skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Databases were not part of my CS curriculum until I took an elective web development course at the very end. People struggled. I had been doing hobbyist web development since I was quite young so the whole class was a breeze for me, but I understand that for those who are only taught the fundamentals and theory, anything pragmatic can feel daunting. I'm sure curriculums have changed greatly since I went through (KV/graph stores were not yet adopted, distributed DBs were merely a thought), but it still doesn't feel quite right for faulting a student for choosing certain classes or not being perfectly suited for learning a given domain instantly.
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Also, keep in mind that this is an (almost) orbital launch, and that it's re-entering. In this case, it's re-entering just north of Hawaii, so there may be reasons in that region to limit the launch window.
Until criminals find a way to frame random people for their crimes. They already run botnets on computers that belong to random civilians.
There will be a time when LLMs need data persistence to "improve our user experience". The LLM will act like a "friend" that will remember you when you come back.
> Who do you think Shell are selling all this oil to?

Commercial and industrial entities. Retail for cars is little by comparison. See the 15 ships vs all the cars article.

> Given the forum we are conversing in, I'm pretty certain we're all in the world's wealthiest 5%..

What can I even say here? Why are you speaking for me?

> So basically, "don't make me do anything I don't want to do" ?

You don't need to maliciously "summarize" my arguments. I have already done so in the first sentence of the paragraph. And that was "Don't shit on the environment."

> I think you're misunderstanding the articles...

And I think you are trying really hard to misunderstand what I'm saying just for internet points.
This almost sounds like mixing up the terms or history of open source and free software.

While both may have been driven by ideals, many of the licenses typically applied by people who call themselves "open source developers" do not contain copyleft. Therefore it is inherently easy for corporations to "steal" the code. "Steal" in quotes, because when the developers chose a license, they should have been aware of that their software can be used in any context without they themselves ever learning about it or seeing any contributions flowing back, so it is not really stealing anything, but the developers short-sighted choice of license.

Sustainability in terms of keeping things open (libre) is more an area of licenses like GPL, AGPL, which contain copyleft. These are more commonly applied by developers calling themselves "free software developers". Most self-respecting free software developers will also call their software free (libre) software, instead of saying open source, even, if many open source licenses are also valid free software licenses.
This isn't a NASA launch.
Many popular computer languages in use make state machines unergonomic. The problem is solved with native enumerated types or, even better, tagged unions, like Rust and functional languages from the ML family (Haskell, Ocaml, Elm). It is a joy working with state machines when you have a compiler that can verify exhaustively wheter all states and state transitions are handled.
Not sure why that guy hates Imgur so much. It’s still an image host, what gives.
Indeed. This is also more future-proof. If people live longer and retire at say 120, do we really want judges to sit there for 80 years without a chance to re-evaluate them?
That's why you run your own repo as a proxy
> If like me you're in the US they don't have any jurisdiction!

They do if you do business in Europe, for example by serving users in Europe.
currently when uploading an image to stack exchange it is stored in imgur. I wonder if they will move to another host.
The article you posted claims the ENTIRE tourist spend per year in the UK is around £23 billion GBP:

"Official statistics for the final quarter of 2019 have yet to been published, although in 2018 a total of 37.9 million people visited the UK from overseas and cumulatively spent £22.8 billion"

What percentage of that spending are the royal family actually responsible for? It's hard to disambiguate, but it's surely only a portion of it.

How much less spending would there be if there was no more royal family? Again, hard to estimate. But several European countries have more tourism without royal families. So possibly less than one would expect.
There's landscape policy per town https://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/tokei/page/0000281400.html
I agree. Basically, the issue is not that AI can reproduce _ideas_ but that it can execute ideas in the same way as the original, or with parts of the original. It doesn't learn. If it could learn openai would create a new programming language, train it for real, and it would be the greatest programmer. The marketing that is it is "intelligent" and a "black box" that does things on its own is just science fiction. A hallucination on the part of those promoting that type of ai.
A couple of linguists (one Norwegian) do argue that Old English/Anglo-Saxon died out in the wake of the Danish invasions, and that Middle English (and hence modern English) descends directly from Old Norse (with a large amount of vocabulary borrowed from Old English): https://www.apollon.uio.no/english/articles/2012/4-english-s...

