skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think most people see zero risk with vaccines but they are smart enough to look at the real (not anti vax) statistics and realize that the risks are far outweighed by the benefits to both the individual and the community. Polio, a virus that used to cause 15k cases of paralysis a year in the us and 2k deaths is virtually eliminated due to the vaccine. The risk of course is when the vaccines are defective such as with The Cutter Incident in the 1955. This was probably the root of the modern anti-vax movement. There is also always the chance of a negative reaction to the vaccine as well. With that said, the modern anti-vax movement is for the most part a conspiracy driven group of people that look only for proof that support what they want to see and they are quite happy to not look to deeply into the source of that proof or quite often to even read further than what the local mom posted on facebook.
There was a pretty big distinction. I was on the Internet since 1991. Early Internet was being able to use IRC and telnet to MUDs. It was a whole other world. Email and Usenet was a subset, just "offline" access through UUCP. Many people had that for free or low cost since one UUCP node could just give feeds to another over dialup.
>>a form of laundering open source code into commercial works

If it is nothing but a glorified autocomplete that inserts SHORT snippets of code, as in a quote from a book in a book review, or the above quote, that's fine. But when it is inserting whole pages, that's beyond Fair Use, and basically a nicely scaled and laundered version of plagiarism.

Another key is now much it is modifying the code to suit the situation. Is it generating entirely new synthesized output like DALL-E 2 or GPT-3 such that the output is closer to generative creativity, or is it merely pasting in code blocks found in similar situations?

It comes down to the question of how transformative is the output, which is a key concept in copyright law.

>>“What is the difference between this and someone doing it manually? "

Another key question here. If it is merely cut/paste beyond a line or two, it's plagiarism, but if it is synthesizing new works, it's good. Same as manually: am I using your GPL work for inspiration to generate new works, or am I copy-pasting pages of code?

Does anyone have any extensive experience with Copilot to be able to highlight these differences?

EDIT: fmt, clarity
Except in the case of the GPL license, your rights to reuse and redistribute the source code are contingent upon your derived work also being licensed under the GPL. This is not a hypothetical untested legalese requirement but a real legal requirement that's held up in the courts of several countries.

So yes, using a substantial portion of GPL code in your proprietary software product is copyright infringement. Or even using a substantial portion of GPL code and not licensing the code under an appropriate license - https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesCompatMean
I... Wasn't expect it to be on Linkedin.
The only bookmarks I use are to particular pages on particular systems that I need to reference relatively often and navigating to them is annoying.

Otherwise, my bookmarks are the history in the browser - "ne" is hacker news, "yo" is YouTube, etc.
Because it's a hard job that not a lot of people can actually do, but most companies still operate under the, now outmoded, model of industrial production. Under this model, every employee's role can be modeled as a fungible cog in an assembly line. This lets management, and organizations as a whole, abstract over their production process and not deal with the particularities of any given worker.

I've got a kind of fuzzy idea that this is a similar mental bias/logical fallacy to the black swan events that Taleb talks about. People assume normal distributions, but the underlying is a Pareto or Power Law distribution. They do this because it's easy and has lots of nice and practical properties. In the case of markets/finance, it makes the math really easy to work with on a day to day basis in the 99.9% case. But in the black swan event, the .1% case, it totally falls apart and your model cannot account for it.

Much like the financier assuming normal instead of Power Law, the production of software assumes the industrial model of production. This works for some high % of cases to get some amount of productivity out of most writers of software. But at the high end of software professionals, or in a situation in which something actually new is being built to solve an unsolved problem, this breaks down.

Anyway, this is not a wholly thought out thesis and mostly rambling, but it is poking at my mind and I figured I'd write it down somewhere.
Did anyone reading this think back to the TV series Caprica [1], where Zoe Graystone [2] is digitally resurrected and her digital mimic speaks with her living uncle?

I used to not focus on the AI ethics concerns, mainly because I think the ethics of subsequent AIs will have to match the ethics of whatever true AGI is created first in order to survive (that first AI will have so much of an evolutionary advantage), and I thought the first one would be created by OpenAI or some such with decent ethics. Now I think I was naïve, and wonder if the worry over AI ethics being more important than I thought, if something like the Cylons or Skynet is more probable than I thought.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprica

[2] https://en.battlestarwikiclone.org/wiki/Zoe_Graystone
Ok, takedown requests exists. Say Qualcomm finally wises up and asks github to takedown a copy of the millions lines of their super proprietary 4G modem firmware implementation from github. Will github retrain the model after each such takedown? :D

If not, then it's kinda stupid to argue the point about the lack of knowledge, since lack or not lack of knowledge clearly doesn't matter. Github will happily continue using confidential code even from trigger happy companies like Qualcomm for copilot.
That is what I corrected, assuming you meant we were announced to the public in 2022.

