skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What are some lesser-known social apps that you use?
Social media is dominated by big well-known players (Facebook/Insta, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit, Twitter) and the internet is feeling increasingly small to me.

Years ago we had more options such as digg, myspace, friendster, orkurt, bebo, even google+.

What are some lesser-known social apps that you use?
While I fully support you and want to tell you to keep going, I can easily see how this will go nowhere with the Hacker News community.

Reason being tech is mostly about centralization nowadays and screwing over your neighbor in various not-so-obvious ways. This in it's own right comes from the massive leverage one could exercise if given control over a specific societal lever - that desire is as old as time and I don't see it going away.

That said we desperately need people like you to somewhat combat this somewhat expanding spiral. My best bet is to actually look in a place which you probably won't expect - the Bible. No, not joking, a lot of the information in there contains incredibly practical and time proven methods for building societies and the follies of societies in times gone by. It is not a coincidence it is behind so much of European culture and it's fruits.

Good luck and keep fighting the good fight!
This is like using Hindenburg as a caution against party balloons.
"Copilot is a commercial product, therefore, Github can only use code that the owners make available for commercial use."

IANAL, but this doesn't sound quite right. There is a difference between "using" code (running it in a commercial product) and manipulating it as arbitrary data within a commercial product.

It definitely can be a gray area, but let's say I use Amazon's service where I email a PDF to my Kindle - is it Amazon's responsibility to know the copyright status of the PDF, or mine? In both cases a commercial product is manipulating copywritten data for the benefit of a user.
> Is it even meaningful to say that the universe - everything - has an entropy?

The overarching approach to possible lack of meaning applies whether the universe increases entropy, sheds it, or maintains static equilibrium forever and ever and ever. It's kind of beside the point, really. Read entropy here as a metaphor for creeping existential despair or random chaos, whichever makes more sense to you.
> having to have DOM knowledge to select the paths is less inclusive

Right click on the element in Firefox, click "inspect element" and it shows you the unique selector for that element.
My life goals didn’t change much but past 30 there was marriage and kids, which kinda put a dampener on doing anything towards achieving them. I also have to accept the reality that my wife’s goals are pretty opposed to what I hope to achieve so I have a long battle there. Currently I’m probably really choosing the path of least resistance. Maybe when the kids grow up I can get some focus back.
Stablecoins / Central Bank Digital Currencies are equivalent to AOL vs the Internet.

Why would I hold stablecoins that are getting devalued at a MINUMUM of 2% per year over Bitcoin that has gone up in value on average at over 200% a year for the last 10 years. Not to mention other cryptos.
Thats per unit volume. So as an example 1 tonne of HFC-23 = 12400 tonne of CO2e (Carbon Dioxide Equivalence) in terms of global warming potential.
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I can't reply to the other subcomments because of the downvotes.

Just to be clear, I'm not against scraping. Done it myself plenty, point was that it's hard to maintain and if I were to make a tool for the masses, it'd be in a UI that highlights elements and lets you select them rather than dig around the DOM. Pretty sure things like this have existed for 10 years +
I suspect in the coming years that Canada will have more trouble with wildfires than the U.S.

For one, the population of all of B.C. is just a smidge over 5 million, or less than the SF Bay Area, which can strain emergency response and stability services if the active personnel is low to begin with.

Secondly, B.C. is much less developed inland than the other west coast states, so many fires will be difficult if not impossible to reach by anything but air travel.

Also, B.C. is HUGE, larger than the west coast states combined. Lot of ground to cover, lot of fuel for the fires.

Canada doesn’t have a lot of great options here. Building infrastructure to respond to events would be prohibitively expensive, given the land area to cover.

The least good option may likely be clear cuts on a massive scale to prevent fires from spreading too much. Current environmental legislation reflects the mood of places like California, where a knee jerk reaction to previous eras of logging has resulted in a “let it grow” mentality, which looks good on paper but only makes more fuel as far as the next fire is concerned. That being said, the costs may end up outweighing the benefits and Canada may end up finding ways to export an awful lot of lumber in the coming years.
So then we come full circle on infringement, if the operator is responsible for the code produced by co-pilot then the articles claim that is not infringement because it is machine created fails, as the operator is responsible

The argument in the article is that all code made by co-pilot is not infringement because there is no copyright attached. You seem to imply that the copyright of all code made by co-pilot is copyrighted by the operator of co-pilot thus would then fall under copyright law, and thus would/could be infringing
One thing would be not violating the Open Source Definition by forbidding use by under 13s.
> > > What's you angle ? Depressed people are spoiled brats ? Depression is not a real struggle ? Only bored people get depression ? Just say so and stop sugar-coating what you think.

