skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a major goal behind software engineering will one day to be models only, rules follow. Right now we write code that "creates" those models and rules and UIs.

At some point in the future we won't need auto complete because the only thing we'll be coding is the model itself, and then we'll provide rules (in some format, not a language) and the UI will know what to do. We see a lot of that happening in the no-code movement today.
notry is better. But why not be more verbose and just have `no_try_catch`
> So, Rosa Parks should have just started her own bus company too? Discriminating against people based on race was legal after all.

Trump (and others) were banned for specific causes, not for something they were born with and can't control.

It's ludicrous to suggest that ideas should be protected classes in commerce just like race is. No one is born a liberal or conservative, and those labels can change over time. You can also just... not say anything, and no one will know which one of those you are.

Rosa Parks could not hide that she was Black.

> Railroads, telecom, electricity and water companies should be able to refuse service too?

No, they have contracts from the government to use limited public resources (land, for example).

The rest of your examples are nonsensical, too, but I don't have time to rebut each one.

> Also based on Justice Clarence Thomas' opinion last month, you are wrong

Clarence Thomas's opinion is based on the premise that social media companies are the same as utilities like electric companies, which is nonsense. You can start a social media company tomorrow and everyone could switch to it. TikTok started not that long ago. There is a free market of social media.

The same is not true of any utilities in the US. Some are even impossible to compete with (e.g. broadcast networks) because they use limited public resources (e.g. spectrum) granted by the government.
It's actually a statement about what complexity paths remain outside the realms of what can be ~comprehended by AI (or whatever it does instead), and what still requires the capabilities and creativity of the human mind.

As long as you're smart enough that you are still required to at least delegate some tasks to a machine, you're still worth keeping around - even if you're not always busy.
You will find a lot of people use HAM radio now because of the much longer range and CB is basically a toy that doesn’t have much chatter these days. I bought a CB for my vehicle but the antenna dictates the distance and since most people don’t have giant antennae and there’s lots of electromagnetic interference with modern tech you can’t talk for long distances unless you have an open field or similar environment.
Yes it is allowed. This is in fact how GMail’s autocomplete came to be. Of course this raised all sorts of interesting problems. One of the funnier ones is when users typed “happy” it would suggest “thanksgiving” since “happy thanksgiving” was the most common phrase starting with happy in their email corpus.
If we have no evidence, it is not "reasonable to assume" anything.

Meanwhile, I'm merely saying that it wouldn't surprise me if such a policy exists, whether formally or informally. The distinct lack of any product on Walmart shelves which has a below-RRP price printed on its packaging is strong circumstantial evidence at the very least.
Thread with link to the official EU site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27771303

Daimler got a 100% discount (and Volkswagen 45%) respectively for "being the first one to talk" and for "having collaborated", though surely according to existing Laws, it sounds to me strange/a bit too much, I mean it is not like the immunity that (correctly) covers whistleblowers.
This is an interesting point, even if the retirees self-funded their retirement. There would need to be a nearly 4x increase in productivity per 30 years to avoid an inflation catastrophe as the workers products have increased demand relative to the maximum supply of workers/services/goods.
https://grid.iamkate.com and https://gridwatch.co.uk/ have the same data but represented in graphs that don't require a magnifying glass to see.
The caveat to this is that if I am not going to have any real influence anyway, I would rather be a mushroom, as the alternative is being a meeting mushroom.
Right. Nested C/C++ dependencies are the only case I can think of where drastically-long compile times are common.
Wouldn't this question already have been asked and answered when AI's were trained on books and articles?
Are you seriously asking why software developers would want tools to help them write boilerplate code faster? Is it an affront to our craft to use an IDE over Notepad? Maybe drafters should refuse to use CAD tools because the craft originated with pen and paper.
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Why can't they just be replaced with what is essentially a normal/embedded PC, in the form factor of a printer/fax machine? Sending the "fax" simply emails a PDF of the scanned pages over the internet and then prints the "fax" automatically?
> No one appointed the US to be the world police. It doesn't need to promote it's flawed ideas of "rule" to rest of the world

I think you can blame Europe's colonial empires for that. As well as the two world wars started from European in-fighting that left the USA mostly unscathed.
I've been using pfSense for many years, generally happy with it. The wireguard fiasco made sense to me when I saw some former colleagues involved (including 1 I hired at a previous gig, and one I interviewed before he joined the co). Instead of taking their loss, admitting they screwed up, they tried FUD. This ... was in line with what I experienced in the past. Extremely unprofessional.

Thanks to them, several years ago I swore off FreeBSD. The tech may be ok/good, the baggage of personalities and egos is not worth it though. After seeing this, and at least the two of them associated with pfSense, I've now started looking for replacements for pfSense.

