skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever use that roof top tent in urban areas? How hard is that?

Where I live you can park on the street for 48 hours. I suspect, however, that you can’t sleep there. You would get a knock at the very least. So, I’ve considered an incognito van that looks like a work truck. But, I wonder if you could just pop up a roof tent and sleep wherever.

I’m mostly talking about city center here. As an example, I’d love to do this in neighborhoods in CA (where locals are already street parking).
There's certainly no model of a brain at the level of protons, electrons and photons. That's way beyond our level of mathematical understanding or computational ability. Biology isn't understood at the level of physics.
And crypto go all the way to zero. I'm not sure what your point is. Companies can go bankrupt. So can coins. That's neither here nor there.
> But I prefer 21st century healthcare

Perfectly viable anywhere without privatized healthcare.

Today, we are able to have only ~10% of the population work, and keep all the living standards of the 90% majority.
Seeing as they apparently made up fake terrain and mountains around Vinkovci in the movie I probably be worried about fake weather killing me.
Attribution goes directly to factors 1, 3, and 4 of the fair use test.
As a lawyer, I can't recommend it, but I absolutely cannot discern any moral difference whatsoever between reading a library book for free and purchasing it later if I like it, and doing the same first thing by downloading the ebook from somewhere "unapproved." It's all very silly.
Wouldn’t ham radio works ? I thought by now those would be miniature enough to be used for IOT ?
aka Fuck you money.
1) This "copilot is great 'cause copyright is evil" argument breaks when you look at the fact that copilot is copyrighted, closed software tool for producing closed, copyrighted software. If you trained copilot on GPL'd software and specified that copilot's output was also GPL'd maybe you'd have some reasonable claim (but even then, the attribution claim would come in).

2) So far, these tools are "better search" schemes, not actual intelligence. Sure, many find them very useful. But given this, the (voluntary or involuntary) providers of data ought to get credit/benefit for/from this phenomena, along with the tool creators. Especially giving the current situation is Microsoft/OpenAI selling to commercial software developers who sell to general public.
i think this has more to do with the market tanking. nobody wants to log on to a sea of red. robinhood didn't start doing anything new as of september to drive people off.
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VOOG was the main thing I invested in when I used Robinhood
Because someday either that DRM will be obsolete or Adobe itself will die. The probability of that is 1, so it's guaranteed.
I guess an implicit questions is: Can you teach old dogs new tricks?

Can you turn around people who are used to coming in at 10, getting coffee/snacks for the next 30 minutes who then talk shop for 30 minutes, figure out who's on-call this week, set up some meetings, train new onboard, then discuss lunch plans and when they'll head down to the gym, then return at 2 for a meeting, at 3 do some work, then talk about whether it's uber or something else back home while getting their favorite drink prepared.

Can that be turned around, or are those apples spoiled?
This thread was a great read, even the tree parts, but it fails to address the line which I feel that social media crossed in 2020: I was inattentively ok with the behavioral spam filtering, I didn't notice it but very likely would have appreciated it if I had.

The line was crossed by fact checks and user bans that were clearly all about content and not about machine-detectable behavior patterns. This thread seems to avoid or ignore that category of moderation.

And I hope the new Twitter does too.
That's like saying the way to "know the truth" for some complicated algorithm is to implement it in BASIC.
They did lay off about a third of their workforce, albeit not 1 week after jobs returned: https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/08/29/1997-apple-bites-the-...

At the time, Gil Amelio was still CEO as well, so can’t necessarily pin this one solely on Jobs.
Nothing stopping the media companies from making their own football. The owner of the NYT is a billionaire, he couldn't hire a few CS grads and make a site people wanted to go to?

