skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're currently in a local max on topics related to identity politics, so I'd take any such publications with extreme skepticism. For instance your first article casually makes the rather extreme claim that women were more suited for endurance activity, by citing physiological differences, critically - which still exist, like wider hips and vastly higher estrogen levels. They then claim such things would enable women to run further and faster than men. This is contradicted by marathon (and all other forms of running) records since they've ever been kept. Furthermore I'd observe that they have gotten closer in modern times largely due to a greater ability to find women with genetic abnormalities bringing them closer to being genetically male that, in some cases (such as Caster Semenya) has even required sex testing to ensure they "really" were female.

There are also countless other issues that make all of this highly improbable. For instance people often frame these things like you just run towards an animal, it runs away, eventually passes out, you bop it, and you win - like a video game. In reality animals fight back. And, to this very day, animals like elk manage to kill hunters, using modern weapons and knowledge, with some degree of regularity. And elk are child's play relative to things like the mammoths and other animals our distant ancestors were hunting - with primitive weapons! This makes other issues like raw strength critically important - if that arrow or spear isn't going extremely deep - it could well be the last thing you ever do. Heck, even for much smaller game like boars - they've killed enough famous people (almost invariably during hunts) that Wiki has an entire category dedicated to it. [1] And then there are the countless societal factors.

Getting injured and even killed on hunts would not have been especially irregular. Yet in society men are vastly more replaceable than women. A single man can father tens of children in a year, yet a woman can only give birth to one. Lactating women are absolutely critical for the health of young children and are completely irreplaceable in that role. Similarly, in the past infant mortality rates were extremely high. We compensated for this by having large numbers of children. So women being regularly pregnant or breastfeeding is very much a reality. And going on a hunt in this scenario is obviously completely out of the question. And there's so much more one could write about the inanity and nonsensicalness of all of this, but this post is already far longer than intended - just to scratch the basics of it all!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Deaths_due_to_boar_at...
Your response made me reconsider two of my claims. Evolution _can_ provide a teleology of both humankind and of consciousness. The latter may be understood as a genetic trait which provides extraordinary survival fitness, and so existence, to the former. We and our traits arise from, and have been fashioned to function within, the system of evolution. The traits, and us, want for no more purpose than this - just as the output of any function wants for no more purpose than the input parameters.

Life, though - that system and its output, holistically - still lacks self-evident purpose. (Which is not to say that it must have one.) Why was this function written? Is it merely the output of a higher-order function? (Involving cosmic turtles?)
I'm not sure I would call it an "interesting stance", as it's barely a stance and not at all interesting IMO . It's what they think is legally required to accept code given their license.

If there's a chance the providence of the code is tainted, the only thing that makes sense that doesn't cause the possibility of immense problems later is to reject it.
> “Red flag laws” requiring motorcars to have a person with a flag walking in front

With the amount of people getting killed by careless drivers, we should bring those back, at least in cities.
OpenRCT2 https://sourcegraph.com/blog/enhancing-openrct2-performance-...
You’re probably just looking to feel better about how your sleep is not good, so you don’t want to see someone validating sleep effects are useful, or saying you could fix that by doing something else. I get you don’t want to believe this, but my direct experience trumps your belief.

But what you got to remember, is what you don’t have, is any ability at all to determine what physical senses or experiences or feelings or capabilities anyone else can have. You can only know yourself. And if you're coming from a limited point of view, it would be abusive to try to impose that to invalidate someone else, who’s coming from a broader perspective. Hahahaha! :)
This is not about technical restrictions and finding weird legal loopholes, Apple's guidelines don't work that way. It's the spirit that matters, not the letter.
Scientists document remarkable sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet'
> Filesystems don't zero out deleted data

It's an SSD, shouldn't it be running TRIM?
> it just feels like an autocomplete that is actually useful

And a lot of us have been saying these LLM's are nothing but advanced autocompletes... and maybe that isn't a bad thing?
I think the article answers your question at the end of section 3.1:

> "This behavior may be surprising, but it is generally consistent with Datomic’s documentation. Nubank does not intend to alter this behavior, and we do not consider it a bug."

When you say, "situations leading to invariant violations" -- that sounds like some kind of bug in Datomic, which this is not. One just has to understand how datomic processes transactions, and code accordingly.

I am unaffiliated with Nubank, but in my experience using Datomic as a general-purpose database, I have not encountered a situation where this was a problem.
Not in the least. LLMs don't introspect. LLMs have no sense of self. There is no secondary process in an LLM monitoring the output and checking it against anything else. This is how they hallucinate: a complete lack of self-awareness. All they can do is sound convincing based on mostly coherent training data.

