skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am incredibly happy about this. Otherwise it's like lamenting the invention of the car because it would eliminate all the jobs making buggies and whips.

> No one paying cares if it's just copied from other works

There are probably zero artists alive who didn't learn by copying other works or learning to make art in that style.

It's no different with an AI. An AI is something that learns from others and creates it's own art. There isn't anything illegal about it any more so than you learning to draw and making characters that are similar to Mickey Mouse.
You can trademark a specific thing but not a style.

So at the end of the day, how is it any different than a person doing it other than the fact now a person won't be getting paid?
Yes, I've wired it up to work with Github Actions so it's automatic now - but it wasn't easy.
Haha that video is actually insane... that the guy even had to call someone to get it explained to him. And that you can hold the touch-sensitive surface that doesn't look like a button at all until the "REAR" label on it blinks (which you can't see because it'll be under your fucking finger), and that means the switch (which one?) will control all 4 windows... what the actual fuck.
> The company produces and sells watches with the technology.

Technology that’s been around since the 30’s and has been put in many other devices including other fitness devices. Putting something in watch form is hardly innovation.
I assumed the above poster was referring to business rules - ie you can only have 1 person per table. DB 1 seats person A, DB 2 seats person B, when they replicate there’s a constraint that fails.

I’m not sure how ids like that would resolve this.
I worry that once gssrs is marginally used, it implicitly gives permission for Microsoft to create some MSVRust and then we really do descend into standard-body hell.
Reading code is easy. What's hard is to read the mind of the programmer who wrote it. The reason we argue about Chesterton's Fence is that Chesterton was too damn lazy to leave a comment.
China accused of pushing subversive anti-US Army propaganda on TikTok
Apple Plans Rescue for $17B Watch Business in Face of Ban
In space, if two small dust particles collide, they are probably moving at very high speed in relation to each other, and there's obviously no air to affect the impact. I don't know what that means, but I expect our intuition about how substances accrete is probably way out of whack.
Common Lisp is a great experience in production
https://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/CaseFiles/UAP%2...
Beeper isn't marketed at Apple users - they already have access to iMessage. Are we to presume that all Android users have agreed to the iOS ToS?
> So the question is... did unions prevent a path to upgradation to new tech?

Not really? The difference is referred to as "primary" vs "secondary" steelmaking.

The US pumped out enormous quantities of steel from 1910-1980ish and then usage decreased as better computer models as well as plastics allowed a lot more efficient use of the material. This meant that a bunch of used steel was available and nobody could really consume steel fast anymore.

Consequently, "secondary" small mills recycling used steel were WAY more profitable than "primary" large mills making it from ore. This devastated the US steel industry which was mostly "primary" (some of that has changed).

Then ... China ... started consuming vast quantities of steel for development. At some point, China bought up and used most of the used steel that was available.

So ... today ... "secondary" steel is rising because the cheap used steel isn't laying around anymore. "Primary" steel is making a comeback as you need to produce original feedstock or the "secondary" producers have nothing to work with.

The correct answer to all this is: it's a balance. You need some primary steelmaking or you simply run out of feedstock. You need some secondary steelmaking to tweak the type of steel and provide smaller, specialty runs.
software engineers work with the chips, which have an API and from my POV it is a property.

that is a portion of what I have been referring to.
There is a "jump the gun" law that makes it illegal to start integrating before the acquisition fully closes.
> And I like that if I make a piece of music or some art or whatever, some giant company can’t just grab that and use it for profit without making some arrangement with me.

You’re describing intellectual property..
So, again, you've done this research, right? Why don't you give me some numbers? Your lack of concern for the people I'll have to statistically kill to answer these questions you've posed is a bit concerning.

Although, with your belief in infinite demand elasticity for gasoline, I'm starting to lose a little faith in the correctness of your calculations, I'd still love to hear them. I won't even ask for the calculation itself -- just give me the exchange rate you've already calculated of gallons of gas per statistical life, please.

I'll also note that you don't seem to be very forthcoming about how many statistical murders you commit to maintain your way of life while you pontificate about the immorality of others' choices in this regard.
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Shell is a systems language; people boot systems with it, including embedded.
If it works for your use-case its great. =)
Cool, but this reminds me of the "we only thought whether we could, and didn't stop to think whether we should" meme
I too thought this was "Hacker" News, where we found ways to break down barriers and expand access to services to the benefit of society. Apple is absolutely abusing their market position and we should all be finding ways to establish healthy, multi-platform communication standands. It is disheartening to see many folks here fighting for the status quo, which clearly isn't working. Beeper devs are the hackers I will always support, the kind that drive a subconscious shift of our morals to something more inclusive.
This is the default "just move to another instance" take of Mastodon. It's impractical if not hostile.

