skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where did it come from then? And what license did the original have?

From what I read, the code has been altered and iterated on as it was passed down. The magic number constant is claimed to have been derived by Cleve Moler and Gregory Walsh.

> If the original was GPL or proprietary, then all of this copies with different licenses are violating the license of the original. Just because it exists everywhere does not mean Copilot can use it without violating the original license.

If it was originally proprietary (this predates GPL) I believe the liability would be on whoever took that proprietary code and republished it under MIT/etc.

To be clear, I'm not recommending that you use code you know has been incorrectly licensed. Just that in cases where certain "folk code" is seemingly widely available under permissive terms, Copilot isn't doing much that an honest human wouldn't.

> Key word is "claim". We can test that claim. Or rather, you can, if you have access to Copilot

I don't unfortunately. As a side note, your function already existed in Apache-licensed code. But since it's not in many repositories I'd be willing to bet Copilot won't regurgitate it - I could message around a few people who might be able to try it.

> Nevertheless, a court somewhere (I think South Africa) recently ruled that an AI cannot be an inventor. If an AI cannot be an inventor, why can it hold copyright?

GitHub's intention isn't for Copilot to hold the code's copyright, but for the user to.
Journalists live their lives on Twitter.
The trustbusters will never find you now Facebook.

Facebook who? There's nobody here by that name.
Would like to have the MDF version probably LOL
Not related to the discussion, but I love these verbal dualities.

give/take

inherit/bequeath

and so forth!

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What fantastic reasoning! I am constantly amazed at the early and current astronomers, able to work out fairly and increasingly accurate cosmological views from pinpoints of light.
We'll continue supporting sideloading and linking to PCs

I see this as a tacit approval of the thriving network of pirate games, something like the Adobe Photoshop model of proliferating and becoming the de facto platform.
I don't understand this thinking at all. Hydrogen itself doesn't weigh much but the containment does. The actual change in mass due to hydrogen being used up should be <1% of the ship mass. This is entirely unlike aircraft.
Made me think "Hungarian commit messages."
Except if UBI is $10, then cost of living will increase $10. This is an impossibly recursive feedback loop. UBI's effects on the COL is ultimately a turing complete equation, and thus suffers from an inability to analyze when exactly such a recursive scenario will halt.
Basically, ultrasound can fluidize the lipid membrane and cause leaks. MRI is used for mapping and guidance of the ultrasound mediated lipid shearing.
There's a MMO which uses the approach described in the article. Almost everything happens and is stored in memory, in various independent processing units. Data is dumped to disk only occasionally, in case there's complete system failure (so it's more like a backup). I guess they can afford it because losing some progress in a casual game is not very critical.
Microsoft should be in there, but the M in this case is from Facebook->Meta... so you need Facebook to rebrand again for AAAAA.
And had a virus that transmitted to humans via the metaverse. Very apt for Facebook to choose this actually
> Then there would be no undefined behavior at all - but the optimization is still possible.

But then an optimization could change the defined behavior of aborting to not aborting, which is essentially what undefined behavior means and really bad if you don’t treat it exactly like undefined behavior.
Super interesting, thank you. Indeed, if the hearing aid EQ'd the input to bring out things in the range of speech, the effect in most of the artistic binaural beats tracks could be suppressed, as the effect is caused by a very specific difference between tones sent to each ear.

The beats are the artifact of directing two frequencies with a difference of only a few Hz, one per ear, and the "beat," phenomenon is a pulse we mentally feel as the result of the brain allegedly straining either to distinguish or consolidate the two tones from each ear as the same or separate. The tension between the tones does manifest as a kind of stimulation or subtle irritation, and higher frequencies could plausibly create an anxiety effect, like metal on metal you described.

Max Richter's "Sleep" is a recent artistic implementation of these, where different ones are used as a backing track throughout. I'm hacking around with reproducing them on a synth rig, but even then, the stuff written about them is mostly using pure sine waves, so even if you get interesting sound effects from other types of waves (saw, triangle, pulse, etc), there's not much in the way of empirical control.

