skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh Idunno, it "depends on what the meaning of 'is' is"...

> Rather than "with the intention of depriving the owner", the US one says "with the intention of converting it to their use", which seems broad enough to cover exploiting a copy

...or rather, on the meaning of "converting". I've always theought of that as "changing", i.e. "it used to be one thing, and now it's something else". But copying IP only adds a use of it, it doesn't fundamentally change it in this sense: it is still available for the original proprietor's use. Is that really "converted"?

At least for the ordinary-English uuage of the word, I think it could be argued that it isn't. But then maybe this isn't just English; maybe the word "converting" also has some term-of-trade definition in that dictionary?
Layman question: Is it possible to shield electronics against cosmic rays?

Or is it like a neutrino thing, where they just go through everything? (But neutrinos barely interact, correct?)
With the Intel processors suddenly being hotter with a new kernel, I'd always have a look at the cpu frequency scaling. That's where stuff changed, and the new modules for that could simply work worse for older processors. Especially if it's not all that old, but also not Skylake yet. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling#CPU_f...

If it's not that, check that the temps are actually high. If they are not, adjusting the fan curve could be possible. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fan_speed_control lists some options (nbfc looks nice and is new to me), your laptop might have some vendor specific solution like thinkfan.
"Any screen" means sRGB, I guess. So sure, there are plenty of ways to map CIE XYZ into sRGB, if that is what you are asking.
But this is only for snippets right? Which I think is the issue: it has never been tested in court. Basically if you put:

/* web user management */

And copilot comes up with complete user management lifted out of another repo with all pages, db structures and logic but the copyrights stripped then yes. But, as I understand it, that is not what it does. You will need to slowly tell it every tiny part of how user mamagement is to be implemented and for those snippets it copies code. But when you are done, there might be snippets from 100s of different repositories potentially. I think it is hard to show that breaks copyright as many people already come up with roughly the same stuff 1000s times/day all over the world.
Did they give full access to all documents and facilities to WHO? NO. Why do you continue an argument that has 0 basis?
GPT-J can now be used at https://bellard.org/textsynth
Book of Gates
FWIW, we covered critical thinking in lower-sixth (16-17yo) as my school offered it as an elective, and I did 2 years of critical media studies as part of my english-language GCSE (ages 14-16). Not every school will have offered those subjects to their student body though. Another factor is that I was in the top-sets which meant every course was available for me - if I were in a lower-ability set/group I would have had less opportunities for critical studies courses.

(Paternalism warning:) My main take-away from that experience was that the people that I feel would benefit the most from media-literacy and critical-thinking are the ones who wouldn't have been given an opportunity to study it at secondary-school in the first place...
Nah, not the same thing: You'd be deprived of the free use of the farm that you had before. With IP, you wouldn't.
Recall that in (free market) capitalism one is valued at their market value. Which, for a worker, may not be very high (net present value weekly wage times 50 times number of years at work) but is still something.

It beats socialism where people and their lives are worth nothing.

Imagine if the CCP had to pay damages for lives lost in Mao's purges calculated the same way American firms get fined for customers who spill hot coffee on their lap. They would have gone out of business by 1946!

The real question is why is this laziness celebrated in the West? I bet the answer is because it fits the "contribute nothing, and rightfully claim your BNI" narrative promoted by globalists and socialists in the West.

As Covid 19 is slowly disappearing, they need to build consensus around the need or justification for continued handouts for people who simply want to get paid for doing nothing at all.
I think "low-life partisan information warrior who deserves to have the book thrown at them" is way too strong. You might think it's slimy, sure, but it's still journalism and the information is still important to the public. It passes Kant's test: if everybody did it, it would be a net positive. If we had a bunch of partisan information warriors that leaked information at the most inconvenient time to the party that they disliked, that would keep all parties honest (as long as they all had enemies).

Also, you don't necessarily have to be partisan to want to release a story at time that's inconvenient to a party. It's natural for a journalist to want to break a big story, and it's also more beneficial if an important story reaches more people. If you want some important information to be shared widely, one of the best times to drop it is when it will cause a nation-wide sensation.
Apple's first software engineer
Awful. What's wrong with just using your imagination. Truly awful.
IMHO, you should use unofficial strict mode (set -ueEo pipefail; trap "Error at ..." ERR ) often, because it catches a lot of bugs. Sadly, strict mode doesn't work in subshell.

Also, code without comments and documentation is useless, because developer must invest some time into browsing and understanding of your code first, but, often, it faster to rewrite code from scratch instead.

Also, you forget to include a license for your code, so nobody can use your code for any purpose.

