skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having big corporations contribute to projects is totally great! The incentives are just fucky when they control them.

My favorite example: VSCode is a great piece of software, but almost half of it is actually only available in a proprietary build from Microsoft's website that contains telemetry.
Oh god they made this whole design system and thousands of icons and it's all just so ugly, like, did noone actually look at it during the process?
Tl;dr: Announced .5GHz G4, shipped slower ones that were, nonetheless, faster than contemporaneous PIIIs, for a long time before delivering the announced faster one.
Heh, thank you for that perspective, really interesting to see that it did not only fail from completely off the charts expectations based on extrapolating from the SMS outlier.
Numen: Open-source, offline, modal voice control system for Linux
This Tweet is seen as a smoking gun. The author describes herself as "feminist and reporter"

https://nitter.it/i_tkst/status/1589187616846798848

English translation:

"I'm pretty sure Twitter's news feed isn't updated. We, the media, have been following the steps of creating a moment for our own article → contacting the Twitter curation team → reviewing it or not picking it, but I wonder if this work will make sense for a while."
The us is the biggest advocate though, and actually the most idealistic one. How idealistic they are, is visible in trade policies for example. The moment trump went back on free trade, all those mercantilist empires showed there true colors. Manufactured here, exported everywhere, just as it was practiced in Manchester centuries ago, allover.

There are actually very few countries which are freedom and democracy avatars. And they can export culture within the us sphere (japan, south korea/ some european countries come to mind) freely. All other culture/value spheres, are quite supressive/ethno centric (china, russia), hiding behind a thin veneer of "external propaganda".

The us secret service agencies interventions are a mess and the decay into a traditional empire is real, but overall, if you really look into other countries and cultures, its alot better, open, integrate the best of all worlds, then what you will find elsewhere.

I especially started to despise the "hollow husk" disney world "freedom" image some dictatorships export. People fall for that nonsense all the time and its ridiculous. Some nice videos of dancing people and skyscrapers, without any visible dissent, do not make freedom.
Novatek never released anything to public. I was a manager in a US company and we wanted to create a new camera. You can not believe how many days there were between my conversation and their answers. Time consuming.
> But why exactly is reading a bit of code fine w.r.t. copyright, but reading more code suddenly violates copyright?

In all fairness, the article mentions the Fair Use doctrine. You could make the argument that reading a bit of code is allowed, but doing it at a large scale would not be covered as an exemption to copyright.
I do not know but one thing I do is that it felt like they never had ads. Twitter in general was way worse with monetization. Perhaps it was not sustainable and a bigger loss leader than Twitter.
> However when programming it seems like we arent asking the machine to "write a function to do X", but rather saying, "def open-paren star args...."

Click the link first and take a look at what is being showcased, because your comment is the exact opposite of what they demo when you visit the HN link.
That sounds similar to the Screenplay pattern [1]

This has the concept of actors, abilities, interactions, questions, and tasks. This allows good separation of concerns as well as much more user-focused tests.

[1] https://serenity-js.org/handbook/design/screenplay-pattern.h...
GNU Net [0] seems more relevant than ever:

"The Internet is broken."

"The conventional Internet is currently like a system of roads with deep potholes and highwaymen all over the place. Even if you still can use the roads (e.g. send emails, or browse websites) your vehicle might get hijacked, damaged, or long arms might reach into its back and steal your items (data) to use it against you and sell it to others - while you can't even notice the thievery nor accuse and hold the scroungers accountable. The Internet was not designed with security in mind: protecting against address forgery, routers learning metadata, or choosing trustworthy third parties is nontrivial and sometimes impossible."

[0] https://www.gnunet.org/en/
An important point is whether legislation exists which allows such "monitoring".

Edit:

I would also like to add, one of the latest news was about malicious access of administrative data in Australia - which surely has in general more funds to invest in security than others. I would be concerned about personal data being copied in more repositories (multiplying chances of malicious access).
The bad scenario isn't Microsoft killing it, it's them slowly forcing everyone using it into Azure, Windows and Visual Studio, which is their usual, I think partially openly admitted, open source strategy nowadays.
Yup, done. I thought the author would see it better here (also would make it visible for other people stumbling on the issue) but I have contacted separately explaining the issue.
Indeed. FWIW I meant ‘comprehension, rather than ‘generator’, but hey, both would work
Oh god, I have some horrible memories when I set up a forwarder from employers Lotus Notes calendar to my Google Calendar. It turned out that Google was very aggressively parsing the body test and recipients of all events and re-sending invites. Also for that company all hands meeting I was invited to, in my first week. No way to disable this, so ended up having to write some custom parser for exported ics files, to strip out the email addresses.
I think React has made a deep impression in the industry and wont disappear overnight. There is less of a 'brainer' these days if you want to choose the boring tech for SPA (or similar) apps, and that is React.
That's interesting, I've always reveled in the absurdity, but perhaps I'll re-read it with an eye to take each chapter in as a discrete unit. Thanks!
My reactions to the demo (when all is good there is no reaction, so here are only the problematic ones, sorry)

1) import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

Why "as plt"?! Let the import alone. But this is a matter of style.

