skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be under the impression that building their own infrastructure will be some sort of barrier for multi-billion dollar organizations.

I totally agree that many members of the Republican Party are criminals and should be in jail, but we need to prosecute the crime, not throw away free speech and start surveilling everyone. When people coordinate violent anti-democratic insurrections, we should throw them in jail along with the other terrorists. When people dissuade people from getting vaccinated, we should take away their medical licenses when they have them, and hold them responsible for manslaughter when people die from Covid based on their lies. More laws aren't going to help when Democrats don't have the spine to enforce the laws we already have.
The Social Web is built around Protocols[1]. Rather than try to compete with big tech by building a bigger monolithic system, either paid for with ads or some other way, the goal is to give folk an expansive suite of capabilities across many sites. Or in the cases of protocols like Web Annotations, anywhere they go.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/social-web-protocols/
Any serious embedded system should designed with minimal writable data: ro os and minimal writable data partitions. And at a minimum do manual syncs. Hopefully using a data storage system that in the worst case you lose a few records
"I also think the arguments against the flavored juices are hysterical/hypocritical given the variety of flavors of liquor one can find."

If you have a product that people enjoy using and has associated dangers, some people will use it anyway. If you have a second product that replaces the first product with less danger[1], more people will use it. That's simple economic reasoning.

The hysteria over vaping is largely a product of a puritanical mindset---the horror at the thought of someone, somewhere, enjoying themselves. People have made their peace with tobacco itself[2], alcohol[3], and marijuana[4].

[1] "Evidence so far indicates that e-cigarettes are far less harmful than smoking as they don’t contain tobacco or involve combustion. There is no smoke, tar or carbon monoxide, and studies looking at key toxicants have generally found much lower levels than in cigarettes. They do contain nicotine, which is addictive, but isn’t responsible for the major health harms from smoking." (https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/awarene...)

"In September, a paper in The Journal of Clinical Investigation described mice exposed to e-cigarettes for 4 months, nearly one-quarter of their life span. Farrah Kheradmand, a pulmonologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, who led the work, says that, at first, "There was absolutely no emphysema, nothing" in the animals that inhaled aerosol from e-cigarettes. That finding jibes with earlier research showing combustion products are the cause of airway inflammation in smokers." (https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/11/how-safe-vaping-new-...)

[2] Ever seen one of the bans on the sale of vaping products associated with a similar ban on cigarettes? I didn't think so.

[3] Here's a toast to those who collect the statistics on the externalized costs of anything.

[4] Smoking marijuana has exactly the same dangers as smoking tobacco. (You do have a filter on that reefer, right?) The same particulates, the same "tar", and the same assortment of combustion by-products, right?
That was it, thank you!
If I say it as "not C", then it does not sound much like "nazi", but if I say it quickly, then it could be mistaken for "nazi". I am not a native English speaker either.
Rental demand in desirable areas keeps going up as wealth inequality increases and yuppies continue to want to live in urban areas.
It's a fair point, but really best practice would be to class a conversion as someone who applied for the job, was successful, and then performed at a high level for the next two years.

Not practical for many reasons and hard to convey to someone hunched over their Google analytics dashboard.
I think the Republicans are fine with Big Brother, based on their actions at least as far back as institution of the Hays code in the 30s. They just want to be the ones playing Big Brother.
No idea, but I know it's a self defeating cycle. I started blocking ads because they were getting annoying, I'm sure many other do the same.
Where does it say CE is going EOL? Long says updates will continue after 2.6, albeit slowly. Just like today.

> There will be CE releases after 2.6, but unlike Plus, they’ll be done when they’re ready, not on a regular cadence.
I believe http://wifi.yt (you there?) predates most of these.
Consider closed cell spray foam and you will probably make out better with a traditional high efficiency system than you would with geothermal and regular insulation. If you went with geothermal and spray foam your heating and cooling/comfort costs would be less than someones Starbucks habit but I can understand the initial cost might not make sense for some folks.
You are broadly correct.

> The Democrat plan is more traditional antitrust in that it wants to break up companies rather than prevent coordinated censorship.

Well of course republicans are going to be against this. We have anti-trust legislation (DOJ needs to actually enforce it, like the Trump DOJ did with Facebook, but it got thrown out for some reason).

Passing a bill with the express purpose of targeting certain corporations comes too close to a bill of attainder for me.

And I support breaking up the big tech companies.
It's not the most common advice.

Not many understand what causes weight gain and weight loss. As evidenced by my massive amount of downvotes.
If copilot was trained using the entirety of the linux kernel, wouldn't the neural network itself need to be GPLed, if not its output.
I work in an office building that's less than 5 years old. During the pandemic the elevators started returning to the ground floor and opening their doors. I wonder if the system is configured via the control panel in the elevator or if there's some other interface.
This part makes no sense:

"""But if you’re a biped, you can’t just put a baby on your back. The baby’s going to slide right off.

