skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could we please stop calling any expression of differing views "virtue signalling"? It is actually possible for people to vocally disagree with you sincerely.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that MS themselves secretly supported this case to win it and to show potential customers that this tool is safe.
The only thing it would mean is that companies would have to pay for their training datasets like they already do for many applications of ML, instead of freeloading off of the work of millions of developers.

Hell, I am sure there are plenty of developers who wouldn't give a shit if Microsoft trained Copilot on their code for free as long as Microsoft abided by the terms of their licenses.

This is like arguing against ending forced prison labor because China will still use it anyway even if we stop. Why do anything if the looming spectre of China is enough to capitulate to their status quo?
+1 also for being a persistent maze when switching search algos. Lovely visualisation though!
Given inflation and GDP growth you would want some deficit spending in order to keep a constant debt to GDP ratio.
Yup, it's definitely a luxury good. But it's like a living lava lamp, but with water bubble sound. Really enjoy it.
Zou will eat the microalgae and zou vil be happy.
I guess some people like the free exchange of ideas and others do not.
Hi. After a quick look, I found that the codebase spread across several repos. e.g. safing/portmaster, safing/portmaster-ui and safing/portmaster-packaging.

I didn't found any guides regarding building from source. How can I build the app/installer by myself?
Optimism/pessimism are really weird descriptions to apply to the self outside of a therapeutic context. Given that they are both cognitive distortions or biases, as a cognitive agent, once you've noticed them, your responsibility is to root them out. But noting one and then clutching it tight as a badge of identity is little different in form from saying "I can't do arithmetic", with an implicit "yay for me!" rather than "but I'm trying to learn".
They are making the differentiation between actual people/accounts and bots.
On the balance sheet I'd call functionality an asset and code a liability. Everything else bring equal more code is more to maintain as things change, search through for bugs, etc.
Good question. I suspect this will kill many businesses. There is only so much you can reduce your running costs without killing your business.
Most of the time I enter a bank I don’t rob it
In my experience, it's not necessary. Try it yourself and see.
Have you even clicked https://github.com/Qbix/Platform? Qbix is an open source platform that doesn't require a token for anything. You can use it, with absolutely no encumbrances or needing to buy any token at all. There is zero need, right now, for a crypto token. And going forward there will never be a need to do anything it currently does now. Qbix is like Wordpress. So please explain what the scam is, I am lost.

The QBUX ecosystem is something that is planned for 2024, to denominate micropayments between sites, if they choose to pay each other for content. For example, monetizing open source plugins, digital content, journalism, user attention, and so on. Right now, the Web ad-supported model is broken, as the Ecosystem page explains. Qbix does plan to have sites (not people) settle balances with each other in something eventually. For micropayments between sites to be possible, there has to be a unit of account.
I remember a lot of work in this area in the late 80s before RISC really took off.

If you search for "frequency analysis of instruction sets" in Google Scholar you should find something.
CPUs are general purpose computers. "An idea set of instructions" depends on what you're designing for. If you already know what you're computing, you design an ASIC.
Cameras are generally legal to use to record faces though?
Star Trek II – The Genesis Demo (1982) [pdf]
The good news is that you "just" need the window manager/display environment of an OS.

The bad news is that it is still a lot of hard work to nail down that kind of experience

I imagine some apps will be VR-optimized and others just flat
Hand-on-heart, I haven't downvoted any of your comments. Didn't my own comment seem reasonable enough to you to suggest I wouldn't do so?
As with anything it depends. I'm definitely a code churn out machine (when I'm motivated at least), but I'm not going to say that's a good thing. I've seen others like me who leave a wake of tech debt, and others who don't. Who knows which one I am? People seem to like me though.

As others point out though, the moment something becomes a metric it ceases to be useful. Check out the book "The Tyranny of Metrics" for a breakdown of it.
Tell me you haven't used spanner without telling me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America
I doubt you’re going to get a serious reply here. I bet they are working overtime, trying to figure out code written by a fired team, while at the same time thinking about how they should probably start looking for another job…
Thanks for the detailed analysis. It was quantitatively informative.
Keeping ancient software working without rebuilding is quite impressive, to be fair.
I mean, it's a useful phrase because that lets me know the person saying it is a worthless human being with no virtues. If they had any virtues they'd also be trying to signal theirs, but since they don't, they complain about the meta.
I am probably not the only one that looked at a blue check mark and did not think legitimate or trustworthy. My view of blue check mark is someone that spends too much time on twitter.
That was just the api. This is fully functional sections of code.
You're assuming that everyone will pay. That's hardly the case. Best case scenario they will manage to convert 1% of users.
What is a Golang person... a Goist? A Goer (hehe, Monty Python). Since I am a goer, I'll use Goist here.