2) Get titanic csv data from the web [...]

Surprise, it turns out that "the web" is an URL on raw.githubusercontent.com Hopefully I'll be able to spell an URL of my choice

3) clean records from titanic data where age is null

Somehow I already know that there is an Age field and somehow it knows that it must capitalize age into Age

4) fill null values of column Fare with average column values

The generated code looks great but somehow I managed to spell a capitalized Fare this time :-) (this is probably a typo in the demo)

5) Hey,Github! New line

Inserting a new line can't take so many words. We're going to do without new lines or rely on a formatter or something equivalent.

6) plot line graph of age vs fare column

This is where it becomes evident that there was no need to import as plt because I'm not pressing those keys anyway. But this is style and it's going to be uniform across all the users of these tools.

7) Hey, Github! Run program

Good.

Considerations:

A) Why do commands (new line, run) need "Hey, Github!" which is pretty long and terrible to repeat all the day long (just imagine having to say Hey Joe every time we have to say a sentence to Joe, withing a long conversation with Joe) and text-to-code doesn't?

B) We got a graph at the end. Now what should I do to edit the code in those 99% of cases where I got the graph wrong? An acceptable answer could be mouse and keyboard. It's a little underwhelming but voice to code already gave me the structure of the code.

C) Does that mean that Microsoft and GitHub are going to know all the closed source code we'll write for our customers (there might be contractual implications) or is this something that will be self hosted in our machines?
But each Google Cloud project gets 1 million executions of uptime checks for free every month:

https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/pricing#monitoring-pric...
Don't all ISPs do this?
They can be stubborn and lose connecting with the rest of the net.
> So, the Twitter curation team was curating at least Japanese Twitter to be more political?

From the article:

> This change may have already made it’s way to the west as well, at the time of writing (it’s Election Day in the US) #GodofWarRagnarok is currently more popular than #ElectionNight.
I'm with you. I've never downloaded it. I don't think I've seen any praise for TikTok in YouTube or Reddit (which I frequent).

To my surprise, there's at least some form of praise for TikTok here in hackernews. It is surprising because as far as I'm aware, there's a negative sentiment here in general for social media (facebook, twitter, instagram, etc.), for the mental health risks it poses.

I have nothing against it either, I guess I'm just getting old and have less inclination to try new things.
It is a story about mental well-being journey and why you should share about your feelings. It can get exhausting but eventually you will take the healing route.
Blind people are already very productive using voice-to-code.
Just because I have an EA fund with $1 doesnt make it ok to defraud and steal $10 from other people.
Similarly, most people aren't aware that one of the biggest contributors to reconstructive cosmetic surgeries in Germany was the coal mining industry. Because coal mines had such a horrific track record of disfiguring injuries, they gave rise to an entire industry of reconstructive cosmetic surgery before WW1. After WW1 the surgeons mostly pivoted to treating veterans.
This feels like Github expanding because it can't find anything else to do...It being a for profit organization means that it's unable to say "you know what we pretty much have everything we wanted so we're just going into a maintenance/optimization mode". This happens all the time in open source project where they simply tell their users to move elsewhere for the better alternatives but will never happen to a for profit organization.
It’s like the wonderfully pretty, comfortable offices of Phillip Morris.
Help everyone forget where their salaries come from.
Many, if not most, nations have similar provisions to this. I think it's wrong and just over the top. However, encrypting everything and using multi-hop routing wherever possible at least will add noise to this sort of dragnet surveillance. Personally, I've taken steps to obsfucate my traffic since similar legislation was introduced in the UK.
So do you think he'll eventually bring back WFH for Tesla and Twitter when they want to increase headcount?
I don't think projects comparable to books can be at the same time comparable to software
Oh there's a discoverability issue between Mastodon instances?
>If only I can write an insincere apology to Google to ...

I don't know, but likely the Google AI would decide that your apology is insincere and thus unacceptable.
Largely agreed! My view is that 'everything' is being optimized for utility, consistency, and risk managment. This results in unobjectionable but indistinguishable aesthetics, effective but repetitive sports, and shiny but soulless blockbusters.
I don't really care if a license meets some arbitrary definition.

Let's say I added a clause to my BSD license that prohibits the copying of this code to train ML models.

Would that not immediately make GitHub in violation of this license?

