skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The business plan of massive user scale, user generated content, user “engagement” with ad driven revenue leads to the perceived issues about polarization and content moderation. That and the company structure are the fundamental problems that attract what we see on social media. The data about users is the product sold to advertisers. The platform only cares about moderation in that it supports the goal of more ad revenue, that is why Yishan said spam moderation was job #1, its more harmful to ad revenue than users with poor behavior.

If a social media company’s mission is to have no barrier, anyone and everyone to share ideas, information and “all are welcome” then maybe a company structure like a worker cooperative [0] would be a better match to that mission statement. No CEO that gets massive pay/stock, instead employees are owners. All employees. They decide what features/projects the company does, how to allocate resources, how to moderate content, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative
The page surrounding the code in the GitHub UI is a derivative work, isn't it?

It's an html file containing both the licensed code and some other html
I use TD Ameritrade because the trading tools are top notch.

But I shouldn’t be trading so look at Fidelity.
Garmin Instinct 2 has forever battery life doesn't even need charging once after purchasing.
Most UFOs are 'Chinese surveillance' drones and airborne clutter
So what? I can inspect downloaded code and find the backdoor, or a trojan, or an error. I did it few times already in last 30 years. If you cannot do that doesn't mean that nobody can. But I cannot do that with `curl | bash`.
Fidelity mobile sucks though. Robinhood is makes gambling savings fun!
> designed specifically for small data packets

Zstd dictionary mode? At small sizes using a dictionary is generally the way to go.
The SWEEP feature of outlook is the ultimate email spam feature. If you've never used it, try it and your spam problem will be poof in a few clicks.

It's a pity sweep is desktop web only.

Their email alias feature is cool, allows you to change your login ID retroactively.

I wish they'd take it a step further by allowing me to set a login-only ID e.g. the login ID cannot be used to send nor receive emails (security by obscurity).
...no, you can't. Sure, for a few one liners it works OK, but it's not like an embedded latex environment. At all. I've used it extensively.

As far as speed, even for simple stuff the real time formatting gets in the way constantly compared to just writing text in a latex file.
Not that I know any better, but wouldn't it be easier to build a mu-metal shielded enclosure to exclude the Earth's magnetic field (and anything else, eg. from nearby wiring), and then generate your own calibration field with a Helmholtz coil?
>I look at class actions as having two purposes . . . to require that the defendant stops doing something

That's my point. Many of the class members don't want the company to stop doing this.

I have code on GitHub, and Copilot is a useful tool. I don't care if my code was used to train the model. Sure, I personally could opt out of the suit, but that would be utterly meaningless in the grand scheme of things. The bottom line is, if I'm a coder with code on Github and I like Copilot, this suit is a huge net negative.

Even more importantly, I want to see the next version of Copilot that will be created by some other company, and then the next version after that. I want development to continue in this area at a high velocity. This suit does nothing but put giant screeching brakes on that development, and that is just a shame.
People always downvote these types of comments, but it’s true. I had one of the first generation consumer digital cameras (Sony F717), and I could only rarely get a decent photo out of it. I never once got a “wow” shot or anything worth printing.

A few years later with a Nikon D90 it was possible to get amazing, print-worthy shots by accident… through the window of a moving car!
Is there any evidence that would indicate that this has ever occurred? The way I think about these things is in terms of where the electron density tends to be, what fits into what, how things get recycled inside our cells (Ubiquitin, Cytochrome P450, etc.), so on and so forth. It has been awhile since I looked, last I checked, we don't know how badly-folded prions spread the pattern to other prions. I'd love to know if there is any news on that.

Given the above, I would guess that there's no link at all between the two. I could just be very wrong or behind the times.
There are many different applications in this space, but you could start with the list at https://alternativeto.net/software/remo-duplicate-photos-rem...
Palm Pilot lacked constant internet connectivity, and that's its real killer "feature" as it relates to longevity. It means you never have to update the OS, so the progressively more shoddy programming over time can go bloat someone else's device to death. "Non-replaceable" battery, as others have mentioned, is just non technical quitter talk in almost all cases.
It's been a while since I unfolded one but I have a fair few Landrangers etc on the bookshelf. On OS (UK - Ordnance Survey) maps, there is always a set of three arrows that show grid/true/magnetic north. I suspect that most countries will have a similar system.

When you consider how hard it is to represent geography and direction on paper, a localised grid is an obvious starting point. I am pretty sure that all countries will have their own version of grid north, just as they have a mean sea level(s).

In the UK we have mean sea level in Cornwall, specifically in Newlyn harbour under a small hut. Bit odd but no odder than most countries that also maintain a sea level datum, which is pretty much all of them. Some have more than one and in some really strange places. The world is a really odd shape!

