skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is this normal?

Well, it's at least typical - it happens to quite a few people at about that time in their career.

> And further -- is this "OK"?

> I enjoy my work; I especially enjoy being involved in the higher-level issues and strategy. I enjoy working with other decision makers, and might even enjoy it more than the hands-on coding work I used to do.

Then, yes, it's OK. It's good, even. There's nothing wrong with doing work that you enjoy doing.
The only plausible way to interpret that statistic that I can think up with is if it is saying:

a third of all code committed by active copilot users has been accepted copilot suggestions…
Exactly - while it does allow for measurement where the likely candidates are for scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3 emissions it doesn't do anything to actually solve the problem (which is a hardware problem).

That and there are way too many people who are now building carbon accounting software and the benefits that will accrue to it (similar to greenwashing). If only we could get some people to work in areas where there was real world impact instead of LP returns :)
In C, how do you know if the dynamic allocation succeeded?
Thanks, the HDMI switch works no problem with laptops, DVD players, Wii's, etc. It's just the new PC that is failing.
Whoops, sorry I must have missed that, thanks for pointing it out.
It tried to come up with issues (out of gamut colors? other optical properties than opacity - turn a portion of the screen into a mirror? not correctly modelling color filter arrays?). Best I could come up with was that it's not VR-ready. Which might be an issue in 15+ years.
I find it weird that people keep slamming copilot. IDEA (and other IDEs) have for years auto complete for for loops, functions and a few other things. The most this tool does is put in a couple of extra like 'user.someInterestingProperty' based on your context inside those same for loop shells. It's just that the for-loop shell is now, for better or worse, similar to what people write.

I've seen some of the suggestions in my workflow at this point and it's much slower than IDE assist stuff, and generally barely helpful. So I don't see any reason to slam the crap out of it.

I wonder if it's a mix of people feeling like they A) will lose their job, B) make the software around the world worse (it's already horrendously bad) or C) hate Microsoft?

I can't really tell why anyone would honestly hate this tool other than a lot of pent up whateverism.
Costa Rica is a wonderful place that has benefited from spending funds that used to go to maintaining the army on improving civil society. But this is not even close to a pacifist success story.

The army was abolished by the man who became president by winning a civil war. Costa Rica maintains armed forces to patrol the border, combat drug trafficking, and maintain internal order, as well as an armed police force. But they don’t call any of these things “armies”.

They have a defense alliance with the United States. If another country tries to invade them, the US will use violence to defend them. Is it pacifism to depend on someone else’s willingness to sacrifice for you?

Costa Rica only exists as a country because they successfully used violence to repel a private army raised by a US citizen who wanted to annex them to the US.

Call me pessimistic if you want. I prefer to believe that I have a realistic view of the role of violence in the world.
> I wish people would stop pitting reduction vs removal, wind vs solar vs nuclear etc. There isn't a single technology or policy that will save us, we need advances on all fronts and the solution will come from a mix of many different complimentary contributions.

Agreed. Twenty years ago, we had the luxury of being able to "pick and choose" the "right" path forward. Unfortunately, the wrong path was chosen, so we now have to do everything we can to mitigate the looming disaster. The cost of doing too little is just so very, very high. (And yet, doing too little seems to be exactly the path we're on.)
A new social media platform taking off through ad revenue is enough of a lottery, let alone through a paid service.

Even if it’s as low as $1 a month, you’re not gonna get average users to join a new social media platform in the name of politics.

People want to connect with their friends, that’s all they ever wanted out of these sites.
The SSD also has to be replaceable (without a full logic board swap) or the machine also has a constrained usable lifetime.
Alder Lake chips usher in a new generation of x86 processors
I was hoping for a new episode of Community...
OMG making decisions is so easy now!
Do you know anything about these "acoustic vector sensors"?

When I first saw a popular science article about them, I got excited about incorporating them into an array, but couldn't find any technical details, just a lot of what looked like vaporware. Is it anything more than three orthogonal pressure sensors? (aka.... 3 microphones?)
Worst-case climate change is going to happen. It cannot be stopped, those with money and power are too powerful and have too much money to be opposed. Billions will die or suffer so a couple hundred can be absurdly wealthy.

The only path I see going forward is waiting until climate change related disasters are extremely bad (loss of life on par or worse than COVID-19 in US/EU, every year, for probably a decade); then we will see massive government investment into carbon capture/sequestration (probably run by the oil/gas giants who caused this). This is what the world looks like in an age of regulatory capture.
But then it would be a bit low wouldn't it ? :)
The actual quote is:

> For some languages, we already see about 30% of newly written code being suggested by Copilot.

