skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes a good deal of sense, since not all countries recognize the existence of public domain as a concept or the right of authors to dedicate their work to it before copyright expiration. (These cases are both mentioned on the link you provided.)
How to Make Time to Reinvent Yourself
The outage took out at least some of their aviation services. If they are unable to update routes and IFR approach procedures then lives could indeed be at risk.
>"Most models are trained on the original speaker's voice, but maybe only a little bit."

Really cool that you got this to work. I used to work on TTS (a few years ago, now), and we trained on celebrity voices, but used full audiobooks. https://github.com/Kyubyong/tacotron

Here are some of our Nick Offerman samples: https://soundcloud.com/kyubyong-park/sets/tacotron_nick_215k .
This raises several questions:

1. How experienced were these people in the particular problem domain?

2. How long was a single development effort and how many people?

3. What do you consider Waterfall? Are we talking "pure" Waterfall where everything is truly done in set phases? Or do you have feedback loops in place, like testing integrated properly into the development phase?

4. What was the relationships like with customers? Was it one (or a small number) of consistent customers or a diverse set of customers (closer to contract/bespoke software work)?
I don't necessarily get the sense this is made for "adversaries". More for unknowns. E.g. if voice commands and the laser fail (say, because it is a real adversary wearing safety glasses), next up is lots and lots of bullets.
I built one of those in college. Hardware's super simple, but actually getting it alligned is a total PITA.
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We're the polar opposite from you: Amazon deliveries here never arrive in less than 3 days, before covid or after (rural New Mexico). The pandemic seems to have had essentially no impact on delivery times here. It was "sort of fast/sort of slow" (depending on your baseline) before and it's the same now.
> [1] Note that since Bloom filters are not persisted automatically (that is, you have to pass --changed-paths explicitly on each subsequent write), it is a good idea to disable configuration that automatically generates commit-graphs, like fetch.writeCommitGraph and gc.writeCommitGraph.

Not sure I understand this note

Does this mean that:

git commit-graph write --reachable --changed-paths

is not a persistent setting, or it is a persistent setting?
Grow ops in the US are also prone to use solar power for their grow lights, so that the Feds don’t hunt them down based on the power bill. This isn’t an endorsement of solar more generally, either.
At the same time, it sucks for friends and coworkers around here in 1 bedroom apartments with both partners working from home or 3 kids and no yard and social events to structure around. My manager is going insane working and sleeping in the same (high cost) room while locked into a lease. I was lucky to move to a place with 2 bedrooms recently so 1 is the office and I'm so glad to not have kids.
Makes sense. The 10/22 is indestructible and proven. I've had one since I was 10 and put at least 20000 rounds through it and cleaned it once. It almost never jams.
Can someone explain this - what is meant by "complete"?

> Training is the process of exposing the model to lots of text. It has been done once and complete.
Dual pricing for new vs transfers is industry standard. I'm happy to pay a one-off $1 fee for new registrations (and additional years/renewals are cost price).

I don't even think you've misled anyone by doing this, since it's essentially a new product (new domain registrations).
Ruby on Rails scaffolding didn't make backend developers obsolete. I know you said GPT-X, but GPT-3 is at the boundaries of technology. The jump to GPT-4 will either take much longer or be much less impressive than the jump from GPT-2 to GPT-3. I would say that your job is safe from automation from GPT. But the technology that might put you out of job, which I personally think will not be something like a neural network, might be spontaneously discovered in the next 10-20 years just like the spontaneity of smart phones. To answer your question, be a human; be adaptable, be useful.
I guess it’s a question of where you live. I meant the actual lawnmowers people use rather than what is on the shelves today - I have only seen oily old two-strokers around me.

Also I thought low power gasoline engines were more efficient, but I guess they tend not to have any catalytic converters
Is there any inherent problem with the USPS over-hiring now and needing to let people go later? Is it somehow not possible for them to easily reduce the workforce after this, temporary, surge?
The insides of pro bowling balls will make your head spin
The companies that were hacked as a result (Dave.com, Flood.io) must have been storing secrets in source code, which has got to be one of the most negligent ways to suffer a breach.
On the one hand, yes, you should prepare.

On the other hand, when it’s good enough to replace us, it’s also good enough to replace basically any job where you transform a written request into some written output, e.g. law, politics, pharmacology, hedge fund management, and writing books.

I have no idea how to prepare, only that I should.

(Edit: what makes us redundant may well not be in the GPT family, but I do expect some form of AGI to be good-enough in 20 years).
I'd be curious to know what all was actually impacted by the ransomware. It sounds like they shutdown all their services in order to assess the damage.

