skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that without Section 230 a company is effectively a publisher and takes responsibility for all content on the sites they host. I feel like that section should somehow be tailored to promote the First Amendment to let people say what they can that is legal. If you want protection from liability, you should allow people to post what they want as long as it's not illegal and then remove illegal content in a Good Samaritan or good faith effort.

Then users of the big sites will know if they are under the section 230 bucket or not. Right now, it's very easy to just say that you're doing it under section 230 because of the Catch all wording.

Doing this would allow people that did have their content moderated and the company said they were operating under section 230 to contest things that were removed if it is not illegal.

This likely does open up the internet to a big troll fest, and it makes how algorithms rank things very interesting
To avoid copyright issues could we do to do it how humans do it - with "clean-room design"?

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

E.g.

1. Train one ML implementation to produce "specification text" in a way that they're agreed to be free from copyright claims. E.g. train to avoid any direct quoting, possibly via a different human, programming or custom specification language.

2. Train a separate ML implementation to produce code from the specifications.

3. Hook them together and you've got a pipeline for generating learned, but copyright-free, code.

Kind of reminds me a bit of some of the machine translation work with human languages.

Note: this is how the GNU project itself sometimes clones the functionality of copyright-free way, so I'm pretty sure it would be safe to use this on GPL-licensed code.
There is no rise in crime, but people polled say they believe there is. It's a textbook case of Chomsky's manufactured consent phenomena. It's not a drive-by comment, it's simply concise.
"as French citizens are required to carry identification papers. If they are stopped and cannot show them, they can be fined."

Which made me think of that already, how are they going to fine a "dead" person?
Richwine, of nasa, told me that he thinks S.S.T. could cut some flight times in half. But, he said, supersonic flight wouldn’t proportionately reduce over-all travel time until we fixed our infrastructure: How much better is flying from L.A.X. to J.F.K. in two or three hours if you spend twice that time in airports and traffic?
I am a block away from it in Praga. There are a handful of drunks, but I understand this is the worst area of the city, but I was interested in getting to know the other side of the Vistula. I haven't seen any rough sleeping or open air drug use near me. Very little public drinking over here (unlike all the students on the other side of the river). Praga has nothing on the Tenderloin.

Elsewhere in the city, I saw pushy begging exactly once when entering the Old Town. There were about 6 rough sleepers under one of the Vistula bridges with neatly folded sleeping bags and they are being guarded by a police van.

If there's a homeless tent city of heroin addicts around here, do tell.
Can you clarify: Are you asserting it's literally impossible, along the lines of being actively unconstitutional or impossible in some fashion, or that "well voters won't want to"?
You can't give out something for free without limitations and then complain when someone uses it for something you didn't expect. Well you can complain but no one has to listen.

Githubs use seems very in the spirit of open data and code. Using open source to help others.
From the Copilot FAQ, notice there is no specific mention of the term "Open Source":

> It has been trained on a selection of English language and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on GitHub.

Meaning GitHub might have also been sourcing from public source / source-available projects that were not OSS licensed at all.
It’s a terrible example though as the people with the most liquid financial situation are the ones that left. The ones that remained can’t even afford to rent they U-Haul to get out of Dodge. They’re stuck treading water and at best will get Newsom to buy their vote^W^W^Wpay their back rent.
Security is not cheap, in real terms. Also, security is not easy to understand even by the technically competent. It’s also boring AF. Processes and tools get impacted and it’s very hard to turn the metaphoric ship that is a business operation. I know it’s contrary to the tasty trend of blaming CEOs for everything, but IME this is not a CEO problem except in a relatively narrow sense. It’s a COO problem at least as much, and a problem whose resiliency is enforced by every manager up and down the line who doesn’t want somebody pissing in their corn flakes while they’re trying to spin five bowls of corn flakes on sticks (to mix metaphors). I’m gobsmacked by how many relatively young adults lack some basic skills at thinking systemically and this retards efforts as well - even conceiving of the motivations driving initiatives, a lack of threat awareness, etc.
I think the way software will evolve into a more traditional engineering role will be in layers of abstraction starting closest to the hardware. Which will become certified services/systems to build more loosely on top of or using as components.

We’re starting to see this with commoditization/formalization of platforms. OS, storage, cloud, infrastructure, e-commerce are getting to the point where they’re pretty well explored. In another 20 years it’ll be so specialized and optimized that you’d need a Ph.D to make meaningful improvements in those areas.

So people won’t feel the need to try and recreate it themselves except for learning and as that process continues we’ll see those things formalize best practices which would eventually turn into engineering standards, etc…

You’ll have licensed and bonded engineers building low level highly formalized systems/services which meet certain guarantees. Similar to how I imagine civil engineering works.

