skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Well the machine said he was clean, it knows a thing or two we don't know. Plus it's a black box I'm just an ol judge. I don't know how email works, but it works all the same."

Sounds like that, and the usual bias laundering because “AI” is helpful for that.

AFAIK a sentencing hearing usually takes minutes, maybe an hour if the parties don’t agree and there are lots of victims or witnesses and the judge wants to hear from them. Only in rather exceptional case does the judge need to adjourn for sentencing.
I have an observation to share: Many countries where almost no one can afford a healthy diet according to this sites also have high population growth rates. For example, almost 96% of all people in Congo don't have enough money for healthy food, but the yearly growth rate is 3% or so.

Do you think this is correlated? And if so, isn't this then a vicious cycle?

EDIT: I'd really love to see an open discussion on this topic without a flame war or anything.
... did they just admit that Taiwan is not part of China?

Edit: im referring to the chinese nationalists, not the newspaper journalists
Hi, Mattermost PM here,

We offer a non-profit license for open-source projects [0] with special nonprofit pricing. We also plan to move the System Permissions Scheme into the open source Team Edition with the 6.0 release on September 15 [1].

Thanks for being a user, feedback is always welcome!

[0] https://mattermost.com/nonprofit/
[1] https://forum.mattermost.org/t/granular-permissions-coming-s...
Hi HN, thank you for the chance to share. Shiny Buildings is meant to be a tool to tell the story of your house: how it got to where it is today, and where you'd like it to take it. It's inspired by both GitHub - which I (like many) think is an extremely fun and functional tool - and Stewart Brand's "How Buildings Learn", which I discovered on this site a couple of years ago [0]. Growing up, I was always completely enamored with actual "shiny buildings" - fancy looking glass boxes that I found downtown and on college campuses, which I've always thought were super exciting, new, technological marvels compared to all these clapboard relics up here in New England... With time though (and especially after reading this book), I came to realize that almost any standing building is somewhat of a miracle, and well-maintained, well-loved buildings that get patches and extensions and upgrades and just seem to grow organically are nothing short of awesome to look at and enjoy. I'd like to think there's some value in documenting all of these changes and sharing it with other people who help take care of your home, etc., but I'm mostly hoping this tool can just provide another source of pride and satisfaction for anyone who enjoys where they live and wants to keep making it better.

Anyway, this version definitely falls far, far short of the quality, functionality, and concepts of GitHub, and the ideas in the book, so any feedback and criticism is extremely appreciated. Here's a video if you'd rather not try it directly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGbqgmrv8m0

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21087901
I used SOAP a lot. One day I tried to recompile my old WSDL using a newer version of Java. Now the old client couldn’t talk to the new server. Or was it the other way?

Anyway now I use JSON over HTTP and I don’t care if it’s REST or not.
If you are curious about the logic of values used in this game, I found a comment in the source code:

/*
* Generates price data by calculating a 0%..7% movement magnitude multiplied by the "market sentiment",
* which is either super bearish, bearish, or bullish. The probabilities of the sentiment can also be configured
* marketSentimentProbs.
*/
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Do we owe all our professors and textbook makers compensation when we make money off our brain neural networks that they trained? Everyone also keeps talking about how bad copilot is. It’s the first step! It’s only going to improve and probably fast, given the potential value creation.
And if you are using X-robots directive, no info from Google at all?
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What is happening is too many people with MBA degrees are sneaking into IT and overcomplicating everything
> If certain groups of people are being treated poorly in modern times then an algorithm that sentences people would possibly include that bias as well.

I’d even change the word “would” to “will” as that has already occurred time and again.

I think you two are violently agreeing with one another, but misunderstanding one another as well.
The FAQ used to say the message was more common than you think.[1] But the message said you're among the most attractive people on OkCupid. Not just above median.

The article implied the message should say interesting not attractive maybe. But it implied the segmentation is real.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20130420011526/https://www.reddit...
The concept of "food deserts" is a real and worrying phenomenon, especially when people have limited means to travel around a city.
Note: I am the author of the article above.

The history of all Amazon products you looked at or searched for is personal data, and it can tell a lot about you. Whether it is also personal data in the legal sense is not something I can say for sure. But it definitely has to be properly covered in the privacy policy, for GDPR compliance at the very least.
I don't understand your first point, what does that have to do with the immune system getting geared up for an infection months or years later?

