skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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My question too. All I see is this citation:

> [1] We’ll be sharing more details about this work later in October. Stay tuned!
Working around bureaucracy is not deceit. At least according to my understanding of the word, "deceit" requires that someone is lead to believe falsehoods. That's not going on here. SQLite has a code of ethics, and if that's all that's required by some bureaucratic process, then that's fair game. If the process requires enforcement of the code of ethics, SQLite should probably not tick the box, and the document puts that information front and centre.
For me it's the convenience. If all movies were available reliably from a single streaming service, I would use it instead (as I did Netflix, in the early days). At my current stage of life, $10 here or there to buy a movie is irrelevant; the hassle of figuring out which streaming service (if any) has the movie I want to watch is not.
Over 25 years ago I was researching algorithms for a search engine I had been commissioned to write, and for its disk allocation strategy I had settled on a "buddy algorithm" from The Art of Computer Programming Vol 1. It had nice properties and was easy to make.

I implemented it to a tee, only to see it fail (I think in the part that merges abandoned blocks). I banged my head against this problem for days before finally daring to entertain the notion that the algorithm might be flawed. This was TAOCP after all!

Turned out my university library had an old edition and I had run into one of the scarce bugs in it (which had been duly fixed in the next edition).

So yes, I have used TAOCP on the job and, to prove it, a scar of which I am rather proud.
Can anyone file a brief with the court? I'd like to file one. There are too many states these days, they should eliminate three.
Some very counter intuitive findings here - sleeping over 8 hours increases risk, and as does being in rural vs urban areas. Wouldn't have guessed these two at all, especially rural where you can expect to get more sound sleep / less light and sound pollution etc
I'm glad you're in favor of abolishing affirmative action then, since it's literally systemic racism and even falls under the disingenuous "prejudice plus power" definition of racism!
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> Has sqlite been forked before?

There is a fork called SQLCipher with native encryption. Probably lots of others too, but this one is the one that I remember.
> This already happened once when the iPhone switched from the iPod connector to Lightning, and people revolted for this exact reason.

That was before USB-C existed (and micro-USB didn't have the same sort of accessory ecosystem that the 30-pin connector had). In this day and age, those same charging docks and stereos and such typically already support USB-C (because that's what most modern phones use, and it's kind of silly in this day and age to run two separate manufacturing lines for two separate SKUs instead of simply supporting both connectors in the same device), so if anything this would be the opposite of a reason to revolt.
Can Apple comply with this by simply including an adapter in the box?
He is suing the individual officers:

https://reason.com/2022/09/28/a-parodist-asks-scotus-to-let-...

>After a jury unanimously acquitted Novak of that felony, he sued seven officers for violating his First Amendment rights.

>But this year the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit concluded that the officers he sued were protected by qualified immunity, which shields police from liability for violating constitutional rights unless their alleged misconduct ran afoul of "clearly established" law.
Given the state of the world it’s never going to happen but I honestly think that there should be an attempt at standardising plug sockets across the world. It is kind of ridiculous that that there are 15 different types of socket. What is anyone gaining from this madness?
Who will finish the book when he is gone? This is too important a work to not finish.
1) UML is documentation. Quibble about inputs or formalization ... whatever, it's documentation

2) No organization pays for proper documentation. In waterfall requirements gathering always consumed 90% of the budget, then the next 90% was development, then the final 90% was QA. Then the release-beta-and-fix later. Agile may help a bit with communication of undocumented requirements and undocumented functionality fixing and maintenance, but it's not much.

To underline, companies don't pay for documentation, the documentation they DO generate in the BA -> programmer -> QA is vastly inferior to what's needed typically without extensive communication. Related: this is why outsourcing doesn't work well except in certain situations.

3) Therefore, every developer and every business analyst and every QA person, since they aren't paid for good docs, will avoid it. If an imposed software dev process is imposed by the gods of architecture, it will be resisted outright or by innumerable subtle ways (good people quit, make minimal (bad) docs but check the delivery list, etc).

4) what remains is point-to-point verbal and informal comms, and (actually high value meetings), which are very efficient but very very hard to capture into formal documentation. How many times is a ticket in various ticket tracking have its high value data in the COMMENTS on the ticket, and the body of the ticket is worthless? Overall I'd say it was over 50% of tickets were like that. Honestly, probably more like 80% for difficult tickets, and AT LEAST that captured the dialogue/information in some way, as opposed to Slack and meeting minutes.

