skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think the endgame of visual programming tools is to just eliminate syntax errors.

You could probably conceive of C as a visual programming language if you spent long enough time. All of your keywords can be reduced to blocks, forcing people to insert the appropriate parameters. And once you allow people to define their own blocks, you're like a good portion of the way there.

The problem is that after a while, it is simply faster to type. The breadth of options available becomes too much to manage from menus and drag and drop interfaces. Already you're probably typing in some values and names. So you're constantly switching between keyboard and mouse.

At some point, the benefit of perfect syntax doesn't outweigh the loss of productivity from not being able to immediately use any construct the language makes available to you.
try replacing the word slave with person or people of color, and the word slavery with racism, and you get something much more contemporary.
Amazon is a cess pit in every respect. I use it once in a blue moon if I can't find an obscure item elsewhere, but I mostly abandoned it some years back. Alternatives have raised their game, and aren't regularly appearing in the news for being a cess pit. Everyone knows it's a cess pit (you can't miss the endless stories) but they like the convenience, and are frankly too lazy too look elsewhere, so the inevitable mock shock, disapproval and tut-tutting all comes off as quite insincere - just a little theatrical etiquette.
This is pretty much how the Shogunate in Japan worked.

Once a single war lord controls the “security” of the Emperor, they then wield power and justify all of there actions based on sole access to the Emperor.
>If you could manage without loans, you aren't in a situation where gov intervention is required.

This assumes everyone is equally prudent, but I doubt this is the case. For instance, suppose I was frugal, eating only rice and beans so I could pay off my student loans ASAP, while my friend got takeout multiple times a week. In this case, does my friend deserve more intervention than me? If my acts of frugality and sacrifice leads me to not get intervention, what message does that send to society?
Just when JavaScript was becoming bearable… #tooBad
It makes sense that he steps down, I have heard that he is leaving Earth.
I truly believe that increasing the minimum wage (at first just to the same as the 1960s, ie about $12.20/hour, and then adjusting for productivity growth since 1969 to about $20/hour), especially if combined with policies to maintain full employment, Will lead to dramatic increases in productivity as companies are finally forced to properly value human labor. The increase in productivity well help pay for minimum wage increases, making them not purely inflationary or even just redistributionary (although it’ll be that, too… tying minimum wage to productivity growth will have the effect of reducing & limiting income inequality).
> Everyone's self-preservation instincts kicking in to attack Copilot is kinda amusing to watch

Nobody is threatened by this, assuredly. As with IDEs giving us autocomplete, duplication detection, etc this can only be helpful. There is an infinite amount of code to write for the foreseeable future, so it would be great if copilot had more utility.
Big Energy are some of the largest researchers into renewable energy, and they will become more so with the influence of ESG. ESG is flexing more muscles than ever - look at what just happened to Exxon's board thanks to a fairly small hedge fund influencing shareholders to vote in a different direction.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/business/exxon-board-clea...
I think you've hit on the heart of the issue here. Framing the issue as if there is some kind of ethical/moral obligation to refrain from utilizing fossil fuels is completely nonsensical. As you said, when you have a legal, available profit opportunity in our economic system, you take it. If you don't, someone else will. Blaming the people who "got there first" is like blaming Samuel Colt for all gun violence. Our system by design operates at the lowest-common-ethical-denominator.

If you want to change it, you need to change the economic incentives of the all the actors involved. This includes straightforward measures that are already exist but need to be tuned up, like forcing them to recognize the negative externalities they introduce through operation more directly (carbon tax).

Of course, to the extent those actors have tried to downplay or mislead the general public as to the extent of those negative externalities, they have full culpability I'm happy to condemn them for that. But let's not pretend they are immoral for simply existing.
While I partially agree - too often a class problem is recast as a race problem to narrow the range of possible solutions - there is also a race problem that should not be ignored.
I don't see how that is anything but a choice.
well, that's wrong and un-American, I thought everyone is created equal.

