skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some pretty obvious explanations to all of these points:

* People don't search for content they don't want to watch.

* Videos that a specific person doesn't want to watch are often unrelated to videos that the same person does want to watch.

* If a video receives a high number of views, that is probably a signal to the algorithm that the video is popular enough to recommend more often.

If anything, those numbers are lower than what I would expect.
I've got a looooot of solar panels, so the electricity is "effectively" free. This is good advice though, thanks!
> Using current reality for future projections is inherently defective because of the innovation factor and routinely leads to bad predictions (such as peak oil[1]), but it's the only reality we have and is sadly as good as we're going to get. Anything else (such as say next-gen nuclear) has to be regarded as a fiction in the calculations until it actually exists.

but are certain that at least one of these fictitious scenarios will come into being. We just have no certainty as to which.
So lmanul quit Google and released a bunch of internal-only Google comics
>> Companies removing content on their own platforms makes sense. However, governments being able to force the removal of content (such as a "controversial hash tag related to farmer protests against new agricultural reforms") can't be good.

> I disagree. Both are bad. When you grow to the size of Facebook, Twitter, etc. Removing content from your own platform allows you to spread propaganda that meets your own agenda. That allows these platforms to promote a politician that maybe trying to reduce corporate tax, and suppress one who is trying to raise it. It’s bad enough these platforms are dictating what’s a conspiracy theory or who we should listen to about Covid.

Kinda sorta. There are actually two separate but related problems. It makes sense for private parties to be able to remove content on their own platforms, BUT that also becomes an issue if those platforms are able become as dominant "one stop shops" like Facebook or Google. So the real problem is figuring out how to break up the over-dominant platforms.
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Under the current neoliberal economic consensus, private enterprise is completely within its rights to decide who to amplify and who to deplatform. According to this view, the term censorship only applies when governments act.
"If God didn't intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"
As a nicotine addict I caution you against assuming addiction is not looming. In my experience the onset of nicotine addiction is sudden and consuming.

For some time, perhaps, you smoke or vape merely socially, experimentally, after a whisky at a party. Then, suddenly, perhaps after one too many the night before, ferocious withdrawal threatens. It is not a slow process, but a sudden toggle.
> I hope that it can work as well against alt-right violent movements without harming regular Conservatives.

Great. I'd like to see them do the same with Antifa and co.
The Hays code? The Hays code was instituted by a trade association, not the GOP.
62 years ago. Just letting that sink in. (Thanks for the video links!)
We can’t, he’s dead.
> For example: Let’s train a network on Beatles music to generate new Beatles songs. I’m pretty sure music lawyers will find a way to prove that the trained network is violating the label’s copyright, as they always manage to do that.

The people making the machine that learned (and recites) beatles songs aren't infringing though (most likely). It's those that use the machine to create and distribute the new works that are.

Same here. No one will be able to say that Copilot itself is a "derived work" or somehow uses the code in a way similar to a computer program (Although such claims have already been made - I highly doubt that's the case). But those that produce a whole file full of GPL code verbatim (Which will be rare, but WILL happen), are at risk of violating the license terms if they distribute it under the wrong license.
It does, but according to the post it was run via Azure DevOps. I'm not familiar with ADO but it sounds like it might not have been as obvious as running locally. Alternatively, perhaps it would have only shown deleting the Resource Group, but internally to Azure(and unbeknownst to Terraform) this means deleting everything within the RG as well.
The same is true for any of their other products. JIRA/Confluence are the ones that I am most familiar with.
I am really confused by HN's response to copilot.

If you're asking about the moral reaction here, I think it depends on how one views Copilot. Does Copilot create basically original code that just happens to include a few small snippets? Or does Copilot actually generate a large portion of lightly changed code when it's not spitting out verbatim copies of the code? I mean, if you tell Copilot, "make me a QT compatible, crossplatform windowing library" and it spits out a slightly modified version of the QT source code and if someone started distributing that with a very cheap commercial license, that would be a problem for the QT company, which licenses their code commercial or GPL (and as QT a library, the QT GPL forces user to also release their code GPL if they release it, so it's a big restriction). So in the worst case scenario, you can something ethically dubious as well as legally dubious.

Copilot should be inspiring people to figure out how to do better than it, not making hackers get up in arms trying to slap it down.

Why can't we do both? I mean, I am quite interested in AI and it's progress and I also think it's important to note the way that AI "launders" a lot of things (launders bias, launder source code, etc). AI scanning of job applications has all sorts of unfortunate effects, etc. etc. But my critique of the applications doesn't make me uninterested in the theory, they're two different things.
Not what I've done, but the single craziest thing I've ever seen emacs do was a mode that you could put the editor into where you could edit the Lisp atoms of the running emacs program. Using the emacs editor commands to do so.

