skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://github.com/dalibo/pg_activity ('a top-like application for PostgreSQL server activity monitoring') is quite useful.
Own the keys, own your data
:)))

In 1960s defense industry tried to save money flow with such projects.

They had huge troubles, because after 1940s, military spending's constantly reduced, so defense industry have to cut workplaces, some firms just closed.

But there was unpredicted sequel. In 1990s, Russians spend few icbm's, to deliver few hundreds kilograms of mail to Canada. - They have made special container with parachutes and placed it instead of warhead. Then the rocket launched, and in some 20 minutes container got down to ocean about mile from Canada shore.
You really dont want to live in Mindwarp (1992 Bruce Campbell movie) or in this !114! year old short story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
I applaud your faith in rules and humanity.
No one is saying that this will go otherwise, including Moderna.
Fauci didn't make a fake covid vaccine.

In this fake vaccination program, we endangered health of some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world in order to catch someone who had pretty well fallen off the map and wasn't an active threat to anyone for...political points?

I have nothing to back this assertion up, but I bet the number of deaths caused by vaccine hesitancy in that part of the world due to this incident is going to dwarf the number who died in 9/11 all said and done. Was that worth it?
Not really. Adding support for a particular kind of metadata is a change so minuscule it doesn't qualify as a change in the format. Apple just stores their filesystem metadata as in a special sub-directory in ZIP files. And the only problem with the Apple's solution is nobody else respects it. 7zip is a format developed and maintained by a specific author who is alive and active so he can just build the same in the standard 7zip implementations and chances are everybody will accept.

By the way I have just found an actual imperfection in 7zip: it can't let you choose the order in which archived files are stored in it nor chose different compression parameters for specific files. This limits its applicability. E.g. the EPUB standard says the first file in an archive must be "mimetype" and it must be not compressed. But I believe this can be fixed with reasonable ease (and probably without breaking changes) as well.
This is my 2FA Mule. There are others like it, but this one is mine
> I've seen a lot of hot garbage for code because people were too busy to write the test.

I've seen a lot of hot garbage for code because people were too busy writing the tests and ignoring the readability and idiomatic norms of the production code they were writing.
Assuming your lower estimate of 15B + 60B, that remains two orders of magnitude above the insurance policy you claim "is extremely unlikely" to be exceeded, so arguably my point stands.

"Reliable power" is well.. this keeps coming up, and it's always this black-and-white thing; sometimes the wind doesn't blow, so you can't rely on it.

And then the other side will counter that the downtime of wind is predictable, unlike that of nuclear (see the need to raise the price ceiling in EU day-ahead markets to deal with the unplanned nuke outages in France going on right now). This side will say the predictable 45% capacity factor of wind is preferable to the unpredictable 90% capacity factor of nukes.

In reality, a stable energy system is built by combining energy sources of different strengths. Wind and solar provides bulk cheap power most of the time, with hydro and nukes ramping to match production changes. This is identical to how the grid is already ramping to match demand changes every day.

We see this dynamic every day in EU markets, with wind+hydro slotting together, hydro flexing up and down as wind ebbs and flows. You can see this live in the "Origin of Electricity" charts on electricitymap: https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/SE
> I strongly believe you're not a developer.

> You should write code sometimes to solve a complex problem

There’s a very high chance you posted your comment from a device using code I wrote.

Glueing together plagiarized code copied from SO, or stolen from OSS projects on GitHub, is not software engineering.
Have you worked in a corporate environment? Copulating turtles isn't the half of the "very stifling environment that takes itself entirely too seriously." But they have no choice. How long would it take for someone to run to HR complaining of a "hostile work environment" because of the turtles? If a company doesn't have "policies in place to prevent this sort of imagery", they will as soon as the turtles show up.
> Bet it explains the timing of the book too

I think the submission article is pretty obvious about that the timing is on purpose:

> The book, due out in hardback and deluxe on 10th November 2022, is conveniently timed to coincide with Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power which is being released this September, and which is also set in the Second Age.
From the readme, it looks like you need that RAM on your GPU.
No, it customizes the snippets to your context, the code is synthesized and not looked up in a db like a web search engine.
>Enough for Taleb to write a foreword for him (although I suspect that was motivated by their ethnic common origins and less so by the rigor in the book)

Ironic since nowadays Taleb seems to enjoy trolling bitcoiners.
Thin Back End: Instant TypeScript API for Your Postgres DB
Global catastrophic risk and planetary boundaries: disaster risk reduction
Does the market need another stablecoin?
I am objectively curious - is there room for another stablecoin in the web3 space?
I started self hosting when Microsoft bought github and with this mass theft of copyrighted material and then reselling it for money I'm even more happy with my decision.
Why can’t startups understand what a open source license is ? Apache 2.0 could be ingested by this tool but it is a horrible license for your database as a service. AGPL would be a great license for a database as a service but should not be ingested by OpenAi / GitHub copilot.
Should GitHub be sued for training Copilot on GPL code?
Usually they want some recognition for their contribution and with GitHub copilot they get none of that.
At this point, since we don’t know if these early biomarkers lead to any significant harmful outcomes, yes, I would rather not know.

