skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think selling the service or giving it away for free makes any difference. They're not creating services out of the goodness of their hearts, and these projects rack up a lot of server costs. Even if their service is free, they're getting a return on their investments somehow.

The fast inverse square root is the most nontrivial code I can think of and it's already been found to appear in suggested snippets, with attribution nowhere to be found.

If we accept Copilot as merely a tool, we'd need to consider any developer using that tool to be immoral. There's no discernable difference between shamelessly copy/pasted code and Copilot output, so why consider the tool more than an automated clipboard?

No, I think the tool is built wrong, setting users up to fail. It's a copyright footgun to produce buggy, vulnerable, often even completely wrong code.

As for the copyrights, all code with a license has the same copyright as any private code hosted on their own servers. You can't just plug some GPL code into your project and sell it, even if you can find the code itself on Google. There is no copyright difference between the projects, it's merely a matter of availability to the scanner.

Adding Microsoft's own, proprietary, quality code to the network would be the gesture of good faith that would make me believe that the developers never intended to break any licenses and that it all just got out of hand.
1929 was caused by excess credit issuance. True, that the gold standard was in place, but the spirit to keep credit in check was not. The federal reserve already existed, so this excess was made possible by their control of credit.
What you’re looking for is called SCA (software composition analysis).

Best tool I’ve used so far in this domain is snyk.
I had to help debug an autorouted PCB about 20 years ago, the traces between the CPU and SDRAM went three times round the board.
I hate to complain but visiting this site made me feel completely trapped. I literally could not do anything and could not escape to even close the browser (mouse is 100% hijacked). I had to CMD-Q the whole browser just to get out of the site.

Surely there is some UX technique you guys can come up with to free the mouse and improve this.

Question for you... what is the best 3D website on the Internet? How do they solve this?

All the best to you guys!
Million dollars stolen from, say, Bezos, is worth less than that to the thief?
> First of all, this lumps two groups together.

Absolutely.

> Bannonesque

Yes, but our immigration structure should be fixed so higher skill higher wage immigrants get in first. The way we do immigration now is pretty fucked and makes Bannonesque stuff way less obviously false than it ought to be.

Still, absolutely agree this is a weird headline, and too much mixing of things.
Finding the Cause of a Fatal Problem in Rocket Engine Combustors
Vue still has the same progressive-enhancement low-tooling approach as before. It's only broadened in its ability to be used in more complex environments with full toolchains but you can just add a <script> tag and start coding.

I do agree that Vue 3 was rather badly released though, as everything from the websites and docs to the plugins and devtools were all at different stages.
Take a good hard look at the GPS interface specification. The GPS satellites aren't synchronized with each other*. They are synchronized with the ground control segment.

https://www.gps.gov/technical/icwg/IS-GPS-200K.pdf

* recent satellites have limited autonomous navigation capability as a backup.
Do people still make claims about alien abduction? Or has that been made extinct by the ubiquity of smartphones?
I'm not sure about type enforcement, but there is the concept of "named ranges" you can apply to columns. So instead of C1:C99 you can refer to PRICES.
Very nice writeup on this calculation, thank you.

Around the turn of the century I was also interested in calculating such a thing, but I am a lousy/lazy programmer so I wound up finding C++ code by a programmer called "Eric Farmer". Is that you?
I've had two good mentors so far in my 40 years of software:

During undergrad I worked at a research lab, and the professor running the lab wrote what would now be called a lab-wide IoT environment. But this was the 80's and he just called it "MS" for "modeling software" - it modeled "situations", verified/monitored by sensors (cameras, mics, clock) which had software triggers to run processes (send emails, turn on/off lights, run lab maintenance...) so we, the staff, could focus on the reason we were there - our research. How he set up MS, and how our research work ultimately tied into his stack to run our experiments and generate publication graphics taught me so much more than my undergraduate degree. His whole approach was to free us to focus on our other, more important work, and how software like that could be design and implemented.

I was involved in early streaming media. In the late 80's at Philips N.V., several working groups trying to create technology demonstrations of streaming media with early CD-ROMs failed to deliver demonstrations meeting expectations. A European executive from the Netherlands came to the multi-company joint venture in the 'States to try his hand, against local management's wishes. He was politically high at Philips, and the local management simply did not want a Parent Company takeover. I was one of a small team placed under him, and at the time a junior media engineer. His respectful personality and rewarding others management style encouraged his team and I learned the power of empathetic charisma. The guy had style and attributed it to others around him, as if he and his manner were due to us. He taught me to always look at the goal of a software's users, and the superior experience of creating transparent technology that augments a person's needs rather than attempting to take over their attention. Coupling his attitude with my prior automated lab experience enabled us to create a complete media production environment that "plugged into" existing media production teams. Not only did we produce technology demonstrations that became marketed and award winning products, but our production system became a professional product Philips sold to media companies.
What do you think pays for your healthcare, public pensions, infrastructure as your population ages out of the workforce?

