skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can't the reverse also be a problem?

Of course. But if you have the crowd who fly around on private jets to environmental conferences telling the proles that they need to quit eating meat, eat the bugs, live in the pod, and sacrifice more to solve a problem, I think it's fair to ask that the case be very strongly made without appealing to Science (TM) and trying to browbeat people into submission.

And I'm not seeing it. I've lived long enough to see past climate predictions being total bunk: a new ice age was one worry, global warming, acid rain devastating cities, etc. Now we're just hammered with "climate change" and many real and far more provable environmental problems like the health of the oceans are comparatively ignored.

As far as likelihood goes, I don't think I have all of the answers, but the number of ifs involved in the entire chain of climate change dogma makes the worst case scenario seem very unlikely to me.

If the climate is changing, is it caused by man? There are some who point out things like natural sun changes might be the bigger issue involved with changing climate and that the world has constantly gone through hot/cold cycles.

If it's caused by man, is it actually inevitably going to cause overall harm? A changing climate might be a bad thing in certain areas, but large areas of the world could also become more livable and lead to more vegetation and farming elsewhere, and a net plant increase on the planet.

If it's causing harm, can we resolve it? Assuming that the climate is changing and it's caused by man, and it causes harm, can we do anything to solve it? I'm not sure. There are some activists who suggest that even if we quit all CO2 emissions today, the planet is already inevitably beyond doomed.

If we can resolve it, is the benefit greater than the cost? Most of us alive have had the pleasure of living in relatively stable and prosperous situations compared to all of human history. Doing what some climate activists want to do like eliminate certain kinds of energy usage very quickly may dramatically harm the lives of many more people than might be saved from the natural disasters/weather. The amount of human misery that can be caused by bad economic policies might far outweigh any problems caused by climate change.

The only thing I'd say in conclusion is whether or not climate change is real, nuclear energy is the only workable answer that all sides should be able to agree on. Regardless of your stance on the climate, everybody recognizes that cheap energy that doesn't pollute and that can power industry is a big win. Until battery technology makes several quantum leaps in efficiency, nuclear energy is the only possible answer to climate change as well the needs of humanity.
Bah you 'lang' and the problem is solved
Note that the input here is not any arbitrary video, but a radiance field, a type of data structure that's halfway between photos and a 3D model:

"The radiance field representation can be seen as a 5D function that maps any 3D location x and viewing direction d to volume density σ and RGB color c."

The radiance field is typically reconstructed from multiple photos of a scene, which implies that either the subject must be static or you need a fancy camera rig to capture the views simultaneously.

We don't have any content pipelines for creating and editing radiance fields, so movies produced with this approach are a ways off. But one could imagine AR glasses in a couple of years that capture the different views as you move around, then the radiance field is built in the cloud and you can create artistic re-renders of what you just saw.
Maybe they will converge, and all programs will be written in legalese and interpreted by Copilot.
Which programmer or his descendants receive payments up to 70 years after his death or per call of his written software?

And yes, MS is now monetising the work of others.
Yeah? Do you have personal experience?
23% faster with BR as well. 528 vs 419 WPM. Made a point about feeling comfortable while reading.
Thank you!

The searches are trying to allocate groups of teachers to time slots, subject to the inputted constraints e.g. their students aren’t elsewhere, changing rooms are available if needed, a teacher hasn’t been allocated a different class already etc.

But I can’t tell the software which constraints are hard, which are soft, and which have alternatives we are indifferent about. Hence the need for parallel searches!
It would be nice if people stopped giving Microsoft all their code to use to then sell back to them.

Since this is derived from code Microsoft did not write, or ask permission to use, it should be at the very least free to use.
I was a mere 2% faster. 404 vs 396 WPM.

Edit: 2% faster with BR.
Deutsche Bank installs app on bankers’ phones to track private messages
The French repairability index – one year after its implementation [pdf]
Forgot to mention "Fight Club" ... maybe some martial arts, boxing, bjj, etc. We weren't built to live in the office.
Should we add a badge or something, indicating that project is using code generated by machine?
Perhaps, but we are not operating in a pure vacuum of naturalism and some amount of relationship building typically precedes sex. We are not merely coupling on a grassy plain by natural raw instinct. That might be a loss - but culture, sexual identity, religion have commandeered the natural sexual energies of mankind since… just about as long as we can tell.

If you are fully immersed in your raw, human sexuality - that’s great. For many, sex and sexuality is more nuanced than mere fucking.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The data shows a huge difference which cannot be explained by the difference between 5 particles and 0.5 particles.

As noted in the article, the Wirecutter does not explain its methodology or give particularly complete data, and what explanations they do give about filtration make no sense.
A very pertinent question. If you're asking if Avo "pays the bills", it doesn't. I hope it will some day. Damn, I hope I earn money in some other way and donate Avo to Ruby central, becomes free so it becomes the default way of building Rails apps.