Rare opportunity for the question to be on topic so had to ask, thank you!
Keep in mind he used very specific working "personal facebook account" and just announced a new company name 'Meta.'

To me that points to a 'log in with Meta' option.
>It's like a bad sci-fi pulp story.

That feeling when you don't have a single original idea, and unironically view Black Mirror episodes as a blueprint.
Is that why you're so clean?
On the plus side, that means that nobody else can put ads there without violating the patent...
> Even with economies of scale producing various components for the hundred JWSTs those all need to be tested and verified. That's an expensive process that doesn't really benefit from economies of scale.

My point is that all those processes are expensive because the final result has to work the first time, because launches are expensive and infrequent. Drop launch costs enough, you don't need so much reliability, so everything across the board suddenly becomes much cheaper. Which then opens many further opportunities to reduce costs.
PiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server
HN (and other discussion sites like lwn.net) are way different in this regard. Also, it's not a social medium but a forum. Before social media we had many fora. The success of each of them depended on their specialization and moderation. The more specialized the forum was, the easier it was to keep order because there were fewer trolls. Also the users knew they should not feed the trolls. We hat heated discussions, dramas, long-time users leaving the fora. But practically speaking everything was transparent. Nobody manipulated your "news feed" like they do with FB (an Instagram) to maximize revenue. Nobody suggested to me I should join some fringe groups, repeatedly. Nobody showed to me the stupidities some of my friends wrote on some groups (some of them not even knowing all their friends see it).
Given what we know today, it seems that it's much more likely that special relativity will remain more or less as we know it today (a good approximation for relatively flat regions of space-time and non-accelerating bodies), and that GR will be a good approximation for something like large regions of space-time and huge masses (where "large regions" may mean anything larger than a few Planck lengths, and "huge masses" may mean anything greater than a few micrograms).
Except ARPANET and CERN conducted their research for a larger audience, much of it making its way to the public. FB/Meta research is largely proprietary.
Can I ask why, when you were a proponent of UBI, you thought this scenario would not happen? Most of UBI's detractors paint exactly this scenario as an argument against UBI, so you must have had a reason. Out of curiosity... what was it?
MMORPGs are not really persistent worlds though.

They're an environment crafted to scratch a dopamine itch by providing instant gratification for work, with a social layer attached on top. I write this as someone who used to play MUDs back before MMORPGs even became a thing.

Unless Facebook is planning on releasing their own WoW branded as the metaverse, I don't see how they're the same.
More about the impact of P2P meth: https://www.hmpgloballearningnetwork.com/site/ap/news/stimul...
I called Samsung once for my smart TV that was showing ads that slowed everything down when they rotated out. Told them I just spent north of a grand on their TV (circa 2016) and that I didn't pay for ads.

Lo and behold, the service technician suggested I simply disable the internet on the TV and that they'd happily help me with that. Of course I didn't (I hung up on them), but out of curiosity I disabled the WLAN on it anyway and restarted it just to see what happened.

The ads were cached. There is absolutely no way to escape the ads on Samsung's TVs. I'll never buy another Samsung product again - it's my belief those sorts of practices are indicative much more sinister, less obvious anti-consumer practices.
While this answers the question of why we couldn't respond to the bottlenecks, I guess I'm still missing the piece of what caused them in the first place. Like sure, "this silly little global pandemic thing" but it's not really an enlightening answer without more detail as to what the pandemic caused that shocked the system.
>this isn't something I think most people want.

I think it is. Not the current crap hardware, but bit further advanced it definitely has a place.

The gamers are basically on board already, streamers would benefit too and porn has a big chunk in VR already.

Sharp headset that can render text clearly would be huge.
> Dropbox currently supports Apple M1 through Rosetta. We have an internal build for native Apple M1 support, which we're currently testing and we’re committed to releasing in the first half of 2022. While we regularly ask for customer feedback and input on new products or features, this should not have been one of those instances.

source: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-ideas/Apple-Silicon-...

