skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came across this recently by CS Lewis which I thought said it well:

“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.’

In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.

This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
Yeah, they say it will be "chinchilla-optimal", which means that it probably will be < 70B, might be actually much less as I've seen some recent work that 20B models are able to compete with GPT task [0] so I guess it might be using it but probably isn't, so there's further room for improvement.

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/y4tp4b/r_u...
What are the chances that the code in question was ingested without the license being available in the first place?

What I mean here:

1. Person 1 writes Library 1 with License 1, and posts it to GitHub under Person 1's account.

2. Person 2 steals code from Person 1, or parts of it, without carrying over any of the original license information. This code is then posted to GitHub under Person 2's account, without any links to the original repository.

3. Copilot is trained on data from Person 2's repository and is able to reproduce it despite the original code being under license.
For most other drugs the effectiveness is openly disclosed to patents. Also most other drugs have fewer, rarer, less severe side effects. And most other drugs can be stopped and started much more easily...
N attempts at proving N different invalid hypotheses is not much different from N attempts at proving 1 invalid hypothesis (all at the same p values). Both will result in p*N incorrect validations.
Great analogy! I understand what you mean.
How did you get this? I paid for it years ago but I have never heard of a discount?
That’s just called being a SDE in AWS.
"In computer programs, concerns for efficiency may limit the possible ways to achieve a particular function, making a particular expression necessary to achieving the idea. In this case, the expression is not protected by copyright."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Compari...

This allows for verbatim copies if they are utilitarian in nature!

As for why we should allow verbatim copies of utilitarian features...
First, let's preface this with the substantial similarity of the structure, sequence and organization as established in Whelan v. Jaslow which amongst other things says that you cannot merely change the variable names if the expressive structure of the code remains the same.
Now let's imagine 10,000 software developers who all implement Dijkstra's algorithm in C and then run it through clang-format. Aside from variable names, isn't it safe to assume that many of the implementations are going to be exactly the same?

Now, this doesn’t mean that GitHub is not in violation of other copyright claims, such as clearly expressive parts like comments and more!
There are absolutely benefits to breast milk over formula, but that doesn't mean that it's the only option or that women need to do all of the child-raising on their own.

Ideally, mothers would receive ample maternity leave to cover the breastfeeding period, fathers would receive ample paternity leave to cover the weeks immediately after birth and the period after the breastfeeding period ends, and both parents would be working part-time most of their careers.

Ultimately, dual-income has turned out to be an ugly bait-and-switch. The point was that women were more free, more independent, more able to develop themselves professionally, and families would be able to live more comfortably with the added income. Instead, it has often lead to families requiring two incomes to even be able to afford a house, mothers having to mix raising children while working while fathers still didn't do their part.

We should all be working a maximum of 24 hours a week by now. We were screwed out of these benefits and all the benefits of this increased productivity has gone to the rich instead of to working families.
argparse? Surely you mean optparse? Or getopt?

Standard libraries too will pass.
Has anyone tested OTP 170B from Meta? Seems like it's public
5 days ago, HN admins have removed a post about the desastrous effects of liberal policies (shock doctrine) on Kirghistan economy and societal fabric adopted after the collapse of Soviet Block.

I only had access to it because my rss reader had already saved the link to the blog post in its internal database. But there wasn't any reference of it anymore on HN when I wanted to reach the comment page.

Beside that, the rumors of journalists being fired from english media sphere for their coverage of the recent Nord-stream sabotage and the self-censoring (kind of olympic level mental gymnastic) of some other reporters about the event is mind-bogging.
Thanks, I think you've just caused me to lose a weekend sometime in the very near future...
because history is written by the victors
Code is only hard to figure out if you don't understand the business goals. Third-party libraries/frameworks will almost never explain the business to you.

However, there is a practice known as testing that is supposed to document the business goals so that your colleagues aren't left in the dark. Hopefully you haven't skimped there, regardless of where the functional pieces came from.
Lots of porn. Lots of audio samples. Lots of wacky little image files. 10/10 I would visit again
Digital nomad hotspots grapple with housing squeeze
You may be duplicating a lot of work that's already been done in Nixpkgs, by the way.
Without knowing the exact approval history in the US, I doubt that it is a lax approval process as much as it is an absence of better alternatives.

