skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly my sentiment.

It’s particularly ridiculous to see devs shelling out bold statements of fact and not even open-ended questions or more softly worded opinions (“I believe that…”).

Arguably, even real domain experts should have the latter attitude, and so should the dev community, in which many are educated in the scientific method.

Clearly some people are feeling threatened and are embarrassing themselves as a result.
I thought Bitcoin was more a store of value (e.g. analogous to gold) than a currency similar to physical cash?

If so the problem becomes, is your personal security up to defending attackers who want to take your pile of digital gold.
> It makes me feel like a grouch to complain about the uber-popular, widely loved thing but this intertwined superhero universe exhausts me. I don't want to have to watch three previous movies and two TV shows to fully enjoy the movie that's in front of me.

They’ve also just become quite formulaic and as a result, boring.
I'm not sure it's that straightforward, if it's their name on the case and they was totally absent, that would be a huge liability for them and the hospital.

Newbies need to learn, there's only so many cadavers you can cut into before you need experience on living flesh. Experienced surgeons are often observing the procedure, and step in as necessary if there is a complex part, or if the junior isn't doing something correctly.

Beyond just the surgeon there is a good number of incredibly professional secondary staff who are running the whole operating theatre, from imaging, instrument preparation, to labs and vitals. When you speak to a surgeon you're not just getting them, you get their entire team, junior to professional.
ventilation is a lot cheaper than AC though
github search is hit and miss

https://github.com/aimnas/ja2-1.13-source-mirror/search?q=br... finds 12 occurrences (should be 17), somehow misses https://github.com/aimnas/ja2-1.13-source-mirror/blob/master...

I stopped relying on it after this discovery :/
Our client's privacy is more important than your curiosity; it's as simple as that.
Super handy!
Wouldn't this create a sort of 'chilling effect' where programmers have to conform to a vague expectation? cf. CoC usage in open source code
> Why work at Pabio?

> You’ll work mostly with cool people (Not all of us are cool, but the majority are.)

Seriously wondering who the uncool people would be and what it would be like to work with them
This is such an interesting account. I wonder to what scale this happens.

Surely after you get roofied after a tinder date with an attacker draining your crypto accounts, you'd file a police report and maybe we'd hear about it in the media?
Might as well just get solar PV then, that's around 150W per m2.
The "tripping" scene from "Easy Rider" comes to mind — same era though (NSFW, isn't Tony Basil in this scene? https://youtu.be/W2x20CV0EbI).

Also, this clip (NSFW) from "Altered States" is just as trippy: https://youtu.be/E1ZGEvJPQ6A

The complete Roger Corman film "The Trip" (1967) referenced in the article is on YT in the U.S.: https://youtu.be/FmZCwcGu_2I
Yes, and what I'm saying is that this feels like its pushing for anything that is source available to become true open source with no limitations, including due to practicality, attribution.
Depends on your home setup, a big screen and some big speakers go a long way
Bitcoin is reversible on the same level then.
> I won't mourn movie theatres (though I hope places emulate the likes of Alamo Drafthouse and do dinner, drinks and let us make an evening out of watching a movie), but I do worry about things like movie financing. It feels the industry has split in two, either making super-expensive superhero blockbusters or super cheap indie films.

I'm informed by my cinemaphile friend that exactly this phenomenon has been much remarked upon in the last 15-20 years. Mid-budget films, which used to be very common, are mostly dead, leaving a couple kinds of low-budget film (the startup-model where you put out a ton of cheap movies and hope one is the next Blair Witch—and yes, most of this is horror—and the "indie" film kind) and the mega-budget ones that are basically investment vehicles. So, two kinds of films that exist because those models are the best ROI, and then indie films, and that's about it.

Meanwhile, there are still tons of good films coming out, but most are (broadly) in the "indie" bucket. People who complain that nothing good is made anymore[0] must just be looking at what's advertised heavily, is all I can figure. Dozens of good-to-great movies come out every year, including a whole bunch from the US.

[0] Then there's "it's all remakes now"—but 1) it's not, and 2) Hollywood started churning out tons of remakes about as early in their history as they possibly could, and never stopped.
Sure, but manuals are.

Data has never been copyrightable. Copyright has only ever protected creative expression. Draw your own diagrams and write your own explanations and you're fine. (See iFixit, for instance.)

It's just like how you can't post a copy of The Matrix online but you can definitely write a plot summary without infringing anyone's copyright. Whether it makes sense that manuals (and firmware, for that matter) are considered as worthy of copyright protection as The Matrix is a separate question, but the law sees them the same way.
Cheat Sheet on Curl Latency Metrics: how to benchmark server latency with curl
Government can also seize your crypto but that’s besides the point.

When does non-reversal ever benefit the average Joe?

