skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet sanctions never work as a deterrent. Cuba is still socialist after 60 years of sanctions. Great deterrent! No, sanctions just punish generation after generation of innocent people and serve no other purpose.

If you still mantain that the purpose is deterrence, then you must be a fool or worse, since it never works! Can't you learn from the past?

Edit:

Before you even dig out some article like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/04/28...

I will make an important point: sanctions CAN work only to prevent something from happening. Once that happened, e.g. the war started, there's no sanction that can stop it and that's exactly when sanctions stop being a deterrent and start being a punishment.
You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Indeed, London is home to many French nationals, so many that https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18234930

So the history of vacinations do become blurred. Actualy for France polio was still not eradicated as of 1988, not so in 2020 but how they count that and what the vaccine uptake was for the generations who have migrated is always going to be a factor. https://www.cdc.gov/polio/progress/index.htm

Then tourists - London does get a fair few as well, and as covid has shown, virus's dont' hang about.
no it's not. they straight up serve kremlin, promoting kremlin fake news and silencing russian opposition (not much to silence but still). they can have whatever functionality they like, I still won't use it in billion years.
I hear rumors that Apple periodically staffs teams in charge of most of these applications rather than continuously staffing them. Applications get periods of activity and periods of maintenance.

(I didn't hear these rumors from any kind of reliable source, so I'm a bit skeptical, but it would explain things.)
How is this consumer focused? It seems to be intended for creators specifically (though perhaps not big corporate ones).

Frankly this one of the few features they've added that I can understand the use of. Other than perhaps the way they've made it vaguely easier to 'ignore' a folder (though there's still at least 2 ways to do so, both somewhat inconvenient).
Dont they usually change the recipes? Cheaper raw materials (e.g. high fructose corn syroup instead of sugar for soft drinks), different production methods (same line used for all products but different flavoring), various cost optimizations that compromise the quality..
What about a law that makes all code available but then requires you to use a portion of your earnings to compensate the people their dependencies you used?
An amazing argument and analogy, also I do agree about Medical research, being possible to patent a work which is publicly funded is an A*** move.
But you said

> Every snippet found that wasn't posted with a clear license by the author was challenged and we rewrote it

How is the license not clear?
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That it doesn't just "copy and paste" but does more involved "AI" mixing
Isnt this an indictment of the justice system rather than the big firms.

I once heard this quote, "English justice is open to all, in the same way that The Ritz [very expensive hotel] is open to all."
That looks awesome. One of the listed use-cases is 'time-travel': https://dolthub.com/blog/2021-03-09-dolt-use-cases-in-the-wi...

I wish we could use this at work. We're trying to predict time-series stuff. However, there's a lot of infrastructure complexity which is there to ensure that when we're training on data from years ago, that we're not using data that would be in the future from this point (future data leaking into the past).

Using Dolt, as far as I understand it, we could simply set the DB to a point in the past where the 'future' data wasn't available. Very cool
At least the way I use it, it's not taking much away from my problem solving. It's just that instead of having to type `particlesGeometry.setAttribute('position', new THREE.BufferAttribute(positions, 3))` I just write `//Add as an attribute` and then hit TAB, since Copilot is smart enough to see that I've just prepared some geometry and populated an array of positions (both operations also sped up by not having to type the obvious bits).
You're still having to think through the solutions (I'm not just typing '//make a cool particle sim') but no longer need to hit SO every few minutes for syntax examples when using a new library or something.
> In some languages if I saw someone adding a log statement while debugging I would immediately classify them as a junior programmer and start teaching them how to debug properly.

Ah, the awkward "tween" stage of development. If you don't switch to the management track, you'll skin your knees enough times to learn when you need one and not the other.
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>Do people really copy/paste from StackOverflow?

All the time.
So, rearranging conditionals or loops or variables then, problem solved. You cannot 1:1 copy paste anyway. That never works. You always have to adapt it to your particularity. So it's "reworded" by default. And CoPilot is doing nothing else. It's not just 1:1 memorising code, it's a tiny bit smarter than that. I strongly believe you're not a developer. Point taken. I understand your considerations. You should write code sometimes to solve a complex problem that uses some libraries and see how far you get without consulting the internet or books.
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> The point is that our ability to recognise whether or not an entity has some level of awareness or subjective experience is entirely dependent on our ability to interrogate that entity about it. We have no other way of measuring this; we don't even know what we'd need to measure.

You can't have any subjective experience of something unless that something exists in the first place, so interrogating about "how does it feel" seems rather secondary, as well as not being proof of anything. If LaMBDA says it's conscious, is that all the proof you want?

