skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was it being invented or discovered?

I feel like with each new wave of music technology, people basically search the space for a while until the fruitful sub spaces are identified.

The novelty of the exploration is what is there the first time and not there in the future. You don’t know what’s going to sound good until someone happens to bump into it. You get surprises.
I don't think it does, actually.

Let's say, hypothetically, that someone gets this benefit who has no health condition that anyone will admit exists without being paid a bribe.

Are you arguing that you're taking something from the company by them allowing this?

You rapidly run into a similar problem to one many means-testing programs for benefits in the US do - it becomes far more expensive to do the testing than it would to just give people the benefit if they ask for it, even if many more people asked for it.

And if some core job requirement makes WFH an actual nonstarter (e.g. if you're being paid to move packages in a warehouse, you generally can't do that from your bed), then it doesn't matter if your doctor says you can't do it, they can still fire you for not meeting a core requirement of your job that they can't just work around.
This is the epitome of dumb distraction. Americans absolutely love that.
I can't wait for revios to go live, it's going to be everyone's goto app to check for reviews
You haven't made any kind of case that The Guardian is "undermining the free flow of information"

> it seems they would impose

This is your opinion, freely expressed. It's neither evidence nor was it undermined by The Guardian.

> Isn't Guardian a "news" outlet

"strawman framing" with "a side of airquotes".

Even so, can you point to any regulations in the UK or US that define what a "news" outlet is and how they are even required to have a comment section?

> which being "neutral" and "accommodating to a plurality of ideas" is a inherent virtue?

Core news reporting is about "just the facts", editorial stances are another thing that good organisations have and identify when in play - there is no requirement to be neutral about, say, Hitlers poltics (as evidenced by The Daily Mail at the time).

> I think they would have,

Again that's literally just your opinion.
> Would it be a viable solution for teachers to ask everyone to do this? Like a mandatory part of the homework? And grade it? Just a random thought...

To ask everyone to use ChatGPT, or to ask everyone to document their use of ChatGPT? I don't think the former is reasonable unless it's specifically the point of the class, and I believe that the latter is already done (by requirements to cite sources), though, as often happens, rapid technological developments mean that people don't think of ChatGPT as a source that they are required to cite like any other.
I deleted Twitter as soon as musk took over because he’s a feudalist
I don't have any advice on how to get started, but please take a look at one of the legends of the 8/16-bit era:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Huelsbeck

Maybe I'm nostalgic, but these tunes were amazing.
https://youtu.be/7dJrsmt9BOY

Oh, and if you haven't invested 30 minutes of your remaining lifetime listening to Orbital - The Box (Full Version) you are missing a masterpiece.

Here is Orbital's Paul Hartnoll playing with his gear:

https://youtu.be/VjlWypTclec
The argument that we have evidence of our own civilization requires no evidence. You’re typing on an artifact of that civilization.

An argument that there exists any other civilization requires evidence. Show me yours.
They have the political power to do this: https://smex.org/algeria-another-year-another-exam-shutdown/
Google's Terms of Service state that "California law will govern all disputes arising out of or relating to these terms, service-specific additional terms, or any related services, regardless of conflict of laws rules. These disputes will be resolved exclusively in the federal or state courts of Santa Clara County, California, USA, and you and Google consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts." [1]. So I suppose as much as any TOS is enforceable.

[1] https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en-US#toc-problems
when was the last time you did this? its absolutely awful still
Since the article mentions graphs, I’d like to ask what would be the advantages of graph databases over relational? Graph databases have become popular in RAG related topics, maybe mainly GraphRag related work by MS. So I wonder if the same accuracy with RAG could be achieved by traditional databases. Or if graph databases are an absolute must, then what are their limitations? Are there any successful production usage cases of graph databases?
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42129924
If we're ants/microbes to them, why wouldn't they just watch? Maybe UFOs are some interstellar view-master for alien kids. Maybe Earth/humanity is just boring, deepintoyoutube tier civilization without a lot of views, so objects pop in once in a while for a peek. All the cool alien kids are busy creeping on more viral civilizations.
I don't know how you can read a story like this one and not conclude that abortion is healthcare. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/25/1171851...
we get lots of direct and unsolicited feedback actually, much more than paper days. a fair amount of it is threats though.
This posits an extraordinarily American attitude to the cosmos. The universe eschewed public transportation several billion years ago, and instead of building the space subway system, they all got personal flying saucers. So yes they're out there on the weekends, cruising around and causing mischief. Even drunk-piloting their starships into sheep ranches in New Mexico (do the assholes even have insurance?).

