skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I don't think it matters if Copilot spits out large near-complete functions or smaller one-line snippets, or if you find it useful or not.

The fact is that it consumes a large corpus of work and launders it in way that removes all attribution should be a big no. That goes against the entire spirit of copyright law. It must be opt-in, or make Microsoft wait 95 years to incorporate code in public repos for their for-profit enterprise.
You're quite right. And it's even worse than that. I had this part in my earlier comment but deleted it as I did not want to distract from my main message by causing a political stir.

The controversial statement being that the issue extends into (many) indigenous communities. We have this pristine idea of them, as original peoples living in harmony with nature.

That's not the reality on the ground. I've traveled to a lot of remote areas where we frequently encountered illegal activity by locals and even park rangers. Poaching...anything and everything, including rare flowers. Logging. Gold mining. Hunting critically extinct species even when alternatives (for food) are widely available.

You can't explain it by poverty alone, there's a general sense of total carelessness. A very clear example of that is people dumping their trash in the river, in forests, everywhere. Many good faith reforestation attempts soon are gamed and corrupted.

So yes, pretty hopeless.
I've never been able to get a good grip on what people find bad about Finder. Once View > Show Path Bar and View > Show Status Bar have been selected and current folder searching has been enabled in Preferences I don't find it any worse than Windows Explorer, GNOME Files, or any of the numerous derivations of GNOME Files (Nemo, Thunar, etc).
Yeah, that's more or less correct.

> The new combined shader will be named "Mesh" shader

It's only new for Vulkan. On Windows and XBox, mesh shaders were implemented couple years ago:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/coming-to-directx-12-...

This new Vulkan extension is a direct copy-paste of the above, leveraging the same hardware.

However, the hardware support for mesh shaders is less than ideal. That thing needs feature level 12.2, so-called "DirectX 12 Ultimate".
It only works on nVidia Turing (GeForce 20 series) or newer, and AMD RDNA2 (Radeon RX 6000 series, and current generation of game consoles).
Windows hasn't even ported all their Win2K GUIs to whatever their current UI framework is
Most site searches are basically unusable. Either it isn't very good, is painfully slow, or both.

Just gooling site:foo.com/baz <query> almost always produces better results.
Wow, clamshell to external monitor support is vastly improved. I couldn't believe it when it happened the first time.

I have a MBA M2 going USB-C -> HDMI on a 4k Dell monitor. You can open and close the laptop and it switches the external from secondary to primary and back almost instantaneously.

I'd describe this as a major improvement over every prior MacOS.
IP rights are a cancer on society and have held back progress for generations.

From drugs, to technology, I would say IP rights have done more harm than good. Especially when you consider the number of patent trolls that waste countless of hours and money.

Humans are not islands, nothing you make is yours. It is likely a remix of someone else's idea or influence.
And nothing this month which means it's already vulnerable to pretty much all of the vulnerabilities that got fixed. Some could be iOS 16 specific but the vast majority are not.

The fact that there hasn’t been a second security update for iOS 15 doesn’t mean another one isn’t coming which it almost certainly is.

unless you're on the latest major version you're pretty much out of luck

As I just mentioned, iOS 12, a 4-year old operating system got updated a couple of month ago and iOS 15 will continue getting updates obviously.

To put things in perspective, updating iOS 12 means devices as old as the iPhone 5s were updated. The iPhone 5s first shipped September 2013—over 9 years ago!

I suspect Android devices released 9 years ago haven’t been updated in a long long time.

Besides, by the summer of 2023, something like 80+% of the installed base will be on iOS 16, which is what happens every year. iOS 16 is already a little ahead of where iOS 15 installs were at the same time last year [1].

[1]: https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/09/14/ios-16-adoption-s...
High praise, thank you!

Also, I realized there may indeed be a class of reals that are a subset of the reals, which might not actually exist. Within the reals, you have:

- Reals equal to integers and rationals: Exist insofar as integer/rationals exist

- Algebraic vs Transcendental: Algebraic reals exist insofar as finite algebraic expressions exist. I believe √2 is approximately as real as 2.

