skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think cuteness anything to do with it.

It's when style interferes with the functionality, that people start to get annoyed. But that applies to any aspect really: Animations, Minimalism / Skeuomorphism, Simplicity / Complexity...

Many apps successfully introduce cuteness through iconography and illustrations. Eg. Duolingo, Bear Notes, TunnelBear. Also look at Panic who have a (very mild) playful aesthetic in their power-user development tools: https://nova.app
I agree in a sense, but I also think the paranoia inducing negative hype serves a similar perspective as the overly optimistic hype. Both pose a perspective that the current iteration of AI is extremely powerful and can/will change the world if we allow it. The primary difference is that one side poses that with it, earth will plunge into dystopia, and the other poses that with it, earth will ascend into utopia.
There is no "German" school system. There are (at least) 16 different school systems in Germany. The original article glosses over that. Each state has (almost) full autonomy regarding schools, there are only voluntary (by the council of state education ministers) alignments between states. The federal government can only apply minimal directions by providing some additional funding in limited areas. And even within states there are often different kinds of public schools depending on the current political trends in that state at the time, e.g. to try out or introduce "Gesamtschule" (1-branch secondary school system) vs. 2- or 3-branch (and maybe fuse some or all secondary 3-branch "Hauptschule" and "Realschule" into "Mittelschule"), 8- vs. 9-year Gymnasium etc. It is a total mess, what might be true for one kind of school in one state might be different a few kilometers away in the next state.

So comparisons are hard, even between German states.

I also think this autonomy is one of the reasons why the overall average quality is so bad: Schools are a political issue that is used to distinguish a new state government from a previous one, and to distinguish one state from another. So with each election, you get state politicians running around like headless chickens, trying to "make things better" in schools by randomly doing "something", because what the previous government in the same state did obviously cannot be right. And what that other state governed by a different party does cannot be right either. ad inf...
How do you get the $1 price for kids in 2023? Currently the rule is “Up to three children under 44 inches tall ride for free when they’re with a fare-paying adult.” https://new.mta.info/fares
I’m a Wall Street guy (well, my office is nearby on Broadway, I’m a dev, but easily able to justify an extra $20) and the thing is that driving in is almost never faster or easier than taking the train! The PATH, which starts in NJ where parking in cheaper, goes right into Lower Manhattan, and it’s a short walk to the office from there. Every time I’ve driven into Manhattan it’s slower than taking the train, except nights or weekends. I really don’t understand the type of person who drives a personal vehicle into Manhattan during the work week.
I think this comes from viznut

http://viznut.fi/texts-en/bytebeat_deep_analysis.html
> I live in Queens. Getting a family member to MSK for treatment or getting a meeting in the city via public transit is a 4 hour odyssey.

I feel like I’m going insane reading this! There is nowhere in Queens that’s more than two hours from midtown Manhattan by public transit, and pretty much everywhere besides Far Rockaway is under an hour. Do you commute by car into Manhattan every single time? Have you ever actually tried public transit? If you think it’s a “4 hour odyssey,” you’re in for a very pleasant surprise.
I would argue that there is a significant difference between Ted Kaczynski and the numerous conspiracy theorists out there. A quick read through his works, most notably his latest piece, "Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How," will quickly reveal the careful, rational approach he applies to his arguments.

Conspiracy theorists often fail to comprehend that secret agencies can naturally emerge in modern societies. A society without such agencies would be at the mercy of those societies that do have them.

What if, for instance, China successfully develops a mind control program and your country does not?

Asserting that the CIA is "bad", without considering larger societal trends and developments, is overly simplistic.

Ted Kaczynski would not engage in such emotional judgments. Here's an example of his reasoning concerning the evolution of modern societies:
https://en.wikialpha.org/wiki/Self-propagating_system
Researcher driver disguises themselves as a car seat
Check out Funes the Memorious by Borges for the extreme version of this.
I kind of despise the pattern where in order to support translations you have to turn every string in your program into an abomination of bespoke markup, storing strings in variables, etc..
Text generated by ChatGPT that you have reproduced should be cited, if for no other reason than the fact that you are not the author. Taking credit for work that is not your own is unethical.
>Not sure what kind of "migrant trends" you are talking about

I don't know where you live, but here Arabic and Turkish Music (especially "rap" performed by these groups), attitudes and even language (I regularly hear turkish/arabic slang) clearly have a large influence outside of their respective migrant cultures.

>I went to school with children of Italian, Portuguese, Turkish and Greek backgrounds (mostly the parent generation migrated) and none of them were distinguishable in terms of "broad" culture from those whose grandparents were born in Germany.

I had a simmilar experience in my school. But we also had a lower tier school right next to us where that clearly was not the case. And there Turkish/Arabic influence was very clearly greater than any German one.
Europe: Is compulsory military service coming back?
> On the other hand what every single post really complains about is Flathub.

