skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's still no evidence it'll get anywhere but I continue to believe that #selfhosted (a general idea not a specific thing) philosophy will slowly snowball into something.

There's at least two fronts, having good enough software to be compelling, and having the ops situation be radically easier. Honestly I think Social Web (a general idea not specific tech) is kind of in a doldrums, has some interesting projects, and a lot of enthusiasm, but there's a lack of key innovators. I'd probably get outright spat on by some but I truly think Kubernetes is the first diy-able enough platform to be interesting for ops, and I do think we're not far off from having some fairly good out-of-box autonomic systems, & that would change the game. Alas multi-tenancy is still extremely early days for nearly everyone, & crude, needs a lot of work, but that is kind of optional, but in the end is a key enabler for interesting home computing. Reciprocally Kubernetes really requires multi-cluster capabilities, clusters as cattle, & right now that's a cowpath we need paving.
No my comments do not presuppose the broker solution being better.

My comments describe the typical playbook for VC funded companies going into a market place with a well hated incumbent.

The cheaper services that Caretaker currently provide are subsidized by private capital and only will provide a positive return for that private capital once they have a dominant position in the market at which point they have the power dynamic to raise prices.

My comments look to the longer term future and take a quick look at whats getting replaced. There is no supposition that the broker solution is better - more that the Caretaker solution has a predictable playbook in which we will see if the long term solution is indeed better.

The value that was accrued across broker (As hated as they may be) provide some jobs, the value in caretaker accrues across some staff but mostly rolls up to the investors - providing it is a successful outcome.
One of my favorite ideas is having a pair of mirrors, one on the spaceship and another on Earth. Then shine a laser on the ship, it will bounce back and forth, and eventually all the laser's energy will go to speeding up the ship. (Well, the beam will get wider, but you could probably get thousands of bounces.)

A funny twist on that idea just came to my mind: if you're flying past a black hole, having just one mirror on the spaceship is enough. Shine a laser from the ship toward the edge of the black hole just right, it will curve around and come back to your mirror, then reflect and come back again, and so on. Needs some tricky positioning of the mirror, but in principle it lets you "push" off the black hole without using rocketry.
Is this supposed to be crashing my mobile browser? The image loads for a few seconds, lags badly, and then my whole browser just quits
Rationally, sure, that's the better way - destroying art, records and evidence is something enemies of open societies do.

Emotionally, I can identify with people who feel that those who have proudly sown human misery do not deserve to rest in golden frames.

[edit] As OP mentioned, many have shown the other side of war; Grosz, Dix, Goya (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/may/14...)
Well you have dog-phobic or people with allergies for neighbors.
An interesting case study in where tech and innovation fail:

In most cases, though the farmers are the users of these solutions, they are not often the beneficiaries. This means farmers are being asked to bear the costs — buy and install new hardware, change practices, pay for a subscription, etc. — without realizing the benefits.

...

In agriculture, the vast majority of the value accrues in the middle of the supply chain, with the traders, manufacturers, brands & retailers that transform food from farm-gate to consumer. These players can afford to bear the costs of change, and have the incentives to innovate, given they will realize the benefits of digital transformation.
This is a great painting about the nobility of the sacrifice that men of service make. War is deadly and gruesome, and yet millions of people take up arms, because the endeavor is unavoidable and vital. A beautiful painting to illustrate a noble and tragic commitment that so few of us are willing to make today.
> It's like the same idea of Uber and Lyft. Less human involvement = better world /S.

It's interesting how everyone conveniently forgot about the medallion system Uber and Lyft disrupted.

Pre-Uber, either the driver rented the car to a middleman who rented the medallion from a rich owner, or said owner was selling and financing (most banks won't touch these medallions!) a medallion at a ridiculous interest rate to a driver that planned to use it as his retirement savings (an extremely volatile asset and not very liquid).

The more I spoke to cab drivers the more it seemed their industry was a pyramid scheme aimed at helping established rent-seeker take advantage of often poor new immigrants. Uber brought a breeze of fresh air: Someone could simply buy a car, calculate the depreciation and it's value on the market (since unlike medallions cars are relatively liquid assets!) do rideshare and calculate their profits or loss. They can get out of the game at anytime, and they know exactly how much they are going to get for the car they have should they sell it.

And I'm not even touching the usual pain points and often discriminatory practices of medallion drivers (refusing card payments, refusing rides to non-white passengers and to non-white neighborhoods...).
U.S. News has devised several diabolical measures to prevent other colleges from pulling out of its system. In a presentation to the Annual Forum for the Association for Institutional Research in May 2014, Robert Morse, the director of data research for U.S. News, revealed that if a college doesn’t fill out the survey, then the guidebook arbitrarily assigns certain key statistics at one standard deviation below the mean. In other words, the guide automatically ranks non-responders as well below average. This statistical penalty has become a strong incentive for colleges to keep playing the game—or slip in the rankings.

https://www.reed.edu/apply/college-rankings.html
So it will fail after the same length of time that a consumer tablet will keep ticking?