That melts my brain.
It's a lot easier to simply register a domain like coffeeshopwifi.com if/when the owner abandons it and wait for the requests to pour in, than it would be to find the specific coffeeshop that your target frequents and then compromise their DNS servers.
That was essentially Kosky's point. I was taking his class, he was a big peacenik (involved with Give Peace a Dance at the time), and I talked to him about working for defense companies, Boeing being the gorilla in the room in Seattle.

And so he said that thing, which sticks with me still.

I saw a headline saying that we should treat Google as a "public good."

You could at least think of all corporations as public goods. And so there's an argument to be made that society and its individuals have the right and responsibility to ensure their health and fitness for purpose.

Someone has to work at the waste treatment plant.
Was it HBO that pioneered this model?
Ah, the old MySpace argument.
Sounds like it was in up-peak mode? https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Up_peak_(MIT)
Can't the Pi boot off a network?
Google Analytics IP anonymization is a joke
I'm pretty sure GP was being sarcastic.
Basing your retirement plan around the continuing artificial scarcity of taxi medallions is not smart. The city has no obligation to keep the medallions scarce; their value can drop to zero overnight due to changing regulations (or a drop in demand for taxi services, e.g. because a better public transportation system was implemented) and they won't owe you a dime. You'd be far better off working with Uber instead and putting the money you saved by not needing to buy a medallion into a diversified retirement portfolio.
.. unless you add the `-auto-approve` flag.
Sure, but I'm arguing that they were mainly there to tie up counter-intelligence resources.

We rarely captured the spies who actually stole damaging information. Of the few notable ones that were caught, most weren't running around rallies in Che t-shirts. They were milquetoast, stodgy coots who lived in suburbia.

The CIA et al did eventually catch on to the personality traits and personal situations that make for a compromiseable target. But they clearly spent decades chasing their tail before figuring it out.
for a 40 year old diagnosed with stage 4 cancer ,a few extra years ain't much
You should have explored a bit, might be cake down there
I will also add that in my experience a nicotine high only exists when consuming a large amount before you have developed a tolerance. I believe most addicts do not get real pleasure, either.
Small casinos are pretty quiet.

Noisy nightclubs shouldn't be allowed in residential areas (oh, really??!!)

People with a bad attitude about other people having fun don't have any reasonable complaint, unless the fun-lovers are causing them a problem. Then the fun has to stop, or go somewhere else.

This isn't hard.
A while back we replaced the windows in our house with new, more efficient windows. The workers who showed up were the usual contract construction labor folks; generic company truck, not a whole lot of enthusiasm. Every replacement window came in a box. Every window wasn't the same, but neither were they very much different. A fair amount of pessimistic banter when they thought the customer wasn't in earshot.

Then one of them suggested that we install a bay window instead of the boring thing we'd had planned, and when it costed out reasonably, they got right on it. The tools came out, the enthusiasm was turned on, and a couple of them spent half a day building an absolutely beautiful window that I and our pets value to this day.

Good workers doing stupid, boring jobs are likely a resource that companies are not taking advantage of. People are more capable, and sometimes you should let the reigns loose (maybe most of the time).
FWIW, as soon as I saw this project, I wondered specifically about Treesitter's applicability to this problem, and I found https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter.

Maybe there's something to be learned there?
> Browser extensions will redirect HTTP to HTTPS as the request is made, so CoffeeShopWifi can't help you there.

They could stop serving port 443. That would prevent any extensions from automatically upgrading.
From reading the comments, this is for use in scenarios where you connect to a guest wifi network, but aren't automatically taken to their authentication page to get access to the internet.

By trying to connect to a http:// website instead of https://, the redirect will work, allowing you to authenticate your device and access the internet.
Correct. That was wrong of him to do. However, do you think that because of that, it is impossible for the directive to limit public events was completely without justification or public health benefit? Could it be that he was a wanker, and it was a good decision?
But is hitting a star (or a planet) head on a realistic risk?
They do, but people only hear about removals of the other side because there's a well oiled right wing propaganda machine that misinforms and misleads about every single suspension of far right calls for violence.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/22/twitter-suspends-antifa-accoun...
Something documented. Binary is fine. Text is fine. Document it.
I guess I don't see how "caring about writing code" disqualifies one from caring about the future?
Probably just a miscommunication, we definitely seem to have gotten completely out of hardware (I wouldn't really know, I was never really involved in any of the hardware side of things), but the software side of things is going stronger than ever.
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Are there no downsides to Avastin? How long is a cycle?
Doesn't look so bad once a program is established. It's like aging cheese - get one batch started while another is finishing up. The turnover time is just 50 years instead of 2.
I disagree with GP's conspiracy theory, but still I can see how it could be theoretically possible. Those "hundreds or thousands of municipal and state levels, political leaders" they are not necessarily a part of real elite. Instead, they are brainwashed during their college years to think what they masters need them to think. And then, when the actual pandemic happens they simply do not have enough critical thinking skills to reject the official narrative. Also, it is safer for their political careers to just go with the flow.
In competitive rental markets, there will always be another tenant who will not be "difficult" in the eyes of the agent who will snatch the place up from you if you start going off the beaten path.

