skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tim Davis doesn't actually have any instance of copyright infringement to complain about; he was able to induce Copilot to /mostly/ recreate his code through careful prompting, but no one has actually deployed the code. By the same token, we don't outlaw ctrl-c and ctrl-v buttons on computers.

There is plenty of space here to discuss developing tools to check for unintentional infringement. I would guess, though, that such tools would sweep up a whoooole lot of non-copilot human usage and make it much harder to deploy anything new.

So, maybe a better discussion to have here is how to make the animal safer, not the total outlawing of the animal. Single-line completions (the majority of co-pilot usage) aren't infringing. Probably true for almost-any few line completion. So, capping the amount of consecutive auto-completed code might be a reasonable 'muzzle' on the model to keep it reasonably safe.
There is a main problem, IMHO.
The more energy we consume, the more heath we transfer to the environment.
After greenhouse gases (like COx and NOx), that's a huge underestimated problem.
So, producing more electricity will in the end lead to more waste heath going to the environment (mainly the atmosphere and the sea).

Better plan would be to consume less and better. Aw, but then we have the industry which wants exactly the other way around...
It is going to be Swing.
A very interesting project. Utterly irrelevant, but that blog page is my dream web page. The text centering, the layout, and above all, the background color. It is for me the most pleasant and comfortable color to read text on. Stealing it!
The vast majority of home EV charging happens at night. Is that when CA was telling people not to charge their cars?
that is interesting to consider a neighborhood scale of infrastructure and the capabilities therein. How much copper is underground in various places, is fiber internet present or on the way, something to think about for sure.
I've found Mailinator to be pretty much useless nowadays, despite having been the go to place for, what, a decade? It limited its free domain to only mailinator.com, which is mostly blocked anyway.

There are plenty of alternatives out there though.
Microsoft lays off nearly 1k people across the company
Except in IDE you work with your brain, not eyes.
As a joke, I made a webpage where you can do attribution to ALL GitHub repositories:

http://thanksforthecode.com

It scrolls past all the repos movie-credits-style. Doing it that way takes several days! It shows how abstract and absurd giving contribution to such a large body of works is.
> Complaining as if we are paying customers is understandable

I am a paying customer because the UI is so much better than vs code. For my daily work vs code actually covers all functionality that I use, but the UI is shit so I use JetBrains. They will loose the customers that are already using it, betting that they will get more new one - a bad bed imo.
Related; Kurzgesagt recently released a nice animation demonstrating where Earth "is" once you consider orbital dynamics

https://youtu.be/Pj-h6MEgE7I
Dozens of my Indian friends who work in WITCH companies in overseas locations are actually quite happy with their salaries. They are dying to work in overseas projects.

Guess they are more than happy being a part of captive, exploitable force.
I don't mean to come off as a gatekeeper, but consulting/freelancing will prove harder than finding a f/t job unless you have a good list of customers who will give you work right away. Right now a lot of people got happy with working from home and now imagine consulting as the next step. The freelancer marketplaces like Fiverr and Upwork teem with people trying to start out, competing with people from around the world bidding on every job at $15/hr. That kind of low-pay piecework probably won't replace your salary.

I needed a few years to build up a freelance client base, and I had lots of contacts already in the software business and in related businesses like web design and security who could give me referrals. You have to not only do the work, but you will have to spend time finding customers, getting projects defined, negotiating terms -- all of that non-billable time adds up.

I work through an agency and they get good projects for me. I believe they have a long backlog of people who want to get taken on as freelancers. Anecdotally (from other freelancers I know) I believe that's the case at all of the agencies and contract shops. Right now they have their pick of people looking for work, but a lot of their customers have budget freezes and cutbacks throttling spending.
I use Rust in IntelliJ, and the indexing is usually fine once the IDE is up.

