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Ask HN: Is Python integration necessary for a commercially-viable data product?
Thats true, the world for the sake of the world economy should be doing as much as it possibly can to end this war as soon as possible in Ukraines favour.
My observation is that this is just how fashion works, especially for women. Trends come on extremely strong for basically anything related to appearance all the way down to nail color. And it's designed that way to make it obvious when someone has last year's styles and hasn't spent the money and energy on keeping up.

My experience as a man on the other hand... I bought a tuxedo recently, and the tailor said Ok here's this one, it has these weird lapels that are in right now, and it'll be great if you're going on the red carpet tomorrow but will be out of fashion pretty soon, otherwise here is the standard tux that will always look good, and come back and buy a vest or cummerbund if they ever come back in style and you'll still look great.
The 6 digit number is TOTP, it's an RFC and has nothing to do with webauthn.

Webauthn is basically what you are asking for (thumbprint). It's basically Apple's TouchID brought across platforms and across the Web.
That's what Google claims, however the leaked slides claimed "direct access".

edit: Does it really matter if they setup an FTP server instead of direct access, when we know a request can literally ask for "all" data (see Verizon).

> When required to comply with these requests, we deliver that information to the US government — generally through secure FTP transfers and in person," Google spokesman Chris Gaither told Wired, among other news outlets. [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/googl...
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Did you run into any trouble or limitations with this setup?
There's a lot of commenters here who have no idea how rust works, apparently.
It matters to them?
Short version of said arguments?
I meant for inference, not training. People just want to run the magic genies locally and post funny AI content.
Wouldn't that band be very narrowly beamformed? You'd have to be pretty unlucky to find yourself in its path.
Oh you didn’t like this one?

“To achieve herd immunity, 60% of the population must be vaccinated”

Next interview, 65%. Next interview, 70%. Then 75%

While knowing the entire time that herd immunity is impossible with a leaky vaccine.
We already have the author's works as well as Christopher's best efforts to pull together many of the other stories. At this point I'm of the opinion that having new authors work on these stories wouldn't be "completing" so much as "milking".
Ballpark guess is that to build CODEX it would be ~$10M.
The Linux kernel takes backwards compatibility much more seriously than your typical Python package.
As a Tolkien fan I have absolutely zero interest in any of these, no matter how well they could be written (and given what is happening with Amazon's The Rings of Power, that's not a given).

A fan of Tolkien's original stories is exactly that, not a fan of any story written by a random author with the same characters in it. There are plenty of fantasy novels that don't enjoy the same level of success for that reason.

There is no lack of elfves, dwarves, wizards, and dragons. What is lacking is Tolkien's talent.
Basically using a redirector plugin with a rewrite rule for twitter URL's to be translated to nitter.

Over the months I accumulated quite a few little, useful rules. (Like stripping out the highlight text thingie that google "helpfully" adds when clicking on search results.) I can post a few once I get home.

I like to do as much as I can with as few plugins as possible, which is why I don't have a dedicated plugin for that.
Many cars are there because they just simply stopped working, they were abandoned, impounded, stolen and recovered (but never claimed back), sold as junk, ...

There's PLENTY of reasons why a car could end up in a junkyard.
Noting of course that “off of” is mostly an American-English construction (although it does also pop up in some of the more ‘working class’ British dialects like cockney).
Or ~25k in Euro. Ouch.
This is true. Soap's purpose is to literally break down the cell walls of bacteria, some are more resistant so antibacterials are needed depending on the constituents of the cell wall
SBT is a lot less scary these days IMHO.
aiming is a tough thing
Ooh I like this. That’s about what I would do as well.
That's a big part. It's also the case that a lot of (but not all) of the technologies associated with Big Data were found to be less than broadly useful (many of the NoSQL database technologies, arguably Hadoop, etc.)
if so little power, how does it fry a tree?
Under most circumstances, there was no "big data" in the first place, and many businesses discovered that you can't magically derive insight, create value, build features, solve problems, etc. by performing aggregation and data science on most forms of data, especially if that data is not "big." No one can even define what "big" means. How many "rows" of data do you need for it to be "big"? How many "columns" per record? How many relationships both implicit and explicit? How fast does that data change or grow? How structured or unstructured? It's entirely a value judgment that many engineers and managers had no business determining as being "big."

The true "big data" became so ubiquitous and accessible that there became no reason for anyone to care about it outside the bubble of Silicon Valley. It's just data, and really was all along.
Inability to stand on one leg in mid to later life linked to high risk of death
As a side note, am I the only one who didn't notice the turtles until the FAQ made me double check?
This is why some people use the unpleasant metaphor of a skin suit to describe most of the continuing franchises of star wars, trek, marvel etc. They aren't primarily being written or inspired by their creators as much as new people wearing the skin of their creator.
> Some companies have policies against hiring developers with experience on some OSS projects

Can you please elaborate on this?
The Ultima series was known for its attempts of immersion (in the singleplayer games you are supposed to play yourself), so things like a world simulation were built into it as the games progressed (you want to bake bread - get flour, mix it with water, bake it in an oven, etc).

