skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can slow this, you can't stop it whatsoever. It's about as ultimately futile as an effort as trying to stop piracy. People are ALREADY running salesforce codegen and stable diffusion at home, you can't put the genie back in the bottle, what we'll have 20 years from now is going to make critics of these tools have nightmares.

If you try to outlaw it, the day before the laws come into effect, I'm going to download the very best models out there and run it on my home computer. I'll start organising with other scofflaws and building our own AI projects in the fashion of leelachesszero with donated compute time.

You can shut down the commercial versions of these tools. You can scare large corporations from banning the use of these tools by corporations. You can pull an uno reverse card and use modified versions of the tools to CHECK for copyright infringement and sue people under existing laws AND you'll probably even be able to statistically prove somebody is an AI user. But STOPPING the use of these tools? Go ahead and try, won't happen.
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I didn't feel like weighing into that Twitter thread, but in the screenshot one will notice that the code generated by Copilot has secretly(?) swapped the order of the interior parameters to "cs_done". Maybe that's fine, but maybe it's not, how in the world would a Copilot consumer know to watch out for that? Double extra good if a separate prompt for "cs_done" comingles multiple implementations where some care and some don't. Partying ensues!

Not to detract from the well founded licensing discussion, but who is it that finds this madlibs approach useful in coding?
If you believe IQ testing, then why women aren't equally-represented in STEM is mysterious, cognitively.

That leaves you with the notion that maybe something innate to the female brain simply makes them less interested.

But a funny analogy I've heard is: why are there way more woman cellists (people who play the cello) than woman guitarists? We know women can play instruments, but is there something in the female brain that makes them more interested in cellos and violins than in guitars?

For that, the cultural explanation, that guitars are more masculine-coded in our culture, is way more compelling. And then I wonder what other trends culture could be enforcing.

>the patronizing attitude of people who think they can brainwash young women into fulfilling their own political goals, as if these smart young women are not more than capable enough to think for themselves.

I think the concept of libertarian free will that you're assuming here is a religious one. It doesn't really exist. Your sense of pride has been wounded on others' behalf by the assertion that forces outside of people's control influence people. But of course they do. We're all products of our environment. Being mad about it and denying it only distances you from the goals you want to accomplish.

>As for your comment, your sentiment is based on no evidence what so ever, and prolonged efforts to attract more women to male dominated STEM fields results in zero gains.

Is there evidence for that?

Here's some claiming a huge increase in women participating in STEM: "Women made gains – from 8% of STEM workers in 1970 to 27% in 2019 – but men still dominated the field."[0]

0: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/01/women-making-...
I’m constantly surprised that it’s not commonplace to use on-disk parity files.

It’s so uncommon that the PAR3 format was never really finished and no one has created a replacement that handles subfolders.

Why I’m surprised: Not only does it solve the problem of bit-rot, but the parity files can be moved to USB sticks, NAS drives, Mobile devices, etc and the original files can be verified/repaired by any device that understand the parity file format. PAR2 is still great for photos/audio/video, as well as any flat-folder assets.
Not GP but I can try to explain. React tries to be as functional as possible, but components are still often stateful. For example, an accordian component [1] could have a `collapsed` boolean state. This `collapsed` state makes sense within the context of the accordian component.

Now imagine if you tried to move the state out of all your components into a single location, so that your components can be stateless functions. Now that your variables are out of context and might collide with each other, you might need to rename this `collapsed` state into something like `landingPageItem4AccordianCollapsed`. This is why you shouldn't use global state (like Redux) for everything, and it's often best to keep state close to the UI component it belongs to. This keeps things grouped by context, and makes it easier to navigate and reason about the code.

[1]: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/components/accordion/
I think it would depend on the long term metabolic results. Better diet and exercise almost always can make a difference, but the problem with large amounts of weight loss is the level of changes needed to maintain said weight loss.

The long term study on "The Biggest Loser" contestants has some interesting insights into this where contestants who lost lots of weight had slower metabolisms than other people in their same weight classes even years after losing the weight, whether they gained it all back or not.

In other words, a 150lbs person who never had to lose a lot of weight actually can eat more and work out less than a 150lbs person that lost 150lbs 5 years ago. Also, the resting burn rate was still lower in the contestants.

It's just a recipe for long term failure if your metabolism doesn't adjust and reset after weight loss.
Here is an idea. Take 2 lanes of that already existing street. Block them off from cars and make dedicated bike lanes. Then take another 2 lane and make a dedicated bus or tram line.

> It uses existing technology (cars)

A technology that kills a huge number of people and destroys the environment.

> existing infrastructure (streets)

Infrastructure that when uses for cars is very expensive to maintain and a safety risk.

