skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is a "thing" in this example? Is it an instance of a service? A database? Something else?

No, you just run three of everything. While only databases and similarly distributed data storages really need exactly three (or sometimes, just an odd number larger than two) for quorum and network partition detection, there is a good possibility that you'd have three availability zones because of your databases. And since you already have three availability zones, it's only logical to put every service in every zone at least once, so running "three of everything" becomes a rule of the thumb, easy to remember, easy to implement.

> If you're using Kubernetes and have autoscaling, what does "3 of everything" even mean? It sounds like the author is basically talking about databases..?

If you use autoscaling, you still need to start somewhere. And this somewhere is "three of everything".
Yeah, sure, but then again a watch on your wrist is harder to take away than a hardware key on your physical keychain that you don't pay attention to.

EDIT: yes, lol, thank you for explaining what phishing is jgrahamc. We didn't know. I get that a lot of Americans and some Germans guard their car keys like an internal organ, but for a lot of people in the world a keychain is something you toss in an insecure place most of the time of the day.
I feel sorry for our future colleagues software developers, that will have to deal with calendars, public holidays and all other stuff related to the lunar calendar.

There are many religions that use the lunar cycles as basis for their calculations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_calendar
Exactly. See how Firefox shoved the borderless tabs down everyone's throat. The same playbook really.
Then why use OSS licenses in the first place?

Let's just copy each other's code without attribution.
The US. department of energy is pushing to have $1 per kilogram by 2030. ($2 per kilogram by 2025). The Toyota Mirai can go 402 miles on 16.8kg of hydrogen. And it takes 5 minutes to fill up.
Ah, PAR makes the most sense for archival material like that.
What were you looking for in the PAR format that'd make more sense for this use case?
How many lines of code was the Oracle v Google case? 9?
Sadly not, it was a bit of a confusing one to write, there may be an easier way to describe the relationship but it seemed quite funny to read so I left it.

I meant to say my wife's sister's partner's mother.
Oh, no I get it. It's true, the original stable diffusion repo does have filters, however there are many versions that you can run locally, usually with the filters turned off.
What does WITCH stand for here? Haven't seen that acronym before
Realistically, how much can you make at Amazon pretending to work before they figure out and fire you?

Because, honestly, once you realize it’s ethical to do so, Amazon being a bad actor on purpose…
Just about two-thirds of an octopus's neurons is found outside its central brain, distributed across its 8 arms. An octopus can be likened to a hive-mind of sorts.
This is not sane, sustainable or justifiable. E.g. what about that future when we have actual AI people?
Funnily, for an article all about copying (lots) everywhere the author
writes Copilot it appears as "Copi lot" in text browsers. Also the HN
title appears the same (check it in hex dump)

For example, from TFA file:

0005e10 o f C o p i 302 255 l o t
I keep feeling we shouldn't accept the term "piracy" anymore. The problem, the big problem is on the so-called "legal" side, and the purpose of this system is not about retrieving authors anymore, is about some big economic groups hoarding goods (and power by doing that). But that's heavily against the common interest. I met quite a few years ago with a member of my country's senate with a solid proposition to end the "piracy" problem. Got an email asking for more info about my proposal. That was the end of it.

PS. Maybe instead "pirates", we should call ourselves "keepers".
I used to live near a large Zappos, then both Zappos/AMZ warehouse, in poor area where it was a decent job.

The local forums were full of people complaining they were fired for silly reasons right before their 3 month mark, when they'd become permanent and get benefits. This was oh, about a decade ago.

Now they're sounding the alarm because the employees are just quitting instead? I have a really hard time feeling sorry for Amazon, here....
If copolot has the ability to write a whole application instead of suggesting based on its lookup and context, you might have a point. Unless proven otherwise I'd consider it a giant lookup table with (self)adjusting weights.
Given how much money we spend on frivolous tech (and other) products… we should be by now producing 300% of our power via solar.
> GFCI and AFCI are great! But a home isn't going to burst into flames or explode without them. Which is why there are exemptions.

True, but not what you said. You said the changes are not safety related, but these are safety related.
Seems a bit dumb to change ui to match vscode. Why would anyone pay $$$ per year when vscode is free then?
The only waste of time in this thread is people making allegations about copyright infringement without applying a fair use test.
I tried copilot and found it an excellent way to inject subtle bugs into my code. It always had a seemingly plausible guess, that was never correct, and coding turned into a guessing game trying to spot the bugs it had injected and hoping I’d found them all.
>I won't be trying to bait it into reproducing heavily copy&pasted cherrypicked examples

You don't have to bait it.

