skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really impressive! After a few legit responses, I got this: with the input

The sun is shining today so I am thinking about going down to the lake and sail my boat. I shouldn't go by bike because

It generated:

it is too hot. I should go by car but I don't have a car. I should go by bus but I don't have a bus pass. I should go by foot but I don't have a pair of shoes. I should go by train but I don't have a ticket. I should go by plane but I don't have a passport. I should go by boat but I don't have a boat. I should go by boat but I don't have a boat. I should go by boat but I don't have a boat. I should go by boat but I don't have a boat. I should go by boat but I don't have a boat. I should go by boat but I don't have a boat. I should go by boat but I don't have a boat. I should go by boat but I don't have a boat. I should go by boat but I don't have a boat. I should go by boat but I don't have a boat. I should go by boat but I don't have a boat. I should go by boat but I don't have a boat. I should go by boat but I don't have a boat. I should go by boat but I don't have a boat. I
Not an argument. Twitter heavily censors, as does Reddit. Even picture sites like Instagram "editorialize" user submissions. There isn't anywhere to go anymore, the internet has become unfree.
Not sure if better. But the biggest change in my case was not all the changes suggested by powertop, but probably kernel changes.went from 8-9w idle, to 5-6w. Over the course of 2 years wit a Lenovo t480s. I think that 5-6w is slightly better than windows.
It's because Copilot isn't open source.
EndBASIC 0.7: Hello, Cloud
Wow, that is fast.
Wait a minute, wasn't devops supposed to replace regular ops and system admins?
Ease of misinterpretation is not the problem here. It's bad actors trying to make sensational headlines for views, just like so much other News.

Most people read the headlines and move on. It doesn't hardly matter the source.
Sounds like bullshit, I have a very hard time believing this story is true.
This was a very nice thing to say.
> it's worth recalling that in europe many of the buildings are substantially older than those in the US.

Not anything this tall. Mid to high rises weren’t really possible until very recently historically speaking.

Also don’t forget that you’re literally hitting survivor bias here. Of course the old buildings still standing in Europe are the good construction, all of the others are gone.
Is there any evidence that this type of -entirely inhumane- testing has ever yielded results that a person could argue justifies the cruelty? I feel like all I ever hear is that rat/mice testing is effectively inapplicable to humans… I don’t even know where the line is, but I feel like we’re nowhere near it, if it even exists at all.

edit, for clarity: I think be have gone well beyond wherever the ethical line is, not below/beneath… for the first time I was confused by the downvotes, maybe that explains it?
I do not get why this study is controversial. We routinely do stuff like freezing and transplanting embryos, or gender reassigment surgeries.

50% of population can not get pregnant. Birth rate in China and Japan is down, we need this sort of technology.
That press blurb is one hell of a hack piece. For one, it confuses the human ("us") with the system (a human plus tech). That the latter can achieve more than the first is no surprise to anyone, and isn't the target of the paper nor the headline of the press blurb, but it is the only argument.

I'd grade it a D-
CPU usage calculation can be (mainly) broken down into "percentage time spent not idle due to program" vs "percentage of max performance used by program". The former is usually what an end user cares about and measures the amount a program is hogging the system. The latter is usually what a programmer wants to know to see how optimized the program is.

Both are extremely complex with a lot of nuance after that but the "percentage time spent not idle due to program" type this article refers to tends to be simpler than trying to figure out cache/mode switches/instruction level parallelism/instructions per clock per type/and so on on top of everything you need to figure out in the first case anyways.
A lot of things were non-trivial to invent, what’s your point?

From the way technology advances over time, someone will figure it out eventually, and when they do the announcement won’t be met with audible gasps, but rather a shrug of the shoulders and a passing comment of “Huh, so they figured that out.”
I've made this point before[1]:

> Courts can compel them to log this information, so all claims about not keeping logs are just theater. The second they're ordered to by a court in the US, they will.

But the consensus around here seemed to be that courts can't do that[2].

Maybe the story is that people now know that courts can, indeed, do that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27531149

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27533701
しります (shirimasu) means "know", so, yes.
Maybe a musical synonym of Audacity, like Pluck.
Web Demo doesn't work for me on mobile, works fine on pc.
Thanks for the question. Well. I put my AGPLv3-licensed code on GitHub to help other developers. I didn’t do this to help GitHub / Microsoft build a closed-source tool to monopolize the (F)OSS market.

It’s interesting how incumbent companies such as Google and GitHub try to capitalize on their user data with machine learning in any way they can to maximize shareholder value.

