skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always seen the appeal of ancient Greek culture in the West as a cultural bedrock on which Christianity and Enlightenment built upon. The very fact that we consider democracy as the best political system shows that clearly the ideas resonated with us from a historical and cultural point of view.

However, in the modern age it seems like metamodernism has become king, and that is something that does not play well with ancient greek culture and its derivatives. I am a firm believer that the crisis of the West is a cultural crisis where the departure from the ideas that shaped us, lead us into this kind of metamodern nihilism that everyone sees around them.

Ancient greek ideas and philosophy are still relatively unspoiled from modern institutions (except Democracy of course, but thats another point), which means that reviving some of the ethos found there could actually help us find some purpose again.
Would you rather the person making the decisions about the code you write be a developer too, or not?

I’d rather be managed by developers, and you only get that by promoting developers into management.

You can stay an individual contributor if you want, and the pay is still very good. If it doesn’t work at your company, you can find others that will let you stay an IC.
Details matter here. For a given musical performance, there are at least 3 copyrights in action:

1. The copyright on the composition. This can also include arrangements - for instance, Gershwin's original piano version of Rhapsody in Blue is now public domain, but the orchestral version everyone knows,

2. The copyright on the sheet music (the actual layout, spacing, editorial notes, things like that.. it's actually an insanely deep subject. I've got an 800 page book on the subject - which is referred to as music engraving, as up until about 40 years ago it was literally done by engraving the plates by hand. Much much harder problem than doing normal book-style text layout, as it's fully 2D, whereas text is basically 1d with occasional special cases. (NB: This copyright is really only relevant to the musicians, conductors, etc, but it does matter.

3. The copyright of the particular recording. This is the really relevant one. A 5 year old recording of a 500 year old work is very much under copyright.
On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world
This is a stupid hypothetical; only in an extreme emergency where your loved one only had a few seconds to live would you not have time to consult both a human expert and an LLM.
> had fallen away with the Roman Empire a thousand years earlier.

Yeah, no: https://petrarch.petersadlon.com/canzoniere.html?poem=128
I think its fine as written because we no longer have to do any empirical analysis anymore just to accommodate your view of the outcome, LLMs are here
Thank god the energy prices are increasing. I'm only half joking.
I'd be cool to use your approach to build a "frontend" for monitoring Python's TQDM output. Especially useful for multiprocess applications with scores of independent, long running processes like data ingestion pipelines. TQDM does support monitoring multiple processes but is not flexible enough for all use cases.
I would guess the majority of users never write a single line of macro definitions or expression evaluation.
They have a very high passing rate when the user is not actively investigating if the entity they are chatting with is an LLM.

Thus the goal post has moved to incorporate this aspect. The goal post will keep moving as LLMs improve.
> In 2016, Elon Musk went on stage at a tech conference outside Los Angeles and made a bold statement about the self-driving capability of Teslas.

Apart from the video, wouldn't there have been lots of witnesses who where at the conference in person and saw him make that statement?

Even apart from the "burden of proof" debate, it seems kinda dumb to try and set this precedent in a case where the prosecution could actually provide proof of the video being genuine relatively easily.

(Unless you want to assume that Musk was playing 8D chess here and intentionally introducing the "everything is fake unless proven otherwise" defense in one of the rare situations where it could actually be disproven, to make it appear less devastating to the judge than it actually is. If that was the plan, the judge wasn't having it though.)
What does opportunistic threading mean here? I’d have to dig up the issue, but I attempted something like this once and discovered that it’s discouraged if not forbidden to run more than one lighthouse instance at a time. If I recall correctly it has/had something to do with a lock on a certain tmp directory and a need/desire for accurate CPU profiling.

Am I crazy? Does this sound familiar to anyone? Apologies I can’t investigate deeper at the moment. I’m on mobile and will have to circle back later.
Replacing the heat source only solves around 1/3rd of the problem. Most emissions come from the calcination, aka the conversion of CaCO3 to CaO and CO2.
A very real (and morale boosting way) to put this into action would be to require anyone wishing to hold a meeting with more, than, say, 5 people present buy lunch for all attendees.
Content is great and I really love the transcript with slides. Simple and perfect.
Most of these words are regularly used in modern Greek, even couple not used would be easily understood (Kleos would confuse some Greeks, not those named Kleanthis though…)
"So this is how liberty dies... with thundering applause."

The amount of people defending these laws in this thread is a frightening proof of this.

Everywhere these days you can find someone smart and utterly naive with their "but actually..." argument pushing the Overton window closer and closer to a censorship state, and there are not enough neutral people arguing for free speech itself. Only the weirdos and racist ones which are easy to hate and root against.

