skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah in that case tar itself is still creating the archive with a single thread, the compression gets applied "after" tar creates the archive almost exactly like in the pipeline in my comment.

By "after", I don't mean the whole archive is created before the compression part runs, but rather that tar can stream the the archive to stdout as it's being created. Tar needs to be able to do this since it was intended for tape drives, and seeking around on a tape drive is extremely slow.

It's actually pretty interesting that we still use tar so widely even though tape drives are not in common use! A new archive format that supports random access during reads (and writes maybe?) would be pretty interesting, but tar works pretty well so there isn't that much of a reason to create alternatives.
You mean probably binary. Binary is easy to understand(on/off), while ternary(developed in the soviet union) were complicate to understand and implement.
Yes, we use filtered indexes to mitigate it. It's a lot of additional boilerplate though.
MS Press recently released Charles Petzold's 2nd edition of Code. It provides insight into the evolution of computers, including Boolean logic and binary code: http://www.charlespetzold.com/books/
This would easily sway my decision about going to such a restaurant over its competition, once I found out they use these robots. Not having to pay 25+% tip makes a huge difference in my bill.
Thing is I seem to remember people saying "If we were going to build nuclear, the time to start was 15 years ago"... about 15 years ago.
If you can host your app on a $6 VPS, using a Kubernetes cluster seems like adding a little bit of overhead for no gains.
Why are computers digital but not an analogue? Claude Shannon has answered this question. Digital signal is easy to amplify and keeping integrity of analogue signal is hard.
This looks like the PR: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/66178
Isn't that just a missile?
You seem to be confusing disagreements with ad-hominem.

Here's an example of real ad-hominem: "You are an obnoxious narcissistic piece of shit that thinks every disagreement is a personal insult because you can't stand not being right". If someone was to use that sentence in an argument, that would be ad-hominem.

Asking whether or not you apply same standards of not using logical fallacies (from your original comment, I personally doubt it) is not ad-hominem because it's calling you out on asymmetric standards - apparently, you're free to commit logical fallacies as much as you want, but the moment someone else does, you halt all discussion and just shout "fallacy!" without any further elaboration and expect the other person to do the legwork of analysing how and why is the argument fallacious and fix it. That's not good faith discussion.
It's been a long way since I've read it, and it certainly had an interesting theme of politics and oppression. What bugged me was the description of the resistance movement: it pretended to be cleverly divided into cells, but ultimately the computer knew everything so it was pretty questionable security theater, and it didn't seem the book was particularly self-aware of that fact.
Nothing Says over 40 Like Two Spaces After a Period
s/FF/F/
The crash is due largely to Xi Jinping’s personal choices — his stubborn insistence on Zero Covid (which also has a dimension of social control), his willingness to let the vast real estate sector crash, and his crackdown on tech companies and other entrepreneurs.

Ha.. for a guy who calls himself an Econ blogger to be so dishonest about economics is... unfortunately not surprising.

The actual reasons for the crash have been long in the making and are an unavoidable result of its economic development, see: https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3196273/xi-jinp...
There are huge costs to cash - internal theft by employees, robberies, time it takes to go to the bank, etc
If you use keyboard shortcuts for everything, as I do, the rest of the UI outside of the editor really doesn't matter a whole lot. I won't be searching for buttons based on color memory or anything like that.
And the immigrants too!

There's a period when you don't have all the required paperwork, and it's really hard to open a bank account, or sign up for payment services.

Many banks in Germany use the same ID verification tool, and it does not recognise all passport types. Some banks require a residence permit or registration certificate, both of which can be hard to get.

If you have a bank account, it can still be shut down or restricted because of your government back home. This happened to Americans in 2019 and to Russians recently.

It's also a pain for visitors who need to join the system.

At last, phones get lost or break. When I lost mine, it took me two weeks to regain access to everything, in part because of 2FA catch-22s. At least I had money to replace it.
Perhaps a good compromise is to make it opt-out, if it’s not already. Though even this is just pandering to the developer’s ego. AI writing code is a massive boost in giving users power and thus freedom. Of course, we need to make AI itself FOSS, but I doubt a legal case could be made for that. A more productive path is to clone the model like SD did with Dall-e.
My poor old eyes. Read this as ‘Our mom has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5B yrs’
Cash based: robberies
This is the one that took over the community stable diffusion subreddit moderation from a kid right?
Last week I had to shut down my linux box for a move: up 3457 days. One day too late I guess :-)
France for example. As long as it’s unicorn money it’s not taxable, but if you convert to real money or buy goods and services, that income is taxed
Cruise for the community: food bank deliveres via self-driving cars in SF
It's too bad we can't experiment with interesting things like Copilot without worrying about remuneration and the respecting of rights. But that's the way of the world - we must think of these things. MS/Github should give code copyright holders a simple and easy way to opt-out of contributing their code to the Copilot corpus. Currently the only way to opt-out is to make your repo private. That's not good enough.

