skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't used it yet. I believe when people say that it's the future of development and that every dev will have to use it or be left behind, but I can't fathom how people are comfortable sending every iteration of their code to a big tech corporation. I can't wait to see the day where we can run such solutions in our personal computers (or personal cloud servers), but I feel that, in 2022, this type of tool is not yet worth the risk. I hope this is just a temporary obstacle in our way to our future AI-assisted programming.
Perhaps you saw more politics everywhere as it was also time for us midterm elections
In the US? That sounds bananas to me.
They said 33MB of code for a function. That is an enormous swath of code.
But the whole point of the website is scrolling, they had to include scrolling.
1. I recommend reading through [1]; it covers pretty much everything you will need. As for websites, I enjoy https://monkeytype.com/ because of how customizable it is. However if you're learning, I would recommend https://www.typingclub.com/ until you no longer need to look at the keyboard. This shouldn't take too long, you don't need to do all the modules. After that, you can pretty much ditch typingclub and focus on [monkeytype|typeracer|10fastfingers] for your practice.

2. Focus on accuracy always. Speed will come in time.

3. If you want to quickly improve your coding speed, turn on autocomplete. I know some people bind certain symbols to snippets/templates (eg. "par"/"rap" expands to "(" and ")"), but I think this is a little too much. I would recommend training on passages that have punctuation and special characters, but after a certain speed, typing symbols and numbers isn't that tight of a bottleneck unless that's all you're doing. You will get used to typing them with more practice anyway.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L-P68VDSGlpLM5A9tfRvWFoh...
I don't think I've ever seen a convincing argument that the physical "usefulness" of gold is a significant factor behind its market value.
The closest is the argument that it's useful as marker for indicating wealth/status/privilege, because of its rarity (and obviously the skill involved in crafting it into various ornaments/utensils etc.).
But yes, arguably more useful than cryptocurrency (where there's value in the concept of a distributed cryptographically-backed ledger, and the software that exists to support it, but not really in any individual unit of a cryptographic currency). Then again, there's really no absolute utility in units of fiat-issued currency either - it just happens to be the only sort of currency that governments accept for paying taxes (therefore necessary for keeping yourself out of jail).
listen to chamath’s explanation on the latest All In podcast, he puts it pretty succinctly.
> Is it perhaps that you're completely and utterly wrong and you're trying to distract me from that fact?

I think you miss the whole point of this website!

I've had never before to flag here something. Now you force me to do it again. That makes me really sad right now.

But you're constantly only trolling. Continue elsewhere, please.
In the EU we have institutions set up to protect the citizen, deal with it.
It is far too early to publish these kinds of articles. It will take months if not years to untangle "what happened" and do a true retrospective. This is little more than a poor summary of "what we know so far".
I saw it mentioned somewhere that he's planning to offer some kind of share bonus similar to SpaceX.
There's a lot of Linux apologists in your replies but my experience is exactly the same _with a laptop that supports Linux_ (Framework laptop).

I'm running a very recent kernel in Fedora and have tried numerous power saving mechanisms (currently autocpufreq, although it's results are not much different from gnome PPD) and I'm lucky if I get 3 hours from the thing while running 10-15 FF tabs and a single instance of VSCode+Remote SSH extension. This is ~1/2 of what I can get in Windows.

I think a lot of Linux users would be surpised how good their battery life would be if they installed Windows on their laptops. It's not Linux's fault per se, it's just that there's considerably less engineering manpower going into tuning the power efficiency of laptop hardware on Linux. People get up in arms because they can't reconcile the fact that "Windows is bloated" with the fact that it gets better battery life, but if you think about it for a few seconds it really shouldn't surprise anyone.
What Is JPEG XL?
These same scams have existed for hundreds/thousands of years. What really happened is baseline greedy-as-hell VCs became desperate and drunk to keep up with inflation (and take advantage of "free" money) when the fed pegged interest rates way down into the (real) far-negatives. It made the story of SBF et al even more likely.

People sought riskier and riskier investments and did less and less vetting. The real estate situation where you had to waive all inspections and put up massive earnest cash up front was just an analogy for what was going on everywhere. Just to keep up with inflation you basically had to put yourself out there and pray, and people who otherwise would end up as little more than punks at Jane Street sniffed the blood in the ocean.

While SBF is the primary culprit here, the fed's short-sighted policies created incalculable damage to our economic landscape and advantages for scammers. I fear we will disproportionately be seeing more unwinding of these kind of schemes.
Nothing new in this article. Just endless fascination I suppose.
Someone in my extended family got caught seriously drunk driving in Mississippi, and probably because he was a neatly-dressed, well-spoken white guy, the court clerk subtly hinted that a $2000 donation to the county sheriff's department benefit fund would confirm to all concerned that he was indeed a nice, civic-minded young man who shouldn't have his life ruined over a silly mistake.

