skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe they're in the top part of society?

People who are going home from foreign travel to a place where 80% have neither food nor money to buy it is, almost certainly, in an economic stratum several substantial steps above the middle, if perhaps not at the very top.
This is not the black and white issue that the article implies it is, with statements such as "Machine-generated code is not a derivative work".

Imagine a web scraping robot that just grabbed textual news articles and spit them out verbatim to searchers (without giving credit or linking to the original). That is obviously copyright infringement, even though it is done by a robot.

Now imagine it does slight modifications to the text, using a thesaurus and maybe a bit of AI. It might substitute "is able to" for "can", or "frequently" for "often", but otherwise everything is left as is. Is that "machine generated"?

Same goes for a hypothetical bot that scrapes existing music, and after listening to "He's So Fine", comes up with the melody for "My Sweet Lord." (as per the famous George Harrison copyright case from the 70s) It isn't off the hook simply because a machine was involved. If it truly "learns" what makes a good melody, and uses that to generate a very different melody (that might be equally similar to a dozen different songs), that's different.

There is a full spectrum between simple bots that copy verbatim, and something that "deeply learns" and then writes a new article, or generates new source code, or writes a new melody, or whatever.

I don't have a strong opinion on GitHub Copilot since I haven't really studied what it does and therefore I don't know where it lies on that spectrum, but this article is not useful if the author doesn't really explore the nuance, and treats everything as absolutes.

(and I should say, I am very much of the opinion that copyright law as it is, is hopelessly broken, and I am always glad to see things like Copilot just so we can see it demonstrated why. But that is veering off topic...)
The climate doesn't care if it's 100 people emitting 1 unit of CO2 or 1 person emitting 100, it's going to have the same effect either way. China does not get a free pass because it has a lot of people or it likes to pretend it's still a developing nation, it's just as responsible as any western nation for fixing this mess
At my last ambulance ride I noticed there were separate lines for oxygen and also for regular compressed air, which I suppose is pretty much infinite (the ambulance can gather more air as it is used)
I never liked OLAP cubes because they discouraged ad-hoc data exploration since if there wasn't already a cube that modeled the data a certain way you couldn't do it. You had to develop it, or hope a DBA had time to develop it sometime in the next two months. They were fine if you already knew the questions you needed answered, but they probably contributed to some companies focussing on the wrong things because they couldn't easily explore data for new insights.

I much prefer the current setup I work under: We have an ODS with a whole bunch of denormalized views for the most commonly needed data built on incremental updates to a clone of the production database. If one of the views doesn't have the data required or it's not structured as required I can simply bring one of the cloned prod tables into my SQL query.

If I find myself repeating that process for the same data often, I create another view for it, but I always have all of the data needed for any analysis or exploration.

If I need up-to-the-second data I can write the boilerplate using ODS and cloned prod, then join to only live prod data required.

Things like the added complexity of a constructing a pivot table in SQL are a non issue. Report writing software handles that and with a lot more flexibility to the end user for interaction.
Nobody should need YOUR crash reports. First line defense should always be internal crash vulnerability identification and closure. Information from users can then take two forms: user initiated reporting and opt-in automated user reporting.

Nowhere in that paragraph was their any technical reason that someone concerned with both getting crash fixes but avoiding crash reporting themselves should be told they can't have them both.

Also, opt-in silent updates don't inconvenience anyone. The user gets whichever situation they are most comfortable with.

Opt-in crash logs and opt-in silent updates should both be logged for easy user perusal.

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None of this inconveniences developers or users.

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The problem with any centralization of non-opt-in unlogged data gathering is it creates completely unnecessary hazards and trust problems.

Once an organization is pulling data, that data is now available to (1) incentivize the organization to use it in ways the subjects many never have considered, (2) incentivize the company to increase the amount of data they pull for good or ill, (3) is potentially a target for security breaches, and (4) is a potential target for governments to coercively surveil users by accessing the data or encouraging more data to be pulled.

None of the problems in the last paragraph will be apparent to users until they have already suffered damage. So concern about non-opt-in unlogged data gathering is extremely prudent.
8 I would say is a bit early, there is some pretty gory scenes, and adult themes like "working girls" you might not want to be explaining in detail. I would say 10-12, mine is in the middle.

