skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's my point: asian cultures very broad, but you still know exactly what I mean when I say asian culture. It exists in some sense.

Science isn't the only determinant of what is real. Asian culture is real in its own sense, even if it resists scientific understanding. Likewise for race: when I say a white person, you know pretty much exactly what I mean, so it's real (even if it's fuzzy).
I have no idea what you mean, would you like to elaborate?
You realize these companies will quiet-fire all employees residing in Utah and never hire there again? That this will place massive negative pressure on all software salaries in Utah? Possibly on all software salaries outside of deep blue states?
There are women on board with this as well, it's not just men. That narrative doesn't work.
Most Slack usage I’m aware of doesn’t fit the description, but some does. Quite a lot of Discord usage however…
This is insignificant. The training set already exists. And there are plenty who do not care about having data used for training.
define-compiler-macro handles many of the cases you describe in your first paragraph. But I agree it would be nice if more of the functions in CL were generic. I think the issue is that those functions were standardized before CLOS was added and made defgeneric/defmethod a normal mechanism for writing functions.
… in python?
At least on my Android in Chrome, it seems to have the same font size as hacker news. Requesting "Desktop Site" yields the same results.

And yes, I do believe that Hacker News needs a bigger default font.

(I'm getting old. You will too!)
Obviously I'm not saying racism is justified or whatever. I'm just saying race is obviously real in some sense, even if it's fuzzy.
Solution: be a capitalist
The thieves sell to local independent stores that don't care that their wholesale price is too good to be true. That allows you to move low margin and short self life consumables without having to deal with Amazon.
> Owners won't sell at a loss if they don't have to

Supply and demand. If supply drops and demand doesn't...

That's what /r/REBubble refuses to acknowledge.

Nobody's giving up their 2% if they don't have to.
Sounds like the conclusion of Candide. When confronted by the misery of Pangloss' best of all possible worlds, we must cultivate our garden.
I’m kind of surprised but also not surprised in the outrage over the “draconian bulls*t.” The problem I have as a parent is that I can see it causing real social damage to adults around me, my own kids, and kids around my kids. Anti-social behavior, Disrespect for authority, extreme violence is easy to see and normalized (stuff that would normally be considered traumatic), wokeness and anti-wokeness is normalized (must we all have such strong opinions?). I’m talking behavior way more at extreme ends of the polarized spectrum and at earlier ages than what I grew up around.

It’s basically force-fed opinions at a global scale, how can that possibly be healthy? We can barely fathom how this media impacts adults as it stands. All this clear evidence aside, I feel like it’s obvious, how can the absence of these things do any measurable harm to kids?
Adobe specifically released documentation under the Open Screen Project to counter accusations from Steve Jobs that Flash was a closed platform. The documentation we got is full of missing information, but it constitutes explicit permission to write this sort of thing. Even without that permission, reverse engineering and creating work-alike emulators is specifically allowed by several Ninth Circuit precedents. Google v. Oracle also protects us here, too.

The reason for this is that software copyright is very weird. Ownership over interfaces is, depending on what circuit court you listen to, either nonexistent or very very very thin. There really isn't an analogue of this for copyright on creative works[0] so it's hard to explain to nontechnical people.

You could use our SWF crate to generate SWFs, but the real meat of Flash/Animate's editor is the animation UI, none of which is part of the SWF spec or player. As far as I'm aware nobody ever made a good FOSS replacement for that. If you just want to program games all the AS3 tooling was released as Free Software by Adobe.

Ruffle isn't just a browser extension - that's just a convenient way for users to put it on old pages. Our real value prop is being able to put it onto your own website and have your Flash content just be part of the open web, even on iPhones.

[0] Which is why the Google/Oracle lawsuit was full of analogies to filing cabinets and Harry Potter chapter titles. I suppose the closest would be tabletop game rules documents, which are explicitly not copyrightable.
> as DMs can only be between 2 people.

