skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, GitHub license section D.4 specifically grants GitHub the right to display your content, analyze your content, and reproduce it in full to other users of the service. Yet no one seems particularly interested in discussing that here today, because it isn't compatible with the outrage that people are prioritizing on HN when discussion Copilot.

How applicable is the Github license when a lot of code on Github (let's say eg. the Linux kernel) was posted there by people other than the individual copyright holders? I'd assume they can only rely on the open source license of the code in question, and not really on additional license terms. As far as I can tell, Github claims fair use rather than citing their license.
> They did not copy the implementation, they copied the general idea of what the algorithm should do

[Citation needed]
Another funny anecdote in that category I didn't see in the article is Isaac Asimov's novelization for Fantastic Voyage. Because of filming delays the book was published 6 months before the film release, leading many people to believe the film was an adaptation of the book.

That novelization differs significantly from the movie, but mostly because Asimov thought the screenplay was filled with bad sci-fi plot-holes and was given permission to change whatever he liked.
Most people do not seem to recognize how extremely lucky we have all been that there are such extremely efficient vaccines available.

With many diseases we rely on herd immunity, this means that the virus may be present but that is will not grow exponentially in the population. Although the presence of the delta variant in Israel is worrying, the numbers are still low and there are currently no reasons to expect that they will rise dramatically. The infections are probably mainly caused by persons that are not vaccinated. The largest group of those un-vaccinated people are children, so it is probably a good idea to vaccinate them too.
Pretty sure they could have used the "set image base" option under the memory map view to accomplish the same thing, but it's still a cool workaround nonetheless.
How about just asking people for their opinion instead of trying to somehow conclude on usage patterns and stuff from telemetry data, which is not opt-in, but opt-out, which is quite sneaky in itself?

"Just ask those people!" Is what I think every single time, when this kind of issue pops up. Ask the people what they find annoying about the product, ask them what they like. There are many questions you can ask and which yield a much more direct result than telemetry data, without upsetting a community and without coming across as sneaky and disrespectful of user privacy.
For someone who knows more than me: what is space? If it's able to "move" in the sense of expanding into existence faster than light can travel, what is the composition of it? Is this what dark matter is meant to explain? For something to expand faster than C means it has to be pushed at least that quicky by some other thing or some other force, right?

I have no science background at all, just a few decades of sysadmin work. Is there a book I should start with?
If it's that important, either I'll get an emergency broadcast text or it won't be televised. Otherwise, a family member will call me or I'll hear about it from other people.
It was time for Twitter rehab.

It was to be a battle of wills between one aging, chemo-addled brain and

So the real story is she had chemo therapy at some point, presumably for cancer, and was still impaired and during presumably her recovery, Twitter became too big a thing in her life. Either out of prosaic misattribution or intentionally creating drama for the sake of writing a story, she frames it as an addiction she needed to beat.

This really had nothing to do with Twitter. If Twitter hadn't existed, there would be some other thing she got stuck on during recovery.

Twitter was the right amount of mental engagement for her during recovery when harder things were beyond her reach. When she was more recovered, she recognized it was time to move on and do other things. And she did so.

The end.
Depends on who is founding the dinosaurs.

She had to work really hard to get to that conclusion she stated.
OLAP = OLAP Cube
> With this particular measurement, we’re using 3083MB, or 3.08GB

Don't mix up SI and binary prefixes, kids! The listing shows 3083 MiB, which is either 3.01 GiB, or 3.23 GB. There's no mainstream interpretation giving 3.08 of something.
But only if you make your app incompatible with all older iOS versions? Seems to me like not many people will benefit from this.m for some time to come.
America’s Obsession with Self-Help
not exactly.
I saw below the instruction to run `npx feed-me-up-scotty` so I did and it generated the public/ dir and feeds.

ok I managed to access the actions route by a different URL to the readme.
I copied the pages.yml workflow from your repo.

Few minutes later I could see my feed. Very nice! I need to clean up my selectors now!
I'm not an expert, but as far as I understand it the universe expanding means space itself is stretching at every point. Meaning if something was 1ly away in the past, it might be farther away due to that effect. This also applies to gravitational waves and anything else inside the universe.
Neither of them unbind the content from the original license, though.
It extends beyond JS Twitter. Every second JS project website or repo reads like a tribal Twitter bio.

The more accessible the language, the more politicised.
Memory bandwidth is just barely trying to keep up with cores, frequencies and IPC amounts. Bandwidth available per core is still going to drop. So newer development workflows that optimize for this bottleneck are going to be very relevant.
> There is only one piece of advice I dare give atheists: intentionally have faith in something.

I mean that makes sense that you would do that. If you can get an atheist to accept the premise that faith is somehow necessary, then you have validated your own worldview.

