skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Majority of researchers think path leading from bats through civets is plausible enough given the evidence.

Are you thinking of SARS-1 here? There's reasonably strong evidence that SARS-1 entered humans from bats via civet cats, since infected civet cats were found in the markets. For MERS we have very strong evidence of zoonosis, since many infected camels have been found and the phylogenetic tree shows evidence of repeated introductions.

No animals infected with SARS-CoV-2 have been found, except those infected by humans. Various researchers have proposed various natural zoonotic paths, but I don't think civets are a leading contender. It's hard to say what a majority of researchers believe, since most have stayed prudently quiet.
You missed the disclaimer:

> The DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking statistics are a light-hearted way of measuring the popularity of Linux distributions and other free operating systems among the visitors of this website. They correlate neither to usage nor to quality and should not be used to measure the market share of distributions. They simply show the number of times a distribution page on DistroWatch was accessed each day, nothing more.
> Lol. Thank you for agreeing. You're completely wrong about the fines part, it is discretionary. ie, if tomorrow, there is a negative press cycle, you will certainly be hit with any punishment of their choosing.

Not any punishment of their choosing, but according to Art. 83, that defines the maximum fine and the criteria to determine it.

This is not different from what the FDA or the SEC do in the USA. Or do you think they define exact fines for all possible misbehaviours up to the second decimal point regardless of mitigating factors or negligence?

> The incremental warning and fines approach has no practical or legal basis.

The legal basis is GDPR, which is a regulation of the EU. Do you mean that it goes against some EU treaties or rulings of the CJEU? Or the problem is that this notion upsets you somehow and you are telling me because you think I should do something about it?

> If it does, get it in writing from __ANY__ entity entrusted with enforcing the GDPR, you will be laughed out of the room. Europe is a clown show. Ambiguity rules.

I don’t understand what I should get in writing. Art. 83 of GDPR?

> Oh really? Read my comment again. These assholes in the executive are directly changing the letter of the law. ie LEGISLATING.

The Commission has the right of initiative, that is they propose laws that are approved by the Parliament. I’m not sure I understand what is upsetting you here.

Who are “these assholes in the executive” you are referring to? Are they the Commission or CNIL or both or none?
I don’t live in France, but I’m sure the CNIL is not making new laws. If it worries you, I can ask around.

> We have laws for a fucking reason. Not to print them out and hang them on the walls like ornaments but so there is discipline in the exercise of power entrusted in people with the power of Government. We can't have personal vendettas run through governmental office.

Which is why the Council of State blocked the CNIL and also why you should not get so upset.

> Fancy. Should i be impressed? Does that disqualify all the abuse of power in your eyes?

I won’t indulge you further on this.

To sum it up, you don’t seem aware of how the EU makes laws but yet you know enough to be very agitated. You are especially upset with French bureaucrats, because some of them made some mistake and other French bureaucrats corrected them. For avoidance of doubt we’ll certify that you are very upset with both groups and that you think something should be done about it.
That’s one of many sufficient conditions. Another is fetal viability, which is exactly why Roe allowed states to enact restrictions on late-term abortions.

Overall, we’re only having these conversations because a fetus has two simultaneous qualities: it bears visual resemblance to a human being, and it has the future potential to be a human being. We don’t concern ourselves nearly as much with sperm (no visual resemblance) or cakes shaped like babies (no future potential). Together, they deserve concern, but not overriding concern; that is reserved for the sole person in the equation.
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If we think about the militarization of space, you're 6 decades behind the times. Space has always been militarized!

We've ran spy satellites since the 60s, and missile detection satellites after.. Most leading space-faring nations have also tested satellites that are technically dual use - one man's repair mission is another woman's satellite destruction capability. As well, of course, the Anti-satellite weaponry...The DoD is a big user of SATCOM, and GPS of course, is all about military targeting and coordinates.

Every weather satellite likewise is also an incredibly useful data provider for planning air operation campaigns, and an integral part of battle planning. Mix that with terrestrial and in-situ data sources, both classified, and unclassified, and you have understanding of the potential great levels of detail useful for the military.
Please make sure to keep voting after you move, as much as it might feel like spitting in the wind and yet another annual hassle - you really have to stay on top of both your voter registration, as well as your annual overseas ballot request, at least for Texas (every state has different voting from abroad policies, even different policies for military vs. non)

The official government website to help you navigate this is fvap.gov. The Democrats Abroad one that provides even more handholding and optional nagging: votefromabroad.org. They’ve only ever called to remind me that elections were occurring in Texas, and early enough that I could work out ballot issues, and then a follow-up a week or so before I really need to have that ballot in the mail.

