skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm assuming the types of older w/ downtown suburbs you're talking about are more like this, right?:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2054168,-71.5416077,3a,75y,0...

For the record I grew up between two types of places. One was a pretty, forested, newish, wealthy, totally-isolated-from-anything-that's-not-a-home-or-school development very similar to this:

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.7471229,-122.073413,3a,60y,0...

The other was a more remote, rural, mixed-income area a lot like this:

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4281764,-78.0252446,3a,75y,1...

I found both of those great in their own ways. The former was extremely pleasant and peaceful. Kids would play around outside, neighbors would walk their dogs together, people would frequently have house parties and barbecues and such. Weirdly, it's completely isolated from any commercial development. It's a 10 minute drive to the nearest place you can buy anything. Nobody had much of a problem having a social life as far as I could tell.

The latter was great too, but in a more independent kind of way. Everybody kept to themselves more at home, but they would congregate at church or at the local restaurants all the time. People would shoot guns, drive 4x4s, just do whatever the heck they wanted and nobody gave them shit for it. There was a bigger mix of poorer folks and richer folks, oftentimes along traditional racial boundaries, but they coexisted better than any community I've seen. Rich farmers would shoot an extra deer each year for the poorer families so they could eat meat for dinner even when it was expensive. There was a bit of a "downtown" but it was still like, 20 minutes drive away on a country road so not really accessible without a car obviously. School and sports was a huge center of life there: people all over town would come to the local high school football games.

I'm still not exactly sure which kinds of suburbs, or aspects of suburbs, you find alien.
I mostly agree with you, but that's on more "traditional" SaaS products. When it's a service. This is more of a product.

There are developers and agencies that buy Avo, build something for a customer and then transfer the license to them. The customer might not even know that the agency bought something. They might not want to pay something ongoing.

Yes, one could make the case that "hey, you pay hosting ongoing after the project is delivered, why not pay the admin framework?" and that's fair, but I just don't know if we're at that point yet. I'd love it if Avo would bring us closer to that point.
Google is their first customer, and they're giving IA free access. And what they're buying let's them

>detect vandalism or important updates at the article level.

So it gives them a better ability to control a Wikipedia page's content?

Ostensibly both want the unlimited retreivals, but this entire program seems suspicious.
Oracle Poetry (2008)
>Needlessly limiting their revenue isn’t going to solve anything.

But they've done exactly that since day 1 by refusing to show any ads.
> I would rather invest the difference in cost and keep buying new every 4 years.

So much for the environmental impact of that production and shipping...
> For hydrogen to be green is has to either A) be more green than storing the generating power in batteries

I thought batteries had some pretty toxic elements inside them? I don’t know much about using hydrogen as a power source so I’m interested to understand how it’s less green than batteries.
Climate change doesn't mean just the temperature become a few degrees warmer. The most noticeable change is that one in century event may happen annually now: extreme heat, extreme cold, floods, hurricanes, etc.
> Shell doesn't need machine-learning autocomplete trained on existing shell scripts, it needs a hand-built aggressive linter.

Something like https://www.shellcheck.net/?
In this case, it strongly incentivizes them to provide poor service to non-paying, non-enterprise API users. Wikimedia Enterprise apparently generates daily snapshots for paying customers[1]. The general public only gets them twice a month[2]. Wikimedia's goal should be to serve the public.

[1]: https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/docs/snapshot/
[2]: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
I got 15% faster with the non-BR font. I was trying to do the same amount on each.
A bit late to this thread, but I think WARC is a reasonable format for raw HTTP traffic. We should definitely have better tools to ensure WARC files produced are valid, and that's one of the things we build at Webrecorder.

Unless you're crawling really text heavy content, most of the WARC data is binary content that doesn't really need to be in a db. However, sqlite or database as replacement for CDX is an appealing option, where WARC files can remain static data at rest and derived data (offests, full-text search, can be put into a db.

