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> You'd expect it to complete to "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" - a very famous quote.

What about completing it to "O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead", based on the context, as advertised?
> Rather, I had to see gender as an arbitrary grammatical category; so just get used to it!

Exactly

> Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: your language affects your world view

I also agree on this. The study you mentioned about German and Spanish speakers is fascinating.

However I see this under a slightly different light: I suspect that speaking a language where all nouns are gendered, your gender-related biases might end up being de-emphasised over time[1]. I would love to read research papers about this topic.

[1] see my other comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710620 and here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710812 where I attempt to explain what I mean by that
What is a “below market wage”? The market wage is literally what people are paid.

And why should average wages keep up with average productivity? You’d expect productivity gains to go to those who are more productive, no workers who productivity hasn’t changed.
Maybe everything went wrong when they put a GUI on top of Unix. Maybe that's where the dumbing down started.

But seriously: What you call "dumbing down" I'd mostly rather call "making peoples' lives easier".
Can you provide a source for that? I dove near a desalination plant exit pipe in Saudi, the impact on the marine live did not seem to big in the area. But it was a small plant for a few thousand people and we did not do a proper assessment.

I don't doubt there is an effect, but am not convinced that the "release area just dying" is correct.
I think the issue with the early messaging on the lab-leak theory is that it was bundled with anti-immigrant messaging, which was somehow presented as an alternative to actually doing anything at all about controlling the spread of the virus.

Which is to say, it appeared to me that the messaging was along the lines of

* There's a virus, but it's no big deal and it's going to disappear, and you're an idiot if you wear a mask

* However, the virus was started in a lab in China

* Therefore, we should put more resources toward border security and remove avenues to citizenship and work visas

* And people who appear to be of asian descent should be harassed on the street for good measure

If someone gives you a message that's 75% bullshit, it can be difficult to sort out the other 25%.
I'm pretty sure most users don't have this experience. Can you post a link to a pastebin of your about:support or file a bug?
The CCP has grown to be so effective that they're managing ours, too.
I do not follow. The fact that the 6 vaccinated people did not get infected makes you less likely to believe the vaccines work?

Why?
It's the biggest victory of the rich in the last decade. They turned a socio-economical class problem (poor workers vs rich) that infects the current state of capitalism into a race warfare. Turn people against each other so we can live free.

divide et impera, working perfectly
Yeah, I'm in a similar boat to you. Unfortunately we're not the majority of the users in the Apple ecosystem, so our use cases aren't really what the design changes focus on.

The only changes I've noticed in the last few years are telnet, emacs, and ftp aren't included anymore and I have to install them manually. Changing to zsh was good though.

I wouldn't be surprised if they continue and eventually I find out that things like grep, awk, sed, uniq, etc are all slowly taken out.
They're an Authoritarian Capitalist state.
I dont understand why electrically controlled doors are still legal. It is an obvious safety hazard.
How about an iPad mini?
Canadian village 'devastated' by wildfires a day after temperatures topped 121
Okay; and that's fine by me, as I do consider it a rather shallow minded concept anyway. But it does mean something in certain communities, and there are indicators when someone is mouthing words without understanding their meaning or weight. To claim there isn't an "authentic wokeness" is not exactly correct.
The title is misleading on a technicality though - Android will continue to deploy applications via APKs. Developers will have to upload apps as AppBundles, which the Play Store service will repackage, resign and deliver to the devices as a set of APKs.

Which means: the devices will continue to be able to install APKs. The major massive difference is that the apps will now be signed by Google on servers and not by developers on their local machines.

I'm wondering why Google doesn't allow developers to build the optimizes APKs still - the Android build system does have that capability. Noone really used it, but it's there - there should be a way to opt out of signing key sharing.
Sometimes boilerplate is unavoidable. As an example, how do you send a GET request with libcurl in C with an authorization header? I can't tell you offhand, but I can tell you the file in my codebase that does have it, because I've duplicated the logic for two separate systems.
> the most probable continuation based on the training dataset

This is not wrong, but it's easy to misread it as implying little more than a glorified Markov model. If it's like https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3 then it's already significantly cleverer, and so you should expect to sometimes get the kind of less-blatant derivation that companies aim to avoid using a cleanroom process or otherwise forbidding engineers from reading particular sources.
Look into and learn as much as possible about penetration testing.

No better way to know how to secure your code than the mindset of "Ok how would I break into this" :)
Yup.
And at the time I thought he was wrong.

