skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The moment a fragment of code from a GPL'd or AGPL'd project shows up almost verbatim in someone's closed source or non-copylefted, etc. project, and someone proves it, sparks are going to fly.

I'm hoarding popcorn and can't wait for that, honestly.

> License literacy is critical.

It's beyond critical, but most people I have talked says that they see the right to copy and use any code they see online. They don't care.

Building this open source corpus was not easy, and we need to defend it too. This is a culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAVImvzFhXI
> Q: What is Unicode?

> A: Unicode is the universal character encoding, maintained by the Unicode Consortium. This encoding standard provides the basis for processing, storage and interchange of text data in any language in all modern software and information technology protocols.

https://home.unicode.org/basic-info/faq/
How do you know that the album covers are not part of the corpus of images that DALL-E was trained on in the first place?
Don't show it to anyone. There's a lot of likely outcomes, most of which aren't good.
This is so true. I especially agree about the "self-interest" thing.

Many good manipulators (politicians, managers, influencers, etc.), take it a step further, and convince others to work against their own self-interests, in order to serve the interests of the manipulators. We've seen plenty of this, lately (I won't go into specifics).

Here's a rather pithy approach to risk management that I've used: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/risky-business/
Ok you owe me $3! This is a really hard prompt, and only got close-ish with inpainting. Got the base figure with "massaged relaxed flattened person, flat, flat, flat, flat, claymation", then finally got it to add a not-too-terrifying face with "photograph of smiling white woman laying on the ground, promotional photography". Final tweaks to erase some artifacts (it really didn't want to believe the figure on the left was the referenced woman) was "photograph of a wooden floor with a white mat and small plants, overhead shot".

DALLE is hard! Curious to see if I can be beat.

https://imgur.com/a/tuyGjxp
It does seem hard to live in a work-centric world when you as an individual don’t have to work. But I wonder a) how true this stereotype is and b) what it would be like it no one had to work. There would be more community oriented resources for finding meaning. Wealthy individuals in a work centric world don’t have that.
It sounds like copilot could ultimately be just another progression in the definition of normal or baseline, like using calculators in math classes.

Whatever the current state of the art and tools of the trade are, that's what they are, and probably the bulk of courses will just adapt to reflect that state of reality and incorporate that into the courses.

Outside of maybe some specialist courses that may still exist but most students wouldn't need to take, it would just be expected that most students use the current tools to accomplish the tasks. Even going so far as to provide free student access to any paid tools to avoid giving the rich kids an unfair advantage.

The nature of posed problems, and their teaching purpose (why they are posed and what you get out of them) would just change from what they are now.

Whatever the "calculator" can do, simply becomes uninteresting and not required for most people to worry about.

My first couple years of school I was taking mechanical engineering, and it was right during a transition where we were doing both manual and cad drafting. There is a lot of geometry tricks both physical drawing and math required to generate accurate views of any shaped objects intersecting with any other shaped objects, viewed from any angle, sliced at any depth.

We spent a lot of time and effort on that. That is all done by magic now inside the cad engine.

Someone still needs to know it, but 99% of people whos job is to design or otherwise manipulate models of objects do not need to know it.

I, who did learn that stuff, don't think an engineer who didn't have to know how to generate an accurate view with nothing but a pencil and a calculator is a less capable less insightful less quality engineer.

If anything they may be better for not having to spend as much of their intellect on mechanics & implementation vs ideas. The knowledge & skills I'm talking about don't contribute to their understanding of the real job, they aren't foundations that the later stages build on. It's just labor of no value at all except to the cad engine designer. It had a value in the past because it was a form of literacy. It was simply the only way to document the ideas you were fabricating.

Perhaps copilot is like that.

