skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see, sorry for wrong words. I am an amateur programmer, not a complete novice, and I have contracted mid-level professional programmers.

I understand your point about learning and getting better at it. All I'm saying is most of programmers won't become experts: the market doesn't demand that, and most just aren't able or don't want to.

No-code will make a huge impact in next decade imo.

In my specific case, I would be able to become an expert programmer but I don't intend to because I have other carreer choices. So I think copilot would be of great help.
The felony theft limit for Texas is $2,500, but their retail establishments do not report massive shoplifting sprees. Clearly there is more than misdemeanor/felony classification at work here.
Thank you so much! I completely agree. I meant to add this at some point and it must have slipped my mind.
I don’t see how those articles are an example of what you’re stating. The 3rd article you posted specifically points out the Democrat’s reversal in their stance from a year ago.

Now, if they pretended the democrats were always skeptical of the natural source of the virus, I would agree.

Though, I still haven’t seen anything but circumstantial evidence to support the lab leak hypothesis. Not saying it isn’t possible, but just because China can’t be trusted with these sorts of things, does not mean they’re lying. Most experts still lean heavily on the side of the natural explanation.
Except fractional reserve banking is an incorrect model of how banks work, the poster you're replying to is correct, banks create money when they make loans. The Bank of England's guide to money creation makes this distinction clear on the first page, it's worth a read,

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
The GitHub folks were already on a roll with this before Microsoft came along. How many people don't understand the difference between Git and GitHub, don't realize that saying "can you <interact with me somehow> on GitHub?" makes the same presumptions as "can you <interact with me somehow> on Facebook?", don't give two shits about how messy their commit messages are formatted, don't realize that Git doesn't actually have PRs, don't realize that the closest analog that it does have is intended for the convenience of a core team of frequent collaborators pulling from one another (N-to-N instead of the star topology that dominates on GitHub—and not for drive-by contributors), and wouldn't know what to do with a patch if you gave it to them, or if they do, wouldn't accept one if you tried.
I should've said they won't lose a a meaningful share of users.

Most people don't care. They probably don't even notice because they only use third party software on top of Windows.
Mods, please correct headline.

This hardly a story about Amazon. It's a story of how Northern California's choice not to prosecute theft has resulted in a massive increase in criminal activity.

That CVS has to privately hire security in the face of $10 million/year of goods being brazenly looted out of its stores has little to do with any Amazon policy and more to do with the policies adopted by local district attorneys.
According to many people familiar with the legal aspect training on code constitutes fair use, so can't be prevented by any kind of license.
that's a hundred percent correct understanding! lol
I'd rather know upfront that the author is the poster. Full disclosure and all.
I totally feel your pain. Go and work somewhere else.

What you can sometimes do, is to remove all those layers to be able to implement or fix something. Then tell the team that you didn’t have time „to do it properly“ and you focused on functionality and efficiency over design. Management loves that.

And after it’s done, some of those abstraction nazis can refactor in all those abstractions again. So they don’t distract you from the next meaningful task.

But make sure, that you understand what benefit this decoupling brings. Because sometimes it’s useful, just not often enough.
It doesn't matter what the purpose of this move is. It's not "catch-up" at all. The scanning will happen on the devices using the users' resources, before uploading. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28309202.
Merely hosting your code publicly seems like it wouldn't give GitHub the right to train AI models on it. You could even say it's against your terms of use. And to do it, they would have to go out of their way to find your repo on the web and clone it—unlikely.

My impression (NOT A LAWYER) is that by hosting your code in a public repo on GitHub, you agree to their terms and give them the right to "read" your code including training AI models on it. Or at least that's what they're banking on.

Go host on Sourcehut or self-host with Gitea, and I would think it unlikely (but not impossible) that any big company would use your code to train their AI.
There is also the excellent “Modern C” book:

https://modernc.gforge.inria.fr

The page has a link to a free PDF version.
Or D) employees who weren’t part of the discussions heard about it the day before the official announcement, and made a stink about it internally.
Yeah, but the vscode team is actively trying to break vscodium.
It's also something that makes me appreciate how Capcom approached the Resident Evil 2 remake. They invited the devs up to their studio to show them the official remake and then asked them to cease developing theirs. No drama or bad blood.
The idea is to provide a unique source of truth that allows everyone to express their truth in their language and have it reflected in all other languages.
Man, I loved Brackets (Phoenix is a fork) when it came out. Much nicer than Atom, but then VSCode got much better and took over most of the mindshare.
MacOS breaks compatibility regularly.

If Windows would change the Win32/Winforms spacing and such I wouldn't want to be the developer that gets to keep all the pieces broken off.

