skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming that pi has an infinite number of digits, then the answer to "What is the longest known sequence that repeats in Pi?" is "The longest known sequence of Pi".
> Macron intervenes and lets Durov go

No clue if this will happen, or how much of a good/bad thing it would be. But it would sure be funny to happen after Macron publicly stated the executive had nothing to do with the arrest. Guess the judiciary is independent... some of the time.
I was responding to the parent who also made no distinction that the loan was solely for personal purposes.
Obviously not. Your strawman aside, I’m also not defending Nassau County ordinances either; just highlighting the context that was getting overlooked in the prior comments to this post.
Reduced eaves reduce the possibility of ice damming and AIUI, make it easier to air seal the building envelope between the walls and the roof. Note that that's an air barrier, not a vapor barrier. The air barrier is pretty universally done outside of the insulation, whereas the vapor barrier location depends on the climate you're in.

As you note, this does come with tradeoffs, like most things.

Not a builder, nor do I have any particular knowledge of building science beyond reading Fine Homebuilding.
I think even if people did not have height restrictions they would still be plenty attractive. It's why balconies are also everywhere; people like outdoor space, and if you don't have much of a backyard to speak of your options are sideways or out.

most of the new Seattle flat roofs are townhomes with no backyard to speak of, because there are townhomes where that would be.
There has been a strand of SaaS companies that at least begin life as very trivial wrappers. Web based versions of CLI tools being the classic, anything from whois to ffmpeg.

Among these there always were low effort participants, but detractors (myself included) often ignore just how resistant to friction modern consumers (including devs) are. You really can build businesses by reducing the hoops someone has to jump through because to the end user that is valuable.
As a criminal who pirated software and videos in the 80s and 90s, I appreciate the distinction between criminals and perverts.
Their remote operators have pretty much nothing to do with the video shown, though. It's been described in detail the way that remote operators interact with the car and it's not in a way that would be particularly helpful here. You may be under the common misunderstanding that remote operators can directly control the vehicle.
What library that addresses your complaints do you think they should have used instead of iced?
Music is pretty much math too.
Read the paper. It is capable of maintaining state for a fairly long time including updating the UI elements.
> Another oddity around here is vanishing eaves.

Up here in Vancouver, they decided to start counting the area under the eaves as part of the permitted square footage back in the '90s. No surprise, eaves immediately disappeared from new construction and we had a decade of water damaged buildings that needed expensive remediation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_condo_crisis
Huh, I really did not expect US courts to agree with me that soon :

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/28/tiktok_blackout_chall...
EDIT: disabling ligatures is possible through disabling Contextual Alternates (calt), neat! And it is also possible to keep them on and change only appearance of aforementioned equal sign sequences back to "normal", using ss19. Turns out all features are nicely documented at GH Wiki [1]:

calt – Contains all ligatures. Substitution for : between digits.
ss19 – Adds gaps in ≠ ≠= == ≡≡ ligatures.

[1] https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono/wiki/OpenType-fea...
> Flat roofs always leak.

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” - Thomas Sowell

funny how that applies in other areas of life.
Ah yes, but in what order should you make those system calls?

Tapping with a hammer: $2. Knowing where to tap: $9,998.00
I can't quite put my finger on exactly why I dislike "gpt wrappers".

I think it's because they more or less boil down to a cash grab with little chance of a future. You provide users with a feature they presumably pay for while piggybacking off a large vendor that will, in due time, raise prices and/or make your business irrelevant with their own features.

It's no better than an NFT. You promise X, until the rug is pulled.
The existence of the government communications with the social media companies requesting suppression of content are referenced in the courts opinions. The Biden admin also admits to these communications. https://rollcall.com/2024/06/26/supreme-court-rejects-lawsui...
They could seize the company
Author here!

Yes. And this is an experiment I'm happy to lead.
Cinelerra
How does it help the ISP if you're just guessing what they might have between two routers?
So what? Most uses when we're talking about code or artwork are going to involve someone taking the generated result and publishing it somewhere.

> But if I use it, in a commercial manner, then it becomes a copyright violation.

No, that's incorrect. Commercial use has nothing to do with it. Any act of distribution, regardless of whether or not it's for commercial or personal use, regardless of whether you charge $100,000 or $0, falls under copyright law.
> doesn't necessarily stop the criminality

The CEO was arrested. Has the criminality /now/ stopped? If he goes to jail does that stop it?

> for French users

Who are also committing crimes.
It really helped me as an investor, which I am no longer. :)

But yeah, I dumped it during the robotaxi """news""" knowing it's another pump. It's really a meme stock and personal piggy bank for Elon at this point. And I don't want to fund facism any longer. And you're right, how hasn't there an Elizabeth Holmes-like arrest?
I assure you my valuation assessment is as follows:

(fixed cost + maintenance cost)/(frequency of use) = actual cost

If the frequency of use is high, the retail cost between high-end and mid-ranged brands is negligible. i.e. not worth the hassle to mess around with QA on something unknown.