Although I had to laugh at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewalker_(The_X-Files) which is about a contagious alien(?) virus which I remember being super scary. The whole idea of viruses, pandemics and quarantine didn't really phase the kids at all. How times have changed.
But fractals have self-similarity on many (infinite) scales. They don't simply repeat. Do PRNG's also have this quality?
Has anyone seen data as to the projected size of these objects? If we know their distance and they have a shape other than a point, we should at least be able to get a ballpark figure
I've said it once, I'll say it again-- these videos are all explained and all have been debunked. This is most likely a advertisement for the US Military's ability to track very small things such as drones. If there are videos of things that might be alien-- these are not them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhAC2YiYHs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3viYcYPRdu4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWWGmiZs4JA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCH7BWGpl5s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th4VlqQyVr4

Bob Lazar debunk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghkFTRY4ZB0
For sure, yes, they're distinctly named formulae and thus subject to their own install, remove, and version bump lifecycle management

IIRC the trick is that the "at" versions don't get "brew link"-ed by default, since they'd almost certainly smash on top of the non-at binaries or manpages or whatever. Using `PATH=$(brew --prefix "python@3.7")/bin:$PATH` or ones favorite context switching gizmo will help, or (with the python ones specifically) using `$(brew --prefix "python@3.7")/bin/python -m venv ...` is a great way to avoid having a lot of special env-var silliness
> This in and of itself makes me want to quit, because it's disingenuous to say that I'm one of the most valuable engineers, then talk about firing and rehiring me when I want to take this leave.

I agree that this is a red flag. Unfortunately in work life, companies can say one thing and do another, and it looks like you've experienced that here. I think you have done the right thing by taking time off. My advice would be to seek counselling and ask about medication to help treat your depression. Even if it doesn't solve it completely, it should at least give you a bit of breathing room to afford you a broader perspective. From there, you can hopefully make the best step forward.

Best of luck to you, in all sincerity. You sound very talented and capable, and I'm sure that latent skill will serve you well in any future role regardless of the temporary setbacks you may encounter.
The GPU in your computer consists of mostly-dark highly specialized circuits; it certainly seems to improve my computing experience.
Isn't Richard Spencer a racial nationalist, not a racial supremacist?

I could be mistaken but that was the vibe I've gotten from the very little I've heard directly from him (in contrast to the much larger quantity I've heard about him from others)
Such an object would not have meaningful mass and would not leave vortices or a wake, which some of the UFOs do.
I'm sure the word "variant" doesn't suggest official association. "Version" would.
The users cannot be trusted, the users are dumb, we know better than the users, we must steer the users, the goals of the project are more important than any one user's, etc. Take your pick at this point.
When majority of software does it, then how it's not normal?
These sorts of discussions always puzzle me. Copyright is not an objective thing, it’s a contract that supports the cash flow of a creator-distributor-consumer chain, given the former two assumed it will work to cover their expenses and return profits they expected. If your AI produces Beatles-like or even better music based on Beatles albums and/or some more, an AI-aware judge may (or may not, depending on the lobbying activity) decide that it is a direct derivative work, and in case it is automated, all copyright rules apply as in “copy” “right”. There is no need for technical objectivity to exist in between, because this law is not about technicalities. What seems like a loophole may be closed easily by a court decision based on much higher matters than “similarity” or “reconstruction”. If anyone can take your album at the release date and “reshuffle” a free version not worse than the original with few clicks, it is obvious damage to the copyright holder and it demotivates creating it. AI couldn’t do any of that back then, and they didn’t include right terms to cover that, but now it can, and they will just add that, unless someone (MS in this case) has better lawyers, who are ready to create a wide-enough precedent and drag it through all instances.
Scala is a general purpose programming language. Chisel is therefore it's "synthesizable subset". To use Chisel you need to know Scala as well as the HW design specific constructs Chisel offers.

EDIT: and Scala or the functional programming paradigm are not something design or verifications engineers are usually familiar with, which was apparently also a major issue in the Google project according to the referenced talk (quote: "frankly, most hardware engineers don't really get passed this yellow [Chisel learning] curve")
I think there was a deeper reason: Iran. If you look at where Iraq is positioned, and you consider that we had already invited Afghanistan, by invading Iraq you’ve practically surrounded the country of Iran, a major threat to peace and safety in the region. Imagine if Afghanistan, and Iraq, had been stabilized and in someway controlled by America. It’s far easier to run operations into Iran from Baghdad than it was from Istanbul.
Thanks, I think it's the start of a new "cloud CPU" era.

Cloud vendors have already split workloads into different instance types, so directly analyzing their workloads and developing CPUs for each instance type will lead to further performance wins. This may prompt the creation of even more instance types just to further separate workload types for future CPU specialization.

In the future, products like AWS outposts may become far more desirable over commodity hardware, as customers know it provides access to specialized CPUs and their performance. It's a path for cloud computing vendors to own the datacenters as well.

(Note that my predictions are not based on any internal knowledge: I'm just describing what I personally would be doing if I were a cloud vendor.)
I'm so sick of seeing these same three stupid videos from the charlatan Lui Elizondo crop up over and over - flir, gimbal, go fast. Hasn't this cow been milked already? Seems to just keep on giving.

