skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My town has two krogers and two safeways, so i’m interested to see how this might play out. Thankfully there’s also a costco and a local co-op nearby. Support local co-ops if at all possible! And costco, as i’m a shareholder ;)
Same, the only refresh that I feel is genuinely bad is reddit. The problem with new reddit is that the usage pattern is totally different. Old reddit can be rapidly browsed and only the posts that interest you are the ones that you give attention, in new reddit posts can’t be rapidly browsed and each one is supposed to grab your attention (in my opinion).
> On the flip side, the only thing I want Jetbrains to do is implement proper UI scaling.

Oh man I'm still mad that if I want to present my Jetbrains IDE screen and make it readable, I have to change 2 fonts, one for the editor, one for the interface.
This is a bad idea because the risk of fire is very high. The electrical wires aren't built for the high load of charging a car, and doubly so if they happen to be old. That's why electricians should always draw completely new wires, to make sure that everything is fresh and able to handle the load.

That it's been working for you for a few years does not invalidate this point, in the same way as not wearing a seat belt is unsafe.
"Derivative work" is a very specific thing, and it's contrasted with "transformative work" in a way that matters a lot, and fair use intersects heavily with both.

Even when it comes to stuff that seems reaaaaally close to pure derivative: Googling "How long does it take to boil water?" => "If you're boiling water on the stovetop, in a standard sized saucepan, then it takes around 10 minutes for the correct temp of boiling water to be reached. In a kettle, the boiling point is reached in half this time."

That's a verbatim snippet pulled directly from https://unocasa.com/blogs/tips/how-long-to-boil-water, and yet Google exists and continues to do stuff like this under the fair use doctrine despite massive efforts to attack/monetize their service. [To be fair, Google does link results, which probably insulates them because it's less hurtful to the commercial interests of the source; that said, with open source there generally are no commercial interests to hurt (open source attribution will be a tough sell as an actual commercial interest), and that's specifically called out in the law as a factor]

Copilot is even less explicitly at risk IMO, in that it never even stores the text, nor can it reliably retrieve it. I have no idea what makes anyone think it should be more vulnerable than Google.

From the copyright.gov page on fair use (https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/, worth reading in detail for anyone who cares about this stuff, also has links to a monumental number of cases with shockingly intelligible summaries): "Additionally, “transformative” uses are more likely to be considered fair. Transformative uses are those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work."

Copilot without any shadow of a doubt does add something new, with a further purpose, and does not substitute for the original use of any codebase on Github (it can't create any of the codebases in full, without manual guidance so extreme that you'd have to be using the actual original codebase as a reference, so it clearly cannot substitute for a single one of them, and that's what a lawyer will argue, likely successfully).

In the Google vs. Oracle case (see https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/summaries/google-llc-orac...), a big piece of the fair use finding was that "its value in significant part derives from the value that those who do not hold copyrights, namely, computer programmers, invest of their own time and effort to learn." and "further[s] the development of
computer programs”. It's hard to see where Copilot wouldn't fall into that category, as well, and that's precedent on (multiple) appeal.

By my reading this should be a slam-dunk fair use ruling, unless precedent gets really upended, and Butterick is wasting a ton of time and effort for absolutely zero potential gain other than some bragging rights, but to each his own...I guess we all have to grind our axes from time to time.
long time silver searcher user here. made a switch to rg and haven't looked back. although ag is still a tool of that rare breed I really have nothing bad to say about.
On other hand I think mandating upgrades every time code changes for everything would be unsustainable. From many perspectives like supply of labour and materials. And fact that creating such uneven demand would cause very messy labour market.

Mandating ripping out immediately everything dangerous or carcinogenic, would be even bigger issue. And these things don't cause actually so many issues to be very life threatening. They have been around for decades after all.
I've spent the last half hour trying to figure out what this company is, and I still have no idea. My first stop was their website and I could not find a single sentence providing concrete details regarding their value proposition. It's just a bunch of vacuous statements which paint themselves as some sort of iconoclastic visionaries. Please do check it out for yourself and tell me it's not just a bunch of nonsense. For further evidence that this company hates concrete ideas and coherent sentences, head over to the founder's twitter and read his bio.

Anyways, if you scroll past the hand waving on their site, the first thing they tout is their developer communities. What exactly is a developer community? Do these communities belong to Stability? Does Stability own the research/models produced by these communities? I don't understand the value of this section at all. It seems to be just a list of ill-defined and loosely connected organizations with no clear relation to Stability.

