skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vouching for this because I want to argue against it.

We never stood for your sad racist ignorant crap. We believed in a better world of educated people. Fuck off with your shitty fascist bullshit. 2600
Exactly.

The clever OpenAI marketing hype squad on HN and Twitter know that they are re-selling a snake oil contraption. This 'thing' completely needs assistance from a human since it is producing insecure code, code that is also copyrighted and most of the times garbage from other sources, which is again totally dangerous.

Just look at this [0] Do a simple 'typo' in the signature and the whole implementation is wrong.

I have to say that OpenAI, GitHub and Microsoft are very clever in selling this scam to engineers who use the code produced by this contraption as 'safe to use' in their projects; especially since GPT-3 still cannot explain why it is generating the code its generating, or if the code is under a license that is non-commercial or under a restrictive licence.

No thanks and most certainly no deal.

[0] https://twitter.com/leifg/status/1411083360756146177
That doesn't suggest a reduction in intelligence .. ?
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Good that you should mention dentition, given that a plant-based diet causes humans’ teeth to rot out.

Human teeth, like human metabolism, support the consumption of plant material, but not very well.
How is that relevant here? We're talking about a two dimensional vector space (hence "east", "north").
I think that proper coding assistant should help with not writing code (and I stress that it is "not writing code") - how to rearrange your code base for new requirements, for example.

Code not written does not have defects, does not need support and, as you point it out, is not a liability.
Blazing fire on surface of Gulf of Mexico
The average American gets the overwhelming majority of their calories from vegan items. https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2016/december/a-look-at...
It would probably be effective.
> What if it wasn't atypical because there's lots of buildings showing damage like this?

Yes, this is scary. Lots of respect for the first responders and all the engineers working non-stop right now to figure this out.
> If you make code anything more complex than that then it isn't really equivalent to navigating the streets on a map.

My point is, you should strive to make coding not more complex than that, if possible. And if you have constraints such as must represent the program as a 2-D dataflow structure then it must stay simple as that. Now is there a need to make more complicated programs? Probably yes. But human society is still able to function with the simple dataflows that it has, which makes it understandable and thus very resilient.
As someone not familiar with large-scale building materials, what should be used instead?
Yeah LSP also makes Sublime viable going forward where it otherwise probably would have fallen behind.
> Use old english language

Hwæt, weardmann! Hwæt is sēo ġedrēfednes?
>I think as a first approximation you could let the IP owner set their value, and assess taxes based on that. However, that would mean the owner couldn't sue for another larger amount if their rights are violated.

You can make this even more elegant by making it a Harberger tax: https://ristret.com/s/ftmbkg/harberger_taxation_has_elegant
In this article? https://stundin.is/grein/13627/key-witness-in-assange-case-a...

There isn't a single link in that article. It makes tons of claims but does not include references to the primary source. For example:

"Thordarson spoke with a journalist from Stundin for several hours as he prepared a thorough investigative report into his activities that include never before published chat logs and new documents."

It's honestly not clear whether his sentence refers to the journalist or Thordarson when it says "as he prepared", but either way, it references previously-unpublished chat logs and repeats what is in them but does not actually show any of the logs.

I'm not saying the claims aren't true, just that this article sets of my BS detectors because there isn't a single link in it. They are asking the reader to take a lot on faith.
Yep, seconding the Synology solution referenced - its quite good and low/no maintenance overhead.
That's exactly what I started with. Well, not a scan but rather a digital picture since I didn't have a scanner (also my camera sucked). I also didn't do a very good job with boundary detection so I ended up snapping rectangles and extracting the 1-bit pixmaps manually.
Wow no. That's not going to appeal to normal people.
Well, clearly the vast majority of current initiatives to enforce "good cops" aren't working, so I hope a thousand people try a thousand other methods to increase police accountability.

Your open source cop tracker for local communities idea sounds cool. Go build it.
It’s almost like those two pieces are completely unrelated to one another.

If you’re looking for someone with a clean record commenting on the viability of the lab leak theory for months, take a look at Bret Weinstein.
Those 3 clicks to close the popups probably were seen as more "engagement". ;)
Why can't they be? What's the physical mechanism behind it not working? Yelling into a speaker attached to an amplifier definitely produces electrical changes on the output transistors, changing the amount they're biased, etc. Does that produce no measurable input if the speaker is connected to a software-switchable input/output port? It doesn't have to be a large effect to be useful.