The only scenarios I can think of is when you transact with non-trustable sources. E.g. buying “stuff” off the darknet (and even here you usually have an escrow).

And that’s just not a use case in most people’s everyday life.
The Windows 11 insider build is surprisingly unpolished and unfinished
This is the product they are selling. Unfortunately, this approach is what's keeping me away from Graal in general as well.
We send the team that would be working on the project, to the extent it's known at that time.

But yes, bigger consultancies absolutely do this.
See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
>Moral of the story: please don't store large amounts of cash in your checking account.

Seems to me that the true moral of the story is don't cheat on your wife.
Corporate Espionage is real.
OCW is really a mix of different things. It was originally pitched as bundles of resources that teachers could use to assemble courses based on an MIT curriculum. Pre-MOOC (and pre-ubiquitous video), it was not really intended to be packaged courses for a student to use directly. There were doubtless some political reasons for the original positioning, but in any case it means OCW courses are a bit of a mixed bag depending upon what someone is looking for.
"As long as the job can be delivered to a mutually-satisfactory state"

When has that ever happened?
So instead of acknowledging the argument you want to focus on a generalized use of the word monopoly.

Replace it with "Megacorp" and you have the same argument.
I honestly prefer that, anything function longer than a line probably could use a name that gives it some context, even maybe a short docstring, to make the code more readable.
As a Haskell advocate I disagree :). But if it acts as a gateway drug I am all for it.
> Vietnam and China are totalitarian dictatorships. But the reality is we're in a country where we can't even convince people to get the vaccine now, much less skip spring break.

Not American so I can't judge about there, but in Europe, most countries closed restaurants and theaters for almost 6 months, schools for more than 3 months, people where submitted to curfews and harsh circulation restrictions (cannot go farther than 10km from your house without a justification and papers to prove so − in France for almost 4 month in total). and borders where closed for months (my brother in the UK couldn't practically come to France fro the 5 first months of this year). And people where sent to jail for not respecting those restrictions. It's not like the western world acted like “freedom-loving countries”, overall there were much more, and much longer freedom limitations in France, Italy and other European countries than there were in China.

The island vs continental countries is also a fallacy, there's been as many death in Cyprus and Malta (1.5M inhabitant together) than in NZ, Singapore, Vietnam and Taiwan grouped (more than 130M people living there). What's their excuse?
A person drugging you at a bar, illegally entering your house, and then robbing your bank accounts. Felonies on top of felonies!
It probably reflects sunlight, not heat. So unless you shine very brightly it won't work in reverse :)
If they have secrets, yes! Don't give candidates access to secrets.
Personally I got absolutely nothing done on my side projects in 2020 between Covid, moving, and a new job. 2021 has been far more productive.
CEO here: we actually didn't know them yet. But the website looks awesome. They seem to have a similar business model. We're operating in Europe as of now, though (That's across the Atlantic for you Canadians) ;)
There is the Association for Computing Machinery and it's code of ethics (https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics) but hardly anyone is a member of the ACM.

Beyond that, most people, even on HN, wouldn't qualify to become a programmer PE and they know it. So every time it's brought up, there's a huge outcry about "gatekeeping", even though the quality of software and the frequency of security breaches and data thefts indicates that the gate does indeed need to be kept.

At some point, much like medical malpractice eventually led to licensing for doctors, I predict that the severity of security breaches is going to get to a tipping point where it will happen.
The only thing I really think is missing from python is good pattern matching (curious to try out the new implementation), and a pipe operator.

Chaining functions is somewhat annoying in python if you want to do any sort of cross library work (which is super common in the data side of the language). Pandas has nice function chaining, but if you want chain data through cleaning functions and maybe do some nlp work you don't end up with a very readable or nice syntax IMO.
It does feel a bit like a high stakes game of chicken.
Summary:

Lithium brines are the low hanging fruit but will eventually run out

Alternate sources like lithium clays are currently extracted using hot acids which also extracts undesirable minerals.

New method considered from first principles of physics using a cation (NaCl) and ball milling with the lithium clay for several hours results in an extract with a better mineral profile

New method expected to lower costs by 30%

(I should have put this in the submission but forgot)
If you want to import VOX from apps like this and work on them together, my collaboration app Jel (jel.app) might be worth checking out.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ajTePjJNjoY
The official term is "The doors of perception"[0].

This is the source of the name of an ancient band "The doors".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception
> At ~$4,800 / year as with the sample proposal, it might be a tough sell (or "rent", in this case).

Thanks for the feedback, I agree that it's not extremely affordable yet, and we're trying hard to get the price down. We currently work with a retail partner but plan on going direct-to-consumer soon, which should make our package more affordable.