Mercator is a projection, ie a method of how to make a 3d thing into a fairly useful 2d model of the 3d thing. No idea what a web Mercator is but I doubt the Flemish bloke minds too much. As you imply Mercator does preserve "north" but it is curved in that projection so not "up", unless you allow for "up" to be a curve.
I see this as a feature.
Buy a 10tb disk on Amazon for ~$300, start backing up every git repo in existence
>There was a top-down decision that tech could not be covered positively

I'm sure this is just a one-off and no other topic or industry receives similar top-down directives.
I thought Microsoft Linux was already shipping in November 2003! https://web.archive.org/web/20190529203637/http://www.mslinu...

It even shipped with GUILT - Microsoft's Graphical User Interface command-Line Technology /s
Pricing page says:

1024×1024 $0.020 / image
512×512 $0.018 / image
256×256 $0.016 / image

So just under 2 cents per image at the standard size. That would certainly add up quickly for any interactive use case.

https://openai.com/api/pricing/
The language authors agree with me. Your slides don't prove anything, it's just explaining the relationship not the origin. I'm not pulling this out of my ass. Your comment is also just fucking rude. Please stop.
Yeah I don't see it. I don't really have any investment in how you boot your machines, but I can't see this being anything but significantly more work than just using the tooling that's already there for you. When I buy I computer I set it up once and then it lasts 3-6 years. Even setting the system you've got up once would likely take me more time that I've spent adding partitions to disks in the last 20 years. Heck that's probably true even if you include all the servers I've administered in that time as well as my personal machines, especially since those all ran Ubuntu or RedHat where the installer just does it for me, vs my personal Arch machines.

I partition a new computer once every few years. I upgrade the kernel a few times a month. With the normal way that's a simple `pacman -Syu` or `apt get dist-upgrade` and it's handled, no mounting thumb drives or sftp needed.
> But the problem is, permissions are actually a representation of business processes snd communication structures. They are rarely user <-> role <-> permissions (I wish they were!).

UMA2 is available in Keycloak. Known as Authorization Services. I have written about it in the past: https://gruchalski.com/posts/2020-09-05-introduction-to-keyc....
According to your definition, my money number is zero.
Also, many hourly workers refuse overtime due to the ramp on taxation after 40 hours.
I agree with you, buy what if you share 1% of a copyright binary file that is completely useless when shared partially, is that infringement?
> LILO

Ah, that stirs memories. That 1,024 something boundary the kernel image had to reside in, hence the need for a separate /boot partition. And every time there was a new kernel available, I had to re-run some command to recreate that map file.

Things have become a lot more convenient since then.
Streaming video is about the perfect thing to send as you can cache it for days.

If only it could start playing faster.
Great solution!
What will you do if your users then filter out everyone who disagrees them and end up forming self radicalizing echo chambers which are highly polarized ?
So far as I know, it's also not common amongst those of us who are over 50.
Garmin Instinct 2. Unlimited battery life, never needs charging. It is thicker than 10mm but it is nearly indestructible.

No needs hacking because it would take all day to use all features it brings. It is nearly the perfect smartwatch.
Consider each repo on github to be a movie. What copilot does is to search for sequences of frames from any movie which line up to create a new coherent movie.

Individually, each frame is protected by the copyright of the movie it belongs to. But what happens if you take a million frames from a million different movies and just arrange them in a new way?

That's the core question here. Is the new movie a new copyrightable work, or is it plagiarizing a million other works at once? Is it legal to use copyrighted works in this way?

The other question is if it is right to use copyrighted works this way. Is this within the spirit of open source software? Or is this just a bad corporation taking advantage of your good will?

I'm not sure where I stand on this, it's a complicated problem for sure. Definitely interested to see how this plays out in court.
I personally was not confused because I am aware that Outlook.com is a web based email service and Outlook is a piece of software.
What is this in the context of the wider market vs other Retail brokers?

I don't think this is a knock against RH more a description of what's happening in main-street.
They are playing the long game
Ask HN: If you're technically strong, how do you decide what to work on?
What do you do if your team is not as technically strong as you are, and you've been hired into an IC role? I work in a department that has a lower bar for technical expertise relative to ex. core infra. I've stayed in that department for a few years because the pay is great but I feel like I've fallen into bad programming habits and often need to clean up or explain things to others.

