skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a look at Lout years ago, but I think the development stalled a bit and the source wasn't that inviting for contributors. So the PDF support came (too) late and still isn't feature-complete with the PS output.

I am still fond of the Scribe[1]-like syntax, but then again, I also liked it in Texinfo or Borland Sprint.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribe_(markup_language)
I assure you it predates GoT.

https://www.quora.com/Who-started-the-phrase-you-sweet-summe...

It's just art imitating life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_of_Winter_Night
I use a license which requires attribution. You do not speak for me.
Exactly, and I've been running lubuntu recently had the defaults are insane with skinny/nonexistent scrollbars. On an OS level There's nothing!
> Perhaps "the YIMBYs should instead come up with a way to guarantee rising property values, then talk about development, social agendas, etc.

Making large and single family homes more scarce will increase the market value of existing large single family homes.

Allowing more dense development increases land value.

YIMBY policies increase both the improvement and land value of existing real estate with single family homes.
I see these topics regularly debated on Twitter and HN.
As much as I love the little guy beating the big evil company, I hope the lawsuit doesn't cause anything to happen to copilot. Maybe some changes, like better protection against emitting 1:1 licensed code or opting out your code from training.
Happens more often that you might think. Score high on tech, but very low on diplomacy / political awareness. Managers want staff to make them look good -- at all cost.
2022 Breakthrough Science Summit Panel [video]
It's about time – Approaching bitemporality
Stripe has some fantastic engineers, I doubt they need to hire a consultant to do those sorts of tasks.
Yes but this time it is about the is-even() function I have written in 2012 so they are right! /s

Snark aside, I do agree with you. For me the most surprising thing is really the amount of people siding with them on HN...
It starts that way with good intentions. Pro-profit structures inevitably corrupt, however. It has always been this way with very, very few exceptions.
Does anyone have a resource they like for improving composition in photography?
Musk orders Twitter to cut infrastructure costs by $1B
>> Why would Microsoft get into the Linux Enterprise market?

Azure integration
Or how the Matrix movies came out and suddenly "Are we living in a simulation?" became an immensely important philosophical question.
Developers Developers Developers

Same reason they brought MSSQL to Linux.
You can still have search. And the people you follow can still post links (without those "cards") to content they find interesting - but in those cases you are in control. Nothing is forced into your feed.
There are the people who don't want a specific message to leak (politicians, journalists), and then there is the whole surveillance capitalism story.

We need e2ee so that companies cannot profile entire populations using the content of their messages (they can still do a lot with metadata, admittedly).
Damn, ty for the heads up. Might be worth contacting my recruiter again then. Was for L4.
I had a similar issue with photos/videos and ended up building a cli app to organize everything, it has worked for my use case relatively well, still, there are uncovered corner cases. For example, this compares hashes only instead of the same photo in a different dimension: https://github.com/wiringbits/my-photo-timeline

I understand that https://photostructure.com/ has a far more sophisticated dedup algorithm, which can be worth a try.
Can confirm - have seen 2 offers go out in the past week or so.
Homeschooling is tiny fraction of a percent. Meanwhile, standardized test scores in public schools are down across the board and have been trending down for years.
Don't forget about the ACLU and their recent involvement in the Amber Heard debacle.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/aclu-johnn...
fair enough. A reason is only useful for a person with good intension. But hey we are talking about the Internet here.
It is not like the first time they tried a Unix. Xenix was a thing in the past.
My humble boot installer, no explicit bootloader, straight to the kernel:

#!/bin/bash
set -ueo pipefail

# Remount EFI partition read/write and restore to readonly when done

trap 'mount /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ -o ro,remount &>/dev/null || true' EXIT
mount /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ -o rw,remount &>/dev/null || true

# Remove all existing Arch Linux entries

efibootmgr | grep 'Arch Linux' | grep -Po 'Boot\K\d+' | while read -r bn; do
efibootmgr --delete-bootnum -b "$bn" &> /dev/null
done || true

# Install boot entry

efibootmgr --verbose \
--create --disk /dev/disk/by-id/nvme-abcdef --part 1 --label "Arch Linux" \
--loader /vmlinuz-${_linux} \
--unicode "initrd=\\intel-ucode.img initrd=\\initramfs-linux.img OTHER-KERNEL-BOOT-PARAMS"

EDIT: added initrd boot params
Another example would be Lisp. And yeah generally, fair point.

