skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Essentially no, but

- most Linux distributions don't reach very far into e.g. the python ecosystem (python packages that exist are generally there to support packaged applications)

- nixpkgs isn't linux specific - most packages work on macos, and nixpkgs happily works on top of other distributions.
When we, Ukrainians, stood up to oligarchiat/mafia russian-puppet governing party in 2013-2014, what do you call this?
Another use with barbed wire, we ran an x.25 network across it on a very large ranch with nodes 1 mile apart.

With network monitoring we could now detect breaks in the fence at a 1 mile increment to let the ranch hands know where to go and when it broke.
If you are investing majority of your wealth in anything risky enough to depreciate, this model of wealth management is not suited for that? That doesn't mean no risks should be taken, this step comes after that. Lets say you found a unicorn startup, you would do just before being bought out.

These products are niche for a reason, there are only few with the kind of generational wealth to structure their assets in this way.

The author puts it at 300M+ net worth, I cannot attest to that, but I expect it the costs associated and starting conditions needed of how much of your portfolio is in extremely low risk assets to make this worth while, so only sensible for the ultra rich.
The opposite was true before Musk.

Some friends have an ancap libertarian and they were targeted before.

Woke content is not censored and you can find it on X, it's just that most left-wing people left for alternatives.

I went to bluesky briefly and I was inundated by transgender explicit content. I didn't open it again.
I am beginning to think we could a learn a lot about organizational principles from complex minds. Our current organizational principles for companies, city-states, countries are very early in our exploration of these. Complex minds, on the other hands, are here after a multi-billion year journey. We are just learning more about them. One fundamental principle is that you have to be in touch with "reality". The more layers of computation you have, the harder it is without the right feedback. Even impossible. In companies you lose that feedback loop with the "hire good people, treat their divisions as black-boxes" approach. In countries you lose that with autocratic central command. Complex minds simply cannot afford to do that because the moment you start hallucinating (imagine a reality that is not grounded in the real) you become lunch. The feedback mechanisms ensure that top-down expectations (ideas) are always matched up with bottom-up data.

That is another profound truth that's just lost entirely. Data is not information. And information is not data (reality). We must have the ability to both "see" the real data and also recognize the translation of that data into information to make good choices. The more layers in your org, the harder it is without feedback mechanisms that allow the bottom, reality-facing side of your org to pass on critical stuff without the interpretation and loss of middle-layers. Remember, you are an org too, a 37-trillion cell org that coheres as one in such a beautiful way you think of yourself as one "I" Long way before we find principles that allow us to do the same with companies and countries.
From where did they obtain your or my "heart signature"? What about gait, etc.?
As an European: my language doesn't even have a proper equivalent to "coding", only a direct translation to "programming"
I totally agree with you.

Saying that lying is part of the truth finding process demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of how any science work.
Can you explain who has control over a company then?
Doesn’t match my experience
So it is illegal to wear a hijab / niqab?
In 2010, my wife was interviewing CEOs as part of a school project. She emailed Jensen Huang out of the blue, to his email address @nvidia, and got a response and a live interview. There were a few others who were almost as accommodating, but, looking back on it from time to time, I'm still surprised by Jensen's openness and accessibility.

So I'm thinking that although he might engage only with direct reports, he's accessible to his company in a general sense.
As an outsider, I can't help but feel that the American election system that boils everything down to just two parties imposes a limited binary lens onto at least the American view of the world.
> “incumbents want fewer regulations”

Just to be clear, you are quoting typical lobbyist talking points here? I definitely disagree with such a simplification.

I agree with the fact that incumbents want to make it easier to make money.

> This is completely the opposite …

Yes, I am in firm agreement that the content, quality and enforceability of the regulation matters.

That said, I used contracts as an example, specifically to combat this common reduction: “Compliance cost price smaller businesses out of the market, so they are bad for competition and the little guy.”

Writing up a contract is more expensive than trusting someone’s word, it is fair to say that having no contracts would enable more small businesses to flourish (lower costs).

Many things reduce costs, however firms / businesses having to bear compliance costs is not bad for the polity.
You're just listing different kinds of bureaucracies. The principal difference with capitalism is that there isn't supposed to be any constraint on everyone trying to do it, and then competition prevents any one entity from absorbing all the resources.