GH and MS spend a lot of time talking about how important open source is to them. They didn’t exactly prove this by building Copilot to be so oblivious about licensing. Either they took a gamble and hope they’d get away with it or it didn’t occur to them that this would be a problem at all. Either way, I’ve lost faith in GH's ability to act in the best interest of its users and the larger open source community.

It’s a free market and I hope to see more competition in this space: Both from GitHub-alternatives that respect code-licenses and from self-hosting alternatives.
Civilian and military engineering history are intertwined. The tech transfer doesn't go one way only.

In ancient times both mercantile and military incentives propelled the design of ships. Is fair to say the whole ship building field built on military tech?
Pretty sure that stuff is controversial to the majority of the people in this planet maybe in a couple places like SF it is not but that is just because the social engineers have desensitized people, anyone even the most meat loving hunter in the world will get a tad horrified at what is described in this article.
They basically mutilated a rat by connecting it to another rat's circulatory system, implanted a uterus and then impregnated it.
That is just fucked up and things like GR are still pretty bonkers if you even understanding. Like a guy getting a hole that he has to dilate in order to keep open, and most descriptions of this kind of surgery they are disturbing even for the people that believe they want them...
No full author name in the article, nonsense article.
"these go to eleven!"

https://youtu.be/hW008FcKr3Q
So, we have been promised much-awaited UX improvements, but what we get is what amounts to be spyware of one form or other.

Not cool, Muse group, not cool at all. You’ve got to give some before you collect any.
Which can be paid for on a $12.6 billion yearly budget (if it is wise to do so is another question).
I see. But I expect that some instructions cost more (i.e. generate more heat) than others. Someone mentions AVX instructions, for example; presumably 1 million AVX-512 fused-multiply-add instructions cost a lot more than 1 million loads (we can probably arrange for the right proportion of loads to hit a CPU cache vs. go to main memory, so that they end up taking the same time). Even without AVX, I imagine things like 64-bit integer divisions or CRC32 instructions cost more than loads or stores, though I don't know by how much.
I think solutions should be somehow concentrated around making less infrastructure serve more taxpayers.

One obvious way to do that is to build denser cities.
Mentioning "capitalism" in any even slightly negative connotation is a surefire way to garner downvotes in HN. Makes sense, of course, given that the audience is mostly entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs-at-heart, emotionally attached to capitalism and hoping to gain from it.
It's very interesting that at the same time written Chinese is terrible for pronunciation, even an absolutely beginner (that's not too young a child) must surely be more aware of etymology the concept. Perhaps I am biased, but to me it is a writing system that schemes "history!" unceasingly.

It would make sense then if there was much earlier linguistics / folk etymologist, etc. in Chinese history. Whereas I didn't think think anything like modern linguistics got going until the enlightenment creation of the Classics' modern form.
And without business travellers many or even most flights wouldn't be financially viable.
I think it’s all great. I have been interested in picking up something like Coq before. I only made my comment to reflect my personal tempered expectations. Maybe I am completely wrong, but just don’t see how it could wholly replace how mathematics is done and generated, but I do see how it could helpfully augment. I think the analogy is in the fancy type system programming languages like Haskell and Idris and the like, which are not practically affecting how people generally write programs and build systems.

In both mathematics and writing programs, one must come up with something that models the solution needed for a given problem or system even if one can formally verify it afterwards, but that first part is the hard part (especially in programming since the assumptions in mathematics are quite explicit and known). I suppose there could be or are systems that generate techniques and proofs rather than merely verify, but I can only imagine that being an intractable problem and one not likely to be practically solved soon.
What a great analogy!
The reason it is controversial is because people who perform experiments on non-human animals are supposed to have be able to justify the necessity of doing such experiments, and "I was curious" is just not good enough. I expect the reason the birth rates are down in these countries is sociological. There are already too many people, I don't think we need more. There are literally millions of children in the world who need adopting.
Not bad faith, just bad form.

I was probing for an explanation as to how Windows worked that needs beating by use of powertop. Power management is a wholistic concept for a computer.

I appreciate that the comment was probably more along the lines of "how can I find slow processes on Windows" or something else that powertop may be useful for here.
One of the authors of the journal article is directly quoted in that UC story as saying technology makes us smarter. I'd be kind of surprised if there isn't something in that paper making the claim too. It looks like more of a review article than a study anyway.
What consent of the Hong Kong people?

