skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just want to know what

> if you've been spending more time doing ___.

means, because it seems like the crux of understanding the entire situation.
My main thought here is that this seems like a terrible precedent and a dangerous path (again, divorce the ban from the hot button topic). Since they shouldn't like California's apparently unprecedented policy against them, it would be commensurate for North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas to collectively enact a much more severe counter-ban on exports and interstate trade involving anything funded by state funds heading to California, thereby dividing the nation clean in half (but for a little interstateless section of Nebraska) and cutting off California from major sources of fuel and farming, while this whole issues gets sorted out in court. Is the ban illegal? Absolutely, but go ahead, we'll wait, this might take a few years to sort out in various courts, we are heavily restricting natural gas and oil flows in the meantime. Set a precedent against one large state attempting to strong arm other smaller states into obeying its orders. Simply stating "its only state employee travel, not that big of a deal" is not constructive to what clearly is a first step of many down a path of weakening US interstate commerce.
Is that actually true when they’re just looking for a deviance from the baseline of all male humans? There’s a wealth of active and historical fertility tests they can reach for.
That specific type of construction started in 2009 after the building code was changed to allow it. They are known as a “1+4” or “1+5”, with the first floor being concrete and then 4 or 5 wood floors above. Very economical, and hence why almost all new multi unit construction has been that style for the past decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-plus-five
I’ve heard good things about both plausible [0] and panelbear[1] as alternatives to Google Analytics. Can’t say I have tested them personally yet unfortunately.

0. https://plausible.io
2. https://panelbear.com
Ideally the money would go into tax-advantaged accounts like 401Ks first, which would reduce the effective tax rate and thus boost savings.
So Hitchens doesn't, even for a moment, consider that there might be harm from that? It just doesn't enter his mind as a thought; he doesn't even dismiss it. For a person who prides himself on considering all the options, "What's the worst that can happen?" isn't an option he considers.

If Hitchens had said, "I've weighed the two potential worst cases against each other, and I believe that the harms of protecting Holocaust denial are something that we can all live with", then I'd consider it a valid opinion. As it is, this quote strikes me as shallow and poorly thought out.

He's reduced a complex balance to a simplistic decision by excluding any input from the people at the most risk of harm. If he were Jewish, I doubt he'd have written that paragraph. The strongest advocates of unrestricted speech always seem to be those who have the least at risk, and the risk to others seems completely invisible despite their supposed attachment to hearing from everybody. He's taken refuge in exactly the opposite "false security of consensus".
Endocrine -> nervous -> brain..?
There's this:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/facebookcontainer/

I'm not sure if it's built into some versions now?

It does it on my Windows computer but not my Linux laptop, and I don't remember explicitly installing this extension on either.
You're not really voicing your dissent at that point. The server gets no tip and doesn't get any indication why. Why not just bring cash to tip? Or call the restaurant and talk to the manager? Not tipping doesn't accomplish anything and the server who has no control over the system and is already underpaid gets screwed over.
That’s not what it means.
It suggests code line by line, so yes
Slack has cross-workspace connectivity and communication as a product feature. It’s a really cool feature.
but nowadays everyone can be a man, right?
I don’t follow. Is the implication here that users can identify an experience difference cause by a 30KB over-the-wire asset, or more, a 90KB in memory one? I know I certainly wouldn’t claim to have that ability myself even on low quality networks.
> then you can reap the benefits and live a life worth living

I wish we could make the "inequality" point without resorting to hyperbole like this. The median American lives a life that is the envy of 99.9% percent of people who have ever walked this earth including most monarchs and emperors, and certainly >90% of people alive today.

I do agree that something needs to be done to keep inequality in check; I just happen to think that hyperbole and dishonesty create more problems than they solve.
This was my high school experience, but it was an early lesson I took to heart.

I used to work at K-Mart, one day a windy storm blew in. I was really hustling to get all the shopping carts in before they blew around the lot and damaged vehicles. I was still trying to get my other responsibilities done and noticed the patio furniture was starting to blow around too. I mean at this point I'm literally running to get to everything.

New guy, chatting up the manager. I can't remember the exact reason, but at some point on the same day the manager got upset that my stuff wasn't done. (my stuff being organizing and fronting shelves)

This guy didn't do anything. Like literally just hung out and made the manager laugh.

That's when I knew. Hard working people don't get ahead on their hard work alone. Sure, it gets recognized when you've got good leadership in charge. Honestly though, after that experience, I've seen it over and over.

Do solid work, know what you're doing and help others around you. Just don't kill yourself trying to impress your boss. The old saying goes, "If you want something done, give it to the busiest person."

You're just asking for someone to dump their load on you in some way. If you have the capacity and enjoy your work, get it done. If you don't, and there's no deadlines, why stay late?
Check out Redact(https://redact.dev/).
I don't agree with the premise that gender studies is pointless (and if I had to guess, you selected that one for the sake of controversy?).