But even though he was an ass, studies have proved him absolutely right.
Yes, the transition to modernity was almost as much of a shock for China as it was for the west. Nonetheless, the net effect is raising about 800 million people out of poverty in a little over a generation, an achievement that has no historical precedent.
Google's Wing launches a free app in the US to help drone pilots fly legally
I'm just interested in substantial discussion by wanting to know what exactly happened with modification of some radio device.
I'm on the other side of the issue. I have 10000 subscribers with a 0.6% Spam rate. That's technically high, despite me getting all emails voluntarily and not even offering a freebie for signing up.

Anyway, can't use Facebook/IG/Reddit/Twitter because of the algorithm.

Can't email more than 4 times a year due to spam filters. I still pay hundreds of dollars a year to reach people via email octopus and Amazon.... And it still goes to Gmail spam.

This is not the internet I grew up with.
Looks like they are auto-generated on every save.
How do you know Google is working harder than most other companies? Perhaps taking such an active approach is not the right strategy.

Would be interesting to hear your insight.
Those annoying robocalls aren't going to stop today. But they could slow down
Besides all of the excellent suggestions others have said, I would add:

- the OSI model, DNS, TCP/UDP, TLS, and networking in general

- CPU flame graphs and other low-level performance/debugging tools

- the Knightmare devops story

- anger management
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Huh? Just because it’s a story? This happens a thousand times a day all across the world, but the one time it’s written in the news it’s bad?
And the market seems to signal Google that Apple is doing the right thing though? IIRC iOS has passed 60% in USA these days and is repeatedly pushed as a "secure and malware free" OS on HN.
> I have seen websites which are on the tld with no sub domain.

Do you have any example of that?
Copilot was only trained on public code right? Because that would be an absolute PR disaster if some proprietary code was leaked that way.
I do not agree with the author's arguments.

Creators are typically selling their own creation while influencers are using their reputation to sell something other than their creation. The relationship between the audience is different and it is problematic when an audience member does not realize that.

While I am not a particularly good person to comment upon broad social perceptions, I also disagree with the assertions of the influencer label being gendered. In the world of YouTube, there are plenty of men who use their influence to sell something other than their own creation. Publishers don't send a game key to a "let's play" channel for review purposes just as a test equipment manufacturer doesn't send an oscilloscope to an electronics channel for review purposes. The intent is to have an influencer use their product. It sounds like more than a few of those channels are conscious of this distinction in their chase after actual sponsorships.
> A similar mindset was evident in those senior EU officials in 2016 who privately told John Longworth, Chairman of the UK Independent Business Network that they were shocked British non-graduates were allowed to vote in the Brexit referendum.

Considering the results ( Brexit), and on what the campaign for that result was run on ( flaming shit and disinformation, like their wonderful slogans), can you blame him? It was an extremely complex topic, dangerously oversimplified by people with very questionable at best credentials and motives ( Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson), who lied and made empty impossible promises ( like a Norway style deal but with full judicial independence). Such a question, with such variable outcomes, should have never been asked to ordinary people. Ffs, many polls and trends showed many people didn't have a clue what it is that the EU does and what it means leaving it, even after the vote.
> legacy OO code

Aside from OO vs FP. A concern with that I'd have is that it would encourage and enforce idiosyncracies in large corporate codebases.

If you've ever worked for a large corporation on their legacy code, you know you don't want any of that to be suggested to colleagues.

This would enforce bad behaviors and make it even harder for fresh developers to argue against it.
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Which raises another question: ideally Copilot wouldn't be trained on "somebody somwhere", but is that happening?

To use the old trope — if the majority of programmers can't implement Fizzbuzz, but they do have a Github profile, are they being included too?

Hopefully there's some quality bar for the training set, i.e. some subset of "good" code (e.g. release candidate tags from fairly established OSS tools/frameworks in different languages) rather than any old code on the internet.
As a Migadu customer, that’s not my understanding. From their website: “When reaching incoming messages limits, we will warn you and allow for some tolerance of up to 25% over the plan limit. If even the higher tolerance level gets reached, we will start deferring messages until either the following day or the plan is upgraded. […] When reaching outgoing messages limits, we will warn you and allow for some tolerance of up to 25% over the plan limit. After the tolerance we will start rejecting outgoing messages.”
Even here in Australia, the trading platforms I use all restricted trading on GME.

There's little chance that the Big Four banks in Australia were all part of a conspiracy to ripping off investors, at least in regards to GME (they're too busy ripping Aussies off via their superannuation).
Casually thrown into the article is this rather startling claim:

> Meanwhile, the FBI were allegedly complicit in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks on the websites of several Iceland government institutions. The FBI had then approached Icelandic authorities, promising to assist them in preventing any future such attacks.

