skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think that's a dog whistle

By today's standards? Yeah, it probably is. I don't even care anymore though. Homogenous societies have fewer problems of inequality, less crime, more social cohesion. We've known this since Aristotle in Greece, since Marcus Aurelias in Rome, and probably with some other writers I can't think of in between then and now.

It's not a statement of any one group being better than another.

It's not a statement that I don't enjoy many aspects of our diverse society.

It's merely a rebuttal to your argument.

Cancel me as you see fit.
I'm pretty sure there has to be some irony involved with this take coming the week of a civil engineered building collapsing in Miami.

Our industry is not unique here. And many formal methods are hidden by the tools of the trade.
No, it's in the article:

> Later, Pouchain’s lawyer, Sylvain Cormier, tells me the solicitor’s letter informing Pouchain the industrial tribunal case was being dropped was probably a phoney pause, while Mme H’s lawyer drew breath to relaunch the case. Sometime afterwards, the case returned to court – where it was said that Pouchain had died and that her “heirs” would be asked to settle. “This should not have happened,” Cormier says.

> [...]

> “When Mme Pouchain first told me her story, I found it hard to believe,” says Cormier. “I said, ‘It’s just not possible.’ But I read the files and it is – everything she told me was unbelievable but perfectly true. It appears there was no certificate of death, it was just taken on someone’s word. Nobody checked.”
Last time Biden was in office, the whole “red line” rhetoric went nowhere so I can’t say I’m surprised that Russia would test the boundaries. But I’m cynical enough that I also would t be surprised if China did the attack making it look like Russia, or even if the NSA did the attack to make it look like Russia. Or even any European country in between. Such is the my level of distrust for all of the actors involved.
The story says the fines fell to her heirs - her husband and son. It says their bank accounts were frozen and the bailiffs took her husband's car to settle part of the fine.
You're conflating several things. Dawkins making philosophy hot takes is not in the same category as promoting Vitamin C as a panacea for disease, which is literally just scientifically wrong. As is Weinstein's claim about tap water, which is probably the offshoot of some sort of "the government is mindcontrolling us with tapwater" conspiracy which they have bought into because both Weinstein's have gone completely and utterly mad.
Smalltalk-80 -like "sub desktop-projects" are for smaller scale changes than "feature branches". They are about implementing different parts of a "feature" when that requires changes into several sub-modules.

I think "Mise-en-place" is really a good metaphor for it because you can arrange every tool-window you need for a given sub-task in a context dedicated solely for that sub-task. It is like in a kitchen you would have a separate "desktop" for preparing the meat and a separate one for creating the salad. They would need different tools around them, for easy access right?

A good example is implementing a client-server feature.

In the parent-task-desktop you are implementing client-side code that requests something from the server and then does something with the response it gets form the server. But the needed server-side function is missing, you must implement it too. Open a sub-project-desktop for working on that server feature. Open any editors and browsers and test-sets and change-lists and debuggers and spec-documents in that server sub-desktop. You can have similar windows in the parent client-desktop but those are totally separate from the windows you have opened in your sub-task-desktops.

It is easy to switch between the two back and forth which is often needed because when you change something in the server-part you may need to make a corresponding change in the client-part as well.

Or you discover a bug which is not about what you are working on now, but you realize it is best to fix it before doing anything else. Open a sub-project-desktop for fixing it. When you're done you get back to the exact same work-environment you were in when you discovered the bug and realized you better fix it right away.
The phrase 'hordes of millions' is important to take note of...

By the most liberal estimate I saw, there were a few hundred people that attended these protests, the largest single one had a few thousand, overall we can say 10 to 15k across the whole country.

That's 0.0002% of Trump's voter base, and 0.00005% of the American population.
DevOps is dead. But what will replace it?
Interesting.

It still doesn't make sense to me, because even if it is a contract, then the only reason for me to enter into that contract is because I have to do so in order to use the software (or database), due to the fact that it is protected by copyright.

If the software/data is not protected by copyright, I am free to use it without entering into any contract with anyone.

Reviewing the OSM Legal FAQ, it appears that they are very much based on copyright and licensing.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ
I really think there must have been a recent push to clean things up then based on what you and some friends here have said. I think the Mayor wants to run for President again and one of the richest persons in Poland is making a huge investment in Port Praski a few blocks from here, so they might want a guaranteed ROI, drunks be damned.
You are correct. I clearly remember hearing sonic booms in Montgomery, AL in the early 70s.
What proof? I asked for examples. You replied with a red herring. I asked for examples again and then you got confused.
> In a recent podcast about fluoridation in tap water, they were talking about how they avoid iodized salt, because iodine is a reactive chemical and you don't want to OD on it.

