skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there has been an analysis of the second biggest public health insurer in Germany (Barmer) that had a statistic that said that 6-7% of all of those infected were ill (and not working) for more than 12 weeks (and the numbers for young people weren't far of, like 4-5%)[1]. Also, there has been a study in UK that 400k people suffer from long covid [2]. Caution really is the only way as long as one doesn't have the double vaccination.

[1]https://www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/corona-fast-jeder-fuenfte-...

[2]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/01/almost-400000-ha...
I personally, closely know at least 20 people who have had COVID so far and not one of them has had what is being called "long COVID". They range in age from 19 to 92 and all had varying degrees of confirmed illness at one time or another during the last year and a fraction (one of them twice) and all recovered fully within a few days to maybe a month or so at the most.

This of course is just anecdote, but it underscores a few points I think are important:

1. If long COVID is rare, well, how rare? That's a key question because its range makes a huge difference. Nearly every illness can have its extreme worse case examples, but they should by no means always be taken as causes for hysterical hypochondria if we're talking about an average 1 in 10,000 chance vs. a 1 in 5 chance.

2.Perhaps other factors, still poorly known in specific cases, played a large part in creating most cases of people with long COVID for extended periods. Speculative examples: coincidental separate illnesses that happened soon after, underlying problems that were somehow triggered by a normal period of COVID, other infections that came along because the virus created a temporary weakness, etc.

3. People are often notoriously unreliable at perceiving and narrating their health experience to doctors or each other, or even to themselves for that matter. In a pandemic atmosphere of frequent hysteria further exacerbated by digital media feedback, it's easy to imagine at least some people, especially those of a more suggestive or nervous persuasion, convincing themselves of extended COVID symptoms when much of what they feel is either unrelated and incidental or even completely in their heads, for months after their initial infection. then there are those who just enjoy painting themselves as dramatic victims and will latch onto anything they can exaggerate for effect. This last overall point isn't just a flippant dismissal, all of these characteristics are documented psychological tendencies in a certain subset of people.
Just for context, the author of the article you're commenting on is Julia Reda, a EU copyright activist and a former member of the EU parliament. While I likewise don't have too much use for the legal opinion of French courts, I think we can afford to cut her some slack for focusing on legal interpretations in her native jurisdiction.
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And how much would that cost? Be sure to include inflationary effects in your calculation.
Around 1999, Microsoft had a pulp fiction division. The "Crimson Skies" game had a complicated backstory, which included references to fictional magazines such as "Spicy Air Tales". Microsoft had two volumes of that written and published, plus some other short novels.[1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Crimson-Skies-Spicy-Tales-Fortunes/dp...
> Said developer adds telemetry to help make more informed decisions. People lose their collective minds.

I don't understand the reaction either. It's hard to talk about this stuff here because of the anti-analytics groupthink. Everyone seems to jump to the worst possible conclusion whenever it's brought up.

I can't help but wonder if the people screeching about it have ever actually put analytics in their own products. Understanding how your software is used in the real world by real users is absolutely invaluable!
the productivity gains we might have had on the design side were more than lost on the verification side

This makes sense. Without a complementary lift to verification capability, a lot of the design side wins don't gain you much.
I doubt it.

There’s more to code than a set of completions, regardless of how powerful they are:

1. There’s the large scale nature of most software. The many components that must interact well. The database, the interface to users and the outside world. Security, hardware, performance, threading, and more.. the bigger decisions of systems to use and how they work together.

2. There’s the domain knowledge to the problem you’re solving. Not sure how this goes away.

3. There’s the many false positives we’re likely to get. Like when Siri doesn’t understand what you’re saying one in twenty times, you often just give up on voice because it’s so much trouble to correct it. Except the risk here is potentially much higher. Maybe on your first serious copilot issues you’ll be _really_ suspect of it and decide to turn it off.

4. There’s the innovative, interesting work that’s down the long tail of what Copilot knows about. How generic is what you’re doing? How likely is copilot to have encountered similar problems to what you’re doing?

5. There’s debugging. How much time do we spend composing code vs figuring out why code isn’t working well?

TBH copilot seems to scratch an itch where I have to weave together a few stackoverflow examples to do some thing that seems a bit silly and time consuming. The task I wonder “why hasn’t anyone solved this yet?”

Good software balances a dozen or more different constraints that typically are very specific to the problem at hand. I’m not sure how copilot replaces this.
ardour may have worded that better than the audacity folks, but make no mistake, as per it's privacy policy ardour will phone home (to check for new versions), store information about bugs and comply with requests from law enforcement.

