skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Googles spreadsheet is much more performant, useable and shareable for me. I also never got warm with excel weird and heavily limited language, no matter how much I tried to.

For Photoshop I agree that no software has the same amount of tools built in. However I have been Happy with gimp ever since, and know plenty of people who prefer Krita or something because their interesting is in drawing and not design.
You are painting it with really broad brush. Was Meta censoring #Republican before?
Good that China has caught up US in tech, so at least us Europeans can escape the US oligarchical censorship. Not looking great for those left behind the great firewall of Muskerberg. When will PG fall in line?
> I think that's probably what chordify.com does [...] I don't think they are using chordino

I think they were initially using the Chordino chroma features (NNLS-Chroma) but a different chord language model "front end". Their page at https://chordify.net/pages/technology-algorithm-explained/ seems to imply they've since switched to a deep learning model (not surprisingly)
In general I found the idea of an optional topic tree interesting. Occasionally @dang adds a list of related article articles but it would be nice to have the website that does this automatically.
The mathematicians are training AI for a pittance and are not told about it.

It is their fault though to participate in writing a test set in the first place that will obviously be used in a non-scientific manner. "Trust-me-bro" science on other people's closed servers.

But AI ethics is a dangerous field that can get you suicided.
I get results on #fucktrump. Don’t know what you’re talking about. (In EU, however #democrat is censored)
In a way they did. Europe outsourced their defense to the US, energy to Russia and manufacturing to China, now getting <censored> by all three, rather predictably.
Weird, I only have to click:

1. Reject all

2. Legitimate Interest

3. Object all

4. Save & Exit

But then I'm in EU
It’s definitely surprising to me. I was a hardcore pro-Musk before he bought Twitter. But it didn’t take him long to show his nazi colors (NOT an exaggeration) after that (maybe even a bit before?). I quit Twitter as soon as he did and I’m honestly surprised more people didn’t no matter how they liked him before. Like, do you enjoy using a social network run by a wannabe neo-nazi?
As the author of the substack himself indicates in the comments, this is not remarkable. The page is the official government POTUS account and followers are transferred, along with the account itself, to the new administration.

>"Ok so apparently follower counts on Facebook do transfer over followers for the official POTUS AND VPOTUS pages on Facebook. Twitter has different rules."

https://www.facebook.com/POTUS/
Let's not "both sides" this issue.
Avoid a fracture between people with cognitive augmentation and those who do not
There's something to this argument, but a truly uncensored site 4chan style would never have been bigger than that site. The platforms have to censor CSAM; commercially, they end up having to censor slurs and abuse down to a level which the users and advertisers find acceptable.

(also there's a lot of false equivalence going on here - 'democrat' isn't a slur!)
I guess were talking about optimising tail recursion. Would there be any reason to refer to a tail call other than that optimisation?

I’ll do some reading on the latter part of your post, thank you!
Every time I've used Photoshop the whole UI/UX changed. Buttons are moving around, getting renamed. Some functions are hidden in submenus of submenus, etc.

IMO Photoshop is just simpler because people are usually used to it. In reality Gimp always had a much more reliable UI
How Jerry Springer made history by breaking all boundaries
It's a tool to help you stay in contact with your follower if you decide to leave Twitter.
The decision is still up to you, the goal is to try to minimize the network effect which might prevent some people from leaving.

I fail to see the manipulation ...
It seems like they quickly resolved it but as people making software we know exactly what happened. The deployment was not successful. Does not make the idea any less ugly. I’m sure they are gonna redeploy a less obvious version
The point they're trying to make, I think, is: Black/Ruff format, or any other formatter necessarily need to operate on universal rules. In context, sometimes these rules don't make sense. I still would love some kind of stateful linter and formatter, where it suggests me changes that I can then accept or ignore (and won't be told about again).

