skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't care less about the type checking differences (apart from using abstract classes with virtual methods, but that's not C syntax), they're quite small and the C++ way is in fact an annoyance e.g. when interfacing with straightforward void pointer APIs. That reminds me of enum class, another feature that brings something nice to the table (properly scoped enum names for better IDE completion) but is almost made unusable by the fact that they can't be easily used with bitwise operators.

The thing about C++ is that many of its features start with a good intention, but most of them are so specific that they have to go down one almost arbitrary route (non-orthogonal decisions, like enum class introducing at least 3 changes at once) and pessimize the other use cases. Good luck refactoring your codebase when you realize you have to change your approach and it's no longer supported by any kind of specialized syntax. That's a problem that C mostly doesn't have -- most of its features are needed when programming a computer, and they're minimal and orthogonal, with few ways to paint yourself in a corner.
Was a Fender Jazz Bass a cheap instrument, or just a non-expensive instrument?

I think there’s the gap between the most overpriced gee-whiz prosumer device that they’ll try to sell somebody with more money than skill, and an actual professional device.

I also think there’s a space far below the actual professional device, the space of brands that the professional might not even think about—stuff that exists to trick people who just stopped by the store or who are shopping for their kids.

Which gap you have to worry about falling into depends on the type of device.
China's Military Has Transformed Itself to Take Taiwan
This is a total non-sequitur and ends up being a self-defeating argument anyway.

You’d look for people who couldn’t get business loans, couldn’t rent a storefront, couldn’t find a lawyer who would work for them to file lawsuits around their censorship, couldn’t leave their captor’s estate, couldn’t look at someone the wrong way without getting beaten to death, etc etc.

I actually struggle to imagine a worse way to track censorship than looking for lawsuits lol.
Thanks for the advice! Agree, we, as tech lovers, tend to focus on the tech more than the business/sales side of things.
A blanket ban on jobs? Or a blanket ban on these tools for jobs under 100k?

I would like to see a distribution of salaries for jobs in NYC before saying ~100k
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youtube is probably not a strong argument but the recent fireball tools video about his welding table and jigs was pretty comvincing, even though it was an undisguised promotional work designed to convince.

(He submits a basic job to 3 diffferent class of pro fabricator shops, and has one of his video producers do the same job with no help (supposedly) but with his tools, and that one is the only one that adhered to the specs.)

I would like to see that same experiment reproduced by other people because if it's true I think that is a very important thing to know which would change how you approach things your whole life. You could obviously chase after awesome tools right now anyway, but it would be huge to know that it's proven to be essentially 'best practice' to do so rather than just your unfounded feeling that no one else, like your boss, is obligated to consider.
They should do the same but for returns:

1) Give explanation to you why you should reconsider

2) Make you fill out a form stating reasons for returning

3) Refund in cash giving you small notes
Tools are important. Professionals use tools they understand and use them deliberately to specific ends. Mastering your tools is an important step in mastering any craft and being able to evaluate new tools is an important part of that.

"Tools don't matter" or "caring about tools is for amateurs" is plainly false and anybody who is proficient at any tool based skill knows this.

The actual fallacy of the amateur is thinking that having the tool is what creates the skill, when actually having the skill is what allows you to make use of that tool effectively.

Almost always having a good tool you are deeply familar with beats a great tool you have little understanding of. Regardless of that, bad tools lead to bad results, even if experience can reduce that effect.
Hey,

I heard that lightchat.co is working on a highly personal chatbot that can also be used for work. So you could probably use that when it becomes available if you are willing to wait.

It's live but it's not personalized yet
I take their point as a problem of control. Picking up objects with hand tracking is, in my experience, much less deterministic, and much less useful, compared to picking them up with a button and haptics.
I've been through several and in my case it's 0 for 4
Sesame Street Episode 847
Thanks for sharing! Good luck on your journey!
Mal-intent. Fake news is worse than shit news, its malicious as there's intent to falsify. Maybe we need a new term. Mal-LLM?
There's also the value of whatever labor they do! But that labor probably isn't worth 100x someone else's work.
Free markets are a spectrum, not an absolute. There's never been a perfect free market, just like there's never been a perfect apple.
It does show removed flagged submissions if you have "showdead" enabled in your profile.
Flag 'em all; let dang sort them out.
I'm not sure I agree. Eventually your garage is totally full of exactly the right tool for some job or other and you can't find anything because there's tools in the way.

It applies to software too. If all of the complexity in your project is placing the perfect tools and configuring them correctly, you end up with a codebase that's 90% tool-specific and even coders that think they're fluent in your language of choice have a steep learning curve if they're gonna work on your project because the complexity is no longer in the project's alleged language, it's now in 15 separate DSL's that they've never heard of.