This theory is far from uncontroversial, however.
You don't vendor anything. You only name it as dependency. I'd fail my audits if i did that.
I think it depends on your browser language? I saw meters and Fahrenheit as an English speaker in NL. You can click on the temperature to toggle the units.
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Good idea disconnecting from the house. I have a room (apt) for coding but it doesn't work very well if my son is super active. Just someone knocking at the door, or the possibility of it makes my focus worse... (I know I know, mindfulness, etc)
Even if they charged $100/kg it would change the world.
Ba-boom
You could store it in a hash and flush it to disk using something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdb_(software), there are a few variants and implementations that might do what you want.
Rent in India is pretty cheap. Even for residential apartments, rental yield in Delhi is not more than 2%.
The invasion of Ukraine has basically reversed my position on the weapons of mass destruction as an unfortunately necessary insurance policy. In any case, that counts towards the 2% defence spending NATO membership target.
I've found this to be inconsistent too. Usually I just get the pic but sometimes it seems to go back to the page? And holy hell is that site heavy for something that should just be showing an image, some navigation and a forum thread.
> Raymond was at the meeting where [“open source”] was coined, and he enthusiastically helped popularize the term. Christine Peterson invented it.

I wanted to grump about this not being written down, but even the OSI history page[1] mentions it. Huh. Thanks!

[1] https://opensource.org/history/
> all code is a state machine

Not true. At least not a finite state machine, which is what people usually mean by “state machine”. Most problems aren’t modelable as a state machine because they need contextual memory.

But a state machine + stack, now we’re talking. That can do almost everything. State machine + “infinite” tape – yessss now we can solve everything.
One, and apparently that is one too many for some people.
I strongly agree with this. So many parts of systems are just poorly implemented finite state machines without knowing it.

I wrote this on how to use FSM's in .NET https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/modelling-workflows...
this is where my confusion is:

i am writing software and adding to github, compiling on github and pushing to itch.io. lots of people from EU have downloaded my software and even donated.

am i serving customers in the EU? IMO no, but i could see how others would argue that I am.

edit: i think itch.io and github are serving customers in the EU, not me.
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Not great. I feel like I have a too-good-to-be-true remote job that I might get booted from and won't find anything close to it in terms of environment or salary.
Still I have been "dropping the ball"...
State machines are a good solution when you have a typical transactional business process (order fulfillment, inventory management, etc). But I rarely see mention of messier problems which consist of overlapping and perhaps hierarchical states.

For instance, let's say that are trying to execute a complex spread in the market. You might be partially filled on one leg (the timing of which is completely out of your control, if it happens at all). Then this needs to spawn an offsetting trade (or two), both of which may or may not be completely filled over multiple tickets. Super messy.

A naive state machine simply doesn't work for this, as the overall unit of work (a "trade") can have multiple sub-states all operating more or less independently of one another.

Are there well-known patterns to handle such situations?
>"Basically, we now have shown that the human motor system is not unitary. Instead, we believe there are two separate systems that control movement,"

Perhaps they have re-discovered the reflexes system
Religious edicts are inherently an expressions of morality
I would if said choices included “an os as polished as ios”.
I get getting rid of the monarchy but all that UK land the government pays them for and any other riches they have are theirs.

No, it's not.

The Crown Estate belongs to the reigning monarch 'in right of The Crown', that is, it is owned by the monarch for the duration of their reign, by virtue of their accession to the throne. But it is not the private property of the monarch - it cannot be sold by the monarch, nor do revenues from it belong to the monarch.

The important bit is "it is owned by the monarch for the duration of their reign". If the UK decides to become a republic the reign of the king will end, and with that the royal family's estates revert to ownership by the people.

https://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/en-gb/resources/faqs/
Was Google wrong (159 AU in light hours), or was the 159 AU I pulled from their comment off? Google answered with a conversion box, so I assumed it had a human checking the formulas and wasn't from their notoriously unreliable auto-snippets.
GPT-3 Adventure Game Engine
Reddit has been increasingly awful like this. Limiting scroll on mobile before forcing you to log in. Constant nags to install the app. Forced login or redirect to the app on mobile or on 'new' reddit for any nsfw content.

For now old.reddit.com works to get rid of all this guff but when that goes, so do I.
I really want a high powered instruction-following LLM that's capable of assisting with writing fiction. GPT-3.5-turbo is fantastically capable at this if you can get it to drop its stilted AI-assistant voice, but doing so is too hard and too unreliable to be practical. I presume GPT-4 is even better but even harder to convince to try.

It's frustrating to see through those glimpses that this capability exists, but has been trampled over and made mostly inaccessible in pursuit of making sure the tool doesn't ever offend by producing something that's not baby food. And all the open replication efforts are aping this approach. Sigh.
It's another hammer to hold over the heads of the citizenry. Look at the number of times the threat of social security being used as an excuse for Austerity Measures over the last 40 years.
agreed on all this

> International law is not the same thing as the EU dictating laws that they want to apply internationally

I definitely used the wrong term.
Mea culpa :)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-meat-type?coun... (updated, Pakistan 20kg/person/year, 5x less people than India)
In a world where you can have algorithmically generated personally targeted stuff fed to you, why would you bother with the past? Why not instead live in an eternal ephemeral present?