Lastly, I am well aware of what stable diffusion is, but I still am not sure what the relationship is between Stability AI and the researchers that developed the stable diffusion model. As far as I can tell, Stability AI simply provided the compute for model training. None of the researchers list any affiliation with Stability in their publications (or elsewhere that I looked). And if this is the case, is there any reason to expect Stability to stay on the forefront of AI research? Or are they just going to open source models in the wake of actual research done by other organizations? How is lending compute to other researchers a viable business model, let alone one worth a 1B valuation? Is their stable diffusion API/Studio that much better than all the others?

Are these investors reputable? My first impression would be that they are drastically overestimating the competitive edge that Stability has.
> It sounds like most of the upgrades are about convenience to the power company. Not anything safety related, which is why older properties are exempt.

That is definitely not true. An 80 year old house might not even have grounded outlets, let alone GFCI or AFCI protected outlets.

> You also have to remember that it takes a lot of power to be able to change an EV in timely manner

Nobody worries about how many electric ovens, clothes dryers, or air conditioners are in an older neighborhood. 240V at 30A is a trivial load addition, and even if it were to become a concern, there are existing mechanisms to shed load during peak usage. Even a crude cut-off switch, like many air conditioners have, would be sufficient.
No, this is not meant as a defense. My point is that it's an issue that is already rampant and what Copilot (or any model) does is make it more readily visible.

This is not like youtube because Github is already hosting those violations and people are already inappropriately copying or including such code. It matters not whether the local inclusion was fetched by copilot or a human fetched it using more manual steps through search.
To stay sane: for myself as a developer, I consider github copilot as a (much) faster google/code search work-flow. I can copy / or re-mix code I find in a google search, but it's my responsibility to figure out the copyright situation of that code.

Imagine if something like google didn't exist, and then it suddenly did. People would be saying: "This newfangled computer algorithm is giving everyone copies of my code with a misattributed licence, just by typing the function name and site:github.com !"
Good thing I'm not American then.

(And the joke I'm referencing is making fun of software ethics, so you're in violent agreement.)
I'm a software dev, and I leave my phone at home as often as I can. I know how to use it. I've been contracted to write apps for both droid and iphone. Still I'd rather leave all tech at home. I'm not justifying it. I don't like being distracted.

I don't install apps because I 100% don't trust the devs who write apps. Or well I don't trust their bosses. Corners are cut and security and UX typically takes a back seat to "the funnel"

My gym (located right across the street from my house) requires me to check in via an app. I have no issues walking across the street and getting the clerk to manually do it for me. NO I didn't bring a phone to my workout.
It’s a huge but finite haystack with a lot of needles, the number of needles depends on the difficulty.
This is similar to the Far Lands[0] in old versions of Minecraft. Woof![1]

[0] https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Far_Lands

[1] https://farlandsorbust.com/
Yours might be large enough to affect the planet's rotation, but leave the rest of our moms out of this.
Do we really need to differentiate between undef and null?
I agree, but it's not much different than producing the electricity required for charging EVs.
I appreciate at least you can have an opinion on this matter without pretending like somehow my point cannot be understood, even if you disagree with it. Your rebuttal shows you understand what was written and even are able to make counterpoints building on that understanding. Thank you for that basic respect, which sadly is not shown by the other counterparty.
Charging at scale is just way easier & cheaper than deploying hydrogen infrastructure, and I don’t think people realize just how big of a difference there is. It takes approximately 4 times the electricity (when you include liquefaction, inefficiency of electrolysis, etc) to drive the same distance with hydrogen cars as with electric cars. And Hydrogen cars get about the same range on a tank as electric cars, but even fast charging is only about $3/useful-gallon-equivalent compared to $10/useful-gallon-equivalent for hydrogen even if you have to go Fast Charge once a week or so, you’re still WAY ahead.

Now if you’re talking plug-in hybrid hydrogen cars, that’s fine. You’ll be on pure electric 85% of the time anyway so the crazy expense of hydrogen fueling isn’t so bad.
Revolution isn't the mass uprising of violence. That only happens at the end when the existing system initiates violence.

Revolution is building and implementing the stuff that happens afterwards. It's building parallel power structures and systems that aren't part of the current one. Things like mutual aid networks and unions (real unions, not controlled opposition).

A non-capitalist revolution looks like the Zapatistas or Rojava, not like larping the red army killing all the socialists. They generally get shut down by external violence followed by the people who enacted the violence saying "see! It ddn't work!".

Another place to look is the formation of fascist states. Night of the long knives is not what made the nazi state, nor was Trump's failed insurrection what will lead the US the rest of the way into fascism. The actual work is the last ten years of undermining the education system with things like praeger U.
Windows app package installer deduplicates identical assets
C# linqs method - first or default has the same problem
In the UK, where the BBC is hosted, solar-powered headphones are mostly a waste of time. It rains a lot and you spend a lot of time avoiding being outside. Most people are at work when the sun is highest in the sky. As others point out, most people can get through the whole day on one charge.

