skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It’s not copyright violation to train ML on content.

I agree. It'd be a nice gesture to reach out to the creators of the training data, like is usual with web scrapers. But collecting and analyzing data publicly available on the web is ok.

>So the license doesn’t matter unless there’s some “can’t use this for ML training” license that I don’t know about (and doesn’t seem to be legal).

I disagree. While Copilot is, at heart, a ML model, the copyright trouble comes from its usage. It consumes copyright code (ok), analyzes copyright code (still ok), and then produces code which sometimes is a copy of copyright code (not ok). The only way it'd be ok is if Copilot followed all licensing requirements when it produced copies of other works.

Personally, I won't touch it for work until either Copilot abides by the licenses or there's robust case law.
It is super hot in north russia too.
Compared to the expense of failed crops? Mass migration of all humans to the northern most reaches of Canada?

I really don't think you get it. If temperatures rise enough, most of Central and North America won't be uninhabitable. The parts that aren't underwater will be too hot and parched. We won't be able to grow crops or desalinate enough water when the clouds and rain disappear (yes that will happen).

The 3 days of intense heat here in Portland left plants all around my yard scorched and half dead. Just 3 days. Imagine that happening regularly around the world.
No admission of guilt

> According to spokesmen, two branches of the Sackler family noted that the settlement included no finding of liability or wrongdoing.

And no more lawsuits

> If Judge Robert Drain, who is presiding over the bankruptcy proceedings, certifies the plan after an August hearing, as is now widely expected, both the family and the company would be shielded from further opioid-related lawsuits.

Sounds like a good deal for Purdue Pharma.
I agree that geoengineering is exceptionally fraught with potential problems, but perhaps it is time to begin exploring the options at least.

from my own understanding and reading one of the few feasible cooling efforts would be high altitude aerosol dispersal, which again, has serious risk of unintended consequences.

There is also room for a bit more pressure on countries which emit excessive amounts of carbon, that show no signs of slowing down.
That's sort of my point. You could also look at Vimeo vs. YouTube.

There's also the point that pretty much every time a paywalled article is posted here, someone will inevitably post some work around to the paywall.
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Some favorites being discussed on Twitter, e.g., https://twitter.com/RonAmadeo/status/1412909940474265602
> if you're operating as a consultant, charging clients one rate, and then only claiming 40% of that is your "reasonable salary"

Why would that be off? 40% sounds exactly right; large consultancies pay their consultants 40% (or less!) of what they’re charging clients for said consultants’ time.

Maybe what you’re more concerned about here would be giving giving a 40%-of-revenue salary plus a 60%-of-revenue dividend. But the dividend wouldn’t be 60%. You, as the S-Corp, would be paying into all the regular withholding stuff companies have to pay into on behalf of their employees (social security, etc.). Ever heard the phrase “employing someone at a given salary, costs ≥200% of that salary”? It’s not far off.
This is cool! Also gives me a great excuse to post one of my favorite papers, "Build Systems à la Carte", about how make and Excel are solving the same problem in different ways: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0...
Whether we build an OS kernel, a HTTP server or a video game, we essentially translate between two abstraction layers to facilitate communication. It's on us to understand both sides well enough to achieve this.

A UI is essentially the highest layer of abstraction we build and thus should follow the same principles as any other. Namely respecting both the lower and the upper abstraction barriers.

UX designers are responsible for the language on top of all these layers. They need to understand the human side of things (often through data or through direct interaction such as workshops), but also the technical and artistic side of UI implementation. Direct interaction, written documentation and learning are paramount.

The good thing is that we programmers also want to understand the layer above us, so there is a natural pull for programmers and designers to communicate and to refine that communication.
Best thing you can do is to not produce any pollution whatsoever. It’s the easiest and most ecological way to have 0 impact on Nature.

Make a list of all the things that harm Earth that you do daily (hint: using a computer and the internet is one) and just eliminate from your life. You will be better, we are going to be better and thw world will thank you
Great timing. I was just looking into pylint
If we as a society never questioned the validity of laws, we'd still be ruled by kings.
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> No, see Authors Guild v. Google.

That case required that the output be transformative, in that "words in books are being used in a way they have not been used before".

Copilot only fits the transformative aspect if it is not directly reciting code, that already exists in the form that it is redistributing. So long as it does so, it fails to meet the criteria.
Yes the United States sterilized people involuntarily up until 1981 (Oregon board of eugenics). That was 40 years ago, in Xi’s China it is still happening today. There has been some repetitions paid, and it is unlikely this would happen in the United States today.