> existing data infrastructure (cloud providers)

This computation not fixed, if you want to use it you have to pay more then somebody else is willing to pay. Its note like an unused road at all. So sure it exists, but its not idle.
Well, this can impose a serious risk to companies and their cloud strategy based on GitHub.

Can these enterprises really make sure, that their code won’t be used to train Copilot? I am skeptical.
An actual computer running windows/linux with this keyboard with the font big enough to read from where you are is to me sufficient.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/keyboards/k400-plus-...
Nice restoration. I have a Hallicrafters SX-62 I need to finish restoring. It cool to see Soviet Union printed on the glass.
A non-standard compiler feature is not "their core or their standard library".
> one set of rules for the poor, another set of rules for the masses.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

—Composer Frank Wilhoit[1]

[1]: https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progre...
What keeps him from
suing if he is so sure?

Those pretty little licenses are a waste of storage if no one enforces them.
My name is Dave, and I'm an addict.

Charlie Watts wasn't just into jazz, he was into all music. George Harrison understood that jazz could deepen him as a musician, but found Indian music.

If one wants to write a language that is truly original, that might actually influence the future, not just smearing around familiar weightings for features found useful "in the trades", then one wants to have some grasp of languages representative of every language in use. Then, only proceed with a compelling vision of what's missing.

For the rest of us, being a language junkie can be a problem. Without being judgmental, it is possible for a person to be too promiscuous. Same with languages. I wish I could just stick to Haskell and get work done.
Personally, my own answer is there is no income bracket to buy designer clothing and all that. Why would one want to? Low self-esteem and wants everyone to see that they have money?

This is the problem for many people - called lifestyle creep. People buy more and more junk - crap - as they make more money. If I won the lottery for $1 billion, I'd keep driving my 10-year-old Honda Civic. Why would I need a Ferrari? They both go the exact same speed - 25 miles per hour in the suburban streets, 65 miles per hour (or whatever local speed limit is) on the freeway. People give dumb excuses like "It's a wonderfully engineered car." Uh-huh. Right. Short-something syndrome.

Warren Buffett, buys a USA made Cadillac and doesn't trade it in every 2 years - his daughter just takes it after 10 years and buys him a new one because he won't. Lived in the same house all his life, doesn't need a $150 million home with high-end architects and designer furniture.

We all read about the professional athletes and lottery winners who go broke bing-bang-boom, despite earning $50 million or $100 million. All have one sentence in common - "I deserve it" and just buy anything they want. That's the most toxic sentence there is in all of humanity as far as wealth accumulation goes.

One should never go get designer clothes, never get all that fancy pants stuff. Maybe if someone is in a business that requires it, like an attorney for high-end clients, then yes. Otherwise - no.

You can have someone get rich off of $80K per year, and someone continually going broke earning $500,000 per year.

Johnny Depp has earned $750 million and almost went broke. Mike Tyson won $350 million and declared bankruptcy. Nicholas Cage almost went broke buying stuff like dinosaur skeletons.

One always has to keep a tight lid on spending. Don't buy to impress others, and that means don't say that you are not buying to impress others, when you actually, in fact, are. Some will say, "What's the point if you don't enjoy?" Well, that is the fast track to bankruptcy for many. The point is that you can start a lot of non-profits to help other less fortunate. The point is to help society, not to indulge stupid passions, if one wants to spend it. Do a wiki lookup on Chuck Feeney. THAT'S what you do with your money. I read a story once about a woman who had so much money that she bought a $300,000 purse. That would have housed a family. And she spent it on a purse. How gross, how vain, how disgusting, how low-rent. And I read on a few sentences and read that she had bought a total of 10 of the purses so she could have the entire collection.

That's a long answer to your question.
If the story is false, it's not just the source, at least the tech person making the videos at Wire is in on it.
I miss color icons, but the Tango-style icons look dated in modern apps, and unfortunately DPI scaling arguably smudges colored icons more than line-based icons (even if both are vectors).
Nice. I repair and restore vintage tube amps as hobby. Good distraction from software and modern tech
Here my thought: I would love a language that is simple as Lisp, compose via pipe all the way down, have elegant type like StandardML, that run on powerful concurrency engine like Erlang/OTP.
You know, the same guidelines you point to also say " Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. "
Serge Lang, Undergraduate Analysis.
They said the instigator bears some responsibility, you replied the majority of the responsibility lies with the one whose mind was changed. These views do not seem in opposition to me.

Surely one must weigh the consequences of changing another’s mind. If there are extreme detrimental effects, perhaps it is not proper to do so.
> and there is absolutely no reason to believe

Logic and epistemology seem to often take a backseat when the mind comes in close contact with the unknown.

> Well, yeah. The whole idea of "physical" is itself a metaphysical assertion. We could be living in a simulation.