Had space politics gone differently, there would be high-speed galaxy trains connecting all the important star systems, and we would've gone unnoticed in our little backwater forever. You need proof? r/fuckpersonalflyingsaucers is marked "invite only".
Does anyone know of a vertical farming firm which is not perpetually losing money on its farming operations?
Ah, Objective C. The language that combines the famous memory safety of C with the blazing-fast performance of Smalltalk.
Only you rich fuckers can get in with those shady doctors.

There's abuse of every system. So should we just quit doing anything?
I typed up some thoughts about the nth time I tried out Visual Studio Code to see what all the fuss was about and if my productivity could be improved vs. Emacs. I might turn it into a blog post, if I can be arsed to start a blog again.

One header read: "Not better enough". Inasmuch as Visual Studio Code does anything better than Emacs, it doesn't do things better enough to justify expending the high activation energy of switching, unlearning my Emacs workflow and learning all that I need to know to do things Visual Studio Code's way.
This. Goddamn am I sick of people claiming bias on a news organization with tacit expectation that somewhere the platonic form of news information exists which is objectively true and unbiased.

It does not exist, it never will exist, and if Serenity has taught us anything, it's that you can't stop the signal, Mal.
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I am not familiar with the term 'gambling exchange', where'd you get it? Many 'sportsbooks' are referred to as 'betting exchanges', but that has become something of a term of art, much like the term 'prediction market'.

In any case, attempting to use a derogatory or denigrating euphemism to refer to something is usually less productive than simply exposing (what you perceive to be) its faults. What specific issues do you have with these markets/exchanges?
I feel like this is a rose tinted view of media based on Hollywood movies...

News media has always been biased and often had some form of agenda, sometimes even driven by the government.

What you used to be able to do though was acknowledge the bias and read with that lense.

What I think was true is that there was an effort of fairness and truth telling that today is far less true. Many media companies are owned by very few billionaires and they explicitly see them as propaganda.

That said, I'd always marked the Guardian as one of the remaining old schoolers. They have some weird and dangerous views, but their ownership structure gives some confidence there is an effort of fairness overall.

(I am also lost on how a foreign media company could publish a political opinion illegally in that country under US election law??)
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It doesn't seem like you read my full comment?
Sentence Structure for Writers (2017)
Bluesky was created before Twitter got sold
Step 1: Automatically reject PRs from usernames like "evildojo666"
If they are transparent, what is leaking?
this is fucking hilarious
But it is a duplicate post though, OP was late about 5 hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42125667
Can you explain further the mechanism to be used for "checking their authority" without contradicting them or calling out their bad behavior? (Either of which is nowadays apparently considered "political opinion".)
bingo ... and distraction from Trump appointing so many wildly unqualified and corrupt folks to government positions of power. Matt Gaetz to DoJ (etc) ... wait, look ... a UFO!
Apple's "Dim flashing lights" accessibility option is built into tvOS, iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
Man, looking at the comments it's crazy to me that hn's knowledge of a $3T industry hasn't evolved at all in 7 years. For those not in the know, Bridge, the stablecoin partner here, was just purchased by Stripe for $1.1B because they see future cost savings from using stablecoins for global remittances and forex.

https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/10/22/stripe-announces-1-1-b...

It's cool to have some skepticism, but update your beliefs. Scams and illicit transactions in crypto are actually smaller by proportion in all crypto than in USD or other fiat currencies at .3% last year.

https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2024-crypto-crime-report-in...

This looks like just a secure enclave that you can deposit any crypto onto, so whether you trust the manufacturer of your smart card or credit card or not is up to you. Seems like there are easier ways to run a crypto scam, imo
As someone that knows Java since it exists, I fail to see the connection.

Additionally, as someone that ported a visualisation framework from NeXTSTEP to Windows, the Acorn would never be able to run NeXTSTEP.

NeXTSTEP was ridiculously expensive for a reason, in terms of hardware capabilities for the time.
I don't follow Musk on any social media, do not engage with any of his posts, or any even mildly related posts. Yet everytime I login, there he is again at the top of my timeline usually promoting some inane conspiracy theory. Does he think so little of my intelligence that he doesn't think he needs to be even a little bit subtle about manipulating the content I consume or he just doesn't care? Yeah I too have left for good. Not that anyone cares, but maybe someone will care about the Guardian.
> I’ve seen a lot of places that require students to reference their ChatGPT use — and I think it is wrong headed. Because it is not a source to cite!

Why is it not a source? I think that it is not if "source" means "repository of truth," but I don't think that's the only valid meaning of "source."