Does anybody really believe this?
“Meta” is a four-letter word.

Or less ambiguous, “meta” is a word of four letters.
They'd prefer a bunch of particle experiments be constructed to approach the problem from a laboratory perspective, which frankly no reasonable person would mind. :)
Can't watch without logging into facebook. That's all you need to know.
dark hair, brown eyes and and something around a tan would probably constitute "black"

Swedes were described as swarthy by Ben Franklin, so the conception of what black and swarthy are don't really line up to the modern meanings
Before he died, there were stories about how he'd tried to single-handedly reinvent downtown Las Vegas (not the Strip). Does anyone know what happened to all that?
Someone should make this into a blog post at this point :P
I don't think this a complete problem. More broadly is that wages will need to rise and prices will need to rise until an equilibrium is reached such that poor people need to work to survive.

While wages rise, other countries with no universal income gain a competitive advantage in labor costs, across the board.
Or maybe attempting to shut down large swaths of world economy for an indefinite amount of time wasn’t such a good idea? In the timescale of months to years all business becomes “essential”. Sure shut it down for “just two weeks” but a year or more?

What did people think would happen?
Welcome to Ready Player One
It's not madness, it's profitable, ie the only thing the sadists in power give a fuck about.
Personally, I think so. I get the same effect if I'm in the hot tub with the jets running. White noise blocks distractions pretty well, so my brain can get lost in thought.
Glad this was posted. This was my takeaway when I first watched the full length video.
How C# compares to ST then?
Similar sort of experience, although we had no turtle, so it was BASIC on the MICRO for us.

10 MODE 7
20 PRINT CHR$141”A text adventure”
30 PRINT CHR$141”A text adventure”

May as well have been the opening bars of Beethoven’s 5th, for the infinite and incredible possibilities which followed. Anything. I could make anything. It was the most incredible sensation and realisation - and still is.
Old Power Gear Is Slowing Use of Clean Energy and Electric Cars
>I don't think Facebook is constitutionally able to give up ad revenue gains

This "fiduciary duty" meme really needs to die.

Seriously the idea of fiduciary duty [to maximixe profit] is dystopian, corporations don't fuck us over because they have to they do it because they can.

Edit: clarify
Sounds nice, doesn't it?
However i believe they very recently starting requiring a validated dev account (i.e. with phone number) for devs to continue to sideload to their Oculus Quest, right?
Yes.

I have no gripe about the process. (Well, I don't think it was a technical decision, so it shouldn't have been dumped on the TC). It was pellucidly transparent. Exemplary, really.

I just really don't like systemd, so I'm sorry that it became the Debian default init. My gripe is with the outcome, not the process. Most package-maintainers must have disagreed with me. It's OK, I'm used to people not agreeing with me.

/me still a Debian user, with sysvinit.
While Gregarious is somewhat benevolent, the described world of RP1 in general is highly dystopian.
That's an interesting scenario for sure, but "defeats the purpose" is a stretch.
The people buying Mini-ITX cases for custom PC builds are typically hobbyists, and the value they derive from these cases (which are expensive across the board, it's a niche low-volume market) is not the same value you or I get from buying a (relatively) cheap ATX tower and throwing whatever parts into it. If you go looking for "similar products", I guarantee that you will find some very expensive cases indeed.

Not every product is for every consumer. This case is already sold out, so apparently somebody wants it.
> This Zappos article is like the whole catalog of rich people problems in a nutshell: drugs, parasitic relationships, arrests, and dumb accidents.

Not all "rich people" have these problems. You just don't tend to hear about the ones who live normal lives.
I had a mini ITX case (Node 202) and liked it well enough once it was all closed up, but even with a modular power supply it's a bit of a mess to get all the cables to fit, and it was a nuisance to open back up. The case went together with plastic clips that would rather snap off instead of releasing.

