skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can Jobs go to Japanese Zen temples which teach the exact opposite of being a total asshole and yelling at everyone? It's incongruous, he just comes across as entitled and unnecessarily mean in these stories. He could've gotten the same amount out of people by sternly asking, not screaming and demeaning.
Last time I checked no MBP from 2006 does 4k. My MBP from 2010 does not either, but screen is quite good.
I mean honestly I'm a black box and if I spit out the same code license and all, people have a problem with that.
Why should there be?

Reddit (for example) would have a perfectly fine mobile web experience except that it harasses you to install a mobile app that is worse than the web site. (Ought to have a steaming turd emoji next to the "call to action")

The app experience is almost always worse than a web site unless an app can take advantage of some special features of the platform such as high-precision locations in the Apple ecosystem.
There is no groupthink, most companies have a legal department that does impartial due diligence, esp. FAANG like Microsoft.

I still don't understand how there's so much armchair quarterbacking around legality of Copilot, from people with zero legal skills and just anti-big-tech hot-takes.
The final bit of my post wasn't talking about software developers, but simply about the differences in income between the US and EU in general, and how they don't translate into as large differences in quality of life. It's quite obvious that software developers get way better deals in the US and tons of perks, no need to add your personal story because besides it being merely an anecdote, it completely misses the point you're responding to.
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While I disagree with this sentiment, if we take this as true and consider it "the same as a human learning to code from gpl libraries" this opens up an entirely different can of worms when it comes to patent assignment.
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> possibly even as soon as a webserver sends your files to my browser.

Considering how it works for personal data with the RGPD, I doubt that this is even needed ?

Also copyright is something you have by default, no licence terms necessary.

OTOH if they aren't a human, then copyright barely applies to them anyway (consider search engine crawlers indexing your website for instance), and I don't think that putting up a notice will legally change anything ?

(You'll probably have better luck with robots.txt ...)
Link to report: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/65717082/the-smsmit-r...
> Because the speed of light is a known quantity, the Penn State researchers could shine a laser through a single fiber optic strand and measure vibrations at different lengths of the cable by calculating the time it took the scattered light to travel. The technique is known in geoscience as distributed acoustic sensing, or DAS.

It turns out Marauder's Map was enabled by an underground array of optical cables.
GPL'ed code is not public code. It has the license, which requires fair exchange: if you use my code, then I can use your code under the same license. M$ uses GPL'ed code, so now we have the right to use their code under the same license.
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If self-destructing messages become the norm, you will see numerous efforts to log and cache those messages for journalistic, political, historic and economic reasons. This is why I made the second half of my comment. Self-destruction relies on obscurity of the practice to work and can create false feelings of security.
They are not limited to members of a participating co-op. Everyone can go shopping there.
Hey man, thanks! HN, every once in a while, is a magical place :)

> Man, I suck at ELI5s.

Nah, I enjoyed reading this. I got it now.
I don’t even think most people care about open source code. What if they’re reading private repos as well? The only option to escape this is to leave github. Which I’m kinda considering even with all the work involved.
So you have a DevOps team?

Who is doing what wrong, according to whom?
Oh, didn't know about it.

Thanks, I learned something new today.
Mocking has a place, which is not unit testing. If you find yourself mocking a dependency in a unit test you are not unit testing any more.

Those points of contact with 3rd parties should be clearly defined and encapsulated at the perimeter of your system. Mock at that level. Not when testing business logic.
The examples listed sound like the status quo, even when staying lean in your feature set.

The two minor features mentioned simply prompted work that should probably have happened anyway in an active software project.

One feature triggered dependency housekeeping (Cordova upgrade), another a refactor that will save time and bugs in the long run (consolidating m many inconsistent form control types).

The last example, large amounts of effort to maintain backwards compatibility across major versions, is the one instance of a feature itself leading to what could be considered unexpected work. It's no minor feature though, and it's something I personally wish was considered a hard requirement, but it's understandably sacrificed a lot of the time.

Backwards compatibility, when doing major rebuilds, can be the source of some really nasty spikes in work. Every little decision you made in the past is now up for revision, as it comes up against future changes and requirements you didn't even know you needed to account for in your design.

A good peek into software maintenance for the uninitiated, though was hoping for a piece about frivolous features causing combinatorial explosions of complexity based on the title.
How did the company go out of business?
Their comment just prior about what they saw as a lack of guides for workflows in a studio environment is worth noting, too, as they felt that could be expanded upon for helping Blender reach more. Though frankly the article isn't that long a read anyway.
Your experience with social media largely depends on the accounts you surround yourself with.

