skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> suspect this is where things like these proposals are coming from; it's the pendulum swing reaching too far before it settles in the middle.

Current italian government is 100% USA's puppet with no shame.

The provision in the proposal to force every public meeting to be held in italian is crazy… it'd kill holding scientific conferences in italy.

To be honest I'd want them to push it as an internal memo for the national tv. There is this trend to insert english words (mostly wrongly, just like americans use italian words mostly incorrectly as well) to sound cool. If this was eliminated from TV, I'd imagine it would go a long way already.
I have an expensive 5.1 calibrated setup at home and the audio still sucks.

Must I have my own IMAX theater?

Actually, I saw some shitty Nolan movie in the cinema and the audio sucked there as well.
But without them, how would we have figured out if Covid was male or female?

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/13/le-la-covid-co...
Swedish projects to create green steel [1] seems to have delivered the first customer batch of steel. They use hydrogen produced locally.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/sweden...
Here’s a good example of what happens when you incentivize quantity over quality:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/ca...

It’s the classic support response of “try clearing your browser cache, delete all cookies, update to the latest versions of all software and drivers, then reboot your PC” when the questions was “why doesn’t outlook.com let me forward my emails any more?”.

I’m pretty cynical of most peoples motivation these days. Your local coffee shop’s point-of-sale asks if you’d like to round up to the nearest dollar with the change going to charity? Sounds like someone’s Q2 goal was to improve community relations. As soon as they get that promotion, will they maintain the charity thing? Probably not.

Another classic is the endless A/B testing to pursue growth metrics. Reddit can’t show you this video of a man calling his dog “f**king hilarious!” but if you sign in with the app and lie about your age it will. Or maybe it just “looks better” in the app, or some other carrot? One day they’ll just get the stick out and www.reddit.com will have a popup saying “we are now blocking 50% of IP addresses from web access to make you just use the damn app”.

And don’t get me started on “we are experiencing high volumes of calls right now, please hold for the next available etc.” As if there’s anything unpredictable about call centre statistics! Whenever I hear this message, all I’m hearing is “in order to maximise productivity from our agents, this call centre deliberately understaffs to maintain 100% capacity throughout the working day… sorry!”. The idea of an agent taking a break due to a lull in calls is anathema.

Tracking and being led by metrics is nothing if you don’t have a principled, moral, qualitative reason to be doing so in the first place.
It was the suppression of volatile vapors, the smog being photocatalytic hydrocarbons as you point out. Catalytic converters were indeed a big deal, as were the vapor barriers on fuel pumps.

But that witches’ brew of smog was (is) a mixture of all sorts of volatiles from many sources (e.g. paint shops and factories).

There’s by definition no one solution to diffuse fugitive emissions, and I’m glad the various AQMDs and CARB are working on it. I’m also glad they are organized in a decentralized fashion, so that different districts can have different rules and programs.

Oh and the ECUs (and their O2 sensors) came in after a lot of the work had been accomplished back in the carburetor days, but things are a lot cleaner today because they continued.
Perhaps a variant of Eternal September...
Yeah that's true, but that's because GitHub Gist doesn't word wrap. If you click the "Raw" format, the plaintext will wrap properly in the browser.
Not everyone is here to become a Computer Scientist or even a computer professional unfortunately, they want to study their favorite subject, do screen recordings, make nice presentations etc. Our company uses RHEL / CentOS distributions of Linux. And they still suffer from all these weird problems I don't find 'fun' to fix because I have actual work to do, but I have to anyway.
"Internet without connected power is pretty common around here."

Oh, that's interesting! I always thought this to be an outlier scenario. What is "here"? Can you estimate the size of population to this applies?
Why hasn't someone just changed the GPL license already:

"If you train an AI on this code, you must release the source code and generated neural net of that AI as open source" or something to that effect.

It won't stop it, but it will slow it down, and it seems like the right T&Cs to put on training against GPL code because it gives an advantage to open source AIs, however minor.
the other aspects like slowering economy, consumption and poverty are more important, the money exchanges is a good metric for pollution
it could be like with money, there is a small, normal threshold after which the returns are decreasing, but I think status probably scales better than money
I have almost the same setup, except for Ubuntu instead of Fedora.

I have pet peeves with all of them.

I really dislike Mac’s handling of files and window management.

Windows ads and forced updates are a major annoyance. So many times I wanted to boot up quickly and find some files before leaving for work, and I would be forced to wait for some random update to install.

Ubuntu is filled with minor annoyances, from software failing to auto-update to poor scrollwheel management.

Hate to say it, but out of all these systems, OSX is the least worst.
The article feels very coherent to the point that I want to follow its advice. But will it work?

>Status, like money and power, is a form of capital. If we can learn to tolerate our feelings of “not-enoughness,” we can then use status in service of what we care about, rather than being addicted to it as an end in itself.

