skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to write my own thoughts here.

1. "Clothing does nothing interesting on its own" - Sure, clothing is not sentient, but this statement is false. Clothing provides shelter. It warms. It protects us from the sun, from rain. It expresses personality. It expresses culture, status, values. It does a lot.

2. As the author states. For any X that is "an artificial product[1]" the statement "X is a virus" could be applied. So why associate clothing with a virus? "It's more accurate in the case of clothing when you distinguish different species." isn't an argument. There are varieties of many objects.

So why relate clothing with a virus? In a further example from the article, shoes? Why equate something often associated with women/femininity as something associated with sickness?

Interesting arguments about the "fast fashion" industry are missing in favor of dime a dozen misogyny.

[1] Never mind that clothing is not an artificial object. It's a necessity to protect our bodies from the elements.
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Interesting opinion but even if the courts will agree it is not relevant because most software is intended to be distributed globally (including at the very least the US market) and will have to comply with most restrictive interpretation of the license.
You can't commit locally with either CVS or SVN, if I remember correctly?

If the premise is "I can work on this locally", then you could do this since forever by just having a local directory...
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I don't think so, that thing was dog slow due to its Java based OS and I can't associate it in any way with the word 'slick' ;)
Sun workstations without disks were also often used as thin clients. It was quite simple to boot them from the network and use an NFS root or use them as a graphical terminal.
Have you read any of the older Upanishads? (although I guess for our purposes they seem to be, at earliest, contemporaneous with Zoroaster)

I'm an idiot about the tipitaka: escaping samsara (or least loosening the fetters of maya) is kind of the point; eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39128233
Yes but that one is not moving infinitely fast. If it kept accelerating it would eventually become opaque.
> Unless the GPL was enshrined in some law I'm not aware of, it's likely to be a a breach of contract, not necessarily "illegal".

The GPL licenses give you specific permission regarding copyrighted work, provided you comply with the terms. If you do not comply with the terms, you do not get the permissions. If you then do something like distribute the work you are not in breach of contract, as you had no contract to breach. You are in breach of copyright, which is not legal as there are laws prohibiting copyright infirngement.

> If a court rules against you, in most cases the worst that can happen is having to pay some redress to the developer and stopping what you were doing.

Why do you want to leave this possibility open? Why not just avoid GPL and use a licence which is clearer, where you don't have to first go through litigation to understand the terms of the licence?
I recommend thinking back through difficult events from your past which were hard to understand at the time to see if autism could help explain them.
You must spell well.
Like current this clinical study [1]?
Or this pre-clinical [2].
The technology seems to exist (and there are people running marathons that were in need of a joint replacement before), only that the adoption is still in progress

[1] https://biomedizin.unibas.ch/en/communication/details/univer...
[2] https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/08/Researchers-f...
If it's a copyright violation, it's illegal.
Worse if it's intentional
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> These days, we are used to cloning an entire project on our computer, after which we can safely plug it off the network and continue writing software in a completely disconnected way. ... And guess what: your local repository also contains the full history of every single change ever made to your project

This feature also sets a hard limit on the size of your project, its files, and its history: it's limited to the smallest laptop of a developer.

Most of the time this doesn't matter, but alternative (often terrible) VCS still exist in industries where the files are much larger such as game development, video production, and chip design.
Apparently I'm a bathing cap, my keyboard is blowdryer, my mouse a dumbbell.

That's pretty impressive
When the capital investment to compete with large players in the ISP/electricity market is enormous you will, eventually, end up with a monopoly either way.

Laying cables for internet/electricity is expensive, I cannot comprehend why the USA hasn't understood this particularity and hasn't attempted to create a publicly-owned national grid and fibre infrastructure where providers can plug into and offer internet connectivity and electricity production over it.

You do not want multiple competing companies laying down their own electricity cables, nor internet cables, it's wasteful and just creates a huge barrier for any competition to appear...
Thank you for the link, very interesting post.
that's a bad use of "even" - the elite get away with all sorts of things normal people do not.
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> TIL a "journeyman" is a "journée-man"

By that guy's "executing a day’s work" definition. Usually it's used in the same sense as medieval - early modern guild terminology: After having apprenticed with your first master you set out on a journey to learn further from other masters of the craft in other towns. (Hopefully to graduate to master yourself after a while. No intermediary "expert" step in those days.)