Then for the rest of the industry you’ll have what we currently have which is like home construction where almost anything goes, but there are pieces that need to be validated by actual engineers or licensed professionals similar to how electricians and plumbers are licensed.
Extended discussion recently on Citations Needed podcast: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/news-brief-organized-crim...
> It allowed controversial things to be said without the host being liable for hosting them.

That was already allowed, provided they didn't, to use the phrasing being used in this thread, “pick and choose what gets heard, what gets buried, and what gets banned.” Doing that even on a limited basis made them, under pre-230 law, a publisher, subject to liability for all content on the platform.

Section 230 was adopted specifically to allow platforms to moderate user-generated content according the platform owners’ view of objectionable content without incurring publisher liability, because the pre-230 situation was viewed as encouraging a situation i which platforms who didn't feel they could completely moderate were forced to not moderate at all, making online communities persistently polluted with objectionable content.

The Communications Decency Act, of which 230 was the only substantive part to survive, was not about promoting unmoderated internet fora, but the opposite.
I concur. It took me too long to figure out that ESC does the trick. Also, the help pane needs navigation at the bottom too. Was looking for the key binding table too. It would be nice if keybindings can be remapped.
This story is missing the key detail on who/how/what the process was for declaring her dead.

The journalist needed to go the extra step here and didn't.
Jinsho
In the long-term the solution is reform of the European Convention on Human Rights. National courts should enforce human rights. The European Court should essentially be an appellate court only, which hears appeals from the national courts.

They've been slowly working towards that goal. Protocol 16, which allows national courts to request advisory opinions from the ECHR, is a step towards that. But it is a difficult journey because some member states don't want to see the ECHR become more effective.
Kaseya is yet again a IT remote management door with full control over devices. Looks like almost all recent ransomware attacks started with exploiting such software to take control of an organization widely...

When will such remote management software be finally considered for the huge risk and attack surface they are?
I'm not. They're the same thing, the slogan was invented by police abolitionists.

https://twitter.com/BlackVisionsMN/status/126614972305388339...

https://twitter.com/sunrisemvmt/status/1279148959139758080

It actually makes more sense this way, the confusion is when people who don't want to abolish the police still want to defund them.
I wasn’t suggesting the theory works. I was pointing out the discomfort is intended.
No: 尸, the radical of 尻 doesn't mean "flag" -- it means "corpse". Notice that many of the characters with the 尸 radical refer to defilement, excrement or death.
One of the arguments against the economics of asteroid mining for precious metals presented is the cost of shipping rock down to Earth.

One thing I've always wondered, is it possible to have asteroids deliberately crash through the atmosphere instead?
> So is it a lie that sometimes after lunch on a Friday, the act of programming is often a series of off-by-one, off-by-two, off-by-one-the-other-direction compile-test-edit-commit loops?

No, exactly the opposite: it's a lie to pretend that you can write perfect code the first time, and it does no-one any favours in the long run: not yourself, and certainly not those who come to learn from you in the future. And it's not normal or expected the way makeup can sometimes be; junior programmers will be genuinely deceived and this will cause real harm.

Keep the history, warts and all. Best case someone might learn something from it. Worst case you're no worse off.
Fair play, might of changed with covid, the many times I went I always thought they should do more for them, same in Katowice, Lodz, etc.. perhaps care has stepped up a bit, always felt safe but that's probably due to male and size. You couldn't move for pushy beggars in 2019
Unicode data file compression: achieving 40-70% reduction over gzip alone
Too bad he couldn't or too bad he didn't...
The conclusion doesn't follow from the facts you state. There's a surprisingly large number of people who like Coldplay and short-sleeve dress shirts, and no government mandate was needed to get to that state of affairs, nor has any government succeeded in curbing these atrocities.
Except, this "mini framework" is not really easier than React and when the project matures, replacing it with a real framework will be a huge hassle.
If anyone found this interesting, I highly recommend the audiobook/lecture "Language Families of the World" by John McWhorter. The title makes it sound dry, but he's a very entertaining lecturer. It's one of those works that - if you have never been exposed to the subject - is a window to an previously unnoticed detail in everyday life. Similar to when one learns about an architectural flourish and from that point forward sees it on buildings everywhere.
Uh.

Patent registrations are public. Details about a registered patent in any country will be available to all countries worldwide.

It is also unlikely that a country would opt to abide by intellectual property treaties when at war.
I believe that portions of the enigma machine technology were patented and later reviewed for exploitation by the British.

