skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't block your ability to learn any more than any auto suggestion systems. But I guess it depends on what you value in terms of learning, for me, copilot allows me to focus on the larger architectural problems while not having to worry about the exact syntax of certain things (DSL query language, middleware express, typescript def annotations, etc).

Every time I don't have to context switch to look up some technical errata in my browser is a complete win for me.
Can Cultural Identity Be Defined by Food? (Singapore’s Peranakan Culture)
How do I buy one?
The weird thing is that 13% seems high. It is hard to imagine they are less than 13% more efficient with those tools.

It is weird that software engineers are the only engineer-types that are supposed to be able to do their job with just a computer and a built-in editor.
> the Kite Engine, which performs all the code analysis and machine learning 100% locally on your computer (no code is sent to a cloud server).

I was never aware they changed the architecture to keep code analysis entirely local. I would have purchased a subscription, had I known.
I agree a lot. You make eye contact to catch nuances in meaning of a socially laden topic, or when you want to gauge the other persons reaction to what you're saying etc. Different topics just require different levels of eye contact.

There are some people though, who are clearly very socially apt who almost stare at you while they keep talking, which actually seems weird to me. Firstly, what are they looking at? It seems kind of shameless to say it crassly. Secondly, they don't gesticulate with their eyes, which makes them harder to read.

The entire idea that someone has a problem with "holding eye contact" is misguided in my opinion. It doesn't explain what you could do to fix it, and focusing on where you are looking is most certainly going to make it worse because your visual attention is a low-level function that is supposed to work unconsciously. What one might have a problem with is not caring about the person you're talking to, or whether you catch some vague implication, or that they understand exactly where you're coming from. And if that's the problem, it's at least possible to work out some kind of solution for oneself.
I'm not sure where you're from but it's incredibly cool that you still use words recognisable from Anglo-Saxon (bearn and nawiht).
What’s the difference between RISC-V and the Motorola RISC processors used long ago before switching to Intel?
Italy without the food, the cars, the fashion, the charming language and the weather? =)
It helps if you know the right people. I used to run TED, what was then the worlds largest known OpenLDAP system, with an average of over 88 pieces of information about every single student, faculty, staff, or temporary vendor who had come through the University since the 1960s. Millions upon millions of records. I also used to run TIM and TAM as well.

Until the Great Layoff by the bean counters, which was suspiciously close to the timing where the School of Communications took all their business away from the Central ITS department, it was easy enough to file a complaint with the help desk, the help desk knew who all in Central ITS was working on what, so they could quickly turn around the bug to us.
Still it seems to have better results than outright aristocracy or primitive tribalism.
This is only tangentially related but at some point we need to get over the desire of homeowners in large cities to continue to increase the value of their million dollar homes. This doesn't seem possible at the local level, so maybe the federal government needs to step in and force housing development to happen.
PG's tweet is flagged ... why?
I would say because of the dozens of articles with "journalists" waxing poetically about his reputation as a big-thinking successfully-entrepreneurial self-made financial-wizard philanthropist. A regular Jeffrey Epstein.
The voice of inexperience with early TV sets is loud here. You would never do that with early sets, as the damn vacuum tubes would burn out very quickly, then Dad would get mad, take the back off the set, take ALL the tubes out, cart them down to the drugstore, use their tester to find the burned out tube, and buy a replacement. Dad, being a busy man, would not appreciate doing this very often, and so tightly controlled our use.

We didn’t get our first color + solid-state set (a huge marketing term back then) until 1978. That was probably about 5 years later than typical. It was a Zenith Space Command, also our first with a remote control. It used no batteries, pressing a button struck a metal tuning fork set for an “ultrasonic” frequency that a microphone in the set listened for. I quoted “ultrasonic”, because as a child I could definitely hear it.
Thanks! And stoked to hear the idea of Double can address that problem for you.

Totally agreed on the network effects point - that’s why we made the Double Communities and are focusing on growing those!
I lived in an ADU for a grand total of three months before moving out for more space in a typical apartment. I had to pay more but it was worth it to escape the claustrophobia.

I've also lived in a duplex that occupied the same lot footprint as the bungalow + ADU, yet had much more space for both parties to enjoy because simply building up and adding a second floor was a more efficient use of the lot.

I think ADUs are at best a stopgap but are so far from an optimal solution that they shouldn't be taken seriously by policymakers.

