skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Racism doesn't require a sense of superiority, but rather a preference for race(s).

Yes and Hitler obviously preferred aryans --- but there is obviously more to the story.

"White nationalism" is clearly not merely a statement of preference. It is the belief and objective that white people should dominate society. Why? On what basis? Because Jesus was white (he wasn't)?

"White nationalism" is not about superiority --- it is just a "preference" for oppressing others in order to achieve dominance. Thanks for the clarification/word play.
AGI is impossible because copyright law causes too much brain damage?

When it comes to AI, fear isn't the mind killer, copyright law is.
> If all these countries trade with the BRICS currency ending reliance on the U.S. dollar, the greenback could be hit. The United States will find no means to fund its deficit and the economy could begin to crumble.

The US has a large deficit with China, and a noticeable one with Mexico, but this statement seems hyperbolic. Mexico could very well join another international currency system, but it is likely too tied to the US to abandon the US dollar as a reserve currency.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-trade-...

Here's Patrick Boyle's take on a BRICS reserve currency. It's been a month since I watched it so can't summarize it now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHZnVdBZJfA
Most panels shipped to space can't support themselves: Google "solar array deploy" and you'll see videos from lots of space missions where there are complex deployment jigs to hold the panels from collapsing under their weight during testing.
This isn't the entire story though - launch loads still meaningful contribute some to the weight. A certain amount of mechanical stiffness will still be required even for in-space builds for stability and controllability against slew, solar wind, drag, etc, putting a lower bound on mass. I'd like to see technologies that can avoid coverglass requirements (for atomic oxygen, solar wind), but that's a fundamental physics problem that looks tough to me.
I don’t mind tipping and will happily do up to, 25% without even thinking, if it is actually a human. For self-checkout, though, obviously it is 0%.
> people get their phones wet

No, they don't. And those who do have to expose their phones to extreme conditions might buy a protective case. Very few people expose their phones to conditions they know to endanger electronics... it's common sense not to use electronics underwater, unless it's the special kind that's designed to do that.
CSS’s prefers-reduced-motion media queries apply[1] to View Transitions.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transiti...
I would recommend openSUSE or Fedora then.
No reason to use Ubuntu
I imagine leetcode has a lot of data on benchmarks of highly optimized solutions implemented in different languages. I wish they would do a blog post or something.
Why would it create a conflict? There isn't a single reserve currency in the world now, nor a single trade group.
Given the mentions of confidential data, secrets about censorship, and GitHub artifacts, I would assume that public posts/comments aren't part of it? (if it is actually true)
Bill allowing CISA to assist foreign governments passes Senate committee
If it wasn’t able to recite copyrighted material chatgpt would never output anything.
> I feel it’s like it’s generational.

Aesthetically, it's way better. There was a huge emphasis in the 90s and 00s to reimagine what an office looked like, to get away from stuffy fabric, burnt coffee, and dull colors.

It turns out that y'all were right about most of that stuff, but a few things (like visual/audible distractions) were made worse.
I don't want to support people who don't want to support themselves. Also, the commenter wasn't asking for support. They proudly believe that what they do is a legitimately good way to use their computer.

I've seen way too many people like that, and have an idea how that kind of belief is formed. I don't want to help those people. I want them gone.
Could anyone not say the following:

TL;DR: The answer is "Chemistry". Dustin: video too long.

Only conveying information is not the goal of most media (social, informational, or news).
So? You've just described exactly the what's achievable with Subversion. The only missing part is adding remote repositories.

> You don't have to set up a database for Git, either, and it works entirely locally.

What database? Subversion doesn't need any special database to work. Just the repository and its working copy. Both can be local and can be created with two commands.
Prior to COVID, it was tabboo at my company to schedule a meeting before 10 AM. Now 8 or 9 is the norm, and it doesn't look like they're giving that back even though we're expected to start commuting again. It doesn't matter if I drive, walk, or ride the donkey, it's still a bit of a kick in the knee to have to get up a couple hours earlier. (Or more likely roll out of bed and put on my headset before I've even brushed my teeth, then not make it to the office until noon.)
Obviously every time it starts it becomes so traumatized by the events of the Butlerian Jihad that it simply can’t continue :-p
I tip my barista 20%, but they also just make my drink when I walk in and by the time I pay, it's waiting for me to walk out with. A relationship forged over years is well worth an extra quarter a day.
I've moved from Git to Mercurial and I hate it. It's just baby duck syndrome.
Indeed. Unfortunately, this dupe was added to the second chance pool and then it got picked for the front page today. I emailed the moderators earlier today to request them to remove this duplicate post from the second chance pool. But it looks like this post succeeded in getting picked for the front page before the moderators have had a chance to go through my email.
There are a few other recommendations for a non-native option - but my preferred one is Raycast. You get a launcher that does 100 other things plus hot key management of windows.
Basing electric bills on personal income may lead to ratepayer revolt California
>Would mods be an employee.