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/enigma/patents/
It should bea bar chart with the entire bar being the potential, and a red area showing the throttling as a percent. Throttling + actual execution total to 100%
It would mean many people wouldn't choose to live flying distance from their families in the first place and they would go to local events, and people would connect more with local community.
"Some activists want both things means they can't be distinct proposals" is like claiming the FSF and libertarians are the same group because there's a lot overlap.
Some things, like housing, are so expensive that canceling other projects wouldn't actually get them done. The solution is to find ways to make them cheaper.

Other things, like education, are actually unrelated because they're literally different tax districts (eg property vs sales tax) applied to different people. In that case you can't vote on defund + fund at the same time. But also, some people just don't like taxes, so if you put the defund one first they'll take it but not use it to fund anything new.
Funny, I was just re-reading this today and thinking about how the industry has played out in the twenty years since. http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/comp/Publications/CS-TR-02-9.abs.ht...
I wonder, who are they actually fining if she’s dead? Does she have immunity from pretty much anything that would be illegal?
> but not indicating why

Agree, you really want 2 indicators, vs 1 confusing hybrid.
It turns out housing isn't actually that expensive to provide (SF's unusual housing market aside, for a moment), and solves an enormous number of these problems on its own. https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chroni...
One and three are "odd" numbers
Most surveys are propaganda: a sample size of just a thousand people allows to get any result in any area. I could get 85% respondents to support ktulhu as the official deity by handpicking the right respondents. Even if I really wanted to know how much support ktulhu really has, I'd be very troubled because accountants in Idaho are going to view ktulhu differently than mechanics in Florida. For this reason, when I see "N% support X", I read it as "the media agency wants me to think that X has N% support" and I wonder why. Most of the time the answer isn't terribly complex: it's the party affiliation of the agency.
I would need more information to flesh out how you think my default assumptions (that indirect costs are approximately proportional to direct costs) should be revised.

Facts and logic are optional, but at least a quantitative assertion that's falsifiable would be a start.
> constructive math can be very convenient for proving stuff about programs/computations.

How? I can see how proving properties of programs is a place where constructivism won't get in the way, but do you have an example of where it can be more convenient?
I laugh at the thought that every company trying to host 20 vendor apps is more secure than having the company that wrote the apps host them. Self hosted apps get updated on a much much slower schedule and don't have access to the brains who built the software.
I’d tech companies are going to build massive “campuses” they should be required to build “dormitories” too.
> I am capable of summarizing the thoughts of lawyers

Then, I'm sorry, but you seem to have done a pretty bad job of summarizing that paper ?

My own take on summarizing it's conclusion would be :

"If the program can pass the Turing Test, then it should be legally liable, just like a human would."

(Yes, emphasis on the should here, but the way that you're presenting that quote might make readers think that that paper's conclusion is the opposite one !)

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> Nobody is really being hurt when a new tool makes it easier to copy little bits of code from the internet.

Some of the examples from that paper are A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster (no comment) and White Smith Music Publ’g Co. v. Apollo Co. (piano rolls), and in that latter case we pretty much (?) got the whole Copyright Act of 1909 the very next year, where these “mechanical reproductions” were subjected to a statutory compulsory license.

So at the very least there should be concern about how Copilot might be eventually considered by the courts to facilitate copyright infringement and at the very least have to provide the source of its "insights" ?

(Attribution being the bare minimum that most of the software licenses require.)
Yeah well I haven't looked at what this thing actually produces. Regardless the statement that "robots don't count" is ridiculous.
> If Copilot is reciting pieces of GPL code (which we know it can), then not only does it need to point out where it has grabbed that code from, Copilot itself is (probably) required to be GPL-licensed.

I'm no GPL expert, but if you could trivially swap in a model trained on a different corpus, I think that's enough separation between the Copilot code and the model data that GPLing the former is not necessary. IIRC there is an "at arm's length" criterion that typically applies in cases like this.
Eyewitness testimony isn't actually worth all that much, even from pilots. At any given time there's thousands of planes in the air at a variety of altitudes. There's also bright satellites, stars, and astral bodies. Between any given pilot and those things is a lot of turbulent atmosphere (even in the clearest weather), a canopy, and often sunglasses or a helmet visor.

Even for a trained pilot the reference-free venue that is the sky is a bit mind bending. Even something the size of an airliner looks like an indistinct pill from a few km away. Atmospheric ducting [0] can make a plane too distant to pick up on radar visible to the eye or an EO/FLIR sensor.