Read some Windows Terminal blog entries, they're very enlightening. They're basically working around a huge minefield of compatibility and trying to get things moving again. It's quite a feat of real software engineering, what they're doing over there.
> You can release a remaster of an old game, but any reverse-engineered version would be competing with it.

Technically, that's correct of course. But realistically, how many people will build one of these projects from the source code they obtained from GitHub, download the game assets from somewhere and spend a lot of time to make it all work on their machine instead of just buying the remastered version? Some, sure, but I don't see Rockstar losing a lot of money here.

If I were in their shoes I would simply hire these developers. And leave their fan projects alone as a sign of good-will and generosity towards the community.
I don’t think the timing of this is an accident - or at least I’d like to imagine it’s not.

iCloud subs renew at the end of the months; I bet they were maybe surprised at the number of people not paying them money anymore for iCloud…
This article is about the first Corolla with fold flat seats: https://clicccar.com/2016/10/03/403881/
The most well known applications include:

* High-speed stock trading, where regulations often require precise timestamping.

* Cell phone networks, where adjacent towers have to hold their frequencies precisely, and synchronise their transmit and receive time windows to avoid interference.

* Certain types of distributed database [1]

At a broader level, guarantees/specifications about NTP accuracy are hard to find. If you google 'NTP accuracy' you'll find a very wide range of claims, from sub-millisecond to >1 second [2]

Indeed, a lot of the NTP userbase has timing requirements so lax they can 'smear' a leapsecond [3] over the course of 24 hours, tolerating a sustained error of hundreds of milliseconds. They've got good reasons for doing it - but it goes to show big errors are possible even under normal, correct operation.

Therefore, if you have an application that needs single-millisecond-level accuracy, you won't find an NTP product specification saying it's what you want.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner_(database)#Architectur...
[2] http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-algo.htm#Q-ACCURATE-CLOCK
[3] https://developers.google.com/time/smear
The author's definition of "view" is "click-through". Posts that are obviously not worth clicking through based on the title / domain will get no views, and thus keep getting seeded back into the rotation.
> If so, what's your use-case?

Certain regulations in the financial industry lead you towards using it.

For example, Europe's MiFID II requires some systems to time stamp with 1 µs increments and 100 µs accuracy. PTP is the most common way to sync systems that have this requirement.
What do you mean “not temporarily”?
The death toll and consequences of widespread long covid (and consequences of much more rapid mutation and the collapse of the medical system) would have caused significantly more economic damage than the lockdowns.
Ruby is Smalltalk jettisoning everything that makes Smalltalk awesome.
I've always used writing to sketch out informal specs or high-level architectural things. I've always heard about people writing code by hand on paper. I gave it more of a shot after reading, Algebra Driven Design. It's a powerful technique.

While I often prefer the interactive feedback of a proof assistant or model checker I find spending time away from the screen and thinking on paper to be very relaxing and helps me with, "connecting the dots," so to speak. I tend to get a very narrow focus on the problem at hand when I'm at the computer.

I too hope to one day be able to write code by hand on my RM2. I have hacked a basic editor into an RM1 but it's slow going.
The fact that everyone's head is cut off is kind of creepy.
Isn't that exactly what a slippery slope is? Why should it matter if it is only for a small group of people and not all citizens? It's the most insane measure I've seen regarding the pandemics that isn't in China. Even if you would do this for only 1 person, why should that be accepted? Other countries are dealing well with the pandemics without that kind of Orwellian process. At this point I cannot imagine what can make Australians realize that you cannot isolate from a global pandemics in a hyper-connected world, and the only thing you get from a zero covid approach are the first stones for a surveillance state.
> Today the point on significantly diminishing returns on spending resources on UI consistency is lower than ever.

You'd think having one blessed toolkit and implementing things there, once, takes much fewer resources than doing it half-heartedly over and over again.
But it does decrease the quality of the app on specific platforms.
This is a spicy hot take. I could see an element of valid criticism here, maybe something along the lines of questioning how their equivocation now lines up with their previous 'spirited' defense of this project (this would genuinely make an interesting case study). Placing Apple in the active role of endangering children though! Seems like the blame is in the wrong place.
Same here. I've been told by various people how fast and efficient it is but it uses as much memory as a Windows VM and the code completion is screwed up 50% of the time for MS tech (and worse for others).

It is usable just not very good, yet.
The clickbait/bias just gets more and more brazen.
I’m guessing that rather than a choice, it’d be one or the other depending on the market, with most countries getting the server-side version, while totalitarian countries where people are already used to being spied on get the client-side one.
That's a good point, you could indeed run the tests in your head. I think I can still save this though: this would prove that you only test for what you think about, and thus the existence or the absence of a test doesn't affect the development at all. Which could be countered again by property-based testing, but this one won't work in your head or one paper.
Also, people are annoyed about the fact that the scanning is done client-side, which is ironic because Apple are doing that in order to increase the security/privacy of the system. I can see why people are uncomfortable about client-side scanning, but there’s still some amusing irony in it.
Completely agree.