Formatters _are_ a compromise. They make your coworkers' code nicer, and your code worse.
They are not doing Semver. They are just counting two number, e.g. after 4.9 there is 5.0. Afaik, every version can contain breaking changing.
Worst way to find out that your spouse is cheating on you, and is married to two people at the same time unbeknownst to them. The AI knows.
Hoping ROTW can make US a little bit less relevant. More non-US startup unicorns. Fund the WHO, UN etc. Surely 8 within billion people we can so it?
And cheap, the consumables for 3D printing are expensive.
I suppose we did when signing up to accounts on a US-based site. It's long been a problem that the US has de facto global jurisdiction of the internet.
The whole "deplatforming" has always been a stupid whack-a-mole. The core issue is the media itself, social media as it is will always tend to make bullshit spread fast and wild because that's the entire nature of bullshit.

It's broken in its core, I don't see any way to patch what social media has developed into. Reactionary ideas are more viral, hatred is more viral, the metric is always "engagement" and there's no primal drive in humans to be more engaged with boring stuff like truthful, nuanced, and commeasured discussion rather than ragebait (on both sides).

It feels to me we actually devolved to a world where norms, morals, etc. are defined by amoral virtual entities feeding people with content to make them engage more with the virtual entities... It's fucking dark and absurd the deeper I think about it, we're already being controlled by the machines we created.
lol, it’s incredible how the virtual signallibg left goes with “white, educated” when they lose power.

What are you saying? That the smart, white people voted for Democrats and clearly they always chose correctly?
So remember to tag all your political posts #republican from now on.
Romania has a similar system for some time. The over regulation in EU is bad, but still better then a grifter president, that uses a shit coin to scam the people.
> Mixed unit durations are in ISO 8601

Don't know why I never noticed it before; thanks for posting this! That does give the idea more weight, so I'll consider mixed-unit durations next time I find myself coding up parsing durations in config files.

> Should we always normalise? If we do, do we normalise upwards or downwards?

I'd say normalize, but on the business side, down to regular units - e.g. the config or UI can keep its "1m30s" or "90s" or even "0.025h", but for processing, this gets casted to seconds or millis or whatever the base unit is. Now, this is easy when we're only reading, but if we need to e.g. modify or regenerate the config from current state, I'd be leaning towards keeping around the original format as well.

> i do similar handling with dates, and it turns out we often want to preserve the distinction between 1y6m and 18m

Can you share specific examples where does this matter, other than keeping the user input in the format it was supplied even underlying data values get regenerated from scratch?
as someone who's not in the community: why not?
Do you really believe this? Sincerely and honestly?

You believe Elon Musk is somehow showing support for the National-Socialist party of the German working class?

How is it possible to get to this level? Truly amazing.
Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith
That’s one hypothesis for one component of the Sea Peoples. Like all the hypotheses, it’s very weakly evidenced - iirc correctly (from Eric Cline), in this case, there’s a possible philological link with the Egyptian exonym ‘Sherden’ and one possible representation of a nurhag.
I’m surprised the number is as low as 40%. You can’t help but question your existence when you, always the top of your class growing up and graduated college with distinctions, are making $50k a year (that was the postdoc salary at my very prestigious department at Princeton less than a decade ago) at a ripe old age of almost 30 and eyeing yet another term of postdoc.
What are you trying to accomplish with this comment, protecting the reputation of the ancient Romans? The article you linked says, in the first line: "The Roman salute, also known as the Fascist salute"

While (ancient) Romans may have not done this salute, the salute is commonly referred to as Roman salute nonetheless
>You can google these too, why bother learning anything ?

You can google their definitions, you can't google critical thinking.
Interesting list but note the footnote about the pages excluded from the list when they were mainly accessed by mobile devices:

>> Pages with over 94% or under 10% (including everything with "XXX" or "XXXX") of mobile views. This threshold excludes 2024 Indian Premier League, Indian Premier League and Alia Bhatt, but even if Internet in India is mostly through mobile devices, we need to be pragmatic.

