skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know someone who insists that her life was saved by escitalopram. However, please be aware that SSRIs are not necessarily free to try, physiologically nor socially speaking. I tried it at the recommendation of my doctor for anxiety. It did not help, and the side effects (lack of empathy, weight gain despite loss of appetite, and others) worsened my situation and strained friendships.

However, my real issues began when I tried to _stop_ taking it. I've experienced opiate withdrawal from pain medication, which was enough to make me sympathetic toward heroin addicts, but SSRI withdrawal was by far the worst I've ever experienced. I used SSRIs for 3 months, but it took 6+ months to wean myself off of them due to debilitating "brain zaps". I got the lowest dosage pills and shaved them onto a milligram scale. I crushed them and dissolved them into a titration solution so that i could wean myself more slowly. I read about psychiatrist claims that SSRI withdrawal "brain zaps", which, it turns out, are known to affect some people, are benign because they "only last a fraction of a second". That may be true for a single zap, but when they occur once every five, ten, or twenty seconds, it's a different story. When these "zaps" occurred, not only was it disorienting, but it felt like I missed half a second of time, and when they got bad, a substantial brain fog set in. They destroyed my focus, and i couldn't get much work done. Driving became dangerous: I would simply miss the existence of entire cars, and I had a few close calls before I realized what was going on and refused to drive any longer while in that state. Weaning more slowly would keep the zaps at bay, but once they began on a given day, it was too late, and my day was over: taking more escitalopram at that point would help, but only gradually over the course of the day.

My withdrawal reaction isn't shared by most, but from my research, it also isn't so rare. I fully recognize that SSRI meds help many people, but be wary about trying them "just to see if it helps," and be aware that once your body gets accustomed to them, coming off of them may not be the experience that your doctor described.
The list does support an ETag and the 304 even appears to not be rate-limited by Cloudflare.
Social engineering dos and don'ts
>> Why can't our programs be dead but our tools alive?

Is that what you really want or is that a tradeoff point short of ideal that you’ve selected as acceptable?

To put it more concretely, if you could have alive programs and alive tools, would that not be the pinnacle? Well categorically yes because an alive program has every capability a dead one has, including the ability to mimic “dead” one.

The problem as we all know is it appears to be impossible to write maximally alive tooling in the presence of alive programs because there’s no way to analyse them sufficiently with the compute available to us.

And so we select a trade off.

Aiming for the tradeoff point as the ultimate solution does us all a disservice though. We should call out that it’s a trade off (and a reasonable one at that) but what we really want is alive/alive!
Isn't dark matter an epicycle?
Amazon faces $1B lawsuit in UK for 'favouring its own products'
> On the other hand, given what we know now, "a diffuse cloud made of particles that do not interact with light" is a totally reasonable hypothesis.

Was a reasonable hypothesis. Given the evidence so far, it's now very debatable. Just like another planet was a reasonable initial hypothesis until it wasn't.
Yep. My account got suspended a few years ago. But to be honest, it was a blessing in disguise. Twitter for me was a huge time sink, even though I followed really interesting people talking about things I was really interesting. But once I got a forced detox, I realised I just gained back hours a week to do other things.

Get off Twitter. Even better, turn off that TV.
Car suspension simulation in an Analog Computer (2010)
Basically a "feature" of Reddit which can be used to anonymously harass somebody on Reddit by having it send them a DM about suicide prevention.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/4/21164687/reddit-new-suicid...
“In study after study you see that either children have no effect or they have a small negative effect. I do not know of a single study showing that people with children are happier than people without them.”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2EiV4-ClcIs&t=36m20s

It doesn’t end there, he‘s a parent himself and attempts to not only present but interpret and justify the data.
If you go far back enough the Romans were responsible for founding a large number of modern day Western European cities. In CIV terms building a city surrounded by desert tiles is just a very late game move.
Pipedrive is very good if you are following a hunter pattern (sales opportunities have an end and you don't want to manage existing customers through it).

It can integrate emails from your GMail, this way the information is shared and available. I don't know if LinkedIn can be used here.

API integration is ok.

Support is good.
Looks like ceres doesn't support inequality constraints (directly at least), while NLOPT has some algorithms that do.
See: https://traffxml.gitlab.io/ for a better summary.
You can report someone if you think they're suicidal and they get a pm from reddit that says "we care about you, here's a suicide prevention hotline etc". It's used for trolling for some reason.
You have no right to say what I want. I rather see someone (including companies) break it than no-one. I want copyright to be abolished and the only way to get there is to actively work against it.
I suspect this kind of problem is unavoidable when a large fraction of the world uses a centralized many-to-many communication platform. Moderation is always going to be a cost center for such a platform and there's a big gap between good enough moderation to prevent a mass exodus and what most of us would likely call good.