I simply do not understand the aversion to multi-story construction in some places.
Kirsten Dirksen and Bryce Langston also have great videos of peculiar housing:

- https://www.youtube.com/@kirstendirksen

- https://www.youtube.com/@livingbig
How is that relevant? DX codes aren't about storing arbitrary data or backups, it's a system for providing basic information on the roll of film itself.
The ones that have from mine are just using their accounts to complaining about Twitter. Which doesn't create sustainable communities on Mastodon instances that survive this kind of spike in activity.
Sorry blogspam but hopefully some useful thoughts. Started blogging again after 10 years, hoping this post is useful not just to cybersecurity people
Hype wasn't called that, but there was plenty of "hysterias" and "manias" previously in history. Look at the Dutch Tulip Bubble or the reporting that led to the Spanish American War. Not saying it's not a problem, but it is not about modern society, it's about human nature.
I think I’ve tried all of the code completion tools and Kite is the only one I didn’t end up paying for. It just wasn’t useful enough.
It’s useful to have small apartments even for people who don’t intend to live there for life. Like students or fresh graduates getting their careers together, minimalists who don’t care for accumulating stuff, and so on. Living in Tokyo, it’s awesome
how, if you want to live centrally, you can still do it on a budget.

Separately, Americans don’t know how to make space efficient homes, I loved my tiny 23m2 apartment in Tokyo and found it quite livable. I’ve never seen American apartments that use space in a remotely efficient way like those ones do.
Well I was talking about the hardware side.

But no, charging 30% isn't a "scam". I mean, is Microsoft scamming people on Xbox games by taking an equivalent 30%? Is Sony also scamming with their 30% for Playstation games?

30% is industry-standard for app store distribution tied to hardware. And while you can argue maybe the percentage should be different, it's not a scam.
I first learned C in 1991 on a VAX running VMS and also on an IBM AIX machine. If I went outside the array bounds I might get a crash or segfault and could use a debugger to load the crash dump and see where it died.

When I tried using my roommate's DOS PC and C compiler I crashed the entire machine so many times. There was no memory protection of any kind. Write something outside the array bounds and you could overwrite critical DOS data structures and lock up the whole machine. Hard reboot so many times.

Then my roommate tried to explain near and far pointers. I never understood it until I looked it up a few years ago. It was all related to the 16-bit vs 32-bit segmented vs flat memory models. Everything just seemed so much easier and faster on the VMS and Unix systems. But the also cost 10 to 100 times as much.

I also thought it was really pathetic that I could only run one program at a time. On the VAX and Unix systems 10 to 200 people could be logged on at the same time all doing there own thing and it was very difficult to accidentally bring down the whole machine.

It all made me NOT want my own PC because DOS/Win 3.1 was so limited. It wasn't until Linux in 1993 that I wanted my own PC.
> Kite thought it can go after the up and coming new developers by doing slightly shady things

I briefly tried Kite a few years ago. I didn't notice anything shady although maybe I just didn't stick around long enough.

What shady tactics are you referring to?
Ah cool to see that! I was reading the posts and got really confused because you said you were living with your wife and then later you were talking about moving to Vancouver and getting married and I was like, wait, you got divorced and re-married, but didn't write a blog post about it, what is going on here?? And then I realized it was alphabetical sorting haha.
"... a terminate-and-stay-resident program (or TSR) was a computer program running under DOS that uses a system call to return control to DOS as though it has finished, but remains in computer memory so it can be reactivated later. Needless to say, this was extremely unreliable."

There were very likely some hacky TSRs that caused problems, but in my experience most were extremely reliable. We used an off-the-shelf TSR to enhance a motion control system that laser scribed ceramic vacuum checks for silicon wafer fabrication. Those things cost $5k in 1990, and took ~20h of processing, increasing their value to $15k; we wouldn't screw around with something that was inherently "extremely unreliable".
DX codes are a huge pain these days as a lot of new rolls of film, especially B&W don't have them, leading to a frustrating situation on cameras which won't allow you to manually set ISO (which is a huge number of sub-professional cameras).
For anyone interested in this topic, this organisation does a lot to empower and defend indigenous tribes against these practices: https://amazonfrontlines.org/
First three comments were from crypto apologists who promptly flagged it.
I don't think people have problem paying for tools that are genuinely useful for them, regardless of whether or not there are free tools around.

The problem with Kite seems that their engineered first ("This machine learning AI is so cool, what can we do with it?" "I am a VC, are you doing AI? TAKE MY $$$$!") and only after burning through millions started to look at how to actually make money out of it.

And discovered that:

a) Hobbyist/individual developers rarely want to pay yet another subscription (can't justify it if you aren't making money with it & even $10/month subscriptions do add up!)

b) Corporate developers don't have purchasing authority. Everything must get approved, by both accountants and legal/compliance. Expecting a large company to pay a huge monthly/annual subscription fee for what is essentially a better autocompleter? Good luck with that.