The second point, your worst case scenario doesn't even address the worst concerns of people who don't want to take the vaccine. They don't trust that spike proteins are the only things in the vaccine. The worst case scenario is not that the vaccine acts like the virus but that it acts different than the virus. And then you get conspiracy stuff like new world order types deliberately introducing things to the vaccine that will make it harder to have kids or stuff. And unfortunately our trusted organizations telling white lies to the public to elicit the behavior they want hasn't helped this trust issue.

But this is all moot for two reasons. First, because someone actually did a study and found that the immune response from infection was ~10 times stronger than from the vaccines[0]. Second, because we've already selected for a virus that is highly contagious and can infect vaccinated people, and will thus continue to be selected to specifically infect vaccinated people since most potential hosts are vaccinated at this point.

In summary, we might have to all be infected, nearly all at once, for this to be over, or just get lucky and the dominant strains will be attenuated to the point where they aren't a major problem.

[0] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.29.454333v1
The amount of pollution this thing is generating is gross. We need to focus on earth, fuck mars.
I use the imagery to create a visual atmosphere rather than aiming at calling out a particular demographic.

Besides, I don't blame him, he was performing the job he was paid for.
The Vue 2 to 3 sounds very familiar to me to what happened with python 2 to 3 transition.
Ok, I had to look this up.

It would be astounding to me if this was true but I also cannot square the idea of a genocide of Arabs within Israeli borders with the fact that there are many more Arabs inside Israel today than before 1948.

I still haven't made up my mknd on this, but here is what I found:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=did+arab+leaders+ask+arabs+to+leav...

There is a lot of information there but the most interesting (too me at least since it partially contractict my llng beld beliefs) was what I found by following the Wikipedia result one step further to this page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_1948_Palestini...

This page mostly supports bjourne but interestingly is also full of quotes that support what I learned:

> Furthermore, in his comprehensive book on the Arab–Israeli conflict, Righteous Victims, Morris wrote:

>> In some areas Arab commanders ordered the villagers to evacuate to clear the ground for military purposes or to prevent surrender. More than half a dozen villages ... were abandoned during these months as a result of such orders. Elsewhere, in East Jerusalem and in many villages around the country, the [Arab] commanders ordered women, old people, and children to be sent away to be out of harm's way.... [T]he AHC and the Arab League had periodically endorsed such a move when contemplating the future war in Palestine.[174]

> In a 2003 interview with Haaretz, Morris summed up the conclusions of his revised edition of The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem: "In the months of April–May 1948, units of the Haganah were given operational orders that stated explicitly that they were to uproot the villagers, expel them and destroy the villages themselves. At the same time, it turns out that there was a series of orders issued by the Arab Higher Committee and by the Palestinian intermediate levels to remove children, women and the elderly from the villages."[175]

> The Arab National Committee in Jerusalem, following the 8 March 1948 instructions of the Arab Higher Committee, ordered women, children and the elderly in various parts of Jerusalem to leave their homes and move to areas "far away from the dangers. Any opposition to this order ... is an obstacle to the holy war ... and will hamper the operations of the fighters in these districts."[176]
Sadly it never will.

Gamestop - losses after losses, revenue decline 20% YoY. Record $12B valuation.

Nicola - CEO in prison, non existent IP, company in hands of golf course supervisor and concrete pouring contractor, $4B market cap.

Economic facts and common sense stopped being even considered.
possibly, I know in some industries you can't use macros due to security audits
I think a lot of people are more worried about corruption on the board of Pfizer than they are about foreign CIA operations. They can also be worried about government corruption at the same time since there are clear lines of influence between pharma execs and elected officials.
That by not focusing on vaccinating only the most vulnerable, we are just selecting for strains that the vaccines are not effective against.
... I wouldn't call it an error? It's an offset between smeared UTC and non-smeared UTC, like between any two other time standards.

It's internally consistent, and for communicating with external entities that expect unsmeared UTC you convert as needed as much as possible. No different from if you were running TAI and communicating with unsmeared UTC, or communicating with TAI while running unsmeared UTC.
I would not incorporate a business until you have revenue. This is because incorporating, taxes, maintaining registration compliance in your incorporation jurisdiction cost you time and money which should be spent on getting revenue.

For example, if you operate out of a place like California, they charge $900/year even if you have no revenue.
And then you have to waste couple of hours to do the macro which might or might not be used in the future.
>Now, more often than not, I work with teams that have been copy/pasting git commands not knowing what they do, that have never, ever looked the source code of their framework or don't know how to use a debugger.