> > I’m sensing a lot of defensiveness. I’m sorry if I’m triggering unpleasant feelings for you. I don’t believe any of those things and I don’t appreciate having words put in my mouth.

> The people I’ve met with depression have a lot of that tendency to jump down people’s throats after perceiving insults that are of their own making.

Maybe you bear some responsibilities then if you keep on getting the same kind of reaction when talking with depressed people. Why do you insist on that approach, knowing it hurts them ?

I am not putting words in your mouth. I am reformulating stupid statements like: > If you were to take someone who is actually struggling and put them in the shoes of a depressed, privileged westerner, they would be overjoyed. Someone who has never known struggle or threat may not realize how happy they should be.

You may not like it but you did implied depressed people didn't know actual struggles.

> > and small bouts of what might look like depression (given that I pulled myself out of it, I think you’d define it away as not actually depression, and I can live with that).

There is a pattern here where you think you are the one who knows how other are feelings (depressed, insulted with the absence of insults, having experienced sufferings or struggles).

And survivor bias, of course (see what I did here ?).

> > > Someone who has never known struggle or threat may not realize how happy they should be. > This is another broad statement for which there is no support.

> While “may” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, I don’t think you can say there is no support given I gave a concrete example from my own life in which I came to that realization.

Self-reported anecdata with your anti-western position and a situation that has nothing to do with depression ? No, you gave no support to your thesis.

Oddly enough you also chose to lead your reasoning on depression with that one-time event rather than your self reported bouts of depression.

> > > You seem to think depression is only in the head and try to rationalize it.

> No, I don’t. But one of the better treatments for depression, CBT, involves talking about and rationalizing ones thoughts, ultimately with the goal of getting into more productive habits of thought. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy

You are confusing a solution to a problem with its cause. The fact CBT is effective in helping keeping depression effects at bay doesn't prove thought patterns are the sole root cause of depression.

PS:

> I’m sorry if I’m triggering unpleasant feelings for you.

Strangely enough this choice of words triggers more unpleasant feelings for me than anything else you said. How curious.

PPS:

Know what I think of what happens to depressed people who experienced actual struggles in non-western societies ? They die sooner.
The whole thing is satire.
> there will be a nonzero number of developers

Oh ok. So this has nothing to do with your phone and your choices.

Instead, what you want to do is force other people to do certain things with their own hard work.

Not really sure why you think you should have domain over what other developers do with their own apps.

If you don't like those apps, then don't use them. Problem solved.
It would be nice to do a well-designed experiment to ask what are the biological differences in different categories of humans (eg old vs young). Then use that ground truth to assess whether an ML model is generating the biases that deviate from the ground truth. That way there is no a priori assumption of what is technical bias and what is real signal.

With the level of investment people are putting into ML technologies, these types of ground truth calibrations would cost only a fraction of the total budget.
Ask HN: Is GitHub Copilot a threat to software development as a career?
This isn't against data warehouses, but just the cubes. Bringing everything into a single database for analysis is still required. But you extract load then transform, instead of extract transform load.
We partially resolve this by having different namespaces in each of our environments. Nothing is ever run in the 'default' namespace.

So if we think we're targeting the dev cluster and run 'kubectl -n dev-namespace delete deployment service-deployment' but our current context is actually pointing to prod then we trigger an error as there is no 'dev-namespace' in prod.

Obviously we can associate specific namespaces to contexts to traverse this safety net but it can help in some situations.
This issue is a tad more complex than the silly tropes of "greens oppose nuclear" and "greens claim gas is green". That's not quite what this is about.

Nuclear is very slow to (up|down)cycle. It's very good at putting out a constant rate of power. Pretty cheap power, once it's operational and when conviently ignoring all externalities. However, having boatloads of cheap nuclear on the grid, means that there isn't much room for renewables at the same time. Which means they're often seen as a poor investment. Which means not much capacity gets added. You get the idea.

What the greens want, is as much renewables on the grid as possible, as quickly as possible. You can't use nuclear as backup for intermittent renewables (clouds, lack of wind, etc) because it's too slow. That's why the gas peaker plants are a thing.