To me, faith is not some noble stance in the face of uncertainty. It is a metaphorical shrug in the face of cognitive dissonance. The correct spiritual answer to cognitive dissonance is to bravely resolve it, not prop it up with the crutch that is faith. Of course philosophies that require its adherents to accept manifest absurdity are going to have a safety valve like faith or enlightenment. That's the only way people could ask a question like "How could God, who is Perfect and Good, allow such Evil to exist?" and go on and on and on without coming to the obvious conclusion embedded in the question itself.

Or Why the hell are we taking seriously the fevered imaginings of desert goat herders dead these 2000 years? well, because faith

So, yes, I get why you're asking atheists to have faith. Ask yourself why you need that validation.
That quip was intended as sardonic. An obvious contradiction.
Wait, what, so atoms, neutrons, quarks etc. are all growing and moving apart at the same rate as the Universe?
What? And let them have all that delicious gravitational knowledge before us?
Quantum Computing just got desktop sized
Right, which is why it feels like a bad-faith argument in this case to say "a machine can't produce copyrightable code, etc."

We aren't talking about a server sitting in a Microsoft data center shuffling code to another server without human intervention. We are talking about a tool that helps developers create code -- code that is "copyrightable and under another license", and thus in violation.
Consider Interactive Brokers.
Good article but the memes are kind of annoying.
The Vanishing House on Tory Island
Austin 3: 0-instrumentation, 0-impact Python CPU/wall time and memory profiling
You guys are so lucky your beards grow without you doing anything special. I'd love to have proper thick beard instead of patchy and, well, funny-looking :)
As someone with a device locked on iOS 10 this makes me very happy. I have a desktop computer I bought in 2008 which is running Windows 10 and happy as a clam - and yet all my apple devices from before 2018 are essentially now bricks.
So many of us speakers of other languages had to learn English. Now you’ll just have to join us in learning Chinese. It’s not that hard, just very different.
If I use Copilot and it suggests a large block of GPL2'ed code for my project, which I then include, then that is a GPL2 license violation.

Whether the GPL2 will hold up in court, or whether the courts will uphold this specific case (e.g. can you prove intent? Do you need to?), is a separate issue entirely.

The next question is, can I use GPL'ed code in my product and then claim that it was injected by Copilot to avoid repercussions of my actions if caught?
If you're not concerned enough about performance to run on the performance cores, then why worry about...performance?
What caused that explosion? Lots of ordinary materials, like grain or milk powder, can explode in a spectacular fashion, but water???
This and croc.
Link: https://github.com/schollz/croc
I didn't realise I was perpetrating flamebait; my last two sentences were meant as rhetorical hyperbole (and I wasn't targetting anyone here!)

At any rate, I like it here; so I'll try to figure out how what I said was flamebait, and try not to say such things again.

Sorry.

[Edited upon re-reading]
> Github (and by extension Microsoft) is gambling on the fact that their license agreement granting them a license to the code in exchange for access to the platform supersedes the individual copyright notices attached to each repo.

The person who has the account on Github and uploads code to them rarely owns the copyright on all of the code, and therefore doesn't have the right to delegate to Github any further licensing permission.
Have you never used a block explorer, or do you just not understand how blockchain works? I fully agree there are weird insider deals based on allocations and premines - but that's all fully auditable, and if it isn't, that says all you need to know. You are applying the flaws of the worst examples across the whole technology AKA a strawman. Maybe you're just salty you could never take the risk required to make money on new tech and don't want to think of yourself as a Luddite.
It has some merit sometimes, but I prefer not to rely on this justification. These are incidental benefits at the margins at best.

My preferred argument is, if we can spend billions on trivialities like carbonated sugar water and computer games, as a civilisation we can afford basic science research. It’s not actually all that expensive in the grand scheme of things, and cutting science would not necessarily have any impact on funding for the alternative things (world peace, feeding the poor, etc) people who complain about such funding want. If they want to complain about waste they are picking a particularly poor target. A bit of a tangent, as the head comment wasn’t actually making this complaint.
Actually getting help is often associated with high costs, risks and stigmas of various kinds.

Obsession?

Hardly.
> a couple blows with a hammer

First, put it in a heavy-duty freezer ziplock bag and then place on concrete. This allows you to nicely pulverize the chips into many tiny pieces without making a mess. A hammer works well, but a few taps with a sledge hammer is even better and somehow more satisfying.
Sure, but GitHub's own promotional pages (pretty much any of the gifs on https://copilot.github.com/ as well as other articles, e.g. https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitatio...) show it producing much more elaborate segments than that.

In fact, that's a crucial selling point for the product.
That's not a proof of work issue - that's a people issue, and its auditable.
Does cutting back on caffeine help you? Or does caffeine help?
Automating Microsoft Office to Achieve Red Teaming Objectives
> What are the practical applications of gravitational wave research?