Not sure what is meant by ‘being pragmatic’ but seems a bit skewed to mostly ignore these pages.
Openly publishing information in e.g. a book (or presumably a website) does not count as exporting. Releasing software is a bit more hazy, but has been defended[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
Split test started, AI detects outrage level. Data point taken. Roll-back initiated. All in one python script.
Escape From Tarkov was so busted, because first they've supported cheaters (one cheater, with bought cheat for a few $, made around $2k++ monthly boosting players etc.) when Tarkov dev banned them, they will easily rebuy new account. Easy money for both parties, win-win scenario.

Second, their code for networking was complete BS, they didn't even sanity-check player movement/location server-side and many more things. Ridiculous.
All the foundational work that has lead up to the current practices in ML was done at universities. It's not like Google invented the transformer from scratch completely over night.
If you're rejecting someone for having 4 years of Vue.js and you want React experience, well, you're either crippled and close to failure and desperately need to parachute in a JSX slinging ninja to avoid bankruptcy, or, you're hiring for stochastic parrots in human form, as opposed to hiring intelligent developers who can learn what needs to be learned.

I've never been hired for a framework, nor have I ever hired for a framework.

So. Je m'oppose the employability claim.

However, I do get annoyed when everything is gotta be in <X> lang or we're using <Y> tech that is designed for a different use-case, because someone read a few too many whitepapers or blog posts and has chosen a technology because it's new and shiny and hypey, with minimal thought as to whether or not it's actually useful for your given situation.
I really, really dislike when companies use GitHub to promote their product by posting a "research paper" and a code sample.

It's not even an SDK, library, etc., it's just advertising.

I've noticed a number of China-based labs do this; they will often post a really cool demo, some images, and then either an API or just nothing except advertising for their company (e.g. model may not even exist). Often they will also promise in some GitHub issue that they will release the weights, and never do.

I'd love to see some sort of study here, I wonder what % of "omg really cool AI model!!!" hype papers [1] never provide an API, [2] cannot be reproduced at all, and/or [3] promise but never provide weights. If this was any other field, academics would be up in arms about likely fraud, false advertising, etc.
That'd be the ultimate dog whistle
Yes, I do actually. I don't think they hide politically inconvenient and well-documented facts that can be trivially found on Wikipedia. All will happily tell you about Epstein plus the current CiC, however much he'd probably rather it didn't. It doesn't shy away from talking about the "original sin" of the US.
We share the blame as we spent 80 years relying on the crutch of US military support and now we struggle to see how we can stand up on our own without the crutch. The next decade will test the resolve of other liberal democracies to survive this challenge.

Republics fall, progress isn't linear. Even c. 2000 years ago people were writing about how democracy falls to tyranny. The world is a lot more global now, but the Roman Republic would also have seemed rather "global" too, yet was replaced by the Roman Empire not long after Cicero was writing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cycle_theory
Trying a service is different from being an "early user"
In Jetpack compose, the Composer is embedded by the compiler at build time into function calls

https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/under-the-hood-of-jetpa...

I’m still not sure how I feel about it. While more annoying, I think I’d like to see it, rather than just have magic behind the hood
Perhaps you’ve been spending too much time with conspiracy theories

Your view of Britain and what life is like here is very wrong
Good models are fundamentally not compatible with limited phone energy budget.
"CE"? Ahh, Christ Era, what a weird spelling though. Isn't it "AD" (Anno Domini) usually?
> If you use ctx.Value in my (non-existent) company, you’re fired

What a nice attitude.
How to Write Better Tests in Go
This being flagged is interesting in itself.
> Police searched Much’s house and removed and confiscated the posters. The public prosecutor imposed a penalty order of €6,000 for “criminal insult to politicians”.