It would be much more efficient to put solar-panels where they can maximize their potential energy output and instead just charge normal headphones from renewable sources. Bare in mind that the creation of the solar panels themselves has a carbon offset that the application of headphones is unlikely to recoup.
Cool hack. That said:

A security reminder to anyone who is in the target audience here: if you're clever enough to have TOTP 2FA enabled on your Google account, get some cheap USB security keys and enable Advanced Protection, which completely disables non-hardware 2FA. It requires two different tokens (and you should really get one for each computer you have/use, plus at least one offsite backup) because once enabled it actually and completely locks anyone out of the account that does not possess one of the enrolled tokens.

https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/

TOTP is not much better than SMS-based 2FA. It's still vulnerable to phishing, local device malware (that attacks your TOTP in your password manager), etc. It's best to use hardware tokens everywhere that support them, and both Google and GitHub do. (And Google supports a special hardware token only mode which I wish more sites would adopt.)
It's interesting that you find the idea of "only" being able to represent numbers as small as 10^-38 and as large as 10^38 as having "very small exponent."

In deep learning, this is huge! If you have numbers this big, then something is definitely already wrong. If you have numbers that small, then you definitely don't care.

I wonder if deep learning will save us from poorly conditioned linear algebra too.
But still very different from thousands people losing their jobs at once (has happened before at Microsoft)
"outside of our provision of the Service"

You've ignored the important words. Copilot is part of the Service.
The problem lies in credit card system, which discriminates against poor. As long as the cashless system is not built on top of a credit card, it does not have the problem. Look, a person with volatile currency can use bitcoin to protect himself, other financial instruments to do so normally only available for the very rich.
Yes always use higher spec outlets made for heavy duty appliances, such as kitchen outlets. And yes it's a good idea to get your setup checked, and upgraded or repaired if necessary.
gitlab and github both provide a program that runs on your raspi and executes the ci pipeline. Search for ‘runner‘. As a solo developer, you can even install the runner on your laptop. It will only be needed while you’re connected to the network anyways.
I'm on board with what you're saying, but also electrics done to "code" can burn down your house.

My mother in law told me yesterday that my sister in law's mother in law's house burned down while they slept (they're safe) this week due to brand new electrics in a brand new house extension, carried out by a licensed (is that the correct word for an electrician?) professional.

This is in England
I honestly like it. IMO IntelliJ UIs were unnecessarily clunky. Vertical text was weird, and hard to read for me on higher resolutions, along with really small icons that forced you to actually parse the list for what I need. If you’re on a small resolution and have a lot of tool windows on the left side, the upper left tool window text and lower left texts runs into each other. Bottom bar was inconsistent, the items on that bar constantly change. 2 bars of vertical text, and an endless bottom bar, it felt like they were trying to back my editor into a corner. After using it like that for years, I finally gave up, just disabled most UI components and tolerated suboptimal keyboard shortcuts for finding and using tool windows. This UI update for the first time feels like I’m not flanked by clutter in a Jetbrains IDE
Absolutely. The reason the grid begs you to turn off your AC is because you do it at 4 PM when there isn't enough power. EVs charge at night when demand is low.
I stopped using Amazon for shopping about two years ago, because of how they treat warehouse staff.

I never thought to work at Amazon, because I heard from multiple colleagues, former employees, that Amazon is profoundly metric based; then the stories such as this, about burning out staff, and about the fake PIP process, began surfacing.
Cockroach Milk (2016)
AWS is the only provider who accepts prepaid cards and your name doesn't even have to be on the card.
Just make sure you know the card's billing address.
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There's a whole space in the document to thunk people and... nothing. Prima donna.
That's a valid argument to make to a home owner, but for a landlord that's potentially all of their profits, and besides, it's not theirs or their family's lives at risk from the old wiring.

It still works right? Great, let's add another excuse to increase the rent and we're golden!
The main reason AI will be reproducing copyrighted works while the original license is not trivial to identify will be that in those instances, humans are already violating copyright at a high rate. It's just flown under the radar thus far as required machinery to so easily surface violations was not available.

Copilot is capable of going beyond retrieval and is competent at using variables, comments, types and local context to infer intention and generate appropriate code and even comment on it. Whenever copilot correctly predicts code of yours that's a novel combination of concepts, copilot has originated novel code.

For esoteric concepts, you usually already have to know how to prime it but Copilot is especially useful when it helps you bump into things you didn't know you didn't know (one way to increase the odds of this happening is to write out your thinking so far in markdown or comments. You'd be surprised how helpful and clever Copilot can be in some instances). My point here is Github isn't charging $10/month for run of the mill retrieval. My opinion is code-gen LLMs contribute value and more open versions are worth building.
As I responded to someone else, this isn't always true. Google "when was George Washington born".
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Hydrogen requires about 4 times the input electricity per mile driven than electricity for battery electric cars. That’s why it’s so much more expensive and almost no one uses it. And the fueling infrastructure is crazy expensive.

