skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's totally realistic. LeetCode reflects academia, a world in which all problems are solved in 100 lines or less, thread collisions don't exist, and the context is stable.

My first major software job, which I went into, with almost zero experience, was to maintain 100,000+ LoC of FORTRAN IV code, 1970s vintage, in one file; accessed via 300 baud VT-100 terminals, and line printers that sounded like an M60. No documentation, and stepped on by every junior engineer before me. It was awful, and taught me the value of writing good code, and leaving a legacy[0].

This is the cloc output for the Swift iOS project I'm working on now:

54 text files.
54 unique files.
0 files ignored.

github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.92 T=0.06 s (863.2 files/s, 477430.9 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
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Swift 54 3961 11281 14626
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SUM: 54 3961 11281 14626
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Note the code is almost 50% comments. That's what being traumatized by Devonian-era FORTRAN will do for you.

BTW: That's only about half the code. I have thirteen dependencies (that I also wrote -except for one small one). They are non-small projects, each in their own right.

My understanding for the reason for LeetCode tests, is because there's a big problem with total fakes presenting as qualified software engineers, and the tests are just there, to make sure they can even code.

I never encountered anything close to that, in my career. Quite a few folks presented résumés that claimed skills they didn't have well-developed, but it was pretty easy to figure that out, in a quick conversation.

I actually hired some of those folks anyway. The stuff we worked on wasn't something they taught in school. Everyone is starting from scratch. I looked for enthusiasm, eagerness to learn, and problem-solving skills.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/leaving-a-legacy/
I'm older, and I have always thought likewise, even when young.

However, if a person IS older and wise, it is very much in a younger person's best interests to find someone like that and learn from them - have a mentor.

Being young doesn't mean you are beautiful compared to others, but it sure does mean that most people (not all) are more beautiful when they are younger...a LOT more beautiful. I look at people from high school and want to throw up in my mouth they are so ugly, and then I always realize that I am that old and want throw up some more.

As far as the last paragraph goes, some people stop actively cultivating those habits when they are 6-years-old. Generally, what people are like at 6 is what they are like at 66. I've known a friend for 55 years, and he's the same dude as when we were 10. Same everything. Not saying everyone is like this, but you know...most of us are, let's get real.

Personally, I think most of us respect the age because of maybe genetic, maybe culture, whatever it is, but first, we had to listen to our parents who were ANCIENT HUGE PEOPLE who knew everything when we were small, and then our teachers and other adults until we are,oh, maybe 12 when we reach puberty and start making our own way in the world. But even then, our older teachers literally know stuff we don't up to 12 grade and in university.

Those remnants of the proper respect that we had when we were 1 or 2 or 10 years old of older people stays with us - not just us but our parents, their parents, our children, our children's children.

It's different with different people. Some people believe everything told to them by their parents, as soon as my parents told me about religion when I was 4-years-old, I figured it out it was 100% bullshit, so I always had a problem with authority. But, why do 96% of people believe in a god? Because someone older than them told them to do that, and people don't change their minds once it is embedded in there. Same with authority and age.

Furthermore, in days gone by, before universal education and book printing, there was no way to "store knowledge" like there is in books. And computers. So a 15-year-old couldn't go to the internet and look up stuff his parent or teachers don't know. It didn't exist. So I don't know if listening is in our DNA = those who listened to their elders tended to survive and reproduce because they learned how to look out for the lion or bear or whatever. Nobody could look up online how to watch out for lions and know instantly. Tradition is strong. We still use a calendar that was originally put together 2000 years ago, with only one update in all that time. We are using 60 minutes and 60 seconds from the Sumerians of 3,500 years ago.

That's what I say. Does that sound wise of full of shit stupid, as I'm older? Or just boring and obvious? Doesn't matter, I mainly wrote it for myself.
Thats 12 years old... I think it's a real testament to Googles privacy behaviour that amongst their 2 Billon+ users over 11 years, there are no fresher news stories that come to mind.

Compare with facebook/instagram, where it seems every other week someone messes up the privacy settings and posts something to an audience they didn't intend because the product is deliberately designed to encourage accidental oversharing.
Cleans the cache of the quick look. I don't exactly know why the problem happens in the first place. I think it may be happening because of full memory, full cache. There may be an interrupt of that cache cleaning cycle when we put the machine on sleep. Because it happens more when there is a lot of heavy background processes(multiple developing environments, youtube, a lot of tabs) and you wake the computer back from sleep after long time. But this is just an assumption.

It does not restart/relaunch the Finder. But the solution is the same. Just makes it start working, no other features. About the price, thanks for the comment, I may consider a permanent discount.
For DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, the model size is an order of magnitude smaller than the total size of all the training set images? So it's not possible for the model to regurgitate every image in the training set exactly?