If you download and use a ready-to-run version of Ardour from ardour.org, the program will attempt to contact ardour.org at startup to determine if you should be notified about a new release of the software. If the computer where you use Ardour is connected to the internet, this process will store the computer's internet address and an identifier for its operating system.

If you report a bug to our bug tracker, we will store whatever information you provide as part of the bug report.

When Do We Privately Share Personal Data?

Never, unless required to by law.
Most of the effort is in fine tuning the existing methods, which is important, but also leads to reinforcing the status quo in terms of algorithms. In other words, transistor scaling gets a sizable fraction of optimization, and the viable algorithms are ones most similar to dense matrix multiplication. If you unfix the algorithms (e.g., analog or very sparse models), you’ll fall off this optimization efforts and your model will eat dust.
Whatever the ship does, it's ultimately the captain's responsibility.
While that's true, it feels to me that your comment made this point a lot more clearly than the article did.
Wouldn't 3 better than? For quorum?
Illegal Engineering
Insurance and Ransomware
Stefan Klein flying car: Slovakia complete first air car test flight
I know it's a petition. But it has some of the same problems that a "like" button has, if there's no "dislike".

But I also like your cynical take on petitions. :-)
Surveillance camera captures deadly water tank explosion in Lemoore
How was this never an issue? People including devs have been upset by AI and data mining for a long time.
Those are all talking about interacting with those projects' websites and community events, not about interacting with the software those projects produce or package. It is absolutely not the norm that Free Software running on my machine reports my usage.
I really like this. I am into SPARQL so I prefer the WikiData SPARQL endpoint, but for most developers this looks like a good query tool.
It sounds like you might be the one giving it too much credit. AI is a glorified markov chain, which is essentially a compression algorithm. I agree that it can be an instrument (I've done it: https://soundcloud.com/theshawwn/sets/ai-generated-videogame...) but it's almost trivial to train a model that memorizes by rote.

Suppose a model was trained solely on a single Beatles album. It could only spit out that album. That would be clear infringement, wouldn't it?
So if at some point I have a home in, let's say Beverly Hills, then I have a natural right to live there for the rest of my life?
Whoever you are you made my day, please post more comments on HN. For the good of humanity, for the children, for me.
I think the main point that the article makes is that for copyright to work you need some notion of a creative work, and so far it's generally accepted that snippets like

i = i + 1

aren't creative enough to be covered by copyright. The interesting point is where you draw the line between what's boilerplate and what's creative, and legally it will presumably come down to showing that copilot crosses that line egregiously enough for someone to think they've got a successful chance at legal action.
I like the simplicity of it, but it could very easily be a victim of "forum sliding", where new posts are made with the purpose of moving undesirable topics out of sight.
Open source stuff would disappear.
The article doesn't mention what happened to the crew of the ship. Are they still holding them captive [0] prior to this settlement agreement? Does this agreement liberate them?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/19/ever-giv...
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Why does it matter, as long as gravitational wave detectors are available and the research is performed? In a purely selfish sense, isn't it better if someone else spends their money on it?
> And if all biases were taken into consideration, everyone would (and should) score exactly the same on everything, regardless of age, sex, race, gender, ethnicity, orientation, etc etc.

"Should" is the operational word here. It is a normative decision that these (protected in many jurisdictions) classes should not receive any different treatment due to membership in the class. I agree with this goal, it seems you do not? Or are you objecting to a normative decision being disguised as a descriptive one? In that case I think it is largely a straw man, it's not how most people actually think.
Ask HN: How do you deal with anxiety?
I work in big tech and it keeps me terribly anxious all the time. Constant deadlines, status update meetings, performance reviews. I want my career to be marathon, but this is sprint after sprint.

As a result: I can't relax. Even on days I take off I am thinking about work.

I have also developed borderline addictive symptoms like stress eating and smoking.

Doesn't help that I feel I'll be fired all the time. In fact, sometimes I feel it'll be better that way because I don't have the guts to walk away from the big tech salaries.
LaTeX on its own does not magically solve all layout issues, especially if the exact placement of figures is pedagogically important or if the math equations are complicated. Usually you would end with 20ish compilation warnings (not errors) on a first draft. I think it is fine for a scientist to not bother with those, but I also think it is important for them to be fixed by someone in the final product. You can argue that I am snobish about typesetting, but that is different from saying that good typesetting does not involve an effort.

Also, I have never sent a PDF for publication. I always send source files. I do not know of journals that would accept a PDF (except for early peer review).
“An intriguing answer to the mystery of why the US invaded Iraq”
Great message.