I had an identical experience to yours on Facebook, but my Twitter accounts are carefully curated by topic and their timelines are generally excellent.
I imagine that "public code" means any code that is available in the public - be it under MIT, GPL or no license at all.
The do X in n lines thing shears bothered me. Pendant perhaps.

Do X in n lines with y lines of library.
1) Until very recently there was no law requiting even estimated costs for medicine

This is the wrong way to frame it. At the most basic level, forming a contract requires agreeing on consideration. For some reason, medical providers are allowed to create arbitrary post-facto charges and then enforce their baseless fantasies through the legal system, likely due to corrupt state laws. For any meaningful market-based healthcare reform, this and other regulatory capture needs to be addressed.
Mmmk.
A tangent:

Six years later, with the $1,000 question uncollected, it seems that a cosmic ray bit flip is also the cause of a strange happening during a Mario 64 speedrun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNzTUdOHm9A
'stingy as shit' or maximising short-term shareholder value -- the hardware is possibly not the only broken model here
Nice to see more professional commercial projects picking up Blender. It helps to see what are the things missing or suboptimal for "expert" users of the system.

Blender and OBS Studio are very good examples of FOSS software that are the best at what they do and can easily offer competition to even the commercial alternatives.

Most of all their design and UI language is consistent - something very rarely seen in FOSS software.

And they have incredible depth of features 90% of which are overkill for the casual user but the experts sure do appreciate them.

And the best part is the well-thought of extensibility and API story. Both of them have a very good community of plugins and extensions which add very useful features without feeling out of place.
The hackers that bought the Macs built startups.
To play devil's advocate:
Nothing suggests the trend will accelerate. It is just as likely to decelerate.
The fact that GPL isn’t special is exactly what I’m saying.

But I think you know what I’m referring to by “the infectious nature of the GPL”: that such licenses as GPL and the CC-SA family require that derived works be under a similar license. And the fact of the matter is that people are likely to care about that a bit more than missed attribution, whether they should or not. But, as I say, it’s still violation.
Yeah, I've since fixed that bug when I saw it on GH Issues! Thanks for the bug report.
There are some bad studies that suggest it might be effective and some equally questionable studies that indicate it raises the risk of death. Right now there are two meta-analysis that come to different conclusions based on how they weight the studies. Like the hydroxychloroquine BS from last year, there are question to be answered and several real studies have started (including one being done by Oxford in the UK) so hopefully we will learn answers. OTOH, baseless claims of this being a cheap cure help no one -- if invermectin's efficacy was as obvious as claimed it would show up quickly and be easy to demonstrate, but the fact that we need to go into meta-analysis based on a bunch of questionable surveillance studies is a strong signal that the effect, if any, is small.
> I can't think why anyone developing such software would not make them available on multiple platforms.

Because it’s a lot more work, and because it’s next to impossible to create a great cross platform app with a native feeling UI.
While this is an interesting line of research it s too invasive to be useful to humans. Artificial wombs seem like an easier (?) to achieve goal
> The same thing that happens in any other plane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_structural_fa...

The faster you are traveling (which really matters as a factor of the drag you are experiencing), the more serious any event is which changes the shape of your vehicle. Even non structural failures, such as an engine cowling coming off mid-flight can strike other parts of the aircraft, resulting in damage and changes to the structure.

Tolerances for these events are much lower the faster you're going, meaning the outcome is more likely to be severe if you're traveling much faster than we currently do with passenger aircraft.

Military fighters are built with higher tolerances and structural strength (and come in heavier, requiring more fuel and reducing range). Commercial aircraft are just impractical to operate safely at such high speeds.

With respect to diversions and changes of route, you have to consider several things.

Faster, heavier aircraft need longer runways to land. That limits your alternate landing choices. Diversions may cost you more fuel since they may be much greater distances away.

And you cannot simply make a "sharp turn" at high speed. Your passengers (and the airframe on a large craft) are not prepared for 4G turns. They aren't even designed for 2G turns.

Ask yourself this, can you turn your car as sharply at highway speed as you can in the parking lot? Sure you can slow down and then turn, but that takes time. That would not be considered "sharp". So while you're decelerating and turning, you are eating up great distances. It would be easy to overshoot a nearby location; thus you would need to plan ahead, take big slow turns, etc. Do you have enough extra fuel for that? Are you able/allowed to pass through all airspaces conveniently, or will that require extra planning and maneuvering?

