skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's not really a problem because the Python maintainers conveniently provided a package to do trivial 2-to-3 migrations.

That's not the point. For example, when ubuntu dropped python 2.x as the default, some of my workflows got broken because of scripts which I didn't write and didn't even know about. There's plenty of old code which people still depend on. System upgrades should not break your projects, or require you to go in and do surgery on scripts you didn't write.

> There were explicit backporting libraries created to manage the transition. Django depended on these for many years to succesfully support both Python 2 and Python 3 packages.

That's a workaround. A solution would have allowed python 2 & 3 to coexist with no additional effort.

> If you're executing a script, Python supports shebang notation to determine your executable.

Again, you're depending on the people who wrote the python code you depend on to handle this in the correct way. It's not something which is built into the ecosystem.

I'm sorry, but all your arguments seem to boil down to the fact that there are ways to make python usable despite the extreme fragility of the toolset.
Pretty great for April 1st... Or whenever you find an unlocked machine!
> Yeah, I think one of the issues people have with lack of intrinsic meaning is that they experience it as a loss.

This is kind of a clueless, dismissive response. If existential despair has not touched you, how marvelous for you. It passes most people by. I would not read that article and then smugly congratulate myself on this. Your self-satisfaction at being raised correctly is no different from someone being just fine with the answers they received in their Orthodox upbringing.

I grew up in a secular, non-religious household as well. There was no crisis of faith for me. There were simply no good answers and a lot of bullshit answers. Even pure empirical explanations are useless as to the why.

The article discusses why some people wrestle with existential questions like why are we here, what is the purpose of existence from a young age to the point of depression. There is nothing there about people being particularly religious, or having disappointed expectations.
> make curation impossible

You can just use any of the numerous third party clients that have a sorted timeline and don't inject random posts in your timeline.
I've only gotten it to work on Windows with Chrome so kinda lame, but at least it works well.

HDR is great for lifelike scenes. Games and movie. For browsing, kinda pointless.

People don't realize that sunny days are 5000+ nits and regular screens only hit 300. HDR makes things way more lifelike
This is me too. And the me of 2 years ago would have been aghast about that. But I now finding myself missing pretty major news cycles regularly because eventually you learn to trust the fact that you can "catch up" at any point in time. I've really enjoyed letting news happen and not getting caught up in the immediacy of it.
Related:

https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub

This perhaps has more flexibility and can deal with almost any website.
Having more coins as in Bitcoin does not give you more Bitcoin, but you're obviously right it buys more non-Bitcoin goods and services.

Bitcoin's premise is scarcity and software-enforced rules that are equal to all. It isn't going to "fairly" distribute existing capital, that should go without saying.
Oh ... Twitter! How about those who never joined the Twitter? Should I join the Twitter? Serious question. Why to join it in the first place? What are the reasons to join it?
The Hindenburg disaster should definitely serve as a caution against using hydrogen party balloons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH5JwHeKnZo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DUIcCq0Hes
Travel Norway’s Fjords on a Quiet Electric Ferry
Yes, if you're determined enough you can scrape anything. Just not sure what the new thing here is.
The political debate is endless and not very enlightening. However, this stuff max constitute useful tools to make better models in a non political way. A model that is biased because of too narrow test data will perform worse than a model trained on a suitable dataset. It can be hard to spot these issues, and having some checks and bounds to avoid common sources of bias is a good thing. Furthermore, an analysis might expose more info about the users than intended. This can have pretty bad consequences. For this purpose I thought the one about "collecting sensitive information" was a pretty good start.
depends on someone actually paying the developers because I don't think development is community driven but done by Muse.

People need to keep in mind that open source software doesn't automatically develop itself just because you can fork the code. Audacity is a pretty big, complicated piece of software.
A common tech-bro fallacy. We understand exactly what is happening at the base level of a statistics package. We can point to the specific instructions it is undertaking. We haven't the slightest understanding of what "intelligence" is in the human sense, because it's wrapped up with totally mysterious and unsolved problems about the nature of thought and experience more generally.
you can choose latest tweets, no recommendations from ai
I've stopped. I check my local news, I still read HN daily, but I don't watch or read any TV or national news. 99.9% of it has zero impact on my day-to-day life.
You can’t. You can’t make anyone do anything. Your best bet is to make information freely available open and transparent. What I don’t understand is, why you are blaming the individual? There is zero incentive for businesses to stop pumping pollutants into a world that will be dead and gone by the time they’re dead. Stop blaming the person who eats meat and drives a car to a factory every day in order to survive. Blame the powers that be that exploit us and the environment solely because they kneel at the altar of profit.

On a final note, I think its wrong to hold the global population accountable. Why should small countries gimp themselves when china cant stop pumping toxins into the air and india cant stop throwing trash into the ocean?
Thanks. It would have been nice if the author had explained that, instead of you.