The United States and China are nothing alike. Try flying a Winnie the Pooh blimp (makes fun of China’s leader) in China and see how long before that gets shut down. We can also freely talk about what is going on in China/HK/TW/wugiwers here, where such speech would be prohibited in China.
> By comparison, Copilot is even more obviously fair use.

Not sure I see it that way.

If I take your hard work that you clearly marked with a GPL license and then make money from it, not quite directly, but very closely, how is that fair use? Or legal?

Copying and storing a book isn't recreating another book from it. Copilot is creating new stuff from the contents of the "books" in this case.

Edit: I misunderstood fair use as it turns out...
It is also more work though. An S-Corp needs to have shareholder meetings, corporate bylaws, keep meetings minutes, final annual reports, requires a board of directors, and you have to be a US citizen/resident. These are all doable of course, but you have to make sure it's worth the tradeoff. The richer you are, the easier it is to hire someone to do all of this extra stuff for you.
So just use a SAT solver to check for checking whether pattern matching is exhaustive. Any decent one will have much better performance than the current approach in the Rust compiler for complex cases. The interesting thing about SAT is that although the worst case is exponential (as far as we know until someone proves P = NP), even huge real-life problems (from circuits, program analysis etc) tend to have structure that makes them quickly solvable with a SAT solver. And if not, have a time budget and report "too complex to solve" if exceeded.
As a dev in a business environment, I don't care about your project. At all.
It's going to be run-of-the-mill business app, storage, front-end, logic. There will be nothing exciting or interesting for me whatsoever. I don't care about your case management, insurance leads, or Teams Governance. Becuase I'm a human with human interests (writing code, and dreaming of a decent Transformers movie before I die), your projects are not interesting, and they will not invest me.

However for every project I take on, there will always be something I have never done before, or a maybe some new technique I want to try, could be a new language. That's where the engagement comes from.

I don't care about the project, I care about writing code (and exploring writing code) to the best of my ability (and to the best of the project constraints).

If I've done my job well, that means I learned something new/had fun and the project will never burn my screen pixels ever again.
> Not to mention having fewer resources to fight if you are audited.

Can't find the link now, but I read somewhere that the IRS avoids audits if the risk of losing is higher (i.e. the person in question has more resources to fight it $). So their enforcement is heavily skewed towards average people.

Which corroborates this statement.

> more modest means is more likely to attract attention
It's not journalism, it's commentary delivered in an overly formal style that's intended to denote intellectual gravitas.

The Economist does 0 (and I mean zero) investigative work. They read the papers like everyone else, and will dig up bits from IMF/World Bank reports and think tanks to fill out the rest of the article.
Which do you think costs more?

I can tell you the marginal value for most all content is basically zero. The hosting costs aren't.
I see a lot of negative about YT premium online but I've been using it for years.. I don't know how you can use the YT app on mobile without it.
Formerly id id id id id id id id id... would do it, but looks like someone has put in a fix for that.
Well... The question is not limiting the number, so I think we all make into the first couple billion or so best programmers.
I think OP just didn't read the article
They are not orthogonal. At all. While it is possible that a project is compelling despite terrible communication, they are highly correlated.

Orthogonal is a great word. Don't weaken it.
>Go back to glass bottles for things. Give subsidies to companies that use glass for inventory loss and such. Bring back the milkman who refills your empty jugs.

Shouldn't we tax the externalities of plastic and let the market decide whether it's worth it? In your example of using glass bottles: sure it gets rid of plastic, but what about the costs of glass? eg. increased weight or energy/water needed to clean them. As for bringing back the milkman, how is driving a truck door to door delivering exclusively milk more efficient than picking it up on your way to the grocery store?
It's worth noting that effective population size != actual population size. The former is simply a lower bound on it. If the population is structured enough and in the right ways, the actual size can be orders of magnitude higher. This has been an issue with several supposed bottlenecks within African populations.
Without ultra-fine optimization a product like that is going to have the cost and power consumption of an i7 and the performance of an Atom. The slightest flaw in power management anywhere in the platform obliterates the power management benefits from the CPU.
Making money comes first in this world, and only then comes the realization if our kids or grandkids still have a habitable world.

Guess up until now it’s an abstraction people couldn’t imagine. Despite years of warning.