Although at that point I think I'm more worried about the microphonic properties of ceramic capacitors in the signal path.
Certainly not a US ideal. The only place I have ever seen this talking point echoed is by Democrats explaining why they want Assange to be extrajudicially persecuted by secret intelligence agencies. Wouldn’t at all be surprising if the idea of Wikileaks as a partisan organization started as an CIA/FBI plant in the WaPo.
Guerillas can't be choosers.
"native libraries do not include program semantics to understand algorithm defects" wat?
I guess just resetting copyright back to 20 years and patents to 10 would be a huge benefit. Maybe give software patents 5 years.
More wasted hours on this nonsense I see.
being able to create true, 3d cappilary volumes? Ridiculously hard.
One of the more sane elevated rights police officers have long enjoyed is the right to extreme privacy - their phone numbers and addresses are unlisted by default and sharing the private information of an officer with malicious intent carries a more serious penalty than an equivalent action against a regular individual.

Most people these days seem to be confused about what the term "secret police" means. It doesn't mean a police forces that the public don't know exists. It means a police force that has as some of its members, people whos identities are secret. You know, like the NKVD or STASI.

I was taught as a kid 30 years ago, during the cold war, that having a secret police was a key indicator of an oppressive regime. What you describe as "sane elevated rights" was something I was taught that we needed to fight tooth and nail, possibly with nuclear weapons.

I guess times change. Sometimes I feel like crying.
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Yes, but being able to work productively in larger groups often means more for sophisticated tool use than an individual's intelligence.
There's no legally spelled out condition, but one editorializes content and the other is content agnostic.

The justification of 230's existence is that the host shouldn't be liable, because it's not their speech.

That's no longer true if they're picking and choosing what gets heard, what gets buried, and what gets banned.

They may not be typing the post, but they're determining what actually gets said. And that means they no longer deserve 230 protection.
I really don't see this as something worth making a fuss about. Languages change all the time based on how people use them in the real world. Concepts and ideas that did not exist 100 years ago do exist today, and the language evolves to express those.

Given Spanish is spoken as a first language by hundreds of millions of people in tens of countries around the world, I don't think it should be seen as a problem that some of those Spanish-speaking people are finding new ways to express an experience that perhaps other Spanish-speaking people don't find relevant to them. There are 40 million native Spanish speakers in the United States, and millions more who speak it as a second language. At least some proportion of those consider themselves non-binary, and would like to have a term that explicitly recognizes that identity. (Note that your suggestion of "Latinos y Latinas" does not explicitly include non-binary identities.)

I don't think it really matters if "Latinx" is a word that was developed in the United States by people who live there. It might be a bit crass to refer to people across the entirety of Latin America using that term, but I don't see anybody doing that.

As far as appropriation goes: just like Spanish, the English language is evolving too. Sometimes we adopt foreign terms into English, and often we bastardize them, and that's not considered especially remarkable. We took "diva" from Italian and use it for both female and male "divi". I don't think that's cultural appropriation.

To be clear, I am not an American, so I am sympathetic to your view that American politics and culture tends to push itself into other countries. Here on HN that happens a lot. But I don't think this particular term is something worth worrying about. The way I see it there are many worse things Americans could be doing than creating a new word that people there have a use for.
I've been using it for a couple months now. It's really quite good and the plugin disables most (all?) of the clashing hotkeys.

The only thing I've noticed is sometimes there's a delay on the Esc key detection to exit insert mode. That could be my binding of CapsLock to Esc/Ctrl though (with a combination of xmodmap and xcape).

I'm also a long time vim user but this has made it bearable to use the same editor as the rest of the team (engineers who need to code, not software engineers) so that they understand what's happening when pair programming etc.
To many of these lab leak articles are structured distressingly like a Q-drop:

Similar to the way the Zoonotic link articles are structured as the Ultimate Truth which must not be questioned (even as early as one month into the pandemic).

It only took a year later for prominent blue tribe members like Jon Stewart to point out how ridiculous the dominant narrative was.
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But why? What’s the real deep down social reason this is happening?
Also, before and while all this was going on, the quality of the AI's output has been steadily dropping to the point where NovelAI.net now generates what's in many ways better writing.

That's GPT-J-6B, to be clear. A 6-billion-parameter model is producing better output than a 300 billion parameter model, because of what I can only assume to be sheer incompetence on AI Dungeon's part. I've also used the raw GPT-3 API, and it does better at writing than either. In other words: Doing nothing would have been better than whatever they've been doing.
This is really funny, I think I agree?
I'm honestly not sure, but I am sensing a giggle.
I bet the number of bad reviews would be correlated with bad cops though.

Won't be perfect, but this seems worth trying.
The machine I have is very similar to that (Tascam 38), although the Teac 80-8 has the advantage of being able to run at the correct speed (7.5ips while the Tascam 38 only runs at 15ips).