Or do they only train it where the license is explicitly one of the ones it knows about?
Hey, looks cool. Will try to explore more and share what I think.
Thank god we're remote. An open office space with this would suck.
People on r/enoughmushspam believe that Musk personally involved in overthrowing the government of Boliva, that his dad is diamond billionaire who used slave labor and literally every other delusional conspiracy that goes threw Twitter.

Maybe those people shouldn't be taken at face value when they say things. They will just believe ever rumor and misinterpretation of everything.

I don't think Hyperloop is technically a good idea, but peoples outrage and misinterpretation of what happened (mostly based on bad media reporting) at the time rather then actually listening to what Musk was saying is just a perfect example of fake news and then now this fake news is basically except as reality by most people.

There are even people who believe that Hyperloop is responsible for California HSR not being successful. That is beyond delusional.
Personally, I believe it may actually hold up in court.

That's why for my own projects, I actually made sure to get approval from all contributors when vendoring a dependency just after the ToS change: https://github.com/justjanne/QuasselDroid-ng/issues/5
Dieting, as in restricting intake of calories, doesn't sound right. It's better to focus on in what form you eat those calories. Look at the Japanese, they don't go hungry and they don't get fat. They enjoy food. When I'm there I'm also slightly slimmer and I also enjoy eating the food. But when I'm in North America I'm starving - I can't find food that I want to eat. It's all highly processed junk food, burgers and greasy dressings and.. urgh. Local folks presumably know where to get edible foods, but travellers (for work or whatnot) don't.
That's not the alternative, who develops like that?

It's like the first time I saw the essay calling ORM's the "vietnam of the software industry". I remember reading it and wondering who the hell would use ORM's in that manner?

Apparently a lot of people, but if you're using rebase because you don't know how to create commits that build and are functional then I submit the issue is with you.
I still haven't got my invite :l
A browser extension that shows Twitter blue vs. real verified users
#PoliticalRage

Could it be that thanks to Elon we are going to see beyond Truman's Show? What if people only wanted to be happy with their lives and comment their favourite series? Politicians were the nobility/aristocracy, journalist were the ecclesiastic class, etc.

They will never forgive Elon for that, he needs to become the antichrist. He needs to be destroyed by the system, otherwise what will happen to western partitocraties?

P.D. I wish to be out of the Truman Show too, cannot even picture a society less divided and more focused on its own wellbeing
There are already a lot of replies, so maybe it is pointless adding my own . . . My understanding of the problem with mortgage backed securities was that the calculations assumed the risks on the low-quality debt was uncorrelated. If that were true, all of the math works out, and there is no problem with mortgage backed securities. The reality was/is, however, that the risks on those loans were, in fact, highly correlated. The conditions that caused one loan to default also made it much more likely that others mixed up in the pot would also default. In that case, the math was wrong and the magic failed. I suppose we could argue all day about whether that was an honest mistake or deliberate manipulation.
> the holocaust pales in comparison to what has been done to Germany.

It's rather disturbing to see this stated with such conviction, but I guess Neo-Nazi's had to come from somewhere.
>To whom it's directed?

To people asking "why not open source?" (iirc have asked this at least once myself) on every non-open-source project released. The answer can simply boil down that the dev(s) are looking to money off it.
Imagine sitting there, talking to your computer, and trying to get the notations right.

If err unequal nil opening bracket, no no don't open the racket opening bracket... BRACKET, do you know what a bracket is
No don't do a do while, delete delete. Don't delete everything... sigh

Well something like that, I imagine it being a very painful experience.
Was there any doubt that it could be done in Rust? In "safe" Rust?

If not, why is it in the title?
It also leads to more mistakes and cutting corners (usually hidden), so in the long term as they accumulate this will bite him in the ass when a particularly bad one gets out in the wild unnoticed.
And I thought this guy had a high IQ, clearly he's not that bright after all.
GitHub is doing a whole lot. I think I prefer to edit my code in an editor, not on the website where it's hosted. And I think I don't want fancy AI driven code editor features using my code either. But I guess it is nice they are considering solutions for vision impaired users.
WASD movement is an innovation. Movement was on the arrow keys before that.

A wave of games that wanted you to play with the mouse and keyboard simultaneously made using the arrow keys impossible, unless you wanted to use the mouse with your left hand. If the auxiliary part of the keyboard had been to the left of the main part instead of the right, movement would most likely never have come off the arrow keys.
How does it do with SQL?
how is it a synergy? the solar panels will necessarily feed into the grid (because electricity must be transported for immediate consumption), and not necessarily into EVs (since it can be sunny when no cars are here to recharge, or EVs need recharging at night when there's no sun). Only rarely will the electricity collected by the panels feed directly into the EVs.
So IMHO not a synergy, it is merely co-location of the 2 (which is good, since parking lots are mostly unused space, now this space will in fact do something when not in-use for car parking).
I think this is the most interesting part:

> [Github's Terms of Service] specifically identifies “GitHub” to include all of its affiliates (like Microsoft) and users of GitHub grant GitHub the right to use their content to perform and improve the “Service.” Diligent product counsel will not be surprised to learn that “Service” is defined as any services provided by “GitHub,” i.e. including all of GitHub’s affiliates.
Bankrupt lender Celsius files motion to extend time for 'reorganization'
Key line here is that Sam transferred $4B from FTX to Alameda, unbeknownst to FTX executives, to bail them out.
It sounds like you’ve been heavily influenced by the tone regarding academia here on HN. It’s one of the nuances of HN that people “hate academia” here. (Admittedly CS has a strange relationship with academia in that the pay discrepancy is so outrageous between industry.)

Some people love academia. My PhD mentor is as happy as a pig in mud in his academic role. He only has to teach every other semester, and his course/lecture plans are solidified such that all he has to do is recite his notes beside slides and answer questions. He has to schlep to the classroom two days out of the week in these semesters, but his classes are back-to-back so that even those days are spent mostly where he likes. All of the rest of his time is spent happily “doing research” in a domain in which he’s a world expert. Publishing is a specialized sausage-production manufacturing domain, but if you enjoy the subject matter like he does (and I do) it can be a low-effort byproduct of effectively playing with code and ideas.
There may well be examples of this, but while the blind developers I have known (a small sample, I admit) typically use screen-reader technologies to navigate and read code, they use a keyboard to write and edit it.
> any instance hosting the harry potter lady would get defederated from by 90% of the network

If you are getting defederated by 90% of the network, isn't that maybe a strong indication that 90% don't want to hear what you have to say?

Freedom of speech is a protection against the government censoring you. It doesn't mean you get to spread hate and toxicity freely without consequence.
BBC – will computers put managers out of work (or “coders are the new managers)
People whining about some Eternal September always remind me of people who moved to a city last year whining about newcomers. The internet is not usenet. You can have your own website (or mastodon server) and make it invite only. But a lot of us prefer "cities", not "villages"—or gated communities. And it seems to me that a lot of people like the city at some point and then want it to remain static and closed. When the fact that it is open is the only reason they were able to move there in the first place.
He used to have a blog but no longer writes on it. There was quite an active community around Trashwiki but I haven’t had a look at it in a while. There’s also a dumpster diving subreddit, but it’s centered around finds rather than lifestyle.

I can relate to the vicariously living through reading part of your message, I love coming across people who share their alternative lifestyle!
Humans started using tools over 2.5 million years ago, and that’s also when brain size stared to steadily increase.
> And if you open an issue or pull request and you're not on the OpenCollective, it's usually immediately closed, by policy.

I don't know enough about the resulting system, but this sounds quite silly and contra-productive. Issues often hint at important flaws. If the community is not open (Ha!) to outsiders notifying them of important flaws, then that is a recipe for bad software. Some people might go there and start asking for features, instead of describing issues (although even that can be valuable input), but in my experience people are more often reporting bugs or asking how to do something, because it is not well described in the docs, or the docs are not as visible as they should be, or probably many other good reasons. Closing ones door to these valuable inputs can only result in worse software.
Alameda is/was strategies that optimize for technology, arbitrage etc. But with a massive one way directional long bet over the top.

Run by people with 1-2 years experience in shops that run a market neutral profile , in an environment where they believed the underlying asset goes up every single day.
This is great. Kinda wish this is how it was by default
I don't disagree with that. I just meant I don't think it's going to have mainstream appeal. A wheel chair also makes a disabled person super productive if the alternative is not being able to go anywhere at all, but it doesn't make wheelchairs super appealing to people with healthy two legs if you see what I mean.
Hey Github what did the previous developer actually _mean_ with this piece of legacy code?
The beauty of the law is that it does not take such philosophical things into consideration. The only thing that matters is the text of the law and it's documented interpretation in various court cases. That's why copyright is excluded from this court case because there are a lot of documented interpretations of fair use. Which also apply here.

The simple layman's version of copyright is that copyright applies to a specific form of a thing and not about the ideas behind that thing.

So, no, George Lucas was not infringing anything. Nor is hip hop music making use of samples infringing anything. Or Andy Warhol integrating photos into his works. Nor is it illegal to paraphrase or refer other authors. And as Oracle found out by challenging it in court, trying to claim ownership over APIs to prevent third party implementations is also not going to work.

All of that falls under fair use. Fair use is what makes copyright useful. Without it you'd have to live in fear that legal copyright holders might come after you if you apply the ideas that you might have been exposed to via their copyrighted work. Fair use exists such that you can make use of information provided to you via a copyrighted work.
But how... I mean presumably they don't install a root cert on every client device?
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