It masks the reality of the situation which is that instance moderators have too much of a say in what individual users get to see or do.

This attitude is exactly why there's a trend towards ever larger instances.
The premise doesn't hold up when you think about it. If to be great is to be good repeatably, then what does it mean to be great repeatably? Is that also great or do we need a new word?

Producing good work consistently means you are good overall. Being great means you produce great work consistently.

One of the linked articles in the piece contradicts the notion that consistently being good would lead to greatness. (Well a link to a tweet of images of the article -- https://autotranslucence.com/2018/03/30/becoming-a-magician/). That author argued that while they were consistently very good at body painting (top 5 in the world championships), they were not able to conceive how the 2016 winner produced the work they did in the same amount of time (6 hours). Even though they were improving incrementally, they were so far behind the winner's work that they couldn't wrap their head around what sorts of improvements they would need to add in order to reach the same level of competency. So it was not just a matter of being consistent. Their mental model was off.

That seems to fit reality and greatness more than the original article. A good mathematician does not simply reach the level of Terence Tao by being consistently good over time.
3b1b uses a python library for creating those videos.

https://github.com/3b1b/manim

As far as a math educator/communicator, one of my favorite videos of his is the video on the monster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH0oCDa74tE

Also since we're talking about powerpoint here you should probably see this Matt Parker video about excel being used in ways it shouldn't maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBX2QQHlQ_I
I think I have been misread, the whole point of my comments is to realize that anyone can staple engineering and make you think this is something someone actually thought and went through, which is usually, not.
Again, you need to make the constructor exception safe, that's just like any other function. Just imagine the constructor and destructor bodies as one combined function. (Of course don't forget the method calls in between but those should preserve the class invariant).
This seems to be the study itself: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)...

The title is "Intravenous psilocybin attenuates mechanical hypersensitivity in a rat model of chronic pain", which makes a lot more sense than what the current article title seems to want to say.
They had a marginal role because they were less productive. As a percentage of how much they produced it was much higher.

North Korea is communist.
Soviet Union was communist.

Claiming otherwise is disingenuous.

Socialism means the government owning the means of production and the more you want the government to control it the more socialist you are so yes it was.

The only strawman is the one you are making. No country is purely capitalist or purely communist but the west is more capitalist than it's not, north korea is more socialist and communist than it's not.

The opposite of a capitalist society is exactly that which is why people often flee from those countries and towards more capitalist countries.

And yes socialist means leaving the means of production to government. The more the government interfere the more socialist. Most people understand this concept.

"To be even more clear, no government would kill its people to profit and even if they did, sooner or later the people would overthrown it."

Ahh yeah you tell that to the Kulags who got killed by Stalin.

No it's called a fact. Noam Chomskys contribution have been to academia nothing else.
In Tokyo, the majority of people go to the "kombini" (convenience store) for lunch, buy food in plastic and styrofoam containers, then heat them in the microwave.

This is "normal" for Japanese. They won't be bothered by it. Unfortunately basically every tourist will be eating this stuff now.
standards are good. Canonical implementations managed/organized by a single project are also good (python, go, ruby, ...).
I've found this a really interesting (and sudden) change. It has been commented on a fair bit in popular media, the most recent I saw was in "No Hard Feelings" where the younger generation get angry at Jennifer Lawrence for gay shaming (in this instance, as a 40-year-old my first thought was that she made a reasonable comeback given how she herself was just treated, but as far as the 19-year-olds were concerned she had crossed a line!)

Whether you can enjoy 90's (or earlier) content really depends if you can view it in the context that produced it; if you go all "death of the author" it's just going to seem cringe.
Determining if imported products infringe on domestic US patents is literally one of the primary purposes of the ITC.
I didn't mean to say it's all IO, that would be wrong. Rails is feature-rich, ActiveRecord for instance spends plenty of time in the CPU (manipulating its internal state). But the idea that Rails/Ruby is slow is outdated and does not jive with any monitoring and metrics we collected even in extremely busy environments. Of course one would gain some percentage of speed if say your backend is some compiled language, but that would mean possibly slower development cycles, hiring, and so on. Billion dollar companies run Rails, and, crucially, show relentless speed in execution (for instance, Stripe). If anything, Rails has the strongest case yet for performance / feature set.
“You what, mate?” is fairly aggressive, it immediately makes me think of some dickhead in a pub taking offence to someone and looking to escalate to a physical confrontation (I’m British).

