skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In spite of something I wrote elsewhere--basically that sometimes it's just time to move on--I tend to agree. While it may be blasphemous to say, much as I love it, LoTR is not without its flaws--especially the whole structure of The Return of the King. Tolkien was a world building (and linguistic) genius but LoTR hasx its flaws.
Yeah Denver turned one of the residential roads in my neighborhood into an official bike road two years ago. They replaced stop signs with roundabouts, put up tons of signage, and where there are lights at major crossings they put sensors that are triggered by bikes.

Even though it’s still shared with cars, it’s so much more pleasant and safe because they are more aware and polite.

Went from biking being just a thing I do to get around to taking my son to and from school on his bike every day.
> The economic impact of pulling people OUT OF A CAR and INTO THEIR environment is perhaps under-appreciated.

All you have to do is stop and take a look at pictures where you see lots of people riding bikes or walking near businesses and then contrast that with a 4-lane road to get an idea of how much more economic activity is generated locally for a business.

If you don't have an automobile industry (and even if you do) you are pillaging your own economic well-being by taking thousands of dollars from families and forcing them to send it to far away places that make cars and oil and gas when they could be spending it in their own neighborhoods and towns.

It's fucking crazy that we do this. I don't know how much more emphasis I can put on it. Requiring people to drive a car 20 miles, 40 minutes, whatever to just live their lives is so stupid it defies belief. That's not to say you can't have a car (or two). It's to say that we shouldn't design all of our towns and cities around moving cars around instead of people. We're literally making ourselves poor trying to do this.
This feels legal, but icky.

Like technically it's legal for multi billion dollar companies to turn MIT projects into hosted services.

They can do this without compensating the original devs, they can close source their additions, etc.

Just feels icky.

Co Pilot also feels icky, back when it was free, it looked like a neat project. For 10$ a month, one would hope the Microsoft overlords would offer some compensation.

Let's say you write a code snippet that Copilot copies a few million times. Maybe Microsoft can give you a bit of cash.

Then again, it's probably buried in GitHub's TOS that they can use tools like CoPilot to extract from anything you upload.
Writing multi-line strings in Zig is not easy.
What if computers, trained on Tolkien corpus, were put to the task…
Especially if their "office" looks like Panera without the food counter or decor.
This is a valid concern when running Dockerized containers and it caught me years ago when I was deploying my first containerized servers to the wild. It was a "holy shit" moment, but anyone who is trusted (getting paid) to secure servers should stumble upon this pretty quickly.

1) Add firewall rules to UFW

2) Test firewall rules

3) Notice you can bypass those rules (they didn't take)

4) iptables -vL

5) Why the fuck is there a DOCKER-USER chain at the top of FORWARD, and it's above all of my UFW entries?

6) Adjust iptables without UFW

7) Realize adjustment didn't work after reboot because Docker dynamically adds the iptables entries on start (above my entries)

8) Add my chain to the bottom of the DOCKER-USER chain, before the RETURN all

9) Verify firewall rules

10) Reboot server

11) Verify firewall rules

This is probably a huge issue today because most people can't do their job correctly. They are pulling that sweet salary, bullshitting their stand-ups, zoning out on video calls, and squirming until they can turn netflix back on while working remotely. You just need to have enough attention span to verify your work and dig in when things are broken.
I did not. That is a curious option to place, given how it would seem to weaken the fair use argument (since they’re providing a way of consciously allowing probable copyright infringement, rather than just treating the issue as inherent in the nature of learning, or a temporary bug that they’re steadily fixing). But still, to defend my earlier parenthetical claim that Copilot can’t tell whether it’s reproducing copyrightable chunks of code: this option is consistent with what I intended to convey in the paragraph as a whole, since they are developing extra bits around the edges to mitigate the issue, but it’s not possible for them to do it completely—it’s more like a game of whack-a-mole, fixing this class of undesirable reproduction here, that instance there, without causing too much damage to the perceived-legitimate output.
Based on citations referencing "the most recent Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference", 28--31 March 1995 (https://web.archive.org/web/19970330204552/www-techlaw.stanf...), this was probably first published in 1995.