But maybe that's what you meant. Sarcasm is sometimes hard to detect online.
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Yup, real shame. There were also a number of teams working on internal projects specifically for dogfood-ing as well. To my knowledge those teams all dissolved as well (but that was nearly 2 years ago now, maybe things changed for the better).

>Unity is no longer a games engine company, it is an ad company. It is taking surprisingly long for people to see it this way.

to be honest, I wasn't aware half of unity's revenues were ads until I worked there. Online gaming discourse has such tunnel vision for AAA console games that it is very easy to miss how over half of gaming revenue is mobile, which is where Unity rules in terms of market share.
I don't think he'd appreciate being described as an "influencer", though.
"Rational Clearcase"
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Private trackers are alive and well, and demand is if anything increasing as media companies make the same mistakes all over again.
The undesirable crystals only grow in gravity?

(This sounds like such wizardry.)
Thanks for sharing, though the specifics somewhat confirms my understanding:

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

> The project was certified by Governor Gavin Newsom in November 2023 under SB 149, a new law that provides certified projects streamlining benefits regarding legal challenges filed under the California Environmental Quality Act.[10][11] Construction is scheduled to begin in 2024 with final design expected to be done in 2025 and be completed in 2030.

If it was not for discretionary exemptions to regulations, it would likely not have been possible. It's also quite dystopian to have regulations that can be overwritten by executive discretion. This is a recipe for corruption.
See the issue with AI or (AGI) is that it is trying to model or imitate a system which is irrational, whimsical and inconsistent i.e. human. So the o/p of an AI system will be subjected to bias by humans especially when there is no universal right & wrong.
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> I remember similar debates years ago about oil, that if the US produced enough domestically that imports could stop and local prices drop.

A slightly different version of this which does carry some weight - an oil producing country could use an export ban to lower domestic prices.
https://github.com/Exhuma-2024-UHD
https://ithelp.ithome.com.tw/articles/10341745
Sorry though revenue per employee is still massive for a lot of companies. The folks who own the companies are even more overpaid. Also the insecurity really does reduce quality when you have people performing what used to be 3 peoples roles and everyone who’s left is told to tighten their belts (read: burnout within a few years)
> I got in a discussion with the branch manager about it. He was convinced that open office was a productivity multiplier.

The most ludicrous thing is that those managers are usually sitting in their own offices and not with the rest in open office chaos.
What are the two things summed? Are they really both c/kWh? Just confused because in the UK they'd be p/day and p/kWh respectively, and the numbers look 'in the right ballpark'. (Except that it would be mental to have the standing charge vary according to peak/not time.)
You can't, and it was one of the major pain in the ass points allowing git and Mercurial to eat their lunches. Also developers "locking" entire subdirectories in SVN and blocking any others to merge into, bonus point when they forgot it and went on vacation.

Merges in SVN and CVS were also very painful to do. After being bitten by it, every single place I worked at had to create protocols and guidelines on how often to merge/reconcile code to not waddle in a eventual merge hell.

VSS, CVS and SVN were ok to use when there were no other choices, Perforce was really good but very expensive, git and hg felt like the future when they showed up.
Is it virulence, or surface tension?
Can you please give some examples of non-western governments fining companies on behalf of customers?
Tears of the Kingdom had over one million public downloads even before its official release last year. It's probably less common than it used to be (especially for music) but it's still widespread.

I think the biggest change is that people at the bottom have moved on to iptv or paying for shared Plex accounts instead of doing the downloading themselves. The chain is still dependent on torrenting though.
A few times on LinkedIn I’ve complained about people “story topping” like #5 in the article.

Each time I’ve been brigaded by people who say that’s a “neurodiverse” trait and I’m being an insensitive clod.
>aren't these games the majority of the market and therefore the engine is a good fit for it

it's the Pareto principle, I suppose. There are tons, tons, tons more small games than large ones, but the large ones take the lion's share of the revenue. So it depends on how you approach games.
Having your children stop talking to you is not abuse, and trying to frame it as such is offensive to people who have been subjected to actual abuse.

If your children have tried to stop talking to you, and you keep trying to contact them, and they name call or swear, that's not abuse. If they've said they want nothing to do with you, even if you don't agree with the reasons, and you keep trying to be involved in their lives, then they have a right to be angry at you for not respecting their wishes.

