skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We seem to be moving to the idea that people can not think for themselves and so need to be told what to do by "experts", who cannot be questioned. Your ability to think critically about what you see and hear, is being marginalized and ignored, in favor of gaining your obedience.

Holding out examples of people who make bad decisions, is used to gain acceptance for the idea that no one can make good decisions, except these few ones, who you now have to obey. This is the new religion.

Unfortunately, the experts and dogma of the day tend to turn out to be wrong, at huge harm.

I'd rather accept that there is some small fraction of the population that can be easily mislead by manipulative misinformation, with all of the risk that entails. That's better than the coercive thought policing we're starting to see.
In Civil Engineering it would seem crazy that someone changes their mind and decides that the Tower they had requested, obtained designs for, budgeted tens or hundreds of people's work, and planned for, now suddenly must be a Bridge. They themselves would discard the idea due to how absurdly expensive would be to just basically start from scratch. All that money and resources would be basically wasted.

Maybe it wouldn't be a bad thing that the same thing happens, to a lesser extent, in Software Engineering. Say bye to stupid last minute changes caused by the fact that they are not perceived as expensive, and all the bad incentives it creates in the people writing that software.
Yeah Kefir is usually only slightly thicker than buttermilk, but it can be strained to make it thicker. It doesn't form solid curds like yoghurt though, but has its own particular fractal-y curd structure.

When not in use I just put the jar in the fridge (as long as it's only been at room temp for <24h) and it can stay there for weeks slowly getting more sour. At some point the kefir becomes too sour to be palatable, but will recover just fine after a feeding or two. I also keep backup grains in water in the fridge for years and have revived one of those after 5 years or more! Apparently the grains can also be dried and revived after years as well but I haven't tried that.

There's lots of info about milk Kefir on Dom's Kefir In-Site (straight from the nineties web!):

http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~dna/kefirpage.html
Maybe Oakland will do it and become an economic superstar...
Covid-19 origin: ‘It looks like this virus was designed to infect humans’
I'm sure some don't give Jobs the credit he's due, but I'd say it's far more common for people to have too much reverence for him. You yourself here have reduced his often outrageous and terrible behaviour simply as "brashness".
I can't remember if I was in a bad mood, but surely any pushing of cryptocurrency would justify that ;)
> It can also provide completions only based on local code. That optionality is important.

I don’t see how? The question is about the ethics of building such a tool, not whether anyone is forced to use it.
This isn't quite right. You can have colors that are significantly out of gamut without being over-bright. Moreover, they might be using a traditional SDR screen which doesn't have any management of brightness at all. I can easily see the difference between the two images on my screen, which displays gamut differences out to about DCI-P3 despite only being a ~250 nit laptop screen.

> You can test your monitor with this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NlAsAuBtmps

Actually I'm surprised to hear Youtube supports HDR video at all. I was under the impression that web support for HDR video was still rather lacking.
The paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-92388-5#Abs1

It found that the coronavirus is most ideally adapted to infect human cells – and not bat or pangolin cells.
A little. But all works output by GPT-3 are provided in “source form” to everyone who uses them – whereas lots of the output of Co-Pilot (trained on copyleft code, among other things) is going into proprietary software projects.

(Also, GPT-3 wasn't trained on nearly as much writing as that. Even if you ignore lost writing, GPT-3 was trained on a small subset of the 'net.)
Glad to hear that despite the weird behaviour with Firefox, you enjoy the nostalgia! If it helps, if you want to write really long programs, it's possible to create .atto files in a text editor and then import them into atto by pressing Ctrl+O. Writing long programs in atto is nice, too (since you get the syntax highlighting), but of course it's somewhat hard in Firefox at the moment. Chrome/Chromium-based browsers work well with atto, though, since that's my primary testing target (Firefox second, then Safari third if I can be bothered with it!).

Testing atto myself in Firefox seems to be consistent when I type in sentences, just that there's a bit of rendering delay which may feel a bit unnatural. Of course, it's hard for me to investigate how the problem manifests for you; but is it basically like this for you?
Do you know of any formal study that talks about this?
What MBA thought cutting maintenance costs was a good idea?
Autonomous programming will be explored. Potentially, Copilot is a proof of concept, an early step in that direction. If it is, the corrections made by Copilot users will be applied to the development of the future of unattended programming. Whether it is or not, it's close enough that any legal outcomes experienced by Copilot users will contribute to the definition of liability boundaries relevant to the future of autonomous programming. Copilot users are numerous enough that the incidence of risk is low of ending up under the foot of a copyright owner with the means and will to crush a user, but no one should take such a risk to use a novelty like Copilot in production code.
Hi there! I'm the creator of this programming language. I've designed this language to resemble the style of the BASIC programming languages of the 80s, but with the modern functionality of today (syntax highlighting, rich editing, fast runtime, runs in browser etc.). It's a bit of a side project of mine, but ultimately I think it's a great way for beginners to learn programming, and for more advanced users to tinker with!

