skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rant:

Because people adore stable income with no risks, and because most programmers out there are hacks who will only ever learn one or two ancient languages that lost their competitive advantage 10 years ago.

Take a look at how insanely far you can go with Elixir + Phoenix on a server with 2 vCPUs and 2GB RAM. It's crazy. At least 80% of all web apps ever written will never get to the point where an upgrade would be needed.

So yeah, people love inertia and to parrot the same broken premise quotes like "But StackOverflow shows languages X and Y dominate the industry!".

Nah, it doesn't show that at all. It only shows that programmers are people like all others: going out of the comfortable zone is scary so our real industry is manufacturing bullshit post-hoc rationalizations to conceal the fact that we're scared of change. A mega-productive and efficient change at that.

Social reasons > objective technical reasons. Always has been true.

/rant
Ask HN: Which companies offer surrogacy assistance programs?
I recently found that Adobe offers a Surrogacy Assistance Program[1] for employees in the U.S.

This was the first time I'd heard of such an employee benefit. I Googled around a little and this doesn't seem to be such a broadly offered employment benefit, so I'm interested to learn if a company you currently work at or have previously worked at offers something similar.

In particular, I'd be interested to learn how "employee-friendly" such programs and benefits are in practice.

[1]: https://benefits.adobe.com/document/201
Obviously, Serling was creative enough to work within the constraints to make something that still resonates decades later. One might even wonder if he'd been allowed to be more directly topical if that would still be true.

[Haven't seen the Peele version yet, since no access to P+]
In the rest of the UK, you’d get a lower salary than in central Italy and possibly East Germany (I haven’t checked the latter).

Inner London is different from the rest of the country because it’s the only part that looks like Western Europe. Starting in Putney, the UK is a giant periphery, with kilometres of houses and nothing to do apart from getting the train to Inner London. There’s more stuff to do in my grandmother’s village than in the entirety of West London after Hammersmith. At least, in that 1200 people village, there are 2 fully operational churches (one 1000 year old), a football field, 2-3 restaurants/cafes and a castle. Outside of inner London the density of foreigners drops dramatically, which in Brexit England tends to be a problem.

Why would anybody in their right mind go to Nowhereshire instead of going, say, to Berlin or Milan or even Perugia?
In Jira you have the concept of internal comments, which aren't visible to people outside the team.

They are useful for putting triage and debugging information in. Or even as a play by play with specifics so your team mates or manager can follow along with your progress.
Sorry for not reading past the first page, so maybe their conclusion is the same, but: in the case of the HIV test, it's pretty clear that people avoid it because the mere thought forces you to confront the possibility, and that is tough. At least that was my experience, even though I rationally knew that it was better to know, boy was it tempting to not pick up the result.

Another interesting tangent on it is that I got my results the same day, but there are places where they make you wait for a week, just so you think about it.
Not really :-D Russia did have _some_ economy before the sanctions; now all they are left with is gas. Even China doesn't want to cooperate.
I like it but I’m not sure about $10/month.
Are there actually any licenses which do not permit training an AI model on the code?
No judgment. Same reasoning for me. In 2016 the bugs with MacOS got annoying enough that I looked around again and I had a more stable experience with GNOME 3 on a Dell laptop than anything on MacOS or Windows and switched.

I had way more problems debugging weird crap with the Wifi when walking between meetings with my MacBook Air, annoyed that when I plugged back into my monitor at my desk I would have to rearrange my windows on my desktops again (GNOME 4 puts the windows back where they were if you plug back into the exact same monitor). And dealing with Homebrew BS because Apple likes to break it on OS updates and sometimes it would break randomly on its own while Debian-derived distros never have package issues pushed me back.

Just saying that you really ought to try it out again, and Fedora is a super-polished GNOME experience if you want "Mac-like, but not annoying."
Thermodynamics, blah, blah. Such fun at parties.
Personally, I'm more concerned about google using emails from gmail to suggest what to write.
John McWhorter and Andrew Yang had a great episode on this

https://youtu.be/bvikt3Ynsss
Recession-Fearing Bosses Quietly Abandon Open Jobs
GitHub’s AI-powered Copilot will help you write code for $10 a month
The cryptography says tracking a token is not possible. So would you like to elaborate on that point?

I see you made a different comment about correlating connections but you can get a bunch of tokens at once and slowly go through the pile over several hours, as far as I know.
We need much more of this to drive asset and rent prices down. 10% FFR here we come.
Some tools are more fragile and error prone than others.
> I've never looked into it but my gut feeling is they desensitize us. Looking at the current state of the obsession with owning arms designed specifically to murder humans

There have been studies on this and my recollection is that despite the "gut feelings" people have about this, it doesn't hold up to the level of being able to prove causation. At best, there is a level of correlation (not strong). Most I've read show that people are able to differentiate between reality and "entertainment".