I like the idea of downloading of modules at demand, with verification of integrity. I'm looking to implement something like that for my project too, but I'm afraid that I will not be able to implement it securely enough.
Were you actually able to diff it down to a single bit flip?
> The most important benefit of preserving the history is being able to go to an exact state of the program in the past.

No one's talking about ever getting rid of any commit ID that got checked into `main` or `master`.

We're talking about getting rid of commit IDs that only ever existed on one machine and only during development.

From my reflog, I see this commit ID: `21b9f2e HEAD@{28}: commit: Fix and instrument nstray URL problem`

No one needs to know about my typo - ever.
Maybe you are both right: maybe the US is more expensive if you plan to live off savings, but the UK is more expensive (in units of labor) for the average worker because the average pay is lower.

In other words, almost all statistics on cost of living do not take into account differences between countries in the ease of getting money.
Rather than a tool like Copilot, which does look very interesting, I'd be curious to see the effect of using evergreen (self-updating) off-the-shelf free open-source components.

Imagine if you get get an app that uses `http-rest-api` and `http-www-crud` with `http-www-multifactor` and `http-rest-api-license-key` and you could automatically be using the latest rest API, the latest CRUD framework, the latest multifactor/whatever framework (which you'd probably pin to some standard like YubiKey so user tokens don't get invalidated regularly). The actual reference implementation could be done in pseudocode even, and ported to many languages (ok this is getting too meta). You could throw together a professional quality application in a few lines of package management. And if someone finds a bug in the code, it gets updated, and next time a release is cut you'll pull it down automatically and deploys itself.
Another Wework in the process. The main guy will eventually walk away with a pile of money and the rest..well you know how it works.
It's called "learning a new language".

You know what you want to express - you don't know how to express it in a way that your interlocutor will understand.

Whether your interlocutor is a computer speaking Lean, or a human speaking your non-native tongue.

All the benefits are on the other side of the learning curve.
Merges are truly horrible, though.

They're a commit with two parents, one of which has no real meaning anymore because it doesn't exist anywhere else. They break a lot of tools because of this.
While the decline in O2 doesn't present any immediate danger, it does bring up an interesting scientific question: why has the Earth's atmosphere's O2 concentration remained within a certain range during the Phanerozoic era (since the Pre-Cambrian)?

Oxygen is produced by photosynthesis, but build up of O2 in the atmosphere is governed by the balance between net O2 production due to burial of organic matter (organic matter left at the surface gets consumed and re-oxidized, causing no net increase in atmospheric O2), and exposure/oxidation of reduced materials in eroded rocks and of reduced gases from volcanoes.

There is no a priori reason why these two processes have to be in balance, and both are expected to be quite variable, affected by climate, tectonics, changes in species, and amount of erosion. Absent photosynthesis, the time scale for the latter processes to deplete the atmosphere of oxygen is only 10 million years or so. Oxidizing reduced materials (organics, but also ferrous iron, other transition elements, and sulfides) in the top 200 meters (IIRC) of the Earth's continents would consume all the atmosphere's oxygen. So, why has O2 not gone to zero (or close to it) at some point in the last 600 million years?

One might argue there's some negative feedback effect, but none has been identified. You might think fire would do it. The idea would be that at high O2 levels, fires would burn even wet wood, turning the world into a blazing inferno with less photosynthesis (never mind that this would not affect phytoplankton, which causes much of the net burial of organic matter). But during the Carboniferous, atmospheric O2 levels reached nearly twice what they are now. That was when 90% of world coal deposits were produced. And fires might even make organic burial worse -- a positive feedback -- by producing charcoal that's highly resistant to decomposition. A significant fraction of coal in Carboniferous coal deposits is in fact charcoal, thought to be from wild fires sweeping across swampy forests.

The explanation for the stability may be anthropic selection. Had O2 crashed to near zero, higher life (including vertebrates) would have been wiped out, and we would not be here. If our descendants explore the galaxy and its Earth-like planets, they might find that this long run of luck is extremely uncommon. If this is the case, then humanity is going to have to take control of O2 levels in the future, as past luck is no guarantee of future luck.
Is this bit rot happening on a server w/ ECC RAM just curious?
"Don't do that" is not a good solution to errors which are hard to spot and easy to make!
It should be possible, but not practical.

It's easier to just code checks and balances to fix those errors instead. There's a famous story about a Google search bug caused by a comic ray and they implemented such error checking on their servers after that
When my city digs up all the streets near me to replace the sewer, storm, and many of the water pipes, how long until it recoups those costs via those services?

At some point, cities make infrastructure expenditures and don’t treat them as a bond investment directly against future income. This means some people pay more than they get and others get more than they pay.

https://www.cambridgema.gov/-/media/Files/publicworksdepartm...
It's very naive to view this as "dumb" when it is in fact an obvious Jewish propaganda piece.

