skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Another interesting approach. The author shows an example where you have a site URL input and the label says "Your site, if you have one". Or, the label is "Site" and there is a hint below it: "if you have one".

> On the one hand, it feels more natural to me. It's like asking people in real life "Hey, may I have caramel syrup if you have one?".

Strange that a UI designer might consider more natural language in a form to be better, as it seems antithetical to "Don't make me think".
> Let's help shape this thought: Copyright should be abolished entirely. It is one of many monetization schemes and its negative effects greatly outweigh its positives.

Even if you're right in principle (and I would love new monetization structures), this will never happen in reality.

Meanwhile, this idealism will get applied asymmetrically in the real world. If you (or the comment I was replying to) say "Copilot is fine, all code should be publicly available anyway", it downplays the fact that this wish will never happen with big players like Microsoft and will only happen with little players like anyone who used Github to host their code. The big player will typically hide their code behind copyright and lawyers to enforce it, whereas the little players have no similar recourse.

So, I see the issue as an exploitation, as Microsoft is selling a product built on the little players and not the big players. The debate around whether copyright should exist at all, while interesting, is not that relevant to most of the concerns being aired in the context of Copilot.
The question is not one of whether the government would approve it (they will, they approved Oktoberfest after all), but one of whether the CERT team of the CCC would approve it (and they wouldn't)
The worst part is that very often you can introduce solutions for special circumstances but instead some remote edgecase is holding everyone back.

When you talk about less parking spots people will shout you are taking away the parking spots for the disabled.

Ok then only get rid of normal parking lots and add more parking lots for people with special needs and make it easier for them to apply for access.

I'm not against cash I just think that it is standing in the way of negative interest rate policy. The IMF suggested an exchange rate Vs cash and that the central bank should pick it's interest rate policy to minimize inflation to exactly zero and only cash will keep inflating.
Microsoft has written and acquired plenty of codebases over the years. Train the AI on that.
The CCC event is a _very_ large (about 20k people, I think?), crowded, indoor event during Peak Hospital Strain season, so it's fairly close to a worst case.
> Living longer is generally bad for the economy.

How?
> Abenomics for example, can be contrasted with Reagonimics [1]

oh definitely

what i was referring specifically to was the period of dramatic growth and improvement in quality of life, so japan up until the 90s, the us until around the end of the 60s etc

in those periods, they had real honest-to-god industrial policies how they wanted to direct research and development, improve technology and investment etc

abenomics and regonomics are basically the opposite and signal the neoliberal turn in thinking

> The original question was "when will China start".
You seem to be of the same view as everyone else here: they already did start.

sorry, maybe i missed that, but anyways i agree with you 100%

> You also avoided the question I asked. Can you answer it?
Why didn't China's rapid rise out of poverty happen to other "3rd world" nations?

i didn't know i avoided it, but im happy to try and answer ^^

> Some poor countries have the same industrial policies as the US but aren't quickly rising out of poverty.
You need to explain why China is different.

as i alluded to earlier, the us and many other "1st world" countries had mostly given up on what is called "industrial policy" and directed investments that gave them so much growth and prosperity in the early days.

following neoliberal economic thinking (mainstreamed in the 70s) that austerity and free-market economics (including allowing vast monopolies) and privatization of public services would somehow bring everlasting high growth (supply-side economics) but instead results in lower growth, higher costs (just look at cost of healthcare in the us) and bigger wealth-gap causing all kinds of issues

many "3rd world" countries followed those neoliberal economic policies and quickly found out that austerity and privatization of too many public services (to name just a few things) just caused collapse and chaos, and then they cant pay off their imf loans meaning... more privatization and austerity as part of the condition to extend payments (this just causes a downward spiral and locks many countries in and almost "debt peonage" type of situation)

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actually this is really a long discussion hard to do in hn, but probably we are more in agreement than disagreement i am guessing

but if you have a different perspective im very curious to see your explanation as well, so please by
all means ^^
Are the examples of stable diffusion exactly reproducing images from its training set?
> Mathematics exist independently of biology or perception of reality.

Is there a “proof” of that? How could a proof exist? You’d probably win several awards if you had one.

> It is just a collection of arbitrary abstract definitions and what follows from them.

… created by humans.
I see, thanks for the response! I guess you're looking for something more deterministic so you can more effectively pattern match against the error's type?
>The only way you can get it to do that is to bait it with the function names of functions that have already been copy and pasted thousands of times onto GitHub without proper licenses.

How do you know that this is the only way for copilot to reproduce copyrighted code?
Yeah.