For Copilot, is there a similar argument? Or its model is large enough to contain the training set verbatim?
I like this. That would let you copy/paste more intuitively.
You have four examples of using replicable stuff that has been shared publicly, and you call two of them stealing.

All I can take away from this is the absurdity of intellectual property laws in general. I agree with the GP, if people are sharing stuff, it's fair game. If you don't want people using stuff you made, keep it to yourself. Pretending we can apply controls to how freely available info is used is silly anyway
Overpriced in my mind means priced so high people can't realistically pay without being extremely wealthy or committing mortgage fraud, or priced so high that the practical value that could be derived from it as an intrinsically useful asset is significantly smaller than what you have to pay.

Does $600k for a studio, or like $3500/month seem appropriately priced?

Sure some people are willing to spend $9k on a pair of shoes, but they're still overpriced.
interesting

courses page confused me a bit though, i really thought they counting animal cats per course

https://en.m.wikiversity.org/wiki/Category:Courses
Tesla FSD is a product (or possibly a scam under the guise of a product). Self-driving cars are a concept.
Bummer. Fortunately, I never noticed :-)
No, but I've read the relevant section of the USC. Statutes override contracts, you can't contract out of being bound by the law of the land.
You might be right. Or social media might be the crack to tv and radio’s cocaine.
Sufficiently adversarial rdrand could snoop the rest of your seed and choose its result appropriately. But sha256 is not reversible.
Choose a tiny niche. Solve their problem.

"Family Doctor's Office, Local Cafe, Small barber, etc." This is already too broad. Choose one.

Suppose you've chosen "small barber." Now narrow down further to "small barber seattle." Now narrow down further to "small barber, Seattle, Belltown."... And then... Narrow down further: small barber, Seattle, Belltown, men's beard trimming."

Now go physically talk to both of these people.

If they don't want your MVP, your MVP or vertical is wrong.

Write zero code.
It’s not that simple: in the west we lack authoritarian leaders that stifle all the competition so that one viewpoint prevails. Instead, their are multiple “MSM”s with competing narratives, to the point that there is no unified narrative at all. Disagreement is simply the norm, and it is the lack of agreement that makes our media look weird to Russians, Chinese, and so on.

I missed the point when Ukraine was inducted into NATO, making the Russian invasion completely valid and understandable. Ok, that’s sarcastic, but it makes my point that the Russian reasoning for this war was simply never going to fly, even if western media presents them exactly as Russian media does, they are still going to sound distasteful.
meta being so big they're almost part of public institution just privately held; and public scrutiny is less frowned upon especially if many believes they do not contribute to the betterment of the republic
> preservation of their writing

A third party site is more likely to preserve your work in time than you remembering to pay and host your content.
https://github.com/sw-yx/brain

github with obsidian
Yes they can be faster, but personally I don’t find them too bad. Half kilometre away the opposing beams are noticeable but not blinding you, yet some drivers blink theirs mostly just to warn you. Matrix headlights is whole next level.

People similarly freak out when you back up too quickly into them, because you have a reversing camera on.
Some of what you said is correct except prices are going down because of interest rates.

Also high real estate prices have hurt other areas of the economy. And the demand is largely due to money laundering out of China, not fundamentals.
I can't tell what you're arguing. You seem to be suggesting that YouTube is doing insane things, and that therefore... Microsoft should also be doing insane things?

Also a major problem with YouTube is not with DCMA itself, but it how it implements the system to allow for abusive takedowns without repercussions for the abusers.
Or maybe don’t be - my sales knowledge is pretty outdated.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/always-be-closing.asp
Oh, I meant UTF-8 would be more efficient than UTF-16.
A different way of saying 'abandoned' is 'not currently being worked on at present'.

An open-source project can be picked-up and worked on at any time by any programmer in the world.

They often are. Most of the time an open-source program is being used quietly in the background without any development. Then somebody will require a minor change and implement it. Most of the time that improvement will just be used 'in-house' and not promulgated back to the wider world.

I've done that myself with a curses-based Usenet newsgroup reader. It's not that I am restricting access to that 'new improved' version, it's just that there is very little interest about that software in the outside world.

It's not 'abandoned' as far as I am concerned. It may just be 'abandoned' as far as you are concerned.
This entire thread is about how copilot committed a copyright violation on a simple code block.
It's really interesting. I suspect the face was inpainted in, or this was a "img2img".

I think over time we are going to see the following:

- If you take say a star wars poster, and inpaint in a trained face over luke's, and sell that to people as a service, you will probably be approached for copyright and trademark infringement.

- If you are doing the above with a satirical take, you might be able to claim fair use.