Wayback Machine does not have any captures of the submitted article prior to 2018.

ISFDB places this in 1995 as well.
That sounds similar to Puerto Rican pique

Supposedly you can just top up the vinegar once it starts to get low

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pique_sauce
The entitlement to demand that someone providing free software must pay money to Microsoft and its partners for the priviledge...

Fuck that. 7-zip.org has official download links - you can expect those to be the official binaries from 7-zip.org - and a code sigining certificate won't really tell you more than that.

If you want Microsoft to gatekeep your software then please complain to Microsoft if that inconveniences you, not to anyone else.
First off, let me apologize for not writing a more in-depth reply, you've put a lot of thought and effort into this and I appreciate it. I'll try not to waste your time. :)

> The problem is, who watches the watchmen? And who watches the watchmen who watch the watchmen? And so on, because at some point you have to trust someone not to act maliciously.

I've thought about this and I think the likely answer is that the system has to be self-referential (a recursive function, if you will.) The infrastructure and personnel of the panopticon must be subject to the panopticon. E.g. members of the CCP must be subject to the Chinese "social credit" system.

It seems to me that if everyone is subject to the system then we still have a techno-tyranny but it's ruled by Mrs. Grundy. Otherwise, if there are privilege levels to the panopticon, you're going to wind up with masters and slaves.

> Not to mention that ubiquitous surveillance is a problem in itself, because again who can we trust to administer it sanely?

I don't think we can avoid solving that problem, I think ubiquitous surveillance is unavoidable due to economic factors (e.g. the fleet of self-driving cars is a de facto surveillance network. See also "sensing for wi-fi": your router can see you.) It's already happening, eh? Our cell phone track our locations, etc.

> It all goes back to the same root problem: trust, which is fundamentally incompatible with human nature. The best course of action, IMO, is to do away with it entirely by using trustless systems.

Here's where I strongly disagree. I don't accept the "it's human nature" argument against our higher values. I've lived in high-trust and low-trust enclaves and high-trust is just better. It's more efficient, but more importantly it's just fantastic! It feels great! It's just as natural if not more so to love and trust each other as it is to hate or fear each other. The best course of action, IMO, is to foster the higher human values and establish and grow trustworthy regimes within the chaotic larger systems and eventually establish a kind of techno-utopian Golden Age. :)

Well met!
Yes no,

> Snowden was charged with theft, “unauthorized communication of national defense information” and “willful communication of classified communications intelligence information to an unauthorized person,” according to the complaint. The last two charges were brought under the 1917 Espionage Act.
Developers share their most memorable dirty coding tricks (2017)
Do you work in clean energy tech by any chance? Software people who know these things are like unicorns
Independent recreation of the allegedly infringing work is an absolute defense.

If you were to write all those ideas and idioms down and pass them to someone who had not seen the Linux source code, who then used it to reimplement similar functionality, neither of you would probably be guilty of copyright infringement. (there are still patents of course). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

Copyright doesn’t protect programming idioms and concepts. It protects against verbatim copying, more or less.

It all comes down to how you characterize what Copilot does. We will just have to wait for new caselaw or even legislation that accounts for autonomous systems in defining legal wrongdoing.
Even on Windows you don't need it but you can't remove it.
There is no protection. Just don't click on links in emails.
Assuming your confidential code is in private repos, you're fine. From their FAQ:

> [GitHub Copilot] has been trained on natural language text and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub.
BisRing is excited to launch the newest addition to their platform, BisBoard. It is a Q&A type discussion platform that allows real estate investors and service providers to engage and discuss in a variety of real estate related discussions. It is completely free for anyone to use and is a great way to connect with knowledgeable individuals in the industry. It will be available worldwide and the discussion topics cater to investors and service providers who live in various countries.
It’s been the same experience for me. Until you get into petabyte levels of data a single replicated and vertically scaled pg is probably going to be just fine. Quite a few orgs probably realized that eventually after sinking $MM into some Hadoop/Spark setup in the mid 2010’s.

