skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to say definitively. If you're issuing multiple database queries per request and you aren't using really complicated Postgres SQL then I would guess that you'll see a performance boost. In tests I've done with Postgres, I see a ~1ms round trip between the application server and database server—even when both are in the same region. If you run 10 queries to serve a single HTTP request then that's 10ms right there.
This would be more convincing if the table looked good on mobile. On iOS, anyway, it is too wide for the page and wants horizontal scrolling to read the full title and table.
One of the examples here is the Berlin airlift. If you are interested in the Berlin airlift, I'd really recommend the book "Checkmate Berlin" (Giles Milton). It starts in 1945 and covers the whole arc of the Soviet-Western relationship. You could argue that it is rather rah-rah anti-Soviet, but I read it in mid-2022 and was down for that. Really fun read with great spy and political stories.
Wait until Us Masses begin realizing that these companies are using both our public-facing AS WELL AS PRIVATE MESSAGES within their dataset trainings.
Yeah Israel does not have the US's back at all. At least Netanyahu does not. AIUI he and Biden are on very tense terms.
The other commenter mentioned `deno compile`, but also, if you're in a situation where you can assume everyone has the deno runtime installed (maybe it's a personal script, or it's org-internal or something) then you don't really even need to do that, because the runtime is the only piece of environment you need. The dependency management is self-contained and the runtime is backwards-compatible; scripts should generally "just work"
Governments pick winners and losers. For all these laws, like this Canadian law and the one you mention, there are plenty of business models that disappear without anyone doing anything about it.

I feel that if there is still a market for news then the market will figure it out. We should make laws encourage smaller players and avoid monopolies. Instead of making laws that transfer money from one giant corporation to another giant corporation. But that'll never happen because giant corporations have all the influence.
Hey, GitLab team member here. We have a high level roadmap for FY24 in our handbook[1] and our OKRs are listed publicly[2] so you can see our vision for the product and what we're working on.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#fy24-roadmap
[2] https://about.gitlab.com/company/okrs/fy24-q2/#okrs
> It was a tax you had to pay 0,38%.everytime you would move money and pay for somethin.

Important untaxed exceptions were pension income, "wage earner" income and stock trading (this last one always baffled me).

> this means by law the money need to be destined to a specific target (public health). But because the goverment would use it to balance its accounts insted of invest in the public helth system it was extinct in 2007.

CMPF funding could only be used by healthcare, pensions and social welfare.

Universal healthcare systems are expensive.

Brazil (and any other country, really) universal healthcare system needed and had a reasonably big budget that was paid basically by CPMF alone, so all the other combined taxes and contributions paid for everything else. The government, by law, could not "move" the funds to anything else.

The reason it was extinct is because it was a direct tax over wealth translation of "the establishment"/"the banked class" - around that time more that 60% of Brazil was unbanked and therefore not directly affected.

Now that Brazil no longer has a contribution specifically destined to healthcare and pensions, both it's universal healthcare system and pension system are in a much worse state.
Having worked at a top 5 big tech company from college hire to a high level position, I have seen many factors that contribute to things being much slower than a startup. Some of them might be valid, but others are just the result of tragedy of large organisations (a big tech company is surprisingly similar to governments in terms of internal bureaucracy).

* Large number of people and orgs willing and fighting to take credit. If you need 1 week of support from an org, forget it unless you give them large credit worth a huge amount of work. This means you need to justify that credit via creating more work.

* Centralized internal product offerings which act similar to government given monopoly companies (think AT&T before breakup). Since that is the only entity offering that product, their offering doesn't have to compete with the in market offerings and thus can be as bad as needed, as long as it is tolerable.

* Everyone laser focused on their own org size and org power. This means tons of metric chasing, a lot of which requires creating work. For instance, if writing an if else can have a big impact delivering a lot in revenue, you write 5 new applications to soak up the revenue impact and show that something big was done. (A brilliant 2 liner regardless of impact will receive some claps but won't do much for the org power).

* The slowly increasing number of incompetent hires. The politically savvy ones survive and keep moving up and keep doing whatever needed to increase their power.
I believe there is a lot of truth in this. Since I had cancer some 15 years ago I've had periods with anxiety attacks from time to time. It can be quite debilitating. Going outside in my small garden, lie down and watch anything green moving in the wind and I feel both a sudden peace but also a huge urge to live somewhere rural, much closer to nature. I cannot really describe how it feels except like if there's a big part of me missing, a part that this green nature seem to be the only thing that can fill. And it's not just that I like nature and hence feel better in it, because consciously I don't really feel like going on trips in nature and I've alway hated walking around outside just for the sake of it. I'm rambling, likely doesn't make much sense if you haven't felt the same feeling of missing a piece but thought I'd add it anyways.
Jesting Pilot's question is one, for a start. "Quid est veritas" can only be answered by one who sees.
ok if you refresh, I think I fixed the issue with horizontal scroll. It was the <pre> tags for the code samples.
The subreddit does not exist as it does without the work of the mods.