Baby chimpanzees and baboons cling to the fronts or wide backs of their mothers. Being upright means we have to physically carry our kids."""

So, hanging "from the ceiling" under the knuckle-walking mom's belly is somehow easier for the baby?
I quit my 6 figure tech job to officially build my own dating app
Guys just hear me out. I want to tell my story and explain why I made this decision. And even if you find it crazy, then at least you should know my story.

It's an amazing feeling when one day you just decide to take a different path than the one everyone else followed. You are left with that sensation of "What if it doesn't work? What if I fail?" I quit my software engineer job to pursue the entrepreneurial dream for over half a year now, and you want to know something? It feels good.

No, you're definitely not crazy to think that way, so I'll try and answer the second thought you might be having: why should you build a dating app?

I'll start off with why I got into tech in the first place. Back in 2015 a dating app called "Plenty Of Fish" sold its company to Match Group for $575 million dollars. I was super curious as to why. So I downloaded the app myself. I had the worst experience ever! It was the worst user interface I've ever seen. I told myself I could do so much better if I only had the tech skills. So I started my tech journey and became an engineer myself. Fast forwards 6 years and here I am, doing exactly what I envisioned all those years ago!

"What's da Catch?"

It's the name of my dating app. Catchy isn't it? (Pun intended.)

Here's what makes WDC different: it's all about being straightforward with your intentions. No one wants to spend time and emotional energy for weeks talking to someone who never was on the same page in the first place. That's no longer an issue.

Basically, you choose one of three intentions for every person you match with: Date, Friends, or Something Casual. You'll both see what the other person chooses. From there, you decide whether or not you want to engage in a conversation.

If you aren't sure about your initial intentions, no worries. Start a conversation and within 30 minutes to an hour, we will hit you with a prompt asking you "What's Da Catch? How do you feel about xyz? That way, we can try to save you endless small talk and get you straight to the point.

The app is still in the works, But you can come to check out the website and keep on the lookout for future updates and app releases.
>"It is now cheaper for the average person to get a ride to an airport/bar than it was before. It is safer, more predictable with timing, and more predictable with pricing."

No it's no longer cheaper "to get a ride to an airport/bar than it was before." Especially if one considers "before" being before the pandemic. This increased price of Uber/Lyft has actually been quite a common news story of late[1][2][3]. Incidentally "why is uber so expensive right now 2021" on Google search has over 15 million results.

What evidence is there that an Uber is safer than a taxi? Also how can a model with surge pricing be more predictable than a taxi which has regulated rates per mile and per minute?

>"Uber drivers make more money today than taxi drivers used to/or do today. There are also way more job openings in this than there used to be, with less friction to get involved."

Do you have a citation for Uber drivers making more money than taxis drivers? What is the true earning per mile for an Uber/Lyft driver when you factor in auto insurance, maintenance, repairs and vehicle depreciation?

The "friction" to becoming a taxi driver is pretty minimal. One just needs obtain a hack license the requirements of which are pretty nominal.[4] Especially so if you don't already own a car. Uber/Lyft seem to be having great difficulty staffing up right now[5]. I'm not sure that would be the case if it really was such the great(100% win) opportunity you make it out to be.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/article/uber-lyft-surge.html

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/09/uber-ly...

[3] https://www.curbed.com/2021/06/uber-lyft-expensive-new-york-...

[4] https://nycitycab.com/HackLicense.aspx

[5] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/7/22371850/uber-lyft-driver-...
I don't think I tried to correct anyone; I just asked some pretty open questions.

I've had a look at the Ipsos Mori results.

I can't find any information here...

https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/...

... about how many people they interviewed, exactly what questions they were asked (or whether these were open interviews), or how the sample were selected.
What do you mean, "until"?
I’ll just leave this here… I love this guy, he is so passionate about mechanical stuff. A bit on the odd side but a lot of heart.

https://youtube.com/c/WestCoastElevators
The app could basically be anything, but in terms of where the needle is on what data would be shared and used for monetization by the service provider is the interesting part and reason for the question.

Whether it is a web app, mobile app, big data service, or other, assume that the cloud hosting provider could see user behavior data as it transits between your servers. Also assume personally identifiable information was masked or removed from this capture.