If what you’re doing is

1. Easily parallelizable

2. CPU intensive

3. In 10’s of petabytes or more

Then one of these machine gun like setups makes sense in 2022. Otherwise YAGNI (you aren’t gonna need it)
The rubber soles don't mean much, though. The electric current just passed through kilometers of insulation (air). It doesn't care about 2 cm of rubber.
Super fascinating to see the general trends of genetic drift that happen given the conditions of:

* low competition

* host symbiosis

* significant inbreeding

I wonder how much you can analogize this to a more complex organism like the grey wolf's transition to the domesticated dog? You could potentially use this research to extrapolate trends in canine evolution! As the mites have shed DNA that helped them survive in more hostile environments, we see dogs losing traits that allowed them to survive in their ancestral environment as well; pack hunting behavior, size, ear shape.
Instead of a gas tax holiday, use the gas taxes to give people in large cities 50% (or even 100%!) rebates on eBikes.

If you especially focus on delivery drivers in large cities, you can reduce millions of daily trips and gas use dramatically, which would have a larger impact on the price of gas, especially since it would also materially impact the expected future demand and price of gas.
* The kernel doesn't need all those new bells and whistles that Rust wants to offer in the future, at least not as fast as how they are being shipped.

* The kernel requires stability. Building a kernel w/ rustc is like building a house on a flying bullet.

* GCC is insanely good at porting to other architectures, something vendors have been relying on for a long long time.

* Consistency in applying compile flags and optimizations.

Idk, these are all I can think of right now.
A lot of the insight in this paper seems pretty obvious when given any thought.

> Households that leave harbinger zip codes tend to go to other harbinger zip codes.

Since they also claim that house prices in harbinger zip codes increase less than other areas, then this just sounds like people from poor areas moving to other poor areas.

> The findings indicate that harbinger zip codes are less likely than other zip codes to donate to the candidates who receive the most donations in their three-digit zip code.

There can be huge differences between two areas with the same three-digit zip codes. A rural or suburban area can easily have the same three-digits as a downtown urban area. It would make sense for a people in two starkly different areas to support different political candidates and for the candidate supported by the more populous urban area to win.
Is github copilot using private repositories for the learning process?

If yes, how do they mitigate the risk of exposing private data when something is quoted verbatim?

If not, then why are repos with non permissive licenses ok?
Basically my research project[1] I'm working on in my spare time is all about versioning and efficiently storing small sized revisions of the data as well as allowing sophisticated time travel queries for audits and analysis.

Of course all secondary user-defined, typed indexes are also versioned.

Basically the technical idea is to map a huge tree of index tries (with revisions as indexed leave pages at the top-level and a document index as well as secondary indexes on the second level) to an append-only file. To reduce write amplification and to reduce the size of each snapshot data pages are first compressed and second versioned through a sliding snapshot algorithm. Thus, Sirix does not simply do a copy on write per page. Instead it writes nodes, which have been changed in the current revision plus nodes which fall out of the sliding window (therefore it needs a fast random-read drive).

[1] https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix
> This is the future of databases, but nobody seems to realize it yet

It's a pipedream, not the future.

Your database is either too big / has too much throughput or migrations just don't matter.
And it's not like you wouldn't need migrations with a versioned schema, as otherwise a rollback would mean data loss.
Julian Assange anyone? Gary Webb? Michael Hastings?

And you've got Abby Martin and Chris Hedges who've had much of their content removed by YouTube. Chris Hedges is even a Pulitzer prize winner.
This is a great and underrated point: high-speed traffic avenues are terrible for business.

As a retail business, you want to be in a place where actual humans are there and moving slowly enough to lay eyes on your storefront.

The only way it works for stroad big box developments are giant ugly signs designed to be visible for miles. Even then, someone might just decide to drive on by rather than dealing with a two-way center left turn lane against two lanes of oncoming traffic.
I should contract myself out to shopping malls.