I've been thinking of OPNsense, though the whole FreeBSD bit bugs me (code/OS is fine, personalities/egos less so). Linux "equivalents" sort of exist, though reading through the various fora for them suggests similar ego/personality issues.

I'm not sure its bad enough to go back to dedicated firewall/router appliances (most are terrible and closed source). If there is a simple way to convert my pfSense config to a OPNsense config, this is likely to be the first step I take.

I'd love to hear other people's experience converting away from pfSense.
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No it's not. As far as we know the chance of a child being male or female is 50% (not quite, but I'll assume it for simplicity here), independent from any previously born children. That is, it is a 'memoryless' process, and you've fallen for the gambler's fallacy. Just because you threw many tails before does not increase the odds of heads.

It doesn't matter what stopping criterion for your family composition you use, every child that gets put on the earth has a 50% chance of being a girl.
Suppose you have children until
you either get 5 or until you have a boy. The possible outcomes and their probabilities are:

B (1/2), GB (1/4), GGB (1/8), GGGB (1/16), GGGGB (1/32), GGGGG (1/32)

If we sum up the average number of boys from this process, we get 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + 1/32 = 31/32. If we sum of the average number of girls, we get 1/4 + 2/8 + 3/16 + 4/32 + 5/32 = 31/32. The expectation of boys and girls is exactly the same, as it must be!

You can't explain the difference without selective murder, lack of childcare, abortion or some other selective filtering.
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I worked on a Rust project at work for several months. Compile times were not a significant issues for developers where it was generally cached. For example, repeatedly running a test only compiled a small amount of code.

It was a bit slow in CI/CD build environments with no cache, but so are the k8s Go projects I work on (go mod pulling in the world).

The only thing approaching 2 hours I've ever seen is building the compiler from scratch.
> What's the lastname of this Society guy?

Legislature would be its lastname, I suppose. As in [nation] legislature, [state] legislature, etc.
https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...
> alleged

> cartel

bwahaha, these lobbyists are handying out their business-card-els at every single chance, the mobile industry is big up on the charter of the leading parties, and its literally a car-tel (whatever -tel means if bracketed this way, it certainly means no good).

So the tax payer will have to bear the burden, because its a statelevel politically controlled bizness.
The email signup form returns an error. Looks like a nice project, though! The page says it uses an grammar of graphics engine -- is it built on Vega or did you create your own?
I know that it may be abused, but sometimes people are just curious
>The upside is automation is making it go smoother and be less burdensome, because simulated testing truly is high enough fidelity

I agree to an extent, but there's also a risk of simulation breeding a false sense of security even when simulations are conducted well. The investigation of the CST-100 "anomalous" test flight had 21 findings related to software simulations and testing, some related to lack of fidelity. Not that fidelity wasn't possible, but it has some overtones of the Ariane 5 software issue in that there was a lack of integration testing within the different software components.
I grew up with _fiş_ and _priz_. Presumably, they are words that were borrowed in to Turkish from French. To this day, I cannot remember which is which and I do not know the original French spellings. According to Google translate, _fiş_ is "prise de courant" so what the heck is _priz_ then?

Anyway, the point is, "male" and "female" made immediate sense. "plug" and "socket" don't seem to be exact analogues. When I think of a socket, I think more of things that are more permanent things like wall sockets or sockets on actual computers etc. Is there any reason to assume that all such things will always be receptacles? When I look at this picture[1], I see a set of "female" sockets next to a "male" socket using the disfavored terminology. As English is my second language, I do not know whether I should refer to the one that is "male" as a plug.

Another aversion I have to the general tendency to changing language by decree is the fact that I experienced the linguistic impoverishment visited upon the Turkish language as a result of the 20th century effort to remove words of Arabic and Farsi origin and somehow arrive at a "pure" language. Such efforts rarely lead to where their designers want them to go.

[1]: https://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/08/inlet...
Management as a Profession
How exactly you arrive at understanding the codebase is not as important.

Just make sure you keep actual development separate from learning the tool if you care for your results and especially reliability.

Now, I use various ways to learn the tools and codebase. Running PoC for my idea or maintaining separate toy project helps me with maintaining hygiene.

For example, for the past year I have been spending a lot of time learning reactive programming with RxJava and Reactor. I have created a dozen small projects illustrating various ideas for making reactive APIs, processing pipelines, separating business logic from infrastructure, composing reactive modules, etc.

I did this with aim of purposeful learning rather than writing production code, even though some of these in the end migrated to be part of production codebase.

