skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have said this multiple times on this thread now, but in addition to how the OSI getting to unilaterally define the technical definition of "open source" being controversial even within the software engineering community, you really need to be looking at the definition of words "descriptively" and most people seem to put even "shared source" (look but don't touch) models as subsets of the class "open source".

Regardless: Copilot doesn't only pick up "open source" code... it picks up any code that has been published under any reason including the large amounts of code that is on GitHub without any license at all or which was literally stolen and leaked onto GitHub.

Meanwhile, even open source licenses have restrictions, whether they be "you can't use my work without agreeing to contribute back your work to the collective", various forms of automatic patent grants and associated retaliation clauses, or merely "you have to credit me", a simple limitation almost all open source software comes with which Copilot launders away.
Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments (1 day ago, 626 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287

The code in question, with the “remarkably blunt comments” 'edgeform refers to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv...
The Bootstrappable Builds folks are working on building an entire Linux distro, including GCC, starting at around 512 bytes of machine code, plus all the source code. I think they have had some success already:

https://bootstrappable.org/
https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/part...
https://github.com/oriansj/talk-notes/blob/master/live-boots...
I don’t see how they’re two sides to anything? In the UK we have speeding laws but no jaywalking laws. You clearly don’t need both in order to balance or form a compromise.
not only that, but modern CPUs aren't even deterministic in how they run an instruction. the result of any particular instruction is deterministic, but the location of the silicon and the amount of silicon used to complete the instruction is not deterministic anymore.

CPU Usage measured in percentage doesn't make sense on any CPU with modern performance features like speculative execution and branch prediction.
Definitely! I know my comments didn’t come off as I would sound in real life but I promise they come from a place of love.
I wonder: if the government refuses to acknowledge a citizen is a living person, with the rights endowed to all living citizens, can they prosecute or imprison such a person?

In Mdm Pouchain's shoes, I would likely attempt to commit some minor crime. When brought before the court, I would argue: you cannot punish a dead person. So you must either legally declare me alive so we can continue, or let me go.

And if they choose the latter option, the logical next step is escalation of the crimes.

Damn, this would be a really fun novel
It's a bit easier to align work with your personal goals when your wish is law for the worlds biggest firm
Because the Mach cone produced by the leading edge/cone keeps most of the air from interacting with the aircraft behind it. It’s in the ‘wake’ as it were, though there may be multiple Mach cones or non-‘cone’ shaped ones depending on the shape of the aircraft.

This does cause some stability or handling issues for the aircraft.

The analogy re: voltage or amperage are spurious and just don’t apply here.
I'm sure there's tonnes of research and prior art on this subject, but it's an interesting inquiry.

off the top of my head, there's two meaning - performance benchmarking (how fast the search results comes back), and accuracy/fit-for-purposeness benchmarking (how good it is at finding something the user intends).

Performance is easy. It's the accuracy/fit-for-purposeness that would be an interesting benchmark.

I wonder if you have to use an empirical measurement for accuracy - that is, give a random sample of people a target piece of code (or file) to find, and see how long or how many queries it takes to find it.
As an aside: when I jaywalk, it's because the cars are more predictable than at nearby intersections. Drivers don't always expect pedestrians, and when they start to move when I don't expect, I have no way to predict that or defend myself.

I guess traveling safely is unpopular on HN, just like in SF.
Except no one is actually policing your thoughts or forcing you to have certain thoughts. You are here on HN, freely expressing your dissenting opinion. The problem is that decision makers and possibly the majority of the public disagrees with you and are also free to express their opinion, and you think that makes you a victim. This post is absurdly dramatic.
If you fix the incentives, everything else follows eventually. If you don't fix the incentives, some other symptom will appear from the same disease.

We need Land Value Taxes.
With dedicated track, though, those limits can be quite high.
The Yamanote Line in Tokyo carries around 4 million passengers per day on two tracks.
The problem is that often enough official translations are not necessarily made by good, well paid translators. So we're not translating amateur translator to real translators but amateur passionate translators to cut-rate translators.

As an aside, as someone who complimented his studies of Japanese by watching dramas and anime before eventually living in Japan for years and becoming fluent. I can say that the amateur fan translations were very often much better.
This is super cool, so I immediately attempted to try it out.

Unfortunately, the Python package seriate is broken due to an upgrade in its dependency ortools. The update was so long ago a functional version is not available on pypi anymore.

Does anyone have a better way to do this?
>semi-detached duplexes, which are much easier and still double the density on the lot!

They built a duplex by me and the combined units went for less than what a SFH would have gone for. Plus I imagine it was more expensive to build.