I'm not sure what the reason for this recent surge of neo-racism where every "tribe" has to be treated differently.
IBM’s core business is boring crap that doesn’t make the news. So, how the company is doing has little to do with the kinds of things you hear about. That said, their market cap peaked in 2012 at 240B vs 130B today and their revenue and profits are similarly down, which suggests things haven’t been going well for a long time.
I'm not making an argument one way or the other beyond that the OP conflating deliveries with packages is inaccurate and misleading. People are acting like drivers are expected to make 400 individual deliveries a day which doesn't remotely pass any sort of sniff test.
I was very interested until I learnt that you use AWS to host your services. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple etc. are parasitic tech companies that try their best to access and mine our personal data. Privacy conscious techie individuals try their best to avoid the services of these companies. Please consider hosting your email elsewhere.
I believe it's fixed in macOS 11.4... looks like it was a bug that was affecting the data reporting tools.

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1396374313591140357?s=21
"According to the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), the Coast Guard rescued both people on board."
All cancelling student loans does is transfer money from the college educated to the non-college educated.

And student loans can already be put on thirty year plan, or setup for income based repayment. No one is starving because of their student loans, they're just having to purchase a house a little later in life than if they didn't borrow a bunch of money.
> The CPSU was banned in Russia 29 years ago.

And then then it instantly reassembled itself under a new name.
The problem has only been reduced in macOS 11.4, but not solved. It's still really bad.
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Perhaps if the system was given more resources it might have a chance to become less broken. Of course just pouring money into the problem alone won't fix it, but I think it's clear to see the IRS cannot continue to operate on the level of funding it currently gets.
> But misreporting exceeds 50 percent for certain types of business income, like rental and proprietorship income. The current tax system thus benefits certain high earners who accrue most of their income from sources where misreporting is common.

This would be trivially solved by simple and flat taxes, but the main problem with fair and flat taxes is they lack the flexibility to be used as a political social engineering tool.

However, I seem to remember something about this very issue in history before, and for some reason this period is a theme this morning - something to do with wealthy peasants being an ongoing problematic resitance to policies that promise justice to everyone if they just give up everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization

The window has not shifted and the crimes of the 20th century are still very much in the minds of people. These guys and the rest of the out of touch Davos crowd basically want to engineer a version of China for the rest of the world. You're never going to guess who won't be giving up their stuff.

It is important to express contempt at these people. They show up in every generation, and the results are always the same.
So this makes it official... this post[0] and the comments on the announcement[1] concerned about licensing issues were absolutely correct... and this product has the possibility of getting you sued if you use it.

Unfortunately for GitHub, there's no turning back the clocks. Even if they fix this, everyone that uses it has been put on notice that it copies code verbatim and enables copyright infringement.

Worse, there's no way to know if the segment it's writing for you is copyrighted... and no way for you to comply with license requirements.

Nice proof of concept... but who's going to touch this product now? It's a legal ticking time bomb.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27687450

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676266
Could you explain a bit more? Are you looking for public vulns in your work machines/networks?
Din't US dump tons of money in South Koreea?
I think part of the problem is this misconception that the solution to climate change issues require winning a war of hearts and minds. Let’s assume you cannot educate everyone, but instead climate change will be a problem understood and solved by a subset of people, maybe a single person. It may be the case we can never get the majority to care or understand; then what?
Not to mention the effects of individual plastic wrapping preventing pathogens from spreading as quickly or easily.
From 23 years of running my own email (and for about a dozen other domains), this is a pretty good summary.

One domain has a small mailing list of about 200 users. The @yahoo.com addresses (and related, Yahoo-handled domains like old @att and @sbcglobal domains) are often just dropped.

Gmail addresses frequently go to spam, especially newly-added domains. I have found that having multiple @gmail users mark them as “not spam” tends to help, but not always.

My email server has had the same IP address for over 18 yrs, fwiw.
IBM bought Red Hat for OpenShift. IBM buying Red Hat was supposed to propel OpenShift and Red Hats portfolio into the C-suite connections IBM had. Instead, it seems IBM has force marched Red Hat to focus all their energies on OpenShift at the expense of their larger portfolio. OpenShift probably isn't performing as well as IBM expected, and even with 4 it still carries the "OpenShift is not Kubernetes" vibe. IBM also has a bunch of products in their portfolio that compete with Red Hat.