Also faillible patterns outside of conditional contexts. It acts as an assertion which is nice, but the assertion is implicit which is less nice.
I was thinking to do something like that, since heating got so expensive this year.
It is super rare to see information on the data’s distribution. You are lucky if they even specify if the average is mean or median.
I still hate the gmail ui but what can I do about it?
Given the number of babies born while I typed this message, they can probably sustain this for quite a while.
FFP2 / N95 masks surely massively reduce the personal risk of infection if they are fitted properly and not taken of.
Methinks more is coming because the economy is slowing for real.
With so many excess deaths due to COVID, should we expect a deficit of deaths in coming years?
> you don’t have to worry about phishing

TOTP is almost purpose made to be phished. There are just six digits, most people are getting them from a separate device, and you can type them into the box on phishing-site.example just as easily as real-site.example, there's no indication this might not be a good idea, and hey, phishing-site.example can even give you a "Thumbs up" indication that you got the digits right, hooray.

All the bad guys need is one of dozens of ready-made tools to eat the input on phishing-site.example and feed it into real-site.example, stall the duped user and give them access. So this is something you "don't have to worry" about only in the same sense as duplicating mag stripe cards, or somebody cutting off your bike lock, or a dozen other things we know crooks do all the time with low effort and little risk of being caught.
> Mathematics is most definitely a human endeavor, and so we can’t really make claims about its existence in the universe independent of humans.

Can you give an example of a mathematical concept which could be different?

I believe that math is universal. We may use models to understand it (infinity, perfect circles, etc.), but the underlying mathematical truth is independent of humans. The same is true for science. There are physical laws which we look to discover. We use models in science to understand them, but the models are not the same as the underlying truth
> Too bad most of the Rust jobs right now seem to be in crypto.

We are hiring for Rust engineers. Not crypto. :)

https://www.svix.com/careers/
Practicing Alone for 10k hours doesn't make you proficient in a skill
MS Playwright has a little tool that generates some starter code for you as it follows what you do on the browser.
For anyone interested, the podcast is “The Prince” by The Economist.
> Masks primary role is to ensure you don't spread COVID, not that you don't contract it.

Not true for FFP2s, N95s, and the likes. Which are more common in Germany than in most other places.
As soon as I started reading I knew this was going to involve stealing electricity.

"took it to my friend’s student dormitory where the electricity was “free”."

I was not disappointed! Life hack: stealing can make you money!
> every once in a while

Every time you change device or browser, for many services when you change your IP country, and many services limit the amount of remembered device sessions meaning you basically have to do it every day. Multiply by the number of services that force 2FA. Pray your VPN behavior or travel did not get you some hidden red flag.
It's normal for event organizers to still be careful and limit and/or cancel events. There's little government action on this nowadays (although there might be some more enforcement this winter).

Germany is (sadly) not running a China-style Zero Covid plan.

Especially considering the chaos congress was, even before covid, known for the "hacker pest", a type of flu that pretty much every attendee would contract due to bringing together so many people from different regions for a week (also known as cccebola). The organizers want to avoid the same occuring with BA.5 or an even newer Covid variant.
If anyone was wondering, he made 10000 euros in the end.
Shift shift -> Enter Presentation Mode.

(Replace shift shift with whatever you have the “everything” search bound to).
Tools like this to me reinforce the broken state of TLS in the modern OS stack.

This looks great, but it's insane we need to do this: TLS really needs to be a kernel level, global feature. Take it out of the hands of applications, and let's add a pluggable system which extends the socket interface directly since that's theoretically what "transport layer security" is.
If you continue to mine you would be a billionaire today? Maybe the lesson here is just don't give up. Nice story anyway.
It doesn't take very many to ruin a nation, and no one will be comforted by the fact that you were wrong when the plumes comes down from the sky.
So the repercussions are more competition and less large companies buying smaller companies and running them into the ground?
He didn't suggest that it was more dangerous than covid (there are studies that tackle this question though, with answers that vary by age cohort, leading to health authorities like Denmark and Sweden prohibiting the jab for young people)

The proposed mechanism is clear, it's not the genome it's the spike protein. The jabs were suggested to keep this protein in the local muscle tissue, and clinical evidence suggests that this does not happen. It makes its way to the heart where it causes issues
Fully agreed, the way I'd approach this would be that the said mathematical proofs about certain truths "by definition" rely on human logic as the main building block and substrate. Logic is a human basis of agreeing which seems necessary evolutionary. Counting and separating observable objects turned out to be quite necessary for survival as well. Hence this statement seems to imply that aliens would need to have a corresponding logic reasoning system and observational abilities. If that was the case perhaps there would be a strong inclination to believe that the isomorphic reasoning would be deduced.
> Rust code, on the other hand, often doesn't look much more elaborate than code I write in much higher level languages

I'm curious to see an example. Could you show something written in Rust, or another "much higher level language" that you think would be messier or more difficult to write in C++ ?
He was born and grew up in south GA and lived there all of his life.
Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job
I'm in a situation where my boss really doesn't get me or understand what I specifically bring to the table. She simply needs something different. I've tried to fit myself into what she needs like a square peg in a round hole. I have a very different vision for my role, and a specific understanding of how my strengths contribute to our team.