In Elm though it would cause some ambiguity because of the function call syntax not requiring parentheses. For example:

[foo bar baz]

Is this a List with three elements or is it one element whose value is a function call on foo with the arguments bar and baz? Who knows. Sure you could have implicit commas on line break but that would be weird.
Because the same reason they have already tried with WSL... They are losing too many developers.
> if your draft contained frequent asides praising the Third Reich

Do you think that’s what we’re discussing here? Fascinating.
Can Copilot reproduce Numerical Recipes in C?

(asking because I know the authors were kinda famous for being very litigious).
I don’t think this lawsuit would hinder innovation but it would greatly change it and who owns it.

If an AI model is the joint property of all the people who contributed IP to it, it’s a pretty hugely democratic and decentralizing force. It also will incentivise a huge amount of innovation on better, richer data sources for AI.

If an AI model isn’t joint property of the IP it learned then it’s a great way to build extractive business models because the raw resource is mostly free. This will incentivise larger, more centralised entities.

Much of the most interesting data comes from everyday people. A class action precedent is probably good for society and good for innovation (particularly pushing innovation on the edge/data collection side)
"Never this way and never beyond our capacities for rational thought" makes it so nothing can be stated about the "understanding" any neural network has about any data short of an AGI. Which is obviously not too useful because an incomplete model of something is not the same as not having the model at all. Eg. if the model is generating too many arms, that still means it has extracted some model of what an arm looks like, even if it hasn't fully internalized the fact that humans have up to 2 arms (although depending on the training set this also gets messy as it isn't uncommon for religious imagery of various religions to depict humanoid figures with several arms, where the difference is related to context not available to the AI).

Humans can be tricked very easily by optical illusions and it isn't uncommon for some illusions to be intentionally built to 'harm' people (eg patterns on the floor which make you lose your sense of balance). Even with rational thought such things can be difficult to deal with. We're probably just as vulnerable to adversarial attacks, the issue being that unlike artificial neural networks we don't have an easy feedback loop to run millions of times in guiding a similar adversarial search.
How are you defining "better" non-tautologically here? Photographers pay more for lenses with worse optical characteristics that are physically bigger, for example, since looking "pro" is more valuable than having more control over the kind of photos you take.
Not if you want to insure it, register it, keep it in good repair, and have a reserve for big repairs.
Anywhere that ID is required to vote offers free options for ID. That is by law, due to poll tax restrictions, so what you're saying is not true.

Also, in states that require voter ID there are no "groups" who are under-represented, so the idea that it prevents people from voting is demonstrably false.
I host about a half dozen on Office 365. When Apple came out, I switched my wife over to iCloud, since we were paying for apple anyways.

Big mistake. Spam filtering on Apple is absolutely horrific. The volume of crap she started to receive was amazing.

Flipped back.
This reasoning is the reason why better alternatives struggle. "I get that it would be better, but I don't care so I won't use the better alternatives".
> Rising interest rates helped lift quarterly net interest revenue to $128 million, more than doubling from the same period a year ago. Chief Financial Officer Jason Warnick said the company has about $17 billion in assets that generate interest revenue.

While Robinhood used to pay a competitive interest rate for cash in the account, it is now 1.5% while Fed risk-free rate is now 3.75%+. You need to pay for Gold subscription to access the decent interest rate.

Square/Block/Cash App also just announced a huge boost in profitability.