I'd recommend looking into the studies that have been done (and be warned, there are also some really bad studies in this area, paid for, low sample size, etc.) Also, I fully recognize that this is an area we need more study because it's been stymied for years by various laws that prevent investment in researching anything that is in this area.

Note - I also want to clarify that I am not a gun nut or 2A absolutist or anything of that nature and not trying to dive down that rabbit hole - so not trying to defend their misplaced importance and/or misuse in any way. And I'm also not saying we should wait to try things for studies to be done. But I think it's important to know the real underlying issues so we work toward fixing the problem correctly.
Sure, if it's remixed to the point where most people don't go "hey that's Big Bird!" CoPilot doesn't, or at least doesn't always, like when it just copied Quake's fast inverse square code with the verbatim comments including profanity. Using CoPilot to create commercial code opens the coder to significant liability if there's enough money at stake.
which is actually good because then i just right click the variable in my IDE and then click "refactor > rename" and i'm done
Except GitHub isn't paying the authors of the original source code?
Please what? Who is your audience that more then 20% of them could reliably run an IRC client and join the right server?
Conversely it's very easy for people to label any group they don't like as a hate group to try and sway public opinion to discount them.
>you should notice a funny pattern: almost every person's fastest font was the font they received on the first article.

Is it possible that people "calibrate" their brains towards a specific reading style, and that first style induces the calibration? Similar to how you can calibrate to quickly pick out a picture of a specific object, from a gallery of pictures, after you've prepared yourself to see that picture.
If you take the Disney movie the binary gives you and then pass it on, you're in violation even if the company distributing the binary is also in violation. You can sue them for damages that result from you being sued but good luck.
Copilot has been amazing for me too. It's gotten to the point where I want similar smart autocomplete features in other software, such as spreadsheets or doing music in my DAW. I think those will come too eventually.
As the maintainer of some Python libraries, how do I get my part of that $10/month because Github Copilot was trained using my code...
Github "copy paste closest code snippet based on what i asked for and pray it works"
No. The article details that Hare's package manager is your system package manager, e.g. aptitude. Such package managers have independent signatures, features against partial updates, reproducible builds, and independent accountability, as well as many other advantages besides.
The user of Copilot is a developer - the distributor.

And you might argue that Copilot is also a distributor.
Any idea why it's not included?
downvoted because the author makes it explicitly clear he's not talking about cars in the very first paragraph.
I really don't like this math, no one actually stops at that point, you take the output, la, "0.9005" and re-run it

(0.9005 × .1) × (1-.995) + (0.9005 × .9)

and again, and again, etc, point being that over time it does cycle the entire room, due to entropy, and then suddenly the differences start to stack up a bit, not a lot, but when one filter is letting 10x the particles through vs the other filter, it'll show
"Publicly available" isn't the same as "public domain" or "no copyright".
It can. If the jitsi has proper videobridges setup it can.
"how to put a sentence together describing the rules, it absolutely doesn't actually understand how "Chii" melds work"

The more experience I get with GPT-3 type technologies, the more I would never let them near my code. It wasn't an intent of the technology per se, but it has proved to be very good at producing superficially appealing output that can stand up not only to a quick scan, but to a moderately deep reading, but still falls apart on a more careful reading. At least when that's in my prose it isn't cheerfully and plausibly charging the wrong customer or cheerfully and plausibly dereferencing a null pointer.

Or to put it another way, it's an uncanny valley type effect. All props and kudos to the technologists who developed it, it's a legitimate step forward in technology, but at the same time it's almost the most dangerous possible iteration of it, where it's good enough to fool a human functioning at anything other than the highest level of attentiveness but not good enough to be correct all the time. See also, the dangers of almost self-driving cars; either be self-driving or don't but don't expect halfway in between to work well.
Why start at the infrastructure level? The first iteration of Facebook was a hacked together php app. It feels like a lot of these Web3 attempts are more about trying to do something "big" than actually provide value first.
It's interesting to draw parallels between the way you describe it and the way more general large language models (LLMs, of which Copilot is in a sense, a specialized instance, applied to code, instead of general language) operate: they also always "know" how to answer any specific question, or how to complete any prompt, without any exception. A model which would be able to "show restraint", and "know when it doesn't know", would be a really impressive improvement to this technology in my opinion.
Have you considered spoiling the book/movie/television show after you realize it's making you anxious? If you skip parts in the middle or read the ending, your brain won't be waiting for the other shoe to drop; it'll be working on figuring out why the shoe will inevitably drop in the third act.
Becoming an open-source software company
Totally agree. I was expecting to get this feature as part of my Pro subscription.
We're well aware of the relationship between borrow checking and generics in Rust and, though it may rule it out for Hare, I do not think that we need generics or anything like it to obtain most of the value-add of a borrow checker.
Why Casanova Continues to Seduce Us

Does he? Most people don't even know Casanova was a real person, let alone have any exposure to his work and ideals.
Github Copilot is on the fence for me between yes/no at $100 per year. I agree that you should rarely if ever allow Copilot to write multiple lines, as your double-checking or debugging time is going to exceed your time savings — the probability of good-looking but bad code is just that high right now. In order to experience a net time-win you'll likely want to be an intermediate at whatever you're doing.