5) UML also implies waterfall and "requirements are ready, finalized, and set in stone". I'm sure some UML zealot would disagree, but it does. But there are vanishingly small number of projects like that. What Agile does get right is an acceptance that software is a convergent evolutionary process / dialogue between business, business analysts, and developers. Notice the three tiers there, there are TWO levels of miscommunication, so Agile essentially accepts this while UML pretends it doesn't exist. QA is likely a third one, but they are the lowest on the totem pole.
Prior statement by me within thread you are responding to:

>> “Are you aware of any copyrighted material that was illegally loaded to GitHub that has been proven to be used by CoPilot, it’s use was not transformative — AND - GitHub has not removed it from the model?”

Speculative claims to me are do not merit any response, especially when accusing party of something for which you have no related evidence; which actually might be defamation.

If you have any creditable, independently verifiable, material, etc - evidence of a violation of a specific reproducible CoPilot output, which is documented as having been a valid copyright violation by an unauthorized party, and it has not been removed from the model — please feel free to share links.

As is, GitHub has the right to use code unless they receive what I just requested multiple times from you and appears possible you’re intentionally ignoring for reasons I do not understand.

If I have missed something, it’s not intentional, happy to address any errors or omissions on my party if they exist; assuming you’re not skipping over my points.
why isn't the compiler incremental?
Likewise, it's just that we were a severe minority.

I spent most of my time either PvPing in some form and/or heavy RP activity including tradesperson type stuff. My main character was notoriously red-but-actually-good as he would fight against wrongdoing even if it earned criminal flagging. So I wound up with a pretty diverse set of friends no my server.

On my shard there was a cluster of PKs who were actually pretty mature/sane, many of them got into the RP side as well with one group featured in Wired. We became OOC friends and often would concoct RP reasons why my guild and those groups would band forces against the K1ll3rd00d type PKs that would roll around. And that's how I got most of my PvP enjoyment.
The problem is that coverage of typing in third party libraries is not that high yet, so it’s not really possible to enforce typing in a thorough manner.
Many years ago I dropped out of a Computer Science university program for a variety of reasons, but primarily because I was too disinterested to try all that hard. After a lifetime of computering, having started tinkering at 8, I simply had no alternative plan.

I took an aptitude test administered by the Johnson O’Connor Research Foundation[0] and the results were interesting and somewhat new to me. Of the many different potential career paths it indicated I would be good at, I chose design, and a few years later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design/Visual Communication.

I was pretty OK as a design student, with a definite natural knack for it and learned skills that built on top of that foundation, so I tried my best to get a design job. With my web background, however, I got two contract gigs to write code instead, and then dove in after realizing I could succeed even without a CS degree. It’s been a decade now and I’m a reasonably senior software engineer who’s worked on a bunch of different stuff, and I love it.

My design background still comes in handy from time to time, especially the general problem solving skills I learned. It’s also a nice complementary set of skills for someone working on the web. And I probably wouldn’t have had that experience without the aptitude test that suggested I might be good at design.

Sure, I’m merely my own sample size of one, but that’s made me a big believer in aptitude testing results as useful information.

[0]: https://www.jocrf.org/
> Rejoin core SQLite if its policy changes

> We are strong believers in open source that is also open to community contributions. If and when SQLite changes its policy to accept contributions, we will gladly merge our work back into the core product and continue in that space.

If libSQL is going Apache-2.0¹ rather than public domain, that seems extremely unlikely. The public domain nature of SQLite is rather important for its deployments. And in fact licensing is a rather important part of why SQLite is closed to contributions (though with some administrative overhead it could be opened to contributions from people from some countries). The fact that this announcement and project documentation seems to make absolutely no mention of the licensing situation perplexes me.

—⁂—

¹ As they state in the text; but https://github.com/libsql/libsql/commit/f7c54b8f792aa502f025... is entirely insufficient, not constituting application of the license. I find this a bad sign, in stark contrast to the meticulous care SQLite has taken to copyright matters.
The optics of this are bad. I'm surprised NIH bureaucrats let this one through.
While the science objectives may be okay, perhaps another group could have done it.
Show HN: Tour of CLIPS
Learn how to write Rules Engines with CLIPS in your browser! I found the Tour of Go super useful when learning Go, so I went for something similar for evangelizing the awesomeness of CLIPS.

A few things I'm proud of with this project:

- No front-end frameworks
- Compiled WASM binary; your code isn't sent to a back-end server
- Code editor/syntax highlighter written from scratch (that I'm sure you'll find bugs in ;))

This is my first attempt at this, and I'd like to expand on it in the future. Let me know what you think!

