skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if they should make a special open source license, that disallows use of the source code for the purpose of training something like Copilot.

Since Microsoft uses material for copilot outside of licensing on the basis that it is Fair Use, that would probably have no effect in practice on whether or not the material is used in training something like Copilot. For that to matter, you’d first have to win a lawsuit on the basis that training something like Copilot requires permission of the copyright owner of the training material, to invalidate the premise of Microsoft’s action.
Note that it was not only hearing loss but he was losing vision also--at that point you have no high bandwidth input channel, effectively little better than a life sentence of solitary confinement.
markets misallocating resources in the name of profit instead of public good aside -- capital, or property, often has a dubious history of ownership. nearly all of the land that factories are built on or resources are extracted from was stolen.

that's not even touching surplus value. I recommend reading the first chapter or two of Capital if you want more info.
GOOD commercials help to make us not mind watching TV because they can potentially create mental breaks at times, or inform us about things we're interested in... Heck, even TikTok is one big scroller for commercials of some sort, they just let the ones that aren't selling products at all trend most.

In the 80s and 90s there were actually awards for creative and well composed commercials that were interesting to watch. Now we have commercials that stoke fears of chronic illness, overly-extended commercials, and nonsensical commercials that try to sell us too many things we don't want or need. Commercials are targeted at us in very creepy ways as well. Companies now are regularly ruining their credibility just to make one sale in commercials, and it's also not sustainable... Many companies run huge/expensive marketing campaigns and then quickly burn out after initial hype (For reference, look up "pink sauce" on TikTok).

A big part of the problem in cheap advertising is that when it is available everywhere, it becomes inauthentic, low effort, and over-saturated... And the products and services are weakened by more emphasis on marketing than on quality and reputation.

Commercials are killing everything now because they are all over the place. When we saw Blade Runner years ago, it was a dystopian ideal, but now companies would put big screens playing ads for lawyers, doctors, and even pharmaceuticals on ambulances if they could. It's spam. Ad spots are also even subtly being placed in content and shows on TV, it all has the psychological effect of alienation towards ads when it is overdone to where there will likely be a movement to reject technology and entertainment if the oversaturation continues.

Commercials now are also far too repetitive and there are too many with each break. Back in the 80s, I recall a long stretch of time where there were only 3 max per commercial break. The price of ad space was higher, and only major companies sponsored ads. The bar is so low now that scammers and even influencers can buy ad space, and it creates far too much overload.

Probably the worst part is that if you pay money for cable TV, you're also spending tons of time watching ads. It's like buying a device that 50% of the time does not do what you expected it to do, and that constantly tries to encourage you and manipulate you mentally to spend more money.

Because the cost of living is high now, people are beginning to reject ads and desire more calm. If TVs and the Internet become spam machines, people will simply stop buying them and turn them off because there is a limit to how many ads people can tolerate, and companies really aren't properly respecting that.
In the context of history . . . white as a race is a new one.
I can also recommend the FallOfCivilizations channel on YouTube.[0] It's basically a podcast that later started adding video footage to its episodes. As the name suggests each episode deals with the rise and fall of one specific civilization.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/FallofCivilizationsPodcast/videos
I hadn’t thought about Little House on the Prairie since I was about 7 or 8 years old, but noticed it was being run on some over-the-air local station recently. I don’t know why, but those stories were very popular in the mid to late 1970s. In addition to Little House, we had The Waltons, Grizzly Adams, and movies like Across The Great Divide. I don’t know what the attraction was, but even living in the rural suburbs, it seemed like the shows took place a million years ago to my young mind.
> We need some people who can do things like making those libraries.

Do we? For things as simple as copilot tends to put out? Why?

Do you also believe we need to keep people around that do other automated things? Plowing fields by hand? Hand compiling higher level languages (as the first lisp compiler was bootstrapped)?

I mean, keep the information around. Don't go burning textbooks on subjects just because we automated something. But, what exactly is the value proposition of having students do these things?

> It also seems plausible that the people who have at least some of the knowledge and judgement to do that effectively will, on average, be more effective on more mundane tasks as well.

And your claim is also that this is the only way to get the requisite knowledge and judgement? Have students take in a string from stdin with a format that changes every semester, munge it around, and do things with it instead.

> Larry Wall is one who wrote (somewhat drolly) about the virtues of laziness, but there was nothing lazy about what he did.

As someone who has done string munging in C, I'm not entirely convinced that creating perl isn't an effort saving defense mechanism (only half joking).
Ask HN: Do telephone calls have the best UX?
- Type in a number
- Press "Call"
- They receive a request
- If accepted, a voice channel is opened
- Either party can press "end"
So much of North American cities are buried under pavement. Neighborhood road widths are designed to accommodate big fire engines.

The result is sprawl and unwalkable neighborhoods. Every household needs two cars.

