skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might appreciate Charles Eisenstein (or he might be too "hippie" for you). I posted one quote of his as a top-level comment, but here's another:

Clear-cutting aside, the decline of one after another species of trees all over the world is something of a mystery to scientists: in each case, there seems to be a different proximate culprit — a beetle, a fungus, etc. But why have they become susceptible? Acid rain leaching free aluminum from soil silicates? Ground-level ozone damaging leaves? Drought stress caused by deforestation elsewhere? Heat stress due to climate change? Understory damage due to deer overpopulation due to predator extermination? Exogenous insect species? Insect population surges due to the decline of certain bird species?

Or is it all of the above? Perhaps underneath all of these vectors of forest decline and climate instability is a more general principle that is inescapable. Everything I have mentioned stems from a kind of derangement in our own society. All come from the perception of separation from nature and from each other, upon which all our systems of money, technology, industry, and so forth are built. Each of these projects itself onto our own psyches as well. The ideology of control says that if we can only identify the “cause,” we can control climate change. Fine, but what if the cause is everything? Economy, politics, emissions, agriculture, medicine … all the way to religion, psychology, our basic stories through which we apprehend the world? We face then the futility of control and the necessity for transformation.

...

Thus I say that our revolution must go all the way to the bottom, all the way down to our basic understanding of self and world. We will not survive as a species through more of the same: better breeds of corn, better pesticides, the extension of control to the genetic and molecular level. We need to enter a fundamentally different story. That is why an activist will inevitably find herself working on the level of story. She will find that in addition to addressing immediate needs, even the most practical, hands-on actions are telling a story. They come from and contribute to a new Story of the World.
Ehrlich didn't just make this claim in the abstract. He proposed specific and brutal (I'd even say genocidal) policies that he claimed were the only ways of mitigating this inevitable mass starvation.

"Oh, he's wrong in all the details but maybe his general themes are right" is not acceptable when the outcome of listening to him is mass murder.
$2k seems abysmally low to throw away your labor of love and compromise your morals. At least in the US
Allow me to embrace my engineer nature and hedge my bets. A contact seal of that size is usually specced for a power transmitting shaft. An (assumed) 20" shaft is going to transmit a huge amount of power. So much that the seal losses will be negligible. Those same losses would exist on any shaft/seal combo of that size, but would take a greater fraction of total motor power, given the size and power constraints given by an internal motor design.
> Americans tend to be enthusiastic about their company mission - in the extreme, believing that they’re saving the world

This is more of a Silicon Valley thing, isn't it? I've worked for or interacted with plenty of non-tech large enterprises where that's certainly not true.
I will say there are specifically some things my fellow Australians do have do in the USA that we would not in our home country.

To my fellow Australians; when you go for the big tech job interview you often have to memorize the company mission statement and values. Yes it's a complete wank. You'll never use it internally. But i have seriously been asked about the companies mission statement for Meta, Google, Amazon in those respective interviews.

Utterly insane from an Australian point of view - you'd get pass and a mark for directness for saying "i don't bloody well know".

I have heard of mission statements being asked by international companies operating in Australia but again you'd pass if the interviewer themselves was Australian since it's 100% seen as bullshit by every level of Australians from management to employees on the ground.

eg. Wtf is a mission statement and why am i being asked thread on the Australia subreddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/australian/comments/1f7srnw/what_is...
nothing. it's just from someone with no experience with nix like me, it feel weird that someone is already deep into Nix but isn't tempted to use it daily.
Didn’t they also need bailouts? Is that really success from being in office?
This article is almost entirely about plausibly reasonable security measures in response to credible threats/risks.

If members of SCOTUS are showing up to billionaire eyes-wide-shut parties in the forest, where bribes are paired with underage-goat kompromat, that's a problem, and you'd want transparency for that. But, sadly, due to our current cultural problems in public discourse and reasoning, much/most of the populace is being riled up by social media propaganda/shilling/mobs/habit, some people milk movements of public figures as fuel for that, and occasionally some mentally ill person acts on the noise and information. Some security is appropriate.

But, so long as we're being understanding about the importance of privacy for some privileged few, in the interests of equality...

> That bill passed into law the next year and outlawed the publication of personally identifying information about federal and supreme court justices online by data brokers and [...]

How about also protect the rest of us from that surveillance/stalking industry?
I'm a PhD dropout myself. Serious question: what kind of advice are you looking for exactly? This is not intended as an insult, but it sounds like what you're looking for is not advice but rather consolation, which is natural and understandable given the circumstances.
Nice job, definitely fits with your product
WordPress and Mullenweg are one and the same, despite all of the superficial distinctions and organizations. He controls it all.