I think it only makes sense where the lot is big enough to fit 2 essentially full SFHs as a duplex.
> Dropping RSS likely didn’t change their declining popularity for better or worse

probably not... what did is Google having popups promoting Chrome every time you did a Google search.
It is quickly moving towards endangering human lives on one side of the conflict (the poorer side who lacks the technology). When the transition is complete, we will likely see more conflicts, as the cost of the war (both in terms of money and in domestic public opinion) significantly decreases for one side.
I think a free market tends to work better with predictable events, transparency, and large market sizes. None of those applied in this case.

In this case the negative event was a black swan event. The board and residents were required to correctly understand the risk of failure to remediate problems in this specific building. Who does an in-depth analysis of risk of building failure when renting or buying a property? Not a single person correctly identified that a collapse was imminent.

The other problem with rare events is that you can ignore them most of the time and not suffer any consequences. If there is a one in a thousand chance of something bad happening, and addressing that risk will cost you your job, or money, or your reputation then 99.9% of the time you incur that cost unnecessarily. That means that an entity that addresses risk becomes less competitive than a (lucky) company who doesn't.

If you increase the market size, then a lot of these complaints go away. Assessing risk of collapse across a hundred thousand buildings, like an insurance company might do, is much easier. If buildings were maintained by corporations that controlled many properties, people could avoid companies with poor track records.
People definitely shouldn't fly if they don't need to, but I think you're overestimating the warming effect from aviation. Estimates put it in the ~3% range overall [1]. Most of that (80%) was passenger travel [2] (pre-pandemic) and 20% cargo.

The EU's push for short-haul flight bans [3] makes a lot of sense though, especially when high-speed (and sometimes electrified) rail is an option.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-aviation

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-transport

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-haul_flight_ban
Great summary! I also recently wrote a post digging into the internals of wav2vec with illustrations:

The Illustrated Wav2vec - https://jonathanbgn.com/2021/06/29/illustrated-wav2vec.html
That's blatant race-baitng. The real reason is Indians have vaccination rate well below 5%
You're close, I'm in Prince Edward Island. Yes it's pretty quiet here even in the largest town.

Often I can hear the jets at night from inside my house. That's if there isn't any wind.
How do you envision HN working under such regulations? If I spam my startup on every post (which is clearly not in any of the exceptions to First Amendment protection), are they allowed to remove my comments or ban my account? What liability do they incur from doing so? Must they also remove anonymous posts complaining about employment at Amazon or whatever, because those defame Amazon?
I tend to believe that any laws requiring that corporations not transact using cryptocurrencies, period, would have extremely broad effect, much more so than attempts to stamp out the (surprisingly inelastic) demand by individuals for substances. Just imagine all of the perpetual accounting fraud and ongoing OpSec that would be necessary to cover up its use at the corporate level!

Drugs (and yes, earlier, alcohol) present kind of an unique situation with respect to noncompliance with the law; not sure I can see the case for suggesting the government is destined to fail in enforcing the prohibition of anything whatsoever.
By this proposal's logic, it would make total sense for processes on a boosting CPU core to report more than 100% cpu usage.
With the above, it doesn’t make sense to be teaching this at a grade school level and would be expected to be introduced in late high school and more thoroughly in college.

As and ideology it would be good to introduce when one is reading Adam Smith, Marx and Mussolini.

But I think a lot of the concern is that CRT isn’t being taught as an ideology amongst others, but it is being employed as the underlying “unseen” lens that is being applied to all aspects of curriculum and the classroom.

I also think CRT like a lot of more modern movements lacks a central authority that then allows the practitioners to take it in all sorts of directions that may or may not have been intended.

You can see in many CRT zealots that race predetermines everything. Like when talking to a Marxist. Everything is understood if you just apply the right lens. If only the world was so simple.

Like so much of education it is just another passing fad applied badly. My concern is that the opportunity to make the needed change is going to be missed due the extremes fighting and not getting to meaningful improvements.
https://archive.is/8vJ6m
Not sure where I got that idea from - thanks for the correction.
AI-Based App Can Scan and Offer Build Ideas in Seconds
Erlang addresses the memory safety problem to my satisfaction. I'm not eager to embrace the verbosity of a language like Rust until we get closer to a guarantee that if code compiles, it's logically correct as well as safe.
Just a little riff on *showing up*
> Factory meat will augment our supply of protein but they won't scale. The farmland used for livestock is mostly useless for the plant matter needed by the meat factories and the factories themselves are hardly going to be carbon neutral when you add in fertiliser and fuel for all that extra harvesting.

Thanks for the response. I'm not sure I understand the above paragraph. Are you saying the plant matter needed to feed lab-grown meat cannot be grown on existing space used for livestock?
I feel like there has been a whole targeted campaign against SF recently. Am I seeing faces in clouds?
Ideograph • this body will be a corpse
Ya. I am particular to try out the app itself without hardware first, to see how effective it is. May I know how can I request for the Testflight link? Thanks.
It makes me wonder if you would have more or less cache misses at the start of a search in an array based BTree (vs potential miss for following some pointers).

