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Not surprised to hear how the soundbar sounded.

I used to have a fancy Denon 5.1 receiver, sp/dif optical, and Linux 'mplayer -ac hw(ac3|dts)' which was totally amazing.

Now I have a Logitech Z906 which has only the features I actually needed from the Denon, but my display device is an Android TV and no combination of audio settings in Android or VLC will get a raw audio stream to the optical port. I'm getting a mini PC for that. FFS.
Having experienced a near optimal headphone setup, I must say I was pleasurably suprised by the sound quality and all the details. Having said so, I did miss the "feeling" of bass and other tidbits. For me music is for the most part hearing, but also feeling. That is something not a single headphone can provide. I'm saying this with a relatively simple setup of a Rode AI-1, Yamaha HS5 on ear height and the Yamaha HS8S.

Neither could a headphone compare to an aneachoic chamber with a >96-channel 3D surround driven music experience, but then again, no one has that yet.
They don’t need to be, but it gives the best security guarantees.

That is not true, the security has nothing to do with energy consumption, only with cost. If you had to verifiable set a million dollars on fire for mining a block, that would be as secure as proof of work without wasting energy. Also anything like mining is only necessary at all if you want anonymity, if you drop that requirement you unlock a vast space of very cheap solutions.
I browse the web all day, every day from within the EU and I don't know what you are talking about.
> We will publish publicly decryptor that decrypts files of all victims, so everyone will be able to recover from attack in less than an hour.

It is possible to use a unique key for each client and one key that decrypts them all [1]

I wonder if they did, or if they made a mistake and only used one key. They would have to be more professional than that I guess.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/597188/encryption-decryp...

If they used this implementation then each clients data has a unique symmetric key encrypting it and attached to their data is that symmetric key encrypted in multiple instances using different keys. One key Revil uses everywhere and another unique key for each client. So Revil can hand over a global key or personal key to recover the original symmetric key which is then used to decrypt the data.
Google needed to be split up decades ago.
Done, joeyh.
The fact that the media constantly does this let's me assume that this argument is partisan itself and projection. It sound hurt because the hand was caught in the cookie jar.
Gytha of Wessex the daughter of the last Anglo-Saxon king of England married Rus ruler Vladimir II Monomakh after fleeing from England conquered by Normans. The "queen" of the Rus was effectively Anglo-Saxong emigree.

Her great-great grandson was Alexander Nevsky, widely recognized in Russia as the greatest national hero.

It seems many anglo-saxons migrated to Rus after the conquest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gytha_of_Wessex
If you like history of that part of the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ayBcrZWJ8
Speaking of Wirth, he wrote a similar essay to the OP: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Articles/GoodIdeas_origFig....
Sounds great, but your reasoning is not actually based in a solid scientific basis. It "kinda makes sense", sure, but is more anthropocentric than based on evidence.

For the longest time people defined humans as "we're the only animals who can use tools; we're special". Nonsense, there are countless examples in the animal kingdom of tool use. "Oh but we're the only ones who can _make_ tools." Also nonsense. "Oh but only we can think ahead strategically!" Nonsense. "Only we have feelings". Nope.

The whole "only we have anxiety and regret" is in the same ballpark. It's a claim without evidence. The connection with the neocortex is less clear than you made it sound, and the conclusion doesn't even hold up. Dolphins have a larger neocortical area. Not just by a bit, by over 50%!

So let's keep the whole "humans are the only animals who ..." out of this which only serves to make us feel special. (And by extension is mainly used to exploit nature without regret. Whole religions are based on the concept of us being special and justifying atrocities against thousands of species.)

Honestly it's absurd to think that only humans can experience flow. (Even disregarding that we don't seem to have a common definition of that state anyway, against which such claims could be tested.)
> Nope, the source code is linked and it's compact enough that you should be able to learn everything in about an hour.

I don't doubt that somebody who wants to learn this can do that in an hour as you say. But why would I invest one hour of my time to learn something I have no idea what it is !?

I skimmed through the readme and wiki and all I see is something vague about how async is good and how stellar the performances are.

The world is vast; the flood of information is a serious problem.

My piece of advice to you fellow HN member is that the burden is on you to explain why something is interesting. Otherwise people will flock to crappy complex stuff, because unfortunately those are better explained.
> Why would both have to be outside the EU?

Because email/chat is rarely a monologue
i know how the EU works. on paper its nice. but in reality, 99% of people can't even name 5 EU politicians or more than 2 EU parties (if they even can name 1) or even which national party is part of which EU party.
the whole thing is a huge black box IN PRACTICE and thats why it is so powerful and uncontrolled.
You have some points I'd like to engage in but this isn't the platform.
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They are 2 distinct concepts for sure, but if you also need to track each request independently then it would seem more robust to generate a separate Id for that from within the scope of your system. I don't think you would want to rely on a client to differentiate "physical" requests for you.