He wrote that check, and ended up pleading guilty to reckless/careless driving (can't remember which), which carries far fewer long term consequences than a DUI.
lol the 13 inch
Is there any decision in a replacement for fuel tax?

Fuel tax is 'worth' a lot more than car tax (VED) for the typical motorist in the UK.

And taxing electricity for use in cars is much harder logistically.
> have access to the most updated version at the time of their subscription lapsing.

Since JetBrains has been mentioned multiple times here, it's worth pointing out that they do not do this. If you do not renew, the fallback license applies to the version on the day you purchased, not the version at the time the license lapsed.
I think there's a lot of hate in the comments, and while I agree (stop hijacking my scrollbar), I'd like to inject some constructive positivity:

1. They put the disclaimer right in their motto. Get smooth or die trying. They're willing to accept failure in pursuit of peak smoothness.

2. Hate it as much as you want, ever since the awful idea was born, we haven't been able to prevent websites from doing this. Some implementations are better than others, and having standardization will help improve the state of the web for all websites that make this... terrible... decision. Their implementation happens to be quite nice.

3. Even if there's issues with the implementation, having a standard library means that when updates get applied, they apply to all websites that use them.
> Enron was fraud on difficult mode.

The citizens of California would highly disagree with that. In those cases, all they had to do was put plants into "maintenance" mode. Literally, do nothing, and profit.

This doesn't even begin to cover how they encouraged their employees to put their retirement into the business.

Enron wasn't one fraud.. it was several.
To add some context: the Librem 5 project started with a crowdfunding campaign at the end of 2017. The initial projected release date was early 2019, but the project caught delays and eventually started shipping preorders in quantity in late 2020 (early revisions started shipping to backers who opted in for those at the turn of 2019/2020 already). At this point, however, the world was well into component shortage, which ended up severely impacting the production. Right now the shipping queue is at the preorders from early 2019 (with some thousands of phones already shipped) and is expected to reach the present somewhere in the first half of 2023. The product is certainly "built yet", it's just shipping slower than anticipated and, in turn, still has a queue of preorders from years ago to fulfill (I believe the most dense preorder periods have been handled by now though).

Disclosure: I work for Purism as a software dev.
Or mobile safari
> a fast columnar PB-scale database, an efficient on-disk store, a fast in-memory cache, SQL support plus with expressive query language additions for time series operations

Sounds like ClickHouse.
And we see kdb slowly start being replaced...
Elon Musk’s new email pushes Twitter managers to do his dirty work
The big problem is that one "team" utterly refuses any help that may benefit people they don't like. We have data to support that they find solutions that benefit undesirables as a bad thing, even if it will help them.

So yes, they say they want a living wage, but get really really really upset if you suggest that means the guy scanning your groceries makes as much as they do.
> FTX is younger than Tether and it was actually subject to scrutiny.

What due diligence did Blackrock and SoftBank did before investing in FTX?

Half the people I know trusted FTX just because "Blackrock and SoftBank must have done their homework".
I don't call anything a "workstation" unless it supports ECC.
I very much assert that the legal, economic, and social context in which a programmer operates has a great impact on what the programmer produces.
We established the licenses we have for good reasons. Licenses alter all of the above variables. We are not simply code production machines. We make code for reasons.

You are free to view yourself as a code production machine, where what you produce is independent of the situation before and after you make anything, but many of us would like to take ownership and action on the legal, economic, and social planes with our work.
Zero DevOps is crucial to Kubernetes adoption. We've seen so many companies choose to delay the adoption of Kubernetes and cloud development far into the future when migration costs are much higher. We hope that launchpad can lower this barrier of entry significantly.
It's not accidental. HTML source has a comment that probably gets auto added which says it is using a Mirroring Tool called httrack.com
Would washing the apple thoroughly not remove the nitrosamine byproduct? Genuinely curious.
You already can take Diesel trains who use "100% Ökostrom" (100% green energy). So, why not ? /s
Yes, 40 hours is too much. 16 is perfect. Tuesday and Wednesday please, working from home of course.
Ask HN: Any reco for distributed state book?
There are a lot of resources out there about distributed state management. Do you know any book/resources that stands out?
Any government that can seize the domain can issue a fake cert for that domain, so no matter what is put in place, the Turkish government could always issue a fake cert for .tr - or any other domain owned by a Turkish company.

The *google.com stuff is the more dangerous, but that can be detected pretty quickly if widely deployed - the intelligent way would be to only do so in very target situations and very, very rarely.

(Google added certificate pinning and other things to try to protect against this in the future)
https://www.coinbase.com/price/trump-loses-token
Agreed – but why would you want to box an array instead of simply using a Vec?
I understand the need for subscription software. I would never push a developer to sell something with a one-time payment, especially if that software requires servers or will have future updates.