But for some reason, whenever I reopen a project, it needs to reindex it. Even when I open the same project every day, not having changed anything in between. I understand from a friend it doesn't do that with Java projects.
I know a person who has done this with their tesla for like 6 years and to the point that they will not plug their tesla into anything more powerful because they think that charging it at 2kW is keeping their battery pristine. I don't think they realize that by pressing that accelerator pedal they can load the battery with ~300kW and therefore 2kW or 11kW or 22kW charging makes no effing difference.

Their daily commute is less than 100km so they have no problems charging the batts with their granny charger.

In our household we have one to four ~90% capacity commutes per week and being able to always get a full charge with the 11kW charger helps a lot.

So YMMV. I agree with you. Especially agree with the point that people should analyze their usage, maybe get some experience living with an EV and never give up on the first mental hurdle without even trying.
As an interim solution, the property owner might be able to install large batteries (for example Powerwall) that renters could use to charge their vehicles. The batteries could be charged continuously, without overloading the old electrical service

Probably this wouldn't be enough if every renter was a heavy EV user, but it could be good for a few years, and also would be useful for power outages and to take advantage of off-peak rates in future

Metering and payment would be an issue, but it should be possible to find a solution for that
What made product originally great? Features, not UI.
While not overwhelming an orbit change of 38000km per 1b years sounds more than enough to change that image.
You do not need an EV charger to charge your EV. A 110 or 220 outlet with a cord and an adapter will work just fine. Apologies for the US centric terminology but I expect the situation is roughly the same (though numbers vary) elsewhere.

We did TWO Teslas in an apartment for two years sharing (alternating cars) a single plug of a single 110 outlet. It was fine. With this arrangement, yes, on days where you do big trips, there’s a supercharger visit, But normally, an outlet is totally sufficient.

An installed charger does add some very, very minor convenience (no adapter, big deal… not worth the cost). And if it needs to be shared and bills split, that’s different. But for basic charging no special installation is needed as long as you can reach.

I made this second copy of my comment because while profanity (in the other comment) makes some people take notice, it gives others the excuse they need to tune out the message, which is the same for both comments:

You don't need to install a charger.
How did you expect them to pay for the $50M in infrastructure and R&D costs spent on giving you and millions of developers worldwide access to their models for free?
A Twitter thread linked yesterday showed that a keyword and the name of the original code's author in the Copilot prompt produced an almost exact copy of that developer's code. Copilot already does know the origin sometimes.

Edit: here's the related tweet: https://twitter.com/DocSparse/status/1581632706693079042
If you buy electricity at the (hourly) market rate, you want to charge when it is cheapest and charge reasonably fast. On a typical 11kW home charger here in EU, that means about 6 hours for full charge or 1..2 hours for daily top-up. All the benefits for buying the electricity at hourly demand based rate disappear when full charging times approach 24h.

This has two benefits: it is cheaper to charge and the grid works more efficiently — price is lower when the demand is low and/or production is high.
If they end up removing the current UI I’ll end up cancelling my subscription. I’ve been a very happy paying customer for over 8 years now but this is ridiculous.

The current UI has text (!!) tabs instead of bland non descriptive icons. It has toolbars and menu items that I can configure.

I understand that the current generation of new developers are intimidated by so much raw power at their hands ;) But we have got to stop dumbing things down. It is killing a lot of experience and knowledge and will come back to haunt us as a society.

Jetbrains is currently THE reference when it comes to professional IDEs, changing what they’re doing will not go well for them :-(
Yeah, it's really painful. +1 to all the Nitter recommendations. I use Invidition (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/invidition/) to redirect (Twitter, YouTube) -> (Nitter, Invidious). It also can automatically pick the fastest responding instance, which makes a noticeable difference.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/invidition/
Would America even function if gas stations were only open at night?
As a comparison, we just did a similar project in Washington DC for our ~105 year old row house. It cost us ~$2500 including permits and all materials except that actual EV charger unit (blanking on what that’s called). But that is BEFORE federal+DC tax credits worth about $1k.

