skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The fact that it has picked up the GPL might not mean that much -- it might appear in dual-licensed projects.

Github have stated that Copilot is trained on all public code on Github, regardless of license. It very trivially follows that it has been trained on a lot of code that is explicitly GPL single licensed. We don't need to do any guessing here.
Agreed that up-coding is bad. Still think preserving lossless, if it is available in the first place, is worth it, and a couple hundred megabytes probably don’t matter to someone who chose a quality download rather than streaming.

The point that “the entirety of one’s experience is fully available to one’s conscious mind, so if one can’t tell the difference then it doesn’t matter” can be a philosophical question on which we’ll disagree.
The MathFoldr Project
I often felt like small things were blown out of proportion because Facebook, or bad things were attributed to facebook the same way you could have blamed any other mean of communication or broadcast. Worse, the positive impact of the platform or social networks was/is never discussed.

I’m reading the comments on the Github copilot thread today and I have a feeling Github employees must have the same feeling today. They’re releasing something that is likely to change the world and people can only focus on the negative impact.

Most pressing issue is the issue of propaganda or information manipulation. This is a huge problem on every platform. Today I know a lot of russians and chinese people who live abroad and are still brainwashed by the news back home, it’s half working in the US with fox news.
I read about a quarter of it and regret the time I wasted.

It's interesting to look at the Amazon reviews: most of the reviews give 5 stars, but if you look at the 1-star reviews you'll see that there is a significant minority of reviewers with opinions like this one, for example: "It's an overrated book that is unnecessarily long. It will suffice to read the book blurb as the rest is repetitive explanation of the same topic with endless examples."

To me it is an interesting psychological phenomenon that people find the book worth reading. Perhaps someone should write a book about that ...
Common law has the concept of "under duress". I'm sure other legal traditions have something similar. It is also common sense in the US culture in general that you can't be said to agree to having your legs broken in a situation like that.

While the mythical "homo econominus" may say that there's no difference between "give me $$$ or I'll inflict severe negative utility on you" and "give me $$$ or I'll reduce the positive utility you receive from selling goods by the same amount" by saying it's the same amount of utility in absolute terms in both branches, in practice nobody feels or operates that way, and that's with steelmanning this argument by declining to note all the obviously relevant ways in which this metaphor is a mismatch.
Were you actually doing any serious web development in the mid 2000s? Because I have a feeling you wouldn't be saying this if you were.. :-)
I don't think you have to go all the way to plastics and chemicals (not saying that they aren't potentially playing their part).

Take a simple model with a combination of all the factors the author discusses (type of diet, sugar, trans-fats, caloric intake, processed foods, exercise, genetics etc), allow interaction between the factors, and have the lipostat as the dependent variable. I.e. several factors together will, over time, upregulate the lipostat.

A relatively simple model that evades the authors objections, yet might fit the data.
Has anyone tried to generate private keys from copilot? GitHub suppressed these from search a while ago, but it would be an easy mistake to have included them in their training data.
Insane.

I just setup a company where it will take a few years to build something in Ohio. It's $99 once and no annual fees. Zero dollars a year.

https://bsportal.ohiosos.gov/

From my non legal perspective, if you aren't yet generating revenues it pays to incorporate outside of California.
Nope. That's like saying, "I might let a machine write the docs for me."

Good tests are documentation that a computer can verify. Because they explain the meaning of parts of the system, they contain information not available in the code. If you try using ML for test generation, you'll have the same problem you do with GPT-3 prose: it might look plausible at first glance, but lacks coherent meaning.

You'd also end up with one of the problems common in big test suites: poorly factored tests that end up being the sort of expressive duplication that is a giant drag on improving existing code. ML is nowhere near advanced enough to say, "Gosh, we're doing the same sort of test setup a bunch; let's extract that into a fixture, and then let's unify some fixtures into an ObjectMother.

For people looking to get the computer to do the work of catching more things with less burdensome test writing, I suggest taking a look at things like Hypothesis: https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
>I'm a software engineer.

You know as well as I do that when talking about building a submarine (and linking to SpaceX discussions) "Engineer" isn't meant as someone who made a video game back in the day. It has zero percentage to do with code.

With that said I'm also sure you know that Software Engineer isn't seen as a "real engineer" (and I'm in the same camp as you FYI). It is more like Medical Technician versus Doctor. In most countries you need a license besides an education to b a "real engineer" and Software Engineers cannot get one. The whole job title is a misnomer, just like Engineer in American English has become it seems, though some Board of Examiners still sue you if you try to call yourself an Engineer without a license[0].

I did not write a single word that was positive or negative about Elon Musk in the comment.