The guy had his house searched by police, a €6000 fine and had to go challenge it in court. The fact that it happened at all is the problem.
> If you use ctx.Value in my (non-existent) company, you’re fired

I was unsuccessful to convey the same message in my previous company (apart from being fired part). All around the codebase you'd see function with official argument and unofficial ones via ctx that would panic everything if you forgot it was used 3 layers down (not kidding). The only use case I've seen so far that is not terrible of context value is if you have a layer of opentelemetry as it makes things transparent and as a caller you don't have to give a damn how the telemetry is operated under the hood.
Yes and this is the core problem.

I have no dog in this fight and I want to see all ideas surface. Then people will be able to judge for themselves. I do not want any kind of filtration by either communists or conservatives.
Protesters do not have an untrammelled right to be disruptive; others in society do not have an obligation to facilitate or tolerate that disruption. If you want to stand outside the venue and shout, that's your prerogative. If you want to come inside the venue and cause disruption, then the organisers have the right to throw you out.

Strictly speaking, what we're discussing is direct action rather than protest. The aim of these protesters is not merely to make a public display of their disapproval, but to take active steps to prevent something from happening, i.e. to prevent a talk from taking place by "occupying" the stage. The participants in that action may feel morally justified and may indeed be morally justified, but that doesn't negate the consequences of their actions. Giving anyone impunity to break whatever rule they like if they feel it's justified is a very short path to anarchy.
I do not understand Akkadian so I must defer to the work of Adolf Leo Oppenheim, the editor of The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago for over 20 years and the translator of that tablet.

He asserts multiple times the existence of banks, money lenders, and multiple written records of persons demanding payment of money in his book Letters from Mesopotamia, Official, Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia: https://isac.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared...

Do you have an alternate translation?
The Predictive LLM Chatbot UI Kit is a sleek design solution for crafting AI-driven conversational interfaces. Leveraging advanced predictive capabilities, it offers customizable templates and intuitive components, making it ideal for different industries.
Cheating is ultimately a human problem. You can have some safeguards and heuristics like the ones the article describe, to weed out 90% the most blatant cheaters, so I think anticheats like these are fundamentally a good thing. But the anti-cheat can and should err on the safe side because ultimately it should be the players and admins themselves that sort this out.

Online multiplayer games must (yes must) take place on servers with human admins. Admins should be present for a majority of the time any players are playing.

Ideally with admins the players recognize. Bonus points if players themselves can perform some moderation when no admin is present (votekick, voteban etc). There is no difference between kicking cheaters and kicking people who are abusing chat etc. Obviously this means that "private" or "community" servers are the only viable types of server for online multiplayer games.

This process of policing cheaters and other abuse can not be something that is done via a reporting system and handled asynchronously. Kicking/banning must be done by the admins of the game, and it must be handled quickly.

If you are considering buying/playing an online multiplayer game and it doesn't have this functionality (e.g. the only way to play online is via matchmaking on servers set up by the publisher, and the only way cheaters and chat abusers are policed is via some web form) then please, avoid that game. Vote with your wallet.
That's an understatement. I'm personally shit scared
> You believe Elon Musk is somehow showing support for the National-Socialist party of the German working class?

No, which is why nobody but people who want to downplay say this stuff. This is the second comment of this kind I saw.

He's doing the Hitler salute, with a snarl, once to the crowd and once to Trump. He has no clue who Hitler is or what he did, just like he has no clue what RPC are, or what item level requirements in Path of Exile 2 mean, but that doesn't change what we see with our own eyes.
Oh this is just moving to Envoy as the reverse proxy.
Sweet! Thanks! I did not know that, and I've no problem with a terminal comma there.

My point stands - I do not think those spaces are superfluous. Consider the following:

a = 4

def foo(i: int):
return "A" * i

class Spam:
foo = 4
bar: int = 6

def eggs(self, n: int = 5):
return foo(i=n)

Why is it "i=n" instead of "i = n" when every other use of "=" has spaces?

For this one case of a short function with simple names, okay, I don't always use spaces.