- Special-case transcendentals like pi, e: Same "realness cardinality" as √2.

- closed-form transcedentals like 2^√2 (Gelfond–Schneider constant): Also same "realness cardinality" as √2.

From there, I think there is a "realness cardinality" transition, much like the countable to uncountable transition. These "boring transcendentals" have absolutely nothing notable about them, no way to label them using finite information, they are only expressible by the full, infinite description of themselves. these bad boys are ones that might not exist a priori, and the real heart of the question in TFA.

I still contend the "boring transcendentals" do exist, because they allow dense cover of the [0,1] interval. In the same way that you can have a "lazy list" of the primes and can do a containment check of said list without having to generate all the primes in between, you could do a containment check of any piece of information on such a lazy set of transcendentals, including an infinite string of decimals, and it would always return True. So in a sense, every real must exist in that container (that's kind of how we arrived at the set of reals - we can prove their absence would be a contradiction in the rules of algebra).
wtf is this foto, like how is this iphone half the size of the mac? also, is it taped to the mac? I bet it would actually just drag the lid down with its weight. so it stands on something?
The only way I know of to reliably prevent forced reboots is to use Reboot Blocker, a background service which continually shifts the configured (mandatory) daily time window for reboots, so that you’re always outside of that window.
Why buy a Mac if you're just going to immediately downgrade? Maybe I'm wrong but I can't imagine that outdated versions of MacOS will remain for productive for very long.

I also find it odd that many Mac users in this thread claim that Linux requires too much tweaking. I've been daily driving Linux for years and I feel like I spend more time fiddling trying to get stuff to work correctly on my Mac work laptop. Perhaps it's just a matter of perspective?
Thanks, I appreciate the boost ^_^
I don't have any opinion on the matter.

I don't actually see myself using it, and all my source is out there (for the most part, anyway), as MIT-licensed.
Centralizing knowledge into a proprietary paid tool rather than an open access, ad driven site is going to create some loss.
The ideal situation, for me, would be some kind of progressive disclosure or a way to toggle "Advanced" versions of these panels and sections but I totally get why Apple wouldn't want to do that. It's double the work for such a small crowd.
>having it write unit tests for you

Can it do this? Does it provide good branch coverage?
The North American Olive Oil Association maintains a list of genuine olive oils. They send people into grocery stores to randomly buy a bottle of one of the listed brands/varieties and test it in their lab.

https://www.aboutoliveoil.org/64-certified-pure-and-authenti...
I’ve used macs since system 7 and it went from oh I know what to click to basically me typing in the search bar for what to find.
in Terminal:

find . -type f -name “somestring”

but yeah that seems like more typing than one might want compared to a simple text entry field in the GUI.
> Windows is out of the question for me due to not being a POSIX-based OS.

Cygwin.

> I experimented with using a mostly stock Xubuntu setup for a bit and also found the user experience to be really subpar.

Did you try any other DE such as Cinnamon, mate, KDE or one of the many others?

Though I feel my recommendations will fall on deaf ears as I have the feeling you're one of those devs that doesn't want to put in the effort to learn a new platform and thus will ignore any and all advice and go back to whatever abusive platform they are familiar with. I get it, time is precious and you just want to get work done. But you cant complain about alternatives when you aren't willing to put in the effort to learn how to use them and help make them better. This isn't an insult mind you, just an observation.
Here's an example about the misinformation campaign that's happening in the US about the issues in the Netherlands:

https://youtu.be/IUGwT8irPKc

This video is full of blatant misinformation and misrepresentation. Our current discussion is not about climate change, it's about acidification and that's it. No matter how true your comments may be, it has nothing to do with the situation in the Netherlands and it continues the spread of this misinformation. Please stop, it's harmful.
I guess every generation has to rediscover why communism doesn't work.
Its a pretty big leap to say we would still use wood to build if it came out it caused cancer. Steel framing is becoming much more popular now, and is mandatory code for the reasons you listed in certain situations.

