skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember pushing to get a project to 100% code coverage a few years ago - getting that last 1% was tough but it revealed a bug in a previously uncovered catch block - it was doing something that would have thrown an exception without logging the cause of the original failure.
I can read all the science about how nuclear material in the soil is safe, but also I can't in good conscience let my toddler roll around in it and put it in her mouth. You need 100% buy in from parents who will be raising their children there.

Japan has removed the top ~8 inches of topsoil from the affected areas around fukashima, I think that is really impressive, but even then I would never allow my family to move there for any reason.

That said, I'm generally in favor of nuclear. I just don't want my kid rolling around in contaminated soil.
This isn't true at all. The name "Sprint" wasn't chosen until the 70s and the initial business was alternative long-distance carrier, not a railway cell phone.

See: https://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/2022/05/23/je...
I’d imagine the amount of energy you’d have to push into the water would be insane to hear it 1500 miles away, wouldn’t it?
The complete context:

> For categories with ingredients data, the average pink gap is slightly larger, at 15.0%. However, when we condition on formulation, unit prices for women’s products are on average 0.05% less expensive per unit.

This is saying that when you control for formulation, for the ingredients, the gap is 0.05%. For similar products, which is oddly shoved into an numbered footnote,

> a comparison of products with comparable formulations, women’s products are 2.6% less expensive.
Let’s not forget how incredibly relatively efficient Otto and Diesel engines are. Doing the same work with actual horse or ox power would produce considerably greater emissions.
Internet died when Totse shut down
Yes, I like doing things that people prevent me from doing.
competitive advantage is not a monopoly, nor is it unfair.
Passive sonar shows "things making noise". It doesn't show things that do not make noise.

Mountains do not, as a general rule, make noise, and do not show up on passive sonar.

In addition, when running at flank speed the efficiency of passive sonar is greatly degraded by flow and machinery noises.

The way a submarine avoids running into seamounts is a combination of very good maps, very good dead reckoning, (IIRC) gravitational anomaly detection (tied to more great maps), and if all else fails high-frequency (short-range) active sonar. It's a really interesting system! But I don't think passive sonar ties into it.
Forum post with some context: https://forums.swift.org/t/compiling-swift-generics-part-i/6...
I don't understand. Does your state issue concealed carry permits with no ID requirement? Mine required a background check and classes.
How to Use Roadmap.sh?
I keep getting spammed with roadmap.sh 's links time and again but I am barely able to figure out anything from them. it's just too cluttered/ugly for me to figure out what I actually need to learn.

What is the best way to use it? Is it good resource? Is it made by industry professionals?
I found the soundtrack to be really fitting with the tone of the movie. Maybe it’s a metaphor for Mark Zuckerberg.
You're right, they are. I misread the last sentence in the abstract.
Large companies don't worry about this because they already have tooling that scans code and matches it against other public code out there (to avoid legal troubles if some dev quietly copies some GPL'd code or something like that). Everybody else basically has to manually check every snippet produced, which makes all the supposed convenience moot.

Between that and the typical quality of Copilot snippets, it's pretty obvious who the real beneficiary of this technology is: large sweatshops like Infosys.
> which was under directory /home/ringo-ring, which could be traced to a username

Ha, my home dir is always called "me" or "and". Try google that.
I am a big believer in sticking it to these organizations that make these foolish assumptions. The burden of responsibility should be on them, since it is they who wants to get the money out of this transaction.
> Even if it is a copyright violation, that is one out of, IDK, millions, maybe billions already of Copilot completions?

Are you saying that because there are millions of copyright violations, Copilot is too big to fail? Or are you’d saying that Copilot is too big to be held accountable for flagrant violations of the law?

I guarantee Copilot’s developers knew it was spitting out verbatim code. It’s too obvious, and probably would result in a perfect rating for the prompt.
Can you link to which commit you're talking about? Have you verified it's not from a fork or a PR?
when you put your code on GitHub.com, you grant GitHub the right to show that code to others.

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

this is separate from the license you specify in the repository and you can't revoke it without removing your code from github.com.
I actually lol'd. Thanks!
While reading this I realized that the first impression for 'Pirate Archivists' that I was exposed to were the bums in Fahrenheit 451 who memorize books so they can't be burned.

I never realized that was my first true introduction to piracy. Really enjoyed the write up!
People think "burner phones" are not traceable. They watch too much CSI etc.

