skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know Vanguard manages millions of people's retirement accounts and pensions right?

It's not all controlled by a single trillionaire.
I've heard them called "seekers of power" and "climbers" and "lizard people".

It's an inherent problem with a society I think. That it gives them something to climb, to get control of.

It only makes sense that the ruling class will be full of lizards. And the most dedicated lizards will be on top.

I guess this is a society-engineering problem. How to make a lizardproof society?
Point the finger at our opponents of course.
Are you trolling? Look at the ISBN/info page of literally any book.

It will say something like 'all rights reserved' and that you can't reproduce any part without permission, except for limited cases.

Please go get a book off of your shelf and look, I'm begging you.

Edit - Example from Infinite Jest: https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/14094...
The best way I've heard it described, and what the powers that be just cannot seem to accept, is:

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment.
Clearly the type system is comprehensively self documenting too.
Pretty sure I’ve seen at least a few articles saying Dollar Tree and or Family Dollar ruin neighborhoods all in the name of profit. Serves them right.
Is your objection because of who is doing the training or just AI in general? Like do you have qualms with an individual scraping your site? And what about scraping for non-AI purposes?
The only real exception is atmospheric carbon capture. Capturing a gallon of gas worth of CO2 would cost $1-2 if we ramped the known technologies up. That’s equivalent to a 20-40% gas tax, which is totally feasible (or would be if politicians weren’t so bought off).
I don't think climate action controls majorities in many countries.
If you like this, you may also like Speedrun. It's markdown to build tools straight into your GitHub README's, wikis and documentation so you users can do what they came to do with a click. https://speedrun.nobackspacecrew.com
Have you had a look at Coconut? I don't know if it'll push all your buttons but whenever I hear someone who's reasonably content with Python but wants more FP goodies I always think of it. https://github.com/evhub/coconut . It's basically a superset of Python3 that transpiles into Python3 and is compatible with MyPy. I don't think I'd code Python w/o it ever again assuming I had the choice. The biggest negative for me is that there's no IDE support for the language last I looked, though of course you can work with the transpiler output (plain Python) in your favorite Python IDE. It might be fun to play around with, I know that I really enjoyed it but then I got spoiled by the language+tooling of Scala3, but if you don't have that option ...
The problem isn’t just that psychopaths want to be in control, it’s that millions of people want psychopaths to be in control. It’s almost as though there’s a gene for self-destructiveness and about half the population has it.
View what? The poll?
https://archive.is/gJOWu
The usual higher attention priority in a social setting like restaurants and driving are other people/vehicles and straws allow attention to be directed to them rather than making sure a drink is not over tilted and contents spilled and also are cheaper for single use than a more easily washable and secure sippy cup lid.
The US started out that way too.
Which stack/framework for cross-platform desktop applications in 2023?
Their text editor is shit, their UI is shit (see e.g., their new right pane), and they keep going off and spending all their energy developing features that nobody is asking for, e.g., whiteboards. I assume most of this is bc they're trying to differentiate somehow after having taken VC funding. Frustrating.

Unfortunately, I expect Obsidian to have a serviceable outline mode before I expect Logseq to turn out a polished product. For god's sake, take on that Neovim project, and post about it!
Data isn’t denialism. I literally posted factual observatory data.

Here’s a better chart:

https://www.climate.gov/media/15124

Certainly recent correction but an upwards trend since 1979 (when satellite data started) and a recent large spine up followed by a more recent large spine down.

There are many potential inputs to thus. Man made climate change is possibly one but not a dominate one probably.
Using the knowledge from the book !== reproducing any part of the book.

If I read a math book that shows me how to do an integral, then use that knowledge to do integrals, I'm not infringing the copyright of the book, ffs.

If you read in a book that the main export of Germany is Bavarian creme doughnuts, and you use that knowledge in a job interview (i.e. making money) to land a job as a Bavarian creme doughnut importer, that is not copyright infringement. People learn things and put that knowledge to use, often for profit.

What kind of insane interpretation of copyright law are you working with?

A copyright notice is not an agreement. It's not a contract, it does not offer any consideration to the other party. There is no meeting of the minds. That is not at all how any of that works.
Hence why democracy in it's current form (assuming democracy is the answer) doesn't work.
I'll get my Vernier out later, but this would also be a good indication of IGF-1 and Growth Hormone ratio.
We just saw them for the first time with our own eyes at the Montreal biodome. Absolutely spectacular beings, hard for me to put in words how special they are.
Because a random person is likely to be a regular person.
The world's insect population is in decline — and that's bad news for humans

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/02/24/1082752...