There are not really any known effective clinical interventions (be they in the form of medicine, therapy, or things like more exercise), and a 10% improvement is better than nothing (clinical therapy (notably Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is generally believed to be more effective but not by that much and it is financially out of reach for many people who are able to afford medication).
Ask HN: What would break if I dropped the Date header
Following on from [0], I'm curious as to what would break if my web server stopped sending the HTTP Date header. In scenarios where 204's are a common response, this header can make up much of the payload and may be a waste of CPU too.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33266471
GPT-3 already writes code if you ask nicely

And yet, both the binary logic software and the playback device following the script are completely unaware of what they are doing or why. In terms of consciousness, they are as dumb as a hammer.

In other words, any "consciousness" in this is strictly limited to the author of the software and those who interpret the results. Otherwise, on it's own, it has no impact on reality. An ant comes way closer to exhibiting self awareness and consciousness.
Is this meant to be a reply to the above comment?
My thoughts are as follows: If one can decompose one's subjective experience into an agent and the environment it interacts with, then there are several variations I can think of:

- The agents actions are entirely determined by its environment

- The agents actions form a probability distribution determined by it environment

- The agent actions from their environment are annotated in some way that we haven't or can't have thought of that represents what the agent is. In my opinion, something that we can't think of or experience and something that doesn't exist are indistinguishable and we shouldn't really separate them except for making this statement.

- There is no agent and subjective existence is merely one route down immutable decision tree that is our choices and their consequences.

None of these options really intuitively sound like free will to me. Ultimately thinking along these lines requires separating the agent from the environment.

EDIT: I see now the reply is to the YouTube link which I missed
Likewise Digital, all VMS error codes are "SUB-S-NAME" (so a permissions error when dealing with a file woule be something like "%RMS-E-NOPERM" (I think that's "rotating mass storage" rather than "Richard M. Stallman"). I think that even harks back to various OSes on the PDP-11, but cannot say for sure.
Aerial photos of Bakersfield, CA. (2015 vs. 2022)
> ADD is over diagnosed.

You concluded this just based on your single experience?

It could be wrongly diagnosed for many people and still be under diagnosed overall.
Octal has no footer so… thank you.
Movies will render in browsers just fine too, doesn’t mean that cloudflare will allow you to cache them.
> Now imagine there have been hundreds of those “big ones.” That’s what even a “small” nuclear war would include.

Maybe I'm missing something, or maybe this is a matter of definitions, but this feels alarmist to me. I have to think that there are many believable scenarios (e.g., in Ukraine) where "only" one to ten nuclear detonations would be employed. That seems like a "small" nuclear war and while it would undoubtably have many negative repercussions, it would not end world civilization.
Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse
We Advised Biden on the Pandemic. Much Work Remains to Face the Next Crisis
From Thompson:

> This is where Teams thrives: if you fully commit to the Microsoft ecosystem, one app combines your contacts, conversations, phone calls, access to files, 3rd-party applications, in a way that “just works”; I explained my personal experience with Teams in a December 2018 Daily Update:

> > Here’s the thing, though: Dropbox absolutely is better than OneDrive. Google Apps are better at collaboration than Microsoft’s Office apps. Asana is better than Planner. And, to be very clear, Slack is massively better than Teams at chat. Using all of them together, though, well, it sucks: the user experience that matters for me is not any one app but all of them at once, and for the way I want to work, having everything organized in one single place is simply better (and that’s even with the normal spate of maddening Microsoft UI oddities!). In this Teams is less a chat app than it is a file explorer for the cloud generally, and Stratechery LLC specifically.

> This is what Slack — and Silicon Valley, generally — failed to understand about Microsoft’s competitive advantage: the company doesn’t win just because it bundles, or because it has a superior ground game. By virtue of doing everything, even if mediocrely, the company is providing a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts, particularly for the non-tech workers that are in fact most of the market. Slack may have infused its chat client with love, but chatting is a means to an end, and Microsoft often seems like the only enterprise company that understands that.
AI or AGI -- Artificial General Intelligence -- The human fantasy about human intelligence and automation that is used to make marketing language thrilling and may also serve as a plot element in fiction and cinema. Proponents may obtain a Ph-antasy D-egree to improve their influence. An as yet unexhausted domain of hyperbole and confusion.

ML -- Machine Learning -- The somewhat more modest attempt to name what we are really doing. Ph-antasy D-egree not required but may improve influence. Muddled terminology introduced to sow confusion about what are really just regression and clustering algorithms.