On the IBM side, weird shit is a foot. The GTS spinoff into Khndryl is very, very bizarre. They're a profitable part of IBM but need to be excised, quickly? It's causing chaos for accounts that had deep GTS coverage as the account teams are basically adversarial. The rest of IBMs portfolio is stagnating as they chase fads and lose to niche players with better overall value. Especially with the Data/AI space, startups are killing them.
Well, I'm going to do just that.

Thanks!
Can it submit pull requests to itself with if/else boolean logic/hacks?
Everyone may be created equal, but they are not treated equally as they grow up, making them unequal as adults.
Jim Who?

The man who sold the red hat to big blue?
I would like this to work, but I think Amazon won't really care.

They're big enough to work around the problem. Take advantage of that a bunch of drivers are suddenly without work, find another company willing to work with them, and soon enough things are back to the way they were at the start.
Had a co-worker once whose commits in Perforce (where it's called "Submit") made us joke that he had probably bound Ctrl-S to "Submit". Apparently it wasn't as unlikely as we thought .
I think the difference is that you know that you 'intended' to put the money in the correct account, but the government doesn't care about intent, it only cares about what actually happened. Furthermore, I'm not sure that the free tax form should be blamed for your misattribution of your funds (unless it was prompted and/or executed by the form).

So, double checking everyone's taxes (a step you didn't pay for someone to do for yours) is a hard job. But without that work, the penalties would only be worse in the future. So maybe have a little gratitude for those taking care of you when you don't take care of yourself.
Opposition? The true CPSU successor has recently won an election there, scoring up to 146% of the vote in some regions.
I just use that as a disposable email. I know there are better ways, but then with a subdomain, I can just experiment as much as I can.

I would like to believe that I have put the correct measures to prevent a DDOS attack, and it’ll be fun to combat a real time attack honestly
> if the law too often leads to unjust results, it will be changed.

But since it will only be used against 'bad' people, no problem.
The remedy to injustice is to treat people on their merit. Not come up with different ways to divide them in the name of social justice.

> I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
Your post validates the artist’s intent.
I've been operating my own mail server on the same IP for the last 10 years, so not as long as yours and I also don't have problems. I also disagree with one of the parent comments that you will never know what happens to email: Gmail supports DMARC, and will give you stats and tell you what happens. You can also sign up to various sender services and domain whitelist sites and so on. I've also seen mail providers do fun things like 'permanently defer' email as a means of blocking and this actually notifies you, albeit in a disruptive way, by leaving the email permanently in your outgoing queue.

I do agree however IP reputation matters. If you share an IP with other hosters, or your IP has been recycled from a bad reputation IP, or you have a residential IP or have found your way onto any of the email spam lists recently, or been reported for abuse or marked as spam enough times by freemail service users, you may have trouble getting to 'inbox' and eventually even getting delivered. Reporting systems like DMARC should let you know, however, before it becomes serious.

I don't think running your own email is a high maintenance activity that some suggest (especially for small servers) but it is definitely more effort than outsourcing it to someone else. I'm glad services like this exist, if only to prevent email becoming a Microsoft-Google walled garden.
Not necessarily in this case. Firebase is a gateway to paid Firestore, Storage, and Google Cloud. They give away Auth for free and is ISO and SOC compliant. An argument can be made for their free analytics offering though.
Each country has a law or something similar that states how people should calculate over prices.

The usual is to use decimal numbers with fixed precision (the actual precision varies from one country to another), and I don't know of any modern exception. But as late as the 90's there were non-decimal monetary systems around the world, so if you are saving any historic data, you may need something more complex.
>Back in the Thinkpad era, IBM had a lot of cool stuff going on. But now it seems like a shadow.

I remember their stuff from the pre-Thinkpad era. Quite a company. Working for both a large competitor and for a small company that was trying to sell to them they seemed clumsy but still had an amazing portfolio.

My guess is that they just need to merge/break-up/reconfigure into oblivion. Just another AT&T/HP/ITT/Polaroid/Xerox
Just saw this. For things that the UA doesn’t provide, I see your point and agree. However, in this specific case, the user agent DOES provide the user preference for light vs dark mode. Why reimplement it?
Mark this as a quite rare widebody water landing with all survived?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when a fully preconfigured YubiKey is shipped to you as part of the EV cert fulfillment, then there is no way to do this after-the-fact.
This Stratechery article from 2018 nailed it for me: https://stratechery.com/2018/ibms-old-playbook/
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A taller abstraction tree makes tradeoffs of specialization: the deeper the abstractions, the more one has to understand when the abstractions break or when one chooses to use them in novel ways.