The Grenadier Guards?
IMO Science and technology is a max() operator on the peoples ideas. Also, division of labour should go down in a smaller population, so I think this is far from linear in reality and a population collapse can be actually devastating
I actually agree with you! PoW (proof-of-work) coins produce a big negative externality. That being said Ethereum is migrating to a PoS (proof-of-stake) system by year end that virtually eliminates all the problems you enumerate.

Even if you believe in a policy response, wouldn't you agree that it'd be better specifically target proof-of-work blockchains rather than crypto in general? Ironically this bill may actually do the opposite. It places a much higher burden of DeFi and stablecoins, which are mostly Ethereum native. It will probably shift usage to large centralized exchanges, which generally favors PoW based Bitcoin.
They're not willing to hire ex-cons for full pay and benefits. These prisoners are essentially slaves, no freedom, no benefits, no time off, barely any pay.
Gah. Influenza kills more people in the US than any other infectious disease, and frankly it isn't even close. You aren't making any sense here. I cited that number, clearly, as an UPPER bound beyond which we couldn't possibly view an outbreak as acceptable.

I don't view a statement that puts 100k deaths/year as within your "comfort zone" as a serious attempt to engage, sorry.
That’s appealing to authority.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
So it is not important for the people?
After the civil war, southern states imprisoned countless former slaves on trumped up charges, many of whom were then rented out to plantation owners.
Because most of the site are not built with html, it is difficult for Google and search engines to crawl. That would affect search rankings the most.
An idea to fix this is to automatically auto generate tags created by html that describe the 3D models and decorations/components added to the room.
Privacy watchdogs, data protection groups, and human rights councils have largely condemned these "vaccine passports".

To date, I haven't seen their concerns mentioned - mentioned - in any of these pronouncements.

I get that there are enough people willing to go along with this that they'll likely stick around for a bit - but another thing I haven't seen is an end game.

Corona is in the deer, it's in pets. Are they all going to get vaccinated too? Are people going to willingly get shot up with Pfizer and Moderna every six months for the rest of their lives; living in a three-tier society?
Because it never has made an full recovering. 2016 fed only started on making lower balance sheet but never making much progress: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

Interest rate are similar: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

Europe even worse than these above. We leave us without tools for economic troubles when we are declining to raise interest rate and sell assets on business cycle peak.
Do not trust anything it does implicitly (like casting stuff, running triggers reliably, locking properly etc).

Nothing follows logic so if you assume something would work a particular way, it will most definitely do the wrong thing instead.

It is fine otherwise.

In a serious tone, I ran large apps on MySQL, it works and performans fine. But makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Go with PostgreSQL if you can choose / it is not a big hassle.
Hedge funds enter private equity turf with deals for unlisted companies
Offered for perspective/interestingness, not as an argument:

For anyone wondering why it matters so much that time be precisely linked to the rotation of Earth, I'll note that time is a fundamental component of navigation. When you do celestial nav you make corrections down to the second, including accounting for the number of seconds your watch gains or loses. So it's not just about putting timestamps in a database. There's a straight line (a rhumb line? har har) from "what time is it" to "where are we" and in that context losing a second means you get a different longitude. Because time in this setting isn't really time--it's an indication of how far east or west of the prime meridian the sun is.
> No, there is nothing to indicate that.

Agreed. I'm noticing this idea floated throughout this thread and it's extremely alarming. There's nothing to suggest that any of the officers died under suspicious circumstances, nobody ever supplies any evidence supporting that theory, they're "just asking questions."

After years of watching as ostensibly reasonable people get mired in ever-increasingly insane conspiracy theories I'm incredibly worried to see them introduced to an already dangerously volatile situation. The Jan 6 riots wouldn't have even happened if not for the pervasiveness of the lie that the election was stolen. I really, really wish people would think more carefully before speaking this way.
I've reached the point where I think that if you're not going to do the NASA Space Shuttle program thing of specifying the whole program to the smallest detail before you start writing the actual code, you may as well just start working, release often, and evaluate periodically whether the thing looks on-track to be worth the cost, cancelling if it's not. Just spend the estimation money on development instead.
> avoiding software estimation altogether because they share the two skepticisms above

Well, to put your mind at ease, I don't avoid software estimation because I share your skepticisms (although I do), I avoid it because I've observed that it's a complete waste of time. Nobody, at least never in my 30-year career, has ever asked for an honest estimate of how long it would take to produce a software product. What they have asked for is somebody to agree that the time that they have budgeted will be enough for the (vague, still being defined and still to be defined even beyond the timeline) software project and take the "blame" when it inevitably doesn't.
To chime in with my own anecdotal opinion that is likely to anger some people... in my experience most developers do their best work after about 6-8 months of starting a job at a new company, and that comes to an end after about 24-36 months of working at the same company. After that the vast majority of people just stagnate, get complacent, the job stops being interesting to them and they move on.

