skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to be aware of the origins of the stress and they are likely many. Even here on HN I find myself making the decision to not continue to engage with someone who's responded to one of my posts because I can already predict it's going to race down a rabbit hole of pointless arguments. It's simply not worth talking to some people.

I think part of the problem is that people don't realize that a lot of what they are doing is contributing to their own stress.
> Microsoft suggests that no matter what the license is for training code, generated code is not infringing

They claim no such thing. They claim that Copilot itself is not infringing any license by being trained on code - that their own use of the code for AI training purposes is fair use and that the Copilot NN is not a derivative work of any code in the training set.

But they explicitly warn you that code that Copilot generates may infringe others' copyright, and that you should use "standard IP scanning tools" to ensure you are not infringing copyright by using the code Copilot spit out.
Because we don't have a real European public and open discourse. It is just some losers online that happen to speak English as a common language. But even then you wouldn't know anything about domestic politics in Bulgaria (assuming your aren't from there).

You cannot really get to anything you can call democratic voting, it would be so random and indirect that it would basically become meaningless. So states still need a hard veto for themselves and the direction the EU will develop in.
The US has the most effective propaganda machine ever devised.
Oh, oops, thanks.
I mean that's sort of like saying that TV is great as long as you stick to public access channel available over-the-air from 10:30AM to noon. Isn't that describing an extremely small niche of website? Almost everything has ads. A lot of sites have login walls, many (maybe even most?) have paywalls, especially once you step away from personal blogs.
Doesn't it all boil down to memorization vs. application?

It seems, with copilot it's mixed. Sometimes it regurgitates blocks of existing code, other times it can apply context and patterns to create boilerplate code.
With EXI encoding the format XML is many times smaller than Json, it can uses XSD to have a scheme aware compression, and it is better structured with XSD.

https://www.w3.org/TR/exi/
As a general rule in the lab, when you find a nice signal you first check that it's not 50Hz (or 60Hz), because if the signal is too nice you are probably measuring the electric grid.

They found a nice signal (Figure 1 in the paper) that correlates with the oxygen level in blood that is essentially the heartbeats. So my first assumption is that they are measuring noise instead of some deep consciousness property.

Quantum effects are very important inside molecules, you can't calculate anything about them without QM (or an effective model).

There are some quantum effects in slightly larger system, like photosynthesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis#Efficiency but it's not a global effect or something that can solve complicated problems. It's just a very local, very short lived improvement, not something that can solve the TSP or think about the meaning of life. It's something in between of the intelligence of an electric switch for a lamp and a very cheap calculator.

To get a global long lived quantum effect on a big system, you need very cold and very isolated systems. Otherwise, the noise breaks all the quantum correlation and you get a global classical system.

Being very optimistic, perhaps they measured some very local and very short lived quantum effect. My biology is not strong enough, but perhaps some of the pores of the neurons use some quantum effect to open and close, for example to let sodium get in and out, or oxygen, or whatever.

It's perfectly possible that cells use some short lived local quantum mechanics effect to improve some the efficiency of some living function, but it would be surprising that a neuron in the visual are in the back of your brain has an entangled electron with a neuron in the front of your brain that is thinking about the meaning of life.

My proposal is to repeat the experiment with other organs, like the liver, the toes or whatever organ is the most stupid organ in your popular culture. If they are only measuring noise caused by some uninteresting quantum effect correlated with blood flow, I expect it to be also visible in other organs.
Experiences with AWS Marketplace?
Have any folks on HN successfully integrated cloud platform marketplaces like AWS Marketplace into your go-to-market strategies?
I got my Amazon account deleted. I have old credit card linked to AWS with billing address in one city of Ukraine.
Few weeks later after city been occupied I got message from Amazon that my account is locked due to sanctions. They give me ability to comply by removing offending credit card. But I can't do this because account is locked. I've got zero human response only broken scripts from support that I need to login and change my details.
This will be the fourth unelected PM in six years (okay, Boris Johnson did actually win a GE after being foisted upon us, if you think that counts).

It's time for an early General Election. This lot need to go. Every trace of the Tories must be obliterated.

The hilarious part is, the way that polling stands right now, a General Election would result in a strong Labour majority with the Scottish National Party in opposition, the Lib Dems third, and the Conservatives a distant fourth :-D
Yes you can

"Misleading Info Reporting Flow - Some of you can report Tweets for containing misinformation. This is currently available in limited testing to some people in Australia, Brazil, the Philippines, South Korea, Spain, and the US, though we are exploring how to expand. These reports are reviewed and acted on independently from other Tweet reporting flows (e.g. for abuse), as this test flow is used to inform our misinformation-related strategy and operations. "

https://help.twitter.com/en/resources/addressing-misleading-...
“When people are interrupting each other - when they're constantly tugging the conversation back and forth between their preferred directions - then the conversation itself is just a battle of wills”

This is a common lazy conclusion that extraverts frequently hear from introverts— when they can be bothered to speak up.

