skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This is truly amazing.

Amazing in a bad way... but I believe it.

The person who told me "autistic people can't work for RAND" was hired by Amazon. I'd blacklisted them by that point -- I don't like when folks treat a good faith interview like a free consulting session.

The company culture reminds me of some kind of suicide cult - treating a job interview like a free consulting session might work if you're looking for warehouse workers with teachable and replaceable skills, but when you apply that goldfish galaxy brain mentality to interacting with folks who have a buck twenty five plus IQ and more esoteric knowledge, it is unsurprising that mistakes will happen, those mistakes will be costly... and that those mistakes may increase in frequency.

>I'm guessing the warehouse biz has the most effect on this stat, but still. Wow.

I don't know off the top of my head, they sell a lot of servers.

(I was thinking the other day about how in my attempts to avoid Google I often involuntarily use their stuff -- it's why my old VPN was hosted on Digital Ocean, because I have no warm feelings for either.)
A sizable, possibly plurality cohort of fully adult tech people is young enough to not know about United States v. Microsoft Corp. This would explain a lot of comments I see on this topic.

If you don't know Microsoft's history, a lot of what more informed people are worried about seems overblown. Copilot was Microsoft's first test of people's trust after the GitHub acquisition. It's going very, very, very poorly. There were ways to do this with consent and collaboration with the people and projects it takes code from, but they're acting like classic Microsoft here.

Too many people are focused on what's legal. It's fine to think of, but law is the last stop before the breakdown of society. Microsoft skipped society and went straight to sparking an inevitable test of and possible reshaping of copyright law.
Which book is this? He’s written a bunch.
The "Her" soundtrack is a good one.
SABRE charges per call. That's probably why AA is trying to stamp out this app – it costs them money because it triggers calls through to SABRE.
Looks like AI-written content.
Personally I think every item that makes a certain amount of noise should have to pay a tax on every unit per measured dB.

We should be making devices that ruin the environment more expensive than their quieter counterparts.
Is this a joke? Russia literally restricted foreign currency usage, you can't get USD with you anywhere and you can't transfer it overseas. And no-one is able to use banking obviously. I bet in other countries there are the same issues and many people are unbanked.
> The same Times investigation reported the company “intentionally limited upward mobility for hourly workers,” according to David Niekerk, a former Amazon HR Vice President.

It’s not just for hourly workers. I was actively coached on holding promotions as a carrot. My leadership team would commit to unrealistic dates, taking input and estimates from dev teams but hand wave it.

Amazon applies pressure on L7 and L6 software development managers to deliver. They in turn apply pressure to their engineering teams.

We had specific projects where we easily burned out dozens of engineers. They all left within a 1-2 month window of each other.

I can’t tell you how many SDEs were promised that getting some project delivered is key to their promotion. These people would kill themselves working every night, every weekend, coding, writing documents, and so on. They’d get very little in return if anything.

I saw several successful launches, where specific promotions were held back because of nit picks on some engineering decision, which the whole group agreed on, including Principals and Sr. Principal engineers.

It’s just a sweat shop. And the Indian devs work their ass off out of fear of getting PIP’d and with their work authorization, they lose their job means they have to leave the country.
Doesn't that broadly seem like a problem? Given the preferred pronouns here are "they/them", which is what people ought to be using if they don't know, the problem stems from people inherently assuming "he/him" for any technical work. That's a problem beyond just trans/gnc issues.
Why web tech is like this – Steve Sanderson
I use Copilot all the time and I’ve never once used it to generate a whole prepackaged function that’s more than maybe three lines. So no, I don’t benefit from its reproducing other people’s code at all. Tell me you don’t use Copilot without telling me about it.
Should be "lays off"

/grammarnazi
Whales are loud with their communication, so I could see that easily being possible - especially as pods and even specific whales apparently have unique voices.
What the solution?

Is it really better to only draft laws that are clear without courts?

Is that provable?
When they find an input that matches your hash, they have "decrypted your password".

So correct me if I'm wrong but in order for this to work, the cracker will need both my hashed password AND the hash algorithm that was used AND any salt that was used for the hash.

Why does he need to crack anything --- it sounds like he already has full access to my system?
No, I really don't think that it is.

There is no such as "owning" a work. We use that as a euphemism for owning copyrights, and the only function of copyrights are to prevent others from making copies. To prevent others from sharing.

The question is whether the monetization model presented by copyright is a net positive for the author, after accounting for its chilling effect on communications for all other people in the world.

The answer is almost certainly "no," as empirically demonstrated by entire segments of IP work opting out of copyright. The open source model clearly demonstrates that you do not need to own a work to fund it or monetize it. There are similar models in other areas of art and science which allow for the funding of works without preventing others from copying them.
For a deeper look into stablecoin mechanism and performance of them during May 2022 event, I would recommend [1] which I think is much more interesting for curious readers.