It writes about 30% of Python and 20-25% for other languages.
Sorry, still confused. That happened in Nov 2020 (so it's not a 2021 model), and it's an M1 (so not an Intel model)...so what 2021 Intel MBP is being referred to?
Still no way to opt your code out of this.

Disgusting.
Beyond the outlets, I think it's useful to be familiar with this episode: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5046

Dale Dougherty later posted an open letter in apology.
The purpose for me is to pause my system and resume without draining any battery juice. I have a portable small dev laptop and when I close the lid it suspends nicely. However, a day or two later when I want to do some work the battery is 80% drained. A few times it even drained completely so when I booted my wifi drivers were corrupted. Had to spend nearly an hour fixing it up. Still loving linux though, it still feels like I'm in control of my machine but as I get older I tend to not want to keep on fixing things all the time, just want it to work.
I don’t know. This is a pretty obvious and clumsy bug to ship in your flagship OS. I think it deserves the ridicule. We gotta laugh at something these days and Apple is a guaranteed punch up.
> (small, tasteful) ads

These did used to exist. They were called 120x60 px buttons.
EC opens in-depth investigation into proposed acquisition of Arm by Nvidia
Copilot has been super fun! Here is a small website I generated via only comments - in the HTML and JS. The CSS needed a bit more massaging but it also auto generated.

https://spencer0.github.io/copilot-tests/
Yes and no. Ostrava, as a huge industrial center, had an unique mix of ethnicities (Czech, German, Jewish, Slovak, Galician, Silesian, Polish etc.) that interacted and created a mixed language. As a result, the dialect is different from the one used in the Silesian countryside. There is a lot of very specific words that probably weren't used in the original agricultural setting of Silesia (such as "papaláš", meaning a high-ranking official).

And reading collections of old Silesian folklore from the villages, I noticed the rustic language having some extra features no longer present in Ostrava as well.

But the staccato accent is pretty much the same, yes. As is the preserved pronunciation of hard "y" which died out in standard Czech some 600 years ago.
> Meson introduces a rat-tail of build dependencies.

From the Ubuntu repos, it looks like the top-level dependencies are Ninja and Python 3[1]. That doesn't seem particularly bad to me?

[1]: https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/meson
Imo, it has to do with incentives and rewards.(in CS at the very least)

The Hindex is a measure thats become the target. So 1 seminal paper is much much worse than 10 completely forgettable papers. It is also common to divide seminal work into smaller publishable morsels to rack up the hindex at the cost of novelty and clarity. The lack of incentive to pursue novel works, also means that most papers are incremental by design. Imo, this is the biggest waste of money at academic phd programs. However, the students need to take their career somewhere, so an uncomfortable compromise is met.

Another problem is how every conference is converging into the same impact maximizing mush without any meaningful differences between them. This has massively affected searchability, which as we know leads to even greater 'agglomeration at the top'. Having different standards for novelty, experimental rigor, math rigor, scale, technical fit and the like would allow for accepted papers to follow internally consistent searchable constraints, while the diversity of target audiences accross conferences would allow for different types of research to coexist. In my field, conferences are only differentiated by deadlines and status. Everything else is secondary.There arent too many papers. There just that the quality of curation has gone to shit.
alias ls='ls -vF'

This way you'll see directories and executables in a glance.

No need for colors, or fancy ls replacements.
I am not sure you read the article, because the number of large-scale side effects this single evolutionary treat evokes is in rather starting contrast with your "the responsiveness of evolution is beautiful in this case."
> For some applications you want "every frame is recent" and can tolerate some glitches as trade off for not having perfect frames

Oh and what gives, wayland just has an extension for this use case!

HDR is work in progress, there is nothing unchangeable in Wayland that would disallow different buffer types.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop. Seriously not cool.

I hate to ban an account that has been this active and contributed quite a few good posts as well, but the damage outweighs the benefits when an account is this aggressive.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Not only better privacy, but more control. You aren't going to open it one day to a surprise redesign that changed everything, and you can't find that feature that your workflow requires (and the support forums say it'll be back in the next release in 2 months).
I don't believe in using proprietary software simply as a matter of principle. There are a handful of places in my life where I do out of necessity, but I try to avoid it as much as possible.
Has Viagra not reached China yet?
Is anyone able to install the plugin yet? I'm not seeing it when I search the plugin marketplace in Rider.
Yeah, this is an excellent idea, especially for the environment.

Let's penalize urban gardening co-ops, dog parks, arboretums, and anyone else who thinks preserving some semblance of nature in urban environments is nice to have.

Let's not rest until every urban area is paved completely over into a high-density, lifeless, brutalist hellscape.

