skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It means that they can't be sued for content on their platform. If they do not have section 230 protections, every piece of content on the platform, they would be responsible for.

No! See Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe [0], which predates Section 230. If you do zero moderation, you are not liable for user generated content period. Section 230 creates a good-faith protection so that if you do choose to moderate some content, you don't become liable for failing to moderate the rest.

The legislative history of section 230 is literally that without it, companies were liable for user generated content only if they tried to moderate, and lawmakers wished to encourage companies to moderate content

> Such as moderation that is done at the request of the user, for that specific user only. The phone company, can blocks calls if that user wants it, and common carrier laws dont stop that.

This is not "moderation" in the common use. In the context of facebook, this would be that "I'm unable to block another user", which is silly (and perhaps should reveal to you why trying to shoehorn Facebook into a common carrier doesn't make sense).

> That can be done through incentivizing facebook to allow user choice, of their own moderation. Problem solved. Then they can get that moderation, and we don't have facebook forcing this moderation on others.

Facebook already allows users to block other users and pages. All of the options you want are already available. You're suggesting a strict reduction in moderation tools, and claiming that this will solve everything the way everyone wants.

So let me pose a simple question: how does your approach address coordinated misinformation campaigns? Say I come along tomorrow and start spreading lies about how and when voting works. I'm so effective at this that turnout next year is significantly lower because people are confused. I haven't done anything illegal. Can Facebook remove my content? It's actively and demonstrably harming the democratic process by preventing people from voting. What should we do?

> And yet, the phone system works perfectly fine.

I basically disagree here. Spam is a much larger problem on my phone than anywhere else. Plus, due to the implicit attributes of the phone system, things like spam and misinformation are handled by being crimes on the part of the caller. In other words, Ben Shapiro can post whatever he wants on Facebook, but if he were to call every American citizen and try to share the same information, he would be a crime. Not because of the information, but because sharing things widely via the phone system is essentially illegal.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubby,_Inc._v._CompuServe_Inc.
"misinformation" these days is anything you don't like to hear and want to suppress

very ironic coming from CNN which spreads actual disinformation 24/7
Correctness is ill defined from a few words in a doc string for anything moderately complex.
wow great info
I think it might be trying to get at “dereferencing this does something special” (i.e. it’s not just a reference, but some type that manually implements Deref/DerefMut). But it doesn’t actually do that—if you have a &mut String, .deref_mut() will give a &mut str (equivalent to &mut *self), but if you have a &mut str, .deref_mut() will give a &mut str too, by doing reference reborrowing (so the final result is equivalent to &mut **self).

In the end, I’d prefer to deal with the sigils, because I think it’s a little easier to be confident what they’re going to do than calling the method that takes &mut self but effectively changes how it behaves depending on the type in question.
My current setup is a postgres db and jupyter instance running on docker. Data visualization is easy enough with seaborn/matplotlib/pandas plotting.

I would love to see a better tool for this but its hard to beat running your own. There is no vendor lock in, no subscription fee, no uploading large datasets, no privacy issues on private data, no "gotcha" moment when the tool can't produce quite the visualization you're looking for.
If copilot makes programming 10x faster, society will simply demand programs do 10x more.
> 220 is a wage at the upper end of what can be typically made by the time your 30 if you’ve chosen the right careers.

This is typically true if you work for a fang. These insane salaries rarely exist anywhere else.
Fingerprint and Facial Authentication in Mission Impossible Brought to Life
The world is changing much faster than human psychology can cope with, which is why you're seeing so much of depression and mental health issues everywhere. We would do better to slow down a notch, but that flies against the face of the capitalistic imperative and the atavistic and ridiculous fear that "if we slow down, the bad guy will outrun us", and hence full-steam ahead on every front. If there is collateral damage, even planetary scale, so be it. We'll try to sweep it under the rug as long as we can, and when we can't, we'll let the activists and heroes and do-gooders and scientists work themselves to death solving it for us.
Yep this calc is practically useless. No one is renting and stuffing hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash under their mattress.
Actually it is easier because you get to "test" it by reloading on the actual hardware, not separate hardware.

To do a solid test, you need to restore the system. It's difficult to restore a running system because, well, it's running.

That typically means a parallel environment. A single box represents a bunch of "magic values" that are stuffed in some config somewhere. Imagine several of those. "We need to restore SQL Server, the AD Server, the Application Server..." Reloading on a new environment is an easy way to find out those magic numbers, typically the hard way. Restoring on your existing hardware, with existing networks, existing IPs, etc. you're laying your software and configs over a known, working environment.

How do you test a recovery of licensed software thats bound to the machine that you have running in production, for example? "Oh, sorry, you have a duplicate license detected" and it shuts down your production system for a license violation. "Sorry, we detect the wrong number of cores", or whatever other horrors modern licensing systems make you jump through. You DO have another dongle, right? (Do they still use dongles?)

