skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are we all wrapped up with hydrogen when we already have a perfectly adequate hydrocarbon infrastructure?

Sure, digging up old buried hydrocarbons and burning them isn't good, but couldn't we start synthesizing light hydrocarbons using green technology, so at least those usages are carbon neutral?
Thanks! That was very helpful!

After looking at those answers and reviewing the relevant parts of Regulation E that it cites, I do feel like the regulation pretty-comprehensively disallows banks to impose liability on the consumer for sharing their password. Answer 8 especially that notes that no waiver of Regulation E is allowed makes me feel more comfortable.

I'd still support an open-banking API law, but your citations here have really turned down the urgency for me on that issue.

(And, yep I'm familiar that Plaid does not share the password beyond itself and the relevant bank it's authenticating with)
CSPM for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud with GraphQL
Critics: "Crypto is useless, and you're all going to be left broke and sad."

Proponents: Are left broke and sad.

Author of this article: The critics are just "tricked into thinking they are were right all along, and they miss out on huge opportunities in crypto."

Oh, that tricksy crash in the price of beanie babies! Always confounding the silly critics who are befuddled into thinking that they were right all along, when they said the price of beanie babies would crash. Sure, they said it would crash and it did, they said it was useless and it is - but it's just a trick! Tricked you, haha! Now I'm broke and sad, but you silly critics have egg on your face!
That’s a very good point. I also went through this dilemma a few years ago and it was very difficult for me.

Given my personality, I always strive to do what’s right regardless of how difficult or uncomfortable it is. I can say I have ALWAYS succeeded in doing that. But a few years ago when I was in a situation where I needed to get an HIV test, I was very scared and nervous. I was sweating every now and then thinking about it. I couldn’t focus on work and I couldn’t have any fun. The only thing that helped me a little bit was to rationally predict my outcome based on statistics and past behavior.

But all in all, I trusted in the process and got myself to go through with it step by step.
This is excellent! I can't wait for Pixar to pick this up and release a gorgeous hand-painted film.
> Making and selling apps like this is akin to building a social media brand about building social media brands

So much this.

I really can't understand all the excitement above, unless you're starting a new proof of concept daily (but then, the price looks ridiculous) and you're ready for the "buy now - pay later" way of development. If "move fast break things" is still the thing in 2022, then it makes more sense to just draft an MVP in html/js with something like Firestore as a backend?
It’s unclear to me what is the benefit of presenting the information like this.
> Well, I'm saying that he had no options. He went to a (very nice) facility to die. They kept him comfortable and relatively pain-free

I'm just saying that's an option that he took. Just because it wasn't ideal, doesn't mean it wasn't something. If he was in the US, that wouldn't have been an option in the first place. Still a massive improvement over the US.
Passwords Evolved
Yeah, I can already see someone screenshoting and posting it to r/ProgrammerHumor
The only data-center I am aware of that is so beautiful that I feel companies ought be lining up in hopes to get their hardware in it.
There was a lot of anti-Clinton hate in the MGTOW sub.
People offering Hare packages will not bother to wait for distro repositories to graciously package them six months later. They will just tell their users to copy-paste curl-to-bash one-liners. And users will follow, because why would they want to use stale or outright non-existent distro packages?

‘But I am going to tell people not to do that!’ As if people are going to bow down before the unstoppable appeal of your charisma instead of following the path of least resistance.

Of course, this is all assuming there will be meaningful external Hare packages in the first place.
Is this bribing developers so they stop talking about code laundering? The problem does not disappear.

There would be no issue if they trained the model on Microsoft's closed source instead.
What about everyone between "late 20s" and "boomers"?
Requires expressions and requires clauses in C++20
Given the amount of oxygen we breath and that our lungs are just for the job of collecting it (and discharging CO2) I would say you might save yourself that discomfort for the little it would achieve.
IANAL but from the brief info you shared it sounds like the show had rights to include the film on broadcast x times but not the rights for later distribution.
Yeah, so would cheap nuclear power or cheap batteries. I find cheap batteries way more likely then either of those.
Based on my experience with a Blackberry phone I'd say the average physical keyboard lasts significantly longer than the phone's update support.