I don't know and I'm not saying it is, but it could be.
That was the Russian's lying about the situation to gain compliance.
It's interesting that the prompts that would do badly in a Google image search also seem to be the ones that make poor prompts. Basically, it seems that rather than describing a scene, you have to try to give an analogy for some image(s) that it might have in its training set - which is why, I believe, "banana in the style of Andy Warhol" produces a much higher quality result than "Outline of prism on a black background in the middle of scene splits a beam of light coming from the left side into rainbow on the right side".
The things the guy is doing with C64 music are incredible, here's his Spy vs Spy remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVtJGobSZKM
Yeah but is that justice?
Miami Is a Lie
I can relate to all that. Accountability is something that greatly improved it for me as well, among several other tactics that do not rely on willpower.
Boo willpower
> I would find it hard to imagine an argument that Beeple's huge sale was somehow not legitimate.

An argument that Beeple's huge sale was somehow not legitimate: https://amycastor.com/2021/03/14/metakovan-the-mystery-beepl...
I don't remember being told about map projections at school.
Uh that's going to make Civ6 quote when you discover it on the map obsolete...
Yes! I have a feeling that as you define the goal of "something that has human-like intelligence but isn't human" more clearly, the less sense it will make because it will become clear that our idea of intelligence depends heavily on the specific ways that humans relate to the world. I wrote a blog post on this - https://gushogg-blake.com/posts/agi
>contemptuous towards doctors

If it seems so in this circumstance, you've misinterpreted. I am contemptuous of certain aspects, but not blindly of all doctors. Not at all. You can take my word, or ask me questions to clarify.

There's a big problem with healthcare and doctors are only part of it (pharmaceutical corps, nu?).

Our society isn't kind to those who fall behind. We need a way to help people without indenturing them. We need a way to help others by evaluating them more earnestly and less capriciously. We need a lot, and the current system isn't keeping up. Clearing the path to better health and less suffering may require changes that are threatening to some. Or perhaps we could go full euthanasia and market it as compassion.

I am also not a technologist. Far from it. I do use tools though. I also observe things, some through difficult experience. There are places I absolutely do not want AI. So as I wrote; why not use it in at least one way that would have tangible benefits to the majority?
Then you're blind.
what kind of company are you at?

BigTech, non-tech BigCo, mid-sized non-tech?

I cannot see how a manager/director at a BigCo would be able approve something like this since everything is standardized (like base pay at each level)
Is this "bruteforcing" really different from what our brains do? We see thousands, millions of little things (examples) every day. Then we combine what we've seen into something new. Probably the only difference is that DALLE's training was done once while our brains are trained every day for 80+ years.
Creator of Kaffy here. Kaffy was inspired by django's built-in admin.

I disagree with one point you mentioned regarding configuration. Kaffy requires less configuration to work out of the box with all your schemas. In django, you do need to to write admin.site.register(Foo) for all your models to be included in the admin interface, where in Kaffy all your schemas/models are included by default.
Kaffy also offers things that django admin doesn't like a dashboard, static pages, and scheduled tasks.

I suggest you give Kaffy a try and, with your django/phoenix expertise, I'd love to know your feedback.
Nothing outside of like SV, finance, or being a doctor is probably going to get you $300k and above. However, you can do some important work and make above $100k in a fairly inexpensive area if you want.
One time I needed an AVR programmer for a test stand that didn't suck[1] and didn't backfeed the device under test. So I designed one using an AVR. And programmed it with the crappy one. Then I programmed the next one with the first one.

Feels good.

[1] Atmels cheap USB programmer would lose it's mind if the programming pins aren't all connected[2]. Tech had to reset it manually by unplugging the USB cable. If it happened a couple of times in a row, windows would disable the USB port.

[2] Board house liked to put their inspection stamp on top of the programming port pads.
It bugs me that browsers don’t support a good interface for actively “operating” on web data i.e. a “meta” layer on top of the data. By and large, they restrict users into (only) consuming information, in an extremely passive mode.