The complexity of flying larger and/or faster aircraft is much more than one might think.
I stumbled across Ian Hubert's Blender-focused channel (https://youtube.com/c/mrdodobird) even though I have no interest in CGI production. His one-minute lazy tutorials are fun to watch and funny. My favorite: https://youtu.be/imkSdlbXB_U
Utterly brilliant. It's inspiring to see a modern microservices architecture approach used to such great effect. While the performance penalty seems somewhat steep at first blush, we know this problem solves itself as computers get faster. And in return we get a library of highly portable opcodes which can be efficiently re-purposed by other processor implementations.
Good stuff, thank you! Hope this helps a little. (I could send more corrections if you like as I read more.)

rethoric -> rhetoric

1 off -> one-off

ment -> meant

low hanging -> low-hanging

flag you many of those ticking bombs -> flag many of those ticking bombs for you

No matter which editor you are using, but you -> No matter which editor you are using, you

The best example in that StackOverflow is this one: -> [maybe delete this line? or write something else. I don't know its purpose, it makes no sense.]

a bunch of elements from one go -> a bunch of elements in one go

functions in shell -> shell functions

using user's input -> using user input/using the user's input

you can unset -> You can unset

lots of code you see around rely on -> lots of code you see around relies on

to thinking on creating -> to thinking about creating
> DevOps originally was supposed to eliminate Operations (Sysadmin) staff

It wasn't. It was supposed to break down the model of Dev and Ops being separate silos that don't work together well and don't understand/respect each others concerns.
> The design typically used nowadays for dynamic linking (in BSD, MacOS, and Linux) came from SunOS in 1988. The paper Shared Libraries in SunOS neatly explains the goals, design, and implementation.

Aix shared libraries follow a model similar to Windows, with export files.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.2?topic=memory-creating-sh...

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.2?topic=formats-xcoff-obje...
> However, if we looked up average household income, these countries aren't too different from the US. And I don't believe American coders are twice the better than coders in the other countries.

This isn't very relevant. The USA is a much larger market. It's a little bit richer than most european countries, but the total number of customers to sell to is 4-8X larger, and you can also sell to much of the rest of the world when your product is in English.

The engineers who work for non-FAANG are not a part of those high salaries. The average is not a useful number, as many are either well below it or a well above it.

But yes, in short, it's hard to hire US engineers due to them being so well-paid. This is why SMBs offshore their engineers from the rest of the world.
The people who remain on Earth do nothing but pollute it, because their souls are weighed down by gravity!
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https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/06/investigative-reports/e...

My point : you still need somebody smart to set the tone, define the company line, write the basic copy. Then you farm trolls.
The amount of known nuclear close calls is scary. The fact that disaster has almost struck multiple times shows how we shouldn't have nuclear weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls
I had a similar feeling of "finally, this makes sense" after enduring ClearCase and SVN for a big chunk of my career.
>Preventing the spread of more ivermectin bullshit is not a 'bad end' and having a Nobel Prize does not make you infallible

Wow, what an extremely deluded point of view. And I am, for one, a person who is extremely picky with fallacies and constantly point out appeals to authority (among other things) here on the site, you can check my comment history.

Still, this is the guy that discovered the family of compounds that Ivermectin is part of, he is a scientist with no known issues of dishonesty of wrongdoing and he is extremely familiar with the compound and its effects.

What is the problem with him giving its opinion on this medication, under the current light of the pandemic we are experiencing? What problem would anyone have with that? Geez.
Switching to windows and expecting an improvement from MacOS is silly. I switched to Linux from MacOs in 2015 and never looked back. I cam dual boot into Windows, but do so less than once a year these days.
How does the hardware know what I want to adjust my range for?
A Nobel laureate does not need Youtube to get a message out, unless they are peddling conspiracy-grade bullshit. Youtube gets to be the arbiter of what content gets shared over Youtube. Don't like that? Too bad.
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> especially as the platform is very restrictive in terms of APIs / apps / etc.

This is utterly false.
The first option while more detailed focused entirely on advances in computing and digital signal processing; this was mostly unknown to laypeople in the seventies. So despite the level of detail, it’s likely that random people on the street would have considered the second option more likely / true, since the space race and Cold War were front-page news every day.
Maybe combine 3 of your ideas: YouTube, online courses and podcasts are really all the same media: video recordings of educational content. If your expertise is cloud computing and freelancing then start with a video podcast on YT where you separate audio if people want that option only for commutes, etc. They all involve the same workflow I assume and you could use podcast + YT to build awareness about courses.

YT vids posted could talk about smaller problems in that space and get enough of them together and you might have a course outline where you can go deeper and offer chat support. Or look at others in the space and do similar but with a freelancer viewpoint.