(same idea as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35632879 )
> > compilation process of any non-trivial build system

I kinda get the feeling they're mainly complaining about autogenerated Makefiles from the output of cmake and similar...
My family had an Amiga 1200 when I was growing up although I was too young to do anything fancy on it other than play games.

I do fondly remember watching my brother copy disks using X-Copy though and being mesmerized by the UI.
> Ideas are fundamentally different, in that they're non-scarce unless we make them scarce via intellectual property laws.

Is code an idea? Is the corpus of Github an idea?
That was an extremely controversial phrase and Lisbon nearly fell apart due to it. It's worth noting that the full aim is "to continue the process of creating an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe, in which decisions are taken as closely as possible to the citizen in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity".

It was specifically worded that the union was of the peoples of the bloc, not the countries.

The Union of European Federalists have apparently 100,000 members out of a population of ~450 million. It's beyond a niche organisation.
"force-fed" is a bit distasteful tho.
To be fair at least one of the intermediate raptors was quite complicated, gp's info might just be out of date
I think the royalty is much more tied to the identity of the UK, especially when perceived from abroad and in popular culture. The global response to Lady Diana’s death, Downton Abbey, James Bond, just as a few examples. Most of the other European countries do not have a royal-associated brand.
This is a trivial claim of limited interest mathematically.
Taking any single B vitamin can deplete other B vitamins.
It is best to take a B Complex as a baseline and add to that.
Do you have link/source?
Tangent: For some reason Taheri in Bangladesh refers to a meat and rice dish while in Pakistan it refers exclusively to a vegetable/potato and rice dish. I’ve never been able to figure out why. You would never hear about a “meat taheri” in Pakistan.
The gem they link to hasn't been updated for the last 10 years. State machines get a lot of praise, but seem scarce in practice. Perhaps there are practical problems with using them in the long term?
Not just first launch, every time. Moreover, Chromium, on which Vivaldi is built, generates a unique id to track every installation (HN discussion - Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22236106 ). On their forums, Vivaldi has confirmed that they too need to track the number of users they have to generate revenue, and hence will not disable such automated connections that phone home. Thus, Vivaldi's claim to respecting user privacy is quite questionable.
It's an alternate front end to YT content without YT tracking or advertising. Works for some depending on reason.

More in-depth description here: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
I wonder how many people are so reddit addicted that they would spend many hundreds of dollars to keep using it?
The "online" world now has fairly solid influence over voting, while any "offline" world is going to find it very hard to organize any kind of politics at all.
Yep - those are the issues - would happily be an alpha/beta or theta customer customer if that’s ever helpful ;) Good luck
I think that it’s knee jerk for now but the mistake is that there was confusion and promotion that Drake and Weeknd provided vocals.

But I expect we’ll see some new law, or lots of “Drake-style vocals” in song labels.

Cover bands exist and can even sing new songs while sounding like the original. So Journey hiring someone who sounds exactly like Steve Perry seems perfectly legal. So Journal training an AI on Steve Perry and having a robot sing exactly like him seems find as long as there’s no presentation as if it is Steve Perry singing or endorsing or using his celebrity likeness.
Made up. Or, at least, synthesized from parts of the book.

The second sentence is lifted from the beginning of one of the most famous last pages in all of literature.
> with your insistence on using tabs instead of spaces,

You can tell GNU Make to use a leading character other than tab for recipe lines, like the > symbol or whatever:

.RECIPEPREFIX = >

This is a variable with a leading dot its name, not a directive like .SUFFIXES: or .PHONY:.
And before that others. I think we really should be for proliferation. It would make for safer and more equal world. Many of the conflicts in past 80 years could have been avoided if everyone had nuclear weapons.
ChatGPT just isn't the right tool for the job to find concrete information. LLMs hallucinate too readily. They have no knowledge, they're just running probabilities on what's the most likely response, and the most likely answer in its experience is rarely "uh idk."
looks pretty neat.

do you have a video or a blog with examples of what it looks like running?
It’s not apparent to me that the use of Schedule 7 powers says particularly much about ‘the state of the West in general’. ‘Where the flame is lit’ does matter as to whether the resultant fire burns in Britain; the flames of 1848 did not.
I realise that, but they cover Dragon launches, or used to.
That somewhat falls apart when you start comparing infinite sets that actually _do_ have different cardinalities.
Back in the mid to late 00s, it was relatively easy for an individual to report a site to ICANN for infringing on various things, where upon there was a process to deny, but typically if involved in spam, it was lost money for the spammer.