Maybe this only affected their corporate infrastructure or manufacturing infrastructure. Looking through my connect account I don't see any missing data that would point to a backup old enough to not be encrypted. My watch does store some information offline so it could be that any gaps have already been filled in or it could be that connect was encrypted and has since been decrypted.
Why don't you just turn on JavaScript?
>I appreciate that companies are offering flexibility, but it would definitely be better if there was more thinking being done about the long-term restructuring of work.

There is. Your partner has information on that internally. It's a big decision for a company of 120,000+ full time employees across 150 countries so it will take time to figure out a permanent plan going forward.
> Part of their defense against cpu side channel attacks was the narrow execution limits;

Some people have claimed narrow execution limits provide a defense, but we on the Workers team don't believe that's true and I don't think we've made that claim. Specifically, it's easy for an attacker to store state between requests and so continue an attack across many requests. In our current implementation, you can store that state in global variables, but even if we wiped the worker's state after every request, it would still be easy for an attacker to store their state remotely.

We'll be posting more about Spectre later this week.

> That was also how they prevented v8 from allocating tons of memory.

No, we explicitly limit V8 memory usage independent of CPU time.
It's all very well realising this in a major unforeseeable disaster, but it doesn't put the egg back in the ovary 6 years after the fact.
The perspective that there are “thousands of things that are illegal” but not prosecuted always fascinates me, that’s not at all a common perception e.g. here in Germany. Is that a difference between common law and civil law systems? Maybe in places where code law is mostly binding, there’s a lot more pressure on the legislature to keep the law books up to date with the current norms of society.
I watched the video. I'm sorry, but its inane. This is the worst sort of science magic. In fact its just trickery.

Do you seriously think that you have been provided evidence in that video? All that happened is that I ended up looking at a leaf and packets of things that weren't moving at all. That's not evidence!

It says that they are picking up vibrations from a leaf or bag of crisps. But they don't show you those vibrations. They just give you a bunch of graphics and fuzzy sounds and tell you that they have done something.

You do see that this is could be very simple video trickery right? As with the initial article - there's a claim, but nothing to really be able to use to verify that claim. Just a graphic, and references to Shazam. Perhaps this is guerrilla marketing for Shazam? Its a more viable thesis anyway, given the evidence!
Should do, but if not by default and you’re running Android 10 then you would use adb and sndcpy.
> The former, as a general rule, does not create a derivative work. It's specifically called out in the GPL FAQ as something that does not create a derivative work.

Could you point me in the direction of a court ruling establishing this general rule? I couldn't find anything after a quick search.

You didn't mention this part of the GPL FAQ (directly after the part you talked about):

> But if the semantics of the communication are intimate enough, exchanging complex internal data structures, that too could be a basis to consider the two parts as combined into a larger program.

Determining what constitutes "intimiate enough" sounds pretty difficult and open to interpretation: what's a "complex internal data structure"? If PostGIS is serialising its (presumably complex) representations of data and sending them over a socket to your program (and vice versa), then does that count?

I think it's also worth noting that "derivative work" is an established legal term; if it comes to a lawsuit, it's probably more likely that the judge will fall back on established precedent on what constitutes a derivative work and enforce the literal terms of the license as opposed to looking at FAQs written by someone who is not a party to the contract.
Facebook takes the EU to court over privacy spat
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> in my opinion one shouldn't have kids unless they have the means to dedicate sufficient time and attention to them.

People that had sufficient time to dedicate to their children prior to the pandemic no longer do. It's not reasonable to suggest that all prospective parents should have forseen Covid-19.
Agreed that you probably want to change it back. The original posted the quote alongside it which was his philosophy at hitting, which can be applied to life in general. And Warren Buffett explicitly called out that philosophy as his approach to investing (which is why this was posted).

The new link is just an article about infographics about baseball. Completely useless outside of baseball - mainly now just trivia about an athlete.

Original link, and a comment with the link to higher resolution is best option.
I'm not surprised, Parquet's columnar encoding and compression won't really kick in significantly for smaller files.
I don't think you can apply your opinion of "life is already to convenient" to this situation. Life could never be too convenient as long as it doesn't contribute negatively to overall well being of the individual or society. I think that saying "I want things to be this way because of the way I feel regardless of it being a positive for society" is not a good way to go about this. Unless you can show via a study or and lots of scientific support one can't surmise that all of society should conform to one's on personal opinion because of "I think". If it's not working for you -personally- then the onus is on you to change that by finding an employer who wants you to work in the office or convincing your current employer that it would be better for -you-.
Exactly. One thing I like about both Gwynn and Ichiro is that they were technicians. A single is analyzable in a way that you can nearly feel like you can understand it.