Maybe its not completely justified, but the mods have a significant voice in this argument.

I also doubt bots are driving traffic, but I still find these LLM responses to be very strange.
The requirement for expertise doesn’t necessarily imply that that setting up perimeters for training AI is necessarily copyrightable. A normal brick wall for example needs skills to create but doesn’t qualify as the goal is not creative. If so the mechanical output of a process that doesn’t qualify for copyright is not going to qualify.

Labeling training data may qualify for copyright, but if the underlying training data doesn’t taint the output as a derivative work then labeling isn’t going to qualify by itself.

Thus without some new and very generous interpretation AI companies are at best not going to benefit from copyright and at worst may be forced to create all training data in house. My suspicion is this generation of AI companies are in a very difficult situation.
Ah, I get it. Thank you.

> It's also not "Mozilla-controlled".

It's not? The bugzilla entry at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1832791 says

We need to have ability to set the list of
quarantined domains remotely.

Which sounds pretty Mozilla-controlled to me. I hope that Mozilla will allow reasonable user control over all of this. I'm aware of their stated plans, but until we don't know what will be until they actually implement them.
Besides AI, trolling is becoming a common source of entertainment.

I know cars and car mechanics inside and out. There's a lot of good car based media and advice on YouTube, Instagram, and stories/TikTok.

There is also a high level of trolling. Sometimes I have to stop and think if this is real. Or if it's a joke. Or if it's just a mistake. Or stupidity. Or trolling for fun/laughs. Or trolling to mock. Or trolling as an antisocial Darwin award instigator.

As basically an experienced expert, I can tell all of those apart. But it makes we wonder if those with less experience can draw the lines as well as I can, and what that really means for them.

Finally, what am I supposed to think about the media for things Im not an expert in?
Sadly the least reliable source.
> I always figured pay was based on market condition for finding employees, not a companies specific profit.

It has parallels to this Doordash delivery person who expected their tip to be based on the price of the customer's house rather than the price of the order.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doordash-driver-curses-...
For the Van Ness Bus Line example: one reason there were major delays was because maps of underground sewer lines and plumbing were inaccurate, and needed to be relocated. The 6 years of construction was really a bus lane + major sewer infrastructure project.

Which brings up another reason why some of these projects were Fast -- they operated in places where there there wasn't existing infrastructure or residents to deal with, or cut corners on planning and mapping, which future projects now have to deal with.

https://sfstandard.com/transportation/van-ness-brt-bus-rapid...

Immediately after breaking ground, construction delays began. Existing maps of old gas, water and sewer lines flowing beneath the center of Van Ness Avenue proved inaccurate, slowing excavation and causing the city to bring in utility contractors. The utility placement also made the BRT’s center-lane design a challenge: Any future sewer and water repairs would disable bussing for the duration of repair. Plus, overhead bus electrical wires would need to be fully removed for the safety of the crews. Water and sewer infrastructure needed to be moved to the outside lanes to keep the center-lane BRT design — deemed the best for traffic flow.
The difference is subtle

> One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research.”

"[I]s not to be used for any purpose other than" sounds very restrictive. However the language from the statute is the opposite

> The fair use of a copyrighted work, ... for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.

This sounds like the opposite. A list of times when fair use is OK.

The article could benefit from further discussion of this subtle distinction, as a librarian I think the writer assumes we already know exactly why this message is incorrect.

From my interpretation the message seems to "remove" several of the examples in the statute from the message, for instance news reporting. I think that is the concern here, along with the mandate that libraries then promulgate this subtle misinformation.
ChatGPT's explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch
https://spindas.dreamwidth.org - experiments and odds and ends, infrequently updated!
GitHub has gotten so much worse over the last few years. Actions feels like it was thrown together with little to no thought as to the user or product journey.
> 20yrs ago we had desktop-style interactivity on the internet?

Yes. I believe desktop.com was launched in the late 90s, so well over 20 years ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20021217213351/https://www.inter...

> Now the industry is shifting to delivering the same level of functionality with the bare minimum of JS on-page. Yet people act like it's all the same.