FWIW, I use an ipad to enter a code at my kids' pre-school. The screens are frequently messed up.
As it says in the post the free compute from Google's TFRC and also a collaboration with Coreweave who pledged more.
Copyright compliance, lawsuit threats, illegal activity, legal investigations, similar such aspects have been a bane of decentralised service provision since the 1990s, if not before.

One underappreciated role of a large, well-financed and well-capitalised publisher is in providing legal defence to both itself and its creators.
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For any discussion on copyright and fair use, we should distinguish between the implications to Copilot the software itself and the implications to users of Copilot.

For Copilot itself, I do see the case for fair use, though it gets fuzzy should Microsoft ever start commercializing the feature. Nevertheless it remains to be seen whether ML training fits the same public policy benefits public libraries and free debate leverages to enable the fair use defense.

For Copilot users, I don't see an easy defense. In your hypothetical, this would be akin to me going on Google books and copying snippets of copyrighted works for my own book. In the case of Google books, they explicitly call out the limits on how the material they publish can be used. I'm contrast, Copilot seems to be designed to encourage such copying, making it more worry some in comparison.
Perhaps, but the predominant rhetoric and narrative is that human rights are the topic of concern, not citizen rights.

It's difficult to make the case that only citizens deserve rights without sliding into questionable ideologies.
Filling 8MB (32bpp 1080p) in 10us would be 800GB/s, or 6400gbps. An RTX 3090 has 19.5gbps of on-device bandwidth.

GPUs are FAST, but frame data is BIG.
I think you might be considering two different acts here:

1. The act of training Copilot on public code

2. The resulting use of Copilot to generate presumably new code

#1 is arguably close to the Authors Guild v. Google case. You are literally transforming the input code into an entirely new thing: a series of statistical parameters determining what functioning code "looks like". You can use this information to generate a whole bunch of novel and useful code sequences, not just by feeding it parts of it's training data and acting shocked that it remembered what it saw. That smells like fair use to me.

#2 is where things get more dicey - just because it's legal to train an ML system on copyrighted data wouldn't mean that it's resulting output is non-infringing. The network itself is fair use, but the code it generates would be used in an ordinary commercial context, so you wouldn't be able to make a fair use argument here. This is the difference between scanning a bunch of books into a search engine, versus copying a paragraph out of the search engine and into your own work.

(More generally: Fair use is non-transitive. Each reuse triggers a new fair use analysis of every prior work in the chain, because each fair reuse creates a new copyright around what you added, but the original copyright also still remains.)
Calories aren't equal, otherwise you'd feel sated for the day with 2000 calories of sugar (spoilers: you don't). Every year, we're finding out how much we still don't know about the body regulates our fat stores via hormones. Dr. Jason Fung is a leading researcher on this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKC3hiyLeRc)
> Would it be 'fair use' for the devlopers to simply copy code from those repos - even just 10 lines, and claim 'fair use' - i.e. circumventing Copilot?

Only a lawyer (and truly, only a court) could answer that question.

If you copy 100 lines of code that amounts to no more than a trivial implementation in a popular language of how to invert a binary tree, it's likely fair use.

If you copy 10 lines of code that are highly novel, have never been written before, and solve a problem no one outside the authors have solved... It may not be fair use to copy that.

Other people who have replied have mentioned "the heart" of a work. The US Supreme Court has held that even de minimis - "minimal", to be brief - copying can sometimes be infringement if you copied the "heart" of a work.
I think we’re considering very different use cases for cloud hosting. Who are my hypothetical customers, what is my hypothetical app to your model?
It feels like something that was more discovered than invented, something that would exist even if nobody knew of its existence. I get the same feeling when listening to Pharrell Williams' Happy.
http://zombo.com
Interesting.

So, not a rounding error, but it's still only 20% of the cost. The fuel estimate I had in my comment was for a smaller jet though (7 or 8 passenger).
Open Source: The Contribution of 20tab
Where I last worked, all terraform changes went through PR, requiring approval, after having read the plan. It was using a system called atlantis. It was slow, but it prevented issues like this.
The time tracking services and software I've worked with make their money by scaring employers re: regulatory compliance ("Subscribe to our service and we'll keep you legal w/ local HR laws...") or by making time tracking part of a larger suite of HR products.
I have a similar project I need to decide how to do, basically have the Pi host a website whose data is updated by tapping an NFC card.