It's like they saw the whole Napster situation and said, "Thank goodness that's happening to audio media; we'll be fine because we're visual media! Let's just keep running the printing press."
I think you still can? But yeah probably much harder in court.
Starbucks plans to tap young, wealthy customers to weather recession
Hahaha now my entire extended family doesn't know I am online and available. Thank the lord indeed. I am almost religious right now.
The relevant part of GitHub's terms of service:

"4. License Grant to Us

We need the legal right to do things like host Your Content, publish it, and share it. You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time. This license includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video.

This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service, except that as part of the right to archive Your Content, GitHub may permit our partners to store and archive Your Content in public repositories in connection with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault and GitHub Archive Program."

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

I don't think these terms allow using content for Copilot.
For most software positions, I’d omit the dates for school, and just note the institution and the degree you obtained. Unless it’s your first job or you’re still working on your degree. You can use dates as filler, but after 1 or 2 positions, in my experience (as an interviewer and interviewee) it tends to be better to sacrifice such details so you can elaborate more on work experience and projects, whilst keeping the resumé a single page. Or put the year on the same line as the school and degree, if you care.
I'd say at least for someone tech savvy it's fairly easy these days to remove DRM. It's the first thing I do whether I buy them from Kobo or Amazon.
I'm all for this, far too much wealth transfer from companies to investors, the worst use debt for buybacks, but tax newbie here, how are shareholders impacted taxwise when share buybacks happen?

I'm guessing it's an unrealised capital gain, so no tax impact until you sell?
Are these new trains different from the Siemens locomotives that Amtrak have been using in the Midwest for the last ~10 years? I don’t recall ever seeing anything on the back of those trains.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-has-turn...
Let them all join together. And then go away. Third party password management is a dumb and unsafe business model in the long term.
I fail to understand how taking on 13 billion dollars in loans constitutes "almost entirely his own money"
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service supports and protects the U.S. Postal Service and its customers by enforcing the laws that defend the nation’s mail system from illegal or dangerous use.

What do they have to do with ebooks???
Hi - jc author here. Just a couple points:

The casting to int/float is not done unless the underlying values are predictably documented to be numbers. There are rare cases where auto int/float conversions are done, but:

1) This is always documented, and

2) You can turn this functionality off via the —raw flag

Also, predictable schemas are documented with each parser. (e.g `jc -h —-arp`)
I think the software is probably ok provided that, the sources are credited (ie, if co-pilot copies code from say SDL, then the relevant code sections need to be correctly attributed, the mandatory license readme copied to the project so all code is following the open source licenses used. That's literally the purpose of open source licenses. If Copilot can't be bothered to do that, then yeah it should be shut down.
I doubt that anything other than Carmack's comments are covered. See the "Filtration" section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Compari...

"In computer programs, concerns for efficiency may limit the possible ways to achieve a particular function, making a particular expression necessary to achieving the idea. In this case, the expression is not protected by copyright."

"Finally, material that exists in the public domain can not be copyrighted and is also removed from the analysis."

That code is specifically optimized for efficiency and there were similar approaches floating (get it?) around in the 1980s.
Just because a company releases something as open source, doesn't mean the software is free to use, or that your privacy won't get compromised, and it doesn't mean that they are not - by design and 100% on purpose - simply using the open source community as free labor. Often a company releases something as open source, but at the same time they have a proprietary version of the product as well, in which the open source is barely usable, all the while the only product that actually runs on real hardware is the proprietary version, just so they "look good". It's like saying, "Oh look, we made this amazing product open source and we share it freely with the world!", yet it's useless without the proprietary part. This is IMHO what Google has done with Android and partly with Chrome.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service supports and protects the U.S. Postal Service and its customers by enforcing the laws that defend the nation’s mail system from illegal or dangerous use.

What do they have to do with ebooks??
Inefficient? Underperforming sure but they're probably among the best in terms of "efficiency".

> select few developing high power ARM SOCs.

"high power" is a bad thing in this market.
> I try to use depersonalized language for this reason. Instead of saying "you" did this (yeah that's right, YOU), I'll tell someone that their account is doing something, or that their comment is a certain way. This creates distance between their account or their comment and them, which leaves them freer to be receptive and to change.