It can be far easier to do an image restore to your already working system than trying to load it up on something else. Since your production box is horked anyway, an image restore should "just work". But testing it, that's another story completely.
I'm gonna assume you're kidding.
One would think that, but I am starting to believe there is a leaf blower running nearby during every daylight hour.
But actually though! People don't realize how much having a federal pension + healthcare changes your income calculus.
I once wanted to create a custom chart.

I found https://plotly.com/chart-studio/ the most flexible and powerful online tool.
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Do you take the kitchen with you when you leave or does the landlord tear it down?
Calling it a weapon means it falls under 2nd Amendment.

Pretty hard sell that it's a "military" weapon when you can carry it around on a thumb drive.
Democracy is the empowerment of humanity's average intelligence.
quite literally probably
It will depend on the companies and the price of Copilot.
Then they will replace expensive experienced programmers with cheaper inexperienced ones and Copilot.
Have you considered the alternative that this is not an evil which you are unable to control but just another way of living / thinking of sexual content? There is nothing inherently evil about this stuff so why is it terrible that it is becoming more accepted/common?

If in 30 years we live in a society where people post nudes like they do facebook posts, is there anything wrong about this? Could you describe the harm caused which doesn't boil down to attitudes of society?
Preponderance of the evidence (more likely than not) is the usual burden in civil claims.
IIRC in the Maersk NotPetya disaster they had to look worldwide for a domain controller in Africa that happened to be off at the time, but fix and patch it before bringing it online. Restoring from backups would leave you vulnerable if a worm is still bouncing around. It takes a big coordinated effort for larger companies.

Also the article doesn't seem to consider the fact that some hackers are now threatening release, not just destruction. Embarrassing emails, source code, and trade secrets. Backups won't help at all.
I don't think I'm merely being a luddite or overly conservative when I say that the exponential rise of parasocial entertainment worries me greatly. There's a rising loneliness epidemic in much of the developed world, and entire industries that profit from selling a virtual simulacrum of the experience of hanging out with friends (Twitch) or intimacy (OnlyFans).

Much like Facebook and social media, these products cannot truly satisfy the interpersonal/social/sexual needs of their users, but they provide enough of an illusion that many people will spend their time, money, and social energy on those sites instead of getting so consciously lonely and bored that they'll undertake the much greater effort to meet real people and form true social/romantic bonds–which comes with many complications, compromises, conflict-resolution needs, and reciprocal dynamics.

I'm not so much outraged that there's sex involved, I'm actually equally concerned about parasocial Twitch streamers/influencers and OnlyFans. Learning what social relationships and hanging out with friends is like from performative ad-supported performers is like learning what sex is like from porn; both are bad influences on (especially but not only) young people that can significantly stunt them.
> The whole dependency system seems to basically be a reimplementation of Conan using pure CMake. If that sentence on its own does not make cold sweat run down your back then let it be noted that one of the dependencies obtained in this way is OpenSSL.

I do not miss desktop development. It felt like everything was like that.
> Nukes are never transported by air.

This is definitively not true, just look up PNAF if you don’t believe me.
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Freedom is not a binary state. In the UK, new laws are being brought in to ban demonstrations that cause annoyance. Does that make the UK unfree? It makes some people less free, but is it sufficient? Again, in the UK, the first-past-the-post voting system is widely understood to produce governments that don't reflect voter desires. Is that enough to say the country is not a democracy? It makes it less democratic than, say, PR countries like Germany.

I think authoritarianism is often as much about norms as it is about actual legal structures - and while the legal structures in China have changed just a little, the norms of government behaviour have shifted an enormous amount in the last ten years.
I didn't realise backups were normally kept off site.
So far it's been worse than useless for me, the suggestions it offers don't even make sense. The existing code completion suggestions in VSCode for TypeScript are better.
Sturgeon’s Law: Ninety Percent of Everything Is Crap
Yes, until artificial gloating I suppose - the next big thing :-)
> Nothing about “accident” implies lack of culpability. By your and other’s logic, essentially nothing can be an accident as ultimately almost everything is cause and effect. Your dropping the milk on the floor wasn’t an “accident”, it was the effect of you not paying attention to the task of carrying the milk carton and being reckless about it (as an example).

If you were exercising reasonable caution when carrying the milk, it was probably an accident. If you were being reckless, then it wasn't.

The fact that drivers are such an overwhelmingly disproportionate cause of premature death suggests that they do not generally exercise the kind of reasonable caution that we'd expect decent people to use in everyday life.
I work in an executive suite - not WeWork but a competitor of theirs.