I always bought the kids Starrett or Mitutoyo stuff with the NIST certs. As wasting 1 hour of their time costs more than the high-end equipment.

It is kind of a tradition, but I'm sure there are more appropriate options for folks in different situations. =3
SaaS is just hype around MRR.

Monthly Recurring Revenue is a morally bankrupt business model that attempts to take things that do not belong in this pattern and force them on consumers.

It offloads the risk from the company onto the customer. They get money, you have to remember to cancel.

They can raise rates any time, and you are at their mercy.

They are rent seeking parasites.

SaaS can be good, but I have seen it used for evil far more than good.

The proliferation of this pattern means that less and less people build software you can buy and own. Less and less software can run on your compter.

What are you going to do when the internet goes down? Then next clownstrike event?

SaaS is a liability. The cloud is not your friend.
How do you generate a random irrational number?
Haha, yeah, I'm quite altruistic. Though not nearly as much as you think. Round about 8.5k comments, no?
This may be a generational thing, I am GenX. I grew up my entire life hearing "Flat roofs always leak" from the men in the family (none of whom were roofers). Their generation had strong opinions on the right way to do things (This applied to anything). I miss them and I am sad they are gone.
I don't understand the reasoning? I've been working on an MMORPG game since quitting my job - and I settled on using Elixir for this project despite never using it before. I have a good understanding of distributed systems, and the features/tooling Erlang & Elixir provided were like a dream for me. Initially I thought I'd just try making some proof of concept thing. Fast forward several months later, and I seriously credit Elixir for how far I've gotten with this game. Most of my time is spent writing server-side gameplay code, not tracking down obscure networking & memory bugs. Its even caught cascading bugs caused by gameplay system interactions - when players and a.i were being (wrongly) resurrected from the dead the system just crashed! When 500 a.i agents doing pathfinding every single tick was starting to make the a.i system lag and delay inputs - it was trivial to understand the bottleneck causing the system to degrade. I can go on and on.
The critique is against GPT wrappers where the entire product is just a translation layer that makes API requests to e.g. OpenAI is that this isn't much of a moat: Not only can competitors trivially do the same, your LLM API provider can pull the rug from under you by rolling your business model into the next version of their chat product. This latter scenario isn't hypothetical, but has happened several times.

If you build something more substantial that also incorporates GPT calls (e.g. copilot), that's a different thing, and not typically what people refer to when they talk about GPT wrappers.
I discovered telegram around 2017 and I thought it was a fake whatsapp at first. Idk about 10 years ago, but 5 years ago it def did look like a re-skin
Ha! Yea, that is true.. now if we only had a printout of it!
I have always understood "maker" to mean someone creating something new: Art, a new product, a bespoke bit of sports equipment. I do not believe that going whitewater rafting or reading an e-book qualifies as anything. Pouring cement or wiring a new light switch is more handyman than "maker" imho.
There was no trouble with attention or dating before lol.
Multiple programs go by the same name "Cinelerra" for the same purpose (non-linear editing on Linux). The submitted link directs to the original (?) one.
I usually don’t give someone a gift and then borrow it back every day.
As someone working in scientific computing, I seem to recall rumors from the grapevine that the Department of Energy and/or reviewers essentially said, "CentOS is identical to Scientific Linux. Why are we paying for this?" and pushed hard to sunset it.

It's really sad because Fermi Linux was one of the first (if not _the_ first) free RH rebuilds out there back in the day. Huge props to Connie Sieh and the maintainers that followed for pulling that off. Really wonderful folks.

It does certainly feel convenient for RH that the end of SL coincided with radical changes to CentOS.
Processing media seems useful - have a squad car doing plate and face recognition for suspects, voice recognition and analysis for anything they’re talking about with people, etc. all would be things which could be really useful modulo legal concerns (e.g. it’s probably not a constitutional issue if, say, an officer is talking to someone and their laptop is pulling up information about people or places mentioned, but it’d be a huge issue if they were trying to search people’s phone data without following legal guidelines).

A really simple one: you know how Apple has a assistive feature for hearing impairments which warns users about ambient sounds like emergency vehicles or crying babies? I could imagine a police force wanting something like that simply to do something like logging gunshots, vehicle crashes, etc. and possibly triggering an alarm if the officer doesn’t say it’s okay within a short period of time.
The strategy described by the GP is clean-room (reverse) engineering.
I agree, but I would actually say that this is a good thing. If a SaaS can effectively map a real-world problem or pain point and solve it in a simple way, the goal has been achieved. Sometimes, there’s no need to overengineer a product when it can leverage existing technologies in a smart way.
They only trained it on one game and only embedded the control inputs. You could train it on many games and embed a lot more information about each of them which could possibly allow you to specify a prompt that would describe the game and then play it.
> there was no license provided for the code or the repo

Interesting - I assume any code that's not licensed as "free to use for whatever purpose I want"
New React Native Library for Easy Access to Files Inside Zip Archives
A new React Native library simplifies working with ZIP files by allowing you to list contents and access individual files without unzipping the entire archive. This approach avoids the need for zip.js, which struggles with handling large ZIP files, making it a more efficient solution for mobile apps.
> I miss them and I am sad they are gone.