I'd like to move to a team I can learn more from, but I think my performance reviews would probably suffer. When do you decide it's time to move on? I like programming, but I also like other things, and there seems to be little career incentive to switch to a more technically challenging team (other than enjoying working with smart people).
Schwab, they have branches everywhere and excellent customer service.
"Elm is dead"

https://iselmdead.info/
That's a trireme.
If you don't feel like you're being represented, you're free to choose not to be a member of class in the lawsuit.
the correct answer is Vanguard imo.
Yes. I didn't claim it wasn't anecdata
If someone is against CoPilot-style use of their code, would they want commercial organizations using it? It seems like such a hurdle would be quite attractive for many projects.
Is free speech in the room with you now?
Thanks for the data point!
I took a philosophy class on "freedom" in college. The entire semester on the word and simply trying to define it. And I had a few takeaways. My main takeaway is that no one has been able define freedom successfully, or even come close. Second, anyone who simplistically uses the word to forward their agenda is not qualified to use the word (Musk, "free speech" advocates, American nationalists). Lastly, I hate philosophy because I spent an entire semester reading and studying and still have no answer to what freedom really means.
They're merging, so it doesn't really matter a super lot which one you choose. I switched to TD Ameritrade because I like their UI better, but this time next year they'll both be the same thing.
You were scraping the bottom of the barrel but now you're just digging a hole under it.

You're clearly not convinced of anything you just wrote, but you felt the need to say something after being trounced. Unfortunately this wasn't the answer we were looking for.

Maybe just reflect on this conversation and grow as a person.
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It might or might not be depending on the situation. Some of it might come down to intent.

Like if the drawing was meant to be an artistic rendering with independent artistic value, much more likely to be fair use. If the drawing was meant to be a loop-hole to avoid paying the licensing fee on the original, its much less likely. Fair use has a bunch of criteria - a lot of it depends on intention and how the usage would affect the original copyright holder.

I would add that fair use lets you use a copyrighted work, it doesn't make the copyright go away, just adds some cases where you can use the work notwithstanding the original copyright, but the original copyright is still there.

Note: IANAL, this all could be wrong. I dont have any cases, i do know that people propose this sort of thing at wikipedia from time to time - i.e. hiring someone to draw copyrighted photos - and it usually gets shot down as not solving the problem, although im not familiar with the legal basis.
Microsoft seems to have basically given up on windows except for legacy support. I suppose satya’s master plan is to eventually compete with Amazon on the price of Linux VMs
fitbit comes close to it.
I'd note that the CO2 response, i.e. the amount of heat trapped as atmospheric CO2 rises, is neither exponential, nor linear, but rather logarithmic. That means the effect of going from 180->280 ppm - i.e. roughly an ice age minimum to maximum variation over the past two million years - is a probably greater than going from 280->420 ppm (the current industrial rise over the past ~200 years). So the rate of change is highly unlikely to suddenly spike.

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/carbon-dioxide/

Of course, we should be working overtime to eliminate fossil fuels from the energy mix, but these claims that something is going to blow up overnight are just not scientifically supported - basically, statistically discernable changes are taking place on the scale of about 8-10 years if you look at the records. Meaning, climate in 2000 was clearly cooler than climate in 2010, but 2005-2010 is just noise.
I don't think there was ever a good case for WebP, but JPEG XL sounds promising. The problem of course, is the monopoly browser developer made WebP, and the monopoly browser developer sees JPEG XL as a competitor to their in-house format.
Governments. Oh how I love government work.

As a consultant, earn 2x as much and work on legacy systems that offer a lifetime of work.

It really is quite wonderful
There goes my afternoon. Thanks!
I agree, seems to me like a lot of their popularity was tied to pandemic lockdowns coupled with people's balance sheets going up because of stock, real estate, etc. Basically, a microcosm of the huge increase in home improvement and durable goods spending in the last 2 years.
The jobs are typically 50-70% of the year. 180-240 days

The trade off is that you work most of your time in blocks, but make as much or more money than working every week.

The remainder of your leisure time is also in large blocks. This allows for extensive travel, private enterprise or focused effort on projects.

It's unusual, but terrible it certainly isn't
Fair enough: I read “classism” as cutting both ways. But given your starting point it makes sense.
The user above you was mistaken. You can flip it from the web settings. I was running it on my iOS 14.6 device for a while.
> Similarly, do not discourage anyone from pursuing photography by telling them that they have to start with something like film.

When I started photography as a hobby years ago, the community in the forums never suggested I used film, neither did friends (a couple of them working at pro level) and colleagues. I know there are some snob people out there but even the ones I’ve met never actually said to start with film.

That being said, every one of them gave the same advice: don’t worry too much about the gear; instead, go learn light and composition.
Why would I know that? Why would you even ask that?
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> Networks trained on a path integration task almost always learn to optimally encode position, but almost never learn lattice cells (hexagonal or square) to do so... Our main message is that it is highly improbable that DL models of path integration would have produced grid cells as a novel prediction simply from task-training, had grid cells not already been known to exist.

This carries on into an extremely nuanced and technical discussion of the architecture of specific models used.

It's basically pointing out that in some previous papers, authors thought that grid cells always arose when solving this problem, but in fact this only occurs when specific implementation choices are made. So those papers were incomplete, and the phenomenon isn't as clearcut as before.