From reading the papers published at the time (mid-to-late 60s), it seems the encoding scheme was based off a comb-filter, although I don't honestly understand enough to actually describe how it works.

I've had the tapes for around 5 years now, and managed to do basically nothing. It would be good to finally make some progress! I'll send you an email.
Lots of decent sized parks in Seattle. Would another one be bad? No. Would it automatically be better than whatever they actually built? Also no. Cities are places for people, and anything in a city economically kinda has to serve people. There are tons of forests around Seattle, and they are great. But I don't know if the marginal acre in Seattle needs to be used for a tiny, probably not self-sustaining replica.
This is so cool! UX is so simple and smooth. I was impressed by just it counting how many bricks I put out. This will be fun with my daughters as they get older and we collect more.

I'm a big fan of all Lego communities like https://www.mecabricks.com/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/ and your Brickit just made my day. Thank you!
I started with vscode but moved to (neo)vim 2 or 3 years ago. Last year I experimented going back to vscode with one of the vim plugins.

By default there are some conflicting keybinds like ctrl-o and ctrl-v, but these can be disabled in vscode settings.json so wasn’t a problem.

The main feature that doesn’t work over the neovim-vscode rpc bridge is undo tree, that was important to me. You also have to put up with much slower start up times and slower syntax highlighting because vscode uses lsp highlighting.

But the deal breaker for me was losing any vim plug-in with a ui component like fzf, fugitive, and the file tree I like (fern.vim).

It might work for you, some coworkers switched from vim to vscode-neovim and were very happy with the compromise.
Yet almost a year later and still no smoking gun showing a clear zoonotic link.

I suppose we’ll never find one because China has no interest in getting to the truth. Cooperation means disclosing things which have the potential to make them look bad so why risk it?
How many 70 year olds are in the top 1%? That's the question we should ask.
I was originally thinking that a Sapiens/Denisovan hybrid of the sort we've seen elsewhere might be a possibility too but the skull is too old for that to make sense. I almost said "human/Denisovan hybrid" but really Denisovans are a sort of human too.
After a 12 year hiatus I got Thunderbird again and have been enjoying it as both a mail client and RSS reader. Whilst I do miss the Firefox functionality, I'm happy with Thunderbird
Pretty sure the location of Bagram isn't.
I seriously considered building my own NAS based around FreeNAS (something I'm perfectly capable of doing), but then decided to go for a commercially available, low-end NAS for two reasons:

1. my tendency to scope creep on the hardware requirements meant that I was looking at a BOM that was about 3x the cost of the commercial NAS.
2. it seemed likely that I'd spend a lot of time engineering my NAS and fighting compatibility issues with e.g. Time Machine. The commercial NAS had all the features I wanted out of the box.

Ultimately, I bought a low-end Synology NAS and have been pretty happy with it. I haven't been affected, and my device is still supported 7 years later, but my story could easily have turned out like these WD customers.

Some of us don't want to spend our free time maintaining a NAS.
I've been writing a decentralized messageboard[0] with some friends lately; the global index and tags have atom feeds, and each thread has an atom feed. There's also an atom feed of recent comments. I've written some simple tools to fake a desktop client for the messageboard and have some of the atom feeds linked to various IRC/matrix rooms. Pretty handy. I wish that all messageboards had RSS feeds for thread lists (or better yet, each thread also has its own) because having to jump from site to site to site is a pain, I'd rather just get notifications in a simple way.

Is JSONfeed actually used by anyone on HN?

[0] - https://0chan.vip
“Fun Forest” in Seattle wasn’t a forest - it was a paved area with some low-budget amusement park rides.
Thanks!

I agree there should be a mouse-based way to add connections from cell to cell. Right now to make a connection from one node to another you first 'stage' one which highlights it orange (option-s, or use the button in the nav bar). Then you navigate to another node and use the add right/left buttons to make a connection between the staged node and the one you've selected. Clearly that's not intuitive. I'll work on a click and drag mechanism.

Now for a review of CinematicStudio:

I don't have a Windows machine so I'll mostly comment on what I find from your website. Do you have any mac builds? I saw you had a link about Mac but it didn't lead to downloads.

I like the landing page. It's immediately clear that what you're selling is a nice video editing application.

One issue, about 3/4 down the page, is that you repeat a block of text 3 times. The one beginning "Custom Music Visualizers...".

For the little dropdowns in the FAQ I wouldn't close the accordion when the user clicks the body of one of the expanded items. Only close it if they click the header, or an explicit caret. A lot of users click on text even if it isnt necessary, just out of habit (or if they want to copy it).

It seems like you would benefit from making this mobile friendly. Since its a landing page that's selling something, and many potential customers would find it from mobile, you're probably missing potential users.