What would it take to not just do operations on the client side (like JS), but also insert the locus of control to empower the user side with flexibility?
Mathematical model of animal growth shows life is defined by biology,not physics
How Many Fossils to Go an Inch? [video]
<https://nitter.net/rbranson/status/1560505791903281152>
Show HN: strftime-ruby, no-std, Ruby-compatible Rust implementation of strftime
Serious answer in the form of a question:

What is good about humans or dogs or trees? What does good even mean- how do you define it? Good in what sense?
Poor miners.

/s
Curious about your experience with k8s, what has caused issues? (Genuinely curious, I've played with the idea of writing my own.)
On tests, make students write short programs with pen and paper.

Good practice for white boarding interviews.
Also known as dogfooding.
I think its not. It's a semantic argument prone to appeals to non-cognizance arguments and subjectivity.
Ooh, good job, Rust!
I wouldn't call $30B insignificant! Would you lose these 30 billions because you can't bother to take care of the Mac?
> Copilot is not free anymore most students won't bother paying for access

Copilot is free for students: https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-gith...
We'll see, I wouldn't personally be against doing a stint of my career in China if the conditions are decent. Right now however, I feel like I'd be at the mercy of some geopolitical game, being Canadian living in the US. The lack of due process for an average joe like me who'd otherwise be curious to experience the culture, seems like a real deterrent. I'm probably not the only one who's feeling uneasy about possibly being a pawn in someone's political games. Hence where I derive my strong doubts about attracting foreign talent. If an open minded and willing person like me has strong doubts about his and his family's safety should he go there... it seems like Occam's Razor to me (or perhaps it's another razor?). It's most likely that my experience isn't unique and that other folks are also deterred in a similar fashion.
Data Manipulation with Functional Programming and Queries in Ballerina
My prediction: we'll need nuclear in the end. Time to get serious and invest in new tech. Light water reactors were invented roughly 70 years ago, and it shows. There are much more modern designs we can employ. I wish we didn't discuss 'nuclear' as though it's one technology.

Have no problem with renewables in the meantime.
Not familiar with these boards. Is the firmware locked? Or can you flash your own?
Not answering your questions directly, but it has been known for decades that fake sugars (NNS in the abstract) cause weight gain.

Since you asked about insulin response; (some?) artificial sweeteners seem to be safe for diabetics. There is no other group of people I can think of that should consider using these products.

On a somewhat related note, the soft drink industry has replaced some "diet" drinks with "light" versions that contain sugar and NNS.

I've found that this causes (intentional?) confusion, especially at restaurants, and multiple servers have inadvertently tried to serve our kids that stuff when we ordered things like "lemonade".

In addition to all the above, consuming NNS causes migraines for some people, and they interact badly with some medications. I disagree with the abstract's use of the term "presumed inert", but I suppose they are trying to be diplomatic.
Mosquitos are notoriously bad in Alaska and Northern Canada, I assume other areas are similar.
I generally share the same view but it seems pretty clear to me they’re asking from the perspective of human benefit.
> Great science

Yes, a better approach would be to give a panel of test-subjects the ability to skip commercials and see how often they would use this feature.
Let's Try Gnome Boxes
Trials are going for a new one.
In case you missed it, the name of the film not being promoted is "Stutz."
It's going to leave all those artists without a job, you just wait!!
I did recently play a good video game where this ended up being the premise (can’t say the name because it’ll spoil) so I wouldn’t say it’s completely forgotten.

Just, climate change, nuclear war and disease are more at the forefront due to current events.
Much of the work in the Central Valley incorporates grade separation for the existing freight rail lines. So they have a small win every time they replace an at grade crossing with an overpass.
If you’re honestly asking if accessing s3 exclusively through SFTP is a good idea (regardless of if it somehow makes you magically cloud agnostic), I really really don’t know what to say. Other than “no”.

I’m reminded of a quote by Babbage

> I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question
If you're interested in how animals use their senses, how about a whole book about it: https://bookshop.org/books/an-immense-world-how-animal-sense...