Similarly, when it finds itself in these circumstances, it can often be observed flipping between 100% certainty and 100% uncertainty (the middle ground, the unknown, seems a "highly undesirable" place to be). On one hand, you might say this is "just people being people", but I am suspicious whether it is actually that simple.

It's called the Hard Problem of Consciousness for good reason, I think.
And this is likely one of those zombie rules. It's a trivial case and anyone with a semblance of programming knowledge understands what happens. You don't even need the else statement in GP's case. Meanwhile, any non-trivial case is so context-dependent you can't blindly apply rules and claim to have the best result or even just a better result from what people would come up with naturally.

The fact everything is context-dependent is the basis of all these discussions to begin with. We severely lack evidence and most rules are hearsay taken as gospel.
They should just cut losses and buy secondlife or roblocks
They're interesting problems for sure; it's equal parts fun, technically challenging, and then you get to throw in having to quickly react to adversarial responses.
This talking point seems to come up often, but since it's basically saying that people are hypocrites I think it is a bad faith thing to say without reasonable proof that it's not a fringe opinion (or completely invented).

For what it's worth, the people I know who are opposed to this sort of "useful tool" don't discriminate by profession.
I'd be willing to explore the possibility that PHP isn't as bad as I think it is. I'll wholeheartedly agree that putting down anyone who uses PHP is bad.

My objection is that you're declaring that people who attack a language are actually attacking its users, which makes them bullies, which means you should ignore them. I think you're taking things far too personally and using it as a reason to dismiss criticism.
Putting someone else's number is probably more malicious.

Like that girl from that online site who ghosted you and stood you up after arranging a date and saying she's excited for you to drive all the way across town after work ... resist the urge to put her number in there.

:-)
An accusation of hypocrisy is not an argument; at least not a relevant one.
Unfortunately?? Y’all don’t know how good you have it. I work in Python and desperately wish there were multiple competing legitimately used Python runtimes. It’s slow as molasses and not getting faster because CPython has an overwhelming monopoly.

Node.js is getting faster, for free, because things like Deno and Bun exist.
It's pretty disturbing and disgusting that the President would threaten to strip people of their citizenship for having the 'wrong' job.

Is there any crime you could commit in the US that is do bad it would result in loss of citizenship?

No other country would behave this way, but I guess we should expect that from one of only two countries that taxes all it citizens worldwide, even if they've never even visited the US.

Given that US citizenship is difficult and ludicrously expensive to get rid of(presumably as some kind of punishment for wanting to do so) possibly some of these people might actually be happy about if they are dual citizens.
What would the law do? Forbid automatic data collection and/or indexing and further use without explicit copyright holder agreement? That would essentially ban the whole internet as we know it, not saying that would be bad, but this is never going to happen, too much accumulated momentum in the opposite direction.
I like this a lot. One thing that I miss is the pipeline operator.
This is irrelevant. Back in 286 30 pin simm times when every motherboard supported ECC price difference was ~10%. ECC was still supported on almost ever 386/486 board. Then came Intel with 430 chipsets artificially segmenting ECC exclusively for expensive server market HX offerings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_430HX
I don't have to refute everything you say. You are right about a narrow notion of firefighting technique. You are wrong about parents and children burning to death. I thought that was important to point out. I'm very happy you agree that parents and children are not burning to death.
I feel sorry that you believe your experience is worth diminishing the experiences of others. I have my mother's bills to prove it. She had a bleeder causing damage the size of a golf ball. No operation performed. A week in the ICU, 2 admitted, and 6 in admitted rehab.

And I had a powered vehicle collision that cost ~$83k without any surgery. The care was so bad (waiting 4 hours for stitches) and when they wanted to admit me, I said to myself "fuck it, I want to get some real sleep at home where I won't be woken every 45 minutes just so they can pad the bill even more as an expensive hotel." I got up and walked out. Minus CT and MRI, I could've done what they did in 3 hours what took them 18. 3 broken bones (T-8, nose, and shoulder) and they kept pushing me to take opiates. The pain was tolerable because it was a high-energy impact with clean breaks.

Also, around 2016, I spoke with a young lady in coffee shop in Redding CA who had a nasal infusion pump with a small tube taped to her face. She was preparing her documentation to attend a bankruptcy hearing across the street. She had stage IV terminal cancer and the doctors and hospitals were trying to take everything she owned while she was alive. 62% of all bankruptcies are due to medical bills and 78% had some form of insurance that obvious didn't help them.