- If you are using AI as a "collage generator" to smash together a ton of prompts into a "unique" piece, you may be safe from infringement but you are taking a risk as you don't know what % of source material your new work contains. I'd like to imagine if you inpaint in say 20 details with various sub-prompts that you are getting "safer".
Again, as a lawyer, I think it's really important to focus on intent. The Constitution gives us "To promote the progress of science and Useful Arts" (which we've expanded.)

So question one in the back of our heads should be "Are we promoting progress here?" That most often means protecting the little guy, and that's why I think it's mostly necessary, and also must be evaluated very skeptically.
damn thanks for letting us know

what books would you recommend for people in their younger years though?
Never expected the GCHQ to come out against this.

In a paper titled Chat Control or Child Protection?, to be distributed via ArXiv, Anderson offers a rebuttal to arguments advanced in July by UK government cyber and intelligence experts Ian Levy, technical director of the UK National Cyber Security Centre, and Crispin Robinson, technical director of cryptanalysis at Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the UK's equivalent to the NSA.
https://alexanderwales.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/image....

Left: “Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Johannes Vermeer” by Stable Diffusion
Right: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer

This specific one is not copyright violation as it is old enough for copyright to expire. But the same may happen with other images.

from https://alexanderwales.com/the-ai-art-apocalypse/ and https://alexanderwales.com/addendum-to-the-ai-art-apocalypse...
It’s not a copyright violation to commission an artist to make you something in the style of another artist and it’s also not copyright infringement for the artist you hired to look at that artist’s work to learn what that style means. And it’s also not always infringement to draw another artist’s work in your own style same as reimplementing code.

If you “trace” another artists work the hammer comes down though. For Copilot it’s way easier to get it to obviously trace.
> Blockchain is the greatest technological fraud of the last decade. A fraud so simple, so ridiculous and yet so brilliant, it's taken in even some genuine experts in its thrall of empty hype and false promises. On top of this fraud sits the even greater fraud of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, which are nothing more than unregulated, unlicensed, wild west securities. They are functionally useless as currencies outside the realms of criminal activity and a Ponzi scheme in effect if not name for everyone else.

Literally every single statement in this opening paragraph is demonstrably objectively false, regardless of where you stand on cryptocurrencies.

It’s not worth abandoning objective reality to signal to your tribe.
If given the chance to work and live in the states for $50k more, or in Europe for the same amount or less than I currently make, I might choose the latter for the novelty, but not the former to climb a ladder, so what's the comparison worth? That said, I'm not about to move to the suburbs where everyone and everything is pretty bland and same.
Are you saying that this article excuses data breaches?
style is not copyrightable under current rules
There is always client-side state. The dropdowns, for example, have selection that affects the entire app. That selection must be stored in a state which will affect the reloads triggered by changes in the dropdowns.
"Great" is hyperbole. The con was always obvious. A "great" con would be something that suckered people who aren't greedy or shortsighted.
I understand what you are saying, but what you can end up with is stored procedures with loops.
Yes, but can we place monitors in the center instead. Putting it where mirrors are normally seems more distractive (disclaimer: I haven’t tried them)
The Metaverse is a sexless, joyless world, much like Mark Zuckerberg himself. Sure, there's happy fun time, similar to the forced fun of office birthday parties if you're into that.
El Salvador's Bitcoin experiment: $60M lost, $375M spent
Again, I’m totally unsurprised that electric or electromagnetic fields can influence biology. But none of that has anything to do with “touching dirt” or “grounding”. You’re literally always in the Earth’s magnetic field.
Instant favorite thing after 5 seconds
Your point about losing copyright is incorrect. But copyright absolutely was designed with corporations in mind not small individual creators. It was designed around TV,Movies, and print publishers, not around YouTube and Patreon.
Pretty sure the majority of blood donations in the US are free (or freeish, like you might get a donut and orange juice).
These days the DBAs I see most in demand are really database optimizer consultants: people who know how to scale databases and deal with all the junk that rushed developers set up.
Prosecute them for price collusion then prosecute every company after that tried the same thing.

“Oh no, someone is clearly doing something illegal, if only we could do anything about it”.

Also we could legislate that apartments must target >80% occupancy in dense areas or face penalties for overpricing.
How many pixels you’d need for that?
El Salvador's bitcoin experiment: $60 million lost, $375 million spent, little to show so far

Key Points:

- El Salvador has lost around $60 million on its bitcoin bet one year into a nationwide crypto experiment.

- The use of bitcoin in El Salvador appears to be low amid the market volatility.

- The country faces plummeting economic growth and a high deficit.

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(Quoted from the article)
Duct Size vs. Airflow (2012)
Interesting that they interviewed the guards as well.

This article on open prisons was also good: https://theconversation.com/when-america-had-an-open-prison-...
You need to get that tritium out every day to have something to operate the reactor on. Look up the worldwide stock of tritium sometime.
Very very strong recommendation: get one eye done and wait a month or more before you consider getting the other done.