[0]https://eu.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2021/06/10/former-w...
Many deaf folks reject the use of hearing aids because they view their deafness as a positive, or their culture as important (their signing and shared experiences).

While it should always be up to the individual to decide what they want to do to their body, it’s never as straightforward as “we can do this, so we should”. My first thought (as someone who does not stutter, so my opinion is worth very little here) is that we send a poor message to those with stutters if we use technology to pretend stuttering doesn’t exist.

Again, just food for thought. I’d be more curious to hear what someone with a stutter thinks.
I know exactly why I'm fat. I consistently continue eating after already feeling full. Regardless of whether it's socially designated as a "health food" or "junk food".

Most of the pleasure of eating and drinking comes from the first few bites and sips, after that the senses start dulling and diminishing returns start to set in, so it's really no big loss to stop when full. Certainly not worth getting indigestion over.

A few weeks of disciplined eating seriously diminishes the urge to overeat, but all it takes to settle into old habits is a single slip-up. I think making food artificially unpalatable by cutting salt, fat, or whatever ingredient is currently being vilified is just unproductive. It will just make the experience frustrating and unsatisfying no matter how much or little you eat.
The Aria anime series was unrealistic?!
> supper-seeded

I think you meant superseded (pronounced super-seeded).
Drip irrigation works best when delivering water directly to the roots of small annual plants. Trees have large root systems, and are planted closely enough that you need to water the entire ground. Perhaps a network of smaller sprayers below the leaf canopy would reduce evaporative losses.
The point is that once you receive lossy audio, you can’t even verify how well it was compressed. Can you trust that it was encoded from a lossless source and not re-encoded a hundred times? Do you consider “it’s all good, unless you actually notice bad sound quality with naked ear in the middle of the film” is a sound principle from viewing experience standpoint?

(By the way, your numbers look like you pulled them out of nowhere, but if we are doing this then let me tell you: 99% of population will just stream. This discussion is already moot to everyone but the most picky viewers.)
I found that I do the same thing and came to the realization that part of the problem is sites shuffling content so new and old get mixed together and it becomes a slot machine. For HN I made http://hackerer.news that shows only todays top posts so you can immediately see that there's nothing new. [Clicking the date heading shows previous days'] It helped me save lots of time, maybe it can help you.
When those projects are found to not lock users and customers in Google ecosystem and/or not to bring ad revenue, those are axed with no remorse.
I'll see your video phone and raise you a Kubrick. As a high schooler in the late 70s I was sure I'd be able to go to orbit for my 40th birthday (late 90s). No such luck. Even though I had a plastic model of the "2001" Pan-Am clipper as a talisman.
Curious: what might the unintended consequences be of making patents non-transferable?
My solution is to not write hasty "professional" emails. I take my time to craft my messages for conciseness, and re-read and re-write them before sending to remove any ambiguity. I do use emojis in text messages, and other non-professional communication. To me, professional communication requires a little more time and effort, but that's what makes it professional.
We let too many morons on the net, now it's either give up freedom or give up democracy and the rule of law. Aside from an Internet "driving license" or tests before people are allowed to vote, I don't see how we can keep both. I liked a free Web too...
My guess is most bribes take the form of campaign contributions, and are out of reach for a coffee shop doing $150k/year in revenue.
We still receive junk mail with the postal deliveries a couple of times a month.
Brown rubber bands too.
The easter code is regurgitated pretty much verbatim:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/58726426

It really is hard to swallow the argument that this is not license violation on a massive scale.
It's not clear to me how that's better than the traditional solution to generate "Dumb Code", copy-pasting something. And we all know the problems with copy-pasting as a lifestyle.
Also the increase in thyroid disease, especially among women, may be related.
It is definitely leveling off. It's just that, without intervention, it will take a long time to do so, 100+ years. The question then is whether increased demands poses a threat in the interim - maybe not. Emissions rate could probably be cut drastically through innovation in the next decade, as climate change is concerned, though it's so far gone we might require geoengineering at this point. That research is still in it's infancy, and as it stands, the options are mediocre.
I haven't heard any rumors to that effect. I've talked to small business owners who have gotten fined for various infractions in NYC, just casually, and my impression is that it's just bureaucracy in action--lots of rules, randomly enforced by people who individually interpret them one way or another.

For example, a store selling used equipment was fined for not individually labeling the equipment as used. All equipment in the store is used, it's all outdated stuff, and it's completely obvious. But one day someone from the city shows up and levies a fine. So now this scuffed, obsolete gear from the 1990s has a "used" sticker on it.
And once you decide all that, you still have to write:

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or whatever.
I've heard of this argument before but I think it really needs some evidence. Is there a study that corroborates this claim?