Before I got my place there were 3 other apartments in the same complex I verbally agreed to and then agent called back to say it had been taken. Not sure if you've rented in likes of London, NY or SF before but the competition can be intense.

Look it sucks that I had to do that, in an ideal world we could have done what you said, but I valued getting the place over my reservations of handing over bank statements.
I wonder if co-pilot will cough up stuff like these useful macros? Seems like a reasonable hack...

https://github.com/PubDom/Windows-Server-2003/blob/master/co...

#ifdef _MAC
# include <string.h>
# pragma segment ClipBrd

// On the Macintosh, the clipboard is always open. We define a macro for
// OpenClipboard that returns TRUE. When this is used for error checking,
// the compiler should optimize away any code that depends on testing this,
// since it is a constant.
# define OpenClipboard(x) TRUE

// On the Macintosh, the clipboard is not closed. To make all code behave
// as if everything is OK, we define a macro for CloseClipboard that returns
// TRUE. When this is used for error checking, the compiler should optimize
// away any code that depends on testing this, since it is a constant.
# define CloseClipboard() TRUE

#endif // _MAC

Just the kind of trick co-pilot should help us with?
Of course, the title is so clickbait-y to be completely false, as refuted in the article:

> A Google spokesperson told Insider that Hölzle never opposed remote work for employees who didn't have a certain seniority level or wouldn't be assigned to an office.
/s, surely?
Yes, but carbon costs come from burning fossil fuels. If you don't burn fossil fuels to drill wells or build PV panels, then those don't have an embodied life-cycle carbon cost.

I'm being a bit pedantic, but I think its an important point: The life-cycle carbon cost of renewables isn't a fact about renewables. It's a fact about our current energy production mix, which renewables themselves will change over time.
It doesn't seem that bad to believe lower level staff should have different working environments to higher level staff. I don't believe it's particularly hypocritical of my boss to have more flexibility in the way he works than I enjoy.
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BMR variance is significant. It's like the core to any weight loss story.

What I'm trying to say is that trying to change your BMR through some diet is a fool's errand. Just figure out your BMR and consume fewer calories than that. It's very very simple (though I won't say it's easy).
I fail to see what is noble about coughing out your bloody, dissolving lungs - the painting refers to the gas attacks of WW1.
If you can't read that sentence with comprehension none of my explanations are going to help.
More nonsense. I care hard about things that care about me, aka not businesses that I do not have a stake in.
Interesting stance. My wife in Senior management, side for one of the largest employers in CA (non-tech) they've been very careful on allowing for any sort of changes to senior management's remote work policies until they have sorted it with the rank-and-file.

While I can see an argument for having to reach a level of seniority to achieve the ability to work remotely I'd also argue that there's a similar bar that hits at the most Senior levels.
Does this mean that all of a sudden you can use Rust for embedded devices (such as the hobbyist ESP8266/32) that only ship with a GCC toolchain? Neat!
I love that I haven't used Facebook in so long I can't even picture what this means.
Not asking guarantees you won't.

There are ways of increasing odds, including researching multiple questions or agencies, among others.
But the landlord (the societal arbiter) agreed in this case - the software denied me. Very much an issue of the software in this case.
I recently tried setting up microk8s, since Ubuntu was pushing it pretty hard and it seemed useful, but a lot of stuff wouldn't work at all.

Turns out that the microk8s config uses cloudflare DNS by default, and not your currently configured DNS or any kind of local DNS proxy. This was hugely frustrating because it's not the configuration that I would expect, it's not obvious why things are failing, and, in our case, it's sending internal DNS names to an external DNS server, unencrypted, over the public internet.

Surely it's convenient, but definitely not trustworthy.
> These kinds of statements usually come from either a very experienced person or an extremely inexperienced one.

Why not both? I'm an experienced developer with no management experience. This is exactly why I opened with "moving into". I do not believe that these are shaky assumptions, but have been proven by my development work. I am a man of many hats. Some of those hats are chiseled perfectly, some of them are rough.

The way that I work out how to go about learning things is go down a utopian path and create myself a minimal example. Many times the approach falls apart right away. When they don't, like this one has, and the world isn't already working that way, I expect that I am wrong but don't know why. So I reach out on places like Message Boards and peers in an attempt to work out why.