Unrelated but “oi, dickhead” is what I shout at my cat when he tries to climb the Christmas tree for the nth time that day.
Maybe we want it to be a niche place?

Also, the effect of Google's presence on XMPP was huge, see https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo...
In 1992 the internet worked great. We connected our dorm room computers to the internet using a serial port on the back of the room’s phone (SLIP protocol). You connected with others using email and newsgroups. You could transfer files with FTP and open a remote window using X11.
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I suspect a lot of authors don’t have much choice. Big authors and people who self-publish sure, but a lot of people struggle to get published and I imagine a sizable fraction of publishers who don’t specifically cater to geek audiences would just drop a book and move on to one of the other hundreds of submissions if someone insisted on a drm free release.
It seems should be fine.
I've watched a number of Penn's videos and generally enjoy them but they really seem to be targeted to the math major types. I have a BS and MS in electrical engineering which did require some high level math but not to the degree needed to fully grasp what he's showing. Nothing wrong with that but people without college math study are usually going to be overwhelmed.
The referenced PDF isn't loading for me, but the year-over-year chart from the Reason article is extremely suspicious. In 1954, at the height of Jim Crow, only 13% of Americans self-censored? Or were the only people surveyed middle-aged white men?
I don't think what you're describing here is accurate re: GraalVM. GraalVM is Hotspot but with C1/C2 not being used, using a generic compiler interface to call out to Graal instead AFAIK.
Can someone explain why the numpy code ends up being so slow? Is the author actually doing things in a vectorized manner or just looping over np arrays instead of lists? It's hard to tell from the info given.
"Nazis are not a fragile endangered species who need you to be agonising over the nuances of their free speech" https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/111575230408608775
How is/was Figma so superior to XD exactly? I used to work with XD and briefly also used Figma, but never really liked it (seemed like a crude version of XD in a way), so never understood all the Figma rage. Genuine question, not challenging the view at all. The only pluses I saw for Figma over XD were that it was perhaps easier to collaborate and didn't need installation (because it is web based).
I am not doubting that. I am sure there are pain suppression effects. I am talking about the changed mental state of being under the influence of psychedelics and how it can be an incredibly "sensitive" mental state. Being in pain while tripping, doesn't sound so good to me (as a younger one, who have taken them before).
I'd like to know, too!
"Socialism means the government owning the means of production"

FWIW: Communism != Socialism
[dupe]

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38682631
Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. This doesn't look to me like it meets the bar. It's "he said" reportage. fact free.
The Microsoft/Activision-Blizzard acquisition had already closed in October.
I suspect Threads will enable it in phases, but assuming a full implementation...

Yes, using the Threads app you could then follow somebody from i.e. a Mastodon instance if that instance does not have the Threads domain blocked and the particular instance user also does not have it blocked. So it's going to be hit and miss.

And no, I don't think you can log into another server using your Threads account.
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There is a dude who lives a couple miles from me who flies a large confederate flag and has a statue of Robert E Lee in his yard. I am happy that authorities allow it because that way I know not to interact with him. I’d rather offensive people be loud and proud than secretive and using subterfuge to advance their cause.
I don't think conferences have the capacity to do this. Journals, yeah, conferences no.

The difference is that in a conference you're in a zero sum game and there is no chance for iteration and the framing is opposition of reviewer/author rather than seeing as being on the same team. Yes, every work can be improved, but the process is far too noisy and we can't rely on that iteration happening between conferences.

From personal experience, I've had very few reviews that have meaningful and actionable feedback. Far more frequently I've gotten ones that friends joke that GPT could have done better. My last one I had a strong reject with high confidence by a reviewer's who's only notes were about a "missing" link (we redacted our github link) and a broken citation leading to the appendix. That's it. We reported them, then they got a chance to write a new angry review which seemed to convince the other two borderline reviewers. Most frequently I get "not novel" or "needs more datasets" without references to similar work (or references that are wildly off base) and without explanation as to what datasets they'd like to see and/or why. Most of my reviews are from reviewers reporting 3/5 confidence levels and are essentially always giving weak or borderline scores (always bias towards reject). It is more common for me to see a review that is worse that the example of a bad review in a conference's own guidelines than one that is better.