Now, when is git-gc run? Of course, it's "[w]hen common porcelain operations that create objects are run".

So, what are common porcelain operation? And which ones create objects? On second thought, never mind. I'll just try not to leave anything inaccessible for more than two weeks.
Copilot itself may not be infringing copyright or GPL, but its users will be if they incorporate its suggestions into their commercial products.
dang,

Could we try "influence" boosting posts? Some kind of combination of "this person has X karma, commented on Y post, that yields the same result as upvoting in Z fashion" and normal upvotes?

I don't know that this would solve the above described problem (and it will likely introduce other issues in the social fabric of HN), but it might be interesting to see the outcome...
> I wish opportunities like these were available back in my college days.

I'm forgetting the source, but some book I read discussed some period of silicon valley as a place where colleges quite routinely exposed students to chip-making. It sounded like the fabs of the area greatly supported these efforts. I'm not sure where I read it but it's stuck with me across many years, always strongly affirming my belief that people, when given exposure to how & means to do, begin many great things.
That would be the European thing to do, true.
Obsession trumps everything
Well, no, I also think his use of the word ideology is nonsensical. You can understand what somebody is getting at while also thinking they are making a really weak argument.

(To clarify, I think his argument is bad on a straight formal level. I also happen to disagree with his position).
It all leads to better porn. It's like Hertz discovering electromagnetic waves in air for the first time. Few years later Marconi was transmitting erotica in Morse code across the Ocean. So I suspect once we are able to amplify and redirect the waves at some specific point say a penis on Mars all kinds of possibilities open up.
Ironically Google's platform in their "circles" where an attempt (kinda) to solve that problem.

All social media should be topic, not user based IMO. This is the way the internet was originally, it was not really personality, or people based. you joined a forum about fishing, woodworking, programming, or politics to engage with other people on those topics. Off Topic things where either isolated to a specific area of the community or banned completely.

Today however we do not see to have topics on social media is it just a stream of everything about a person...
anything new here?

lots of previous drama with it being declared shut down in Nov 2018 and then resurrected and then complaints of it being down again etc etc
The basis of the GPL is copyright, so what you're really asking is whether you can use part of a copyrighted work in another work without infringing.

And the answer as always is "it depends".
I care about privacy. I have an iphone. I've yet to hear of a leak of data after a factory reset - if there is a leak, why is the DOJ threatening Apple from time to get access to the contents of an iphone?
The thorny ethics of displaying Egyptian mummies to the public
Write to roam: why armchair travelling is back in fashion
I get annoyed every time people post twitter links here and wish they'd stop. Since twits requires javascript (to infect/track everyone) now, I just will not. It's like the old paywall site argument, will you sell your soul?
Yes and no.

My attitude changed and then realized the place where I live doesn't match who I am any more. Now I'm in a mid-30s crisis and no clue how to move forward.
looker does exactly this, though you do have to specify which dimensions to aggregate: https://docs.looker.com/data-modeling/learning-lookml/aggreg...
It’s absolutely insane and there’s really no reason for it.

Controversy with the angular team or high profile developers — why?

I’ve been off social media for years but I’d hear about it second hand from coworkers.
Yep, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have a lot of good albums that were used for soundtracks that are great for coding.
I'd thought the ship lost power - which wouldn't have been the pilot's fault - but it looks like that early claim got retracted.
She meets with tech company lobbyists pretty regularly according to her meeting log.
Case Studies in Copy Protection
The Taiwan saga will be another example of the 5 stages of acceptance. Right now the western world seems to be in denial. Once China does a small incursion into Taiwan, we'll advance to the next stage - anger. Inability to stop China will take us to bargaining. When China ignores the west, we'll get into the depression stage. When CCP's troops start patrolling Taiwan streets, and I think it'll happen in just ten years, we'll reach acceptance. By that time, the US will better have fully functional foundries in Arizona.
I don't know of any field that necessitates better noise reduction than gravitational wave detection. Seems to me it has the potential to spin off tons of researchers/techniques able to handle noisy data.
Replying to throwawayboise:

I've done the same exact thing.

I find very little usefulness in the national and international posturing, blaming, and virtue signaling that makes up most broadcast, cable, and print news.
> That's hilarious. I think Jeff has an account here.

I am 100% sure that I did not write that, and I am 100% sure that this comes across as far too Jeff-like for comfort!
Public radio. For example, here is Chicago's local version: https://www.wbez.org/
It's not an ideological position - I don't think that P=NP and I don't think that the Church-Turing hypothesis is false so I don't think that markets can solve NP problems efficiently and thus I don't think markets are efficient.