A staggering loss that suggests the very fabric of North America’s ecosystem is unraveling.
Cornell Lab director John Fitzpatrick and study coauthor Peter Marra

https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/bring-birds-back/
I'm certain that psychopathy, along with narcissism, despite being labeled personality "disorders", are actually advantageous traits in the modern world. Given the percentage of high status, wealthy, powerful people with those traits, it's clearly a factor that aids in securing a powerful position and having no qualms about whoever you have to step over to get there.
Unfortunately the people who seek power don't think like that.
Update: I was able to find the mercurial repo on https://bitbucket-archive.softwareheritage.org/projects/zi/z..., looks like it hadn't been updated since 2016.
The odds of "nobody ever accidentally writing a security bug" are astronomically low.

Were hacking legal, the risk/reward calculation still encourages huge amounts of effort spent on hacking. No matter how robust your programming security culture, mistakes will happen. And the people who exploited them could have HUGE gains. All for only risking having wasted their time in failure.
> Intervene and prevent the loss

You think the government should be responsible for placing security guards in private businesses? Is that where you want your tax money to go?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBH0pcKzlY
> Capturing a gallon of gas worth of CO2 would cost $1-2 if we ramped the known technologies up.

Capturing from the general atmosphere, or capturing at the moment of emission? I think those have very different efficiencies.
Isn’t this just a case of right tool for the right problem? If you were writing, say, an IntelliJ plugin I think you would much rather prefer Java over Clara rules, and not a subjective opinion of profoundness.

Also, having asked about Haskell, I'm not sure why you brought Java into this!
Perhaps a list of projects that use KDL could be added to the website. I encountered KDL while I was exploring another project - but I can't remember the original project now.
You're not serious about this, are you?

You realise there's almost a 1:1 correlation between energy use and GDP?

We're not fundamentally reducing the amount of energy we're using, and there's nothing to suggest that we can seriously replace oil with other means. Think plastic etc.
s/effective/defective/g
> The developer experience improved significantly over the last years.

> Today, you can get a good quality IDE environment with VSCode and Haskell-Language-Server that works in both simple and complex environments, and includes all the features you'd expect (completions, immediate type error checking, scoped renames, go-to-definition, find-all-references, call hierarchy, docs-on-hover).

In 2023 Haskell has indeed kind of reached 2003 levels of IDE support but you can forget about a working debugger, practical compile times or you know, stack traces.
What if you could create a smart contract / protocol / service whatever it was. That's not a company. It's just software, anybody can use it for any reason. It could be possible that people use it to launder money, or they could not. But when people use it you get paid. Like a creators skim from every transaction. But you don't really have any control over who uses it or whatnot.
It's them making excuses for users calling them on obvious bullshit advertising.

What a terrible article too. What the hell does "crypto creeps" even mean? If it's plaintext over 35TB, it's fine?
Satellite Cloud Generator: A tool to generate clouds for satellite images
it would seem to me that from a technical perspective the weights of an AI model trained on copyrighted material would be a reproduction of the copyrighted work. just because you combine the information from millions (or more) copyrighted works together doesn't mean that you aren't reproducing them.

the process of training requires reproduction and distribution of the works internally as part of the data processing pipeline so why wouldn't you need a license for that?
The Ministry for the Future is a very cathartic book along these lines. Basically, there is a weather event that causes mass fatalities, and then eco terrorism gets super trendy.
> I wonder at what point humans go "enough is enough" and actual change happens.

Probably the last day that we're still around as a species.
Given this can produce code when prompted, could it also be used to interpret html from a crawler and then be used to scrape arbitrary URLs and extract structured attributes? Basically like MarkupLM but with massively more token context?
Thanks for having us in the "assume good faith" category—we are committed to staying there! And I appreciate your sentiment. We have already made changes to the website, communication, flows, and processes based on this megathread, so I'm very grateful (even if emotionally hard)!

And re: auto-cancel, we've also debated this internally at length. We believe that the worst "startup poison" is not adhering to your customers, so we definitely don't mind shutting off subscriptions and have done it numerous times.

Currently I will admit it's not automated fully yet but my co-founder & CTO tracks whether members have been inactive 40 days (since some users might be paused for a month) and then he goes through this every week or so and double check their meeting with their coach (and if needed, check if there's a pre-agreed situation with their coach) and then will unsubscribe them. We are already in the processes of solidifying the protocol here to make it fully automated. A bit of context on why we don't cancel right away: holding the member's spot with their coach and ensuring the coach has the time/capacity to serve them is important, and sometimes members just don't show up for 1-2 weeks and when they come back, their coaches work with them to either catch up or sort something else out. If we were to just take their spot away, it can be really jarring (especially in harder times for our members) to not have their spot with their coach anymore (e.g. recurring time in calendar held) or support with that coach all together (e.g. coach capacity). Thinking more about it, one of the options we threw around was to have members be able to set this up early on: e.g. "If I don't do X for 30 days, please pause my account, I acknowledge I may not be able to access the same coach after", something along those lines. Very open to ideas.
A friend of mine does some really cool electronics projects and sometimes posts videos about them:

=> https://www.youtube.com/@electronicstinkerer5429 Electronics Tinkerer (249 subscribers)

Like everything Zach does, it's widely high quality for something that few other people will appreciate.
> That is, the vertical measurement appeared longer than it is in reality. But when I had them view it while lying on their side, some of them reported that the vertical and the horizontal lengths looked the same. In other words, we discovered that when lying on one’s side, the horizontal-vertical vertical illusion does not occur

Anyone with a vertical monitor can tell you that :)
They do, and it's jarring!