A home run, especially a Venture-backed home run, is a mystery with a lot of luck that defies logic or analysis.
there's https://github.com/3b1b/manim created and used by https://www.3blue1brown.com/
Even worse, 2 managers, one direct report
So can something like this answer a query like "give me the names of countries with population exceeding a million" How would it go about doing that?
Laws of Tech: Commoditize your complement
What do you mean with networked notes? Maybe point me to what you use as well. I'm looking for a note taking tool that allows me to link pages together easily. Similarly to a wiki, but for notes.

As far as the physical (bullet) journal goes. It works great for me as I use it to structure my daily tasks. It allows me the freedom of structuring using visuals without being constrained by GUI tools. It's quick and doesn't get in my way too much. Which is what I need for it to stick for my habit.
All cool tech aside, I'll be sure to update the single light-bulb hanging from a thread in my interrogation room now.
Wait, are you telling me that you develop software to solve business needs and not as a personal art project?! What kind of crazy talk is this?!
Marketing for the military capacity of a state is pretty much the definition of propaganda :)
Omscs: The revolution will be digitized
It seems live that government incentive hit really good because the price I read beginning this year was around 40k€ in Germany while you get the Zoe for 21k (without incentive): https://www.renault.de/elektrofahrzeuge/zoe/preise-versionen...
In Germany it's currently illegal for someone to leave an escooter outside of a designated parking space. How many of them have you seen just laying around? I know in Mainz I've seen dozens.

Just saying, there's plenty of laws here that aren't prosecuted either.
I think it would be very difficult to escape from diffusion problems.
Bulk discounted presorted shipping is a thing for everyone technically - junkmailers have been doing it before before Bezos was born. It is a matter of baked in fixed transaction costs. In addition to sparing the back end sorting costs they would rather get 1 order of 1000 to process than 1000 orders of 1. Most would rather not bother with the overhead of say a 17 cent checkout fee to pay for groceries and just have it baked in the prices.
Not quite. The onus is on the pilots to never fly with out-of-date navigation information (it's actually illegal), so if they can't get that from Garmin, they'd just have to get it from somewhere else instead. Garmin's data services being unavailable isn't endangering anyone.
You missed my point. Putting children in childcare is not 'having time for them' before the pandemic. They didn't have the time required even before the pandemic, it's just that there was a way to cover up for that lack of time before.
It's a great analogy - and glad to hear of the success.

And while "all or nothing" is better for an investor (since it still costs them their time to be invested), consistent hits is probably the better option for an entrepreneur. Steady income, not to mention getting feedback on how to refine your craft along the way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23968936
BSD and MIT maximize freedom for developers, which seems to be your primary concern so that's totally understandable. You're right that they're much easier for developers to comply with than the GPL family.

GPL and AGPL maximize freedom for both direct and indirect downstream users, such that users of any software derived from that GPL/AGPL software are guaranteed strong rights to be able to understand / modify / pay others to modify their software. BSD/MIT allow proprietary derivatives which withhold this freedom from users.

Both are pretty valid concerns, even if they're opposed to each other. But for cases where you're a pure user and not a developer, there's no compliance hassle involved with either the BSD/MIT family of licenses or the GPL family.
I heard they’re being switched to meth because the cartels don’t buy poppies as much anymore and pay partly in amphetamine pills.
Inferno OS
(Googler, opinions are my own)

Personally, I think it's because of Google's focus on collaboration at all costs internally, which just isn't possible if everyone is working remote. IMs and Meets can only get you so far, but there's no substitute for overhearing a co-worker chatting about something or popping over next to them for a moment to see what they're working on.
This title is overly misleading. There is no evidence presented in the article to even suggest they paid the ransom. And Garmin declined to comment.

It's possible they paid, but it's also possible they are just restoring backups.
The data is stored in your `commit-graph` file by this command, but those other ways to update the `commit-graph` file don't pay attention to the fact that the data exists in order to persist it.

There is work in progress to fix that issue, hopefully in the next version: https://lore.kernel.org/git/f1e3a8516ebd58b283166a5374843f5c...
Ogame
It's not always a choice. There are people who cannot open source their software due to other legal, organizational, or practical factors.
This might be paranoid. But I've established a protocol with some people in my life. Should someone with my voice ever contact them and ask for money (because emergency bla bla), nothing is to be done until a passphrase is mentioned. It's only a matter of time, until someone gets significant voice data and related contact numbers and proceeds with using those voices to train a model. Afterwards, that model will be used to real-time fake the original voice in a scamming attempt.
This is a good point. My two thoughts are:

1. I don't find it easy to read the original post as implying Google is honestly convinced of its viewpoint.

2. It's a huge difference in meaning. Assume for the sake of argument that Drew is right about the interpretation of AGPL.