This is something I'm interested in regarding this approach... When it works as intended, it's basically shortening the loop in the dev's brain from idea to code-on-screen without adding an abstraction layer that someone has to understand in the future to interpret the code. The result is lower density, so it might take longer to read... Except what we know about linguistics suggests there's a balance between density and redundancy for interpreting information (i.e. the bottleneck may not be consuming characters, but fitting the consumed data into a usable mental model).

I think the jury's out on whether something like this or the approach of dozens of DSLs and problem-domain-shifting abstractions will ultimately result in either more robust or more quickly-written code.

But on the topic of types, I'm right there with you, and I think a copilot for a dense type forest (i.e. something that sees you writing a {name: string; address: string} struct and says "Do you want to use MailerInfo here?") would be pretty snazzy.
You also see a similar situation with "places in society". The majority of billionaires are men, but the majority of people in prison are men too. Women in general seem to have a more "stable" place in society compared to men. It seems harder for them to climb higher but also harder for them to fall completly at the bottom. If I wanted to sum it up, it would be something like "the glass ceiling comes with a glass floor". This is just my speculation though, and not in any way a judgment of value.
I see the point as well, but it seems like a lot of theatrics at this point.

For example: the rainbow flag has always been for the LGBTQIA+ community. Now the flag has the added triangles with white, brown, aqua, and magenta for... black and trans folks? If that visibility makes folks feel included then by all means, but the rainbow colors on that flag weren't meant to specifically represent each aspect of that community to begin with. Maybe I've missed issues of representation in that community but I also don't think of LGBTQIA+ as an organization, just a sort of flag to represent non-cis folks.

And then there's Latinx, which is interesting because >98% of folks actually from Latino countries loathe that and don't recognize it. It's purely an American appropriation of another culture's terminology by the same folks who generally raise issues of appropriation.

I'm trying my best to be an ally but I have trouble keeping up with a lot of these things, even those which are a bit paradoxical. The best course of action I've found is to just treat everyone with kindness, respect, empathy, and an open mind.
The paper has now been retracted.
I like it - since I do inbox zero, it makes it easy to see them without going to another app.
That's what I thought when I first started working in text generation too. It's highly annoying people pitch their successful models with hand picked examples. It's literally the opposite of STATISTICAL learning imo.
>I don't see it as insulting to their intelligence in any way

Were you not exposed to hamfisted intervention programs growing up?

They say that you never notice the propaganda that works, and I think there are lots of programs that are just outright good that even a cynic can't cut down, but I remember lots of insulting messaging baked into "lets fix X" initiatives too.
Note that it's only for shared domain names, not your own (custom) domain. There's a good chance people want and reserve shorter email addresses on shared domains. e.g. subhro @ domain.tld vs subhro7783 @ domain.tld (or in this case @ purelymail.com)
That this could happen in any organization is surprising. That it happened in IBM is downright shocking.

How do you fail an email migration and not have email for your employees? How do you let this affect billing and invoices?

Why haven't they at least set up something temporary?
And you can also run BZFlag on it right?
Just let student loans go into bankruptcy. Most of the problems would be solved. Banks would be forced to actually evaluate someone's ability to pay back the loan after school, they'd give out smaller loans to lower their risk, schools would be forced to charge less due to less people being able to "pay" (people already can't pay without these insane loan amounts). Worse case for students who can't repay undergrad loans is that they're early 30s and starting over with no debt.
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Maybe the government should do this all the time. Housing crisis? Medical bill crisis? No problem, just have the federal government "loan" them money, then don't ask for repayment!
Thats you but I think majority of people, including me, would rather save a dollar.
So, what would happen if I train a neural network to recreate Disney movies?
The dumb thing is we actually have a word for this.

The word is queer. I'm still unsure as to why this word isn't used for most contexts where the LGBT[...] are currently used. We use the word "gay" and that used to be an insult like "queer" was too.