- Any store I notice as I walk by might be gone in 2 years

- Any store I walk into is likely to be gone in 1 year

- Any store I actually buy something from has about 6 months left...

(this only applies to small stores. The anchors can live on in zombie mode for decades)
Supreme Court Strikes Down New York Law on Concealed Weapons
Search for Jared Diamond (polymath author of many great books) on agriculture as a mistake, e.g.

https://equitablegrowth.org/agriculture-the-worst-mistake-in...

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-worst-mist...

Agriculture made us a lot unhealthier and shorter in stature (monoculture/unbalanced diets), and it also lead to massive power imbalances -- modern people spend more of their lives working.

This is a very mainstream observation -- it's also supported by Sapiens, the popular human history book of the last 5 years (recommended by Obama, Gates, etc.).

David Graeber's recent book argues that many early human societies purposely avoided agriculture, and then got "trapped" into the inequality of agriculture.

The argument is that there is enough for everybody, but agriculture leads to power imbalances, which make most people's lives miserable.

It's true that they were more miserable say in the 1500's in Europe than today. We have "recovered" from Europe of the 1500's, but that doesn't mean that this is the best time ever!
Measuring BPF performance: Tips, tricks, and best practices
Despite this, high-concentration cannabis is a huge public health risk. The deleterious effects from smoking comes from inhaling the smoldering organic compounds in dried plant material. That health impact scales with the volume of smoke inhaled.

If you increase the concentration of THC, users can achieve equivalent levels of intoxication with substantially less smoke inhalation. 30 years ago, THC concentrations were 5% or less. Today, legal cannabis tends to average around 25%. That's an 80% reduction in smoke-related damage.
Bringing Java into a Haskell project just for building doesn't sound perfect.
Skips this book but do read The Last Ringbearer, a well-written 1999 fantasy fan-fiction book:

"Eskov bases his novel on the premise that the
Tolkien account is a "history written by the victors".
Eskov's version of the story describes Mordor as a
peaceful constitutional monarchy on the verge of an
industrial revolution, that poses a threat to the
war-mongering and imperialistic faction represented
by Gandalf (whose attitude has been described by
Saruman as "crafting the Final Solution to the
Mordorian problem") and the racist elves."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
Louvre Collections Database
Glad to see that a big US retailer like Target is using the same types of "de-facto" observability tools that I've been using for a while at all of my various employers over the last 5+ years - which are Grafana, Prometheus and Elastic Stack (specifically the Kibana UI for the logging analysis screenshot).
Those suggestions are very few so I suspect they were hand-picked.
Quest for Fundraising
69% doesn’t seem like the kinds of gains you’d hope for. If you’re going from unsafe infrastructure to protected bike paths I’d want to see a tripling of ridership.
I recently moved to the twin cities. The bike paths are absolutely amazing, and given that the whole state is pretty flat, it's not hard to get around the city for work or for fun.

Bike paths are plowed in winter, but biking in -10C weather doesn't sound pleasant. I haven't tried winter biking yet, and honestly, I'm a bit scared to.
Yesterday:

FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market(wsj.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31835843

Submitted by kgwgk | 389 points | 662 comments
I think this is a better case for timelapse photography than sped up video.
Not really surprised. The foundation was already there. Maybe 15-20 years ago Minneapolis started to build bike lanes along old railways and trolly lines. Some of the paths spanned the city and became thoroughfares totally isolated from traffic. The city had a good thing and kept at it. Good for them.

Worth mentioning is that the city has grown in population. That was designed by previous mayoral campaigns to bring in industry. Lots of suburban folks also started moving back into the city too in the 2010s, so demographically the city was ripe to see more cycling. There’s also just a better culture for exercise and outdoor activity in Minneapolis. It used to be one of the fittest cities.