They've all been shown to be very consistent with mundane known phenomena (See Mick West's channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF3UCTZiVg9wrIEzO7Om6jw). When that's pointed out the go to answer for the believer is "well there is things you are not privy to ...". Imagine if Einstein using that as his defense to relativity. Or any scientist ever. That's not how science works. You don't get to say "yeah well, there is things you don't know" when your thesis falls apart based on the evidence you provide to support it!
> I view it as democratizing

Quite the opposite. Requiring most people in the world to learn a second and a third language to access science, technology and international job markets creates a higher barrier and increases inequality.
Despite tens of billions of cameras on Earth we still don't have a clear picture of an extraterrestrial craft.
Are those crashing bugs, though? I'm making a very specific and nuanced claim here - that crash reporting is not a required mechanism for delivering high-quality software.

If SQLite is low-quality software, but the manner in which it is low-quality does not involve crashes, then that does not contradict my claim. There are a lot of ways software can have bugs other than crashes: incorrect behavior, confusing defaults, missing features, inaccurate or nonexistent documentation, poor API design, etc. Automated crash reporting can't help with any of that. If you discovered that "SELECT * FROM users WHERE paid = 1" returns unpaid users too, that's a really bad bug, but no automated crash reporter could possibly tell the SQLite developers about it.

I do agree with you that users of software at scale don't report bugs and so you can't rely on them reporting bugs; I'm just pointing out that there's no reasonable way around it except for crashes, and there are other ways to address the specific use case of crashes.

There is an unreasonable way around it: add an analytics framework that tracks every click and mouse movement and keystroke your users do. There are web analytics libraries that do exactly this and let you replay your users' behavior. I hope we all agree that Audacity should not do that.

(By the way, if I go to https://sqlite.org , there's a "Support" link at the top that tells me to use their forum. You can then click on the forum link, click "New Thread," and click "Remain Anonymous," and there's apparently a way to post things. I guess this forum does actually use Fossil internally according to the message at the bottom, but it seems really straightforward to me, so I am surprised at your claim that this is confusing....)
> that's ("create a new album with your favorite artists that happens to include that particular song (redistribution)." exactly what redistribution entails

No, it isn't. You're wrong. Redistribution, or just distribution, in copyright law is plainly and simply making copies of a work available to other people. It does not mean anything more than that, and it does not transfer ownership of anything other than the copy you distribute.
No, stick to forks that manage to reach a self-sustaining level above “one or two users cherry-picking from an upstream repo as a passion project”.

My point is that a fork can be abandoned by users even if the project is still active.
The Cylons are back to check up on us.
You don't even need that. A buggy DeFi contract will happily give an attacker all its ETH.
Had to check the year to realize this was referring to Flickr and not Slack :)
If you have a natural inclination for it, more power to you.
And it seems like you really enjoyed it.
When it becomes the be all and end all, as it is in these parts, then it robs you of your childhood.
That would not explain the accounts from the Navy pilots that made visual contact with some of these objects such as USS Nimitz and the 'Tic Tac' UAP. Also from the Forbes article you posted:

>It is unlikely the Pentagon would release videos of their own secret weapon in a bizarre double bluff. But other nations may have their own version. In the early 1990s the Russians claimed that they could produce glowing ‘plasmoids’ at high altitude using high-power microwave or laser beams; these were intended to disrupt the flight of ballistic missiles, an answer to the planned American ‘Star Wars’. Nothing came of the project, but the technology may have been refined for other applications in the subsequent decades.

And I would agree that the Navy wouldn't risk causing an indecent by surreptitiously testing secret technology on it's own ships, especially near areas with civilian air traffic.

Could it be a foreign nation deploying a similar technology? Also highly doubtful. This would require a foreign military to either regularly sail ships or fly into US waters or very close to it, emit these plasma lasers for extended periods of time and sail/fly out undetected. The laser induced plasma effects theory would have to account for this somehow to be viable.
It's still open source. You can self-host the latest code so long as you're not commercializing it. BSL just adds two additional clauses:

- You cannot offer a commercial version of Sentry’s service (the license grant restriction)

- After 36 months, the code becomes Apache-2.0 licensed

For those who argue this isn't permissive enough, I'd love to hear the measures you took for your FOSS project to become self-sustainable.
Eh… disagree there. There are far more and better sensors around any city. All kinds of civilian and research sensors, not to mention millions of eyeballs, ears, and cellphone cameras.
Covid vaccines given to Oakland Zoo big cats, bears and ferrets
There are testable hypothesis, but not about the extremely early universe as of yet. The energy requirements put it outside the realm of terrestrial experiments - and as of yet no one has a good simulacra of the universe prior to the big bang. While there are some theoretical white hole approaches to justify the big bang etc. These are not as of yet testable.
I don't think so.

