skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have a political choice.

Do we though? It seems to me that a few very wealthy people have choices. The rest of us are simply along for the ride.
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I remember way when youtube first started they had a premium subscription option which allowed you to upload longer and higher quality videos. If you didnt have a subscription you were limited to 10 minutes per video
While there's evidence that our usage of fossil fuels is certainly impacting the environment in a way that may alter certain aspects of climate there is really no reason to believe in catastrophic climate change. I think Plato's quote about death is equally applicable to climate change.

> To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know. No man knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessing for a human being; and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that is is the greatest of evil.
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You probably know this already, but Doom Emacs loads for me in less than a second.
So the 'conspiracy theorists' were right about this one, and they were silenced because 'conspiracy'? Or was it to get a certain villain out of office at all costs? Even if it means lying to the whole world?

Well I guess it is better to wait for the actual facts to unveil themselves and listen to every side of the argument (Including the crazy ones) and form your own opinion around this, rather then outright dismiss, de-platform, ban and control the narrative to silence anyone else saying otherwise.

Seems that the media became the conspiracy theorists at that point and peddled this narrative until this villain was expunged. This isn't the first time they create villians of the week, month or the year.

But hey, the lies are free but their version of the truth is always behind a paywall.
> More often than not I found myself telling my manager “I don’t know”...

In my experience, intellectual honesty has greatly limited my career.

I physically can't outright lie. But over time I've gotten (minutely) better at diplomacy.

- Rephrase negatives as positives. eg Instead of "Don't run!" ask "Please walk.'

- To always sound encouraging, supportive. h/t Guy Kawaski's depiction of Gassée in The Macintosh Way. "Wow, what a great idea! You've clearly put a lot of effort into this." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Macintosh_Way

- Compliment sandwiches, surrounding criticisms with praise. Gene Wilder's letter to the costume designers for Willy Wonka is an oft cited example.

- All that active listening and empathy stuff. eg Really, really listening to people, instead of just waiting for my turn to talk. eg #2, in meetings, hold back with my own feedback to see if any one else will make the same points first, thereby not sucking up all the oxygen.

Etc.

It's fucking exhausting. But like all skills, it does get easier over time. And my (probably wrong) perception is that I'm slightly less boorish and offensive.

PS- I save up all my unsolicited feedback energy for HN. Haha.
What moved you off of Unifi? Did you move off entirely, or just for the gateway?
This was really well written, such a good read.

It somehow made the phrase "Everything that can be automated is automated." less... I don't know... scary I guess. I can't put my finger on it, but giving all this up to some algorithms seems wrong/worrisome for some reason, but seeing exactly how it was done made it less so.
The assumption should also be existing cases of infection that are not yet symptomatic, or are totally asymptomatic. Borders are leaky too, but when the disease was found it was already well distributed, and with a long incubation period.
> Did the the different tribes of African Bushmen start out as genetically distinct as they are today, or did they start from a common population and diverge over the last 200,000 years?

While groups like the San have a great deal of diversity within the group, they are also distinct from other Hunter Gatherer groups as well. The San are separated from the Hadza by about 110K years, IIRC.

> Were those who left Africa always distinct from those who stayed, or did they change through selection (and interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans) over time?

Yes, those who left Africa were the remnants of a distinct population, separated from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans by 40K years when they left Africa 60Kya.
We have heard a lot of similar news out of other jurisdictions. And seeing how slow many lawmaking bodies respond to any stimuli at all, we will for the foreseeable future...
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Excellent point! I updated it to make the number of births per family a parameter. It's still an approximation of reality of course.

Here are the results when the number of max births per family is dropped to 2:

boys = 74861 girls 75166
boys = 74752 girls 75464
boys = 75047 girls 74933
I actually use the git-gutter.el package alongside magit to do the arbitrary region work, and find it to fill the last gap between magit and the built-in version control commands.
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Again, not a lawyer, just a guy who likes reading this stuff. The devil is usually in the details of copyright cases. The Turnitin case hinged substantially on whether Turnitin's use of copyrighted essays was "fair use". There are four factors[0] which determine fair use; the two more relevant factors here are "the purpose and character of your use" and "the effect of the use upon the potential market". The court found that Turnitin's use was highly "transformative" (meaning they didn't just e.g. republish essays; they transformed the copyrighted material into a black-box plagiarism detection service) and also found that Turnitin's use had minimal effect on the market (this is where "computers don't count" comes in -- computers reading copyrighted material don't affect the market much because a computer wasn't ever going to buy an essay).