We (the US) still allow asbestos in certain scenarios in an attempt to keep the baby and the profits. https://www.maacenter.org/asbestos/products/. Talc especially has had a lot of attention in the last year or so.

I think there is also a pretty big difference between how people view a material with undesirable qualities such as electric causing fires, or wood being flammable, compared to asbestos damaging the individual.
> The guy hates macOS so much he's buying another Mac? Seems strange to me. If macOS is so awful then why not leave it today? Why wait another five or more years?

I think the answer is that he's not really leaving.
Merge $55M Series B announced today!
Greek olive oil is considered the best in the world and doesn't suffer from Mafia infiltration which is a huge problem in Italy [1] [2] [3].

Here is some good quality Greek olive oil available in US, reasonably priced, that you can buy without fear of adulteration or other shadiness:

https://www.amazon.com/Terra-Creta-Kolymvari-Protective-Desi...

https://www.amazon.com/Iliada-Extra-Virgin-Olive-Liter/dp/B0...

The Greek extra virgin olive oil sold at Trader Joe's is also very good.

Avoid the - Whole Foods & 365 branded - Greek EVOO at Whole Foods: it was rancid every single time I've tried it.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-crime-food/italian-...

[2] https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-basics/mafia-olive-o...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2016/02/10/the...
Almost noone cares outside of the legacy corporate world - the selling of software via binaries is a niche thing these days.
Thanks for posting about this. I bought two bottles of the cultured oil gonna see how it works out. I wouldn't have learned about this without your post.
I got a Windows PC for the first time in over a decade recently and I cannot understand why MacOS updates are so damned slow
I met someone whose ancestors lived in Missouri clearing the swamps. Those swamp trees made good railroad ties. And then creosote was introduced and the ties lasted ten times as long, so demand crashed over the next few years as the old ties were swapped out one last time.

As near as I can tell the economy never recovered. They grew cotton but that’s mostly overseas now too, and at any rate means arsenic accumulation.

Some people were trying to engineer a strain of rice that absorbs less arsenic. Apparently cotton and rice growing conditions overlap enough that this is a potential option.
It’s also not so much about RealPage, but the consolidation that has occurred in rental property ownership and management over the years.

Now take what RealPage is doing with apartments and imagine if every major airline used the same revenue management solution (most use their own which are proprietary) to set airline fares. I hope RealPage (and these investor-owned apartment owners) pay dearly for this. Imagine what the size of a class action suit would look like.
More or less saying "the UI has gone bad", but not in the functional sense. It's gone bad in the sense of UI principals and aesthetics, but not usability. Not a single complaint about usability.

Not just click-bait, it's trolling.
Smoke from burning wood causes lung cancer at roughly the same rate as cigarettes. Have we banned wood stoves/ovens/or fire pits?

I dare say, wood smoke has caused more cancer than asbestos ever did. [1]

[1] http://www.familiesforcleanair.org/wood-smoke-pollution-kill...
The well-known CEOs are often not the norm, and if you look at the staff underneath them, you will see a lot of mercenaries who job-hopped. The CEOs of smaller companies are often professional CEOs.

Research studies also suggest that job hopping is the way to raise your salary and job level faster than being loyal, although I think the optimal tenure is 2-3 years (which is longer than a lot of modern job hoppers).
I ended up skipping Monterey on my 2013 Mac Pro entirely because it wouldn't let me install it because my original SSD broke and I replaced it with a non-Apple SSD. Starting with Monterey, that's not cool anymore because reasons.

Supposedly if you install the original SSD it will update some firmware somewhere and you'll be able to use the 3rd party SSD after that. But, like I said, mine's broken. You can supposedly also buy a used genuine SSD off eBay, but that seems a slightly expensive way to do a free OS upgrade.

Interesting story, Apple will not sell you a replacement or upgrade SSD for your 2013 Mac Pro - not for any price. They're only available for warranty replacements, and these computers haven't been under warranty for a long time.