It mostly is. Best practice was never to avoid JavaScript, that was just a caricature repeated by bad JavaScript developers. Best practice was to start with a solid foundation that worked for everybody and add on the interactivity as an optional extra. All the best JavaScript developers of the time were writing stuff that was client-side interactive but was still primarily server-driven.
> I think only the owners and the advertisers like it.

Isn't that true of all advertisement? sigh.
MSG plan to build one in a residential area of London, imagine being forced to live next to this? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/24/londons-msg-...
I can't wait to tell ChatGPT “man this sucks, I hate GitHub” in frustration and find out it deleted my account in response.
> the one-man team

Pretty sure there were several engineers (engineering students) involved
https://tgorg.com - tech stuff mostly. I haven't posted since 2015, but there's some interesting stuff on there...
Love this idea, been waiting for you to ship to Canada and now finally purchased :)

Currently your Android app isn't available in Canada yet though
It was announced in November 2020.
Never thought this XKCD out of all of them would become relevant at some point...

https://xkcd.com/416/
I've seen it recently with the Conda and Mamba package managers.
> ...for various reasons, including security concerns.

Yes, this is what got my spidey-sense tingling, too.
In python pdb ‘breakpoint()’ is great
It is as easy to bake in large maintenance and runtime costs on early stage development. Worse, it is easy to bake in aspirational growth ideas in the architecture that make it difficult to adjust as you go.

Is akin to thinking you need a large truck, when a very cheap pickup will do. Will the pickup scale to larger jobs you may grow to take on? Of course not. But it will be far cheaper to operate and own at the start, so that you can spare resources to get there.

Now, oddly, this can be taken in several directions. ORM is the poster child that folks love to hate on for how rigid it can be in a mid sized project. And it is also the poster child for how rapidly you can get moving with a database. Which is more important for a project? Really really hard to say, all told.
A lot of red-tape and delays in modern projects is contending with debt from "Fast" projects
My local library has a subscription to O’Reilly books included in being a card-holder. No waiting needed if you are not set on the dead-tree version.
> you address each time they do case by case.

That's what I listed as #1 - evaluate each individual output of the model to see if it violates copyright.
Median 105k CHF seems low compared to the high cost of living in Switzerland.
28 years later the web is a thriving platform responsible for trillions of dollars of economic activity, of which JS is a core component.
Consider a "bring your own battery" option where you have an interface that's moderately standard.
If that was the case, the feature should have been moved to site settings and labelled "Disable extensions on this site" or even better "Allow only specific extensions to run on this site".
A VPN is virtual PRIVATE network, a "commercial VPN" where the customer just have a client, and the server is from someone else means being in the service private network, or choosing to put a personal device on someone else LAN to be more direct and clear.

A VPN is logic if one have a homeserver and do want to connect from home while being outside, for instance to filter their own craphone traffic, accessing Home Assistant without exposing it too much on the internet and so on.

A VPN is logic for similar reasons for a company with nomadic workers.

The sole reason for using a "commercial VPN" is having a glorified proxy for accessing some geoblocked content, fully knowing that you have all your traffic diverted to someone else machine, perhaps with a proprietary client on you won machine and with high privileges.

That's is. There is NO EXTRA SAFETY for commercial VPN in privacy terms, except being sure that your own traffic would be monitored easily by third parties than by your own ISP, typically third parties hosted in some other countries while your ISP is local, so under local laws...
https://www.unterminated.com
Showcases a few projects I've made, and some food adventures. I have plans to write more, but it's slow going :)
To address the exact situation in your parenthetical, I considered putting Sum(log(post_karma[i]-k)), for a k such that the expected log value is negative unless you get enough upvotes.
They respond with relevant (if naive) content; I'm not sure if it's GPT-4 or genuine opinions and comments.

Even in the improbable non-spam explanation that they are sincerely interested and responding to the content, it is hilarious how they are consistently the featured content in an area that they clearly have no expertise in.

The threads, in order, are typically like:

- post by professional military analyst with 30 years of experience

- 10 replies by OF creators that pay for Blue

- 100 replies by other analysts and military hobbyists that didn't pay for Blue
Just ordered. Looking forward to getting it!
I think Google would rather preinstall SponsorBlock in Chrome by default if it could, because this move would encourage use of YouTube Ad tools instead of in-video ads (from which Google gets nothing).
> I know what it means and stand by my point. My sympathies do not lie with street urchins who batter women.

You're standing by an illiterate interpretation that feeds on ignorant beliefs. If you stick to them in spite of the info available to you, it's an entirely different problem.

> I've got an unarmed and defenseless woman pushing a baby across the street.