This, of course, doesn't work if the incumbents capture the government and pass regulations that constrain the competition which is supposed to be keeping them in check.
> If the argument is that it is illegal to "censor", due to the Brazilian constitution, then Twitter is already engaging in illegal behaviour whenever it bans accounts

In the US first amendment protections only apply to the government. Is that different in Brazil?
The preprint version of the main paper being discussed:
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.07745
> Free speech is a dog whistle. We can't have actual "free speech" in the pure sense of the term

If you are in the U.S I am sorry you have this take on free speech, because it is distorted.

Free speech is defined by law and the law is clear. Freedom of speech means the free and public expression of opinions without censorship, interference and restraint by the government.
You can try https://app.y.gy. It's not a library, but they have an API for link-shortening and QR Code Generation.
I think this also has to do with most Western religions being much less strict. Islamic followers tend to follow all their rules pretty Stichting strictly (eg no alcohol, no pork, going to the mosque). Whereas in Western Christian religions things are pretty relaxed, except for some splinter groups. When I lived in Ireland my ex's family was pretty devout Catholic and they they didn't care about us living together unmarried.

The same goes with the attitude to questioning religion. Nobody cares about "blasphemy" in the West but in Islamic countries it's a pretty big thing.

I think this has its effect on LLMs as of course they are trained on real world conversations and writings.
It is sad that free speech became a dog whistle. Post WW2 up to at least 2000 free speech was a strong position of the left, Noam Chomsky being one of the most prominent examples.

Musk isn't hard right. There is a lot of overlap positions between him and Bill Clinton (the original one from the 1990s, I do not know what he says now), except that Musk is anti-war and obviously talks like he was on Usenet.

I can't understand that software engineers, who vigorously defended free speech and also the somewhat trollish communication style up to at least 2010, came to be assimilated and reprogrammed by their employers.

Even Zuckerberg now backpedals and says that Covid censorship and suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story was a mistake.
There is one part in me that says to not destroy your positive mood, there is another part in me that wishes to yell at the pythonistas in general to look outside the Python world.

Too often I come across Python projects that are hyped and when I dive into it I find it rather underwhelming to say it politely. Invariably it turns out that those people don´t know any other language than Python.

I see that as a general problem; Python is the language for beginners this day with an endless amount of tutorials, but it seems lots of those starters don´t get to have a look outside the Python world. I fear this is getting an even bigger problem because AI models are trained on a vast range of Python, not because it is better, but simply because it is the PHP of these days.

I don´t mean to imply that I know you have that "narrow profile".

I agree that the value in Python is for quick prototypes in case you know Python well. Outside of that (at the risk of a language war), I think one does better look into modern .net core or the JVM for a general purpose, high quality and highly efficient language/platform.

On the topic of ORM I think EF Core (.net core) and Doctrine (php) is strictly better.
No, you can fix them, though.

Of course if the developers of Linux/KDE/Gnome/etc. want to make their software unnecessarily confusing to new/less experienced users which would make inconsistent UX an intentional feature then you're right.
I can’t believe people think that the FBI or the Biden and Trump campaigns asking for disinformation to be taken down during an election and the people at Twitter making a call on that request is somehow a smoking gun showing some kind of conspiracy. It’s ridiculous!
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They are including suburbs in that number, so that doesn’t really counter the post you are responding to.
I like the idea for indoor devices, but the illusion will be immediately broken as soon as you pick up and move around the device unless the ambient light sensor is polling at a high rate
Charlie Marsh interview on uv and the future of Python packaging
Deep APIs were mentioned in "A Philosophy of Software Design" (John Ousterhout)
The people want their horseless carriage and their horses too.-
I said I'm happy to pay whatever they make from ads from me, where are you getting the "for nothing" part?
It's really more of a committee thing - so we wouldn't necessarily expect fmt, a third party library, to have wrong defaults.