I took this as mods would be considered employees in France. After a second read, it looks like they meant something different.
B->C->C++->D->Rust->Zig->ZZtop?
sometimes you have to hit the 'other' or 'custom amount' to set zero. They know what they're doing...
Alternative options include Rectangle (free and open source) and Raycast which is a Spotlight replacement but also includes window management
Bullshit jobs are as old as humanity[1]. The obsession with "purpose" is an enlightenment thingy, while the obsession with "efficiency" and cogs-in-the-machine capitalism also a newbie pursuit.

While Graeber much resended it and argued its not inevitable, humanity tends to get organized in hiearchical power pyramids.

Now guess what: Being part of the pyramid gives you identity, maybe even gives you some purpose. But you can't always fill the pyramid with "proper jobs". And it is not needed either.

Bullshit jobs are the fillers needed to create the intended structure.

(1) Which one was the very first bullshit job? Probably some acolyte of a Babylonian priest moving around made-up religious symbols sixty times per day to keep the Sun moving.
Mirror [1] in the event some regions are paywalled

[1] - https://archive.is/CSnZq
I don't think the resentment is for the good fortune, it's for the misattribution of the source of the fortune. It's a massive survivorship bias which happens everywhere: for every instance of someone working hard, waiting for the oppurtunity, getting lucky and having great success, there are many instances of people working just as hard on just as reasonable bets, for just as long if not longer, and not getting lucky, and you don't hear their stories. And because luck is such a strong component, looking at what successful people have done is a very noisy signal for what leads to success, especially once you get to any specifics. That's where the resentment comes from, the assumption that because these execs were successful that this was due to great foresight alone, and very little due to luck.
There aren't sysadmins today who aren't programmers.

> Programmers who don't have their editor open

Well... these aren't programmers. Maybe "aspiring programmers", as in someone who still have to learn how to use their computer. It's not anyone who would be considered a competent user.
Tangent: where can a mortal go learn what this title means to the point where they can have something in their computer that allows them to change settings (and know which ones) and see what happens?
> elphants in a porcelain shop

Slander.

Elephants are gentle, careful creatures. Probably would make good proprietors of a porcelain shop.

Unlike bulls and china shops....
OK just a wild guess. Are you in the Sunset in SF?
Try virologist 3 years ago.
There are many licenses and license models, and there's an already a consensus on what consists of open source software.

There are also licenses which shows you the code, but you can't legally reuse parts of it. Even some of the licenses prohibit you from compiling and creating your own version and use it, yet alone study, modify and/or distribute.

There are many sinister versions of so-called open source software per your definition. The most famous ones in my book is Microsoft's VSCode and Google's Chrome.

Both have "open source" counterparts VSCodium & Chromium, yet they lack the sauce to perform like the closed source one, or is confined to its small space and prevented from operating like the closed source versions.

Can we call these crippled versions open source software? Yes, they compile & run, but to what extent? They are intentionally a shadow if their real selves, and this creates a situation where you can see the code but can't use it. They run afoul the idea behind open source by adopting a permissive license, and abusing the license to create the closed source, superior version which is force-fed to users.

Even GPL doesn't prohibit selling the software itself or other commercial/for profit uses. It bolsters four freedoms, and make sure that it's continued from generation to generation, maintainer to maintainer.

So, just because you don't agree on the ideas, ideals and consensus amongst the developers and open source / free software people, it doesn't give you the license to treat every codebase the way you see fit regardless of the license it contains.
Presence is far more effective than monitoring cameras. No one cares if they’re on camera doing something wrong or bad. Presence is a real deterrent.

Presence also can mean placing yourself closer to where incidents happen more frequently which allows for a quicker response time.

Source me a security officer at a hospital.
Zig is cool and all, but someone should really rewrite it in Rust.
Maybe we need to integrate the AI golems as persons into society, so they can learn and interact with us as individual persons, like us.

But remembering Battlestar Galactica, cutting the interconnectivity was the prominent defense against cylons.
I watched Office Space for the first time in like 20 years this week. Some of the stuff I never noticed as a teenager cracked me up. My favorite was a whiteboard in the back of the meeting with the Bobs with "Planning to Plan" scrawled on it. That hit home so hard.
Just a FYI - there is an official RSS feed[0] now as well.