Even though I find memcpy and friends to be perfectly logical using the assignment analogy suggested by thwarted, I often need to re-read english sentences written that way.
Thank you for your detailed argument. I am convinced.
Are Remote Workers and Their Organizations Drifting Apart?
https://archive.is/VS4XA
I wasn't implying you lacked understanding.

I was describing two different general approaches people use to write software.

Sorry to use your post as an example. I don't know anything about you outside your posts. Please don't take it personally.
Spot on. There's not a lot of evidence climate engineering can be done quickly, to scale and with known and acceptable side effects. People are desperately clawing for any excuse to focus on the positive so they can return to an apathetic existence. Lots of trees, lots of regulations and fines, lots of investment in less damaging technologies, lots of stuff that we know works.
CelGenStudios: this guy obtains old or weird tech (not just computers), and goes pretty deep into the teardown and repair of things.
https://www.youtube.com/@CelGenStudios
The principal criminal statute protecting copyrighted works is 17 U.S.C. § 506(a), which provides that "[a]ny person who infringes a copyright willfully and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain" shall be punished as provided in 18 U.S.C. § 2319. Section 2319 provides, in pertinent part, that a 5-year felony shall apply if the offense "consists of the reproduction or distribution, during any 180-day period, of at least 10 copies or phonorecords, of 1 or more copyrighted works, with a retail value of more than $2,500." 18 U.S.C. § 2319(b)(1).

https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...
I think the supreme Court should be like jury duty. Judges and lawyers with ten years experience get called up for one court case only. All random peers who've passed the bar and met basic requirements.

all other political appointments should be ranked choice or like that parliament system where if x party gets 30 percent of vote they get to appoint 30 percent of the positions.

It would beat the part
Walgreens made $32 billion in profit last year and they announced all of these store closings about 4 years ago. They're looking to change business models, but it's easier to blame store closures on shoplifting to save face for leaving communities. They have acknowledged this in city council hearings.
You have 2 superpowers. And all I got is this lousy t-shirt (and adhd).

This whole “neurodivergecy is a gift!” “Celebrate your differences! Embrace your kinks!” thing is irksome to me. I know it isn’t intended in a bad way but, sometimes things aren’t a socially repressed positive just looking for love and attention. Not everybody gets a trophy.

Stimulants though, I know they work for some but boy, adhd + addictive drugs? Head scratcher. I have a nagging suspicion it’s the next OxyContin, personally. Maybe not on such a grand scale but I see negative effects in myself and others regularly. Maybe humans shouldn’t be hopped on speed so much?
Surely you must understand the difference between copying something and producing something entirely new.

If you literally only consumed Tarantino media and had no other influences, and then one day made a movie so great everyone was calling you the next Tarantino - that would be fine!

As long as you didn't copy anything that he actually made himself.

Being influenced by is not the same as copying.
Used to be wax.
That code shows me a parse error.
> Everywhere its easy to see evidence of the tipping point accelerating.

Cool, let's start here, then: what tipping points are you referring to, specifically, and what is the evidence that they're accelerating?

To be clear: ocean temperatures are unusually high this year relative to historic trends, but with just this one year as a major outlier, there's no basis to conclude a tipping point has been reached, especially given El Nino muddies the data.

As for atmospheric temperature, 2023 is likely to be a warmest year on record, but January to July 2016 was hotter, so there no reason to believe 2023 will be wildly outside the current trendline (which, to be clear, is up and to the right):

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/g...

> Why do you need it to not be at catastrophe level right now?

Why do I dispute unsupported claims that the earth is now on an irreversible course to climate disaster that will destroy the human race?