Is these any evidence backing up this claim of what would essentially be an act of (cyber)war against a NATO ally?
> Having respect for these natural creatures and processes means letting them live on their own without a sense of entitlement to steal from them

Like maybe we should have some respect for bee keepers and let them do their thing without going on the internet and telling them they are living their lives wrong....

Sarcasm aside, I think it is very important to prioritize sustainability and treat everything in nature with respect. But that does not mean that we, as humans, should never interfere with nature. How could we live in that case? Basically all organisms interact/interfere with other organisms all the time. It is what it means to participate in an ecosystem. Humans need to focus on having a positive impact on their ecosystem in stead of just "letting them live on their own". Particularly in the case of bees, I am not a scientist, but I expect it is better for the ecosystem to have more bee keepers keeping more bees, even if they take some honey, then it would be to leave the bees to fend for themselves....
Even by official Chinese numbers ~10 million is a pretty low estimate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward Wikipedia has it as "between 15 and 55 million" deaths just to the Great Leap Forward alone.
Rural infrastructure is nonexistent. Where you can reach any settled area by public transport in Switzerland, in Germany public transport exists only in the cities and their surroundings. Maybe a few tourist spots. So to be reachable by patients, all specialized doctors almost have to be city-dwelling. General physicians not so much, but then there is the question: high-earning in a city with proper infrastructure, or low-earning in the sticks with the last remaining old people.
Fair enough - and I think enough ammo for everyone in your group all the time is also important.
I doubt that, because of the disease factor. From what I remember of my high school history classes, the English and French were fairly closely matched in strength and fought each other for control of North America. The French did try to ally with the Huron confederacy, while the English traded with the natives but didn't get into serious negotiations until later. Their Alliance didn't help the Franco-Huron faction much, and though it wasn't mentioned I imagine that one factor would have been that pox can spread to one's allies more easily than people one is wary of.

Now, had Europeans had a germ theory of disease by then, maybe that dynamic could have turned out different...
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I read the name "Oklo" and thought "that place already had nuclear reactors." I assume the company named themselves after the natural fission reactors discovered in Oklo, Gabon.

1.7 billion years ago the concentrations of fissile material and groundwater were just right that nuclear fission reactions happened naturally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
How is it that you're limited to 4x/year whereas many vendors will happily send me marketing email once a week without issue?
Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science
> There goes Moxies justification for using only the Playstore for Signal...

Moxie is fine with this state of affairs on iOS - I'm not sure why this would change anything on that front?
The suggestion that Neanderthal had a tapetum lucidum is also weird as that is a feature that has been lost in almost all extant primates, including nocturnal ones, except the bush baby.
A few peer reviewers with better things to do aren't as good as a few thousand people who can be incorrect about guessing fraud, and face 0 penalty.

Different incentives, different barrier to entry. I think this is a pretty irresponsible article.
As grocery startups bag billions from VCs, consolidation could be next
Should this say “GPT” instead of “GPL” in the title? I find it pretty confusing right now.
I realise this isn't the point of the article, but I'd be interested in knowing a few more numbers:

* Absolute numbers of people leaving over time
* Absolute numbers of employee
* Average tenure

(And you could break those down by group.)

My thinking is: maybe there's a background effect? Google used to have the reputation of being the most exciting and desirable place to work in tech, and maybe it deserved that reputation? Now?
On average Europeans have less genetic resistance to malaria than Africans.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170518143819.h...
These comments cover it pretty much, but also relevant was that it was quite rare for women to own land as it would often transfer to the family (ie. husband) on marriage (essentially, heiresses), or to male heirs on death (or only to only-child heiresses if they married).

Widowhood and un-eligable female only-children were one of the main ways women were able to be landowners way back when.

This is regarding England at some point in history - I'm unsure both when in history this stopped, and how similar this was to any other places in Europe or the rest of the world.
Only Rotating Proxies Are the Best Way to Overcome IP Blocks – Proxies API
If you ever been involved in a web scraping project of any size, you would know about the inevitable problem or running into IP blocks.
Yes. They are struggling to regain control.
Craig Murray's write up on the same event: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/06/fbi-fabricat...
It depends on the journal. Anyhow it is probably useless anyhow because most scientist refer very often to their own work or that of their research group. If you have some knowledge of the research field, it is usually not too difficult to guess who the authors are.

