skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not. Please re-read. While privacy is always an issue, notice I even directly said I'd willingly enable telemetry for some software (as a means of disambiguation and explanation of my stance), amongst other caveats.

However, what I do not stand for is auto-updates without my explicit knowledge and explicit consent, because it regularly messes up my... well, my "anything and everything". (Insert specific xkcd instance about breaking-workflow here.)

Therefore, due to personally-experienced and ever-widening common abuse of the mechanic (and ever-encroaching march on my privacy and rights on & from all fronts), I am less and less willing to even consider giving the pieces of software I actually enjoy the benefit of the doubt (aka useful telemetry).

Please notice - my original reply was (exclusively) addressing the specific portion of one of the preceeding user's comments "pushing" for the auto-update mechanism as mandatory (and not to the Audacity's issues/attempt/approach specifically). From my perspective, it seems that you and the previous commenter are addressing my replies as a full and all-encompassing description of the whole of my approach and practices (and I have specifically said that isn't the case in the comment above this one).

Additionally, there is an assuming of the non-use of any (or a combination, or all) of the myriad of the additional layers of protection available to any semi-advanced user [e.g. Tor, purpose-configured browser, proxy, VPN, etc.] while obtaining the software in the first place (and/or subsequent instances), and that the software in question could be "gotten" from alternative and directly unrelated locations if need be. If true, that assumption would be in error.
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Or that management will begin listening to their SME's about security once they see non-compliance raising their costs...one can dream
That is not what your source says:

> Stabbing deaths and injuries are more common in Europe than they are in the Americas. Particularly in northern Europe, where levels of knife crimes among young people have increased and made headlines.

It also has virtually no numbers other than percentages of deaths compared to other means, which isn't terribly helpful since overall homicide rates aren't compared, and that knife stabbings often do not actually result in death.
I do support the forbidding of "disable all" comments as the author discusses, but you must have an escape hatch. If your tool doesn't have one, I won't use the tool.
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Direct link to paper discussed in the article; https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448300.3467820
They should observe how little autonomy Sudan currently has.
That is can combine snippets doesn't mean the OP's understanding of how the system works is correct.

They seem to believe it is a database system. That's really not how this works, and the fact it behaves like one sometimes is disguising what it is doing.

If I say "write a "for" loop from 0 to 10 in Python" probably 50% of implementations by Python programmers will look exactly the same. Some will be retrieving that from memory, but many will be using a generative process that generates the same code, because they've seen and done similar things thousands of times before.

A neural network is doing a similar thing. "Write quicksort" makes it start generating tokens, and the loss function has optimised it to generate them in an order it has seen before.

It's probably seen a decent number of variations of quicksort, so you might get a mix of what it has seen before. For other pieces of code it has only seen one implementation, so it will generate something very similar. There could be local variations (eg, it sees lots of loops, so it might use a different variation) but in general it will be very similar.

But this isn't a database lookup function - it's generative against a loss function.

This is subtle distinction, but it is reasonable that people on HN understand this.
So much drama for an offline piece of FOSS, why the hell does law enforcement even need access to details about an offline app. lol.
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There are always reasons to use the escape hatch. For example, I recently needed to cast to a known type and access a property, but didn't want to reference that type directly, so as to retain the ability to tree shake it. This requires asserting that the property exists, and turning off eslint for that line.
> "Dead leaves aren't green," she points out. "They're brown.""

The article mentions that some sloths appear green because they grow algae. Sloths live in treetops among living leaves, so that would be consistent with her hypothesis.
Math used to be taught with more drill style. Now with common core every single problem is an epic quest of 10 frames and double pluses. It seems so ridiculous. I'd rather them crush a worksheet of 20 problems that practices a single skill then 2 problems that try to include everything from reading to drawing just for a simple subtraction problem.

The problem with these 20 problems of basically the same identical challenge is that it's actually less effective than intermixing of different kind of problems, at least according to learning science.

You and I may prefer 20 problems that practice straight subtraction, but that's not what the science says is actually the most effective learning strategy.