NP-hard problems can be approximated. You get the machine to approximate a solution that is better than what the market could do or thereabouts.
I am working on a LEGO sorter project, and getting access to labeled data to train my neural network is a real pain. Would love to see if your dataset could be of use!
oh that makes sense, i guess that would be another aspect to measure
When I saw it, I did do the quick calc based on the last update: worked out to around Christmas. OP might have just been bored over the holidays.
I'm not a lawyer so it's entirely possible I used the wrong term. Thank you for clarifying below.

Using the terms as you explained them below, I meant that Microsoft/GitHub has permission to reproduce the code so why wouldn't that extend to copilot?
For supplements that might help: L-theanine combined with caffeine, Vitamin b12, l-tyrosine. Lacking energy? Get your vitamin D checked and take vitamin D (and take D with vitamine K2).

I can only really speak to the effectiveness of vitamins on focus, outside of supplements, meditation and cognitive behavioral therapy are on my list of things to do to try and help.
Interesting read. From a layman's point of view the main issue I have with this study is that they have a selection bias to select those who have had severe COVID symptoms.

"Subjects were chosen from applicants who responded to online advertisements seeking recovered COVID-19 patients for this study."

Those who had asymptomatic/mild COVID symptoms might not even know they had COVID and they therefore would not apply to participate in the study. This biases the applicant pool to those who had severe enough COVID symptoms to either go to a hospital or get tested.

For the duration of the pandemic I have always advocated that COVID related studies should take random samples from the general population instead of selecting patients which are known to have COVID. Of course it would be much more work to pick a random 10000 people from the general population to participate in your study, but I think it would give better insight into the asymptomatic or mild COVID cases which would not be selected for a trial since the applicant themselves doesn't know they have COVID.

Generally, studies with the selection bias make COVID look worse since the mild/asymptomatic cases are ignored.
It’s not expanding over anything. Expansion is an intrinsic property.
50,000 people petitioned France last year to recolonise the country:

https://www.euronews.com/2020/08/06/over-50-00-sign-petition...
Create a User/Role for deleting (or whatever dangerous action) resources in prod cluster/namespace. Setup RBAC which allows your employees to impersonate as that user/role using kubectl --as. This way if you send your coworkers a command for dev environment and they try to run it in prod it will fail because they didn’t run kubectl as that impersonated user.
A small problem with using Stockfish is that cheaters may use other programs in order to not play like a top engine. For example, Stockfish would laugh at some old versions of Houdini, but Houdini still outplays any human easily.
Titus (Netflix's container orchestrator that I work on) does this via: https://github.com/Netflix-Skunkworks/titus-isolate
Goodness. This feels like the author didn’t watch the video. Not sure there’s much criticism here to even respond to.

I watched Casey’s presentation and I think his prototype does an excellent job of dispelling some standard excuses for why this stuff isn’t faster.
Your words are like sandpaper. I have no doubt people who are struggling with mental health get aggravated by you.
> I'm actually sort of curious as to the vigor of the backlash. Because Microsoft? Because of concerns about perceived further undermining of the GPL in particular? Because of people anxious to get their credit? Because...?

Because, this is really against the understanding of what was possible for copyrighted works. So, now that this is possible for anyone, copyright will start to get examined and hopefully updated to be useful in today's environment.

There are about a million problems with this.

This can even be used to intentionally launder source codes from a competitor. Apparently, all it will take will be to steal code (or just fork it), then create more than 10 copies on Github. At that point, copilot will start to emit the code during use. With all the legal commentary saying this isn't infringement, imagine how companies will be able to use this product.

Similarly, the training set can be intentionally polluted, so your competitor finds the output of Copilot worthless.
I think we make comments because we want our thoughts and opinions to be validated by someone else. With Twitter, you have an endless list of trending topics to discuss, and an endless list of people to discuss them.

In real life, you have to bring up a topic and provide some context surrounding it before you can even share your opinion on it. Even then, your conversation partner may not even be interested in what you have to say. But on social media, someone out there must be interested in your thoughts, and is likely well-versed in it (they're also tweeting actively), so you post it. You get a 'like' or a response for your thought or opinion. You feel good.

The thing is, opinions require zero energy or effort. You just have them. I think that's part of what makes it addictive. You don't have to do any work, just share your thoughts, and you'll get feedback from the system. That feedback feels good. With enough feedback, you're soon sharing the most pithy thoughts, or most banal facts just to get another hit.
What do I do to get this working?

So far I've forked feeds, edited feeds.toml, checked it out as a branch gh-pages, pushed the branch up to github.

I can see the page at https://<username>.github.io/feeds/
but https://<username>.github.io/feeds/actions is just a 404.
> it's compact enough that you should be able to learn everything in about an hour.

Yup, I learned everything I need to know about this project in 5 minutes:

https://github.com/tinspin/rupy/blob/7d7972932101b0bbe473a4f...