That's a total fabrication. Here's what they actually said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_iJaExg2_4.

To summarize their point: the fluoridation of drinking water and toothpaste is unjustified, because what is used is not the fluoride salt that has been demonstrated to have benefits for stronger bones/teeth, and on top of that the distribution method is absurd because you can't control for how much water people drink. Then Bret brings up that iodized salt is a similar case in that the distribution method via table salt doesn't allow you to titrate, but that it has nevertheless been a success that solved major problems. That they personally don't use iodized salt because you only need to avoid a deficiency, which is also achieved via a balanced diet, is a separate point.
If there is no copyright, what incentive is there to ever create anything digital? Adobe would never invest in Photoshop if any random person was legally able to sell copies for $1 each. A production company will never publish a book or create a TV show if anyone can just undercut them by taking what they have produced and resell it. Doesn't seem like a con to me, it sounds pretty critical for any kind of functional digital market.
Sounds like a PrintNightmare.
> Still assuming there is such a a place.

Have you tried to find out?

> "Just move" only works for one constituency - those who don't have or want any connection to whatever community they live in

Not at all. People can change communities. The fact that a person chooses to move does not mean that had no connection to the place they are leaving, or that they won't form any connections to the place they move to. Maybe you can't imagine ever being connected to any other place than the one you live in right now, but not everyone is like you.

> Pulling kids out of a school system and away from all of their friends is particularly disruptive.

It could be. Or it could be an opportunity to broaden their horizons and give them a chance to make new friends, and to cease having to deal with the kids at their school that they can't stand.

> I live where I do because it's the best match for what I'm looking for

Your original post in this subthread didn't make it sound that way. But if that is in fact the case for you, that's fine. It might not be the case for many other people.
Yeah, I think this way by default. It really does seem a natural for security!
The scrolling is a setting.
> There are people in those cars who have just as much right to tax payer funded roads while in a car as they do on their feet.

But you want to ban the pedestrians from the road - you don’t want ‘just as much right’ to the road - you want more right to it. You want the entire length of a block and think pedestrians should just have tiny crossing points.

> The deciding factor should be if the law contributes to civil order, or reduces injury.

But it doesn’t - we do fine without it in the UK.
Obviously I wrote to the problems that Google is experiencing now, not the ones that it tackled back in 2016. Google's future is less bright as of 2021 than it was in 2016.
I think you are remembering a fragment by Cratinus, as quoted here: https://resgerendae.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/weird-and-wonde...

My recollection is that Erasmus was the one who argued, based on that verse, that the letter eta should be pronounced as a long "e" rather than "i" as in "police". I can't seem to find a reference, however.
That function appears in hundreds, if not thousands of GitHub repos. It's plausible that it's the most famous block of code ever. Are all those repos guilty of copyright infringement?

https://github.com/search?q=float+Q_rsqrt%28+float+number+%2...

The only ways this argument could be less alarming to me is if people were bothered that it was writing the same Hello World as somebody else, or that it was naming variables "foo" and "bar".

Let's wait until we have a bulletproof, egregious, and inexcusable case of it lifting code until we panic.
I’m not saying it is, the courts should really decide on what exactly counts as fair use in this case.

All I’m saying that you don’t need to be a huge corporation to do it, and that others are doing similar things as well.

I passed on Snyk code due to similar concerns especially since they pull out examples from FOSS projects directly and even had a “fix me” option where they push pull requests into your repo with fixes.

On ML in general the current policy I’m working on for my org is that we do not use any pre-trained models trained on public data and pushed the legal team to actually start figuring out how we should deal with these issues properly in the future.

ML currently is a Wild West it’s too new to have been tested and defended in court regardless of how to chips would or should fall.

As far as your specific example it would really depend on what data is actually preserved.

Since they do parrot whole code snippets comments and all it seems that they don’t have a generalized model at least for every problem.

However it’s also my personal legal opinion (ANAL) that if you can prove that the model holds nothing but a generalized solution for a given problem the code it outputs isn’t a derivative work anymore than a the code of a person learning from copyleft code.