I use this tactic with my kids when they do something wrong. Occasionally I slip up and really lay into them, but almost all of the time these days I tell them that I love them, I think they are capable of doing the right thing, but I didn't love some action they did or didn't do and I explain why. They may not be happy with this always, or with the natural (& parent-imposed) consequences of their actions, but it reinforces that they have a choice to do good in the future even if they slip up from time to time. If all of us were immutably identified by the worst thing we ever did, no one would have any incentive to change.

Thanks for the thoughtful & insightful comment, dang.
Given that they’re explicitly setting up a situation to fire someone “for cause”, and it’s explicitly said he’s not expecting a severance package, it sounds like he didn’t get it “along with a severance package”.
zlib might be infringing, and obviously they CAN do it, but: Why the USPS? (They presumably have no direct rights over the material.) And presumably the USPS has no actual rights in Poland or Hong Kong. :(
So they need a ".ru" domain, or some us-unfriendly country then?
Being fired with cause somewhat removes your eligibility to a severance package and your future stock awards

This could be considered cause, or it may not - not a lawyer, just a guy who writes code sometimes interacting with various legal precedents
stop, you're ruining the fantasy that he's a real life Howard Roark / Tony Stark, blah blah blah
Business thats covering its costs doesn't need anyone to give them anything. They just have to survive. They were surviving.

They could turn no profit in a hundred years, and thats fine.
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> Anyone have the actual IPs?

The site can't be reached with a bare IP

z-lib.org 66.212.148.115
www.z-lib.org 66.212.148.115

Their DNS resolver indicates it was seized:

ns1.seizedservers.com hostmaster@seizedservers.com
> Oh boy, this is so naive. Big corporations always prioritize minimizing risk over anything else. Because if you screw up and the risk doesn't pay off, your internal competitors will eat you alive.

Sounds like he could easily afford the consequences, and is enjoying the opportunity it gave him to cast light on what is happening at Twitter. More power to him.
As someone who has been laid off before, it’s not always as clear as you’d think when there’s a 50% chance the people you need to ask were laid off too.
That's a name I haven't heard in a long time! PunBB was the cleanest looking forum software I remember hacking at. I integrated into a bittorrent tracker I ran long ago.
Zero Covid may actually be plausible for small, isolated island nations with limited entry points, like NZ, even without locking everyone inside their homes like in China.

And it's probably wise for countries to be using COVID as a test run for something worse. We live in the age of pandemics now, and will probably get hit by something worse eventually. Something like an airborne Ebola strain (50% mortality) or airborne Rabies strain (100% mortality) are going to require a rapid, whole-of-society response to shut it down. If anything like that happens, the US and other countries that made a complete wreck of our response are going to be fucked.
You're lucky it didn't start to defecate on your partner's car!
> Alongside this they can track what pages you read and even know how 'fast' you are at reading.

Does anyone do this? I don't see how it's relevant beyond "wow! you reading speed increased 5% this month" in emails from the Kindle service. Maybe they target ads for "read better and faster in 90 days" if you're in the 10th percentile on reading speed?
TL;DR either tried to get fired, or at a minimum didn’t care, or was incredibly naive.
I was never going to buy the book anyway.
My wife has a Kindle, we wanted to buy an ebook to support the author but didn't want to go through Amazon anymore because it's Amazon. So we tried buying from Kobo and surprise surprise, they only work with their ereaders because of their shitty DRM! So now Kobo has permanently lost us as a customer too. Great job there folks!
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Warez means specifically software piracy. So pirating ebooks is not warez
oh ok...
If that is such a great idea then why didn't the earlier owners think of it? They are experienced business-people as well I would think. Were they just dumb? Or is this just the ego of Musk trying to generate the maximum of mentions of himself in the media?
Yes they're not going to make as much money selling camper vans as the regular car models but, as I said, you have the opportunity to create the iconic vehicle of the decade. That does absolute wonders for your brand and would be a nice boost considering other vehicle manufacturers are now starting to catch up and even overtake them in certain areas (f150 lightning). People still think VW Campers are cool today and they still sell for silly amounts of money. You can't underestimate the value of this kind of thing; part of the reason Tesla has got the market cap it's got today is because Musk played the brand image card so well in the early days.

