skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plastic straw bans are nothing much to do with global warming; they're a general hand wave-y "good for the environment" thing (and, like, they are, but not in a particularly impactful way).

> they're leading the way with Tesla on electrification of vehicles

... Eh? I'm not sure that's really particularly clear; Tesla is in global terms a fairly small part of the market, and the EU and China are both significantly outdoing the US on actual adoption of electric cars. That said, as above, the US is generally doing fairly well on emissions reduction, better than people often give it credit for (albeit partially accidentally due to cheap gas).

However, my point was that the US (and the other two) are unusual in that significant numbers of people there, with a significant political voice, believe that anthropogenic climate change is _not a thing_ (or in extreme cases that climate change period is not a thing). This is unusual.
Microsoft billing 3 cents a minute to revisit tedious Teams meetings via API
Who said it was worse? They can all be unethical.
It’s really basic social studies in the “world history and cultures” category, I would expect them to learn it in high school.

The US had a literal race based “caste-like” system for much of its history. In the South this didn’t end until the 60s, and many people alive today were alive when it was still strictly enforced.
Hello, everyone! Some days ago, I came across the post BadAppleFont [0] on HackerNews and was intrigued by the possibilities of abusing the HarfBuzz WASM shaper for crazy things.

After some experimentation, I've created a small MAZE game that can be played directly within gedit. This project is far more complicated than the previous one which merely substitutes dots by frame glyphs. Hopefully you will like it!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37317055
Anything like this for Forth?
I did but the fact they wrote it doesn't mean it was true or wasn't part of the advertising campaign by paying people to pretend.
Was wondering the same thing.
If you search "screenshot" in the issues, there are a few screenshots people have uploaded, primarily in regards to demonstrating bugs.

https://github.com/lambertjamesd/portal64/issues?q=screensho...
Capitalism is so much more (and worse) than that. And “you criticize society yet you participate in it” is never a noteworthy/ relevant observation.
Do you have examples of "referencing something in law makes it last longer"?

This is not an argument I recall people making much in other ban discussions across the political spectrum such as (a) banning discrimination on sexuality, (b) banning abortions, (c) banning guns, (d) banning censorship, so I'm very skeptical without historical examples? Generally those have been hotly-fought battles where the "no action" course would not have resulted in it simply going away - see also the 100 years after the civil war and racial discrimination in the US persisting - so the claim of "ignore it and it'll be ok real soon now, promise" doesn't appear to have much merit.
I am guessing those staffers have at least a vague notion of what caste is, yet would have to either learn more or verify the accuracy of what they know in order to get their job done. If anything, their willingness to learn rather than to act upon limited and potentially prejudiced knowledge is a good thing.
I think the alternative is just not using VS code. I use it at work, because it is officially supported by the IT dept and I don't care about tracking. But for my personal work I still use sublime.
The amount of damage BS socio-economic systems like caste have done to human dignity is incalculable[1].

Some idiot ages ago (lets call them M) thought it was a good idea to build a system where people could bake in a heirarchy that dictated and guard railed what one could do, be and have. M's f****ery was well recognized by BR Ambedkar(one of the founding fathers of the Constitution) who baked into the constitution that this was basically not just illegal but also we needed tons of affirmative action just to repair the damage. And it has not gone away.

If someone(like I mistakenly did once) talks about equality to push back against reservation, they are missing the point. You have the luxury to not see, nigh rail, against what is never wrought on you. You may thus have the luxury to not see caste.

You have to understand one thing. What ever the vedas, puranas and upanishads are or have , they have nothing[2] (atleast nothing remotely consistent) on the the modern form of jurisprudence present in most democracies i.e. no one who wrote those things seemed to care or understand anything about the idea of Equality, Liberty and Fraternity before the law.

So if you hear someone say about indian culture was much more "advanced" socio-economically ages ago. Ask for context, Ask them about M[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manusmriti
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manusmriti#Chronology
For the sake of not giving Microsoft and a few other tech giants immense power over the world, I really do hope the cost and efficiency of LLMs improve dramatically, until we can get GPT-4-equivalent models trained on a few graphics cards and running offline on an iPhone. Really rooting for these kinds of projects until someone makes the breakthrough.
Yes, practical exposure to any industry - particularly ones the teenager has an interest in - is a great thing.

I went to what was called a “vocational” high school in the US. In schools like this you rotate between a week of academic class and a week of your chosen specialization. Every week for four years. I was in the “graphic design and publishing” shop so I was learning Photoshop, Illustrator and running offset lithographic printers (small ones lol) with actual industry vets. Other students had auto body, facilities management, electrical, cosmetology, nursing. Freshman year is called your “exploratory” year, where you select something like ~8 of the available trades the school has on offer, with the end goal being you try them and figure out which to commit to. I remember going through Culinary Arts and nearly spilling a bowl of hot soup all over a table of elderly people. That line of work was never in the cards for me.