I would be shocked if GitHub's lawyers didn't argue that using copyrighted material as training data for an AI model is highly transformative. There may be snippets available from the original but they are completely divorced from their original context and virtually unrecognizable unless they happen to be famous like the Quake inverse square root algorithm. And I think GitHub's lawyers would also argue that Copilot's use does not affect the _original_ market -- e.g. it does not hurt Quake's sales if their algorithm is anonymously used in a probably totally unrelated codebase.

Your counterexample would probably fail both tests -- it's not transformative use if your software hands out complete pieces of copyrighted software, and it would definitely affect the market if Copilot gave me the entire source code of Quake for my own game.

[0]: https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors
it is zero sum thinking. the overall pie can increase if you let development in and economy growth, so that everyone is better off.

it is sad that NIMBYs dont get it
It's not quite that clear cut. CIRA is strictly speaking a public, not-for-profit company, but the DNS servers were built and maintained by CSE (our NSA) for the malicious domain filtering/reporting aspect, the Centre for Cybersecurity (another public service arm mandated with building out our domestic cybersecurity infrastructure), and Shared Services, the federal government's infrastructure backbone.

I know many people will stop reading at CSE and draw their own conclusions, but like with every issue there's nuance here. CSE arguably draws some of the foremost information security experts in the country, and their mandate does also include protecting the digital security of Canadians. I'm going to be cautiously optimistic and start looking for transparency resources around Canadian Shield.
This is why I have now moved my code off of GitHub.
How about we stop pushing these alternatives that ensure creators never get paid?

It’s hard work to make content, many channels are run full time. I know people hate ads, and if that’s the case, just pay for Premium.
Fracking did manage to drop our emissions phasing out coal. But politics gets in the way of natural gas all the time. Politics got in the way of nuclear as well.

Also, if you truly want to cut emissions, stop caring about "per capita" and force your politicians to start holding the biggest polluters accountable and the countries not decreasing their emissions.
it obviously costs more to produce content than it does to host and stream it.

That's why you watch a show costing 10 millions dollars per episode, for 10 bucks a month.
That was excellent. Concise, informative and interesting.
> Sounds like a good deal for Purdue Pharma.

It's a damn good deal for the sack-of-shit-Sackler family especially. They took out something to the tune of $10 BILLION from Purdue Pharma and are only on the hook for about $50 mil. Nice profit margin right there.
It's actually a very good point, and Tor is explicitely using a single entry guard because of that: it was analyzed that keeping a single guard for a long time is "on average" better than regularly changing guards.
Solar shades have great potential and the unintended consequences can at least be mitigated. Unlike aerosol dispersal they can be “turned off” semi trivially with onboard thrusters or specialized missions.
Cost estimates were at $100 Billion 10 years ago which were doubtlessly optimistic, but Starship will dramatically lower the cost of deploying a few hundred tons of shades.

One risk of not exploring geoengineering is that cheap options for it exist and most countries are technically and economically able to engage in them. If a country feels like the burdens of climate change fall unfairly on them, the option exists to do something drastic.
Why would you think letting copilot scan the code would absolve you of liability for posting it?
You know it is entirely possible to be passionate about mortgage insurance market platforms. Or any [insert nominally boring task here]. If there is enough money to afford a developer for a problem, I'd argue it's a guarantee that it's possible for someone to be passionate about the problem space.

So, if passionate problem solvers are available, what comes of not using them? Insufficient solutions. Keep telling yourself you make fine systems when you don't love the project. I bet you do. But the developer who actually cares will always produce something better.

Add in that technology becomes entrenched, I'd argue we're always better working with no solution than to become attached to an inadequate one.

Before you get hung up on "inadequate", I'll also throw out there that no spec is perfect and it is only the passionate who can properly fill it in.

tl;dr projects completed by the jaded will only meet stated requirements. Projects completed by the passionate will define the actual problem in the course of solving it. Projects produced by the jaded should be discarded.
Uber drivers I think. TikTokers are a global phenomenon and some will know what they're doing on any subject. I doubt a lot of successful traders drive Uber.
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> Are things like DNS sinkholes and domain blacklisting still possible with DoH?

Surely they are... but the guy might not be your ISP but Cloudflare.

EDIT: In Canada that would be that so-called CIRA (by default). But you always have control who can pollute your DNS, right?
This is quite far off the mark.