If Tesla could convince a few big name surfers and other extreme athletes to use them plus a few high profile digital nomads they'd be absolutely laughing to the bank. They could also use the same chassis for a panel van like the Transit and Sprinter which would be something that would make them a ton of money.
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porn. they will get porn. instagram will be more lewd than onlyfans.

which is funny because sex workers is how it exploded in popularity in several markets.
Yet they chose to work for twitter? What wasted potential
I have read the paper and I have to say that the authors, who clearly does not understand the GO at all, have made very stupid mistakes. The proposed adversarial AI does not win against Professional-Level Go AIs at all!!! For example, in one match, the "victim" passed because there is no doubt it would win. Then the adversarial AI also passed. However, because the program which justifies who is winner is not smart enough, it mistakenly deemed adversarial AI wined since there are more of it in the territory. I highly recommend authors to beg for advice from the professional GO players so that they won't make such stupid mistake anymore.
NullPassword?
Thanks for clarifying! I hope you don't mind me asking since you've already helped, but do you know if Xenocara isolates app input from other apps a-la Wayland?

I know they do some cool stuff to harden X but I've never been clear whether isolation is included.
So he lead first new major US car company in a century and started the first viable private rocket company in 50 years, but you’re concerned that he won’t be able to figure out how to make Twitter profitable?

Is that your honest opinion?
With what looks like broad industry adoption of passkeys, are password management products doomed? Will passwords go away forever? Looking at my 1Password database I have … 854 logins and 352 passwords. Seems like a decade at least before password management would decline significantly.
More and more, Youtube's algorithm seems to surface a mix of newer and older stuff. The "Caipirinha" and "Caramelldansen" meme videos from the late 2000's have reappeared on my recommended's, and Gen Z accounts are commenting on them too.

So I agree that quality is an important factor. While there has to be some weighting to favor the needs of advertisers in play, it's not as strong lately as it has been.
There was significant room for slack, he simply pushed growth over stability.

Reusable rockets and Starlink for example are extremely expensive investments that paid off, but SpaceX didn’t need them to prosper. Tesla’s stability suffered from continuous expansion of manufacturing requiring continues investment as well as Self Driving and other R&D investments which weren’t actually needed.

Which isn’t to say these where poor investments, but pushing the envelope simply increases risk.
I set a 10 second timeout for systemd-boot so I don't need to button mash to hit the narrow window of the UEFI bootloader.

Another useful feature would be editing kernel parameters for troubleshooting. Not sure if systemd-boot can do that but GRUB can.
Wouldn't normal cell service suffice as well? Unlike in an RV, you'd presumably never be too far from civilization.
Ask HN: Easy way to build a UI that I can add to a rails app?
I have a rails app and I need to build a good UI for my website. It has a form and requires CRUD operations and has 3/4 pages. The backend is in place, but I'm not quite comfortable with the UI part. I need to build a UI that is responsive. Are there any recommended drap/drop UI builders that can export the required HTML/CSS that I can just shove into my existing rails app?

Sites like wordpress will allow me to create a UI and some backend but it is a new backend that I'll need to learn. I'd rather keep the backend as rails as I'm comfortable with it, so it'll be faster for me to build on it.
Tesla's California EV market share slips as rivals step up
A business that does not turn a profit pretty explicitly does need people to give them money though right?
> Actually, I have noticed that in the last year or two they refuse to show me more than a tweet or two until trying to force me to log in.

Things like that are usually UX driven, developers often don't have any recourse beyond implementing what's demanded in such a setting.
> I'm not sure what your point is.

See the bit about the "floor" in your post.