Nothing in the law restricts to DMs being between two people, it just distinguishes them from public content.
my point is basically this: when the code in your application interacts with the DB, and it encounters a (runtime) error from a mismatch between the app's understanding of the DB schema and the DB's understanding of the DB schema, is that error handled gracefully? if yes, good! if no, because the app code assumes this is somehow impossible, that's a problem. that's all.
Telephones did not record, but they did have a log of incoming and outgoing numbers. So it was possible to check if a child was suddenly talking to someone new.

> I guess the argument would be technology enables children to do secret stuff without any of the obvious signs, like sneaking out in the middle of the night?

Yes, it was rather obvious when a teen was behaving secretive, or there were middle of the night calls.

Privacy is important, but if your teen was suddenly displaying secretive behavior you could tell.
Most people finance homes. Prices are overwhelmingly a function of affordability based on lending criteria. See financial engineering, thus see the Fed and real estate financing/banking legislation.

Unless, the very thin chance
1. Owners don't need or want to sell
2. No inventory is added through building
3. People somehow pay cash and support the prices
...or some combinations.

Fundamental economics really thereafter.
For years pain research and pain alleviation was considered low priority by the medical profession. It strands to reason we need to understand and to continue researching pain before researching painkilling drugs—so we are coming from a low base.

Even after the opioid epidemic and those disreputable Sackler bastards came to worldwide prominence there's been no national initiative like, say COVID research. The problem is that there is not enough research. That's clearly obvious—or it ought to be.
A disappointing waste of an article. The author fixates on AI like it isn't just some passing fad (remember 3D TVs?)(openAI has been around since 2015, it's barely a blip in history's radar!!) and helpfully forgets that progress is still being made literally every where else. I mean, what kind of bullshit argument is this anyway? If you were a mechanic who lived from 1950 to 1970, you could be forgiven for thinking time had stopped on inventing too, given that american cars hadn't become significantly more sophisticated in that time period; you would be still be seeing the same 3 speed Chevrolet Hydramatic and Chrysler Torqueflite transmissions for that entire time period. Anyone can do this; select an arbitrary slice in an arbitrary field and act like the wheel of progress has stopped. It's meaningless and idiotic, and arrogant.

This completely missed the mark that many other fields (as well as electronics and software outside of AI) have actually advanced drastically in this time, and completely missed that scientific advancements move hand in hand with social ones, and the world and particularly america has a lot of work to do on that side too.

This sort of belief that the world runs on the back of great discoveries and not the quiet, unsexy and dedicated work of billions of people to inch society forward, is symptomatic of a lesser mind.

The unveiled swipe at LGBT+ people at the end was also not missed, and I find that as additional evidence of the author as a suboptimal human specimen. A technology charlatan indeed, with only a surface level understanding of the world.
Men are falling behind as Scott Galloway talks about and did discuss on last night’s Real Time with Bill Maher. AI relationships are just a symptom of the larger social issues. See Japan for some more extreme examples of male self withdrawal from society.
Don’t forget Covid where everyone and their grandmother was gaming. There was a 6 months waiting for RTX 3080. Although now that I think of it , some of it can be attributed to the disruption in supply chain.
Yeah I’m out here _evangelizing_ or some shit. For what I don’t know.
I thought it was the other way around - ibuprofen was generally safer than acetaminaphen
If it's an expensive neighborhood in a region with a growing economy then I would think the McMansions would be fine.
Why are we still citing a WSJ oped trying to amplify a company's press releases that even they now admit were a made up narrative?
I'd think very carefully about taking it. You'll be paying taxes on the $20b valuation without a way to exit.
GitHub knowing who you are does not prevent you from being anonymous to the rest of the world.
This article and thread lists some of the issues:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32014754
In my HCOL area we are already seeing prices nosedive after they sit on the market for a few months.

The discounts are around 15% off peak, and this is just the start.
What I mean is that their drive to monetize has actually produced a lot of revenue, i.e. was a success. People were predicting some kind of mass migration away from the now paid Docker products and it didn't happen.