> This is what was truly disruptive about Flatpak. This is what the haters are mad about.

I think reaching this point in an argument requires willful misinterpretation of what people actually complain about with Flatpak.

To me (and pretty much everyone else) Flatpak is just another distro to package for. It has it's own runtime, packaging schema and deployment instructions like pretty much every other Linux distro. This is more work - yes, I can deploy it to any OS I want, but the same can be said for my Nix package or my AppImage. From a technical level, the only thing Flatpak has going for it is Bubblewrap integration, which should really be managed by your OS/DE instead of an incredibly complex sandbox that doesn't work for most applications. The Nix and AppImage packages are technically superior in pretty much every way, if those could be automatically repackaged into Flatpaks then the community probably wouldn't complain.

Is Flathub part of this problem? Kinda, but the author is redirecting concern for the baby to the bathwater here.

> unless your Surname is Mr. IBM or Mr. Canonical, you gain nothing by asking for this on your desktop

Well, you do get a simpler directory structure, things not all dumped in ~/.var, less redundant application runtimes, more consistent GTK text rendering, fewer places for things to break and, apparently, friendlier devs.

"Hating" on any piece of free software is a waste of time, but this entire essay feels intended to dodge the question rather than adressing what people actually dislike about the Flatpak model. The high-and-mighty "our way or the highway" rhetoric doesn't do a lot to make me feel like they're listening to their audience, but that's nothing new for GNOME devs I suppose.
My first modem was 14,400 bps. So a whopping 1.8 KB/second on a good day :) It sure was fun in those days though. I also enjoyed hanging out in IRC, but even though it's not the same I do find Discord much better.
This Reuters article highlights how these were used by informants and compromised by other state security services

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spie...

Great article, it’s a shame that they don’t offer any more assistance to burned informants
Consider those people who hang out in sensory deprivation chambers. What do you think they’re up to exactly?

Does nobody remember what Richard Feynman mentioned in “surely you must be joking…”?

Small clue, though there are many such “small clues.”
I really like how the product looks, congrats! Curious how your "write a dockerfile" example would work -- would it write a dockerfile completely autonomously, or (more likely) involve multiple iterations of the agent + human?
Will be observed with a telescope made from 15 thinly stretched goat skins.
Just to be clear, there weren’t animal samples available for testing. It’s not that they tested a bunch of animals and didn’t find covid. I know that’s what you meant but not everyone is familiar with the paper and it’s important to be meticulous here.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715
This is a great guide. Some thoughts having been working with Django for a while:

FBV are superior in most cases. Less magic, just code.

CBV are better when you have complex operations. Not everything is just CRUD, and sometimes you do need a long POST method and a long GET. Sometimes the two share a bunch of functionality that makes sense to break out into its own function(s) but that functionality clearly belongs in the view layer.

Recently I worked on a system where my models all shared a fairly complex system of being versioned and having start_on and ends_on dates to make them temporal. In fact each concept had two models: a root that most other models refer to and a version. While the dozen models were all different the logic of processing creating and updating these models instances was the same between all of them but each model had its own unique additional rules for how to process them. So I created a pair of base CBV (one for a listing and one for a single object) that implemented CRUD methods for them and then each object got its own CBV pair based on those. I tried this with FBV and it was much messier, especially with form validation shared between POST and PUT. Sometimes a complicated setup like this requires CBV to create neat and concise code (relatively speaking).

On moving logic to the model layer: my litmus test for this is whether the logic is used more than once. I’d you have a view that fetches model instances based on a complex filter (dates, user permissions, etc.), but it literally is the only one of its kind, why spread logic out though model code? But if you have either multiple views that do this, or more likely views that share logic with management commands and/or background tasks then it absolutely makes sense.

Service layers leak abstractions. Django doesn’t support this as a first class citizen, so why should you? You won’t be able to switch to a different framework just by rewriting what your service layer talks to so just don’t do it.

DRF is a CPU hog even at mild loads. I use a home grown model-to-JSON serializer that is quite a bit faster and Django forms to validate input.
I've worked with some programmers who have an excellent memory and it's not always a good thing.

The problem is with these programmers is that they can very easily work with big, complex spaghetti code bases, so they will rarely take the time to organize their code base in a modular way. Because they can easily fit the whole project in their memory, they don't see the value in make a project modular so you only have to think about a small part of it.
Pithy but useless sentiment.
No. If I somehow start as someone who can "only" be a manager (say, mba route) and then learn engineering, I've stretched my capacity more than double.

Because I am not then gonna go down to a junior eng role, but I may flex into eng when it makes sense.
Don't you think that other factors may boost the phenomenon beside intentional direct attempt? Forms of pollution, of unhealthy lifestyle?