It's really not about the attack. You're hung on a symptom of the problem. You don't fix problems by complaining about the symptoms. You fix them however by figuring out the root cause and address it.

If you're adamant in not understanding the problem and you show no interest in understanding it, whatever you're claiming really has no connection to a solution, and instead simply perpetuates it.
> To achieve this sort of UNESCO legitimation is an amazing achievement that takes a lot of serious work and persuasion.

What does it actually achieve, concretely? I get listing a historical building to preserve and maybe drive some tourism, but these sorts of intangible things... what is the real world result?
It's not like the mods owe their community anything. They work for free on a platform that clearly doesn't value them.

Also, if you truly agree with the protest and your main concern is communities closing down, then I don't see the problem with funneling users to the corresponding new community on lemmy/kbin/mastodon/etc.
My main takeaway from Demoscene is not "compression"

Compression is still a big part of it, just not in the "take the original data, minimize it and reproduce it later" sense of the word. The procedural generation employed by these demos is still a form of compression: the highly-specialized decompressor needs only a few bytes of information to create the intended effect (texture or shape).

If anything, it shows how much compression can be achieved if the decompressor can be tuned to the data domain, as opposed to general-purpose compression algorithms.
> Mozilla does do a lot of underhanded or anti-user things, including the boatloads of telemetry some of which goes through Google Analytics

What? For real? How hard can it be to not be a Google shill ...

They have to have really toxic people internally pushing all these anti-feutures down our throats. I refuse to believe the whole org. is rotten.
Network effects aside, Governments can not build social media or any website competing with private markets (Even google with unlimited pockets gave up on G+). Government just trying to create a barebones micro-twitter straight from the rails tutorial will easily cost millions of dollars to the taxpayer.
not really. let's wait ten years, then come back and see how it went.
> Since you don't like it just use another language.

Which other languages work comparably well in the browser, with similar functionality but without large runtime / standard library downloads?
For a recent infrastructure example, I would point to Beijing's high speed rail expansion. Around 24k miles constructed since 2008, and around ~12k in five years [1].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/china-high-speed-rail-cmd...
People decide what they want to memorize. If people want to spend memory on goofy things, that's up then I guess.

I barely know the streets I take to my office, 6 months in (and I'm not just talking about their actual names). I use nav every time. My father thought I was losing my mind.

But at the same time I can remember basically every small block of code in a large saas I single handedly built a few years ago, even today.
Probing Real-World Cryptosystems, https://kenluck2001.github.io/blog_post/probing_real-world_c...

Privacy at your Fingertips, https://kenluck2001.github.io/blog_post/privacy_at_your_fing...

Upcoming new book on Distributed Computing, https://kenluck2001.github.io/blog_post/authoring_a_new_book...

Metamorphic Testing in a Nutshell, https://kenluck2001.github.io/blog_post/metamorphic_testing_...

Real-Time Anomaly Detection for Multivariate Data Stream, https://kenluck2001.github.io/blog_post/real-time_anomaly_de...

PySmooth: A time series library from first principles, https://kenluck2001.github.io/blog_post/pysmooth_a_time_seri...

Fake news: An exploratory dive into ways to identify misinformation in a network, https://kenluck2001.github.io/blog_post/fake_news_an_explora...

GPU: A General-Purpose Accelerator, https://kenluck2001.github.io/blog_post/gpu_a_general-purpos...

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Open Source Contributions: https://kenluck2001.github.io/projects

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A problem I've run into with GitLab is that it's quite annoying to view the variables of multiple projects and environments in one place. Projects inherit the variables of their parents, which means that getting a view of which variables apply to a particular project in an environment requires spelunking around the UI and working it out.

I figured I'd build my own UI to solve that, so I did. It's here: https://geevee.netlify.app/.

A benefit it has over a native GitLab UI is that it downloads and caches the project/group hierarchy in local storage (it's entirely client side), and can be refreshed on demand. It groups variables by environment mask and gives you a view of the entire variable hierarchy for a project.

Maybe some others might find it useful :)
> To determine the amount of fuel the plane would need, Lindbergh and Hall drove to the San Diego Public Library at 820 E St. Using a globe and a piece of string, Lindbergh estimated the distance from New York to Paris. It came out to 3,600 statute miles, which Hall calculated would require 400 gallons of gas.

Seems legit.
If only we were using Java Applets or Flash ActionScript or Silverlight, all our problems would be solved.
Full-width tables require extra eye scanning. Auto-width is better most of the time.

I don't mind having to scroll a table if it doesn't fit in the view. Scrolling is better than trying to mentally piece together the rows and columns.

As in a lot of areas, less fussing with styles/CSS is better.