skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you can infer sizes from genetic diversity ('effective pop')

for the out of africa group i've seen sizes from 100 to 10,000. i used 1,000 to 10,000 as a likely moderate number, and the range also points to the census size being larger

we can assume that conditional on the size of OoA the other groups were way larger (10x or more). otoh, the main thing i did not explore is that i am now believing that africans themselves especially agriculturalists are 'compounds' of various bottlenecked groups (why west africans are closer to eurasians than they are to khoisan)
>it only happens to be hosted on GitHub and browsable (but not copyable) by people.

So would you say that it's publicly visible?
You talk as if you're 100% certain about these things, which is obviously not possible.
It means that when you don't compare it with anything, most people will intuitively compare it with perfection, as if by quickly zeroing out carbon emissions there would be no negative consequences.

It seems as "if we just did X everything would be better", when actually there are mostly trade-offs
But imagine something you presumably don't care about - such as say the feng shui of housing.

Say the government started dictating minimum standards of feng shui, and costs went up because of it, and you couldn't have the house you wanted because it didn't match feng shui standards.

Wouldn't you say 'but I don't want feng shui - I don't care about feng shui'.
It's not a violation of copyright to train a model. There are three questions at play though:

1) Can you be liable for violating copyright if you have never seen the work?

2) Can a non-human be held accountable for violating copyright?

3) Can github be held liable for an end user using their tool to violate copyright?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial_similarity

wikipedia states: Generally, copying cannot be proven without some evidence of access; however, in the seminal case on striking similarity, Arnstein v. Porter, the Second Circuit stated that even absent a finding of access, copying can be established when the similarities between two works are "so striking as to preclude the possibility that the plaintiff and defendant independently arrived at the same result."

This is a different situation in which exact replication can be reasonably occurred without access to the original.

Secondly, can you actually claim Github has violated copyright if it doesn't have any claims to the work in question?

I think it's totally plausible that they win this in the long run.
> “The hungrier they are, the more likely they will tolerate bitter taste to obtain more calories.”

I share that feeling with flies, after my 3rd trip to the fridge suddenly that

> The researchers found that patterns of neuronal activity in the fan-shaped body change adaptively when novel food choices are introduced, which dictates the fly’s decision over what food to eat.

I moved countries a few years ago, and I did the same. I have created a new scale of food that I like from the exposure to new tastes. You need to adapt to the available food. As option B, many people seems to opt for stores that sell products from their original culture so they do not need to change. I guess that flies were not given that option.

I guess, I hope, that not just me and flies have this behavior.

> They found they could change a fly’s choice by manipulating neurons in areas of the brain that feed into the fan-shaped body.

And they found the solution to eating too much ice-cream and too little salad. Where do I need to sign-up? :)
Fugitive is really useful for a lot of stuff, though I don't use anywhere near all of its functionality. For example, I never rebase within vim. But blaming and especially staging/committing is a far better experience with fugitive than in plain terminal.
Hey everyone!

This is a (hopefully) fun July 4th weekend project I put together. I shared the site at work and it's led to some fierce competition... the current high score is 70 "words" per minute for JS.
Yes. This information is in the article.
I know, I was speaking to the fact that they are right leaning.

The point to that sentence was to say there are reasons to not be left leaning (leftist or liberal) that don't involve conspiracies.
Yeah, that makes sense. If the heat at the bottom of the dam, to mix your metaphors, has no further to fall, that is the temperature gradient compared with the external environment is low, then you're right, you can't really do anything useful with it in a practical way.
Botswana figured it out too.
(a) This ain't Upwork...

(b) More context and a way to contact would be helpful ;)
Super interesting Wikipedia article, thanks for the link! Some of the restrictions on free speech make me instinctually uncomfortable (i.e. restrictions for the sake of "decency and morality"), but I recognize these are hardly unique to India and countries such as the U.S. have censored plenty of books, etc. in the past.

I'm not sure that I personally am in favor. However, you're clearly right in that it's hardly unprecedented or unique.
Is real estate actually treated as depreciation, or is it an asset with associated maintenance costs?

Depreciation is just an accounting trick, e.g. if you buy a laptop, you can’t put it in costs immediately (in the profit = sales - costs equation), it depreciates over say 4 years (i.e. only 25% of the purchase price can be accounted as cost each year).

Does this really happen with property? There’s no fundamental reason why a 100 year house wouldn’t be worth just as much as a new one, with proper maintenance (which can, and IMO should, be accounted separately).
Filip here, the person from the video.

Unfortunately, the best sources about "old school" NLG are physical books. I really liked Building Natural Language Generation Systems as a start.