Even if the US really "subsidizes" medicine for the rest of the world, what motives do pharmas have to sell medicine at lower-than-production/R&D-cost to the rest of the world? Couldn't they just sell to the US exclusively, let the rest of the world rot, and then sit on a bigger pile of cash as a result?
Setting up a HA Kubernetes cluster using K3S
> I'm not sure where you got that idea

History: C was essentially PDP11 macro assembler. There are so many assumptions in C that basically came from the PDP11. C was originally a very utilitarian language to make writing unix easier. That it became massively popular was more of a happy accident.
I'm not sure I'd call flat earth or a geocentric model hateful, but if you think so, more power to you.
We're developing a simply secure alternative, called
PASETO (Platform-Agnostic Security Tokens).

D. R. I. N. K. Y. O. U. R. O. V. A. L....

Hey wait a minute, this secret message is just an advertisement!
my point is that you no longer have “classic” sysadmins and a lot of work is already done automatically by machines
I assume any Spotify-only podcast is because Spotify is paying them to be exclusive?
Can we save the night sky from satellite streaks? (2020)
You can teach someone to use the built-in loop macro without using the term "macro."

It's far more hairy and complicated then any non built-in macro you will encounter in the wild. Literally the only time I worry about macro vs special operator vs function is when doing higher order programming, which is less common in lisp than Haskell
Indeed. Talking into a camera is faster than typing.
> And if even one person starts using less plastic because of that, it was a success.

I can buy not relying on the first order impacts of banning plastic straws for the coat-benefit analysis, but relying on second-order effects doesn’t mean you get to toss out cost-benefit altogether.
Looking at a number of device manuals (my car, my Garmin watch, ...) many of them claim to only support AAC files "encoded by the Apple encoder".

I think that's because AAC supports a wide range of coding tools on paper and off-brand encoders might use them, but everybody supports the ones the Apple encoder uses.
This is not the time to play with city workers lacking in proactivity and/or competence. This is lawyer and/or representative time. Escalate the issue (ok, he's doing this with the video)

If the payment was done, that shows intent on renewing the license. Might be worth nothing, might be worth something.

Do you think if the city sits on a permit renewal by Chase or Starbucks that they'll diligently sit and wait? Yeah, right...
Even younger picture cannot help those who are facing prejudice due to visible disability, deformity or racism.

Biases due to profile picture adversely affecting marginalized is not new, Airbnb's black guests and owners have documented this under #AirbnbWhileBlack forcing the company to make several changes to how profile pictures and user names work.

But LinkedIn never acknowledged these issues and has instead doubled down on visual identity now like having 'Video introduction' as a primary feature. I wouldn't be surprised if they introduce 'Upload your video to Sign in'[2].

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90460723/airbnbwhileblack-the-in...

[2] https://hitstartup.com/year-2025/
On "Thinking, Fast and Slow" you might want to
run through this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27261501
Uptime Is for Amateurs with Brian Murphy
Exactly - why do I as a user want this? I already need an extension to fake the Referer...
Yep. We all had either TI-89 or -92. I used it to check myself after doing practice problems.
The lithography has obviously been much more salient, and still is, but both are limiting factors.

To draw a parallel: as the improvement of computing hardware performance slows down, one would expect more attention to be paid to software performance optimization, so that more of the potential of the hardware is actually used.

In the same vein, as lithography improvements slow down, one would expect more attention to be paid to e.g. the routing problem (but also placement of gates and buffers/repeaters, logic optimizations for timing closure, and others) so that more of the potential of the lithography is actually used.

So:

> are you saying that faster chips are actually becoming possible because more compute power has become available through the previous generation of chips, at this point?

Yes.

This is obvious when you look at it in the extreme: chips like the Intel 8080 were designed by hand. As in, the shapes to be created via lithography were drawn by hand. Doing this for a modern CPU core is plain impossible. We can only design those because older CPU cores already exist and can run automated tools that do this job for us.

It's less obvious but still true for generational improvements. The chip design problems are becoming computationally harder in each generation, for two main reasons. First, the designs are simply becoming bigger (more gates, more wires). Second, the design rules are becoming more complex.[0] If you kept the chips that you use to create the design constant, then each design generation would take more wall-time than the previous one to go through the automated design tools, until at some point everything just becomes infeasibly slow.

Using faster chips to run the physical design tools on allows the designs to be processed faster, which leads to a faster feedback loop with logic designers (the people who write Verilog), which then leads to a faster feedback loop with architects, which ultimately leads to faster/better designs for the next generation of chips. This may be surprising for software developers -- we get grumpy when our feedback loops take minutes. Chip designers have to deal with feedback loops that take days in some cases for the physical design.