After observing this I don't really mind hiring people to work for 2-3 years and then have them move on to another role, and most people I hire I do so with the expectation that I'll get a good two years of work and not much more.

A very small percentage of people continue to improve over the long term, and those people I am happy to continue increasing their pay, but I don't really go out of my way to retain employees and I don't think it's particularly worth it to do so.

This blog post mentions a kind of impact based compensation structure, and while I can respect the idea behind it, I am skeptical that they've managed to find a deterministic and impartial way of measuring "impact". I don't presume to have such a system so I pay based on what I observe in the market and let the market decide what the value is of software developers. For example, I genuinely don't know if software developers have more of an impact than the product designers, or the legal department even though I pay software developers much much more. What I do know is that it's much easier for me to hire a competent lawyer or UX designer than it is to hire a competent software developer and there are many more competent lawyers and designers out there... so I pay them less, regardless of whatever objective measure of impact may exist.
All this speculation and capital going a little crazy searching for yield are side effects of an overabundance of capital.

We are seeing this now thanks to wealth inequality brought on by capital being given preferential tax status to labor for decades and stagnant wage growth again for decades.

This wasnt a problem following WW2 - wage growth was high and given vastly preferential tax treatment to labor.
≥ old keyboards used to have most of these buttons

Hmmm, I only recall one previous "proper" keyboard having OLEDs under the keycaps...

Slightly facetious, I know, but I think one key element you missed is the adaptability.

Yes keyboards used to come with calculator and mail and internet buttons, but often times you were stuck with those options only, or worse, the particular apps hardwired in the drivers.

Not only can this solution adapt to what you are doing / context aware, it can give feedback. That mail button can pull and render an inbox count. Online contacts profile pics can display in a select few buttons when they are available.

Price/gamer tax on this type of solution and how useful to the average user, that's up for debate.
It's not exactly clear how that statement relates to my prior comment, but I'll presume you're making the argument that "well if workers actually had any power wages would be going up". My response to that would be: maybe that shows that businesses don't has as much free cash for wage increases as you thought? Otherwise I don't see why businesses would rather miss out on business than pay their employees more. For instance, let's say a business has trouble finding employees at $12/hr, but each employee provides $30/hr of value to the business. If they could afford it, why wouldn't they raise wages to $15, or even $20 an hour? The business would still be making money either way. Maybe the answer is that due to covid (recession, lockdowns), business is down so they can't justify paying each employee $15, because that's close to the value that they provide?
This is how it always used to be, back in the before[1] times. Libraries would be selected carefully and dependencies would be kept locally so that you could always reproduce a build.

The world is different now, and just being able to select a
package and integrate it like that is a massive effectiveness multiplier, but I think the industry at large lost something in the transition.

([1] before internet package management, and before even stuff like apt and yum)
My home insurance would cover police damage unless I was the person they were after. It’s still likely I would have to cover the deductible. You could probably take the presumed criminal neighbor to small claims court and try to get back the deductible. I’d bet any decent judge would be sympathetic to the home owner.
It's missing from the headline here (but in the one on Yahoo) that this arrest has nothing to do with Monero, but rather due to an existing arrest warrant from South Africa where Fluffypony is accused of defrauding a former employer of ~$100,000.
C'est la vie. You're not supposed to steal cats either.

The one thing that's fairly hard to get around is the biannual inspection.

In days of yore, a box of donuts could get someone to hot pipe your car. Now, not so much. It was kind of a necessity if you owned a car that wouldn't pass even in absolutely pristine new condition.
Yes, low effort queues remove the incentive for cooperation and community.
Rebuilding a modern generation of modular nuclear power plants would be a good idea. Natural gas prices have just spiked in Europe because Russia is limiting supply.

Solar and Wind can work but there are big demand management problems, and there doesn't appear to be any progress on allowing or requiring EVs to charge smartly (ie. based on the prevailing electricity price, including discharging).
I believe robots will be a huge boon to safer policing, for both the public and the police themselves. Using robots instead of SWAT teams makes a ton of sense to preserve life. Drones to end the dangerous practice of police chases. Robots that apprehend knife wielding subjects without harming them or risking officers.

On the other hand, I'm sure they will be abused in ways we would never imagine by corrupt and backwards police forces throughout the country. They will push the boundaries of our outdated legal system with ideas like:

"We didn't engage in a warrantless search! The ROBOT did!"