But last time I upgraded my computer I switched to micro ATX and I'm happier with that size. Any maintenance or upgrades are a breeze with room to get your fingers around the components, I didn't need to buy a special low profile CPU cooler, it's small enough, and if I need an extra PCIe slot for something I've got it.

The new computer is mounted it to under my desk where it's out of the way. Unless you're carrying your desktop around to LAN parties I think this is an overall nicer solution to "desktops take up space" than tiny form factor cases.
I have always done my best coding with music cranked up to 11. No idea why, but the louder the better.
No one has, to my knowledge, de-orbited a spacecraft ready to launch again immediately, which is where Musk thinks Starship is headed. That’s a big jump.
Children are not expensive for most poor people, I don't understand how you can claim that. Most poor people have stronger family networks, because a lot of poor people are immigrants, with stronger communities than most 'Americans'. If you have family / community help, children are not expensive at all.

My mother was an english teacher in a predominantly hispanic area. The women (it was mostly women given time of day) openly admitted to having more kids for the checks. I have no problem with that personally. They hardly paid anything extra for their kids. They had grandmas, sisters, friends, churches, etc to take care of the kids. And my mom watched them too during class. Didn't cost them very much. Education in this country is free.

The 'studies' that find having kids costs more money, assumes everyone lives like rich white people.
I think something around $4000 monthly would be enough for release management duties and minimal maintenance. Of course just one person part-time is not enough for large-scale changes, but for resolving regressions and just making sure contributions of other people are being merged, it's enough. I've been doing exactly that for the last half year.
For b) assuming each Quest costs Meta around $400, and they are sending to 1B users, $400B, so about half their market cap and 10x yearly revenue :).
The iPhone turned out to be the most walled garden smartphone as well (even compared to older designs that relied on Java ME), and it didn't exactly hurt them.

The more relevant question is, can Facebook in 2022 excite people as much as Apple did when riding on the height of the iPod/iTunes craze in 2007?
Anyone know who makes that industrial-looking plywood top table shown in the photos?
I want to present another way of looking at this, & identifying it as a brilliant move. This is just one lens, not representative of what I really believe, but I think it's an important lens to pick up & assess by.

Facebook makes a ton of cash, and wants to be a place where sharp, bright, talented engineers want to come work. But the family of apps are all semi-done products; they're late industrial creations, heavily refined, and there's just not a lot of open possibility space to do good things with them.

Meta is a break. It's a way to create new grounds, explore new ideas. Whether the ideas are good or bad almost doesn't matter, compared to re-creating a company with some real will, drive, & possibility in front of it. Unchaining yourself from the town-planner stage of maturity that you've been whiling away at for almost a decade & creating permissions to try interesting things, to make new space where you're not always stepping on legacy concerns: I almost can't imagine not doing this.

And Meta has a fairly catchy, nebulous set of ideas behind it. It's difficult to imagine how Facebook/Meta can really make anywhere near as much impact, make a clear win here. But I'm at a loss to think of other bits of terrain that are both not-yet-settled/won, and simultaneously as compelling & interesting to a potential employee-base. If I ran a hugely successful company that had more-or-less established itself & wasn't in existential peril & falling position, I'd be asking myself the same question: what would be fun for us to do? What would keep my us well engaged & might possibly yield some epic shit? Meta is a not bad answer.
Virtual reality was always dystopian. It's what happens when we don't have a frontier and turn inward to computer aided fantasy and isolation.

One of the best dystopian explanations for the Fermi paradox is that intelligences eventually figure out how to immerse themselves in high fidelity fantasy worlds and basically sit around and masturbate until some black swan event like a planet killer astroid or a gamma ray burst destroys them. Maybe it's easier to create an endlessly gratifying simulation than it is to build a starship.

There seem to be three possible futures on offer today:

(1) A Brave New World with AR, VR, social media dopamine loops, ARGs and conspiracy LARPs, cheap drugs, and sex robots where the meaning of life is to withdraw into a fantasy world and masturbate until you die. This offers the comfort of rewards without challenges.