If after they do a few decades of test with This and show me that The DNA they found was linked to premature death, then maybe.
I don't understand what kind of argument you are trying to make here. It seems like you are interested in comparing wire transfers to cryptocurrency, but I don't understand what comparison you're trying to make or what the purpose of the comparison is. Either I just don't understand what you're saying, or maybe your argument doesn't make any sense, or maybe you're just really bad at explaining things.

I had thought that this was a comparison of modern non-crypto banking / finance systems to the infrastructure provided by crypto, but you have made it very clear that you consider a more general comparison "out of scope" for whatever point you are trying to make.
Oh, that's also very recent. Published last year. But the editing apparently started 25 years ago.
This has been used for rosacea for a long time, predating the pandemic. there's a prescription called soolantra
And also, NVIDIA does not sell them to the consumer market whatsoever. Linus Tech Tips could only show one because someone in the audience sent theirs over for review.
Not 100% sure but I think I am one of very few here that is in Tech Support not Engineering.
GPU TDP seems on the verge of going exponential, cost per transistor isn't really decreasing so much at the very latest nodes, and even that article seems to suggest it'd likely be decades before 300x flops/$
Ask HN: How to raise a seed round in a down market?
The market is difficult and many investors put new deals on hold while taking care of their existing portfolio companies.
Aside from preparing for strong growth and low burn, what other suggestions do you have for young startups?
Yandex Image Search is today is what Google Image Search should have been.

End of the day I’ll use what actually gets the job done.

Same goes for OpenAI and Google AI. If you don’t actually ever release and let others use your stuff and end paralyzed in fear at what your models may do then someone else is gonna release the same tech, and at this rate it seems like that’ll be Chinese or Russian companies who don’t share your sensibilities at all, and their models will be the ones that end up productized.
You already have access to thousands of machine now from your home computer.

Naval Ravikant put it best here: https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002106977273565184
Where did they get the database that tells them if "the applicant poses a risk of harm to anyone"? And why don't they use that for everything?

Also, if you do pose a risk of harm to someone, does that person get a gun?
No pressure of competition to improve it so it stays shit.
Termux does not update on the play store anymore since 2020 or 2021. In fact, your repositories are probably outdated

If you ever need to upgrade, you have to install from somewhere else, like F-droid
We need a licence that forbids use in ML and the people willing to sue github for it ASAP.
And you can have multiple licenses in the same repository, folders with copyright exceptions, etc.

It's hard enough for us human to find our way in this mess, I've little hope for an AI.

But maybe it's just the first step. The final step being able to sell an AI that understands Copyright management. I'm sure there is a big market for that.
You can be both a professional software developer and a caring human that considers ethics and exercises empathy.

It's easy to convince oneself they can only be a professional developer to escape ethical responsibilities which require significant time and energy.
If that's the case then GH/MS should at least disclose that for the code generated to actually be legal you have to hunt down the actual source (will be hard in a lot of cases) and check the license against your own license.
That's what I want to believe but many people say that melatonin peaks in your body during these hours so you should be asleep then to maximize the positive effect. Conversely, they say if you don't sleep during these hours then you're hugely increasing your health risks.

So I'm trying to figure out if they're right or not because I'm 42 and I've been a night owl since 12 and yeah, nowadays my health is quite bad and I'm busting my arse trying to fix it.
This is not so innovative, you've been able to do so for many years using Google Custom Search (now Programmable Search Engine) - e.g. many years ago I made an open source projects search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=008818486088109706548:xnogqdia...
Originally discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28251107

I am currently traveling internationally and have had no interruptions in my use of 2FA authentication ... as far as providers know, my SIM card is sitting on my desk in San Francisco ...
But if your loop is busy doing stuff that’s hundreds of bytecode ops long, is worrying about the few extra bytecode ops that a for loop takes worth it?
> This type of argument always distracts from the fact that figuring out where we draw the line between theft and reimagining.

This seems to be missing a word, could you clarify?

Also: since you mentioned theft: this actually comes down to the discussion whether you can own thought and/or digital artifacts which can be replicated without taking anything away from the "owner".

Given the absolute choice I'd rather pick complete freedom than restriction. I suspect that anyone's opinion on this follows what they value higher: creation or exploitation.
For at least your use-case, this is a fairly common feature in enterprise databases.