Maybe "Logical-Request-Identifier" and "Physical-Request-Identifier"?
Or you can work with the victim to secretly provide the decryption keys, completely hidden from media coverage.
The think that makes this worse than other ecosystems is:

1. virtualenv shouldn't be necessary. This is more or less the same concept as containerization. This is only needed because python has a fractured ecosystem, and setting up your environment for one project can break another.

2. you also have to know which environment encapsulation and package management solution the library author is using - this is not standardized
That's certainly interesting. In May, they put the makers of 105 different apps on notice and gave them 15 working days to comply: http://www.cac.gov.cn/2021-05/20/c_1623091083320667.htm It seems like the new normal is to call out companies a few at a time, with penalties starting immediately? I wonder whether there'll be similar announcements every day from now on.
I have increasingly come to believe that part of the purpose of university education in the UK is to transfer money from taxpayers to the private owners of student housing via student loans.
If you define yourself in contrast to what Russia might have done and use it as an excuse, you are still justifying political prosecution. I think that might be why people dislike either party in the US. And they maybe should.
I think ‘generates’ means produces this output in this context. It’s the correct term for the technology being talked about. Nobody is confused that it’s producing new cryptographic tokens.
my friend. i haven't said the EU needs to go. I just stated that the whole setup is terribly wrong.

anyway. it needs to go. and then its need to be re-implemented differenlty. no idea how. but not in this way.
My bet is that it would decrease the amount done.

If it’s free why not sign up, maybe someday I’ll use it. Maybe not

Edit: decrease the amount done as a percentage of signups. Perhaps the growth in signups would make up for the percentage drop in aggregate terms. Ie flood the gym with memberships and only find one more person actually working out
For some reason (perhaps affordability?), Amigas were much bigger in Europe than in the US.
I don't think it has left the station per se. I agree we should get as driving battery EV as possible, but at some point the current grid will not sustain more charging stations at the mall through existing cabling. At that point it makes sense to look to hydrogen. It should be possible to drive it to existing gas stations for refueling, reusing existing infrastructure on that front.
Eh. That’s all passed. Now we’re arguing about pip vs pipenv / pip file or poetry.
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Bc the range of commercial offerings is so diverse and cost effective. Once upon a time, probably longer ago then 10, if you had a specific need that couldn’t be solved by cheap shared hosting, then self hosting at home might make sense if you planned to do all the patching, backups, hardware cycling, monitoring, etc yourself and didn’t care about network redundancy. Today it is nice for a certain variety of hobbyist for whom home data center is their thing. Otherwise host it somewhere competent.
I'm not doing this for fame or money, I'm building a 3D MMO platform for eternity, so it's all or nothing:

Either all I did in life will disappear or I'm making the next open Minecraft in which case everyone will use it anyway. I'm fine with both outcomes.

Notch spent zero time documenting and he obfuscated the binaries, still more people know that reverse engineered source today than any other source to ever exist, maybe forever (unless I succeed)!
I skimmed through it too quickly, but it seems that most of these links are rehash of ES6 spec, which is pretty technical but understandable. If you have no issue with technical details and (like me) do not want narrative, you may refer to it as well.
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Sorry? I'm not understanding -- arbitrage in what market(s)?
And that’s just “recorded” history. The West Coast of North America has only been colonized for a few hundred years, even in recorded human history that’s barely a blip in time.

There is plenty of oral history among Native American tribes of great fires, droughts, and natural disasters that come along every 100-200 years. There are also many ancient civilizations that were wiped out before European colonization due to climate change (Chaco Canyon, for example). Western North America has always had an unstable climate regardless of Climate Change.
Try in st, for me it's much faster than xterm.
What are the odds we are living in a computer simulation? (2016)
Yes, I would say it was still an excellent choice for SQLite to use C. Still we are increasingly questioning the tradeoff offered by C and the case of SQLite gives one (strong) data point.
> There isn’t a great way to pass around a single executable or installer for a Python app.

Have you tried Nuitka or mypyc? (Haven't tried them myself but I've heard very good things about Nuitka.)
Lets hope so... I expect that these were accidentally committed to a public repo

However, while the keys are then already leaked, you'd have to go search for them. Copilot suggests you use them in you editor. That is not quite the same imo.

