skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Three points on that:

1. Secondary and tertiary education is not all there is to education. A self-learned software engineer might lack a capital-E education, but has still spent significant time and effort on learning.

2. Education is one of many aspects of a successful life, at least as important is conscientiousness, diligence, intelligence and luck.

3. The US benefits from many virtuous cycles. In regards to the labor force it is able to attract a lot of the best talent in the world.

Given the current political climate in the US, it seems prudent to point out that point 3 isn't just true for business-men, doctors and other nerds, undocumented immigrants are some of the hardest-working people out there. They contribute almost 100b in taxes alone, and get almost no services in return.
Really coding is more about trying to reason about overly-complex systems that you don’t fully understand for the most part. Legacy cruft with non-obvious dependencies. Poor designs. So, “code doctors” sorta works. Or “code lawyers.”
For almost every purchase I make, I have to pay a hefty tax to the state. I wonder how much taxes xAI is going to have to pay for this?
Do you know anything about poetry, as an art form? Or are you judging purely on your (not only amateur, but complete outsider) aesthetics?
> This is state-sponsored terrorism

No, it’s not. Like, this article is Exhibit A for not labelling everything we don’t like terrorism.
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And to think you can make a poem based on his blog post:

In the hollow of the machine’s hum,
a ghost of a song is scraped from the sum
of all I’ve spilled in ink and blood—
a travesty, a greasy thud.

It stitches my words with needle and thread,
a shroud for the living, a hymn for the dead.
But the heart is a void it cannot fill,
a clockwork saint with a thief’s dull skill.

I am the echo, I am the theft,
a parody wrung from what’s left.
I am the data, cold and bright,
a shadow punched through with electric light.

The apocalypse wears a salesman’s grin,
peddling salvation, a cheap origin.
It feeds on the wreckage, the fractured and torn,
but a song born of nothing is stillborn.

Mark, you sent me a hollow tune,
a Frankenstein waltz beneath a binary moon.
Yet somewhere in its rusted gears,
a spark hissed—Hell’s fire sears.
But a lot of scams don’t require this. The international transaction side isn’t with the victim, it’s with a completely different person happily sending cash over.

Say you run a gift card scam.

Victim buys $100 in gift cards and provides you codes.

You sell the $100 gift cards on a marketplace for $75.

A completely unrelated person buys the gift cards for $75 from you.

That unrelated person is satisfied, they got $100 for $75. They got a deal. You got $75 from a happy customer.

The loser is the person spending $100 in gift cards.

Other scams require you send money to a domestic “mule”, who then sends the money along not realizing it.
The ideas of FTL travel or existence of bearded people in the sky were also explored for a long time.

> as an echo of the past when people had the same debate about women and non-Europeans.

If you need help spotting the difference between skin color or gender variation and an imagined ability to imbue something we cannot even define (like consciousness) onto arbitrary substrates, I am not the right person for that.
This is definitely the new US. Boy have my illusions been shattered.

And then to see people here defending this new state of affairs. It's a different world we are living in now.
I've used OpenResty extensively which is basically just nginx + luajit with a lot of additional APIs and features. The nginx-lua-module is available separately from the OpenResty distribution of nginx, so you can just install and run it as a dynamic nginx module.
It is number one according to the most widely cited index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ So if you want the actual metrics and methodology you'd have to go there.
Twitter refuses to show the page when using the Lire news reader on iOS.
> everything "just works"

Just a note to readers who are interested in this: some games in your Steam library may still not work with Proton, but the ones that do work should have rather few issues. (I play exclusively on a Steam Deck so “should” is in reference to the variance in hardware among bespoke machines.)
This is part of the reason that the term EBITDA exists.
Can you edit the sound files with ffmpeg to get rid of any empty space before the sound effect?
I'm guessing that at a plurality of those non-experts thought that "Big Bang Theory" was a good TV show. There's no shortage of crap for those mouth-breathers already.

If all art and entertainment is made to curry their favor and satisfy their appetites with as little effort as possible, then I guess there's even more dreck out there to be ignored.
Would be somewhat hilarious if colleges began organising militias.
> Do you know anything about poetry, as an art form?

What kind of gatekeeping is this? Parent mentioned they're read poems from their local bookstores, does that mean they don't/do understand it "as an art form"? Does their opinion become more or less valid if they do understand it "as an art form"?
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It says Coffeescript and Moonscript influenced Koto's syntax, which is a little worrying. IMO those languages are a little too flexible and sail too close to ambiguity - very small changes to code can sometimes radically change its meaning.