Kagi was announced to the public in 2019, long before public beta release this June. I understand it is kind of hard to track small, bootstrapped startups with no mainstream exposure, but as I said this is for historic accuracy.
Rethinking Fedora's Java Packaging
I was hoping to see some red meat in the article in terms of who these harbinger households are, what kinds of products they are buying or politicians they support, so that I could either judge them for their poor taste or empathize with their misunderstood genius. Alas, the article seems to lack those kinds of details, except for the examples of Diet Crystal Pepsi and Colgate Kitchen Entrees. Both of those products sound baffling and horrible to me.
Yes a standard would probably solve the issue.

But until lawyers push for a standard that would make this part of their work irrelevant, I can't see how it could happen :)
What seems to be happening is that economic Moore's Law is continuing: computation is becoming cheaper, which means that the same amount of money can buy more of it. (This may be on hold post-2020, due to the shortage crisis.) On the other hand, clock speeds aren't being pushed past 4 GHz because (a) thermal issues become severe, and (b) there is no real industrial need--single-threaded programs can already do millions of things in time we consider imperceptible, so slow computation is usually a software or network problem in the first place.

In theory, this could be a good thing, because parallel and concurrent computing are hard and something has to flush out the mediocre programmers (the ones who put with Agile Scrum and Jira) who've flooded the market. In practice, though, it seems to be pushing society in the wrong direction. Just as regular people don't benefit from low or negative interest rates (since they'll still pay high interest on personal loans), regular people aren't going to be able to set up a cluster on AWS--or even know why they might want to. The result, then, of the move toward cloud computing seems to be worsening, not improvement, of the power imbalance between capital and labor.

In the long long run, we're still seeing technical advances, which are cause for hope. In the short term, though, the picture is ugly because the technical gains are mostly going to the few who have the capital necessary to profit from them.
I think this is unlikely, especially in a targeted manner.
Is plagiarism legal if I change the variable names?
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31403047
Here.

https://twitter.com/shivan_kaul/status/1528879590772338689
Yes, I wrote my own service after Maciej (very politely, this is not a criticism!) asked grandfathered-in single-payment Pinboard users if they would consider a recurring payment. It's a simple Python / Flask app which runs on a host running Dokku.
for me the matter is simple:

if the resulting code is licensed under a GPL incompatible license: yes

if the resulting code is licensed under the GPL: no
This is the state I am rapidly approaching. Outside of Toolbar quick access stuff I find I always search or it pops up in history suggestions before I search
>A common answer I received was: "I love the push for equal opportunities for men and women, but I desire [traditional gender role] and I dislike having to justify it to myself."

It's funny how some folks think that they have to justify anything they do. It doesn't seem to like click with some folks that if you have to justify something that you're doing but it doesn't truly affect others in the sense that it's an impediment to their health and happiness then maybe there's no need to justify it at all and that all the pressure that you're feeling is others being... a-holes. Just a random thought I guess.
This is often overlooked and it's a fair point in defence of the people working for Yandex. You can't judge someone just for working for Yandex or even most Russian companies. The people who have voiced concern are already out of the company and it's perfectly reasonable that the rest would like to keep their jobs, especially in uncertain economic times with all these sanctions against Russia.

However, this also implies that Yandex, as a company, cannot be trusted. It's not the researcher's fault, but they simply aren't allowed to work in a way that doesn't reinforced the Russian government's bias. As usual, the Russian government is the real villain here, but its authoritarian rule "infects" any company and country it has control over.

It can be assumed that the people working for Yandex are also victims of their abusive government, but that doesn't change the fact that their work is unlikely to be trusted outside the Russian sphere of influence.
That they may have to take the "Disney" trademark out of the name.
I think the risk is higher, but it's always been possible one of the developers would copy GPL code. There are tools that check your code to see if any GPL code exists. I haven't used them, but I suppose you could audit with those.
The 'inverse square root' carmack trick is hardly trivial.
Fair enough.

Since the only way that DropBox makes sense as anything more than a “lifestyle business” is by focusing on the enterprise. The correct comparison would be what they both offer enterprise customers and not my comparison is on the personal side.
> And then you ask it to start reciting portions of it. Should that be illegal

In several countries, humming a song - reciting a melody - is cut and dry de jure copyright infringement. It's just not rigorously punished.
I blame font designers.
I think you mistook the "l" for an "i". This is "dolt", not "doit".
This is Mac only and I have no affiliation other than I like this developer but your request reminded me that he just launched this app: https://andadinosaur.com/launch-history-book
Local development of k8s apps without having to deploy to a k8s cluster that you may or may not need to setup.
See “Serverless”, “cloud native”, “zero trust” etc

Hype.
It would seem pretty straightforward and intuitive that people get the same amount of calories from identical foods.

However, that is not true.