However! This new complexity still tells us something; if only certain architectural choices produce grid cells, then brains must (in some sense) implement those architectural choices. And the models that don't produce grid cells must be doing something differently to how the brain does things.

In summary I think this paper is probably saying a lot less than most people here are reading into it; some papers are accidentally oversimplifying, and we've found more complexity that needs to be explained. More thorough hyperparameter-space exploration can identify brittle results. It's not some deep point about whether it is philosophically or logically consistent to compare deep NNs to the brain.
I'm thinking of planting more nut bearing plants in my yard. Possibly for myself, but mostly for wildlife. Corylus americana (American Hazelnut) is native and easy to grow, I understand.
> it just blends many images of arms together and create things like 3 arms.. It just spits out the training set in random configurations (ish).

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what it is doing.

You can see in work like https://twitter.com/lintool/status/1579830653126086656 that the model does have an understanding of what parts of the visual model represent as concepts.
> Over the years, I've been pleased to see that more and more distributions are writing their disk images and the like to the ESP. (Previously, dd'd USB images for distro installing _required_ the creation of a /boot partition)

Same. The boot partition is a relic of the past, and you can easily do without it when you remove other relics like grub2: simply make EFI payloads the Arch way: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_kernel_image#Manual...

> The logical next step would be to standardize everything through systemd, and ensure all boot images are autodiscoverable and automatically bootable.

As much as I like systemd, I think it's not necessary here: I have a EFISP that's about 16G: it also contains a few .ISO that can be loaded in case system maintenance or a full reinstall is needed. GrubFM and others like Ventoy let you boot directly on say Windows11-22H2.ISO, Ubuntu22-10.iso etc.

When I buy a new drive or computer, I just copy this partition: it's much faster than playing with thumbdrives or PXE Boot.
Exactly, the 50 super engineers will stand behind Elon as he executes and engineers and allll the e's.
Look at that.. My god. Point conceded.
I’d say it’s extremely unlikely that Robinhood would actually close shop. Worst case, they get bought for a pittance and customers get migrated over 12-24 months.
I would not respond that you are being unobservant if you disagreed with me. I'd find that interesting, and wait for more data points from other commenters. So far you had just doubted my observations instead of presenting any of your own though.

I'm not claiming you should draw any universal conclusions from my anecdotes! That's absurd. But there has got to be something between 'data is from a study' and 'data is meaningless'.

The one claim I have made that you should believe, though, is that I (and others, evidently) was expecting the surprise to be that science found artificial sweeteners to have no effect, since my prior for it mattering was so high. I was surprised that this result was a surprise to anyone.
> If you don't feel like you're being represented, you're free to choose not to be a member of class in the lawsuit.

I think you missed this part:

> Sure, I personally could opt out of the suit, but that would be utterly meaningless in the grand scheme of things.
Differentiating between a human and a machine simply because one "is not an algorithm" doesn't make a lot of sense. If it were true, people would very easily game it, by using algorithms to automate the most trivial parts of copying someone's work.

Ultimately the algorithm is automating something a human could do. There is a lot of gray area to copyright law, but you can't get around that simply by offloading to an algorithm.
Schwab or Vanguard.

Vanguard pioneered the low cost index fund and Schwab was one of the original "discount brokers". Their innovations were adopted by every other broker, driving down costs for the small trader. They remain allies of small investors.
Not really. Transmissions were perhaps reliable, clear and fixed, low latency, but the bandwidth was still quite limited (64kbps). I still remember first time I used the yahoo! voice chat (VoIP using DSL on my end) with a decent sound card and head-set. It sounded like my peer was in the same room (1v1, voice only then -- with multi-party the sound quality degenerated quickly).
The thing is, I wouldn't want to use Whatsapp considering how Facebook got it: spy on people with Onavo and then basically pressure the original founders out of the company, and then do stuff like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662215... that doesn't sound like stewards I'd trust
Serverless and NoCode
Naw. Youre thinking inheritance. That's not what it is. Inheritance can be used in FP. It's not uniquely OOP at all. The only thing uniquely OOP is the concept of setters. It's fundamental and isn't some side concept either. Setters are fundamental to how you program in OOP. OOP is basically a graph of objects mutating one another.

Setters are not used in any other programming paradigm. Not in FP, not in C style programming... Any style of programming that strictly is not OOP does not use setters.
This makes me wonder if part of the problem is that it’s a bit like the psychology of road rage. It isn’t so much the trigger, as it is that it happened in an perceived personal safe space. Maybe It’s not that there’s someone wrong on the internet that makes people angry, but that the comment was fed to them while they were reading things they like. Something with a blended approach that makes it clear when you’re leaving the bubble and might be more tolerable. Like turning on PVP in a mmorpg, you expect to encounter opposition.
Im curious did anyone take 2 months?