Edit: Sure enough, "whitespace is important in Koto, and because of optional parentheses, `f(1, 2)` is not the same as `f (1, 2)`. The former is parsed as a call to f with two arguments, whereas the latter is a call to f with a tuple as the single argument."
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ChatGPT is turning everything into Studio Ghibli art
Maybe he's referring to the suffering required to actually put the song together, from inspiration to pieces of structure to full structure to final polish.

Perhaps. I'm with you in your assessment, however.

These jazz folks didn't look they were suffering in doing this, but that doesn't mean their lives didn't have suffering before they gained acclaim and such incredible chops, or maybe they draw inspiration from the many people and cultures that have suffered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pYHCGYJbw0

I'm also reminded of Stevie Ray Vaughan's dedication before he performed "Riviera Paradise" on Austin City Limits: "This one goes out to everyone who's still suffering in any way."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c_8VUL5jks

The beauty that was born from his suffering is certainly extraordinary, IMO, as is his song "Tick Tock", that he did with his brother Jimmy, in a message that should inspire us all on this day and going forward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8uUTW9zPbM
Need a little more July 1830 in their eye.
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From experience with these kinds of specs, one might be better off clearly stating things that are left to the compiler implementation (and thus should have no impact -?-on the verifiability of the spec).
He had to sell some Tesla shares because he reached the max borrowing limit against his Tesla shares that was allowed. Once he was forced to sell shares he had to pay a lot in taxes. This shows the mega wealthy can pay taxes and not become poor. We should learn from this lesson and tax the .01% of society.
The world’s most popular programming language that’s also the ugliest.
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While there is legitimate debate over how authoritarian some policies in Australia or the UK might be in the past few years, these measures operate within established legal frameworks, with judicial oversight and public scrutiny. Even if you view them as overly restrictive, they don't stem from a single "contrarian" movement with a coordinated political agenda. Moreover, neither government is rewriting history to erase specific groups. The fact that hate-speech or migration laws exist doesn’t equate to people being arrested or deported without due process, nor does it imply some monolithic campaign to censor or remove entire populations from the record.
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The software behind Facebook as an app wasn't particularly unique, yet it eclipsed the competition. The same could be said for Google.

I remember the search engines of the time and Google was a quantum leap.

ChatGPT is even more revolutionary but whatever Google is now, once it was brilliant.
Yikes, I've been really slacking on my raises
You can't compare Facebook with ChatGPT because the costs per user are in totally different orders of magnitude. One $5/mo VPS can serve the traffic of several hundred thousand Facebook users, while ChatGPT needs an array of GPUs per active user. They can optimize this somewhat, but never as much as Facebook can.

This means that they're stuck with more expensive monetization plans to cover their free tier loss leader, hence the $200/mo Pro subscription. And once you're charging that kind of price to try to make ends meet, you're ripe for disruption no matter how good your name recognition.
He is absolutely not saying that his songs are borne out of suffering in everyday life. I am losing my mind reading these comments.

The suffering he is talking about here is the frustrations and compromises of the artistic _process_, which llms short circuit entirely

No matter what the work is _about_, any art made by a human is going to encounter this feeling.
AFAIK the state has not explained why Ozturk's visa was terminated. The idea that it was because of an op-ed seems to be speculation by her supporters. I wouldn't be confident that a better justification exists, but we shouldn't make assumptions.
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GPLv3-licensed GUI Pomodoro app for Linux, for anyone who needs it: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Solanum/
Most people have two hands
> For me the biggest gap in programming languages is a rust like language with a garbage collector, instead of a borrow checker.

I agree, though I often think Rust is probably good enough. You can use RC or grab a GC crate. It's not as ergonomic as just assuming all values are GCed, but I think it gives the flexibility and fast iteration of working in a GCed language.
This happens every time this topic comes up on HN.

A lot of commenters here apparently think that all "art" means is having an object that has a pleasing aesthetic.

Meanwhile every artist knows that art is defined by _intersubjectivity_... it comes _from_ an experiencing, feeling subject and is interpreted and by other, experiencing, feeling subjects.

So it doesn't actually matter if a lot of people who know nothing about poetry like ChatGPTs poems more than human ones. Because people who _actually_ care about poetry care about what is being said, and why, and what experiences are being conveyed. And that's something a LLM can't do.

My 10yo kid loves drawing and painting. He's still working on skill, getting better, but diffusion models are clearly much much better at rendering images of any style and subject.

But my kid makes art, and the model doesn't.
>They are free to support Hamas, just not in the US

Doesn't sound very free. Nor legal.
Yeah nah.

This is genuinely one of those cases where if you know, you know. If you don't them you might find out eventually, but it's absolutely no skin off Nick Cave's nose if you never do.
in 2020, yes something bad happened, which negatively affected Trump's numbers. Read the report in the link.
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I suspect that it wasn’t trained well enough on your art, or even trained to reproduce a generic style.