It goes from deliberately searching and using leaked keys to having them handed to you without context. I feel it is a bit like finding an unlocked bike, if you take it, it is still stealing. But here there is a guy at the bike parking lets say that is handing out bikes to anyone passing by. Not the best analogy, but i think it covers my point ;)
I dunno, they made some big breaking changes but continued supporting 2.x for over a decade after 3.x. There are definitely reasons I would not consider Python for some projects, but the 2/3 transition is not one of them. To be honest the event is so infamous (and IMO a little overblown) that they basically couldn't do this anymore, and I think it's been openly stated that they wouldn't.
Perhaps it can be a forcing function for improved context-sharing and reduced key-person dependency.
With respect to the warning, MDN has a compatibility table at the bottom which shows full support on all tracked systems since very early version numbers.
Exactly! At least I can read the script but not the binary!!
Any chance Copilot could be made to cough up the DVDCSS or BluRay AACS DRM secrets?
This is tech at it’s finest. Also why I come to HN.
EE is one of those "engineering is really applied physics" disciplines. There's a slant towards standardised EE-specific solutions for PDEs, but it's still much more abstract and mathematical than any field of CS, apart from maybe cryptography and data science.

But career-wise, it's a mediocre choice in most Western countries. (Possible exception is Germany, where engineers have a similar status to doctors and lawyers.)

Most people have no clue what EE even is, or just how much math and engineering goes into building everyday devices and services.

(A friend of the family said "Great! You'll be able to get a job repairing TVs!" when I got my course offer.)
> (embedded dev and firmware/OS dev are some fields desperate for competent hires).

There's a Samsung R&D center in my country where they do very cool and tough stuff and they ARE desperate for hires - mostly because their salaries are a laughing stock of the entire city. Web and data/backend pay best and the "tough" fields are trying to get by on sub-web salaries.
This seems to completely ignore the fact that we've seen Copilot regurgitating exact copies of existing code, and even with the incorrect license attached when it was asked for it. [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309
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Same progression and situation as you actually. I am still very hands on.

Think my position is probably “internal consultant” really.
Do they pay contracting rates during this time as well? Those can be 2x your salary in Sweden, so not sure I'd sign on as an employee at that point.
> I don't follow what "they sow".

> I cannot comment on their intelligence but maybe you could provide some information.

Western companies in Burma largely collaborated with the junta with great enthusiasm, going above and beyond what a person simply coerced will do.

https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/national/bangladesh-blast...

They hope to ride this out, and have chummy relationship with the government under junta.

And this is when their execs largely fare from countries proclaiming themselves most liberal out there.
Poetry is a great way to manage library dependencies in containerized apps
Nice find from 1973!
The second guy in the video is really chill, he is complaining about having little time to do actual work. You could have a similar interview in 2021.
>Very little is learned in college that is necessary for general employment.

Obviously for a programming job you don't necessarily need a 4-year university degree, but I wouldn't diminish its value either.

>What college does is it throws a bunch of hard but irrelevant subjects at you that you slog through

No. That's not the right way to look at university education. The golden rule is "You get out what you put in". If you see college as being useless and irrelevant then that's what you'll get. You can certainly graduate with a 4 year degree and know nothing and have it be a complete waste of time. That's on you. I know many people like this. On the other hand, every CS class you take is valuable and does teach you something deep about our profession that you can take away. It's also especially valuable for a student because as someone learning you don't know where your interest lie so getting a sampling of the entire field is very nice IF YOU PUT THE WORK INTO IT. So what you deem as 'slogging' is really 'learning challenging topics' - which is hard whether you do it in class, or independently.

So tell me, which CS classes do you think are irrelevant and useless?

Looking back at my education, I had a Database class where we had to implement a database backed by a B-Tree, the cornerstone data structure of many modern databases. Was that useful? In your world, it isn't because I didn't have to implement a B-Tree in my career ever again and if I want a database, I can choose an existing offering ... but when I work with databases having this as part of my mental model of how databases work has been invaluable.
I'm kind of astonished that this project got greenlit, given Microsoft's previous experiences with embarrassing AI projects (thinking particularly of Tay and Zo).
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I wonder why apple didn’t move to Seattle to escape taxes for their employees like microsoft and Amazon. if your employees have to pay more income tax, it’s kind of like a tax on the employer indirectly too.
https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-security/abo...
The degree is great (I’m an EE) but it’s still an old school profession in the vast majority of cases. This means boring stuffy offices, old ways of thinking on employment and low pay compared to the same level of skill for a software position.
> They would have to be more professional than that I guess.