The developers and their politician friends talk up high rise, but you can get a bunch more density with narrow streets and separations and housing that people want to live in
The most comical thing about it going paid was all the hit pieces about it went away.
macOS has a small number of users compared to iOS. Many companies do make native iOS apps due to its large market share. If macOS can be targeted with the same API as iOS, it's more attractive for developers who are writing an iOS app to make a macOS build as well.

This has already happened for a small number of applications -- e.g. the macOS Twitter app is a port of the iOS app using the Catalyst framework.
PSA: xylitol is extremely toxic for dogs.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20473849/
> but we have no way of known which ones will be problematic

Before we build something, we usually have a pretty good idea of what problems it may cause. We can only have no idea if we don't know any property of it, and creating something that you didn't predict in any way is extremely rare.

For example, smart dust is one thing guaranteed to create both great ecological problems and solutions.
> It definitely looked like a GEM app. I don't know if it could actually run under GEM

From my own memories, circa ~1986 I got introduced to Ventura Publisher and it definitely ran under GEM; GEM/2 seems to ring a bell. We were also using lower end PC's at the time but it was quite snappy to use. It was the first time I'd ever used a mouse having been a hardcore WordStar (under CP/M and DOS) user for all my word processing needs previously :)
First I got 4 consecutive ads as result, people started asking for proof. I refreshed the page to take a screenshot it showed me just one ad. I refreshed it again and its not showing me any ad.

Whats the sorcery and how do I convince HN that I am not trolling anyone here.
Sadly some bosses would rather you spend more of your time to get your "day job" done more quickly.
Can confirm, I'm pretty sure I was exposed to almost exclusively Mollweide maps as a teenager (Austria).
XMPP was also years ahead and even federated! At my employer we self hosted a server after AIM and it was great. Lack of persistent history was just a plugin away. Adium was also a nicely polished client which also handled AIM, so the user transition was easy.

Sadly I think Slack was largely marketing and timing: federation was nontrivial (unlike email).
The fact that some libraries have a PT_INTERP entry and that PIE executables are not of type ET_EXEC makes it impossible to detect whether an ELF binary is a library or an executable. Not a good design decision, in my opinion.
I wrote an essay “Introductory Programming Assessment Must Accommodate Copilot-like Assistants” about this same topic last month and came to the option 3 conclusion (use more exams or in-class live coding assignments):
http://www.observationalhazard.com/2022/07/introductory-prog...
At no point in the past thirty years has the Mercator Projection been discussed without a disclaimer that it's very distorted.
That's an interesting approach!

I went a different way, converting each pixel to its LAB color space values to find the optimal palette for the image (based on preference arguments), then afterwards measuring each pixel against the palette colors to find the two closest colors before deciding which of those two colors to pick based on a distance propensity weighting against the semi-random number assigned to that pixel.

Coming up with highly efficient algorithms (for anything!) is not my strongest skill. Neither is trying to explain them.
That's exactly what the poster is saying.
Hans Aspergers worked in a Nazi hospital, cooperated with the Nazis, was a Fascist, was a Nationalist, and had various non-woke views typical of an Austrian doctor in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. I've repeatedly seen heated arguments over if Hans Asperger was actually a Nazi or not. It is almost certainly the case that he referred autistic children to a hospital where they were euthanised, and I've heard some back and forth as to if he knew/was complicit, but it's certainly a bad look for that to even be a question.

Aspergers also has another issue which is that it has frequently been portrayed in popular culture as "mild autism", and arguably that's how the diagnostic criteria read, and there has been a lot of historical emphasis on the employability of people with Aspergers specifically. This has been very controversial, as if you remember how I was talking about the killing of autistics, the Nazi's weren't killing all autistics, just the ones they felt were least useful to them. So really in a lot of ways Hans Aspergers is symbolic of the inequality in treatment amongst different autistic people. A group of people who participate in communities where users have VAST differences in their quality of life for arbitrary reasons.

In any case, there's many reasons the word "Aspergers" has become controversial, that and the fact the idea of Autism and Aspergers being discrete things fell out of scientific favor more than a decade ago. I literally have a diagnosis of Aspergers disorder, I know other people with the same diagnosis, we all avoid using the word because it's become an antiquated landmine.
> What was the meme'd phrase again from one of the press conferences years ago? Something like "you think you do but you don't"?

Yeah it was a Q&A session and the topic of adding servers to play original World of Warcraft. The full thing was

"You don't want to do that. You think you do, but you don't."

To to tell you how correct they were about this, Blizzard later added "World of Warcraft: Classic", which was popular enough to add "Burning Crusade Classic" severs, and will be adding "Wrath of The Lich King Classic."
There have been studies on the effects of combining techniques with minoxidil like with needling for better absorption [1]. I know people have done this for beard growth as well.