I'll start by pointing out that "white" is not capitalised, while every other ethnic group (including the grammatically-comparable "Black") are capitalised.

It also attempts to divide Whites and everyone else by implying that Whites are disproportionately wealthy at the expense of all other ethnic groups, including Jews, whom it specifically mentions among the supposedly-oppressed by cleverly referring to historical characteristics of these suburbs rather than their modern compositions.

This is apparently subversive in light of the facts [0,1]. Jews in the area enjoy a relatively high median income of $75k-$100k, while only 6% are below the poverty line - the vast majority of whom (up to 80%) are in fact "Jews of colour".

Unfortunately this comment will be flagged/removed for pointing these things out. Please, if you see this before then, and especially if you are White yourself, maintain a very critical view of anything from NYT.

[0] https://whyy.org/articles/as-jewish-population-in-philly-reg...

[1] https://www.jewishdatabank.org/content/upload/bjdb/2019_Phil...
I’d like to think the typo very last word in that thread is a lucky bit flip.
That's not really a threat model to be concerned about, if someone can define bash aliases for you you're already running their arbitrary code, so them defining bash aliases for you should be the least of your concerns.
Trees now? Why must everything be about class and racism?
I explained why its awful.

Whatever do you mean by "dont know what pieces you have" or "want to enjoy the act of following directions". This is vintage HN absurdity.

Only your last point is not nonsense. Dont use the app.
The Future of Webdev. Crazy, Right?
I'd say most HDR contents are using PQ rather than gamma ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_quantizer ), and some are using HLG.
Why use Arch and not Void? I am aware of several points of superiority - a better package manager, larger repos, wider architecture support and multiple libcs - and no points of inferiority. Well okay, one - Void's commitment to supporting musl occasionally leads to feature lags, since they won't push updates that break musl. The general feel of the system is more stable than Arch.
Sure, but isn't it the case that either your predicates are computable, in which case both a "classical" and a "constructive" proof assistant could evaluate them, or they're not, in which case neither could evaluate them?
In conclusion, the Yeti shart of 2022 will contain no more logs.

I breathed a sigh of relief when I read that final post.
Someone that is putting his code where his mouth is, that's great.
I am inclined to prefer the scenario where plastic is more readily decomposed, rather the situation where we are in now, where plastic is entering the food chain and organisms, including ourselves.

Other than climate change, I think plastic pollution is the issue of our time.
So basically the classic “revenue without profits” business model?
Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin won a pulitzer for their biography - "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" - of Oppenheimer [0]. Additionally, the transcripts of the hearings that resulted in the suspension of his security clearance have been made available to the public [1]. The transcripts are quite voluminous but it's well worth the effort to scan through at least one (try volume 1) as they certainly capture the political sentiment of the time.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/American-Prometheus-Triumph-Tragedy-O...

[1] https://www.osti.gov/opennet/hearing
Can't say I really like the title as it comes across as an absolute statement whereas the bit flip could have happened for any number of unknown reasons.

I saw a similar take on Twitter and whilst root causing such things (especially when it's a single occurrence) isn't always possible, shrugging and saying "cosmic rays" should be the last thing to posit not one of the first.
Not sure about the US but normally your property taxes are linked to the property value or land value (I guess as an estimate of both how much you can afford and how much services you’ll use). This seems more progressive than saying “well you can’t afford to live centrally so we’ll charge you more for that sewer connection maintenance”
That's not an accurate representation of the freenode situation: freenode was taken over, the old staff disagreed with the decisions of the new owner and left to create Libera.Chat, and then the new ownership started banning people and taking over channels for talking about Libera, changed the server software, effectively deleted the nickname database, and is producing really delusional messaging, such as https://freenode.com/news/introducing-irc .
Because they actually care about a program?
Audacity was already using its own wxWidgets fork before the acquisition.
> > > It was mostly a complaint about tone, not content.

> > You say that as if you think that makes it better.

> Absolutely!

Indeed, you absolutely did. Which sucks, because it absolutely isn't.

HTH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_policing

(See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning )
Post a Ripple or Stellar address, and I'll buy you one ;-)
The linked YT video was posted yesterday, in case anyone wants to check for the (limited amount) of previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27725133
That's not what actually happened here (probably), but think of relatively heavy atoms like iron, ejected from a supernova at close to the speed of light. They're not really "rays". They're solid particles that punch holes in everything. The good news is, mostly they're ionized and they get repelled away from hitting the planet's surface by our magnetic field (generated by the big hot iron magnet that's churning under our crust). But in the rest of space where there's no field like that, getting lots of tiny puncture wounds from high-velocity iron particles is pretty normal. It does a lot of damage to cells and DNA in a cumulative way pretty quickly.