I like the idea of a monthly subscription. I've seen some apps where you can buy a lifetime subscription for the price of 2-3 years of monthly payments. That could be an interesting alternative for people who want to buy once.
Thanks, it has my recommendation Topaz as a "two-star" :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topaz_(apple) as
> but I can't fathom how people are comfortable sending every iteration of their code to a big tech corporation.

I assume you only ever use self hosted source control then? And then where is it hosted?
While I never really believed in Mighty as a concept, I think the technology has enormous potential in some industries. A robust, performant and versatile VNC like toolkit to enable traditionally desktop software to be made available in the cloud could be be very successful.

There are many CAD, Visualisation, Rendering, Editing, and Simulation tools that are incredible CPU, GPU or Memory intensive that could be made available in a collaborative environment for the first time using some of the Mighty tech. I hope someone picks it up and explores other ways it could be used.
> I know there's a way to do this in VSCode as well, but I don't know how.

I dug into this a bit, since I want the same functionality, I found I needed an extension called settings-cycler (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hoovercj...) which lets one flip the 'github.copilot.inlineSuggest.enable' setting on and off with a keybind.

Not sure who's in charge of the Copilot extension for VS Code, but if you're out there reading this, the people definitely want this :) Otherwise of course, your tool rocks!
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> Every non-renewable power source involves a heat engine.

Even some renewable power sources like wind involve a "heat engine" in the sense that they exploit a temperature differential driving a working fluid (AKA wind) to spin a turbine.
April fools joke from 8 years ago? Ugh.
No, people would cut the unnecessary BS in order to get things done. Most people can’t concentrate 40h/week, so the BS serves to fill up the remaining time.
Some of it's the software being much better. See also: Android vs. iOS battery life. Android's gotten a little better over the years (for a good long while the difference was comically huge) but it's still the case that you need higher specs and a bigger battery to achieve similar apparent responsiveness and battery life with Android. And that's despite iOS bloating pretty badly over the last half-dozen versions.

Or see what happens when you use Chrome or Firefox instead of Safari on a MacBook. One of these three vendors plainly cares a lot about battery life. The other two do not care as much.
Nothing has been decided in a court of law so saying that it's "illegal" is disingenuous.

Even if it's remarkably similar to another function from a completely different code base but some of the symbols or variable names or function name has been changed, I would argue that it still falls under fair use, and is sufficiently transformative.
A model that's been used for a very, very long time, successfully, is similar to the one you are now using. Sell the current version for a fixed price, and the customer owns it forever. Also sell a support subscription plan, for a fraction of the price of the software, lets say 2.5% of the flat cost, per month. Sometimes, give one year of that with the base purchase. Support contract entitles you to bug fixes and minor feature enhancements (point releases) for free, and free or discounted major upgrades.
It isn't just that the venues have exclusive contracts, its also that if they break the exclusivity contract with TicketMaster, they can't use a competing service for 2 years (though I can't find proof of this, when I worked in venues 20 years ago, this was the case).

SongKick took a stab at breaking TicketMaster, as did PearlJam, and a few others. Everyone has failed so far.

This is clearly monopolistic and harmful to concert goers, and StubHub (also a Ticketmaster/LiveNation company) was fined a few years ago for selling tickets at a premium which were never made available to the public.

The whole industry is so shady, it's pathetic that this is allowed to continue.
An application (like maps) and an online brochure are two different animals. A brochure for a company with a hundred or fewer products should generally be able to do fine with just HTML. Maybe a generator engine can assist with formatting, but there should be little need to add JavaScript unless you really really think eye-candy is important to sales. For a child or teen, maybe such gimmicks matter, but not for a furniture store.

If you really need a fancy store with shopping carts and wish lists etc., there are plenty of online services you can rent for small and medium stores. It's a wheel you shouldn't have to reinvent. But a brochure for say 25 medical devices/services shouldn't need any JavaScript.
I thought it took at least 3 days for the medication to clear your system.
In addition to this, you can pretrain a dictionary on sample data, and then use that when compressing files individually
Twitter will get 12-hour shifts common in Tesla instead...
A real “I am Spartacus” moment.
He’s pro crypto regulation (keep competitors out of his space), and fuck any regulation that might reveal his massive fraud.
I think 6 weeks is better than 2 maybe, but it should be possible.

If what you are doing is very novel those deliveries may be proof or
disproof of concepts. The customer being yourself in a way.

In 6 weeks it should be possible to deliver “does blockchain make sense”.

The question is if the answer is NO
does the org have the guts to
can it. Someones paycheck might depend on keeping it going.
Streaming Chrome with some value adds must have been a short-term product right? It could only have existed until PCs caught up on processing speed (Apple's M1?).

I wonder what vision did Suhail pitch to PG to deserve high praise. Because this can't be it.
Does HN needs to cancel user comments under GDPR?

Ina short anwer : YES, but not because what you think.

