skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an epidemics of people who argue on bad faith on the internet and just google links from pubmed to add to their ""argument"" without ever reading or understanding the articles they link to, expecting others to not go past the title (because most people aren't going to read full articles linked by randoms on comments), giving their ""argument"" credibility and weight solely based on the fact that "it's on pubmed, it's research". It has grown incredibly tiresome.

Not to mention there are tons of published papers that are worth less than toilet paper. This is a huge problem and pubmed is a central database that doesn't exert anywhere near enough curation, it is meant to be used by professionals of targeted interests who can exert proper critical judgement, not by random people.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148641/

>Recent reports that PubMed, one of the world’s leading biomedical databases, includes predatory journals and their publications1,2 is cause for concern. PubMed handles millions of queries daily and represents a key source of knowledge for health researchers worldwide. Much medical research that underpins clinical practice relies on the findings generated by peer-reviewed studies that are retrieved via biomedical databases, in particular, those that are free to search such as MEDLINE and PubMed. Thus, it is imperative that these databases are free of contamination by the outputs of predatory journals with their critically flawed peer review procedures.3 We analyze why this is happening and identify some possible solutions to stop the penetration of predatory journals and publishers into biomedical databases.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health-a...

>Andrew Wakefield’s fraudulent paper linking the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine to inflammation of the colon and to autism, and upon whose illusory foundation the modern anti-vaccine movement rests, is listed on PubMed (though it is marked as “retracted”). There is a journal called Medical Hypotheses whose articles are also discoverable through PubMed. The journal’s purpose is to publish theoretical papers, and its editors will consider “radical, speculative and non-mainstream scientific ideas” as long as they are written in a way that makes some kind of sense. One such paper proposes that ejaculation might be a potential treatment for a congested nose. Another argues that this handy intervention is “inconvenient, unreliable and potentially hazardous.” Both are, you guessed it, found on PubMed.

Just because it's on pubmed doesn't mean anything. There are so many terrible studies published and listed there that only a researcher of the studied field can tell whether it's any good or bad.
I am not saying (in that last comment) what should happen, I am saying what will happen.
Past automation in terms of impact is nothing compared to what's coming and people and lawmakers will react accordingly - not in favor of the automators.
Checkout Freetube. A YouTube client with no ADs
Isn't all stack overflow content creative commons?

https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
Windows is full of forbidden path characters, and it always will be until they abolish some forty years of backwards compatibility (the CON, allowed characters etc) and expose their quite modern file system for what it is, abolishing fucking drive letters once and for all.
> If Copilot does it for you, it's GitHub's/Microsoft's responsibility.

Is this true? It hasn't been tried yet I assume?
> The most ethical thing I can think of is some kinda 'Spotify-like' revenue sharing model, based on how often their code is used by others. Not that they'd ever implement that if they can get away with it!

Based on my understanding of how NNs work, I'm not sure its even possible to implement something like that.
Looks like Medium 2.0
As a writer, the benefits are quite obvious to me.
which has the same effect, the docker group effectively has root access.
The author should host the software in a more respectful place like GitLab.

Sourceforge's inclusion of spyware and malware in downloads, and the current owner's willful ignorance of racism and hate-speech in other publications (Slashdot) is not a sign of a serious company offering a serious service.
> Most mid-tier companies I've worked at or know people who work at in London started moving on from microservices some time ago

Are we talking about the same London? The market is still flooded with engineering playgrounds and microservices are still considered a perk and bragging point by many companies.

Finding a company with a sane tech stack that doesn't do complexity for the sake of complexity is impossible. It makes sense though - those companies already have their developers, they are happy and the company doesn't need to hire more.
I know, but the OP meant Search, not News. Google and even DDG can downrank certain news sources and I wouldn't be very surprized if Yandex did too, but I'd really like to see examples.
I use coda.io to track my nutrition and vitals
As a New Zealander the movies always felt off. I'd read the books cover to cover multiple times by that point, and they'd transported me to a strange, beautiful and foreign world.

Then I see it on the big screen and the landscapes and flora were all familiar to me. If I hadn't seen similar stuff in person, I'd seen them on local TV advertisements for beer, butter and toyotas.

So I try and ignore them these days, and cling on to the LOTR that I first saw in my head that looks nothing like home.
Sorry for the unproductive tone of this comment, but there's something about the attitude of this tweet that really grinds my gears.

Any time someone invents something new and incredible, there's always a crowd of negative nancies eager to discredit and explain why the invention is nothing new and a detrement to society.

I don't understand why someone would willingly share their code on github where it is publicly available just to complain when others make use of that knowledge.