[1] https://www.fdic.gov/analysis/cfr/bank-research-conference/a...
You're reading too much into my comment. All I'm saying is that Copilot isn't "learning" like a human does.
Don't fly, at least until jet fuel is produced synthetically from wind or PV electricity. Exception for medical emergencies.
Completely agree. And it still hurts my brain.

Amusingly, using other languages now, I'm finding I'm missing the implied nature of Swift at times.
Kathleen Booth obituary: wrote one of the earliest books on programming
I know about all that. My mistake was thinking that I could take advantage of the multicore nature of pigz even when no compression is being used (I'm not sure if pigz only uses multiple cores for the bzip algorithm, or if it somehow could speed up the packing as well). I'm pretty sure that disk is the bottleneck in most cases, but I wonder if that's not the case always, and a single core could become the bottleneck in very fast IO devices. I want to verify this and test it.
Did you ever have issues sending money overseas? It is almost always painful and even sometimes money lost. Transact USDC/USDT is so much easier than anything else on global scale.
If you told the legal team at any mid-sized or larger company "we're pretty sure only 1 in 1000 lines of code our developers write breaches someone else's copyright" there'd be some serious hell to pay.
https://archive.ph/mCYo4

Kathleen Booth was credited with inventing and writing the first “assembly language”, which did away with the painstaking and time-consuming requirement to rewire cables and change switches whenever a computer needed to be reprogrammed. She was also one of the first women to publish a book on computer design, Programming for an Automatic Digital Calculator (1958), and later developed a program to simulate the ways animals recognise patterns.
The article says Comcast's public service checker correctly said 'no.'

He called and claims he was told 'yes.' I have no reason to think that's untrue, but more on a checked out or unscrupulous salesperson than the company itself, whose official checker worked fine.
Drew seemed irritated when I posted a Dockerfile for setting up the Hare language language compiler for development on the mailing list, trying to save other folks the effort.

https://gist.github.com/GavinRay97/e3c166c5ba24c2c1bc4a09d7b...

He said "Docker isn't a supported installation mechanism."

I wasn't aware of Drew's anti-docker stance, whoops.
You yourself claim that you are only aware of Xcheck "features" since 2021,

As of June 2021 no XCheck tag I knew of allowed a user to take down content at will.

Are you also claiming that there have been no changes, and no new features, added to XCheck since June 2021? Are you aware of the new social media regulations recently passed by the current Modi government of India? (To be credible, you need to honestly answer these questions and address it in your article too, as otherwise you are basing your assumptions on incomplete information, thereby misleading yourself and others.)

To clarify, one of the requirement of this regulation is:

Under the new Intermediaries Rules, intermediaries must *complete* the takedown process under Section 79(3) of the IT Act, within 36 hours.

Source: https://internetfreedom.in/intermediaries-rules-2021/ (a more brief summary of the regulation is here - https://techwireasia.com/2021/06/indias-new-social-media-rul...)

Very simply put, large social media platforms are legally required to respond and delete content when requested by government representatives.

Under such a scenario, can you confidently say that XCheck hasn't been extended with new features, like a tag that allows a user to immediately flag posts that must be compulsorily taken down when the particular user reports it? It seems a very obvious extension when you consider the political demands that are placed on Meta from around the world, and in India in particular.
Reminds me of the LAX Air Traffic Control Shutdown of 2004: https://m.slashdot.org/story/49885
As someone who is currently consulting on an airline industry project, you are absolutely correct in identifying how terrible the internal legacy systems are. Everything is built on SABRE, which was first created in 1960 and absolutely shows its age. If SABRE was a person, it could retire.

What's worse though is that inside the industry there's little awareness of the possibility of doing things differently. Everything is just layers of wrapping around the old system without any abstraction of the processes.
I can't comment on Apple frameworks but there's a @_specialize attribute which allows you to export a fixed set of pre-specialized entry points from your own frameworks, without exposing the entire function body as serialized SIL the way that @inlinable does, but it's still experimental and subject to breakage and change: https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/Generics.rst#s...
> allows GitHub to blatantly violate the license of your code

it doesn't allow GitHub to violate any license; it explicitly grants GitHub an additional license on top of the license you choose for your code.

the only way to revoke this license grant to GitHub is to remove your code from github.com.

> IANAL but I am heavily skeptical of your confidence here.

ok. it's all spelled out in the terms of use. I'll ask you this, though; who do you think Terms of Usage/Service documents are intended to protect?
That isn't accurate. Let's look at Linux. Yes you can download it and compile it yourself but typically you would download from a website that tracks you. You would get a distro that typically has a business model. Yes, there's debian (and others) but even they have sponsors that pay the salaries of people working on the software.

