skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first versions of this won't be using it to create characters with plot significance and great depth, they'll be generating infinitely large piles of background character chatter. No matter how big your budget is, you'll never be able to to make a world full of random civilians who don't sound repetitive if every line has to be recorded in advance.

Any prerecorded line having a slight bit of personality to it ("I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee") becomes very noticeable after the first time you've heard it, so the safe thing to do is have lots of the most inane chatter possible ("Nice weather today!") to make it stand out less.

If the game can write new lines and synthesize voices on the fly, you could have more interesting lines without the repetition.
Yes! In principle at least, and only miniscule/undetectable amounts of energy. The first gravitational wave detectors build were these "Weber bars" [1] - big block of aluminum that were supposed to resonant mechanically (like a bell) when a gravitation wave of the right frequency passed through them.

Looks like these things haven't detected a real gravitational wave, but if a strong enough one at the right frequency came through, they might start ringing like (very quiet) bells!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber_bar
Here's one from Ars Technica.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/06/steam-mods-reportedly...
The best case scenario for Microsoft would be supplying the world with programming tools far ahead of all others (no idea, haven't tried any of that stuff), while maybe not getting sued to bits. The best case scenario for Valve would be not getting sued to bits while getting even more spammed by low-effort money grab attempts that hope to luck into virality than they already are.

At first approximation, yeah, the risk of getting sued to bits might be roughly the same. But the upside is not.
I suppose it depends on what issues we should consider to be introductory. Maybe the older theoretical approach was more fundamental then than it is now. Like, maybe that was effectively more practical given the old hardware performance constraints and likely having more control of the entire program stack.

It's interesting that Sussman kind of lumps together "uncertain software libraries" into the same category as machine control robustness (e.g. hysteresis). I never thought of it that way but I guess in practice it's all just "stuff", those libraries are just another piece of your program's environment like any other.
I'd like to play around a bit with Racket. I have been using Slime with Common Lisp for years. From what I'm reading, it sounds like Geiser[1] might be a Slime-alike package for Emacs.

Thoughts or advice?

[1] https://www.nongnu.org/geiser/
You’re misunderstanding the idea.

Venture capitalists don’t invest their own money, they raise funds from other people and institutions, and make funding decisions on their behalf.

The idea here is that journalists have skills and domain knowledge that would help them make better than average decisions when it comes to media startups.

So: Raising and directing capital, not necessarily originating it.
On one hand, yes, it drives traffic. On the other hand, no, because lots of people just read headlines and maybe they can do that without clicking.

But realistically this the current Canadian government trying to shake down google and facebook for money to transfer to the ailing news industry in canada. The merits of the position for a link tax are pretty bad, and don’t really matter to the issue at hand. The government already gives hundreds of millions in grants and tax incentives to make the current journalism landscape in canada possible, without even looking at CBC the national broadcaster.

This is just a shake down job. They see google and facebook have a ton of money and the government thought they could threaten them into parting with some of it. The government doesn’t care about the implications of a link tax on the web, or mutually beneficial relationships, or any of that. It’s a shakedown.
Oh the racism spread to the West very early in those states histories. Look up sundown towns, and Portland's history.
You can easily write this as a Chrome extension if you so desire.
> Under your and his vision,

You know me so well.

> ...there will never come a day when people aren't discriminated for things they had no control over.

Um, what?

While I'm ambivalent towards Kendi, I have zero doubt you've got him wrong.

Maybe you're thinking of McWhorter?
> How exactly does present-day affirmative action recompense the victims of racist policies from half a century ago?

Referring to five decades in relation to a century makes it sound like a lot more time has passed than has actually passed.

> What racism exists now against their children should be remedied. But victimhood is concrete and not something that's passed on from generation to generation.

How can it not be? If a parent is traumatized how can that not affect their child? Do you think that the black children from the 50's were not affected by their parents showing up beaten, bruised and bloodied or by seeing their parents hanging from a tree after they didn't come home the night before?

Entire generations of people were victimized in ways that are hard to explain to someone who has not lived through it, and acting like everything needs to be calculated as a 1:1 transaction if it is even to be considered is not a constructive way to enter the discussion.
I feel like one of the joys of HN is that we aren't really encouraged to get into long back-and-forth exchanges. The result is that often a thread that goes on for a while is composed of many different participants, and that comes with several benefits. First it isn't just an argument between two people. Second there's less emotional energy and less 'fighting', it's more like a group discussion. Finally I think the slightly slower pace on an individual level helps to drive civility and a better perspective, one less obsessed with 'winning points' that defines so much of social media.