Not too many have abandoned it. There's a lot of one person offices, so mostly everyone is in their own offices with no need for masks.

We've had a number of new people in the floor who rented it out because their own offices were closed, but they didn't want to work at home, so they rented out an office just for themself.

It's been fantastic for me, having an office here over the last 1 1/2 years.

It wouldn't work for a large company, but that's not who these executives suites like WeWork, Regus, Premier, Barristers, etc are built for.

Now, WeWork may have a lot of OTHER issues, I don't know. But any issues are not because of their market niche.
> My biggest fear at the moment is for his excitement at learning being crushed when he starts school.

That happened to my little brother. He was reading a lot of books before he started school, but somehow un-learned it while being there.
"I can't read that because we haven't learned about the letter K, yet" was something you could hear him say.
Underwater welding is pretty rough--all of the danger (and expertise required) of deep sea diving plus all of the danger of welding. I have a strong suspicion unless you started from a young age and got trained in the Navy or other industry as an apprentice no one is going to spend the time and money to train you up when you'll only get a few years of good work in for them.

Electricians are good but you're going to get zapped quite a few times in your career. From what I've heard plumbing is where it's at for finding a trade that will let you retire without destroying your body. All of my friends/family who got into construction eventually tried to find their way to plumbing because they saw it was something they could do well into their 40s and 50s without destroying themselves with overly physical work.
Elements without text in XML are totally fine. You still get the expressive power of composition and ordering. You do need to have text if the document has actual text, but if it's not (e.g. a drawing), then all its syntax belongs to machine domain.
Wow. A legal DoS attack. Interesting.
> Yep! So tell me again why I should employ what the previous poster referred to as "hardcore nerds"?

Because the referred "hardcore nerds" are only ones who actually bother[1] to figure out what piece of config to copy where?

[1] most of what most people think is hardcore nerdiness is just this: https://xkcd.com/627/
The way I read it is that each generation is pushing the limit of freedoms. Sounds good if we stop right there...

But is it? When does it become bad? Should a parent be accepting that their daughter opens an OF when she turns 18? Should society be accepting of it as a side "gig economy" kind of job? How about the boys who are usually on the consumers/payers end?

We are monetizing intimacy and sex at a level like nothing before. Sure, it's always consenting adults exercising their constitutional rights and freedoms. But it feels wrong. Like the parent said, maybe I am just getting old.
Email is the last open federated platform still in common use. Losing email means all future communication is by default controlled by a large corporation. I don't see how this would ever be a desirable outcome.

If I don't like my email service I can have my old inbox forwarded to my new one to ease the transition. Would facebook ever let me do the same? I doubt it.
I can't understand your position. OF is designed in such a way that it perpetuates certain types of behaviour. You can't hand wave away TOS transgressions when the whole system is setup for weirdo's to easily and repeatedly break the TOS.
But if a human isn't messing with the code, the code doesn't matter - what the bot does to the code matters. And if the bot can handle bad code in a way humans can't, that means something. Code quality will become less important if automated tools, the ones reading and writing the code, don't care about it.
Firstly, have https://marzoukdev.com/ redirect to https://www.marzoukdev.com/
Copilot (and all other AI tools, and non-AI tools) will lead to more developer jobs, not less. The thing holding most industries back at the moment is the lack of available developers at a cost-effective price. Literally every business has an opportunity to automate some process better than it does now, or to make an app to assist a business function, or to drive sales and growth through an application of new tech. The reason why they don't do that is cost and availability of skilled people to do the work. If a new AI tool removes the need to write code entirely and a developer just needs to work out the specifications and requirements then whole industries will start employing more developers.

The part of dev that you get paid to do is not writing the code. It's the part where you define what the code should do. That's where all the value in development resides. Getting AI to write the syntax is 100% upside for the tech industry.
You're being deliberately obtuse. The fact that nepotism can outweigh other considerations in who gets hired for IT duties (where it would not for e.g. legal duties) is an indicator of the lack of seriousness with which IT is regarded.
Then you will (probably) get malwares that open a window in fullscreen that imitates that prompt and sends data to a server.

You probably could add some kind of fingerprint that allow identifying the legit prompts, but since it is not done with login screens...
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27890132
"the courts"? More like "in the state or Federal courts in King County, Washington". This probably isn't the equivalent of a patent troll insisting on a trial in East Texas, but they definitely cherry-picked a friendly jurisdiction.
I've never really lived in a major city and I do 90% of my grocery shopping at a supermarket in the middle of a smaller one. The greater metro area of the three smaller cities here combined is at best like a million people.

The area where I live has been compared to Appalachia. The grocery store that my family shopped at when I was growing up is in the "worse part of town", at least these days. An Indian restaurant that was a local fixture for over 30 years opened in the early 1980s.