It would be better, of course, if Copilot was opt-in, but they'd never go for that.
It's just combining the fact that the suburban lifestyle is subsidized,
and the libertarian meme of "taxation is theft".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
I would suspect the effect of tidal forces in the rock of the earth has more impact than in the seawater.

Simply because there is a lot more rock, and as molten magma deforms it absorbs a lot of energy - it has a pretty high viscosity.
For Russia and Venezuela you may have a point. But the others in that list still have much better (in terms of risk/reward) options for protecting their wealth than stablecoins.
What's the definition of low performer?
Air Europa adding NFTicket platform
Thanks for the thorough reply! So I knew the ISP wouldn't be able to give you an IP outside of the cidr block, but was wondering why not shuffle within it.. but I understand your point about it being a pain for them to shuffle even within that block.
You can open USD nominated checking account in almost every bank, for example[0]. You can exchange PLN for USD bills ( no coins) with spread 3% in any city[1].

[0] https://www.bankmillennium.pl/en/individuals/current-account...

[1]https://quantor.pl/#
I would prefer to be able to pay without my name attached to every payment but it is becoming increasingly difficult to do. I do not want the right to a bank account, I want the right to pay anonimously in cash.
One thing to consider when looking at such things is that commercial avionics software systems are full of known limitations. I do not know if this particular 51-day limitation was intentional or not, but in general:

Avionics software starts with writing comprehensive requirements. When the software itself is developed based on those requirements, it is then tested against the requirements, always in a real functioning airplane, but also often in smaller airplane-cockpit-like rigs and in purely simulated environments.

Nobody is going to write a requirement that says "this avionics subsystem will function without error forever". Even if you thought you could make it happen, you can't test it. So there are going to be boundaries. You might say that the subsystem will function for X days. What happens after that? It may well run just fine for X+1 days, or 2X days, or 100X days. But it's only required to run for X days, and it's only tested and certified for running for X days.

I could easily imagine that this particular subsystem was required and certified for some value of X <=51 days, and it just so happened that if the subsystem ran for over 51 days then it started to fail. Or, it could have been a genuine mistake.

But even if the intended X wasn't 51 days, there almost certainly was some intended, finite value for X. We might say, "well, my laptop has run for three years without needing a reboot". Great! Is that a guaranteed, repeatable state of operation that the FAA would certify? Probably not. And besides that, do we really want to have to endure a three-year verification test?

In most software, we are happy to say, "it should run indefinitely". For avionics software, that's insufficient. We instead say "it will run at least for some specific predetermined finite amount of time" and then back up that statement with certifiable evidence.
So in other words, conservative states are involved in the “cancel culture” and it’s costing the states taxpayers of those same governments millions

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/01/1120457153/texas-ban-on-firms...
> I'm forced to beg the attendant to look me up by phone number every time.

Don't feel bad about asking them for access to the service that you paid for. Here are some good reasons for not installing their app:

- I forgot my phone at home

- My phone is broken, I stepped on it when I got out of the bed

- I can't install any apps, the memory is full and I don't want to delete my family videos

- I don't know my Appstore password right now

- This is a work-provided phone, I cannot install any apps on it

- My phone contains confidential client data, I cannot install any apps on it

- I am an investigative journalist, is your app certified for high-security applications?

- My kids have the phone, I didn't want to interrupt them playing games

- Does your app run on Nokia?

- Does your app run on Windows phones?

- Is your app on f-droid, my phone only supports f-droid?

- I am sensitive to radiation and cannot use any radio device

- I am a minimalist and I live phone-free!
> We found that the moon was around 60,000 kilometers closer to the Earth then [2.46 billion years ago] (that distance is about 1.5 times the circumference of Earth). This would make the length of a day much shorter than it is now, at roughly 17 hours rather than the current 24 hours.

I wish they explained why the moon being that much closer would have such a dramatic effect on the day length. Can someone explain this? Seems off to me, but I'm very physics-naive.

Also, good to know it's drifting away, and not towards the earth!
Ugh "why aren't"
Is it a start of the end?
> Anyone seeking 10% to 20% returns from a "Stablecoin" is taking on some kind of risk.

Acceptable to me. Consumer/investors just need to be more discerning and pragmatic. There is nothing wrong with risk. There is something wrong with obsessing over there being no risk till you get duped by a fantasy you wanted to hear.

Fortunately, many crypto interest rates are really just shares of a revenue stream - usually transaction volume where some value is being extracted - and this revenue collection velocity is repackaged as "interest rates" because it is familiar to passive-income obsessed people. on top of that, the "rates" are juiced by the issuance of an additional new token. So that will remain attractive as a human and capital coordination mechanism.
Open core
I have 2 problems with htmx (IMHO):

1. SoC: the server API needs to return only the data and meta data requested, and it should not be concerned with the display-layer (html), because many different clients i.e. mobile app, browser, Electron etc. might want to consume this API.