If it were $60 yearly it'd be an auto-yes for me.
This is so prevalent all around the world, that there's even a saying in my native Brazil:
"You're only sick if you get tested"
Cobra v1.5.0 Is Released
I do, but I did the beta before.
You're looking at this from your point of view, not his.

He's been with you for 7 years, there is nowhere for him to go in the company.

Competitive wages aren't everything. Having some variety in life has its own value.

It's time for him to move on unless you want to give him a reason to stay.

You have to decide if replacing him will be worth it or not.

We don't have the details though so you will have to assess the value, but you need to stop trying to make this about you.
> Usually it's the government bailing out financial companies?

Looks like crypto is crossing through free banking into late 19th [1] / early 20th century [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893#Effects

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907#J._P._Morgan
Number Jokes
Wow, you aren't kidding. I just checked Onsemi and Vishay and neither makes lateral mosfets anymore. I'm surprised because many audio amplifiers still have a linear output stage, are those just always BJTs now?
Can I drop this into an existing Rails app? I use Jumpstart but would like a nicer admin experience.
Closing issues without actually fixing them is depressing. It may be beneficial overall.

There could be alternatives e.g., label such task as "fun" and hide them all the views by default, then allow developers to spent say 10% on any of "fun" task of their choosing (no expectations).

It may help with burn-out for some devs and the issues that are worth fixing according to at least by some devs are getting closed eventually.
But Copilot is not a programmer, Copilot is a program. Slapping the "ML" label on a program doesn't magically abdicate its programmers of all responsibility as much as tech companies over the past decade have tried to convince people otherwise.
I use kill the newsletter for mailing lists to RSS.
Each endpoint maintains a packet number, starting at 0 and increasing by one for each packet sent. This is an input to the packet encryption IV.

Note that unlike TCP retries do not re-use the packet number, they get a higher packet number on re-transmit. This lets endpoints differentiate packet retries from delayed packets, which isn’t possible in TCP (and the ambiguity of which is a problem in TCP stacks that want to react differently to each).
It's perfectly well-placed blame. Windows RT devices are required to disallow anything but MS operating systems, with no user override: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT#Restrictions_and_co...

They've also dropped the requirement that vendors must provide a way for users to override secure boot: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/windo...

They know how to boil a frog.
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OK... but it's totally possible to use Github repo code as a learning resource too, and I've done this often.
>I feel like others lose opportunities by not doing the same

IMO it is a slippery slope to see this as opportunity too strongly. Sure, doing the right thing may be net beneficial to the business in the long run...but the $RIGHT_THING should be done first and foremost because it's the right thing.
Of course GPT-3 doesn't "understand" what you are doing. All it's doing is generating high probability text based on a huge training corpus. It's guessing what text will come next. That doesn't mean it understands jack squat. It's basically a parrot with a huge database. Polly want a program?
Or the fact that you grant GitHub an implicit license as outlined in the ToS.
Citi and Revlon Are in Murky Waters
The fact that GitHub charge only 10$/month suggests that they themselves don’t believe in their product. Because if it would actually work, i.e. speed up software development by, say, >10%, developers should be happy to pay 10 times as much or more.
I disagree that it's not good news.

Copilot clearly cost money to run, so it couldn't be given away forever. By putting a business model on it, it means it's less likely to be rugpulled in the future.
I know ammonia has safety challenges as well, but transport and storage of ammonia is routine. I believe there are new developments in using ammonia for hydrogen storage and transport, so ammonia has potential to enable hydrogen to be the fuel of the future.
It has been free but now they're making it a "free 60 day trial" followed by $10 a month.

I've tried it with a few projects with different languages and it's not worth anything close to that $10/m fee personally.

It's OK at filling in a line here and there if it's boilerplate-type code but otherwise, it's like a beginner programmer at best.
woa didn't know Stripe had a library, thank you so much!
> Copilot is a steal at $10/m.

agree !!! as any burgler-thief-attorney will tell you, it is *totally worth it*
Shouldn't the tagline be more like "Build Ruby on Rails admin panels 10x faster"? Since that seems to be the intent.
Your decision making delta is really $40 a year? How much is your time worth?
You raise some good points.

And perhaps I’m overreacting. (Though the thought of my website being beholden to another company and being helpless isn’t satisfying.)