I can’t tell what part of this code interacts with RFID, maybe it will give me some ideas of how to do it, is it all happening through writing events to a CSV that the web interface reads from?
I don't know if its micro or not, I still remain open to the idea. For e.g. I have work friends (with similar activity levels to mine) who can eat tons of rice and remain skinny and if I do that I know for a fact that I'm gonna put on 10lbs. Our ethnicities are different, but I don't know if that explains it.
Can we all agree that religion is pretty silly?
those are the guys training in mma gyms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HtnV2M1pAc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z--ZO3fuhz0
If they still end up charging 15% for doing the same thing automated there hasn't been any meaningful economic progress. There's just concentration of wealth.

If they can cut that 15% to 1% and this field ends up being competitive then sure.

But, they're probably going for a monopoly play here.
I'm in the same boat - my WWVB wristwatch needs a nightly spot near a window to make it work
Mezli (YC W21) is hiring a mechanical engineer to design autonomous restaurants
> Jenkins and Hudson split about 10 years ago and the community-driven Jenkins won out over the corporate Hudson.

Five top contributors to Jenkins are from Cloudbees. $100 million annual recurring revenue [1]

Then there's one from Apache. One from RedHat. And even beyond top five contributions are meager to say the least.

While opensource, development is driven by the company that builds a product on top of it.

> Honestly, if something is high-profile enough to be identified as "successful" that probably means that someone's getting paid to work on it, and that money is probably coming from a commercial donor on some level or another.

That was more-or-less a subtext to my question: to work on something big, you probably need full-time engineers. And those engineers at the very least need to eat something :)

[1] https://thestack.technology/cloudbees-new-ceo/
What do you mean the analysis is "bad"? It's widely referenced and they explain their methodology in detail and their data sources. If there's an aspect of the methodology you think is bad, I'd be interested in hearing it. Their results are pretty much in line with other independent studies of the same thing.

I don't understand why you'd compare the capital cost of utility scale electricity generation against that for a wood burning domestic stove or a small motorcycle. Isolated Indian villages are not expected to fund utility scale electricity generation? I mean you could try to argue that candles are better than solar-powered flash-lights, I guess? But I don't see the relevance.

The fact is that for utility scale electricity generation, the combination of solar PV or onshore wind with idling peaker natural gas capacity blows all the competition out of the water in terms of cost. The only thermal generation currently viable in the modern world is combined-cycle gas and even then it's unlikely to maintain touching distance in a world where wind turbines continue to fall in price by 10% a year while PV panels are falling at an even faster rate.

You just have to look at what's actually happening globally - both developed and developing world. Like I said 90% of worldwide newly installed grid scale generation capacity added in 2020 was renewable. The simplest explanation for this is the one which agrees with all the analysis from various sources - it's happening because it's far cheaper.
Fandom was formerly known as Wikia, the commercial platform launched by Jimmy Wales. This wiki (along with many others) was launched long before the Fandom name.
Nancy Pelosi’s Husband’s $5M Alphabet Options Windfall
Missed it when I was skimming the article but saw a reference to them in the repo
Based on what?

The IRS does catch cheating wealthy people, but their personnel for doing so has been reduced by ~30%. What do you suggest? Let them keep cheating?
Another Misstep for Audacity
> On the contrary, these are fundamental questions that would need convincing answers for this discussion to move much further beyond what you have already articulated.

Let's be clear here: I'm happy to discuss details of what I think would be good legislation here. Don't accuse me of not wanting the discussion to move forward.

The discussion doesn't move forward from the assumption "it's unworkable". It also doesn't move forward from people downvoting without explanation.

> These are extreme views, supported only by your fond memories of Ye Olde Internet, with little substance for us all to discuss.

1. The view I'm responding to is that corporations are people and therefore the corporate right to lie and manipulate the public in harmful ways is protected under free speech. Why is THAT not an extreme view in your mind?

2. "supported only by your fond memories of Ye Old Internet" ignores nearly my entire post. Which of the following passages is "fond memories of Ye Old Internet"?

> Almost every problem with the internet right now is caused by advertising if you dig through the chain of causality. From social media patterns that addict you to conflict and conspiracy, to popups, adware and spam, to constant attacks on our attention even when we're driving and could literally kill someone with inattention, to spreading dissatisfaction, fear, and poor financial advice, advertising is the root of much evil.

> And that leads me to my third reason advertising should be banned: it's infectious. Advertising is Scott Alexander's Moloch[9]--if one entity does it, then all their competitors have to do it in order to compete. The entire purpose of the free market is supposedly that it results in the best outcomes, but this is clearly a hack that prevents that from happening: we want companies to compete by producing the best goods and services at the lowest cost, but when you allow advertising, companies can (and do) compete by manipulating consumers into buying inferior goods at higher costs. Advertising is an anticompetitive business practice that undermines the entire purpose of a free market.

Again, you don't get to accuse me of not pushing the conversation forward by not providing enough substance, when you ignore most of what I say. It's you that's trying to shut down the conversation by pretending I've given you nothing to respond to. Respond to what I've already said if you want to have a conversation.
Not really. Physics, biology, and nutrition science all agree pretty conclusively that eating fewer calories than you expend will lead to weight loss.