This spilled over to the UI/UX design - so having a free form inventory meant it felt like you had a backpack.
I am too young to remember "information superhighway".

But just the transfer of text files over HTTP or some other protocol was a buzzword some day!
This article is from June last year.
Has anything happened since then on this?
Is anyone bringing legal actions against Copilot and Github?
If not why not? I would think that if there was a case against it, that there are open source affiliated entities out there that would have a both the legal and monetary resources to go to court over this.

When I look at the discussion here, it looks like most of the arguments are based on common sense or morality. While that is nice, I would have loved to hear a perspective on this based on law instead. Is there someone here with a more legal perspective/background that could comment?
The Linux kernel community and Rust community still aren't on the same page on things yet, as you'll learn by reading lwn regularly.

We're just not there yet.
What popular MUDs do you recall there being in 1991?
This is when YouTube needs 4x, 8x and 16x speeds.
2003 certainly didn't have a better search engine. It only had a much smaller, open and un-SEO-biased Internet, making the indexing job correspondingly easier.
Sure, but I’m talking about price. AWS Workspace seems crazy expensive, to the point of being unusable almost.

I love the digital nomad lifestyle, but at that price it’s more of a gimmick than a real choice
I'd encourage you to go read the project docs in the kernel for this. This rust project has been ongoing for years and I believe the documentation and discussion there addresses all the issues you raise. This is not a knee jerk "fashionable" decision.
Big Data was about being able to store and query data beyond the limits of a single machine or existing database. The point being to store as much data as you possibly can and then extract value out of it. That grew out of Hadoop/MapReduce which let you cheaply store and access data that doesn't fit into one machine. Streaming was not part of the initial marketing pitch.

That said if you want to do streaming nowadays then you just integrate with Segment. If you want to track your database then you can dump data using Fivetran. If you want to track client events in excruciating detail then you can use Fullstory/Heap to do so in real time. That's all now table stakes for any company and outsourced to those platforms.
For a lot of people the alternatives are things like fabric/invoke.

If you don’t care about correctness there a loads of options that work well, and don’t have problems supporting esoteric use cases such as …“let a command generate a folder of data”
>> Have you ever read GitHub's conditions to know whether they also have the right to use your code that way, no matter how you decide to license it?
> I have, and there is not.

At least one IP lawyer strongly disagrees, suggesting anything you host on GitHub is fair game [1].

[1] https://fossa.com/blog/analyzing-legal-implications-github-c...

> The person writing an SO answer is intelligent and capable of conceptual understanding, the computer regurgitating code without regard to its license is not.

From a copyright perspective, that is irrelevant. In fact I would think Copilot has more incentives to not infringe than a random SO user, who is very unlikely to be sued. I already argued in another post that in my view, from any perspective, it is also irrelevant whether it's a person or AI doing the same work Copilot does.
Dupe.

Discussed yesterday, 100 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31825365
America’s shrinking white population needs to value youthful diversity
That might have been possible if we didn’t turn the entire society into a both parents have to work situation.
What’s your complaint about the question mark operator?
they already are.
I use ESET NOD32 and am happy with it. It does its job with "dignity" (no Norton-style hyperbolic popups), consumes little resources, and is inexpensive. It does a great job blocking malware and has a nice blocker for "potentially unwanted applications" (https://help.eset.com/glossary/en-US/unwanted_application.ht...).

The cheapest licenses are available on Amazon. Either NOD32 or Smart Security do the job -- I buy whatever is cheapest when the licenses expire.

I'm the family IT guy for my immediate family. Around five years ago, after fixing the nth malware infection on family computers, I bit the bullet and bought a few multi-seat ESET licenses for my parents, siblings, and their families. I haven't had to fix a virus/malware issue since then. Prior to this, they were all just using Windows Defender. I used one of the licenses on my own computers, so I have direct experience with the software, as well.

I install Unchecky (https://unchecky.com/) along with NOD32. This is a free tool that provides a second layer of protection against drive-by toolbar installs.
Apple Killing Off Dark Sky Weather iOS App at End of the Year
His point though was that they don't like the same things. And this book is pure Tolkien, so it's for the first group.
Yes it must be. Even though Micro$soft will get away because it has huge pockets.
Oops, updated!
I wanted to add that I was writing it metaphorically in a way, as in, seeing as how high those energy bills will be they might as well all add up to 60k.