(2) Reactionary movements against modernity itself, proposing that we instead re-embrace feudalism or some kind of totalitarianism where the state or some Ubermensch gives us purpose. This includes authoritarian fundamentalist religious movements, the alt-right, neoreaction, etc. This offers the comfort of the "devil we know" and futures that resemble our past.

(3) SpaceX Starship and the next frontier, a future where we embrace difficult adventures in the real world with high risk but high payoff. This offers the least comfort but a lot of growth and experience.

Choose wisely.
I agree. Twitter is a machine devised to draw people into clapbacks, cheapshots, fights, spats, and arguments. It's completely toxic.

But journalists love Twitter. Every other account is a journalist or media personality. So all the "social media bad" articles implicate Facebook.
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To be fair, that’s the exact same sentiment I remember reading about Zuck on HN around the time Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions happened. People were saying it was one of the dumbest business decisions, that Zuck is just desperate and without any brain trying to spend his FB money on acquisitions before FB inevitably dies of irrelevancy, etc.

Look at today, and I think most people would agree that acquiring whatsapp and instagram back then was a great business decision on his end.

And, in my eyes, the whole Meta thing makes way more sense to begin with than those acquisitions did.
Content? Seems like a good advantage to have for a tutorial website.
It's possible for HN readers to make suggestions for the pool, and I'll do this periodically.

Usually it's for a story which simply died in queue, which as TFA notes, is the default. Occasionally it's to see if a discussion might get "re-railed" after it's gone off on some tangent --- people responding to a title or an early comment, most often.

I don't nominate my own posts, of course.

It may be a matter of how many such nominations occur, but I'd say my success rate is >50% in having those accepted.

TL;DR: it's not just dang, and normal HN'ers can participate.
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>Don’t like Facebook one bit, but Zuck is almost always spot on with his bets. So yes, incredibly scary as it has a high likelihood of succeeding.

Instagram was growing like crazy, even faster than Facebook in its early days so acquisition was no-brainer. Instagram used Facebook's social graph so acquisition made even more sense.

On the other hand WhatsApp had hundreds millions users at the time of acquisition and Larry Page was very close to acquiring it before Zuck but Facebook offered more money that's why it turned out to be one of the biggest acquisitions in the history of Internet($19bn). WhatsApp's huge userbase and rapid growth could've endangered Facebook Messenger that Zuck was about to separate from main Facebook app and make it standalone instant messaging Facebook app.

So both Instagram and WhatsApp were no-brainer and made perfect sense and Facebook had cash pile to do it so they did it.
180mm GPU is a shame. Would be an instant buy for me otherwise, but if you want to build a capable gaming machine I think that's a real stretch.
It's a problem of their own making that doesn't require a solution.

After the client gets the IP address of the content web server from the DNS resolver, the client has to connect directly to the content web server, and the whole IP address — not just the subnet — is immediately shared with the content server anyways.

The market is supposed to regulate this abusive behaviour by showing how much slower the websites work when resolved through Cloudflare DNS compared to Google DNS or any other DNS providers that support EDNS Client Subnet. It seems that most of DNS benchmarks simply test how fast the names resolve, not how good of a resolution it is. So, it's a miss on the benchmark side.
> One of the things I've noticed (having ADD) is that it's easy to enter into flow and accomplish much, but can be difficult to master what you enter flow with.

Adderall is like that for me. It works wonders, but heaven forbid I'm focusing on the wrong thing as it kicks in.
One could argue that the benevolent company was giving people an excuse to ignore the problems in the real world. Didn't the main character gain the option to delete Gregarious Systems if he deemed it was best for the world?
Sounds like the matrix.
Why isn't that the governments in those countries responsibility? Why should Facebook even be allowed to enforce Western culture(values) onto non-western countries.
> Can't put my finger on why.

Cause they're evil like a certain other company but managed to skip straight over the "Don't be evil" phase.