We are experimenting with a new format, WACZ, which bundles WARC files into a ZIP, while adding CDXJ and exploring sqlite as an option for full-text search.
I agree that it's better to build on solid, existing formats that can be validated, especially when large amounts of data are concerned!
It’s good in the way that a gym that sells soda and ice cream is running a good business.

They’ll definitely see short term profit gains. But they’re losing sight of their original goals and risk losing their long term market.
Show HN: ModResponse – Mock, modify, and replay HTTP response
I'm one of the Hare contributors researching the possibility of adding a borrow checker. I'm still at the start of that journey, and I'm looking at the problem implementation-wise rather than user-wise, but my impression so far regarding simplicity and issues that arise in interaction with other complex language features matches what you said.
but I see what you mean and I think you're not wrong.
Some people just don't have enough. For them it is necessary.
The only thing that is sad is that is difficult to explain to a child that wiki{m,p}edia is just another "news" outlet and everything there shall be taken with a grain of salt.
Or `jless`, which shows you a tree and doesn't flood your terminal.
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In a sense, it is. Continuous aggregates only have to materialize the most recent bucket of time, not the entire materialized view as you have to in PostgreSQL. That's honestly hard to demonstrate and quantify in a blog post like this because it's something that you notice over time. If you have to refresh the PG materialized view every hour (to get the recent hour of data) and it takes 2 minutes - a year from now it's probably going to take 3-4 minutes (maybe more)... and a lot of valuable CPU/IO to boot.

With continuous aggregates, TimescaleDB is only materializing the last hour - and updating anything that's changed in previous buckets within the refresh window.
Yes, and you'll be fine if you do. The problem is you might not bother.
10$/mo is pretty steep for something that gives you bad info 90% of the time, I will def be disabling. I was hoping for maybe 1-2$/mo, it's just a small addon feature after all
Not exactly, because ads would result in people not donating and go against their mission. Forming into Wikimedia Enterprise allows them to get enterprise revenue without compromising the experience of reading the content
$10/mo is fine. I pay at least $10/mo for JetBrains products.

However I wish there was more competition. Github could rescind access to Copilot or charge $40/mo or it could slow down because their cloud is overloaded with new users, and I would be out of luck.

Tabnine and Kite are alternatives but I've heard they don't work nearly as well. I wish there were similarly-effective alternatives which charge similar rates for cloud hosting / profit, but open-source their datasets and algorithms, and just generally provide a fallback if Copilot's quality ever goes down.
>It was really frustrating. So the wording on what financial contributions should be, like in this article, has lots of wiggle room. It seems Dartmouth is covering tuition for families making $65k or less. But a single year’s tuition is $60k, so good luck to families making $70k.

That's the point.

This is a non-change. They've always accepted a few poor people and dolled out scholarships under the unspoken guise of "economic diversity". If you don't fall into that category you either need to be rich or exceed the typical admissions requirements by enough to warrant an exception. The university is just patting itself on the back for something it's always been doing.
I don't see hydrogen playing any role for energy storage or grid demand balancing.

Even if all the technical and engineering challenges associated with storing and transporting it safely could be addressed, I just don't see how the economics of green hydrogen is supposed to work. The round-trip energy efficiency of electrolysis-fuel cell is poor - currently about 40%.

The counter-argument is that such inefficiency doesn't matter as it can be used as a sink for excess/almost free renewables (solar or wind) but for this to work, it means leaving your capital-expensive electrolysis plant idle for half or 2/3rds of the day. Since the cost of green hydrogen production is mostly cap-ex not op-ex, this makes the proposition almost completely infeasible.

Looking at the trajectories of grid-scale battery storage and that of hydrogen technology, I don't see how anyone could bet on hydrogen.