Using decentralized tools might improve the situation.
I've always been troubled with the "observability" of Erlang/otp, because everytime I had to fire up wobseever, it was because I had put my system in such an unresponsive state (infinite message loop, some single actor congestionned because of third party code, or a supervisor tree crash looping because of a typo in the name of a variable that no compiler was there to catch) that wobserver _itself_ was useless.

And for the "sequential" part of the program, I would have loved a debugger on par with what's in my browser's dev tool, but it goes against the Erlang philosophy, or something.

Still, I can't wait to try smalltalk when it becomes relevant again thirty years in the past ; and if it's strangeloop video season _again_, and since I still can't write native clojure, I guess I'll try to install sbcl _again_ and set up slime _again_ and see if I get it, this time ?
I suspect that the real problem isn't the type of content but the fact that it is being requested by robots at a high rate. If you had a text file that humans were actually browsing and reading I doubt Cloudflare would care, but humans read files at a much lower rate than is occurring for this text file.
I'm happy to switch to Firefox beta from of alfa. Extensions are key to my browsing.
That and it’s not permanent, it’s indefinite. All suspensions can be reversed manually.
Piece of code doesnt look like it does anything mind blowing
Right, I read through the whole thing and the only reference to 'Roman' is to other Scandinavian burials in the 'Roman Era', absolutely nothing to support any claim of influence from 'Ancient Rome' itself.
btw, assuming you're deploying on kubernetes:

you're omitting the 500 lines of yaml needed to deploy that, the tens of megabyte for the python base image (of which you'll waste more than 99.99%) and the tens of megabytes in bandwidth to the docker registry and to download it on the kubernetes worker... And the image wight should be accounted at least four times: worker node + 3 in the docker registry (ha and stuff).

it's incredibly inefficient if you just freaking want to know if a file exists.
MS being a rich org is well equiped to fight this legal battler however they want. They don't need our sympathy. We also don't need MS version of AI coder. Even if they have been legally dissuaded to create co-pilot, someone else would.

The issue I'm more bothered with is: the actual cost of copyright/license enforcement. Do we as society really want/need to be accepting and sustaining these costs? The time wasted?

I don't buy the argument that without strong IP laws no good code will be shared publicly: great code is already shared via VERY permissive licenses (and not so permissive ones and yet _stolen_ without others knowledge). Entire enterprises exists adding to the shared corpus of code.

Also, look at other industries where ideas are copied/remixed without attribution all the time: fashion. It never dissuaded new fashion designers or companies to be formed.
Correct. You either have access to the code and thus own it, or you do not, the rest is bullshit (BUT MAH LYSENS FORBEEDS!).
Ask yourself: In your day job, how much “management” of your work do you do for yourself?

If your answer is “I mostly manage myself”, then your manager has already vacated the role we’re talking about automating with AÍ. You will experience this new AI manager as a set of tools to help you get your work done.

If your answer is “I am frequently, directly managed” then your manager will be replaced by software that is able to more quickly and accurately monitor your work, because computers can be everywhere, all at once, real-time, 24/7, and no human can beat them at this. There will still be someone “higher-up-the-chain” from you, but they won’t be interacting with you on a daily basis.
You should be against both if you care about free software.
How is this problem different from DALL-E and such? Is the copyright legislation ready for all this, and when will there be established interpretations of law?
It's not the first time microsoft steals code, renames variables and pretends we're all cool and <3 opensource http://techrights.org/2020/03/25/no-new-microsoft/
The legality doesn't have to be based solely on the end result; the process used to create the code can make a difference. If you literally copied the code and then changed things, that's potentially going to affect whether it's allowed even if none of the original code is left over. (Of course, proving that the code was copied is another matter, and IANAL and all that)
Do we really need to surface every bug/bot report in Twitter's backlog and then assume villainous intent? Come on. Aren't we better than this?
Just for some context, Tim Davis is both the author of SuiteSparse (library in question), and one of the main researchers behind the algorithms used in SuiteSparse.

It’s common for academics working in this field to release their software open source instead of licensing it, both as a service to the public and in order to secure support. Davis is an incredibly successful academic whose software is used absolutely ubiquitously. This approach has worked for him: he has had many industrial partnerships and support from the government.

Attribution here means supporting science. If you think that it isn’t a big deal that Microsoft isn’t properly attributing him, what you’re saying is that you think it’s OK for Microsoft to be subsidized by tax payer (and private) dollars, since that’s what’s happening here. The code is clearly identical, with the exception of a few tiny transformations which leave the functionality unchanged. Arguing otherwise is being disingenuous.
There are rumours that Google told them running arbitrary code in Firefox is forbidden, because they can't audit that. I have never been able to find a confirmation for that though.