There is no viable way to separate without forking the project and using a different name. Mullenweg is already trying to make like difficult for anyone he suspects might be thinking about forking, so anyone leading a fork has to assume that Mullenweg is going to make their life hell. He’s not afraid of dumping money into lawsuits to crush people, so forking WP is a scary proposition.
Rasteret: A Library for Faster and Cheaper Open Satellite Data Access
What annoys many was the pretense of a theory. At some point in the history of physics we stopped calling open problems, puzzles and (yet) unresolved paradoxes as what different but similarly unexplained phenomena were called in the past and pretended we resolved them.

It's simply unnecessary to pretend its a theory, it is possible to name things without pretending they are theories.
Mac Mini G4 – The best « classic » Macintosh for retro-gaming?
Mullenweg was the one who requested the creation of the Slack channel.
Yeah. If they just left it at “Mach-E” I think it’d have been fine.
It’s much intuitive to provide drag and drop support rather than the user asking AI to change the layout, which is hars bolt.new or v0 works at the moment.
So if they fix this problem, you’d then be OK with generative AI?

BTW, plenty of humans have memorized copyrighted material, such as song lyrics. Do you think that should be prohibited? Maybe the difference isn’t as great as you think.
Training on copyrighted data should be legally allowed

- of course exact reproduction of protected content is a no-no

- but learning is ok, as long as it is transformative. User prompts and responses are pushing the model outside its training distribution anyway
- users add their own intent, making usage transformative

- when LLMs synthesize from multiple sources, the result is transformative

- if you try to protect expression it is meaningless now, but if you protect abstract ideas it kneecaps creativity

- the problems of copyright started with the apparition of internet, not with AI

- revenues from royalty are almost zero today, as each new content competes against an unbounded list of other works that have been accumulating for decades online

- because royalties are shit, creatives now focus on ads, and this leads to enshittification, attention grabbing junk everywhere, attention is scarce content is post-scarcity

- we actually like interactive participation more than passive consumption; we now edit Wikipedia, contribute to open source, have papers published for free on arXiv, use social networks where our comments are shared with the world, play games instead of reading books - it is another age, the interactive age

- AI is actually more than an infringement tool, it is useful for many legit purposes

- and AI is the worst possible infringement tool, it can hallucinate details, get thins wrong; By comparison copying is free and easy and precise to the letter

So the idea that training is infringement is pretty abusive, it tries to make copyright be about abstractions which is wrong. We can't return to 1990s, so we have to live with its demise. It's been dying for 3 decades already.
I wonder if they'll hear any challenges to that law.
The challenge is that the better AI gets at coding the lower the barrier to entry, so being an I indie dev will be like being on YouTube. Anyone with dedication could post 300 videos a year and get thousands or tens of thousands of views, but making money? That will get harder.
chromium is open source, chrome is chromium + proprietary stuff added on top
Yes, this is definitely a big problem.

Anyone that's done any amount of systems integration in enterprises knows this.

"Let me talk to Lars; he should know because his team owns that system."

"We don't have any documentation on this, but Mette should know about it because she led the project."
How Enlightened Were the Pirates of Madagascar?
> Ratsimilaho’s rule, Graeber says, was a “masculine riposte to the self-assertion of women who allied themselves with pirates.” He argues that ambitious local women, including many successful merchants, had been able to get pirates to concede power, because, although the men brought treasures with them, when they arrived they had no social or cultural capital. When women were excluded from kabary — village assemblies where community members sat around gravely smoking tobacco and drinking honey wine — it constituted a provocation in a world where “local women clearly had the upper hand.”
Or that they're aware that there are threats against their safety.
Tuition cost has fallen significantly at many colleges
I’m way out in assumption-land, but I’m guessing all quotes would be reviewed by humans, and the goal is to take the drudgery out of first drafts.

For that it would be fine if the AI took a stab at something novel like a faster than usual delivery timeline or higher than usual part tolerances. It might get the economics wrong, but just by including them it would be easier for a human to adjust.
Bush v. Gore might be close.
One could argue the moon is made of cheese.
I agree in principle. It's the childish way in which it was done that's the issue for me.
Well for one thing it’s a lot easier to communicate expectations to consumers at CES.

“Coming soon to auction at a price set by users, no idea what that will be though, good luck!” is much less compelling for consumers trying to plan their purchases in advance.
> I don’t think these stats change much for other conferences.

I'd severely doubt that: there is a large difference in focus on theory vs practice between conferences. POPL really is one of the more theoretical conferences. At a conference like ECOOP, you're unlikely to see many proofs (I'd guess at most 20% of papers, based on personal experience).
The online world of 20 years ago was not federated and centralized into one of four large social media sites. There was no political machine trying to censor and control. We were left alone and no one care to control us.
Meta, Google, and Amazon are outliers, though. Part of their schtick originally was that they're trying to build a cult, although my sense is that may have relaxed a bit as they've grown. IBM used to do a similar thing back in the day.