There's also the pesky habit of "eyewitness" accounts being absolutely terrible. Someone can claim to have "seen" an object while they only did so through their plane's cameras. They think they remember "seeing" the thing so that's their story.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_duct
It sounds like you have it all figured out, so I just have one question: if it's not innovative (it's "no different than stackoverflow with X"), then what is your explanation for why the Copilot announcement here received over 2.8k votes? It's so obviously just stackoverflow with a better selection mechanism, so why aren't people treating it as such?
My point is that SF can not fix welfare on its own because it doesn't have the power to stop people from other states moving in. It either needs to be a nation wide fix or for the city/state to become its own country.
i just did a regular text search for it and the top results where "how many raccoons can fit up your butt"... no voice assistant involved, and the destination urls were not google's.
This is way off topic, but that's funny, because it's the other way around for me: I can install Agda with a `pacman -S agda`, but I'd need to go through the AUR for Lean.
That didn’t happen. Biden challenged Putin in a convo, Putin made a rejoinder about giving up criminals if the US gave up theirs. Dumbass Biden was like, “of course”, not realizing the implications of Putin’s remarks or his own ability to step on a rake, and his office promptly (like same day) walked back the comments.
Yep, and Windows never goes above 100%, iirc. My linux box can hit 800% if I can keep all the cores fed. More confusion.
If my processor is marketed as 1200 MIPS but can run at 2000 MIPS for up to 0.5 seconds out of every 15 second window (due to thermal constraints), but only up to 1700 MIPS when executing SIMD instructions for 0.5 seconds and 1000 MIPS thereafter, and only up to 900 MIPS when it gets too hot because my laptop is sitting on a blanket instead of a hard surface, what is the correct denominator?
Better Deserialization
If you do that then, the diff in git show for the merge commit will always be empty. But I think it's a solvable problem, there just needs to be a better/easier way to say, show the diff between the one side of the merge (usually the first/left) and the result of the merge when showing a merge commit. Or maybe there is an option I'm not familiar with.

That said the rebase followed by --no-ff merge is my preferred approach as well.
Yea. But the people running the system don’t want them all in shelters. They want them on the street making you feel unsafe and uncomfortable.
Yes, I agree. Putting homeless people in houses is the most effective thing you can do for them. (sometimes this means forcing them, unfortunately, but it works)

And many people think homeless people ended up there by doing too many drugs or other moral failures, but it's more like being homeless is really bad for your mental health and there's nothing else to do.
2021 Tesla Model S Plaid: Feel the Force–0-60 in 2 Seconds
Are Masks a New Signifier of Social Class?
Wanikani's "radical" names often don't map directly to the actual meaning. They are just used for mnemonics. This happens most when the "radical" isn't a common/official character in Japanese on it's own right, like 尸.

I don't entirely agree with that system, so I often look up the individual radical meanings anyway and add a synonym, but that's Wanikani's method.
Poll: Best search engine for controversial topics?
I was just watching Sundar Pichai explain to Congress that Google is not a monopoly. He was answering questions about Google’s censorship – “if users don’t like the results, they can use a different search engine, right?”

This got me thinking, and I realized that we actually do have a number of options for searching the web these days. It’s no longer such an expensive problem that only Google can solve it.

So, I’m wondering — if you are looking for information on a controversial or politicized topic, which search engine do you trust to surface the most objectively ranked results? Maybe as an example, imagine you’re searching for vaccine side effects. Where do you search first?
https://www.yandex.com
https://www.duckduckgo.com
https://search.brave.com
https://www.bing.com
Many people seem to take it to mean that. It even seems like some are trying to implement it that way. Catchy slogans tend to result in shitty implementations.
This type of thing leads to some of the most annoying UX regressions with "as you type" autocompletes I've ever seen. It's one of the reasons why I don't understand as you type suggestions. Either the person knows what they want and you should let them finish typing, or they don't, and there are way better ways to allow them to signal you they want a suggestion.

One of my earliest QA moments was how some of the women in the office could type so fast, our auto complete widget would spaz out.
> Copyright has concluded that reading by robots doesn’t count. Infringement is for humans only; when computers do it, it’s fair use.

This is a ridiculous conclusion. The ultimate destination of the robot actions' product is its user, i.e. a human. It is a clear corollary of the transitive law. Therefore, all human-focused legal concepts, including infringement, are applicable in such cases.

The absurdness of the conclusion cited above can be easily illustrated, as follows. Suppose that a person owns or rents an advanced robot (say, like Boston Dynamics' Spot, but better). He/she then programs it to break into someone's house and steal something valuable. All goes by the plan, the robot delivers the stolen goods to the rendezvous point and, if rented, gets returned. Now, according to the conclusion's logic, since a robot has done the actual "work", "it's fair use". Nonsense, right?

Just to clarify: I like the concept of GitHub Copilot (even though I have not yet tried this particular product). It offers various benefits, from pedagogical to adopting software engineering best practices to improving engineering productivity. However, I think that IP and legal aspects of this approach and specific product should be carefully studied and resolved in a consistent manner (e.g., prevent the model or system to output exact source code snippets).