Do you mean the roofs or the boomers?
> motivated to feel happy

Seek fulfillment, happiness is often a waste of your humanity.
You should look at local median wages if you want a relevant comparison.

I wasn't making a comparison. I was just providing information.
Really, it's all just wrappers around the strong nuclear force.
To me it's less about DIY [0] and more about a production vs consumption attitude. The label "maker" is meant to distinguish someone who makes stuff, as opposed to consuming stuff (e.g. watch a TV show) or doing stuff (e.g. rock climbing).

Sure, the word had been coopted to sell things. But so has DIY. And basically any label. If something is big enough to have a label that enough people use, someone else is going to use it to sell to that group. Our society commercializes the hell out of everything.

[0] but of course there's overlap
Works fine for me?

[edit]

Just ran into the issue when clicking on a video someone else linked; yt homepage was fine though; weird.
> which makes my point more valid.

Your assumptions cannot make your point more valid. The difference between your assumptions and our total lack of information is what gives me pause, personally.

> it is specific behaviors of the executive team.

Which tells me they're not interested in protecting French citizens but rather punishing inconvenient executives.
I live a couple blocks away from there. The roofs are flat in that whole complex aside from the Golden Rondelle Theater. I don't know if they've since fixed it since I see they've done some redecorating on the upper floors in recent years and I haven't thought to ask anybody who works there, but for a long time they couldn't have people working in a large portion of the central tower due to inadequate fire exits.
Been wanting to use wireguard but seems like a lot of effort of managing keys and ip addrseses and routing rules etc. Do you have resources that might help me understanding the best setup?
> This is a belief that has been held for thousands of years up until the advent of the late 20th century.

The belief has held through to today, too. The difference is that there was a huge explosion in the global population - especially the middle class - to the point that all the crappy houses and apartment buildings people could actually afford to live in vastly overwhelmed the buildings with pretty architecture.
PhDs Are Next in Fight over Affirmative Action
And anyone can also look at that source available code, write their own version, distribute it, be sued for copyright infringement, and lose in court, because their version is too similar to the original.
Just to clarify for the crowd though. In F#, `List.head` throws an exception when it fails whereas `List.tryHead` returns an `option`, which returns `None` when it fails instead of an exception.

A general confusion of mine in Elixir is generally how libraries and functions treat errors. There's the common idiot of returning either `{:ok, ____}` or `{:error, ____}`, but what can be inside the error tuple is not always clear. The other thing is that sometimes a function can both throw an exception and also return a success tuple. Such cases are confusing to handle, and there's a large gap between handling cases like that and the philosophy of "let it crash", which I think is preached a little looser than it should actually be practiced.

I do like F#'s way of disambiguating the two situations. The only issue I have in F#, which actually exists in every language that I know of that has exceptions, is that there is no way to know, up front and clearly, what exceptions can be thrown by a given function. This is particularly frustrating in F#, which has fantastic pattern matching for exceptions. I wish there was exhaustive pattern matching in F# for exception handling, such that it would warn you that you have an unhandled exception in a try/with expression (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...) but of course would allow for wildcard patterns.
X puts most functionality behind a login check. Most importantly, you can’t view threads.
> If you think about it, all software is already an abstraction of hardware by definition.

Not really—interaction with a lot of hardware is defined by software. Just looking at a cpu you have no clue how someone would use it or what they would use it for or even what kind of capabilities it has for human interaction.
Not at all: unless a license is provided, the code is fully protected under copyright and you have _no_ rights to copy it or use it in _any_ way you want (unless falling under "fair use" clauses for the jurisdiction you're in/the author is in).
it would be interesting if you shared more details
That reminds me of a critique of "gig economy" (pejorative tone) services for food-delivery.

Sure, at first glance like "jump online and deliver when and wherever is convenient" is a very non-specific need that can address lots of ad-hoc courier duties, and you might assume that outsourcing will work great for the ur-delivery food: Fresh pizza.

However pizza delivery does have a "specificity": It doesn't arrive in the proper condition without being transported in special containers, and after delivery those containers must be returned for reuse at the pizzeria. This poses a problem when contractor-drivers aren't getting paid for the return trip more (or at all) than other opportunities, or it falls outside their available time.
As with anything, the word starts to get applied to things that the originators didn't necessarily intend.