I've worked in tech in the US as an immigrant for over 40 years, and never been quizzed on a mission statement.
> This was costing Matt nothing. Zero.

These were salaried employees working on the sustainability team, correct? If not, how could Mullenweg shut it down?
You're absolutely mistaken. These are obviously designed exclusively to bypass Taiwanese coastal defenses to move masses of extremely heavy vehicles rapidly a great distance over the coastal barriers. Ordinary transport ships that would move large quantities of heavy vehicles would be designed in a different manner that would load and unload slower, and wouldn't need absurdly-long, self-contained ramps.

Taiwan must immediately build littoral landing craft denial barriers in the regions just outside of the surf zone. They have a little time to mobilize and make these landing craft obsolete. Japan must also continue to prepare and coordinate joint exercises as they've been doing.
I’ve used music from Kevin MacLeod [0] and Heatly Bros [1] in projects.

[0] https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html

[1] https://heatleybros.bandcamp.com/music
Graduate students teach classes at their own universities as part of their departmental funding. This is only a temporary situation and exists only while they're enrolled. It's not a career path.

As a former graduate student myself, I'm actually not aware of any non-PhDs who are adjuct faculty or community college instructors. I'm not claiming that they don't exist anywhere, but given the number of PhDs and the number of available academic jobs, the competition is fierce, and non-PhD candidates are likely to lose out to PhD candidates.
> Pretending racism is not racism and enabling racism and enabling it does not make these people less racist either

Again. Not what I said.

I think what you heard me say is appeasement. Which is VERY MUCH not what I said. I said you should avoid instant judgement which goes against the basic process of persuasion.

I said talking to people and not judging them immediately. Asking instead of confronting. If you start by calling someone a racist his shields go up and he won't listen to you. What did you accomplish by the attack?

Nothing. You didn't change his mind. You preached to the quire. People who hear you either agree with you and people who disagree with you think you're an ahole. Everyone digs deeper into what they already believe and become more entrenched/hostile.

If your goal is to keep people in their positions and prevent change then sure, that would work. You can virtue signal and position yourself as the "good guy".

My goal is to understand people and communicate with them. Even people who might be "bad" or uninterested in communicating/changing their mind. To do that I try to interact without being too judgemental. That's hard sometimes when I read some pretty horrible stuff from some people. E.g. I had a recent debate where a guy implied that me and all of my family should be dead or homeless (I'm an Israeli) so that's hard to reconcile and indeed we didn't reach a reasonable understanding because I feel he wasn't open to another point of view. He was just looking to prove his point (which is pretty insane if his point is I should die).

But it's still a conversation worth having. Understanding what drives a person to a racist position and asking the right questions can sometimes help them along the path of better understanding.

Around 2014 a friend of mine was running from Gazan missiles every night with his kids. His son started bedwetting again and his kids were very scared. They lived in the south very close to Gaza and it is indeed a dangerous area. Back then iron dome wasn't as good and the alarm times are very short. He exclaimed that as far as he cares the IDF should bomb the hell out of Gaza. Fck them for coming after his kids.

If you would have confronted him as a racist he would have become more enraged and probably would have moved to the right.

I asked him how a Palestinian father in Gaza would feel about that. He initially gave some kickback on that so I stressed the difference between Hamas and the civilian population which made him see that his statement was of rage that doesn't represent who he is.

I'm not saying you should tolerate racism. I'm saying you should understand people, listen to their motivations and logic. Talk to them individually and understand where they are coming from. Snap judgements are very problematic and overly simplistic.
Read the link: outsourcing results in an improved standard of living in America. Even if Americans are capable of doing those jobs themselves. It’s counterintuitive, I know.
I'm at a moral impass on yhis specifically.

Llama is probably one of the few LLMs that probably doesn't generate an income for Meta but I can't exactly see how other than by assisting their current ad generation.

Them being open weight isn't as good a what a "proper" open source LLM would be, but vs OpenAI which likely did the same thing it's significantly better.

On the other hand if copyright is enforced it should be enforced across the board, if I did the same thing while training an AI would I get the same treatment... Equal before the law and all that...

On the third point, I cannot legally obtain scientific paper without very significant cost to myself. My local libraries don't have a reasonable selection and even the university libraries that will let me as a member of public or even alumni still hold membership, specifically exclude scientific papers in that membership and you need to pay per paper.
You Must Try, and then You Must Ask (2013)
> A simpler theory might go like this: Musk and Zuck both want to be richer, and both want a government that regulates, investigates, and fines them less.