Another thing I assume is still not fixed: The ability to permanently disable VRR for monitors that don't behave well with Apple's VRR implementation. That one's been annoying me with Monterey on my work laptop. Every time the computer sleeps, it turns VRR back on, and my screen blinks and flickers away until I manually turn it off again.
That makes sense, but I was under the impression that some(many?) of the most elite colleges had actually done away with the SAT requirements. I wonder if it has affected their graduation rate?
Makes sense. I'm a traditional paper book reader. It gives me a forced break from electronic screens.

But your workflow sounds interesting. I'll have to give it some thought.
Thw reason why we don't use asbestos because removing it without endangering people sucks. We had a room at our university where they discovered an aspestos (or similar) ceiling and the removal took a month and had to be done by people with respirators, full body suits, air filters and hand tools.

If you have to do such a thing every time you are rebuilding something it is not going to economic.
Cassandra added CQL which is very similar to but not exactly SQL.
>it has always been Russia's stated position that they won't hesitate to use nuclear weapons as first strike weapon...

Nope. Again this is the direct opposite of the truth. Russia has a stated "No First Strike" policy. As does the USA. As does China. As does NATO. As do, I beleive, India, Pakistan and every other nuclear armed nation. It's one of the reasons [alongside MAD] that we've, so far, managed to avoid a nuclear conflict.

Other commenters have hinted at Russia staging a false flag 'dirty bomb' incident, to justify making a nuclear response. That's an alarming thought. But I think it's equally alarming to see how we're being manipulated by the media into accepting some kind of limited nuclear conflict as inevitable and being pre-programmed to accept the "He hit me first!" jutification --especially as [see my other posts on what Putin actually did and didn't say] it seems like the Russian people are being similarly prepared for similar justification.
"All works are derivative" does not imply that just any kind of derivation is or should be OK. I can't write a Harry Potter novel and profit off of it (without being sued), for example, so clearly there are legal and ethical frameworks in place to prevent some kinds of "standing on the shoulders of giants".

Frankly, it almost seems like you're saying that since all works are derivative I shouldn't care how my own works get used -- it should all be thrown in the commons for anyone, including giant corporations, to use as they wish. Is that the case? It's not obvious to me why.
As an old Mac user I loathe iOS.
Unsure if it was added recently, but Splunk Query Language does have VAL IN (1,2,3) now -> https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.1/SearchRef...
I got tired of Mac, weird and forced UI choices, inflexibility, so much RAM use, and feeling like it slowed down 50% over a course of 2-3 years despite having a fixed set of software on it

Tried Windows 11, and despite really wanting to like it, it left an impression of utterly unbelievable level of unpolished and unfinished mess, with basic features missing (primarily taskbar related) and still, after all these years, just being a skin over ever-present (and still there) Win95-era dialogs. I understand Windows 8 keeping the old Control Panel and having a weird and weak replacement with a new skin for it in parallel, but come on, we've had Win 10 for years and Win 11 still hasn't moved a bit from that same crap?

Switched to Manjaro (Arch-based distro), and KDE Plasma, spent a couple of days tinkering and customizing and have never been happier with my quick, light, rock-solid, completely customizable and fancy environment, that served me impeccably for 1.5 years until I was too tempted with MBP 14. It is a great device hardware-wise, but Mac OS has been a definite leap back, and I would pay hundreds of dollars to be able to put my Linux on MBP with everything working.
IP rights != communism.

I believe in property rights, but patenting ideas leads to such perverse incentives that the benefits rarely outweigh the cost. Often times the person isn't even the first to come up with the idea! They're just the first to patent it.

Look at the field of psychedelics for example, where there's a mad scramble to patent things as absurd as the process of administering the psychedelic.
And yet they insist on putting a notch on all new MacBooks. Seems like adding a webcam-free option and expanding Continuity Camera support to Android would be a pretty easy win.
Yea it basically is concerning if you have code in GitHub or you want to play with copilot. If anyone can reply to me that uses copilot in a business setting because to me it’s a nightmare to use because of the probability of it being a liability.
I agree, you can probably stay on an old release and be ok, but that doesn't mean it's worth the risk.
The government will be paying a shit load of money for it, so yes, I don't see any issues.