However then there is the whole issue of “allowed use” none of the existing licenses specify if the code can be used to train a model, this also means that we probably need to update all existing licenses to include a clause that explicitly states the limitations for this use case.

For code under existing licenses the fair use needs a proper judgement.

My gut feeling would be that it would count as fair use just as using code in a course or a book would be. GitHub definitely needs to make a page with attributions tho for that to happen and make sure their model doesn’t output anything but a generalized solution.
Imagine if, instead of spending billions on real estate, these companies gave that money to their employees instead.
In your hypothetical 100% of completions are copied verbatim from existing code. But if GitHub is to believed, only 0.1% are.
The issue is that "defund" would actually work for the original activists' goals (abolishment), so I respect it even if I'm not sure what the world would be like after it.

I don't think it helps anyone else's goals though. So I think they're mistaken to take it up. Also, it's easy to fight against (because your opponents can point to the abolitionists) and it makes you look bad to normal people (most people in the US like the police, including minorities, who are actually more socially conservative than white people).

To stop misconduct a better message would be to define those people as "not the police" by, like, making it possible to fire them.
>Sam's EPS target

Yes, but on the flip side Sam was getting results. Ginny failed to capitalize of Watson, Software, and Cloud.
U.S. Navy Laser Creates Plasma ‘UFOs’
That's the point: it changes.

One representation is a line graph with two lines -- one is showing the maximum MIPS (right now), and one is showing the actively-used MIPS.

Another is a pie chart, where the size is the chart changes based on current capacity, and it is filled to how much of that capacity you're using.

And so on.

You have two dimensions. You don't want to squash that into a 1D representation.
as far as I have seen it that is exactly how people are using it, which is why the last thread about it was (rightfully) full of people pointing out what a bad idea it is of copying half-cooked code snippets into your own codebase.

Why does it get a lot of upvotes? Because it's an AI product that makes things appear on your screen and that's the threshold for hype in our current age. Of course the number of upvotes on HN regardless doesn't speak to the innovation of anything. As best as I can tell all pre-covid posts on HN concerning mrna vaccines have a total of one upvote. Useless tech right?
When I uninstall in Windows, I get this dialog:

"Audacity uninstall complete.

Some elements could not be removed. These can be removed manually."

Anyone aware of what elements and where? I see it left some configs in AppData.
Don't use facebook
This supports a cursor. Press your up arrow to the line you want to edit, and edit in place.
I'm one of them.
Here it is, courtesy of a wayback snapshot[1]

#!/bin/bash
# List all python source files which are more than 1KB and contain the word "copilot".
find . \
-name "\*.py" \
-size +1000 \
-exec grep -n copilot {}\;

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210701061847if_/https://copilo...
I understand that. It is called "tacking" right?. My question is could a rotor + propeller allow a sailboat move upwind faster than without them, and possibly even move directly against the wind.

Based on the article it seems plausible to me that it could move faster. But would that be against the rules of some major sailing competitions?
Zeronet can serve frequently updated content in distributed (p2p) network. It works for blogs, forum and social network.
Not yet, but I think we’re getting to the point where software will fractionalize and those pieces will formalize.

TCP/IP stack, crypto libs, message busses, networking libraries are all prime candidates for this kind of formalization.

Right now we’re just waiting on the first mass incident where a component/service is recognized by a government as essential and should be regulated then you’ll quickly see those structures/organizations form around that area.
Notes on Postmodern Programming [pdf] (2002)
Very nice. Someone reimplement that banana-throwing gorillas game that come with QBasic on Windows!
While GitHub is not Git, it offers this by having concept of a pull request/review that can be merged as single commit but kept as multiple commits in the review history. What if git incorporates this concept as a core feature?
China has more high-speed than the rest of the world combined, with even remote parts of China hooked up to the rail network.

And when you compare energy, you have to take into account that
Rail is already electric, powered directly by grid without batteries or any other efficiency loss in between.

Airplanes use fuel that takes a lot of energy to refine and deliver, and will at best use hydrogen in 15 years which is 40% efficient to produce, plus losses in compression, delivery, engine, etc.
> sleazy download sites

Shame. Download.cnet.com (and cnet itself) were pretty top-tier in the early public-Internet days (mid to late 90's). Guess it's a slum now
It's funny because that's actually literally the kind of thing they do on the show in question, for which there is apparently quite a sizable audience. For example around April or May 2020 Bret presented a model assigning probabilities for various scenarios of lab leak vs zoonotic origin of Sars-Cov-2 (the kind of discussion for which they were branded conspiracy theorists for a long time).
Border restrictions are a recent phenomenon.

