skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why do you care about the average height? - in some positions being taller is better and others being shorter - being an average doesn't mean that it's in any way better.
It’s doubly confusing when you see signs up on the highway claiming “your tax dollars at work” next to highway projects when they come from fed and state taxes, but apparently those are not tax dollars...
Suggested reading: https://web.archive.org/web/20210625205312/https://neeva.com...

[x] Collects data
[x] Collects name, address and phone number
[x] Collects contacts from other accounts
[x] Collects usage data
[x] Solicits personal data through "surveys"
[x] Uses cookies, local storage and "other technologies" to collect any information (e.g., personal information)
[x] Claims purpose of collection is to "improve product/service" but are not limited by any enforceable user agreement regarding such purpose
[x] May collect data about its users from other other companies
[x] May "have a presence" (e.g., tracking pixel) on other sites/services
[x] May transfer personal data to subsidiaries, with no control over what those companies may do with the data
[x] May transfer personal data to third party companies, with no control over what those companies may do with the data
[x] May use aggregated data for any (commercial) purpose, not subject to privacy policy
[x] May use "de-identified" data for any (commercial) purpose, not subject to privacy policy
[x] May move data anywhere in the world at any time, for any reason

If the user is paying, why is there no "contract" governing the "service". It might define the rights and obligations of Neeva and the user. If Neeva violates their privacy policy (how would we know), then what happens. Users are paying Neeva, so potentially they could could claim financial losses, but what exactly is Neeva promising to do. There is no document that details what exactly users are paying for. Even practical terms such as how many results can a user retreive per hour. A look at the "bill of rights" (doubtful this could be considered a contract for service) reveals there are few restrictions on Neeva, other than Neeva will not retain data for longer than 90 days unless asked to do so by the user or required by law. (However they are explcitly allowed in the privacy policy to transfer the data to a third partes who may be under no such restrictions.)

While the plan may not be to sell ads, this project could be aimed at (user-financed) aggregated data collection. There is zero information on how they will use aggregated data and any such use is not subject the privacy policy, it's free from any restrictions. There is not even any statement that aggregated data would be anonymised or, if so, how.
Wonderful. Than I suggest that we cancel all taxes and just use the printed money to fund everything.
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I do the same as you on math exercises. First, I solve them with a notebook and a pencil.

Then, I just use groff+ms+eqn+tbl... to get a PDF from a simple text file.

Also, as I use Unifont as my terminal font, the Unicode support is huge, really huge. So I can typeset math exercises with a simple xterm/st and a light PDF viewer such as MuPDF.
I've never understood the obsession with memory-safe languages. I get that they are easier to program in and they eliminate certain classes of bugs, but most end users don't care. They just want a product that works. The security argument also makes less sense for browsers because most web app exploits are unrelated to memory safety.
This is from 2018. Not quite breaking news.
Not sure if that's true or not but it's a solid article and would recommend regardless
K-9 Mail

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fsck.k9/

> Does it have good support for plain text email.

Yes.
Privacy discourse is broken if "sharing a photo with support" is "making them [let support] invade their privacy"

There's no reason to assume it's mandatory, and it discounts individual discretion to 0
I routinely reference notes from several years ago in meetings. This was a decision we had a substantial amount of debate around internally. In the end we decided that a combination of person and timestamp tags combined with a robust search was a better approach for our users (people with many meetings each day). We've got a lot of work still to do before search is where we want it though. We know that decision isn't going to work for everyone though.
A real challenge with Canada is that we are a big, diverse country that is dominated politically and population wise by 2-3 cites. The concerns and experiences of the city dwellers have little in common of smaller towns away from Toronto, or remote areas. So we get rules that exist to appease affluent urbanites that basically shaft the rural folk. I think the US has a similar problem, but we are way more sparsely populated and the federal government has more power. I have always been a federalist, but I think it's time to start talking about how we break up the country, so we don't have remote rule over people that it does nothing for.
puddletag https://github.com/puddletag/puddletag
https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/initia...
> I wish vim could do this.