But otherwise I think the lack of spaces makes it the code harder to read, and thus "uglier".
...and?

Applying to all brands equally doesn't make it okay.
Between this and people convicted for sedition being pardoned I'm curious. How much copium do you use to remain in denial?
That can’t possibly be a bug…
Seems sensible. The northen-hemisphere naming means I (and many others) need to pause and translate S and W every time.
It never was that blatant;
Liberals did not explicitly ran on "everything has to be free speech";
It is a difference if you censor hate speech or your political opposition
there's no Go 2
It's not just frameworks.

Every ORM or new database adjacent thingy has to invent a new WhateverQL. Kinda sorta like SQL but not the same (and usually less powerful) so you have to learn its syntax if you want to use it.

And same thing with structured document and each type having their own pathing syntax: xmlpath, jsonpath, css selectors. I was going to write at least yaml is using jsonpath but it got me to this other Thing-du-jour: config file formats.
what are the alternatives, and how are they not "censorship platforms"?
Thats a good call out, I was definitely being hyperbolic re: no one was misusing the expanded title IX definitions, and I appreciate the anecdata, since you're right that I was not alive back then and so don't have a grasp of exactly what it was like. I trust you that it happened back then, and I have also seen similar situations happen now.

> I imagine that a lot of these cases are not related to being a woman — it’s just general shithead behavior

I agree, a lot of these cases are just shithead behavior, but a lot of them are not, and were overtly sexual in nature (though not direct, but maybe thats up to interpretation), or just overtly sexist. E.g. discussing sexual fantasies or their ongoing sexual escapades, commenting on bodies in a sexual manner that may not be an advance but instead negative in nature etc. But I would agree even within that, title IX may sometimes be overkill, and I've said that to friends and peers myself.

But this exchange touches upon why I still think PGs essay is not worth a charitable read, and just overall more or less harmful. We both have anecdata about correct and incorrect uses of title IX, ways that title IX could be better, etc. How society should treat this and other issues relating to class and abuses of power is an important discussion to have and should be ongoing. What PG is doing is claiming that changes to title IX (along with his other examples of wokeness/priggishness) are in conflict with "truth":

>Surely if truth should prevail anywhere, it should be in universities; that's supposed to be their specialty; but for decades starting in the late 1980s the politically correct tried to pretend this conflict didn't exist.

Which, given your anecdata, is sometimes a fair assessment, and given mine, sometimes unfair. But PG does not allow this nuance in his arguments, and completely disregards the problems any of his examples were trying to treat in the first place. In fact he claims that the thought process that leads to these changes causes disaster, and need to be stopped.

So PG is not directly arguing whether or not the 1980s title IX change was effective in its goals, but instead arguing that the type of thought that lead to that change (and others) simply needs to be stopped entirely. There is no allowance in his argument to affect change, with a deft touch or otherwise, to these societal issues. The only change he suggests are ways to stop or tune out those trying to solve these issues.

Contrast that with Adrienne maree brown's essay https://adriennemareebrown.net/2018/05/10/we-will-not-cancel... Although a different type of writing for a different crowd, it also acknowledges that cancel culture (or wokeness, priggishness, whatever) is harmful and must come to an end, but acknowledges that the problems that have spawned it are real and still need to be fixed.

> We must all do our work. Be accountable and go heal, simultaneously, continuously. It’s never too late.
Two fun flag facts.
The red dot on the flag of Japan was off center by 1/100 towards the pole before 1999.
The naval flag of France is not of equal proportions. the proportion are; blue 30, white 33, and red 37
> The rest of the world didn't sign up for this.

He didn't say they did, he said America did, and everyone is along for the ride.

But in a way we did, by letting US (or China) control all our social medias.
Europe to develop geostationary quantum encryption payload – SpaceNews
As long as those services are operated by companies based in the Fascist Idiotic Republic, I'm not going to believe a word they say.
The ADL says that’s not what it was.