How does an LLM look at a heptagon and confidently say it's an octagon? Because visually they're similar, octagons are relatively more common (and identified as such) while heptagons are rare. What it doesn't do is count the sides, something a child in kindergarten can do.

If I were working in AI I would be focussing on exactly this problem: finding the "right sounding" answer solves a lot of cases well enough, but falls down embarrassingly when other cogitive processes are available that are guaranteed to produce correct results (when done correctly). Anyone asking chatgpt a math question should be able to get back a correctly calculated math answer, and the way to get that answer is not to massage the training data, it's to dispatch the prompt to a different subsystem that can parse the request and return a result that a calculator can provide.

It's similar to using LLMs for law: they hallucinate cases and precedents that don't exist because they're not checking against nexis, they're just sounding good. The next problem in AI is the layer of executive functioning that taps the correct part of the AI based on the input.
I do feel bad for early adopters swept up by the hype. There needs to be better anti-grifting laws at the level at which elon operates.
And, although I suspect the original comment was made sarcastically, not at all at odds with the reasoning why they would reject submissions with AI generated code.
Would you mind sharing what are they?
Aren't there compostable milk cartons with cornstarch linings or something?
Ray Tracing Gems (2019)
instead of a blanket ban, it would be better to formulate detailed guidelines for AI-assisted programming, clarifying under what conditions such tools are allowed or prohibited. Developers can be required to conduct rigorous manual review of AI-generated code and make special annotations when submitting, rather than broadly labeling it as "defective". Unconditionally rejecting AI-generated code may miss out on the benefits of technological progress.
I got an LG DualUp that can rotate to either vertical or horizontal. It has an almost but not quite square display. I also usually have multiple mux'd sessions and vim with at least a couple of splits on the screen.

I can't say that it makes a huge difference compared to using my Macbook with the built-in 13" display -- I don't have any good way to measure my "productivity." I think it helps mainly because I can make the text larger (good for my old eyes) without losing too much content/context.

I also sometimes work on an iPad, which has a better screen in terms of resolution and sharpness than the LG, so I can use that with small type sizes and not strain my eyes. For me, the main advantage of the iPad is staying focused on one thing -- no overlapping or multiple windows, just one full-screen window with the task at hand. With larger displays I always end up with overlapping terminal, Slack, browser, email, etc. vying for attention.

I switch context with vim buffers, tags, and the ctrl-P plugin (fuzzy file finder). I use a paper notebook and pen to take notes and keep a stack of things to remember. I use GNU screen instead of tmux, usually with four or five sessions, but I don't split those into windows, I just switch between them with hotkeys (one for a vim window, one for a MySQL/Postgres/SQLite CLI session, one tailing the log file, etc.).

I developed most of my work habits a long time ago (decades ago) and have stuck with them. While objectively perhaps not as "productive" as possible, familiar habits and tools have a lot of value, so while I do try new things and experiment with my workflow and tools I tend to revert back to what I don't have to think about too much while using it.
It’s more about politics than your assuming.

Defense spending was almost twice has high in 1958 despite no war going on as it was during the Iraq and Afghan war.
Literally just assess how much ad revenue Google stands to earn from the site. If it's a Google top hit (SEO) AND earns Google a disproportionate potential amount of revenue, then there's your grade.
I too was put off Remix because of react-router, it actually looks pretty good but I was holding off to see if they rewrote the entire thing in The future, and they did!

One of my biggest problems with router was not only the constant api changes but the docs being unsearchable because you are never sure which version people are talking about, making all discourse about it a waste of time.

We await the outcome of the react framework wars, I still think react is wrong requiring frameworks to supplement its framework.
Yep, the world isn't always black and white. If I were to use Copilot to autocomplete the code I would've written myself (which is VERY often the case) I don't think it'd fall under this policy unless made overly obvious in some kind of rebellion act
It's a good stance to avoid being sued somewhere down the line. I don't think it's really about taking an ethical position on the matter. I could be wrong though, I've never met the fine folks at NetBSD.

Like others have pointed out, it's nearly impossible to police, and to what degree. Boilerplate code is boilerplate code for example, and whether you were assisted in writing it, or you wrote every bytes through your fingers is irrelevant, as it's an obvious continuation.

At this stage, you just have to assume that every publicly available code, regardless of the license, has been gobbled up by LLM training data, maybe multiple times over, and the cat is out of the bag. You might just want to protect your IP by being clear about keeping your hands clear of it all.
You're correct, but for additional context, this paper will actually be presented at VLDB 2024 [0].

> All papers published in this issue will be presented at the 50th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Guangzhou, China, 2024.

And that's because in the submission guidelines [1],

> The last three revision deadlines will be May 15, June 1, and July 15, 2023. Note that the June deadline is on the 1st instead of the 15th, and it is the final revision deadline for consideration to present at VLDB 2023; submissions received after this deadline will roll over to VLDB 2024.