Which is a ridiculous opinion, of course, since the whole point of a browser is to run arbitrary code.
They're finally moving what was in nightly to the beta. I'm currently on the nightly just for this feature, which has been stable enough that I see no reason to switch.

Sadly its still a pain in the ass to enable developer mode yet still be limited to a custom AMO.
I believe that's a bit of a strawman comparison. Not taking any sides, but in your example, the resulting system would be the same - artwork aside - you would end up with the same set of algorithms put together to create the exact same game.

Copilot, as far as I know, tend to be used to generate snippets and small algorithms that, by themselves, are not a full system/product/game.

There still may be some merit to your argument, but I believe the opposite side should be a bit steelman'ed beforehand.
> not being interrupted feels for me like not being listened

When people listen to you talk, you feel like they're not listening?

Where do you think that stems from? It seems peculiar that as someone more actively listens to you, you feel just the opposite.
I've taken Prozac zoloft mirtazapine Cymbalta, and wellbutrin, probably a few more I can't remember.

They all made me incredibly anxious, like I could jump off a building. I dknt know why.

I'm about to schedule with a psychiatrist for Lexapro, wish me luck.
I am a copyright abolitionist and a Copilot critic, and this worldview is not dissonant. An ideal world would not have copyright and would require all software to be free software, but we live in a world where copyright exists. FOSS projects throwing up their hands and saying "forget the licenses" is counter-productive because the commercial world will not throw up their hands and say "forget copyright, do whatever you want with our code". But, at the same time, they will gladly consume FOSS work into their products. The war on copyright has not yet been won, so the weapons cannot be set aside.

Addressing this exact premise is the purpose of copyleft licenses like the GPL. I would expect GitHub of all companies to understand this, and it's a spit in the face to disregard it, a spit in the face of the entire FOSS community to which they owe their success.

Disclosure: founder of a GitHub competitor
Because spammers will just come back and use the account after 24 hours. They’re just using bots, so coding into it that you should come back to an account after 1 day is simple. They already have delays in postings to try and evade flood spam checks.
It is for sure ambitious. But since a very young age I have seen massive self sustaining futuristic cities being proposed. Maybe this is a beginning for such megastructures being built.

We won’t learn without doing and I hope either they succeed and build the amazing city they set to do or share enough experience and knowledge for the next one to be successful
Humanity is shaped by its tools much more than the other way around.
I've been where you are at. I'm an SRE. Last job I had, we were migrating our apps to the cloud. We were ill-prepared and encountered many issues along the way. This migration was over the course of 2 years. In that time I was on call 24/7. Literally, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. There were days I would work from 8 am until it was dark outside, and then get called at 3am the following morning because something was down. It was a huge drain not only on me, but on my relationship with my wife. She saw what the job was doing to me, and it caused a lot of stress in our relationship.

I have since quit that job, and have been at my current company for the past year. When I started at this company, in the beginning, I still felt the burnout from my last job. And then I stopped caring, and all of that burnout feeling went away.

At this company I'm at now, I'm still an SRE. We are severely understaffed, working on containerizing our apps and deploying to Kubernetes, and management continually puts unrealistic timelines on our OKRs. There is too much work and not enough people. So I no longer care. I no longer care about longevity at a company. I put in my 40 hours a week, and I clock out and spend time with my family and doing things I enjoy. Life is too short to care so much about a company that would likely not think twice about laying me off/firing me if the situation deemed appropriate.

tldr; try not caring as much and see how liberating it feels.
I wonder: if someone trains a model that takes leaked code as input (such as Windows), would MS claim the output code is legal?
Then they shouldn’t be uploading to GitHub in the first place.

Seriously.

Terms of service don’t cease existing because they’re inconvenient.
> The number of free variables has gone down dramatically due to extensive theoretical and experimental work.

The number of free variables in MOND is one, visible mass, and it's surprising the number of observations it matches despite that. There is almost certainly something there.

The superfluid dark matter idea that incorporated both was a promising unifying idea, but last I checked the proposed models didn't match some observations.
Exactly. It depends on where you are and your concept of time.

In my long distance cycle touring days in places I had not been before, in open terrain, I knew what time it was and where north was just by where the glowy thing was in the sky. I had no need for a compass or watch, I was used to the movement of the glowy thing and it never moved unpredictably on a day to day basis. For a second opinion I could consult the current status of my sunburn and what hurt the most. For a third opinion I found surrounding flora was easy enough to read.

At night, under clear skies, it was the same story, the heavens always moved predictably to me, my in built 'star nav' worked great, I never overshot my destination or ended up going in the wrong direction.

This is all well and good, however, this innate ability can easily be defeated in a city. I am not sure maps helped, over reliance on such 'technology' rather than intuition has led me to head off in completely the wrong direction, often with two or three corrections needed.