So all this playing Devil's advocate is actually helping along the normalization of these free speech bans.

https://youtu.be/BiqDZlAZygU
At least for me, if I'm even thinking about that I've already broken flow and might as well just attend the damn meeting.
This is a very common way to handle multiplayer for RTS-style games. The inputs of the computation are the same, and the computation to update the game state is deterministic, so only the inputs are needed by every client. The disadvantage is if the logic deviates even slightly due to a bug you get a desync. If using floats I could also imagine there being issues with IEEE 754 architectures versus non-IEEE 754 architectures.
It's fast.
That tooling is helpful, but because of asymmetric dynamics, many individual contributors who have things on their minds don’t put things on that agenda. You have to work to make that agenda not “manager domain.”

As a manager, I often reach out on the “opposite” day (Monday if the meeting is on a Thursday) and ask if there are things they want to talk about that are not already there. I also put things weeks ahead to give some sense of structure.

Same for the team’s meeting agenda: people, especially senior team members, are more keen to edit that one, though. Often, I try to copy elements that they add to our 1:1 to discuss their concern ahead of time.

When another team member raises a concern about another member, I ask them to tell them to add it to the agenda. That hasn’t worked, ever, but it highlights the role of that agenda as an asymetric way to handle the relations.
Wait until the definition of hate speech changes to include something _you_ want to say.
Many popular licenses include a prohibition on being used to create proprietary software. GitHub Copilot is proprietary.
If I was given the choice of no medical help at all versus take the risk and ask AI, well, I guess I would take the chance?
Unfortunately, it's what makes Pop Music, POPular. As long as it sells, it won't change. I remember Lady Gaga getting a lot of criticism early on in her career, then later, she showed how talented she is musically.

On a sidenote, we see it on the web, you can argue that most marketing websites look the same, it follows a formula that sells.
Macron's comments (on the heels of his recent trip to Beijing) about Europe potentially plotting a foreign policy course distinct from the entity who most certainly Nordstreamed it gives the continent a glimmer of hope but I, for one, am not going to hold my breath.

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-china-americ...

The response to Macron's comments from the other side of the "pond" was predictable.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/04/10/us-confi...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/10/emmanuel-macro...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cruz-responds-macrons-stunn...
> I mean, you're supposed to ask permission to make a cover.

No, that’s actually a specific carve-out in US copyright law dating back to the Copyright Act of 1909.

It’s certainly a nice thing to do (like weird al and parodies), but it’s not required, and it’s completely useless for a budding singer to “ask permission” to do a cover from a popular artist or group, the request will go straight to the bin unread.

> That's kind of their choice?

Of course it is, but a copyright strike is a heavy handed and damaging choice. The Eagles are apparently notorious for this behaviour.
Codes of Entry: Burglary, Architecture, and the Protocols of “Nakatomi Space”
I have a word document I can email to people, and I don’t need to prove I’m something with a more elaborate setup.
Axis of Awesome took those lemons and made lemonade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
I'm not sure how Ed Sheeran distribute his music, but I think you're making a mistake in the calculations. Ed Sheeran doesn't make $226,997.49 per month from Spotify, that is the amount they pay the record company to stream his music.

Artist frequently complain that Spotify isn't paying them enough, but forgetting that the record companies take a very large chuck of the profits, just to act as an increasingly irrelevant middleman.
> without complimentary meals on their flight. Everyone literally spends around 12 hours between dinner and breakfast without eating

What about second breakfast?
Only if you sell it. The Eagles will copyright claim an hour long video with 5 seconds worth of a cover of their songs. So you either take the video down, send all monetization to the Eagles for the entire video, or remove the 5 seconds.
Freetown Christiania (micronation in central Copenhagen)
C was originally designed to write Unix operating system and its utilities. Until then such programs were written in assembler. I always think of C as a portable high level assembly language. Recent use of C/C++ for Arduino reinforces that positioning although I think that many Arduino abstractions are rather bloated. But of course, there's no reason why I can't re-write performance/space critical code in assembler.
In software development sphere, there is a review process for all code that is written. No code gets into production without an explicit approval of some peer or supervisor.

When you get diagnosed by a doctor, usually no one checks the diagnosis. I would love if my health was checked by medical professional committee. Human and/or AI.
"obviously not slavery"

It is admittedly not traditional chattel slavery but I happen to agree with Frederick Douglas that, "there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other." Which was a sentiment echoed by Abraham Lincoln.

I'm pretty lucky with my profession, but many many people feel coerced into a narrow range of job options, alienated from their work, and robbed of a significant part of the value they produce.

Note: In most first world countries in the world outside of America losing a job or ill health does not lead to potentially losing a home, or no longer having access to medicine or care. America is quite unique in that regard, and more similar to third world countries.

As for the "Gulag" America has a larger proportion in prison than Russia (or China) ever has (and I am far from a fan of those authoritarian countries).