I'm not a Goist, but I agree with TFA in general. Don't complicate a language for error handling purposes. My reasoning is that most errors cannot be properly dealt with anyway.

Is it the Erlang or the Elixir folks to just say, paraphrased, "let it die"?

Just let it blow up. Somewhere upstream can deal with it, because chances are we don't know enough down in the trenches to know what to do when something which we expect to work virtually always, fails.

And to improve the noise on the current copy example, I would argue to stop wasting lines!!! There is no good reason to open a bracket, newline, then return err, then close the bracket. It's small and obvious.

if err != nil { return err } // put it on one line. It's clean and natural.

Edit: Oh now I remember from my limited Go experience :(. They live by their formatter, and their formatter was built in a bondage dungeon.
Hmm, typically blogs are defined as Web 2.0 rather than 1.0, because easy to use and allow collaboration (comments).

I think that you just mean "platforms" ? They are indeed bad, being closed and centralized... ("protocols, not platforms" !) not sure that you want to associate yourself semantically with them ?
Contrary to your point, a deposit doesn't shift responsibility to the producers at all but rather to the consumers. Consumers pay the deposit and then get it refunded when they behave and suffer the consequences to their time or don't behave and are fined the deposit.

The only thing a deposit accomplishes regarding producers is to enable them to use materials that are more expensive, but less so than consumers' tolerance for annoyance. With a 25 cent per bottle deposit required to make their time recycling worthwhile and companies still using plastic it really shows the enormous gap between plastic and the next closes alternative.

It's also not an equitable solution. There's no real material difference between plastic bottles, plastic wraps, and plastic bags - they're all plastics after all - yet they're treated differently; you don't have say a five cent deposit on the plastic your fruit is wrapped in, but you do have a deposit for a bottle.
There have been anatomically modern humans for ~300,000 years. We have had systematic agriculture for just a while.
I can't run my own bank and abolish the capitalist system. I first need ten million dollars worth of capitalist money just to get started. Every clever path to eliminate capitalism from within is blocked through absurd licensing requirements by the government.

The amount of loopholes I have to go through just to end capitalism from within are ridiculous and can hardly be described as voluntary.

To abolish capitalism you need to provide cost effective liquidity, this means you will have to start an alternative money or payment system with a demurrage fee. The challenge is using existing constructs in the law to create something that cannot be banned by the government or the central bank. How voluntary...

After you have done that you must now gather members and build the actual payment network because liquidity isn't provided by money, it is provided by the people trading with money. This is in fact the easiest problem because demurrage currencies are superior competitors to the capitalist system which is why they had to the banned before world war two or else people wouldn't become polarized enough to want Nazis in power.

Third you will have to bypass banking regulations and somehow offer most of the services banks offer without a banking license. I haven't found any, de facto illegal. There is nothing voluntary about this.

Finally, you have to somehow convince the government to adopt the non capitalist system for tax payments. If you cannot do so, you must wreck your brain trying to find an incentive structure that is competitive enough to make people who have freshly received money from the government put it into your money system faster than they pull it out by paying their taxes. Again, the fact that the government forces all economic activity to go through the capitalist system is not very voluntary. If anything, it is lipstick on a pig.

I believe the banking loophole and the tax incentive structure can be solved but that only shows how fragile and ridiculous capitalism is, if an obviously superior system has so much trouble establishing itself even though it is superior in almost every respect and it is highly competitive.
That breaks the idea of having a federated network, if you have no guarantees that sending a message on one end of it reaches its recipient. Now we just have all the same problems of email but with the mechanics of a multicast medium.

Eventually, you'll reach the point where a duopoly will effectively control who is allowed to be part of the larger network. And this was the original problem people were trying to solve by creating a federated network.
Would it be possible to have fast stack machine CPUs nowadays? (let's say, competing with x64 cpu's) or is there some inherent benefit to register machines?
> Funny that in the western world, we are seeing the extreme left/woke anti-Americans and the Islamists join forces again too

Going to need a citation there good sir.
No such thing as null? No.

But in Kotlin non-nullable types are the default. In C++ references are non-nullable. Both include nullable types too.

In that specific example, String can't be null in Kotlin and neither can string in C++, although you can make them nullable by using e.g. a pointer or an optional type.

Having everything be nullable like in Java is unarguably 100% a mistake.
Seems that there isn't an option to use the default ISP's DNS server. :(
The idea that Twitter is a "public square" was recently popularized purely to create the argument that it should be owned and/or heavily regulated by the government. The imagined goal of this is for Twitter to somehow no longer have a moderation policy and only follow by the first amendment.
> Their rater helpfulness score must be at least 0.66 [1]

This is a good thing. The rater helpfulness score is how similar you rate a note as helpful/not helpful to how that note eventually is labeled. Because this determination is made based on how well it's rated among those with differing opinions, being accurate means your ratings tend to be less biased. Other accounts aren't voting on your "rater helpfulness score," so it's not subject to brigades.