Situations differ. Local policies and code differ. For a couple thousand dollars, my car will be fully sun powered (from our 11Kwh rooftop solar system). Gas savings over the life of the car should more than make up for it.

(We had previously upgraded our panel to handle more load and offer more slots when we renovated, but even that was under $3k.)
Until the bearings wear, like my neighbour’s whirlybird attic vent. When it blows hard, I hear that thing in my house; dunno how he can ignore it.

I suppose, though, that solar panels & substructures aren’t silent either, in heavy winds. Could whistle pretty badly.
Producing it is a little different though (not necessarily, but most of the time).
I was wondering where this 1 return practice originated from, but yeah, it makes sense in that context.
That’s exactly what the article author expected to do, they said they wanted to make their rental properties more expensive. No one’s installing anything in a rental unit out of the goodness of their heart. They’re literally seeking rent. At least they should be expected to keep up their end of the bargain.
UI refreshes are a funny thing. I remember avidly hating the look of YouTube when they removed all the borders from things. And now when I see the old version, it looks quite bad and the current one very good.

It’s an uncomfortable feeling to see something new, and sometimes it genuinely is a step backwards, but I feel most of the time it’s progress and you get over it after a month.
igzip is even faster. See also my answer that contains a quick benchmark in that linked question at the bottom.
> Nah I'm fine with it, because I never go to the website and just use mail
> clients; I can tolerate you its existence, out of sight out of mind and all that.

And that contributes nothing to this thread because we are discussing the Jetbrains UI and the Gmail UI was an analogy. Unless you would like to argue that we can ignore Jetbrains UI changes like Gmail UI changes because we can use VIM as an interface to the code, so the Jetbrains UI is out of sight out of mind and all that.
While I like new UI, this argument is just bogus. IntelliJ interface scales nicely without redesign.
As another top level comment stated, in a lot of circumstances you can make do with charging an EV from a normal outlet.

The post was mostly about the challenges with regulations/codes. For the most part it was a plea for governments to smooth over the jankiness they introduce to the whole process. Hardly an insurmountable challenge.

Hydrogen is dead. Upgrading the existing electrical network gradually over time (EV adoption will be gradual) is going to be significantly easier than building a distribution network from (almost) scratch as would be required for hydrogen. To think the reverse is bonkers.
And "Proxy" is already connected with other supporting infrastructure, so it's a bit hard to switch. FWIW I think I'll still try.
I lived in a ranch-style home in California. Literally added a new breaker, ran 30’ of Romex rated for 50A, and wired up an EV charger in about 2-3 hours. It’s not rocket science.

Now, obviously some panels don’t have the space, or the service to the house isn’t enough amps but if that’s a case why aren’t you upgrading a 50 year-old electrical panel anyway? It sounds like OP had a bunch of deferred electrical maintenance to begin with but wants to blame it on EVs.
Where are you buying shoes that they cost over 500$.

I purchased a pair of docs for about 300$, 10 years ago. Still wear them as my day to day shoes/boots.
Honestly yes, I would rather pay someone to do it than maintain it myself especially across languages it just becomes a real nightmare. I need text editing, jupyter rendering, sql client, csv spreadsheet rendering, vim keybindings, git client, terminal/ssh, autocomplete, documentation tooltips and “run highlighted in repl” support at a minimum. These are all part of my weekly workflow, I have tried to use spacemacs because the community has setup a lot of this stuff for you already but the autocomplete is not comparable to VSCode or Jetbrains.

My dad was a vim user since the 90s and he ended up switching to IntelliJ a few years ago as well. It’s just significantly less hassle and has way more intelligent intellisense/autocomplete.
> and many of our new users tell us that the UI appears heavyweight and dated.