Personally, I've decided not to buy a font anymore if it doesn't have a "Universal" license that encompasses all uses at once.

I want to be able to use the font however I see fit and not feel FOMO'd in buying a Desktop+Web license because what if I ever want to use it on the web might as well get the discount now. Wait now I can't use it in an app ! Damn.

Example: DJR licensing is awesome [1]

[1] https://djr.com/license
Police union websites preserved by library archive
When you "pawn" an item, you get a short term loan with your item as collateral. If you don't pay back the loan they sell your item.
100%. Pawnshops are basically high interest collateral loan shops. This is saying that Amazon is a fencing operation. But then again this has been a major use for eBay and similar as well.
Love the techno-optimist vibe. Let's empower every misanthrope on Earth to mix and match pathogens at scale. I was hoping the covid crisis taught us a lesson on the dangers of biohacking. Next: With this CAD for Warheads, You Can Design New Nukes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack
Using "troubling" as a verb is troubling.
As someone who uses git from the command line, I am finding the web-based editor extremely unintuitive and difficult to use for common git operations.
Think about it this way: if you compile source code, you get something that is technically new code (and not the original), but it is a derivative work.

Why would decompiling be different from compiling? In both cases, you are transforming code from one language to another and ending up with something "new", which is a derivative of the original. In any case, you can have a human come in and clean up, refactor, extend, or make changes... and the result is still a derivative of the original.

It doesn't really matter if you are doing it by hand or machine. I just don't see how that is relevant. There's a process involved where the input to that process is the original GTA 3, there's a bunch of steps, and the output to that process is code based on the original GTA 3 machine code, but in C or C++ instead of machine code.

There are two ways to get around this. The first way is fair use, which is complicated but certainly doesn't apply here. The other way is the "clean room" reverse engineering, where one team reverse engineers a product to figure out what it does, and produces a specification, which a second team uses to create a new implementation which does the same thing.
Apple could lose a million customers over this, but they still sold >200m a year in 2018 and beyond.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276306/global-apple-ipho...
Why not trust Apple? I get that you dislike their plan but consider three things:

* they do want to help keep your children safe
* they told you in detail how the system would work
* they are holding off on releasing after the world gave them feedback

Who else is doing better? I get that you don’t like the system, but how do you solve it? Is it not worth solving? Too easy to nix ideas without contributing to the conversation.
I understand people's objection with Apple's on-device implementation of this scanning, but that didn't seem to be parent's objection. I was just trying to clarify.
"Oh those are normal errors"
- Every developer I've ever worked with
It's not two datapoints. This comes up on forums constantly. Just look around.
Why? The defining feature of the third world is cheap labor.

The third world might need more effective training, so they can convert more cheap labor into specialists, but I don't see why per se they would prefer to use a computer sold at Western prices to a local specialist.
That bit made no sense. It might have made some sense if it was measured from the moment you get physical feedback from the keyboard that the key has been pressed. But I suspect that this isn't as straight forward as it is tempting to believe. (For instance if the mechanical feedback and the moment of contact do not occur at the exact same moment)
That "only" is doing a huge amount of work in your comment. Turning my device into something that snitches on me is a huge difference from scanning my uploads.
> Because there is no associated compute, you won’t be able to build and run your code or use the integrated terminal.
I often write code outlines on paper, to focus on logic instead of syntax. It is often my starting point. It helps me stay in the logic flow, without any interruption from the IDE every other second. Later, when ready to type the code in, I pay attention to syntax knowing the logic has been worked out. More efficient for me.
Show HN: Open-source database and summary data of forced arbitration cases
True, the stacks are more complex today, but the resources are greater. Back in the days when the error was in the beige box, if the books/CDs/DVDs you had on your shelf didn't address the exact problem, you had to roll up your sleeves or you were SOL.

Nowadays, research skills are more important, but I see a lot of devs who just don't have them. Can't find the answer on the first page of your first (poorly formed) search? Run get the senior dev. To me it reads like incuriousity and laziness, or lack of training.

I don't mind doing some coaching, but if you're a dev, and you can't even be bothered to read the error message, what does that say about your effectiveness?

/rant
Interestingly this gene, FTO, is also known as the “fat gene” in humans too. Must be something fairly fundamental in growth/proliferation.
Yes, you may be right.

I have also been WFH because of Covid but haven't had to change much or anything to my way of working and I do SSH to multiple machines every day. That might vary a lot from person to person, though. I have avoided doing actual dev. on a remote machine by setting up a VM to run Linux locally as any sort of remote desktop tends to be a pain.