There's a balance to be struck here.

I see this especially often in python projects with complex pre-commit configurations. It's like we secretly need that compilation step, even if our language doesn't strictly require it, and it just becomes a rug to hide overspecialized complexity under.
The media has a propensity to basically report anything people say about North Korea, no matter how ridiculous [1]. For example back in 2014 a bunch of news sources reported that Kim Jong Un fed his uncle to a pack of dogs, the only source for the story was a random blog that turned out to be a Chinese satirist but the media ran with it because it fit the narrative of "the crazy hermit kingdom". In fact even golf story you cited here is completely invented [3]. There are a lot of problems with North Korea, but at the same time there is a lot of misinformation being willfully spread by the media.

[1]: https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-fake-news-on-both-sides-is...

[2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-25621324

[3]: https://www.youngpioneertours.com/top-five-best-fake-north-k...

Other sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_North_Korea#...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/01/true-or-false-...
Thermal radiation goes by the fourth power, (Stefan-Boltzmann law for blackbody radiation), so a few degrees does make a meaningful difference, but because it's a scam it's much safer to be based in a locale with friendly law enforcement.
@dang can we add more friction to the flag thing? Maybe just a yes/no after.
> You utilize power as a group via coordinated action targeting pressure points and leverage.

Ok, sure...

> "Counteracting" individual groups as you propose is a nonsensical approach. It is reactive and at best a second order addendum. Understanding how the system you want to influence actually works...

I don't think you really understand how "the system you want to influence" works? Knocking down "the other side"'s argument is often an integral part of getting things done in politics. Certainly there are other ways, including trading favors and agreeing to support someone else's pet project for their support on yours. But that's not everything, and often is not sufficient.

Regarding coordinated action: I agree, but it turns out that's very hard to coordinate, especially when it comes to privacy issues, as most of the US electorate either doesn't care about privacy, or doesn't understand why they should care (seems they often fall victim to the whole "if I've done nothing wrong, I have nothing to hide" fallacy that the government always pushes). It's very hard to coordinate a group that at best thinks what you're talking about isn't important, and at worst has bought your opposition's propaganda efforts and thinks you're wrong.

> How you read from my comment I was making any assumptions about these groups is your secret alone.

Then what was the point of your post? OP was listing obstacles to getting this legislation passed. Some of them may not be relevant, but I don't think it's safe to blanket assume they all are. If you think they are indeed all irrelevant, then that's fair, but I'd disagree. If you think we don't need to care about those other groups, then I also disagree. If you don't hold either of those positions, then, again, what was the point of your post, and what did it have to do with what the OP was saying?
Production numbers are also imperfect as a measure of use.

Cars are more durable and last longer than cars as recently as 2000.

Product cycles have also widened such that a 5yr old car looks closer to the latest models than old&dated.
My approach is to acknowledge that all of my data is compromised. Sometimes I obfuscate it with nonsense to throw off a trail, but even that I consider is probably worthless.

Maybe you could legislate this, but you wonder how a trillion dollar industry is going to lay down and take it. Most likely they will lobby, find loopholes, or do it anyway, accepting the fine as the cost of doing business.

I know this is defeatist, but I just don't see bandaids working.
I'm pleased to introduce Violet, a TUI program written in Go to act as a thin front end to Vagrant[1]. Vagrant is a popular tool used to bring Virtual Machines (VMs) and Docker containers up and down. Violet will give you a global view of the Vagrant environments you have installed and allow you to perform basic Vagrant commands on them, like `up` and `ssh`.

This idea came about because I've seen developers (that struggle with command line and virtualization workflows in general) struggle with setting up and using Vagrant projects. A small UI in front of the Vagrant data could help users in the beginning with the most common tasks.

The project seems to be in a stable place so I wanted to share it. I have a mediocre grasp of Go and even worse understanding of UI/UX, so if you have opinions, please share!

[1]: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/intro
I mean I’m no lawyer but this doesn’t strike me as a great example for infringement? Detailed summaries of books sounds like textbook transformative use. Especially in Silverman’s case, reducing her book to “facts” while eliminating artistic elements of her prose make it that much less of a direct substitute for the original work.
Paper – Online Learning of Order Flow with Bayesian Change-Point Detection
Fractal Vise
Is Twitter Blue claming to be verifying anything other than the subscription payment?

edit: surprisingly is it:

> All Twitter Blue features will be available immediately except the blue checkmark, which will appear on eligible profiles after a review to ensure subscribed accounts meet all eligibility criteria.

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue
I like greenfield projects, but I love tearing down and refactoring old code to make it better.

I also spend a lot of time repairing and maintaining old cars, houses and fixing up stuff to be better and stronger than it was when I found it.