"immigrate from socialistic states to capitalistic ones"

Most mass immigration is coming from people fleeing dictatorships and / or poor third world and often war-torn countries which are far from Socialist. In fact they are often capitalist dictatorships supported by America (sometimes with previous left-leaning democratic governments overthrown by America).

It is true that many of them migrate to the relative peace of places like America, but great numbers also migrate to neighbouring more left-wing countries in places like Africa and South America.

Although I don't consider China or Soviet Russia any more Socialist than most European countries which have Socialist inspired social programmes, there have been major mass migrations into Soviet Russia in the past (even from Americans during the Great Depression) and into China in more recent times (economic migrants from Africa especially). As for European countries with Socialist policies: they have millions of migrants per year, some as refugees, but many drawn by their "Social Democratic" ideals.
Oh, it was definitely in there! And in fact, my introduction to the book came by way of its discussion of compensation at NeXT: someone (still unknown!) on Oxide and Friends indicated that Oxide's compensation model looked like that of early NeXT -- and the dollar figure (adjusted for inflation) is even roughly the same! We recounted all of this in an On the Metal episode on Oxide and Friends.[0]

[0] https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal/oxide-and-frien...
> The database of code on GitHub is many terabytes large, but the model trained on it is significantly smaller.

This just means it's a really efficient lossy compression algorithm, not that it learns like a human.
This is great! Desperately need this for Japanese!
True for most, if not any, reputable email service provider besides Google, MS, and Co.
Damn! That's super cool. I have shown the wave to my kids but I often tell them that artists are not always what we know of them. This is a superb demonstration ! Thanks for posting ! (usually I'd use l' "origine du monde" by Courbet)
Thank you. There was no warning. In-fact, every dev is free to setup their own local environment in whichever way the choose. There is no standard way to setup anything, and one of my goals was to setup my env and document everything step by step on the org's wiki. So that atleast we'd have one official, approved way of doing things.

What is most shocking about it all, is they have an Angular app, which they are thinking of moving to React, which is why they hired me. On the basis of my React and JS skills. They trusted me to get up-to speed on Angular, but dismissed me because I use Firefox? Don't want the job back, I'm just feeling that people should not feel free to d*ck others around like this. How will I explain all this on my resume?
Only one way to find out!
Next up on my todo list is to add a possibility to upload a photo of a dish actually prepared by a human
Coptic had these as loan words, although whether they were literary or used in daily discourse I don't know. Afaik modern Greek does not have these very handy little words sadly.
Right now, larger models have more complicated and rich structures encoding information about numbers and the meanings of their parts.

There's fundamental awkwardness that comes with doing math using a device that only seeks to predict the "next token" coming out, and that only understands numbers as a sequence of tokens (usually digits in base 10). It also doesn't even start with the knowledge of the ordering of the digits: this just comes from the examples it has seen.

Either it must:

- "Think ahead" inside the linear algebra of the model, so that it has already carried all the digits, etc. There are no real "steps" in this operation that are akin to the things we think about when we do arithmetic.

- Describe what it is doing, so that the intermediate work is inside its context buffer.

Right now, the models have learned structures that reliably think 3-4 digits ahead in most cases, which is way better than before but still pretty bad compared to a competent 4th grader taking their time with arithmetic. But if you create a scenario where the model describes its reasoning, it can do pretty well.
When I have a bit of time, I'll compare dither algorithms to that human version. Would be cool to see how they compare !
How can I build a similar RSS feed with vue3
Hi, I like HN a lot, and would like to build a similar thing where people can post links. Does anyone have a good idea, maybe similar to vitepress for guides/docs?
If you are actually productive with your method, then I would advice you to be happy that you dodged a bullet, and it only cost you 3 weeks. Go for another company, and don't chase this one.

If, however, they have a point, try to learn some productivity tools to be more efficient before going for the job.

In any case, don't think too much about this company, it will just distract you.
Would you say you have LaTex sensitivity?
The “lottery” framing is the normalized and gentle way of asking “What’s our plan for when Stripe / OpenAI offers them a $1M/yr Staff role but only if they start immediately?” Think about the great engineers you’ve met, and how many of them would say “Sorry, but no - my current team relies on me, and I should help them transition”.
> How will I explain all this on my resume?

You don't. Omit that job.
There is more to music than harmony and melody. Some styles of music even don't have harmony at all, like Indian classical music. Or have pitch at all, like some African styles of drum music.

If modern pop doesn't seem to focus on melody or harmony, it's interesting what it focuses on instead. It doesn't seem to be rhythm or form either. It might be the timbres of sounds (interesting singing voice, unique singing manerisms, or difference between clean or dirty bass, etc.), trying to create a unique listening experience on common speakers. There's a reason why physical instruments are used ever less in pop while use of human voice is ever more in the focus.