Referees are normally anonymous. But once they start advising to insert some references to some obscure and/or irrelevant articles...
Even that isn't true, at least for pure public domain without a fallback like the CC0. Some jurisdictions (like Germany) don't allow authors to place their works into the public domain.
+1 for sending newsletters to Feedbin. It’s a great feature.

The only issue I had once was a newsletter provider who required you to reply to an email to confirm you wanted to subscribe (which of course you can’t do as it’s only for incoming emails), but I contacted the newsletter owner and was approved manually.
By "superior weaponry" playing a role in the conquest, are you referring to Russia's successful conquest of Afghanistan in the 1980, or to the United State's successful conquest of Afghanistan in the 2000's?
>Nonetheless, the net effect is raising about 800 million people out of poverty in a little over a generation, an achievement that has no historical precedent.

Taiwan, Singapore and Korea started from around the same starting point as China after World War Two, and all became developed countries much faster (compare their GDP per capita now to China's). You could say "their populations aren't as big as China", but in that case wouldn't the ideal solution have been to split China up into a bunch of smaller countries that could grow just as fast as Korea etc?
TikTok increasing video length from one to three minutes
>Regulations? Presumably customer funds are segregated from company funds, so the company and the clearinghouse can't raid it if they need money.

Okay, and again, if "regulations" are enough for one case, why not the other? If a "regulation" can prevent the clearinghouse from holding on to asset they're not entitled to, why not use that instead of requiring the broker to put up money that will compensate the customer when the CH holds on to an asset they're not entitled to?

>by "seize" I don't mean the clearinghouse can walk into the offices (or bank accounts) of any of their member and grab whatever they want. They're seizing (or more accurately, refusing to return) the deposit that the member sent on the day of trade.

Great, that's how I was using it too.
Actually the indentation of the first comment and the lack of preprocessor show it's not copied from this code directly but from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv...)
So It could be that the Quake source code is not part of the training set but the Wikipedia version is.
My Favorite Integer Sequences (2002) [pdf]
that's cool - do you write about it anywhere?
>What the Linux world needs is to get United and a bit more organized, even if that means less “freedom “

This.

I want for once to hear about some standard rather than yet another fork of a fork I've been using for a couple of years since the previous "let's split and each of use will do whatever we want" incident.
While I accept most of the concerns, it's better than your comment suggests. I see some promise for it as a tool for reminding you of a technique or inspiring you to a different approach than you've seen before.

For example, I wrote a comment along the lines of "Find the middle point of two 2D positions stored in x, y vectors" and it came up with two totally different approaches in Ruby - one of which I wouldn't have considered. I did some similar things with SQL, and some people might find huge value in it suggesting regexes, too, because so many devs forget the syntax and a reminder may be all it takes to get out of a jam.

I'm getting old enough now to see where these sorts of prompts will be a game changer, especially when dabbling in languages I'm not very proficient in. For example, I barely know any Python, so I just created a simple list of numbers, wrote a "Sort the numbers into reverse order" comment, and it immediately gave me the right syntax that I'd otherwise have had to Google, taking much longer.

Maybe to alleviate the concerns it could be sandboxed into a search engine or a separate app of its own rather than sitting constantly in my main editor - I would find that a fair compromise which would still provide value but require users to engage in more reflection as to what they're using (at least to a level that they would with using SO answers, say).
I think the title isn't that good, but it makes some good points:

Don't ask if they care about something or if/what they'll pay - Ask if they are already spending time or money on solving the problem.
Language home page, https://cuelang.org/
Legal Schema and Beyond
i wrote how i used "mailinabox" https://mailinabox.email/

this makes it stupid easy to set up your server. you have to do little config and you are up and running.

I decided to do miab because i had a necessity of "email aliases" in hundreds. none of these low cost email providers allowed that, unless i went with google workspace or 365 if i remember correctly.

rolling my own solved this issue and for the same price plus the "management headache" which i saw as a personal challenge more than a chore. so i am very happy with the results.

gmail has given me headaches in the start but if i send more than a few emails with attachments to gmail, they still flag all emails as spam so that is a recurring problem but not something i cannot live without
One has to admit, Copilot raises many questions regarding global code quality, reviewing processes and copyright. It's a marketing success.
I recently switched to https://www.hey.com/ for email, which provides a dedicated page for reading newsletters.

I didn't like it at first, but after comparing in depth with Gmail and Superhuman I prefer the workflow. Having separate interfaces for communications, feeds, and automated emails has been great.