'co-pilot just sells code other people wrote' is such a ridiculous understatement of what co-pilot does. Instead of marvelling at the human ingenuity that went into creating it, they sneer at the audacity of openAI to do something without first asking their permission.
But I don't care if closed source programmers read my GPL code! The freedom to learn is not copyleft. So long as they put independent effort into their work, they're good in my book. Shared knowledge is a vital commons, and I'm honored if I can contribute to it.

Maybe this goes back to that debunked paper that claimed that transformers were only remixing input samples?
> One doesn’t arrive at such an abstraction by writing a bunch of spaghetti code and encapsulating common patterns.

No you don't get an abstraction like the one you described. But you often can hide a huge mess of complex code behind an interface and make it simple for your part of the system to deal with it. e.g. Think of the interface to a search engine or a machine learning system.

> It’s not “simple” because it doesn’t require anyone to learn anything or work hard to understand it. It’s simple because once the abstraction is established and proven you’re free to think about bigger, more interesting ideas.

In many systems there aren't any more interesting ideas and in that case making an abstraction where you work hard to understand it is a liability. People don't have time for that. People particularly don't have time for changing it when the outside world changes such that the abstraction no longer fits. And the outside world changes quite frequently.
I'm bit mixed on this, code Copilot usually autocompletes me is not particularly novel, it's just mundane stuff I would write anyway. Most of these snippets are not copyrightable in my opinion, because it was obvious in the first place. Like CSS nth-child odd / even logic, or one case it filled me ~10 lines JS logic of filtering rows by category stored in dataset, which I would have written anyway.

Then there are cases where it amazes me completely, it wrote 10 lines of C++ code for rendering a monochrome glyphs with bits using Freetype library. It though had odd subtle bug, the glyphs came reversed and it worked with only certain font size which it seemed to pick up from different file all together.
That and GitHub's UI was so much cleaner and professional looking. Even without the bundleware fiasco, the website was dated, and a maze to navigate. GitHub looked like the cool new kid on the block. I'm sure it would have been popular either way.
Turns out I didn't remember it because it's part of those combined vaccines. I hope my immune memory is better than my cerebral.
>No, I will not be surprised. Outliers are outliers. "Art" created by AIs will just have price (and cost) of ~0 and, like everything that has a price/cost of 0, nobody will give a sht about it.*

Art doesn't touch people because it has cost.

In fact, for ages certain types of art had no cost - poetry, public festivals, and so on. And many still don't (e.g. free punk/underground/indie/etc public performances), Soundcloud music, and so on.

Most movies and series seen on TV are also ~0 (and for kids, everything is ~0, as their parents foot the bill), but they're still touched by them.

>The only real question is how will human artists (provided they exist in your preferred dystopia) will prove that they have created something themselves.

Note the loaded words "your preffered dystopia" (who says whether I prefer it or not? I merely describe what's the case. You have some ethical/political point to make).

As for the answer to the question, they wont have to. People respond to the quality of the work, not who made it (and whether they used AI or chance - another popular method - or not).

In fact tons of genius artists have described themselves not as the creators but as "mere conduits", and say the music/words/etc come from "elsewhere" (implying god, some muse, some spirit, etc). Especially when they fell the most "inspired" (the word itself means "visited by the spirit").
Thanks for scrutinizing the numbers.

tl;dr: It could be that the fatality estimates aren't well made; supporting the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, however, supports well-documented abusive work conditions of foreign workers.

I've tried to dig up some sources on the numbers.

The 4000 deaths estimate was originally made in the ITUC Special Report [1] from 2013-2014, based on how many foreign workers from certain countries where numbers were available. This report mentions "These cases documented by our legal team, show the serious abuses of 1.4 million migrant workers in Qatar."

I don't know if they mean that only 1.4 million of 2.6 million migrant workers are abused, or if they assume different base numbers. I also don't know how they reach the number 4000, but on page 15 of the report you can see that they claim that this number is connected to the construction of the one dozen stadiums for the world cup, since they compare the number 4000 to numbers for similar sporting events in the past where fatalities range 0-40. (0 is London in 2012, 40 is Athens in 2004.)

The report does not spend a lot of time justifying the 4000 deaths estimate, but a Washington Post article from 2015 [3] mentions another report from 2015 by Engineers Against Poverty [2] (404s, fetched from archive.org) that reads:

> Overall, a report commissioned by the Qatari government shows 964 deaths of migrants from India, Nepal and Bangladesh in 2012 and 2013.

Subsequently, the number 4000 was controversial and was estimated both as high as 6500 in 2021 [4] (still only for certain countries where numbers were available), and as low as 3 if you ask FIFA.

Interestingly, BBC was thrown in jail for reporting on this. [5] Can't have all those fake news.

Maybe you're right and there isn't an unusual amount of deaths in Qatar. Maybe there is, and the numbers don't add up. Maybe they don't add up because they're super imprecise, and maybe they don't because they didn't account for statistical factors such as average deaths in construction work world-wide.