Automating regression and clustering algorithms -- What we are really doing.
Note that billing budget feature which they used, is, to use the technical term, fucking worthless. All that does is sends an email notification.

I updated my post to link to the section about capping costs, though that still has the delay and won't totally save you.
Jupyter would really benefit from having the output and state of notebooks stored to separate files. That way you could easily version the code itself in git, while putting the output and state file types in .gitignore.
I'm more and more convinced this is... not exactly a false dichotomy per say, but at least a tricky one : you can have both free will at the micro level (any individual), and determinism at the macro level (any sufficiently large group of humans, considered in aggregate) at the same time.
If you just take the planned line and make it a circle, joining the opposite ends and leaving the area in the circle empty, at the very least you cut the maximum travel distance by half
Hopefully they didn’t train on unlicensed code. In the US everything has automatic copyright.
The generations who were raised in the fumes of leaded gasoline also seemed "fine" but the long term statistics after we switched to unleaded gasoline show that we're way better off now.
> I'm a bit nervous about these articles clearly centred on the USA which seems to have an epidemic of private drug companies pushing all kinds of stuff via doctors who may or may not be getting backhanders to push certian drugs.

It's not only in the US, France as an antidepressant epidemic, studies have shown anywhere from 30% to 60% of people taking them don't actually need them. They're prescribed too easily.

Are they a good tools: yes

Do they work: yes

Are they abused: yes
> Not so, says Alex Graveley, principal engineer at GitHub and the inventor of Copilot, who responded that “the code in question is different from the example given. Similar, but different.”

Oh ok so if I come upon a piece of copyrighted microsoft code all I have to do is rename the variables and modify some whitespace and it's no longer owned by them. Lol.
-- knew this was going to be built when half the smart folks I know at Hitachi got hired away to work on it - check out this other new weird thing they’re doing: https://tonomus.neom.com/ --
Because they weren't Christians.
There are remarkably few things in the macroscopic world (I seem to recall that photosynthesis may use it?) that depend on quantum effects, and the ever growing extraordinary successes of ANNs proves the power of neural nets even in the most simple of classical functional approximations.

It seems to me that trying to find macroscopic quantum effects in the brain is driven more by an illogical top down desire for them to be there, rather than a bottom up evidence-driven investigation of effects that can't be explained by classical physics/chemistry, of which none have been found in the brain.
On Oreology, the fracture and flow of “milk's favorite cookie”
> For highly volatile workloads, ephemeral workloads, anything where go forward capacity is fuzzy or unknown

The thing is, I've yet to see any startup even with VC money that has a product which has this need. Most startups nowadays factor away common crud, like booking a service or providing organisational tools. These high pressure, intense workloads are often incredibly unrealistic.
> The cloud excels at two ends of the spectrum ... The first end is when your application is so simple and low traffic that you really do save on complexity by starting with fully managed services .. The second is when your load is highly irregular

I think there's a third, which is when the company is so rich it just doesn't matter. Then saving even a little bit of employee time (which are more likely to be the bottleneck in such a company) is worth basically infinite spend.

I worked at a place where they spent $6k/month on cloud, just for a Java app not doing much plus a PostgreSQL database. I came up with a way to save $2k/month (better indexes), when I did it nobody cared or even noticed I think. I know that $2k/month might not sound like much, but I think the same principle would have been true even if it'd been much more. They spent about $2m/year on an external software development agency to create a React project, full of inefficient scrum meetings and billable hours from project managers and so on, and they didn't really care about that either.
Prescription of antidepressants really should be coupled with therapy (and often is), which if done right should prompt plenty of introspection. Also in those with severe depression, functioning is so low it can be difficult to even engage in therapy or make life changes without other treatment first.

I think you make an interesting broader point though. Clinically there is not enough consideration of life circumstances when evaluating depression, in my opinion. Obviously something like a death in the family is taken into account, but from what I've seen baseline quality of life is not a huge consideration in whether depressive symptoms are clinically meaningful. I suspect antidepressants would be more effective if this were better teased out.