I’m imagining you run into slightly different problems as a freelancer. For example, GKE updates for an employee might be a monthly task they know how to do but as a freelancer your view might be coming in and having 6mo-1yr of updates to apply because they don’t staff an engineer. Maybe the staff engineer warns app teams to change/fix things but when you come in there might be unpleasant surprises waiting because the company has to call in the company that worked on an app to make changes. I have no idea if this is the case, just spit-balling.
so light on the safeties, what failed, why and what didn't and how?

I also assume the parachute on the bombs were not for safety.
It is really not that much slower for training (see the paper), and if you are interested in pipelines the difference is not so great considering you are looking at a one off training time vs. lots of inference.
They "just" have to comply with all the licenses for all the code that the program was trained on ?

I suppose that for most open source licences this at the very least involves attribution for all the people that produced the code that the program was trained on ?
The lack of performance as an aspiration is certainly part of the problem, but it also feels like there is a certain level of lack of intuition for the subject matter. If they believe that they are doing great and you’d need a full PhD dissertation to improve, and they 1000x below the base expectation of what someone can do in 2 days without even doing basic profiling and optimization. Then the problem is deeper than not valuing performance, it also speaks to a team that severely lacks an awareness of what they are working with.

I feel like this is similar to situations I have seen where people “explain” why database queries take several minutes to return with excuses like “that makes sense because we have years worth of data stored in the database” when in reality it’s because someone doesn’t understand how a composite index works. Someone who has a bit of intuition for db’s instantly knows something is wrong, but if your team lacks anyone with that intuitions, your team will spend their time finding “explanations” for the bad performance instead of fixing it.
Nope you just use a POST request...
This was true before Twitter decided to inject tweets from people you don't follow into your timeline.
Putting two kids through college on it.
I think that's too strong: the response may have a component that is is non-deterministic. The important thing is that no matter how many times you call it the server state is the same.
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> By shining a laser through the fiber optics, the scientists could detect vibrations from above ground thanks to the way the cable ever so slightly deformed.

> Civil engineers are already using DAS to study soil deformation, and biologists are even using offshore fiber optic cables to listen in on whales. (Sound propagates as a vibration, after all.) “It's just really exploding in terms of the applications,”

I wonder if ISPs are using residential fiber as an optical microphone [1] array to listen to their customers? If they are not, then I could see this as a future threat. I wonder how one might inexpensively insulate a fiber-optics cable to prevent unwanted eavesdropping.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/092442...
A lot of reasons, although a big one is probably the difference in profit margins between a FAANG and most of the rest of the economy. FAANGs have more money and a respect for the value good software engineers represent, so they pay more.
> The result MUST be the same.

Transient errors happen, as well as loss of state errors, and a good protocol allows for that fact.
> There is no groupthink, most companies have a legal department that does impartial due diligence, esp. FAANG like Microsoft.

Because Microsoft's legal department (and the company itself) has a spotless reputation for ethical and legal compliance.
I’m not sure technically how difficult it is for copilot to give an attribution when needed.

But as a temporary legal fix, couldn’t they put all the attributions in one large file and after each output of copilot write: “results based on the work of these people [link to attributions.txt].“

would that still be problematic?
Some of this seems slightly tongue-in-cheek, especially this part:

"As can be seen from the screenshot above, space invaders as deployed onto an AKS cluster runs at ~1KHz which gives us ample time for debugging but does make actually playing it slightly difficult."

Nonetheless it does still seem like an interesting technical exercise creating a 'distributed emulator' implemented using services, even if it's too slow to be of much use. :)
> I deleted my GitHub almost a year ago, after they offered me the option to do that or adopt a Code of Conduct on a single contributor project of mine.

As in: they reached out to you directly and stated "you must adopt this CoC or we'll ban you from GitHub"? I can't find any other instances of people encountering this...
>"When modulus is static, gcc / clang know that it is private to the current compilation unit, and therefore they can inline the value itself. Then, they turn the expensive div into a much cheaper and – since

mod’ing by a power of two -- is equal to bitwise and of that number minus one!

All you need to do is keep the bits lower than that power of two, which is what the and will do."
I’ve made a serious effort to switch away - using a retina Mac pro with Ubuntu, and a bunch of raspberry PIs.

I love Linux, and I love the PIs, but it can’t see any reason to stick with the Ubuntu desktop. When a pro level M1 or M2 iMac is released, I will be moving back.
You are not wrong. Only two Venera probes landed and transmitted pictures during a limited time window before succumbing to the harsh conditions. (Other probes did land and send data but it was scientific measurements, not pictures).
The free refactorability of a fully formalized proof can provide a lot of additional understanding, compared to an informal sketch.
> And I don't believe American coders are twice the better than coders in the other countries.

Maybe not twice as better, but they are definitely better. How can they not be? America has been the immigration destination of choice, of the top coders from around the world for 3 decades.