I’m not in graphic design anymore and “desktop publishing” barely exists as it did then, but the path certainly lead me to where I am today. I have NO clue what I’d be doing without that education.
It's deprecated.
Can you write about Argo workflow? I'll be interested to read a long form summary of how to raise cattle.
The problem is most likely how do you know it's the ms source unmodified?
I changed my Ergodox’s switches to some nice silents and put it on a desk pad and it was a lot better.
As an anecdote, I am a white person who went to a high school in the US that was 33% Indian and had/continue to have absolutely no idea what caste the parents of my friends were.

Maybe it was common knowledge for them, I don’t know, but it was a truly invisible distinction for me.

Even when we learned about the caste system in AP World History in the context of Hinduism and classical/post-classical India, I just figured it wasn’t a thing anymore. No one ever brought it up as still being a thing.
Works now for me https://wandb.ai/lance777/lightning_logs/reports/metric-trai...
Other big corporation hold a large portion of copyrights trained on as well. I tend to side with everyone being able to do it
White people were against caste discrimination, or white people were against doing anything about caste discrimination?

And what was the nuance of the Indian approach you saw? E.g. you can say "racism is bad and racial discrimination in employment and housing and services should be illegal" and you don't really need a whole lot of nuance. Is there something about Indian caste discrimination that requires nuance here, in the setting of the US?
> President Joe Biden was briefed on Burning Man on Sunday, a White House official said.

Can we assume they spent the better part of an hour trying to explain to Joe what counter-culture is, and the appeal of "raving" in the middle of nowhere? :)
The signing key is the important bit though right? This project breaks the chain of trust, as it clones the source repo, [does some shady stuff?] builds a new release, and uploads it to GitHub.

It's unlikely that this project knowingly does shady stuff – I've heard of it before, seems to be a long running legit project – but there are lots of unverified factors in that, and the lack of signing (I think?) on the final binaries also means it's hard to know if they get tampered with at some other step.
Huawei Teardown Reveals China Chip Breakthrough [video]
> Mentioned in the article was one person who tried to address this by banning discrimination "on the basis of ancestry, including caste" which seems to me to be a completely reasonable adjustment.

The bill has already been modified to use that verbiage.

"Eventually, Wahab agreed to place caste under “ancestry” rather than list it as a standalone category"

So it seems that those still opposed to the bill are not satisfied with that amendment.
Hantro and panfrost fill this gap. No blob is required afaik.
We've certainly seen Windows Defender delete software like uTorrent without any input from the system Administrator.
Not only do they have strong incentives, they collectively organize to change the way they frame the stories based on the zeitgeist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography
There isn't one. Written laws allow individuals to defend against prosecution by referencing the letter of the law, and wrongfully persecute by recontextualizing similar acts as parallels. I don't think it's a bad trade to have a common reference, despite these weaknesses.

Note, I support the idea of adding castes to common discrimination clauses. That is incidental to the issue of codification, which I am interested in.
The caste system dates back to the Vedic period (around ~1500 BC), it's engrained into the fabric of indian society and through the years this hasn't really diminished. For instance the British reinforced the notion of the Caste system, and so did Gandhi, for many it's not seen as something that should be stamped out, but a way of organising a social hierarchy. Modern Indian politics is controlled by the elite - all from high castes - so movement here is seen as politically difficult and unpopular.

America's divisions are primarily race (and to an extent wealth), the British still have a strong sense of subconscious class, in that regard Indian society inherits fragments of both. Those of the SV Indian tech society who still propagate the system do it because they do not like seeing traditionally poor people from lower castes earning triple figure salaries in the US, and sometimes if you're extremely fortunate in India.

Note: This is me playing the devils advocate, I'm absolutely not in favour of the caste system
By far my favourite demake of Portal is this one: https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/451/45101.htm...
Hmmmmmm, interesting!!
A lot of discussion about caste system in California came up after the Cisco discrimination law-suit by the California civil rights department accusing two supervisors and Cisco of discriminating based on caste.

It's important to note that the civil rights department voluntarily dismissed its case against both the supervisors and court filings show very little evidence to support the discrimination case.