Until that time, I am pretty stocked that other developers want (and pay) to use something I've created.

Yeah, it takes a lot to build the messaging around a product. This current message "Build apps 10x faster" is probably the 10th or 20th iteration. I had to speak with a lot of users and try to figure out how it helps them in their daily dev life.

Building the product is the easy thing (for a developer), doing the marketing, steering it into the right direction, figuring out what the best features are, sales, funnels, etc. Those are the difficult things. They are difficult for me because I don't have a following.

Regarding your "Bold and cynical claim", I respect your opinion. I wouldn't go to say that everyone just want to build a following and launch useless product to achieve that.
They aren't? Every company I've worked at pays through the nose for one of GTM/Zoom/BlueJeans/Lifesize/Chime. Zoom is definitely the least bad of them in my experience, not that I like it at all. Lack of customers willing to pay doesn't seem to have stopped there from being a bounty of terrible alternatives.
> But it is emphatically not the case that a majority of validators can force a minority of validators to choose a new protocol. It's nothing like mining.

Define "force".

Because to me - if you are on a chain that has no future (as in the fork has more resources, better hash rate, better social support) then while you can continue to use the original, the odds that it holds any value is basically zero.

Same is true in the inverse - creating a fork and then expecting to be able to move any significant value off the original chain, when the original chain holds better social support and more resources, is usually folly.

Take bitcoin cash - which is a great example of this.

They split in 2017 and began trading at ~240 USD to bitcoins ~2700 USD. So they started with the assumption that their fork had roughly 1/10 of the value of bitcoin. Today they trade at 119 USD, to bitcoins 21170 USD (and this is after the HUGE drop over the last month): Roughly 1/200th the price.

Further - I strongly suspect that the reason BCH is still worth anything at all is that we're well into a crypto bubble - there are FAR too many completely worthless coins floating around that serve absolutely no purpose and still trade at ridiculous nominal USD values. The fact that a usable chain forked from BTC for genuine technical reasons (and a social disagreement over segwit) drops so much value is a BAD sign for that group of original folks on the 59k chain.

They can certainly keep mining away on that chain, and if the goal is to still facilitate exchange only in that original chain, they're fine. The second they need to get off that chain and on to something else (whether it's another coin or USD) then they're probably fucked - their chain won't have held value, because value is a social construct, not a number on a chain.
Fred Wilson: Staying Positive
Yes. Truly a world-ending possibility!
Postcard 1.0.0 Release
I notice that I no longer spend energy actively scanning lines with bionic reading - my eyes snap automatically. I'm able to look at the text "from a distance" and the words just enter my mind, and I did get 31% faster reading from bionics according to this test.
I think the current implementation comes reasonably close to the old "intr" behavior.

AFAICT the problem with "intr" wasn't that the kernel parts were impossible to implement in the kernel, but rather an application correctness issue, as few applications are prepared to handle EINTR in any I/O syscall. However, with "nointr" the process would be blocked in uninterruptible sleep and would be impossible to kill.

However, if the process is about to be killed by the signal, then not handling EINTR is irrelevant. Thus in 2.6.25 a new process state TASK_KILLABLE was introduced (https://lwn.net/Articles/288056/ ), which is a bit like TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE except the task can be interrupted by a fatal signal, and the NFS client code was converted to use it in https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/6/329 . So the end result is that the process can be killed with Ctrl-C (as long as it hasn't installed a non-default SIGTERM handler), but doesn't need to handle EINTR for all I/O syscalls.
I mean, it was informed by both, but basically everyone thinks it's a good idea.
(2021)

One submission at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676266 -
2,905 points and 1,298 comments.
40$ can go a long way. In my personal scenario:

- Money is worth more to me than the average US dev because I earn less than US developers, and therefore my time is definitely worth less.

- I cannot use this for work at my current workplace and I'm willing to bet a lot of other companies aren't fine with it either. I'm not saving time where it makes me money, so I would classify as a luxury, not a tool (spending-wise).
> Up-to-date science discoveries that absolutely excludes

You imply that there is such thing as absolute fact or absolute truth. Which is not the case unfortunately. Because what you call facts always go with interpretation and understanding.

Sometimes (usually on macro scale and in well known areas) it’s easy to come to agreement. But more often — it’s not.