You can get help by using the `help` command, and we have many tutorials to get you started with, in addition to a command reference. Whilst our documentation is still work-in-progress, your feedback is most welcome — let me know what you think is good about the documentation, but also what you think could be improved, too.

atto is open source, so feel free to check out (and maybe star‽) the GitHub repo: https://github.com/James-Livesey/atto

There's also an official Twitter account (with a bot coming very soon™ — edit: it should all work now), so be sure to follow it for updates: https://twitter.com/codeurdreams
Doesn't "fair use" limitations go out the window if the license is permissive enough to allow commercial use of the source code? As I've said in other comments, I still think this was the wrong way for GitHub to do this-- opt-in would have been much better-- but outside of licenses with commercial restrictions I'm not sure there's a license violation here, no more than scraping hundreds of public domain books to create paid reprints would be a problem, or using the same to create a corpus for NLP machine learning.
Show HN: Self-Hosted Minecraft Realms
I was playing with breaking them a long time ago. Here are some interesting searches that seem to do almost nothing:

Quoted Single ASCII Chars:

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="~"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="~"

https://www.bing.com/search?q="~"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="`"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="`"

https://www.bing.com/search?q="`"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="!"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="!"

https://www.bing.com/search?q="!"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="@"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="@"

https://www.bing.com/search?q="@"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="#"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="#"

https://www.bing.com/search?q="#"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="$"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="$"

https://www.bing.com/search?q="$"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="%"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="%"

https://www.bing.com/search?q="%"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="^"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="^"

https://www.bing.com/search?q="^"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="&"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="&"

https://www.bing.com/search?q="&"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=""

https://www.google.com/search?&q=""

https://www.bing.com/search?q=""

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="("

https://www.google.com/search?&q="("

https://www.bing.com/search?q="("

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=")"

https://www.google.com/search?&q=")"

https://www.bing.com/search?q=")"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="-"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="-"

https://www.bing.com/search?q="-"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="_"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="_"

https://www.bing.com/search?q="_"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="+"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="+"

https://www.bing.com/search?q="+"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="="

https://www.google.com/search?&q="="

https://www.bing.com/search?q="="

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="%"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="\"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22\%22

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="#"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=":"

https://search.yahoo.com/search?p="%"

https://www.bing.com/search?q="%28%29"

https://www.bing.com/search?q="."

https://www.bing.com/search?q="=="

https://www.bing.com/search?q="$"

https://www.bing.com/search?q="+"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="~"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="`"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="!"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="!!"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="@"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="#"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="$"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="%"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="^"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="&"

https://www.google.com/search?&q= #quotes do nothing here

https://www.google.com/search?&q="\*" #same as above

https://www.google.com/search?&q=":)"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="~"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="\"

https://www.google.com/search?&q=")"

https://www.google.com/search?&q="%"
I've been on and off playing with the same scripts described in this article for the last few months (installable as bcc-tools under Fedora). While some of them are a little unstable or need a bit of Python version handholding in fc34, I've been blown away with the data I've been able to get with seemingly negligible overhead. I was also really surprised to find them in the default repos, and how relatively few people reference them when discussing other eBPF tooling (e.g. Pixie).

As someone who has been building observability software for the last few years I'm ridiculously excited about eBPF. Looking forward to seeing what the Netflix dashboards mentioned in the post look like & the data pipelines that support them.
It doesn't mean they socially know everyone that shows up, but every member would have paid some amount to buy (a) share(s), at least that's how coops work where I am. Plus accumulated dividends. That's a relative barrier to fraud if they decided to issue credit to members.

You could still fraud hit them in this circumstance, but they have some kind of info printed on your card with your name on it and how long you've been a member, and somewhere in the background, a phone# and address.

If one wanted to commit retail crime, easier to just take stuff and walk out without paying.
> You can use the `-march` flag for your compiler to target specific architectures, for instance -march=tigerlake or -march=znver3

Note that -march will use instructions that might be unavailable on other CPUs of the target. -mtune (which is implied by -march) is the flag that sets the cost tables used by instruction selection, cache line sizes, etc.
The netto branding has been removed, in all places I have seen
If #revolution getting censored by facebook is enough to stop the movement, then it was slacktivism to begin with. Or as Gil Scott Heron said, the revolution will not be televised. One cannot expect mainstream businesses to support a movement that will fundamentally destabilize their revenue streams.