Astoundingly, when this was standardised (as std::format for C++ 20) the committee didn't add back this mistake (which is present in numerous other parts of the standard). Which does give small hope for the proposers who plead with the committee to not make things unnecessarily worse in order to make C++ "consistent".
In my country electricity provider sends text message if there is an outage, but if I need to check something, I go to their website, they have nice map showing what areas are affected etc.
Does twitter even work without account anymore?
Battery life is still affected with emissive displays.
I dunno, I can barely see my OLED phone's screen when I'm using it on full brightness in the sun.
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The Daylight tablet is the closest to Playdate display among the tablets listed in the article.
It happens in multiparty systems as well. All it takes is a significant portion of the population feeling like their voices are not heard, and then one of the parties taking up their banner as one part of the overall campaign (which doesn't even have to be in their new constituents' interests).

This is happening all over Europe as we speak. And even though it happens to be extreme-right atm, it doesn't have to be. We've seen extreme-left revivals in the past as well.
Chatbots are warping reality. There is a growing number of people who use them as confirmation bias machines because most LLMs still do not disagree very well. And people enjoy being told they are right in an authoritative tone. We now get really angry if an LLM is "patronizing". We expect that it will tell us what we want to hear. And some of that anger is perhaps justified in the most egregious cases of information censorship for the sake of "Silicon Valley ethics", but not all of the anger.

As a software developer, I meet clients nowadays that dismiss all actual implementation issues because an LLM told them their idea is good. They will send screenshots from ChatGPT and shut down any meaningful discussion about the reality of the situation. I've also seen the older generation fall prey to many blogspam websites pumping out conspiracy content with LLMs, and sometimes even quite young people. I think we have all seen the blogspam situation.

I think this and echo chambers, or more generally — seeking unnatural levels of validation — is turning into something pathological. Either in the sense that it's pathology to seek only validation and nothing else, or also in the sense that this leads to stunted growth and inability to see nuance. We need some disagreement to properly come of age, to gain wisdom, and to understand the world around us. Developmental psychologists like Erik Erikson place conflict of ideas[0] at the center of a person's mental growth. But many people these days insulate themselves as much as they can from such conflicts. If this continues, it will be transformative for humanity, and very likely not for the better.

[0] https://www.simplypsychology.org/erik-erikson.html
That's his description of events, as told to Jordan B. Peterson.

"The child", now 20, responded that Musk was “cold,” “very quick to anger,” “narcissistic,” and described him as an absent father.

and further said

that her father’s comments had “crossed a line,” and she countered that he “knew what he was doing when he agreed to her treatment” when she was 16

~ https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-transgender...

~ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/business/media/elon-musk-...

It's not so cut and dried as you make out, it's a heated issue with strong opinions on either side.
Ask HN: How To: Internal Documentation?
Have you worked at a company where it was easy to get up and running as a new hire? Where it was easy to find instructions on setting up your development environment, how to do database migrations, seed data, or how to get access to AWS?

In my experience, this process is always subpar. There is no clear place to find documentation; even if it's there, it's often outdated.

I've been thinking about this for a while, and I feel like writing, reading, and maintaining documentation could get much smoother and, frankly, more fun!

Do you have any ideas on how to improve it all?
Also brazilian here. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from the consequences of illegal speech. One is allowed to go public and speak their minds, but if their speech is illegal (hate speech, conspiracy to overthrow the government, political campaigning during embargo periods), there will be consequences for those, and that does not constitute censorship.

Initially, consequences were not that bad (take down of some illegal posts), then they went to removal of recurring offender profiles.X ignored those Supreme Court Justice orders - their only legal course of action being to comply and file an appeal to the Supreme Court as a whole. That led to further escalation against their legal representation in Brazil and their executives (which is according to Brazilian law), which led to Musk shutting down the local representation rather than following the local law. Which put X in a non-compliance state and led to the order for its blocking.

If you understand the initial order to take down posts of defamation and illegal speech as censorship, you comply and appeal. Ignoring a court order is not a legal option.
Yeah, it's not compression in the sense of compressing data. Kind of compression in that it takes less resource to encode general rules than to remember the answer for everything.

The paper said was that the most efficient bits of the network were those that encoded rules rather than remembered data. Somehow those bits gradually took over from the less efficient parts. I'll have to dig around, can't seem to find it right now.
It wasn’t an sql injection in their code. It was a third party issue.