About CLIPS:
CLIPS is a programming language useful for building Rules Engines and Expert Systems. It's written in C, so it's pretty darned easy to put data in/get data out from other languages written in C. It was started in the mid-80s at NASA, and it was released to the public in the mid-90s. It's still in active development by the original developer.
NVK is a new open source Mesa Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs, written almost entirely from scratch using the new official headers from NVIDIA.
No, they will still work.
1DollarScan.com is an interesting service that does this for books. You can order books direct from Amazon, and they will digitize them for you
Imagine if we got an HBO adaptation of TAOCP.
Your IP address or other networking introspection most likely
I'm pretty interested in running Clickhouse, but to poll the room: is it easy to run without an infra person maintaining it? We don't need any kind of persistence guarantee or backups, happy to tear it down every day and refresh the data from sources, but does it have complicated config? How well does it work on say, a single core?
People probably conflate homeopathic vs. naturopathic. They sound similar enough.

One of them a good doctor would never prescribe as it is bunk; the other a doctor might recommend as a course of action sometimes, depending on the ailment and its severity.
BLS salary data comes from surveys of employers. I would expect that data to be much more accurate than forum posts.

Also, growth in number of jobs is not necessarily correlated with salary changes. You have to also consider the growth in the number of people entering that field. A PharmD used to be seen as an easy pathway to a guaranteed six figure salary (back when that was a much more rare and significant milestone). It's no wonder it attracted a lot of people into the field, which drove down salaries.

Software will probably see the same situation over the next decade or two. It seems like kids today see programming as a easy way to earn a great living, and many schools & parents are pushing their kids into the space.
> This is such a short sighted view.

It's not. The EU tried to do it the easy way, where companies would agree amongst themselves. This was finally accomplished in 2009[1] by every one except Apple.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/06/10-companies-agree-t...

After 13 years, the EU is finally forcing Apple.

> EU citizens already make this decision for themselves by voting with money

We're also voting with our votes and most of us agree with that the EU is doing here.
Seems to be a simple ontological distinction in a case of a broken metaphor - and thus a huge warning against misapplying metaphors. "You wouldn't download a car"...

Let's look at fiat: I can "trade" my $10 bill to a friend for 10 $1 billls, but that act is precisely "making change" - is this economic trade, though?
There's an even more accurate analog we see with Bitcoin: receiving cash (i.e., as change from a transation) and stuffing it in your pocket - then only later putting it in your wallet, or bank, or vault, or a tray in your house. There was only one transaction, and the rest of the money movement wasn't "trade" at all. If the ownership doesn't change, it's just a movement of money.
Calling the movement a trade is a wild guess and about as honest as insisting that the only way I can pull change out of my pocket is with a new transaction, even were I just putting it in my wallet.
I use simple Bash or Python scripts while prototyping, then Terraform for anything that needs maintenance in production.
I don't believe so. Climbing ropes deliberately have a one-time certain amount of stretch to them. (And if you take a fall that uses that stretch you retire the rope.)

While climbing is not my thing I definitely know REI sells the climbing carabiners with the climbing stuff and the lightweight equipment ones in a different part of the store. I don't need a big safety-rated bit carabiner to attach a 4oz sitting pad to the outside of my pack!
Each volume is taking longer and longer (4A and 4B and work on 4C have taken over 20 years). Mr Knuth is 84 and if there are 3 more volumes...
The one that got me, was I think I remember Oscillococcinum being advertised on TV as a kid. Didn't realize it until I was waiting to check out at the counter and started reading the boxes next to the checkout line because I was bored.
Daily Step Counts/Intensity: Cancer, CVD Incidence, and All-Cause Mortality
The Re-Org Rag (I'm My Own VP)
I kind of agree with you. I used to work with Common Lisp in a Desktop App (Nyxt browser). I had some fun playing with Racket. And I love Emacs. So, I am already into the Lisp idea. But, I was kind of disappointed with Clojure which is new in my life and has been used in my current job. Maybe you have a backend bias in your testimony?

I have been working with ClojureScript (re-frame and reagent) on front-end stuff and, unfortunately, the REPL does not seem to help me that much on my workflow. I miss the REPL driven development, by the way... The real "interactive programming" seems to happen on Chrome Dev Tools + Browser's reactions to Chrome Dev Tools tweaks on the UI + (lastly) changes on the source code via the editor (Emacs in my case).

Namespaces as prefix of invocations on the REPL are not that trustworthy on ClojureScript, apparently. It could also be that I am a noob and I missed something, so... How do you feel about ClojureScript?
You have it backwards. Pick 1 thing, stick to it, you'll get real good at it.
Except if Apple voluntarily made iPhones that charged over USB-C, most people would rejoice, because most people already have loads of USB-C chargers for all of their other electronic devices.
Yes, actually, you are correct! Hilarious in the sense that I am amused; it makes me laugh; it brings me joy. Intriguing in that makes me want to read them. The years-long effort reminds me of Robert Caro’s series on Lyndon B. Johnson. It’s as if he’s been blogging for decades, but in book form.

