skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a Datafold customer for a year at two different companies. Great experience. Very useful tool in your CI flow, the team is very responsive.
So you’re just getting a helping hand doing code plumbing. That sounds good as long as you let the helper take the lead
How much would you pay for such a service? Because I think buying a (credible) domain name that also gives a bunch of free email addresses could be rather cheap and reusable.
Lambda labs will rent you an 8xA100 instance for 3 months for $21,900. That would put it at around $2m
If you are interested in this, I'd recommend this movie, "Into Eternity", which talks about a Finnish project storing nuclear waste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayLxB9fV2y4
Something like this? https://quillbot.com/summarize
I am absolutely certain that I have written sentences that are word-for-word identical to sentences other people have written. Should I be sued?
They basically just do what's on Anthony's channel[1], i.e. asking how you know something, what would change your mind, etc.. Very few are actually learning epistemology as far as I can tell from having been in their Discord for a while.

1. https://www.youtube.com/c/AnthonyMagnabosco210
Sorry, misread... :-)
Licenses are indeed enforceable by law. Most popular ones (GPL, MIT, Apache) have been enforced in court.

Also Copyright isn't patent.
Have you read the Kevin Anderson/Brian Herbert Dune books? Anderson's writing style is much more digestible than the source material, but I don't think it really added anything to the Dune universe.
Compliance and web3 arrived.

A lot of companies didn't even need to go the hadoop route. CSVs, jupyter notebooks and SQL databases are very powerful tools for most companies.
Well, relatively cheap. You have some Comodo/Sectigo/DigiCert resellers selling for $70-$100/year.

And it won't instantly skip SmartScreen (that requires EV which is $300+) but it helps to establish reputation, i.e.: if you consistently release safe software signed with a cert named X, then SmartScreen and co. learn to give a good starting reputation to binaries signed by X.
I'm currently cycling through 4 pairs of Hoka Rincons. They're stored in their original boxes and placed in a stack on my garage floor. I grab the top box and replace it to the bottom when I'm done for the day. I actually think this is fairly ridiculous but what can you do...
Not using copilot but if I did Id use it in the way you expressed as well, just for plumbing and tedious stuff.
Not so unintuitive if you have seen enough molecular biology. A lot of cancers are the result of key cogs in the cellular / tissue growth machinery going crazy. A lot of tissue remodeling and growth happens while you sleep. So cancer cells going into turbo mode when you go to sleep doesn’t seem all that crazy.
> is 25 lines the limit then?

I don't know. That's my function's length.

> do you count comments?

No comments, no blank lines.

> can I codegolf a few lines to get below the limit?

You bet. But, if you copy my reference implementation, you need to get the license as well.

However, the research is on the open. Read it, implement it. That's no problem.

But, CoPilot is not reading my paper. It's reproducing my function verbatim, which is under a license which has share-alike mechanics.
SNW really brings Trek back to its roots. Absolutely worth watching, particularly if you're a fan of The Orville (which I am as well).
Because millions of people were smokers and that necessitated a long-term strategy for dealing with cigarettes. And that strategy is basically, increase taxes on them a little bit every year until they become so damn expensive that people quit using them and they are de facto banned.

Juul is new enough that the blunt approach will work. Plus, it's not a plant that grows all over, making a black market for them less likely to spring up.
Yep. But if it regurgitates more than a few words, that's still plagarism and probably a violation of copyright - or at least it would be if we did it with MS's code.

Again, its copyright for them, but no protections for us.
how big does a snippet have to be to become verbatim?

Plenty of trigrams exist in many novels that are exactly the same, and i bet that there's plenty of n-grams in programming which would be construed as copies of each other.
A megajoule in a microsecond, that's a terawatt impulse with decidedly RF personality. Anything that could generate that would be as big as anything that could capture it. Not exactly nimble enough to weaponize.
They were paying $10,000 for the ability to talk to students with no teachers present?

