skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Twitter Verification is only verifying that the account is "authentic, notable, and active".

Musk has been very clear that it will be open to anyone who pays the (increased) cost for Twitter’s Blue (which also will get other new features), and thus no longer be tier to “notable” or “active”.

> At least I have not heard about any changes other then the price change from free to $8.

Its not a price change from free to $8 for Twitter Verification. It is a discontinuation of Twitter Verification as a separate thing, but moving the (revised) process and resulting checkmark to be an open-to-anyone-who-pays component of Blue, which increases in cost to $8/mo (currently $4.99/mo).
Brexit was an idiotic idea, but the criminal part was the Tory government deciding to listen to the far-right Brexit version of "fuck off Europe, we'll leave and won't even try to negotiate some kind of trade agreement."

Remember when they were considering a Norway-like agreement? Or perhaps like Switzerland?

There were many ways of adapting to this new life outside the EU, and they've decided to go for the hardest, stupidest imaginable version, just to appease an extreme fringe of ultra nationalist pillocks that took over the entire Conservative party.

And to appear a reasonable alternative to these imbeciles, Labour is adopting the same party line, because anything apart from the hardest Brexit imaginable is politically toxic.

No one even dares to build a pragmatic platform trying to make the best out of a terrible situation. 48% voted to Leave and only a smaller subset of that wanted to completely burn all bridges. If you wanted to stay or wanted a softer Brexit, good luck, no big party is representing you right now.
https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/22/iphone-photography-award-winn...
As my sibling says, this may be how some users use youtube, generally these views ("channel page views" is the term used in the analytics) are a small minority of overall views.

In fact, this sort of behavior you're talking about is one of the reasons why "the algorithm" is a thing. If there's something you'd like to watch, but you've forgotten about it, it's YouTube's job to surface it to you, even if you've forgotten. This is one of the reasons why browse is the default view and not your subscribers feed, for example.
Perhaps you are right, and it could be so modified.

Could be, but isn’t. And that matters.
Is this copyright infringement? (No, clearly not)
Humans get a lot of data.

AI gets more examples.

Tesla autopilot has a movie of every second it's active, for every car in the fleet that uses it. It has how many lifetimes of driving data now? And yet, it's… merely ok, nothing special, even when compared to all humans including those oblivious of the fact they shouldn't be behind a wheel.
You can roughly tell by the prevalence of Twitter compared to Snap/IG/Facebook. 30s is definitely highest proportion, not 20s by a longshot.
A lot of street photographers would disagree with you, sometimes taking an interesting angle of everyday place is far more interesting because it gives people a new way of looking at something they experience themselves..
Don't anger the crows. They can quite literally run you from your yard.
He correctly identifies a fundamental difference between business/consumer reporting, which is often fawning regurgitations of PR materials made with limited due diligence and investigative reporting. I stand by my comment, it seems to me that he is saying the change from business/consumer to investigative was unwelcome and he agrees with that reaction.

I think investigative journalism should be fair, but I don't think someone investigating Alphabet has to present the good that the company does - that's the job of Alphabet's PR department. Fair journalism does not leave out relevant context but doesn't speak to unrelated "good" contributions.

Should an investigation into political corruption talk about what good that politician did? Maybe if its directly related to the corruption, but otherwise no.
FYI my domain started on godaddy, but I migrated to cloudflare immediately and it has carried on working fine since then.
If they got rid of outlook, then I'd have to find a new email address to give away to every signin place that wants my email and I suspect will email me promotional garbage (or sell my email).

I guess this means that I'm reducing the signal they get for what "good" email is, as approximately 100 percent of the emails I get there are promotional or spam.
I didn't say we can simulate it. There is a massive leap from what I said to being able to simulate it.
I have relatives that haven't worked in years. They don't have a trust fund. Instead, they get put on the payroll of a highly profitable family business with a "fake" (but well paying) job. I doubt you will find anyone who will admit to these arrangements openly.
I wonder for how many it's more like 1 year to migrate to some other service.
What you are actually giving people is a set of chords that happen to show up in your song, the machine can suggest an appropriate next chord.

It’s also smart enough to rebuild your song from the chords _if you ask it to_.
You know I'm a certain race because the views I presented fit into a category of believes you have? In the end you have shown yourself to be very racist. You should reflect on if judging someone based on race is something you want to promote.
I think because Elon and Co. are acting so dismissive and entitled. They're acting frickin weird. Admittedly I think who you think sounds more entitled depends on your worldview. I do think the journalist reactions are strange, but probably just because they're acting to something so strange.