Since we currently only serve the Swiss market, it's common for unfurnished apartments in Zurich cost upwards of $2,000, so adding $400 on top of that for a really beautiful interior package is not that big of a jump, especially when compared to fully-furnished apartments which cost significant more.

> The other options are to hire a designer and buy the furniture.

We also offer a buyout option, so all your monthly payments go toward ownership. Our goal is to ensure that you don't end up paying more during the course of your subscription than the retail price of the furniture if you were to purchase it all upfront.

> I wish you luck, there is certainly a market out there for something like this.
I don't have anything against open core business models, but of all the companies to do it, I trust Oracle the least. You just know they've built every trap door that they can into it. Graal is a pretty awesome piece of technology, but I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
>So they keep buying bonds. (*3)

There is a lot to disagree with in this article, but is the above factual? My understanding is that although equities, real estate, real assets, etc are up, bonds have fallen significantly out of favor due to low rates and rate risk (bond prices will fall if interest rates go up, as new issues will be more attractive to buyers).
>simply a policy in some implementations

Reversals would mean that there is some authority that can declare arbitrary transaction to be valid or not, and cryptocurrency is exercise in creation of payment system without such trusted party.

So no, would not call it simply a policy.
Where is the full article?
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ve been looking for a shirt that keeps me cool for a while, I just ordered one!
You are making it sound as if the system only copies full functions verbatim, but that's not the case. See https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitatio... (as linked in a different comment thread here).

And btw, clowns take? That's no way to enter into a productive discussion.

> Nobody cares particularly if you feed data into an algorithm of your choice. I can feed data into a hash algorithm all day and that won't come back to bite me.

I showed examples to the contrary in my other comment.
The starting assumption is an astronomical increase in our access to energy, if you recall (and I also mentioned that energy being "cheap"). With that energy, we can:

- cheaply access space

- cheaply access cubic miles of asteroid iron

- build whole automated production industries in space, to build however many spaceships we want

- automate the construction of spaceships and that ringwood

- use those ships and tools to automate the construction of more production facilities

You're imagining a single transport into space, but that's a mode of thinking still constrained by expensive and inefficient energy. Imagine hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of autonomously constructed ships all available for that population transfer.

That energy is the catalyst for an exponential growth in our ability as a species to move ourselves and control our environment. It just takes some imagination to see outside our current constraints.

It's not the ai singularity, but I think our ability to build stuff cheaply, in space, with materials obtained in the quantity they're available in space, will represent a singularity-esque leap forward.
Wait, let's be clear. In the real world a lava lamp is basically impossible predict as it evolves. And that is due to chaos. So far so good.

But this chaos is deterministic. Chaos means highly sensitive to initial conditions and involves nonlinearity, but it is still entirely classical and deterministic. In the real world we do not measure things precise enough to keep track of a lava lamp's deterministic evolution, but it is there within the chaos.

So I am wondering if a quantum computer, which Susskind says takes only 100 qubits to outperform any Turing Machine constructable ever, may one day do better at picking out the deterministic patterns behind the chaos of things like lava lamps. And if that happens, we may need more extreme versions of chaotic systems to keep secrets. And since quantum randomness is the only true randomness in the universe, forever indiscernable in principle; will one day all deterministic, chaotic means of adding "randomness" be replaced with quantum sources of randomness, due to how powerful quantum computers are?

*Now you could say even the lava lamp involves quantum randomness because everything is ultimately quantum. But because it is so macroscopic, it behaves more classically the a smaller quantum system.
People mostly concentrate on whether using Copilot might be a real copyright violation.

But the danger of being sued is a different question.

Consider the following scenario:

1) Company X has its product code stolen. Somebody puts it on GitHub. It's discovered and the code is removed.

2) You work on an open-source project which competes with that product of Company X, you use Copilot, and make it known.

3) Company X looks through your code and find fragments which look vaguely similar to fragments of their code.

4) They sue, claiming that you copied and obfuscated their code.

Were you not using Copilot, one line of defense for you would be that you never looked at the stolen code, never accessed it, so no copying took place.

With Copilot, this line of defense is not available to you, because Copilot "saw" that code and in principle that could help to produce the fragments in question. (Of course other lines of defense are still available).

Whether courts would accept this argument is a different question, but the argument is not obviously invalid, and Company X can cause enough trouble for you...
> And that's where there is some risk of Copilot going wrong. But that's not the primary output of Copilot nor its goal.