Sure it's got mechanical parts but reliable switches are not rocket science. Now analog sticks are a different story apparently.
Love these solutions to a problem, well done :)
Possibly they just got the rights to air the film, but didn't actually get ownership. I'd imagine when the language was written up, the assumption was made that Twilight Zone would only take the form of over-the-air TV broadcast.
I've been intereted in tai chi but haven't found a good place to learn it. Do you do in-person classes or online?
how about investing in your family and kids while your husband lives paycheck-to-paycheck in a rented condo, ready to be laid off on a whim?
> borrowed from Cicero: “He knows nothing who does not profit from what he knows.”

The translations of Cicero I've seen as "The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom."
I'd love to see the postmortem from Facebook :(
> >These searches can take 12+ hours to run

> WTF. What are these searches doing?

This is why you're a techie ;)
Where I live, copyright literally means the right to copy. Which means using a binary that gives/produces/generates a Disney movie when you do not have rights to that movie, you violate copyright by virtue of copying the IP into your computers memory and then onto the view buffer of your display. Also if the binary manages to do that without actually violating copyright itself it might even be legal. There's other laws that could be used though, I forgot what they got Napster on but they had something to shut it down, same for torrent sites like Piratebay.
Uneconomic? It's laziness. If you went up to any guy in the 90s and told them that you had a device with a 1/50 chance of pairing them up with a woman that wanted to have sex with them every night that they spent 15 minutes on said device, they'd beg you to sell it to them for any price.

Now, those odds are apparently not good enough for the men of the 2020s. It's insane - these men just don't want sex enough if they're not willing to spend 15 mindless minutes a night swiping and messaging.
Was that decision informed by legal or product? Because derivative works are still derivitative works even if you don't replicate the original verbatim.
I didn’t realize HN would have people make the ludicrously stupid “well just build your own Twitter” argument

Figured we had a more high brow audience here clearly I was mistaken
Yes that ruins his entire credibility.
You also can just see the difference between your potential salary and what you get as your personal contribution to open source. And lots of people are happy to receive something, even if the value of the gift is not significant.
Disagreed. These are the end goals, but the very first step is to write as many words as possible. Editing is cutting what's there to something that actually works -- cleaning up.
they used the data of their users without compensation and they have the decency to charge $10?
>In any case: if you want to try and split hairs about this, that’s your call. What I’ll say is this: nobody seemed to care much about a “grooming” epidemic until a few months ago, and since then it’s only been about LGBTQ people.

Not really. Mild and reasonable concerns have been raised on the right-wing websites for at least a year. The media swept it under the rug. Then the attention-seekers from the right side picked it up and started exaggerating the issue to get visibility to their personas. The media labeled them "far right extremists" and completely dismissed the point of their complaints. Now it's reaching the state where every meme-maker with an MS paint feels compelled to photoshop something about groomers, and that's where you can't ignore the problem anymore. Congratulations, you have suppressed the voices of reason and you will now have to deal with an angry mob.

>Nobody else is making the distinctions you’re trying to make here.

Some people are. Most people aren't. That's exactly why your country will splinter. In some states you will get a ticket for showing up in public with a same-sex partner. In others teaches will be financially incentivized to reach the quota of trans students, as it will be seen as helping people find their true identity. Both extremes are idiotic, but that's how tribalism works and that's how empires fall. You can safely ignore it for a single-digit number of years, but you will see it in your lifetime.
I don’t think so? It just seems like all the kids are using CDNs these days, and some of my developer friends who have a tendency to over-architect things seem to swear by them.
Those steps still exist though surely, just managed by the one command. If you're querying via SQLite you have to ingest first.
Im sure from Microsoft's POV is that they are charging you for maintaining and operating co-pilot (servers, admin, etc), not charging you for the tool itself.
> Does copilot work for shell scripts?

Oh wow—a language where there are: 20 ways to do something, three of them are common, but only three others actually behave, by any standard, correctly, while being among the least-common in public code, seems like exactly the wrong kind of thing to use this for.

Shell doesn't need machine-learning autocomplete trained on existing shell scripts, it needs a hand-built aggressive linter.
> Manchester, Bristol, Reading, etc

I don’t think that is true to be honest
Yes, very easily.
Why is being anti-porn a kind of hysteria? Can a person not object to it based upon their personal values, and participate in collectivized political action just as other interest groups do to create change in favor of their values?