A famous quote from an executive (not one in advertising):

"I know half my advertising budget is wasted. I'm just not sure which half."
This isn’t a “crappy product”, unless you consider every product that allows users to provide their own firmware crappy.
> you should never give someone equity for nothing

Wouldn't you be giving them equity for their advice?
My understanding is that Github's argument is that their use of the code to train Copilot is fair use. As such, whether the code in question has been released as open source only matters to the extent that it makes it more convenient for Github to access it, but the argument would work as well for a proprietary codebase.

Edit: I just skimmed the copilot blurb again, they seem to refer to "publicly available" sources and not open source code as their input.
It is a pity because it was quite a good program.

Is anyone working on a fork yet?
http://file.io

Same, and IMO easier to remember (:
Could not have written this any better. I’ve been in the data business for over 10 years. A number of technologies have come and gone during that time, but dimensional modeling and solid SQL skills keep delivering remarkable value.
Notice the car is standing still, most probably having minimal consumption of oxygen.
:D

Sometimes I just run out of patience and don't care if something fails, in this case it was copy pasta though.
A sibling comment links to a talk the developers gave. A quick summary - they break the world into sections via a quadtree like structure any only simulate active regions.
Israel data 'preliminary signal' Delta variant can bypass vaccine
So, none. Obviously there will always be some assholes, that should not determine policy unless it gets out of hand.
I know. But still, you must agree, a stupid name. The rest of the IT industry would say "real-time vs batch".
And OLAP is batch for most implementations.
> the edge of the observable universe, 45 billion light-years away

If the universe is 13.x billion years old, how is the edge 45 billion light years away? Assume we're on an edge (probably not, but ...); the radius between us and the center should be <13.x billion light years, and then the radius to the far edge would be another 13.x billion light years; that seems to total <28 billion light years max.

Looking out my window ... definitely doesn't look like 45 billion ...
Explaining Variable
Outside those who perform certain uncommon jobs, paying attention to non-local news more frequent than quarterly, at most, isn't of much more value than keeping up with a soap opera, or a reality singing competition, or reading tabloids. It's a low-value entertainment pastime. Fine in the same way those other things are, but not more laudable. People trick themselves, or get tricked, into thinking keeping up day-to-day or week-to-week matters and that doing so is somehow improving, but it doesn't and it's not. The time would almost always be better spent—if being better-informed or a better citizen or whatever is the intended outcome—reading a book.

That's even more true when the news takes the form of something like Twitter.

If you enjoy it, keep it up, but don't think it somehow capital-M Matters.
Ah, those instructions are unclear — as far as I know, you first have to go to https://github.com/<username>/feeds/actions to enable Workflows for your repository. Then, your feeds should be published to https://<username>.github.io/feeds/<feedname>.xml.

Does that work?
Why would they want to be colonized?
Where can I find the videos for this course?
Since that article was written people have shown it will generate quite long coherent sections. It will even generate someone’s private about me page: https://twitter.com/kylpeacock/status/1410749018183933952?s=...
Time will. I think hydrogen has huge advantages for e.g. long haul trucks, for which batteries don’t seem to be reasonable. And they will drive the infrastructure.
Space expands faster than light. Don't forget that C is the max speed of stuff in space, not of space itself.
This becomes even more important once you have children. Important and in many ways difficult, especially if you did not get that kind of attention from your parents when you was a child.
Primarily it means there are more potential events to observe, which again leads to better statistics and hopefully more of the interesting events.

Better statistics can help guide us towards a viable theory of quantum gravity, as well as improve our understand of what happens around black holes and neutron stars.
No mention of vip.aersia.net here; this is a curated collected of video game music that's been around for the better part of a decade. Well worth a listen if you like video game music.
No, fixing prices below the market rate inevitably causes shortages. There is no way to prevent this. Central planning has always failed.
Expansion of space
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a thing you want to nail...
It's possible, but they would be spam and dealt with, and I do not see this problem on DeviantArt at all.
I'm not a scientist but: I believe it provides access to the only real "data" on events that actually occurred very large distances away. This data is valuable in aiding our understanding of the early universe e.g. the big bang theory.
Yes, that's a devicetree. Those can be tacked onto the kernel image or dynamically loaded from the chip's firmware (which most likely gets it from the firmware flash).
If the US and Europe are both working on this, why not combine resources and build a bigger and better one?
Telemetry and error reporting are opt-in. Error reporting uses industry-standard Sentry (also an OSS), which is not a nefarious data seller. Auto-update checked are opt-count and send a very basic user-agent with less data than an average web browser HTTP request. There is no spying here.
> highlights elements, lets you select them,

And how would that software then remember your chosen elements if not by their CSS ids/classes?
This is false on many levels.
I dont understand all the ruckus around this. Just fork the repo and remove the spying code (I dont want an audio editor to share my CPU and IP with anyone).