Not sure about most of the people in here, but I would get really nervous at the thought of running something that eats up 3x300 watts per hour, for 24/7, just as part of a personal/hobby project. The incoming power bills would be too high, you have to be in the wage-percentile for which dropping 60k on a machine just to carry out some hobby project is ok, i.e. you’d have to be “high-ish” middle-class at least.

The recent increases in consumer power prices are a heavy blow for most of the middle-class around Europe (not sure about how things are in the States), so a project like this one is just a no-go for most of middle-class European programmers/computer people.
Not necessarily, the issue here isn't that training on public code should be illegal, it's merely that the models trained on such data should be considered derivative works under the licenses which the code is released under. GPL code must also be released under GPL, so Copilot must not charge users to use a model that is trained on and regurgitates GPL code.

> We should be striving to make copyright less draconian, not more.
Agreed, and I'm not sure why you think forcing GPT and Copilot to respect open licenses will make them illegal instead of more open.
Good feedback and thank you for taking the time to share
I use a self-hosted docker image of Wallabag. Has worked well for years and replaced Pinboard for me.
As for lightweight Electron alternatives, we already have Neutralinojs, Tauri, NodeGui, DeskGap, Ultralight.
I've been really curious how linguists reconstruct ancient pronunciation for Chinese languages. In reading W. Sidney Allen's books on ancient Greek and Latin pronunciation, there is a good deal of evidence from transliterations between Greek and Latin and common misspellings or spelling variants, but one has the luxury here of a phonological writing system.

Allen also cites ancient sources (mainly grammarians) who discuss pronunciation, so this is probably also a source used in reconstructing ancient pronunciations of Chinese languages? Or is the work based mainly in analyzing predictable linguistic change over time and projecting back in time?
So, no proof, no evidence. Ok.

> It's a lot more than I've seen than evidence for the claims of Yandex proactively sharing data with the Russian government.

The difference is that checks and balances are much stronger in US, and such activities can be successfully investigated and government sued.

As an example, your verizon case was successfully challenged: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klayman_v._Obama

In Russia, court system works in manual mode from Kremlin.

> Also where do you see Venezuela?

I misread, you are right.
If it wasn't acceptable people wouldn't use google. What's happening instead is that we are seeing just how much crap people will actually eat before they abandon a free service. Turns out it's a lot.
also check out Datomic.
This is the future of databases, but nobody seems to realize it yet.

One of the biggest problems with databases (particularly SQL ones) is they're a giant pile of mutable state. The whole idea of "migrations" exists because it is impossible to "just" revert any arbitrary change to a database, diff changes automatically, merge changes automatically. You need some kind of intelligent tool or framework to generate DDL, DML, DCL, they have to be applied in turn, something has to check if they've already been applied, etc. And of course you can't roll back a change once it's been applied, unless you create even more program logic to figure out how to do that. It's all a big hack.

By treating a database as version-controlled, you can treat any operation as immutable. Make any change you want and don't worry about conflicts. You can always just go back to the last working version, revert a specific change, merge in one or more changes from different working databases. Make a thousand changes a day, and when one breaks, revert it. No snapshotting and slowly restoring the whole database due to a non-reversible change. Somebody dropped the main table in prod? Just revert the drop. Need to make a change to the prod database but the staging database is different? Branch the prod database, make a change, test it, merge back into prod.

The effect is going to be as radical as the popularization of containers. Whether you like them or not, they are revolutionizing an industry and are a productivity force multiplier.
Who cares. The point is the left isn't fighting it. They used to defend free speech on principle. Now they pick and choose what speech is ok, just like the right wingers they believe they're above.

https://www.dwt.com/insights/2019/10/california-deepfakes-la...
So if a similarly non-trivial piece of code was in a non-public-domain codebase and copilot copied that wholesale, then you'd have a problem with it?
Sambas are older than us and have their own wikipedia page and manufacturer page. Is it a color or variation you like?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adidas_Samba

https://www.adidas.com/us/samba
No, it is more like generating a conversations, translating text, summarization texts, writing code, etc.
It hasn’t. Rust is 12 years old, has no specification, incomplete documentation, a borrow checker that won’t allow some valid code today but may allow that same code tomorrow, and a level of complexity that is seriously next level. It’s about as calm as C++ on cocaine in my opinion.
I know a cannabis entrepreneur who makes high-quality gummies standardized to 150 mg THC which is, I think, too much. As a cannabis experienced user I find these make me feel hosed for six hours or so. It may or may not be a good time, but I'm certainly not going to do more than lay on my ass.

If I take half of one of those (75 mg) it is a strong intoxication, pretty consistently a good time, and I can go for a walk, do the dishes and otherwise be able to do most things.

The local health department had complained about very strong products being for sale and I've talked with this guy a few times about it. He'd say that people can always cut them in half but I'd say that a lot of people don't know what they are doing, will take the whole thing, and probably have a bad time when they could have had a good time and become repeat customers.