Newer NLG tries to merge ML and the old approaches. The only source there are academic papers, afaik.
In all my years, anytime someone says there’s this easy way to avoid taxes that no one is taking advantage of, it is because there is a catch or downside that does not make it worth it to be popular.

In the internet era, information spreads pretty quickly, so I imagine a tax benefit will be quickly disseminated so either it is brand new or you should take it with a boulder of salt.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/charitableremaindertrus...

In this case, this seems like a pretty big drawback. And I assume sure you cannot just set yourself up as beneficiary.

> Charitable remainder trusts are irrevocable. This means that they cannot be modified or terminated without the beneficiary's permission. The grantor or trustor, having transferred assets into the trust, effectively removes all of her rights of ownership to the assets and the trust upon creation of its irrevocable status.
> If your product causes harm in any way—regardless of the benefits—you're going to have a difficult time getting regulatory approval

Question stands, is that a bad thing?

Besides not everything FDA approved becomes a prescription medication. On topic; nicotine gums and patches as smoke cessation products are widely available as OTC.
If the training set contains verbatim (A)GPL code does this mean that Copilot also should be distributed by Microsoft under GPL? Because without it Copilot (as it is distributed by Microsoft) couldn't be built, wouldn't it make it a derivative work of GPL'd code (and obviously every other license)?

I see a lot of people comparing human learning to machine learning in the comments, but there is a huge difference - we don't distribute copies of humans
Doesn't this just result in more organizations having your data? Presumably most DNS entries have some finite TTL, such as a few minutes / hours / days. Let's say one of your favorite websites has a TTL of 10 hours, and you visit this website once per day. Then eventually (soon!) you will have asked most or all of your servers for that domain, so now they all have your data. Or do you have your PiHole configured that it always asks the same server for the same domain?
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I sympathize with and share your exhaustion, but I force myself to pay attention to these stories. They remind me why Climate Change is always my #1 priority when voting in elections, and when thinking about the world writ large.

There was an editorial in The Atlantic a couple of years ago—which I now can’t seem to find—titled something like “We should be covering climate change like it’s the only story that matters”. The body of the piece was very short, but can be summed up as “because in terms of relative importance, it is the only story that matters. But we won’t do it.”

But we should. But we need to.
facepalm

In residential connections, every marketer will just figure out that particular AS gives /64 (or /56 or /48) and bundle them up, like how they use IPv4 address to track families.
Interesting. What I meant though was introgression with closer groups. IE there clearly were surviving populations that didn't go through the major sapien funnels. Their descendants are in the "very diverse" group. Obviously there was, is and will be "introgression" with them.

Were there other such groups, in or out of sub-saharan africa... whos genes we carry?
So that was written 4 years before the dot-com bubble, so the crypto bubble will pop in another... 2 years? Or will it be sooner since we live in the age of information?
I do not own a car, I do not fly, I buy clothes used or new just once a year. My newest smartphone I bought five years ago (and I just bought a new battery for $10, so I can use it for five more years). My utility company stats says my energy consumption is overall very low. I eat meat once a month. I try to own as few things as possible. I try to write and deploy code in energy efficient languages (Go, Rust, C, ...) [1]. I self host some services on my arm board that consumes 0.79W when idle.

I do not feel, that it makes a large dent, but I feel that I'm way ahead what the average person does in order to reduce their environmental footprint.

Also, I do not feel I'm cutting myself short and I still depend on many of the niceties of modern civilization - but, I'd also be happier, if my footprint would be even lower.

[1] https://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sle...
Similar to www.nobroker.in (India) ?
Whether or not it's legal isn't the point of the article though.

It even highlights how they're using recent changes in the tax code to claim depreciation on assets that either don't actually depreciate or the value is highly subjective.

It's a lot more than just "Oh boo boo is us our asset lost value last year so now we don't have to pay taxes".
Some would argue that a factory machine that breaks over time is different from a sports player who gets better and more valuable over time.

But I guess if you squeeze your eyes hard enough, everything looks the same.
You don't think that drastically increasing the amount of particulate matter in the air that we breath could be a bad idea?
Please contact us at info@koronahra.cz . The game is "open source" but we didn't explicitly specify what exactly that means. I consider the owners of the code to be the company swehq.com that did most of the coding.
The business deal used to be good. Now there is a sovereignty problem. The free part is not relevant here. We can't help that Google is having problems monetizing a service by first providing an acceptable service and then later changing the terms of the deal. Perhaps their business model is unrealistic.
Does copilot seem strange, or maybe the concept of intellectual property does?
You simulated the limiting case, where you don't stop having babies until you get a boy. That's (obviously) not realistic as we have a finite lifespan and fertility, but note that the
expectation still holds.