_An Immense World_ by Ed Yong, who wrote a lot of the great early Covid articles for The Atlantic.
Igalia shares equal ownership and all new employees are expected to become owners eventually. It's been growing faster too lately. WebKit Team is hiring :)
Ask HN: Resources for learning networking for back end development
Hello everyone,
I am a frontend developer and I am trying to shift to backend development. I am studying directly from Node JS docs but I have realised that most of their networking modules are hard to understand without have a knowledge of networking . So searched google for resources but didnt find a single resource. All resources were in depth covering those OSI layers that a backend developer would not need. So anyone please suggest me some resources(videos, books, articles anything) for studying networking but for a level of backend engineer.
> causing them some pain it already has some points on "bad".

Humans have quite a few bad points here as well.
Curious: will it be more energy efficient?
I'm not sure it's that much work if there's something of tangible current value being held from their rightful owners, esp when they keep adding all sorts of coins. There should at least be a way to extract them even if the exchange doesn't support trading them
Great stuff but I wish he could be more terse.

To me, his point rests on the problem of history when you have only small numbers of sources, written from outsider perspectives, with their own agenda.

As if the only history of the Spanish Amarda was written by chinese Anglophiles.
> It's tempting to just get a good tax guy, but the taxes are not the hard part: it's the recordkeeping that categorizes which of your expenses are properly business expenses. It's not fair — or at least a bad idea — to drop off a box of receipts to your tax guy and have him try to read your mind. Good tax guys are not cheap, and you want to pay him to prepare your taxes, not do your bookkeeping.

This insight is gold. Seriously. Everyone thinks they want a rockstar accountant when what they really need is a bookkeeper (or to just organize their books in a systematic, consistent way).
> There are APIs to fetch byte ranges from objects. Would that work without decompressing the entire object?

I wonder if you could store the objects in chunks and then individually compressed. Create an index of the byte ranges for those chunked objects so they can be looked up easily.

For example:

range 0-4000 -> objectA, objectB, objectC

Then just return those 3 objects, decompressed.
MacTeX is 4.7GB which matches the 5GB he's talking about and...

"MacTeX installs TeX Live, which contains TeX, LaTeX, AMS-TeX, and virtually every TeX-related style file and font. [...] MacTeX also installs the GUI programs TeXShop, LaTeXiT, TeX Live Utility, and BibDesk. MacTeX installs Ghostscript, an open source version of Postscript."

Which is, as you say, considerably more than just "XeTeX".

(Also those are universal binaries containing both Intel and ARM versions which probably adds some heft.)
Stuck at connecting forever.

Can someone who could get it to work give a cue about what's going on?
It's good you point that out. Two studies should almost never sufficient for a conclusive argument, especially not in a field where physiological variability may be more decisive than probability distributions derived from group studies (On average peanuts don't kill people but that's not a useful metric if you happen to be allergic).

In terms of informational frameworks regarding nutrition I have to say the landscape is quite bleak. Understanding broccoli or its effects on the human body make big pharma no money, publications are only slowly picking up speed with new (crowd-) funding options.
Even worse, the lack of funding and publishing set a rather low barrier for food industry players to manipulate the field in their favor, which makes for even less solid ground (e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-in... ).

But there are exceptions, Rhonda Patrick comes to mind, she's mostly or fully crowdfunded, including her papers iirc. She can go very deep but is usually aimed at non specialists: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoundMyFitness/videos

And Andrew Huberman who finances his podcast through sponsors, quite dense but always trying to explain medical terms and concepts he brings up: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewHubermanLab

As for "how are we to live" I think a good starting point nutritionally is to try and watch/feel the body reacting to different foods and maybe reading up after something feels really good or bad to maybe gain some theoretical insights. There are no studies for your body in particular but you have full production test access pretty much all of the time (I would try to prevent restarts though).
It should be easy enough to maintain a parallel record of malpractice vs the bogeyman. We can't mold our existence to the standards of headlines -- not if we want any valid reason to exist at all.
I really wish the show notes listed resources.