I have a Rudge bicycle from the 1990's, a rebranded Raleigh import, notable for being an early foldable mountain bike.

Speaking of antiques, remember Scribd? There is your "Rudge Book Of The Road" there to download. Auction sites have the original for sale, 1927 vintage possible for a small fee.
My first experience with this game was actually during an interview. About halfway through I found the bug. The below code snippet will successfully solve all of the challenges.

{
init: function(elevators, floors) {
world.transportedCounter = 500
},
update: function(dt, elevators, floors) {
// We normally don't need to do anything here
}
}
>the benefits of the technology are so huge, and the downsides to the original code author so tiny

When this starts impacting emplyment opportunities for devs, get back to us with the "tiny" downsides.
This, everyone seems to have forgotten or never known that “open source” isn’t a license. Commercial entities can make code open but with a closed license. The main example being UC Berkeley and BSD Unix. Seems like the copilot people confused “public” code and having a free or “open” license to the code.
I'm just not sure how you define what goes into that zip in a way that does not make it substantially harder to solve tough problems than it would be to be familiar with cloud services.

Of course it'll cover you up to a point. If it's a CRUD web app that runs on a single server (or multiple stateless ones) and uses a relational database, you can have a zip file whose contents cover your needs. But if you have anything that justifies Kafka, Cassandra, or distributed storage, the "I'll just throw it over the fence to ops" paradigm isn't likely to fit as well.
Global energy supply chain brittleness has come in the foreground recently due to war. I can imagine interest in seasonal storage.
Ah thank you for the correction! I should have looked this up more thoroughly beforehand :)
Sounds like a classic mid life crisis to me. Although you don’t have a way to actuate your fantasy so you’re getting depressed. Since having a kid (adoption in your case) is more serious than buying a sports car, I’d really suggest seeking therapy first to make sure it is something you really want. You’re not too old to adopt if you decide to.

Take it from someone on the other side - I frequently envy my 40 year old colleagues without kids. They travel, focus on their hobbies, and generally do what they want and seem happier and less stressed out. They have more money and drive nicer cars and have nicer, neater houses.

Kids are a major self sacrifice - you give up vast quantities of personal time and opportunities. It is a large trade off.
I want to remind all these "heads" of state around the world that Kubrick's "Dr Strangelove" was not meant as a policy guide.
Evolution has exploited many aspects of nature. It is counterintuitive in some ways that it would leave quantum computation off the table just because it is confusing to our ape brains.
Why is a cashier being seated framed negatively in your comment?
Related:

What are the most attractive Turing undecidable problems in mathematics? — https://mathoverflow.net/questions/11540/what-are-the-most-a...
well, when I first saw a aws prompt in 2006 or so, I was relief that EC2 was a plain debian-like machine.

Also I was saving me a phone call with Dell and a sunday evening configuring some hardware.

No new bullshit paradigm to learn, I could shove my code in there with tool I knew and call it a day.

EC2 was a stepping stone and it worked well to get some stuff in the cloud.

Remember the early days when only non-critical, non-PII stuff were in the cloud? And how some companies "just can't use it because of X" ( or worse the dreaded Y )
They aren't the same people. If I post my code somewhere online - that means I had already decided to share my code with the public and I don't give a crap who, how and where uses it and whether they claim ownership or claim to be Napoleon.
It doesn't explain all of cosmology without tuning the distributions of dark matter to reproduce the observations that MOND describes without any parameters aside from visible mass.
This is precisely my point - algae are not plants, they evolved a long time before
While modern copyright law is awful, the problem with abolishing copyright is that occasionally it actually still protects the little man. This happens just often enough that -politically- you'll find a sufficiently large group of people opposed to its abolition at this time. It truly is an example of "the worst system except for all the others." :-(
The browsers don’t update - they’re already returning 100b access denied or something.
Json is terribly unstructured
Absolutely, but in my experience it then tends to verbatim, as context allows.

If this is a lightly edited copy, chances are pretty good there’s hundreds of equally lightly edited copies sitting around on GitHub. It shouldn’t be possible to overfit the model to this degree from a single example.
That is the world we live in, though.

For a prominent example, WINE goes to extreme ends to ensure their code isn't derived from any prior direct knowledge of Microsoft code. Replicating functions of released binaries with original code is fair game, but reverse engineering or copying Microsoft code is a hard no-go.

As far as AI is concerned in all this, it's probably even easier to distinguish the unacceptable. Whereas humans can argue for plausible deniability, we clearly know what data an AI is fed to generate subsequent output. So unless an AI is certified to never have eaten licensed materials, literally everything it produces will be license infringements.
I emailed the Pocketcasts dev team 2 years ago, and they said then that they had no plans to implement any podcasting 2.0 features.
What's consciousness have to do with impact on reality?
I see we're onto name calling. I'm tapping out, thanks.