Pattern matching has been successfully applied to phone logs between seemingly randomized src and dst phones. I'm busy at work and terrible at communicating clearly but what I am trying to say is that even when person A is using multiple phones and person B is also using multiple phones, there is still enough of a pattern involved such as call lengths, time of calls, etc to be able to sniff out and match these seemingly random devices to specific users.

I would have to dig up papers/reports on times this has been successfully done and reported publically.

But my point is that even running shit through coin mixers etc there is a high probability of there /still/ being enough latent information floating around to suss out a track between src and dst of blockchain transactions.
It could be a mile or more away.
> but you all were already mad anyway ...

This seems to be the line of argumentation agreed upon by several waffling pro-GitHub posters. Many comments have some variation on that diversion from the issue.

> GitHub gets their own rights to your code.

This is preposterous and false. GitHub has the right to display the entire work, properly attributed and licensed, to others.

No new licenses are given, no dual-licensing takes place, no code-laundering is permitted.
Bad paper forms can at least be ignored or partially filled. Software can enforce validation and actively impede work until the constraints are satisfied.

> it's hard to improve without programmers who work for it

Any programmer who wants to improve things should probably volunteer at a local hospital or shadow a physician in order to grok what the actual work is like. Ergonomics means adapting the work to the human, not the human to the work. In my experience, healthcare software is all about the latter and it really shouldn't be. I guarantee programmers would hate it if they were forced to use tools that were as hostile to them as healthcare software is to staff.
> Maybe do something constructive instead of destructive if your time is so precious.

How does the first part of this follow the second? Being constructive likely takes more time.
> If we would put the same amount of engineering resources into nuclear as we put into chips I am sure the number of deaths would go down a few order of magnitudes.

Nuclear reactors probably have more in common with the fabs where chips are made. Both are enormously complex engineering challenges where each plant costs tens of billions of dollars and gets more expensive with each new generation of technology.

Whereas solar panels have followed the path of silicon chips and gotten cheaper as they are produced in ever greater numbers, to the point where the panels themselves make up less than half the build cost for utility scale solar.
NSFL. Or, perhaps we need a “4chan and similarly tasteless degenerates” tag.
If you are bored enough, systemd is still a thing.
Should be considered treason
There are restaurants with only digital menus, there are bars that only take electronic payments, gyms that only have a digital membership card, parking lots only payable via app, during covid there were countries that required quarantine apps on entry.

Sure you could say "just don't go to those places" but then you're slowly withdrawing from society as these things gain in ubiquity.
Same. I'm pretty sure it's just the client.
Yeah that is true, too. I will say, on my end, if I am eating and watching a video it is generally just entertainment consumption like an actual TV show or a movie. I rarely spend that time to watch a video review of something.

But I definitely can understand a desire for both options.
>I thought that was obvious, apologies: anonymous payments.

That isn't a legitimate use case. Cash is still largely superior at anonymous transactions, and it always will be because every crypto transaction inherently leaves a rather large paper trail. This can be obfuscated with cryptography techniques but can't be totally eliminated, traditional network tracking still goes a long way.

>Do you also require an example of why anonymous payments are useful to non-criminals?

No because they largely aren't. Any activist use case you think you have is disproportionately benefiting criminals. The larger the sum of money they're trying to launder, the more they gain from this. The problem with your line of thinking is that "anonymous payments" isn't actually a feature, it's the default state of things. Big corporations and shady governments would absolutely love to not tell anybody anything about what they're spending money on unless they can put a marketing spin on it. The transparency, accounting and reporting requirements are things that society built because we acknowledge that those who have large amounts of money have more power and therefore deserve more scrutiny.
This would, of course, need to be determined in court. Microsoft argued it had plenty of competition when the DOJ came for it over Windows and bundling. Like I said, this isn't unexplored territory for Microsoft. This is the company of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and the Halloween documents.

This isn't a company with plenty of goodwill in its sails launching a hip new product. They're not Do No Evil era Google or Apple riding high on the iPod. We can't just pretend there isn't a history.
Is GH Copilot only on public repos? My assumption is that code from private repos was also showing up. I feel like I read an HN article about this previously. Don't have evidence but that seems like a much bigger issue and trust violation if that is true.

Kinda like how gmail was reading everyone's emails and showing ads based on them.
So what’s the new benchmark for safe password length? I’ve been at 24 random characters for awhile, is this too short for HashCat?
That makes sense as Trent Reznor is a fucking genius.
Failure at the bottom of a steep hill is a different type of failure caused by brake fade due to the brake drum swelling with heat as the truck goes down the hill.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/catl-unveils-its-la...