The answer is literally in the first paragraph of my first reply. Go read it again. It seems silly to repeat myself.
We hope to stay in this good faith category, and unfortunately are not able to offer "rock bottom app store prices". We believe in the power of human connection (with others, with coach) so we will not be replacing humans with AI. However, I will say, we already have AI components (on the back end to help with coach efficiency—e.g. helping coaches summarize notes, helping them schedule sessions, prioritize their messages, etc.) so hopefully it's not a surprise when we say AI!
I really enjoy small elegant code demonstrations like this that really allow you to get your hands dirty to try to understand a concept. Another example is Sasha Rush's gpu puzzles, tensor puzzles
-https://github.com/srush/GPU-Puzzles
-https://github.com/srush/Tensor-Puzzles
Just in case, to explain the number: https://xkcd.com/1053/
You might not be aware if it, but you probably do send those motor signals.

https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/alterego/publications/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/mits-alterego-headset-reads-yo...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/device-can-hear-vo...
Found so much excellent creators in this thread, really enjoyed skimming all of them!
Just started out with tech and maths content myself, would love to hear what others think: https://www.youtube.com/@FrostKiwi/
Haha holy shit that response from Craig. Might as well told the poster to go fuck themselves.
ADHD pops up here a lot. If you don’t have it organically maybe you have some approximation from all the internet and electronics you interact with.
What humans specifically?

Well-off Californians or Londoners may say so and switch to an electric car and a powerwall at home.

People in rural China, in India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, central Asia, central Africa care much more about putting some food on the table, and about having electricity, and about going around in absence of great public transport infrastructure. So they run thermal power stations, they burn coal, they drive gasoline-powered motorbikes, old Western cars and trucks, because they don't have a serious affordable alternative. They have more salient stuff to care about than penguins.

And they are, in total, literally half the world population.
https://archive.is/WG6eI
"The Timeless" [0] is an example of what can be achieved with domain repetition over signed distance functions - the video is of a self-contained 64kb executable running in realtime! One of the authors Johann "Cupe" Korndörfer also gave a great talk [1] regarding the creative/development process.

[0] https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ie4u2i_5OdE

[1] https://yewtu.be/watch?v=s8nFqwOho-s
If I publish an article on a subject I extensively read about on books and add no new information, I’m just reproducing them. Should that be considered a violation of copyright?
But the whole point is that copying is not what's happening.
I like it, but I have a better and more practical solution: limit the term of every politician to 1 term in any one office, and 3 terms in total.

Make it a grass roots constitutional amendment campaign in the US.

Then, the problem solves itself because the political career no longer becomes a viable power grab. And money interests can’t work fast enough to buy favors.
In California, it is generally unlawful to defend property. So, like I said, either the state needs to do it for me with its sovereign right to use of force, or it needs to step aside.

I left California, so I really don't care.
That's because said garbage has names. Anything by Google doesn't even have the language needed to criticise it.
Rust stdlib code is quite high quality although not particularly dense due to large amount of comments. Start from the docs, and click any source link: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html

Sqlite is supposedly high quality C code: https://github.com/smparkes/sqlite

For videos of someone (Casey Muratori) writing video game code and debugging it, Handmade Hero: https://handmadehero.org/

A blog post about how to write code by the same author: https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0015

For how to implement a fairly advanced type system, Typing Haskell in Haskell: https://gist.github.com/chrisdone/0075a16b32bfd4f62b7b

But, honestly, you're probably better off writing code yourself and learning by doing.
Distributing data to servers only accessible by a machine isn't what folks have in mind when they talk about the distribution of copyrighted content.
And where does it say "you can't learn anything from this book at all".

We're not talking about copying verbatim, that's the whole point.
The preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.01.518724v2....
OP This is not addressed to you but to other folks in the comments.

The two obsidian itself is very open and it's free for use. Those making demands to reduce price or make the project open source are just thankless. How do you plan to make the business sustainable? Someone has to pay developer salaries, right?

You want open source? Use MarkText, Zettlr. The company is generous enough to offer the main product for free.
Recursive CTE's in SQL. Devil or Angel?
I mean, even if that is the case, how much did Dollar Tree pay for that coffee to resell it for $1.25 per bag?

These guys said they loss $100 mil to shrinkage? Or, did I read that wrong?
Almost 10% of children in the US are food insecure, 60% of Americans can't afford a $1,000 emergency, and 40% can't afford a $400 emergency. We also have a homeless population of 500,000 and rapidly growing. Do you happen to live in a place that's considered to be a bubble?
I’m taking a graduate course on Distributed Systems next semester! Excited to get into this in more depth. Thanks for the post!
+1. Many companies have policies against the use of 3P cloud services, so Obsidian Sync is a non-starter in those cases, irrespective of the data being e2e encrypted.

Having a paid option where you can plug your own cloud storage (e.g. a Google drive folder, Dropbox, AWS, etc) would be fantastic. I'd gladly continue paying for my Sync subscription, but be able to point to my own cloud storage instead of Obsidian's servers.

But I understand you'd have to push the syncing logic to the client, and that is non-trivial. Alternatively, you could offer an official self-hosting server option, although it might not solve the issue for corporate users.