Personally, I think if we do have hydrogen cars in the future, hydrogen cars should require a plug and an enlarged lithium battery (say, 10kWh at least). Otherwise we’ll need to produce FAR more electricity than with battery-electric cars and consumers will be on the hook for far, far higher use costs.
Do people really have CSV files with more than 1M rows? How do you search and update such files? Why not use some database?
It really did
Challenges the BBC faces as it turns 100
The difference between the solar day and the sidereal day is caused solely by the progress of the earth in its orbit.

After 23 hours 56 minutes the earth has made a full rotation relative to the stars. But it has to turn for a further 4 minutes to get the sun to be above the same place on the earth.

The difference between the day lengths is one day divided the number of days in a year, i.e. approximately 24 hours / 365.
I’ve always wanted to see a game that used nanometer scale int64 positions. That’d give 11.5 million miles of nanometer scale precision. I imagine there are terrible problems with this. But I’ve never tried it so I don’t know what they are.

Back to Godot, I thought the answer would be to precompute the ModelView matrix on the CPU. Object -> World -> Camera is a “large” transformation. But the final Object -> Camera transform is “small”. I’m sure there’s a reason this doesn’t work, but I forget it.

Unreal 5 changes to doubles everywhere for large world coordinates. I wonder what fun issues they had to solve?
Hot take time.

Actual professionals use keyboard shortcuts to easily navigate or bring to the forefront whatever they need in Intellij (the JB product I use)

If you are clicking through menus all day or are otherwise negatively affected to such a degree by a visual change like this, you are an amateur

So really, JetBrains is bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of... amateurs

This world for amateurs exists exists, as a crutch, within the larger world of the professional product.

However, the world of professional usage of Intellij remains essentially unchanged (granted, the new icons and extra negative space are annoying, they just are not significant)

TLDR: git gud, use a keyboard
I like your thinking on this
The "v2" torrent file format allows most of this. Some clients have support already.

All you'd have to do is make a torrent of your whole hard drive and then seed that. You don't need to publish the torrent anywhere.

If anyone else in the world is downloading any other torrent that happens to contain a file you have, they will end up connecting to your machine to download it.
It requires approximately 4 times the energy to make and distribute hydrogen as charging an EV to go the same distance.
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Apart from tuning up the compression you may gain a lot by clustering reads in FASTQ files using clumpify from BBMap:

https://jgi.doe.gov/data-and-tools/software-tools/bbtools/bb...

You may also filter out duplicates and depending on what you do correct base errors or get rid of low complexity reads.
I think only a permissionless system could be an acceptable alternative to cash. Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies satisfies this. However, being traceable is a major downside. Monero is not practically traceable and has much lower fees compared to Bitcoin. I hope to see it being used more in real life transactions.
In our area the higher price (peak demand time) was during a window about 6 hours long. So we were able to charge a maximum of 18 hours a day while avoiding that window. Now we have 220 which makes things easier, but still no need for a charger installation.
Self-citation is the hallmark of productive authors, of any gender
> Finding a particular config option is always a hunt.

Do you know you can search for an option in the settings menu? Actually, you can search just about everywhere.

You can also set your IDE to store your config in a git repo so that it's the same everywhere you use it.
Thank you for taking the time to write that response. This is helpful.

Also, all things considered equal, would you consider this an interesting line of work?
Yes but JetBrains IDEs are packed with literally thousands of useful features. I use them since at least a decade and I discover new features at least every month. And for this, a discoverable GUI is really important.
Those are nice indeed. Seems like Nordic minimalism applied to web design.
I had a neighbor with Tesla and he was happy to charge his car only on superchargers. Today in Germany all fast chargers cost at least 2x more than electricity at home making electric vehicles barely economically viable. My assumption: real car with 20 kWh/100km consumption comparing to 6-8l/100km diesel similar sized car.
Ok, a stupid question. From what I understand this PR provides a tunnel, so that code in the container's private network namespace sees the external network, as if the code was running on the host. Why is this necessary - is it not possible to make the container use the initial network namespace, and get the same end result in a simpler way?
It's ethical too, because the terms of the deal are given to the employee up front, and if they're the kind of person who can do SWE at Amazon, it's nowhere near their only job option. Nobody forces them to take it, and they're not hurting for jobs.

People opt in to this. They choose it over all of their other options because they believe it to be better than their other choices.
Micheal Pollan, the omnivore's dilemma