It has been done for larger codebases like OpenOffice and MySql.
JS is actually okay. Horrible, horrible language, but like PHP there's some decent stuff in it. The only bad things about JS (other than JS itself) are the "write everything in four layers of frameworks" (but that's more a webdev thing than a JavaScript thing) and "four billion node dependencies that re-implement JavaScript built-ins" (bad, but not "extremely toxic").
But tweet counts aren’t hidden? In the iOS app, they show up at the top when you scroll down a user timeline. On the web app, it’s always visible on the sticky header of a user’s profile/timeline
We don't have to check news everyday, but on that day when the BIG news hit, you want to be there and soon enough.
Crimson Skies was wonderful. Ok it took about 5 minutes to load each mission, but it was actually worth it. I miss that game so much.
Why roads in the Pacific Northwest buckled under extreme heat
> The foreign currency reserves have dwindled over the last year from $30 billion to $15, the minimum required by law is currently $14

Is that $15,000,000,000 or $15.00? Just curious :P
Heh, one thing I've learned over the years is that a great way to not actually publish my side projects is to overthink the name, so nowadays I just pick one and go with it when I'm ready to publish it.
> Lots of people do lots of things for reasons other than money

Yes, but most do earn some money. Or in other words they provide some service to other people in exchange for others doing things for them. Literally doing their part to be in a society.

But with UBI there is no longer any obligation for even a base level of doing service to anyone else.

> and we’re heading towards an economy where living a middle class life doesn’t require everyone to work.

No, but we are hundreds of years from Star Trek utopia where basically nobody has to work.

I don't think you get my point about just how unproductive society would be if everyone had FU money. Literally anybody could say "Oh, I can't take a month off, starting tomorrow? Ok, then I quit. Bye".

> We’re not in a post scarcity economy but it’s nearby.

Not even remotely close. Nothing in the world is not scarce. Hell, they say water is going to be the next big expensive thing.

With the growth we have, in people and resource consumption, if anything we are further away from post scarcity now than ever.
"One of the most potent elements in that fusion is the Northern courage: the theory of courage, which is the great contribution of early Northern literature. This is not a military judgement. I am not asserting that, if the Trojans could have employed a Northern king and his companions, they would have driven Agamemnon and Achilles into the sea, more decisively than the Greek hexameter routs the alliterative line—though it is not improbable. I refer rather to the central position the creed of unyielding will holds in the North. With due reserve we may turn to the tradition of pagan imagination as it survived in Icelandic. Of English pre-Christian mythology we know practically nothing. But the fundamentally similar heroic temper of ancient England and Scandinavia cannot have been founded on (or perhaps rather, cannot have generated) mythologies divergent on this essential point. 'The Northern Gods', Ker said, 'have an exultant extravagance in their warfare which makes them more like Titans than Olympians; only they are on the right side, though it is not the side that wins. The winning side is Chaos and Unreason'—mythologically, the monsters—'but the gods, who are defeated, think that defeat no refutation.' And in their war men are their chosen allies, able when heroic to share in this 'absolute resistance, perfect because without hope'. "

-- Tolkien, "The Monsters and the Critics"
If I had to guess: scientists want different sites to be able to cross-validate their findings. Ie there’s value in redundancy when it comes to fundamental research.
But not illegal.
Can you add fines?
John Wanamaker said it, I believe. Both Ogilvy and Hopkins quoted him as well :-)
Better measuring macro effects of gravity might help us build better model of physics which can enable better quantum theory which can provide us with better technologies.
As an intelligence agency the GCHQ should have added a boxy extention to the circle, turning it into a massive magnifying glass
Last I heard it was two pilots, one junior and a senior. The senior said to go faster because they were losing control, the junior disagreed because it would be way above max. speed (but a ship this big needs a lot more speed to deal with wind) so they argued and the captain didn't make a decision. Then it all went down slowly without being able to do anything about it.
A typewriter vs. a machnine that recites paragraphs of shakespeare are two different things.
Selfhosted alternative: https://github.com/kennell/curldrop
The topic is forks. The Linux kernel isn’t a fork.

Better examples would be xemacs or iojs.