"The robot indicated presence of narcotics with it's predictive algorithm."

"Having a drone outside of predicted repeat offenders just makes sense!"

"Citations for (Insert non-criminal crime here) are now being issued from our XPD drones!"
This is a valid point! Anyone who has built an admin dashboard knows that the UX of being able to edit any field in any row on an Excel is hard to replicate without additional edit buttons and dialogs popping up.
I'm continually amazed how this isn't #1 topic on governments' agenda across the developed world. We're looking at South Korea losing 95% of its generational cohort size in 100-year timeframe. 80% for Japan or Italy, 70% for Germany, etc. Climate change is on everyone's mind - but what's the point of solving climate change if there's barely anyone left to inherit the planet?

Black Death, Mongols, world wars, not even intentional genocides managed to inflict this level of population loss. And it's met with yawns and shrugs, as if it's unavoidable like gravity.

And no - people's desire to have children hasn't dropped all that much:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/upshot/american-fertility...

https://www.oecd.org/els/family/SF_2_2-Ideal-actual-number-c...
By allowing a decentralized market based system to ascribe value to these things we avoid the problem of imposing our subjective value judgments on others. It may not be perfect, but it is more humane and productive than central planning.

Imagine the democratic alternative, where the masses vote that watching the Kardashians is compulsory. Or that your own niche interests are prohibited.
Hugmify Launch Day on product hunt
Hugmify is a dating application whose mission is to help its users to create a real connection through activities of all kinds or even intimate and according to their mood
yeah I remember doing this when I was young, but for now, actually, I can't think of anything that I have particular need for RE. Maybe that's the reason?

BTW kudos for whatever you achieved :D
> It solves all timezone bs.

So when does Monday start? 14:00 UTC in your location?
Japan is the exception, not the rule. When the Japanese were left with a stagnant economy, they slowed down but didn't fall apart as a society.

In the US, when stagnation becomes unavoidable, downtowns will burn and cities will become no-go zones. We are not Japan.
Uber isn’t being sued here so your comparison doesn’t make sense. Okcupid also doesn’t talk about safety of meetups the same way Uber does about the safety of riders and passengers.
Household debt jumps by the most in 14 years to nearly $15T in second quarter
Leap seconds are a bad idea and should be abandoned. Computing the time between events by subtraction should work. And while we are at it, dropping time zones and daylight saving time would also make sense.
I stopped reading VC blogs when I realized how self-serving they are.

Fred is a fantastic writer and really pulls you in. However, he also uses his platform to do things like shill a shady ICO from one of his portfolio companies:

https://avc.com/2017/05/kin/
Huge amounts of money (and the corresponding power) make lots of people look in the other direction. These companies are too big for their own good.
The cut off hand doesn't work. The scanner sees the blood moving through your veins the same way a smartwatch can read your pulse.

You'd have better luck making a silicone replica and pumping fake blood through it. Maybe you could use infrared LEDs to simulate the changing image too... (Is there some simple way to make an infrared projector? Anyway stealing your palm image is as easy as it is for the ATM to read it.)
wow, seems like they are still around: https://github.com/possibly-wrong/blackjack
> But Tokyo infrastructure felt basically as old as NYC infrastructure to me

In part because it is, most of Tokyo's major subway lines were built in the 1960s to 1970s. Ginza line was built before WW1 and was the first subway in Asia.

The highways were all built soon after the war too.

Thus part of the issue is age. Japan stabilized much sooner than Korea and built up faster.

A bigger component though is Japan's preference to build new then let sit. Maintenance for visual reasons is rare. Thus combined with the high humidity stuff rusts and molds. You can see rust on iron beams waiting at the JR platform in Shibuya! Literal rust on one of the most high traffic stations in the world with gleaming skyscrappers as your backdrop.

In part Japan feels like a retired country. All the heavy lifting has been done. The mortgage paid. I joke with friends we are young people in an old country. Everything around us is going into the night, and we are just now waking up.

I like it, but I can see why others would prefer a newer country.
I always have the challenge of balancing reusable cells vs duplication. If I go too far into reusable cells (ie. functions) my spreadsheet becomes to complicated. Spreadsheets are not quite given to programming, duplicated data gives transparency and can be the best approach. I love spreadsheets.
I'm not sure I follow, it sounds to me like you're agreeing with GP.

Slavery overall was status quo. America passed an amendment to end slavery, but added some exceptions to preserve slave labor for criminals, because as you state:

> the states passing the amendment were interested in getting rid of commercial slavery as it existed in the south, not throwing a wrench into their own prison systems

They wanted to end the subset of slavery that was practiced in the South without ending slavery overall.