It’s very difficult for me to leave well enough alone. If it ain’t broke, it could certainly be better!
Many sources of information contain inaccuracies, either known at the time of publication or learned afterward.

Education involves doing some fact checking and critical thinking. Regardless of the strength of the original source.

It seems like using LLMs in any serious way will require a variety of techniques to mitigate their new, unique reasons for being unreliable.

Perhaps a “chain of model provenance” becomes an important one of these.
Her arguments make no sense.
My thinking as well, it’s very similar to how the first Apple Watch was rolled out: appointment for a “fitting” with a device that was eventually completely overhauled (so much as to call the v1 the “series 0” due to how different the v2 was). I think they want to see how users actually want to use this thing then rework the hardware to suit that.

Also, they want developers to figure out what they want to do with it. If it was a “development kit” people would still try to get their hands on one like with the Apple Silicon dev kit, but with this anyone can try it out if they have the money and time to do so.
I don't know how they work, how do they work?
Robots and Rights: Confucianism Offers Alternative
Well, a story that chains back to RT claims that, whereas BRICS own bank’s CFO says the bloc has no imminent plan to deploy a currency.

Not sure if its amateur-hour propaganda or amateur-hour serious multinational currency roll-out but... definitely amateur-hour, one way or another.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-05/brics-has...
Embracing cycles of productivity for healthier teams
Much like a stage magician, the NYT produces content that they know their audience is desperately willing to believe.
I can understand this being a differentiator to other AR/VR products, but that is not exactly what the comment I replied to said, they said the “killer app” was the ability to buy it at an Apple Store. Short of a few folks with too much extra cash and curiosity, just being able to try it before you buy isn’t what I would refer to as a killer app. The “killer app” is what gets the main market populace to the store to even consider it.
>> As for speed it's useful to distinguish between startup and runtime.

The JVM would like a word. (It has slow startup, but can be very fast at runtime due to JIT optimization and cacheing.)

Scripts should start and run quickly.

Ruby has historically been fairly slow which is why Ruby 3 focused heavily on performance. It has been improving a lot, but I have not seen any benchmarks against other programming languages.
> A fair chunk of it is that mastodon.social is definitely not popular with smaller, more niche communities, and that just spoils the experience for everyone.

I’m not sure what this means. Did mastodon.social go fascist or something?

I’m more a lemmy fan than a mastodon one (prefer a focus on content rather than individuals), but I do have a mindly.social account that I hardly check. I feel like I missed something important lol.
You understand that this is miserable and dystopian, right? As humans we shouldn't be leading that kind of "integrated", "personalized" life. We already have too much of that going on with YouTube and Facebook.
If you still require servers that you need to connect to then you kind of lose the benefit of having a social network over a p2p protocol. Or you're also thinking that the social serving aspect is parallel to the media serving aspect that another sibling mentioned.
>Who are the occupiers of North Korea if there are no North Koreans?

South Korean criminals I'd assume? It'd be like if some American militia suddenly seized some area of land and declared themselves a new independent country and began oppressing everyone already living there. The US wouldn't recognize that (and would move to stop them), but while of course the civilians there wouldn't lose citizenship, the militia wouldn't legally lose citizenship either. They'd just be criminals. Citizenship is a fairly big deal and it's not trivial to renounce it. In the US at least IIRC you literally cannot renounce citizenship domestically at all outside very rare exceptions, you must be abroad and do so at a consulate or embassy, and it's something considered not automatic and instant. Additionally one can be charged an exit tax depending on net worth and tax status.

SK of course will have its own rules, but I'm just saying as a matter of law "everyone in that area of our country is citizens of our country being illegally coerced/controlled by other citizens of country, who are criminals" wouldn't be that strange. Although often countries facing such a de facto split work something out legally, there's no inherent reason countries can't refuse to legally recognize things indefinitely.
Not really, it’s the power of solid product development. I don’t want to fuck around with setting up a desktop env inside VR. I’m 100% confident I’ll be able to walk into an Apple Store, buy a Vision Pro, go home, put it on, and get to work.
It's not like their original comment is that opaque, but here's my attempt to break down (translate?):

Are we going to continue to allow capitalist enterprise to have a say in public policy conversation (concessions stands outside the town square)?

Ideally no from an ethics perspective, but then we as a populace need a way to and habit of contributing directly ourselves to fund social services ("dropping a dollar in the plate" - reference to collecting tithe during Catholic services).

They're tired of seeing public services starved of funding, then privatized and replaced by corporate, profit-driven ("plastic") replicas.

Basics of human nature keep undermining our attempts to build giant organizations together. We need to make and keep government a local, small-scale, accountable practice we all participate in, rather than one giant federal tent nobody is connected to - that gets Orwellian.