For example, if I were reporting on propaganda, then I think that I could cite actual propaganda as a source, even though it is not a repository of truth. Now maybe that doesn't count because the propaganda is serving as a true record of untrue statements, but couldn't I also cite a source for a fictional story, that is untrue but that I used as inspiration? In the same way, it seems to me that I could cite ChatGPT as a source that helped me to shape and formulate my thoughts, even if it did not tell me any facts, or at least if I independently checked the 'facts' that it asserted.

That's "the devil's I," by the way; I am long past writing school essays. Although, of course, proper attribution is appropriate long past school days, and, indeed, as an academic researcher, I do try my best to attribute people who helped me to come up with an idea, even if the idea itself is nominally mine.
I remembering learning at school, at about the age of 12, that all sources are biased.
Wait, how do closed-loop air conditioners poison anyone?

And who is using high powered lasers to blind people in clubs? And when hasn't getting too close to music required hearing protection? Even a flute is over 90 dB.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386332 - The Origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its Evolution at NeXT by Brad J. Cox, Steve Naroff, and Hansen Hsu, from HOPL IV
New York City Council Approves Bill Shifting Broker Fees to Landlords
If it's not compatible with just any SSD (of the right form factor) it's only a small step. Still surprised to see it, but they really have a long way to go.
Yes, there is interop at the linking level. I was however explicitly stating that you can mix and match both ObjC and C++ within the same source files and as long as you don't violate the language rules of one with what's allowed in the other (e.g. giving your ObjC variable the name template), then absolutely any features, even language-wise, are supported. You can have C++ RAII destructors call ObjC methods. You can have C++ classes with an NSArray member. You can have a std::vector as a property of your ObjC class. You can mix and match libdispatch, std::call_once, ObjC blocks and C++ lambdas.

No other language comes close to this incredible source-level interop. Here be dragons, but there's also lots of opportunity (and fun, from a programming languace theory perspective).
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This statement is so nonsensical I’m not even going to respond to the content.
They all are. But they can do something like Firing Line, where people of opposing viewpoints are invited to debate. The editorial board can also hire a cross section of political views.
I can't edit it, so here's a direct site link:

https://soundcloud.com/paullouth/paul-louth-jungle-mix-nye-2...
> eventually gets you to the point where the next platform you choose to leave is called Earth

On the other hand, that's the express goal of the owner of X.
The jackasses that bring their "support dog" shopping with them are pretty rampant. People abuse the fuck out of the support dog program. I even know two people with "support dogs" who straight up admit they did it because they want to take their dogs out with them.
I do not know if Musk tweaked the algorithm in favor of Trump as I've left Twitter several years ago due to getting tired of propaganda bots. But what I do know is that Google and Facebook (as well as previous Twitter owners) practicing targeted propaganda for years already, pushing political agenda in your throat no matter how you ask them to not recommend you specific authors, channels or topics. I don't think we actually have any social platform for free and open speech.
They couldn't get it to be efficient enough.
There is something disturbing about your take on this:
1) People who did the work do not deserve to be compensated.
2) Advertising is more valuable than the product being advertised.
I am struggling to understand this mindset.
Mastodon does not have an automated feed like Twitter does, so what you see in your feed is people you follow and their boosts. Just don't follow people who are interested in your sex life.
You are being childish.
How about asking a vaccine researcher if a vaccine contains a tracking chip?
How do name collisions and copyrights work? I enjoyed listening to Ultravox in the 80's.
Except when they haven't: https://newrepublic.com/article/183285/supreme-court-chevron...

There's something very funny and simultaneously chilling about a majority opinion authored by Gorsuch[1] who has said “[o]nly the written word is the law” [1] totally mixing up laughing gas and a toxic pollutant emitted by cars.

[1] I know the clerks actually write them, HN pedants.

[2] https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/06/symposium-the-triumph-of-...
This is the 2nd stupidest shit ever. Only after blasting off to live on Mars 8-/

No wonder the US political situation is such a disaster (and I don't just mean the election of the cheato).

With this much of the population, and this much of the representative legislature so far off the rails of reality, it's almost a miracle that anything gets done at all.
X doesn't control algorithms that promote content and suppress dissenting views on a major social network.
I stopped myself from making the printer analogy, but of course it's relevant, as is the fact that few seem to care. I personally hope some group strikes back to sanitize images watermarked this way, with no more difficulty than removing exif data.
Metal is implemented in a mix of Objective-C (CPU) and C++ (Metal Shaders), Swift only has bindings.

Maybe one it they will rewrite the Objective-C, who knows.

Kotlin transition is a Google thing, outside Android barely anyone notices that it exists.
Not GP, but I suspect it's the gambling part? Hence the name?