I currently don’t run a CDN at all. The server I have is for a side project that is for users’ creative purposes than important business needs, so the uptime isn’t absolutely critical.
The point of view to which you object is not by any means recent, and it has always been prominent, if not predominant. I find most art with a political message as its purpose intolerably dull. I know where to go if I want to wallow in politics. Art should deal in the sublime.
> the world will have to get better at balancing energy supply and demand so we don’t go dark when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing.

Thanks Bill, that's really helpful, was there really no other way you could have phrased that?

> Another option is to produce hydrogen using the current methods that burn fossil fuels and then capture the CO2 produced in the process before it’s released in the atmosphere. It may never be economical to capture 100 percent of the carbon released using incumbent technologies, but while we’re waiting for thousands of industrial facilities to retrofit their infrastructure, carbon capture can help drive emissions way down.

Oh dear.

Was expecting him to shill for expensive nuclear generated (aka pink) hydrogen but he went one better and started pushing the dead end that is blue hydrogen.

Make green hydrogen, make lots of it. The more we make the cheaper it'll get. This is not complicated.
What an insane take. You obviously haven't visited anywhere outside London.
People do do that. But I think that's a bit different because they add very little extra value. It doesn't take any effort. Why should I give them money?

Copilot is different - it clearly takes a lot of skill and effort to turn a bunch of GitHub repos into a fancy autocomplete system.
> Strong disagree. The decline of US civic life/institutions has been growing far before social media came on the scene. 13 year old me understood this fact just watching the Greatest Generation interact vs. the Boomers.

I suppose it could pre-date social media, but I don't think the reason for it is suburban living itself or the antidote is something explicitly anti-suburban, like bulldozing suburbs and piling people into high-density housing or something like that.

> Humans are not built to only interact with those exactly like them on their own terms.

I'm not so sure about that. I'd imagine that through the vast bulk of human history, most did only interact with people from their own small, insular communities who were very much like themselves.
This is such generic analysis all it serves as is just a big-name-person blog post that can be linked to as an example of status-quo conventional wisdom.

The question is all in the numbers. What are the estimated prices of the four methods he mentions? What are their near term prospects for price reduction and/or efficiency gains? What are the crossover points between the economics of exiting methane steam reformation and the alternatives? What would drive those crossover points (a certain cost for solar? a certain scope of carbon pricing?).

I realize gatesnotes aren't meant to be deep dives, but it is genuinely infuriating how childishly oversimplified this discourse always is.
Unfortunately WebRTC provides only part of the features needed to build Web Conferencing app. The main issue is that p2p connections don't work for more 5 attendees in the same session. After that is better to have MCU or SFU.

Other features like recording a much more reliable if they are implemented server side.
I recommend watching "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once". It highlights a philosophy that I fully subscribe to: there is no purpose of life or anything else, other than what we make of it. Someone's purpose is whatever they decide it is. As long as you're not hurting anyone in your pursuit or enjoyment of a thing, that thing can be your goal if you want. You want to be useful to someone? Go do that. You want to be happy? Figure out how to do that. You want to swim naked with sharks and try not to get bitten? Have fun! But you don't get to decide what someone else's purpose is.
Started a newsletter to write every week
I think their point is that there are a lot of people for whom $300 is a great payment - essentially, defending the maintainers for offering what the parent seems to be implying is too little.

Personally, I'm a senior dev making more than triple what I did when I started my career, and if it were five minutes of work (or even ten, or an hour) I'd be extremely happy with $300.
The time savings win is really that marginal. I'm not sure I can save more than 3 hours per year with Copilot. And this isn't saving 3 hours in a single week, this is saving a few seconds here and there accumulated over a year.

Saving time with Copilot is itself a learning process and a probabilistic affair. Copilot can win you a few seconds at a time, but can easily set you back minutes if you aren't careful or experienced. It's the probability of a downward spike in time-win that makes it such a gamble. Such complex deals just turns on the cautious side of my brain.
I find it really difficult and annoying -- and thereby slow -- to read with these "fixation" points as that's just not how I feel eyes work... I want my eyes to scan across the text rather than ratcheting from one word to the next word, which is both slow and exhausting. The words and "fixation" is thereby just a massive distraction. Hell: if I really really need to read quickly I try to do this thing where I scan my eyes diagonally downwards across the text to let my brain sort out entire lines of words at once... the last thing I want is to go single word by single word.
I _think_ a coupon code or something will eventually be available on the Github Student Pack website[1]. No clear answer yet if it'll be available for Teachers[2] as well.

1. https://education.github.com/pack

2. https://education.github.com/teachers
I’m not, I don’t have a CDN, but it seems like all the kids have them now, so maybe I should be? But events like this make me wonder if it’s just adding more complication.