[1]: https://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/the_case_against_qatar_en_w...
[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20151024015052/http://www.engine...
[3]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/27/a-bod...
[4]: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/r...
[5]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32775563
Brave browser as a replacement for Chrome/Chromium is a good start. Startpage for Google-like results if you miss Google. Kagi Search if you want good results sans tracking that you pay for with you know, a thing called…money. GrapheneOS for a privacy-respecting phone sans Google bloat and tracking.
My problem is with the weights not being released. They are a derivative work of open source code in the most literal sense. The weights would not exist without those lines. Gradient descent is using literal derivatives.
Definitely sounds like 7zip takes security more seriously -- I would definitely want my archiving software to only handle archiving, not starting programs for me.
I have always felt like a negative focus group.

While finding person or team that will consistently pick winners is basically impossible due to viral nature of big wins, I consistently pick losers . I assume it's because I consistently use criteria which differ radically from average consumer. I'll go into detailed list of pros and cons while my cousins will simply say "I like it" or "it's cool".

I thought Penny arcade had a strip or blog about it but I could never find it...
First Quantum Integrated Circuit manufactured at the atomic-scale
Ask HN: How come icloud.com sucks so much?
For example, the Notes web app is full of bugs and missing features compared to the native app, and they've been unaddressed for years now (I don't think there's the need to list them here).

I mean, it may sound like whataboutism, but Apple makes hundreds of billions a year, how can this be utterly ignored? Is it just another instance of Apple's insistence on walled gardening?
NASA to power down the mighty Voyager space probes
> But if the "era of men" has come, as the elves say, perhaps the Middle Earth dwellers are doing something ok?

It's more a question of the elves spontaneously losing the will to live.
I use it as a bookmarks manager together with about 30 lines of shell scripts. It has been my bookmark file format since 2013. It is clunky, kind of awkward to use, but I wrote it myself.

I have been wanting to rewrite it in guile using simple sexprs as storage, but I am lazy.
Were golang’s ssh and crypto packages independently audited ?
I think it would be for super secure military coding. But business domains? Hardly ever.
His central idea is that living like Tom Bombadill is the joyous, uncomplicated foil to Sauron's world conquering evil. He was writing about a fantasy world 8000 years ago that was particularly dark and had yet to see 'the light'.
99% of the "problems" I'm solving when I'm working even on very interesting and challenging problems, are boring subproblems. If I can get those out of the way then that would be great.
You can also utilise port forwarding with mullvad (bound to specific key and location) to make distributing "Linux ISOs" faster.
Any source for "racism and hate-speech in [Slashdot]"?
So let's hurry up and get all the hydrogen we can reach and clump it together into one region so we can burn it controlledly at whatever rate fits our needs.
Although that is the most consensual scenario, given our current most tested theories, the fact is there is still so much we don’t know. Certainly, no one know what will be the dominant humankind representation of the universe in two centuries, let alone what interpretations will be given about them.
You know how you could probably sustain yourself by eating only butter? You are going to puke a lot and hate yourself, but will technically be alive. This is how I see BT, especially used for Audio (latency, "quality", breaking connection, pairing). Might as well not try at all.

By the way in my earlier post I forgot USB. Everyone thinks USB is bad, BT is worse than IP stack + wifi + USB combined.
That’s only if you are elvish, though. Are you an elf?
>I know that heavy doses of melatonin slow or kill cancer

Melatonin is an antioxidant, which destroys chemicals known to cause cancer. I can't find info on it destroying cancer cells directly.
They own their code and it either has a license for use or is implicitly rights retained if not. If Copilot regurgitates their code, from a project that is public but with a non-permissive license they are having their IP rights violated so are totally correct in being unhappy about that.

Just because you’ve made something cool doesn’t give you the right to harm others in the process.

If MS or OpenAI don’t think this is the case then they should have also included their private repositories.
The difference is just scale of commercial investment.

JS got fast because Google and friends started an arms race on it, since the adoption scale justified pouring resources into optimizing efforts.

Python has a large amount of developers' mindshare, which makes its use in the browser potentially worthwhile for large interests invested in the ecosystem (e.g. Anaconda). However, the problem is so big that the cost/benefit ratio for any given group that would want to tackle it, is still fundamentally unattractive. Python developers are legion, but still not a patch on JS users.

This is where WASM is a potential game-changer: by effectively dividing the problem in two and sharing the load for the first half with a lot of other ecosystems, the cost/benefit calculation improves significantly enough that commercial interests seem more willing to invest. CPython speeds, after the temporary v3 setback, get better and better every year; likewise WASM speeds. If their coupling becomes normal, enough effort will go into it that this consideration will just go away.
I might start considering Copilot if Microsoft were to train it on their own internal codebases (Windows, Office, SQL Server). Until they do, it's clearly a "tool for thee but not for me" type of situation.
log(300) / log(2) = only 8.2 doublings away. That's near future material.
This seems disingenous.