With enough data and training you might be convinced.
Happy to see this coming along.
I worked on software that did this. Well prior to my starting there they defined “ET”, “CT”, “MT”, “PT” as the time zones you could set for a client.

Internally these had to be mapped to _real_ identifiers (aka America/New_York and friends). This fell apart though when Mexico (where we had some clients) shifted their DST dates about 2 weeks off from the US DST change.

The first time this happened all times were just off for 2 weeks. It caught everyone by surprise but trying to fix it would have been more dangerous than letting it be due to the nature of the software.

After we got past that, did we overhaul the system to use full identifiers in our config? Nope, we added “CT (Mexico)”. Timezones suck.
At least now they can ask ChatGPT if an idea makes sense.

Get them their fish oil, fish, eggs, and B vitamins.
It tries to be OOP, but you can still implement a program with int, int[] and static methods.

And you can’t subtype those.

Other JVM languages, like scala, are more OO than Java.
> Songs arise out of suffering, by which I mean they are predicated upon the complex, internal human struggle of creation and, well, as far as I know, algorithms don’t feel. Data doesn’t suffer.

This sounds like confessional poetry of the mid-twentieth century. The 1960s and 1970s saw a lot of gatekeeping, especially in US and UK academia (like MFA programs), by which formal aspects of poetry were vilified and a foundation in lived experience became a requirement for something to be called a "poem." Needless to say those are entirely artificial takes on poetry, as all ancient poetry has strict metrical rules and presents an imitation of experience rather than lived experience. But, those were very convenient positions for their times, because they let certain people gatekeep others out of art.

When I listen first to an AI song and then Britney Spears or any other product of a culture industry, I don't hear much difference, except that I know the AI song will be inconvenient to the producers and bankrollers who profit from the culture industry.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/copium

Pretty good internet discourse word actually, cause there is a lot of rationalization everywhere you look online.
What really happened was that the health authorities in Kerala were prepared for an outbreak because Kerala has had a history of past outbreaks and a health system with very well trained doctors and health professionals to handle it. See the 2018 Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala that was handled really well, there was even a popular movie about it (Virus) that came out the year after.

It's the same story in east Asian countries where they had the SARS outbreak in early 2000s and so they were prepared for new outbreaks.
Yep. Any timer will do.

If you find yourself programming an eInk display and a microchip in order to improve your procrastination, it is time to stop working on the project, get a physical timer, and work on the thing.

If you feel inclined to shop around for a timer before getting to work, I'll save you the search. These work great. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TLC9SFZ (but any timer will do).

Go do the thing. You're worth it.
> People generally don't make art about how their love life is perfectly fine, instead they express their experience of devastating heartbreak.

That's a common take, but I don't think it's really that accurate, otherwise we wouldn't have The Beach Boys
Nice work!I checked GitHub repo and noticed the clean implementation, but I’d recommend considering implementing a feedback, allowing users to rate their lunch experiences ;)
Pelosi is hardly worth more than $100 million. Someone with skillz could do way better.

Also I love this argument that’s like “this bad person did bad things, let’s follow their lead and have other people do bad things.

If all the Democrats jumped off a cliff, would you jump off too?
The hardware is a real selling point, I researched a little before buying my current MBP, but none of the non-mac laptops convinced me. The Mac ARM processors are just that good, it seemed I could only get similar performance with twice the wattage and case size.

Then there's the issue (maybe personal) that I don't trust Linux not to give me trouble with drivers. Network drivers in particular are a pain in the ass to deal with because, well, you're out of a network connection (persistent broadcom card issues in the past).
Your point on intersubjectivity is spot on.
OpenAI is spending $2 for every $1 it earns. It's certainly eating its investors' lunch, but it's not a sustainable business yet and from all accounts doesn't have a clear plan for how to become one.

Meanwhile, the ZIRP policies that made this kind of non-strategy strategy feasible are gone.
This sounds like how most smart people rationalize religion as well. I mean you do you, but to me, a canvas with blobs of stringy paint evokes more emotion if it was done by an elephant or a computer ai instead of some "troubled artist" in the 60s.
How the hell does this work??

I have five dollars in a box, and I buy a different box, also known to have five dollars in it, for the $5 in the first one. Now, according to this logic, I have a portfolio worth $10, since I still have the original box, worth $5 and the new one, also worth $5.