There are a large number of factors that go into some people seeming to be able to eat large numbers of calories while others can't despite similar expenditures that we're still figuring out, but if you want a 100% guaranteed way to lose weight it is this: track your calories and make sure you eat fewer than you expend. If you want to keep it off, don't eat more than you expend.

Source: lost >150lbs and kept it off until this pandemic fiasco where I put about 30 of it back on.

As noted by others, this is simple. It is not necessarily easy. We're still working on figuring out why some people find it easy and others don't. Gut microbiome science seems promising.
Wouldn't that end up just being the same as 'regex(Tarzan)'? Those regexes can't match the same thing, they can only overlap.

What you want is something like all matches of regex("Tarzan") not contained in a match for regex("\"Tarzan\""), which is a bit trickier. That would require something like:

regex("Tarzan") - all-substrings(regex("\"Tarzan\""))

and I'm not sure regular languages are closed over the "all-substrings" operation. Actually I'm pretty sure they aren't.
a story on gas use in WWI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Dead_Men (the musical ballad for the story by Sabaton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AFdwoyNT24)

"Over twelve battalions of the 11th Landwehr Division, making up more than 7000 men, advanced after the bombardment expecting little resistance. They were met at the first defense line by a counter-charge made up of the surviving soldiers of the 13th Company of the 226th Infantry Regiment. The Germans became panicked by the appearance of the Russians, who were coughing up blood and bits of their own lungs, as the hydrochloric acid formed by the mix of the chlorine gas and the moisture in their lungs had begun to dissolve their flesh. The Germans retreated, running so fast they were caught up in their own c-wire traps.[1] "
Of course. I wanted to move off of pfSense, but I wanted to roll my own. I tried to build something similar with NixOS but learning all the ins and outs of Nix got a bit overwhelming for a device whose config changes rarely. I ended up just grabbing OPNsense, installing it, copying my configs over, and it’s been a solid 48 hours since.
Northwest heat wave was statistically “impossible”
Demand has been increasing by 5-10% a year in highly desirable areas. Obviously different people are willing to pay different amounts, but everyone wants to pay as little as possible. As more people want to move in the least wealthy are pushed out and prices increase. After all, rental price is the highest price landlords can take in order to rent out all their units.
Ooooh or worse, I once caught someone's "email matching" RegEx code during a code review that was opening the door for some nasty SQL Injection or XSS attacks (kind of like validating if the text field contained a valid email.. but not if it was ONLY a valid email).

The problem with RegEx is its "obscurity". However Maybe someone could write a nice testing tool that would throw millions of known exploits into each regex it finds in your code to see if it is vulnerable.
…so it’s a good thing the part that wears out is the easiest thing in the world to replace, right?
In this situation the original project is no longer receiving regular updates. The fork is intended to continue maintaining the project, like updating to newer versions of PHP as older ones EOL, in addition to some new feature development.
Uh, no. The actual spies were pretty much the usual suspects.
Direct media: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/HSW2351365815.mp3

(mpv will also handle the Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/show/2LOJaYKijiwNefCvzczyib)
If you assume omniscience and omnipotence as a starting point, then you can justify anything that exists using the same reason, otherwise it wouldn't exist, right? I don't mean to get into a theological or ontological argument, though. It just seems like you can use the foundation to justify anything you want.
Dying is objectively worse. Don't get me wrong but just in case you're not in a good place, please find somebody to talk to about this. Friends, family, your family doctor, a mental health hotline, anyone. Heck, contact me if you feel like you're out of options, base64 encoded email aGFja2VybmV3c2NvbnRhY3RAZmFzdG1haWwuY29tCg==
Also for what is worth TFRC is not really a grant grant. You just sign up and if they like you they give you access.
> self expression

This isn't art. And yes, I don't trust corporate press releases (though I'm not sure "propaganda" is the right term); do you?
I don't know that I feel a bodily difference, just annoyance. My approach is discipline and putting in effort to make sure I keep up with routines that I've noticed have a positive impact on me
When teachers unions can dictate that they're closing schools for months or years on end, or teaching CRT whether parents like it or not, there are fundamental problems.
Uber and Lyft haven't yet reached profitability. They either have to raise prices, lower costs or expand cost effectively.

Their full impact is not yet decided
Until Republicans start using Big Tech to coordinate violent anti-democratic insurrections and dissuade people from getting vaccinated against a global lethal pandemic. Big Tech owes them nothing -- they're not entitled to their infrastructure and distribution networks. Let them build their own.
We all know what this is. Its just racism or classism. If I buy my house in x suburb where the cost of housing starts at 300k, I can keep this or that minority, or this or that class of individuals away from me.