skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am still confused how this isn't tax payer funded. If it comes from the government, it's tax payer funded.
Still amazing to me that keeping capacity in reserve is now demonized
The main issues from the person comments don't seem to revolve around money. And doing nothing won't make any money.

This is not something you have to do for the rest of your life.

But the point is to do something, anything to avoid sinking into the swamp. Visible goals that you can mentally pick up and put down with some human interaction thrown in, might help. Only one way to find out.
You read a well-written, multi-paragraph comment with an astute, on-topic point, and decided the best thing you could bring to the conversation was a vacuous put-down. All things considered, you're not making a good case for yourself as an expert on what's "deep."
I agree, I feel like it might be useful for whichever programmers regularly have to search Stackoverflow and then copy paste code snippets.

Then I feel like useful code produced by this tool will have to be treated in the exact same way as a rigorous code review: going through every part of the logic and ensuring it is correct. This seems like just as much or even more work than writing it yourself (if it is written in an unfamiliar way, you might need more time to wrap your head around it).
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Not currently, but I might add that feature.
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Hmm, didn't fully consider that. Coindesk’s API let’s you go back 31 days at the max.

I’ll look into adding that. Thanks for the feedback!
That's a good idea! Thanks.
> all education endeavours eventually turn for-profit and then the goals get misaligned.

I'm fairly certain we've been watching that mission creep in all corners of education, higher and otherwise, over the past couple of decades.
>Everyone gets to go to school for free, your taxes should be thought of as paying off your own education.

Are you sure you want to make the argument that a public school education cost you many many times what a private school education would paid over a lifetime of taxes?

Of course not. There is nothing wrong with the argument you are paying for other people's kids. You are. It's a net good for society. I personal don't want roving gangs of uneducated youths who today are confined to schools all day, this is a big win for everyone. The day-prison system works well unless you're really interested in high quality education.

Deal with it, don't make weird excuses and pretend scenarios (like mine above).
The key factor in being able to do so is to have money to save early in your career. The median household may have 10k/year to spend, but the median household is already 10-15 years into their career, and thus 10-15 years behind on that compound interest.

And nobody really has that kind of money early in their career, except maybe the top 1%. You either make a lot of money and spend most of it on housing, or you make a little bit of money and spend most of it on housing.
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> maybe tabs

By the way I always believed no app should implement their own tabs. A window manager should take care of this. Nevertheless now I feel like a browser is a reasonable exception given how many tabs I open in it every day.
They are, but you are either being ungenerous in your question or missing vital context that anyone familiar with a city council meeting would already know.

OP is bragging that the municipality is paying for a service without increasing local taxes to pay for it. Increasing local taxes is the obvious way that municipalities typically pay for something like this. But increasing local taxes also generates predictable and often persuasive complaints from old cranks who never want to increase local taxes. OP's muni is thus circumventing those complaints by using grant money for the rollout.

While it's true that state and fed grants use tax dollars, it's irrelevant to the OP's brag. E.g.,

Old crank at meeting says, "I don't want to pay more money for a service I don't need." Applause break.

Old crank at meeting says, "I don't think it's right to take a grant created with state and federal taxes which I don't believe in paying." Awkward silence.

Edit: clarification
Municipal fiber is a far easier service to provide than almost anything else a municipality does. One tiny plastic cable into the house. It can be run on telephone poles. Plumbing, sewer, and roads are many orders of magnitude more complex and expensive to build and maintain.
Haha, well with AI and the world we live in, anything is possible! :D

Thanks for the feedback!
> That's totally ok if the anticheat admins are providing a computer to run the software on and not attacking one the player owns. Again "almost everyone else does it" doesn't make it ok, I don't know why people keep repeating that.

What do you mean by this? You realize almost every competitive ranked game right now has a kernel driver constantly running and monitoring in the background while you play right? Anti-cheats serve a purpose to detect cheats, just like an anti-virus serves a purpose to detect viruses.

You seem oblivious to the fact that there is no extra security risk from a client sided scan versus (like with Echo) having a client side anti cheat running while you play (like every game). What point are you trying to make?

You keep saying it's a terrible idea but haven't said what's wrong with it...

It doesn't copy tons of data out the machine through ring0 and it doesn't expose anyone to anything whatsoever, its almost all on machine and the same goes for most anti-cheats.
That wasn't meant to be snide, but there's clearly a bee in your bonnet so there's no point continuing this discussion.
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I've had similar ideas, but with IP/DMCA rights/enforcement being conditional on depositing keys and source code with the Library of Congress, to hold in a sort of public escrow. Maybe even require it for FCC certification, or for courts to to recognize/enforce EULAs or other claims.