Your post looks like an oversimplification and presents false dilemma (it’s not apples to apples, to put it simply).
HIPPA fines are per record - if this is found to break HIPPA rules, and the tracking has been in place for a while, the cost could be huge.
Win 10 hardware must support Secure Boot and won't have to let you turn it off
Take a trip to Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds or Sheffield (preferably after the train strikes at the moment are over) and get back to us. Might change your mind about 'Nowhereshire'.
Okay, here's some code I wrote [1], with the existing comment:

/*------------------------------------------------------------------------
; For the RR OPT, the class field is actually the size of the UDP payload,
; and the TTL field are a bunch of flags. We have a separate field for
; the UDP payload size, so here we make the adjustment behind the scenes
; so you don't have to know this crap.
;-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

if (answer->generic.type == RR_OPT)
{
answer->opt.class = answer->opt.udp_payload;
answer->opt.ttl = ((data->rcode >> 4) & 0xFF) << 24
| (answer->opt.version & 0xFF) << 16
| (answer->opt.fdo ? 0x80 : 0x00) << 8
| htons(answer->opt.z & 0xFFFF)
;
}

I'd like to see how I could do away with the comment and make this more "self-documenting".

[1] Code to encode/decode DNS packets: https://github.com/spc476/SPCDNS/blob/05aead581acf050edf610c...
It has saved me a lot of time writing trivial shit that I usually have to copy/paste from the internet anyway. Is it worth $10 per month? I dunno. But they get me a kick-ass IDE, I get to store my project (privately) for free, and they save me a lot of time.

So I'm probably taking it.
Wild guess: The pricing is such that when big enterprise contracts are signed, they can throw in Copilot, claiming extra value for the whole package.
Probably a good idea to add `font-size: 0.5cm` in there or something.
Of course I did sign up when you posted it, but still no invite yet.
GitHub has never asked for representation to provide an unlimited-rights license to GitHub themselves for any purpose. Further, the person posting GPLed code to GitHub is not necessarily the only or sole copyright holder, and GitHub has never represented that there was a problem with this.
Well, what you could try is an engine that's designed to crawl specific niches and then allowing people to run their own instances. So you don't run any hardware yourself. You just let other people provide it - they might find a way to make money from it, or their community might find ways to pay for it anyway. It's not necessarily true that every search engine has to search the entire web.
Using the subtitle instead of the title, because it is more informative and less editorialized. There was not enough room for a (2015).
So the team of 3 people doing the work of 11 is just fucked till 2024???
Ah yes. "We're intelligent enough" in a subthread that starts with "smart contracts make [distributed computing and whatever else] possible".
My cadence needs are not necessarily the same for my OS as for my work itself. Maybe my work being bleeding-edge is enough to worry about without my OS bleeding all over the place too, eh?

Third-party repos would have been a better answer, IMO.
This sounds like a good time to insert the very old joke about how the size of a horse's ass determined the size of the booster rockets.

https://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/256024.aspx
Different resource usage patterns aside, why do people think that robots are somehow less "legitimate" consumers of data than their human operators? Do the authors of this article think that humans only use data for purposes sanctioned by its producers?

I think the world would be a much better place if we stopped treating programmatic access to interfaces differently than human access to it. Anybody can learn to code.
Hi folks, I'm Pejman, founder of Touca, a developer-friendly regression testing system that provides feedback to software engineers when they write code that could break their software. I started Touca as a side-project and an internal tool at my previous employer until last years when I left my job to grow it as a business. In the past year, we were focused on offering Touca to enterprise companies, thinking that they would find it the most useful. While our thinking was right, our growth was very slow, so last month, we decided to fundamentally change our go-to-market strategy and rethink every aspect of Touca as a business. As part of that change, we open-sourced Touca last month under the permissive Apache-2.0 license, and changed our business model to charging for our cloud services.

See: https://touca.io/blog/open-source-announcement/

But in our industry, the word open-source has occasionally been misused as a marketing ploy. Restrictive licenses, incomplete offerings, forced upgrades... I think there's more to becoming an open-source company than letting people see your source code. I tried last night to outline my thinking on this subject and the efforts we are going to make at Touca to earn this title. I'd love to hear your thoughts and hope that you find this post worthwhile.
Funny then because I’ve never noticed any major performance issues with big pages.
some other similar incredible jorneys come to mind - a wolf from Slovenia to Italia, 2000km https://www.theguardian.com/science/animal-magic/2014/aug/08... and an Arctic fox from Svalbard to Canada, 3500km https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/arctic-fox...

As an immigrant myself I can relate to them, though almost half a globe Airbus airliner travel was much more comfortable than the 2000km walking and even getting US visa wasn't that much of an ordeal back then :)
The idea of using these symbols instead of printed English is that not everybody speaks English, yes? Well, I don't speak Spanish, but I think if all of these symbols were replaced with printed Spanish words, it would be more useful to me than any of these symbols. I'd figure out what it meant with greater ease than these symbols; at the very least I would be able to look up the meaning.