So internally the question would probably how can you open it up responsibly.

Closing the api is probably a support nightmare; they probably gave too many rights and too little safety checks.
I think I'd prefer that over "Yes, Jim, that idea sounds great. Let's try that out" knowing full well he's doomed to fail... but has to see it for himself. Only letting the conversation end once they hear my support. The warnings and outright plea for a change in direction are ignored.

Above is how 99% of my days/meetings go in the US. Equally futile but requiring ongoing [and ignored] input. At most a pep talk.

I dream for that level of autonomy and honesty. Choosing when to get up/return? Not being goaded into saying something that's ultimately ignored? Oh, yea! When can I move?

edit: Oh, the other 1%? Watching people double check the things I said I did. It's like there's no trust or purpose... because there isn't. Give me the spreadsheet.
> In the late 1990s there were still medical scientists who questioned the causal link between HIV and AIDS

This is how science works. Being right is not "science". Science is verb. If the questioners were right we would be calling them heroes.
Right, so if a new Linux user who uses Ctrl+C/V in all GUI apps finds that he needs to paste something into terminal that should be perfectly obvious for them?

Or should that person feel confused and annoyed since they can't they don't know how to basic operation just so that "power users" could feel better about themselves (I can't think of any other reason which would someone think purposefully inconsistent UX is a good thing...)

Also "Insert" is not a thing on most laptop keyboards. So it would be Ctrl + Fn + Delete(or something like that) which is also perfectly obvious.
How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnagie
Or it will result in another phenomenon similar to Gell-Mann Amnesia.
The Soviet Union supported anti war, peace protests and free speech in leftist groups, but most of it was organic.

Russia purportedly supports free speech right wing groups, though I think the problem is vastly overstated in order to discredit them. Most of this is organic,too.

Whatever is the case, left or right, we cannot let our own beliefs be dictated by whatever Russia supports or co-opts at any given time. Similarly, vegetarians should not abolish their beliefs just because a notorious 20th century dictator was also a vegetarian.
> If you fully play out your argument, the least wealthy and least successful deserve it the most to have their remaining wealth taken because they are not assuming any risk in this society.

No, if you fully play out his argument then the least wealthy deserve not to have their wealth stolen. His argument is that theft is bad, it isn't a complex argument with unexpected implications.

Although it does seem a bit faulty regardless, the amount of risk someone is taking has no bearing on whether taking their stuff is theft.
> He followed this advice and the results were disastrous.

The whole idea of this article hinges on this sentence. What disasterous thing happened exactly? Considering the premise seems to be missing, dare I say, this article seems to rhetorical.
> Writing up a contract is more expensive than trusting someone’s word, it is fair to say that having no contracts would enable more small businesses to flourish (lower costs).

But now we're back to "what the regulation is matters more than how many there are". There can exist rules that benefit small companies, obviously. But if the rules every company has to comply with can fill three shelves at the library, this is not going to benefit small companies because they will be unable to operate.

> Many things reduce costs, however firms / businesses having to bear compliance costs is not bad for the polity.

It depends what they are.

One of most insidious is regulations that are ostensibly neutral, i.e. there is a societal benefit of approximately $100 per company on average and to get it the rule is going to impose costs of approximately $100 on the average company. The books are full of these because they provide some ostensible benefit and the cost isn't even being calculated. Nobody fights against them too hard because they're approximately breakeven.

Except that each of them adds $100 in compliance costs to every company, and there are ten thousand of them, so now every company in that industry has a million dollars in compliance costs, which small companies can't sustain. So the rules on their own provide neither benefit nor cost to society, but impair competition, and that has a societal cost.
Dont know about the US but in India, you pay sales tax on EVERYTHING you buy. Doesn't matter you are rich or poor. You pay this tax.

Want to buy an expensive car? Prepare to pay upwards of 100% car value in taxes.

Same for cigarettes. Around 200% tax just to give 2 examples.

Now, you "can" save your income tax by sleights of hand, by showing more expenses than actual or by misreporting things but still, you dont always get to pay 0 tax. That never happens.
> Your resource is really bad.

What a bad take. That resource is awesome. Sure, it is about inference, not training, but why is that a bad thing?