Libertarians are at a loggerhead here. On one hand, businesses are meant to be free to make money however they please, and the market is supposed to correct whatever human rights abuses occur. But the market doesn't seem interested in actual zero-censorship publishing platforms, so on the other hand, free speech advocates are concerned with perceived overreach by the largest platforms.
The analysis seems to depend on sequences where the same exact words appear X times in the same order. If my understanding of how this works is right, they have the ability to globally change symbol names based on the prompt. And probably other things that make a literal match less likely, but what's different may be trivial. Like symbol names being swapped, use of equivalent operators (+=1 vs ++, etc), order swap where it doesn't matter, etc.

Of course, I'm just speculating since I don't have access to the product, but I have seen GPT-3 output that is verbatim plus some synonym swapping.
It seems like the most fair way to go would be for Copilot to be completely open sourced and hosted on GitHub. That way they’d be subject to the same terms/conditions they are imposing on everyone else’s code/repos.
Yes! The blockchain community is doing a lot of cool stuff here and it’s definitely an area where it’s worth it even with less than ideal tools.
If the license allows commercial use, what would the GPL violation be in this case?
GitHub is weird. Even their rebase workflow works differently than git by creating a new hash :/
Not OP but I was recommended to HN by my brother as an alternative to Reddit, which we've both mostly moved on from. I'm not a programmer in any capacity. I work in chip manufacturing, but on the factory floor. Never completed any formal education past high school. So, very different from most of you guys. I just like reading, and this site is absolutely wonderful for that. I love that comments are highly encouraged to have some "meat" to them. No overused, hacky jokes or quibbling arguments. Anyway, my two cents. Plenty of non programmers in here.
This is really sloppy journalism. They see a correlation between longevity, income, career, and cranium size and then say "welp, clearly it's the brain size"

No, clearly it's the money. They go in with phrenology bias and can't really do solid science. They even use IQ numbers which have been shown to correlate with parents income more than almost anything else.

They even mention the career of hedge fund managers, the classic career along with real estate and politics of dullard rich kids.

As the article contributes they then point out everything that I did. I don't know if the editors wanted this style or what.

It opens with paragraphs of clearly specious bullshit then says it's bullshit then has a concluding statement about how it's nonsense.

Second to last paragraph

> So it is not brain size, relative brain size or absolute number of neurons that distinguishes us. Perhaps our wiring has become more streamlined, our metabolism more efficient, our synapses more sophisticated.

Yeah, duh, of course it's more complicated then "durr it's bigger". And of course it's all skewed by the instrument of measure.

It's probably really stupid dumb things like the nuances of human emotions and our success in transmitting them. What sets is apart from other animals likely isn't what 30 year olds can do but what 30 week olds can
> While on many routes a car is worse in terms of CO2 emission per trip than a small to mid sized airliner if there are less than 3 people in the car.

Wow. I read that one plane trip can increase your carbon footprint by a greater magnitude than all your typical actions to reduce it.

Does anyone know where to find some data?

EDIT: Here's some data
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49349566

https://theicct.org/blogs/staff/planes-trains-and-automobile...

Also, planes have other problems:

* cars can be powered by carbon-free energy. There's not much current prospect for planes.

* planes also do great harm from non-CO2 emissions:
"The climate effect of non-CO2 emissions from aviation is much greater than the equivalent from other modes of transport, as these non-CO2 greenhouse gases formed at higher altitudes persist for longer than at the surface and also have a stronger warming potential"
Well, that is my opinion.

If I take an analogy: think of it as if you were typing a message in an IM chat window. Anything you'd type would be sent immediately to the service owner, whether or not you click "send" at the end. I understand this feel normal to you but I personally find this abusive and a total treachery from Google.

To support my point: I used to have access to a corporate proxy that performs TLS inspection for a little less than 50k employees. I looked into this specific scenario to get an idea of how many employees were being abused by this. It is quite easy to find: just filter for queries sent to GMail's API when you cancel a file upload or you remove an attachment from a draft. We have several hundreds of those events each year in our logs.

These people quite candidly think they "cancelled" the upload, but it didn't. Google got the file, analysed it, extracted knowledge out of it and potentially adjusted your profile and your employer's. This falls under the definition of a dark pattern.