My working definition of "maker" is someone who fabricates physical things. It's less DIY'er and more crafts & hobbies on steroids. The classic example is people who work in prop departments in movies and theatre. In that arena, you need to be a jack of all trades when it comes to fabricating physical anything. The skills include everything from woodworking and metalworking to mold making, model making, painting etc.

The more you specialize the less the word "maker" applies as I conceive of it. A guitar luthier could certainly be considered a maker by some, I mean it is "making guitars" but the term is intentionally broader than someone who specializes in making something very specific.

But consider the term "furniture maker." We have used the word "maker" in the past to describe someone who makes something specific. You just take off the qualifier and you have someone who makes all sorts of things.

My wife and I are part time magicians and what I often say drives me to magic is that it is the ultimate "maker" hobby. It is extremely multi-disciplined. There's the strict "magic domain" (misdirection, sleight of hand) but depending on what you want to do you end up getting into all sorts of tangential skill development from costume and wardrobe fabrication to building illusions out of a variety of materials (woodworking & metal working) to making smaller hidden devices ("gimmicks" as magicians call them) to practical VFX (makeup, prosthetics etc.)

All that being said, I completely agree that the term has become so overused as to start to border on meaningless.
I recently asked for a Dockerfile that builds an image which passes Docker's vulnerability scan. It gave me a file that failed over a dozen vulnerability tests.
This man saved his town from deadly floodwaters
> "I’ve watched enough Mark Dice videos to know how bad it is" is an appeal to authority first

That's not what appeal to authority is. You should read the Wikipedia article on that one again (Note: I learned about fallacies not from Wikipedia but from a very old professor who was a Chinese dissident, and I had a 4.0 in that course). The statement in parenthesis was an appeal to authority. I was referring to the times he posted screenshots and videos of search results being manipulated, or his own videos being demonetized with manual review, or if you searched his name at one point you got no video results. At the time, you could do the search yourself and reproduce the results. I don't know how you can get any better than that save a Snowden-esque leak from big tech, and I'm sure you guys will find a way to label one of those a hoax.

The premise of that argument wasn't even centered on the question of the scale of the manipulation itself, but rather a rebuttal to the argument that "only the uploader will know about the censorship". There's a saying, "who are you going to believe, the media, or your lying eyes?"
Not quite.

Copyright doesn't protect general concepts, methods, or common knowledge. So you could write a program that is remarkably similar to another one and not infringe copyright. Just like you can write a book with the same plot as another without infringing copyright.

Plus given that most programming languages have a finite grammar and a limited number of ways to express general concepts, the individual bits of code that make up most programs are probably not sufficiently original to be copyrightable in themselves.
No, we should absolutely be interested in figuring out what the law would even say today. It is not obvious. That's why this case is interesting.
I mostly still use RSSOwl. Thunderbird also works reasonably well as an RSS reader.
> refused to post the review complaining that it was counterfeit

That sounds like a legal liability for them, as in "exhibit D demonstrates the defendant knowingly kept a fraudulent listing available for purchase" /ianal
Generate a random Cauchy sequence. One trivial way to do this is to output a random string of digits. It's not perfect, but it works. Approximately 0% of random Cauchy sequences will be computable, so long as your random number generator doesn't have self-correlations.
Maybe. But volunteering at a soup kitchen or mowing my neighbor's lawn is definitive.
GTK? Qt? They're not exciting, but they sure do work.
Ive been pretty happy with my recent lemur system76 purchase. See https://www.reddit.com/r/System76/comments/1ehi5k6/initial_i... for details
> Well... it's New York, so it's unreasonably difficult to carry a firearm (at least, relative to basically every other US state).

It looks like outside of NYC, no permit or license or registration is required to carry a rifle or shotgun in the state of New York. The handgun "pistol license" requirements have recently been revised after the previous version were slapped down by the courts -- license applicants can no longer be required to provide a "proper cause" for why you need a permit. So you can walk down the same block this guy did carrying a shotgun, but not a knife.

https://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/state-gun-laws/new-york/
https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/supreme-court-ord...
How it is implemented is completely irrelevant to users, something developers tend to forget. The merit and validation comes from customers (or lack thereof)
From the article it sounds like the plaintiffs were alleging that ChatGPT is effectively doing unauthorized duplication when it serves results that are extremely similar or identical to the plaintiff's code. They aren't just alleging that reading their code = infringement like you seem to imply.
this is how I have used it so far too. Small, Boring tasks that I can iterate ontop of.

its also nice to have as something to "bounce ideas" off of and see if it can think of any other solutions or ways to accomplish a goal.
> > I looked at it a few months ago

Depending on when they looked, maybe the big gaps in releases before this year? Did it change ownership or just get more active?