Since IntellIJ is available for many languages / platforms (Java, Android, Python, PHP, Rust, etc.) I'm seriously interested from which user group this is coming. Because in this context "dated" seems to mean: "does not look like VSCode". Since most Java devs I know don't even use VSCode I doubt it's coming from that user group.
I guess it depends on what you're comparing Kubernetes to. If what's being compared is a large codebase with lots of loosely connected cloud formation, then Kubernetes can make your life easier. If what's being compared is a small application that can run on a collection of EC2's behind an ASG and easily deployed via Terraform then it's probably complex for that usecase.

It's all relative.
Why not electro-fuels ?

Prometheus and others have plans that may come to fruition.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31264388
I imagine doing enterprise level java work with vim is a nightmare.
Yep, exactly. We tolerate it, and people forget how much better it used to be
Oh sure. The wave of deformed children that I grew up with in the shouthern German, southern Austrian area surely had nothing to do with this, pure coincidence. There are certain mushrooms that are still forbidden to eat.

It is easy to talk for someone who has not experienced the fallout of an nuclear powerplant burning a few countries over. Experiencing such a thing (hopefully understandably) changes how favourable people see the technology.

On top of that the question of safe nuclear waste storage is far from solved in dense Europe. From an ethical standpoint I think an approach of "Lol we need energy now, let's have later generations deal with this and pay for it" highly questionable.

If you produce one kW/h of nuclear energy today, my opinion is that the costs of the potential fallout in the weird rare cataatrophe scenario and the waste storage for the whole lifetime of the waste need to be paid ahead. That, however would make nuclear uneconmical.
you search stuff with it
> Seriously! Their slick, compact, and beautifully well laid out UI is one of the primary reasons I use I Intellij Idea.

Fascinating. Their flat, contrast-less and confusing UI is one of my biggest chafing points with their product. If I want to resize an UI element, I often have to make several guesses before I find the right border, let alone pixel.
> Why is VSCode eating their lunch?

- People don't know better. That is, they literally have no idea what a proper IDE is and what it does. Hence all the "VS Code is as good as IDEA" comments

- It's free. People feel entitled to have even the most complex software apps for free.
Kind of strange move to unify UI between two unrelated, but complementing products, yeah, really strange.
> Except for remote development extension.

And the roads.
Mostly agree, I prefer k8s to learning the custom duct tape for every project.

Observation: a side effect of being extensible is that people deploy extensions.

There is some kind of law of complexity budgets, where if you make the simple things easy, people will tend to ratchet up complexity by adding more stuff until the system "just" fits in their heads again.

Bare k8s with a simple ingress path and workload is predictable and nice to admin.

Cluster with lots of extra bits (custom autoscalers, cert-manager, complex ci systems, serverless stuff, custom operators, service meshes) can have lots of "non-local" interactions and seems to lead to environments that are scary to upgrade.
There are ways to fake a neutral wire for EV charging. Not recommending it, but I found out how to do it when learning how to charge my EVs using an inexpensive pure sine wave inverter (using the 12V system of the other EV or some other vehicle in case I needed a little charge to get to the nearest charging station).
I've worked with dozens of jetbrains IDE users and nobody ever did that. Sure, we use a lot of keyboard bindings, but...
The answer is actually PowerPivot. Access you can do a few GB, but with PowerPivot, you can do a billion or more rows. Don’t expect any insane performance though.
The comment is a quintessential HN comment: all tone, little substance. It just claims that it's fair use because the AI learns things, which is not a criterion for fair use at all. People here just throw around fair use as a catch-all term for everything that should be allowed based on their personal gut feeling.
I run it on a Raspberry Pi4 (as a Docker image, with automatic updates using WatchTower.)

Of course performance depends on the size of your database and how many repos/files. I've configured it to use a sqlite3 database, which runs great.
> You can either be stubborn about tech, or adopt a grown-mindset and learn about new things.

When the UI changes randomly at regular frequencies, what can you learn? There is no knowledge to accumulate.

Hell, even the thing where stuff sorts by "most recent access" makes learning impossible. How do you find older things? (the "search" function is contrary to how the brain works, brains are wired to find things by location which doesn't work if there isn't a location because stuff is always moved by the damn magic elves).
You Are Not Where You Think You Are
So it's grep like i already have installed and know its quirks?
> I’ve tried Triplebyte to a resounding failure.