The truth is, there are definitely some folks who discriminate, both here and in India. Growing up as an adult in an small India city (I'd say fairly Urban area), I can't remember an instance where someone asked me what my caste was or discussed about caste until the affirmative action phase came up (in India, the government enables people of certain castes, irrespective of their economic status, by providing them with easier access to top educational institutions, federal and state government employee roles, and sometimes even promotions). Some folks were salty about the fact that one of their fellow classmates got into a better institution/position than themselves despite scoring much less than them. That was pretty much it. (My personal take is that after 75 years of Indian independence and enforcing reservations on the basis of caste, it's time to move on to a criteria that's based on the family's economic status)

Of course, things are different in rural India. We often see instances of discrimination on the basis of caste, sometime with violent endings. And as immigrating to US becomes more and more common, you'll see people from all over India, with different backgrounds, move here. Some are casteist, some are misogynist, and some are racist - just like any other group.

My personal take has always been to stay away from folks who bring up the topic of caste, religion, race or language. That's just me, and I'd say I am slowly becoming the minority.
What does “pretrain” mean in this context? It sounds like normal training
ARDW: An Augmented Reality Workbench for Printed Circuit Board Debugging [pdf]
Well. They effectively control the architecture. All the technical committees in the foundation report up through one of the three principals at SiFive. I can't imagine a technical spec would be published without the consent of SiFive.
There is a section in the docs regarding switching back to the official extension marketplace: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#how...

So if there is a "killer extension" not available on codium's marketplace, you can still use it through microsoft's marketplace.
I don't need a bulletproof definition of race to oppose discrimination on its basis
This sounds like a really fun project, running small models would change a lot of industries like games in their example. But how do people afford these projects?! If I am doing my numbers right, it'll cost them 50K to train this model for 3T tokens.
His comments so far have been never touching Rust. So, that's strange.

Anyway, he should pick language on technical qualities. That way he can avoid drama.
Do you think it's a waste for a chef to make scrambled eggs to enjoy with his family?
I am sorry you have had such a bad luck with your company. All the education in the world can't teach basic human decency. You can probably take some solace in the fact that I have not seen any such behaviour in the Indian tech scene so far. Maybe give it a shot and come here (trade a different
set of problems). It must be an absolutely horrible of a mix in the US for this to be 8:10.
There’s a glaring absence of any polling on the matter in this article. Instead we get a count of the number of protesters (hundreds!) and descriptions of lines spilling out the door.

I get the feeling the author is heavily pro-caste and is carefully selecting data to fit their narrative.
Congrats on your achievement! I'm curious about your end goal. Do you aim to beat GitHub Copilot's performance and convince devs to use Refact for code completion instead of GitHub Copilot? I want to understand the motivation behind these different code-completion models that are not solely for academic research.
Pulumi is an example that proves the exception: using a general purpose language, you create a declaration of desired state.

Think of it like if you used a GPPL to emit HCL. You get the power of that language: loops, function calls, unit tests, or even the ability to call external APIs. You're declaraing desired state and letting the framework sort it outb which is you say you aren't writing imperative code like:

if (!exists(dnszone)) create(dnszone);
Openly opining on the (harmless) ways other people choose to spend their free time is generally seen as gauche.
If you prefer an article (with an embedded video), you can find one on hackster.io:

https://www.hackster.io/news/this-augmented-reality-workbenc...
1. This buried bit surprised me:

> [At her new job,] she would make $157,000 a year, a slight bump over her Coke salary, with a $15,000 signing bonus.

She was a 50 year old chemist with a lot of expertise, and she was making less than an entry level SWE.

Also, her deal with the Chinese company is described as

> codifying her 33.5% stake and entitling her to a salary of 600,000 yuan per year.

Which is like $85k. (A 33% stake in something that could be big is significant though.)

Still, it all seems like a lot of risk for not a ton of money.

It reminds me of political bribery scandals. You hear how much some politician was paid, and you're like -- "that's it? That's all it costs?"

2. I guess she aspired to be yet another Chinese analogue of Samuel Slater (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater). But it doesn't sound like she was on track to accomplish nearly so much, even if she'd succeeded. Slater had an empire by the end.

3. This just reinforces my impression that the stuff they use in food packaging must be horrendous.
> Doesn't this require a level of coordination between hirers that almost certainly doesn't exist?

Except when it does. Remember when most of big tech had secret no-poach agreements to keep the wages of engineers down [1]? It wasn’t that long ago.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust...
License text: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16NqKiAkzyZ55NClubCIFup8pT2j... [PDF]

See last page for restrictions
At a quick glance, this is very close. However, the proposal goes through several contortions to maintain pointer stability. If you preallocate sufficient storage for your worst case (which can be unmapped virtual memory) then it makes implementation a lot simpler.

Neat that the committee is looking to introduce it. Too bad we eschew the STL (and even CRT) in games.
Sorry but your effort to conflate protected categories and aff am seems completely wrong to me.
America's test kitchen has some playlists on basics[0] and technique[1]. There are other videos that cover basics too. And, sometimes you'll learn a new technique in a video for a dish you've never made before. You sound methodical; maybe you're baking, which is a little more scientific. (If that's the case Adam Ragusea[2] has some solid videos on showing how he got to his brownie and chocolate chip cookies iirc.) This is a case where videos can make you better, but you have to actually get your hands dirty and get a feel for things too.