Unfortunately this thread has been filled with a lot of harsh responses that mostly show that I have blown peoples weirdness budgets and am outside of the Overton Window with no real substance. That may be partly my fault and I hope that I at least learned something from it.
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This sounds like something insurance will either refuse to cover for being expensive or make you try 5 other approaches first before agreeing to cover it, at which point it'll probably be too late.
The issue is that policy alone is insufficient. Humans can look past the policy's rigidity when necessary; software can't.
> Citing your source is not a get out jail free card

No, but it's a requirement of the license stackoverflow.com uses, which is unfortunate, for code (as opposed to text, where a quote can be easily attributed).
If says this about 'Pet Mode'

> Does not infect other passengers if the animal has an infection

I think this must be a mistranslation. There are very few infectious diseases that a human can get from being around a house pet. I think they mean allergies.
What's your thought process here? Is it related to the job role or you think underlings should just be treated differently/worse?
If covid didn't make a dent in global warming, then I don't think there's much hope.

Nearly everything shut down, commuting stopped, people worked from home, etc. etc. It's hard to imagine any sort of voluntary program that would bring bigger behavioral shifts.
Not that you can blame anyone for missing it; there are so many negatives in that text I'm having a hard time decoding what it's even saying...

In other words, Hölzle had a neutral stance?
Of course NZ is not open to people just moving here right now - in general only citizens, permanent residents and Australians from some Aussie states have been allowed in since the beginning of Covid. We're not taking tourists or new immigrants at this time.

There are some exceptions, not easy to get, a very small number of rich people (14) making large investments here are being let in, I assume he and his wife are buying there way in.
Wow, if eating that apple would have been lethal… that’s insane… But I somehow doubt that it would have.
Counterpoint from a Swedish perspective:

https://www.svebio.se/en/our-mission/is-there-enough-land/
Running a git server is a bit more challenging than running a traditional stateless web app because git is all filesystem centric. If you use NFS, pages that require many git operations can be very slow. Or if the storage servers have a low-level API some page loads might require many round trips and increased latency or long queues can make things bad.

Gitlab went thru a similar journey from NFS to a high level git api called gitaly:

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2018/09/12/the-road-to-gitaly-...

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly

There are some other projects like this one that seek to address the problem:

https://github.com/takezoe/gitmesh

Git is already good and synchronizing between peers, but it's not low latency, so does require an extra management layer to make sure everything is correct.
The Hays Code was instituted by a trade association responding to pressure from religious and family groups of the type that are now a key section of the GOP base (at the time, they were not particularly associated with the GOP because theb first half of the double overlapping partisan realignment—New Deal + Civil Rights—that resulted in that association had only just started.)
A few lines before that:

He [Hölzle] strongly opposed remote work for Google employees who didn't have a certain seniority level or wouldn't be assigned to an office, a resigning employee told CNET.

So, who do we want to believe?
YouTube can't win with these people.

A few years ago there was a hit piece in the New York Times implying that if you watch YouTube videos of Milton Friedman or Ben Shapiro, the YouTube algorithm will decide you like right-wing content and gradually feed you more and more extreme right-wing content until you become a nazi. This was probably sensationalized and overstated, but there was this type of feedback loop in the algorithm.

One obvious corrective to this is to make sure the algorithm also recommends videos that don't already agree with the viewer's inferred biases. As a result, if you're somewhere left of center and the videos you choose to watch on YouTube are influenced by that viewpoint, YouTube will occasionally recommend videos of "Ben Shapiro DESTROYING libs with FACTS and LOGIC" just so you're exposed to the other side.
> This is a workaround for the fact that many networks are hostile to DNS lookups (injecting ads, tracking, captive portals), and operating systems continue to just default to the ISPs DNS provider, which is often hostile.

This workaround is hostile to my own network (home or work) being able to track requests. I control my router / DCHP server, and I should be able to tell devices where to send DNS requests.

Anything that does not do what I tell it to do is malware IMHO.
An employee who quit claims the opposite. Do you always believe spokespersons? Yikes.
I think downvotes are due to your claim that it's obvious that there's coordinated censorship.

I don't think it is that obvious because, at least me personally, I haven't seen any evidence of this. Now there are websites that are built around reducing visibility of unpopular opinions (like this one and Reddit), and elevating popular opinions (like Twitter), but I don't think it's fair to call this censorship. You can't join websites where opinions are judged and then complain when they're not judged your way. By that logic, every time a candidate loses office, they've been "censored", which isn't an honest application of that term.

The only times I've seen posts stricken is when they're damaging in some way, like vaccine misinformation or voter misinformation. It just so happens that one side seems to indulge in a couple of those categories.