Your children do not owe you anything.

Now there are a whole host of reasons that children want nothing to do with their parents, and given this post does not list physical abuse, but does list "coldness", "bullshit", "biting the hand that feeds you"[1], and to me most notably "evil" as the abuses. That last one to me really puts this in the general feeling of parents who mistreat their children for being "evil" (they're LGBT, not conforming to whatever gender norms the parents have, aren't being religious enough, etc are the common ones), or just have those extreme American christian groups that encourage beating children, etc. Certainly I've seen enough cases of the former personally where the parents are abusive, but get upset when their children move out the moment they can and want nothing to do with them, and then have outbursts that are nearly identical to the "content" of this site.

u/freddie_mercury correctly mentioned that if people haven't, that they should read The Missing Missing Reasons before taking this site at face value. Abusive parents seem extremely unwilling to acknowledge that anything they do is wrong, and therefore present any action taken by their children to distance themselves as being unreasonable and/or unfair (or "character assassination" as this site claims).

I get that their are parents who may not know what they did, or maybe they did nothing at all, but their child[ren] joined one of the many religions and cults that require you cut out any family members who aren't also in that religion or cult, which I get would terrible, but the hyperbole and the terminology on this site screams "I am an abusive parent, think my children owe me, and they are required to include me in their adult lives regardless of any of my actions".

[1] though again, your children do not owe you anything simply because you're doing what you are legally and morally required to do as a parent.
The weirdest thing is when someone interrupts you, you point it out, and then they get mad, as though you had the audacity to point out their interruption. It’s the most bizarre thing.

After many times of this occurring with one family member in particular, I’ve sort of passive aggressively started responding “Sorry, I didn’t mean for the middle of my sentence to interrupt the beginning of yours.” But sometimes they don’t even hear that because they’re still talking right on over me.
I'd say AI is more like a 3D printer than an assembly line, and not just because both sound futuristic.

Assembly lines make one thing efficiently, by breaking down the complete task into small units such that no single person needs much training. This is basically what UNIX has been doing since at least the command line pipe operator was invented.

3D printers are general purpose and can kinda make anything in principle, but in practice the cheap ones are very limited while the one for building a rocket engine is priced at "hire a team of full-time engineers to build and maintain it", and in any case these are not a good choice for reliable mass production. This seems like a better, though still flawed, pattern match to AI.
You can't commit to a server, obviously, but you can commit to a local directory. You would have needed set one up in advance however. Checkouts are sparse, in git terminology.

Commit here approximates to a push in git terminology. The intended use is a little bit different. Normally you wouldn't have committed until you were really done with the work (and all reviews etc) since there is really no concept of a rebase. So a commit is really something you "commit" to. You work on the patch instead.

Some of the difference is from the tools, but some of this is also due to the difference between a patch based vcs and content addressable one.
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I thought of that post when reading the comments, too. I still have empathy for these people, just like I have for people who have made a cult their entire personality[0], and attack their family members if they try to get them out of it. But a lot of those comments read like they are written by _very_ unreliable narrators.

[0] like www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/
The sense of north is (was) already a thing. It kind of sucked though, and injecting a HUD into the front of a night vision tube is a lot more practical.
What are GADTs and why do they make type inference sad?
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I worked for a Multinational US company that was doing business with a Scandinavian company. The Scandinavian company wrote a GPL plugin to our software and wanted us to make contributions to it. We didn't think we could do that and still be within the terms of the GPL, they insisted that we could because they would be fine with it.
> working plasma fusion reactor

What's most remarkable about this is that you've allowed yourself to be taken in by it. Show even the slightest level of skepticism, please.
>Within a couple sentences of each other he says (paraphrasing), “if you test any model (Gemini, ChatGPT, Grok) you’ll see it says far left things” and “we don’t know why [Gemini] is far left leaning”.

>I think he’s being honest here.

I doubt it. <https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/video-g...>
The important part with LGPL is not really about static vs dynamic linking.

The important part is that you should be able to modify the LGPL library that the application uses. In the case of a python module or plugins, it is possible, so that's ok for LGPL. You can even statically link LGPL libraries with your proprietary application as long as you provide a way to relink your application with a modified version of these libraries.
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> Also, it's entirely unrelated to the post.