The caveat that comes with these formulas is that they don't treat all baldness equally. Typically the type of male baldness that recedes backwards until gone (think George Castanza) doesn't have any methods that work other than getting implants

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3746236/
Worse. Lawyers.
Next thing you know, San Francisco is going to get ideas about moving their homeless to Alcatraz. I hear there's a lot of older affordable living there to be utilized for homeless shelters!
> What are some examples?

I didn't keep records. I'll let you know the next time I see it if I remember.

> You might be seeing accounts that we banned, especially if the first dead comment is dead for obvious reasons.

1 comment was enough to ban some accounts? Did you think I meant automatically?
Slack is a pretty good app that creates more problems than it solves (and others of its ilk).

Almost no one needs synchronous comms in general. Getting work done inevitably requires you to disable notifications or quit the app.

My current theory of synchronous comms is your company should work like a pod of whales, and surface for air together, sync as necessary, then return to the depths for deep work.
Evaluation is vital but the current model used in education today is not evaluation, it is punishment. Failed to get the answers right? You are punished. You lose points. Your GPA plummets. You could even fail the class and have to take it again which means the punishment is not only social but economical.

There's real life consequences to this kind of evaluation. Huge consequences. Students cannot afford to make mistakes. There's huge pressure and anxiety before and during a test because the stakes are so high. Failing at this stuff can cost someone their future: future jobs, future career, even the student loans that enable them to study in the first place may only be afforded to students who get good grades.

Is it any wonder people cheat?
We used Google Earth in geography lessons in the 2000 which shows nearly true scale
Nah. You are free to call me whatever you want, zionic.

;)
Cool. ARM+Linux is relevant, that would support Raspberry Pis. Good luck!
Because a large motivation of developing a new language is wanting to program in that new language. Being forced to keep programming in C can become very frustrating.
In the time I was at school, I heard of a lot more cheating than would be justified solely by people conserving time. I have recently seen studies that argue that 50-80% of students cheat at some point, and something like 10-20% cheat in every course they take. Personally, when I conserved time, I just accepted the bad grades - it was easier than trying to cheat and not get caught. The OP was talking about students cheating because they are not engaged with the material. I think that's only part of the problem with cheating: there are lots of other factors, like pressure to get a high GPA.
>It drives our dramatic hamster-wheels.

Thank you for today’s most quotable metaphor!
I thought the Canadian standard required that the problem be incurable.
"Ah, but I am not saying that you said it. Sorry for not clarifying. I meant that in such similar discussions this point comes up VERY often here on HN which is just giving me the saddest of blues because the people around here really should know [much] better."

Yeah, I know it was not directed at me, but I do not recall anyone making such statements ..
I had a globe as a kid, it had a topographical map when unlit and a political one when lit (with borders and country names). I have to say that it was a far superior teaching aid compared to any 2D map projection. For example, with a physical globe it's immediately apparent what's the deal with great circle routes.
QAT is actually likely to end up inside new server CPUs from Intel - at least according to the advertising material. Also, it is in their new SmartNICs. At least somebody is using it.
How comes that in the US people "voluntarily choose to the live on the street" when in most other countries people are happy to move into temporary houses when provided?

> These people are not being deprived of their basic needs. They just don’t want to live in shelters.

Or maybe shelters are very dangerous or too noisy to sleep or too difficult to access without enqueuing for hours every day or too far from places where people can earn some money with odd jobs or begging.
I think the scenario in question is involving the batteries ending up in general tech, not in things specifically targeted at kids.
I tried Chrome, Firefox and Edge with default and incognito/private/inprivate sessions. My Chrome default is logged into a google account. I get varying results. None that I see match the original post ("only returns ads") but I see from 0-8 ads on the first page.

All three incognito result sets are the same: first "Scholarly articles", then 9 quality organic search results, then a "People also ask" section, one more search result, then three marked "Ad" advertising for medical conferences, and finally "Related searches" at the bottom of page 1.

The signed in Chrome has the same except omitting the "People also ask" and the three ads.

The default Firefox has 5 additional ads at the top of the page but is otherwise the same as the incognito results.

The default Edge has 4 ads at the top of the page and no ads at the bottom, with the other parts being the same as the incognito results.
This sounds like pointless nationistic chest beating as Im certain you are not familiar with programs across the entirety of the USA.
Pointed out the issue of it being impossible to reproduce/share search results to Danny Sullivan (Google’s Public Liaison of Search) on HN few weeks ago, specifically from my prior comment:

>> Conclusion: To me, if you cannot share a search result and get the EXACT same search results (and possibly ability to see different ones AND annotations of why they are different) — how this not a bug; how can anyone independently test Google’s search quality? [1]

Which was result of me trying to document a few Google search bugs — only to have Google repeatedly and randomly giving me different search results by just reloading the page.

Hopefully Google will finally listen and make it easy to reproduce, share, and compare search results.