I’m a semi-rural Texas voter who regularly has unsatisfying conversations with Ted Cruz’s snotty staffers and John Cornyn’s slightly politer ones, hanging up the phone to go enjoy the life I’ve made for myself in southern Germany.
One Button Could Have ‘Saved More Lives’ in Florida Condo Collapse
I've been using Linux as my daily driver since windows 8 was released.

Never had a single issue on Lenovo think pads or Dell xps.

Desktop had an issue when I bought a ryzen 3700x processor at launch, due to a bug in the cpu. A patch was released within a week iirc.
They're currently doing this automatically for catching exact matches, and you can turn on a setting that will suppress any suggestion that was found verbatim in the training data.

But of course this wouldn't catch copies where variable names have been changed, etc. One thing that I think would be really interesting (but hideously computationally expensive) is to compute an embedding of each chunk of the training data and then query for the k nearest neighbors when Copilot generates some code, so you can see what the closest snippets in the training data are and evaluate for yourself if they're too similar.
If your objective is specifically systems programming then you'll quickly outgrow python, but I'm not convinced that makes it the wrong starting point. For systems programming you'll likely need both high-level and low-level programming concepts. Learning low-level first is absolutely a valid path, but my point is that going high-level first is equally valid. People on the internet like to make out like someone who starts out by learning Python are incapable of later learning low-level concepts, but if anything they're at an advantage compared with someone with no programming experience at all.
Yes, but Co-Pilot is more like a system that has spent a lot of time learning from open source code but it has the logical reasoning ability of that code of the 12-year old who just learned about the problem yesterday that the author mentioned.

But will it be capable of generating a copyright infringement? Let's imagine I want to implement an algorithm to find the shortest path between nodes in a graph. Well I remember from my MSc that you probably need to implement it with Dijkstra's algorithm, and I've implemented this a few times over the years in kata and leetcode. Now let's say I'm programming Rust, which I don't really know the syntax for so I go read some GPL code while browsing the net for syntax.

Do I need to state that my implementation of Dijkstra's algorithm is 10% GPL, because I spent a few minutes reading syntax of a GPL file? What if someone else's copyrighted code looks 90% similar to mine, because hell there's only so many ways to implement it, can I get sued because there is 90% overlap and I might have looked at this code?

These systems aren't even capable yet of generating more than a a few functions, much less a coherent library. Even then, as they generalize more and gain more expressive power they will be less likely to copy in the training data to the output now, a possibility that I consider quite remote even given a relatively primitive Co-Pilot.
Authenticating to Google services while owning an Android phone works exactly like that.
Relevant:

> https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/3n4fjv/why_did_elitist...

on the question "Why did Elitist Jerks die out?":

"A not insignificant number of prominent theorycrafters now work at Blizzard, so that killed a number of class threads. Some other people quit and weren't replaced.

Later, as the final nail in the coffin, the site was sold to Ten Ton Hammer. They unsuccessfully tried to monetize the site and caused a mass exodus of forum members, effectively killing the community."
Nope. Especially given the extent to which "cow" is a thing that we created because we wanted more/better beef.

Over centuries, we have become increasingly efficient at producing beef, and are extremely efficient at it. It is probably not possible to be much more efficient using whole-plant crops and growing whole-animal beef.
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I believe the parent poster was comparing &str and String, not Box<str> and String.
Again, blockchain seemed like a good solution because I am trying to make the whole verification independent of my platform. I don't want the data to be gone if my site goes down. Here by blockchain, I mean public blockchains
This is so true. Friendship and connection really does take work, and a lot of it is just being visible so people become comfortable with you and you with them. A community where you're actively doing something together is helpful as well since it takes away the pressure of the "goal" of making friends.

I remember years ago wanting to increase my friendship network, so I started going to meetups to meet people. Specifically, a few were meetups for people to meet other people to make new friends. What I found was it felt so much like dating. The events themselves were secondary and to me I felt out of place, like I was trying to impress other people or else sussing out other people to see if they were friendship material.

A few years later I took up swing dancing and started going regularly to classes and eventually (it took a while) I started going to weekly social dances. With swing dancing, I wasn't there to make friends necessarily. I enjoyed the dancing aspect. After a while, I realized I did make friends and felt part of a community. I recognized other regulars and felt like I belonged. It took a lot of work to get there, but a lot of it didn't feel like work because I found an activity I wanted to do each week.
Brilliant idea. You would make a good business partner.
How about any company that’s worried about it’s code being copied submits a copy for copilot to check against. If copilot generates any of that code it just doesn’t output it.
Humans and our domesticated animals really dominate the planets resources. I wonder how long it can sustain us mistreating it like we do.

"Humans and their livestock represent 96% of all mammals on earth in terms of biomass, whereas all wild mammals represent only 4%"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass_%28ecology%29#/media/F...