In this process you will always get 1 boy, obviously. But you have a (1/2)^k * (1/2) chance of getting k girls before your first boy. Thus the expected number of girls is

Sum[k * (1/2)^k * (1/2), k, 0, inf]

which is 1: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Sum%5Bk+*+%281%2F2%29%... .
> Looking at people who graduated earlier I’m envious that they can start a family earlier.

Can they? You can start having kids as soon as you find a spouse. College is a great time to date with the intention of finding a spouse. Going to college at 15 can make finding a spouse early in life considerably more difficult.
Torrents seem like the ideal solution for something like this? The infrastructure cost of hosting is shared by all those who find the content valuable. It also has a natural cache-like behavior where popular content will be highly seeded, while unpopular content drops out.

Interestingly, Peertube seems to be backed by exactly such infrastructure.
There are interesting research out there if one searches for it though. This one already sucks CO2 out from the atmosphere:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-07/deep-sea...

This fantastical sea creature helps remove planet-warming gases from the atmosphere

"He and fellow researchers eventually learned that these creatures and their snot palaces play an outsize role in helping the ocean remove planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — one more part of a vast and underappreciated system that makes the ocean an unsung hero of climate change. Covering more than 70% of Earth’s surface, the ocean has absorbed more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide released by humans since the Industrial Revolution, and about 90% of the resulting heat."

This one too: https://www.projectvesta.org/

If trees just burn up, they may not be immediately useful. The tools need to be controllable and expenditure minimal.

I'd be the last to recommend geo-engineering, but it may be correct humanity already started by releasing so much extra CO2 the past hundred years.
Don’t like them, don’t watch/upload. Just like he did. They can put in as many ads as they want, and those who are bothered can refuse to watch.
I think you can set quotas on S3 somehow too.
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He made the right choice there. It's not fit for purpose for small creators or users anymore and the big established media players have spoilt it for them.

Unsurprisingly, YouTube only follows the big money so they know that they cannot and will never change. Creators become victims to the recommendation algorithm and compete against viewership governed by 'The Algorithm'.

For those who are after monetisation on YouTube, It can best described as shooting a video on a tight-rope, blind folded and surrounded by thousands of snakes and crocodiles on a daily basis.

One slip up, wrong move or silly sound and your account could be demonetised, permanently banned or both. That's doesn't seem like 'freedom' as YouTube describes it. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/about/
You hit the nail on the head with question about morality. The climate apocalypse is presented as a strictly scientific issue. It becomes scientism when the moral questions are ignored.

IMHO, if we are to examine the moral question we need to ask not just about the premises of the doomsayers, but the potential outcomes of the favored solutions. Even where I disagree with their premises, I can appreciate the questions and arguments around the mechanisms for warming. However, the proposed solutions are plainly harmful.

Where empirical observations required for climate science, apriori knowledge about human nature, reason and logic can be applied to their carbon credit central banking schemes. We know humans are flawed and greedy. We know the world is a complex place. Allowing the further privilege of centrally planning the world's energy consumption invites not just moral hazard, but catastrophic tyranny.

Therefore, if you disagree about the specifics of AGW, fine. That is a separate issue. Consider the moral hazards of the doomsayer's proposals.

Finally, avoid the trap of false alternatives. There are options besides inaction or adopting the warmist's proposals. Reforestation, forestry management and carbon storage through use of wood products is a viable alternative. Ask why this profitable solution is not given precedence over violent, government mandates.
I'm 100% certain in the vaccine's effectiveness on the average American.

Sure: Immunocompromised individuals may not be saved even with the vaccine (not enough B-cells or T-cells to fight off the disease even with the vaccine training them up). But its pretty much 100% proven at this point that the vaccines are 99.999%+ safe (all deaths due to vaccine are measured in the 10-in-a-million or smaller magnitude), while being 95% effective at preventing symptoms against the disease in question. Because the vaccine has been deployed to over 100-million Americans, I have evidence on how it works!!

There's no doubt anymore in my mind. There wasn't any doubt in my mind in December 2020, and we've only got 7 more months of evidence: the virus is surging in unvaccinated areas (ex: India), while receding in vaccinated areas. Something like 100% of LA's COVID19 deaths were from unvaccinated indivuals, despite only having ~50% vaccination rates (so 50% / 50% split of vaccinated vs unvaccinated in that population, but 100% deaths coming from only the unvaccinated pool?)

What more evidence do you want?
Your argument is disingenuous.

You are trying to twist his argument into "if you have any complaint, you should leave". But that's not his argument.