Gambling is a destructive addition that the vast majority of participants cannot manage well. It harms not only them, but their children and their spouses. How many a kid's college fund has gone up in smoke? A lot of harm is done to very innocent people in pursuit of a ten second rush. (Much like all other addictions.)

I also very respectfully disagree that inventing a name for something is not productive - it's incredible effective, in fact. That's why political campaigns often favour duelling names over hot button issues: it's easier to win broad based support from soccer moms and football dads for 'marriage equality', whereas 'homosexual marriage' may be a harder sell. See also 'medicare for all' versus 'socialized medicine', 'pro-choice' v 'pro-life' etc.
I’m sick to death of everything being described as “opinions that challenge one’s worldview”. There are opinions and there are opinions. There are also philosophical differences of opinion vs things that blatantly factually untrue. Remember “alternative facts”? from the last US election? That was a thing that someone legitimately said in response to specific tangible factually incorrect statements being made about the nature of election fraud. Not wanting to be exposed to content from a news organisation that so aggressively promotes this “worldview” is not the same thing as being a thin-skinned snowflake that only wants to consume content that doesn’t challenge them.

The notion that I’m meant to ingest some unfiltered firehose of utter garbage because of some incorrect notion of “all opinions are equally valid” is complete and utter bullshit.
Threads isn't a place where I specifically go to follow someone. To me it's more like TikTok, but text.

I open it, get a few random engagement bait posts, maybe reply to some and then close it. No meaningful discussion will happen.
> I do have a problem with Musk apparently tweaking the algorithm to specifically promote one candidate and to bombard me with political content that skews a certain way even when I selected other interests

He has been doing that since almost a year. The "For you" page would be filled with content you don't like, and clicking "not interested" doesn't help.
The only solution I found was to mute the accounts that were showing up there that I didn't like.
This was a major factor that led me to leave X / Twitter
Yes, they are a UK publication. But they cover a lot of US news and have a significant American readership. So, like American newspapers, they have an informed opinion and an audience that wishes to hear that opinion.

That's how newspaper endorsements work. In this case the writer of the endorsement cannot themselves vote, but their opinion can still have weight.

The Economist, another UK-based periodical with a more right-wing stance, explains why it endorses candidates:

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2024/10/31/...
I believe it's "Junglist massive" with massive ~= crowd
...or is that intentional with Ali G's spelling abilities...
Was hoping this was that kind of jungle. :D

Aka 'Some dnb tracks' funk goes to 10... ours goes to 11' jungle
Spotify was paying someone who disseminated anti-vaccine misinformation. I consider that dangerous and will not support it with my money.

Being principled is not toxic.
Helpful in terms of what? Understanding some forced meme? "Force this meme so you can understand this other forced meme." is not education it's indoctrination. And even if you wanted to, for some unknown reason, understand the article you can look at a (changing and disputed) map as the parent said.

This is the opposite of deep knowledge, this is API knowledge at best.
Did X suppress support of the other side? The Hunter Biden laptop story is a prime example of the difference between X and Twitter. The suppression of Covid debate is another example.

On old Twitter you could call someone a Nazi and accuse them (falsely) of genocide. But if you “dead name” a celebrity, you’d get banned.
It's worth noting that building a solid search index needs more than just text. The full Common Crawl archive includes metadata, links, page structure, and other signals that are needed for relevance and ranking, and to date is over 7 PiB, so that's rather more than tends to fit on home servers
They'll have plenty of data to support the primary motivation: that enforcing arbitrary RTO policies will absolutely aid in generating staff turnover and voluntary attrition without having to payout severance costs. The policy gives them less direct control over who they lose, but I'm sure the data also points to any critical replacement employees being willing to work for less on average. That's the data they are looking at.
I love this. When I give presentations this is exactly the kind of opening gambit I look for!

I wonder, what took place in the last few years that in 100 years time will be defined as “pedestrian”.
But it is not derogatory or euphemistic, it is descriptive. Polymarket is gambling by any definition. Gambling is known and proven to have great harms and risks to society.

(And I got the term "gambling exchange" from the UK where Betfair Exhange basically does what Polymarket do since 2000, without the Crypto glamour.)
Yeah! Computer science students can do more "science" with the LLM. Before they spend all their time just writing and debugging. Instructors are happy if students can just write code that compiles.

When every student can write code that compiles, then you can ask them to write good code. Fast code. Robust code. Measure it, characterize it, compare it.
I think it comes from the folks that aren't really into Apple culture, rather they buy Apple because of UNIX, or want to target iDevices without culture background on the ecosystem.