Also, with distributed source control (git and friends) there is usually no need to access remote source files.
As long as it won't land me in prison for having it on my site, go wild. You can use the site for whatever you like.

And it's an interesting idea! I'm not sure my unsupervised learning skills are good enough to be able to do this without creating some grotesque filter bubbles. If you have some ideas, please feel free to send me an email! I'd love to learn more.

Email: dpb@evalrss.com
Yes, Reddit surely has the worst community of all the big websites, it is magnitudes worse than Facebook/Twitter etc.

The website seems to encourage extremes of people screaming at each other and having fringe views from which dissension is forbidden.

It's a hellhole. Some of the smaller specialist subreddits are high quality though.
It's possible; I'm sure the details matter.

However, if you can expedite shipping like this, can you do it in bulk? If so, you probably don't need to raise prices by much at all. But it's also quite likely not simply a matter of pressing the conceptual "expedite" button, because the stuff needs to arrive from somewhere and if it's an unexpected spike in demand, finding a bunch of supply that's ready to ship that quickly strikes me as being unreasonably lucky. More likely, it'd take time to find alternate suppliers, and shipping sufficient quantities to make a dent will take a while.

Of course, if you're doing it for one or two items - individuals can do that themselves, and yes, it's going to be expensive, and no, it's not likely to really increase supply a lot overall.

My assumption here is that shipping in bulk is much more efficient than small-scale shipping, but takes longer to arrange and prepare. But because the costs are spread out over so many items, even if shipping costs extra, that rarely translates to significant price hikes; bulk shipping, even expensive bulk shipping, is assumed to be a fairly small slice of the overall purchase price.
He has specifically mentioned BiLock as one he would consider. As another comment in this thread mentioned, Mendeco is also well regarded.
They've already lost my trust!!
I mean, you can make a hardcopy with the DEI team's name attached to the statement?

You should risk the mob. It's not ok for a DEI team to ask people to tailor their regional accents for foreigners who don't speak english well. You can also release this anonymously (it's hard for people to deny written exchanges because the results are in many inboxes).
It looks to me like their licenses still have limits on monthly page-views. Not an option of "I get to use the font whenenver I want wherever I want".
The NSA's Backdoor in Dual EC
It's arguable that those who live with high risk (no safety net) need to therefore be less irresponsible.

I'd argue revolution in these environment happen less due to the irresponsible poor, but rather the irresponsible bureaucrats whose corruption allows them this behaviour.

> Someone who spends $10 on a lottery ticket..

I don't think measures of "irresponsible" are independent of consequences. If the consequences are low, is it no longer (personally) irresponsible since that take into account the results. On the contrary, the most irresponsible acts are those that are small or easy, but of great consequences - such as agreeing to a high-interest loan.

AFAIC someone wasting money they can afford to waste is not irresponsible, they are just wasteful.
> Also, you can't work for the feds if you ever touch the ganja, which is ridiculous.

Calling it 'ridiculous' removes the debate concerning the pros and cons on such rule. If you consider someone can become vulnerable if they're addicted (to anything, really) then it makes sense to be wary of a drugs addiction. Especially if the resource the person is addicted to is illegal.

That being said, I'd find it reasonable if they OK'ed medical marihuana usage. I hope my gov (NL) does.
When I was a student I identified the keyboard as one of my greatest impediments to good programming. Something about being in front of one before doing the 'real' work of thinking through the problem was just too tempting, and I'd ignore the problem solving and just start typing.
Where can I read more about your web ide?
This is exactly the kind of gene you wouldn't want to spread "horizontally" on its own, just like antibiotic resistance among bacteria.

On the other hand, it hasn't, so far. It does exist in nature, and still doesn't pop up anywhere.

Plants also haven't evolved this functionality on their own. There are evolutionary drawbacks to uncontrolled growth, and most plants have their growth "tuned" well below what would be theoretically possible given their light and nutrient conditions.
I dont disagree with users not accepting the terms, just pointing out that license text doesn't trump everything.
RISC-V has compare-and-branch instructions, and load/store instructions w/ an offset field. Scaling can be achieved via insn fusion.
That part of the codebase needs a big overhaul and could use finding!
Little Flaws
They're pretty obviously not.

CSAM scanning stops common proliferation of already identified materials and can help keep those from casually entering new markets. It does not protect children from being newly exploited by people using these services unless the services are also doing things they claim not to be doing.

In that case, Apple's claim of critical importance, if we interpret that as any more than rhetoric, doesn't mean what they imply it to mean.

Edit: I replied before you edited your comment. Leaving this one as is.
The license states that you have to give attribution according to CC4 and that any edits will carry the same license, the comment in your issue page suggests open sourcing the files you use to make the edits so others can easily edit your changes as well.

Personally I like the license you're using.