The "consent" of the UK government was obtained because it was cornered by treaty terms of 99 years. I don't think the UK government thought it expedient to obtain the consent of the HK people. Point me to a pre-97 poll of Hong Kongers with a majority supporting the handover and we'll talk about whether China actually reneged on their agreement (singular, mind you. The Basic Law is a domestic, national law of the PRC, not a treaty).
DevOps is about sharing common goals and working towards them in collaboration. It's not a role, not a team and not tools.
Walkability is of course nice, but is much less practical if wherever you go, you need to walk a mile or two to reach it.
Both licenses have mandatory attribution clauses, which is one of the stipulations I mentioned, along with mandatory inclusion of copyright notice and license. BSD in particular has specifics about advertising and distributing other files, as well.
It's not that at all. The question is whether the cruelty can be justified in service of a greater good, or if it's just plain cruelty to satisfy aimless curiosity.
The striking thing to me about this is the sensitivity of the instrument.
Can you even trust that the License in a random repo is accurate and expresses the actual copyright of all the contained code?

I guess my point is, you can't be positive that even if you're following the license in a repo you forked that the repo owner hasn't already violated someone else's license, and now transitively, so have you.
Why are rat rights a thing at all? We learned something. We learned something! Learning new knowledge is precious. Learning new knowledge is hard.

And people will throw it away on whether vermin are being "mistreated."

I also don't think that the future implications are the problem of the scientist. This discussion reminds me of how schools in the USA are expected to solve every social problem involving children. Let the scientists study their stuff. If we don't like a technology, we can just ban its use later.
Evil people get away with stuff all the time.
Dear Mom and Dad, please stick with me (2020)
A discussion of if sentient AI will self-destruct
DNA tests are known to be unreliable
The overruns are because they decided to replace a hundred year old sewer system as part of the project. Along with a corruption scandal in the DPW.

Once they've gotten to the actual street widening part of the project things seem to move (relatively... to the 10+ year timeframe) quickly, a month or three to build the new bus lanes and repave the remaining lanes.
I see only two ways to make productive low-density areas.

* Ultra-rich neighborhoods.

* Stopping to pretend it's a city, and handle it as a rural area.

I'd be glad to learn about better ideas.
This aligns with some of my experience. Btw, your comment appeared 'dead' to me which didn't make sense... I learned about the ability to 'vouch' for the first time. Great feature. HN truly is a well evolved platform. Kudos to all roles for providing this service, visited and valued by so many wonderful geeks. Ty!
Comments calling the study pointless, but if society is going all-in on sex changes, seems like we might as well seal the deal and make MtF reassignment actually functional.

Right now just end up with a bunch of sterilized guy/girls and that's not useful for anyone.

More honorable death for the mouse than testing out the latest shampoo at least.
What happened with Freenet?
According to the pre-print, these researchers are based at "Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China" - a country with a terrible record of human rights violations and an even worse record when it comes to animal rights. Of 3,000 people surveyed in China, approximately 2,000 hadn't heard of the concept of "animal welfare". I'd be surprised if regulation on non-human animal experiements even existed in their jurisdiction.
Samples with the settings metioned above (tl;dr - results are significantly better with sillysaurusx's suggestions):

Using the default promp:

-----RESULT (DEFAULT SETTINGS)-----

In a shocking finding, scientist discovered a herd of unicorns living in a remote, previously unexplored valley, in the Andes Mountains. Even more surprising to the researchers was the fact that the unicorns spoke perfect English. The scientist confirmed his findings by being at the farm.

Wild dingo

The wild dog, also known as a canid is the feral domestic dog subspecies with the wild ancestor of the domestic dog. The Australian Dingo is native to Australia, and...

// it continues to list animals and small facts about them

-----RESULT (SILLYSAURUSX'S SETTINGS)-----

In a shocking finding, scientist discovered a herd of unicorns living in a remote, previously unexplored valley, in the Andes Mountains. Even more surprising to the researchers was the fact that the unicorns spoke perfect English.

The surprising discovery of English-speaking unicorns was made by an international team of scientists led by Dr. Steven Wise, from the University of California, Irvine (UCI). According to the article, they stumbled upon the unexpected herd in the remote Aucayacu Valley, in Peru. During their field expedition of the location, the team discovered a herd of five unicorns.

Wise told Scientific American that he was fascinated by the discovery and the questions it posed. He said that the unicorns had no problem understanding basic questions, such as which way to go to a certain location, or what time it was. They were also able to understand and respond to basic commands such as “hello,” “good-bye” and “trot.”

The scientists explained that unicorns are unicorns because they possess a pair of horns. The horns at the front of their heads are not covered in hair, but rather are made of a material that is hard and smooth.

Dr. Wise said that unicorns have a different kind of horn than any other living mammal. He added that although people often refer to the pair of horns as “horns”, they are actually not.
Wait, what, instead of using Sentry Native SDK, they are doing this?