That "Oh but your developers will be 18% faster!" argument is BS. 90% of the corporate developer's time isn't spent on typing code but on debugging, design, maintenance and meetings. Kite (or Copilot) don't help with that.

c) What about copyright/compliance issues? This has been trained on Github repositories - i.e. the same as Github's Copilot. How do I know where does the completed code come from? What about licenses on that code? Can I filter only for permissive/non-contagious (i.e. non-GPL) licenses? What about my code/whatever I type? Does it get sent to your servers? That alone is a complete no-go for companies.

In other words, a classic case where one shouldn't ask whether something could be done but whether it should. Someone outside of their engineering bubble and with a bit of business acumen would have told them that. Or at least told them to do a market research first, before spending all that time and money.

But hey, they had a good ride for the VC's money and are winding it down in an organized manner, without leaving a ton of shattered lives and a mountain of debt behind. So that's a plus.
You should let Cambridge know: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hijac...

> to take control of or use something that does not belong to you for your own advantage:

And Encyclopædia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/hijack

>: to take or take control of (something) for your own purposes

And Merriam Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hijack

> : to take or take control of (something) as if by hijacking
> often, specifically : to change the topic or focus of (something, such as a conversation) : REDIRECT

It wasn't my statement by the way, I just figure if you're going to nitpick you should at least be correct about the nit.
I paid for intellij - damned near the entire architecture team where I worked had a copy, and the company sure as shit wasn't the one paying for it.

(I eventually stopped subscribing, in part because they were too slow distancing themselves from Russia, in part because of their movement away from open source with their newer tooling.)

Developers will pay for software, if the value proposition is there.
And for mobile, network connectivity.
The flight out of the country has been happening for a long time.
It's complexity, not creative work. There are entire industries based on delivering creative work on strict deadlines. The quality of the products is often unpredictable due to the nature of creative work, but the people doing the work can meet the deadlines reliably. In a complex project, the unpredictability affects both the quality and the functionality of the product.
I think social media is directly responsible for that.

I was just listening to some Christopher Hitchens videos yesterday and was reminded of just how articulate and elegant his arguments were.

Compare that to modern "intellectuals" like Jordan Peterson. Complete rabble rousers.

Social media has allowed cowardly arguments to be made mainstream and that has weakened our total global human B.S. detector by a ton.

Imagine crypto had to be popular without social media. It would have been ripped apart just like Marc Andreessen was ripped apart on that podcast for his intellectually vapid ideas.

It is really a shame how much harm social media has done to our species.
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Except when Mongols took over in China or the "century of humiliation".

Japan is also example for itself. They voluntarily isolated themselves for centuries and fell back in everything. They were shocked when Americans forced them to trade in steam ships. But instead of finding excuses and blaming Americans for waking them up, they started Meiji restoration.
Sourcegraph CEO here. I respect what you and your team built. It’s tough to build a brand new kind of product, and I heard from many people who loved Kite over the last several years.
I've had the same experience in my career. I really do wonder how much of YAGNI is only learned through experience. Earlier in my career, I wanted everything to be more perfect, and I wanted to make sure I fully designed for all eventualities in my code. Nowadays, I know I can program myself out of a bad situation if it arises, so I don't try to cover all my bases, but I do make sure I'm aware of what could go wrong.

If I make a note to "fix it later", it just means, this could be bad, but might not be, so I might fix, but I might not either. If it ends up blowing up, it should be obvious to me at the point that I make the decision how bad it could really be, what the ramifications are, and how easy it is to fix or detect. With experience, you can play a bit more fast and loose with what you decide to do or not do, but it requires a lot of other skills, such as designing defensively, such that if something does go wrong, it's easily detected and doesn't cause irreversible damage to data.
> Just the time saved writing tests alone pays for it.

This, so much. My code since using Copilot is easily ten times better tested than it was before, and I wasn't especially lazy when it comes to testing.

Given 1-2 hand-written unit tests, Copilot can start filling in test bodies that correctly test what's described in the function name. When I can't think of any more edge cases, I'll go prompt it with one more @Test annotation (or equivalent in another language) and it will frequently come up with edge cases that I didn't even think of and write a test that tests that edge case.

(One great part about this use case for those who are a little antsy about the copyright question is that you can be pretty darn confident that you're not running a risk of accidental copyright violation. I write the actual business logic by hand, which means copilot is generating tests that only interact with an API that I wrote.)
The world is a very complicated place and it's hard to boil complex subjects down into a few minute story (and that's fairly long form these days). I suppose I never had too many illusions because my mother was a local journalist who, looking back on it, was pretty excellent at it - she was industrious and really good with people, meaning she was great at getting out and talking to people, maintaining a network of sources, and asking questions. Probably he biggest strength was just her interest in people and her ability to get them to open up using that interest. She's even somewhat curious about discussing devops / internet infrastructure with me (I sense some effort on her part) which are not subjects that tend to get much interest from people.