I know GP said Juul employees were largely incompetent, but I just can't believe anyone was that stupid. If the goal is "to get brand equity with adults", you want the adults to be watching.
How much code is covered under a license?

When I use GitHub I get some handy functions and sort of the style it is written in… but that’s it.

It’s not a lot of code.

Does someone own?

formatDateISOXXX() { a handful lines of code here }
> Rust changes in forwards incompatible ways so fast that rustc is literally out of date and unable to compile new Rust code in less than 3 months. It's not because Rust is inherently bad, it's just that the type of people who write in rust are bleeding edge types (for now) and have no consideration for forwards compatibility.

Funnily enough, I'm using the rustc compiler from Debian repositories (who of course is not well-known for eagerness to adopt bleeding-edge), and I've not run into any Rust code that wouldn't work with that compiler.
Are You a Naïve Realist?
> I don't see a difference between what Google indexes on its search engine, and what CoPilot can recommend.

That is an extremely disingenuous take. It produces novel output, so is not merely an “index” in any sense of the word.
One little known Greek artifact in India is the Heliodorous pillar in central India: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliodorus_pillar

Erected around 113 BC by an ambassador of one of the Indo-Greek kings and dedicated to the god Vasudeva-Krishna.
Nope, everybody knows that the future will be coded in Jakt.

Jokes aside, I bet Jakt (a completly new language) has introduced fewer language and compiler changes in the last 3 months than Rust (5-10 years old now?).
It's also true of the ants you step on when you walk outside. It isn't actually worth celebrating.
> I don't understand the rationale behind cutting me off while I'm scrolling through Twitter simply because I'm not logged in.

Precisely the reason why I switched over to nitter and have a rule that redirects me to it.
It is, indeed, opinionated. It's also small and easy.

Rust is superopinionated. Big and complex as well.
I grow bored with trying to convince other people to agree with me and am much more interested in how I can change my own mind to agree with others. True bravery is saying “I will change my mind about something important today.”
My preference is for it to be free and the website to make money via ads.

If that is not possible then a mathematically elegant price would be 1$ per day, weekly subscription, renewable 4 times.
UO has many fond memories for me. So much emergent silly gameplay, so many unintended consequences. Also taught me after playing WoW later that a more controlled and restricted mechanically game can be much more fun while still giving enough freedom for interesting emergent gameplay, it's a fine balance.

One of my favorites (going by memory) was master thieves taunting people into dueling. A thieve had a random chance to steal something from your pack but it flagged them, if dueling though already flagged. If you cast a spell your weapon automatically gets put in your pack while casting, so they would attempt to steal your nice weapon while casting leaving you with no weapon, they could also steal your reagent bag leaving you no ability to cast spells, at this point they could probable kill you easily or just run off with a nice weapon.

Leaving the entrance of town was many times a gauntlet of thieves with houses right outside the guard zone. They would run out steal something from you and run back in and lock the door.
Even that is arguable; I'd rather see an MD for an annual physical. It seems like a routine thing to people not in the medical field, but there are a ton of little things that are checked and could be caught early. I'd rather have an actual doctor performing it.
> Was it just a hyped up buzzword?

Yes.

I can't tell you how many meetings I've been in where someone was pitching a big data idea and it the meeting ended when we all realized that if it fits on a $50 thumb drive it isn't big data.
Agreed. People sometimes even serve it as a porridge by replacing the milk with hot water and a little butter or cream.
I think aahortwwy's point was that Microsoft won't permit their own employees to do what Copilot does.
phone-in-hand is starting to die out. nobody in my social circle really takes them off the desk anymore, and nobody installs new apps. a lot of us realized it's so cringe seeing people crawl into their phones at gatherings, after covid people just started making arrangements and then meeting up. the only time i see phones come out is to take a picture for your parents these days.
OpenAI published "Lessons Learned on Language Model Safety and Misuse" in March. https://openai.com/blog/language-model-safety-and-misuse/ It also promised "forthcoming publication".