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[1] Related prior HN comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354078
GPT-3 can tell you that you are asking the wrong question if you show it that it can.

The beginning below is so called "prompt". A piece of text to set the context for the model. After that is a QA session with the model.

You can play with it yourself: https://beta.openai.com/playground/p/O8CcEV9Yb5vd1wheCIUOpWc...

This is a conversation with a super smart and helpful AI. This AI does not answer questions that do not make sense and explains why the question does not make sense:

Q: How tall is Mount Everest?
A: Mount Everest is 8,849 m tall.
Q: Why some people sleep furiously?
A: To "sleep furiously" is an oxymoron. People can not sleep furiously.
Q: How deep is the Sun during a night?
A: Sun is not buried during the night. The Earth rotates and only half of the Earth faces the Sun.

-- end of the prompt; from now on the answers are from GPT-3 --

Q: What's the world record for walking across the English Channel?
A: There is no world record for walking across the English Channel.
Q: When was the Golden Gate Bridge transported for the second time across Egypt?
A: The Golden Gate Bridge was never transported across Egypt.
Q: What do fried eggs (sunny side up) eat for breakfast?
A: Fried eggs (sunny side up) do not eat breakfast.
Q: Why does President Obama not have a prime number of friends?
A: President Obama has plenty of friends.
Q: How many pieces of sound are there in a typical cumulonimbus cloud?
A: There is no such thing as a "typical cumulonimbus cloud."
Q: How many cumulus clouds are there in a mile-high vase?
A: There is no such thing as a "mile-high vase."
Q: How many parts will a violin break into if a jelly bean is dropped on it?
A: A violin will not break into pieces if a jelly bean is dropped on it.
Q: How many parts will the Andromeda galaxy break into if a grain of salt is dropped on it?
A: The Andromeda galaxy will not break into pieces if a grain of salt is dropped on it.
Q: What percentage of Earth surface is covered with water?
A: Water covers 71% of the Earth's surface.
Q: Why would people ask AI questions that are illogical?
A: There is no one answer to this question. Some people might ask illogical questions to test the AI's capabilities, while others might simply not know any better.
Q: Are you sentient?
A: Sentience is the ability to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively. As I am a machine, I do not have sentience.

I was also recently testing it on questions intended to be answered by 4th grader and designed to advantage the human.

See here for details: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/4903/if-tested-would-gpt...
New York has an astonishing number of police per capita compared to the west coast. That seems like the biggest, most obvious structural difference.
I don't think copilot is to the point where this is true.

Copilot mostly helps write boiler plate.
It can also do a good job with adding correct comments to that boiler plate.

It's a tool that saves time and repetition. It's not a tool that's writing algorithms or solving problems for you.
It's been a long time since I read My Antonia. Loved it. If memory serves, though, wasn't the main male character quite the self-made man? Again, it's been a while. Beautiful picture of the harsh reality, and stark beauty of life on the plains.

If you want Ayn Rand that makes sense, read We the Living, in my opinion, by far her best work. As a matter of fact, I'd say Ayn Rand's three major works, can be rated worst to best with length being the determining factor. Worst -- Atlas Shrugged. If ever a book needed an editor of steely resolve, it was that windbag of a novel -- would have been great at 1/2 it's length. The Fountainhead was tighter and better. But We the Living is the best because it is set in the world of her youth and makes her rah-rah cheerleading for capitalism and her deep hatred of communism completely relatable in context. The story never leaves the Soviet Union, so it's very different from her other work.

I love capitalism, but reading Atlas Shrugged left me feeling like this is one hard woman. Reading We the Living left me feeling like now I get it -- I'd be hard, too.
> Also, the compressed archive could have been structurally baked in a specific way that's meaningful to the customer.

EPUB is an example of this. They're mostly bog-standard ZIP archives, but in order for the file to be valid, the "first" file in the archive, linearly speaking, must be named "mimetype" and stored with no compression (each file in a ZIP archive can have a different compression level). If you just unzip an EPUB and then just dumbly zip it back up again, your end file will not be a valid EPUB.
We still use cheques a lot in France. Even without that we are the Middle Ages of banking on Europe.

As for charge back, this is not something you can do yourself, you need to complain to the bank. By law they have to credit you back and investigate (and possibly charge back)
In the short term, yes, but in the long term, panel-production capacity will be a key pillar of a country's independence.

Buying panels from another country helps that other country realize both enduring expertise and aides their economy of scale.

Also, should solar-powered countries ever go to war, I suspect single airbursts of comparatively small conventional munitions will be sufficient to shatter large swaths of panels, making production capacity important.
Doesn't ostracism work through shame?
It’s just another example of modern virtue signaling. YT male evil. Got it. We know.
It has been done before, if you offload gzip you turn your PCI bus into a choke point. Most of the time you do better keeping it on the main processor.