If you want to enjoy the public protections of IP, the public needs to get a copy of source code and meaningful device access, upon whatever definition of un-patched software or device abandonment.

Obviously there's a lot to work out, but philosophically, I like the idea better than introducing new jurisdictions of regulatory power, especially when the relief sought should already be attainable under the public contract made in seeking government enforced IP protection.
>”Getting rid of schools is like getting rid of the military.”

I see national defense and public schools as very different. Defense is a non-excludable, fixed cost, so-called ‘public good’. Primary and secondary education are not public goods, though they may be long-term investments (which defense is not).

I am not saying that I ‘like’ or ‘dislike’ either, but they’re very different.

>”An ideal government functions to help the people not individual persons.”

I’ve never heard this argument before, could you please elaborate, or point to a good source for your “ideal government” ethical framework?
I seriously doubt there are very many (any?) entrepreneurs worried about that.

Government is going to swoop in and provide free nail care.

Government is going to swoop in and provide free Mexican food.

Government is going to swoop in and paint homes for free.

Etc.
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> If future archaeologists do the same for us, what material might they choose to define the 21st Century? Silicon? Plastic? Both are candidates, shaping the world for better and for worse. But if the decision were based on scale alone, then there can be only one answer: we are living in the age of concrete.

lol, yes! the "plasticine". ;)
13.1% of UK as woodland in 2018; 4.7% in 1905. Not too shabby!

https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/statis...
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Leafly received 17.02 million visitors to their website in May.

Weedmaps received 13.59 million visitors to their website in May.

Dutchie received 2.26 million visitors to their website in May.
Says the person who likely owns a washing machine, sink connected to plumbing, microwave, stove, lighters, clothes made with a sewing machine, ect. ect.

GPT-3 will take way less time to make a good substitute that costs the power of compute than other historical time saving technologies. Unlike other historic technologies, they pretty much spell out exactly how to do it, and own no patents related to its creation. I have trouble seeing the downside.
I thought in post-ACA America, all health insurance has to cover 100% of the cost of your annual physical? Were your visits explicitly preventative checkups?
it's rather strange they suggest red-green as an alternative given that this combination is affected by the most common form of color-weakness/blindness.
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AKA "Corporate Memphis": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis
That mitigates copyright concerns, but patent infringement can occur even if the idea was independently rediscovered.
Yes. In the years since I've learned that it is better to go off script. Preparation is so one can react, like a tennis match.

After that trial by fire, I've been comfortable before audiences of a thousand multiple times. Once, asked how I became the math consultant for "A Beautiful Mind", I looked out and managed to sell "Every audience is an audience of one".

For anxiety, it helps to remember that public speaking is a cultural ritual. It's not about you, you're playing a role.

When one gives academic job talks, most professors in the room don't understand your subject. What they can tell is whether you listen to questions. How well you answer questions is everyone's best gauge as to how smart you are. If the people who know you are already on your side, the talk itself is a Macguffin. Be truly present at each question, consider it honestly.
How do you know you can trust this app, by the way?
Thank you for writing the nice comparison. I agree that most people are focused on one method, either keyboard or pencil. Also, for other people it is talking. I feel that I can express my ideas much quicker using speech than any other method.

But let me ask you: What do you think about using an iPad with the Apple Pencil?
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Unfortunately, one in 10 times is far from good enough (and this is with good prompt engineering which after using large language models for a while, one starts to do).

I feel like the current generation of AI is bringing us close enough to something that works once in a while but requires constant human expertise ~50% of the time. The self-driving industry is in a similar situation of despair where millions have been spent in labelling and training but something fundamental is amiss in the ML models.
That group is defined as people who make $10-20 a day. Starlink isn't selling at $100 to people who only make $4,000 a year
You might consider advising your friend to shy away from the "rant" and "hot take" styles, I know it's popular among bloggers and twitter users but it's pretty uninteresting reading for someone who's read this type of post about web browsers for what feels like the 1000th time... If it was feasible from a technical and business standpoint for the chromium team to cut costs and remove 95% of the features added in the last 5-10 years, they would have done it by now!
Back during the heyday of land lines, phone book optimization was naming your company AAA <service> because phone books were sorted alphabetically.
Why does the author think JS/TS would be useful in the browser without the APIs we have today? Most people want to do things online aside from reading text.
I think I just figured out their business plan. They want to be acquired by Apple or Amazon and have their service bundled with something else you pay for.