And if you're going to have the symbols and printed text, you might as well omit the symbols entirely. I think both sets of symbols are worthless. I could probably guess what some of them mean if my life depended on it, but I'm not going to. Deciphering symbols is a waste of my time. At least if printed Spanish were used, puzzling out the meaning would actually enrich my life. The symbols are worthless noise and I don't want their meaning wasting space in my brain.
> This is kind of like saying that any programmer who has ever learned something from reading GPL code can only use that knowledge when writing GPL code. It's not literally copying the code. The training set isn't stored on disk and regurgitated.

I wouldn't put any hard rules on it, but it does seem very fair for programmers who have learned a lot from GPL code to contribute back to GPL projects. I have learned from and used a lot of open source software so whenever possible I try to make projects available to learn from or use.
It’s not about the learning part, it’s about the copyright and money part. If you learn how to play song X by The Rolling Stones, you cannot just make money playing song X in a concert. Sure thing you can play song X in your father’s birthday.

Here GitHub (Microsoft) is charging for a product that in certain circumstances violates copyright.
Immediately one of the all-time great HN posts.
Hah, yeah.

Can't remember where, but I read some comment that said:

"The crypto community's re-inventing modern banking, repeating every mistake along the way, and learning all the same lessons".
in a year the LPR and DNR will be seperated from ukraine and a part of Russia. This annexation has been planned and prepared for a long time. I agree that such conflicts are never easy and there are many small factions with different goals and beliefs on the ground, but claiming this is about autonomy is part of their casus belli: a construct in which the russian ethno-nationalists pretend they didn't ask for much and got nothing but abuse. In actuality the leadership of the LPR and DNR removed ukrainian both as an official language and from their schools curriculum years ago and started paying pensions in rubles. They advertised their plans very clearly and loudly, calling their intermediate construct "Новороссия" - new russia. It is like calling western czech "Sudetendeutschland". Their goal is not autonomy but unification with russia. Always has been. So calling them seperatists is quite fitting. But i agree the term may only describe a minority in the region, not the general population.
You may have visited half the country, but it doesn't seem like you saw any of it.
Deno raises $21M
Why would it not be possible? Is the code available for inspection?
> Weather in the north is horrid, much worse than in London, food is appalling in ways that can’t be described, pubs are all the same replica of a Wetherspoon or of a Young’s

Perhaps you were going to a Spoons or whatever Young's is by accident. Brilliant food all around the North - maybe check OpenTable or Google Maps and find some proper restaurants/street food vendors. I live near Glasgow and there's some excellent food in the area.

Yes, the weather isn't as good as London/the South. You learn to love it unless you're spoiled with the sun all the time.
This seems pretty reasonable to me / resonates w/ how I might use it.
It does something called reclaim where it halts the running of the program and does an O(n) scan of that processes memory space to find pages that can be dropped (forces dirty writes to complete and drops file cache)
Personal anecdote. When I try to read fast, I notice fixation points as my eyes skip across the text. But it will be whole chunks of words. And anything that tries to draw my attention to one letter as opposed to another, will slow me down.

Note that my natural reading speed is ~950 wpm, so I tend to ignore these fads. I read fast enough already. The main barrier to reading faster is that it gets exhausting having my brain constantly trying to catch up to my eyes.
Is interesting that the package management advocated here is just the same thing, but offloaded to somebody else.

The BIGGEST problem with package management is not package management, is how easy is to publish it and the lack of verification for authors.

The proposed solution already use the practical solution: FRICTION and VALIDATION (by somebody else). (and lets add namespaces!)

A relatively easy way to solve this:

- Add namespaces by default, and LOCK the "main one".
- When a solid library emerge (like for example Tokio in Rust), you give it a star or similar saying: This guys are ok.

Split the package manager into 2 worlds: The walled garden and the chaos

- The walled garden requiere verification with some decent amount of friction and/or reputation (like check into GitHub?)

- The chaos is whatever.

- Link to walled garden is ok. Link to chaos requiere a "unsafe" parameter or similar.

P.D: Look like this sound like a good project to have (ie: A solid package manager manager!)
Given you say you didn't see the misogynistic content I'm not sure you spent much time looking in to what was going on in the subreddit -- you may have missed how hateful its members were, especially in the latter years.
I was thinking of integrating something like this into my spam filter. However it would probably be something slightly different. Add the "name" into the email as plaintext, this both makes it easy for me to find out where this email came and search for emails from the sender from but also allows this to be automatically verified.

google-{signature}@

Then the spam filter can check that `signature == hash(salt + "google")`. Anything that doesn't fit is marked as spam.

Of course most people don't have a flexible enough spam filter to do this.

You probably also want versioning for leaks. You can bump the version and change your email with the service.
I didn't see the student license at first, but after re-verifying my educational status, I got it: https://i.quartzic.co/yIoSJFfH