Also vanadium is 6x as abundant.
What other end?
I did this about a decade ago at this point and I spend maybe $50 a year on a new tub of soap and a pack of razors. I replaced the brush a year or two ago. If you spend a good amount of money up front on quality shaving gear, you save in the long run.

The "Gillete" products are just a scam, we should all be shaving like our grandfathers did.
This struck me about the article, it's a really bad argument to point out Microsoft didn't point out the law that explicitly made copilot legal. Something not being explicitly legal doesn't make it illegal, although I'm not sure how the courts will rule on copilot.
Like with most things, it depends! Maybe it's a default value; maybe it's a null; maybe it's a special value that triggers a workflow on insert. I'm an evangelist for RDBMSes, and they can do so much, so let them help you!

Maybe you have a state column that's derived that you cannot move to another step in the workflow until all nulls are filled in, but you've let the UI save what data it knows about and move on. It totally depends on what the user is doing and why we're skipping steps/data.
I fully support those things for health reasons. We would be so much more healthy, physically and mentally, if we had good local connections and comfortable, pleasant public spaces to occupy.

They aren't relevant to the problems of making steel or non-ferrous metals or cement or plastics, or to the problems of shipping things around over long distances. Which we cannot avoid, while maintaining a high-tech civilisation.
it's not copyright violation. no one reads...

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

when you put code on github.com you grant GitHub the right to show that code to others, independent of the license you choose for your code. full stop. doesn't matter if it's on a webpage, a git client, or a github-developed plugin to an IDE.
I should have clarified that I was talking about the specific brain function of semantic comprehension.

I am not suggesting that we are anywhere near having a complete analytical model of 50% of the brain.

I am suggesting that we do have tools to continue answering questions about functional aspects of the brain.

Or am I missing something that indicates the non-utility of “function analysis” of biology-based artificial neural networks?
> Some Kubernetes and Docker people get somewhat religious about it

I asked once and didn't get a response for what I think was 3-5 days and asked again (it is a low frequency channel, but that gap seemed appropriate). I wasn't making a religious argument, literally just asking about the availability of images.

> Don't take it personally. If you want to use a tool with that plumbing then feel free to DIY. If you make it work well, perhaps publish your process and/or images and support it for others who need/want that support.

I mean Drew was pretty clear that I couldn't even ask questions related to either subject in that channel. I don't take it personally, but it certainly affected the way that I view the project and Drew as a human being.
Agreed. If you compare this stuff with, for example, John Foxx's "Metatmatic" or Bowie's "Low" the human touch makes all the difference. Great electronic musicians leave an impression but this stuff just leaves me empty. I don't think sound engineering can be classed as creative music.
What you describe, is what co-pilot already does most of the time.

The examples where people can show it reproducing snippits of code are more the exception than the rule. And they are usually done by people who are trying to manuliption into proving that it can reproduce copyrighted code.

Some people tend to think of it as a search engine. Looking though it's database for relevant snippets for the current situation and regurgitating them unmodified.

But that's really not what it's doing. It's more like the AI autocomplete on your phone, but for code.

It might not be able to understand the algorithms. But it seems to be able to adapt simple algorithms that it's seen multiple times in it's training data to match the surrounding code (in style, naming conventions, and actually using the variable/functions you already have).

I don't have number, but from my experience, I would say it generates uniqu(ish) non-copyrighted code at least 95% of the time.

The only question is what to do about the other times when it does occasionally output potentially copyright infringing code, either by accident, or when it's forced.
I would really like to celebrate the affordability of renewable energy but Germany has one of the highest electricity prices in the world.
I found it to be difficult to follow. My assumption was that the intended audience was for people who are much more familiar with these things than myself, who wouldn't need (or want) expanded context.

Or it could just be poor writing.
I guess I should have been more precise: trivially incomplete with respect to truths about numbers, which is the thing we actually care about.

It is trivial to construct a complete system that is completely (!) uninteresting. The empty system is complete with respect to its own theorems, of which there are none, but that is about as uninteresting as it gets.

The interesting thing is that as soon as you get a system that is sufficiently expressive to capture even an elementary subset of what we would consider "truths about numbers" that system is necessarily incomplete, and it cannot be made complete by making it more powerful. That is the interesting thing, and proving it does not depend (AFAICT) on the details of any particular encoding of truths about numbers as long as it is well defined.
This is just... not true? The README.md history[0] shows that it was last updated in august.

[0]: https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/commits/develop/README.md
Music samples are a natural parallel.

You cannot sample music without permission no matter how short the sample may be.