Many companies using FreeBSD, including Juniper, NetApp, Netflix, Netgate (pfSense), iXsystems (TrueNAS), Dell (Isilon) contribute significant code to FreeBSD. It's very expensive to maintain long-lived changes from upstream, so there's a large incentive not to do so. Code that's "not contributed back" is largely code that isn't suitable for upstream anyhow - because it is incomplete, limited in scope, etc.

Looking at "Sponsored by" tags on the last 6 months of commits to FreeBSD I see the following:

The FreeBSD Foundation
Netflix
Rubicon Communications, LLC ("Netgate")
Chelsio Communications
NetApp, Inc.
Mellanox Technologies // NVIDIA Networking
Innovate UK
Klara, Inc.
Diablotin Systems
Dell EMC Isilon
iXsystems, Inc.
Citrix Systems R&D
Axcient
Netflix, Inc.
DARPA
Alstom Group
Eldorado Research Institute (eldorado.org.br)
Ampere Computing
Marvell
Stormshield
Amazon, Inc.

(and a long list of entries with one or two commits each)

There's a backlog of work that contributors would like to get into FreeBSD; a limiting factor is availability of mentor and reviewer time to guide contributors through the process and iterating on bringing the code into a committable state.
How do you keep it free? Do end users have access to a sql backend to query against directly?
There's a wide gulf between, "CO2 has no impact" and, "Humanity is responsible for climate and weather".

Your experiment would be better formulated as such:

1) Establishing the optimal climate and weather.

2) Create two entire solar systems.

3) Place humans on the Earth of one solar system*

4) Observe the climate of both Earths

5) Decide which one best meets your standard of the ideal climate

As with any scientific experiment, you would want to conduct it multiple times to ensure the results are reproducible. Measure the deviation of each climate and count the number of experiments to determine your degree of certainty.

*3. Make sure humans don't appear (naturally?) on your non-human bearing earth. The question of if humans are a part of nature and therefore part of the ecosystem will arise.

If humans are part of nature, you may then ask if any changes they may or may not contribute are therefore natural.
I don't want to trust my Internet provider to do anything other than route encrypted packets. I don't want any other service than that from them, and I don't trust them any further than "exchange bandwidth for money".
Every member of the Mozilla TRR program has to abide by the TRR resolver policies, undergo regular audits to ensure compliance, publicly commit to these policies in their own privacy policy, and publish annual transparency reports. CIRA meets these requirements, which provide assurance that they are treating user data with respect. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/DOH-resolver-policy for more information.
The vaccine is 0% effective against denialists.
> I'm sure being responsible for 10% of the internet's traffic is trivial on a technical level

> the codec and video encoding engineering they are doing

I am confident that is not what the vast majority are working on. Those aren't constrained problems that a single developer would be responsible for. Making unrealistic statements, is more than a little disingenuous.
You could share the namespaces using some consistent hashing so any given domain would hit the same server.

Maybe something exists for that already?
It's the converse that's the issue.

Projects with excellent communication that are not in the least compelling.
I did not downvote you, but I want to explain why some people might be. I don't doubt that the majority of people here, even people downvoting you, don't disagree that the vaccine seems to be mostly safe and effective, based on the limited data we have so far. But you're not saying that: you're saying you're 100% sure and willing to bet your life and the lives of others on that certainty, which is not rooted in statistics but rather emotion. You're following the same style of thinking as the conservatives you criticized, just at the opposite end of the political spectrum.
Replace nicotine with amphetamine and your statement still holds true.
I was listening to a podcast a while back (middle of 2020) and the guest said something the effect of "If I could choose to end racism or reverse/stop/slow/fix climate change I would choose climate change. If we don't stop/slow climate change then nothing else will matter, if we fix the climate we have the time to address racism". I'm not exactly sure why but that has stuck with me and has shaped my thinking around it since. The fact that addressing climate change is just tacked on the current infrastructure bills making their way though congress (or at least the one going through budget reconciliation since it would never pass in the senate with that) is sad. I understand some of the political reasoning behind it, it's not as sexy of a topic as other things in the bills but it's just incredibly depressing how little attention appears to be paid to it.
Not copyable by people, but we can go through the code, learn from it and then use that knowledge to improve our coding skills.

Isn't that what autopilot is doing here? The system is merely learning how to code, and then applying it's learnings on other programming problems. It's not like it's writing software to specifically compete with other programs.
The point of crypto currency is to do the exact thing money laundering laws try to prevent: to transfer large sums of cash untraceably across the globe, with no way for the government to do anything about it.