There is something worse than using GMail for your emails: it's using GMail's web interface.
Ask HN: Can I charge GitHub for using my code in Copilot?
Since Copilot is regurgitating licensed code without attribution, I pondering many options:

1. sue GitHub (they will probably win since they can afford the best lawyers in the planet)

2. don't use GitHub for future projects. Remove all my current repositories (does this guarantee GitHub can't use my code without attribution? My code is probably still in their Code Vault)

3. use GitHub but use a license that explicitly denies usage of my code by Copilot (GitHub probably would probably just say "you can't do that, please just delete your account")

4. use GitHub but ask them to pay me for using my code without attribution

Option 1 is a waste of money and time for me (I will never win). Option 2 is fine, but I'm not sure what could stop GitHub scrapping public repos hosted in, let's say, GitLab. Option 3 would be the ideal case for me. Option 4: would be nice, but probably won't happen.
The conservative cancellation of Dixie Chicks in 2003 would seem to suggest otherwise. From wikipedia "At a 2003 performance in London, Natalie Maines of the American country band the Dixie Chicks, now known as the Chicks, made a statement criticizing President George W. Bush and the imminent Allied invasion of Iraq. The criticism led to backlash from country listeners, who were mostly right-wing and supported the war. The Dixie Chicks were blacklisted by thousands of country radio stations, and the band members received death threats."
Does your opinion only apply to unit testing or to automatic testing in general?

I can't imagine the kind of software that wouldn't benefit from automatic testing (unless you would be writing the simplest of CRUD web apps or doing it completely wrong).

From personal experience I see both better code design from being forced to make the code testable and less bugs due to writing tests revealing bugs I wouldn't have found with manual testing before they go into production.
He set back wages for techies for years, and was a prick to his family & friends (disavowing his daughter, screwing Woz out of money). I don't care if he was the brightest guy on earth, or what "value" he bestowed on the world. He wasn't a good human being. Same goes for Gates.
> Even with an MIT license it is a copyright violation to copy the code without attribution

Probably a copyright violation. There are surely circumstances in which copying a small portion would either fall under fair use, or for other reasons not constitute a violation. The question then is whether or not codepilot is causing a violation. I don't think it's as clear cut as most commenters are making out.

All in all though, it's probably going to take a few court cases to figure out. In the mean time, I'd expect most companies to steer clear of codepilot.
I once had this fun contract to fix code in one giant application written in PHP. The org of decent size who wrote said code in a first place had code reviews, unit tests and what not.

The end result was that they had to hire outside person to fix what they have produced. I looked through the software and noticed whole bunch of iffy patterns. Ended up writing giant Python script that searched said patterns and fixed it where possible marking with appropriate comments and issued a warning comments where it could not.

Not sure if this is a regular occurrence in companies that write and maintain their internal software as this was the only time I did job like this.
> A defect model, sure

More like a defect approach, behavior like that is well known(1) to be basically guaranteed to happen with GPT-3 and similar approaches.

(1): By people involved in the respective science categories (Representation Learning/Deep Learning, NLP, etc.).
That's an absurdly bold claim even by your standards. You can't predict how the industry might have evolved without Linux -- there's far too many variables. But even if you were to try, the fact that FreeBSD, OpenBSD and others are still thriving while Solaris is slowly dying off should be a massive clue that your statement isn't nearly as much of a certainty as your post makes out.
So kids under 13 can’t use Audacity? Such nefarious software!
I was amazed by service in Ryokan too - by the time we checked in our suitcases were in our rooms. By the time we had breakfast (with lady getting on her knees and explaining everything) our futons were done (we felt a bit embarrassed leaving mess and personal items everywhere).

Ryokan is one of the best experiences in travel!
I think in this new era of endless security breaches at cloud firms and M1-style processing innovation we'll see a slow but steady migration away from the cloud.
The difference is that it's a judgement call when to include attribution, whom to attribute with how much, and overall whether something is too close to be counted as a copyright or other license violation or not. Intelligent humans sometimes, or even often times, have a hard time doing this judgement call. An artificial intelligence would too, and a somewhat simple ML model (no offense) certainly does.

I'm really waiting for this to blow up from the open source license angle. Freely combining code with different license is a hellish undertaking on its own. But already just re-using some, say, GPL code, even staying under the same license, but without proper attribution, is Forbidden with capital F.
There’s a spectrum of formal methods and with the push toward static types in Python coming directly out of industry I would argue that industry is definitely deeming it important in some degree; the question is to what degree. Right now a lot of the time it’s only worth it for the most critical systems (S3, for example, but not my side project webapp) but if tooling improved, it would be worth it for more cases.
Well, a lot of the people with voting rights here obviously thought otherwise.
> The App we provide is not intended for individuals below the age of 13. If you are under 13 years old, please do not use the App.

This is farcical.
Compaining about downvotes or the reasons behind downvotes is a reliable way to attract downvotes. The is expressly mentioned in the site guidlines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html