For a lot of types of data, auditing requires history.

Have a look at MSSQLs history table, for example: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/ta...
A bunch of them have been edited by Verlyn Flieger as well (like Kullervo and Aotrou and Itroun).

And other books have been edited by other people still, see the list here for example: https://www.tolkiensociety.org/author/books-by-tolkien .
Regarding the grandparent comment:

> "To the privileged, equality feels like oppression."

My point is that the quote is accurate, but in an upside-down-and-backwards way. The privileged, by and large, aren't sitting around in country clubs smoking fat cigars and complaining about how they now have to tolerate degenerates. They are everyday people who now have to deal with new ideas they don't understand and might not like, especially if the people presenting them are actively antagonistic about it. Even though feeling oppressed != being oppressed, it's easy to understand how that could feel oppressive, and could prompt backlash.

Hence the parent comment:

> This is a low effort "gotcha" way of dismissing the real feelings of humans who are struggling to reconcile their deeply held desires with what they perceive in media.

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A personal example: I have no problem with gay people. There was a thread about polyamory posted a while back, though. I absolutely hate the idea and I find I don't get along with people who subscribe to it. I have trouble reconciling my belief that people, politically and socially, should be mostly free to do whatever they want, with the fact that I think polyamory is just gross and a bad idea. The few people in the polyamory community I have met didn't, uh, make this any easier.
What have Israel connections got to do with shadiness? What are you insinuating?
>> when some of the Yandex founders and management have lived in Israeli settlements.

So now you have one more reason to say Yandex is bad for the world.
Maybe they should have similar rules to hold any public office.
In what edition are you reading Casanova? The English translation of Arthur Machen[1] leaves the Latin text unchanged, translating only the French to English.

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2981
They've discussed the ethics of this a few times on the live show. Some practitioners think the attitude is wrong, other's don't... but now it's spread so much that background viewpoints are pretty diverse anyway with even Christians doing it, ironically due to their evangelism. On the other hand, I think Anthony Magnabosco[1] doesn't hide it well sometimes in his interviews, which I think some of his interivewees pick up on and it harms the process.

In any case, I think this is the most important kind of activism their is and nobody needs to be part of their original community to do it or do it for the same reasons.

1. https://www.youtube.com/c/AnthonyMagnabosco210
Social security, yes. The other things... kinda.

Social security (in the US) is explicitly designed such that each generation is paying for the one that came before it and generally needs to be larger.

Pensions could and should work just as long as the funds grow faster than inflation, although in practice they can also indirectly rely on younger people paying for older people.
> TIL silmarilion was edited by someone other that Tolkien himself.

He (Christopher) was Tolkien, just not the same one ;)
Wow. Yes you should have refrained from this. You are comparing Nazi scientists who killed many innocents to some software engineers working on a cool project and releasing it for free to the world.

What is your problem?
The doctors and oncologists are not the problem, it’s the companies that make these tests for the pharmaceutical companies that make the drugs Who make billions of dollars and then when something goes wrong you can pay the fine and no one goes to jail.

Have we nut learned anything from the Sackler brothers?
And yet it is still true.
One can also use KiCAD to generate netlists for other SPICE tools like ngspice.

Most EDA packages will include some sort of simulator, often SPICE-based. The fancier ones for RF work include or integrate with field solvers.
My SO usage decreased dramatically once I switched from a simple text editor (Sublime) to an IDE that can resolve symbols and drill down into their definitions.

A lot of my SO usage used to be just looking up API documentation/syntax (and SO would rank higher than the framework's own documentation) which I no longer need to do if I can just Cmd+Click into the symbol and see its internal implementation.
And even if there had been a legal test case, that does not make it moral! If people think this is socially wrong then they're free to argue their case. Business is all about ignoring ethical quandaries if it gives them an edge.

"Microsoft does it, therefore it must be right" does not a sound argument make.
Cool! BTW, I think it was 100% real, if resolved issue with returning to base.
I somewhat agree with that. Yesterday I edited some exotic configuration (Kubernetes CSI driver for Cinder) and Copilot suggested me config which looked like someone's config. There were no values, so it was good at filtering them out, but it definitely looked like cleaned part of code which resides in some project.

I don't think that's bad though. Code sharing is good for overall productivity.
Single pair communications are invaluable in industrial applications - almost all of our scenarios involve the restriction of not being able to run new cable. The costs involved in running new cables can be eye watering to say the least. If you're on a greenfield project, then there are surely better solutions since you have the luxury of designing the cable runs.

VDSL has been king in the areas I work in for quite a few years now and has been very reliable. We are experimenting with SPE and it's looking positive with the biggest benefit being cost. SPE for us is a significant cost down that will allow us to design it into more products where VDSL blew the BOM budget. We'll still use VDSL when we need higher bandwidth but only have that single copper pair.