Entirely unrelated to the post? Entirely? The post talks:

"To write Common Lisp code with comfort and still have the ability to interact with REPL, you can choose your favorite IDE"

And then it goes on to provide some recommendations for major editors out there. So the GP is at least a little related to the post?

I did not get the impression of any flame war in the GP. As a Emacs user myself I am well aware that everyone does not like to use Emacs. Many like Vim. I don't see the problem with recommending a Vim setup for Lisp. We need more recommendations like that for different editors to make Lisp programming more attractive to people of all types of technical background.
There are lots of problems in the world.

They wouldn't go away if the USA did nothing.

They would get worse in most cases.
China has 18 border disputes and has been encroaching on India. Don’t try make the claim it hasn’t waged war when it is.

It also enslaves an entire ethnic group. Highest executions. Almost 100% conviction rate. Has undercover police operations all around the world pretending to be Chinese cultural or help centers for Chinese people.
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Since the end of WW2 the most belligerent country in the world has been the USA. Both in active wars as in covert operations to destabilise countries.
So is the mistake in this particular example or that the AI forgoes reality in favor of a more socially engineered answers?
> Should all women (and possibly people with non-western names, who
can run into similar issues) work under fake names?

Some people have such a low opinion of women in tech they
invent entire fake AI avatars and legends [0] rather than deal
with the real thing [1].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/backlash-over-fa...

[1] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=22
Presumably not their own costs (time spent, stress, miscelanneous expenditures incurred due to having to attend court) though, right?
Obligatory I have no mouth and I must scream.
> but the implication was that one "timeline" was essentially just a computer simulation in the other one

That was not the case, no.

No simulations are involved.
It's potentially not an easy one in law, but it is one that the GPL is explicitly intended to capture. The only question is whether it has successfully done so (and that actually depends on the specifics of the usage, as I understand it).
It's probably a personal taste thing, but on Spotify some of the radios I listen to are based on the following artists of their songs:

- Two Steps from Hell

- Sultan + Shephard

- Tom Player

- Matias Puumala

Some other random playlists:

- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E8PiJpaZ8rWVi?si=...

- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E35ecXdUS92X1?si=...

- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E36Le7GAznRHV?si=...

- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E366Mpiqxs399?si=...

I don't really curate my stuff, I occasionally "like" songs or start radios off songs I'm enjoying in the moment.
If a Russia attacked a NATO country the USA and NATO allies would strike back the same afternoon.
Once upon a time, yes. I wonder how much the popularization of "minimalism" came from design trends, how much from the lack of time to refine UI for games, and how much due to the lack of tooling in modern engines to easily translate complex designs mocks into the game?
When I was a PhD student and post-doc, I used to also arrive by 7am, and get most of my work done before anyone else arrived at 11am. I had all the equipment to myself, and enjoyed being able to settle in to the work day without having to interact with people.
Great! Now I need an ELI5 tutorial on taking pix of a property and generating a 3D model for 3D printing. Then the kid can request buildings for the model train layout!
Seems like a reasonable inference. Futurology, even before there was a name for it, seems to hinge on two important factors; immediate need vs convergence of technologies. This results in some admittedly anachronistic ideas, but seems like a pretty rational approach, none the less.

That the sea was not only accessible to a degree, but we also had hints of what was down there, would likely put that in the front of thinking minds as a problem solved in the near future, outer space being a bit less attractive of a mystery, since it was not obvious that resources could be gained from trying to go there.

I do often wonder what our current predictions of the future will look like five or six generations down the line. I'd like to think that we have a better grasp on problems that need solving or how technology will naturally combine to accomplish more work, but I bet the folks in the late 1800's thought they had a good grasp on that, too.
No being invaded by Russia or China mostly.
California has always had weather volatility. Some years the reservoirs are empty by June, other years there is so much water most of it is released into the sea because the reservoirs can only retain a small part of it.
Not sure USA is the problem here.
To be fair to Diamond, his arguments in GG&S are bit broader in scope than just the the continental axis hypothesis. The disparity in domesticable animals between Eurasia and other continents always seemed more persuasive than the axial argument. Although it is true that he leans too far into determinism and discounts cultural and economical factors.
I clicked on the link imagining some sort of Walter White situation, not knowing what Varda's Winnebago was, so I agree the sub heading is less misleading.