Would you trade that access to your data flow in exchange for free hosting?
This is the key question. In school I was taught to be careful to always cite even paraphrased works. If Copilot regurgitates copyrighted fragments without citation or informing acceptors of licenses involved then it's facilitating infringement.
... seems normal...
Tesla will launch its ‘mind-blowing’ Full Self-Driving Beta v9 on Saturday
Do you have any (non-anecotal, ideally) evidence that it's dangerous?
I mean... If God's so omnipotent why did he need to rest on the seventh day to begin with?
The String Formatters of Manor Farm (2001)
Doesn’t terraform show you how many resources are affected and require you to approve that when running apply?
This is very heart breaking. I love my cat just like a child, he's my everything, and I spend an important part of my day, playing with him, taking care of him etc. Seeing him dead would absolutely devastate me: but being a 20 something, it's very likely this will happen sometime in my lifetime (my cat is 2 years old)!
The grandparent said

> I don't care about the project, I care about writing code

this is like the contractor saying they only care about installing cabinets, not helping you model your bathroom.

The point is that you want someone that's going to look at the plan and say "that's going to rot in 2 years", not just do the exact thing requested by the customer and leave
It's more a question of which ones can't be. There are some really nasty and not very obvious gotchas here; https://regular-expressions.mobi/catastrophic.html has a good dive into how, for example, backtracking combines with incautious regex design to produce exponential behavior in the length of input.

I don't have a hard and fast rule of my own about regex complexity, but I do have a strong intuition over what's now ca. 25 years of working with regexes dating back to initial exposure in Perl 5 as a high schooler. That intuition boils down more or less to the idea that, when a regex grows too complex to comprehend at a glance, it's time to start thinking hard about replacing it with a proper parser, especially if it's operating over (as yet) imperfectly sanitized user input.

Sure, it's maybe a little more work up front, at least until you get good at writing small fast parsers - which doesn't take long, in my experience at least; formal training might make it easier still, but I've rarely felt the lack. In exchange for that small investment, you gain reliability and maintainability benefits throughout the lifetime of the code. Much of that comes from the simple source of no longer having to re-comprehend the hairball of punctuation that is any complex regex, before being able to modify it at all - something at which I was actually really good, as recently as a decade or so ago. The expertise has since expired through disuse, and that's given me no cause for regret; the thing about being a regex expert is that it's a really good skill for writing unreadable and subtly dangerous code, and not a skill good for much of anything else. Unreadable and subtly dangerous code was fine when I was a kid doing my own solo projects for fun, where the worst that'd happen is I might have to hit ^C. As an engineer on a team of engineers building software for production, it's not even something I would want to be good at doing.
The band-aid had to be pulled off sometime.

US occupancy of the ME initiates a feedback loop where our military presence creates cause for (often violent) anti-American sentiment. Wouldn't you be at least tempted to avenge the death of your father (or the rest of your immediate family) if they died a brutal death at the hands of a foreign superpower? The reactionary response is to bed down those anti-US sentiments with more military action, only fueling their (often rightful) discontent. This creates a paradox where the more we attack the symptoms of the problem, the worse the problem becomes.

The only way to stop a feedback loop is to break one of the steps in the loop. The end of military occupation might have short- and medium-term negative effects, but if the goal is to make US-ME war a historical occurrence instead of an ongoing (present) one, you have to stop at some point. Time ~heals~ lessens ~all~ most wounds and we have to accept that a fresh, repeatedly-injured wound is going to sting for awhile.

There's no good (or even sub-par) reason(s) to remain in the ME any more. Total US fossil fuel consumption is continuing to fall. US fossil fuel production has risen. We already nabbed the (ostensible) main culprit of 9/11 and have toppled the regimes of some bad authoritarians. None of these were noble (or even profitable) reasons to invade the ME in the first place. The wars still stand on the same shaky foundations on which they began and it's time to focus our resources into far better endeavors.

Imagine if we had instead spent all that war money on clean energy and grid storage. Even in 2003 prices, we'd be far ahead of where we are now from a total resources and national wealth perspective. Sure, building an expensive missile is ~technically~ GDP, but what good is a product's GDP contribution if we literally explode it and it does nothing for our collective quality of life?
Retailers should start checking voting registration when selling Lego sets too!
Based on the responses I've seen, people have it in their heads that Copilot is a system where you describe what kind of software you want and it finds it on Github and slaps your own license on it.

It's just a smarter tab-completion.
I actually ran numbers on electrosails to decelerate, they do not work, at all - many orders of magnitude. Email me for spreadsheet. Pulsed nuclear propulsion is the only tech we have that works
Imagine if the US Code suddenly became fixed and holy. Now imagine you are thousands of years in the future. Congress is long gone and if you're lucky you might have some notes and stories about how the laws were enforced in the past.

Naturally, the world has changed a lot since the text of the law became immutable. But who is to say how new things fit into the old framework? What about old contradictions that were never addressed? What about laws on the books that were never enforced in practice, do those still count? And so on.

In our hypothetical scenario there is no Supreme Court, but there would probably be dozens of 'pretenders to the throne' who believe they have the right to interpret the law correctly. So you as an individual can choose which school of thought you want to subscribe to. Letter of the law? Spirit of the Law?