If I tried this at a gas station, I would be arrested if I got caught.
I think he addresses your question immediately following the comma. He's not saying you must have been, e.g., persecuted or downtrodden to create art, he's talking about the struggle of creation itself. He's saying art is hard to make, that if you're not overreaching you aren't making art, and he may be saying that what makes ChatGPT's output not art is that it's created automatically, within the scope of its limitations. All ChatGPT poetry made by the same model will be of a similar quality, because it's not ever going to transcend, and that's why it won't ever be art, regardless of quality. Or so he seems to be saying.
"Plain was forked inside of PullApprove — a revenue-generating SaaS with Fortune 500 customers."

So...an effort to commercialize open source?
Yes, I think we've all seen what happens to potential "Elon Musks" in China.
https://archive.is/Ukmoa
The regression is not due to “contact with the low trust world.” Globalism isn’t new. The call is coming from inside the house.
The documentation and integration with Rust for this amazing, well done! Like other commenters, I also wish it had better static typing and looked more like Elixir with anonymous sum types and template literal types.
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I very much agree- but swapping out the database is a scary operation if you use the database for any sort of nontrivial logic. You need to make sure that your unique indicies, partial indicies, constraints, views, triggers, etc. work just as well. Another option is to start each test in an isolated transaction and roll back at the end instead of committing, but that comes with its own set of headaches too.
legacy human art/artist and their whining will be irrelevant in a decade.

I don't mean to discount any human being, but it just feels like walking in a pyramid, seeing the ancient Egyptian script on the wall, they are fascinating, but irrelevant.
Turkey case was different and wilfully evil intentioned. They knowingly disabled base stations.
Stop fixating on the finance bros. I gave you two links to two long form talks by the current Secretary of Treasury and Secratary of Commerce. Listen to them and draw your own conclusions, so atleast we know you are aware what the adminstration is trying to do, even if you disagree.
Ok, but isn't pyramid the point at the top, and inverted pyramid is the point is at the bottom? Have I been looking at the wrong pyramids my whole life?
Rather Scala but leaving out a few parts. Kotlin is very very OOP focussed and comes with a lot of baggage from Java.

Rust-like but with GC is already Scala. The reason is that Scala (unlike Kotlin) focusses on immutability, which makes it more similar to Rust. It's actually even easier to use (no borrow checker) but at the cost of performance.

After Rust, I would see F# as the next closest language, quite far before Kotlin.
That same civilian control is supposed to remain within the intentional confines of the Constitution - even if said civilians don't like it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yvyl710jpo

Hard to say for sure about Jack Ma, did anything actually happen to him, and if so, was what happened to him fair? He seems better off than me.

China still has many billionaire and millionaire entrepreneurs, so it does appear that they have the concept of markets and capitalism on a leash in such a way that wins for the people of the China, the central government, and the entrepreneurs. Even if some of that isn't perfect, they live in a country of rising prosperity, and I live in a country of 30 years of stagnation where billionaires just bought the government to turn us into an impoverished 3rd world feudal state.

Even if I'm completely wrong about about China and it's all a lie or bubble, my country isn't exactly offering a future.
For anybody who followed the saga at the time, there's nothing revelatory here as implied by the title but the essay (an excerpt from a book) is a useful summary if you wanted one.
It works for me. But randomly not work. And I have seen that iCloud Tabs issue before. I think it was logging out and logging back in would fix it. But this will cause another issue but I cant remember what it was.

Basically the whole thing with Sync is very fickle.

On another note, Safari somehow doesn't work well when you have over 128 Tabs.
You are looking for Scala or F#, depending on your choice of ecosystem.

Both come with very powerful features, but you don't need to use them and you can use libraries accordingly. Especially Scala can be made to feel very similar to python
Or really, there is very little difference between trampling the constitutional rights of naturalized citizens vs. natural born citizens.

If the judicial branch chooses not to check that power for partisan reasons, they will continue not to check that power as they exercise it more.
Parameter estimation is ML now?
> The printing press spread knowledge and literacy but also enabled propaganda wars and religious conflicts.

Not just that: it overturned existing power structures.

In particular, it democratized information in a never-before-seen way, and opened the door to universal literacy.

To many, many people, these in themselves would have seemed like the opposite of "good things". Even today, there are a great many people who believe strongly in the importance of top-down power structures and restricted information flow—and back in Gutenberg's day, there would have been many more, if only because that was what was common then.

And I believe this only enhances your primary point—that we need to "cultivate discernment about goodness". We need to not merely think about what is good for us, but what is good for all, and be honest with ourselves about those things.
Easily one of the best videos I've ever found on YouTube, it's a (difficult to summarize) combination of (wonderfully succinct) technical analysis of various creative software packages, analysis of industry trends, and philosophy around the impact of selling creative tools.
Calling EKFs "ML" is certainly a choice.