What I would like to know, is who the leaders of this company are politically connected to in order to not be held accountable for their actions.
Use a distribution whose release cadence matches your needs. I use Alpine Linux, which has frequent updates on edge and biannual stable releases, which allows me to enjoy both approaches. Debian is designed for the longer term, Arch is designed to be bleeding edge. The idea that Linux distros have outdated software is a symptom of the fact that people are not choosing the right tool for the job, something that I am particularly unsympathetic to when thinking of an audience of software engineers.

Hare is a conservative language which strongly encourages a conservative approach. We are not here to move fast and break things. Culture comes from the top-down, and while we may not succeed for all users, we can certainly set the standard of quality for the language.

C has no successful independent package manager, yet we rarely if ever see people distributing C libraries with curl|bash.
Wouldn’t the probability that the next time it would be aliens increase every time it turns out to not be aliens
>> There's a lot of fiction that just feels like the writer had tunnel vision on a contemporary issue and forgot to flesh out enough of a story to make it feel like more than a thinly-veiled lecture. Even when I agree wholeheartedly with the message, it can be agonizing to watch.

The classic example of that for me is a Star Trek episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_That_Be_Your_Last_Battlefi...
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I’ve been doing this. But I hate it. CSVs need to die. They’re terrible data formats. But here we are. And SQLlite makes things amazing.
All of the synthetic light hydrocarbons (e-fuels) involve extra energy on top of the hydrogen production. Its pretty much right there in the name (hydro carbon). So for instance, we could make a ton of hydrogen and then burn it for energy, or we could make a ton of hydrogen, add in a few hundred kilos of carbon and more energy to produce e-fuels that we then burn for energy.

For logistics reasons it will almost certainly have its place, but because by definition it takes a greater energy investment than just the hydrogen, it will economically come after hydrogen production has been scaled to solve the cases where it is not logistically constrained.
I LOL'd but then was a bit depressed when it dawned on me you could well be right.
Nice to see some work being done with Cantonese. Large part of North American Chinese speak Cantonese but its rarely supported officially in any tools.
Just to clarify: are you saying you'd pay $20 for an hour saved, but not $33.33 for an hour saved?
Statistics of Inequality and Discrimination, Fall 2022
Microsoft brings AI to GitHub to create a smart programming Copilot tool
I don't like the idea of CoPilot ... and I'm happy it's not free :)

I'm enjoying reading some comments where people consider how much it's actually worth for their usage. Dollars brings some sober analysis. I'm sure the development and compute have a significant cost, and should be paid for.
X-Plane 12 Flight Model Update – Supersonic Transition, Delta Wings and Mass
I feel I was "pranked" by my "reading French for grad students" instructor. Assigned was a discursively long letter by Pascal to translate. The initial excitement of getting to read some Pascal wore thin as the letter went on and on and on. All was forgiven when I got to the end and read for myself the source of the famous "Sorry this letter was so long; I didn't have time to write a shorter one" (or something to that effect -- it's one of the nodes in the graph).

That was a great lesson on several levels.

Pascal's letter was an info dump, not a concise expression of an idea he wanted to convey. In editing, you start with the info dump and remove the unnecessary until you have clear simple statement of the ideas. All of this takes work, and mainly culls the unessential from the info dump.

Maybe the point of the page, is that the ideas have been culled, distilled into a simple little graph, resulting in even less writing?
The Silent Killers (2015)
A 1967 film about what life will be like in 1999
Not really, my Vizio has no connection to anything (firewall drops it's traffic, and it's on a separate VLAN). It takes 15 seconds to respond to input changes after waking it up.
For example: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ebay-port-sca...
I was expecting the same.
Things I Regret About Node.js – Ryan Dahl (2018) [video]
Yes, it is a derived work and should be GPL if it was trained on GPL code.
> I suppose it's a good way to spend money toward national security and job creation that doesn't go directly into a defense megacorp pocket.

I invite you to look up the term "prime contractor". Even outside the DoD, most contracts to small and midsize entities go through one of the major defense contractors like Lockheed or CSC.