No, it’s not a battle of wills. It’s not really a battle. It’s the music of enthusiasm; the peal of many bells. Energy is not necessarily a curse; placidity is not necessarily a virtue.

Let’s respect that there are different cultures. I come from enthusiasm culture. My culture works. There are other cultures, and they can also work.
Sad, but...

Other than cyber-utopian hype, social media sales pitches, and the human love for "a deal too good to be true...while it lasts", is there any reason to expect competent, reliable customer service from any large social media company which is based on free accounts? Let alone a company which shows ~no evidence of being able to break even (financially, over time)?
I believe bureaucratic organizations to be incapable of this in general. See the Signal Foundation and its recent braindead decision to remove SMS from Signal instead of putting it behind an advanced setting or using a warning message.
If anything it is more of an attention surplus than an attention deficit.
Yes, you are. Sentry famously started in open source (as a Django plugin!), and its source code is still available today.

https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/
https://github.com/getsentry/self-hosted

Latest release 3 days ago.
> a way that feels somehow good-hearted and doesn't lay bare the naked resentment and hatred that seems to be all we have left in the USA.

Do you think it is real hatred or kayfabe?
Had my account suspended from FB for no apparent reason.

I just stopped using FB.
> It takes a hell of a lot more than this to be involuntarily taken into a psychiatric hospital.

I’m not sure that’s true. These are not mine, but supposedly true to life:

https://reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=july-31-2020

https://reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=august-3-2020

https://reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=august-4-2020

https://reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=august-5-2020
And I'm not a fan of that, either. But my point is that the rights of street photographers have nothing to do with constant automated surveillance.

(And my original point was that this is not just about people who choose to be surveilled themselves.)
Dr. Strangelove : It would not be difficult, Mein Führer! Nuclear reactors could - heh, I'm sorry, Mr. President - nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plant life. Animals could raised and slaughtered. A quick survey would have to be made of all the available mine sites in the country. But, I would guess, that a dwelling space for several 100,000 of our people could easily be provided.

President Merkin Muffley : Well, I would hate to have to decide who stays up and who goes down.

Dr. Strangelove : Well, that would not be necessary, Mr. President. It could easily be accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors of youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence and a cross-section of necessary skills. Of course, it would be vital that top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. Heil! Actually, they would breed prodigiously, yeah? There would be much time and little to do. With a proper breeding techniques and a ratio of, say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could interact their way back to the present gross national product within, say, 20 years.
Maybe because other standards (https://www.datex2.eu/datex2/about) in the same area are also XML based, I wonder :-)
Ask HN: Would this work for software teams?
I'm reaching out to see if there's any software manager or someone from the HR side of software companies that can help me validate this business project I've been working on. We launched our MVP in September, so we're still early!

A few months ago, I started on this journey to re-invent the employee experience of software engineers, from the manager and the employee side, and help software companies tackle the issue of high turnover rate and low employee satisfaction in our industry.

I'll go straight to the value proposition: We’re building a framework for the management of software teams that guides and provides insights into decision-making and business process optimization, whether that’s helping to retain engineers, team formation, hiring, or promoting.

We are creating a platform that helps software managers better understand and retain their software engineers. We run periodical custom assessments that get compiled into insights and recommendations for the managers, as to how they can improve their workplace and teams. We allow the managers to get an overview of that data and provide a place where they can run regular 1:1 meetings with their employees and quickly dive into the potential issues, and see how specific actions that they have taken (based on our recommendations) improve the workplace.

I would love to have a conversation about this venture, talk about your experience, and see if you find it valuable, and especially valuable enough to warrant paying for.

Sorry about the rant, hope I didn't loose you haha!
I don't think this fits - she didn't become prime minister in this crisis - At least whatever state of crisis existed became so much worse that it is its own crisis now because of her ideological bent decisions.
Open Office, 1 hour commute each way in crappy transportation. No thank you.
> Twitter and FB both learned the hard way to not ignore these

Are there actual cases (plural)? I only know one lawyer and one case where that happened and was decided by the BGH (federal court).
The entire population was able to vote to elect the party, and the party then elected her as PM. Her position was 100% legitimate, whether you like it or not.
> Citations needed

I come to that at this end.