You can make it do that with a keybinding and a little vimscript function. Vim can run shell commands, so all it really needs to do is check if the text under the cursor is a URL, and if it is call a browser on it. Something like this (note I'm not exactly a vimscript master):

function! OpenUrl()
let pattern = 'http[^)\]"\n \t<>]\+'
let line_text = getline('.')
let matched = matchstr(line_text, pattern)
if strlen(matched) > 0
exe "norm! :!firefox ".matched."\n"
endif
endfunction
nmap <CR> :call OpenUrl()<CR>

This calls the function when you hit Enter in normal mode (the `<CR>`).
What happens to the unactivated mRNA in that case? I was under the impression that it was typically the actual use of the mRNA by the ribosomes that broke them down generally, but I could be off base there.
The weather does indeed change with the volatility of bitcoin. Come back on a day when bitcoin crashes to see for yourself.
Windows does this natively doesn't it?
If electric cars are truly the future and will win outright, why the heavy handed approach to ban alternatives? The people most effected by this will be those with lower incomes who are less likely to have a home with space to charge an electric vehicle. And they’ll feel it a few years after the ban when the used car market dries up.
Trench Songs – First World War
Nope, no plastics at all whatsoever. It is high quality aluminum. Solid wood is also possible on request.
Yes, definitely, he is the template for the "thought leader" scheme.
Has there been an attempt to train a similar ML model on a smaller dataset of standards-compliant code? e.g. MISRA C.

I started working at a healthcare company earlier this year, and my whole approach to software has needed to change. It's not about implementing features any more - every change to our embedded code requires significant unit testing, code review, and V&V.

Having a standards-compliant Copilot would be wonderful. If it could catch some of my mistakes before I embarrass myself to code-reviewing colleagues, the codebase would be better off for it and I'd be less discouraged to hear those corrections from a machine than a person.
Whose rules? And who wrote them?

What rules? And Where can I read what those rules are?

Do the rules agree or disagree with the UN Charter?

Do the rules agree or disagree with the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunals?

Why is the ICC not permitted to supervise those rules?

The 'Rules-Based Order' is bullshit. And it's time the 'Rules' were described as so by all the World's population.
Modern bridges made from concrete are not designed to last more than a century. I believe the expected usefulness of something like a cable stayed bridge is around 100 years. Compare that to a suspension bridge which can be used almost indefinitely.
from my neck of the woods, making me take a picture of a device and using machine learning to figure out things that are not the device itself are an invasion of privacy
LOL, the sales training was required by my company and I listened during my commute.
Toward Using a Headless CMS with Hugo: Building Pages from Data
What do you mean "what was the issue that required the pasting of bubble sort code"? Are you responding to my comment?
Great feedback. Thanks so much!
I use FairEmail.
https://email.faircode.eu/
I used to use k9, but it started having issues on newer OS versions, it would stop syncing on a schedule.
I think it has great plain text support.
Canada is getting ready for an election, this sends the message the government wants to send
The Day Facebook Ruined the Internet
Part of what makes programs like this work (there aren't a large number, but CMU is hardly alone) is the fact that it's a fixed time to create a pressure box in.

I know of an undergrad double honors program that was unreasonably proud of the fact that after inception it took something like a dozen (maybe fifteen?) years before anyone actually graduated from it; everyone dropped one or the other half to lighten the load. Trying to pitch something to almost-but-not-quite break you only works when there is a finish line.
In terms of questions about where the code originates from, there should also be a tool that allows vetting the generated code against the original data set. Perhaps copilot itself should provide a way to deep dive the possible origins of the generated code.
Quote: "Handwriting recognition: why."

Because when I see some image written in Russian alphabet having a little canvas where I can draw those cyrillics and gets recognized automatically and later translated it's a great utility. Like it or not, internet is global and various alphabets do exists.
Picard is the best. Beets is a little too opinionated.

I've recently started using both though. Picard does the initial discovery and tagging. Beets then adds other features on top like syncing my collection to MusicBrainz, adding lyrics etc.
You can find a brief description of my workflow and some tagger scripts at https://github.com/hashhar/picard-beets-config
Yes, absolutely! Coal is pretty much the worst of the worst.

My concerns are solely with how fuel would be managed, so that it isn't lost, and subsequently broken. One example was scrap workers taking a radioactive source to a scrap yard to be melted down, not realizing what it was.
Amazon, Google and Other Companies Exploit NDAs
Basically Google woke up and decided it wanted to be Microsoft without actually dealing with hardware vendors so let’s just put everything on web and hey, let’s track and show you ads while we do it at .98 efficiency
If only we had tried making a browser plugin for multimedia applications with a separate runtime. We could call it something flashy, for example ... Flash. That totally went better than browser security.

Another option would be feature-enabling plugins, for example a plugin that enables WebRTC developed by some random company. I still don't see how it won't be massively worse than browser security.
Manufacturers don't generally ship internal drives with any kind of partition table at all in my experience - that gets added when you do the initial install, which generally depends on what mode you booted the installer from and in turn probably on your motherboard BIOS defaults...
Many auto manufacturers will be suspending production of ICE cars and light trucks before that. It actually seems more like a policy after the fact than anything else.
Just... wow. The jokes write themselves at this point. So instead of posing a simple question to the customer that even the most tech-illiterate customer can understand and answer reliably (Is your router next to a microwave oven or aquarium by any chance?), you make them download an app (which would ask for god knows how many permissions), ask them to take a photo, which may or may not even have the necessary information you need and could be in terrible lighting, blurred, or a hundred other failure modes, then run image processing on it which has its own precision and recall issues.

