skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really want to know what sorts of horrible rants copilot produces that makes male, female, israel, socialism and immigration need to be filtered out. Seems from the list that it's memorized some great angry political rants which is rather impressive for something trained on source code.
Yes, but you will want a physical keyboard. 43" 4k is still my favorite.

I also like the Hololens2 (AR) better than VR. I use it more like a second screen, much easier to stay in for long times.
Where's the mercy and grace in allowing people to engage in terrible behavior without consequences? The ruthlessness was in tolerating serial predatory behavior, and people are finally tired of it.
> do you know any people who haven’t had their lives wrecked because of cannabis?

Well, there's me.

And of course, there's all the people I know who haven't ever used cannabis (I take it you meant me to exclude them).
David Shor? It seems he was sacked for reducing black grief and anger to nothing more than a bad campaign strategy for the democrats in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. It wasn’t a smart thing to tweet, given that he worked for a political org. Should he have been sacked? I don’t know.
You can also just use systemd-cron :)

https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron
Fear and the Covid Industrial Complex
The fake listings are a scandal. In my last job search I was starting to file tickets with the administrators for them. I was building an automated workflow system for handling leads and had I not got my current job I would (together with my pal ‘nemesis’) have been filing 50-100 complaints a week.

Define more what you want.

Employers often are hiring roles with new tech that nobody has 5 years of experience in so just because you have little or no experience in X is not a real problem.

Side projects are a way to fill gaps also if you think creatively you can cast your own experience positively.

Do not think of yourself as a victim, it shows in your resume and your interviews if you do, it will kill you.

One thing I am grateful for is a situation that gives me multiple motivations and opportunities to make peace with a career that has by no means gone in a straight line. One day I talked to a postdoc and was very bitter about things that went ‘wrong’ and made a bad impression.

Because I care strongly about what at least one person in this environment thinks I am like “damn… I can’t let that happen again”. (It’s no accident I am profoundly interested in that person because this person has themselves gone sideways in their career but seems to have a lot of grace.)

Next time I am talking to a grad student I tell a story of going sideways that they find spellbinding because people in that situation are most afraid of getting stuck and not being able to change.

So inside the same person you can find stories of losing and winning, stories of defeat and triumph. My current situation rewards me for keeping a PMA and could punish me badly if I let the beast out so it is the kind of basic straining that helps me grow.

Go look up Bob Firestone’s writings on job interviews, they were a big help to me when I was at the worst place in my career.
>> "It's always surprising to me that this seems to be such a Conservative topic of concern who if anything should be glad that it occupies so much mindspace."

I think most people who self-ID as conservative really believe what they claim to believe about wanting to work with people who have other views to make a better world where they don't have to worry so much.

There are people within their own spheres who encourage their fears because they know it's a distraction. A lot of them do seem to be wising up to it, but only because the firestarters overplayed their hand. The people who once persuaded people to see this as some majority, overwhelming force did so by sounding more reasonable than the people they complained about.

Once the agitators went off the deep end, I think most people are reasonable enough to see it for what it is even if the realization takes a while to propagate past the scripts people have developed in a half decade or so getting mad online about it.

A similar thing happened on "my" side when people started to catch on to all the plainclothes cops in protests trying to turn them into riots.
Thomas Nagel: Thoughts Are Real (2013)
Seems like line separators were lost (or were deliberately removed) when Y_Y pasted the contents of the hastebin. I realized this after I did a double-take on the word "cleveland."
In classical Judeo-Christian philosophy, there is one law for all - regardless of whether the person is poor or rich, and other classifications.

Also, there existed this concept of a re-do -- as in a 'jubilee' - land is returned - and 7 years where the debts are reset etc ( the original of current laws limiting bankruptcies to 7 yrs ). No one in a biblical scenario remained poor because their ancestors slacked off.

Now that those are not in play, one sees a class of people condemned to remain low with no ways of rising up.

While there is progress being made to alleviate these conditions, it is not fast enough. These group ( poor socio-economic) train their guns against the rich.

The rich being smart, use their puppets like the media, etc to create fake outrage - propping up 2 parties which essentially are the same thing with minor differences, drumming up differences based on race, creating new controversies with gender etc.
Can you give me an example of a “woke”? Who is a “woke”?
Generally speaking, these integrations are tending toward technocratic totalitarianism one small step at a time.

We are ever approaching a reality where a singular device is needed to interact with society in so that you will be logged at every intersection and every acceleration, deceleration and beep of the horn correlated to a psychological profile that is correlated with your health data which adjusts your insurance premiums.

And for what? Because we are too fucking lazy to have a small plastic drivers license in our wallets.