Let's also note that IF we knew, for sure, that the bag of subjective phenomena we're calling "consciousness" is nothing more than an emergent experience based on a sensory/cognitive apparatus having access to it's own internal states, then it would be pretty clear what type of animals/systems are likely have this (and which ones certainly not), since without any sensory/cognitive apparatus it could not exist. It then would seem very likely that the guy in the next cubicle is conscious since he has the same brain architecture as us, and most animals too, unless you get down to the level of insects and below in terms of complexity of nervous systems.

So, your assertion that the only way to assess whether something is conscious is to interrogate it, rests entirely on the above being incorrect and consciousness being some mystical/dualistic phenomena who's existence we can't deduce from a functional analysis of the "brain" of the thing in question.

You may still be correct in a round about sort of way since I doubt most people will accept that AIs could be conscious until such things exist, and are common enough that people can spend considerable time interacting with them, and through the unreliable measure of interrogation eventually convince themselves that "yeah, well, I suppose it might be .. is does SEEM to be ..".

It seems long due really ... first we had people denying Copernicus, then Darwin, and perhaps this will be the final step in people eventually accepting that there's really nothing much special about humans at all. Who knows, maybe we're too dumb as a species to realize it, and it'll be some more advanced future species writing textbooks about the odd beliefs of homo sapiens at this "emerging intelligence" phase of evolution.
They commited a crime which put the public in danger. If they did it once and got away, why would one think they wouldn't do it again? Obviously each situation deserves its own consideration. But they are still a.dangerous criminal.
I'm really enthusiastic about what's happening with PyScript as the opportunities for the right use cases are enormous.

That said, it has really brought out the knee-jerked clichéd responses:

- X is way better than Y

- X is the Y killer / no it isn't

- Did you know Python is really slow?

- Sure you can, but why do this? (implication: don't do this)

To add to the fun, it attracts huge interest, and amongst those interested are a weird set of people who seem to know little about Python, little about JavaScript and seem unable to read before they try something impossible and then post a query about why their almost certainly never-going-to-work attempt hasn't worked! It needs plenty of patience pointing them to the huge pile of matching queries! I'm sure something will be done to give those types a friendly nudge in the right direction.
I don't think renaming variables and adjusting spaces holds up in court.
I appreciate the use of "in" rather than "on". Thank you for that.
Relevance (reordered and snipped for the interesting bits):

CARIAD, the automotive software company of the Volkswagen Group, has joined the Eclipse Foundation open-source community as a strategic member of the Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) working group.

CARIAD will participate in open-source projects and contribute individual software components of the VW.OS operating system and the VW.AC automotive cloud as open-source software

CARIAD will actively collaborate on open-source software and contribute projects and code itself for further development within the community
You gave no way of "guesstimating" how bad/good the signal is and how easy it is to improve detecting it once you start working on it. Maybe cell do quire often leak more DNA than you'd expect, maybe there's some drug or phisical-activity people can do before testing to temporarily increase overall cell damage and DNA leakage etc.

Don't assume your gut feeling correlates with reality in such a quantitative problem. There might be low hanging fruit here - and it might save your freakin life man! Biochemical testing is not intuitive and the details are best lead to quantitative biochemists and such. Heck, even what Theranos embarked on doing could've lead to breakthrough improvements for some tests if they had been honest and focused the money on the research avenues that could've produced results...
That would be great to Copilot show where it found this snippet and give the person credit about. Even if it's unlicensed.
Yes, but nobody that copies it cares...

(Where nobody is a stand-in term, to mean "less than 1% of those do")
I dread the day they'll finally kill the few grandfathered junctions I still have and make locally mounting the shared drive completely useless.
There are two main challenges to developing an effective oral vaccine:

* designing a formulation that can survive the harsh gastrointestinal environment. For example, COVID-19 vaccines, especially the mRNA-based ones, are especially fragile and degrade rapidly at room temperature even under normal conditions.
* Avoiding mucosal tolerance. Many antigens that would evoke an immediate immune response if encountered in the blood stream are ignored by mucus tissue, to avoid your body creating hundreds or thousands of spurious immune responses every day to antigens occurring in your food. For an oral vaccine to be effective it must get around this tolerance to provoke an effective immune response.

For respiratory viruses, another promising delivery method would be intranasal, and indeed there are some COVID-19 vaccines in development that use this route[1]. The bottom line is, developing vaccines is already complicated and costly, so unless there is a guaranteed large market demand pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to invest in delivery methods that add additional research challenges.

[1] https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/covid-19-vaccines-could-sq...
You're so right about the cereal as that has indeed happened! But then my outlook on life in general is "savor what you can, because tomorrow it could be gone". So while it's a pain when do stop making it, I do take time to enjoy especially delicious cereals so when they disappear for good I know I've not taken them for granted.
The famous “burden of proof” fallacy. In the end, I'm eager to anyone who can prove it, sue them and see the results from it.
Doing nothing, yes, that’s my motto.