Under GDPR you have the right to ask your PII to be erased from production (it still goes under archive for a some time depending on legal constraints)

So it is valid demand for HN to ask your comments to be erased from be “live” in production

Are your comments PII?
Yes, as they are linked to a user, username that is linked to an email and bio, and they may contains also PII inside.

So you could ask it to be removed.

Can HN avoid that deletion?
Yes only if they prove they have a more valid reason with a legitimate interest to keep it, or that there is any relevant legal obligation to keep it

Do they have ?
Not really in that case, however they could also rely on the existence of a particular legitimate interest to inform (if they prove that they are a media), or that there is a legitimate interest relying on the impossibility to understand conversations if you cut off some parts of the discussions and the related feeds.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. Remember that one? LO
Relative wages have not risen, but standard of life really has. For a week of work at minimum wage, I can buy a lot more cool stuff than anyone from 100 years ago.

Things have gotten so good, that almost everyone has riches beyond the wildest dreams of someone from 1850, it's just that we all have it, so it doesn't feel like we've gotten much more from our productivity.
Jahi McMath Case
X.509 Name Constraints are widely supported in browsers at this point - ref. https://bettertls.com - at least for DNS SANs and for the common cases.
> with the rest being a big void.

There shouldn't be a 20-30 hour "void" in people's work week.

If people are meeting, discussing work, building relationships within the company, or otherwise doing things around their work, I still consider that to be productive time. Nobody actually expects programmers to be writing code 40 hours a week. We know this.

On the other hand, if people are spending 30 hours per week messing around on the internet, browsing social media, chatting in social Discords, or other activities that are clearly not work related, that's not normal at all at well managed companies.

There are a lot of companies where people can get away with working 2 hours per day and then ignoring work for the other 6 hours of their supposed 40-hour work week, of course. I think a lot of people have experienced these companies somewhere in their career and concluded that everyone, everywhere is actually only expected to do 2 hours of work-related things per day. It's not true at all, and I've met a lot of people who really struggle to adapt once they finally end up on a well-managed team that expects people to put in more than a couple hours of work-related effort per day.

I suspect we'll see a lot of companies clamping down on these low-productivity pockets now that the easy money has run out and we're all forced to examine personnel costs very closely. I know I've had a few coworkers who curiously never seem to do much of anything. They've always been first to go when the layoffs arrive and their managers are forced to choose who stays and who goes.
I've found weights and biases extremely easy to use with minimal integration effort. Not sure if this provides any functionality that's better.
How is this news? I’m all for diversity and inclusion, but entire departments dedicated to things that people can do without them? Of course they get cut when pockets get lighter.

I would fully expect that I’d be let go before a SWE. An SWE can do SysEng work when they’re forced to do it. They don’t do it as well, probably, but they can get by for a while. I can’t do their job for a day. Of course, if we’re down to the point that the only systems engineer in the company is getting laid off for budgetary reasons, the company is probably going under soon.
You sure? Lots of small fish are caught in this net.

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
The article cites several instances that indicate that wouldn't be the case.
I don't know. But that site breaks it.
I'll save everyone some time.

Fuji.
I was just going to note the publish date as well... Apr 1, 2014
Building the new YouTube sound, one note at a time
> This hasn't been true for years! Let's Encrypt provides free certificates to anyone with a domain.

Because they are the competition.
If copilot is fine, then software licenses are meaningless imo
Penryn->Sandy Bridge is a pretty big leap.
Lots and lots and lots of systems are not setup to handle Let's Encrypt auto-renewing certs, and so people keep plugging away with the ones they've always been using.

Dropping them down to one year duration may help push people towards LE and friends.
I have some experience building infrastructure for on-demand cloud hosted desktops (HDx3DPro) for scientific users and their apps. Often wondered if there was a consumer play there too. Better someone tried and failed than never tried at all.
I'm not entirely familiar with Theranos, but as far as I know, she only defrauded VCs - entities that are designed to take on risk (which can include Theranos-like fraud).

FTX defrauded average people, many of whom were lured by the big name ads, the friendships with Tom Brady, the marquee investors list.

Supporting that is deeply immoral.
Interesting to see such articles, when I heard from some people on HN that it's ok and healthy to have two contracts at the same time. Which one is it then?
You’re describing what I’d understand as productive time: if someone says they’re not being productive, I interpret it to mean there’s zero value to be derived for their employer from their activities. For example, being asleep or browsing Reddit or watching YouTube videos…

When I say I’ve only been productive for 20 hours in a week, I don’t mean I spent 20 hours programming and 20 hours in meetings, I mean I spent 10 hours programming and 10 hours in meetings. I’d be surprised if most people only count programming time as productive time! If you’re doing 40 hours a week of programming + meetings + support + any other needle-moving things, you’re more productive than I’ve ever been in a job.
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