skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About a month ago I discovered Mark Kohler on YouTube [1] who runs a little channel talking about wealth management. Once you watch a couple of videos you quickly see the pattern - the biggest cheat code to the US tax system is entrepreneurship and business ownership. But aside from that, it's shocking and eye-opening how many schemes (aka "legal structures") you can employ to preserve your wealth and reduce taxation which are available to everyone regardless of their social status. It's just that... most of us mere mortals don't know anything about them. In fact, some of this stuff seems borderline illegal, but it's not and it's been used by the wealthy to transfer wealth for generations. I think this just demonstrates yet another failure of the education system in the US.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHYeaAH3D-wzQyDiXndSfMA
When reading these articles just replace “loophole“ with “totally legal process” and see if it still seems wrong.

The word has a nearly constant emotional appeal now. I can think of another topic that it is used a ton and means less than nothing. It should be considered bad writing by now.
> Some cultures expect people to be engaged with their work, or have their work as a hobby outside of work hours ("do you contribute to open source in your free time?").

Is this actually still a non-negligible factor in tech hiring? I've never had anyone ask me this (and never shared my github), though I believe it existed in the past. But I can't imagine it's accurate to say that this is "expected" in a labor market as absurdly tight as tech is.

I think what's perhaps the case is that you're mistaking opportunity for expectation; for those with little experience and no credential, open source work is an open-to-all foothold to showing your ability. This is one of the _good_ things about tech hiring, that makes us less blindly credentialist: try getting a job in (eg) finance without a college degree by showing off participation in a non-professional project.

That's the model I have of open source's role in tech hiring. Am I missing something?
Interesting insight. Their privacy policy suggests they are able to do this however[1]:

"When you’re not signed in to a Google Account, we store the information we collect with unique identifiers tied to the browser, application, or device you’re using."

What is stopping, legally, them from taking e.g. HTTP Headers from independent connections and linking them together through fingerprinting? Maybe this is not implemented in Google Analytics, but that is certainly not the only connection made to Google on most websites (see e.g. gstatic and Firebase). Since there is practically no technical barrier, it seems that the vague privacy policy leads to the only question being what the 'unique identifiers' are exactly.

[1] https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en#infocollect
Should the village smith make pruning hooks and knives which can cut throats? Should the carpenter make direction signs which may be posted anywhere to mislead anybody?
...but then you have to pay estate tax.
Beyond cool.
This question reminds me of the now infamous comment[1] asking why Dropbox exists when you can just use an SFTP server.

Just because there are technologically superior solutions is hardly what matters.

You need to factor in the experience of the users.

Besides that, there is still no replacement for phone numbers. A phone number immediately returns if it is available to receive a transmission, and a fax on the other end confirms that it is set up, and you can be pretty sure that it isn't just going to languish in an unread mailbox somewhere. A phone number also takes more effort to set up, so will probably be treated better.

Under certain circumstances, I would be more comfortable faxing documents somewhere than emailing a pdf somewhere.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
I would think hard about whether keeping notes in Hera is important. I'm not sure it is. Personally I already keep other notes and meeting notes on my filesystem though I'm moving things to Evernote. But I don't want meeting notes in one place and other notes in another. And unless Hera becomes a tool for non-meeting notes, I'll use Hera to take meeting notes but keep them elsewhere.

Re: Streams - still not entirely clear to me what they are. One way to frame a new feature is to explain the scenario first, and then how the feature solves that pain, and then naming it. So it might be something like:

"If you struggle with grouping your notes from similar meetings together so you can find them easily (scenario) we solve that by using Streams in Hera (which are basically tags). So you can easily click on the 'onboarding' stream to see notes from all your onboarding meetings in one place. This is helpful when you're trying to xyz."

Also if streams == tags I'd think hard about whether to introduce a new name for an existing concept that all of your users already understand... unless it truly is a different concept.
You’re free to privately research with this data but commercializing other people’s work using ML is theft.

Edit: commercializing of the derived work is one explicit consideration used by US law in making a fair use determination. That said, even if it weren’t commercialized it may still be infringement and I believe it is.
Seconded. These are my default choice for pfsense (and probably opnsense in the future).

Only issue I've had is that if it's a J1900 Celeron CPU, ensure you have the machine set to boot via UEFI before installing. (IIRC there's an open issue for FreeBSD installations failing to legacy boot on J1900 boards.)
yeah I'm not following this one either.
That very painful example sounds like a bad setup where clear technical constraints weren’t taken in to account.

People not listening come in all forms. UX, dev, MBA.
Wow, the demo was awesome. A game changer in the way we all do work meetings. Love the way you can simply turn certain notes into highlights by hitting "cmnd+D" and they appear on the right panel! I'm going to use that feature a lot.
I am a Itsycal user, but I fail to see how it -or Calendar.app for that matter- solves the same problem as Hera. Can you ellaborate?
I wonder at what point we as internet users will decide that we're willing to pay for services in order to maintain more control?