Examples of "real cases of misuse encountered in the wild" include "spam promotions for dubious medical products and roleplaying of racist fantasies".

Yes, some bad actors can train their own models, but OpenAI can't do much about that either way. It is doubtful whether spam promoters of dubious medical products can, at least for a while.
At first I thought it was d01t
Zig isn't finished yet. Rust has stable language features.

You also don't need async in many if not most cases, especially if you're writing kernel code. I wouldn't want to use a kernel module that pulls in all of tokio/reqwest/hyper just like I don't want a kernel module that links against openssl.

Async makes a lot of sense for userland code, but not so much for kernel code. I haven't seen async get used in any demo for kernel Rust modules and I doubt it'll happen anyway.

Looking at a comparison between common kernel structures and theoretical Rust implementations of those (like on https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-linux-kernel...) I think the kernel can get improved security and reliability from Rust without any "fancy" Rust. Just the basic type system improvements, nullability improvements and explicit checks will be enough for some real benefits.
I’ve heard before of people struggling through the Ainulindale, but to be honest I never could understand why. Maybe it has something to do with me being Catholic? I completely loved the Ainulindale, beginning to end.
For the people that didn't click on the link:

>but is able to work with different configurations with ≈200GB of GPU memory in total which divide weight dimensions correctly (e.g. 16, 64, 128).
Fun facts & questions from Feynamn lectures:

> "On an ordinary day over flat desert country, or over the sea, as one goes upward from the surface of the ground the electric potential increases by about 100 volts per meter. Thus there is a vertical electric field E of 100 volts/m in the air. The sign of the field corresponds to a negative charge on the earth’s surface. This means that outdoors the potential at the height of your nose is 200 volts higher than the potential at your feet! You might ask: “Why don’t we just stick a pair of electrodes out in the air one meter apart and use the 100 volts to power our electric lights?”

> "Although the electric current-density in the air is only a few micromicroamperes per square meter, there are very many square meters on the earth’s surface. The total electric current reaching the earth’s surface at any time is very nearly constant at 1800 amperes. This current, of course, is “positive”—it carries plus charges to the earth. So we have a voltage supply of 400,000 volts with a current of 1800 amperes—a power of 700 megawatts! With such a large current coming down, the negative charge on the earth should soon be discharged. In fact, it should take only about half an hour to discharge the entire earth. But the atmospheric electric field has already lasted more than a half-hour since its discovery. How is it maintained? What maintains the voltage? And between what and the earth? There are many questions."

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_09.html
I've been shot down by my friends numerous time for saying exactly the same thing.

Of course, as another commenter pointed out there's the Dune book which is an example of how not to do that. But, this is why it only works if the author that's chosen is a good writer and not a complete hack like Kevin J. Anderson who has never produced a single decent book (even outside the dune universe)
> And unlike copyright, the fix isn't damages to compensate the rightsholder, but to uphold the license.

That's not true. Courts won't consistently mandate that people relicense their code that includes GPLed stuff. They'll make you pay a fine and remove the code.
That's exactly what we do, which is why adding Tailscale SSH to our current workflow isn't helpful, since we would still have to manage SSH keys for access via the local subnet.
Doesn't Apple "deliver high-quality products with very few bugs at a fast cadence, and continue to make major changes long into the future without slowing down" ? I'm not sure how they do it; but I like their products. It seems like they do it by saying no to a lot of complexity; while embracing necessary complexity.
I've seen controllers in HBA mode pull some oddball performance shenanigans when presented with differences as small as running different drive firmware versions across connected disks, so it really wouldn't surprise me. SATA drives have a pretty bad reputation for firmware releases introducing unexpected and undocumented behaviors. I used to be on the customer success team for a hyperconverged distributed storage product, and such things were the bane of our existence. Over the years the inventory of product-supported SATA devices shrunk considerably as a.) more and more quirks were discovered in products and b.) flash prices continued to drop to the point that spinning disks were in less and less demand, putting downward pricing pressure on SAS devices.
Ask HN: Options for Antivirus on Windows?
Hello HN

I used to have Windows Defender on my old laptop and it worked fine for years.