It might also not be the music at all but instead the lifestyle and drama surrounding the artists. In that case, all I have to say is that there's more than pop and there has never been more amazing music in all styles you can imagine being produced. It also has never been easier to find and access. If you're not listening to it yet, you probably don't care that much about harmony, melody and whatnot.
Thank you for turning me onto this! I found and listened to the episode[0], and the review was outstanding: I really didn't like the book, and it was frankly a relief to hear Siracusa just absolutely light the book up. Thank you for pointing to it!

[0] https://hypercritical.fireside.fm/42
for example you want to be able to shape your dimples in order to precisely control your eddies and currents...
from bash cheatsheet:

> Multi-line comments use :' to open and ' to close

what kind of mockery is this? what about using comments for comments? have I been under a rock for too long? How is passing arguments to ":" builtin called comments, especially if it resets return status to zero?
Containers do work in WSL2, although you hit Hyper-V bugs if you spin up very many of them. WSL2 is the basis of Docker Desktop and similar apps.

Microsoft has also already added proprietary extensions to WSL2, like the integration with the VSCode remote development plugin and DirectX passthrough for machine learning and maybe other things (there's a DirectX driver on Linux which is usable only on WSL guests).
Digging into it, it looks like the various CSS font smoothing selectors only work on macOS, not Linux or Windows.
Indeed there are no special operators, :. and ==: etc. They are just :, . and ==

And macro definition code looks quite different from 'regular' code since it works so much with expressions and symbols.
I don't get the correlation between Santa coming and your dad being tired, did they have dinner together?
There is an answer once you’re willing to break out of the cycle of self pity that’s trapping you there.
> send all monetization to the Eagles for the entire video

From the last instance I’ve seen that wasn’t even an option, the video was struck down and that was it.

Granted that was a cover not just a small bit of cover inside a longer video, but the cover-er specifically noted the Eagles opted to neither revenue-share (which was the cover’s state as it’d been properly content-id’d as a cover) nor demonetise, just take down the video entirely.

He also cites Rick Beato as having repeatedly had analysis of Eagles songs taken down.

Though maybe it’s because YouTube only has revenue sharing, you can’t send 100% revenue to the eagles?
Personally I find "modern C++" far more difficult than ANSI C. Due to my lack of competence with C++ I generally stick to writing C code. That is when I'm not writing some quick scripts in Python or web stuff in JavaScript - which for the most part is comparable to C.

If you are finding C++ difficult, perhaps you could learn C first.
So, I did some investigation and know what's broken, but I don't know why. The game uses `canvas.toDataURL()` to replace the favicon for each frame. It draws it, essentially like this jsfiddle https://jsfiddle.net/trLkd1ys/

The fiddle works in both Chromium and Firefox for me (a 16x16 green filled square), but the data URL produced by Firefox results in vertical line rainbow. In Chromium it works fine.

FF: "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAAQUlEQVQ4T2O83OR55grL9sMTZ1tdefydOU2t5o50tbH8dc+a8h8pYZ8fZ71cboZPnnHUgMejYfB5NAyAeWUYpAMAFY8jzzH0m5oAAAAASUVORK5CYII="

Chromium: "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAB5JREFUOE9jZGhg+M9AAWAcNYBhNAwYRsOAYViEAQCDTRgBEA8acQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=="

https://onlineimagetools.com/base64-decode-png can be used to quickly see if you're inclined.
> 50 to 100 grams

Saffron is toxic at that dose, very likely lethal. Please stay safe.
Well, it is used in German as "übermorgen". I didn't know that it exists in English, too.
It was strange thing to say, even from a business point of view as given his position, he's well placed to make substantial income from live performance and streams regardless of the outcome.

I suppose it was hyperbole to illustrate the importance of the case.

I'm glad he won the case as it seems so frivolous to me, but I wouldn't object to him quitting music nonetheless.
What’s amazing is not TCP/IP’s warts, but how well conceived it was. His humility overshadows the fact this has been a magnificently flexible and robust technology. It’s one of the most impressive creations of the 21st century.
Same thing's happening to Gmail.
i think the 'gpt scam' that you alleged will likely turn 50 years into 20 years.
year 2023 - gpt4 launched
year 2030 - AGI or sth equivalant launched and can create new knowlege and invent new tools at an astonisng speed
year 2040 - you will have 1 and 2 and much more
In retrospect, you were correct my tone and rhetoric were out of line. I think siblings to my original comment (written by cogitoergofutuo and itsthecourrier) did a better job by more directly problematizing the "good faith hypothetical" itself. Mismanaging your way to missing payroll twice with no satisfactory communication about it and no promises to make it up is hard to classify as "good faith", even if bad luck was involved.

But I also concede that, in some cases, the cost of recouping might not be worth it.
Is the binary distinction helpful? It doesn't appear to be a more helpful way of evaluating how capable a model is.