So whether it is (2023) or (2024) is a little ambiguous.

[0] https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol17/FrontMatterVol17No2.pdf

[1] https://vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/16/submission
Is it in any? Because I don't think just adding a "You need to own the game to download this binary" text to your GitHub repo is going to do a lot legally.
> Microsoft already declared they'll take care of any copyright lawsuits related to Copilot.

How very kind of them!

edit: it's almost like you, as a user, get a taste of having so much money youre legally untouchable!
> All the other manufacturers have really really shitty BSPs in comparison, even if you're just offloading everything realtime to an MCU.

The irony here is that other SOC/SBC makers are focused more on throwing a barely stable design onto AliExpress for $20 than investing in good upstream support that would allow them to charge a premium.

Raspberry Pi wasn't always able to charge a premium, that benefit came from years of investment into software and community. I have not yet seen another SOC vendor or board partner realize this in any significant way.
> Microsoft needs to learn some patience

I read thru the article and I felt a lot of it resonating with Google as well
Pardon the ignorance

1986

Was this first published in 1986? On the ... internet?
What’s missing in the Gessen and Silver’s article here is that our ideological backdrop is largely realpolitik. If we’re talking about saying certain things to get re-elected, then yes, the notion of what public opinion is and how that affects potential votes is purely an academic matter. If it’s the case that Palestine alone will torpedo Biden’s re-election, then for sure he will change his tone.

But as Silver points out, it’s not obvious that Palestine is big enough of an issue to affect him. For the most part, Democrats run on being a big tent that represents teachers, unionists, college grads, progressives, globalists, democratic socialists, neoliberals, etc. It’s going to be watered-down, that’s a feature, not a bug. Trumpism is much more straightforward.

The irony in Gessen’s complaint is that the more “fringe” views you see on college campuses are largely correct in a narrow sense: what’s happening in Gaza is a product of The West. We are the Bad Guys. If you look at the world with no nuance whatsoever, then yes, binary logic would say Hamas are the Good Guys. Obviously, that’s insane.

But the colonial West analysis is fundamentally true. It’s true if we set our scope of history to the last century (British Mandatory Palestine) or the last 500 years. It’s true in an obvious sense, in how the US supports Israel today. Historians a thousand years from now will see The West as one long, colonial Empire, and Israel is its beachhead in the Middle East.

The “woke” kids on the campuses see this in a maximally socially constructivist sense, i.e, of course things like cops, oppression, capitalism, etc are all related to Gaza. So much of our way of life is built on violence… but if you’re a liberal (not a leftist!) you still believe you need these things to maintain society… Which is how you end up with Biden’s realpolitik neutrality, which means supporting Israel to win an election.

What Gessen ought to hope for is that public opinion does reach critical mass such that it is guaranteed that Biden would be re-elected if he was pro-Palestine. That is more or less their implicit desire: a free Palestine, but no Trump.

That is not impossible. But it will require a sustained political strategy from the ground up, not from the DNC. And the only viable political strategy is not one of utilitarian vote counting, because that’s what begets this kind of violence to begin with, but appealing to people’s pathos towards the suffering of others.
Starlink internet shutdown in Sudan will punish millions, Elon Musk warned
We were mainly trying to determine if there was a reasonable chance that the model was trained on a certain dataset, nothing else.
Yet another mess, once again.

All of this just so that they can brag that their framework has more stars/downloads than Next.js, because there's no other reason to do this than to "show" who's more popular.

And while it's true react-router has a shitload of downloads, most of those downloads are for really old versions, because people can't update due to all the constant rewrites and changes of APIs. I've seen this at 3 companies already, nobody is using the latest versions.

NPM should show download metrics by version (as packagist does for PHP packages). I'm convinced this will prove it.

But hey, this works. Now they have more downloads than Next so let's use this instead.

(BTW, Remix was still a better option than Next in my opinion, but that's a super low bar)
Kind of like alchemy. Except alchemy would kill you very slowly with heavy metal poisoning, and this stuff would kill you very very fast in multiple ways.
Their stance isn't that AI-generated code is "defective", it's that its copyright and licensing status is unclear, and they don't want to be in legal hot water some years down the line because they can't be sure of the provenance of the code they commit.
"Not-so-distant" indeed. IMHO this sounds just like banning people from using spell checkers when writing documentation. Legal paranoia aside, it's completely untenable in even the short term.
The tutorial puzzles were absolutely trivial, but I spent a decent amount of time trying to understand the mechanics of the main puzzle and frequently actions produce unexpected results. I do not understand why sometimes only a piece is mirrored, and then sometimes the whole puzzle is, or why tapping can prevent some pieces from being flipped, etc. I do not know if it is buggy or just confusing.