The best hope is that we can replace the current industrial consumption of grey hydrogen with that of green but this currently needs massive subsidy as a kg of green hydrogen current costs about 5 times that of gray (admittedly I think the multiple will be less given the current high NG prices).
I'm surprised to see kind of writing in a New Yorker article:

> Casanova wouldn’t discover the existence of his putative daughter Leonilda for some eighteen years, at which point he fucked her mother while she shared their bed.

I only occasionally read the New Yorker so I'm not up to date - is this the new style? I don't mind so much but I definitely did a double take when I read it.
"All deaths from preventable causes are equally tragic"

I'll agree that they are tragic. I think it's an interesting topic to explore if they are equally tragic. Tragedy is is strongly based off of one's emotions.

For example, if someone dies because they did something stupid, a neutral third party would likely see that as less tragic than some innocent person who died at no fault of their own. Think childhood cancer vs gang member being shot.

When it comes to things like cardiovascular diseases, it seems that society has not prioritized those as being highly tragic. I assume this is because for the majority they are affected later in life, many may not truly be preventable (think of 90 yo grandma with a stroke), and for the ones what are preventable it is largely due to personal choice. The people doing the judging are likely making simular personal choices (less exercise, excessive consumption, etc). Basically the situation of how alcohol is legal - most people partake, and infrequent imbibing is not itself deadly but the cumulative or secondary effects can be.
It's a half truth that editing makes your writing more concise. First drafts have sloppy sentences that need to be trimmed or removed entirely. But proper editing also reveals where you've assumed too much or your argument is weak, and fixing those problems requires more words, not fewer. When I see a writer whose prose is too fluid, my instinct is to ask what's left out.
Well cloudflare’s entire value is in uptime and preventing outages. Showing they have a rapid response and strong fundamental technical understanding is much more critical in the “prevent downtime” business.
This is incredibly common with TV shows produced before the rise of DVD box-sets (early/mid-00s). Shows had a defined lifecycle: they'd premiere (and make back most of the production cost), re-run the following summer (assuming the show was popular enough to not get cancelled), and then if the show reached ~100 episodes, it would be picked up for syndication. All but the most popular shows would essentially cease to exist 10-15 years after their initial run ended, so it was cheaper to license third-party elements (music, this French film) on a time-limited basis to keep costs down.
I agree to an extent--mostly upfront "throat clearing" and sometimes there's a section that just doesn't fit or becomes tangential as a piece develops. But for day to day writing, which I do a lot of, the 1200 words or so I put down is mostly going to get little nips and tucks rather than a lot of wholesale cuts. YMMV of course.
I felt like prepending the domain was a reasonable request so I've added that as a checkbox. Thanks for the feedback!

Regarding the versioning, perhaps that could be manual editing of the email? or using a different "v2" salt?
421 wpm with bionic reading, 447 without, but I had the impression of being faster with bionic reading, something about reading being more smooth. I guess it's smoother but slower overall.
they're referring to their readership there; most people don't read the New Yorker

(yes, i put that third spelling of ðɛɹ in just because I could)
Why is this idea presented with... physics-governed vertices on a graph?

There's a certain irony to a blog post about concise writing that uses this much JS and CSS to display a few quotes.
This is "serious web3 analysis"? Another "it's time to buidl" fluff piece?
In the long run, I expect very few people will pay for a dedicated Copilot account. It will get bundled in some "development enterprise bundle", heavily discounted. Employees in medium and large shops will just receive it as standard, with their VS or Github paid licenses. Which means it will actually cost half the sticker price.
>Goals can be expanded to infinity

And thus diluting and losing sight of their original goals. This isn't a corporation driven inherently by eternal desire for more profit.
And if the cops show up then what? I couldn't get them to show up for a blatant hit and run in Texas or assault in Washington D.C. If you are lucky enough for a cop to show up do you think a man will stick around waiting for them to show up? Do you think cops will pursue in these instances? Have you ever called the police? Do you know what the response time is for the type of report you are filing? Even in the most wealthy countries in the world the police won't take you seriously if you tell them "this man is talking to me, creeping me out, and scaring me"
Yes, it writes the different cases out for you. The arguments...
> I believe, but do not know how or where to find a conclusive answer, that the minimum amount of information required to deliver a piece of US mail is street, number, and ZIP.