[0] https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
Saudi Arabia base acts as anti-drone lab for US military in Middle East
The invalid presumption is "A human picks out the best 2 images". People will absolutely stop looking at these in any meaningful way (or even produce them in a direct-to-the-internet pipeline)
I don't think this is correct. Cantor's diagonal argument follows easily from Lawvere's fixed-point theorem https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Lawvere%27s+fixed+point+theore... and both are quite easy to formalize.
Yes, I'm with you there. I primarily watch YouTube to unwind; would use a search engine if I just wanted an answer.
One of my previous (Android) phones had a red light that would blink if there was a missed call or message. I found it extremely convenient.
Yup, GPT-4 is still likely too expensive for this application at a dollar or two per interaction with the huge context window (or 30 cents-ish with an 8k window). Especially with the tooling not proven for strong interactive use in big codebases.

But we don't need to make much improvement in tooling and economics for it to start to look pretty good.
I’ve been using Hetzner’s EX line for some years, it’s super cost effective, until now I still can’t find any other provider with cheaper offerings.
I can totally imagine that they don't consider the core task they do bullshit but the volume of hours they spend on everything else and what they put up with is what makes them feel it is bullshit.

I don't think many computer programmers think programming computers in itself is bullshit, but everything around that core task can feel like bullshit very easily, and a lot of programming jobs feel like nothing but bullshit.

Do you feel they're describing "healing people" as bullshit, or that they're describing existing in the framework we've built up around healing people as bullshit?
CIA video briefing for Reagan: Chernobyl Disaster
True, many of them just want an email address so they can subscribe you to a bunch of email you won't read and can't easily and reliably unsubscribe from.
What I observed at the time was that there was generally a strong backlash against open-plan offices within HN discussions, which represents some kind of weighted average of the tech worker hive mind. Many more "open offices are evil" articles were linked than "open plan offices are heaven."

The coders defeated it by going remote, and wearing headphones. "Headphones are the new office door." Their walls of huge monitors replaced the cube walls. ;-)

Open offices were rationalized by "collaboration," but engineering is inherently collaborative, and engineers were not consulted.

In a department that I worked in, the coders went "virtual remote" by forming a protective silo and discouraging "distraction." Although, they still had lunch with the rest of us.

The funny thing is that in a recent thread about digital nomads, pictures of people crowded together in coffee shops, sitting elbow to elbow at their laptops, sparked the reaction: "Those people can't really be working, or maybe they're not really techies."

I personally think that what the new normal looks like is still unknown, if one even emerges.
An experiment about whether DMT causes you to see gods and aliens would similar be a waste.
No one has claimed that “most library libs are migrating to index based memory management”.

I mentioned two crates that are DOM frontend frameworks, that also are based on fine grained reactivity (and not a virtual DOM). That’s an incredibly specific niche of rust libs.
Maybe it doesn't. Some of the countries listed are embargoed meaning their trade agreements would be with countries that the US blocks. I've never dug into how that works. Perhaps that is how countries work around embargoes.
Yeah, it's kind of how it happens. Your skills suck just a tiny bit less than of those around you, and you come to unwarranted conclusion that you are doing good.

Unfortunately, our industry has few small pockets where you can still find competent programmers every now and then, but you wouldn't see them using IDEA or VS Code. And then there's an ocean of... well, not even mediocrity, it's just hands down awful. Most programmers throughout their career will never see a competent programmer, and if they stay around will be promoted into management where they will lose the very modest skill they had. And the cycle will continue.
Or you can use a protocol which actually just gives you this feature without needing to run another service to get it (which is basically all of IRC: it's a simplistic to the point of useless protocol which people have stacked a series of bodges on top of in order to actually make something approximating usable for highly technical users. It shocks me that anyone thinks this is good, let alone that it's better than the many alternatives now available).
Bernoulli Family
I used to love writing SQL, but now I'm very much in the same camp as you. I don't ever want to write SQL, I want to write some straightforward code in my language of choice which allows me to interact with the underlying data structures of the DB; every lookup or aggregation I could do in SQL could definitely be written in a much more clear fashion if it was in Rust, JS, or Python.

I'm hoping that as WASM games momentum and WASI becomes an actual thing, some DB is going to pop up that does just that. I'd like to try myself one day.
The stains become a warning

Do you agree, comrade?
Ok? They abandoned their roots and went all in on the trackpad gestures. I'm not saying it's the right choice, it's just the one apple made.
See this MLSS '20 presentation and all recommended bibliography [1], in particular top left box in slide 123.

For rigorous modeling, Gelman et al. books are great [2-3].