After a year of trying, coaching, assuming I’m the problem, talking to my skip level, hard convos with my boss, and much more etc I'm finally realizing trying to force myself into something that's simply not going to fit. With all humility I admit it may be me that failed. But life is short, it’s time to move on.

Cool story bro, why are you telling me?

Well I just want to say, the industry has an obsession with "growth" in performance reviews. But the reality is that growth only works when you build on someone's strengths. Trying to ask someone to grow by changing who they fundamentally are, leads to withdrawal, stagnation, and anti-growth. I'm actually getting worse at my job, not better, because I'm being forced to be something I'm not. It's depressing, draining, and frustrating. I can't be who I fundamentally am in my role.

It's important to know when your strengths are fundamentally misaligned with your job, boss, etc and leave ASAP. Don't try to force yourself to fit into it for the sake of "growth". You'll only drain yourself and there are better places for you. You may end up going through a traumatic experience that actually causes you to LOSE skills and abilities.

That is all, thanks.
I see your points and understand the frustration. The minor changes over the years haven't bothered me too much. What really messed with me was when the commit pop-up (with diffs) was changed to a tab, nestled in the same space as my files. Nooooooooo! I want the pop-up. I want to know that this is different from what I was doing before.
> there’s the possibility that our mathematics and overall perception of reality is shaped by our biology in far deeper ways than we imagine and currently understand.

Almost certainly true. We as evolved creatures do not perceive objective reality, but only enough reality as to enable our ancestors to survive our very niche environment (niche relative to the entirety of the universe). Our science and mathematics model only our perceptions of reality, and not reality itself.

It is folly to assume that an alien, evolved along an entirely different set of initial conditions, would share our perceptions of reality. Our mathematics, modeling as it does our perceptions, serves human needs and perceptions only.
A tight fitting (in occupational health this means "proved via fit testing") N95/FFP2 or higher filtering facepiece respirator is excellent protection for the wearer regardless of what anyone else is or isn't wearing. Assuming of course that the wearer doesn't remove the mask to eat something, etc.

Masks, which can be loose fitting and have lower filtration performance, are where you really need everyone wearing them since they perform best as source control. But for those who want to be more cautious, wearing a N95 class "mask" (FFR) even if others around you are not masking is still highly effective.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how you can leverage React and ButterCMS to build a food-ordering application with search and add-to-cart capabilities.
> The current health minister kept saying how there are no negative side effects whatsoever from the AZ vaccine until it was finally pulled off the market in Germany.

While I'm not familiar with the reasoning in Germany, in general in most countries the AZ vaccine has been discontinued (or at least largely discontinued; most places still use it for people who are allergic to an ingredient shared by the mRNA ones) because it is less effective than the mRNA ones, and believed to be _much_ less effective for Omicron.
By contrast, I only want the content to scale, and actively cannot stand entire UIs scaling and looking and feeling like web pages. If this was ever implemented, it would need an opt-out to please us both.
Misleading headline, He's saying to submit before the merge window, not on the last Friday of the merge window.
If its an inflammatory response you're worried about, maybe just eat more fish?
While it's true that there's no consensus on this topic, that doesn't imply that people can't make claims one way or the other. In fact, the claims that the essay makes (Platonism) are very commonly made.
Full paper:

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/10/aa44806-...

Original press release:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-10-11-james-webb-space-telesc...

JWST is just making all their data immediately available to all researchers who want to dig into it, which is an approach all other areas of science (particular government-financed medical-pharmaceutical research!) should adopt:

> "The authors acknowledge the MIRI comissioning, ERO and ERS teams for developing their observing program with a zero–exclusive–access period. The authors are extremely grateful to the JWST helpdesk for their constant and enthusiastic support."
Just keep reading and watching stuff on regular basis. Think of it as information gym membership - you're losing it if you're not using it.

Another thing you can try is attending the webinars about something you want to know more about.
Your post is only partially correct. Even with completely open firmware, or at least a documented interface, the biggest roadblock would become be abysmal state of OSS digital image processing. Engineers at major smartphone and camera companies are paid top dollar to improve how the images are processed, this is no laughing matter and is obvious when you compare the image quality from a no-name chinese brand with Samsung or Apple even though they are using the same exact sensors.