All of this, instead of asking a simple question. If this is not technology fetishization I don't know what is.
Built on NextJS
Tetris is Hard, Even to Approximate (2002) [pdf]
So it's he's creating a Minority Report crypto wallet and airdropping privacy centric coins to everyone in the world?
Having a way to take a break but not completely be off the grid would be nice.

A smart watch gets me most of the way there.

I can still get and send text messages to my wife, and look at our shared grocery list, and do simple technology-assisted things. But I'm free of the temptation to look at HN, or doomscroll a news app, or participate in similar over-distractions.
“Nyah Nyah Nyah?” (Mis)Understanding Putin – Strategic Culture
Joplin is the best FOSS option I know of right now. It's a lifesaver. Sync it up to a bucket or something via webDAV and it's good to go.
The US is the opposite - due to the Electoral College and shape of many state districts, rural areas have a much larger, disproportionate share of voting power than urban areas.
You can't abolish IP without completely restructuring the economic system (which I'm all for, BTW). But just abolishing IP and keeping everything the same is kind of myopic. Not saying that's what you're advocating for, but I've run into this sentiment before.
This statement seems wrong to me. According to [1], 43% or residents in rented accommodation live in single family homes. [2] claims that about 80% of owner-occupied dwellings are single-family homes (but the source seems funky: surely there are more than 80k owner-occupied dwellings in the US.)

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/612959/number-of-househo...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/377896/owner-occupied-ho...
I haven't had any issues like that. I severely underestimated the difficulty of typing on a touchscreen that small though. Portrait mode is impossible, landscape is usable but it's all keyboard, nothing else is really visible, which is why I decided to try the Titan so soon after getting the Jelly 2.
For people with my upbringing its even harder, because hard work often does not pay rewards, so you have to intentionally reject the feedback loop that nature and reality is throwing in your face.

There is a whole class of incredibly hard working people that never receive, are actively denied reward or are effectively punished for their hard work.

Hard work without dopamine reinforcement takes extreme mental toughness.
Does it sometimes switch into a different language mid-function?
Apple Music.
>The first example parse_expenses.py uses a float for currency

I have made this mistake without the help of any AI or copy/paste. It's still in the hands of the developer to test and review everything they commit.
Bans this far into the future are so meaningless. They're a way for ostensibly progressive governments to act like they're doing something without upsetting anyone in power. Fourteen years from now, this will either happen without a ban even being necessary, or whatever government is in power will just say "well this obviously was unrealistic" and simply reverse the ban.
> I never liked handing my card to wait staff where they take off somewhere..

Just realized this is another problem averted by Chip+PIN for payments. Since you have to physically touch the keypad, there's reason to take you to the PoS terminal, or the terminal to you, and no reason to take the card from you.
> Why have taxes at all if spending is not dependent on them?

In aggregate, to offset, to the extent viewed desirable, the money supply effects of the creation of money in spending, and in terms of specific distribution of taxes to effect a desired (re)distribution of net income.

Also, though the above would be sufficient on its own, because prior to the abandonment of commodity-representational currency for pure fiat, the metaphor of the fisc, a finite purse (from which we get the adjective “fiscal”) was a reasonable model of government finances, and there is a lot of inertia in popular models of the world. So, even though it is no longer an apt model, lots of people — both in the electorate and even in government — still view the world through a framework in which that is exactly how things work, which affects their decisions as electors or government decision-makers.
I like Kakoune for this reason. I just wish it had a few more niceties.
“The huge success of the mRNA vaccination platform”

Does anyone know what the agreed upon criteria for asserting the success of mRNA vaccinations is?

Aren’t we anticipating an uptick in cases in the US as we approach winter? Why are we assuming success already?
I tend to agree, but I guess it depends on what you're replacing with work, and how you feel about the work. If you're replacing idle TV watching with a form of work you enjoy, great. If it's replacing time you might be watching specific shows with your partner/kids and with get-head-of-the-pack projects that stress you out, the trade-off will be far from universal.

But as usual, he's writing for a very specific group of people - young people with a strong urge to do late nights building something.
What methods/techniques/processes would have caught this? What's the most cost effective of those? (Are those even the right questions?)
Interesting history of the Canadian automotive industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoUdNi-WuGE
Beets combined with MusicBrainz Picard is the killer music organiser.

Picard can perform tagging, cover art, filesystem organization and fingerprinting of untagged files. Beets can then add juice on top with lyrics, smart playlists, last.fm integration, deduplic ation etc.