Or the government can just stop giving them subsidies and they'll just seize existing. I think buying them out is a neater solution.
I was surprised when I moved into a German apartment that my landlord apologized about their being moss between the tiles on our patio. My honest response was, "oh no, moss looks better than an empty crack." I was really surprised when I for the first time saw people outside literally using blow-torches to kill moss in their driveway cracks.
The dislike of clover is a really strange one for me, too. When I was growing up I loved the clover patches in the yard; they're like green clouds floating across the lawn, and the honeysuckle brings happy honey bees. Dandylions are pretty, too, admittedly more so in the yellow phase than the gray phase. But then they make nice toys!
Generally speaking I find the natural aesthetic more beautiful and more serene than the golf course look.
I suspect Every Door will become one of the top 3 editors for OSM in the near future.

I've been using it a lot since State of the Map 2022 for data capture. There are some many low hanging fruit to capture that its really efficient to improve coverage with minimal effort.

It does of course help to know the data model and tag guidance well for the amenities / data you are capturing. But there are opportunities for novice mappers too.
>> Only about 5% of these kids are ultimately found to have been physically or sexually abused.

That statement tells you a lot about the "article". Only someone with a very strong agenda would view 5% child abuse as "only". "Mission Accomplished" I guess.

The opinion pieces sites one example of overreach by officials. Where are the stories about children saved from abuse? I guess that isn't relevant to the discussion.

One month of her children being taken away is a serious result. But there's a lot at risk here.
maybe a naive question: is there a way to run some form of docker in the browser? It could be a great education / demo tool
> it was the very first strike

... 'very first strike' sounds a bit too loaded in the context of Hiroshima/Nagasaki and WW2 as a whole.

It may have been a rash action, perhaps a 'first nuclear strike'.

'very first strike' sounds loaded to the extreme when we consider it was one of the last actions in a multi-year contracted conflict.
They seem quite transparent in their work via their blog. What do you think they could've done better? What screams that their blog posts are lies? I ask as someone who hasn't experienced a Kickstarter scam.

To me, their comments are a mix of sales-talk to raise funds for the units and diplomatic play to get Meta to leave them alone.
What an amazing round for an an even more amazing team!
I feel like my current Mac (MBP M1 Pro) might be my last, because it's so damn good that I can't imagine ever needing more.
If you don't care about code reviews, why care about a PR process? don't protect the branch and just make your commits. The notion of a pull request is you're requesting someone pull in your changes. But you don't want them to review those changes?!
Another person commented the same, but a "project loom" virtual threads based HTTP server implementation would be very desirable right now. A new NIO based server probably doesn't add a whole lot of value to the ecosystem. But note, I'm not discounting the effort here.

I do like the fact that this project attempts a no-dependency implementation. That's nice. And of course, there's always room for one more http server implementation, if it offers some alternative to existing solutions (throughput, api, processing model, etc.). But any "new" http server projects wanting to start from scratch today would be wise to base its implementation on virtual threads (in my opinion).
How do you redeem a promo code? The app store just asks me to buy, and the trial doesn't have any obvious place to enter a promo code.
I keep an ant colony as a pet.
Ants are pretty much indestructible creatures from a physical point of view - they need infinitesimal amounts of food and water to survive, they don't get sick or hurt, but they're very succeptible to stress. They're nervous creatures and go nuts from stress, acting in illogical and even suicidal ways.

Is it because their primitive brains go haywire? Or is this just our mammalian prejudice speaking? Who knows.

Probably best not to anthropomorphize any animal, I think.
I see neither irony, nor any indication of an expectation for average consumers. This is s̵p̵a̵r̵t̵a̵ hackernews.
In my case I just wanted a button on the Finder toolbar that opens up the current folder in the default terminal.
Ah interesting. Thanks.
Because on newer Macs, it’s rewriting the whole OS partition with a new firmware image, much like iOS and IPSW files.

Windows, on the other hand, generally does incremental upgrades.
You are not. :)