Recently been thinking we should reform old style political parties. Instead we get to directly vote for ideological topics which we can vote on, and politicians/parties who adhere to them. So instead of parties we vote for ideas directly. Just an idea that needs a lot more work :)
> they want to believe that the virus will go away on its own

Pandemics have never "ended". Their effects just slide to a level that people stop talking about it.
For me, it's knowing that extensive lifestyle changes and even major policy changes in the western world will hardly make a dent as nations with less means continue to grow and increase their carbon footprint. (Yes, I understand per-person consumption in Western countries is much higher) I can't blame the people in those countries for not being able to think or plan long term while trying to make it day by day. Humanity has made tremendous strides as far as reducing extreme poverty between WWII and up until Covid hit. Maybe trying to look at the worlds issues more holistically and not with a laser focus on climate change could lead to building more countries that have the means to make the big changes the rest of the world needs to make.
> Here's one - a Charitable Remainder Trust (CRT) allows you to donate your wealth, get a tax deduction on it and setup an income stream from it for as long as you're alive before the funds go to charity.

The catch, of course, is that the funds actually get donated to charity in the end.

It's not so much that people are unaware that this exists. It's that it's not actually an attractive option for most people who wish to leave their inheritance to their children.
it would be a win for Microsoft that don't distribute their source code

whereas for open source it's a disaster
> to support the tiny fraction of people who can do repairs.

And the massive fraction of people who can now choose who to hire for repairs. It is a lie to claim only repairmen are affected.
Not all online harassment involves porn. I'd wager that the vast majority doesn't. You can be squeaky-clean porn-wise and still be the target of online harassment campaigns.
> Even without a license or permission, fair use permits the mass scanning of books, the storage of the content of those books, and rendering verbatim snippets of those books.

For commercial use and derivative works?

Authors won't incorporate snippets of books into new works unless they're reviews. Copilot is different.
Keeping it private is one option, but I really want my end users to have the freedom to modify the code for themselves.
I still don't understand why (UK) schools weren't closed sooner (for the general population, excepting children of key workers). I pulled my kids out a week before the first lockdown, it would have been perhaps a week sooner but it's illegal to do that in the UK.

It's well known schools are a major contributor to spread of diseases (and I did read some papers on flu spread in schools prior to making my decision to check the verity of the common wisdom on schools being Petri dishes of disease!).
That's just completely wrong. Please stop spreading misinformation about a serious subject. You can find the CDC's best estimates of fatality rates here.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

Doctors have mostly stopped using ventilators to treat COVID-19 patients. Those often do more harm than good.
I'm not a native english speaker... but how in the world "notc" sounds like "nazi"?

I'll try to pronounce it like "no-ti-see", or "notick" or something like that
Not to mention their intense lobbying to restrict residency positions.
I agree we don't know the limit, but I think we can safely say that a machine can be at least as capable as the human mind, since we could in principle reverse engineer that.

I would also say that the upper limit must also include the level of intelligence of a whole society working together towards something, because none of us are as smart as all of us.

What's more relevant, though, is that we don't know what the progress curve looks like that passes through "superhuman ability at multiplying numbers" then "at playing chess" then "at playing go" then "at writing novels" then "at developing AI".

If, on average, there are a few decades between each of those steps, and these are roughly linear steps, then we might not need to worry much for another generation, but if the progress curve is exponential then it might already be too late.
What ? There have been plenty of GPL cases defended in court.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_license_litigati...
It's not supporting "the tiny fraction of people who can do repairs". It's supporting everyone who might choose to take it to a third party instead of Apple when it breaks -- be it for better price, better service, or even to force Apple to be competitive on both fronts. Hell, it's even supporting the very idea of fixable devices, as this arguably impacts not only post-sale support, but also the very design of said devices.

It's not black and white, we don't need to go full cyberpunk wild west to establish some level of control over our electronics.
First of all, CIRA is not the government, it is an elected public company.

Second of all, it is not switching to use CIRA's DNS, it is added CIRA DNS to their revolver so .ca domains get fed through Mozilla's DNS over HTTP, rather then going Mozilla DNS <-> CIRA.
Rich people use their various assets to avoid millions of taxes in every industry.
I'm not sure how I feel about DoH. It seems like there a ton of unnecessary overhead added by placing the super lightweight DNS protocol on top of HTTP. My initial reaction is also that I might lose some control over my network and which domains hosts query on my network. Are things like DNS sinkholes and domain blacklisting still possible with DoH?
I wonder what's the attraction of split horizon dns especially at an academic institution. It seems it will obviously break stuff since all kinds of things rely on dns working as it was designed to, providing a global namespace.
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Yeah, but I think this an avenue we should peruse. If by any chance they copied anything from rk3399-linux, the whole thing should be released under GPLv2.
Given the shape of modern propaganda, this seems irresponsible.
Depends on state of incorporation. It's usually a low one-time fee -- Texas is $300. There's also no need to incorporate in a state you are physically present in, but it makes taxes simpler if the state you're in requires state income tax.
> This kind of comments resembles the thinking process of a person with "product manager" position in a small/medium size company. Deep down (consciously or subconsciously) they don't really respect or see the value of the individual developer, but they see the team more like a bunch of horses going around the mill. They optimize for "the product" and throw around sophists-like pseudo-philosophical thoughts that appeal to like-minded individuals or to their bosses.