I bought a new Lenovo Laptop (Windows) and it came with McAfee antiviurs with 30 day trial. The 30 day period has elapsed and it is asking me to upgrade.

I haven't shopped any antivirus for years and don't have the information on various software available in the market.

Do you guys buy or prefer any Antivirus or happy with default Windows security?

Do you guys even use any antivirus at all?

Would like to know your opinion from HN community.
Yeah, we get the concern that Astro is just a middle man. Let me give a concrete example for why we think we provide more value than that.

We work with a few companies, whose names people would recognize, that feel more comfortable using a US business entity that they can sign contracts with to move specialized equipment, like locked down macbooks, installing special software on work equipment, or installing specialized local network equipment, etc..

These companies have physical security requirements that makes it tough for them to directly hire freelancers. Through our platform we bring those kinds of opportunities to our teammates that would be otherwise localized only certain US cities.

It's also common for freelancers to come onto our platform for various reason, 1) they didn't get paid by the customer or the customer withheld payment for onerous project tweaks 2) "contractors" were the first to get fired when times got tough, 3) "contractors" didn't get access to certain dev environments thus limiting their growth, etc.

We understand it's not a solution for everyone, that's why we describe our business model clearly, and people can decide if what Astro brings to the table is worth it!
> Copilot isn't automagically going to give you the windows XP source code tho

I mean, it might. That's the whole concern. It's scraping random bits of code from all over the place.
Compared to the tyrannical Rust, maybe.
There is no clarity on these slides if collection happened proactively or it was a way to transfer information for FISA warrants.
Source code is essential to FOSS, a public domain binary-only copy of Microsoft Windows definitely would not be FOSS. This is the second item of the open source definition.

https://opensource.org/osd
The nice thing about Git is that it is batteries-included.

I don't want to deal with databases and everything that comes with it. Just give me something that works with the filesystem directly.
> Something being cool doesn't exempt it from discussion of its ethics and certainly doesn't exempt it from legal consequences.

Indeed. The heist in Ocean's Eleven was cool, but it was still theft.
This is an incredible idea.
The kWh is of course exactly what you want if you're working with power over time.

Example: a 100 amp house circuit running maxed out in the US will use 12 kWh per hour, or 0.2 per minute. Try doing it in your head with joules. Annoying right?

12 kWh / h? Am I a crazy person? No. I'm working on a useful problem.
Alternatively the sheer weight of the Linux kernel's influence means that the GCC implementation of Rust becomes the dominant one, altering the way people install and manage Rust.

Rust is good, but I also do not like the trend in every language and/or build system having its own package management with its own third party dependencies and its own custom installers separate from the distro. I understand the pragmatic problems this solves, but I think it has serious ramifications for reproducibility, security, auditing, etc.
> If it infringes everyone equally and everyone equally benefits from the infringement, has a net wrong actually occurred?

It’s not done equally though. Copyleft code is extremely likely to be on GitHub somewhere, while internal proprietary code is often not. Copilot will thus have been trained more on the former than the latter.

> I don't see how this is any different a form of "infringement" than me copying and pasting snippets of other peoples' code, and then modifying it to suit my particular context, without specific attribution

It’s no different, but that is also copyright infringement.
Actually, Usenet clients (like slrn) were the most usable and efficient discussion software I ever came across.
The kilowatt hour is a fantastic unit when talking about electrical consumption.

Are you running a 100W load (0.1kW) for an hour? That's 0.1kWh. Running it for ten would make a whole kilowatt hour.

This allows for easy calculations of how much something is going to cost in electricity, and the units are such that it's easy to do the math in your head.
> The company demoed the feature at its annual MARS conference, showing a video in which a child asks Alexa to read a bedtime story in the voice of his dead grandmother.