In the meantime I sympathize with folks who in a way have ground rules changed on them, but then again were using a free service where they were the product...

The internet is a weird place where we demand everything be free as just a baseline rule, and then complain when the product that we didn't pay for changes, or in some other cases just tries to turn a profit / be sustainable.
What are the per-viewer costs these days to host video files on a plain web server? Perhaps with a CDN?
> Then who's the market? Because it's obviously not us and I think the (accepts Electrons) ∩ (uses mac os) ∩ (pays for expensive apps) population is VERY restricted.

The market is people that have a lot of meetings and invest a lot of time in preparing/documenting them.

By the way, you are talking as if the set of people who accept electron apps and pay for expensive apps is a fixed one. It's a tradeoff. It the app is good enough, people won't care that it's Electron or that it's expensive (and, for the record, few people care about Electron apps).

> The idea of "value proposition" is so absolutely inane.

The value proposition of something is not the price, but what it gives to the user.

> you would be spending as much on your tools as to what they bring.

The value you offer is the value offered by your tools plus the value you add by working with them.
Evil company decides not to take a loss on hosting probably zettabytes of video?

It's really hard to paint youtube as the villain here and keep a straight face.
Public facing open-source code & media is going to be learned by language models because they're exposed to them. That's the simple truth. Nothing can stop that, not unless all public repos are made private. Everyone has access to the ability to create their own GPT, thanks to open-source. OpenAI is not actually very far ahead of open source anymore.

The US seems well enough informed. As mentioned in the following report "AI tools are diffusing broadly and rapidly" and "AI is the quintessential “dual use” technology—it can be used for civilian and military
purposes.".

https://www.nscai.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Full-Report...

I'm fully expecting that if I begin a story and put it on my blog or on github, and if I go away for a couple years, I'll see it completed for me when I return. I can use foresight to my advantage or I can pretend like it's still the 1990s as if placing some text at the top of the code I exposed publicly is going to prevent people from training on it.

One thing for sure though, I don't think a large company such as Microsoft should be profiting from training their language model on open-source code.

The best way to release Copilot in my opinion would be to make the entire thing open source and have separate models, even a private paid-for model so long it's trained on their own code.

An open source model trained on code for specific licenses sounds fine, but then the model should also follow that same license as the code it was trained on.

There's just something deeply unsettling about having a computer complete your thoughts for you without being able to question how or why.
Did you read the article? The spaces were explicitly designed for collaboration since Dropbox is distributed by default now. For focused work, you do it from your home office where no one bothers you.

And yes visual aesthetics of an office matter a lot. I don’t want to work at a place that looks like a depressing piece of shit.
Wouldn't it be the people publishing code written with Copilot that (potentially) violate any licenses? It doesn't seem to be that the tool violates anything, though it may put the _user_ at risk of violating something.

Like, don't use it if you're worried about violating licenses, but I don't see how Microsoft could get in trouble for the tool. It doesn't write and publish code by itself.
> taking over city states

Did you miss the unconstitutional lockdowns for the "Boston Bomber"?

And...many other "emergencies", as decided by a single US politician?
The reason is that middle class life is insanely expensive, while poverty is by necessity not.

If you’re living in poverty, a kid doesn’t impact your socioeconomic status in such a profound way, and in rural places they can be an economic benefit.

For many middle class people a single child would drive them into poverty.
Then they would pay no taxes.
Are you a citizen of the United States? If it were possible would you swap your citizenship with an average Chinese?
Maybe it's a good idea to add a concrete example (can't edit the reply anymore):

OCaml:

let x1 = fun y -> (y, y) in
let x2 = fun y -> x1 (x1 y) in
let x3 = fun y -> x2 (x2 y) in
let x4 = fun y -> x3 (x3 y) in
let x5 = fun y -> x4 (x4 y) in
let x6 = fun y -> x5 (x5 y) in
x6 (fun z -> z)

Haskell:

test = let
x1 = \y -> (y, y)
x2 = \y -> x1 (x1 y)
x3 = \y -> x2 (x2 y)
x4 = \y -> x3 (x3 y)
x5 = \y -> x4 (x4 y)
x6 = \y -> x5 (x5 y)
in x6 (\z -> z)

If you can compile these, add x7. The effort increases exponentially as one adds x7, x8 and so on.
I thought this was an interesting article. Summarizing from my very-non-expert POV, he's dividing the world into three groups: a small number (less than 1 million) original African inhabitants; a larger number (about a billion) sub-Saharan Africans who broke off about 100,000 years ago; and then the rest-of-the-world (who went though a tight bottleneck less than 100,000 years ago) about the time they left Africa.