Or maybe I'm just cynical with how things are progressing in countries like Australia.
Why is there a slur list in copilot?
I throw pottery and give 100% of it away
As another commenter said, renaming the symbol “ureg” to “units” would improve readability. I am not sure if I would ever use this (the code for unit conversion in my ancient, not touched in a decade, recipe site cookingspace.com for conversions was very simple). However, I spent ten minutes looking at the source code and realized I should improve my Python-Fu. I use Python a lot for deep learning and NLP work but I seldom use Python in the way I use Lisp languages. I might enjoy Python more if I took a deeper dive.

Anyway, cool project.
Why would you ask someone who doesn't understand a concept to explain it?
> As Marshak alludes, finding out what happened during, and led to, the missing billion years is no trivial matter. There are two reasons for this. The first is that it just so happens to have occurred immediately before another inexplicable event – the sudden proliferation in the diversity of life on Earth 541 million years ago.
I’d bet there’s more than a few people here in respectable places now that learnt to code through VB6, Delphi, python, Perl, PHP to write rats and exploit code.
There is also Sub7 from the same period: https://web.archive.org/web/20050401072114/http://www.hackpr...
What we need is a test for ideological purity. A ritual, pointless, possibly dangerous, that demonstrates obedience to the woke tribe.

Some kind of medical procedure, perhaps. With associated paperwork, of course.
I think that’s the fundamental change it brings.

Once the system, or network admin would set the DNS servers up and everything on the system would use those. There is no reason why that paradigm couldn’t continue and move to DoH.

The other change is that applications are now bypassing the system-configured DNS and sending requests (and thus data about what you are looking at,) where the application wants. The “centralisation” issue also comes into this. But again, the change from a system-level to per-app setting could happen with regular old plaintext DNS.

DoH is part of the discussion in both cases, which clouds the debate.
Sometimes I feel like a broken record for saying this, but know the individual child and decide upon a course of action from there.

I have seen everything from the heartbreaking circumstances of the author, where the child is unable to communicate with their own parents, to children who steadfastly refuse to learn the language of their peers. Both extremes result in social and intellectual development being stifled. In both cases, there is a need to help the child navigate a middle road in order to aid their social and intellectual development. That is before you even consider the typically cited benefits of being multilingual since it is only considering being functional in their communities.
loose constellation of ideas

Yeah, right in the article it clearly says there's no definition, right in the first sentence you quoted.
Yes, the difference is the second question is a loaded question, it has already moved the definition of "politeness" to exclude people who don't answer "yes" to that question.

IMHO, it is a more sneaky question than some religious preacher who can easily take "no" for an answer
The system mangled the title on submission, you can fix it using the "edit" link below it.
Yes, this is a common strawman.

Noone (sensible) is claiming that any system is a meritocracy. "Meritocracy" is just an ideal, like "equality", "fairness", or "airplanes not crashing", and it's unlikely we'll ever achieve this ideal, but that doesn't make it not worth fighting for.

So, while obviously objective exams aren't "meritocracy", they are without doubt more meritocratic than not having objective exams.

If "these people" really wanted to move towards greater meritocracy (as opposed to abandoning meritocracy), they'd support things like, abolishment of "extracurricular activities" in college admissions, or legacy admissions, or maybe even things China's limit on the amount of tutoring kids can do (I personally thing this is both too extreme and ultimately counterproductive, but at least we can all agree that it's with the right goal in mind - increasing meritocracy).

I agree that "wealth" is a problem, but the answer is having more objective measures, not less.
> The later isn't about some fundamental belief, it's really just an extension of a concept that has existed for thousands of years -- politeness

No, it actually is a new, fundamental belief: The belief that it’s okay to assume the worst intent unless others go out of their way to follow all of the correct wokeness rules.

Ironically, assuming the worst intent in cases of ambiguity is quite the opposite of politeness.

For what it’s worth, I’ve made a best effort to use neutral pronouns in my own writing. However, when I read someone else’s writings that use “his” or “her” in a generic statement, I don’t assume the author is being sexist, misogynistic, or impolite. I assume the author was simply making a generic statement.

That’s the difference with the new woke movement: It has been misused and abused as an excuse to assume ill intent in others unless they know and follow all of the right rules.
Losing your job can be pretty sword-like.
Okay so you're changing your argument now.

Instead of a simple comparison to hand washing, you're saying people should "look at the odds" and somehow make a judgement call. Well, that's a much different request, and is open to a lot of variation, uncertainty, personal bias, etc. It really isn't as simple as "it's just like washing your hands".
By taking credit for a wider initiative Google was already pursuing. It wasn’t just Mozilla pushing for it.
Latinoaméricain is not derived from Spanish; it follows native French conventions for demonyms (e.g. New Zealanders are néozélandais).