I am now at a level where I can, again, write large swaths of modules, libraries but now using reactive paradigm, with a very good chance of it working correctly, which for me validates that I more or less understand what is going on.
It is the way, because it allows for the accounting of carbon.
Does the licence make a difference regarding whether or not Copilot code is legal to use? To my understanding, the crux of the argument comes down to whether data crunched down and regurgitated by machine learning algorithms retains its licence - regardless of what it is.

I suppose if we assume it retains it, then TFA's claim creates a further question of how the hell anyone using copilot can conform to this unholy mixture of all the licences. But that's a big assumption at this point.
You do not recall correctly. You have confused case fatality rate with infection fatality rate. There are a large number of infections which are never officially counted as cases due to limited testing and minimal symptoms.
California Capitol reinstates mask mandate after Covid outbreak
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I’m with you comrade
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27762177

I too got downvoted
Vision is good, a decent spec that doesn't get re-written every week is even better.
First off, if this were a good argument GitHub might have made it, but they haven't, have they? They're claiming fair use instead. If they want to make the argument it's covered by their TOS then we can consider it.

Secondly, if I release my code under a license that doesn't permit this sort of thing, and someone else publishes the code on GitHub, I haven't agreed to GitHub's terms and the person who did can't give GitHub any more rights over it than I gave them.

Not every piece of code on GitHub was written by people who agreed to the TOS, it's quite easy for open source code to move around. Suppose the maintainer of a project moves it from GitLab or whatever, with your contributions intact. The maintainer only has your code because you contributed it under the AGPL or whatever- they can't "license" it to GitHub under more lenient terms than that!
Possible contenders:

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it”

“Never attribute to malice what can be adequately described by stupidity.”
I’m not saying it’s minor apropos of nothing, I’m talking about it in relative terms to the consequences of the Gang of Four’s downfall.
> Impossible meat, likewise, is a meat "cessation" product.

No it’s not. Meat isn’t addictive. People don’t “quit” meat and develop a habit of impossible burgers. People don’t wake up every morning feeling shitty about enjoying meat.

I fully support vegan and vegetarian lifestyles. To compare tobacco to meat is foolish.
I think that's fair as consumers will certainly pose the same question.
A Tl;DR of the situation with the FDA:

- "E-Cigs are the greatest public health invention of modern times!"

- Oh wait! "Think of the Children™"

- "We need to full on demonize e-cigs à la '90s anti drug style!"

This is pretty much what went down. It was recognized as miracle, but the fear of kids getting addicted was too great. So instead we're going the path of full on propaganda against it, while kids get addicted anyway.
When someone mentions correlation, they imply a linear relation between the correlated variables and a range of values for which that relation is valid.

Only when that model is further validated correlation suggests causation.
And every time a big user moves away from Lotus Notes (and other such dinosaurs, such as Cobol), it gets harder as this knowledge becomes more niche. The people doing it spend the rest of their career at that combany and that's it.
China tries to quell investor fears about internet companies
>Power2Gas works at grid scale

You also have to consider round trip efficiency. Anything less than 75% is probably a non-starter. Lithium Ion approaches 93% but still has a very high cost of ownership.
Well whatever they're doing is working.

The amount of juul pod junk under my feet in my city seems to be growing exponentially year over year.

At least cigarette butts are biodegradable!

They should be forced to make these things out of cellulose or a similarly biodegradable product as their consumers are going to treat them as butts and just chuck them on the ground when they're done.
I meant legislation.

One set of terms doesn't invalidate another, at least in EU.
Excellent! This is a subject after my own heart :-)

The answer i think is already being played out around us and involves Nihilism, Hedonism and Fanaticism. Aldous Huxley's Brave New World also hints about it. On the individual level we all need means to access "varying altered levels of consciousness" and on the societal level we need to be made more interdependent as a collective. The former is an experience to justify our individual existence while the latter keeps us bound to "society".
It is at least for me. I never use more than a GB.
The cat (this technology) is coming out of the bag one way or another. It's just too useful. Where is it written that inspiring a language model with data is not just as infringing as copy and paste? It's a very grey line. Public facing open-source code & media is going to be learned by language models because they're exposed to them. I'm fully expecting that if I begin a story and put it on my blog or on github, and if I go away for 5 years, I'll see it completed for me when I return.
To some extent it wouldn't even be surprising for a sufficiently powerful language to be EXPSPACE. Pretty much anything with sufficiently powerful macros would be EXPSPACE, or worse.
Thanks. I can't read Chinese, is it the 5<something>10<something> at the start? That would make sense.