I suggest you might want to get out more and talk to people. The US healthcare system is a fucking racket. People with the privilege of good health insurance rarely get outside of their bubble because "they got theirs" and assume everyone else has the same opportunities and protections. That's not the reality.
I move a window past the screen partially when needed. But it doesn’t work well at two-display border. Another real option is to find a container div and pin its width via stylebot.
Work forces me to use Outlook (the web version) and it's the worst mail program I've ever used. I repeatedly need to mark the same mails as read (last week I got a mail which kept marking itself as unread each time I switched to a different folder and back). A more minor, but still ridiculous, thing is that I can't create a top-level folder named "Calendar" (WTH?). But you'll be glad to know they localised this bug, so you actually can't create such a folder using the word for "calendar" in whatever UI language you chose. The default theme makes it really hard to distinguish mails which are read and which are not. I could go on and on.

I have no idea how a company like Microsoft releases such a turd to the world. And supposedly they're focused on "The Cloud"(tm) now, not Windows. So it should be in a better state than Windows.

When it comes to Windows, I love the overall kernel design. But when it comes to using the system, it seems to really lack polish. The myriad of little dysfunctional details (mostly in things which were added after Windows 7) just kills my ability to work with the system without getting angry at it.
It won't end well if Leader Lars is stolen by the Pirate Party next door...
Looks like it's just an accident: https://github.com/lucide-icons/lucide/pull/428#issuecomment...
We don’t need more parking. It’s a waste of space and very expensive compared to more public transportation.

By all means allow people to build parking if they want to, but there’s no need for parking minimums.

I don’t see how more central planning could help. Our central planners love to block housing unless it meets 100 different conflicting requirements they make up on the spot. Just let people build!
> in a fit of religious fanaticism

Umayyids (the "Syrians" who conquered Spain) and religious fanaticism don't go hand in hand: Most Umayyid rulers were political nihilists at best.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad_Caliphate#Legacy
I don't know. But - and this is my interpretation, not some summary of another talk - it sounds like Simon Peyton Jones, who is one of the people who are responsible for the poor state of the code, already answered that: "The difficult stuff is envisioning and being very clear about what you’re trying to do." Presumably, wherever his skills lie, they don't lie in envisioning a better state and refactoring the code towards that goal (to him, it was "difficult stuff", and left aside as he implemented changes that had a greater impact on its users). Afaik, for a long time GHC was maintained by the same two or three people so it probably shows the imprint of individual developers much more than your average compiler of similar size. Now development is much more open and this kind of technical debt is getting paid off.
Maybe Substack? https://substack.com/
I haven't found anything better than using Unison. Maybe the linked README could compare prior art?
Great! I assume you believe all search engines should be illegal then?
Unusual Findings
We allow companies like Tesla to jeopardize people's lives while the company beta tests "full self driving" technology, but are scared of allowing proven safe technology like adaptive headlights.
Garbage food is not the only cause. More people did physical jobs 150 years ago too and food was much more expensive relative to income.

You can easily gain weight eating too much healthy food.
But this isn’t like photography and portrait artistry. This is more like a wealthy person stealing your entire art catalog, laundering it in some fancy way, and then claiming they are the original creator. Stable Diffusion has literally been used to create new art by screenshotting someone’s live-streamed art creation process as the seed. While creating derivative work has always been considered art(such as deletion poetry and collage), it’s extremely uncommon and blasé to never attribute the original(s).
How $lang maps to assembly is half the picture: how assembly maps to CPU is the other half. We shouldn't blame ignorance of the latter on a tool for exploring the former.

I do totally get how some people learn just enough to be annoying. Generally I still think that's not a good reason to gatekeep them.
I would bet my life that hospitals and doctors in Europe can't take everything you own while you're alive just because you require expensive cancer treatments. I wonder though if European patients are subtly not given the opportunities of expensive or experimental treatments to keep costs under control or if QALY "death panel" calculations are performed.

My late grandmother was often slighted and not offered treatment by VA medical personnel because of her age. It was disgusting, overt ageism beyond whether a particular treatment was suitable or not, she was treated as a second-class citizen not worth helping.
I think the distinction is that only one of those classes tends to produce exact copies of work. Programmers get very upset at DALL-E and Stable Diffusion producing exact (and near-exact) copies of artwork too. In contrast to exact copying, production of imitations (not exact copies, but "X in the style of Y") is something that artists have been doing for centuries, and is widely thought of as part of arts education.

For some reason, code seems to lend itself to exact copying by AIs (and also some humans) rather than comprehension and imitation.
One of Apple’s early LaserWriters had an Easter egg in ROM that faxed in an order for a burrito at a restaurant in (or near) Cupertino.

Details aren’t on the web, AFAIK. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13440422 mentions it was to print, but I think https://en.everybodywiki.com/Stump_the_Experts#Sample_Questi... is right that it faxed an order (that’s why the question included “fully equipped”; the fax part was optional)