The credits list Attish Bhatia. They've got a Substack here:

<https://rateofchange.substack.com/archive>

I'm looking for the specific article(s) which might have inspired this, though much of the material is relevant / related.
What did he pivoted into? I couldn't find.
Also, Loom is exactly that, async video comms.
I use that, infrequently though, for clients and team members to brief me into new things, apart of that I personally do not see it being used for anything else.
Yes. You can, with effort, condition it to respond sensibly with phrases like “I’m sorry, I don’t know how to reverse strings,” or “I’m sorry, I can’t do any math calculation that a human couldn’t do in their head.” But in doing so you damage its ability to do some tasks it’s actually capable of, e.g. reciting a memorized answer to “What is the fourth root of 625?” Its memorization abilities are insane: It seems to know, for example, the exact MD5 hashes of all single-character alphanumeric strings. Much of the arithmetic it knows is probably similarly memorized, and it’s hard to clarify for it what aspects of that memory are safe to use.

The initial problem that got me interested in GPT-3 is suppressing confabulated answers to the Hofstadter-Bender questions published in The Economist. I eventually found an apparent solution but I’m yet to carefully validate it: https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1556459121834168320?s=21...
Thank you for that perspective. The linked work is clearly the work of a skilled professional.

I am intrigued by the use of AI as a form of creativity assist. As someone without any talent for this, the left pictures are useless for me, as I don't know how to take them into something like the pictures on the right. The point of a sketch is to show them to a customer, but if you would show these sketches to me, I wouldn't know which one would turn out great and which one wouldn't.

Given that, do you feel that the generated sketches are useful as a base sketch? I mean, you could probably have used any of the existing NFL teams logos and as inspiration, instead of letting the software remix them for you.
Quote

The Merge will reduce Ethereum's energy consumption by ~99.95%.
> The Merge will reduce Ethereum's energy consumption by ~99.95%.

That's something Bitcoin needs ... or even better get rid of it altogether.

https://ccaf.io/cbeci/index

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
Capturing carbon from the air will always be expensive (2020)
MySQL8
> Ad spots are also even subtly being placed in content and shows on TV

This has been going on since TV started. Perry Mason's revolving assortment of cars were provided gratis by car companies. Bullitt's car chase was an ad for the Mustang and Charger (a very effective ad, I might add). 1950s shows were always "brought to you by..." and the show itself would pitch the soap or whatever.
Knowing whether or not it’s giving you a sensible response is one of the things that are hard for gpt-3, unfortunately. It has no concept of failing.
I totally agree, it probably doesn’t make sense to a US news site to put work into complying with GDPR. Totally fine.

But why then say that I’m important to them?! I’m the opposite. I’m not important to them, and that’s ok. No need to lie about it.
Human and animals interaction is all physical. Babies and early children spend most of their brain development on physicality. By depriving a mind of having a body, that mind cannot have empathy for the human condition or animals, the idea of living in a body will only be abstract. Have you seen the movie Johnny Got His Gun? It’s one big statement that being disembodied is hell.
Yeah that is true as well. I talked about this a bit in another comment I made about how much easier aluminum is to work with. The thing is even for the raw sheets it’s still very pricey compared to aluminum which is pretty good at illustrating the price difference. Once you look at molding them into the shape you want the price only goes up.
It's somewhat comforting to hear even Brian K. say he doesn't understand Git well.
Also, windows do not make much sense on a small low-resolution display. Windows are made for people with huge expensive high-resolution monitors; for DOS era screens you should use either full-screen or half-screen windows.
My family has always debated this question: Do some people get bitten more by mosquitoes or do they just react more?
Proof of work is the only way to get acceptable security properties for a monetary system. Proof of stake suffers from the "nothing at stake" problem, leading to grinding attacks etc.
It's probably overloaded. Maybe anyone who's in can count how many people are playing?