This test would be a fear driven profit center for these companies. I don’t like them at all. Easy way to sell the test isn’t it? “You don’t want cancer do you?”

My father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The doctors gave him six months to live. They said “if she goes on chemo will get a year”. Both myself and my sister-in-law who is in oncology nurse advised him not to go on chemo. But he did. He died a month after starting chemo because it caused his bile duct to clog and it shut down his liver.

Yeah, so doing nothing, that’s my motto.
Copilot access is $10/month.

Think about how Napster was treated back in the day, or torrent websites. You pay to access some copyrighted content. Is it legal ?
Oh there are many missinformation acpects that got pushed about https://www.france24.com/en/20200919-polio-vaccine-in-the-cr...

EDIT - definitly worth a read and the aspect worth a quote "However, there still exists a version of the illness known as vaccine-derived polio, which occurs in rare incidents when the weakened virus in the vaccine mutates." Which is the instance at play here in the London sewage monitoring.
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Typically, the way a normal Docker installation works is that dockerd (the Docker daemon) is an always-on background service running as root that exposes a socket file with group write privileges owned by the 'docker' group, allowing non-root users to send commands, effectively acting as a privilege-escalation mechanism. There were at least three reasons the daemon needed to run as root, which included needing to modify the host routing table to set up an overlay network, only root being able to create overlay filesystems, and at least some containers themselves having to run as root because they contained files that had to be manipulated in some way by uid 0 in the container.

podman in rootless mode gets around these by using slirp4netns to create pure-userspace overlay networks, fuse-overlayfs to create pure-userspace overlay filesystems (or a driver that can't deduplicate storage on older kernels), and uid/gid mapping in user namespaces to create the illusion inside of a container that an application is running as root when it isn't really root on the host.

Additionally, podman gets rid of the daemon and just uses normal fork/exec of the ephemeral podman process.

The upsides are:

- podman can run entirely in home directories and doesn't need to globally install config files or the container filesystems, making it easier for many users to share the same server.

- Running a malicious or compromised container won't compromise your host (big caveat here is unless it can exploit a vulnerability in user namespaces).

- Users who don't have root at all can still run containers. Note that while this appeared to be true using Docker because you could just be part of the 'docker' group to write to dockerd's socket, effectively this was giving you root.

The biggest downside is the userspace networks and filesystems are slow compared to their in-kernel counterparts, which is why you typically won't see it in any kind of production setting, but minikube is meant to be used as a small-scale mock of production kubernetes run by developers, so it can be a good fit there.

Note that rootless minikube was actually already possible, but way more convoluted than just using rootless podman as the container runtime.
Except when the complexity demon creeps into the logger. That was a thing quite recently.
In this [1] blog post, they say it's "between 2 and 20 times slower than MySQL (but committed to getting down to 4x slower)".

[1]: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-03-09-dolt-use-cases-in-th...
Previously discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15121020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20549264
Any tips on how to get placed on these coast teams at FAANG? I'm currently working on a side project and it would be awesome to have a FAANG-income working 20-30 hours a week so I can grind on my project w/o having to sacrifice my savings.
> I don't think releasing a commercial product that copies people's code without complying with the license is anywhere near fair use.

The whole point of fair use is that the license doesn't matter. You can have a license that says I'm not allowed to use what you wrote for any purpose ever and I can still use it under fair use.
‘Facebook just sells personal information of other people’ is such a ridiculous understatement of what Facebook does. Instead of marvelling at the human ingenuity that went into creating surveillance capitalism, they sneer at the audacity of Facebook to do something without first asking their permission.
And that is why this project should never have made it past the brainstorming session.
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The only part of the cosmos that we know of that is capable of worrying about it...
Because they _are_ verbatim copying code and not respecting the license. It's not that complicated.

Github knows better, can do better and should.
Problem with list comprehensions are that it's often not easy to see what you're trying to do. Like, I have some objects I want to group by a property, and then make a map containing the sum of some other property of those groups but only if it's value is above 5.

Take Kotlin:

result = myList
.filter { it.myValue > 5 }
.groupBy { it.myKey }
.mapValues { entry -> entry.value.sumOf { it.myValue }}

In python:

result = {
key: sum(el["myValue"] for el in elements)
for key, elements in groupby(
sorted([el for el in my_list if el["myValue"] > 5], key=lambda el: el["myKey"]),
key=lambda el: el["myKey"],
)
}

to me that's incomprehensible. You have to read it the wrong way, and it's not really clear what the intention behind each step is. Like, the filter is in the middle!
I’m very interested in the discipline of respectful enquiry but this passage rang some alarm bells:

> Street Epistemology started life as a method to discuss religious belief in the 2013 book A Manual for Creating Atheists.