Tantalizing.
Yes let's.
Paying for convenience? Raw turmeric, or even turmeric tea, is IMO a rather acquired taste. I like it in spice mixes but on its own, or even if I spice food with it but lean too hard into the turmeric, it tastes like dirt to me. I dunno what I'd do if I wanted to take in quite a bit of turmeric daily but not taste it, aside from buying capsules like that. (which I don't do, to be clear)
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> OOP isn't what I would consider intuitive out the box

Paradigms aren't supposed to be intuitive.

Anyway, "intuitive once you grasp the fundamental ideas" is normally called "idiomatic" in informatics. I will second the other comment on this thread pushing that term.

Absolutely nothing about computers is intuitive. The entire area of knowledge is composed of fundamental paradigms and their extensions. Those can be "simple" or "idiomatic", but intuition doesn't go anywhere near them.
I don't think this response really is getting to what I'm complaining about. Rejects suck, but often they are deserving. I'm not saying that we need to throw out the peer review system. I even specifically said I don't think we need to accept more papers. But I do think we need a mechanism to ensure that reviews are good and high quality. Especially the reject ones. If your paper is being rejected without feedback that can convey what needs to be fixed to become a good paper, then this wasn't a peer review.

I've had plenty of good reviews and plenty of bad reviews. A reject doesn't sting nearly as much when I think "maybe they have a point." But if a reviewer tells me to compare to something I'm already comparing to and is in many graphs and tables, I'm entirely unconvinced that they even read the paper and I think we can all agree that that type of reviewer is not benefiting anyone. They are the system failing.

You may disagree with the number of bad reviewers there are (and that's okay) but I highly doubt you would actually defend them. I'm just saying we need a system where we either encourage these people to change the _quality_ of their reviews or stop reviewing (I am _not_ arguing that we need to change their scores).
Is this in Europe? In some countries especially EE people tend to be very ornery with their papers.
Tax revenue is fungible, it does not make a difference which budget it comes from. The city’s residents are still going to have the same expectation of police services. It has to be individual police that are liable.
One might hope that he can at least complete 4C such that volume 4 is complete. I am skeptical that volume 5 or later will see the light of day, But I also cannot predict the future.
My last one expired 20 years ago.
Bookbinding is a great hobby. Or you can commission someone to create leather-bound covers for your book?
https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware

Just be careful because it's easy to accidentally create something illegal by editing certain constants in the firmware. There's also a number of alternative forks here: https://github.com/djsime1/awesome-flipperzero/blob/main/Fir...
Lagging horribly in what way?
I'm not a supporter of homeopathic medicine, but I'd be curious to know the research on half the other stuff in the medical aisle. OTC pain medicines have famously little power vs placebo for instance.
What surprises me the most about the placebo effect is that it still happens when the patient knows it is a placebo.
Vol 1 is just an intro to math and his language, you don't really need it, but it's kinda fun.

I read some of Vol 2, Seminumerical Algorithms, to hone my instincts on how random numbers work in practice. I have referred to it on occasion when people say things like, "if we seed the random number generator, take the random number, then feed that into the seed, the result would be more random."

I read most of Vol 3, Sorting and Searching, when applying for jobs. It was more interesting than leetcode grinding. I don't know if it was more useful, but it was better for my sanity.
I don't really want to click on this link, but have read some horrific descriptions of the event.

Anyone care to share what the link contains and why its on the front page of HN?
Yes, but is there also a pump with Purple Koolaid - that can't be used to fuel any known vehicle - right next to both of those pumps?
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They are interchangeable but may not charge as fast or transfer data as fast. So they are still useful.
What’s the backstory here? Why would he be in jail? Also the link in the original post has almost zero detail on what this grant is for.
A lot of words, manifesto decrying sqlite somehow striffling innovation and a battle-cry for all to join … but backed with very little code.

SQLite is public domain. Anyone is free to claim it as their work and do anything they wish.

No need to disparage. You never were prevented from doing what you wanted to do. Take the code, improve it and if it’s any good it may get recognition.

The fact is sqlite is good enough for 99.9% case. Everything else is fighting for the niche and the poster seems to be simply pissed that sqlite has the mindshare even without having their favorite features.
The packaging looks super similar to real medicine to me (see: oscillococcinum). The gas pump analogy would be a pump selling <85 octane or even water instead of gas right beside the 87+ octane people want.
Ports are archaic technology. Next they’ll mandate Facebook.
And yet significantly cheaper than Apple's Pro Stand.
Isn't the reason we're comfortable with mandating USB-C the fact that it's been implemented successfully in so many devices already? How's that supposed to work next time around? Will politicians or bureaucrats pick the next standard in a vacuum of real-world implementation/testing? I'm skeptical they'll do that well.
> Lightning is a better connector for small devices it's more durable in my experience

It's less durable in my experience. I can do this all day.