It took no more than 24 hours for the verbatim code to appear in the wild. It's irrelevant if it's the primary goal or not, if it can happen once then it can happen again; therefore (I believe) it's an existential risk to any organisation that uses it for their own products.
Indeed, there are many such explicit omissions in python (switch statements, assignment expressions (before 3.8), increment/decrement operator, etc) that may seem to some as a bug, but it really is an explicit decision and part of what makes Python the clean and readable language it is.
> “Processor: shall be defined as all processors where the Oracle programs are installed and/or running. Programs licensed on a processor basis may be accessed by your internal users (including agents and contractors) and by your third party users. The number of required licenses shall be determined by multiplying the total number of cores of the processor by a core processor licensing factor specified on the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table which can be accessed at http://oracle.com/contracts. All cores on all multicore chips for each licensed program are to be aggregated before multiplying by the appropriate core processor licensing factor and all fractions of a number are to be rounded up to the next whole number.”

--

x86 has a 0.5 core multiplier. So if you have a 16-core server, you need to purchase “8 processors”.

And before people start spewing Oracle hate, this is standard enterprise on-premise licensing practices used by Microsoft, IBM, SAP etc.

https://www.oracle.com/ae/a/ocom/docs/graalvm-price-list.pdf

https://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/contracts/processor-core...
I haven't been in .NET for a couple of years but I've worked on quite a few .NET projects over the years. I've seen F# being added to 3 (as far as I can remember), in completely different companies/teams/contexts - and it always ended up being the same - some enthusiastic guy (or a few of them) tries to sneak in F# as a part of the system. They don't really gain traction with the rest of the team because people have shit to do and no time to study a new language at work, so it becomes "their own thing". Regularly the tooling breaks (eg. visual studio intellisense stops working on C# projects if you don't disable F# projects, builds randomly start to fail, etc.) The person who introduced it becomes the go to guy for these problems, coupled with no traction for his pet project and being a motivated developer - they leave and now the project has this magic F# part that nobody really knows how it works but everyone knows how to work around.

IMO C# is picking up a lot of small things that make it incrementally better than it was before, and at some point it's not worth the hassle to go to F#. F# features are gradually added to C# so C# developers have time to pick them up as well.

I've heard of F# only projects doing great, but I think you need to have a team committed to doing F#. Back when I was into Clojure they had this mantra of "add Clojure to your work projects as a library and pretend it's just this small thing you used to solve some problem because it's all on JVM and Java compatible and then keep expanding on it" - I think this turns out terrible in practice.
Indian startups scramble for tech talent as salaries rise across the board
Yeah, I guess I was thinking of VQVAE as a state-of-the-art example, but it was indeed 2017. Time flies! It's still pretty influential on newer systems though, e.g. OpenAI's DALL-E that made waves earlier this year has a VAE component (in addition to a Transformer component).
> Other classes might have historically had an amazing instructor and no major development and thus need a really compelling reason to be replaced.

SICP occupies an interesting place in this space: computer programs definitely had quite a bit of development, but Abelson and Sussman are amazing and their perspective remains valuable.

Haven't seen that computer architecture course, you seem to suggest it may be another of this kind?
Interesting concept. I have an office I could see this being useful for (though possibly a bit out of my price range, if I'm honest). One thing that stood out to me though is that all the examples were similar style (mid-century modern, maybe? I'm not a designer). More examples showcasing a range of styles could entice different clients. Research into styles in various regions (ie beach rentals vs ranch style vs mission/craftsman).
New kind of ice is so bendy it can curl and uncurl without breaking
Five-minute Multimethods in Python (2005)
Close reading reveals that in the story, only the robbers claim that he has a wife and no other facts point towards it.
FB AI now enables robots to adapt rapidly to changing real world conditions
The obvious answer why F# wins over Clojure in many people's books is static typing.
You would know just before the surgery. The surgeon is supposed to be there before you are put down. At least it's what happened to me twice.

Last time I had a different anesthetist than the one I saw before. But I was happy because I did not have affinity with the one I met and the one I had was very welcoming and kind. Which is a really good trait for the person that is responsible to supplant your vital functions for some hours.
Oops, missed that last one.

> I wish you luck, there is certainly a market out there for something like this.

Thanks so much! We're looking forward to more feedback!
The Mac was released in January of 1984. These are prices from Christmas of 1984 - several months after the Mac was released. The design of the Mac began in 1982, when the C64 was retailing for $595 and was seriously affecting Apple II sales. What these catalog prices reveal is the impact the Mac had on C64 sales in a very short period of time, which forced Commodore to respond with the Amiga. But that's a story for another day.
One of the big innovations of non-crypto payment methods over cash was the ability to reverse.

> To solution to coercing a “reversal” of a transaction is use the legal system.

Or, just maybe, we could have a system which doesn't need to involve the legal system every time, and protects consumers anyway.

Which we have.
"Good customer service" is indistinguishable from vulnerability to social engineering.
Just checked and Spark has over a million lines of Scala code, as well as 100k+ loc of Java and Python. Which would you prefer, rewriting a million lines of Scala, or having a small team work on improving compiler/runtime efficiency?