I host all my personal projects on either GitHub or GitLab (depending on build pipelines).

The majority of my personal projects are private. I get zero benefit from the "social" coding aspects of either platform.

I use remote git repos to both backup my code and have access to it when needed. For example, I have a fairly large personal project with a complex React frontend. I often pull this up to jog my memory at work when I hit similar challenges at work.

For junior role, it might be helpful to have a Git* presence with clear commit messages/branch history (at a minimum, it shows your ability to use git).
The efficiency of solar panels is practically irrelevant. For scale for ~20,000$ of land in Arizona (60 acres) is getting ~240,000 kw of energy in full sun. At 2c/kWh and 10% efficiency you pay for that land in ~42 hours of full sun. Land costs are rarely more than 0.1% of total costs.

Anyway, nobody is going to run a major grid on 100% solar power because hydro and wind are cheaper than batteries. But let’s think pessimistic worst case. You want 50% over supply of solar so you never have to worry about long term storage (as in 1/3 of all solar is wasted).

That’s 3c/kWh. Batteries aren’t 100% efficient and degrade with use so let’s say 55% of power is provided directly via solar (much higher demand in day) and 45% of power is provided from solar fed batteries. If 1 kWh from a battery adds 10c the equation it’s roughly 3c + 10c * 45% = 7.5c/kWh.

Which is very close to what base load coal costs except because we’re using batteries which also covers peaking power plants. Frankly coal is only surviving in China because of how long it’s talking to build cheaper alternatives.
Well, the "ripple effect" wouldn't be the thing to worry about if western world wouldn't screw it at the first point.

We push shit load of money to China continiously making them stronger, in the same time weakening ourselves badly as dependent on their "area" production.
> Apple loves to market the iPad as the "modern computer", yet the ecosystem is so controlled and locked down that it can barely function as anything other than a media consumption device.

The iPad is an incredible device for creating digital art (Procreate + Apple Pencil) and electronic music (Korg Gadget and literally hundreds of great synth, DAW, and effect apps.)
Laser induced plasma can produce sound waves:

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/07/19/...
On a job website I wondered if I could use CSS selectors to get to the important stuff. I think a lot of people have had those thoughts, and the website knew. While the page might have some repeatable structure, the ids and classes were just randomly generated. Also, After you open the job listing, they too were all different because the job poster had the ability to set up their own mini html that was embedded in the page.
The "bad" people are just ignorant people who do not understand how other people feel (they are not able to put themselves in their shoes), and can only see their side of perspective as the only true ... We should ridicule more "bad" people with this accurate definition.

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Really? Almost all the companies I've been to have "diversity" of ethnicity but there's no diversity of thought at all. Because they only hire people who think like them.

Let me give you a concrete example:

If your business is based on "cloud" and "docker" and "dynamically typed languages", how likely are you to hire someone who thinks the cloud is overrated and that using docker is over engineering and that statically typed and compiled languages are better for productivity and reliability? The chance you would hire such a person is nil. And if you do by mistake hire such a person, it's probably because there did not voice this opinion during the interview process and just "played along" to get the job.

So you will hire a bunch of people from different ethnicities who all buy into the "cloud is the future" mindset and who think that learning a 100 different tools and configuration languages is how to build a modern website.
Neither this article nor the article it is paraphrasing ( https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/business/world-first-... ) appear to say anything about what "quantum computing" their system is doing, or why anyone would prefer to use it over a classical computer.

There's plenty of hype ("better batteries"), but no details on what it can actually do now or in the next 5 years.
Should no one express disappointment in a market outcome? "The market has spoken," yes, and we would go nowhere without heckling it from time to time.
his presentation on LightOn is pretty interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QtY4_UJF0w&ab_channel=Light...
Send, E2E encrypted, originally by Mozilla:

Public instance: https://send.vis.ee/

CLI: https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend

Other instances: https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances#instances
> even if training a dataset is fair use, distributing the result is copyright infringement

I would be inclined to agree that the current situation (ie reproducing training examples verbatim) violates copyright. On the other hand, I'm not so sure that a trained model does (or even should) be subject to the copyright of the inputs.

Of course I acknowledge that the latter view is controversial and also that such issues are so new that they haven't had a chance to be meaningfully addressed by either the courts or the legislature yet.

As an example of a similar situation, see (https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/) which was trained entirely on copyrighted artwork. Note that there are at least three distinct issues here - training the model, distributing the model itself, and distributing the output of the model.

> I would want my license to make that part clearer.

But again, GitHub's argument here is that the license is completely irrelevant because it doesn't apply in the first place. Thus they won't care one bit about any clarifications you make one way or the other.