"The standing biomass of domesticated poultry, mostly chickens, has been calculated as 5 Mt C, about three times higher than the total biomass of all wild bird species combined"

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.180...
One of the few books (perhaps the only) that made me cry against my will. It almost made me cry uncontrollably again now when one comment quoted a section with the protoganist writing.

I think it was one key building block that made me an anti-natalist. It made me hate existence, it filled me with rage about how unfair genetics and evolution in general are.
"barely anybody in Europe"

Nice.
Here's the cached version, from another comment -
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I didn't pick up on what you're referring to. I mainly got 'im tired of people' vibes from it. And there's nothing wrong with that...I just don't feel it compares to the man in the documentary.
I don't know. That would depend on whatever number is necessary for it to register in a statistically significant way.

Tongue in cheek aside, it's incredibly stupid to make sweeping, broad, categorical judgments of certain things because of isolated, exceedingly rare incidents. It's even dumber to make broad, sweeping laws around emotional reactions such as yours to such events.

Every school shooting is a grotesque tragedy, but means of fighting them exist that don't require gun ownership to be banned for the millions of people who not only peacefully use guns but also in some cases need them for an assortment of reasons. "What about the children?" has rarely been a good or honest argument for anything, particularly for badly considered laws pushed forth by bouts of moral indignation and self-righteousness.
This is giving the dystopian chills when I consider that the Uber-wealthy proponents of population reduction (Bill Gates) are buying up crop land. Long game?
This is actually… inspiring
You really need to ditch the Bloomberg terminal comparison.

People who know what the Bloomberg Terminal is are going to be disappointed by your product because it's not even remotely in the same realm of capability.

People who don't know what it is (which I'm guessing is actually your target audience) are either not going to understand, or will learn, then be disappointed that what you offer doesn't come close.

If you just ditch that comparison and describe honestly, clearly and precisely what your product does (apparently, provide basic financial data), everyone should be happy.
>To get some long lost rights back.

Which specific rights? Don't wax on the pseudo-libertarian bullshit, as you're communicating with an actual libertarian.

Please, do tell.
> Even with money, let me pay $10-20,000 , take a test, prove my experience, and bam I now have a degree...

The system you're proposing sounds ripe for abuse; wouldn't universities get the most money by lowering standards? You can get an honorary or extra muros doctorate if you make a significant contribution to the field, but explicitly tying it to a fee doesn't seem like a great plan.
> It's really quite difficult to resist getting drawn into that kind of stuff.

Yes.

This took me back to my middle twenties and disengaging myself from an argument with someone who had parked blocking my driveway. As I was discussing it later with the friend I was renting the apartment from, I said pretty much those words, "it's hard not letting yourself be drawn into someone else's anger." He agreed and we had a pretty good conversation about that.

Nothing to add other than you reminded me of an interesting afternoon long ago :-)
DTCC does this kind of limitation because the finance industry is still terrified after Sarbanes Oxley Dodd Frank and similar legislation. The goal is to create some self-regulation so that the feds don't come in and fuck everything up even worse.
I found him on YouTube originally because I was looking for content of my home country (feeling very homesick during the pandemic, I live in another country than where I was raised).

I kept coming back to his channel because it feels fresh, authentic and he is very good at talking though how he’s thinking. Meaning you go on a little detective journey with him.

It helps that he’s also quite genial, so it feels extremely wholesome.

He’s very deserving of his popularity, but he still feels like a bloke you could drink with.
Why not? They’re charging him?

People get into enormous amounts of debt for the privilege of being at university.

The university has something of value (cynically a certificate). The poster pays to receive it. Now the poster has built something of value. If people are willing to pay for it, there’s no reason to give it away for free.
The SEC didn't find any evidence of naked shorts in the GameStop debacle.

Some people confuse naked shorts - which are currently illegal - with the simple finance fact that the same stock can be shorted more than once. Let's say A owns 1 stock. I borrow it from him and short sell it to B. Now I owe A one stock, and B owns one stock. There is no reason(1) I can't borrow that stock from B, and short sell it to C. I now owe A and B each one stock, and C owns 1 stock. You can continue doing this as much as you want, and create effectively infinite short positions without ever doing a naked short.