SPE fills a gap where you need a decent amount of bandwidth at a reasonable distance for a low price. For us it complements modbus, standard ethernet, vdsl etc.

SPE is also very new with the chipsets really only starting to become available in the last 12 months or so. Chip shortages aren't helping but expect to start seeing these solutions pop up all over the place.
First of all regardless for political situation this is great step in making ML research actually open. So huge thanks for those developers who pushed to make it public. Still...

Yandex is in fact share responsibility for Russian government actions. While it impossible to fight censorship they could certainly shut down their News service completely.

Yandex could also certainly move more of their company and staff out of country. It was their deliberate choice stay in Russia and getting advantages on local market by using their political weight.
Well, if you don't mind really slow bandwidth, you can set up a Tor onion service
Does the corporate luthier fancy working on the simple stuff, or the complex stuff? Neither, because they likely work a single phase of an assembly line instead of finishing an instrument all by themselves. This is where the Martin Guitars analogy breaks down: the guitars are not bespoke products. Pieces of computer software obviously are, otherwise we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

Look at any entrepreneur luthier, however, and the story is very different. All their instruments are unique, and they may work on some complex ones for a long time before they decide it is ”good enough” for their standards of quality.

In the same sense, independent masons and smiths are, of course, more aligned with software engineering than any of their corporate counterparts—if any, because these professions are rather contracting-oriented.

Maybe seeing complexity as inherently problematic is actually a coping strategy employed by software craftspersons who have struggled with corporate demands such as inhuman work allocation and deadlines, internalised those demands as ”the way business OUGHT TO be done” (as if expecting a punishment for doing otherwise), and eventually become grugs who shake their club at anyone who triggers their corporate PTSD.

I really hope the grug meme does not become reality.
Man, people really do be angry that the public code they put on a public platform is being used publicly.

Wild.
Gosh, can you imagine if they had trained it on their internal source code repositories and it constantly suggested using Hungarian notation for your variables? ;-)
Of course you can and you should. But going from the Twitter bio and personal website, it doesn't appear to be the case here. They're an activist who lives from soliciting donations and selling 30$ videos on how to be anti-racist (like, literally).
It replaces a few google searches to look up how to do something with a new language or library. Keeping you in your editor and from having to context switch, and possibly distract/derail you, is worth it.
Yes but among the four factors that are used to evaluate fair use claims are whether it is being used commercially (it is) and how it affects the market for the thing that was copied (it clearly would since one way code is used is being imported by other code, if Copilot didn't insert my code into the new app, they might very well use my open source project that provides the same code).
Sadly California media has crushed the world - even the US used to have very distinct regional accents but now most everyone speaks “American TV announcer”.
It doesn’t really “regurgitate code” all that much in practice though. It’s a super impressive product and these arguments seem more like people looking for an excuse to hate new, scary technology.
Especially after they added and removed other features like their collaborative text editor and photo manager.
Point taken, I might have to look at a different debugger supporting loglines for my current setup. Still, the time it takes to execute would be a concern for me. But I am going to check out other debuggers.. hope they're snappy.

I do like to step through code with a debugger when I need it. But that's rarely the case. The usual bug-hunt is something like: Do we go down path A or path B and whats the value of C before and after. Ideally, there is already logging in place that gives me exactly the info I need. If not, to me adding 2 prints or expanding the log usually seems just way more sane than spinning up a debugger, when I'm already looking at stdout/logs and I just need a tiny bit of additional info in there. Maybe I need a faster machine, lol.

Tracing is also a great tool, imho.
Again, how does that differ from Stack Overflow? Do you go and check whether a given reply belongs to a licensed project?

Also, please consider that there is a toggle that allows you to block Copilot from using public code.
I think copilot is amazing. I don't care what, if any, of my code snippets it uses because I also gain from it by skipping boilerplate (as well as things like bash idiosyncrasies). Using it feels like I am working with dozens of invisible collaborators
The problem with in device ads is that they break down when you:

a) don't own the device
b) the device is very low performance, or has no local storage
c) accessing via the web
d) don't have enough data allowance for the much larger overhead to download

Now, those problems will go away eventually, but to say that on-device ad targeting is a panacea for all ignores the majority of internet users around the world today.
> Earth will be destroyed even with no humans on it. In the long run, technology is the only tool for survival of life.

I guess that's where we disagree. I don't care if life goes extinct in twenty thousands years. And I don't want to survive on Mars, looking back at how we destroyed most living beings there.

I don't say that technology is bad in itself. Consumerism is.
Fair - that was poorly expressed.