Thank you for reminding me that it's about time for my yearly reread of Pro Git. It's amazing how many people look at you like you're a wizard when you just...read the documentation.
So, I'm reading the linked article by RMS about Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS) [1] which is one of the reasons why they object against GitHub Copilot.

The key argument why as SaaSS is ethically wrong is because it denies control over a computation that I could do on my own.

> "The clearest example is a translation service, which translates (say) English text into Spanish text. Translating a text for you is computing that is purely yours. You could do it by running a program on your own computer, if only you had the right program. (To be ethical, that program should be free.) The translation service substitutes for that program, so it is Service as a Software Substitute, or SaaSS. Since it denies you control over your computing, it does you wrong. (emphasis mine)"

I don't find that argument very convincing because it implicitly assumes that there is no alternative translation program that I could run on my own computer.

However, if there is an alternative, then a SaaS offers me choice. I can run a program on my own computer, e.g., if I am concerned about data privacy, or service reliability. The downside is that I have to install and maintain the software on my computer. Or, I could use an external service. The upside is that the barriers of use are minimal.

Of all the articles by RMS I have read so far, I find this one the least convincing.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
Monzo's future looks increasingly like being bought-out by one of the big four.
A miner could know who you are, though such functionality is not implemented in any of the current currencies I know of. There is no technical reason that a transaction cannot contain a cryptographically signed identifier of the sender.

A very rough sketch of such a system:

- Any exchange that wishes to offer crypto services to US citizens must do KYC according to the existing regulations.

- Those exchanges make available each day a file with all the KYC-ed wallet adresses.

- Miners can theoretically choose which transactions to include and which to reject, but at the moment the main (only?) criterion is how much fees are attached to the transaction. You could mandate that they also do a lookup into the KYC data and only accept the transaction if the sending address is present in the list.

- I could even see the SEC or some other central body (perhaps one per country) maintaining such a list, exchanges submit their lists and miner can download it. This is already done in several other sectors of the economy.
How much of a temperature differential is needed? Could this be used on a boat to take advantage of cool water and warmer air?
I don't see the problem, except for manufactured outrage and fueling such.

All current vaccines for COVID-19 are in experimental phase. They've been tested enough to be deemed safe enough. AstraZenica/Jansen was found to have rare cases of deadly side-effects, so many countries banned it. Other countries decided that it is safe enough compared to continued lockdowns or outbreaks. The new methods of making vaccines means it is very similar to the virus itself, but without causing viral outbreak. So by experts they are deemed to be much safer than catching the virus, which everybody eventually will - vaccinated or not. The relatively short time do have concerns that there might be side-effects that haven't been found yet, but medical authorities have in a distributed manner accepted the risks in all countries.

It's good to ask questions, but the questions should be made in good faith and based on concrete findings and facts, not based on unjustified distrust. Maybe some authorities deserve that, but states are made up by the people, and the people must fix that themselves.

This discussion thread is just all over the place, to shift blame rather than own up to a difficult situation.

There should be no automatic acceptance of experimental vaccines, but there are processes and concerns that have already been settled for this one. All medicine carry potential of severe and deadly side-effects, so testing, continued monitoring and scaling of usage is of paramount importance, also for trust in vaccine programs.

There's just no perfect solution at hand, and the crisis is ongoing.
I live in Paris. They're legal here with a speed limit of 25 km/h. I feel quite safe on them, maybe even safer than I would on a bicycle. Electric unicycles are smaller than bicycles, which makes it easier to avoid other objects on the road. They're also easier to get off quickly if there's an emergency. You definitely need to pay close attention to what's happening around you though. The one thing that's more dangerous is that if you hit a pothole unexpectedly, you're more likely to fall on an electric unicycle.
Telling a child that he is guilty because of his race should indeed be banned. I think the problem is not with the law but with the attitudes of many teachers. Quoting the article:

'Texas educators overwhelmingly denounce the new law, born from House Bill 3979 — the so-called critical race theory bill passed during this year’s regular legislative session. They say its sweeping language, which includes a ban on teaching that a student should feel guilt because of their race, will mean that classroom conversations about racism could unintentionally spur parents’ anger and cause teachers to be punished.

...

State Rep. Steve Toth, R-The Woodlands, the bill’s author, said that much of the new law — especially the provisions meant to prevent critical race theory from being taught — came from concerns he heard from parents who feel their kids are being “indoctrinated.”

“We’ve heard, ‘You should feel guilty for what [white people have] done,’” he said. “We have heard, ‘You’re people of privilege, and you should feel guilty for that privilege.’”'
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In most south and east Asian cultures the swastike was for many millenia, and still is, a sign for good luck and prosperity.
The FSF has made no such statement. This article is complete bullshit and a slanted quote.