Despite the unit economics being worse he's recently come out with a 75 mg product.
You wrote, "And many have talked about data being the ‘new oil’ when really it should be reframed as radioactive waste."

It's true that privacy regulations have made personally identifiable information (PII) into something that is challenging to store, like radioactive waste.

But most of the world's big data is not PII. For example, the huge amount of data being produced by modern telescopes and particle physics labs is about things like stars and subatomic particles, not people.

The world has less than 8e9 people, but there are around 1e11 stars in our galaxy, and there are more than 1e11 galaxies in the observable universe.
Sorting 2 Metric Tons of Lego (2017)
I wasn't able to smell it at all from a few feet away, but the one I saw recently wasn't roped off so I was pretty much able to stick my head right in the bloom.
I really have mixed feelings about that, but I am really curious to see what's happening.
Some people also experimented with some kernel modules written in Rust on FreeBSD.
If rust + linux is a success story, maybe FreeBSD could learn from it and adopt some ideas.
The initial project is to build a shim out of unsafe rust that allows drivers to be written in entirely safe rust. Nothing else is targeted yet.
“Antivirus” software is the most lucrative malware to ever exist.
I'm on the Shopify Hydrogen team. Happy to answer any questions.
Meanwhile, Cloudflare says they are open sourcing Cloudflare Workers runtime: https://twitter.com/KentonVarda/status/1523666343412654081
Testing Zig for Embedded Development
The “ethical concerns” thing is just a progressive-sounding excuse for why they’re not going to give their models away for free. I guarantee you those models are going to be integrated into various Google products in some form or another.
Fair question:

Are dedicated bike lanes near pedestrian friendly paths a safe transportation environment? I feel that bikes and electric scooters are more dangerous than cars.
The biological term "symbiosis", by itself, in the strict sense, doesn't imply a benefit for both parties, it just describes a persistent and physically close association between two species. Hence parasitism or commensalism are also forms of symbiosis and so are associations which are not obligate, but facultative (both bionts can live without the other, however prevalent the association). "Obligate symbiotic mutualism" is the category for what you're describing. "Endosymbiosis" implies such an integrated relationship that it is at least obligate for the endosymbiont. In this human-mite case there are various claims of benefits and drawbacks to humans from the relationship, and the symbiosis is certainly already obligate for the mites.
If they come up with it on their own, it shouldnt be an issue. Likewise, swapping the variable names does not absolve you from liability.

Copyright really is not only concerned with what exactly is on the page, but also how you got there, and where the knowledge came from to get you there.

What if I read your codebase, and then years later while programming for myself I inadvertently use solutions you came up with while thinking I came up with it myself?

There really are no hard set rules, and this is something that is handled on a case-by-case basis based on whether or not a convincing argument can be made that you copied a novel idea from someone else and claimed it as your own.

We can argue the semantics of it all we want, but the subject area is an active battleground. Typically it only matters when money starts to get involved, since no one usually presses the issue or gets involved with random personal projects. So when an enterprise level company leverages that lack of caring into a proprietary pay-to-use project that operates by copying and pasting code from copyrighted material, then it seems like a case might be able to be made for it.
I have yet to see such a scenario where either web components or iframes would not have been a better fit.
If it's not acceptable, then don't use it. There are other paid services out there that provide support for their products. Don't buy the myth that The Google does everything best, because they don't.
That's... a really weird take. If I listen to someone rave about a conspiracy theory and I can see the flaws in their reasoning, does that mean that they meant all along for me to come to the opposite conclusion of what they said?
Yeah that Python would not pass my code review. Rule of thumb is don’t nest list comprehensions, and if you have to try to keep it to two. Checkpoint the results info a variable. You aren’t supposed to chain like that in Python.

From https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#id2

> You might have noticed that methods like insert, remove or sort that only modify the list have no return value printed – they return the default None. [1] This is a design principle for all mutable data structures in Python.

> Footnotes
> [1] Other languages may return the mutated object, which allows method chaining, such as d->insert("a")->remove("b")->sort();.
What value would Zig provide to the kernel?

The reason Rust is interesting in the space is the memory safety without a GC. Zig doesn't have that.
Neither is Deno Deploy, really. The limits on CPU time etc are very similar, with Cloudflare being more flexible on CPU and Deno Deploy being more flexible on bundle size.

https://deno.com/deploy/docs/pricing-and-limits
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits/
Timing is everything for weed management
I know what you mean - there is potential for something even better. That said, having something that actually is better than C/C++, and having it become widely known accepted enough that I don't really have to justify using it at work is really good.

And Rust will smooth the path for other language in the systems space. Rust had to work extra had because there has only be one dominant (pair of) languages for so long. Now that people have got used to choosing, hopefully it'll be easier next time for Rust++ or whatever.