Elon is hardly describing a vision for this new version of twitter that people might be inspired to spend $8 for, yes something vague about plebs vs nobility, and half has many ads, but his biggest call to action has been "Hey we need the money". They're acting so shitty to everyone it's hardly a surprise people aren't fawning in confidence back. Plus I can't help but feel that these people are really just echoing what everyone else is thinking. Why am I paying $8 a month for Twitter?
From GitHub itself (emphasis mine):

> A short and simple permissive license with conditions only requiring preservation of copyright and license notices. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.
I get plenty of custom domain name spam that comes through outlook.com (I'm not even talking about M365/O365). Free or not, Outlook.com is abused for spam constantly.
There’s likely a policy about having good performance.

Lots of people got laid off, I don’t think it will be a problem to find a new job unless this turns into something crazy.
Different people have different experiences.

From what I have seen, it's slightly hard to get the first position, easy after that.

It's not hard to get a position after 10 or 20 years, but, if you lose your position, you may need to adjust your expectations.
> Or is it the responsibility of the organization using the code to make sure that it wasn't copied from somewhere?

Do you know whether the code you got from Copilot has an incompatible license? No, so if you plan to use Copilot for serious projects you need it to include sources/licenses either way. In fact that would be a very helpful feature as it would let you filter licenses.
Not entirely true, I got it working just fine using cloudflare. You just have to create the right DNS entries by hand.
I often bristle at the implicit hubris in these assumptions about human uniqueness. Why would we assume that humans are the only species capable of understanding recursion? Why is it at all surprising that other animals can understand it too?

I'd be much more shocked by a study that provided any sort of evidence that animals cannot understand recursion, but that would probably be more difficult to draw a strong conclusion about.
Founder of OnlineOrNot here - https://onlineornot.com sounds like it'd be a good fit for that use case (if not, happy to talk and see where we're missing functionality)
I’ve been using the custom email domain feature that comes with iCloud+ for some time now, and have had zero issues with it. I imagine many of us here already pay the measly 99¢ fee for additional storage, but I was unaware of that addition until recently.

Awfully easy to do, even if you’re wary of DNS.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212514
Do what you want, and your employer can do what they want.

In some ideal dream world the management would just grin and move on. In another ideal dream world the employee would be part of the solution instead of taking potshots at management.

In real life this person could be considered a toxic employee that sucks the life out of everyone. Fire them fast. If they don't like their environment they can find another one.
I have found the person that knows more than the language authors themselves.

Please elucidate the crowd on the academic value of your research to computing progress.
I love that he’s for flame wars, go figure that’s all Reddit is
> So I ask that you think of the unintended consequences when criticizing in an extreme manner.

I don't think hiding our criticism for "the greater good" is an appropriate path forward at all. Mozilla and Firefox have real problems and plugging our ears while they go up in flames isn't going to help. At least if we are vocal in our desires they have a chance to listen and right the ship (if there is any hope of that at this point).

Personally I'm all for the standardization around the blink engine (which has been contributed to by Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Intel and tons others) at this point. I see it as similar to the internet backend standardizing around linux. It makes it way easier for developers to reliably test against an ever evolving and complex web.
When I say encoded or compressed, I do not mean verbatim copies. That can happen, but I wouldn't say it's likely for every piece of training data Copilot was trained on.

Pieces of that data are encoded/compressed/transformed, and given the right incantation, a neutral net can put them together to produce a piece of code that is substantially the same as the code it was trained on. Obviously not for every piece of code it was trained on, but there's enough to see this effect in action.
Almost sounds like MS Exchange is being shut down. What is it exactly they are talking about?
The Mozilla Foundation has no members. The directors elect the next set of directors, so the current group sets the future direction of the foundation. There isn't really a way to recover the original spirit of the foundation unless they have a change of mind.

https://static.mozilla.com/foundation/documents/mf-bylaws.pd...
Just don’t mess with craws or birds in general.

I had a dispute with a pigeon that was finding my car in my employer’s multi-floor garage and it would defecate on my right mirror, every single day. I tried parking in different spots, different floors, no luck.

I had to use my partner’s car for a couple of months to end this.

Hopefully the pigeon is not reading this.
Show HN: This image knows detailed data about your browser
Did use client hints [1] to build this

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Client_hin...
I don't know of any big company with unlimited PTO.
For anyone else utterly confused about what the heck "grid north" is and why it would ever be different from true north, Wikipedia to the rescue [1] -- while it's a generalizable concept, it seems to be in particular reference to "official" survey maps, specifically that the UK's official maps are 1 km x 1 km squares.

> Grid north (GN) is a navigational term referring to the direction northwards along the grid lines of a map projection... Many topographic maps, including those of the United States Geological Survey and Great Britain's Ordnance Survey, indicate the difference between grid north, true north, and magnetic north.