The FSF said it was unacceptable because it's proprietary, like Github in general.

They've made no statement about the specific details of Copilot.
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Ask HN: How to Give Back?
It’s always on my list to give back to the community / broader society. But I often put it off or feel like I am not doing enough. The easiest way is to financially support some charities or even OSS / FSF projects, but while I do that to a minor amount, it feels not enough and also feels like a tax vs a genuine effort to give back. It’s very easy to get caught up in a busy day or week and then this becomes out of sight and out of mind.

Other things I was thinking was mentoring or providing knowledge to others.

I would be very grateful and keen to hear of ideas of how to give back both financially and also non financially?
Kind of, but differences in time will forever deviate from the SI second so I don't think that really counts.

Also 0.0001% of the distance to a GPS satellite is on the order of 200m. Not impossible to work with, but not great either. Though I have no idea what the exact ramifications would be.
I did at an old company.

It was great for certain use cases, bad for others. The architecture made it so it took days to do simple features like adding a sortable column.

Having to deal with that made it the worst job I've ever had. It would take 700 lines of code involving two separate systems and 70 hours to to do tasks that would normally take two hours. I felt a lot of pressure because previously simple tasks would take so long.
Hi, Mattermost PM here,

Really appreciate your feedback. We had intended to pause the admin advisor notifications couple of months ago but due to an intended bug some of the messages are still coming through. We've queued an update to pause them in the next release (v5.38). [1]

The original vision for the admin advisor notification feature was to guide administrators through proper activation and configuration of the system as the needs of their user base evolves, with some additional capabilities in the Enterprise offering. However, based on the feedback we received, it was evident that the experience felt spammy with limited value which was not the intent, negatively impacting the trust with our community. Hence why we've decided to pause admin advisor notifications at this time.

[1] https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/pull/16218#i...
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If you're going to quote the article, please mark it as such.
> Why should WireGuard bake all that stuff into the core protocol

Because all that stuff is security-critical. All that stuff needs to be incorporated into any audit of the system. Indeed it's probably where the vulnerabilities are going to be.

> Are you an entusiast home user, a startup of six persons in a garage or are you IBM with over 300000 employees? All of those can use WireGuard but will have wildly different needs when it comes to authentication and deployment. There’s no sane one-size-fits-all solution for all kinds of organizations and use-cases.

There needs to be a system that can scale there, especially if the intent is to replace OpenVPN which slotted neatly into standard PKI. If this system pushes more users onto a handful of centralised providers, which seems like what's implicitly being encouraged, then that's not going to end up being good for security.
> I would never buy something else than a laser printer again.

I rarely print anything, but when I do it's things like the entire GDPR. Fully agreed!

No more switching it on after a year wondering if the heads will be able to clean themselves or if they're just completely caked in dry ink and a write-off. Just fire it up, print.

Of course the initial setup was a pain in the arse, it is still a printer after all, but as printers go it's been the least painful printer I've ever had (for ref its a Brother HL-1210W I've got)
Natural gas crunch sends European prices hurtling higher
> Copilot is the perfect machine for clean room design and license/copyright laundering.

How's that? The entire point of a cleanroom re-implementation is that the, er, entities (historically, human programmers) writing the code have provably not seen the code being copied. Which is rather contrary to how copilot has seen approximately all the code.
That is NOT the point. You are allowed to learn whatever you want. What is horribly unethical is not recognizing the life-long effort of the people who wrote the original code and designed the original algorithms. Programmers are not machines. The human *knows* the open source that she/he is reading and she/he can acknowledge it in their own code (either public or private).

What is the copyright of code written with copilot? Copilot learns the code and forgets authors.

Would you agree if I take your open source project, learn piece by piece, rewrite it from scratch and put my name on it without a single word about your work?
A different definition of health. Darwin would certainly call thier diet healthy enough. Any expanding population is at an evolutionary level more sucessfull than a stagnant population. Life expectancy, our modern concpet of health, is a very different story.
> For example, almost 96% of all people in Congo don't have enough money for healthy food

Does that... matter? How much do they rely on money to get food? Sub-Saharan Africa historically was a place where one woman working alone could support a household through horticulture.
I make sure that pedestrians feel safe around me. I go slowly on sidewalks, walking speed, when I'm near pedestrians, and give them right of way when they're crossing in front of me. You have plenty of control if you ride at a safe speed, and it's possible to ride safely.