The pressure to monetize further is just the usual endless growth stuff, it doesn't mean their previous monetization efforts actually went badly.
Definitely adding this to https://github.com/Jeadie/awesome-chatgpt-plugins/commit/5c3...
>"PDOS/386 is good enough to run BBS software. But instead of using modems to exchange mail packets, data can be transferred using bluetooth, USB stick, or potentially the internet (email, Discord, Facebook)."

What an interesting idea! Using a social network to store and forward data packets for a BBS -- which is in effect, another miniature social network...
> I’m sure our parents would have all let us sign up for a programming site. This bill still allows for that.

But would the site let you sign up if even with parental permission if it had to do additional identification verification to identify that the permission was from your parent, and was liable for (1) actual damages if you got addicted [0] because of some element of their site design, and (2) huge ($250,000 per feature) penalties if they also didn’t do quarterly audits to identify, and within 30 days after identification eliminate, any feature which might addict you?

How many programming sites see minors in general, much less Utah minors specifically, as that important to their mission to take on the extra costs and risks this bill imposes on serving that population?

[0] Using an intentionally broad definition of addiction
unfortunately, we have capitalism. in our society, if people and their kids starving and dying, we think this ia justice.
I'm asking specifically what insulation product they are referring to because I'm unaware of any product that fits that description.
It amazes me that in the US you can fix for the life of your mortgage. Here in NZ 5 years is close to the max.
Some thoughts on my presentation style
You're not alone.

I can't be bothered to add an extra layer of bullshit into the already bullshit infested realm that is the internet.
That's a bit hyperbolic. Inspections are a thing, and modern houses are generally built just fine. And nobody uses plastic siding on a brand new house (well, almost nobody, you can probably find rare examples). A modern house uses hardieplank fibercement siding probably 99% of the time. These days vinyl siding is mostly a retrofit choice, not new construction.
Twitch's gambling phase was brutal and no doubt harmful.
You can read up about Islamic and pre-Islamic Arabia from authentic (Muslim) sources regarding the Hijab and Niqab. No one is moral panicking.
Yes you do. You can't live in the modern world without a phone.

Try it if you don't believe me. You can't even ride the bus without a phone because bus stops no longer display schedules and routes.

Want to go trampoline jumping? It's impossible without a phone because they want you to sign a waver in advance using your phone.

Pay Phones are no longer a thing. The "phone behind the counter" in restaurants and shops is no longer a thing.

Even grade school children are staring to have trouble navigating the world without a phone.
History of adults masquerading as children for purposes of pedophilia.
This law might might make sense if it simply disallowed children to view algorithmically curated feeds.

Most of the harm from FB, TikTok, etc stems from a non-chronological algorithmic “amplification”.

Otherwise this is clearly 1st amendment bait.
Pinecone is closed-source AND hosted-infra only... which is a non-starter for many companies.
Today yeah, but tomorrow the clients can use GPT 7 consultant who has better context with access to all the mails/data of the client. It is fast/cheap and is a polymath.
I can't pretend to be an authority on this, but without going back 117 years, in the 2000s, you google Bextra and Vioxx.
Well yes, that's what we're talking about. I mean that the compiled artifact is equivalent, but of course you may have reason to care about the style of the code.
Since these are crucial issues and the framing grates a little, I wish they’d reframe every single story with a gender/race/identity angle in terms of freedom.
You can’t use 90% of the STL, sure. But there’s nothing in C++ that requires heap allocation (maybe exceptions? But those are turned off in embedded code anyways)
An extra 2 hours of work per day, assuming 260 work days per year, comes out to 520 hours. Over 5 years that adds up to 2600 hours of extra work.

If you get a $200k bonus after putting in those extra hours, you effectively earned $77/hr or $160k/year for your time. That's basically a 0-3 YOE tech job on top of your regular job.