> The grid lines on Ordnance Survey maps divide the UK into one-kilometre squares, east of an imaginary zero point in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Cornwall. The grid lines point to a Grid North, varying slightly from True North. This variation is zero on the central meridian (north-south line) of the map, which is at two degrees West of the Prime Meridian, and greatest at the map edges.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projected_coordinate_system#Gr...
Copilot reminds me of the Borg: You will be assimilated. We will add your technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
That's literally what I was saying when I wrote "our biases are how evolution managed to do that".
You got a point. Demonstration as a form of free speech is an interesting dilemma. Review spam/bombing for example can be non-commercial, non-misleading, non-fraudulent, while still being a bit of a grey-zone. Removing them is also fairly controversial. Outside the web we have a similar problem when demonstrations and strikes are causing disruption in society. Obviously demonstration and strikes should be legal and are protected by free speech, but at the same time there are exceptions when they are not.

I am unsure if one would construct a objective fair model for how to moderate such activity.
> Authors who publish their code on Github grant Github a licence under the Github Terms: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

This sounds unenforceable in the general case. How could github know whether someone pushes their own code or not? Is it a license violation to push someone's FOSS code to github because the author didn't sign up with GH?
> Yes, I blamed boring photos on the cheap cameras even though my exposures were 100% perfect

if you look how exposure metering works its just context free averaging over some defined parameters.. it does not say much about the photo, its just a tool you can use to control the camera..
Businesses are incentivized to have auto-delete policies for email
Hi there! `jc` author here. Yes, it is a documented caveat[0] that the `C` or `en_US.UTF-8` locales should be used for best results.

It's not unheard of for tools to require `C` locale for proper parsing:

$ LC_ALL=C ls -l | jc --ls

This is one of many inherent issues with using unstructured text as an API. That's why I believe there should be a JSON (or at least some other widely used format[1]) option for tools that have output that would be useful in scripts.

[0] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc#locale

[1] formats should have good library support across many languages and nice filter/query capabilities from the command-line
1. I didn't imply whether it was good or bad, just that the product you're describing already exists.

2. It's a platform problem. If you make users do work they don't want to do in order to make the platform pleasant to use, they won't do the work, the platform will not be pleasant to use, and they'll use a different platform that doesn't make them do that work.

3. "If they can't handle it, they shouldn't advertise there." Correct! They won't advertise there. That's the point.

There are already unmoderated, "you do the work, not us", "advertisers have to know what they're getting into" platforms, and those platforms are niche, with small audiences, filled with low-tier/scam ads and are generally not profitable.
But that's not what's happening here. Also, you grant GitHub a license.

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

"You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content"

Copilot displays content. Case closed.
We're watching the birth and growth of a new religion. Similar patterns happened during the start of Christianity in Rome and Islam in North Africa. Institutions repurposed, language was repurposed and edited, exponential growth of ideologically possessed population, and eventually massive social upheaval. There's not a word for it yet - "wokism" maybe - but we're in for a doozey.
So is this the first work Microsoft set Pottering to do? Kinda supports my personal conspiracy theory that Microsoft's aiming to make secure boot only possible with systemd-boot.

Or Microsoft is trying to make dual booting easier without using the simplest solution of making a larger ESP the default.
>Why is this? Because it has no value? Because itʻs sometimes false? Certainly itʻs not causing offline harm.

>No, no, and no.

Fundamentally disagree with his take on spam. Not only does spam have no value, it has negative value. The content of the spam itself is irrelevant when the same message is being pushed out a million times and obscuring all other messages. Reducing spam through rate-limiting is certainly the easiest and most impactful form of moderation.
I suggest we have these things called "tags" which might wrap up CSS settings into a generally usable form. So rather than 1,000,000 <div> and a bunch of css differentiating them, perhaps a "tag" encapsulates some common behavior. The "tags" could have "attributes" to adjust specific parameters on their behavior.

/s
"It just spits out the training set in random configurations (ish)." is a pretty gross misrepresentation and oversimplification of how such a model works, akin to saying a human artist only spits out whatever they saw earlier in their life in random configurations, or saying that SD only spits out pixel values it has seen before, or combinations of pixel values that form edges, etc.

FWIW I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in the model architectures or training data that in some fundamental way makes it impossible to always get 2 arms. After all, lots of other tricky things are almost always correct. I suspect it's a question of training time and model size mostly (not trivial of course as it's still expensive to re-train to check modified architectures etc). It's also a matter of diffusion sampling iterations and choice of sampler at inference time, for the case of SD.
You can configure Fastmail to do that, but I guess it would be in reverse. I have some old Google accounts (old student email and pre-custom domain gmail) configured to forward mail to Fastmail, and then Fastmail configured to send email via Google for those email addresses too.