At the end of the day, it's like learning a language: it's easy to get stuck in the learning/drilling/practice phase. Your actual goal is almost certainly to get to where you can immerse yourself in the skill and enjoy it as quickly as practical. If you want to make something fresh, give it a shot and be sure to taste things as you go. Sometimes it takes trial and error.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSDeoKpIsAk&list=PLnbzopdwFr...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uf3OmSyG6A&list=PLnbzopdwFr...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@aragusea
Why did Microsoft overload the "Visual" keyword so much. It's almost a joke at this point.

Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic Classic, VBScript.

Am I forgetting anything?
What is dishonest about it, and what would you sue them for? I don't think you can sue for "open sourced a product and released it for free but it's not what I like".
Some states in India are less advanced than others. To those who are from the more advanced states, this supposed caste discrimination is a nothingburger, and they see such accusations as unfairly tarnishing the image of their community. See [1] for example. But to those from less advanced regions (those where education has not made inroads... some regions have less than 60% literacy rate), this is still an issue.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/caste-is-no...
Agreed. In the same spirit, all models (and all software for that matter) should be open and charge only for the computational costs of the service.

I do see how this is a little too idealistic, though.
But they can be. They can have nice properties that general purpose languages cannot.
What do you mean? nevi-me's comment linked to this: https://cohost.org/ThePhD/post/2720152-mn#comment-fdd4ee8d-9.... That's, like, the core thing in my disagreement with nevi-me. It would've helped if you read nevi-me's comment before you decided to join the discussion.

I don't understand why you believe you're in a position to say what anyone "should" use as criteria for picking a language. If a language's leadership and most prominent community members were mistreating me and lying about me for half a year I might want to avoid that language too.
Found a great option for you at $23000. Amazingly we managed to accommodate your budget. /s
Having done classic LAN parties for 15 years before building the house, I understand this feeling. That's why I specifically designed the house such that people could bring their own machines if they wanted.

No one ever did. The only time people ever even busted out a laptop is if all the built-in machines were occupied. But often at that point the others would just hang out until a machine became available.

The thing is, when you bring your own machine, you tend to have to spend time setting it up, installing games, updating drivers, etc. There's always that one person who has to reinstall Windows from scratch. I remember many LAN parties where we couldn't even get started until late at night. LAN parties had to be overnight affairs otherwise you couldn't get any gaming in.

With my house, I had all the machines ready to go in advance. All identically configured, all games installed, just sit down and go. It turned out really great. We could get more done in a 12-hour LAN party than most 24-hour parties, and we could still go home and sleep in our beds. (I did still have an annual 48-hour party, though.)

All this mean people were willing to do them on a monthly basis or more. Whereas in my teenage years 3-to-4 times a year was about all we could muster.
This California law from 1959 already bans discrimination by ancestry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unruh_Civil_Rights_Act

From a legal perspective, is a new law even necessary? Isn't it legally redundant?
I like the portability idea. I think I will need to upgrade to using some data encryption in order to do that.
>All that being said, Cuber definitely feels like a different sort of market fit.

but it could have been built on top of Argo right ?

I totally get an opinionated out-of-the-box workflow and manifest file. But i would rather see that on top of the Argo infra (with its millions of person hours of kuberentes fighting).
Thanks. That looks pretty relaxed on terms
Andre LaMothe, my counterpart writer for Waite Group Press. I wrote “The Black Art of Windows Game Programming” in 1994. Mitch (Waite) loved those “Black Art” titles.

Edits for spelling and year, which I’m still not sure about.
> Aristotle, Euclid, Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, Tesla, Edison, Turing, Einstein... not one of them had an entire solution to a hard problem revealed in a single gulp. Every single one of them took small iterative steps and needed to break a problem down and approach each part of it as an individual problem in its own right.

I don't think that's true at all. To the contrary, it was a ton of thinking and experimentation and then getting really lucky with major flashes of insight -- which is the very opposite of breaking something down into tractable parts.

Einstein coming up with general relativity wasn't something that he did, or anybody could have done, by gradually breaking the problems of gravity down into parts that were then straightforward to solve. That's not how his discovery worked at all.

Difficult problems are difficult precisely because they can't be solved in an easy straightforward way of breaking them down. They seem quite impossible to solve until you try a bunch of things, sometimes for years/decades, throwing stuff at the wall, and you hope you get lucky. But many times (usually?) you don't. That's what makes them difficult.
You are insufferable.