That aside, let's say that a degree is "pointless" if it doesn't lead to good job prospects. By that definition, there's an awful lot of fields of study that are "pointless".

For example, I love philosophy. It was my favourite topic in school. But the only job that a philosophy degree seems to make available is that of teaching philosophy.

I think what we're seeing now is the market at work. There was, for a long time, a push to simply get a post-secondary education. It didn't matter which field. Just get a degree! Now we have a couple generations of heavily indebted students in fields that did not improve their job prospects, and they're telling the next generation: don't do it.

So I think we're going to keep seeing financial pressure on these fields until they shrivel up and go away. Capitalism at work, for better or worse.

But that's not the same as thinking these fields were pointless. I see tremendous social value in them. Having entire generations raised with a healthier and more accurate understanding of race, gender, class struggle, etc., is good for society. It's just not good at creating jobs.

So I guess my point (no pun intended) is that "pointless" is in the eye of the beholder. No one sets about wasting money pointlessly, and the things that you see no value in may be of great value to many others. You're not the arbitrator of what has value. Nor am I. But the market does a pretty damn good job.

Just because you think something is pointless doesn't make it so.
I would hope, but not to spoil your hope, but I'm less optimistic.

The cheap hardware development kit comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c. For a development kit, that chip is a joke. It's slower than almost every Windows on ARM laptop you can buy right now, which already aren't known for having good performance. It also comes with only 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, hardly enough to even put Visual Studio on it.

Microsoft's idea is that you'll only remote-deploy to it for testing because it's not powerful enough to actually do most programming on it. Compared to the $499 Apple Developer Kit which gave you an A12Z, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD... this thing better be, what, $200 at most? It's hardly a development kit if you can't actually develop on it.

You also need to remember that Microsoft and Intel's fates are bound together. Intel can put up with Microsoft's affairs and flirtations, but if it ever started getting serious, Intel won't permit it to ever get to even minor threat level.
I worked at a hedge fund that had open salary data available to everyone and paid comparably to the hedge funds/prop desks I worked at that didn’t.
And that's why the first person who performs the PR code review should be the person requesting it.
As someone who struggles to put on / keep weight, I'd love to know:

1. Is red meat (e.g. beef steak) actually meaningfully unhealthy?

2. Is eating fat (e.g. what is on a steak) bad for you?

3. Is drinking a gallon of whole milk a day on top of your normal meals likely to lead to problems (i.e. blocked blood vessels, heart attack, stroke)?

4. Is fast food, e.g. a quarter pounder from mcdonalds, unhealthy?

It seems like what is conventionally known to be 'healthy' food also happens to be low-calorie food. I wonder if that is mostly because a lot of people are overweight, and so for them whatever makes them consume fewer calories is healthy?
It’s odd, because doves are seen as pure and beautiful, and pigeon, which are essentially grey doves, are seen as dirty and verminous
A short summary of chapter 1 of Software Engineering at Google
They loved it still in 2019. How about since then?
I created box2d jQuery https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/box2d-jquery (Demo Pages sadly down) a physics engine for the DOM.

I really learned to appreciate jquerys clean codebase at that time. Learned a lot about the DOM and how to misuse it.
Can you elaborate on what JQuery does for you that you can't do with modern JS features such as fetch and query selectors?
Is the average for a developer really that low (in the US)? In the Boston-area market (now remote, but same pay scale), we're paying more than that for fresh college hires.

Get hired, contribute to your 401(k), buy a house, and do that for 15 years and in most markets I think your change in net worth over the 15 years is more likely to be >$1MM than less.
or broken code :D
Maybe after the vaccine, they felt less intimidated to go out there and have sex with strangers, which affected their semen.
Something's clearly not working when extremely wealthy people pay less taxes than a little freelancer. But (in Europe) we are supposed to be grateful because startups across 27 countries are getting 4bn.
I'm learning Japanese. Of course you have to learn the grammar at some point, but you're not going to analyze a sentence were "hodo" and the negative form are used for a comparison. The best way for this pattern to stick is to know the meaning of the sentence you listen to in advance and then getting used to hearing it. No amount of grammar learning will help you understand the construct in a fluent conversation.
// There's no reason to work hard when all the benefits go to the already-wealthy above you, which is why they try to obscure that fact in as many ways as possible

I have always been an employee and yet I am thrilled and thankful for the financial returns.

Looking around my neighborhood, the same is true for most folks around me.

There are not guarantees in life but if you have the combination of luck, skill and hard work, you can land in a place where you and employer are mutually benefited.

I am lucky enough that this has been the case for my 18 year career so far and not uncommon.