His argument is that if you disagree with taxation specifically, you should leave. He's fine with taxation. He probably believes that any other issues he may or may not have with his government can be fixed within that system without compromising the things he likes about it too much. He doesn't believe you can't remove taxes without compromising everything he likes about his country.

Argue his point, not some make-believe exaggeration.
I think most consumer-facing plastics need to go. They're one of the major catalysts, if not the catalyst for our hyperconsumerist habits. Go back to glass bottles for things. Give subsidies to companies that use glass for inventory loss and such. Bring back the milkman who refills your empty jugs.
Good question, mainly two points:
1. We had deep expertise in Electron and web dev. We are 4 months old so we wanted to validate the problem AND our solution as quickly as possible.

2. Meetings, by essence, have many stakeholders. Some (if not most) of the attendees are not on Hera and this is where having our core product mostly web compatible will proved to be useful - we can easily spin up for instance a public page to share the outcomes of your meeting to people not using hera
Makes me wonder what would happen if a similar thing was done with books. If I train an AI on all the texts of Tom Clancy, or Stephen King, or every Star Wars novel, and the books it generates every so often produce paragraphs verbatim from one of those sources, would copyright owners be up in arms? What would the distinction be between the code case and the text case?
In other words, the abstract machine specification you’re programming your compile-time logic against in Rust, has Turing-complete semantics; but its extant implementations — any Rust compiler people would care to use — intentionally does not implement compile-time Turing-completeness.

But you could in theory write a Rust compiler whose compile-time runtime is fully Turing-complete; and that compile-time runtime would be conformant to the Rust language spec. (Just, nobody would want to use it, because “unbounded runtime” isn’t a property people tend to want from their compilers.)
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Note that "a template for which no valid instantiation is possible" is actually ill-formed, no diagnostic required.

That said, it's not clear to me what part of "you can write uninstantiable templates" is surprising, so I'm probably not understanding correctly. Maybe you could find the C++ code you're talking about? I would be interested.
> Having said that, at least in my toy projects it was not uncommon to have to compile using `--release` to run the tests (since otherwise the tests would take forever).

Maybe you're already aware of that, but if the reason why your tests are slow is not “your code not being optimized” but “your dependencies not being optimized” then Cargo profile override[1] can save your life. You can have one specific dependency (or all of them) being build in release mode even when you're building you own code in debug mode. The first development build is going to be quite slow, but after that, you're going to have the best of both worlds.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/profiles.html#over...
I don't understand.

I have a PiHole, and have the cloudflare DoH client installed on it.

Requests from my network go to the PiHole, and the PiHole is set to query localhost:5053, which then hits a DoH provider.

Why do you have separate setups for mobile vs. desktop web browser, why not have the OS do native DNS to your PiHole?
Of course, if one does want to cover it like it's the only story that matters, one should really seriously take a look at how to best present that — because there are real possibilities that a naive approach might very well fail you, and get the coverage ignored.
I'm a programmer and also studied law for some time. These stories make me - once more - realize the old adage: "Possession is nine tenths of the law." Don't host that code in the cloud (or a better term, someone else's dirty bucket). What happened to developers hosting stuff on their own website!?
In that hypothetical I wouldn’t think GitHub is responsible for determining if a repository is mirrored and what the implications of that are. They just need to look at what license is on the repo in GitHub.
Thanks. The license is "AGPL-3.0-or-later":
https://github.com/pdfernhout/storyharp-js/blob/master/packa...
This is a great argument.
How much polonium in cigarette smoke versus a campfire? It says polonium occurs naturally in the soil and air. How much polonium then is taken in as a baseline? Other commenters mention radiation is not the factor that causes cancer in smoking so why does this CDC article even exist?
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Mozilla is literally switching Canadian users to use government's (CIRA) DNS by default. Seriously, how that's a good thing?
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I'd forgotten about this, but years ago I was working in a huge PHP nightmare codebase.

So, I hacked together a pre-commit hook that blocked the commit only if the configured style checker registered errors on lines being added by the diff.

It never got very polished, but I wound up using it in two codebases over the years.

https://github.com/NateEag/diff-check
At least in Canada, it seems that the worst that can happen with a creative interpretation is that you are forced to pay it back.
I completely agree. The trick is the same, create a complex product that is going to make it hard to regulate and sell it to unsophisticated investors that are blinded by the rapid initial gains. When it explodes let others fix the resulting mess and run with as many money as you can.
The only good part is something as fundamental as homes is not part of the schema. I hope that this reduces the size of the impact in the general economy.
Anyone who has watched birds find a dish of cat or dog food on the back porch knows they watch each other. The same thing goes for a place to roost (as in under the eves.) One bird might find the food or the place to roost by accident but other birds are watching.
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