If we can tolerate 'not-enoughness', what would be there that needs change? As a society, don't we have to tolerate addiction because that's the loop that drives our progress?

>Casey Rosengren is a founder and executive coach based in New York. If you’d like to learn more about ACT and values-oriented coaching, drop him a note.

'founder' - Does he use the title 'in service' or is he still trapped in the status game? In the latter case, is his advice still valid?
Q: What about the social features of GitHub? I enjoy the discovery and star features. There just isn't any community like it. Where can I get that?

It would be great if there was something that had the discovery & social aspects but was agnostic to the actual site hosting the code. Does something like that exist?
> but between an aggressive ticketing campaign

That’s how you solved it. Paris is entirely unable to perform such a campaign, because it would “target minorities unfairly” as they say, and Paris is at something like 10x fewer policemen per population compared to the average of US cities, which puts Paris in the category of “self-managed” much more than other cities of the same size.
Now ban them and their bike scheme counterparts in London. An absolute blight on the city.

Their USP is they can be left anywhere.

https://i.imgur.com/s59Bvf3.png
A photo of the Orion Nebula from the same book:

The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy (https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00mitt)

also provided the cover of Joy Division's Transmission 7" single:

https://imgur.com/a/NNWuUDC
This exchange:
“I have a strong suspicion that “prompt engineering” is not going to be a big deal in the long-term & prompt engineer is not the job of the future. AI gets easier. You can already see in Midjourney how basic prompts went from complex in v3 to easy in v4. Same with ChatGPT to Bing. To the extent that prompt engineering remains a thing, it might be the Era of the Humanities Major.“

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1627804798224580608
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

- the guy who created C++

I always bring up Go in such arguments - according to the survey [0] done by the Go team, 93% of Go users are satisfied with the language.

[0] https://go.dev/blog/survey2022-q2-results
My instincts are giving me similar feelings. It’s time to move on.

This has probably been the play for longer than we’d like to admit.

Ingest everyone’s code and sell it back to us at a price.

Fools will be soon voluntarily uploading whole code bases and any novel solutions they have left. These solutions will then be then ALT+Tab’ed into the competitions editors for a small fee…wow and lol.
Niklaus Wirth's Pascal was more of a teaching tool than a useful programming language. It took a lot of extensions to fix that, and each Pascal inventor invented their own extensions.

I know this from having read his book and using an early Pascal compiler, and being very frustrated with it.

Pascal did, however, have a very nice feature - nested functions. It's the one feature from Pascal that I incorporated into D, and they're such a nice feature I continue to be surprised they aren't adopted by other languages.
I don't know, they told healthy 20 year olds to take multiple shots of largely untested injections to avoid those same symptoms, so
I don’t believe that this is populism, as others said. No one cares about English words in bureaucracy and probably few of their voters knew or cared about synthetic meat. I think that these people are nostalgic of the good old times and they can’t believe that after 100 years they are in power again. After staying put for few months they are revealing themselves for what they are.

As few of them have experience as leaders, all they can do is mimic fascism. I believe that many of these initiatives are personal, but no one is stopping them as these behaviors are praised in their environment. In the meantime they will lose money from the recovery and resiliency plan from Europe because of their incompetency, and they will fail to promote an European plan for immigration. They’ll probably even get more votes because of this as they master the art of choosing an enemy (Europe, immigrants) and ride people’s anger.
It feels distinctly possible that Nueralink is fraudulent. What is the point of the demos, slideshows, and general hype that comes from the company? They aren't selling anything, and don't expect to for years. Even then, the first customers will find the product medically necessary, and this broad marketing approach will be unnecessary. It's just odd to have so much PR for this.
You are correct about my ties to India but it is super feasible for someone without any ties.

The one thing I would stress is to do your research before going and find a credible medical centre. Booking appointments in India for dentists or doctors is pretty painless — very often you can get seen for a consultation in the same day, sometimes within minutes.

The one benefit of having ties to the country is that I have family on the ground whom already know of reputable doctors/dentists which makes it easy to avoid the horror stories (which are in the minority).

To clarify my experience: I had a root canal in the UK after being attacked with a weapon which crushed my front teeth.

I regularly got abscesses in the area for years and they were always treated with antibiotics and a pat on the head.

It flared up while I was visiting family in a very small village in Punjab and they sent me to their dentist.

It turned out that the dentists in the UK had been wrongly diagnosing and treating what turned out to be a root canal which was not properly completed (the dentist failed to remove the entire root).

This lead to an infection which grew over the period of roughly 12 years and spread into the actual bone of my jaw, eating away at it.

I needed a re-canal and an operation to remove the infection. Over the course of two weeks I had the operation and re-canal completed for roughly £50.

It’s been two years and there have been no problems at all.
> it seemed like many people got a ‘deal’

> So while in the 50's, the advantages to being more high status seemed almost cosmetic, today, they're anything but.