Little bug -- I noticed the footer has a 'Downloads' section with Windows and Mac links, but they link to the Pricing page, not the Downloads page.

It would be nice to link to a gallery of example videos made with CinematicStudio.
Obviously they aren't, but just as obviously, "the legal department didn't review this, therefore it's safe to assume it's legal" would not pass muster with said legal department. :) Kiro's comment ("if someone gets access to their code and sees all the violations they're screwed anyway") is probably technically accurate, even if in practice you're unlikely to get caught. As other people have noted elsewhere in the comments here, the Google v. Oracle case over Java definitely suggests that verbatim copying of just a few lines, even for trivial functions, is enough to get you in trouble if those lines aren't licensed in a way that lets you do that.
Huh? The title of the piece is "Why Do Exceptionally Dangerous Gain-of-Function Experiments in Influenza?" The introduction specifically criticizes entire categories of GoF research, stating that it goes against the consensus view of many virologists. How is that not "questioning?" Lipsitch has been consistently critical in other fora too, including a quote in a Science piece[1], a call for a debate[2], and other communications.

Now, one thing that is going on in a lot of the discussion (and which makes reasoned discourse harder) is that many people mean different things when talking about "gain of function." For some, it's anything that creates a pathogen that's potentially infectious to humans, which potentially covers a lot of experiments to test transmissibility and other factors. For others, it has to be specifically engineering to increase transmissibility or virulence [3]. That can lead to confusion, for example the debate about whether Fauci's denial that the NIAID funded GoF research was honest.

I very carefully check my sources when posting, but am sure I make mistakes. When I do, I'm happy to be corrected. But this seems a very odd thing to call me out for.

[1]: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/exclusive-controvers...

[2]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269283247_Gain-of-f...

[3]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4996883/
Atom > RSS
I am sure that RSS is the way to go, to fight clutter and stay on top of the information noise out there. I love Reeder https://www.reederapp.com - a really good looking and well designed RSS reader. (unfortunately only for the apple eco system).
They want to have a discussion/debate on what rules should exist. Just because there aren't current rules doesn't preclude us from making some....
> ^[1] At least one tool like this (using GPT-3) has been posted on HN. At this point in time I wouldn't use it, but I have to admit that it was sort of cool.

Have a poke at novelai.net if you get a chance.

It's... not very smart. It's pretty decent at wordcrafting, though, and as an amateur writer I find it invaluable for busting writer's block. Probably if you spend all day writing fiction you'll find ways around that, but for me the solution has become "Ask the AI to try".

It'll either produce a reasonable continuation, or something I can look at and see why it's wrong. Either is better than a blank page.
Looks like it's been extinguished. I wonder how often stuff like this has happens with no consequences or media attention.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/fire-offshore-pemex-...
The election was on Tuesday November 3rd, and Pfizer announced their results on Monday November 9th. They were only notified of the results the previous day.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/health/covid-vaccine-pfiz...

> Dr. Jansen said she learned of the results from the outside panel of experts shortly after 1 p.m. on Sunday, and that the timing was not influenced by the election. “We have always said that science is driving how we conduct ourselves — no politics,” she said.

Edit: It would be nice if the people downvoting this could explain why you disagree.
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I believe in CA, not FL, but the imgur user AlphaStructural usually has some truly hair-raising photo albums every week:

https://imgur.com/user/alphastructural/posts
My comment was not arguing one way or another. Instead I was pointing out that the original wording of your top level comment might mislead people as it sounded like there was little doubt to the effectiveness of a Border Adjustment Tax, when in truth it has never been tried.

Rereading your original post it now seems more reasonable. I don't know if that is because it has been edited, or because I am reading it in a new light.

To be clear, I welcome the suggestion of trying new solutions. The current system is clearly broken.
Not to mention the chilling effect that comes with that sentiment. It reminds me of the Rick Rubin style of creating "fuck the system" propaganda. Only complain about the parts of the system that don't actively benefit me if you want to keep your record deal.
> > logistical nightmare with waste management

> Dig a pit, throw it in.

Dig a pit in non-aquiferous bedrock in a geologically stable region. It's not particularly hard, but it is nontrivial.
This meme you keep trying to make happen is a logical fallacy called “begging the question.” petitio principii. It is not explanatory. Why don’t you just outright say, “I think they are partisan because I suspect there are things they could have published that they chose not to because of partisanship.” Instead you’re trying this dance about evidence that you cannot see and reasoning on others’ behalf that you cannot know.
What's even better is to be able to differentiate between people and computers.
If Amazon sells something they know they can't deliver, if even 0.1% of affected customers start pressing for fraud charges this becomes very unprofitable