While it wasn't feasible in the last years of zero interest, now, digital wallets are profiting off the difference of giving you 0 - 1.5% interest of your sitting cash while they pocket 3.75%+.
I'd say it's somewhere around the same cutoff where you can afford to quit, and let's be honest: Most twitter devs can afford to quit.
> They have some insane mismanagement of funds, which don't go where they are most needed, and where user want funds to go

How is that any different from 'efficient' private companies...
You're not paying for forwarding, you're paying for someone to host a whole email stack for you (and the associated dev work such as on clients).

You can choose to use a "free" provider like Gmail if you're ok with paying with your data and a lack of features (such as not being able to use a custom domain).

Also by the way, Fastmail is half the price you list at $5/month (might have to prepay a year to get that price).
Someday!
I'm fine with Copilot, but I think all rightsholders should be allowed to decide if they want their code training it or not. And that should be opt-in, not opt-out.

(And refusing to opt in shouldn't have to mean switching to a new hosting platform.)

> Beyond that, the class members aren't likely to get much if any money. The only party here who stands to clearly benefit is the attorneys.

That's the case in pretty much any class action. I look at class actions as having two purposes: to require that the defendant stops doing something, and to fine the defendant some amount of money. Sure, individual class members will see very little of that money, but I look at it as a way of hurting a company that has done people wrong. Hopefully they won't do that anymore, and other companies will be on notice that they shouldn't do those bad things either. Of course, sometimes monetary damages end up being a slap on the wrist, just something a company considers a cost of doing business.
This mean they are moving back to the datacenter? (jokingggg)
> Sitting in the sun cooking to death

Or getting free heating, depending on the climate.
Microsoft is no longer about Windows, it's about being wherever you are, especially if you're a developer
> California needs to be more like Texas in this regard.

California and Texas both need to drop sales/income/property taxes entirely and replace them with land value taxes.
Forgive my ignorance, but couldn't consuming opposite chiral chemicals eventually lead to developing prion diseases?
$110/KG here

https://www.scbt.com/p/l--glucose-921-60-8?lang=en&cur=usd&s...
> Livable income, much free time, and minimal taxes

This and "most money you can make" are synonymous. The most disposable income you can have per hour worked. That's it. That's what "maximum income" means.
LFS wouldn't be the ideal disto to create a Linux distribution. It might be good to help train people how to make one but Yocto and other projects are better suited for creating a distro. The use of RPM though is IMO a bad choice and one that lets me know that it is very unlikely that this would ever become a major distro for Microsoft.
That's debatable, since WhatsApp has e2ee and Telegram doesn't (nobody uses Telegram for the secret chats, let's be honest).
Well, we humans do it occasionally. You probably remember a few specific code snippets in your lang of choice because they kept annoying you/you love them/you wrote them a lot. So if I would put you in the exactly right situation, you would indeed reproduce code verbatim.

So does Copilot.

I am not trying to insinuate that Copilot works like a human, but it is literally the same situation.
Netflix keep making content. How long until they have so much that we are content just to explore the back catalogue? Can margins increase massively over the long run?
> The core argument I've seen is that the output is sufficiently transformative and not straight up copying.

An argument that isn't made about any other type of algorithm.
Using the Astronomicum Caesareum
> Be polite.

Could you explain how messaging in private is more polite?
Forgot one:

“Intelligence is the mitigating of uncertainty. If it does not mitigate uncertainty, it is not intelligence.”

- Inphovore, on “what is that intelligence anyway?”, c. 2018
“It's not even as big as Snapchat in terms of daily users.”
Interesting. I have a Fossil Hybrid HR from a couple years back, and it's got a rechargeable battery. If it didn't that would be quite annoying.
I don't believe that nothing can be done just because it's electron. VS Code gets perfectly fine performance.
You are right that DoorDash might be closer to Kosmo (and may also go under). I meant that Amazon Prime showed that a scaled up, same day delivery service could be viable and profitable
Secure boot is super easy when using a UKI.

I have a setup that's almost like what Poettering proposes. Only that I don't use any external bootloader as it seems completely unnecessary.

All you need for secure boot in such a setup is signing the UKI with your keys.

That's the simplest boot setup ever!