Is this an ideal situation? No, of course not. Everything about the energy mix on the grid is a compromise. But it's slowly moving towards a situation where renewables become an attractive investment, which will hopefully lead to more green power.
PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

— Linus Torvalds, 1991
Saying "this marble is red" implicitly communicates that "my opinion is: this marble is red".
This article has such a bitter tone. Who cares if China bought a milsurp aircraft carrier?
There were two options in GPs edit and I stand by my choice. The guy thinks he's some sort of god for a mid-level fang role while scamming his followers.
GitHub Copilot AI Is Generating and Giving Out Functional API Keys
Front-running is illegal and is not why firms pay for order flow.
What about asylum seekers and war refugees?
I don't understand the obsession some VCS have (such as fossil and mercurial) with forcibly preventing the user from altering history. Even if it's intended to be a safety rail that prevents losing work, I should be the one that decides if I want the safety rail or not. Just like I should be able to run `sudo rm -rf /` on my computer if I want without some "mother-knows-best" OS preventing me from doing so. While the tool might be well-meaning and looking out for my best interests, I should have control at the end of the day, not the tool.

Super contrived example: Say I'm writing an book in markdown and I'm using VCS to track changes. Maybe it's a private repo to start with, but I plan on eventually making it public and open source. Maybe it's a book that touches on racial issues, like "To Kill a Mockingbird". Maybe I don't want the whole world to be able to look back through iterations of paragraphs I wrote and rewrote over and over because I was trying to figure out how to strike the right tone. You're telling me with Fossil/Hg I can't ever truly erase mistakes I never intended people to see? What's stopping people from mining the repo's "trash commits", looking for offensive text to label me a racist on Twitter? With Git I'm in control and before I make it public I'll prune the private repo to throw away any trash commits I never intended people to see. With fossil I'd have to... create a brand new repo and rebuild it from the ground up with some automated tool that skips commits I don't want people to see? Or somehow use the "shunning" feature to painstakingly delete commits I don't want people to see?

Fossil seems like a great fit for SQLite. Heck, seems like you use SQLite while using Fossil so it's like dogfooding (like using Git to version control Git). And I have never used fossil, so I can't knock it until I've tried it. But, I am reluctant to try it when I've already learned Git. I don't need wikis and chat and issue tracking or anything else fossil offers because I already use GitHub/Discord/etc for that (not to mention bundling all those things into a single executable is against the Unix philosophy, which I mostly subscribe to). However, I admit it is kind of cool that the wiki, issue tracking, chat, etc. are all just tables in the fossil repo so I guess theoretically you could easily search them with SQL commands.
A quick search shows that this snippet, including comments, is included in thousands of Github repos [1], so it's not surprising that the model learned to reproduce it verbatim.

It's such a famous snippet that it's even included in full on Wikipedia [2].

I wouldn't be surprised if the next version of Copilot filtered these out.

[1] https://github.com/search?q=0x5f3759df+what+the+fuck&type=co...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overv...
Obviously that's referring to WW2, when the peak marginal income tax rate was temporarily raised to 94%. That was unsustainable because, absent a worldwide violent conflict, the highest income people will just emigrate to lower tax countries.

All of our wars since WW2 have been wars of choice. The survival of our nation hasn't been at stake.
Regular exercise and real quality healthy food (veggies, meat). Dropping stims (coffee, cigs, etc) and alcohol also helps.
The tone of the post from the Musescore developer at [0] is so bizarre I wonder if the people who manage the company's policies and communications even know about it.
I spent a large part of my adult life thus far avoiding treatment even though I live in the US where ADD treatment is readily available. I viewed it as a mind-over-matter kind of thing and it was ultimately a harmful view of maintaining my own mental health. The world shutting down last year really exacerbated my (in hindsight) very obvious ADD symptoms to the point where I found it difficult to do much of anything and I finally talked to a doctor about it. I was given a prescription for a low dose of adderall xr and it changed my life.

Knowing what I know now, I would honestly look at moving to a different country if professional/pharmaceutical treatment weren't available to me in my country. Alternatively, if an adjacent country to you has something available and you have the means to go get it, I would highly recommend pursuing it. Trying to manage symptoms with all the normal "exercise, eat well, supplements, etc" advice can work with focused attention, but the difference when you find the right combination/dose of medications in combination with those things is incredible.
Read like a literary peace than a scientific one. I understood that dataome is a "very provocative", "intimate and inextricable" concept, but not what it actually is.
But those queries aren’t equivalent so how is anything saved by materializing the second one?

e:

I believe (I could be wrong!) you edited the second query from

SELECT dimension, measure
FROM table
GROUP BY 1

To

SELECT dimension, filter, measure
FROM table
GROUP BY 1, 2

This addresses the filtering but how is that any different from the original table? Presumably `table` could have been a finer grain than the filter and dimension but you’d do better to add the rest of the dimensions as well, at which point you’re most of the way to a star schema.

This kind of pre-computed aggregate is typical in data warehousing. But is it really an “OLAP cube”?