I’m not sure this could work everywhere. Minneapolis has different planning than most cities I’ve seen. There’s a lot of residential space (that’s now being re-zoned), which means more room to build on and options in case bike paths reroute traffic. The streets are generally larger and there are lots of parallel avenues and boulevards that facilitate partitioning of cyclists and cars. Personally, I find this to be ideal for commuting, and Minneapolis began to experiment with closing streets to cyclists a long time ago. I’ll stop myself from ranting about the budget for interstates and road maintenance compared to the cost of 76mi bike lanes though.
Automotive companies, in fact, have product liability. It's about liability, not morality.
> Compared to locations with no facility, sites with protected facilities had 113 more cyclists during the evening peak 2-hour count period (95% CI 16.19, 209.99; p = 0.02) and a greater rate of increase in cyclist counts over time.

paper seems to be behind a wall. Hard to see what the actual number of cyclists this 69% represents.
Hey Bubble Up: From kickoff to launch
Half of the ecosystem depends on the nightly compiler.
Ask HN: Trello means slave-o in Scandinavia
'Trell' is the ancient norse word for slave. IT management in Scandinavia knows this and thinks it's really funny somehow.

https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trell
I would love to see more in-depth explanations about Oxygen [0]. I'm currently creating a similar runtime [1] based on V8 Isolates so that would be interesting to compare.

[0]: https://shopify.dev/custom-storefronts/oxygen
[1]: https://github.com/lagonapp/serverless/
Sweet Christ. 150mg? Goddamn, I hope my tolerance never gets that bad. That'd be so expensive. 1/10 that at once is enough to get me fucked up enough that, if I had taken more, I'd just be asleep.
Correct, Google Business Plus is 5,000 GB per user. It's pooled, so if you have 20 users, you have 100,000 GB of storage for the team.

Most users use almost nothing so for our use cases google drive has no marginal cost and I've been seeing what I consider positive changes to the google drive story (and maybe speed?)
This, and it’s not just an issue of style and superficial characteristics. With running shoes, I have a very specific preference related to the size and shape of my feet. But it’s a crapshoot whether any newly-renamed and refreshed product is in any way similar to what I bought six months ago. It’s a freaking shoe, just keep tue same name at least.
> But who knows -- I think it's entirely possible to mix contemporary trendy politics without hurting the quality of the actual piece.

I feel like The Boys Season 3 is a stark counterpoint to this opinion. I didn't mind the left leaning stuff in the first 2 seasons because it wasn't so overtly in your face, but season 3 just had to inject it in literally every aspect of the show. I've never literally had a bad taste in my mouth after watching a show, but I promptly cancelled my prime membership with a bad taste in my mouth after watching the first couple episodes of this season.
Sometimes I want to output specific files from a zip file to stdout.

These programs can list the files in the archive, but I have never found an easy way to extract specific files without having to type paths on the command line, or use a filelist (something like tar xf 1.tar -T list which zip utilities generally cannot do).

Until I am advised of something better, a quick and dirty solution:

usage: 1.sh 1.zip # displays list of files with line numbers
1.sh 1.zip 5p # extracts the file listed on line 5 to stdout
1.sh 1.zip 5,6p # extracts the files listed on lines 5 and 6 to stdout
1.sh 1.zip 5p\;8p # extracts the files listed on lines 5 and 8 to stdout
1.sh 1.zip /src/ # extracts the files with "src" in their path to stdout

case $# in :)
;;1)exec 7z l $1|sed -n '/^---/,/^---/{/^---/!p;}'|cat -n
;;2)
y=$1
shift
x=$(7z l $y|sed -n "/^---/,/^---/{/^---/d;s/.* //p;}"|sed -n "$@")
7z x -so $y $x
exec echo
;;0|*)exec echo usage: $0 zip-file \[sed cmd\]
esac;
Wasn't BSD forced to remove AT&T code ?
Here it is reproducing a function from the source code of Quake verbatim.
https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309
"Yes no" what?

Government can charge him with whatever they want, it is up to court to decide if charges are valid.
Once we recognize that we're talking about local rather than global there are many local outliers that increase temperatures, countering your argument that volcanic eruptions are the only global outliers.