The USPS wants, for most delivery points, address (street and number), city, state, and zip, but the state is always superfluous, the city is I think also always superfluous (though I can imagine a situation where the same address existed in two different jurisdictions sharing a zip code), and the address (with even nine-digits of a ZIP) is sometimes superfluous (and not just for the special post-office +4 codes like -9999 for general delivery.)

If you have a full 11-digit ZIP, it is supposed to be unique for at least residential addresses (and I would assume all addresses that the USPS delivers to; anything more specific would be internal.)
You are unfortunately a victim of propaganda; many men today are. Women did not magically in the last 50 years override all biological instinct and traditional desires that they have had for millennia, even though media would like you to believe otherwise
Almost all generated code is original

Good, you will almost not be liable for infringement.
It's asymmetric warfare, as the interviewer gets to clone it... like software... and then demands proof of work from the applicant.
what's the difference between allowing you to search github and find a code snippet, and having a fancy autocomplete system search github and find a code snippet for you?

seems to me anyone agreeing to the ToS should expect their code to show up on other peoples screens as search results

really the question is a matter of degree, is copying your nested for-loop iterating through a row oriented matrix really a unique piece of code protected by copyright? Or does the copyright apply to the file you've written as a whole, leaving room for me to accidentally use words in the same order? clearly there is a tipping point between writing code that looks like yours and using the code you've written outside the terms of your license, we will have to wait for courts to decide where that line is for all ML, not just co-pilot

also copying is not theft
From a practical perspective I definitely agree. Creating a crypto scam coin is a free, low risk way of making money. If Do Kwon can do it, so can you. Critics are far too obsessed with the triangular shape of the system to realise that they could be sitting on the top of the triangle.
Sure, but goals change as the world does.
Google already scrapes and utilizes all of Wikipedia's contents to use in its "knowledge graph", and donates a substantial amount to the WMF in return. This simply formalizes the financial agreement and moves the data exchange to an api that is presumably more convenient and less resource intensive for both parties, while offering the same access for any other enterprise customer (and the internet archive gets it for free).

This seems like a good idea for both the WMF and the open internet.

(Contrary to what seem to be a lot of early knee-jerk negative responses in this thread - I suspect I'm seeing a bit of "early-thread contrarian dynamic")
Tesla could just allow their employees to unionize and they'd have been invited
extreme response.
Lots of $10/mo is too much/great deal discussions here. Wonder if anyone would pay $30/mo for this?
> I've been using Copilot non-stop

> I am honestly flabbergasted they think it's worth 10$/mo

These two statments seem contradictory to me. Why are you using it 'non-stop' if it isn't even worth $10/month?
> But $10/mo is a steal.

Isn't that up for us to decide?

For work yeah sure I have no problem.

But I've been using it at work and home and my hobbyist projects are hardly worth paying $10 a month to use it. So in that context it's pricey. That's not "entitlement" that's just the value of the product to me.
From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOyIJVUaoeg
Hydrogen is a battery. We have no free source of H2. We have to put energy into making it, storing it, and transporting it. We get less energy back than we put in. The most generous lifecycle analyses that I have seen estimate 60-70% roundtrip efficiency.
Is Deno going to be the first runtime environment to IPO?
There are lots of efforts in creating battery chemistries that do not rely on hard to source elements. Lithium sulfur (no cobalt required), Sodium ion (much more readily available than Li), and many other efforts - some showing good results.
I don't think c++ is even on their supported language? the copilot page lists python,js,ts,ruby,go.
Yeah, because V supporters should stay silent, and allow detractors free rein to say anything and continuously smear the language and its developers at will.