In general I agree there is value in the methods of the past and we would be well served to adapt those concepts to our work today.
Whenever I feel a hopeless meaningless in my life, Victor Frankl comes to rescue and I reorient my thoughts on the meaning of life, of our lives. The fact that the universe has no meaning does not imply that life cannot be filled with a meaning and fullfill that.
Philosophy Can Be Done Better (2014)
Germany has widespread gun ownership (estimate of 20 guns per 100 people). They are regulated but certainly not banned. In the UK, guns are pretty rare (about 5 guns per 100 people). The poster was talking about these low gun ownership rate countries, and was not trying to make a comprehensive list.

But it is true that the low gun ownership rate nations (<5 guns per 100) (ignoring ones in desperate povery where people can't afford guns) tend to, on balance, be much more authoritarian than the high gun ownership rate nations (>20 guns per 100 people). See the wikipedia article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...
This stores files for two weeks on a third-party server.

What advantages for the intended use cases does transfer.sh have over netcat invented 26 years ago? I know some people who have used nc for those entire 26 years to xfer files point-to-point from the command line.
In that case, at least there is some separation between the site musescore.com and the musescore open source app.
This is a university project. It will never be in "real" computers. At least not as a result of the doing of the university. Someone else could take this design and put it into "real" computers.
It says why it was disputed right in the description. Example:

* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17688
How to Accelerate Team Bonding with Tuckman’s 5 Stages of Group Development
A team will go through some rough patch before it jells. Watch out for it, expect it and plan towards making it smooth. Brace for impact.
Thanks for your valuable insight, I'm yet to read more about these topics since I was just scratching off the surface and I find Mathematical Logic to be a very interesting area.

A lot of people have been recommending "Gödel, Escher, Bach" which I'll check out.
https://twitter.com/sdmoores/status/1311371352855769090?lang...
The issue with people I know who take them are more than not feeling oneself, it's potential side effects like sexual issues, weight gain, and for the creative types, feeling less creative (so perhaps more of the losing oneself fear).
This discussion is heavily biased and prioritizes people's emotional need to be credited and/or paid for their work over a discussion of the legal and ethical concerns at play here. It disregards the comments of an expert in the field and focuses instead on demands that may well be unsupported by copyright law.

For example, GitHub license section D.4 specifically grants GitHub the right to display your content, analyze your content, and reproduce it in full to other users of the service. Yet no one seems particularly interested in discussing that here today, because it isn't compatible with the outrage that people are prioritizing on HN when discussion Copilot.

I would have expected HN to be better than Reddit in this regard, but I'm not seeing it yet. I don't know if the expert is right or wrong here, but nothing in today's comments suggests anything new or curious that hasn't already been ranted about in every prior thread about this topic. I specifically care about copyright law and it's disappointing to see HN having a group tantrum instead of a discussion.

https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...
Habitat 2.0: Training home assistant robots with faster simulation
Modern architectures are becoming simpler, usually just stacks of transformers, and they are good for text, vision, audio, or almost any task without special modifications. That means if they could implement an optical transformer that is 100x more efficient/faster everyone will want to have it.
What policy are you suggesting? Are you implying that the Chinese (and Indians) are somehow less deserving of living their lives out of poverty and in relative comfort? Because that's what this is ultimately about. These are both countries with huge populations. Populations who until recently were extremely poor. They are becoming less so, sometimes at speeds that are hard to fathom.

Do you want to be the person to tell 1 billion Chinese that, no, they can't buy a fridge?

China and India aren't vomiting greenhouse gases just to screw the rest of the world. They're doing it to feed their people and enable them to live their lives.
There's a thread on an AMA about ultimate guitar from a while back where the founder talks about when they made the decisions to start adding the features people complain about, and the impression he gives is exactly that; the rights holders of the music had them over a barrel and it was a sink or swim decision
Im surprised by The Atlantic publishing this, so much of the media are dependent upon twitter for stories
I usually mention that nature experiments more with men than with woman.

That's an explanation for why top talent are usually men, but the lesser ones are usually men too.

( + I was it was an explanation of a study)
What are the practical applications of gravitational wave research? Or is it purely basic science for now?
Also define "computational statistics". It'll be fun to try and fail to draw a clear line between the two.
Doesn't everyone who uploads code to a public repo give Microsoft/GitHub a license to (strike ~redistribute~) reproduce that code?

If they didn't, GitHub itself would be violating copyright every time someone browsed the repo.

And copilot appears to be a part of GitHub.

https://copilot.github.com/

So why wouldn't copilot itself be covered by that license?

(Certainly people using copilot would not. Let the user beware.)

Edit: downvoted to death but the top reply shows that it's true. An inconvenient truth, I suppose.