What you are saying on the other hand is a dead end. If you don't believe good employer/employee relationship is possible, you won't do your part and it will be a self fulfilling prophecy. I feel bad for people who think like this.

Honestly it reminds me of the incel movement. Someone somewhere owes you something and you have no agency on how it shapes out. I fundamentally disagree.
Stepping Back from Speaking
Like any tool, you still need to understand the fundamentals to use it well. Anyone can use a table saw, but if you don't know what you're doing, it can be really easy to cut off a finger.
But it actually is explicitly copying the text. That's how it works. The training data are massive, and you will get long strings of code that are pulled directly from that training data. It isn't giving you just the style. It may be mashing together several different code examples taking some text from each. That's called "derivative work".
Sorry, but no.

Those three are all 'bearish' strategies, but "going short" is selling something you don't have. Buying put options isn't short selling, although both are anticipating a decrease in the value of something.

Underwater is the term for a contract or asset that is worth less than its notional value.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/092613/differe...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/underwater.asp
find it hard to take life advice from some dude who got lucky in the dotcom, has done nothing of note since and actively supports sexist, racist people as "he's not a bad guy".

Find it even harder to take seriously a treatise on "work hard" when the underlying message is "make ME wealth, bitch
".

Paul can go fuck himself.
Yeah, QR code menus are superior, until you have to use them. They never have instructions and every device does it differently and not in obvious ways. The only instructions you get from a stressed out server is "just scan it." Ok, how?

This is a great way of making tech look stupid to luddites and it reminds me of modern UX trends that expect people to just know how to do some mysterious thing--and developers rely on most users assuming they are the stupid ones because they don't know how to use an app's hidden functionality. Not. Accessible.

Every restaurant used to have the same UX, now they are all different. Stupid.
Buddy, the article was about moral relativism from different cultures and western grandstanding. If you want a good primer, go and read Edward Said/Franz Fanon/Huda Sha'arawi/Kim Tallbear like the rest of us.

Why are you so keen on fucking animals? Asking in good faith, assuming you’re not doing it in bad faith. You know the article is disingenuous and funded by Fox News style journalism, right?
From the FAQ at the bottom of the project showcase page[0]:

"GitHub Copilot is a code synthesizer, not a search engine: the vast majority of the code that it suggests is uniquely generated and has never been seen before. We found that about 0.1% of the time, the suggestion may contain some snippets that are verbatim from the training set. Here is an in-depth study[1] on the model’s behavior. Many of these cases happen when you don’t provide sufficient context (in particular, when editing an empty file), or when there is a common, perhaps even universal, solution to the problem. We are building an origin tracker to help detect the rare instances of code that is repeated from the training set, to help you make good real-time decisions about GitHub Copilot’s suggestions."

[0] https://copilot.github.com/

[1] https://github.co/copilot-research-recitation
I think the problem is that this isn't in either of their interests. The insurers benefit from high prices because it scares people into staying insured and, IIRC, the laws limit the percentage of their profits, so a percentage of a higher number means more profit. The drug companies more obviously benefit from high prices.
No question about that.

But that doesn't translate into knowing what the results of a given person taking a given drug will be, in terms of harm to others.
I don't think this is it - he is an obsessive person. He was working that hard because he wanted to. I mean look at him now, he isn't exactly playing golf or swanning about on yachts.
This prompt to check on current Svelte and Solid-js alternatives, resulted in new posts on Marko[1], and OT, on Mini Apps.[2] Thanks! :)

EDIT: Hmm, a few minutes later, the Marko post is blank, or not, depending on whether I'm logged it. That's... unexpected. Maybe a rate limit? The working url is https://dev.to/ryansolid/what-has-the-marko-team-been-doing-... . Too late to delete the post to leave the url clear for someone else to post. :/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676785 What Has the Marko Team Been Doing All These Years? Jun14 By Ryan Carniato of Solid, now on ebay's Marko. The interesting discussion at the end (including why Marko didn't catch on) turned up:
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676743 Mini apps: A web developer's exploration into mini apps — apps that are built with web technologies but that do not run in browsers.
> To me, it just seems like disingenuous manager speak for "I've noticed that you're slumping, and really there are not other options, but let me know if you're planning on quitting or doing less".

Wow wow wow, no. I mean I guess it's always possible that anything could be disingenuous, but to me this sounds like a manager who genuinely wants to come to an understanding and figure out what they can do to make things better for everyone, you included.

A good manager understands that people can only be at their most productive when they're happy and working on things that play to their interests and strengths. Firing someone and hiring someone else is extremely expensive. Nine times out of ten they genuinely want to help. Let them!

> The broader question is, how can a company expect to retain employees/contractors if the only work available is the same tedium over a long period of time, and no way to change that?