I will start by giving the at-will contract example of poor US worker protection. Those at-will contract are not contracts.
They describe in great lengths that you don't have any relationship with your employer. No string attach! Great, I wonder who benefit more from it?

That has deep consequences, and the result is when I work in the US i feel a Damocles sword upon me, while in Europe I feel deeply secure. ( for the

The why comes down to those questions.

- Can you be fired without cause and not get compensated?

- What is your level of compensation if you do get fired ( with or without cause)? For how long?

- Does your employers have to contribute to your retirement funds?

- What happen to your retirement fund if the economy goes to shit? Where was the money all along?

- What are your recourse in case of a disagreement with your employers? Can you realistically exercise those resources on a tie budget and limited time ( eg: single mother working full time for minimal wage )

---

The fun part :

> Sure, Americans work more hours but they also get more done in those hours.

No.

Pretty sure you are mislead. From memory the most productive place on earth is some western European country like Luxembourg or Belgium. They work less but produce a similar output of GDP.

Let me find a source on that.

Yeah. GPD per hour: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-prod...

The US is just behind France. In 8th position.

French workers contribute $79.70 to the GDP (PPP) per hour worked. France’s workweeks are the fifth-shortest among OECD countries at 38.9 hours. France’s productivity is about 25% higher than the OECD average and EU averages.

While

US workers contribute $79.60 to the GDP.
American full-time employees work 41.5 hours per week, and about 11.1% of employees work over 50 hours per week.

So, that for productivity, seems comparable in term of GDP. But then ...

A macdonald worker has 5 week vacation / years, per law in France. That's a starting point.

The work week is 35h/week, per law. ( people work 40h, but they get 5h/week of extra vacation on top of the mandatory 5 weeks )

So, to build on that example, French work less but the holy-GDP per hour worked is slightly better than the US.

And they get slightly more respect show to them in the form of predictable, enforceable and protective contracts.

I don't know what's wrong with the US. I looks like diminishing return on pressuring your worker into more work?
I did. Its use of intentionally obscure language that makes APL seem readable and consistent in comparison just because "only smart folks should be able to code in this" is something I simply can't accept. And I love obscure langauges!
> It's called "creativity" and "independent thought" --- not programming.

The AI under discussion here are no more programmed than you or me. The architecture of our brains comes from our DNA, an artificial neutral net from hyperparameters, but in both cases the interesting stuff is learned. The billions of parameters in GPT-3 and DALL•E 2 etc. are beyond the means of humans to program.

Edit:

> Maybe quantum physics? This remains to be answered but their "specialness" compared to silicon is not in doubt.

Quantum computers exist. They are no more animate than classical computers. Would you expect to change your mind if you saw an AI running on a quantum computer, or would you expect to continue to insist that brains are special?

Edit edit:

Can you define "creativity" without reference to any of the other things you're trying to use to define consciousness?
Can't remember any such thing. Do you have a citation?
More than half the population, probably. Also, for the last few years the UK media have been doing something obnoxious where they take decisions where all options have some downside and present only the downsides of whatever the government has chosen, making it sound like the obvious wrong choice and something only a complete incompetent would pick - which is particularly obvious when the government does a u-turn and suddenly everyone discovers the problems with whatever they'd been presenting as the obvious right choice. The BBC is a particularly consistent offender. This of course makes it seem to everyone who follows the news like they could easily do better than the idiots in power.

One example HN might be familiar with is the smartphone-based Covid contact tracing app in this country. When the government was going with an app that didn't use Google and Apple's contact tracing framework, the BBC focused hard on the inherent problems with not using it and made it sound like no-one other than the government thought that decision had any advantages at all. Then the government U-turned and literally they day the new app launched, all of that was forgotten and the BBC suddenly discovered the fundamental, well-documented disadvantages of that framework they'd ignored before and found some experts who made it sound like that was worse than the original app. They've been doing it with almost everything though.
"The transportation layer will include a high-speed rail system, which is claimed to allow people to go from one side of the city to the other side in 20 minutes when finished, reaching a speed of 512 km/h, which is faster than existing high-speed rail at the time of announcement."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Line,_Saudi_Arabia

Going from one side to another (170 km) one would need an average(!) speed of 510 km/h (170 km/20 min * 60 min/h) . I think they would need something like Hyperloop to do that.
> That the Queen literally died the day after meeting you.

I like the hot take that historians a couple of centuries from now will see that the Queen died and a couple of days later the currency crashed and say "even in the early 21st century the monarch had immense covert powers and the death of one was an existential crisis for these democracies."