They will recommend you get both done at once.

Reason for recommendation: it is the only way to give yourself a before/after objective comparison between the operated eye and an native unoperated eye. If you get both done at once you lose all perspective (groan). Also one at a time lowers your risks a little I think.

I got one eye done years ago, and have kept using a contact lens in the other (never operated on). I was not thrilled with the stellation, which you can only objectively judge if you have one unoperated eye. Using a contact lens is annoying, but the option of not using it gives me some extra superpowers.
A sufficiently adversarial CPU could detect the sha256 hash you're using as a random number generator (and no other sha256 hash) and set its result to a known value as well.

At some point, you gotta just trust the hardware.
I would go so far as to say it’s misinformation, surely there’s no payment processors that would fine them for that.
I hope that big Tweet button is contextual, and not part of the default input box…
YES! This 1000x! I hate how ever damn thing is a freaking video now!

“Let’s review still image quality of latest mcgizmo phones… via video!” “Let’s turn a 3 minute read into a mindless 45 minute video for “engagement””
> role models are a necessity for young girls to be able to identify with someone in the field and the situation was so unbalanced something had to be done to seed the field.

Wrong. The problem is not that girls are unable to feel a connection with Newton or Fleming (Most genius lives are not orbiting around sex after all). This plan don't understands (or simply choose to ignore) how many woman were inspired to became scientists after a father figure, or because their (male) fathers were scientists yet.

The real problem is that the model of "scientist girl" must compete with other --feminine-- roles. Models that show ways much more efficient and easier to became a rich, successful and popular woman. Models that spend trucks of money to assure that young girls notice them. The scientist girl must compete with one hand tied to her back, because this society choose to reward more a woman able to sing and dance, than a woman able to do research.

This is mostly a problem of woman versus woman, not of woman versus man.
A correlation with only the stuff around it however does not solve the problem. Bell's inequality shows that the choice of the experimenter must be be able to affect particles separated by lightyears.

Either the experimenter's choice is an illusion (super-determinism), or somehow partial quantum states can be propagated at fast than light speed.
The article is old...dates back to February of this year. Furthermore, I haven't done digging, but I'm still trying to figure out the difference between what my older vehicles do vs what European cars do. It seems to be related to beam detection. My vehicle already dynamically adjusts brights vs "low" beams: if a car comes over a hill, it "sees" the headlights and shifts to normal beams.

My car does a pretty decent job and turning off the brights when it detects oncoming traffic, is this February Ars article saying that is illegal? If so, why is it implemented in my Hyundai?

EDIT: Based on other replies it appears that the difference is beam forming, exactly. My headlights simply go from high to low. It is pretty odd that would be banned, but okay.
Dark Forest theory best portrayed in the 2nd book of the Remembrance of Earth’s Past series by Liu Cixin (sci-fi at its best)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168817
The Leash Theory of Management (2017)
It will be interesting to see what species of bottom feeders adapts to the warming waters in the Bering Sea. We can only hope it is as delicious!
Would our infection rates have been similar, had we left schools open? I'm skeptical. How about other measures to limit transmission (voluntary and mandatory), were they also similar in those countries?
Do you have a good tutorial or intro for ARM64 or Apple Silicon assembly? I'd like to learn but the books I have are all for MIPS, and the online resources are hit or miss.
I don't think it really is that provocative -- clearly if you have no relationship with an open source project then they don't owe you anything, and you can't rely on them. So if your project is mission critical, then you either need to start up that relationship or apply internal engineering effort to vetting their code.

Of course I'm sure the second person to touch a computer did something irresponsible with it, so what can you do, right?
There are hundreds of roads in what used to be Rome and the Spanish empire, but very few preserve their ancient pavements as eventually they replaced by modern roads or abandoned during longer periods of times. Three examples:

Vía Augusta, from southern Spain up to Rome.
Via claudia Augusta, from Germany to Rome.
El camino Real, in America (Mexico and USA, also 2500km approx)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_Real_de_Tierra_Adentr...
You forgot the second paragraph

> That's one paragraph and already I can feel the simmering controversy, the reddening faces, the indignation and the angry accusations that I don't know what I'm talking about.

What can I do with Web3 that I can't do or have trouble doing any other way?
> one of the advantages of cryptocurrencies as the foundation of a separate financial system is that systems are, by necessity, subject to adversarial hardening

This is what the law is for.

> Perhaps it is true that Avraham committed illegal market manipulation (or some other violation of the law). However, does it really make sense to call for prosecution and imprisonment?

Yes. They broke the law. Laws should be fairly enforced.

> Furthermore, if there is any core ethos of crypto, it is one of independence from the authority of the state.

No, that's the core ethos of a lot of people in cryptocurrencies. It turns out that there are a lot of "investors" in cryptocurrencies who do not feel that way :)