EDIT: I see. Drawing a line causes a mirroring effect at a line perpendicular to the one drawn, located at the furthest point in the direction of the drawn line.
I agree that the word "trauma" is overused and exaggerated to describe situations that are not really traumatic. Ironically, I think that the word "outrage" is similarly misused. I couldn't help but giggle at the irony of "outrage" being used as the word to describe the response to this.
This is a smart and appropriate move by NetBSD.

We also need lawsuits painful enough that companies stop trying to get away with the automated plagiarism, because that's how it's being used, and they know it.
You can normalize by age groups, that's still possible.

And either way, outcome is the same. Virus is not killing as much as it did.
Even the selection of frameworks is kind of weird, versus

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks

This is what would be interesting to see Vapour/Swift on.
> The Romans managed to accomplish very little in 1,000 years considering the extent of their empire.

Yes, apart from the aqueducts, the sanitation, the roads, the wine, public health, public baths, public order, cheese, medication, law, education and entertainment the Romans accomplished very little.
No, its better. The reason is the LLM will say or add things you wouldnt have said or added on your own. Wether right or wrong, what it adds, it adds novel input to your thought stream and helps prevent you getting stuck. Ive found myself surprised from time to time with questions an LLM asked, or the justifications provided when pushing for a different path.

If you've never talked with a highly opinionated LLM, I understand your scepticism, but there is certainly value if you use the right models creatively.
Nah, they don't do that. You can even run a server on it if you want. Or that used to be the case. Email the CEO, if you'd like. He does respond.
Yes, 1986, on Usenet .. a pre WWW internet service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

The same service the Linus | Tannenbaum Minux | Linux debate took place on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...
They said tainted. Not defective. And they explained it meant unclear copyright. The guidelines you want will be written by legislatures and courts.
My favorite is the "allow ANC with just one AirPod in". I have no idea why this would be an accessibility feature. If I turn on ANC, then I don't want it to be disabled just because I'm listening with one ear!
Oh he very much deserved it. We need to discourage the culture in tech where people set up VC-style "conversations" with the intention of scoping out ideas.

The Winget product manager, who stole the Appget product idea, on the other hand probably does deserve the blowback

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23331287
Seattle is now an air conditioning town
It's funny. For eons, Americans on the Internet could be relied on to say that the reason they don't have fiber is because their country is big. But their more rural areas get it first and best, revealing the lie everyone tells.

But forget that, these ISPs absolutely rule
https://www.brigham.net/residential-pricing/

That's so much nostalgia. I adore it!
I'm guessing you're still writing every line of character of code yourself in emacs or notepad or something like that?

Yes, copilots are really helpful, even if you do know what you're doing.

Or just wait to get left behind, while you sit on your ivory pedestal of superiority. Your choice.
Yes but as far as I understand this is only really usefully possible with FlashAttention. (The main idea is that you have to use the log-sum-exp trick when computing the softmax, but can't compute the max activation incrementally so have to rescale everything.)
Hacktoberfest all the year!
This is really cool

Is facial recognition (of known people) on the roadmap / a possibility?

It would be handy to be able to say photos of "mom" and it display all photos with mom in them. Probably not simple to build =p
This is all about download counts and who's more popular. That's it.
That's wild. Googles processes ensured many adults got to see this mans sons penis, many more than would have otherwise.
Haha I felt the same way reading back my own comment! "Oh no, I'm one of those 'outraged' people now."
To the point about NICE, it's worth pointing out that this is 1) not how NICE decides. Average cost per QALY being below the preferred level is one factor. Analysis of treatments they approve suggests the "actual" threshold is closer to 45k.

2) These are averages per treatment or protocol and in most areas the NHS spends less than the threshold by simply delivering based on clinical assessment of benefits, and so the threshold is limiting treatment mainly on the fringes where you find a few very expensive treatments with marginal benefits with no cheaper alternative.

In practice NICEs threshold is what any insurer would do: You know how much money there is in the system and try to maximise health output with what is available to you.
I'll really don't understand all the people flexing their copilot subscriptions. It's kind of a huge self own... Congrats, the software you write is banal enough to be AI generated.

It's like all the kids who use it to write their papers. Great, you didn't get caught, your instructor agrees that you are the worlds most average and uninspired writer.
Many of the links point to eligis.com, which is being domain squatted, making the site hard to use. (I would like to read more, however.)
for one, assuming it takes 5 yrs after graduation for an average engineer to reach senior at a tier-1 company (esp. Google) is simply untrue in today's environment. Besides the point that promotion is highly dependent on manager, team, org and timing (think about reorgs and project cancellation/deprioritizations), the average timeline for promotion nowadays takes longer than a few years ago.