However, this is all based on "searching". If you just want to read the latest N values in a timeseries store, then yeah an array or some kind of BRIN index would be better for reads.
Cow stomachs are a good place to find digestive microbes. Nice temperature, humidity, ph and what not.
Then you should use BSD0, not MIT. The assumption should be that people chose the license they chose for a reason, and their intent should be honored.

https://opensource.org/licenses/0BSD
The impression I've always gotten, admittedly second-hand, is that Chuck feels a Forth and its hardware should be designed at the same time, as an integrated solution.

Tune the hardware for its Forth, and vice versa, instead of one Forth to rule them all.
Ha, that's amazing.

To be fair (if this is even a defense), that algorithm is famous, as is its source, so "leading" the AI in that direction just got it to keep going in that direction.
> No you don't get to brush off actual armed establishment of an autonomous zone with "benign intention".

Please read my comment again. I said "more benign" (than Jan. 6), but literally also said "not benign." I found CHAZ very troubling in both idea and practice. But it doesn't hold a candle to breaking into the Capitol to disrupt our system of governance, possibly murder congresspersons (and the VP), and install their preferred president. CHAZ was bad, but orders of magnitude less so.

And since that's all you thought was worth responding to, I think that's my exit in this conversation.
>society deciding that no one actually has a right to a home of their own

I feel this argument is a nice way to phrase that neighborhoods should never change. There is a limited amount of land. For everyone to have long term housing we need to build. We need to build until there are more units than what rich people can afford to monopolize. Rent control, historical preservation, they're just ways to restrict growth and I hate it. I am not sure people should have a right to a home if that prevents growth. It just creates a new set of haves.
What does "statistically EVERYONE..." mean to you?

It sounds to me like if it means anything, it's denying that any probability depends on the exact dimensions of your ignorance.

There is no statistic that applies to everyone, unless that person is a completely generic person with no known qualities.
Fired by Bot at Amazon: It’s You Against the Machine
And yet would they have bothered without the "huge revolt"? I doubt it; what you are actually describing is a scenario where the "huge revolt" succeeded.
UK court rules in favor of Craig Wright over copyright of Bitcoin white paper
Plays of Shakespeare is similar much of the rhymes and inside jokes are lost now due to modern pronunciation of old words.

http://originalpronunciation.com/GBR/Home
The absence of masks by patrons while service staff must wear them would be a very strong case for this, yes.

I think there's a basic loss of mutuality being seen. "I paid for this experience" self-justification for bad outcomes maybe?
that doesn't mean you know more than them... or know any given law more than any given lawyer. it doesn't mean anything other than you've won administrative court appearances 4 times. what jurisdiction were those in, anyway? is that jurisdiction representative of all other jurisdictions? absolutely not.
The GPL isn't about sharing contributions back to the project, but ensuring the end-users have the source code and permission to use, modify and share it.
malk, now with vitamin BPA!
Stock price is not a great place to look at for these incidents, I believe. It includes people who think the incident means the company is overvalued, people playing against the first, and people who think it matters in general but not for the company survival/customers long term.

In the end, the views may balance out, or even the "I'll make a quick buck shorting / buying on bad news" sentiment may actually raise the price.

(In other words, if "everyone knows" where the price will move today, the price won't move unless something is really affected long-term)
However, that Tokyo 3BR is much smaller than anything you'd find in the US. The average house (not apartment) size in Tokyo is 91 sqm, or under 1000 sqft.
I think in fastly's case they were not very well known and suddenly the market became aware that they were actually a big deal with lots of big customers. Probably a one-off event.

Note: I am a fastly customer, reasonably happy.
Jokes on you I do intermittent fasting, only coffee until noon.
Same here. Plus my knees were complaining about all the sleeping, eating, and sitting on the floor.
The crime spike @Justin_K alluded to was national, not hyper-local.

https://www.vox.com/22344713/murder-violent-crime-spike-surg...
Becoming Steve Jobs was a better book from what I recall. No talking to Steve, but gave a more fair look at much of the business stuff he was involved in. I liked it more.
We all make use of those components though, regardless of how CRUD the application is. We'd all benefit from them being validated. The fact that "fully validated" versions of those components don't exist is simultaneously an indication of how difficult the problem is and how little our industry truly cares about product reliability and quality. These issues are not rare or even particularly uncommon in the wild.