The “deal” you are referring to was largely codified racism. [1]

And only cosmetic inasmuch as being granted pollution-free, affordable housing based on skin color would be considered “cosmetic.”

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-02/how-the-f...
A much better option would be Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Radio_Mondiale
Ads were more useful back then. It was a fast way to quickly see what was available. The internet was far, far smaller in 1996.
I was surprised by how expensive the scooters are. They were about same as the price as a car2go rental car back when that was a thing.
Once the last coin has been minted, every note of fiat currency will begin to spontaneously wink out of existence. 南無不可思議光怜. 南無不可思議光中村.
Out of curiosity, who do you want to have a big influence?
> but no matter how much I love it, Linux is janky.

I see this a little bit different. I have ADHD and this relates to my operating system because I tend to go with the path of least resistance a little more so than my peers, or at least that's my anecdotal experience. Which means I haven't used Linux for a loooong time, exactly because it's janky.

Where Linux is improving, however, both Windows and MacOS aren't. MacOS is degrading at a much slower rate, and it's likely going to be a long time before a MacBook Air with MacOS stops being my main Laptop (things like Framekwork aren't available in Denmark). I am, however, seriously considering putting Linux on my gaming machine because of how bad Windows has become. This is sort of "easy" for me because I don't play a lot of games. For the past 10 years it's been Blood Bowl 2 and Path of Exile/Diablo 3, for the next ten years it'll likely be Blood Bowl 3 and Diablo 4 + whatever ARPG I come to love. So if those few games work on Linux, then I'll be perfectly set. I wouldn't have considered switching to Linux if it wasn't because Microsoft keeps making Windows worse. Who ever thought it was a good idea to put advertisements into your operating system? Like seriously? And why isn't it illegal, at least here in the EU?

Going back to Apple, the annoyance of having the closed ecosystem, is also getting to the point where it's becoming more of a burden than a feature. At least for me personally. This is largely because a lot of the people I communicate a lot with aren't in the ecosystem. It is also because a lot of the "digital home" stuff you can get in Denmark isn't going to be Apple. Even for the stuff that is available, like Apple TV, it's not like it's going to be a good option compared to a Chromecast because we simply don't get a lot of the features Americans do, and the Apple stuff is 10-100x the price of its alternatives. Then when your otherwise lovely ecosystem doesn't work when you're trying to have a group conversation via SMS with people not using iMessage, or a media setup with a Chromecast + some Linux stuff, it just becomes more trouble than it's worth, which means it no longer really makes sense to get the iPhone simply because it fits in with everything...

I could go on ranting, but the point is that so far, the closed tech giants have been mainly driving me toward open alternatives out of convenience, and I'm likely not the only one. I think it'll hurt Microsoft more than it'll hurt Apple, but then Microsoft likely makes it money in enterprise sales where they have no competition, at least not yet.
This. People lived more frugally, nearly never went on vacation, had very small cars.

Now it seems everything needs to be ready before having children: big house, big car, career.
Ha! Totally agree. Used it in my emails to OpenAI in the early days of GPT-3, hoping they’d adapt the term. I knew it from psychology, where it refers to people giving rational explanations for something that isn’t there (specifically in split brain patients).

I guess “hallucinate” stuck because it works across all disciplines: text, audio, vision…
I tend to disregard articles that default to the "Stochastic Parrot" argument. These tools are useful now, I don't personally care about achieving actual intelligence. I want additional utility for myself and other humans, which these provide now, at scale.

By a lot of measures many humans perform at just about the same level, including confidently making up bullshit.

This post reads like one of the "Goodbye X online video game" posts. I'll cut them some slack because this is their blog they're venting on and was likely posted here by someone else and not themselves doing some attention seeking, but meh.
I can’t speak to “truth”, only trust. If the reporting is ideological, the likelihood that the narrative is slanted is high. Is Neuralink doing something wrong, or are they being targeting by ideologues? We don’t know.

I don’t think animal testing is bad per se, and I’m very distrustful of news releases from organizations that are against all animal testing where their reporting is peppered with totally unrelated images of animal abuse, just to be inflammatory.
This is very much true. The first time I had mouse scrollwheel issues on Linux, I was just casually told to create a bash file to change config settings.

Not user friendly at all.
You’re not alone. Windows + WSL gives you the sanity of Linux and driver support of Windows. Best of both worlds, though it takes some work to get there.
It's nice to see this kind of Pascal community event. I write a program in Pascal for fun, for work or play, every few months.

The one I use, fpc/Lazarus, is one of those projects where people seem to use it for very significant work to a very high degree of personal satisfaction, but often to very little fanfare.

Like let's say you built the world's fastest JSON viewer with it (already done, I think).

Or you built a pretty amazing orthodox file manager with it (DC).