Recently it's become a game of baseless investment, but anyone actually wanting to use crypto currencies as payment should've seen this coming from miles away.
You’re using the word “depreciate” in the common usage (“value of an asset goes down”) not in the accounting usage (“a line in the P&L statement used to offset the profit and pay less tax”)
Can you expand on this a little more? I do not understand the reasoning here
> You can wipe your ass with the GPL license if your use of the product falls within Fair Use.

Is Copilot fair use? It's reading code, generating other code (some verbatim) and making money from it all while not having to release its source code to the world?

> That doesn't mean that GitHub has to redistribute Copilot under GPL

I wasn't saying that was the case: some of the code that Copilot used may not allow redistribution under GPL.

But let's say that all of the code it scanned was GPL for the sake of argument. Why would they not have to distribute their Copilot source yet, if I use it to generate some code, I'd have to distribute mine?

My spidey-sense it tingling at that one!
Your statement below is both funny and misleading at the same time and I guess it is also why opt-in is often such a misleading term.

So you start with all pages that have ads, meaning most all pages that are tracked today. Then you add to that by "opt-in". Now, most sites are not built by hand. The tools they use may thus "opt-in" for them. Also, this method may make it harder to block the tracking, so you end up tracking more in practice, which is obviously why this is being introduced, as so many have chosen to use tracker blocking of some kind.

Your statement on "opt-in" really needs be reiterated. In many cases you are left with options like: do you want to use this product? Then you have to "opt-in". Great examples are Windows 10, that insists on you logging in with Microsoft. Similarly many products require you to "opt-in" to use them.

We need this to stop. Ban surveillance-based ads now!
By this logic there is no such thing as AI.
You imply that you might, but are you actually planning on buying this? I'm curious because I see lots of people saying they would use something, but it doesn't always mean they will.
To build a browser you don't need a verbatim GPL code, so it's not a derivative work in the same sense copilot is.

Stackoverflow on the other hand is much trickier question...
True but it branched out to focus on bigger rigs than small footprint devices.
HN is an outlier and you know it ;). I do wish more sites were like HN both in terms simplicity and community
It's even more ridiculous when you realize Twitter's India unit (and Maheshwari) is only there to sell ads and do marketing. It really has no control over the content you see on Twitter's apps and websites.
To me it sounds like either you failed to communicate, or your UX persons were bad hires.
Fax is epic... esp for revenge ! (see: Fax bomb)
DoH brings us closer to being able to use an internet provider you don't trust. And I already don't trust my ISP's DNS servers.
> There is exactly one such comment from my side

So you admit you were arguing in bad faith?

> Point one one single argument that you have made to me, that I did not respond to head-on. Just one. I'll wait.

> point out a single example of me engaing in bad-faith argumentation with you. A single actual example. And then.

Sure, how about this very comment?

> Ah, yes. Like the argument that "Tether is being investigated for fraud" thus "every stablecoin is essentially fraud". Seems like a water-tight argument you have there.

You're misrepresenting my statement in a way to obfuscate the very real fraud accusations against Tether and other stable-coins. I never said all stablecoins are fradulent. Why are you focused on that falsified version of my argument rather than arguing against the fact that Tether is indeed fraudulent?

> maybe, we can continue the conversation

Not interested in continuing it, thank you!
I switched to OPNSense (fork of pfSense) years ago and have been very happy with it. Consistent, reliable updates, and easy to understand interface.
Regarding your Labrador: is there a way to get the power supply to output from say 0-5v and 10-999 mA?

As someone getting slowly into a bit of hardware as a hobby, this has been a pain point for me (but also could easily be me just not knowing where to look, so please forgive the naivety!)
What scares me is that most marquee policies seem to focus pretty much exclusively on avoiding and limiting climate change but not on helping people to cope.

We might need programs for people to get cooling and not just better insulation, for example. In some places there is tendency to still mandate homes to be heat traps to save energy, which could also lead to really bad outcomes in very hot conditions.
I've edited my comment with examples and a clarification.

Fair use is an exception to copyright and, by definition, copyright licenses.
> I would not support anything that added a microgram to my iPhone or MacBook or give up even one tiny feature to support the tiny fraction of people who can do repairs.

That is not what the right to repair is about. It is about allowing people who are not the manufacturer or blessed by the manufacturer do a repair.
covid is off topic you liberal piece of communist shit