(1) Well aside from the the practicalities that it overleverages you and if your short position gets called you are completely screwed, and eventually you might not be able to find any stocks to borrow for shorting purposes, but there's no theoretical reason you can't do this.
"the other chimpanzees wouldn't understand it: it would either be gibberish, or dumbed down"

This is kind of how "Excession" by Iain M Banks is. Much of the dialogue in the book is supposed to be between the hyperintelligent AI "Minds" that are the ships in his Culture universe. It's supposed to be in a form similar to how they talk to each other. It's quite hard to read. I can never decide which of the two (gibberish or dumbed down) it is. Probably both.
Track Gauge can be solved, various methods with various pros and cons, from adjusting bogies to just relaying the tracks (like GWR did in ye olden days)

Loading gauge though is another matter - you can’t fit a square peg in a round hole.
The number of people working on xenotransplantation in the world is very small. My mom (https://tts.org/74-ixa/889-ixa-in-memoriam-agnes-marie-azimz...) was part of the group who conducted basic research in xeno at the University of Maryland and established the collaboration to start testing Revivicor's genetically modified pigs, before her lab (https://www.massgeneral.org/transplant/cts/research/pierson-...) moved to Boston a few years ago.

The international xenotransplantation community found out about David Bennett's heart transplant through the news, and some people feel as though competition between groups may have contributed to a lack of sharing of clinically relevant information that could have benefited Mr. Bennett.
I initially assumed that you were just joking, but after a bit more reading it seems like it almost literally is Six Sigma for cops (to the extent that it's actually the job of cops to reduce crime, which is debatable).
I've been using Copilot during the beta and it's been absolutely amazing. That being said I mainly rely on it to autocomplete the rest of the line only, and it works great as a fancier auto complete. I can't imagine it being a copyright issue for this use case because the completions are what I would have written anyways. I'd probably never trust it to write a whole block of code implementing something and I think they definitely should add a feature to disable that because autocompleting only lines of code is just as useful.

It works even better in languages like Haskell or Ocaml, where often there is only a couple ways (often only one way) valid code could be written once you type part of it out and if it does spit out invalid code you get an instant compiler warning.
That's wild because it's my exact opposite take.

I found it to be one of the most thoughtful explorations of super-intelligence and how it becomes qualitatively different than conventional intelligence.

I came away from it thinking, "This is Limitless if it were written by a grownup"
"Should" you be using Bayesian statistics? That simply comes down to personal preference. I like to use it because it makes it really easy to reason about uncertainty in downstream applications. It's also useful when I have strong prior knowledge about an estimate or am updating it from a previous measurement. Its also especially useful when the data generating process has multiple stages or subpopulations and the particular application can make use of those component measurements.

You can totally use Bayesian statistics to measure V = IR... You could also just bootstrap `V/I`.
> You fail to realise that we can prove theorems about linear algebra

Obviously I realize we can prove theorems. If I didn't realize it was possible to prove things I wouldn't claim things were provable. This is false by contradiction with my previous statements. Your worldview of me isn't consistent.

> You also failed to address the gazillions of abstractions that don't have errors, some of which I have listed along with linear algebra.

Why should I have to prove that abstractions without error don't exist? They do. I never claimed they didn't. My point was that abstractions with error reduce computational complexity. This gives them room to outcompete perfect abstraction for sufficiently complex problems. It honestly seems insane to me to not believe what I'm saying is true, because it is true. I can't fathom how the concept would be impossible to grasp. Showing that we regularly use error filled abstractions is more important than demonstrating something I don't intend to show.

> The OP was not discussing learning at all.

I literally quoted him saying there was never a reason to teach bad abstractions. Teaching is related to learning. Abstractions are related to abstractions. So abstraction and learning were a topic of discussion. Even the original post we're under is about teaching programming technique. Which is about learning, because of the relationship between teaching and learning. It is also about abstraction, because problem modeling is very related to abstraction.

> "all abstractions have errors"

Ctrl + F shows no instance of this except for you saying it. What do you think I'm claiming? I'm really confused? You seem to think I'm saying something I'm definitely not saying.

Notice how when I said it I put parantheses and explained my reasoning as to why I felt your claim was your claim? You meanwhile misquote me. Strict quotes imply actual attribution, but I never said what you claimed I said.

I don't want to talk to you anymore. I very much don't appreciate your comparison to someone who just makes stuff up. I found that very rude and insulting. A kind person would help correct me if my reasoning was wrong and I would appreciate it, but you haven't done that. When you quoted me, it wasn't even something I said or tried to argue. If you were trying to make someone have a worse day, congratulations, you did.
The problem you describe is a resume design problem rather than a cert problem. Would you know what they could do if they merely left the certs off of the resume? I’d guess not.

It sounds like you were looking at a federal resume which are differently structured and much, much longer than private sector resumes. Candidates appreciate feedback letting them know: “Thanks for applying but I can’t suss out what you can actually do based on what you sent. Feel free to reapply with a more concise, descriptive resume.”

If they’ve worked in the federal government that long, they might just not realize how inappropriate their resume is for private sector jobs even if they’re qualified. If they can’t course correct and describe their skills in common business language, that’s a good enough indicator of their ability to adapt to the position, I’d say.