Once food enters our bodies -- especially our colon, it encounters our microbiomes. Everybody has a different microbiome -- little bugs/bacteria in our gut. Some of these bacteria convert undigestable foods into usable calories that are then absorbed by our bodies. (Short Chain Fatty Acids.) The amount of food converted by these bacteria varies depending on an individual's unique microbiome.

So, it turns out that no, not all food results in the same amount of calorie absorption. This is something that varies significantly, and not just based on the microbiome, though this is certainly one of the factors.
- hyped buzzword

- catch-all excuse to record everything forever without having an idea how to use that data

- actually hard problems
New tool available for near real time satellite imagery
>> "Is Copilot the same as a human programmer reading a lot of GPL code and rehashing, in a non-infringing way, the algorithms, functions, and designs used in a lot of FOSS? Or is Copilot performing more of a copy and paste pastiche of code that is protected by intellectual property law?"

IANAL, but isnt the concept of "derived data" pretty standard? You dont need to copy data for it to be infringing. I've tackled derived data clauses regularly when negotiating data contracts at work and there is always verbiage and discussion around it (e.g., are we allowed to publish an average of the purchased data)
The Apple ][ also (excluding the power supply IIRC) - this enabled the first wave of clones before the IBM PC (which also had the schematics included in the technical reference manual), but Apple managed to kill most of the clones due to copyright claims to the OS and BASIC (Woz’ Integer BASIC or the later Applesoft developed by Microsoft).

The IBM PC BIOS was less complex than the Apple ][ OS+BASIC and back in the days Compaq commissioned a clean room reengineering of the BIOS to create legal IBM PC clones. So you only had to buy a copy of DOS (or CP/M-86…).
Some people prefer to chat on desktop and don't really like the mobile-derived UI and prefer a text-heavy dense layout.
Throw in lightweight resource usage as a requirement and suddenly there are not that many working alternatives anymore.
It's not a "right time" argument, I've seen people place these and they're usually pitched that this is a "real winner" and there's a bunch more growth left if they stay invested. That's why they're moving towards single-company funds. And sometimes they're right tbh.

And tbh there would be some other LPs cashing out the previous investors if the company was sold normally. The only LPs who take this risk are the ones who buy into the new fund. And if they're worried they should just check the GP commit, if it's thin then obv they're just pulling fees so don't invest. Some of the continuation funds the GPs actually believe they have a really good investment and they increase their commit as a %.

And the increasing valuations you describe are literally the same as the public markets the past few years. No bribing audit partners required.
Given that not EVERYBODY does EVERYTHING on Linux in the CLI, can anyone recommend a GUI archive handler like engrampa, but that is not bound to p7zip and will instead use 7zz?
I was denied a promotion to a level that had unlimited vacation. I have a set number of days. I’m much happier without the promotion. But I won’t stay forever.
While I totally agree with the sentiment, it's hard to produce diagrams using code-to-diagram tools that convey as much meaning and story. I'd welcome anyone to challenge me on this, but the styling options you have for tools like PlantUML, Mermaid, and so on (excluding expensive online-only tools here) are just too limited.

Yeah, you can argue that simple is better (I really loved https://www.simplediagrams.com/), but you still need _some_ ways to produce diagrams people will actually find pleasing. Diagrams to tell a story, with blocks that make sense in terms of looks, colors, and orientation. I want an open-source code-to-diagrams that can output as pretty diagrams as I make with LucidChart!
Fermyon, the Frictionless WebAssembly Platform
> > Essentially "I am rational therefore I am right".

> Sounds like basically the entirety of philosophy

That's the opposite of the experience I've observed.

The starting point for a lot of philosophy students is learning the teachings of Plato and Socrates, among which the most famous is likely "I know that I know nothing"
Honest question: why not name a function instead of using a multi-line lambda? I've never used a language where multi-line lambdas are common though.
To wildly summarize...for the same reason you are not CONSTANTLY sick. your stomach is a pretty good, but not perfect, immunodefense - i.e., the stomach is a pretty tough environment for survival.

whether it is worth the trouble also depends on the method of infection. The live attenuated oral polio vaccine creates gut immunity, which is helpful because polio is passed via ingestion of infected materials. Gut immunity is less useful if a disease is passed via inhalation.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132247/
Again, the paper that said that transformers only copypasted input samples was highly misleading.

It seems clear to me that Codex has true understanding.

(Yes, I know that people have gotten secrets to appear in the output by prompting it in clever ways. That this happens doesn't prove that Codex doesn't understand what it's doing, it just shows that Codex doesn't understand everything.)
Huge difference. Google does it for money. Yandex does it to enable an autocracy and to maintain their ability to operate.
> Licenses on software are mostly performative.

I seriously doubt you actually believe this, at least in an equal way. The code to Windows XP is available on the 'net, but I can't just go and compile that and start giving out copies without serious legal repercussions.