Most companies I've worked at are happy to let someone shift to another area, for the exact reasons I outlined above (if you communicate with them that you're bored!). If you have specific knowledge that the company in question won't do that then, well, maybe it is time to move on. But why would you just assume they won't be open to it? At the very least raise the subject before quitting!
> live very comfortably.

The single highest ROI thing you can do for your life is to drop that "very".
this is the right approach
Flesh eating parasites multiplying across US due to climate crisis
There is a gaping chasm between a website that needs some Vanilla JS and light interactivity, to the point where a framework like React is a necessity though. Like if all you're using React for is to pop open a side menu or render some lists, you've taken on a boatload of tooling overhead for pretty minimal gain. Performance isn't going to be the problem there, the issue is having to maintain a relatively cumbersome tooling ecosystem for the site. That's not a contrived example either, I've seen plenty of that going on.
All these replies with the typical 7% return for 20-30 years calculations are missing the point. I know what the arithmetic is. It is not common to be in a position to do that, even in the software industry.
What are some ethical problems that could emerge from the box? Maybe unfair competition from having very good tools compared to other programmers, or havin irresponsibly shallow understanding of what the produced code does?
Last time I tried Tabnine it wasn't really of much use to me, the top of the line GPT-3 is a much much bigger model, it should be able to do much more intelligent things.
Have there yet been reports of the AI writing code that has security bugs? Is that something folks are on the lookout for?
Before you convince yourself that you are doing the world a favor by driving a “quiet” car you should probably watch the video where he explicitly debunks this.
The amount of luck involved in "success" is almost always underestimated. Whether it's being born into a family with money, or having a great teacher who helps you understand Calculus. To avoiding health issues and accidents. To choosing a spouse that doesn't self-destruct. The list is long.

Luck is the trump card of life. You can be smart, hardworking, all the business traits that are espoused by "successful" people, and still fail. As Lefty Gomez said "I'd rather be lucky than good."

Look at Michael Jordan. He had talent and an incredible work ethic. Yet until the Bulls drafted Scottie Pippen, he didn't have the team required to win a championship. Imagine if the Bulls missed out on drafting Pippen and had drafted Dennis Hopson instead? Would Jordan have still become the GOAT?
"Wait, restaurants are making you order from an app too?? So now you don't really need your 'exhausted wait staff' so much. Hire less wait staff as a portion are now are underutilized. Now some wait staff have no jobs, and the remainder work the same exhausting shifts. "

Not around here, no. Was out eating yesterday. That place we went to has the exact same number of wait staff as before QR codes, the difference is only that they're not exhausted, they are not stressed when interacting with us (showing us the table, bringing food, checking in on us if we need something else, etc). We don't have to wait for them to get the bill or to pay. The overall atmosphere is much more relaxed now. And yes the other places I visit also keep the same number of staff as before, as far as I can tell.
But that still doesn't fit the paradigm presented by using Gates as an example. That you work really hard in your 20s and you're set for life.
There are a number of exceptions, including "For the protection of public health, welfare, or safety, as determined by the affected agency, department, board, authority, or commission, or by the affected legislative office".

https://oag.ca.gov/ab1887

It also says that you can't be required by your job to travel to those states. So if they declare it an exception, they'll pay for it. If they don't declare it an exception, you can't be required to go. Under no circumstances could you be forced to pay for it yourself.
Seems interesting, but did they train their models on the open source projects available on github?
Yeah but smart.
> And I /hate/ sounding like an angry socialist

Well you definitely sound like one when your first sentence is "this is such a garbage attitude". And no, I never said I would do anything, no matter how immoral, to avoid taxes? But you can carry on if you want.
tinc sucks.
Maybe not malicious per se, but certainly I'd be concerned about seemingly-correct but actually-wrong code being suggested. Considering how often the top StackOverflow answer is slightly wrong or how often antipatterns crop up across various projects, I'm sure the training data is nowhere near "perfect code" - implying the output cannot be perfect either.
I wonder how much of this is OpenAI-based vs program synthesis techniques.
Google doesn't hold itself to any standard. At least, not anymore.
> Hundreds of developers are using it every day internally, and the most common reaction has been the head exploding emoji

Apart from developing this "head exploding" stuff, couldn't some of these incredibly talented hundreds of developers fix the github code search?
I prefer the criteria "would a prehistoric person eat this?". Our bodies evolved with food you could pick off a plant and put in your mouth sometimes after applying heat. Or meat. This is "natural" food. Plenty of ingredients you buy in a modern store are processed like flour and sugar. You can make donuts in your kitchen and I'd call that one of the worst foods you can eat nutritionally.
For those scratching their heads and thinking this is just some kind of light humor thing, please bear in mind that the words "a woman's penis" and "people who have tested" and "people who chestfeed" are now parts of actual phrases used by government agencies in various parts of the world.