Hope that helps and hope I represented it faithfully.
No, “we” are not doing the same. In China the state compels private companies to hold and enforce certain positions toward certain speech. That’s exactly what the “anti-censorship” lobby is asking for, and it’s not at all what is happening today in the US.

Today, you have private companies managing content on their own platforms according to their own policies. The government can and does ask for certain actions and, unlike China, companies are more than welcome to decline those requests.
TL;DR: to maximize the population with the best survivability rate, walk the bootstrapped path, not VC's path.
> I speculate color is coded

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color:

“Color (American English) or colour (Commonwealth English) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum.”

⇒ colors aren’t coded; they are created in the brain. Outside it, all there is are light spectra.

> Or rather, the brain assumes that spatial frequencies coincident with the cell spacing are most probably because the object is that color, not because the object is weirdly striped as black and white in exactly the same pattern as the retina.

So, how do you explain that subjects do not change in colour when you move closer to them or further away, or when you divert your gaze (cone cell spacing is far from uniform across the retina)?
Pros obsess over writing their own tools from scratch!
From Apple's perspective, if you know exactly what you want that is what online Apple Store is for.

If you want to see it in person / try it on / have questions, that is what the physical Apple Store is for.
This is actually quite interesting, as it's drawing a distinction between training material that can be accessed by anybody with a web browser (like anybody's blog), vs. training material that was "illegally-acquired... available in bulk via torrent systems."

I don't think there's any reason why this would be a relevant legal distinction in terms of distributing an LLM -- blog authors weren't giving consent either.

However, I do wonder if there's a legal issue here in using pirated torrents for training. Is there any legal basis for saying fair use permits distributing an LLM trained on copyrighted material, but you have to purchase all the content first to do so legally if it's only available for sale? E.g. training on a blog post is fine because it's freely accessible, but Sarah Silverman's book is not because it's never been made available for free, and you didn't pay for it?

Or do the courts not really care at all how something is made? If you quote a passage from a book in a freelance article you write, nobody ever asks if you purchased the book or can prove you borrowed it from a library or a friend -- versus if you pirated a digital copy.
I think it is mostly based on one's POV. From the founders perspective starting a company, raising capitol and eventually taking it public might be taken as a wildly successful path. To an employee all it means it more and more dehumanization, destroying the company as a work place.
Tangentially related .. can we bring back average karma score or whatever it was?

I really felt like it was a good tool to help curb people from posting useless throwaway comments.

Anyone know why this was removed?
Same here. I use the favorite button a lot and that it is next to flag, I assume this is most likely what’s happened
A few years back I bought a MBP online with the pickup option. I picked it up, declined their assistance setting it up and went about my day.

I get home later that day, start to set it up and it’s locked to employees of a bank in Canada. Live support is no help so I take it back, only to find out the serial number did not match that on the box. They had their security guard quietly come stand near me until they figured out what they wanted to do.

The sales guy told me since they can’t prove I stole it they were giving me a different one. I think they knew it was previously returned and realized they got scammed by someone else the first time around.

This time I made sure I could login before I left.

Within the return window the new 16” came out at the same price so I took it in and swapped it for the 16”. They just took it, handed me the new laptop, transferred Apple Care and sent me on my way. It made sense as they didn’t bother to verify the box/device serial number with me. They took my word and processed everything in a matter of minutes.
> Then end result would turn hiring processes into a kafka-esque hellscape where reason has no bearing and candidates are essentially selected at random

That’s pretty much what it is today isn’t it. You get into a room with a hiring manager and if you happen to have kids the same age or saw the same movie growing up, you’re gonna have a huge leg up.

Can we blame someone for at least trying to make a system that’s more objective
Wait, you're being earnest here?
French senators want a wider TikTok ban
Johnny Carson brought Geller onto "The Tonight Show" -- then surprised Geller by saying, "Well, we have some spoons here..." There's various clips of it on YouTube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNKmhv9uoiQ
Very similar experience here. Anonzzzies is not a unicorn outlier :-)
With all due respect, your company is probably one of the biggest and most successful mass surveillance operations on earth. I wouldnt lose sleep over these things too if I knew my company would be scooped up by a 3 letter agency if anything were to happen that threatens this flow of data.
Middle class people always get the shaft with these sorts of things. There’s too many of them not to! My sister was the high school valedictorian and had a 99.97 high school average. She didn’t get into Harvard - there’s 5000 valedictorians every year. She went to a great school and life went on well.

Personally, I don’t really care that there’s a magical club for rich kids. If it wasn’t Harvard, it would be something else. I do think it would be better to just have different admissions slots and just have an auditable lottery. That way as a society we can move in from tiger moms forcing their kids into Cello, squash, or whatever the hot credential is this year.
There is one in the whole on Nova Scotia. Not everywhere in an American city.