I don't think the lack of notifications is some lynchpin in this system, but I think it's part of it, and a good part. Any time I imagine some way HN could be improved I always ask myself to what extent it would disturb the HN ecosystem. I think any change that leans into habitual social media behavior is a net negative, even if it is a minor convenience.
Are you trying to say Germany didn't launch both World Wars? Which one are you disputing, when Germany invaded Belgium in 1914 or Germany invading Poland in 1939?
Check the pages i linked at, or even better the one that compares the two[0] around 2017. While there is a single case with wildly different results, there is more than one with results that also have a large difference in JavaScript's favor.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20170715120019/http://benchmarksg...
Musk is not an inventor. It's more apt to compare Musk to Edison instead of Tesla. Of someone who paid others to invent. Though not a fair comparison to Edison since even Edison invented things on his own. Remember, Musk has an education in economics.
Will news stories that are just rewrites of other news stories pay the original now?
> using LLMs to do machine translation is a terrible waste of resources.

Could you elaborate on that? LLMs seem perfectly suited for language tasks like translation. They don't seem particularly expensive either, especially compared to hiring a person.
They've been using academic success to predict career success. I agree it's a good predictor. It's not foolproof though. The issue is that it can be skewed by devoting more resources to academic success instead of for example starting a business or political action or sports. Is someone less likely to have a successful career because they started a business instead of studying an extra hour every day? This is why the most elite schools switched to extracurricular and interview heavy admission criteria which ended up disfavoring asians who tend to spend more time on academic success.

The goal was to actually do a better job of finding the applicants with discipline and grit, not just the ones who have it in an academic context.
I’d never pay that. Because the money would go into someone’s pockets, sure, but not the disadvantaged. Just some fat cats of the “right” color running the group collecting the money. I mean look at what happened with Black Lives Matter.

> Yes, there are still some poor and intensely disparaged communities of predominately minority populations.

And there are poor, intensely disparaged communities in majority populations. A great example is “American Hollow”, a 1999 documentary by Rory Kennedy about an Appalachian family, their life with poverty, and making ends meet in the mountains.

Generational wealth exists, and Blacks are certainly affected, but I’m not convinced that trying to “shift” wealth so unnaturally (and especially in such racist ways) really helps anything.
It was! I remember my first job in a startup in 1999, I was third employee, arriving in a 2000sqm office... There was so much money wasted, at that time the most important metric was cash burn rate, to be serious player you should be able to burn at least 1M per month, even with 3 employees.
Since when ?
POP3/Imap access was available only for payed accounts.
I had been predicting Electrify America would call it before Volkswagen. Even though Volkswagen paid a lot to fund Electrify America, they are still separate organizations with different goals and processes.
Here’s IDLE’s settings window on Windows 11: https://i.imgur.com/DnwviOr.png

Those combo boxes are definitely not native. The menus are also off (the menu items are shorter and they turn blue instead of gray when highlighted).
Now Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK law
Have they said what LLM they use?
You are making some assumptions about what Harvard is attempting to do when filling its classes. If its goal is to have a class full of people who did the most with what they had you have an argument. If their goal is to maximize alumni support (financial and otherwise) then maybe not
I'm not Vlad (the person you asked), but I use Lenses almost all the time. They have changed how I search for user generated content completely. I used to add "site:reddit.com" to at least 2/3 of my searches and the Forum Lense does the same for me while including many other discussion boards. I love it.

As an example: I'm playing Diablo 4 at the moment and getting info about the convoluted systems can be a chore. For example: I didn't know that I have to do at least a Tier 3 Nightmare Dungeon to unlock Sigil Crafting. None of the usual pages mentioned that. The Forum Lense saved me a lot of time because users discussing it mentioned it quite a lot.
You said "Advocates for a new admissions system at TJHSST proposed a merit lottery. Conservative advocates called it racist".

I responded by explaining why the 'Conservative advocates' were correct.

Do you deny that the changes were racially motivated?
Deeply shameful, as a Canadian. I did not ask for this.
My employer has stated on company-wide broadcasts that they will use race as a factor for raises and promotions. This blatant racism has to come to an end.
...and of course our state AGs and the FTC are doing nothing about holding Amazon accountable for claiming prime = 1 day shipping.
This is the most ridiculous take on this that I've ever seen. Next you're going to say that newspaper stands need to pay a charge to the newspaper each time someone walks by their stall (or buys gum, for example). They have seen the headline, and then moved on.

Very often a headline is all someone needs or wants. That has value. Without anyone buying that newspaper, the newspaper stand has got value from the headline, and contributed nothing to the newspaper publisher in return.