Copilot is "copyright for me but not for thee" and it's bullshit.
> otherwise Google would have been out of business a long time ago.

I do think there are ethical questions around whether it's right for google to digitise physical books without the permission of the authors, and keep them on their servers and make money from them without recompensing the authors. That's something an individual would not get away with doing, so it seems wrong that it's OK for google.
Compared to what?

Do you mean writing build rules, or the behind-the-scenes stuff?
You can easily add that filters by yourself: just append "-site:ranker.com -site:vulture.com" to your search query, e.g. by setting the search URL to: "https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+-site%3Aranker.com+-site%..."
At some level, this is the limitation of having a passionate fan base, many of which are obsessed with canon. (See early criticism of the LoTR films.)

With all due respect to Christopher, most of us would probably have been better off with a writer creating original storyline(s) that drew from JRR Tolkein's unpublished material but which weren't constrained by it--except perhaps to the extent it remained consistent with LoTR.
Bad actors still can get access to such models.
It even makes them more dangerous than it would if everyone had access to them.

Here's an alternative: progressively release better and better models (like 3B params, 10B, 50B, 100B) and let people figure out the best way to fight against bad actors using them.
A paper notebook near my computer. Sometimes I do photos of it and store them in other building. Sometimes that notebook consists smart moves like how to find useful setting.
I worry for the productivity of the field if Copilot would be successfully sued. Destroy innovation and gridlock progress.
> The question is ultimately going to come down to - "Is Copilot the same as a human programmer reading a lot of GPL code and rehashing, in a non-infringing way, the algorithms, functions, and designs used in a lot of FOSS? Or is Copilot performing more of a copy and paste pastiche of code that is protected by intellectual property law?"

Of course it isn't the same as a human programmer doing anything. It's a complex piece of software, which we happen to misuse the term "AI" to describe, but it is not intelligent.
it's not for everyone, but an interactive quiz with obviously unfair choices can get students to talk. For example,

https://create.kahoot.it/details/b3a616c4-f740-4367-b4cb-3f7...
EDIT: It took me a while, but I found proof of Copilot suggesting a full copyrighted algorithm. I then take back these arguments as I was under the assumption the tool couldn't do this: https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309

Old comment for documentation's sake:

Are licenses even enforceable by law? The idea of writing some mundane basic code and then wanting to sue someone for "stealing it" just sounds ludicrous to me. True copyright has barriers to make sure you actually invented what you're trying to patent.

That's not to say that there isn't a problem here -- there's definitely an ethical component to how this product works, but this whole code licensing thing never clicked for me. Does it hold any actual power?
This is how companies justify not patching security vulnerabilities.
There's none -- that's the best description, because it's not happening by schedule at all. Last night, for the first time in at least two months, I fell asleep at 3:00 AM. Usually it's 5:00 - 6:00.

Sometimes I sleep 4-5h and then have a huge nap -- 2.5h to 3.5h -- in the early evening. Happens for a week or two. Then I go without naps for a month.

It's relatively cyclical but the periods aren't with fixed values at all. The daily hours are fairly inconsistent as well.
The bumbling idiot dad meme is just Mr. Mom being repackaged which I'm sure even Mr. Mom is just a repackaging of an earlier comedic trope along the same lines. I don't think these commercials are a magical threat to the health or wellbeing of the nuclear family.
If you follow fashion, you don't have this problem, because the new fashionable thing will always be available.

This problem only exists for people who buck fashion trends in areas (like clothes) that are highly subject to fashion. I just want to keep buying the same type of clothes, but they keep going in and out of fashion without me having any say in it.

For jeans, for example, I would love to be able to buy black 527s. That shouldn't be too much to ask, should it? But they don't exist, because they're flares, which are currently out of fashion for men, so tough luck.

But even for the most reliably unchanging style of boots I have bad luck: army boots. Used to wear them all the time. Always great fit, comfortable under all circumstances. Bought a new pair a few years ago, and suddenly they suck. I'm forced to wear sneakers these days. I haven't really find a nice model yet.
These contests are a massive data collection scam.
Steven King is a human. This is a computer program — a complex one, but still a computer program. How does this analogy make any sense?
Every company out there says it will "revoke API access for misuse", but do they have transparency reports? Who do they even consider bad guys and what do they consider as misuse?

I would be totally on their side if their reasoning was that they dont publish models to compete with FAANG more efficiently and get more income for their research, but this moral reasoning just sounds completely fake because bad actors do have funding to train their own models.
I don't know or care who provided him with his information but parts of it clearly didn't pass scientific rigour. Since it seems the claims done by Al Gore was here used to discredit the actual climate science, I felt I needed to comment on that some of those claims by Gore would clearly not been possible to publish in a paper, making it not science.
With podman there is no daemon, everything is running as you. The standard setup for docker has a daemon running as root, which means when you start a container it has root privileges.