Currently, not much. We’re Galileo grinding lenses at home.

Theoretically? Everything from a whole new mode of active sensing, e.g. deep into the Earth and/or Sun, all the way to communications. Being able to directly measure gravity also lets us do new classes of experiments (not yet, but if we can measure more sensitively). We don’t know what we don’t know when it comes to gravity, so that’s another pot of potential.

Less fantastically, these are immensely precise instruments. The manufacturing methods and know how will almost certainly translate to other domains.
> Why isn't it more correct to say that that pilot blocked the canal using the ship?

It doesn't matter. The Suez Canal Authority - Rules of Navigation Article 4, section 7:

“(7) Owners, mobilizers, charterers and/or operators bind themselves responsible for any mistakes resulting from pilot’s advice or arrise by SCA personnel.”

https://www.suezcanal.gov.eg/English/Navigation/Pages/Ruleso....

> It seems like Egypt is just taking advantage of the situation and their canal monopoly.

Yes.
It is dishonest not to set a minimum amount : you said it yourself, it needs to cover the Basic stuff. So there is a minimum.

For the EU, this is in the ballpark € 1000 - € 1500 - € 2000 ( we already have people on 'benefits' in NL, so there is consensus about this 'living minimum' ).

If you would really care so much as you claim you do, you could have easily provided a basic budget for this grand plan.

But you can't.
I should include a term in my licenses that licensees explicitly waive their rights to fair use and/or fair dealing.
What model? iPhone 6S was released in 2015 and will be able to run iOS 15.
Therapy is a deeply personal thing, and as such I can understand the hesitancy. I suppose that therapists can vary but mine was not one to give advice. Sessions consisted of me working through my feelings in a safe place, free of distractions, with the therapist effectively working as a guide to keep things on course. It was not a case of someone hearing my problems and suggesting solutions. My progress I had came from within, as a result of the sessions.

With respect to hobbies, I think that the inflection point was realizing that there were truly things still did excite me. From there, it was a matter of working up the courage to explore them. It wasn’t something that happened instantly, but generally being more in tune with my feelings, through therapy, allowed me to identify opportunities for hobbies and balancing activities.

It’s interesting that you mention Lego and DIY electronics. I had similar interests which, from what I would guess, stemmed from an interest in building things (which was the reason I got into software in the first place).
> What makes this so complicated?

Making sure all data access goes through an abstraction layer that transparently encrypts and decrypts data has some complex bits to it, especially the part about storing the encryption key safely and rotating it properly. It also complicates all the hardware programming because nothing gets direct access to storage anymore, which a lot of IOT devices assume they have.

> When you say expensive, do you mean computationally, dev time, or specialized hardware?

All three. Computationally it's not expensive per se, but it requires adding a few more chips and making the CPU a little more powerful to handle all of the encryption and decryption. In IOT devices, every chip and every KB of RAM counts, so adding that overhead to every device could be a deal breaker on its own. I've worked with IOT vendors and they push back on even small increases in RAM, because it hurts their profitability at scale.

Dev time of course is required to make all the software support the abstraction layer, and specialized hardware would be required to securely store the encryption key (maybe depending on how hard core you wanted to get).
I can count on Hackernews comment sections to somehow have the most prerequisites yet some of the worst thought out opinions on crypto.
FPGAs are hard to work with in part because the tools are extremely proprietary. But that is starting to change. Open source FPGA tools are becoming more common and more powerful.
The expansion at a local level is too slow and is overwhelmed by the local forces holding these structures together. Only at the cosmic scale, where the gravitational forces between galaxies and clusters or super-clusters of galaxies are very tenuous, the expansion takes over.
Different use case (of more engineering / 3D printing), but I've also found the channel Maker Tales and his Precison Modelling tutorial series really good, with relatively short, focused videos.
Wait a sec, this headline doesn’t pass the smell test. If you have no food, and no means to acquire food, you’ll die in short order.

So are we saying 80% of Lebanon households will be dead in (however long starvation takes)?

Or are we saying that they can’t get food meeting $standard in quality/quantity, yet are still surviving (albeit with nutritional or other drawbacks)?
What about submitting Bitcode when uploading to App Store Connect? Would it take advantage of the change and build an optimized binary for iOS 15 while still supporting the old way on pre-iOS 15 and deliver the appropriate binary upon download?
Even if hypothetically there was such a strange bug in your piano and you decided to exploit it by recording copyrighted music and redistributing it, you would be accountable for it, not a piano.

