skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This GitHub Copilot thing is pretty polarizing. According to one of the expert papers they sollicited, it's unlikely MSFT/GitHub is breaking any copyright laws.

What they're doing does feel icky, and they could have mitigated a few concerns by a) making the inventory of the full training set public and b) at least attempt to attribute if there is a direct copy (which by their own admission happens about 0.1% of the time). These seem very simple steps they could take, and takes away the "shady behavior" argument.
They are variable in quality. I like the car engine but the cat makes me want to puke.
> They are censoring search results. As in, the customer, who Amazon makes money off by showing them what they want, is not being shown items that relate to what they searched for.

But that happens in the US too, if I want to ISIS's propaganda magazine on Amazon is it censorship that I can't find those? If I look for porn on youtube, is it censorship I can't find it?
A framework for balancing and budgeting engineering resourcing
> got into an expensive college but received a merit scholarship

I know you're just throwing out an example and I'm going off on a tangent, but as somebody who just went through the college admissions process, this scenario is about as realistic as the retiree's daughter visiting an alien civilization on her flying unicorn. Merit scholarships for expensive (i.e. "prestigious") colleges barely exist - you might get $1000 (of the $70K annual tuition).
Thanks! I honestly didn't know that, and thought pre1.0 software can be either beta or alpha, arbitrarily. Is there some decimal cutoff between alpha and beta?
This is really interesting.

Apple becoming active in games? iGame Pro when?
I could not understand from the message, but was it freed from BREW?
The dictionary definition is correct, but most people who use it online use it as a generic slur against leftists and progressives. As you can observe, actual good-faith academic usage of the term is all but nonexistent outside of progressive circles.
Hypothetically, what if you believe that this closed bedroom behavior is disordered and unhealthy, and that celebrating it, while admittedly well-intentioned, is not helpful, good or the best way to love or respect these people?

Despite that attitude being the norm for much of human history, to advocate such a position now is literally modern heresy, and the end to your career and any public life.

Diversity of opinion is trivial if we agree only to differ on the easy stuff and not the difficult stuff.
I have no idea what you are talking about but you should take this type of comment to some other forum.
The obvious thing to do is put the address translation between the CPU cache and system level cache.
>Single Address Space OSs are an option, but it means that you are restricted to memory safe languages

CHERI works just fine for enforcing memory protection within an address space.
Hey now, wait a minute. We can argue all day about kefir, kafir, and kaffir, but don't you impinge on the dignity of the semicolon just because the previous poster used one incorrectly.
It's frustrating that innovators are constantly having to justify "why yet another". Folks should just be able to freely innovate without fear of getting spammed with xkcd#927. You wanna make yet another programming language, compiler, JSON-alternative, container format, or trivial FTP+SVN killer, go for it! This is how we innovate.
Even though they are using a minimal and compileable version of Scratch, I think this is so cool.

In the 1980s, I had a Lisp Machine and except for the microcode it was Lisp for everything. Amazing to have an OS and all tools written in one high productivity language.
I know, but it was usable when I last used it. (and it was not designed by Atlassian AFAIK... and even if it would, I don't have anything against Atlassian except that they make really terrible software which I was quazi-forced to use)
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> Could Throat mics be the ultimate in high quality audio for cheap?

How can those microphones even capture fricatives or plosives in decent quality? Most of the vocal tract lies behind the throat. I looked for some examlpes and they all sound terrible.

If you want good and cheap audio, get an off-brand USB large diaphragm condenser mic, for example this:

https://www.thomann.de/gb/the_tbone_sc_450_usb_b_stock.htm
Again I ask why student loans are so special compared to all other government loans.

Do you want veterans leeching off your taxpayer dollars via VA loans and then declaring bankruptcy?

Do you want homeowners leeching of your taxpayer dollars via HUD loans and then declaring bankruptcy?
Amazon is a bit of a unicorn in this regard though. They've been able to consistently pivot profits into expanding services into new (but highly related) areas. Most companies are overly aggressive in trying to chase exponential growth, they end up outgrowing their competence.
Have you ever looked at the source code of the NT kernel? (there have been a few leaks over the years)

Windows is indeed full of old and new crust, but the foundations are actually not bad, NT is a pretty good kernel if you ask me.

The quality of Microsoft engineering is often underestimated, mostly because it is all over the place, different teams, a huge amount of technical debt, but in my opinion some key pillars have been built well enough and maintained, and they also managed to deal with the crust and survive without falling into the classic trap of the second system syndrome.
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AFAIK Neobanks simply don't have a physical presence at all, and instead spend the money providing a more efficient service.