The surprising part is that measured genetic diversity within the small group of original Africans is greater than that of rest-of-the-world. Counter to intuition that skin tone is a strong indicator of relatedness, a Swede and an Andaman Islander probably have more common genetics than two members of different tribes who both live in the Kalahari desert in Namibia.

I'm confused though by his comments about "our species’ one-time amazing levels of genetic diversity." Overall, he seems to be espousing the idea that "diversity" is something we once had lots of, but have lost over time. Is this true? Did the the different tribes of African Bushmen start out as genetically distinct as they are today, or did they start from a common population and diverge over the last 200,000 years? Were those who left Africa always distinct from those who stayed, or did they change through selection (and interbreeding with Neanderthals and Denisovans) over time?
UX design is heavily influenced by rules and research, just like engineering. There are systems at play which I'm sure the company would like to keep consistent.

While you may be able to build a working page, can you ensure that every engineer builds it with the same interactions, flows, language, and even colors? Will you build and test it for the users the UX team has researched, or will you build it for yourself?
Yeah, everyone wants to chill, even be unproductive sometimes. The difference in China is that this kind of expression is censored online and attacked by the news media. WTF.
Many Americans are furious and frustrated with their country's actions in that region, and can say so without fear of reprisals.
That's effectively my current setup, some random Dell i3-4310 machine. But it's just overkill as hell for a basic router on a 100 megabit internet link

The Pi one can apparently saturate a gigabit iperf test without issue, so it sounds like a great replacement and rainy day project
Just to clarify - was this a reference to you discovering and deleting DRVSPACE.BIN, or had you actually lost a file a la http://bash.org/?5273?
> You aren't jailed or killed for any of these things in the US.

Someone has some reading to do.......
The only thing I use the Touch Bar for is adjusting sound and brightness, but I like its mechanics for that way better than the old “tap F10 three times” method.

I don’t miss anything else from the old row of little buttons.
The word they're actually referring to here is "source available", and trying to use "public" is just to confuse people into thinking they're referring to public domain only.
Rust's recursion limit is fairly low, I believe it's 128. However, you can override this if you find it too restrictive.
That isn't even remotely similar to what China has done to Hong Kong.
Good point, I would have thought GH requires you to agree in some TOS that you have permission to put the code on GH (but I don't know)? If so, could that point be put aside? (I'm not a software engineer so sorry if that made no sense. Super curious about the whole codepilot thing from a business and community perspective)
See "Expatriation tax"

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expa...
The issue is that not only might the model spit out copyrighted material verbatim (which it is) but that it might also spit out non-obvious derivative works that will get you in legal hot water years down the road.
I'm not a super huge fan of Debian as a whole (I've been a Gentoo user for over 10~ years at this point)

I'm probably going to roll some sort of minimal Gentoo based system and then just augment it as-needed from there
> The implication you're making is that he is either knowingly damaging the environment, scamming vulnerable people or wasting energy without having to do anything to support that assertion.

I don't have to support the assertion because I never made it, you did.

You extrapolate my words to extremes by saying "The implication you're making" followed by a false dilemma of three choices based on that extrapolation. So no, I don't have to support the assertion you made.
Mercury Vapor Rectifiers, they used to be used all over the place in industry.

Here's one being uncrated and tested after sitting crated for 50 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pDcv6g1FE0
Ha, I bet the estate agent charged you thousands for that too even though its all remote.
Yeah, but I don't think you're allowed to interrupt the circlejerk by pointing that out. Every piece of code pushed to GitHub comes with: an implied licence for GitHub and its users, which is an alternative to any explicit license in the code(!!!) and also a representation that you're authorized to grant such a license. Of course one imagines that in many cases uploaders are not actually authorized to grant such a license, such as if they're uploading something they themselves have received under GPL license, but IANAL.
So what's their new overall profit margin?
Copilot is a commercial paid service that generates money for Microsoft
>you can apply the same story about any manager-like figure, no?

True, the problem is more when companies become more and more top-heavy over time. These intermediate layers are created. With every layer it becomes less likely that the people that can actually decide won't ever hear valuable feedback until it's too late.

>Working well with managers is also a good strat for becoming one yourself, and having more influence over things you care about.

In the end I showed them what had to be done to make it look decent on this kind of display. Because all layers of management were in the room, they managed to decide to do these changes. It's just a very inefficient way to get to this point.
It's sort of unbelievable to me that you advocate for the death of a person if they don't comply with giving you something that is rightfully theirs.
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Yeah but they are depreciating things that aren't expected to depreciate. Like the brand and value of player contracts. Effectively, they are saying the value of the franchise nears 0 after 7 years or whatever that time frame is. Clearly that's not what's happening. It's just a hand out to rich people.
Code (co)created with Copilot has to follow all the licenses of the source (heh) code. This generally means at the very least automatically including in projects getting help from Copilot a copy of all the licenses involved, and attribution for all the people the code of which Copilot has been trained on.