"Amazon Prime Search", anyone?
Viridis is strictly better for human perception, and I cited a lot of arguments and evidence for this.

I guess I don't understand your take here.
>Yes. That's my point.

I agree with your point, even chrome has the power to destroy your PC if they really wanted to (??).
One possible reason: Lisp-like languages more or less require decent text editor support for productivity, otherwise you'll be stuck counting close parens. The same is not necessarily true for most other languages.
That's why there are clinical trials. Humans testing to find out what happens.

All mRNA disappears from body in few days anyway.
I only used it to be expressly clear that I'm NOT trying to draw any parallels.

Please believe me that I have a dear amount of respect for what happened to people in the holocaust, for personal reasons.
Has it occurred to you that you can be involved in the bitcoin project but not have a significant financial stake?
> Children jump around at the end of the day, to expend the last of that day’s energy. The adult equivalent, when the sun goes down, is to create or witness drama—which is to say, to order the universe into a comprehensible form. Our sundown play/ film/ gossip is the day’s last exercise of that survival mechanism. In it we attempt to discharge any residual perceptive energies in order to sleep.

I've often heard dreams described in the same terms, that they are a sort of garbage collection / filing system that orders our day into a comprehensible form. But this is the first time I've made the connection between dreams and to "create or witness drama." When I watch a movie or chat online or play a video game, in a significant way I'm living a waking dream, meta to the essential business of life.

But if drama and dreams do overlapping work, do people who engage in drama need less REM sleep? It doesn't seem so. Maybe they need even more, to process the drama. Maybe the additional processing pays off with additional growth. Experiencing a thousand dramas gives one more social insight, flexibility and resilience than otherwise. A thousand dreams could do the same.

It's fair to describe fiction, or even art, as technology for sharing dreams.
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Sure, hard work is often a requisite (unless you luck out in the extreme). But for the most part, it’s not enough, it’s not a guarantee, and it’s not the hardest worker who necessarily becomes the most successful. The point is that you shouldn’t look at the rich and the famous and think ”wow, the reason they’re there and the rest of us aren’t is because they’re so much more virtous and hardworking”.

Obviously it’s all a matter of degree, I’m assuming we’re talking really well off here. A lot of people are in the position where hard work is likely to yield moderate success and a decent life at least.
You asked what was great about it. I told you.

Yes, there's an element of "the right place at the right time". And there's working very hard to make the most of it.

Or look at it this way: That opportunity was there for multiple millions of people who could code at the time. It was Viaweb that took advantage of it, though.
Well the ex can live where ever she likes and Musk certainly doesn't live with her. The wife&baby though lives with him, as can be seen in many photos.
The number “168” you referenced reflects the number of data brokers we cover, not the total number of times you’ve been “found”. I can see how this would be confusing though, so it is a good reminder to us that we need to implement better tool tips to make this more clear.

In the screenshots you shared, see where it says “Your Exposure Risk Scan is in Progress”, with the green hourglass icon below it? That means your scan has not been completed yet, so actually we do not claim to have found you anywhere yet.

If you input a fake name (as you mentioned), you will of course get bogus results. When you click through the links after inputting a fake name, you should expect to see 404 pages or “Not found” pages at the data brokers as you described. This is because of course the data broker cannot find the fake name you entered. I also can see how this may be confusing, so another reminder to us that we need to do a better job of implementing tool tips to make this more clear.

Even if you input a real name, the “View” links will not always generate results. Here’s a quote from our Getting Started page where we explain how this works:

“Sometimes these links are not perfect, and other people may be listed, or you might not be there at all, but in most cases, they allow you to quickly view a snapshot of where your personal details are exposed online. The quality of our results sometimes varies, for example, if you have a common name like “John Smith” or “Mary Smith”, it might be difficult to find your profiles among many others with the same name. Adding a middle name or a full birthdate to your Optery profile often helps. Keep in mind, we are constantly improving our platform, and we have a lot of things in the works to improve these results.”

Link to full page here: https://www.optery.com/getting-started/
RNA uses an error-correcting code, and if that fails all that should happen is that some of the proteins your ribosomes create will be misshapen. Your body is good at dealing with foreign proteins.
You are the one who is calling something that is obviously safe, not safe.

You think you are smarter and more thoughtful about this than the experts who debated it in the open for hours upon hours to decide it was safe and should be available to everybody.