And in a funny way, when we ask ourselves "what did the Founding Fathers want?" we are doing the same thing as theologians when they wonder what God wanted.
Thanks. I'm currently using an adblocker, but not a JS blocker. I'm pretty sure that's the wrong way round.
> Perhaps people on HN start sensing that successors of Github Copilot will take their programming job. Rightly so.

I feel like this comment misunderstands what a software developer is doing. Copilot isn't going to understand the underlying problem to be solved. It's not going to know about the specific domain and what makes sense and what doesn't.

We're not going to see developers replaced in our lifetime. For that you need actual intelligence - which is very different from the monkey see monkey do AI of today.
It's a very powerful tool. Just like any other (well designed) tool, it's only going to do what the operator tells it to do.

Terraform will never delete something you don't tell it to.
Avastin blocks vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF).

There are also drugs that block epidermal growth factor (EGF), like Cuba's CIMAvax for lung cancer.
It is 4 zones with (effectively) 5 floors and a lot of square footage. Anderson gave us a great deal on high efficiency triple pane argon gas filled windows and I walked the home with a wireless thermometer to check for obvious insulation problems. What else could I do to improve the thermal envelope?

I've followed much of the advice in this cleantechnica series on this exact problem: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/10/08/home-efficiency-101-app...
Private Relay could be the beginning of the end for fingerprinting on iOS devces
> I might hate him but the manchurian candidate theory was transparently bs from the very beginning, even before the investigation that proved it.

The collusion allegations were not a Manchurian candidate theory and were never disproven by any investigation. (To the contrary, prior to being pardoned by Trump, several people either plead guilty or were convicted at trial for lies to investigators the key substance of which was falsely denying active actual ot attempted coordination with Russian state actors by Trump campaign officials.) The story that Trump was somehow exonerated is itself a propaganda story from the Trump camp that waa deliberately facilitated by AG Barr’s deliberate distortion of the Mueller investigation findings.

> He's certainly not the first politican that this line was used on and will probably not be the last.

He's definitely not the first politician to actively seek foreign assistance against domestic political opposition, nor the first to be sloppy enough that it gets noticed in time for it to be used against him (see, e.g., Louis XVI of France.)
I buy the argument about copilot itself and this comment. But when someone goes to release software that uses the output of Copilot, I fail to see how they wouldn’t be a GPL derivative work if enough source was used. Copilot is essentially really fancy copy/paste in that context.
"Metadehumanization erodes democratic norms during the 2020 presidential election"[0]

[0] https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/asap.12253
Sometimes with humans we spend too much effort extending life without considering quality of life.
> As crazy as early Uber was I still have trouble believing that taxi companies are more deserving or were better to their employees or less corrupt. There's no evidence.

Do you have any evidence, for any taxi network in any city on the planet, of that taxi network doing anything even remotely as illegal or antisocial as Uber has been (and still is) doing? Uber's transgressions are well documented, there is great many of them, and quite a few were done at scale.

For the "deserving" part - they were there. Good or bad, I don't think any business deserves being steamrolled by an aggressive foreign multinational corporation, with practically infinite budget to undercut competitors and keep law enforcement at bay. Local businesses don't get to break the law without impunity.

For being better to their employees, I honestly don't know. But in all the rides with traditional networks I took over two decades of my life, I don't remember any driver actually complaining about their job. Ironically, the drivers of Uber-like[0] services keep complaining all the time - mostly about constantly changing terms of contracts, and constantly testing new kinds of customer acquisition schemes, that tend to take away money from the drivers.

> But most people prefer to see the price before they get in.

I never said I didn't want it either. I like this feature - and guess what, I had that, way before Uber was a thing, thanks to a private company that fought for improvement in transport regulations. That's how I know sociopathy wasn't necessary to disrupting the taxi market.

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[0] - I don't use Uber itself, it's a matter of principle.
> I have little faith in the government to do anything about the overbroad reach of tech companies, but I do think it's pretty obvious that there has been coordinated censorship of right wing accounts.

I'm not entirely sure. Seen from a distance, it looks like happened to Republicans in 2021 exactly what happened to Muslims in ~2016: social media companies finally decided to take action against the violent factions that used the rest of users to hide in plain sight.

According to a paper I read a while ago, it worked against Da'ech, Al-Qaeda, etc. without harming regular Muslim users. I hope that it can work as well against alt-right violent movements without harming regular Conservatives.

Now, do I believe that social networks should have that much power? Not at all. But I believe that focusing on actions that Conservatives are aimed against all of them is counterproductive. We should rather aim at breaking these ~monopolies.

> Add to that the fact that Republicans are in fact also consumers, and I don't think it's fair to say they are ignoring consumers.

Well, they seem to be ignoring most consumers to focus on a single group. Is that a better formulation?
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