Is it just me, or is there (or was there) an agenda here that’s in conflict with its claims about creating understanding? With apologies for the pun, were they “good faith” conversations?
There are examples of it providing literal copies of code without attribution etc.
I feel like this is reimplementing something that should already be possible with pandoc markdown somehow.

Though I haven't tried implementing my own pandoc filters yet so I can't comment on how useful/annoying it is to make your own.
They probably/usually do but I am not sure if this is the major reason behind the change in hod way I perceive the taste. I suspect the changes in myself may play a more definitive role in this.
http://www.astronautix.com/i/ithacus.html

For people wanting a summary.
How fitting then that Tom Bombadil was completely and utterly cut from the movies...
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Then you need to check the laws in your country. But that is nothing new to copilot. Copyright laws vary significantly from country to country.
> Well if it isn't a legal but an ethical concept, then that's just your opinion

Plagiarism being unethical is just my opinion?

> Are you going to attribute that every time you use Math.pow?

Does a simple 2-ary function call of a well-defined API qualify as “taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.”?

If not, then it’s not plagiarism.
The useless justice system has been engineered by the firms for their benefit.
There's some reason to believe that live vaccines may be net better for you, due to beneficial "non-specific" effects.

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-specific_effect_of_vaccine...

which links to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994348/
I also disagree with the tone of that tweet, but your dismissal is equally shallow and gear-grinding.

There are real, serious, and genuinely interesting issues to be discussed regarding Copilot. It is neither "just selling code that other people wrote", nor is it something that we should applaud merely because it demonstrates "human ingenuity".

The comments here regarding this are honestly a total dumpster fire. It's mostly a bunch of paper-thin hot takes, either:

- The blatantly stupid "you willingly shared your code so why are you complaining that one of the world's biggest companies is now hoovering up code from your carefully-selected open-source license and reselling it as a service!!!"

- The blatantly lying "I have literally never looked at any other computer software while developing any obviously anybody who has ever seen other source code is a plagarist"

It's dumb because there is an actual interesting discussion here but I guess we're not going to bother having it.
Maybe he's a Libertarian, and he accidentally let his police subscription expire.
Because writing a book, shooting a movie, composing a song, takes time ?

So either those pieces are IP-protected, and their author can make money with it, or we have to set up a basic income for everyone, and art becomes free.
This is interesting because many maaany fantasy works since then follow this theme as well

Seemingly every JRPG style game has some confluence of magic and technology with a prior ancient civilization being better at all of it
Yeah there's a lot of weird design choices in JS code. I'm not sure all of them really make sense given the modern state of the language but old habits die hard.
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Well, it depends on where you post it, right? Because if you are using a GitHub which probably is US based, you follow the laws related to US?!

Demanding that the law of a country should be followed by another is totally no sense. They can agree, make agreements about it, and even take legal action to the Highest court, so it could be evaluated, but using your nationality as an argument of what you can do, it's just plain wrong.
And not bloated as this zx tool
If you don't mind sharing, I am interested too. Email is my username @gmail. Thanks
For disks with sectors of 4096 bytes, the formula is the same except the constants are accordingly 8 times smaller.

Regarding sectors of 520 bytes, usable bytes are still 512. Quote from the above referenced document:

> HDDs formatted with T10 PI (Protection Information) have 8 bytes added to the end of each sector. However, the user usable sector size will remain at 512 bytes or 4096 bytes. The 8 bytes of PI will increase the overhead of the disk sector density similar to overhead of ECC bytes in a given sector.
It could always be a setting. Feels like yet another situation where OSS prioritises principles over usability/practicality/reality.
Just guessing, but I think that those more curious also have plenty of less US-centrist material available at hand, and if you are not, you don’t mind.
In Germany's google Neil Diamond is the #1 Neil, then the austronaut.
On the 2nd page Neil Patrick Harris, Neil Patel, Neil Young, Neil Cummins Elementary School and long time no writer.
Of course you did! He’s a businessman! Always looking for a way to make a profit! I mean he tried to patent our genes!
You may have had a 'cocktail' shot:

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/why-vaccinate/combinati...
Historically you probably would have preferred the live virus versions to nothing, though. Now it's easier to make the decision you have because vaccine technology has improved so much. It's a reasonable position, although you'd probably still take a live viral vaccine if the disease was otherwise incredibly dangerous and no alternative vaccine existed.
Nice! Fans of the two most awful languages fighting each other. I'm just gonna grab some popcorn!