You want different kind of problems in a problem set. It shouldn't be straight subtraction, but also additions, word problems, and so forth. This creates a level of desirable difficulty, which embeds knowledge more deeply than something that is very easy to do by rote.
The difference is that you provided a warrant for your claim in the second case, but the first claim was unwarranted (had no support). People voted accordingly.
Fair point; I forgot about that. Still, yes, point still stands. They're clearly not alt-right, nor supportive of alt-right causes, nor benefiting alt-righters except the most indirectly (i.e., shareholders/employees, same as any business).
You're right; you don't want to stack hot silicon on top of other hot silicon.
I'm sorry, but this statement doesn't compute. The Belt and Road initiative is an attempt at exporting infrastructure services as they are already exporting all the tradeables they can, so to keep employment going they are trying to export, say, bridge building by sending Chinese workers overseas to build bridges, ports, roads, etc. in other countries.

The terms of the deal is to always be paid in USD -- USD which is held in custodial accounts in the US. Thus it is a roundabout way of exporting to acquire more foreign currency reserves. But the moment there is any kind of conflict, all of China's foreign reserve holdings are likely to be seized in the worst case and frozen in the best case, so the fact that there are bridges and ports all over Africa and Southeast Asia built by Chinese workers isn't going to help China import food or get past US control of shipping lanes.
I couldn't agree more. As someone who has used Audacity for many, many years and finds himself recommending it to people who have little to no prior computer audio experience I couldn't be more happy that there's some momentum towards improving the user interface and stability. It's not a bad program, but elements of the UI feel very dated and in my (admittedly edge-case) use I have to tip-toe to not cause crashes.
You say AI, but this is just a database with a weird query language. The fact that it has to be trained on massive amounts of code and can only regurgitate variations of snippets of the training database back makes it quite clear that there is no intelligence in this thing.

If it were intelligent, it’d be given the Lagrange specifications and then I’d be able to say “Write me an open world video game based around gang culture and I’d like it to run on the raspberry pie zero.”
Exactly why it won't happen anytime soon, unfortunately.
Because an average reader knows what a terabyte because it's a common hard drive size. The typical reader doesn't know how to think about exabytes.
Some great ideas in that post.

As I see it you have to bring some awesome value to the table. Having an idea is a good start but not enough. If you have no technical expertise, then you need to have a strong knowledge of the field in which your idea will be sold. The strongest complement to a technical co-founder is the proven ability to sell and make money.

Good technical people are very much in demand. If you can't offer a decent salary plus substantial equity, you will need to have an amazing idea and a credible, effective plan to making it profitable on equity alone.
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Youth shouldn't stop you, I walked into computer shops all day during my youth and I ended up with a job. This was early 00's, so Internet was there, and knowing a bit of HTML and how to reinstall windows was really all that's needed but -

Nowadays it's even easier with FB and such, just ask, and keep asking until you're satisfied.

Back then, it was the same, 80's, ask, community clubs, mailing lists, etc -

We're in tech, we communicate with one another, ask the right question and you'll get the right answer, even if it's questionable. ;)
Or, in a more positive framing, our society pays for the negative externalities of our more risk oriented members doing rad shit.

I am happy to pay through taxes for things like rescue services or medical bills for people who do things like rock climb or attempt ocean crossings in a solo kayak. Or even just ride a motorcycle without a helmet and look awesome.

The world is better and more interesting with these people in it.
Thanks! Do you have any apps you’ve done that you can share?
Can't any decent processor like Stripe do this?
I was taught math with the drill style. Being forced on a daily basis into repeatedly solving problems you struggle with, trapped with no ability to escape, by people with power over you (eg. parents), having your worth judged based on your ability to solve problems forced upon you, and once you learn a skill your parents find a new weakness to torment you with, is traumatic.
This understanding of how a generative process from a NN works is completely wrong.

There is no database lookup.

I've attempted to break that part down here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27744156

But you seem to have a basic fundamental misunderstanding of what is going on inside the NN. There is no "search for code" - it is generating new code each time, but sometimes that code will be the same as something it has seen because there is little or no variation in the training data for that snippet.

The NN generates code token by token, conditioned on the code leading up to it (and perhaps the code ahead, similar to BERT).

If you see tokens like this you probably generate the same next token too:

for i in range(1,10)

You have conditioned your input on the code you have seen and the most likely token you produce is ":".