The 48 hour thing is only for valid ratings, and that's only for the rating helpfulness score, so it's not to do with note ratings. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like they were careful about the nuances that you've mentioned.
Very nice! This brings back memories. In the 90's sometime I found a GIF of a huge maze and I wanted to find the solution. Young coder me decided to write a program in VB to find the solution. Just went and grabbed a screen shot of it here: https://i.imgur.com/gRz5b01.png I can't remember how long it took it to solve it back then but it solves it now on modern hardware in about 3 seconds. Likely much better ways to do it now, I know nothing about path finding theory. This was just a simple recursive search.

I need to do more of these fun side projects like this just for the pure joy of it.
So its ok to measure, but dont turn it into a target.
Should West dismantle copyright and let everyone use leaked propritary software source code too? Or allow to break license of source-available software like Unreal Engine? Or it's only apply to open source software?

After all in China it happen all the time.
Sure, as I said:

> Apart from the most well-known historical example—I assume that's your reference

But that particular confederacy doesn't have a monopoly on the term.
They did have cups like that, in the 50's. They were extremely bad at the task of letting someone "grab a coffee" and return to their car instead of sitting down at the location, hence when styrofoam and coated-paper options came up, they immediately dominated and were a big enabler of that culture, alongside fast food. I still get cups to go on occasion, but I'm a little more wary now of them being a vector for microplastic consumption.

I'm sure we'll find a way to get acceptable price/performance with fully organic, disposable packaging at some point. The demand is definitely there.
For someone who is fluent, an “easier” learner’s tool is often more cumbersome and less pleasant to use than the original tool.

For example, instead of learning to use general-purpose kitchen knives you could buy a bunch of specialized kitchen gadgets: scallion-cutting scissors, a garlic peeler, a garlic dicer, an asparagus peeler, a strawberry stem remover, a bell pepper seed remover, a tomato slicer, a bread guillotine, an egg slicer, a banana slicer, etc. (these are real devices, not jokes).

For a total novice or someone with a severe disability, these might be “easier” than just using a knife or two for the same job. But for someone who is fluent with 2–3 basic knives, these jobs are all faster, easier, and more effective to do with a knife than with the purpose-built tool; each gadget also has very limited utility and wastes space when not in use.

Can you see how the unqualified statement “a banana slicer is easier to use than a chef’s knife” could also be considered misleading?
> Why shouldn't the surgeon kill a healthy person to save 5 others with his organs?". Duh, because the surgeon doesn't know what's going to happen and there's a high chance he's going to end up with 6 corpses, plus his own when anybody fins out.

You really think it’s this, and not that the surgeon doesn’t want to kill people?
The first time I struck this was to see a Pascal Interpreter written in Pascal. A few decades back. It does tend to blow your mind at the start.
Expecting someone else to document one's own history isn't going to work that well. For example, I gathered together the information my family had on my grandfather's experience as a coaler on the yacht Eleanor during its trip around the world in 1895. It's now part of the Slater Museum. (The Eleanor was owned and operated by the Slaters.) They were pretty anxious to get it, as nobody had bothered to document what happened on the ship.
It isn't really the same as email, because with the email it doesn't matter if you are on the same domain as other people. You can avoid this risk by hosting your own email but running your own Mastodon instance just for yourself wouldn't make much sense.
Why is reuters even reporting on this? Why is this even considered newsworthy?
Mastadon to me so far is just an empty nothing. I think I have signed up like maybe 3 times on different servers (who knows where those are).

On the one I can still login there is no one on it.

Mastadon is NOT a replacement for twitter in its current form. I actually cant tell you what it is.

But the text on this story is pretty close... just unintelligent gobblygook.
Gravity (more precisely, a dynamical metric) is absolutely a field in the QFT sense. The problem is that its unrenormalizable. That’s a technical term that roughly means the theory doesn’t make predictions to arbitrarily high energies. As a result the QFT describing gravity cannot be used to answer the interesting questions about black holes and Planck-scale physics. Historically this has meant that a new physical mechanism has been ignored that becomes relevant only at large energies, such as stringy physics in string theories or discrete spacetime in LQG. That’s part of why critics argue about the falsifiability of string theory (unfortunately the same critics don’t make the obvious conclusion that unfalsifiability in this sense implies to all models of quantum gravity, not just strings—-and that’s a funding motivated lie by omission. This has to be true since by their own framework, if LQG predicts something and string theory predicts nothing, the experiment distinguishing them could falsify string theory by validating that prediction).