Screw species diversity. Homo sapiens is #1!
Copilot is done remotely via an API so no extra resource drain on the computer.
Nobody Is Drilling the Oil
I was referring to leap seconds, which are applied at the end of the calendar in UTC, and are the only cases where UTC is not a continuous and predictable time scale. A scheduling system like cron still needs to have some mechanism to handle events that are scheduled in UTC, because particular UTC seconds can be skipped over. (And FYI, this can actually happen in other parts of the calendar year, not just the end.)
Yep I had annual keyboard replacements on all the butterfly macs I owned. I considered it a nice feature that the keyboard had this defect because it also meant a free annual battery replacement.
They still hunt. I know because I spoke with a young Amish man a couple of weeks ago about it. He was out bow hunting because muzzle loading season hadn't started yet. I don't know if they have more modern guns though, I didn't ask that far.

Also see https://amishamerica.com/do-amish-use-guns/
There is no guarantee polio doesn't return as resistance against vaccines is gaining popularity in society.
Building X was already complex and annoying. While I hate autotools, I didn’t find Meson to be particularly better. If anything this is a lateral change. Instead of m4, shell, and makefiles, Meson has python, some python packages (managed with pip), and ninja. I guess Meson is faster, but I’m not convinced that justifies changing the build system especially since the speed up isn’t too significant.
Which we do, these days. Recesses are a thing of the past, and that wasn't considered cheating at the time.
I think you're dramatically overestimating the efficacy of politicians.
YT recommendations are always something I'm at least modestly interested in - even if I wouldn't know to independently search for. I think YT is following the model clearly demanded by current American ethics that suggests that the only thing worse than talking about what a nice guy hitler was is stopping someone else from talking about what a nice guy hitler was.

I do think that at some point YT, FB and everyone else (google even!) will have to reckon with radicalization - but I still think that YT's recommendations are quite a bit more valuable than FB.
A couple of thoughts:

1) I think that the redistributionist view of taxation is still quite controversial (at least in the US)

2) I think redistribution via taxation is exceedingly unpopular if you are paying for it (I.e. people are all for other people paying more, but not themselves)

3) while marginal tax rates were higher previously, a) the highest marginal tax brackets were as high as $100m in today’s dollars, and 2) effective tax rates were not massively different (can’t find a source here, but recall seeing data on this) through avoidance/deductions etc. such that tax collected per dollar of income actually hasn’t changed much.
Is it OK? Of course, as long as you enjoy your job it is great. For interviews you can just brush up on leetcode..

I try to sharpen the knife with side projects that keep my interests in programming high, but at work it is just a minority of my time.
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I suggest that only some servers are paid. Others can be run by yourself or your friends. And they can federate. It definitely works with email, even though a large part of the network is from Google. All we need is a federated protocol (which AFAIK is already even required by GDPR).
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>As for PWM -- do you have any source on this?

Well, mostly just "duty cycle" related. If you're pulsing the LED half the time (50% duty cycle), for example, you can pulse with twice the current you would normally use if it weren't pulsed. Then you control brightness by pulsing for a lower percentage of the time.
The amish owned gun stores I've shopped in, the guns they use for hunting, the lawsuits against the NY SAFE act or trying to buy guns without a photo ID. Just because they practice pacifism does not mean they are against guns, owning them, using, etc. You can't think for a second if someone attacked them they wouldn't use them to defend themselves.
As a BSD user, glad to see the release, but I am concerned about the future of X since Wayland has plenty of Linuxisms in it, making it very hard to port.

https://www.sizeofvoid.org/posts/2021-09-26-openbsd-wayland-...

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210124113220
Future Motion Introduces Onewheel Pint X and GT
The GT looks like a pretty good upgrade to me!
In medicine there is many examples where genetics and environment create a difference for people. A person can have a multiple higher risk of diabetes just because they were born by parents with thrifty metabolism, caused by them or their parents eating a non-western diet.

This doesn't mean there are significant biologically different from any other human. As a species, we, humans, have a natural wide range of adeptness to the environment. Some of that can carry with people for centuries or even longer.

If we compared to what is common for all humans those differences are tiny and rather insignificant. Compared to social economic status, race differences are much smaller and tiny. If a scientist did a study comparing medical outcomes of a drug, selecting top 1% wealthy whites and compare to bottom 1% poor black, the results would not say much about how effective that drugs is based on race.
Thanks for sharing. So in other words it's the journalism that is wrong.
Reduction of infection/transmission is only one endpoint to consider. We also need to consider the overall effect on the quality of healthcare we can expect to receive in a situation where low vaccination rates causes hospitals to be overrun. This is where the line between personal health decisions on whether to get vaccinated or not and what is fair to society as a whole gets blurry.