FOSS smartphones such as the Pinephone would then need a whole bunch of accelerators to perform such computations because the general purpose CPU would be too slow for that, and image could take seconds to finish processing and get saved in the gallery. But at that point Pinephone itself would not have enough expertise for such a design and everything would crumble.
Apparently the one app requires permissions for "an overview of your exact location, the ability to make direct calls via your phone and the ability to disable your screen lock."

I've never heard of any app being able to make calls or disable the lock screen. Is that even possible? I suspect maybe on Android?
Well, less mass amounts of it then catching actual covid...
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) uses the ocean thermal gradient between cooler deep and warmer shallow or surface seawaters to run a heat engine and produce useful work, usually in the form of electricity.
But it's just gifs, lol roflface. The shortsightedness of everyone on this thread who are all just too happy to hand everything to monopolies.
I hadn't considered it until I met a couple this summer who were bikepacking from Seattle to SF. They told me it was one of those items you don't think you need until you get it and then you wonder how you did without it.

It's like blind spot monitoring and rear cameras on cars. I'd been driving without those for decades, but now that I have them I wouldn't buy a car without them.

The Varia radar also connects to the Wahoo bike computer, which is great.
Sequences of whitespace are not collapsed when using "white-space: pre-wrap", which more and more sites are using (e.g. Facebook).

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/white-space
The more plausible explanations that you don't got COVID

How you got to/from the conference is also a huge factor. Spending a lot of time in packed airplanes and crowded international terminals are probably at least as big a risk factor as the conference itself.
What other library functions you consider as "cheating"?
I'm gonna orchestrate a gif pump and dump via /r/memeeconomy. I bet I could make almost $256.
We've been seeing a lot of AI-driven copywriting tools lately. I'd like to make my contribution to the genre.

I built this tool because I post on Reddit pretty often, but I'm not great at composing post titles.

I hope this tool can help other people who have cool things to share, but don't always know how to get the community engaged.

Try it out (it's free!) and let me know what you think
I don't understand why everyone seems to ignore Ada? Granted I am completely new to it, but from what I see it is years ahead of Rust in terms of safety (it can prove correctness!! Rust is only heading into that direction).

Yes syntax is verbose, but I dare to believe there must be another blocker than just syntax?
Awesome. Next step: Build new ones.
Even a poorly fitted one is going to do a lot more than wearing nothing.
Hey It’s Time for Another Greatest Seminar Speaker
A lot of people went really sedentary during the pandemic. This is reflected in other data as well and could likely explain the uptick in heart disease: it isn’t the development of the disease that needed to go from 0 to 1, but the transition to symptomatic expression across a population that essentially moved a big clump of already-diseased but asymptomatic people forward at once.
Pretty much. It is basically a second layer of government.
The messy fight between Meta and The Wire
I've always hated the phrase "boy racer". So condescending...
We can save the economy if we all just die earlier and stop having kids. It's us that's the problem. Do this and the stock market will go back up!
I am using the new UI and its actually a great upgrade imo. I don't think it took more than an hour to become as familiar and productive as before and its actually much cleaner with more space for code.
>You might be confused but that's literally what you do as a business. You leverage your domain area expertise to expand into new areas of business.

>or instance, Apple already knew about the portable hardware market and extended their reach into the portable music market via iPod. It used the iPod to reach the music marketplace via iTunes. Used its market dominance to create iPhone and the rest is history.

Look at what you're saying here. Apple had domain experience in hardware and launched a new product (good). Then it used the dominance of that product to muscle into an entirely different market (bad). And the combination of hardware and market has led to Apple being able to extract their tax on half the music market, or whatever they have.

This is exactly what we don't want and why anti-trust laws exist.
There isn’t law any law yet.

And yes, it is the same thing as learning.

If you have a robot that learns like a human does … you think it should be illegal for that machine to look at GitHub? To watch a Hollywood movie?
Your argument is one heck of a strawman. Why on earth would you use a search engine to search for "camera" and be disappointed that libcamera didn't make the front page of your results?

Searching for "lib camera", "libcamera", or "camera lib" returns this project as the top result.
Voters in democracy tend to react better when debt or "others" are seen to be paying for things and not them...

I can assure you that if the everyday American saw in line item on their paycheck called "Ukraine War Tax" the public would be much less supportive, but since all the money is either printed, to debt then there is a disconnect between government spending, and the hidden tax of inflation everyone is paying but pretending to just be "greedy companies" and not government spending that is the cause
No? How much money would it make without using open source?