Indeed, if gravity were not described by a QFT at low energies, we would need an extremely convoluted explanation for why quantum effects aren’t always destroyed by the mere existence of gravity. In short, gravitons are the Occam’s razor solution, not having gravitons would be extremely hard to reconcile with the existence of gravity at any scale, and when you dive into the math you see why.

In any case, none of that directly answers your question about gravitoelectromagnetism, which actually is just a way to rewrite the Einstein equations in a particular way that’s valid only sometimes. And that could only be unphysical if Einstein’s equations are unphysical in the same regime. There’s no regime we’ve tested in where the Einstein equations aren’t empirically valid, and they do come naturally as the classical limit of the gravitational QFT (the limit implies there can be small corrections of a particular form, however).
This isn't my experience with Co-pilot's suggestions. I've literally been able to have Co-pilot suggest a complete unit test based on a novel structure I hand-coded myself and a few words describing the unit test. The constants are often wrong, but it saves minutes of fidgeting with the syntax for unit tests and assertions.

These are not quotations from other people's code but something about the deep structures of language and programming language semantics. However, I suspect if you knew enough of a snippet from other source you could coax Co-pilot to suggest code learned from that source, but it would likely be washed over by other code in the corpus where it coincided with meanings.
Land Speculators Made U.S.
NASA puts jet propulsion lab on blast over Psyche mission failures
The US is first and foremost a capitalist society. One could attempt to argue your characterization that it's "democratic" but in my opinion, that won't stand in the face of of Burwell vs Hobby Lobby and Citizens United vs FEC.

If you think Musk is going to defeat capitalism to the point that commoners are heard in the town square, unfettered by the wants of advertisers and media conglomerates, I'd say your chances are better praying that his next venture is a moonshot for time travel, destination circa 1600. Or before: one of the first tunes I learned on the violin was an advertising jingle popularized around then.

No, Musk doesn't want the commoner to be heard. He wants his opinion to have center stage. He's certainly not going to undo the grip that capitalism has on the public sphere. He's just another moneyed elite.
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You can check the business news and market reactions when a company misses its revenue targets and external estimates by far smaller amounts than that for a better sense of what constitutes a big deal.
> I mean think of a native American in the 1400s. If transoceanic travel is possible, why haven't we seen visitors from other continents yet?

laughs in some 700CE-vintage Polynesian language while munching on a sweet potato
> My guess is that Musk wins the battle of the wills here; he no longer needs to maximize advertiser income, just get enough to make the wheels turn

Twitter now has to pay $1 billion a year in debt servicing costs. Twitter was not wildly profitable before, so it seems very unlikely Musk can make enough money to break even, much less profit, while losing a large portion of advertising revenue.

That's why he's trying cut costs so aggressively, and rushing to gain new subscription revenue.
Yup, 8bitbubsy's FT2 clone completely replaced Milky for me. I was never a huge user of it but I used it as a scratchpad for DOS music when I wasn't near my DOS laptop.

It compiles perfectly well on my Pinebook Pro, so now I have with me all the time, along with the equally fantastic PT2 clone: https://16-bits.org/pt2.php
That's fair. Musk is throwing a truly monumental, once in a century scale meltdown.
> Obviously that eventually leads to an end object containing a primitive, you can’t just have fancy trees of nothingness lol.

You absolutely can have types with only one value, e.g. a class with no members.

Then you can have a tree type composed of those nothing types, where the information is in the tree structure, not in any primitive value stored anywhere.
Do you mind clarifying your multi monitor setups’ tech specification?

Never really thought about being one to many along.

Thanks!
Microsoft can't use their own code to train the model? Researchers can't use OSS to research (but not monetize)?

This isn't progress anyway. It's a fancy autocomplete/plagiarism/stealing dressed up as AI.
> They currently have ~3000 satellites. The total plan has ~12,000 satellites.

I gave more context below, what I'm saying is that perhaps it was foolish to lower prices for existing customers if it was going to be capped at 1TB, and given that their are combat zones depending on this connectivity (UA) than it was better to subsidize the costs to cover costs as it scales and offer tiered packages to offset this bandwidth issue. Instead you have Elon making unfounded claims, about it being given away for free, and then threatening to pull connectivity etc... obviously he got spoken to by the DoD, who pretty much prop up SpaceX, and the aerospace Industry as a whole is mainly military so that kind of behaviour will be stamped out at asap.

This is my biggest issue, that we all thought we would have created a path decentralized internet but its just as egregious as another telecoms except this one is done capable of being derailed and undoing all the immense work of amazing techs/engineers by what is essentially PT Barnem 2.0.
Intel has been acknowledged to be having problems in keeping up with TSMC's progress towards 1 nm. They are falling behind.