I think ING has a customer service lounge or two, which just about disqualifies it. In practice, neobanks seem to refer to non-big 4 banks.
That's the narrative and it may be true but do you know people doing this for such amounts ?

I mean it's based on :

- video game are a popular subject

- some people like to collect things for disproportionate money values (it's even a 'nerd' cliché)

- some rare art collectible like famous painting can be worth hundred of thousands or even millions

- everyone dream of a small item you can store and sells with an increased value just by waiting

But an old video game cartridge is not a piece of art,
it's a cheap industrial produced thing.

I'm curious if there are really people investing in theses for company grade amounts of money.
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Why not use a clip-on (lapel) mic? A standalone battery pack is somewhat portable and seems less annoying than wearing a choker would be.
These sorts of sterile PR responses ...

> "As part of a continued planning process where we regularly assess our resourcing levels against our company priorities, we decided to realign some of our resources to better drive focus and support our long-term growth. This resulted in some hard decisions that impacted approximately 4% of all Unity workforce. We are grateful for the contributions of those leaving Unity and we are supporting them through this difficult transition.”

... are dehumanizing, and serve only as a legal smoke screen.

I really wish that layoff announcements acknowledged the pain of those people let go, and the pain of those people who will remain who have to take up the slack under a tighter fiscal belt.

This best expressed by George Carlin's quote on "soft language"[0], which stated; "Americans have trouble facing the truth, So they invent a kind of a soft language to protect themselves from it"

Pretending it doesn't hurt doesn't help. Let go of the euphemisms.

[0] https://www.thoughtco.com/soft-language-euphemism-1692111
This is the 4th email marketing platform that's had an incident of this nature so far this year that I'm aware of and highlights just how poor opsec is in this industry.

There is no reason for employees to have unfeterred access to data held on client accounts.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/4/23010317/hackers-mailchimp...

https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/hubspot-hacked-putting-maj...

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/16/unchained-capit...
I think the argument is less about any one country specifically than it is one of redundancy. At the extreme a museum keeping all examples of a culture in one place is a single point of failure. Not just from disasters but also that museum‘s bureaucracy.

That however doesn’t excuse keeping what are often the best examples in their collection.
This weird obsession some have to make everything about the usa is just ridiculous especially in this case.

If you think there is any similarity between the UAE/KSA and even the most regressive US states in how they treat LGBT rights, you should really really take a step back and reconsider. Yes, it's funny to call those states the equivalent "American talibans" or whatever, but it doesn't make it true.

It's so weird to see that people unironically repeat the most blatantly hyperbolic, obviously partisan and inflammatory rhetoric to the point of actually where they start believing it themselves.
There's a world of a difference between pride, ISIS, and porn.
No because drivers use multiple apps at once. So they are willing to try out new apps for the chance of extra money.

Consumers switch because prices are low since the rideshare company is artificially subsidized.
>Why don't more people use throat mics?

Speaking for myself, because that looks uncomfortable as f....

Why would I use that if the one on my desktop works really well and I don't have to do anything but sit on my desk and start talking naturally?
I wouldn't describe Pride as "[sharing] what other people do in their bedrooms" but rather sharing that there are people different than the majority/perceived default. It's about bringing awareness to and normalizing acceptance of differences.
The consensus at the time was that one should only use Perl/Tcl for legacy reasons. And that these languages should be replaced with Python.

A few examples, there were countless articles like these:

2000 Eric Raymond (!) - Why Python?

> It was at this point I realized I was probably leaving Perl behind. ... For anything larger or more complex, I have come to prefer the subtle virtues of Python—and I think you will, too.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882

2002 What's wrong with Perl:

https://www.garshol.priv.no/download/text/perl.html
btw, it's an arch problem :P
Which is what we're talking about.
Correct Motivations to Think About Exercising
While a WiFi enabled Pico is incredible, I don't understand why they're still using Micro USB over USB-C in 2022. Is there any good reason for choosing one over the other?
I also use `history | vim -` to search through the history in the context of other things I was attempting to do. Say, if I try some command and it does not work, chances are it's not the first time and I have the correct version on the line bellow :)
The impetus for the post is apparently "co-pilot" being a commercial service. I have no dog in this fight, just giving an overview of their main argument.
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temporal.io = durable actors for microservices workflows
For a lot ofuse cases that's plenty
The outage was pretty bad but it only affected 0.4% of customers. Not surprising that it didn't materially impact revenue.
It's always pretty funny to see companies like raytheon participate in pride parades, or companies that don't give any kind of realistic maternity leave talk about roe v wade.
> The state of the application can be partitioned in separate components (called automata) that do not share any mutable state and can be safely updated concurrently.