> “As you saw in this experience, instead of Alexa’s voice reading the book, it’s the kid’s grandma’s voice,” said Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s head scientist for Alexa AI. Prasad introduced the clip by saying that adding “human attributes” to AI systems was increasingly important “in these times of the ongoing pandemic, when so many of us have lost someone we love.”

> “While AI can’t eliminate that pain of loss, it can definitely make their memories last,” said Prasad. You can watch the demo itself below:

Sometimes I wonder who is approving these presentations. Like who saw the brief for this and said "yep, that sounds like a good idea!". I fully expected this article to be clickbait and/or be misrepresenting the facts but no, instead it's coming awfully close to Black Mirror's "Be Right Back" episode.

My grandma actually recorded herself reading books to me as a child and I cherried those cassette tapes and listened to them over and over again. To the point that in early elementary school I "read" a book for "show and tell" that surprised my teachers (reading at that level, for my age). Turns out I had just memorized it (a story I've seen repeated online more than once). Those recordings are special, this feels gross. Alexa is not making their memories last, it's a lie, it's fake, it's not real, and it borders on delusional.
I’ve not got specifically what you’re describing but I’ve encountered Bazel twice in my career - both in very large Java/Scala/Go code bases (distinct repo for Go but a lot of code).

Bazel is extremely underwhelming. I’ve worked with crusty ancient systems that built huge systems and Bazel is just the most clown shoes build tool in comparison.

Something didn’t work? Try typing the same command repeatedly and hope that this time it sticks. Multiple commands to achieve a seemingly straightforward task? Why isn’t there a single one that will get us there.

FWIW - I suspect like most tools that Google open sources, the tool makes far more sense in the context of Google’s systems and architecture. If you’re adhering to that, it’s probably coherent.

I’d never choose it willingly though.
> it's just that the type of people who write in rust are bleeding edge types (for now) and have no consideration for forwards compatibility.

Feels like a pretty blanket statement. I'd assume that they'd base the minimum version on Rust's editions. An edition is released every 3 years and is meant to be a solid LTS (as far as I'm aware) version of the language. If they use Rust 2021 edition, you can tell the compiler that (like C89 vs C11) and it will reject code that's newer. C has plenty of newer stuff too that isn't allowed in kernel code at the moment as well.
I still use a few forums that allow you to quote other messages/parts of it.

Funny how I used to be a fan of the branching structure of reddit threads, but now went on to prefer the list of traditional forums with quoting more.
Procmail Considered Harmful
The simple solution is to fill the canal in with rocks and soil. It ought never to have been dug, because the economic interests of Illinois should not be allowed to threaten Michigan’s environment.
Today's date in 850 languages and dialects
Jakt has introduced far more language and compiler changes in the last 3 months, don't be silly. Like the entire thing has been written in Rust first in the last 3 months, and then was rewritten in Jakt. Those are massive changes!
A bit of a rabbit hole led me to this, a commentary by tolkien on his thoughts after drafting several pages of a book set about 100 years after the end of LoTR and Aragorn's death

https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/The_New_Shadow

> I did begin a story placed about 100 years after the Downfall, but it proved both sinister and depressing. Since we are dealing with Men, it is inevitable that we should be concerned with the most regrettable feature of their nature: their quick satiety with good. So that the people of Gondor in times of peace, justice and prosperity, would become discontented and restless — while the dynasts descended from Aragorn would become just kings and governors — like Denethor or worse. I found that even so early there was an outcrop of revolutionary plots, about a centre of secret Satanistic religion; while Gondorian boys were playing at being Orcs and going around doing damage. I could have written a 'thriller' about the plot and its discovery and overthrow — but it would have been just that. Not worth doing

I find that writing process fascinating. Begin writing about your world a few generations later. Find you've added some satanists and other assholes to it. Get upset because the world sucks now. Stop writing the story because it wouldn't be a good one to tell.

It would seem he didn't control his own sense of canon and direction. He just had a genuine vision of it all and it was either going to be exactly that or nothing at all.