People don’t have a problem that AI is being used in some form to provide the service.

The complaint is pretty clearly that code is being lifted from repositories without attribution or compensation, and being redistributed into other applications.

How impressive the work behind copilot is or is not really isn’t relevant.
That sounds like legal paranoia or a make-work program.
Do people really copy/paste from StackOverflow?

I feel this is more a meme, rather than reality. I do check StackOverflow, but never have I took an answer verbatim.
I try to see if it's the same problem and what was the approach in deconstructing it, which I find more useful in the long run.
None of those things had zero price and zero cost. The fact that the consumer didn't pay directly for them is irrelevant.
You can try testing your theory by trying to sell a "painting" created by DALLE/whatever for more than a third-rate amateur painter can sell one of his. Good luck with that, especially when access to the model becomes easy.

>People respond to the quality of the work, not who made it

This is so painfully incorrect and naive (and contra anything we know about the value of everything which creation has been automated before) that I think it's meaningless to continue this conversation.
I always wonder how Americans feel about their entertainment largely being set in American with Americans speaking American accents. How can you imagine a different world?
It depends on my mood. The tech scene can be depressing and overwhelming if you browse it with a heavy heart. HN can mirror back your own mood, so if I’m calm and positive, in good spirits and mentally fit to browse this site then I will. If I’m not in the right mood, depressed, heavy heart etc then I avoid it.
A ton of failed tests in that PR and yet it was merged anyway?
Meanwhile every time I visit New Zealand, especially the south island, I keep pointing at the scenery and excitedly proclaiming: "Look! It's like the Lord of the Rings movies!"

My European relatives get equally excited when they visit Australia, but for me it's like... meh... I just work here.
My general lay-person understanding is that your immune system is less active when you sleep. While I hate the way we tend to overlook other elements of the immune system and act like white blood cells are your entire immune system, in this case it may be very pertinent because white blood cells travel in the blood.

They may basically be going out into the blood when there are fewer white blood cells roaming the corridors, looking to kill something.
*in use for polio.

Many other types of vaccine exist, and modern vaccines tend to be neither inactivated nor attenuated virus.
The whole time I meant quality of the search not privacy. Bing's index and search results seem like the most relevant one.
This is very sad. But what an amazing feat they've accomplished.
That hypothesis is easily disproven by spending an afternoon on a side project with Copilot.

No matter how interesting your problem is, translating it into code is going to involve a lot of grunt work. This isn’t just boilerplate, but also the large portion of your code which is going to be gluing things together.

The time you spend working through those menial parts of your code is time when the context of the interesting part of the problem fades. Once you get the mechanical stuff out of the way, you have to load the interesting stuff back into your brain.

This is where AI coding tools really shine. They dramatically reduce the intervals between when you can think about the actual problem you’re solving by letting you get the boring mechanics out of the way more quickly.
The download fails because the vocab file link returns HTTP 403... :-(

https://yalm-100b.s3.yandex.net/vocab/voc_100b.sp

EDIT: It seems fine if you download with a browser useragent not CURL... I guess I just got hit by some anti-bot thing they have accidentally have turned on.
I'm predicting that the upcoming Mac Pro will be very popular among ML developers, thanks to unified memory.
It should be able to fit the entire model in memory.

Combine that with the fact that PyTorch recently added support for Apple silicon GPUs.
So it's my job to check my supplier, to make sure lines from co-pilot are legit.

At the same time when fast fashion companies sell T-shirts made with slave labour, its not the company's responsebility to check what their suppliers are doing.

And if tesla autopilot kills you and your family its not their fault either.

Neoliberal morality - companies are never accountable for anything, it's heresy to suggest they should do their job properly.
In this case these are not forbidden path characters, just non-Latin characters without any special meaning. At some point you should say "fuck Latin-1, this looks like Unicode so we're decoding as Unicode", not "don't use the Latin alphabet? You don't deserve to use a computer".

Not being able to use perfectly normal strings like aux or nul as filenames is of course an entirely different category of madness.
The more history I learn the more I think that in some respects - certainly culturally and artistically - this is true for our own time.
I’m not pessimistic. In fact, I definitely think something will disrupt the status quo and it is very corrupt. That’s not the point. I just don’t think your solutions are workable. If you’d told me about btc 10 years ago, I would’ve thought it was a radical attempt at a solution. Now I don’t think it’ll work with the benefit of hindsight. I just think anything in the future that disrupts tradFi will have equally crazy origins.