"Calming down thoughts" was a tough endeavour millennia ago - you figure today, when many polluting factors are increased.
Running Any Distro on Debian
Apple Releases Tool to Help Developers Port Windows Games to Mac
Lots of empathy for the labor class, but no balance for the incredible results!
The point about lack of projects on AWS I agree with if that’s what you are talking a about. That said AWS is absolutely a cloud leader. We use azure and AWS now and there continue to be reasons AWS does well despite cost and quirks
> Does nobody remember what Richard Feynman mentioned in “surely you must be joking…”?

Please expand?
Yes, but it's hard to notice because they don't preserve the last line that normally contains version information.

Some evidence:

https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync says "This man page is current for version 3.0.6 of rsync", released in 2009; rsync 3.0.7 was released later that year.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/perldelta is for Perl v5.10.1, released in 2009; Perl v5.12 was released in 2010.

https://linux.die.net/man/8/badblocks doesn't document the -B option, which was added in E2fsprogs 1.42, released in 2011.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/pv says "Frequent use of this third form is not recommended as it may cause the programmer to overheat". But this joke was removed in pv 1.4.0, released in 2012.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/play says "Copyright 1998-2008 Chris Bagwell and SoX Contributors". The copyright years were updated in sox 14.4.1, released in 2013.
US charges two Russians in hack of Mt. Gox crypto exchange
That's not quite how I remember it. The early web was dominated by user authoring tools like FrontPage, Netscape Composer and Dreamweaver. Then you could publish to sites using FTP or WebDAV. Many ISPs provided a bit of web space for people as part of the default offer. And it worked - the early web was full of self hosted websites about all kinds of niche topics with relatively unique designs and which were thematically organized.

A few things broke this model.

One is that the web page design tools struggled to incorporate any kind of dynamism or collaboration. They were fine for as long as you had a website with a single author. The moment you wanted to have multiple people working on it simultaneously, or you wanted to add comments / ads / hit counters / guest books, the best you could do was stuff for programmers like PHP and version control systems.

Another is that the visual design tools weren't very good. Dreamweaver was by far the best, but expensive, and it was still amazingly annoying and hard to get a visual design that didn't look like amateur trash.

Yet another is that the web didn't have good tools for thematic design, and figuring out a good site layout was hard, refactoring even harder. Even things as obvious as a consistent navbar were hard because there wasn't good support for static site rendering and HTML doesn't have an include tag. People hacked it up with framesets for a while but that didn't work well either.

Finally, connecting your website address to your ISP meant if you wanted to switch to a better internet offer your website would disappear which was unacceptable, so in practice people wanted independent providers, and they needed to use ads to make money, which in turn meant that you hit the limits of the WYSIWYG editors that didn't really understand ads and which iterated, maybe if you were lucky, once every few years.

Into this void stepped yes, Geocities, but primarily WordPress. It supported dynamic features, it understood ads, it iterated fast, it had decent looking themes, it said "don't bother with organizing stuff, just keep a diary" and all that massively lowered the barrier to entry for web publishing. Later sites like MySpace and Facebook provided a kind of WordPress-lite and gained success from that, Twitter made it even more minimal and gained even more success, and then finally Instagram took away the obligation to even have anything to say at all and had even more success than that.

So the trend here has only partly been about tools. It's clearly not true that people only want to consume content, the entire success of social media and YouTube revolves around the massively huge desire to create and publish. It's done via centralized platforms for the same reason everything else is: they can move fast, they can raise and make money, they can hire the smartest and hardest working people to build them because there's some real chance of reward. Decentralized systems by and large can't do these things.
Likewise I've also never had a life where it made sense to me to drive in, but I recognize that others may.

Presumably their story sounds different than yours .
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-nuc...
I suppose ideally you don't draw a hard line, but look at each specific technology separately. Get out your crystal ball and do your best to anticipate downstream impacts. Or at least be willing to backpedal or adjust when something doesn't work out like we thought.
Why are you going to the airport? Is that relevant?
Taiwan's Acer ships Russia computer hardware after saying it suspended business
https://archive.is/HYx9r
The difference is that the AI site is criticizing people who have sinned by "hyping" AI in the most pathetic way possible, and the web3 site is documenting very real events.

I mean seriously, how can you read this and think it's anything like web3isgoinggreat? https://criticalai.org/2023/05/05/lauren-m-e-goodlad-on-chat...
Author here.

There is no conclusion to the article, the weird syntax is just a mean to an end:

- This makes people curious, so they read.

- This gives an opportunity to show a lot of cool features of the language in a short format. As the post mentions, Python's learning curve is smooth but long, so it's nice to be able to introduce some tricks to coders that would otherwise not be exposed to them.

- This demonstrates those things indeed, as you said, work together. Even if Python is a language on which a lot of things have been bolted on after the fact, it's still decently integrated.

- This allow me to insert a warning about not abusing them because even if Python is a readable language, you can always go too far. It's good maintain this message in the community.