Whoever thought of this (not I) was brilliant. Seems almost certain to happen, probably because of (not despite) the sheer volume of contemporary commentary.
I think hours are usefull, even if we could say "meet me there at 46 800 seconds tomorow". And Tg might be "pure", but to get any sense of how much it actually is I am still gonna convert it to tons in my head. Id rather people used appropriate scale of units for given scenario.
The countries you name mostly have variations of the flawed first past the post voting system.
People don't vote for PMs though. I see this discussion elsewhere, didn't really expect it on HN where folks are generally well educated.
...using "brain water".
Yes, in a worst case scenario like the article uses, it really is game over. You may wish you had died early.

I'm not sure that's the most likely scenario, however or at least the only one worth considering. There are some scenarios in which nuclear weapons would be deployed without triggering a wider deployment. In those cases, survival will not only be possible, but likely. What the world looks like after such an event is another question.

Think about how the pandemic played out. Ask most people what that would look like prior to 2020 and you'd get some version of Outbreak or Contagion. Reality was not just different but far messier. Now that we're in it (on the other side of it?) those models look almost quaint.

It could be the same way with a nuclear exchange. The arsenals are very old, for one thing. Misfires and other unexpected events could derail responses. Then there's disbelief. There have been incidents in which those in the chain of command said "no". So a partial exchange isn't exactly impossible.

Then there's the motivation for detonating a nuke. Why do it? To terrify your opponent. To bring them to the negotiating table. To end whatever conflict has erupted quickly. You only do something like that if you're sure there will be no strike launched at you. There are places in the world in which this might be a possibility.

Tactical nuclear weapons are sometimes cited as a trigger, and there's bee a lot of talk about that in Ukraine. But the size of the weapon you need to deploy, and the proximity of that deployment to the side launching the strike makes little military sense. It's escalation with not much payoff. It could work as a weapon of terror, but only if the other side plays along.

There's also timing to consider. There's a tendency to think of a nuclear exchange as climactic event with the launch of thousands of missiles over the course of a day or two. The track record on predicting the duration of wars is quite bad. Young men were falling over themselves to enlist for WWI because they were afraid it would be over so quickly they wouldn't have time to see action. Afghanistan was supposed to be an in-and-out thing. Victory in Iraq was famously proclaimed by the US president years before the US finally withdrew in shame.

A nuclear war can last decades, centuries maybe. The first country to break the taboo makes it that much more likely that another will follow suit. Does this always mean escalation to the the point of launching thousands of weapons? Did the world's current nuclear war start in 1945?
Wouldn't it be nice if people knew the distinction? Copyright is for useless things like music and poetry and does not cover utilitarian features. Patents are for utilitarian inventions.

The problem is that code is text-based and obviously some kind of writing while mostly being a utilitarian invention. The courts of course recognize this distinction (because unlike the average software developer, lawyers and judges have studied the law) so they have come up with a number of ways to filter out what is and isn't covered by copyright with regards to software.
> what‘s the reason so many of use are anxious, depressed, neurotic, autistic, ADHD, etc. without obvious cause?

Because modernity hasn’t been an unmitigated success. In the pursuit of abundance, we’ve made all sorts of trade offs that we are now realizing have had unintended consequences to mental and physical health. Every leap forward has felt like progress but has underlying negatives. The world has trade offs!

The move from agrarian to industry to service/knowledge based economies, as an example, has produced countless benefits, but as another commenter mentioned: sitting at a desk certainly isn’t as healthy as moving in the fields. Being in big urban environments to facilitate the new economy has produced amazing culture and a more inclusive community, but at the cost of tight-knit lifelong social networks, noise and air pollution, crime, etc.

I’m not saying yesteryear was better - I’m pointing out the trade offs that were made and how we are now recognizing some of the costs. Perhaps the pendulum needs to swing back to some degree to ease these costs if we as a society aren’t happy with the price paid. There is a return policy!
We did this. Basically showing the semi-unique request-id / correlation-id to the user, or include it in our response headers in our APIs. So when people contacted us with a screenshot or a dump of a request that failed, it was easy to find the exact one in our logs.
From here in the US, I'm holding off from any attempt to rank the two for at least three weeks.
When did that happen? Last time I tried, stable only allowed like 3 extensions, none of which was uBlock, so I've been using Nightly ever since.
Damn Lettuce!
Fellow American, asking earnestly - are both examples just products of the media environment of their respective countries? Does the UK still have popular media outlets that aren't solely pushing corporate agendas?
That's the one where he starts the chapter to "brush up" some math with Hamiltonians or so?
Take a look at https://anonfriendly.com/ (didn't use it, seen on HN)

Good luck landing a job!
> As a kid, when sugar came around and other kids would get hyper

That might not actually be real: https://www.science.org.au/curious/people-medicine/does-suga...