This is the right direction! Pure computations on (somewhat) centralized data has proven to be very resilient to bugs. It's kind of like how React organizes its programs.

I like how Cell is tackling this problem at the language level. A language's programs will (in practice) often be a reflection of what the language makes easy and what it makes hard, so designing a language to handle this complexity would be a boon to the world.

Pony also has this via its `iso` keyword and actors [0]. Cone is also exploring this notion, with an interesting actor/async/await hybrid [1].

> The first one is the ability to "replay" the execution of a Cell program. One can easily reconstruct the exact state of a Cell program at any point in time. Obviously that's very useful for debugging, but there are others, more interesting ways of taking advantage of that.

This sounds like Vale's "Perfect Replayability" feature [2] which captures all IO for a program and deterministically replays it. It's an incredibly useful feature, and I hope Cell exposes it well!

[0] https://tutorial.ponylang.io/reference-capabilities/referenc...

[1] https://cone.jondgoodwin.com/

[2] https://verdagon.dev/blog/perfect-replayability-prototyped
Yes. I have a fairly serious setup too, and chose something similar.

There are tons of different mic options which are designed for different applications--lavalier mics, headset mics, shotgun mics, omni mics, throat mics, boundary mics, and ordinary cardioid mics.

An ordinary cardioid mic is cheap, durable, and gives high-quality audio for one person. It's hard to beat. If you're trying to hide the microphone so it's less visible on-camera, you end up spending more money for worse audio.

The humble headset microphone is also a good option--a bit more utilitarian.
Also, yes, the user experience is not that bad, especially these days.

I love using Linux and Unix in general, but the legacy idiosyncrasies there are kind of worse.
Thank you for mentioning Mathics, https://mathics.org/.
There needs to be some basic economics here..

Money has value because of the value of the economic transactions in which its conducted.

Government-backed currencies are forced to have value in the sense they force people to use it for their taxes. The US, additionally, forces the world to use it for oil trades.

Value is in those economic transactions. A currency is just a "liquifying" of that value, to make it easier to spread around. So that 1hr of my time/output can be more easily traded for 1hr of another persons. We are still just trading output.

For BTC (or any coin) to have any value, it needs actual economic transactions to be conducted in it. If there arent any, its value is smoke-and-mirrors; its not real. If you can't trade the market cap of bitcoin for actual economic output, it isnt actual economic value.

Imagine doing that right now. Imagine BTC was actually used for any scale of economic transactions. It would collapse overnight.
The details are fuzzy in my memory, but as best as I can recall Ceylon was basically created / run by some people from Red Hat / JBoss. They promoted it for a while, but eventually decided to abandon it for some reason. Again, the details are fuzzy, but I think they just decided that other languages that had also some along (maybe Kotlin?) had gotten "good enough" and that Ceylon didn't really have a niche where it was going to be highly in demand. Or something like that. Don't quote me on this, it was all some time ago.

EDIT:

Some bits and pieces of additional info:

https://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2017/08/21/eclipse-ceylon/

https://github.com/eclipse/ceylon/issues/7454

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15057893
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31932399
> People can hear me gulp

Some people are into that <_<
> People can hear me gulp...

here's a clue that's probably not all they get exposed to. please don't inflict this on co-workers
Question for the microphone specialists here: what's your recommendation for the best pro-sounding microphone which can stay off camera? I think I'm looking for something direction with a ~2.5 foot sweet spot.
You mean literally Windows' Notepad? Because that's about the worst app to write on. Not even going to go into how it's almost devoid of useful commands.

Make one mistake, you're good. Make two, tough luck, you can only undo once. Accidentally select some (or all) text and type over it then somewhere else? Today's really not your day. It's actually worse than textboxes in this respect.

This happened to me more times than I'd like to admit before I knew better.
Which is why protestor hung a noose, came within 40 ft of Mike Pence, Mike Pence refused to get in the car with Trump's SS, that's why Trump wanted to march with armed protestors. Domestic terrorists occupied Congress, caused our legislative and executive branch to go into hiding. There are strong indications that there is still significant info to come and that Trump expected violence.

Are you glued to Fox News, lying to yourself, or just flat out being disingenuous?
What is unjust about it? What I listed are undeniable facts about humanity. They are not sentiments. So, what is unfair about facts?

Regarding pessimism, I view my base stance as actually optimistic. The reason is that there is an acceptance of the state of humanity and room for improvement and change. The only way to make actual change is to address shortcomings, rather than continually deny them, and make deep adjustments to how we view our place in the world. I actually view a naive sentiment of “the good overwhelms the bad” as incredibly pessimistic, because it does not address reality and the state of things and how destructive humanity has been. If you think that the good overwhelms the bad and that we are improving, that seems to imply that we are, at a minimum, at a local “peak of humanity”. But that’s vastly pessimistic, especially considering the facts.