There’s some truth to that somewhat cynical description. :) But how do you organize software development without falling into that hole? A product has to make sense as a whole, and the only/easiest way to accomplish that is to make a single person responsible for its high-level specification. From there the negative cultural fallout you describe is to some extent inevitable (although you can and should counteract it of course).
Smallpox.

With a high enough vaccination rate, even a disease with R0 of 20 can go away (COVID19 has an R0 of 3 to 6, maybe 9 if we include Delta variant).

We've literally eradicated a more difficult and deadly disease before. I'm not saying we need to eradicate COVID19, but its absolutely within our power.
The conflation of right to repair with other things might make the whole enterprise impossible. It's currently very difficult to claim support for something when the goalposts keep moving.

I'm very much in support of companies being required to provide schematics, where reasonable. Also I see no reason why they should be able to stop manufacturers selling parts to repair shops.

I don't think that forcing design choices, such as modular components, easily replaceable batteries, requiring certain ports and things like that are a good idea. These ideas should stand on their own, if there is a market for it then let people make that choice for themselves, including the downsides that come with it.

I think if right to repair can't get a handle on what's being advocated for then things like phones and laptops will be left out of any major legislation.
It's somewhat more involved than just "volcano lava."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyry_copper_deposit
Porphyry copper deposits are copper ore bodies that are formed from hydrothermal fluids that originate from a voluminous magma chamber several kilometers below the deposit itself. Predating or associated with those fluids are vertical dikes of porphyritic intrusive rocks from which this deposit type derives its name. In later stages, circulating meteoric fluids may interact with the magmatic fluids.

There's also this idea:
https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/studies-re-examine-how...
In the early days of TV, when the first broadcast licenses were being granted, there was a legislative proposal to make advertising on TV illegal. It was defeated, resulting in a century of TV that was largely a wasteland in the service of the tobacco and fast food industries. We have a political choice.
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But who says the code has to be available to anyone but Microsoft?

Remember that Amazon won off the back of open source. Now all the open source servers and databases are Amazon products.
That statement isn't a comparison. And not part of it even remotely implies that "quickly zeroing out carbon emissions there would be no negative consequences".

What that statement is doing is communicating a real sense of dread that maybe we have to do it even though it would be incredibly difficult and costly.
>If I take your hard work that you clearly marked with a GPL license and then make money from it, not quite directly, but very closely, how is that fair use? Or legal?

You can wipe your ass with the GPL license if your use of the product falls within Fair Use.

You can actually take snippets from commercial movies and post them onto YouTube if your YouTube video is transformative enough for your usage to be considered fair use. Well, theoretically at least - in reality YouTube might automatically copyright strike it.

>Copying and storing a book isn't recreating another book from it.

That doesn't mean that GitHub has to redistribute Copilot under GPL. However, the end user could potentially have to if they use Copilot to generate new code that happens to copy GPL code verbatim.
What's annoying to me having created a prefers-scheme and fully-responsive favicon is getting docked by Lighthouse for not having matching dimensions for each value of these PWA dimensions. The favicon changes layout and does a nice job, but our the tool is dumb so I have to optimize for Google's tool instead of a single, maintainable file.
The only thing that can save us from the cataclysm of climate change is technology. It's too late for social engineering and politics.
>People want it to be free.

I'm not sure we're even disagreeing. Of course, people want things to be free as the default condition. Which is what sets up the mental transaction cost when something isn't free. And we see this in all sorts of settings. It's quite well established that there's a bigger gulf between free and really cheap than there is between really cheap and just cheap.
It's worth noting that the author of the arcicle doesn't think it's worth integrating a SAT solver:

> Does this mean that rustc should integrate an industrial-strength SAT solver? As hilarious as that would be, I'm advocating no such thing. This will only be a performance issue on pathological examples crafted by bored nerds, and I don't think precious engineering time should be spent on that. Besides, generalizing a SAT algorithm to handle the full expressive power of Rust's patterns might be, to borrow some language from mathematicians, non-trivial.