That's what the NN does, but for much longer range conditioning.
From my understanding it's mainly because the shared border between Israel and Syria is mostly rugged terrain - easy to defend but hard to attack - known as the Golan Heights. For any land invasion on either side it's a lot easier to go through Lebanon.
Okay, I know this sounds crazy and probably difficult because we're pretty inflexible as human beings, but if you try my method, you should be able to accomplish what you're setting out to do. First, you're going to want to sit up with your back against the wall. You should be on the floor for this. Now, scoot forward a bit, enough such that you can place your feet against the wall behind your head. Next, you will use your feet firmly planted against the wall to push your torso forward. With the leverage of your feet against the wall. If you "cannot reach" you should still be able to angle your hips upward and meet yourself halfway. From here, you should be able to slide it all the way in your mouth. Good luck, friend. :)

Also, please do not try this if you have a wife and kids. It will ruin your life, trust me, I learned the hard way.
I was more responding to the - in my opinion ridiculous - notion that even apps that don't require the internet to function at all should be expected to phone home by default, and that auto updates are an essential.

Nevertheless, it's good to know they've chosen an opt-in construction for Audacity!
Ironic arbitrage, Apple sells it for X, pays google for Y.

The absolute state of things.
This is an interesting bit of history. There was a 99pi episode about time zones recently that mentions 'Xinjiang Time', which was (is?) used as a subtle act of defiance in the north west of china [0]. I hadn't realized that something that for me is so mundane could be so controversial

[0] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/matters-of-time/
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It’s a useless tip. If you have the ability to pick a $5bil winner you don’t need an ira. Just keep picking yourself $5bil winners in a regular taxable account and you’ll be fine.
Nice article with a lot of depth. While disable comments are something to pay close attention to in a code review, I disagree that their inclusion makes static analysis tools worse. In fact, I would argue not including them makes static analysis tools worse.

As an example, one clang-tidy rule we use is the explicit-constructor rule [1]. In C++, single argument constructors allow implicit conversions by default, which is almost never what you want since it hides type errors. This rule is very useful since it forces explicit constructors to be used.

However, in some (rare) cases you *do* want implicit constructors. In that case, you need a way of disabling this rule.

The author provides two alternatives to disable comments for this scenario:

* Globally disable the rule - Undesirable, now a useful rule must be removed because of 1-2 locations where it is not wanted

* Locally disable the rule using a global config file - Essentially the same as disable comments, but worse.

Disable comments are useful since they are localized in the code and hence more likely to remain up to date. They can contain explanations for why they are required in a specific location, and their inclusion is obvious which makes it easy to detect and check during a code review.

In an ideal world we would not need them, but sadly we do not live in an ideal world.

[1] https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/google-explic...
How many are there? A couple of thousand isn’t enough to meaningfully screw up the market. They can just sell them slightly discounted at a normal pace.
In Delphi they were on heap and also Delphi was incapable of doing anything kernel mode.
I've not been using this tool, but I'm happy to see that on HN: It's a project one of my teammates is working on :P
Studying nuclear engineering should be worthwhile. Studying power system engineering was.

Blockchains aren't.
Isn't that what being a sailor is like normally though? Surely they can't just get off in the middle of the ocean or at a port where they won't have a visa to stay in the country?
China is not principally buying money, its buying geopolitical influence; nations that see their interest aligned with China succeeding in competition with rival powers.
Nowadays it's quite rare. I never enjoyed in-person contact, and a few years working in an office was enough for me to write it off entirely. I try not to be too reclusive, though I probably am. COVID didn't really affect me at all, other than the occasional mask wearing when leaving the house.

I do miss having in-person friends somewhat, just for the occasional hike or game night, but that's hard to achieve when you move far away. I'm very introverted and maintain few, but longstanding friendships, so meeting new people is rather difficult.
I see that you run nix - with the help of a configuration.nix and perhaps home manager you could have several identical machines.

It won't remove the file transfer problem though, but perhaps a shared git-annex repo or a memory stick would do.
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> even if training a dataset is fair use, distributing the result is copyright infringement

That seems an unlikely legal argument. It would defeat the point of fair use if you couldn’t distribute the result.

And no copyright license can override copyright law. Licenses can only grant rights, they can’t take them away.
By the same logic, why would you (or anyone else) ever spend your Bitcoin if it is increasing in value so quickly?

There's a reason that central banks target low inflation rates (meaning, single-digit devaluation rates)—because people over-hesitate to spend their money if it is experiencing deflation. Why would they spend their money, if waiting a month to make a purchase means that the same amount of money can buy 10% more of the thing they are buying?

Sure, it makes sense that you won't want to keep most of your savings in cash. But that doesn't mean that stablecoins are the equivalent of AOL.