I very much doubt it's DeepFaked. Why bother? If the CCP were holding Ma and wanted him to make a generic video like that for putting up appearances I'm sure they have ways to make him do that. I suspect the OP is correct and it's simply that the author of the article doesn't know how to search Chinese social media.
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There are several that I find to be painfully recurrent at this point:

- hanlon’s razor references

- xkcd 927 (competing standards)

- you aren’t the user you’re the product

Some days it feels like we’ve reached the point where an AI could generate a believable comment thread for a typical front page story…
What went so wrong with Covid in India?
Yes, Fellow is one of the first company to build a meeting-centric solution!
Few significant differences:
- Hera is very single-player, our product is built around making YOU more productive with your meetings
- There is a strong focus on automation. Let's say you use a template for one occurence of a weekly meeting, Hera will suggest you to create a rule to do that automatically for all the future occurrences.
- A other point, that might seem trivial but is definitely not: Hera is FAST, and entirely usable with the keyboard. We believe it's actually key to be able to use such product DURING a meeting, when your mental bandwidth is dedicated to the ongoing discussion
The problem are not the different weather patterns, the problem is the change. If the climate is stable, people settle places that have a nice climate. When the climate suddenly changes you have mass migrations and wars.
Sure, that's a legitimate question and I appreciate it.
Important background: I'm a very early adopter of technologies and I'm genuinely curious.

First the terminology I used is wrong, it's not an investment, it's a mere speculation. Because the outcome is totally in the air. Right now there is not enough developer saturation in cryptocurrencies, which in my opinion is a crucial driver of industrial adoption. This may change, when the "safe/verified" development of smart-contracts and blockchain interoperability becomes easy for most developers. Transaction costs are a sign of technical debt. So there is no doubt that there will be many hardforks coming.

Context: My Professor assigned me the study of "Consensus Algorithms" and the implementation of these in 2009. That made me go into a very deep rabbit hole. And I stumbled over many technologies enabling cryptocurrencies, but came out at the book he was currently reading about "Cellular Automata". That made me awe nature and it's ingenuity.

I have wrongly been anti-commercial most of my life, that's why I intentionally missed bitcoin in 2010. Regardless of all the hype it's of no industrial use at the moment as long as there aren't good developers enabling it's application in the industry and at scale.

I unfortunately didn't have had a circle of people who invest, rather more those who sit at the bottom of the barrel. Waking up and taking my own finances serious took way too long.

Crypto is a speculation even though I invested almost all of my assets into it (€28k). I'm okay losing it, as long as I'm able to find a good job paying at least 2.7k net/month, which allows me to diversify my invests into less speculative assets.
Alright, let me rephrase this since people are misunderstanding:

Does the OPNsense project recommend or endorse any specific models of low-power all-in-one computer hardware for running OPNsense? And if no, is there any specific thing the community would recommend?

I don't want to spend hours on research or build something on Newegg. I want to by a complete piece of hardware that I install OPNsense on and know that I won't have to worry about hardware compatibility.

PS: Apparently OPNsense offers their own appliances these days just like PfSense does.
EU fines German car makers $1B over emission collusion
Thought of the same, but "only" about 50 I can find: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
I installed and using scailer on windows. It looks great. After using scailer, gmail does not satisfy me with sorting emails.
By me, having one thread for each recipient is killer feature of this product. Finding important emails from important people is much easier that on gmail.
After using it I cannot stop wondering why other email clients do not do the same categorization?
https://scailer.com/
Israeli president given NFT of father's oath of office
Suppose you had some kind of AI Deepfake program operating off a large database of copyrighted photos and you asked it to "make a picture of a handsome man on a horse" and the man's head was an exact duplicate of George Clooney's head from a specific magazine cover, would that be infringement? Would selling the services of an AI that took copyrighted photos of celebrities and edited them into porn movies be infringement?
I don't know the answers to those questions but I find it very weird that people think large blocks of typed text are less worthy of copyright protection than other forms of media.
Why not select a language / framework that reduces biolerplate? I use laravel a lot and boilerplate code is taken care of in the framework itself.
...including Common Lisp. - Robert Morris

http://paulgraham.com/quotes.html
The main value prop is note taking and the workflow around it:

1. Creating and choosing a template for a meeting. e.g. my 1 on 1 vs new customer onboarding vs. customer research meetings all have different formats. I have a template in a text file today that a duplicate before every meeting. It's annoying.

2. Being able to mark and export todos from your notes to the place where I keep todos.

3. Being able to share your notes.

4. Being able to export notes to Slack/Notion/Google Docs for my teammates who don't use or need to use Hera

Seeing my next meeting in the menubar and joining is the least interesting part of Hera.

No horse in the race here. But if you're going to comment you may want to do the work to comment fairly. The sum total of the work I did was watch the 2 minute Loom video - so it's not even a lot of work to do.