People tend to argue "but what about $arbitrary_unhealthy_habit, we don't regulate that!" when someone mentions this, but $arbitrary_unhealthy_habit has been accounted for in terms of resources required to treat people (assuming a working healthcare system), whereas a once-in-a-century-level pandemic hasn't, so it's not a valid comparison.
This is what I get running `exa -l --time-style=full-iso` on my ext4 system:
`drwxr-xr-x - kosa 2021-09-02 12:20:39.114446860 -0400 Desktop`

Unless it's different on xfs/ufs, this seems to be nanosecond resolution to me,
somebody needs to tell the young ones what needs doing and it's you. this is normal.
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It would be nice to see the full bracket tree when you're done, rather than just the overall winner. There were other nice fonts that made it close to the end, that I would have liked to see identified, but I don't think this is possible in blind mode.
I found it the easy to install, especially on a $5 Linode or Digital Ocean VM, using the docker install.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTAL...
FBPurity is a browser plugin that lets you hide the junk you don't want to see on FB, set the newsfeed to chronological. I have mine set to only show what my friends post, but not the things they like or share or comment on.
The Amish and remote indigenous tribes also had much lower rates of "the v1rus"
It's both. They fund some themselves and allow other companies to contribute with their climate program linked above.
Humans are animals and predators like any other in this situation.
>Earlier in life I went down the line of thinking that society/arts etc is getting spiritually or creatively worse compared to some earlier era I valued

It's a common idea that somehow modern society's culture and arts are in decline. In any given age that might be the case, but mostly when people make the claim it's without evidence and amounts to nothing more than a "kids today" argument.

In Jane Austen's time, novels were considered frivolous and immoral. It's a running joke in her own books. Today, we consider Austen classic literature and novels the peak of serious art. Why are novels more serious than Netflix movies or graphic novels?

As someone who avidly reads literary fiction, I don't think the genre is in danger. There were no superhero movies when I was a kid, and people who read fantasy or science fiction were bullied. Genres come and go.

Amazon is the only real threat to literary fiction. Stop buying books from Bezos.
I really missed the orange/green charging/charged LED, I was a bit surprised they didn't throw that on a USB-C cable or the exterior of the machine.
So 30% of code written by users with the extension installed was written with some extension assistance?

How exactly does that translate into the claim being made? Is github asserting the 100% of users have the extension installed?

My guess is that some small number of trial users did their homework with it then ran to stack overflow when it did something other than what they hoped.
FYI if you put your microphones in a random pattern you can reduce aliasing artefacts. It's basically the same as dithering / noise shaping.
You can definitely use Discourse in "mailing list mode" and use your e-mail client.
Two: Python and ninja/samurai (samurai doesn't have any dependency other than a C compiler). Almost any program the size of Xorg will likely already depend on Python anyway.
Automated bidding, Google's greatest invention yet. Google decides how much you pay them now...

They are also doing a good job at turning unsellable searches into sellable searches with their suggested search queries.
"Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder." -Carl Sagan

How would you design a test to determine if MSM is being controlled by the Rotschilds? It's hard to prove the vaccine is safe but you can count how many unvaccinated covid deaths vs vaccinated covid deaths to show that being vaccinated reduces chance of death.
It's _very_ good at "learn by example" with some twists. It _does_ make mistakes, and I do double check it, but it still definitely saves time. I used it to write the bulk of a new implementation of a new audio backend for a game engine yesterday - it filled out a lot of the "boilerplate" integration work (e.g. generating all the functions like "set volume/pan/3D audio position" that map over 1:1 to functions in the other library).

I will say, though, that it's also good at making up code that looks very believably real but doesn't actually work.

The ethics involved in Copilot are a bit strange, and I'm not sure I'll keep using it for those reasons, but it does a good job.
You think loan decisions and insurance rates will be made based on a computer program trained on a Wikipedia page? That's... not how any of that works.
Is the cable going from your laptop to your monitor in a position that you can trip on it?

Not at my desk, but sometimes when I temporarily plug into another monitor or a television it can be a problem.

For my desk, I wish I just had a dock like my thinkpad from 10 years ago, or at least if the connectors were on the back so I didn't have wires sticking out on both sides.

Some kinds of cable really benefit from easily detaching, and some don't.

It's not like other connectors are difficult to disconnect. My previous macbook had an hdmi port that would disconnect if i breathed on the cable too hard. USB-C does seem a bit more snug so far, but who knows how well it will last. Magnets done well just have a better chance of surviving if you trip on something, or if you drop your laptop.
That's one part - they have a wide range of removal methods and you can see their applications on Github: https://github.com/stripe/carbon-removal-source-materials
> the segment in the GitHub Universe Keynote today said that 30% of Python code (written by users with copilot extension active) was written with copilot help.

The gap between this statement and what's in the OP title and text is too big. It's just false misleading bad journalism.

I need to write an article titled "People who install Copilot only use it for 30% of the code".