[0] For example, at the lowest routing layers you can't just draw wires wherever you like, but have to satisfy some pretty byzantine rules about things like minimum metal area, distance to neighboring wires, allowed shapes of wires, allowed shapes of holes between wires, and so on. These rules exist because of limitations in the capabilities of the lithography: the process engineers are able to make features smaller, but at the cost of forbidding certain shapes that would cause problems for physical or chemical reasons.
And the code is better for version control and review.
I'm surprised none of Robert Greene's books are on this list. Maybe they wouldn't be strictly categorized as psychology. The Laws of Human Nature delves into some psychology and personality types though, and is worth reading.
> If I were apple, I would withdraw a product from a country which supported this kind of racketeering.

Lol. If this is "racketeering" then Apple will have to withdraw from literally every Western developed nation.

This case only didn't happen in the US because the court didn't find the patent to be valid, by a thin margin.
I’m 27, went through a later part of my teen years with an iPhone. I’m not big on emojis and neither are most of my friends. Every once in a while I might use it to add a “feeling” but most of the time, I just don’t use it.
Yes! Why is everyone so negative about copilot? I think it's a great name for the product. It helps you write, it doesn't write for you. You're still in charge and it can't write the "smart code".
Is crop insurance not effective at mitigating this risk?
I blame the rise of the word "transpiler" for making people think that compilation is some more magic/narrow/special thing.
You can also kick off retrievals from the command line:

https://github.com/pastpages/savepagenow

https://github.com/overcast07/wayback-machine-spn-scripts
Then let's get back to my answer:

> > 1. Their own fault

> Owners have made a bad commercial move but it doesn't force people to pirate their content. [..]

And this piece, as-is:

> > And the only fault lies with the people who decided to pull SG1 (and other content) from Netflix.

> No. The only people responsible for pirating SG1 are the pirates. The owners of SG1 don't owe anything to Netflix viewers and they certainly didn't force the hands of anybody to pirate their content.

And then to my original argument (summarized) (and please note it's not about whether piracy harms sales or not):

> Netflix is a rental platform. Like the old DVD and VHS rental shops. And regularly some content gets pull off the shelves because they don't have the licensing fees. It's a pretty well known fact some movies and TV shows come and go on Netflix.

> > He/she wants to watch a series on a service he/she pays for.

> It's like complaining a vegan restaurant doesn't serve meat.

> There are a lot of comments on HN when this topic comes up that feel like people want their cake and eat it too "or else I'll just pirate, there's a gun to my head, they give me no choice".

I am still waiting for a valid example from you that proves people are/were forced to pirate SG1 content when content owners pulls them off Netflix.

Can you actually give one or do you simply refuse to admit you were wrong about that specific point and this ping pong thread will never end ?
Honestly I stick to machine code and find it works best
For me the copy and paste into a note functionality works perfectly. Actually that’s one of the most seamless parts of the app. I use it everywhere along with macOS’s built in screenshot.
Toxic language online silences important voices. We’re exploring how machine learning can reduce toxicity online and create more space for healthy conversation.

Throughout this report we use the term “toxicity,” defined as rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable language that is likely to make someone leave a discussion. We specifically use the term toxicity, as opposed to words like “abuse” or “hate speech” for both practical and scientific reasons.

https://jigsaw.google.com/the-current/toxicity/
> The most curious thing about this project is how people seem to have a visceral reaction to having photos of them made without their permission;

The complaints primarily came from Apple. This artist effectively hijacked their private camera system and then published the resulting images with a personal emphasis on certain individuals.

People would have a similar negative reaction if he had hacked into their store security cameras, focused on video of a few people, and then published those stolen images as art. We all know we’re recorded by security cameras when we go into private stores, but we also know that the images won’t cropped down to our faces and posted publicly online as art.

Likewise, it would be a different situation if the artist had broken into a company’s private ad targeting database, singled out a few individuals, and posted their tracking information publicly in a way that personally identified them. It really is different when a company uses aggregate data to target ads than if that same data would be published publicly for anyone to see and judge. The latter is a massive privacy violation in front of other individuals. The former is only ever seen by computer algorithms serving us ads without human intervention.
All the recent evidences that any large organization will screw you over through technology and neglect, and the only way to get justice is to beg for it on social media and hope your post goes viral, does not fill me with optimism for our future.
>In 2011 I was still under the false belief that all varieties of law enforcement are designed to protect the public from harm.

Many people continue to have this false belief today. Police exist to protect property and capital. Even "good" interactions with police show this. My parents had their house broken into some years ago and many valuables were stolen. The police don't care about recovering valuables, their function is to be a trusted third party for the insurance company. The current incarnation of policing needs to be abolished and any new "safety department" needs to be thought out very carefully. The current system of policing where they can execute a man on the street without consequences for the "crime" of selling single cigarettes has no place in a civil democratic society.