It's only one file, so no moving parts. It just works. No LiLo and config, no grub and config, not systemd-boot, no nothing. Just the signed UKI on the EFI partition, and a efibootmgr entry pointing to that single file. That's all needed to boot a modern system.
200 meters would flood the entire Mississippi Valley into Wisconsin, not to mention the ocean reaching inland to flood the entire Great Lakes.

It might be disruptive.
Ask HN: What can I personally do to fight AGAINST the Copilot class action?
Few things in software have made me as viscerally angry as witnessing the vocal minority fighting Copilot and now the class action lawsuit. I have no doubts that Microsoft is prepared to defend themselves, but I want to do more.

What is the opposite of class action lawsuit? Has anyone ever done a class-action amicus brief? Can we organize a group of programmers in FAVOR of GitHub Copilot and fight back?
FWIW I speak to quite a few early-stage startup CTOs, and Firebase is extremely popular among app developers.

Additionally looks like some very high profile apps are using it, or at least have done so in the past: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/bereal-creates...
They are not removing the functionality for people who already have domains added
> Is AD even worthwhile anymore for a new company?

Probably but Samba already does AD so you don't need Microsoft to do it. I guess PolKit at some point may offer similar functionality as group policy.
Anyone have recommendations for setting up a mini home server to download and store torrented movies? I want something that "kinda just works", like what hardware and software? Only for movies I have consent and rights to torrent, ofcourse.
Yet another mandatory cost for what potential gain?

And engine makers and airframe makers already do it, much like heavy equipment makers already do it.
https://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/articles/qtr_...
> You can't capture birds pictures with a wide angle, because "sneaker method" will just chase them away.

True.

On the other hand one should perhaps not discount a packet of seeds/bird feeder as a great zoom lens. (ie: compose/pose the scene, not just the shot).
Fair enough. For $7.00 you can add up to 900 domains to one account and spam away for a month. As long as you setup SPF, DMARC, and DKIM then your messages are likely to be delivered. Switch accounts and domains as often as you like. It is not much of a cost and almost all of it can be automated.
As any simple solution, it becomes extremely complicated as you get into the details.

I follow official gov accounts notifying of policy changing, deadlines etc.

- Should I see their retweets ? Yes, they retweet relevant info from other gov, accounts.

- Should I see replies to these tweets ? Probably, there’s useful info coming in the comments from time to time, in particular about situations similar to mine.

So as a user, I have valid reason to whant these two mechanism. But then applying them to shitposting accounts, it becomes a hell scape. And with users who bring in valuable info but sometimes shitpost, we’re starting to need nuance. And so on.

We’re back to square one. The “simple” solution expanded to its useful form brings back the moderation issues we’re trying to flee.
The model s door latch will electronically release at the beginning of travel, and if that hasn't worked, continuing to move the latch will open the door mechanically.
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Attacking the phrasing is not what we're looking for here at HN. The meaning of their comment is clear.
If the resource is free and non-rivalrous, what is being extracted?
> a few 100m s. (How does one pluralise lengths?)

Simple: in written English you don't; in spoken English you do. "6 cm long" is pronounced "six centimetres long".

Hmm, actually not just English: it seems don't speak a language that declines si units. Perhaps because they modify ordinal numbers, while when using cardinal numbers we do (one person, two people).
Teams is already very close to switching off of Electron to WebView2.
Musk owning Twitter != Bezos owning Washington Post

Bezos didn't:
1. Paid way way too much for WaPo
2. WaPo was fixable
3. WaPo failing would not ruin Bezos.
Your comment went straight to my heart. Thank you.
Why would anyone have a problem with it? They are simply agents in the free market of ideas. Markets can't function without a diversity of competing suppliers and propagandists supply what's demanded. Likewise, if truth is important to enough people, more truthful news outlets will spring up.
Dude, you kidding me? It was a saying long before the books existed. The saying is almost certainly older than George R. R. Martin himself.
Yup, unrelated things do indeed often look and behave in similar ways. Humans are just a little bit overdriven to find patterns and end up finding some that don’t exist. It’s a useful trait for finding difficult patterns and there’s probably a stable point to maximize benefits which lands on finding a few too many.
Most DSLR/mirror less cameras have auto/P mode where you can basically point and shoot and get a picture with better background blur, details, low light performance and less noise than smart phones

Smart phones have smaller sensors and not as good lenses as for example full frame cameras.
As a European I don't know much about the Hunter Biden story, but it wasn't a political news story because it doesn't even cover a politically relevant person. It is a celebrity story and even two years later no allegation of substance seems to have come from it (skimming wikipedia).