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278022-Us...
R.Penrose rules.
What do you mean by that? Are you having spam in your inbox or do mean deliverability issues to *.outlook.com?
"Look, I'd like you to stop being a guest in my house, you're being an asshole."

"PLEASE ENUMERATE WHICH EXACT RULES I HAVE BROKEN AND PROVIDE ME WITH AN IMPARTIAL AVENUE FOR APPEAL."

---

When you're on a platform, you are a guest. When you live in society, you don't have a choice about following the rules. That's why most legal systems provide you with clear avenues for redress and appeal in the latter, but most private property does not.
It was over after the Brendan Eich debacle
Those disposable camera photos are some of the best photos I’ve ever taken.
I think (1) you're mainly missing that copyleft vs non-copyleft is actually irrelevant for the copilot case. You also (2) may be missing the legal footing of copyleft licenses.

(1) The problem with copilot is that when it blurps out code X that is arguably not under fair use (given how large and non-transformed the code segment is), copilot users have no idea who owns copyright on X, and thus they are in a legal minefield because they have no idea what the terms of licensing X are.

Copilot creates legal risk regardless of whether the licensing terms of X are copyleft or not.
Many permissive licenses (MIT, BSD, etc) still require attribution (identifying who owns copyright on X), and copilot screws you out doing that too.

(2) Whatever legal power copyleft licenses have, it is ultimately derived from copyright law, and people who take FOSS seriously know that. The point of "copyleft" licenses is to use the power of copyright law to implement "share and share alike" in an enforceable way. When your WiFi router includes info about the GPL code it uses, that's the legal of power of copyright at work. The point of copyleft licenses is not to create a free-for-all by "liberating" code.
I've been using Outlook email primarily for the last decade. Not that much spam, compared to other mailboxes I have.
It depends a lot on what you are trying to do. I agree that most photos an iPhone is sufficient. You do not need bokeh/low light/superzoom for the vast, VAST majority of photos. Once you are going for a certain look or a certain quality of photo though you're going to need to invest in camera gear. It's the margins in which you need the expensive camera stuff, not in the main body of photos, and GP lists some of these margins.

I have put thousands into a lens just for taking photos indoors of my kids. Is it overkill? Absolutely. Do I think every cent of it was worth it for me? Absolutely. Not disagreeing with you though, I wouldn't at all recommend that others do the same as me.
We don't currently fully know how anesthetics work largely because we don't really know how the human brain works on a large scale. We'd have to solve that before seriously proposing quantum effects. In other words, it's too early to rule out classic physics and chemistry as the brain's primary mechanism. (Although solving how it works could first solving quantum mysteries, but Occam's razor is classic rules in my opinion.)
There is no such thing as a "content display licence" or "general code licence". There is copyright (literally, the right to make copies) which broadly lies with the author, who can then grant other parties a licence to copy their content.

I'm afraid I do not believe your legal expertise is so extensive that you are able to accurately predict the judgement of "any court".
I use Fastmail, and have it pull in my gmail account via IMAP. I actually don’t have too much sent to my gmail these days, as I was already using the custom domain with gmail for many years before I switched providers, but what does get sent to it comes through just fine.
Are we? My impression was English language honorifics were going out of fashion. People are more likely to say Tom or Tom Smith than Mr. Smith these days
> Elon is hardly describing a vision for this new version of twitter that people might be inspired to spend $8 for, yes something vague about plebs vs nobility,

Yeah, Elon calls the status quo a “lords & peasants system” and says that to get out of that model Twitter should have a two-tier model where the paid users get special visual flair, algorithmic boosts in their tweets prominence and reach, and a reduced-ads feed experience compared to free users.

And somehow doesn’t see the irony.
Feel free to keep reading the next line down:

"This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content"
WOW, what an introduction to 80’s stockbroking, it was everything you would imagine it to be. In the messenger department, there were twenty odd young kids running up and down Collins Street all day, doing stock settlements or picking up the trading slips from the trading floor.

The trading floor was mad, people yelling and screaming at these poor people called chalkies, who would scribble the prices of stocks on the chalkboards. There was a certain art to trading shares back then.

It was so busy back then that you were quickly promoted out of the messenger department and would land anywhere that needed more help.Lucky for me, I landed in the bookings department.
yes, agreed the "consistency" thought leadership is mostly published by Mids who have never done any real work themselves
I usually go solo, unless you’d like to join me sometime :)
The oldies go slowly and tend to end up with some low speed impacts giving dented cars rather than injury. Maybe if you get 2 or 3 of those in a year it's time to stop.
That’s a bit of an understatement