Similarly you cannot steal a snippet of someone else's code without permission or the correct licensing.
I think it's important to realize the exact implications here:

- MS absolutely has the authority to copy, use, and even train their models on your GPL-license code, because you agreed to let them do that when you signed their EULA when you decided to host your code on GitHub.

- This authority does not extend to CoPilot users, who cannot republish your GPL-licensed code without respecting the license. But remember that people have always had the ability (not authority) to copy and use open source code in violation of the license. This simply makes it embarrassingly easy for a person to do so unknowingly (although, legally, this would probably be considered negligence, not ignorance).

IANAL but I wonder if the extreme facilitation of copyright infringement here could be considered gross negligence on the part of MS, as they're almost entrapping their own customers in a minefield of copyright concerns. Can't wait to find out.

The logical next step in this arms race is for the GPL camp to build tools to automatically search for copyright infringement in large codebases. Copyright holders could set up hotlines for insiders to blow the whistle on infringement in exchange for compensation, since AFAICT all litigation precedent in the US has so far resulted in settlement.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33188637
Original title: The One Where a Finance Bro Paid Me to Run His Tinder Account for (and While Pretending to Be) Him
Mental illness is a social phenomenon. There are lots of physical explanations for symptoms similar to psychosis - drugs, infection, immune disorders, chemotherapy, professional head trauma addict, but when nothing else clearly fits, "mentally ill" is the default, the end of the "switch" statement.

The social construction of the category is embodied by the admission process at a hospital's mental ward. They literally go down the various causes that they can check for a disordered mental state, and if they can't find anything else, that is mental illness, end of story. In fact, lots of abnormal blood tests may be ignored if they don't fit into an obvious pattern.

The meaning of the term is defined by what people with the power to assign it do. There is no abstract essence of it beyond the process as enacted.

It's a label that serves a critical function of allowing society to abandon difficult diagnoses and redirect resources to others permanently. It doesn't represent an illness, but the lack of understanding what it is. This is not at all the same as the (unknown) constituent disorders being unphysical or one single entity.

It's sort of like the "scientific creationists" that keep finding God in the gaps of science. There's always something left, but either you have faith in naturalistic explanations or not. If you aren't satisfied with science, you can't talk as though there is such a thing as scientific fact about the scientifically unknown, and implicitly lump it all together.
If you think it's only boomers who like car-centric infrastructure, I have bad news for you.
2022 U.S. Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Amendments – Digital Assets [video]
Why?

Was it a cost issue?

Or was there an expectation that a regular maintenance check would occur within this time frame that involved a reboot as part of the maintenance check for diagnostics?
> The courts tend to take a dim view of theft. Which is what this is.

https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

so much animosity over rights you gave GitHub when you put your code there. "Theft" gimme a break. you license your code to GitHub so they can show it to others. This is separate to the stated license in your code. Nowhere in that terms of service document are the means that the code is shown to users specified.
I'll do you one better. ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33204788
> the motion of celestial bodies under the force of greed

This is pretty much his Aristotle thought the planets moved … by angels/demons motivated by greed.

I loved studying Aristotle, but the man could think himself into a hole.

Edit: the intelligences move the celestial spheres “as ends” - that is, their being desired (not their desiring) causes them to move the the celestial spheres. Sorry for the confusion on that.
I see nothing like that in the Git commit history? What are you talking about?

Edit: it looks like some randos opened some PRs in the past couple hours. But that was after he already went rogue and kicked everyone?
The SCOTUS decision in Oracle v. Google didn't rule on API copyrightability. It merely assumed that the code in question is copyrightable, then showed how it's still fair use even if so, thus making the first question irrelevant to the decision. And this is very much intentional; they spell it all out:

"Google’s petition for certiorari poses two questions. The first asks whether Java’s API is copyrightable. It asks us to examine two of the statutory provisions just mentioned, one that permits copyrighting computer programs and the other that forbids copyrighting, e.g., “process[es],” “system[s],” and “method[s] of operation.” Google believes that the API’s declaring code and organization fall into these latter categories and are expressly excluded from copyright protection. The second question asks us to determine whether Google’s use of the API was a “fair use.” Google believes that it was.

A holding for Google on either question presented would dispense with Oracle’s copyright claims. Given the rapidly changing technological, economic, and business-related circumstances, we believe we should not answer more than is necessary to resolve the parties’ dispute. We shall assume, but purely for argument’s sake, that the entire Sun Java API falls within the definition of that which can be copyrighted. We shall ask instead whether Google’s use of part of that API was a “fair use.” Unlike the Federal Circuit, we conclude that it was."