2. Logistics & scaling: Imagine a large application with 100s of html/htmx components and views, now you alter your database, you introduce new business rules etc... If you used React or Alpinejs etc. you could just go to the relevant stores or app code and make the change as opposed to sifting and refactoring tons of html.

Personally I'd rather just use Alpinejs from the start, knowing its lightweight, fast and easy to implement, and not end up painting myself into a corner over the application lifecycle.
I also think cryptocurrency is hyped & bubble. But the author is also wrong here by calling "only for criminals".

Cryptocurrency were supposed to mimic decentralized cash but there are still some problem that needs fixing.

> Imagine, for example, a world where you're out at a restaurant, or something, and you accidentally drop your keys. Someone else picks them up off the floor, only instead of handing them back to you, they now legally own your house and car. You call the police, but they say they have no power to insist this person gives you back your property. It's their property now, because possession is ownership, access is authorization.

Cryptocurrency should mimic cash, they don't have any intrinsic value just like cash. So correct example would be if you drop cash in restaurant not keys of your car. Just like cash whoever picks it up is there new owner & police can't do anything about it except for locking him in jail.

> In October 2017, JP Morgan's CEO Jamie Dimon called the idea a fraud and said he would fire any employee trading Bitcoin for being "stupid".

Ofcourse he will say that, JP Morgan creates money out of thin air by using fractional reserve, just like cryptocurrency. So basically bitcoin is taking away there business.

Author also misses important use like voting where we want record to be public, accountable & certifiable.

And about the criminal part. For criminals, CASH IS STILL THE KING.
Exactly, the same kind of warmongering was enacted under livestock barter economies.

The one thing I like about cashless is that it makes it just that tiny bit more difficult for bad actors who accrued their money through nefarious means.
Gitea mirroring fetches changes periodically
Whether this is the case or not, the same is true of most of the internet. I don't understand why people would be surprised by this.
RSI took away my ability to write any significant amount of code 30 yrs ago. co-pilot plus speech recognition restored that ability. what impressed me most was that from a textual description,co-pilot gave me code that could have been written by my mind and pre-injury hands.

from the comments here, if I push copilot into giving me code that I would have written for a given problem and that code violates licenses, then who is responsible for the copyright violation? co-pilot for giving me code that looks like copyrighted code or me for tweaking co-pilot commands to give me the code I envisioned which looks like copyrighted code?

also consider that the very tools used for solving problems in code lead coders to a small number of solutions for a given problem. is it plagiarism or parallel original thought?

also consider that when I wrote code, if I was solving a similar problem to what I solved before, I recreated that previously used code fragment (or larger) and use it to solve the problem at hand. I had zero issues leaving a trail of duplicate code behind me especially if the code was a major part of a software patent.

I didn't care, my code was lauded for it's readability and reliability. reuse the same concepts in multiple variations, you get real good and writing code correctly.

maybe co-pilot like programs could scan existing code bases and find examples of code fragment plagiarism with the goal of showing that software copyrights are useless.
They still had windows and offife divisions? I was sure they had swithced to something like rentacoder.
That was very specifically NOT what I said. What I said was that this person *might* be using tracking and monetization methods that would flip the value proposition by leveraging your details and privacy.

The thing is that you have relatively limited ability to know the level of tracking that companies use.

I'm *not* saying that paying for software solves this problem. I'm saying that "free" isn't as simple an answer as yes or no. It's more nuanced.
>Notice that Copilot often gives code that verbatim matches opens source software, even when that filter is on.

I saw a few examples, but I don't see how that extrapolates to often. It's quite possible I've missed something in the article since I kinda skimmed it. :)

>and it's honestly insulting that they think this is enough.

They don't. - "We plan on continuing to evolve this approach and welcome feedback and comment."
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Takes a while to get to the Extinguish phase.
Bounty systems are a pretty common way to get insane upload ratios so that you can archive.
Some people will do anything for money.
The issue with this model is that many state updates are not scoped to a single fragment. When you go to a another page, you’ll likely want to update the amount of results on one or more detached components. That’s way more natural to by getting the length of an array of data structures than on a html fragment.
How Susan Kare Designed User-Friendly Icons for the First Macintosh (2019)
JetBrains also published a separate post addressing the concerns about the new UI https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/06/addressing-the-new-u...
Walkable cities are much more accessible to elderly people (many of whom cannot drive) than car-only cities.