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lPePNMGMEKoaDvxiftc8hcy-rFp...

[2] https://avehtari.github.io/ROS-Examples

[3] http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book
Can someone explain to me why losing mod powers is such a big deal? I'm assuming those who have been moderating these communities can put it on their resume or whatever and apply for paid community manager roles to do the same thing?

I'm not being sarcastic and I am fairly far detached from the Reddit drama. Just trying to understand the value that exists in moderating a Reddit community for free. It seems threatening to take it away is making them compromise on their values quite effectively.
Surely making a browser game would have the same benefits with fewer limitations?
I think the author is right on. It's the whole 'open plan' BS that's coming back to bite penny-pinching corporations. Anybody who's ever been a knowledge worker knows that you need a certain amount of privacy and quiet in order to concentrate.
Congress is racing to regulate AI. Silicon Valley is eager to teach them how
How do you prove that?
Possibly very big indeed.

It seems from the tone that even Aplhv don't fully know what they have; then again, they are asking for a decent chunk of dough.
> Unlike bulls and china shops....

Steers are probably OK though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv-HjTkbBwk
Did I say the developers don't pay attention to their code because they are lazy? I don't think so. I'm aware that the situation we're in is because of the money-first approach in many software houses, and everyone needs to ship bad code sometimes because of the reasons they don't have control over.

However, there are also examples of very fast and nice software which are also closed source and sold for good money (OmniGraffle, BBEdit, Pixelmator, iA Writer, MindNode, etc.), and they work really fast and efficient for what they do, because while they're for profit, apparently their management understands that good code brings good money.

Let's not jump to conclusions from ambiguous sentences. I may have clarified it a bit, I guess, but it's very late here.
LLMs aren't even as smart as dogs, says Meta's AI chief scientist
Better than giving up on reason altogether and just trumpeting Q-adjacent nonsense.
I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if incumbent automakers “spun off” EV divisions as “independent subsidiaries” to try to take advantage of these loopholes. I remember Ford was beginning to take steps towards and arrangement like that to reduce the power of local dealers. It’s a large fight though.
Even Doug is kind of creeping into that high 20 minute zone.

That being said, there’s not really a lot of filler in hit stuff.
Yeah, the number of power users posting "good" content (especially after spez effectively fired them) vs the number of randos willing to shove garbage into the group simply for the lulz is going to overrun Reddit.

Without the cooperation of the mods, you'll never clean the garbage up.
For anyone else considering this method, I don't recommend it. I, unfortunately, taught myself the alphabet backwards one day when I was REALLY sick and needed to lie down completely still in a silent room (so I was too bored to do anything else).

Now, I sometimes get confused about what letter comes next. If I'm at `G` am I supposed to say, GFEDCBA or am I supposed to go from my forwards anchor of ABCDEFGH ? This happens when I'm at a nice anchor in my backwards memorization that's a non-anchor in my forwards memorization.

But I mean, yeah, neat party trick that I can say ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA (and also type it really quickly).

Interestingly, my breaks are different from the parent commenter's:

ZYXWVUT

SRQP

ONMLK

JIH

GFEDCBA (this part was easy from the start because I played piano)

No alphabet song involved at all.
> In the book he interviews several people who do almost nothing all day.

How horrifying, did he specify which terrible industries they were stuck in, and whether they were still hiring??
As a completely random aside, I was in a social gathering this week, some people were talking about roses, and I overheard: "Of course the smell has been bred out of roses."
Do you mean the spiritual successor "Torment: Tides of Numenera"?

I thought it was very good, but also seemed to be trying too hard to do "torment again" and IMO felt rather forced in the process. Also, I find the Ninth World setting to be a bit too deliberately odd, whereas Planescape feels more naturally odd. I'm also looking at PST with huge nostalgia goggles (first played it in my early teens), but played TToN around age 30, so it's far from a fair comparison.
History of Lemmy
> in public administration, in military, as well as in private sector, in areas like compliance, due diligence etc.

agree 100%. The commonality there is that these are things where the profit motive can't discipline wasteful management.

I'd also throw in the non-profit sector in general, in addition to what you listed. Without ongoing hard work by donors to prevent waste, non-profits become very good at incinerating all their money on excessive overhead.
Just learn AI in general and the rest will be easy to process.
Huge missed opportunity imo, can't imagine it would be too hard for them to glue together either.
Second life is tangentially an example. they open sourced (or similar) the official viewer and some enhanced community and custom clients are out there like firestorm

oh, and quake 1's quakeworld client. many excellent quakeworld clients like darkplaces and ezquake. lots of one offs showing off tech, etc