There are news all the time of big companies making rookie mistakes of that magnitude. I don't see why it should be different for big companies of the organized-crime variant.
And on a tangent to a tangent: The Old norse word for ‘boat’ is usually ‘bátr’, not the expected inherited ‘beitr’. The former is a loanword from Anglo-saxon and the inherited ’beitr’ is only found in poetry. While anecdotal, it is interesting that a culture so associated with seafaring as the viking-age Scandinavia borrowed the word for boat.
of course its not run by aliens from some sort of death star. stop being ridiculous. i never even implied that.

but the whole circus in Brussel is a huge black box bureacracy run by politicians that no one really knows. the politicans that are sent there by local parties are usually not very well known by the local populace, and even if, their doings are not really of influence on how poeple view their local parties. heck I bet 95% of voters cannot even name 5 eu politicians in the parlament and to which local party they belong to.

and thats the power. the citizens are busy with national politics and in the meanwhile the death star aliens can do whatever they want.

and yes. its not an unsolvable problem. people could educate themselves. all the info is there. but its a very laborous job.
so maybe the media is just doing it wrong?
But doesn’t Copilot generate verbatim copies of entire copyright methods that implement non-trivial novel algorithms, including comments?

The article doesn’t seem to address this?
The game industry has notoriously poor working conditions. It’s changed a bit since he said this but yeah, never work for someone who thinks like this. He’s wrong, it’s survivorship bias on his end.
IMHO you knew, but you scoffed that it couldn't do serious computing like an IBM. It could only handle games.

Some didn't realise that games are pretty taxing on the hardware, but I need to let that go, it's been three decades now. :)
While inefficiency is indeed a problem, I feel like a lot of people overlook the one huge pro hydrogen has over batteries, namely charging time. Of course this might not be important for the daily commute, or 99% of the vehicles' use. But for that remaining 1% it _is_ a huge deal. And most people buy cars to fulfill a 100% of their needs, not 99%.

Now I should say, I know basically nothing about battery tech. But unless full charging time can be greatly reduced, by which I mean under 5 or at most 10 minutes, I still feel hydrogen could have the upper hand even if it is more expensive and less efficient.
Based on my own experience, I remembered back in the day when I first started programming, in PHP, I copied many code from other commenters on PHP.net a lot (their online manual allows others to post code underneath the main docs). So I expect some new programmers to do the same but with StackOverflow.

Of course, I stopped doing that once I got hold on the real knowledge. In fact, now I look back the code that I copied from the others, it's just like watching a horror movie, and I rather rewrite the whole thing in my own term.

I guess the fairer statement to put in is "some programmer copy those code to 'get started'".
Sure, if someone checked in a secret to a repo that at some point was public, and got crawled by co-pilot - they should cycle that secret, so it's no longer valid - rather than only mark the repo private and/or nuke the secret from the repo history.

But there's another side to this - if you write code using co-pilot against a popular Api - and co-pilot gives you a valid key - and you access data or a system you aren't supposed to - would you be liable under the various draconian antighacker laws?

If you pick up a key card from the street, and enter someone's home - you'd be trespassing after all..
Love it ... “Open as in OpenAI” should be a standard phrase.
Just like “Free as in beer”
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>That's not the way it works, as explained in my previous comment.

Except it actually is how it works, because if making sure that the consumer is aware of the local origin is the one thing its supposed to do, you wouldn't have the production process being part of whats being protected as well, and you'd be able to sell any random soft goat cheese as Parmesan just because it was made in that reason. After all, they're not lying about where its coming from, now are they?

The fact of the matter is that the exact location of the manufacturer is pretty much irrelevant for the average consumer, and the names of the wines, cheeses, etc... being protected are treated by most consumers as simply the name of the product itself, disconnected from its production location beyond a "it was originally invented here".

If you ask the average person on the street outside of italy where "Grana Padano" cheese is made, you'd have some people say "oh its from somewhere in italy", but almost no one would be able to tell you the exact region that the protected origin designation is so strongly trying to "protect".

The answer to that is simply that it just doesn't matter and the name is viewed by consumers as primarily a designation of the product being sold, rather than the location it was produced in.

Your arguments are the arguments used by the EU to justify the unjustifiable and to be quite frank i'm done with that crap.

If a product is molecularly indistinguishable from another there is no legitimate reason they can not have the same name. If you are so hung up on ensuring consumers being able to know where it was made, slap a "made in X" label on it.

Anything else is bullshit.
In light of this, unless there is evidence to the contrary, I'm going to assume it will also regurgitate malicious code.
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I wonder how international companies handle this. Sneaking them out of the country would obviously be in breach of local law but may be considered part of their duty to employees (similar to rescuing people stuck in a war zone due to a business trip).

Why those executives were in the country is another question.
Never mind the other answers. GPU rendering is not supported on macOS. Generally CPU rendering is quite slow.

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35k per month? Per year?
Yes! That is who I'm thinking of. For anyone else reading, the scandals go beyond the one twitter thread:
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