To answer your question, shielding is possible but it is much harder in space than it is under the magnetosphere. Even so, a stray particle can wreak havoc. Shielding for the purposes of data protection on earth is essentially a risk/reward analysis. Anyone could get hit by a cosmic bullet, but the chances are pretty low. The odds of an SSD flipping bits on its own are significantly higher.
Chock full of golden material and contrast/comparable points to today:

"If you want to know what ordinary people will be doing with computers in ten years, just walk around the CS department at a good university. Whatever they're doing, you'll be doing.
"
Armies of bankers, lawyers and accountants to protect the wealth from the more mindlessly driven people out there who want to take it.
Macs seem to have some weird input latency that I don’t notice on Linux or Windows. Letters don't appear for sometimes up to a full two seconds after I type them on my Macbook Air if I have an external monitor connected.
Before the inevitable comments regarding Apple's moves with macOS and how the hacker 'tide' is supposedly turning back against Apple, I think I'll chime in with my two cents. I switched from my 2015 MBP to a Surface Book 2 at the end of 2019, and switched back to my same, six-year-old MBP just a few months ago. To keep things short, whilst WSL puts Windows miles ahead of where it once was, I find that the same old rough-edges still remain.

I often dock between standard-DPI displays and portable mode (with the high-DPI/'retina' display.) I first noticed that Windows doesn't correctly handle DPI switching with window borders, Explorer, and notifications back in 2019 (the old 2x scaling level remains when switching from portable to docked), and filed a feedback with the built-in app on Windows. I worked around this by killing dwm.exe and explorer.exe every time I docked my Surface. This issue was still present earlier this year, and deciding I had enough of dealing with all these little Windows 'quirks', wherever they arose, I switched back to my old Mac.

It turns out that SIP and Gatekeeper aren't nearly as much of a problem as I was led to believe, neither of these features have hampered me once. The Big Sur interface changes, whilst I thought I'd never get used to them, have actually grown on me. Since switching back, I've discovered a lot of quality native apps that simply have no analog on Windows–OmniFocus stands out here. And as always, Homebrew still exists and works just as well as it always has for most of my *nix related tasks.

Hearing about the M1 performance improvements, I can see myself staying on Mac for quite some time yet–I'll upgrade to an M1 MacBook Air once this 2015 MBP (six years old!) kicks the bucket.

Edit: For some context, I'm mainly a .NET developer. .NET Core/5 is a game-changer for cross-platform and development is first class on really any system nowadays. I've settled on JetBrains Rider for my IDE and find myself generally happier than I was with VS on Windows.
Schrodinger's Market Economy.

This is the most prosperous, generous, and advanced civilisation ever, with the largest number of billionaires.

But most people who are younger than Boomers are poorer than their parents, and public infrastructure and public services have somehow become unaffordable.
"sharting"
> The major innovation from feudalism is that now the peasants actually pay for the land up-front too, and they pay for any improvements on it, and then higher rent for the improved property

If the replacement cost of the home is $200,000 and the sales price is $500,000 due to land scarcity there is a rent or excess value of $300,000. The rent is paid to the seller through surplus asset gains due land price appreciation and to banks through surplus interest payments or usury due to the capitalization of ground rent in real estate asset price.

> Market forces create sustainable economies.

There is no free market for land and money, these are social factors of production recognized by the state to help independent agents coordinate production. When banks lend against the present value of future rents the borrower is pledging the surplus labor of future generations of residents as collateral. In the ancient era this resulted in people being sold into debt slavery, which is why religions sought to establish various rules concerning land reform and cancelling debts.

> an additional dollar in tax reduces the net asset value by the inverse of the tax rate (e.g. $1 in tax revenue at 1% => $100 value destroyed)

Direct taxes on land can actually help discourage freeholders from holding land off the market forever if it is properly assessed, which can reduce excessive capitalization of ground rent in asset prices and reduce the long term rent and debt burden.

Taxes on excess value and rents which are spent back into circulation on infrastructure can increase real capital values and wages.
We know that because you say so, right?

Give me your address, I'll send you the newspaper on top of the pile in the living room. I've just looked, it's in English. You can count the stories and analyse them, see how many probably/perhaps/possibly may be cherry-picked.
The strange thing is, it's not always apparent whether someone is functionally illiterate or innumerate.

It's disturbingly routine, in the US at least, to have a degree with barely even a grade school understanding of math. And although total illiteracy is uncommon among high-school and college-educated people, you would be surprised how many can't write a normal paragraph or follow a written argument.

You can't necessarily see this with normal public or workplace interactions, but it is real.