This analogy train went too far, don't you think? All examples that I've seen on Twitter require quite an intentional manipulation by human for Copilot to produce something copyrighted. It does not recite Linux code by pressing 1 key.
For most of my 20s I had all these ambitions of making something big, beautiful, this pure expression of my creative energies

After burning myself out failing for years to even pick a project, get started, stick with it for more than a few hours, and all the while feeling more and more depressed about that fact, I’ve experienced something called “ego exhaustion”. I gave up, which over time allowed me space to stop being so hard on myself, and start to recover, and I’m finally feeling the beginnings of creative energy coming back again. I know better now, that pushing on that energy won’t help anything, so I’m just focused on nurturing it and seeing where it takes me. For now, that’s happiness. Later, maybe I’ll make something big after all. If not, that’s okay.

This is something I’ve heard happens to a lot of people as they get closer to the middle part of life
upvotes/downvotes/likes are in my opinion net negative

It's hard to convince world to move from this thing, but it promotes some kind of addiction, an ability to manipulate

web 2.0 is kinda mistake when it comes to news and stuff.
> A compressed file containing Quake's source code would be covered by the copyright on Quake's source code. The compression algorithm would not.

What? Where does the distinction between data and algorithm go with compression algorithms?

In its most abstract form a compression algorithm is function `{0, 1}^n -> {0, 1}^m` such that n < m and the output string is the result of something previously encoded.

Why can't the input string be the seed used to make the machine learnt model generate the Quake source code?
Yes, people can read my open-sourced code and learn from it, like they can do with paints, movies, sculpts, and books.

No, I don't allow to copy my code freely.

Can you explain, what point you are trying to defend here?
> before 2018 are essentially now bricks

Quit being overly antagonistic, you know this is hyperbole because you are

> someone with a device locked on iOS 10
The forces that keep atoms, neutrons, quarks etc bound to each other is stronger than the force caused by space expanding. Therefore, space expanding is mostly observed when measuring distance between galaxies.
[Ianal]

The thing about the situation is that "copying code you found on the Internet" certainly isn't automatically, always legal. That you engaged in copying X from the Internet doesn't make illegal either. Your source for the source code your incorporate into a product doesn't matter, what matters is whether that code is copyrighted and what the license terms (if any) are (and people saying "copyright doesn't apply to machines" are wildly misinterpreting things imo).

Given what's come out, it seems plausible that you could coax the source of whatever smallish open source project you wished out of copilot. Claiming copyright on that code wouldn't be legal regardless of Copilot.

Whether Microsoft/Github would be liable is another question as far as I can tell. I mean, Youtube-dl can be used to violate copyright but it isn't liable for those violations. The only way Copilot is different from youtube-dl is that it tells it's users everything is OK and "they told me it was OK" is generally not a legal defense (IE, I don't know for sure but I'd be shocked if the app shielded it's users from liability). All the open source code is certainly "free to look at" and Copilot putting that on a programmers screen isn't doing more than letting the programmer look at it until the programmer does something (incorporating it into a released work they claim as their own would be act).

The question is how easily a programmer could accidentally come up with a large enough piece of a copyrighted work using Copilot. That question seems to be open.

TL;DR; My entirel amateur legal opinion is that Copilot can't violate copyright but that it's users certainly can.
An encryption key not stored on a secure enclave would still enable a robust factory reset, no?

It just wouldn't protect against some physical attacks to an unreset device.
I appreciate the snark, but there’s a reason policy is made in real life and not on “Hacker News.”
They ask because a fith of 3k to 10k withdrawals are used to pay scammers.
"Rome was note only white" is not motte, it is a counterargument to the white supremacists who have fetishised ancient Rome as some racially homogeneous utopia over the years.

> the classics tend not to be seen in a racialised light other than by people like this author and other racially focused individuals.

The point you're making here was made by the author in the article itself:

"I want to focus on two lesser-known arguments that are particularly relevant for our own postcolonial times: firstly, that the Romans didn’t have a sense of race in the modern sense of that word."

The author is not trying to racialise the subject area, they're trying to de-racialise it by pointing out that the, rather white-focused, way that ancient Rome has been presented in modern times isn't accurate.
> ... if source code under the license is used as all or part of the inputs to an algorithm, whether all of the source code or partially, then the license terms must be attached to the output.

You're not getting it. If Copilot isn't currently infringing copyright then adding such a clause won't matter. Such a clause would only hold weight when copyright applies. On the other hand, if copyright does apply, then you don't need such a clause because the activity is already a violation of the vast majority of licenses. (It even violates extremely permissive ones because it effectively strips out the license notice.)

The GPL works specifically because copyright applies to the usecase in question. It simply specifies various requirements that you must meet in order to license the code given that copyright applies.

In short, you can't just put a clause into a license saying, effectively, "and also, this license confers superpowers which make it so that my copyright applies in additional situations where it otherwise wouldn't!".