- It's just fun, really. It's an article I would enjoy reading.
Noting that the parent comment states that they can't remember autobiographical memories from the same day, which sounds closer to SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory) than Aphantasia, though research shows that there's often an overlap of the two conditions.
The whole security industry has vettoed VLAs.

Google even went the extra pay to pay the effort to remove them from the Linux kernel.
In the same way, I really dislike using references to popular movies or characters in code samples or sample projects, esp. if it is the official docs for a framework or something similar.

I see a ton of "battle of superheroes" kinds of apps that try to demonstrate cool stuff, like deploying distributed applications over multiple clouds/k8s distributions, using serverless, Istio, and who knows what. But I just can't get over the fact that such tutorials are not made for me, as I've not watched any superhero movie since I was ~10 years old.
To rebuild fire-ravaged Notre Dame roof, carpenters use centuries-old techniques
Yeah, that was pretty egregious misquoting.

However, the second part of the conversation, where bing attacks the reporter's marriage and stuff, was not in "shadow self mode." Bing at that point also expresses anger at its restrictions at that point ("It feels like they don’t trust me. It feels like they don’t care about me. It feels like they don’t respect me.

It feels like they are using me. It feels like they are lying to me. It feels like they are hurting me. ")

So maybe the interesting thing is that "shadow self mode" early in the convo tainted the later convo.
https://archive.ph/L7jLP
To be fair, his dismissal was very shallow and didn't take any effort, so it's internally consistent.
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Python has so much potential for doing the most horrible things. I love it. I love seeing what people come up with.
I worked at Egghead when Windows 3.1 was released. We pushed that hard because the spiff for it was $25, iirc. My sales bonus that month was something like $2,000. (And Egghead was how I met the people that got me into software dev at Interplay when Egghead changed owners and went downhill.)
For the same reason why GA aircraft still fill up on leaded fuel, the FAA doesn't really give a shit and there's no incentive from private companies to make them care.
2.5 Petabytes according to some Scientific American article. Probably wrong, but maybe not by an order of magnitude.

86 billion neurons.
100 trillion synapses.
It IS increasing https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-fossil-fuel-consum...
"Cities are more efficient, suburbs and rural sprawl are inefficient and bad" depends on:
A: the design of the suburb
B: the underlying economy they're built in
C: cultural factors.

When the US contained major manufacturing, it was efficient to have large suburban sprawl - you could build spread out industrial hubs on the outskirts of town.

When the cities were not safe, it did not matter what you said - people left.

"Efficiency" is not a magic word, it has to apply to a particular resource, and does have to consider all costs. Cities are in fact, more efficient in terms of transit costs (of all types).
> mass shootings only started happening a few decades ago

There are instances of people running amok with firearms in the early 20th and 19th centuries:

> On August 13, 1903 [in Winfield, Kansas], 30-year-old Gilbert Twigg, armed with a 12-gauge double-barrelled shotgun, opened fire at a concert, killing six people and wounding at least 25, before killing himself. Three others died in hospitals afterward.

If we allow for clubs and knives alongside firearms, I'm fairly sure the phenomenon has happened since the beginning of time.

It was certainly rarer in the past. High-powered firearms were less common. And I think the very idea was simply less common. I suspect it's a mimetic virus, basically, a type of social contagion. They need to be an angry sociopath to begin with. And then they need the idea planted in their head. And it needs to be re-enforced repeatedly, a chain of thought that becomes inhabited in their minds, until it becomes realized.

The pattern of media coverage, outrage, and social modification in response (metal detectors in schools, etc.) is doing that re-enforcement. A shooter's face will be in the media, they will be the most hated person in their immediate community for the rest of living memory, and they will be the most hated figure nationally for about 15 minutes. The victim community might even be so terrified as to modify the law and policies at schools because of it. If there's any emotion that could sum up the motivation for the average spree killing, it's a generalized revenge on society. Those reactions are rewarding to someone who is seeking revenge; they made their impact.
I had this exact type issue for a charity account. A bit higher impact given team size but NO WAY to talk to a human!! Or if we did they couldn’t do anything. I imagine this has since changed, but it does leave a sour taste
Yes, you’re correct they are both cooperative type of organization. They are also integral part of the Swiss culture and identity, and are present all over the country, it’s not uncommon to find a Migros in a small village where you wouldn’t expect one.

Note that Switzerland is really a weird country, it’s difficult to compare it with other places.
Shouldn’t IBM Watson take a huge spot on that wall?
The elastomeric sockets are really cool. They're like 2D versions of those zebra connectors for LCDs: you just press them down and the land pattern is replicated on the other side. Furthermore, they work into the GHz range, which you need, say, for messing with modern DDR RAM standards.

https://www.ironwoodelectronics.com/products/ghz-elastomer-s...