Is it really a good deal, especially considering how much experienced developers make annually and the long-term effects of working 10 hours per day?
The first one is a little unoriginal (but this conversation has been had a bunch so it's hard to fault it for that). The second two we were all working on downvoting and had them near-invisible until you quoted them, restoring their reach. :P
Microsoft Research Paper Claims Sparks of Artificial Intelligence in GPT-4
> not that productive?

I don't get it, remote or not, if someone is not performing you can fire them. I mean, you can even make remote working contingent on a team's performance.
M4’s The Hobbit Book Edit
While it may be useful to call out mystical woo when we see it, in this context the only thing doing so succeeded in was derailing the conversation.

We all understood the first time.
Pro compiler developer here: Simple compilers are easy. You can do one in a weekend. High performance optimising production compilers take years.
> you have to write a loop from scratch

That would be terrible, those loops are crazy dangerous. I would avoid writing a loop and rather come up with a whole different programming paradigm. Maybe a macro system or something based on category theory?
tbh. Looks like a huge overengineered legacy project. What is the clue to having all these ANN indexes in place? Is it a kinda art collection? What is the sense when you can just have HNSW in memory, with quantization, or on disk, GPU accelerated, etc. There are already better alternatives like Qdrant, which is written in Rust and super performant https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant, or Weaviate with GraphQL interface https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate
Ask HN: GPT-4 is giving me existential crisis. What will the world look like?
Recent speedy advances in LLMs (ChatGPT → GPT-4 → Plugins, etc.) has been exciting but I can't stop thinking about the way our world will be in 10 years. Given the rate of progress in this field, 10 years is actually insanely long time in the future.

Will people stop working altogether? Then what do we do with our time? Eat food, sleep, have sex, travel, do creative stuff? In a world when painting, music, literature and poetry, programming, and pretty much all mundane jobs are automated by AI, what would people do? I guess in the short term there will still be demand for manual jobs (plumbers for example), but when robotics finally catches up, those jobs will be automated too.

I'm just excited about a new world era that everyone thought would not happen for another 50-100 years. But at the same time, man I'm terrified and deeply troubled.

And this is just GPT-4. I guess v5, 6, ... will be even more mind blowing. How do you think about these things? I know some people say "incorporate them in your life and work to stay relevant", but that is only temporary solution. AI will finally be able to handle A-Z of your job. It's ironic that the people who are most affected by it are the ones developing it (programmers).
I think that in many ways creating a shared, stable namespace for images was actually a bigger contribution than any of the technology. The ability to type somtething like 'FROM python:3' at the top of your Dockerfile and have that automagically mean what you expect was definitely revolutionary in terms of productivity. Behind the scenes I don't know it really matters that much whether that references an image hosted in a repository by Docker the company, or a file in AWS S3, or a tarball from the Python Software Foundation. And that namespace is exactly what they're stabbing in the heart.
Why there may be no return to ‘normal’ for the U.S. used vehicle market
Here's a step-by-step video about how JLCPCB makes PCB's. The link goes directly to that step at 21:09: https://youtu.be/ljOoGyCso8s?t=1269 It looks like in this case they are using a CNC router to make the cuts, and a vacuum table to keep the PCB's in place (it's a table with a grid of tiny holes that has vacuum inside to suck the PCB's onto the table).
We are going to be seeing so much of this. It is sad. Start up culture at times seems to insist that all progress must be good, as though progress itself will be thwarted by reflection or honesty.

Something is lost and something is gained, but that doesn't make the losses painless or irrelevant. We can be pragmatic and have empathy at the same time.

What I don't think we should do is act like every change is inherently good. Perhaps something valuable will be lost to efficiency and the bottom line. Hopefully something will also be gained.