The free portion are things that are already written. Services are the thing that costs money and they include features, hosting, adapting, etc. Those aren't free.

Maybe I'm cynical but I see things that are technically free all residing within environments that aren't. I don't have a problem with that, I'm OK with commercial interests. They pay my salary. But we need to be realistic about the scope of free and how financially viable would it be to be "free".
GitHub’s free code storage, static site hosting, etc. is compensation

If you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product.
For Kerbal, isn't it easier and more accurate to set the origin on the craft being simulated? Why use world space?
Back when npm didn’t have any “similar name” restrictions I did the same for some popular packages. My redirects also helped me a couple of times as I wonder whether a package name had a dash or not.

https://github.com/fregante/npm-helpful-typosquatting

Here’s what it looks like: https://www.npmjs.com/package/webext
> the fundamental ideas of open source

A bit ironic that Copilot itself is not open source.
I’m really interested in seeing how this gets litigated. I imagine it will involve a lot of philosophical arguments about attribution and what the software is actually doing.

I’m also curious to see if/how Amazon CodeWhisperer takes advantage of this whole debacle.
That's hardly a new thing! For instance, Google search makes billions of dollars by indexing content that other people make.
The info on Russia gate is public record in courts, the special counsel report, inspector general report, etc. Russia supported Donald Trump.
Imagic: Text-Based Real Image Editing with Diffusion Models
How is it difficult to get USD access in Poland?
I’m not sure resume-driven development is a trend we should embrace.

(Even if we all acknowledge that it is one motivation for many tech fads).

Honestly, if this is on a resume the next question should be — tell me why you needed such a system…
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I've written about 25 checks for "one-off stuff" in the last year or so, -not including- the checks that pay my electric utility, Internet, trash, water/sewer, auto insurance, and so on. Property taxes are check-only in my area. A lot of kid stuff at school like PTA, reading activities, sports and such are cash or check only. Home maintenance things like painters, gardeners, pool service, trash hauling take checks only. I can't see a way to get along without physical checks, at least in the USA, unless you take a big sweaty wad of cash everywhere you go.
Nord VPN? Seriously?
That isn't sufficient to get you off the hook. Copyright covers derivative work, not just code that's reproduced verbatim.
One of the weirdest outages I've ever had to debug was when one of our tables with millions of rows (but in the low millions, at least so we thought) overran the maximum value for a 32 bit signed integer, due to it being primarily updated with INSERT ON CONFLICT on a nightly basis. At the time we had no idea why the primary keys were climbing so high! That was a tough one to figure out.
Modern App Development for the TRS-80
Card only brick-and-mortar stores are banned in SF[1], although it’s not strictly enforced. There’s definitely a lot of places that are card preferred though, especially post Covid.

[1] https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/o0100-19.pdf
If it's a VC-backed company, the board member merely represents the VC fund and wouldn't personally enjoy the entire upside of the equity the fund owns. I think it's possible that they would still take $500K risk free today over the value of future potential compensation that might trickle to them.

However, they also don't sabotage the company since word would get around that they or the VC they represent are terrible board members that sabotage companies.

Besides reputation damage, they can also be sued by the shareholders for failing to uphold their fiduciary duty.

It's similar to why the CEO doesn't just pay themselves their entire series C, close the company, and retire (assuming the bylaws allow the CEO to pay themselves).
feels unlikely that 900 people are upvoting while reading and that it takes ~1 hour per page...
> What exactly is "daft" about using a 3rd-party VPN service?

Generally speaking, when push comes to shove, their “no logs“ policy lets them turn over whatever information $law_enforcement_agency asks for.

I have a super-cheap VPS which I setup wireguard on but that’s 100% to get around whatever safety filters the random free Wi-Fi networks I connect to throw up. One of them blocks YouTubes videos, not YouTube itself but just the videos — which actually makes it pretty speedy since I don’t have to compete with other YouTube watchers.
If it feeds you code made available under the GPL, it should probably tell you that your code needs to comply with the GPL to use that snippet, yes?
A paid service where tens of hundreds of people search for publicly available code snippets and send them to you? I believe they call that outsourcing in some circles.
TV is about selling marketing. If a religious channel would draw 20 million viewers a night, someone would figure that out.
Github and Bitbucket will shut you down on a whim of twitter sharia police

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/c-plus-equality-c

I suggest to use and support the alternative that explicitly promises not to engage in censorship - gitgud.io
I think main argument that it's a proprietary piece of software that piggy backs on hacker (GPL) culture for profit. If they released open source copilot it would be less of an issue and theft of GPL code would be less painful. Some people worry that this will kill the GPL and hacker culture which is already extremely difficult to protect.
William Gibson mentions data laundering as an illicit activity in the Neuromancer books! It’s plausible that the phrase itself was coined there
> Tell me you don’t use Copilot without telling me about it.