Do you mind sharing more about what didn't work out? Did you pass/fail the Triplebyte test? Did you meet with a few interested companies afterward, but nothing came of it?
Why? They may have acted reckless up to now with the commercial paper etc. but unless they have taken massive losses and somehow covered them up, they can just convert to risk-free assets and take the yields.
Extrawelt - 8000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMDrGTZ6uEA

Minilogue - The Leopard (Extrawelt Remix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnTg4vzli5s
> will remain available

Sounds to me that it will not be the default. And their is a time-honoured trick in our industry of hiding an option deep in the menus, to drive down adoption, to preclude removal of a feature.

Not to mention how many bug reports with be followed up with "Try in the new UI" as their only reply. We've seen this with Firefox, LibreOffice, KDE, Gnome, and so many other once-useful software.
As a VSCode user, I can see myself switching to Jetbrains because of these changes. Doing the occasional Flutter project, I always use VSCode for that instead of Android Studio. I just can’t stand the clutter and UI bloat in classic IntelliJ. I’m often on a 15“ screen, maybe that’s a contributing factor.
I was just exaggerating with the presets but I think it's nothing special. Never seen the movie so maybe it fits the atmosphere but just on it's own its a bit bland.

Extrawelt - 8000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMDrGTZ6uEA

Minilogue - The Leopard (Extrawelt Remix): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnTg4vzli5s
Cooking is super bursty, and at variable times, and for short durations. And even then, varies by day.

It's not at all the same as everyone on planet earth in the same hemisphere trying to charge their cars during peak summer AC time, between 4 and 6ish pm.
You can still opt-in into the ancient HTML UI.
It's really lightweight and network-bandwidth friendly, but not having shortcuts for some basic actions makes it a little bit too arcane and sometimes way slower than just paying the resource costs.

I wish there was a better balance between both UIs. The "better looking" one wastes too much resources (CPU, memory, screen space).
Two use cases for businesses that have nothing to do with avoiding KYC or currency controls etc which other people have mentioned
1)say you are a business who wants to accept crypto but doesn't want the volatility associated with holding crypto
2)...or say you want to sell something for either dollars or crypto and don't want to have to reprice your product every time USD/ETH moves

In either case offering a price in USDC for example would meet your needs. Your customers can pay in crypto but what you get is essentially the same as dollars (excluding transaction fees), so goods can be priced the same in crypto and cash and you're not exposed to crypto volatility on your holdings for the most part.

So if you have a use case for businesses to price things in a stablecoin, then it follows that there are use cases for people to get stablecoin to use and therefore usecases for creating stablecoins, exchanging them for other crypto etc.
Yes, the shoe-phone!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_phone
Hacker News: We should have less hacking and more real work!
My favorite playlist while working:
https://music.apple.com/us/station/trent-reznor-atticus-ross...
If you build a system that has a high likelihood of breaking the law in normal expected use, and then it's found to break the law, shouldn't we disincentivize that in some way? Is that just blaming the researchers/developers, or is that just making people respect the law?

I think the important thing to note in both dog attack scenarios presented is that the owner is responsible in both cases. Either they purposefully created an unsafe situation or they were negligent in protecting the public from their property. Whether the dog is euthanized is about preventing it from happening again. Preventing it from happening in the first place is done by making the owner liable to disincentivize it.
What's the advantage of using K8s over Google App Engine? GAE pretty much has out of box scaling, security, containers etc. You just deploy your app and let Google handle it.
The exact same thing can be said about EVs and then some.

Batteries are less energy per volume than gas. Batteries are extremely hazardous if damaged. They have a relatively short lifespan. They are hardcore industrial hazardous waste. Power generation is likely coming from a gas power plant or even a coal power plant. The required infrastructure upgrades would be astronomical.