As a reviewer, I've often defended papers that were more than sufficient and I could tell were making rounds. I had to recently defend a paper for a workshop that was clearly a paper that made a turnaround form the main conference (was 10 pages + appendix when most workshop papers were ~5) and the other two reviewers admitted to not knowing the subject matter but made similar generic statements about "more datasets would make this more convincing." I don't think this is helping anyone. Even now, I've been handed a paper that's not in my domain for god knows why (others in domain). (I do know, it's because there's >13k submissions and not enough reviewers)

I've only seen these problems continue to grow and silly bandaids attempt to be applied. Like the social media ban, which had the direct opposite result of what they were attempting to do and was quite obvious that that would happen. The new CVPR LLM ban is equally silly because it just states that you shouldn't do what was already known as unethical and shifts the responsibility to the authors to prove that an LLM gave the review (which is a tall order). It is like proving to a cop that you've been shot for them only to ask that you identify the caliber of the bullet and the gun that was used. Not an effective strategy to someone bleeding out. It's a laughable solution to the clear underlying problem of low quality reviews. But that won't happen until ACs and metas actually read the reviews too. And that won't happen until we admit that there's too many low quality reviews and no clear mechanism to incentivize high quality ones https://twitter.com/CVPR/status/1722384482261508498
> Turns out there's a huge difference between restoring the occasional system, and restoring everything.

And yet it makes sense to regularly test even the "black start" scenario, just like in power grids:

- ransomware isn't the only threat to a datacenter, by far not. Particularly here in Europe, the scenario of an outright nuclear, conventional or EMP attack taking out entire sites is getting back onto the discussion table for disaster preparedness plans, but you also have to account for stuff like fires, water damage, a building collapsing, suicide bombers...

- you keep the employees sharp on their skills in DR

- you uncover where stuff is missing or (under-)documented. If you're a multinational org, it makes sense to have everything documented to a degree that an entire offsite team can just fly in and do everything needed to recover.

- you identify all the various servers that are (sometimes literally) stowed away in a cleaning storage locker but provide crucial services

- you identify bottlenecks that you can use to improve your plans. Basically, stuff like splitting out "cold" data that's rarely required to its own database so you can keep at least a rudimentary version of your service running while restoration is ongoing.
I have a huge feeling there will be a compressive period after the sort of cambrian explosion we've seen in the last decade.. everybody do very similar things, spread across N layers just so you can modify a bunch of rows in db. Mind boggling.
It’s the same stupidity on the latest top of the line Volvo XC90 as well. It feels like the designers have never driven a car.
Germany's old guard manufacturers are definitely behind Chinese EV companies, but they seem much more publicly willing to adapt to EVs than US' old guard car companies. Neither Ford nor GM have committed publicly to an "EV or bust" date, but VW Group and Mercedes-Benz both have publicly committed to selling nothing but EVs starting in 2025. (They seem to be on track for that, too. So far.) BMW is the odd duck left in Germany still on the EV fence (and also still flirting with hydrogen fuel cells [in partnership with Toyota] as recently as 2022, lol), but also represent a fraction of the sales of VW Group and Mercedes-Benz brands.

> Remember them falsifying reports and getting away with a slap in the wrist?

The EPA settlements were much more interesting than a "slap on the wrist". They paid for the vast majority of America's second largest EV charging network (Electrify America). They are also a big part of the "catch-up" R&D funds behind why both VW Group and Mercedes-Benz believe they will make nothing but EVs starting around 2025. VW Group's now heralded MEB platform, especially, is somewhat directly a product of US EPA financial engineering and maybe doesn't exist without the EPA settlement requirements.

It's almost too bad US manufacturers weren't caught cheating in the same way/at the same time to have the EPA also require them to do similar things in a similar way.
A side question. I recently rediscovered my very old collection of pdf books (also in form of images, txt and some other formats). Are there tools to manage these collections? Ideally those tools should maintain the folder names and hierarchy as well so that I don't solely depend on the tool.
I'm excited about this as a way to configure my Fly.io apps in a more declarative way. One of my biggest gripes about Fly.io is that there's a lightly documented bespoke config format to learn (fly.toml), and at the same time there's a ton of stuff you can't even do with that config file.

I love Kubernetes because the .yaml gives you have the entire story, but I'd _really_ love to get that experience w/o having to run Kubernetes. (Even in most managed k8s setups, I've found the need to run lots of non-managed things inside the cluster to make it user-friendly.)
Figma suspends designers account. He cannot access his work. No reply from Figma
Oh, yeah! I'd love a car with this kind of after-market tweaking.
Hard disagree. If you come up with a good new idea you should be able to get rich off of it.
It doesn't work for the forum which is what counts.
Not sure about that, as the article has this:

> The project wants to ... replicate the output of rustc — bugs, quirks, and all.