In any event, there are certainly interesting philosophical and policy questions here, but for an individual that suspects depression, they should seek professional help regardless. A good clinician is not going to just prescribe meds and then tell the patient they're done.
Damaged cable leaves Shetland cut off from mainland
> The US has demonstrated that it no longer takes threats of MAD seriously and we'll destabilize any country that doesn't fall in line. Look to the obvious situation with Russia

How is Russia invading Ukraine, and many countries, including the US, supporting the righteous Ukrainian defence effort any different than what happened during the Cold War in Vietnam, Afghanistan, a bunch of civil wars? MAD is still at play. If it were not, there'd be NATO troops at least from Poland helping defend Ukraine against the Russian agression.

And yes, Russia deserves punishment for it's brutal invasion of a neutral country with genocidal methods. Sanctions are the only possibility that doesn't result in nukes flying today, but sanctions it is. Every time a dictator's land grab wasn't responded to, but appeased, they just came back for more (Hitler, Stalin, Putin, Saddam Hussein).
> have to think that there are many believable scenarios (e.g., in Ukraine) where "only" one to ten nuclear detonations would be employed.

Why do you think it would not escalate? Do you have a crystal ball?
It looks like the primary implementation is in Java, which is still all about SOAP services and XSDs.
You seem to be about a decade out of date, per your wikipedia link. It states ~72% of music (down from ~88% in 2012) is owned by the big three (not four, after EMI was eaten by Sony in late 2011). Best of all, parent may have the right idea buying from Bandcamp. From your link:

> These companies account for more than half of US market share. However, this has fallen somewhat in recent years, as the new digital environment allows smaller labels to compete more effectively

Which to me at least suggests that seperating hardware like CDs and LPs from the actual music is helping artists. Perhaps that should be taken with a grain of salt, though: I'm still optimistic and naive enough to think things may improve for artists.
But this won't uninstall the app from the phones
Githuh automatically gets a license to redistribute in code form when you upload a public project. Though you may not necessarily have the rights to give if it is a third party's project.
The number of shills and bots for big pharma on this thread are saddening.

If you want to see the real horrors of these drugs check out https://ssristories.org/ ...
I grew up in that era. Where symlinks and sighup to hot reload with zero downtime was an innovation!
Or the surviving victims of viking raids that wrote down what happened, probably a bit biased and without any real knowledge of viking society.
The capping costs sample code in my updated link warns you that it will go and forcibly stop assets, possibly deleting data, due to suspended billing. It still has the same notification delay so it's not a total panacea, but it does help alleviate some of the fear that I'll accidentally end up with a huge bill at the end of the month due to a small misconfiguration or for forgetting to shut down a GPU instance or something.
More on this from Derek Lowe of Things I Won’t Work With fame:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/uselessness-phenyl...
It's not dissing. The people who portray them as such like them as such, thinking it's badass.

The past is a foreign country, as they say. It may be oddly familiar in some ways, it may even feel better in a few ways, but most of all it's strange. Alien, even, when we're talking as long as go as the Norse Vikings lived. It can never be a home.

It's safe to say that those Norse people who built the faux Roman, faux ancient grave 1000 years ago, were as naive about this as Viking idolizers are today.
It's a tricky question surely, akin to the Ship of Theseus? At what point is the code sufficiently different? Is there legal precedent for this?
You might wonder in the same way how a digital camera stores information about colour, and processes that to identify a picture of a red apple. There are many ways to store and process information, and the same information can be encoded in many different ways. The computer stores and represents colour in an image file in one way, the neural net in an image classifier also stores it in a digital system but in a very different way. Our brains store it in yet another completely different way but also in a neural net. Yet all of these store the information that the apple is red. The point is the underlying substrate and encoding system doesn't matter, the information about the redness of the apple is correlated across all these systems, and it's that correlation that is meaningful.

It seems unlikely that awareness is a quantum effect, because it manifests in brain activity across a significant part of the brain. The brain is too hot and chaotic, with too many constant low level interactions, to maintain a macroscopic entangled quantum state for significant time at that level without it decohering.
Frankly this still doesn’t seem technically challenging. It does seem like a different sort of design challenge though to get all of the little mechanics correct. This isn’t like inventing a new algorithm though. I suspect implementing this is more like constantly iterative tweaks and “feeling out” whether the controls are right.

The end result looks complicated but no sort of specialized engineering skill seems necessary to achieve the result. Just grit and design talent.
Weird take, they genuinely work for 15% of people, it says so right in the article. Me included.
The only issue that I have with GraphQL is what to do with queries that have multiple pagination.