The reality is that headlines are advertisements for articles. That's why there are headline writers in the first place. Make a better advertisement, get more sales.

In the case of Google, publishing links with headlines means publishing free ads for that website. The website most certainly benefits from that relationship, if they didn't, they would just use robots.txt to block Google indexing their website, which someone has always been free to do.

The real problem is that newspapers would just like to take a percentage of Google revenue, because they're a big company.
People complaining about snipers are complaining about not being able to snipe - because they could just put in their max bid. They want the second bidder to go away.
Supreme Court Strengthens Religious Freedom Protections for Workers
...you're greatly missing the point that none of us have any money to invest.
Right, there's definitely functional-inspired bones (e.g., a view is a function of state); but every hook is a side effect, even the redux ones.

And I don't think it would even be improved by being pure; Elm has much more boilerplate to do similar things.
That's the problem with innovators. Innovators are not good inventors. Inventors make new things, Innovators take inventions and squeeze money out of them.
I guess we'll see what the legal system says, but it's nearly impossible for me to imagine how anyone could ever justify saying a system trained on potentially millions of separate open-source projects can then be said to universally produce derivative works of any specific project it trained on.

On the other hand, if a developer using this tool then goes and tells it "please write me a C library in the style of GNU libc," then yeah, that is skirting a fine line. But just don't do that.
This isn't right: `int -> Zero` is an "ordinary" type, but certainly does not correspond to a trivial property. The reason Rice's theorem doesn't apply to types is that they're not purely "semantic" in the relevant sense, since they're not fully determined by the language a TM accepts.
Totally disagree, LLMs are so much better than search engines ever were.
Germany went through a similar phase after 1945 with a lot of guilt and reparations towards fixing all the problem cause during the war. It was very noticeable in behavior and attitude, through around 2000s it seems that the past is being put behind them.

We should not forget that world war 2 happens, but it also doesn't make much sense for Germans to continue self-flagellation forever. If anything, the lessons learned by the period between world war 1 and world war 2 is that lasting peace is not about trying to fix every past injustice by never ending reparations. It is not feasible to create a world as if world war 2 did not occur, and at some point people has to accept the past and work as a single group, like say a European union rather than Europe vs Germans.
It’s a terrific analogy. The alternative is to believe that a 5GB model somehow contains a database of 160 million images.
Do you remember actual newsstands?
I've long thought that poverty is the best way to do this, because it's self-correcting. We'll probably never be truly and fully equal in every way, just because random stuff happens and there's only one perfectly equal state out there, but a whole lot of unequal possibilities.

So inasmuch as any group is disadvantaged, they'll get more help due to there being more of them that are poor and this strategy will work to self-correct the imbalance.
To me that implies that real animals are scarce; the price is not related to any kind of "artistic realness."

If they said that hand-crafted robotic snakes were more expensive than run-of-the-mill live-bred snakes, that would support your point about artistic realness.
> The default action today is "do nothing and don't acknowledge the problem."

Ambivalence is the human default, and logic requires it must be so. The world presently has 10e9 people. Historically, something like 10e12 people have ever existed (I'm estimating). If you were to somehow feel the sum total of human suffering in just one instant, I daresay it would destroy you. We ALL pick and choose what suffering to acknowledge, for the simple reason that to do otherwise is impossible (and deadly if it was possible). Heck, we ignore entire categories of suffering in every discussion, like that caused by disease, heart-break, ostracism, bullying, or old age.

You loudly proclaim your aversion to all human suffering, past and present, and claim to know how to fix it. This is absurd. It is vain virtue signaling. Your position smacks of an ignorant pride, wrapped in a claim of impossible compassion. And this sin of pride extends to your "solutions" - you assert that you can accurately assess the suffering of all humans throughout history and take just action to make it right. That's even more absurd.

We can't address ALL suffering. That doesn't mean that we can't address ANY suffering. It means we must (must!) be highly selective. We must let (almost) everything go. We deal with what's in front of us. We must acknowledge how human life is twisted: Rape and plunder...that yields good kids. Civilizations collapse...to make new for the next one. Rampant exploitation...that yields just and fair societies. Cultural appropriation...that yields great ideas and art. Slavery and dehumanization...that ultimately leaves the descendants in a better position than the descendants of those that weren't taken. It's twisted, messed up, and that's life. (btw the most twisted thing I know of in nature is the life-cycle of this slime-mold/ameoba life cycle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlANF-v9lb0).