You can find my workflow at https://github.com/hashhar/picard-beets-config (not up to date and still a wip).
How often do regular stars collide/merge? Does this happen more or less frequently than with black holes? And is there a general reason black holes collide? Certainly they'll merge if they get too close to each other, but why are they get close in the first place? And since stellar mass black holes are relatively small, why don't they just orbit each other indefinitely (i.e. how long until we expect Jupiter to crash into the sun)? At what distance does the gravitational radiation start shedding enough energy that the rapid inward spiral occurs?
Wood homes is quite an American thing. In many parts of Europe for example, many people live in brick or stone or blockwork or indeed concrete buildings (though raw concrete is mostly unfashionable.)
Ignoring bulk change commits with Git blame (2019)
I can't speak for the Canadian government - but to me this isn't about the better technology, it's about not cooking the planet. Given that 82% of electricity [0] is from Hydro, Nuclear, and other renewables, it's a pretty easy move for Canada to make.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Canada
Concrete is very durable. It is reinforcement that rusts and causes thermally induced stress as steel expand and contracts at different rate than concrete.
The same mRNA can be used by multiple ribosomes. More info and "photos": https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/54752/can-mrna-b...
Yikes, was looking to read something a bit more technical but the writing felt tacky and amateurish. Reminds me a lot of what LinkedIn is like.
Thank you for the nuanced reply.

I just want to address your opinion that everyone is racist on some level.

Do you likewise believe that all men are rapists on some level? If so, then I can commend your consistency and accept your view. If not, why not? What makes racism different?
> Incognito mode is also annoying on my phone. Since I'm not logged I can't search with Neeva which is my default search provider.

That's why I stopped using them (I was in some kind of preview cohort before this announcement); I just want to point out that can't isn't the right word -- it is for sure possible to authorize your use of their search engine without relying on cookies or localStorage or whatever, but they just have chosen not to

It turned me off when I was an alpha user, but it would make me tableflip if I was paying real money and they still didn't make any efforts toward solving that use case
The nice thing about ICE cars is they can get passed down the value chain easily. Middle class family buys a new car, drives it for 5 years or so, trades it in for a new car, and the used car is sold to a poorer family but pretty much works just as well. Do electrics work the same way? I imagine the battery performs significantly worse after 5 years than when new.
I mean, you're not wrong. I'm just thinking that the larger nuclear plants are a safer than deploying many small reactors
A friend of mine recently been mentioning that it is possible to hide bulk changes when introducing a linter to a repository. This is how! Thought it's very useful and not well known.
> 30 mg is really tiny

Not really. For example the amount of beta blocker I take for my heart problems is 5mg per day - the pill size goes down to 2.5mg.
“they are easier to program”? quite contrary.
bouncing pods and occasionally tailing logs in the case of startup problems is about it
How did you manage to get early access? Is there some kind of GitHub Early Access programme (or something similar part of Enterprise)?
It’s helpful to lock the changes in, just as we’ll bulldoze coal electrical generation plants and not go back.
Live-to-work or work-to-live.

There are probably few on HN (in the US) who don’t have either option. Figure it out now or let your boss decide for you.

And if you think you can do a startup and work-to-live, you’re an idiot. So start over now.
Not my project, but Github Copilot is a good example of using the latest AI technology to solve a practical, real problem that couldn't be solved without it

https://copilot.github.com
I disagree. It sends a clear signal to combustion vehicle manufacturers that they waited long enough and it’s time to adapt or die. Arguably, 2030 would be a better date considering the atmospheric CO2 saturation level, but it is what it is.

I will even go so far as to argue that Tesla was the catalyst for demonstrating this should be done (with EVs that are at parity with combustion vehicles in some ways, and better in some ways).
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27107820

I hate it
I think we'll burn most of the oil regardless of electric car adoption. It's just too convenient of a power source not to use.
Because it's written by someone who (as they admit) first learned about it recently from a tweet. It appeals to laymen very well, but conflates "Zero knowledge" and "Zero knowledge proofs" throughout the article. Not sure if that's intentional or not.

Edit: Learned it was important from a recent tweet*. it seems the author may have already known what they are.
Usually I agree but I think Nat's comment here makes perfect sense and isn't just some PR buzzword stew. Tools like these are basically a faster version of searching stack overflow. You could have suggested that things like github and stack overflow would replace programmers since you could just copy and paste snipits to write your code.

And sure, we do now have tools like square space which fully automate making a basic business landing page and online store. But the bar has been raised and we now have far more complex websites without developer resources being wasted on making web stores.
You are correct. I feel this is why the service is called Copilot, not Pilot :)