However to move to allowing a govt, or some authoritative body ... to simply take ownership and control ... the wording is too open and feels more like a great (old school) troll, but I'm falling for it as to me it sounds more like they've buckled to the copyright cartel with an unknown amount of money involved.

Since the language is transfer and not lock or just seizure, any site set up to be critical, runs the risk of being swooped on and replaced with a honey pot.

Thus far only .net proposed.

Of course there are plenty of services that use .net. Email would be first that sprang to mind and I don't think email protocol has changed that much, if a bad actor has the domain, it's not hard to set up to receive emails - it's been more than 20 years for me but surely it'd be a huge security nightmare for email services, any minute a foreign entity saw a benefit of landing a particular amount of current email traffic before the ruse was made public, it could happen.

I guess there's still time for the public to comment on this proposal.
It would be cheaper to drop an equivalent massed object out of a plane. Or just use the plane as the weapon.

You break a space elevator at the ground, it floats upwards.

You break it at 30,000 foot then everything above the break floats away upwards, everything below "crashes" down, at a relatively low terminal velocity and thus with pretty low amounts of energy.

An elevator isn't a tower, it's a rope handing from a counterweight in orbit which is kept taut by a centrifugal force. It's anchored at the ground to stop the rock floating away, but if you break that anchor everything above will swing away from Earth

If you have the ability to break the cable at say 100km above the ground, you have the ability to drop objects from that height anyway, don't have to deal with no-fly-zones, and can target somewhere not on the equator.

Want to cause chaos? Get a bunch of heavy dense cheap bits of metal, put them in a high altitude balloon, then drop them over a city. You'll cause more damage to the people on the ground than anything you could do to a space elevator (short of the financial impact of having to resplice it)

If you can damage the elevator at the counterweight end, then you have the ability to drop a "rod from god" and cause more damage that way.
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Adapting it. "Manufacturing consent" is a good book on the phenomenon, but sounds kind of odd (given how we use the word "consent" today).
In terms of specific implementation I'm not sure, but it may be possible to use a formal modeling tool like TLA+ to prove a particular approach only results in outcomes you consider correct. So you could try to model the trade and all the sub states you mention in a naive state machine way, then check if that super messy tangle works as intended or if it has incorrect behavior.
Seconding, I visited the neighborhoods where this ought to be often and am curious.
While nice for him to get justice, I don’t think it’ll stop Google from doing it again.
The comment I replied to said that they use Firefox on Android. What relevance does Windows have to Android in this discussion? None.
Rhetorical studies.
The original-ish Lisp had no comments I believe. The workaround was a nop "comment macro" though.

I guess it was more common in the card data days where you could write comments by hand on the card.
The article doesn't do a great job of explaining the legal issues or what the current status is. Can anyone here do a better job? Can any Canadian request links be taken down?
I've always been partial to IS-IS for the IGP but I wouldn't say BGP is necessarily bad. Perhaps too many knobs and not exactly as speedy to react as you'd want for an IGP in all but basic topologies but both of those can be fixed by staying focused on tweaking a subset that makes sense. Also I think the whole iBGP vs eBGP thing drives people nuts.
My college professors in economics / business taught me that customers and employees are numbers from which I must extract the maximum amount of value for the minimum amount of input. People are more like cow nipples in capitalism driven societies.
It all depends on the final use of the software.

I think that anyone that includes anyone else’s work, is responsible to do due diligence on the library/module/code they import.

That applies to free or paid software/work.

Some companies I have known, have refused to use any free work; even when donated (I tried donating, once). Instead, they insist on paying a small sum (in the US, a single dollar is customary), and having a legally-binding contract.

Having the supplier sign a contract may suffice for “due diligence,” as it puts the supplier “on the hook” for the quality of their work.

It could also absolve the supplier, and place the burden on the consumer.

In any case, I don’t have any “right” to just fart out some junk, and expect it to become crucial infrastructure. If I want my work to be used at that level -whether paid, or not-, then it’s incumbent on me to test, document, and support that work.

I have written systems that have become infrastructure; both as paid work, and for free. This is something I have some experience in.
I'm a little sad that the mission-planning team didn't include a "Look out below!" warning on the other side of the plaque.

Dropping a half-ton, two-foot-diameter, sphere of brass out of orbit is something of a health hazard to whatever life forms might have to catch it. If Miley Cyrus needs a follow-up hit, "Wrecking Ball" and "LAGEOS" have the same number of syllables.
> You don't vendor anything. You only name it as dependency

i'm not? how are you using the term "software vendoring" specifically? I am packaging with pyinstaller and distributing as an app.
He's always set low expectations for test launches.
Yes, I have a sample of one on my desk, but it was provided along with a disclaimer that lead times to get them in bulk are 12+ months.