Or a great little text editor? Cudatext. The author wrote a plugin at my casual mention of the topic of snippets that could run external commands, which I thought was awesome of them.

Lazpaint is also pretty neat and I was able to make a pseudo-3D render with it. Very nice set of tools.

Those are each a pretty big deal in their own ways. But these days there's another public-presence layer to development, where people want to find Mr. Lazarus chocolate bars on the shelf at their local store before they'll trust that it's worth their time, maybe. (I hear creator brands are pretty much everything right now?)

Yet, the fact that it's around, well maintained, and used in very impressive projects, still means a lot to those who are interested in what it can do.

And, I guess it still does some new stuff as needed. Pas2JS, webassembly, etc.

https://www.freepascal.org/~michael/pas2js-demos/wasienv/can...

And that's just thinking about fpc/Laz... There's much more to the Pascal world than this.
I don't understand why GitLab (as in gitlab.com) doesn't focus more on the discovery part in order to make people feel more welcome.

I was using github.com/explore almost daily while it lasted. The trending repositories by language were an amazing tool to discover new tools and ideas.

I really wish GitLab had something equivalent to this!
But the difference is, you can fix Windows with lots of powershell and mumbo jumbo. Others still unfixable.
Rebecca?
These scooters are all but sustainable. They’re just a sick byproduct of VC-fueled startups that will potentially never turn a profit. To me they’re just like a meth sore of late stage urban capitalism.
I’m confident that money getting more expensive with higher interest rates will have the positive effect of clearing the field from a lot of this BS that provides absolutely no added value to urban life in most cities.
Also, here in Berlin these things are insanely expensive for what they offer. We’re talking about prices comparable to a carsharing car ride for the same stretch. If anything, carsharing is actually cheaper sometimes. (Yes, I know that’s also a problematic VC-fueled hallucination, especially here in Berlin).
Or maybe he’s playing the long game. Lose a pawn to get a king.
Well, why would anyone in an urban area need something Starlink, when there are already plenty of cheap and reliable alternatives, including alternatives at higher bandwidths?

The problem with building your company around rural internet is that there just aren’t that many people to spread the cost around, thus whatever the alternative is very expensive.
There are exactly 2 of those prompts in the whole world
Nice article and very informative, but I don’t think it’s the data we should be afraid of, but the usage/interpretation/analysis of them for ill-intentioned purposes.
I would argue that it is importation, rather than exportation.
> carelessness is a problem but that also happens with so-called Boris bikes (Livingstone bikes)

no. They are returned to docking stations. Other schemes litter the pavement
McD's CUIX is terrible. Fails to appreciate ”information“ the way new management at Twitter does. Bottom line is this, customer wants the meal deal quick and McD wants the money in exchange, customer may arrive with/out smartphone, may/not care to use smartphone, having a human behave as a robot at the door doesn't feel futuristic.
Sure. But the article here is specifically about someone who wants their child to learn about computers by tinkering and trial and error.
Grammar is really not that much of an impediment to picking up a 2nd language for business and trade purposes. Unlike in school, no one really cares that much about grammar if you can understand what the other is saying.

And English grammar is really not that simple - for example, few other languages have the distinction between continuous and perfect forms of a tense, but foreign speakers can simply avoid it in English ("I read the docs" instead of "I am reading the docs" for a really basic speaker).

One advantage you may mean by "grammar" is that English has relatively little variance for a verb or noun form - once you learn the root, there's not that many variations to account for tense, plurals etc. But Mandarin Chinese for example is much simpler from this point of view: there are basically 0 variations.

Phonetics are more of a problem. Chinese would be very hard to pick up in much of the world simply because tone is a very foreign phonetical feature, and people who haven't experienced it growing up are unlikely to even realize it is meaningful just by listening to speech.

However, even that doesn't matter too much. French is also a phonetically difficult language, with many very similar syllables being important for distinguishing words (for example the distinction between -n as a consonant vs a nasalized vowel). But, that didn't stop virtually all of Europe from adopting it as an international language at some point, not to mention much of north Africa.
This is what he says.

Nevertheless, I can see how much effort it costs him every time I see him performs those tasks. Because I can see him pause to think of the sequence of the things he needs to do to achieve the result for some very basic stuff.

If you have to constantly think about how to use your pen instead of what you are writing about, it's a problem.

But it's an invisible problem if you are attached to your tools, you will never notice it. It's not possible, your tools are so great, they save you time, they make you more efficient, they are most comfortable.

At this stage it's part of his identity.

I can't say for you, as I don't know your particular situation.

But that's definitely the case for him and for several vim + tiling users that I know.

They spent years investing in this.

They will never say anything but good things about it.

But they wills start working on a project, and spend 30 minute fixing something before they can even start on the task. Then every single step requires planning for the basic moves.

If you look at how they work, the tools are taking a toll, inch by inch.