(Not sure for the cases where there is no license and therefore normal copyright applies, but AFAIK this isn't the case for any code on Github, which automatically gets an open source licence ?

EDIT : Code in public repositories seems to be "forkable" on Github itself but not copyable (to elsewhere). That's some nasty walled garden stuff right there, I wonder how legal that ToS is ? I could see how this could make them to incentivize people to stop using other licenses on Github, to not have to deal with this license mess... EEE yet again ?)
In my blog post, I talk about how training is fair use, but we don't know about distributing the output. These licenses, even if they don't work, are designed to poison the well by putting enough doubt into companies' minds that they would not want to use Copilot if it has been trained with my relicensed code.
Altcoin enthusiasts are increasingly operating in a bubble that encourages this kind of behavior. This quote captures the essence of it all:

> “Everybody I know has gotten rug-pulled,” says Titus, a 38-year-old butcher in Salem, Oregon. “You know, you win some, you lose some. Hopefully, win more than lose.

I don’t know anyone who has been “rug-pulled” by a scam coin. It’s amazing that a butcher shop employee can end up in such a bubble that they think everyone around them is also participating in scam coin sales that end in exit scams.

This is the “but everyone’s
doing it” mentality that is used to normalize unhealthy behaviors. I’m sure the altcoin sellers are using this to their advantage.
We’re all criminals now
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It’s not AI it is ML. GPT-3 is a very large ML model. It does not reason. It’s a statistical machine.
Using nuclear energy doesnt require the overthrow of capitalism.
We spent decades trying to get rid of cigarettes and it worked and now we let this fucking Juul through the front door. It’s as if we haven’t learned a fucking thing in decades, and the fact that this founder is celebrated in Silicon Valley sickens me. He just found another opportunity to hook kids on nicotine for another few generations and now he’s a fucking billionaire. Fuck that guy.
I suppose in a very literal sense, if you replace addiction A with addiction B, you could say that B is an A cessation product.

But by that logic, smoking could be called a weight loss product.

Other people have a more complex definition, which precludes cigarettes from being considered a health product, despite their appetite-suppressing properties.
HTTP 402 being left unimplemented only seemed natural to me just a decade ago; today looks an incredibly stupid decision. How things change……
Earth had a youthful phase of being a molten ball of liquid magma.

That naturally leads to the heavier elements settling at the center, and the thin non magma crust we call home being made of the lighter non metal elements.

Which means all/most of the heavier metals on/near the surface today comes from volcanos or asteroids.

[I'm not a geologist, and have probably misstated something semi important.]
Makes sense. Open bsd focuses on code quality and security not performance. I bet a lot of DMA tricks are poo poo’d by openbsd
It's my perception that those op-eds are very much in the contrarian minority, a far cry from being the central position of the media institution. They're roundly and immediately mocked, and the majority of coverage in mainstream newspapers is much more sympathetic to the antiwork extreme than the bootstraps one.
Online "backups", I guess.
This thread is no longer with regards to Rust or checking whether the code compiles or not. It is about how you can work with compilation times that are longer than a coffee break.
>How the British and other colonizers go unpunished for all what they have done not just to my country, but to so many other countries in the past is just unbelievable.

They're dead. Are you suggesting we punish their offspring for having their DNA?

You might consider punishing all the ancient Indian invaders your country had as well since that also completely changed your country.

This silliness about having to punish someone for stuff that's happened way in the past and has nothing to do with anyone alive today needs to stop.
Platform and publisher are meaningless terms born of latter day propaganda. They are about as meaningful legally as asking if they are a unicorn or a leprechaun.
Absolutely loving how people are starting to abandon ship for self hosted platforms.

If I had to compare this to a historical event, it would be like the Puritans leaving England for America to escape the oppressive bureaucracy that controlled their lives.

There's radical freedom in decentralized social media. The question is whether or not it will take off as a viable alternative to Facebook/Twitter/YouTube -- or whether it will become the next Parler-esque shipwreck.
> output and weights are deterministic transformations of the inputs;

That may be true but I fail to see how any process that produces the same content that was input into it somehow strips the license. If the generated code is novel, then there is no copyright and it is just the output of the tool. If the code is a copy, but non-creative (example a trivial function) then it isn't covered by copyright in the source anyways, so the output is not protected by copyright either. However if the output is a copy and creative I don't think it matters how complicated your copying process was. What matters is that the code was copied and you need to obey copyright.

Again, I don't think that novel code generated from being trained on copyrighted code is the problem. I think it is just the verbatim (or minimally transformed) copying that is the issue.