Yeah, there are plenty of structures that need to be dismantled in the US. The police are out-of-control and there is no meaningful separation of powers at the local level; the health-care system is plundering us all for profit; wealth inequality continues to get worse; money in politics has ossified our power structures. And yeah, America has a profound and unique history of racist dehumanization rooted in southern slavery that continues to this day and negatively impacts many American black people in profound ways. But the solution to the KKK (the original recipe anti-black version) is not to invent a ~KKK (the crispy anti-white version) and tell whites that if they don't join ~KKK then they are in the KKK. That's just fucked up.
In this example it is just for readability. We also support CBOR payloads.
Not really. A lot of these questions are basically pointless (because there's no way to check their answers, and anyone who poses a genuine risk is just going to lie). Aside from just being obnoxiously stupid:

One woman hoping to secure employment was reportedly asked if she had ever contracted a sexually transmitted disease.

Meanwhile, you're likely to turn away your better candidates (for the precise reason that they'll never put up with this crap) -- and attract those most financially prone, and/or desperate for a career boast. That is, precisely those who are more susceptible to blackmail.
Hi! Author here :)

> It really comes down to what you prioritize. Do you prioritize the output and the value added? Or do you prioritize making your engineers feel like "rockstars"? If you don't care about your end product, then yeah sure let your engineers break prod using untested technologies.

First, the post is about sentiment. It's a response to a piece called "Software and its Discontents," about how people feel. So it's going to focus on that.

But I also think the narrative of people working on a project does impact its success. I don't think you pick EITHER "make developers feel like they're doing great, innovative work" OR "do you care about the end product for customers"; the key is to find a way to achieve both, because they feed off each other and are related.

It's as if I asked "do you want company growth, or customer happiness?" Try both!

> The reason playbooks have sprung up, is because 99% of use-cases for businesses are for the most part "solved." We're not in the era of renting colos and manually setting up MySQL anymore (which the author advocates for in order to return to "creatives," btw). We have managed solutions that you can throw money at.

I disagree they're solved! Again, this is in response to a 3-part series basically saying "everything is expensive and everyone is miserable and fewer businesses are succeeding." From a profitability perspective, when was the last Google or Facebook made?

> And good riddance to all that too. I don't need to work with any more software engineers who think it's okay to be a massive dick to everyone just because they can implement a CRUD app.

To be 1000% clear: I also hate(d) the machismo/showboating we got from the rockstar/ninjas era. I'm a former theatre artist and I'm mostly about embracing people and creativity.
Don't invest time and effort into Google "Beta" programs, and even launched, unless you have an alternative that you are willing to sink man-months into on nearly zero notice.
Just curious, what is the ratio of employee cost vs server cost for the team under you?
You're welcome, next time I'll try not to have a stroke at the end of my comment. hah. For some reason I can't edit it. shrug
For context: passenger jets have a positive feedback system that indicates to the pilots whether or not the gear is in the correct position. When they operate the control to raise or lower the gear, there are corresponding indicator lights that confirm whether or not the gear has successfully moved to the commanded position. Part of standard procedure is to lower the gear, and then verify that all of the indicator lights confirm that the gear has successfully moved into the correct position. If they are not working properly, it is apparent from the indicator lights. They will then know that they will have to abort the approach and run troubleshooting checklists for that particular issue.
> he could get a percentage of the $ saved

I'd take that deal in a heartbeat. I think I (and most other decent engineers) can probably point to tens (or hundreds) of millions of dollars in savings generated over the course of a single career.

As far as I can tell, it gets frittered away by empire-builders who take that $ and spin up new teams for nonsense. Kicking back a % to the engineers who harvested all the savings seems like a much better model.
It does. Thank you.
Why streaming services are dumping shows left and right
I'll extend that then. I'd rather Google and Facebook have my information than my bank or insurance provider.
It’s Sony’s Fault We Have Console Exclusives, Says Microsoft CEO
Canadian media has always enjoyed some protectionism from the government. It's old, entrenched players wanting, and getting, something for nothing. The people that control our media and telecommunications in Canada could fit in a compact car. This doesn't have anything to do with the average person. It's all business and lobbying.
Waterwave Could Quench AIs' Thirst for GPU Memory
> study why that is and focus on fixing those things, ex through outreach programs.

This isn't a solution, it's passing the buck along.
> Want to make a bunch of people very angry? Propose a metropolitan-area wide school district.

By that you mean that kids can not choose their school on the US?
Sadly, this offence seems easiest to pull off in airbnbs that are genuine home-sharing where you are renting from an actual resident that is away for short periods of time (or just relocates with family during bookings), rather than pure “buy-to-airbnb” properties with better security and that kind of documentation wouldn’t be present.

The former group effectively improves local housing affordability by decreasing the latter or pushing developers towards residential construction instead of hotel construction.