She'd be the first to tell you that she wasn't an expert in much of what they did; how could she be? What she was committed to was journalist ethics - conforming to a set of rules and correcting mistakes when they happen.

In some sense, she's still at it. She's nearing retirement, but is still technically in the role, but it's been vastly diminished by one company or other over her career. I don't know what magic there was in the post-WWII American Economy that tended to make things work so well, but it is clearly lost, and I'm starting to suspect it won't be returning in my lifetime.

So I'd call myself a media skeptic (and a skeptic overall) as well, but I suppose that means I understand that "The Media" is a diverse human institution with all the problems and failings that entails, and as such, I don't get too wrapped up in the failures.

And I suppose the question is, were Samoline (let's bring back the celebrity couple portmanteu, it's really funny in this context) 100% scammers, or were they 100% misguided idiot savants? It's never clear is it because it's never 100% anything. Madoff is the famous scammer of his era, but I believe his fund was legitimate in the beginning. So it's natural that there will be some debate on the topic. Michael Lewis was there and will give his view of events, but many books will be written in the years ahead.
Well sure, as you allude to there are others who prefer to read CNN, FOX News, Reddit etc.
A quick search on your complaint re transmission shows that it's without merit: https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/vaccines-veri...

And "government" is not a homogeneous body with consistent understandings/incentives/etc.

Prior to the previous administration vaccines were not political. They were the fringe group of conspiracy theorists for the most part. I don't consider them personally political but it's very much wound into millions of people that being anti-vax is part of their political identity.

tl;dr -- vaccines are never 100% safe nor 100% effective and it's a case of risk assessment on the value of participating. I'd wager that very few of those who've turned their backs on them have done an honest calculation.
I don't think it's reasonable to say either was copying. AI assisted tooling is obvious and people have been waiting decades for the tech to reach a point where they can build these tools. Kite tried to get in early - too early probably - but even if they were the very first they didn't invent the idea.
The article includes pumping costs
The problem isn't even intentional spying, it's what data about you becomes available via the metadata saved from every day filtering.
Alibab's semi design studio T-Head is big in RISCV.
they even ported android 10 to their RISCV processor xuantie
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Very interesting article. My objects were always written for real mode on DOS, by the time I would have wanted to use these extenders, Coherent and then Linux came out.
Haha. That owns everyone commenting here.

So the pictures of drinking brits fighting is actually from a rugby event? Who knew. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-59402277
you really have this all figured out don't you. I use TODOs for structural changes, not for stuff that I know has obvious flaws.

TODO - this would be much cleaner if we merged it with the hash support from target.cc
You need to earn over $200k to afford a typical home in these 8 U.S. cities
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edit: someone downvoted me for leaving a helpful comment. Nice.
Tokyo gets a bad rep, but on average apartments are smaller in London than Tokyo for instance.
I'd be curious to hear about services/tools developers do pay for. The diagnosis that developers do not pay for tools seems off to me.

A few tools that I put on the company card when I worked at a Big Tech Co as an IC:

* DataGrip (Jet brains)

* Colab Pro (Google)

* Postman Pro

These were all small $ enough where I didn't need to justify the expense. It was just assumed that if I thought the tool was worth the $, it was.

For more expensive purchasing decisions, there was a longer purchasing/approval process. But the expense would have to be 5-6 figures per year before hitting this barrier.
We are the niche
Yeah, what I have heard is that it’s technically not a “tiny house” if it’s not built on a trailer. Which I’m okay with but I guess it also means there might be other housing regulations from whatever city I setup in.
This is awesome, thank you! I have a few Wyze cameras and their hardware and pricing are great, but their app is pretty bad. Would be lovely to be able to use them outside the app.
If you are curious, the standard price for this guitar in a flat color is $1100, and the limited edition he wanted is only $1600. So not even anywhere near double the price.

The "deluxe" model is $1300, and one painted just like Eddie Van Halen's distinctive red/white/black "Frankenstrat" is $1750. Making your own out of the best parts you can find in pawn shops like Young Eddie did is probably less than any of these; masking tape and a few cans of spray paint are only a few bucks more. :)
You posted this last year. Which are the most important improvements?
More and more evidence is mounting that we should be focusing on our gut biome diversity, which is increased when eating a variety of plant-based foods. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33619379/
> People are seeing observability as a separate subject from product making. I see it as two side of the same "does this thing work" coin.

I have noticed the same thing with performance and UX. Most SaaS vendors only care about client / frontend UX and neglect the backend aspect of it. After a few years of intense development, they own good looking software that is also mindbogglingly slow and in some extreme cases unusable.
Too late to edit out the pro-tip but it still stands. Accusing me of being evil and a shill for Big Pharma is is unacceptable behavior for a forum that promotes thoughtful discussion rather than emotional tirades.