for graphics (okay not a language), SQL of course, and some C and C++.

We did not truly learn any of those though, it's just that they were used.

The specific languages did not really matter, they were secondary, just some tools. One Theoretical CS professor used some really obscure thing whose name I forgot, really niche, again it was only used to demonstrate some theoretical aspects (provability I think).

Most content was math and formal stuff. Some experiments and low-level stuff, like creating a sound directly from a chip (no computer), in assembler, as part of intro to hardware.

I would have fekt pretty irritated and that I was wasting my time if we had had courses about learning programming languages (designing them, writing compilers etc., is another matter). This is something easily and better done on your own, learning the actual languages.
If you would just be cleaner, showers wouldn’t even be necessary.

I mean honestly it’s like debugging - for God’s sake just stop writing the bugs in the first place.
In the US (and many other places actually):

- 70% obesite/overweight rate

- 20% of kids are obese before hitting 18

- The 2 leading causes of deaths are lifestyle related, with diet being a big part of both

Every single study and scientist you will find will tell you our diet is dog shit, they'll tell you we eat too much sugar, too many carbs, too much salt, too much processed food

People discussing if artificial sweeteners are better or worse than sugar are like drug addicts discussing if heroin is less worse than fentanyl

Just cut that shit out of your life, there are no drawbacks and an infinite amount of benefits. They're not necessary, they're not needed, you're just addicted to them. We see the results, we have the stats, the science tells us why, we know. I don't get how anyone can argue the opposite, we eat shit, the vast majority of things sold in supermarket is shit, most people eat shit and they visibly suffer from it
Vulnerability found in Samsung’s Exynos chipsets, affecting some Android devices
I don't quite see what creating new words has to do with this, but ChatGPT is happy to oblige when you ask it to make up a new word.

In any case, I generally feel that discourse works better when people just remix existing words and concepts rather than rushing to create new ones.
Looks like it. The linked article does NOT show what HN title does. Even the original title does not imply what the HN title does. The article is about one specific area of the brain, which is not the most obvious difference.
It got me my first programming job.

Back in 1984, I wrote a BBS for a Vic-20. It had multiple rooms (message areas) which users could create and make public or private, private email and an online game, all in 9.6K of BASIC. It was very popular with each user spending an average of 70 minutes on it. One of my users hired me as a programmer, saying "Anyone who can write a BBS for a Vic can program!"

Thirty years later, that same guy wanted me to work with him at Google.
If I were a maintainer of curl I would LOL at these comments and read them just for fun
> You still seem to be missing my question, which is, how did third world countries become how they are? Certainly not by adopting something like contemporary American culture, right?

Sure, but that’s besides the point. Countries can fail to develop for many different reasons. Third world countries, like the one I’m from, have different cultural problems. It’s hard to climb out of that well. But you can compare a more individualistic subgroup of Americans to other subgroups that are in broadly similar circumstances and draw an inference.

The 1960s social revolution turned up the individual self determination aspect of American culture to 11. Seeking pleasure, prioritizing personal satisfaction, rejecting social rules in favor of individualized morality, etc. That individualist streak has always been latent in American culture, but it’s most apparent in Appalachia. For example, even 100 years ago Appalachians had higher rates of multiple marriages than the rest of the country: https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-appalachian-go-round-family-i...

There were lots of German immigrants in Appalachia, but they didn’t build the place the way they did the Midwest. Many went to established cities like Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.

The distinctive culture of Appalachia isn’t a “myth.” For reasons tracing all the way back to the types of British immigrants who founded the place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed.

As Lee Kuan Yew says, culture is destiny: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20045923. If you want to understand what works and what doesn’t, look at the culture of the people who made things work contrasted against the people who didn’t.
A comprehensive and precise spec (2016)
"Have a good idea" isn't exactly lounging around, either!
To be fair, they did say 'as much as'.

First cheap looking bread I found at Wallmart at $1.32, just over 4g sugar/100g

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-White-Sandwich-Bread-...

Another one, but with honey added, 8g sugar/100g

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Nature-s-Own-Honey-Wheat-Sandwich...

The closest I found was Cinnamon Bread, with 15.7g sugar/100g, which is expected as it's basically a dessert (though oddly, they list all of the sugar as added sugar ! What are those raisins made of??)

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Cinnabon-Cinnamon-Bread-Bakery-In...
LegalBench: To evaluate English large language models on legal reasoning
If vast swathes of the population are thrown onto the scrapheap in a relatively short period of time it absolutely would come to that. The ruling class would be smashed (literally and figuratively) and you'll wake up in the morning to discover that our form of capitalism has ceased to exist.
> Squirrels, ants and bees can build wealth as well.

investing isn't just storing "wealth" (ala, a storage of foods). Investing is using the time that such wealth affords you to invent new tools, to make more efficient methods/machines for making wealth! Animals are, currently, missing this part.
If you’re looking forward to listening to a good tech conference with top engineering leaders, I suggest you register for the CTO-Con 2023. I came across the conference on Linkedin. It’s taking place from 31 March - 2 April 2023 and has well known speakers as panelists from top level companies like Paypal, Gitlab, Qureos and more!

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archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20230320011421/https://www.nytim...
More like "gallery of ugly sites".
That really wasn't my argument at all. In so far as I had one. The US system has so many more severe issues that a holiday seems minor and it is somewhat complex as an issue. Letting a parent bring in five children probably does create concerns as well.

Other than bankers and people who work for the government (like teachers) few people get government holidays in my experience. There is a surge of temporary daycare workers for those days so parents can still go to work. Poorer parents dread those days. Public school, especially post pandemic has turned into free childcare and little more due to teacher shortages.

Early voting seems like a good thing to continue to me.

Fixing the issues that make your vote irrelevant at the national level unless you live anywhere but a very short list of places would be much higher on my list than a holiday. The gerrymandering is painfully obvious on the voting maps.
> This has been happening since the inception of school. Calculators made math easier. Sparknotes made book reports easier. Wikipedia made essays easier.

And advance of LLM will make general thinking and cognition easier, relegating humans to assistants of a higher intelligence. Obviously this will make people anxious. The trajectory also indicates that the human component will likely not even be necessary anymore in the mid-term.

So what's left? Consuming AI-generated content optimized to hack our reward system.