The term Latin America (Amérique latine) was in fact often used with the explicit intent of highlighting the cultural similarity between French people and Latin Americans.

From Wikipedia:

There is no universal agreement on the origin of the term Latin America. The concept and term came into being in the nineteenth century, following political independence of countries from Spain and Portugal. It was popularized in 1860s France during the reign of Napoleon III. The term Latin America was a part of its attempt to create a French empire in the Americas.[13] Research has shown that the idea that a part of the Americas has a linguistic and cultural affinity with the Romance cultures as a whole can be traced back to the 1830s, in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas was inhabited by people of a "Latin race", and that it could, therefore, ally itself with "Latin Europe", ultimately overlapping the Latin Church, in a struggle with "Teutonic Europe", "Anglo-Saxon America," and "Slavic Europe."[14]
Under American society it had been deemed adequate to feign contrition to maintain the entrenched power structure, while continuing to engage in the same terrible behavior as before. That's no longer being tolerated.
Because without it, they'll end up with inevitable outraged news posts "New AI coding tool Copilot generates offensive text" killing the project for no good reason.
And what can you do here? Either suddenly fail with "inodes exhausted" error (but here they aren't really exhausted only the numbers are), or try to reuse numbers (which would slow the allocation and potentially cause confusion), or...?
Thanks for the description! I’ll have to check it out… only just got really comfortable making react web apps.

If you’re not making an app would you still use react native web over old stool react for the reasons above?
That seems like a good thing for the trans and nonbinary employees at your former workplace.
Eight Banks to Go Live on Account Aggregator Ecosystem
“We know”? Why would you even think making a statement like this is acceptable without a source?
No, it's not enough.
Buy-Verified-PayPal-Accounts
python 3 has type hints; works pretty well for simple stuff (strings, int, List[int], ...). Completely breaks down once you try to type json.
From Win 95 was always the case that IE/Edge is an integral part of Windows.
Thus the power of the victim.

So many arguments start with a declaration of victimhood.

So many arguments over who is the greatest victim.

Greatest victim = greatest authority.

And so it follows that "suffering" carries the greatest epistemological weight. Which sounds kinda awful on the face of it.
If they are immigrants. Wouldn’t fit if they are just visiting.
What are the two words not here?

Seems like you're going to get issues with code or comments describing race conditions, if race is a slur.
Amazon Is Reportedly Making Its Own TVs Because of Course It Is
And NetBus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBus
I'm in my mid-sixties (and I'm not a proponent - I would never propound the recreational use of any drug). Maybe I'm not old enough to observe the effects you are referring to. But frankly I think this is arse-over-tit: I think it's young people, with little experience, that are most likely to be harmed by pot. Young people are more likely than older people to experience schizo for the first time; such people are less likely to be cautious in their use of pot. If you're over 40, and you've been using it since your teens, then I don't think you're likely to get many surprises from pot.

I did get a hypotension episode a few years ago, as a result of starting a new strain a bit over-enthusiastically. But even coffee can cause palpitations, if you drink too much just because you like drinking coffee.

My understanding is that certain high-THC strains are much more likely to give rise to psychological problems than other strains. I'm not aware that CBD as such can result in psychological problems.
> Saying that political thinking, of any stripe, is about power is pretty much a tautology.

I never stated that (you did). I merely pointed out the fact that humans are largely hypocrites and duplicitous by nature. ALL interactions between humans is underpinned by power.

In the past, the power grab was explicit, nowadays said power is sought after behind the veneer of "civility" and "niceness".

It is basic human nature that I'm criticising. The left are just as bad as the right - but at least, with the right - you can see them coming, because they are mostly explicit (at least relative to the left).

The left are just as power hungry as the right, but are very well versed in this "we are nice, caring people" act - this is why I (a seeker of the truth - and nothing but the truth), am enjoying their dirty inner workings coming to light.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Squad_(United_States_Congr...
> Everyone assumes you can’t code your way out of a paper bag if you haven’t worked with their exact stack for one year longer than it has existed, even though it’s all incredibly easy to learn.

Indeed, I see this a lot – complaining about lack of skilled workforce and not having trained anybody themselves so far or even talking to someone with different buzzwords in the stack. That's parasitism at it's best, isn't it?
You would certainly ask someone who despises a concept to explain what it is that they dislike. Major red flags if they cannot.
this is python: what’s this “static” thingie?
Does social psychology persist over half a century? A direct replication of ...
Yes, that sounds like the plan.

Fortunately, I was exposed to this early on when a family member wanted to move their music from iTunes to a non-Apple phone.

You would think storing music would be fairly simple and straight forward --- sorted by artist, album and track or something similar.

Not so with Apple.