If we want blockchains to act as viable payment media suitable for day-to-day use, people need to be willing to spend their blockchain assets. Precisely because of inflation/devaluation, stablecoins are assets that people are willing to spend.
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Generally speaking the captain remains in control of the vessel and just receives local knowledge from the pilot.
Do they have literal mental retards writing these headlines now?
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Collecting data allows scientists to later propose experiments.

For example, collecting weather data for hundreds of years allowed us to develop climate models.
>Is it only safe to allow us iPads?

Of course not. But, the meat of the discussion is that everyone agrees it IS safe to use iPads. So, is there a practical middle ground?
people deal with social media images and text more often than buying hard drives -- and that's (generally) handled in kilobytes.

my take : it's because numbers with lots of digits sell clicks easier -- up until scientific notation is needed, and then at that point the general readership can't fathom the number and generally doesn't care.

in other words, I bet 8,000,000 terabytes produces more clicks than '8 exabytes' and '6.4 x 10^19 bits' would have.

If I had been born a new-age journalist i'd have gone with 8,000,000,000,000 megabytes -- but only if that fit in the link/URL slug and headline for maximum click-bait exposure.
I think most of them do. Freelancers at Gigzoe (https://gigzoe.com) on avg work work about 8-9 hrs daily as per our survey.
Copyright infringing or not, this genie will never go back into the bottle.
This specific complaint seems to be about data privacy, not about a freedom being eroded.

Also, since you can fork it, as has been previously mentioned, there seems to be no purpose in objecting to this type of FOSS acquisition. Worst case, the project ends as it was before the acquisition, with no corporate support or funding whatsoever, at which point it seems it won't make any difference whether there was a complaint or not.
My health has deteriorated along with my mind. I've gained ~30lbs (male) putting me on the edge of a 30 BMI, but honestly it takes so much effort to focus on weight when I'm already suffering in mood and sleep. I'm trying to solve one thing at a time, and I assume sleep is at the root of all of my issues. My depression medications also tend to cause weight gain, which doesn't help.

Diet wise, I eat relatively healthy compared to most of the US, but that isn't really saying much. Obviously I'm consuming more calories than necessary, hence my weight gain, but I believe it's more portion sizes than anything else.
The issue is that it can become very complicated very quickly, even when the IDE is able to figure it all out and present it in a useful way. Even with the best tooling, nonlocal control flow can't help but increase the WTF per minute[0].

[0]: https://www.osnews.com/story/19266/wtfsm/
Perhaps it can, perhaps it can't. I don't think we can know without real world trials. But planning, whether central or not, has the crucial advantage that it is much more flexible. Beyond that, we don't even need to go fully into one extreme.

The fact that it has to aproximate at all however completely invalidates Hayek's argument, which is why it is worthless - his assumptions beg the question.

That being said, given the ability of incredibly rudimentary paper-and-pen, low tech planning systems where planning is basically a very difficult computer science problem to get within a third to a half of what markets can do, I think there is a solid shot that planning can outperform markets in the majority of industries, though perhaps for smaller industries a flexible hybrid will be more useful.
Right, but Copilot is not creating a piece of critical media about the code it is ingesting (IANAL, but my understanding is that this gets interpreted pretty strictly). I don’t think the normal Fair Use classes apply here.

Even if the code isn’t being copied verbatim, it feels like the spirit of these licenses is being violated, although I don’t know if that’s enough to get anywhere in court. But if the code is in fact being copied (like that Quake example) then the license is definitely being violated.

But I feel like there’s too much analysis in these comments of whether a current law is being broken, and not enough thought about what will happen if licenses like the GPL can no longer keep intellectual property free. Open source licenses are part of the foundation of this community, and we’ll be much worse off without them. We really need a way to prevent this kind of IP laundering, and if current laws won’t do it, then we need new ones.
The premise of Wooden's methods is that the players already have a lot of experience playing basketball. Many many games by the time they got to UCLA. Informal and formal.

And that's my caveat for this as advice on painting. If a person doesn't already have a history of painting, by which I mean starting and completing paintings as paintings, no amount of drill is going turn them into a painter. The willingness to execute paintings has to be there.
Thank you for writing this. As much as people repeat the exercise mantra, it helps to see someone in a very similar situation improve.

I'm not likely to go to a gym, but I hopefully will be pushing myself to start exercising. We'll see how it goes given my asthma.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but mainstream Linux distributions have been collecting crash reports for a looong time.

[1] https://errors.ubuntu.com/
[2] https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tools/abrt/about.html