These days there are multiple specialty grocery stores, as well as many more Indian and Chinese (not just American style) restaurants, some of which have "fusion" and regional dishes, not just the same old.

When I go to a supermarket in a wealthy area up north, things look new but cardboardy like I remember from northern VA, but no, I don't see a big difference in the produce, despite what a stock cliche it is. Quite possibly more "processed foods" at that. What they do have is expensive cheesecakes made by nuns.

There are co-op, vegan, etc. grocery stores and restaurants. I could get a whole durian without going out to the suburbs even. Again, it's not, say, Seattle, but it's not 1980 anymore either.
... or you forbid overwork (put a limit on hours) like you currently already do.

Selfexploitation is a thing, yes. But that should not be a reason to immediately give uo hope of ever improving anything.
This is why Windows used to ask for Ctrl-alt-del before login. And if you have malware already on your system, it's already too late.
Political activists, and party workers count as political opponents by a definition.
Because institutions are not individuals. They do not possess a conscience, morality, or any other humane emotion that makes leniency possible and produce favourable outcomes.
Back in the day, we had purchased a new, bigger machine, and transferred over, and everything was just peachy.

Months later, we had a power outage (scheduled I think, I don't recall).

Anyway, at some point during the transition and such, I managed to have the machines hard mount NFS across each other.

As long as one of the machines is up, everything is rosy. But cold start? They were both hanging while restoring the mount (which, they couldn't because neither was "up").

Took us about 1/2 hr to suss out what was happening and get single user in to tweak it, but...yea...exciting!

"Smart" people do this kind of innocent stuff all the time.
Sure, like run Elisp.
Not having direct access to the file system or the network or to a database are because of the sandbox, not because of JavaScript. You can do all those things in Node.

Web Assembly isn’t going to get rid of the sandbox.
Some of the examples given wouldn't even run, as far as I know. Copilot writing Haskell/Rust/<insert your intricate type system lang here> would probably just fail to compile.

I know very, very little about AI, but, like the OP said, it'll reproduce the traits of its training distribution. If the traits don't map on to the domain-specifics of the type ssytem, the traits don't map on, and the code fails.

Generating garbage the compiles is harder, but generating garbage in general is just as easy.
Have you seen courts in other countries? SCOTUS does a pretty good job. Even justices that I don’t like write logically consistent and sound arguments, and we have very recent evidence to show that they hold their ideals above favoritism.

Don’t mistake SCOTUS justices’ philosophical differences as partiality.
If they do leak your data after you pay, then it'll ruin their reputation and make it less likely for other victims to pay in the future.
I’ve noticed both “plain HTML please” and “Wasm is awesome” sentiments expressed on HN. I wonder if these reflect two distinct subpopulations, or if there is an intersection of HNers who like both ideas.

The existence of both sentiments speaks to the idiosyncratic history of the web. The browser is powerful because it has grown to be ubiquitous, but also has this odd dual mandate of displaying static content and running dynamic apps.
> I think.

I dunno, I feel like I'm living in a future designed by folks who looked at Robocop, Starship Troopers, and a few other bits of dystopian sci-fi and instead of treating it as a warning decided that it would make a swell instruction manual.
> unless someone deliberately crashed

That's the disagreement. There are many drivers on the road that I would assert, when their behavior does finally inevitably land them into a wreck, did so deliberately. Now, I am sure that if you ask them, they would claim that they did not "intend" to get into an accident, but the utterly reckless behavior with which some people choose to operate a ton of steel hurtling down the road at 60+ mph sings a very, very different tune.

(Now, I'd also accept just a simple "car wreck" or "collision", as suggested by a sibling, which doesn't assume that there was wrong doing, at least, unless the facts suggest otherwise.)
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Programs become messy, abstractions become leaky, glue code helps fix these problems
I suppose I specifically mean free-market thinking applied to government services. This would be a symptom of neoliberalism. [1] Allowing discounts from private corporations to influence government policy, instead of looking at what would be best from a broader perspective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
Is it? Benchmarks routinely show the async native database drivers outperforming JDBC ones in Java, and evented (async) IO is king in the only other contenders, C++ and Rust runtimes for RESTful and other server apps.
Why AI struggles to recognize toxic speech on social media
Research pdf: https://hci.stanford.edu/publications/2021/gordon_disagreeme...
I'm not there yet but when I am I will use it as an opportunity to explore leverage and how being a porn creator is typically a desperate move by those without leverage (e.g. from the article the woman was sleeping in her car and had no income). Porn needs to be seen through the backstage lens. What you see on camera is not what is really happening. /r/instagramreality on reddit is another good resource.
I used to think that, but really the monthly income is the harder and more important hurdle. It's not how much you put down, it's how much you can finance.