You said earlier you were safe because of your vitamin D levels. The science on the protective nature of vitamin D to COVID is not clear at all. But you claimed it as fact because you want it to be true. You want the vaccines not to be safe so you make up thresholds and then tell us you are being honest by saying the vaccine doesn’t cross them. Why do you trust all the other vaccines the FDA has approved, but not this one that the FDA says is safe and effective. Do you trust them or not? Or do they lie sometimes when you disagree and tell the truth when you agree?
It mostly destroyed that subreddit-community and prevented anything from that subreddit to ever reach the frontpage again. It is now just a shell of its former self. Back then it helped me and others to stock up on masks, sanitizers and other stuff early. We warned other people early about the upcoming virus as well.

Meanwhile the other corona-subreddits were and/or still are controlled by moderators that also control many of the other largest Reddit-approved (corona-)subreddits:

https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1582202873483.jpg
(Sorry, this 4chan archive of the image is all I could still find)

And this is all just one example of how crazy things can get and not even the worst (like people getting doxxed and personally harassed, getting banned on multiple sites en masse etc.). Many people who aren't in the right place at the right time within certain communities probably can't even imagine things like this could happen (like I couldn't 6 years ago) until it happens to them. They just call you a "conspiracy theorist". Not everyone who is skeptical of the mainstream story believes in "flat earth", is "anti-vaxx", thinks they want to "inject us with microchips" and "control us with 5G". Those are used as an example to censor and/or discredit other alternative views.

All we did on that subreddit was just trying to find out what was happening before everyone was talking about it (which was suspicious in itself).
> 1) Please stop using fatality comparisons when talking about radiation incidents - it's disingenuous. You need to look at total impact, including negative outcomes like cancers and reduced life expectancies rather than outright deaths.

Granted, you would also need to do the same for whatever you're comparing it against. Fossil fuels have profound negative impact beyond fatalities, like pollution, supporting cruel regimes, environmental spills, and more. And also climate change.

Dams exacerbate water evaporation and disrupt ecosystems. Solar panels require vast amounts of land to generate significant power.

> 2) If your argument is "it's better than the worst alternative" then your argument is not very good. You should be comparing to power sources that are not fossil fuel-based, which is the real alternative we want to move toward

And what are those alternatives? Renewables need to be backed by a dispatchable source to deal with intermittency. If your country already gets 30-50% of its power from hydroelectricity that's great. But for most places, this means fossil fuels. The reality is that the alternatives like wind and solar are really wind and solar plus fossil fuels.
Also in New Zealand: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/445646/chinese-communist...
One problem with IDE's is that they can be antagonistic of good practices such as writing comprehensible code, small code bases, and good documentation.
> I am still confused how this isn't tax payer funded

Because federal government spending doesn't depend marginally on taxes.

> If it comes from the government, it's tax payer funded.

This would be true if changes in government spending were tied to changes in taxes, but it isn’t because they aren’t.

For state government operational spending its closer to being a general truth.
> Someone will produce 5000 lines of code in a day for a new feature, but only read 2000 of those lines.

Shouldn't the one who has produced this code be responsible for making sure the integrity of it? 5k LOC in a day without test cases, then that is no code, it is a disaster.

I think the marketing here is about right. This is no AI programmer, but Copilot. It is an intelligent assistant that does some mundane things for you with probability of failing some of that even, but when the stars align, you are in luck.

I see this as INCREDIBLY useful for certain niche of programming:

1. Front end. Some components are really trivial but still requires some manual rewiring and stuff, this could be the life saver.

2. Templates for devops. Those are as soul crushing as possible, and I couldn't think of a better domain to apply Copilot to it.

Overall, this is a huge win for programmer productivity, with reasonable compromises.
I need to move to Switzerland. Here I was feeling fancy with my 10G/10G at home.
Forcing people to undergo medical procedures against their will cannot be ethically justified by any number of hypothetical lives saved. Everyone who can safely get vaccinated should do so, but it can't be coerced.
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I think that depends on how oversubscribed Comcast is. My local cable co only allows 1TB/month of data because of how oversubscribed they are. Even with that limit, speeds still drops a ton during peak use.
Exactly. I am in silicon valley (FFS) and have exactly two choices: AT&T and Comcast.

Curiously they cost the same and run about the same speeds. Both of them continue to increase their rates.

I'm all for competition, but I'm not seeing it. Worse, I see the U.S. heading in precisely the opposite direction with acquisitions, mergers, buyouts.....
And most small municipalities don't/didn't pay a cent toward the highway construction, either
faith based on what? So far in my experience AI projects tend to peter out.
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Maybe that's just me but I find the async/await stuff way harder to understand than a simple callback. Sure when you're going through callback hell you're glad to have promises and the syntaxic sugar, but for simple things the callback makes sense, especially since it's already how you use map and filter in JS.
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