You don't accept arguments against the use of Copilot from people unless they... use it?

That's a nifty way to ignore any and all criticism of Copilot, or indeed any discussion about any ethical issue ever.
This is the most beautiful typing app I have ever seen. There are plenty of other websites but they are often slow, ugly, or laden with ads. This works perfectly. Advice to OP: I believe this should probably get more attention here and on Product Hunt. I would suggest tweak the title a bit. The current one isn't inspiring enough for users to check it.
Bingo, Epic has probably the most in depth sales team, they know everything about your organization and YOU before even starting the call.

They will smooch, take to dinner, do whatever it takes to bribe the head of office staff. Then once they're in the door they convince you to hire 5-10 of their 'Epic Engineers' and charge you $500+ an hour for the honor.

Soon you discover that you can never really get rid of those engineers and need to hire your own on staff team... Which you probably could have done with literally any other EMR if you wanted to customize it.

2 years in the medical staff hate life and the front of house staff have costed their business 50-100M in fees.

Alberta found this out the hard way after spending 5 years and 450M+ on Epic. Roughly $100 per person in the province was required to get Epic 'running'. (I am not sure if its been rolled out to all of Alberta?)
My copy of that manual page has additional text:

"" note : at the time of this writing, --adapt can remain stuck at low speed when combined with multiple worker threads (>=2). ""

There are some ADVANCED COMPRESSION OPTIONS --zstd tunables that might help.

Leave wlog alone unless you're willing to store the value out of band and pass it in again during decompression.

hashLog, bigger number uses more memory to compress but is often faster.

chainLog smaller number compresses faster, but worse ratio.

In your use case monitoring general system utilization to identify bottlenecks might also help. My gut instinct is that you might already have hit a memory bandwidth limit for the platform, at which point REDUCING the hashLog until it fits within your intended performance budget might yield better bandwidth results. Reducing the chainLog value might have the same effect.
He’s an artist, he’s supposed to be messy.

But you also clearly have no idea who he is and what’s he’s stood for - the guy is single-handedly responsible for turning the tide on Gangster rap.

Here’s one way to put it:

No other man alive today is more responsible for changing negative to positive messages in popular music today.

He’s literally one of the most thoughtful and revolutionary artists alive. But of course you’d have to have listened to his albums from the start and followed along with interviews not just reading all the headlines on Reddit or Twitter.

And no, he hasn’t degraded. Ye, TLOP, Kids See Ghosts, Jesus is King are all massively successful unique pieces of art. It’s hard to compare him to anyone - MJ stayed within one genre, only really the Beatles maybe had as much diversity of novel styles.

If you only pay attention to the media you’d have your opinion. It’s so out of wack with reality though. But that’s what we have all across this entire forsaken thread - a bunch of totally naive people who aren’t even 1% familiar with his corpus of work or history calling him sick and worse.
IP address is analogous to your house/apartment address. Which you "randomly" send out as your return address, whenever you mail a letter. You probably even put your real name above the return address.

Which gets at the problem- anonymity. Your physical mail habits are not completely collected and retained. And your electronic footprint has FAR surpassed your snail mail equivalent in the 50 years since the invention of IP. Your electronic footprint can reveal at your minute-by-minute location (maps), your buying habits, interests (searches, reddit subs), and a whole lot more (especially over time).
For general computational applications (i.e. not for special graphics cases), implementing double-precision operations using single-precision operations is considerably more complicated than implementing quadruple-precision operations using double-precision operations.

The reason is that it is not enough to extend the precision of the 32-bit FP numbers. The exponent range must also be extended. The standard double-precision numbers have an exponent range that is large enough to make underflow and overflow very unlikely in most algorithms. With the very small exponent range of FP32 numbers, underflow and overflow is very likely and this must be corrected in any double precision implementation.

So it is not enough to use two FP32 numbers to represent one FP64 number. One must use either a third number for the exponent, or at least one of the two 32-bit numbers must be integer and partitioned into exponent and significand parts.

Both approaches will lead to much more complex algorithms and a much worse speed ratio for FP64 implemented with FP32 vs. FP128 implemented with FP64.
Perfect Dark has been fully decompiled, making PC ports and mods possible
Supple, Squishy Robo-Jellyfish Can Explore Ocean Reefs
They should at least try to understand how it’s actually used, not imagining how it’s simply used to steal their largely replaceable code.