Let's not be in a hurry to declare implications. And let's try to be helpful.
Car debt piles up as more Americans owe thousands more than vehicles are worth
Doesn’t load for me either:

ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

Sure hope their internal stuff doesn’t rely on an external view for that domain.
Yeah. I think many or most large established codebases/software stacks could be an order of magnitude or two simpler (making them an order of magnitude or two easier to iterate on, in terms of both time and number of devs needed)

But the reality we've discovered is that there's a constant gravitational force pulling most dev orgs to keep increasing complexity, forever, much faster than the actual product increases in complexity. We can avoid this at the individual level, maybe the team level, but at this point it feels unavoidable at the company or industry level
I have noticed that the best developers I have ever worked with knows how to write a compiler. And the not-so-great developers don’t. It might just be a random correlation of course. But perhaps not?
One huge downside of iA Writer (at least on Android) is the inability to change the font. It's permanently set to a rather ugly and completely unsuitable monospaced font that resembles Courier New. This among all other features is what prevents me from using it.
The idea that nobody is entitled to privacy until they turn 18 is crazy. I shudder for all the LGBT kids whose parents all now have a (state enforced!) right to snoop on them.

(Honestly headline should be: “Utah bill gives parents full access to their children's online accounts, including posts and private messages”)
If you already know the answer, but need an interesting and detailed way to explain/write it, then GPT4 can be an immense value-add. Even if you have to do some fact checking afterwards.
Gosh. It's awesome to see the progress! I was afraid this project would stall at AS2 and never really get very far with AS3.

I have such an ungodly number of fun old multiplayer games in AS3 that I'm dying to revive; but a lot of them rely on Matrix3D and Socket, (plus packages like Away3D and Starling)... I'm scared to try yet... I still have a laptop that runs Flash that I haven't let update for the last few years, just to be able to play my own games ;P
"Restricting the firehose of content driving mass upticks in childhood suicide rates, obesity, porn usage, and mental health issues - this is dangerous!".
Sure, of course everyone has different strengths. That might apply to things like one's ability to work with other teams, or being detail-oriented versus being able to see the big picture.

I don't think that applies here. Writing and reading are very basic skills that will help you in all aspects of your job as an engineer, and everyone should be as good as they can be at them.
That is amazing! Would be awesome to have a client-side version of Qdrant https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant
But Company A has reduced product price be 60% because the biggest cost center is now halved. Customers like some new features from B but not justifying the price.
They develop https://github.com/saagarjha/unxip, “a fast Xcode unarchiver”. Very few people should routinely delete Xcode.
>Adobe let Flash languish after the purchase of Macromedia.

They didn't just let it languish. They actively tried to enshittify the platform by charging a revshare to game developers for using cross-compiled code with Stage3D. This was intended to stop Unity developers from just compiling Unity games to Flash and not paying for Flash CS6, except what it actually did was just push everyone to Unity's own browser plugin (and later HTML5 export).

As for why they didn't FOSS it... well, they're still selling Adobe Animate. The player probably couldn't have been released as FOSS, because of all the various libraries in Flash Player that Macromedia and Adobe used[0]. Remember that proprietary software is more viral than the GPL.

But they actually DID release a lot of FOSS during the AS3 days: the AS3 runtime and base class libraries were all Free Software, because Adobe and Mozilla were collaborating on it[1]. The intent was that AS3 would actually become "JavaScript 2.0" or ECMAScript 4! But this was killed off as being "too complex" and ES4 is just a weird alternate-universe ECMAScript spec.

[0] AFAIK there's Sorenson Spark, some Samsung font rendering library, some DRM stuff, and a few other things

[1] Originally they wanted to license the JVM but Sun was high on their "compatibility means compatibility" horse and said no. That's why ES4/AS3 has a lot of "Java-esque" features like namespaces and interfaces, and gets rid of prototype inheritance. None of that wound up getting forward-ported into the ES5+ fork of the timeline.
Highly addictive to my kids for reasons that I can't grok.

Unfettered social interaction with other participants in an unmonitored environment that superficially 'looks' like a video game. This social interaction leads to bullshit purchases. Not purchasing the bullshit leads to peer pressure and bullying.

Is it a technical problem? is it lack of content moderation? or do social networks that are catered towards children simply lead to a toxic environment? I can't say if it's more one or the other, which makes it a challenge to try and fix.