I agree with your conclusion, but not your premise. If they solely wanted to be richer, the obvious move would be to divest their holdings and start their own broadly diversified wealth funds - similar to Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway, Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund or Saudi PIF. Then retire to their yachts and private islands.
Rather, it seems to me that they both have specific goals they want to accomplish and are making the (ethics aside) rational moves to limit government interference.
The Art of Innovation: A Conversation with Steve Blank
In that case you use RAG and have it tell you the source.
Also office jobs will be adapted to be a better fit to what AI can do, just as manufacturing jobs were adapted so that at least some tasks could be completed by robots.
Reading the original post led me to this article on your site: https://matt.might.net/articles/my-sons-killer/#full

This is just to say I found it incredibly compelling and moving; I hope mentioning it doesn't make you feel bad.
The Important Thing – powerful enough to override all your deficiencies
"I am using big values to simulate an infinite rotation."

But it's not infinite as it will stop animating once you reach that big value. In the example, it is 20 turns. If you let it play long enough, it will stop after rotating 20 times.
Yea but diversification is a critical business strategy not just a marketing ploy
Which ones haven't? RGB, Sotomayor, Breyer, Jackson have all done the same things.
Hobbyist Builds AI-Assisted Rifle Robot Using ChatGPT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weedy_rice

Is this lower-yielding weedy rice just mixed in when harvesting and so some sneaks into the seed rice and gets into fields focused on higher-yield cultivars?
Or it just might be that different people prefer different things. I'm a hardcore fan of header files too. Vim is my preferred way of dealing with text and I can do all kinds of magic with it with the speed of though and I prefer to use as plain as possible text files. In the rare occasion when the documentation needs more than ascii stuff it's best practice to write a nice tex and friends documentation plus a real tutorial anyway. And full literate programming style is hard to beat when you are dealing with complex things.
I'd call this a California thing — or, more broadly, a behavior by people who want to align themselves culturally with Silicon Valley.

Work with some Chicagoans (or Midwesterners in general) and you'll get a lot less BS.

Obviously this is painting with broad strokes, as different types of people live everywhere.
Definitely psychotic murdering rapists. They are so good at it that they have managed to conceal their heinous actions from the crime statistics. Millennials are clearly supervillains.
Why don't they want to ditch dark matter? It is more plausible candidate to ditch :)
Justices cannot talk to the president?
What makes me livid is a number of these Trump appointees lied in to congress when they said "Roe was settled law" (It's a precedent, ... "settled" here meaning "why change it, it's the law of the land") only to waste no time in unsettling it.

The Trump / MAGA / right-wing takeover of America is a thing I never would have wished even on my enemies.
I guess you could consider a docker image a "reproducible environment," but it's certainly not a reproducible build; running docker build twice on the same directory isn't guaranteed to give you the same image. You could put in the work to make it a reproducible build, but it doesn't do anything to help you achieve that. Nix defaults to reproducible builds, and requires flags for "impure" non-reproducible builds. It does this by requiring all dependencies be managed by nix, and all sources be copied into the nix store.
Is Your Resume Holding You Back?
I am looking at CL myself, but my needs are more hobby than anything, but I want to convince myself I can find it useful for my own work in certain things (e.g. I want to maybe use Bike to run C# code in an SBCL REPL.)

The feedback loop one gets with it is insanely fast, even faster than Python (certainly there are exceptions even with Python ...) That's a blessing and curse for me - the tighter a feedback loop, the harder for me to get out of a problem I am stuck on. :) But, so far, I felt like I can write a thing and not worry about running it ... type a thing, quickly get it running it in a running REPL loop. If a mistake happens, I can fix the issue right there, instead of just a long stack trace. For what it is worth though, I have been doing this in Emacs for a long time (well, for small functions), but didn't think much of it until now.
This really puzzles me. I tried Cursor and was completely underwhelmed. The answers it gave (about a 1.5M loc messy Spring codebase) were surface-level and unhelpful to anyone but a Java novice. I get vastly better work out of my intern.

To add insult to injury, the IntelliJ plugin threw spurious errors. I ended up uninstalling it and marking my calendar to try again in 6 months.

Yet some people say Cursor is great. Is it something about my project? I can't imagine how it deals with a codebase that is many millions of tokens. Or is it something about me? I'm asking hard questions because I don't need to ask the easy ones.

What are people who think Cursor is great doing differently?
Two fire experts interviewed about L.A. wildfires
How do writers eat when the market value of their writing is zero?
This reminds me of _The Final Encyclopedia_ by Gordon Dickson.

Imagine next being able to follow multiple stations at once!

(reminds me of someone i worked with who i caught eavesdropping on my conversation while carrying on another. hen was really smart, so it was more amusing than surprising that she could handle the bandwidth requirements)