What came from iTunes was so arcane and obtuse that I was convinced it could only be intentional obfuscation. And I decided then and there to avoid playing in their sandbox.
Detecting CSAM on a phone is not stopping exploitation of children. Just as detecting images of violence isn't stopping violence. Violence and abuse have existed before phones and cloud storage, and will continue to be ever after.

And Apple cannot stop exploitation of children. Anything they try is trivial to circumvent, a massive breach of privacy, or both.
Good.

This whole episode is inexcusable, and it's about time "big tech" made a stand and stopped participating in activities that are morally vile.

I will continue to be a paying customer of GoDaddy as a result.
"After users threatened to boycott the internet domain service GoDaddy "
So the change of mind was not proactive.
> I want you to believe my christian message but I will not force you to do so. I don't want to introduce laws to force you to believe what I believe. I don't want you to lose your job because you don't agree with me.

Perhaps that's true. But too many of your fellow faithful do, or at least, want to. Just look at Texas and their recent abortion law for one of many egregious and current examples of "good christians" spreading the "good word".

The ruthlessness is born of centuries of persecution, belittlement, prejudice, and hate. This does not make it justified, but it is a natural consequence of the masses and the natural swing of the social pendulum.

I suspect you very much do understand, but just wish it weren't true, just as the woke and the progressive overlook their own overreach, hate, prejudice and hypocrisies in their plight to right perceived wrongs and pursue some balance of equality and opportunity.

In order to achieve peace and understanding, we must hold ourselves responsible, and our own accountable, and that starts with not being ignorant (willful or otherwise) to the misdeeds of those in each of our own tribes.
> Eh this approach still exists at FANG companies, it seems like we stockpile patents to ensure that if we get sued by another FANG-level company it's mutually assured destruction.

> The legal department at a startup I used to work at was pretty open about it.

They also can be (and have been) used as a cudgel against smaller companies to force them to make a deal or even sell out to the patent holder:

> The blue suits did not even confer among themselves. They just sat there, stonelike. Finally, the chief suit responded. "OK," he said, "maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?"

https://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044_print.html
we keep forgetting we're just apes
> Woke Finns add American Pronouns to their twitter pages.

Could it be these Finns interact with English speaking tweeps?
I hadn’t heard this before. Can you point to some research on this?
I bought a new coin within 0.2 seconds of it being listed on Binance
Does social psychology persist over half a century? A direct replication of Cialdini et al.’s (1975) classic door-in-the-face technique

Abstract

Many failed replications in social psychology have cast doubt on the validity of the field. Most of these replication attempts have focused on findings published from the 1990s on, ignoring a large body of older literature. As some scholars suggest that social psychological findings and theories are limited to a particular time, place, and population, we sought to test whether a classical social psychological finding that was published nearly half a century ago can be successfully replicated in another country on another continent. To this end, we directly replicated Cialdini et al.’s (1975) door-in-the-face (DITF) technique according to which people’s likelihood to comply with a target request increases after having turned down a larger request. Thereby, we put the reciprocal concessions theory – the original process explanation of the DITF technique – to a critical test. Overall, compliance rates in our replication were similarly high as those Cialdini et al. (1975) found 45 years ago. That is, participants were more likely to comply with a target request after turning down an extreme request than participants who were exposed to the target request only or to a similarly small request before being exposed to the target request. These findings support the idea that reciprocity norms play a crucial role in DITF strategies. Moreover, the results suggest that at least some social psychological findings can transcend a particular time, place, and population. Further theoretical implications are discussed.
I'd loosely define 'fascism' as 'rule through sheer power by the deserving, over those who don't deserve power or self-rule'. The basic concept is, not everybody deserves to rule. Some people deserve to rule, and others have to BE ruled against their wishes, forever.

Maximum observed 'forever' seems to be under a decade, once the full fascism kicks in and is unavoidable. I don't believe fascism is sustainable, and what we see as 'woke' is a typical reaction to these attempts at rule. (Yes, I'm suggesting that power structures lean more towards fascism than they used to, and that this creates 'woke' as a reaction to this pressure)

I'd loosely define 'Nazi' as 'fascist with specific focus on seizing power through propaganda, media, and politics, particularly with use of anything that's new media'. In the 30s and 40s, of course, this was radio. There had always been massed political rallies (though the use of epic film propaganda was also new, as there'd be no Riefenstahl without the existence of film) but there hadn't been broadcast radio. Generalized, 'Nazi' means fascism plus modern media, and I'd be comfortable focusing that down a little to specify the media's used to rally 'the people' against enemies, specifically internal enemies in an ill-defined way.

Rallying people against 'woke' through coordinated use of social media is EXACTLY Nazi, in technique.
Have you tried to buy a new car or a home appliance recently? Its nigh impossible to buy something new that is plain old and dumb.
Depends on what it is.