I hope you're successful in your Minecraft replacement, as I've enjoyed playing with some of the hobby projects it inspired
I'm mostly talking about 2 socket servers, which are IIRC more common than even single socket servers.

Dual socket is a cheap, easy, and common. If only to recycle fans, power supplies and racks, it seems useful.
I guess as long as you're not addicted(?), Twitter is a great research tool for specific kinds of things. For example open source intelligence topics.

Or general learning about a given topic. Tons of writers and journalists use Twitter, so if you're interested in higher-quality takes on a given topic, or just updates on e.g. author interviews and upcoming events, it can be a really good resource.

I tested Twitter while doing some research on astrology and found that some of the most on-target astrology advice I could find was found in the Twitter Topic for my ascendant sign (different from the typical sun sign used in astrology). It was far better than some of the paid services I tested. Very subjective-anecdotal (I ended up making my own lists based on what was interesting/useful to me) but I think it shows that it helps to consciously examine what Twitter is good at.

Lists can be really good too. Like this one for Open Source CAD: https://twitter.com/i/lists/963793700190146560
> just compel it to behave differently on your machine

Oh I will. The thing is I shouldn't have to do this. We're all tired of these obnoxious companies forcing this sort of crap on us. Why can't they just release their stupid thing with no strings attached? If this is their "contribution" I'd rather they just did nothing.
Downvoters, it's a real thing:

>The tests showed significant improvements in word recognition using a separate center loudspeaker when compared with a phantom center image between a pair of loudspeakers.

https://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=14174
Not just a European thing, but also an important science thing.

LIGO, which made the first gravitational wave detections, is located in the US and also has a pair of detectors (one in Hanford Washington; the other in Livingston, Louisiana).

The reason to build in pairs is because the detectors need to be _extremely_ sensitive in order to detect gravitation waves. Such sensitive detectors can easily pick up all kinds of noise from local phenomena (such as a truck driving nearby), so having two sites separated by a good distance helps rule out local noise. Only signals that are replicated across both sites need to be evaluated.

There are other benefits to have multiple detectors, too. Having two detectors gives us some ability to determine the direction the wave is coming from. More detectors will allow us to determine the direction even more precisely.
> 2.6 One vs. Many Check-outs per Repository

Given that git has worktree, it isn't limited to 'one checkout per repo'..
So I don't trust at all this comparison
So what about when the marginal rate was over 60% in the 1930s or when it stayed at 70% into the 1980s?
I think the link would better point here: https://www.designbetter.co/design-engineering-handbook which provides an overview of the book without automatically prompting to download a PDF.
The Eraser Men
California May Buy Up Beach Houses Threatened by Sea-Level Rise
Interesting. This reminds me of the bank of time I used to have to manage on a BBS. Imagine being limited to 30/60 minutes a day. Would that make interactions more valuable?
> GitHub Copilot is indeed infringing copyright and not only in a grey zone, but in a very clear black and white fashion

You seem to be confusing what you'd like the law to be with what the law is.
who has claimed there is something fundamentally new here?
A lot of JS is extremely toxic.
I wouldn't call that similar. Mining new Bitcoin is a very competitive, risky and intense business practice. Price swings greatly affect operations and there's always regulation around the corner.

Whereas staking is more like bringing fiat to the bank and collecting interest for doing nothing at all.

Still, you do have a point in the sense that if you're as wealthy as having 1,000 BTC, you have ample ways to further grow wealth. You could sell all BTC, go into real estate, take profit and buy back BTC cheaper. There's a million ways to grow your portfolio.

It's just that Bitcoin doesn't give you more Bitcoin based on wealth. Most Bitcoin held is not held by miners.
I was curious about the quotation from the linked article that says: "The World Bank has described what is happening in Lebanon as possibly one of the top three economic collapses seen since the mid 19th Century."

It turns out that's in reference to the Reinhart and Rogoff "100 episodes" paper, which focused on examples of historical financial crises in largely western countries. Stalin's push for collectivization, Mao's great leap forward, etc. aren't included in that study. So the World Bank isn't implying that the current situation is as dire as those kinds of situations.
There's more than redistribution happening here. Co-pilot is providing a value-add service where the open-source code is an input and the output is a service. As it happens, the service is actually regurgitating the code at this point, but it's important to consider that even if it didn't regurgitate the code verbatim, the fact that the service is making use of that code to provide a value-add means the code is a crucial input to the value proposition. Would Co-pilot be able to provide the value-add without the source? Likely not.

Couple that with the fact, that presumably at some point in the future, Co-pilot will come attached with a subscription model (otherwise why do it in the first place?), and we have the makings of a product that is commercially infringing on copyright left, right and center.
It's basic research and has no immediate application for normal life if this is what you are wondering about.

For astronomy, it is giving us a completely new way of observing the universe. Most other ways were based on different ways of observing electromagnetic radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_research