That’s one of the main reasons that elderly people from the suburbs often move to retirement communities which are designed at pedestrian scale.
My nine year old had a debit card attached a joint bank account. He could log in and see how much money he had. I gave him his allowance via a bank transfer.
> how will you feel if Copi­lot erases your open-source com­mu­nity

How will you feel if greed of a lawer erases progress of your tools?

Lawyers are a detriment to anything they touch. Letting them into software was the biggest mistake we ever made. We should kept them away same way they are kept away from math.
And it seems pretty clear to me that it is fair use, because it's not merely reproducing or creating a derivative work, but actually extracting patterns and modeling the works in a way that is intended to be used to create new and unrelated works. The fact that an occasional piece of code here and there might be reproduced verbatim is no different than e.g. Cliffs Notes occasionally quoting a passage, and Cliffs Notes are a well established case of fair use that to me, at least, seems even closer to "the line" than Copilot or Stable Diffusion.

FTA: "On the other hand, maybe you’re a fan of Copi­lot who thinks that AI is the future and I’m just yelling at clouds. First, the objec­tion here is not to AI-assisted cod­ing tools gen­er­ally, but to Microsoft’s spe­cific choices with Copi­lot. We can eas­ily imag­ine a ver­sion of Copi­lot that’s friend­lier to open-source devel­op­ers—for instance, where par­tic­i­pa­tion is vol­un­tary, or where coders are paid to con­tribute to the train­ing cor­pus."

This is the same argument that people use about Stable Diffusion, and it's kinda meh to me...I guess it'd be nice to allow people to opt-out, like Stable Diffusion is doing with their next versions, especially since a negligible percentage of people will do so and it won't affect the models at all. But yes, it basically is yelling at clouds. Opt-in would cripple models, and some people would make them anyways and just keep them secret, which is worse for the world. And at the end of the day, this really does just seem to me like a fair use of stuff that you've published on the Internet for anyone with a browser to look at. The AI models of the future are going to gobble the whole net up, and if you don't want them ingesting your stuff and learning from it, then you just shouldn't make it freely available.

If OpenAI/GitHub/MS really wanted to get ahead of this and head off any potential legal conflict, they could always just open source the models and weights, which would be in line with the name "OpenAI"...it would be a minor project to scrape all the correct headers to add to a license file(s), but negligible compared to the many millions of dollars spent on training.
Mountains do make noise when they reflect the sound your prop makes. I took the gp to refer to that. Whether you can use that for collision avoidance, no idea.
I mean an NN is, almost by definition, a weighted lookup table. The process to generate that table is not relevant.
Do you happen to have children? I don't know that it's "genetic" but I think Jerry is trying to say that it is innate. I have three children and one of them is extremely funny and has almost always been that way. I think it is both a talent he was born with but also developed once he saw the reactions he could get from it.
When I fair use a small quote from a book, I may have read the whole book.
If you can find a decently paying job there and you're able to pick up a lot of skills and knowledge while getting paid for it, that is probably more than worth it, particularly if you're early in your career. A resume with Microsoft or something like that on it can't hurt.
Some modern nuclear plants can be turned on and off at will.

The reactor itself takes a long time to ramp up and down, but it heats a molten salt battery. The battery can burst-power the turbines at well-above the reactor output; they can be sized to handle peak demand + overnight loads.
Nautical charts incorporate the latest (usually) data from each area, but it's eye opening to realize that in many areas the most recent data is actually centuries old.

https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/updates/how-accurate-are-nau...
Aaaand for some reason, creating a new project from a directory no longer does that. If I select the directory and click Next, it instead creates a directory called Untitled in that directory and opens a project there. Since all my projects, ever, are created in existing directories, and since I do that pretty often, I’ve uninstalled the latest one (after two uses) and gone back to the old one. I’ve used IntelliJ since 2009. Jetbrains, what the fuck are you doing?
Extracting from seawater is a great example of a source that will certainly cost a lot more than current price levels to extract.

The sources you link total ~65m tons which is ~17 years of consumption at the projected rate.

In contrast oil has something like 47 years of consumption left in verified reserves (https://www.worldometers.info/oil/).

So it sounds to me like we're relying on recycling or some major new discoveries to actually be able to sustain the current prices used for that estimate (or of course new battery chemistries). I really don't have a feel for how fast new deposits are discovered; I'd be interested to know how fast new reserves of oil were being discovered prior to peak oil.
The answer to a factual question is not copyrightable, so while you may have moral problems with that, there is no legal argument.

The same applies to all realistic use-cases for copilot by the way. Whatever is produces is not copyrightable.
> A user interface is like an API for your eyeballs.

Great analogy.
It actually makes it easier to parse dense text.
Kind of a strange move indeed, considering their announcement of Fleet, which aims to do exactly that
Maybe I don't understand the praise but the JetBrains UI is one of the most clunky UIs I've ever used for coding. I'm honestly glad to see something more VSCode-like in Fleet.