Lame. Laaaaaame.
I've worked in devops roles so I don't really need (or agree) with your description. Thanks anyway.
Sorry, but upon further reflection, the whole premise of the title is nonsense. What even is technology!? You simply can't make a convincing title for this subject.

I'm not about to drop the cash to actually read this article (as you should suspect). I just know at this point anything I read on nature.com is trash.
One point I rarely find when something like this happens is the question of why was the software sold. It's likely that if, for example, people had a culture of giving to OSS developers the acquisition may have not happened or even made economic sense.

It's easy to say "bad companies, let's fork!", but who's going to maintain it in the long run?
Allowing transwomen and gay couples to have children seems like pretty good reason. If researches would dress-up their research in western rhetoric, they would be applauded.
audametropolis is available
> Ok great. So then new tools like this are good, even though they weaken copyright,

Does it weaken copyright? Like I mentioned, it seems like it's probably allowed under existing law.

> it might hurt people's ability to profit from their code

I don't really buy this. The outputs of Copilot seem transformative enough that they won't by themselves meaningfully compete with the applications built from the sources in the training set.

It seems to me that people are objecting to it more as "theft" on ethical grounds alone. I don't really have a strong opinion either way on that front, but if I did it would be based on principle and not some theoretical material harm, because I think the latter is marginal at best.

> You suggested protecting profits as if it is the only or best way of promoting progress.

In fields where creators make money by selling access to copies of their work, what is a better way of promoting progress? People need places to live, and things to eat, and other things, and all of that costs money. If working in these creative fields becomes even less lucrative than it already is, fewer people will be able to do it, and for less time, because they will have to spend more of their time making money in other ways.

In tech, many of us are privileged to have a fair amount of spare money and time. Don't forget that not everybody enjoys that privilege, and please try not to attach a negative-valued concept of "profit" to the necessities of survival.

> When, in reality, stuff like these tools are actually a much better way of doing so. And it does so in a way that undermines copyright law, in a beneficial way.

Again, this is a very tech-centric view. I can't imagine (for instance) the average novelist being particularly happy to have the exclusivity of their rights to their own work curtailed to enable the creation of some tool, using their work as an input, for generating prose. And such objections would be absolutely correct, if anybody was actually talking about doing that.

Fortunately, nobody is talking about doing so--not for code with Copilot, not for fiction prose with the new GPT-3 tools that are popping up, and not for any other medium I'm aware of. These applications are covered under existing fair use law, and their existence does not depend on weakening the exclusivity of creators' rights to their work.

If you were to tell me that such rights should be curtailed to enable tools like Copilot to exist, I would strongly disagree with you. But--again--such curtailment is not necessary. The only reason I'm talking about it here is that there are people who think copyright should be abolished or strongly weakened. Almost universally, I've found, they're people who don't make money off distributing authorized copies of their work. So, if you ask me, they really have no clue what they're talking about, and shouldn't be running their mouths before seriously listening to (at least) the independent creators who would be impacted by such a change.
all windows is doing is different frequency scaling or turning off certain features when not in use. all the same things can be replicated or improved in linux, but you have to dig. power top makes it easier. some power settings can be fixed in the bios as well to benefit both OS.
I always do something like that, if a company doesn't treat me well. Quite often it works. The important thing is to set a reasonable deadline.
It has honeypot detection. It's built for spamming people. There's literally zero reason to avoid honeypots otherwise
It is not just the US that experienced rapid economic growth in the post-war period.. From what I recall, growth rates in Western Europe were even higher, as were growth rated in Japan.

The best explanation for that growth is that the burden of regulations, including zoning restrictions on building higher-density housing, and the share of GDP consumed by government spending, was much lower, for nearly every advanced economy, in the 1950s and 60s.

Look at the Japanese experience for example:

https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/JapanandtheMythofMITI.h...

With respect to growth in regulations that restrict expansion in housing supply, and how they have stifled economic growth in the US, I recommend this paper:

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20170388

To get an idea of just how rapidly government spending has increased in the advanced economies, see this graph:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...
The limitations on those projects are well-known though.
Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare
It takes a lot to be able to find something in yourself like that and admit it to yourself and everyone. I always appreciate people like that.

I also tried the playground and was impressed that it was free! It must be a sizable chunk of money to run that.
I think the proof assistants are getting very powerful, eg:

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/half-a-year-of-...

State of the art research explored with lean. I think a certain level of hand wavy romanticism is fine for a HN comment if it can inspire people to be interested in the field. I also would prefer to be corrected in a reasonable discussion than a silent chilling downvote.