What may be actually pessimistic is that I have little hope we can turn things around as a collective. In my local life I try to live by principles that try to address these things, and I am trying to understand how to broaden that circle. I believe my lack of hope is founded in reality though, because for every one person aware of our unsustainable and harmful effects on the world and even humanity itself, there are several people that are naive, ambivalent, unknowing, or just downright hawkish.

Just re-read my first fact about starvation. It is true. Even with that alone, how can you view things as trending towards improvement? In just a few hundred years, we have introduced nearly a billion starving people, and that is just a snapshot of this moment in time. That isn’t even cumulative.
The only problem I have with Sivers' advice is that if I did things his way I'd be saying "no" 99.999% of the time. Most of the time I can't muster a HELL YEAH for my job, my marriage, the gym, seeing my therapist, or much of anything beyond listening to old heavy metal albums and reading old sf/fantasy fiction. But nobody's going to do my adulting for me so I suck it up and say "Oh, OK." instead.

Yes, I could quit my job. The job isn't the problem. Work is the problem. I got into tech because it paid better than cleaning toilets. It still does, and I've always known better than to expect my job to feed my soul in addition to paying my bills.

Yes, I could divorce my wife, but what did she do to deserve that? There are reasons I still love her, I still enjoy her company, and it's not like I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I popped the question.

Yes, I could stop going to the gym, but I paid up front, I make gains when I show up and do the work, and people are seeing the change. I'm not getting any younger, but that doesn't mean I have to get weaker and fatter.

Yes, I could stop seeing my therapist, but I've tried dealing with my shit on my own and most of the time it didn't work that well. I could also try dumping my shit on my wife like a lot of married men do, but that doesn't seem to work all that well for most of the guys I know.

Let's be honest: getting high, reading Moorcock, and listening to Sabbath wasn't much of a life when I was 18; it's not much of a life at 48 either. If I want to have a real life, then I need to suck it up and deal with a lot of shit I'm not necessarily enthusiastic about.
A privacy tool that makes keystroke biometrics less effective
The basic concept that countries and corporations still disagree on is whether or not to rapidly phase out fossil fuels due to the reality of steady fossil-fueled global warming and related issues (floods, droughts, heat waves, intense storms, sea level rise, etc.). At this point, at least, the science denialists have little sway, and the arguments come down to 'we can live with it, and should maintain current fossil fuel production levels over the next 30 years' versus 'the results will be so damaging that we have to get off fossil fuels immediately by building out renewable electric systems'.

It's certainly technically possible to replace the entire fossil fuel system at present using existing technology: no new inventions are required, it's just a matter of construction at scale. However, this would require a global reorganization and investment on the scale needed to replace the entire fossil fuel system - which was constructed over decades with rough estimates on the order of $10 trillion in inputs. Think of all the drilling rigs, the oil tankers, the networks of pipelines, the hundreds of refineries, the millions of vehicles relying on gasoline and diesel, the gas-burning electric power plants, the coal-burning electric power plants, the trains hauling the coal... Of course, if properly managed, the switch will also be an economic boom - for some.

There's the unavoidable fact that economies that have relied on export of fossil fuels to global markets for decades will simply go belly-up under a replacement scenario. Resource export systems typically benefit a relatively small number of elites in the source country (Russian oligarchs, Saudi Arabian princes, Wall Street billionaires, etc.) but there are trickle-down effects. The non-diversified economies will be the hardest hit.

In contrast, countries and regions that rely heavily on fossil fuel imports, or on dirty coal - for example China, Japan, Germany, etc. - have the most incentive to make a rapid transition. Europe in general would see benefits from ending reliance on Russian, American and Middle Eastern oil and gas imports.

Technologically, this is just progress. Fuels are inefficient means of generating electricity, and direct conversion of sunlight and wind to electricity and storage and distribution of electricity is just more efficient, cleaner, and not reliant on global transport of fuels from sources to destinations.

As far as fossil fueled global warming, I'm afraid the tipping point has come and gone. Even with halting fossil fuel use over the next three decades (a 3% reduction and replacement per year scenario with renewables is certainly plausible), there's already a significant permafrost emission input, megadroughts are already a reality, and it'll take another century of slow, steady warming before temperatures begin to stabilize, even under the most optimistic scenario. This means adaptation is going to be an inevitable necessity.
I just use my bach history. I set it to never expire and I back it up, so it has years of commands I can search, either with Ctrl-R or history|grep. Sometimes I put comments in them to help with searching later.

[edit: turns out a lot of people do that!]
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