Funny, I notice the supporters of other languages don't seem to follow such advice. They make strong defenses and advocate for the languages they like, anywhere and everywhere, including on even this thread.

If anything, V supporters might want to be more vocal and show their support (which can be done in various ways), to counter what's going on. It doesn't work to stay quiet and let bullies keep slapping a person around. They incorrectly interpret it as a sign to continue.
This has been the biggest productivity improvement to my workflow in years

No it doesn't "understand what I'm doing" or "get everything right" but that's hardly the point

It's often reducing the amount of labor I'm doing by hitting the keyboard by guessing 90% correctly what I was going to type

It also often saves me from having to google how to do something, it's effectively serving me a search result right along my code

I'm lucky to be getting it for free but would have immediately paid $10. It needs to only save you minutes a month for that to be worth it

Also the comments about it being "unfair their monetizing other people's work" are missing the point.

Github has created a product that many people use and through that effort created a large repository of code.

They are now releasing a product that is going to create a large amount of of value in time saved and are maybe capturing 2% of that. This is a great outcome for everyone
I mean, if you prefer all-caps for acronyms (some style guides prefer all-caps for initialisms that are not acronyms, and initial-cap for acronyms.)
> AI is just recomposition of existing snippets of code, art, text, music, etc.

It's not random recomposition, which is worthless. It's useful recomposition, adapted to the request and context. It adds something of its own to the mix.
I don't know enough about how GTP-3 and ML work to really answer this, but I think I'd be fine with what you're saying if I understand the question. If they provided (and charged) for the infrastructure, but the model was FOSS and community-driven, it would be less icky I think.

I just don't like the idea of taking people's work (without asking or checking licenses) and then selling it back to them. It'd be like if Stack Overflow decided to start charging to see answers and not asking or giving a split to the person who gave the answer. I realize they aren't just copy/pasting so not a perfect parallel, but still.
Is that metal hydride stuff feasible? I heard about it and saw videos around the claims of the substance but was curious why it never took off if it was so great. What are the challenges around it precisely?
https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/metal-hydride-storage-...
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Great definition! Having worked for years on both energy and IoT applications, the argument here is that your "monthly sales data" is likely being aggregated from your time-series data (sales transactions over time). If you store the transaction data in a database like TimescaleDB, then continuous aggregates provide the straightforward method for keeping that aggregated, monthly sales data up-to-date. :-D!
You discharged a firearm wildly into the air with no concern for where the bullets may land. And you thought someone flying a drone was somehow a threat. Anyone ordering packages by drone now has to worry their items might not make it. You’re not coming off as a sane and stable individual. It is not clear that you will walk free, especially with the right jury.
Yes you can. Our site uses Jumpstart (lovely app) and we use Avo everyday with it.

Avo was designed to be unopinionated. I know that might sound off. Avo has a DSL, it must be opinionated, and it is with that DSL, but with the rest, we'd like to allow the developer to use what they want.

BYOB.

Bring your own authentication. You might not want to use devise, but something else. Avo enables you to add your own auth layer.

Bring your own search. Avo plays well with ransack, but you can hook into it and do your thing with algolia or something else.

Bring your own layer of multi tenancy. Scope things out as much as you need it. We have a customer that runs three platforms in one app using Avo. Believe me when I say they were able to scope out their data "to the bone".

So yeah. Avo plays amazingly well with existing apps. It was designed that way.
I Found Everything with a First Name and Phone Number
> I’d just love for US sites to stop assuming that ZIP codes need 5 numbers.

I know. ZIP codes need 9 numbers.

No, wait, that’s 11 for the last 31 years.
Water electrolysis is around 60-80 percent efficient. Hydrogen fuel cells are around 40-60 percent efficient. Plus you spend additional energy to either compress or cool the hydrogen in order to be able to store it.

Electricity storage in a lithium-ion battery is on the order of 98% efficient, and electric motors are around 90% efficient (if you take into account the whole drivetrain).