Big companies like Intel and Google have Government divisions with things like segregated balance sheets and all the requisite tracking etc that the government requires. But small and medium companies can't really afford to do all that, unless it's 100% of their business and often not then.
I'm saying that at $100 yearly I'm on the fence of maybe yes or no. At $60 yearly I'm auto-yes without having to think in rational terms. I guess I'm just not at that place in life where $100 is the tier in which I think emotionally.

Also, if I magically knew that I could save you 3 hours yearly, but it were spread out over the course of a year, and that your savings would occasionally spike down into negative and then slowly climb up, I just wouldn't entertain such a complex offer at such low numbers. People pay insurance just to avoid such incidental downward spikes.

Copilot's biggest limitation right now is that you can't dare to allow minutes of savings per day without inviting the risk of a severe spike in debugging time, the kind that wipes out all your savings. This means you cannot spike up.
> Did you write this blog post too?

No. I also did not work on the research in the post.

My positions on cryptocurrencies don't necessarily reflect my employer's opinions. I don't work on cryptocurrencies, have no professional or hobbyist interest in them, and have neither direct nor derived financial positions in/against them.
And sometimes, as a fuse.
I’ve actually visited half the country, when I worked as a consultant. Weather in the north is horrid, much worse than in London, food is appalling in ways that can’t be described, pubs are all the same replica of a Wetherspoon or of a Young’s.

It could be that coming from central Italy I have very high expectations, maybe some form of Stendhal syndrome in reverse. But I haven’t had the same feeling when travelling in Germany or France. The UK outside of inner London is a distinctly ugly and boring place. Now it’s also the place in Western Europe with the worse supply chain disruptions and shortages.
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It may seem that way if one knows little about the cutthroat Nixon administration, but those folks played hardball. The kind that prolonged a war (Vietnam), killing multiple thousands to ensure getting elected. Watergate, etc. Naiveté in a nutshell, although will allow that "company culture" may not have been as well-known a thing at the time.
this reads like it was written by someone who has never stepped outside zone 2.
Much better than hiring and firing, or requiring mass layoffs later. IMO US companies need to be hiring much more slowly. I can't find it at the moment but I remember Basecamp put out a post a while back that "we are not hiring", explaining that they prefer to invest in internal talent.
If it doesn't train itself on your company's codebases, I don't see much use for it. I spend much more time understanding requirements than writing code. By the time I know what to actually code, the coding part is pretty easy. The hardest part about coding is making sure what I write is high quality and fits in nicely with everyone else's code and the established architecture of the module I'm working in. If Copilot can't say "Oh, I see we're using this existing function or service to do this part, let's not duplicate code" I don't see it being useful.

I don't need help parsing a string or iterating over a list.
Interesting. At 1.4 Million views, I wonder how much revenue the poster made by stretching the video out to to 12 minutes by adding so much filler when it could have just been 2 minutes long.

I wonder how many manhours in total of people's lives that content-producer destroyed for a few extra bucks.

(Over 31 manyears wasted watching that video, what a shame. That's longer than some people live.)
I don’t use Cloudflare or any CDN right now. I feel like I’m not a likely target for DDoS attacks.

I guess my secondary question is, why do many people running pretty small websites use and swear by them? I’m just trying to understand how necessary CDNs are, and is CF the CDN to use?
Just yesterday someone asked me if "AI style transfer"* would work for 3d models or video. I said "if the current speed of progress holds, i think we will see this within the year".

And here it is.

"What a time to be alive!"

(*) this isn't style transfer on video, as far as i understand, this is styling the neural radiance field before rendering it to images.
Be careful with this sh*t because the effective does and the lethal dose are not as separated as with most other classes of drugs. Couple that with physical addiction and you get a rather nasty mix. I suspect the goal was to start with “as little meds a possible” to allow recovery at reduced risk.

This is a hot topic for pharma as replacing opiates and opioids with safer drugs would be a big win.
I assume there's some non-trivial caveats when using this with a widely-distributed system.
I'm adding custom NFC tags to all my laundry with encoded washing instructions, color and material data. Placing laundry in "smart" basket will read all data from them (this part is currently more involved, as you need to scan each article of clothing separately), and send instructions to washing machine for most optimal program (that's a problem too, as I do not own "smart" washing machine, yet). If there are some outliers, e.g. black shirt in otherwise white-ish laundry - I will be informed to remove it, for best results.