If you care about free markets or a smaller state, but not the free movement of labor at the same time, you are holding hypocritical beliefs.
Holy poop that video is hilarious. And great.

Summary to convince you the link is clickworthy:

Basically death certificates are the "identity system" version of free(). They're how identities (which are valuable) become no longer valid. He shows how to hack this, which is much easier than the malloc() side since adult death certificates are valid immediately whereas adult birth certificates need to be aged (at least) 18 years.

It is stupidly easy to get certified as one of the roles (coroner, funeral director, etc) that are allowed to file death reports, which nowadays are just text boxes and clicking on a webpage. This results in a death certificate listing whatever the attacker desires. In particular, they get to declare the next of kin. These declarations fail to be validated shockingly often.

End results are (a) life insurance fraud (b) probate fraud and (c) pretty vicious revenge served cold, since getting declared dead causes a ton of huge problems for the target but not for a while (e.g. when passports come up for renewal).

His delivery is also awesome, a bunch of really funny deadpan jokes.

Best quote: slide title "reasons for killing someone". Last bullet point "Kill your opposing lawyer, the judge, or IRS auditor to slow them down."
Search engines prefer to show blog spam, ignore the terms I request, and disable the ability to exclude confounding terms (maybe that's just Bing). Forum discussions often link salient primary sources, which blog/news agencies are reluctant to do. Signal-to-noise on image boards and Reddit may be low, but it's still nonzero.
> 64GB wasn't enough for 64 concurrent clang runs. You need a little bit more (but of course 128GB is the next installable increment).

That's not really true, you can mix and match memory, and you might not get ideal bandwidth, but for a lot of uses it's just fine.
We need Github and other Git commit visualization tools to offer a "first parent" option!
I can see it now, Big Meat will start feeding cows plastic because it's cheaper
Pure speculation here... the only ground combat scenario Israel really has to worry about is with Hezbollah. So the calculation must be that either Iran doesn't have the materials expertise to manufacture this, or else they can and Israel has either compromised the supply chain, has technology to see through it on some other part of the EM spectrum, or both. For all we know it lights up like a Christmas tree if you hit it with millimeter wave from a drone. Either way, the Iranians probably will assume this and therefore not pursue the technology. Maybe they learned it was already leaked to Iranian intelligence, so by making it public now they raise too many doubts for the enemy to use it.
A Falcon 9 launch produces comparable carbon emissions to a trans-Atlantic 777 flight. There are considerably more trans-Atlantic 777 flights than there are Falcon 9 launches.
Deep Learning for AI by Yoshua Bengio, Yann Lecun, Geoffrey Hinton
If this was any other place on the internet, I probably wouldn't bother because it's usually useless (but this is hackernews, so ill try)

Jews don't in fact control the united states of america or a subset of it's government.

Jews don't control the world either.

They have various views on issues, politics, and culture. They're found in places all around the world, and like any other group you'll find good and bad. To say they control the U.S.'s foreign policy seems ignorant to me and based on an anti-semetic trope.

EDIT: grammar
I don’t think the US is outmatched in capabilities compared to Russia. The difference here is the tacit permission for private criminal groups to operate in Russia as long as they don’t attack Russian interests. If the US criminal justice system effectively decriminalized cyber attacks on foreign entities by the private sector, a lot more people on this forum would be rich and the scourge unleashed would make the Internet a far more interesting and hardened landscape. In other words, it’s less a product a higher class of technical capability maintained by the nation so much as the work product of a deregulated and privatized industry operating in a blue ocean.
Do you count Virtual Machines as "retro computer"?

At my last job, there was a program that only ran under MS-DOS. I set up a virtual machine to run the software, and a pipeline to print its output.
Given you can (sort of?) make plastic from milk I'm not surprised.
Crime reported to police is fairly constant regardless of crime levels. As crime goes up people just stop reporting minor things that the police now no longer has time to handle, making the number reports not change. This makes the crime maps fairly useless, you'd think that Switzerland and Chicago has similar levels of theft since the amount of crime reports are the same, yet Switzerland is as safe a place can get while Chicago is a notorious crime area.

Therefore hard stats like "homicide rate" or soft stats like "perceived crime" are the only ones that matters.
"She lays her eggs and digs her way back out, emerging seven to 10 days after she first submerged."

Wow.