From a European perspective it was just outlandish hearsay and speculation. Hard to understand why Americans get so invested when no criminal case materializes.
People share proprietary code publicly. And the fact that you're allowed to read a book doesn't (currently) give you the right to copy it and redistribute the copy.
I'm embarrassed to admit I bought A New Kind of Science

Amazingly enough, Sell Back Your Books actually paid me for it. Not much, admittedly.
Did they make a statement that they did not want to do that?

Because if not I would offer the very mundane explanation that the Copilot team probably just couldn't be bothered hitting up the other software teams and jumping through 3,046 internal red tape compliance steps to make their product 0.001% better (I am pretty sure the code base of all of GH dwarfs MS code base quite a lot)

I can't believe I am actually defending fucking Microsoft, but just want to say there isn't a conspiracy everwhere...
Yeah, at that level of expenditures it's an asset you're consuming, not an investment you expect to grow over time. If you have big repairs you may be better off buying a new one; I kind of wish I'd done that. You can read my sad story in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33457648.

BTW by "avoid annoying sedentists" upthread I meant "avoid annoying the sedentists", not "avoid the annoying sedentists".
>> The don't sleep too much and reduce to 7h' is such a horrible take

I agree. You have to sleep late when you can. Then all your bad days will end.
I fully disagree with this. WSL has only from my perspective gave Linux Desktop a bad name due to many poor choices and performance. It has gotten better, but you still need someway to deploy Windows and Windows deployment automation sucks and is bloated. Why would a user want to run a lightweight desktop inside a legacy spyware one?
> Most of the homeless are drug addicts

Most of the drug-addicted homeless persons are drug addicts because they're homeless.
Ford has a new vehicle? Okay, if Ford is interested in new vehicles, then here is one I'd like to see:

Cars are a big chunk of the US family budget. Here should be a good way to save a LOT of money:

Start with a Ford 2-door sedan from the 1940s, 1950s, or maybe 1960s.

Use a modern electronic controlled system for the fuel mixture and ignition.

Use modern, long lasting suspension ball joints and bushings.

Use disk brakes with dual master cylinders.

Use a modern automatic transmission.

Use modern rubber formulations in the tires.

Do what have to do for current laws on the exhaust system, and try to use modern materials that will do well resisting corrosion.

Otherwise, keep it as it was: No additional electronics or systems. Certainly no 'stability control' and hopefully no 'ABS'. Stability control steps on the brakes when I don't want to, and ABS releases the brakes when I step on them -- get rid of both of them.

No electric windows.

No power steering.

No power brakes.

No air conditioning.

Now, what might the price have to be????? One half current prices? One third? Only 20%???

Cheaper to buy and to maintain.

I'd especially like a stick shift transmission with very wide ratios, maybe 4:1 first gear, and a very low number rear axle ratio, maybe 2.5:1.

Apparently could still use some of the 6 or 8 cylinder engines used back then -- apparently are still using them with little change.
I don't expect Tulsa to handle men made up as anything riskier than rodeo clowns. Am I alone? Or am I unfairly stereotyping a place steeped in the acceptance of personal freedoms?
I would be shocked if the new Outlook was Electron and not WebView2. Is there any confirmation on that or is Electron the new "Rollerblade" and "Band-aid" for wrappers?
Gotta pay that 1 billion per year interest payment somehow.
Adding to the choir. I like the web UI of Duplicati but found it buggy and unstable, which are definitely not things you want in a backup system.