I imagine the pursuit of formal methods in software that doesn't strictly require it would go a long way to fixing other systemic issues like tech debt, security, and performance.
Permissive licenses have requirements too, mostly attribution.
created an account clicked on learn/getting started/ answered a few questions then keep getting the the same question and my score keeps going up?

What is Python?/Fill in the blanks/Python is used everywhere from...

There needs to be a way to turn off the noise

Maybe I missed it but there's no explanation between int and a string?
blacks and mexicans being lazy is racist lol
What solutions would you propose nationwide?
This will cause the system to vastly under-report % values during periods of low load, because the processor thinks it can run at a higher frequency than it can actually achieve/sustain. This is most notable on laptop processors. If I enable "high performance" mode on windows, it would cause the processor to run at its max possible frequency, around 4.1 GHz (which is near the theoretical max turbo frequency) when there's little to no load. However, when there's actual load (eg. 1 core fully loaded), the frequency would drop to around 3.5 GHz. It would get worse as more cores get loaded, all dropping all the way down to 2.3ghz.
Regarding the Safari 15 Public Betas for Mac and iOS
Another way is to have a concept of the “start” of a branch. If when you create a branch it remembers where it started from then the commits on the branch after that point form a natural commit group. If you need finer commit groups you can have more branches.
In English it is "baa", with the "aa" pronounced as the vowel in "trap". This is interesting in a couple of ways; the most immediately obvious is that it does not conform to ordinary English spelling.

But if you look a little closer, it turns out that it can't conform to ordinary English spelling. There is no conventional way to spell a syllable-final /æ/, because the phonology of English doesn't permit such a syllable to exist at all. /æ/ is a checked vowel in English -- except for this one onomatopoetic word.
It doesn't seem like it should be that hard. We do it routinely. My kids have passports, and what did they have to prove they were alive and who I claimed them to be? Their birth certificate, and a sworn statement by me.

It should be fairly simple to get an equivalent. A sworn statement by her husband, perhaps. Her mother, if still alive. Or heck, by now there might be biological records that can be matched up (e.g. dental).

This should be a fairly easy procedural fix.
If you show 50% usage then there are going to be plenty of customer service calls where customers complain about poor performance of the PC and then laptops will be compared based on this number by those that are not tech savvy …
>Developers who are entrenched enjoy the fact it is hard to get a permit.

Imagine how much a developer with Coastal Commission expertise could charge. That's probably a specialty in itself.
>That's what ended state-sponsored terrorism.

Wait, what? Have you notified the Department of State?

https://www.state.gov/state-sponsors-of-terrorism/

Iran is still on there. I'm pretty sure some people have been "annoyed enough to do something drastic" for quite a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nucle...
These days, coding is the quickest way to find out what's needed. That is: implementation precedes requirements.

This is the real reason software is eating the world. Incumbents lose because aren't able to reorganize themselves around a software core, and so can't try things.

Formal methods are intrinsically satisfying, as are all quests for perfection and truth.
Big fan of blueberry but it’s hard to go wrong with peach.
No live traffic experiment? Seems risky to launch without
i think you could prove that on linux by getting the number of instructions run. I think perf has a way of getting that info for you. not sure if windows has something simmilar
This really resonated with me.

> No one wants to move, no one wants to change.

A large percentage of the people living in my R-1 neighborhood are retired now. They could sell their houses and "cash out", but what would be the point? Money is no substitute for a lifestyle. We chose this lifestyle because of the attractions it offered. A couple of my neighbors have moved away, but for every one that moved, there are ten who have stayed. Once we retire we aren't making that long commute any more, and most of us don't leave our neighborhood during the week because we have almost everything we need within a mile or two. For the people who are working in tech, a lot of them used to have WFH days, but now most of them expect to have more regular WFH days - perhaps even a majority. That's pretty much the utopia that people want to achieve through dense development, namely living locally.

I think there is one major issue that doesn't get mentioned, namely the fact that companies have chosen to site themselves in areas where there was a shortage of nearby housing. The south bay areas are the best example of this, with so many of the employers being north of 101 but almost no housing north of 101. This is not a new problem - I remember people commuting long distances to Lockheed and other defense employers north of bayshore in the 70s. As employers have continued to pack more and more jobs into tight spaces, they have exacerbated the problem.

There is a severe problem with affordability of housing, but that is caused by increased demand as much as limited supply. We worship at the altar of economic growth, and refuse to consider the consequences of that growth. Urban planning is about maintaining balances, in much the same way that we seek to strike balances in our lifestyles. Would anyone accept that employment growth is constrained to not exceed housing supply? It's hard to imagine.
What problem would this cause to me as a user, though? It sounds fine to me.
By default. I'm still confused whether this means the court accepted the claims of identity, or whether it had to be challenged to be thrown out. Would this serve as minor precedence to future claims by Wright?