How should we interpret Google's actions? If they're paranoid, and afraid that the AGPL might require them to open-source their entire code base, that's unfortunate. You might still call them greedy assholes making open source worse, but it is a real fear that most commercial entities would be concerned about if it's realistic.

But if they knew better, and were lying, that's a completely different level of shitty behavior. If there's any ambiguity about that in Drew's post, it ought to be resolved.
To defeat this, don't you just do what the mobsters in movies do? Play music or make some other loud noise and then whisper or talk softly close to each other?
How is this different from buying farm-grown produce at the grocery store rather than raising it in a garden?

I mean, you can, but I don't buy an unsupported argument that says that everyone "should" do it that way.
> Parents are spending more time with their kids today than was common in the past.

And? How do we know it's enough? Based on the number of unhappy, abusive households, certainly doesn't seem so.

My point is that parents should have the economic means to spend more time with their children if required, such as during a pandemic, while facing minimum stress and economic disruption.

When parents have to work full time and often barely be able to take care of their children, it leads to stress at home and directly impact the child.

Maybe working 40+ hours a week isn't a good deal anymore?
From https://cloudflare.com/plans, it looks like one could use custom SSL/TLS certs with their business plan which is $200 a month?
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After some experiments with playing text to people around me, we decided that a huge factor in the perceptive quality of the voice comes from knowing who you are listening to before you get to listen, with the best perceived quality when the listener actually gets to see the picture of the voice's owner. Was it a deliberate choice to add those photographs for this reason?
I didn't write this frivolously.

There are people marching through the streets chanting, "this is what democracy looks like." They don rose-tinted glasses - projecting their mob rule fantasy of popular vote and pure democracy on our explicitly democratic republic.

Words have meaning. It's not misguided pedantry.
Plus a clear replacement exists: electric lawnmowers. People may argue that they're not as good, but they're certainly good enough for almost every case.
I agree Terraform isn't great for installing software. Cloud-init works but it can be cumbersome. If that is your major pain point though then I'd look into EKS and using Kubernetes to manage and install software. There is a CLI tool called eksctl that makes setting up an EKS instance a breeze. I don't know all the intricacies with AWS, but with Google Cloud you can setup a single node "cluster".

If you're already planning on standing up at least 3 compute instances though, might as well run EKS in a cluster.
I use FZF for this. It lets me do an incremental search on fit commit messages and show the diff of the selected commit. It’s a slightly customised version of fshow_preview from this example:

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/wiki/Examples#git
Has the status changed on time synchronization on endpoints? Using workers to deliver time over http would work really well if the servers they're hosted on are guaranteed to be through standard NTP.
I prefer loud cars. I’ve often been surprised by bad drivers driving Teslas while the bad drivers in ICE cars I hear approaching.
In Germany it seems as if something is outlawed then it is believed that thing physically can’t be done. In the United States, we take it as a challenge!
I'm actually looking forward to more code generation tools. Things like wiring up a button aren't stimulating and I wouldn't mind that level of programming becoming automated.
> “I’m just at peace with the possibility of something bad happening to me.”

I think this is the key thing to understand, as well as not worrying about things which are outside of your own control. If your own personal actions did not or will not be a factor in the outcome of something, whatever that something is, then it is pointless to worry or fret about it. Be concerned and happy about what is in your control!
I was hired by a company that made client on-boarding software for investment banks. It did all the Dodd-Frank, EMIR and KYC stuff. It was built around SQL Server and table and column names were quite long e.g. CustomerReferenceForGovernmentCompliance. We got a client from Massachusetts, they used Oracle 8 and wanted us to use Oracle 8 in our app. Oracle 8 has a 30 character limit for column and table names, so we had a problem.

I had Oracle experience and was hired to develop a middleware to translate long DB object names to short ones in Oracle (no refactoring of the app was allowed), plus I had to convert a shedload of T-SQL to PL/SQL. I told my employer this would take months.

Two weeks in to the job I was told "You're off to Boston to demonstrate your work to the client", "Err, its not ready" I said, "Don't worry its just a demo to get our second payment from the client, it will be Okay" my CTO said.

So on the flight from Dublin to Boston, my CTO leans over and says "I'm not asking you to lie, but..."

Long story short, they rigged the application to make it look like it was connecting to Oracle, but was actually saving data in SQL Server data files. I had to convince the client it was working fine. A low level techie kept giving me the stink-eye as he could clearly see this was a scam.

On my return I resigned and called the security department of the bank concerned. My wife is a US citizen so I really don't want to get in to trouble with the US authorities. The bank took the product, but they insisted on a massive discount to not take legal action.

Okay, it wasn't my dodgy code, but I felt the experience was similar.