>I won't use 20 lines of its output with zero modification.

Depending on changes that may still be derivative work. The entire concept reminds me that can I copy your homework meme.
I'd argue that without SRE you won't be delivering any software to the customer.
Check my comments from about a year ago
The Ultima Online protests might qualify, but the protesting was on the streets virtually. They wanted bug fixes, reduction in lag, etc.

https://www.wired.com/1997/11/chaos-in-britannia-ultima-face...
That’s funny, because I’m always skeptical about people who fire in all judgy about the way other people work when they know literally nothing about who they are or what they do, and I am always right.
It may be easier to steal, but it should have some kind of minimal protection. It should lock out after a low number of failed pins, for example. The YubiKeys do this.
I think you misunderstand DAI. Saying the point of DAI is to accumulate crypto is like saying the point of a car is to accumulate oil. People use oil, or ETH as the gas token in this example, to drive the car, or drive the DeFi apps. You can hold DAI without holding any more ETH than is needed for transfers.

“Centralized into a [decentralized] protocol” is an oxymoron. The benefit of ENS over DNS is that there is no centralized actor that can control, censor and manipulate the namespace.
It makes sense to copyright a book, but it doesn't makes sense to copyright a phrase (unless you are using it as a trademark motto or something like that), normally phrases are free for anybody to re-use. It makes sense to copyright a program, but it doesn't make sense to copyright a piece of code.
I don't care what your license is, I'm going to use it and I'm going to claim fair use.

What's explicitly illegal about this?
I agree that youtube "looks" better but it's objectively worse. This comment reminded me of a video I saw a decade ago and could still easily find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u6Bfnq3aZk
I’m a bit between tables. On the one hand, I prefer the look of the new UI. It looks nice, yet I can clearly find things.

But on the other hand, it puts a bunch of things I regularly use into nested submenus for seemingly no reason (the top bar where they used to be is now mostly empty).

Caveat: I only used it for a short time, as neither Webstorm nor Rider work properly with the current EAP + new UI.
The issue isn't that something like copilot shouldn't exist. The issue is the disregard for open source. You want a proprietary code completion tool? License your training set properly. If you want to build on open source then open source it and what it produces.
There's definitely a balance here. Every piece of DDR technology I have ever interacted with has flat head screws. From the point of view of interoperability and repairability, that's amazing. From the point of view of struggling with a stuck screw, it's horrible.

The capitalist approach, of discarding screws altogether in favour of glue, is even worse.

I think you could probably reach a happy medium by requiring companies to pay for the disposal of their products. That would push them to make their designs easier to repair and more long-lasting, without putting direct burdens on innovation.

A lot of the problems with capitalist design is that externalities, generally waste in various forms, are suffered by society at large. If this was 'priced in' (imagine if CO2 emissions were priced in to products!) you would have a lot of incentive for more pro-social design.
x0 can also happen due to equipment failure, eg. if there was extreme heat that put all of the inverters into safety shutdown. Again, we aren't dealing with day-to-day, we're dealing with the 0.1% chance scenarios. These are what make renewables expensive when we're trying to supply high availability power.

The problem with the global grid is that it would need to be similarly overprovisioned so that during low-probability failure scenarios the few remaining power nodes could supply the entire thing. 10x overprovisioning here looks a lot more expensive.
I really loved the soundtrack when watching this film. I was thinking this is some of the best New Age music I’ve ever heard. And, to my complete surprise, it was scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. NIN has been my all time favourite band since I was a kid. That made me chuckle.
I got my solokeys v2. A bummer that they did not ship to some folks.
Do you have a source on this made up factoid that just shows you are prone to age discrimination?
I am perfectly fine with it scaling everything, it would certainly be better than the current situation.

Sometimes, especially when I'm pairing with a junior that has a smaller screen, I want to scale everything because I want them to see everything. In this case scaling the whole UI is a benefit even if it is a "pro" application.

YMMV, and having alternative but consistent scaling options (such as all text in the file editor rather than piecemeal) would be a massive step up from the chaos at the moment. As already mentioned, the best part of this feature rather than a full UI redesign is that you don't have to use it!
Even though the subject is real, and has good reasons that it might not be fixable, the article feels very loosely based:

The whole experience is based on a precise bespoke VR app. There is no information about it, or the used headset. To be fair that info might be available in the paper, but that's still bespoke app we can't know the quality of.

This quote makes me doubt even more:

> “If my iPhone doesn’t load a page instantly, I might grumble about it, but that’s the end of it,” Ringgenberg told The Daily Beast. “If my VR app stutters on me, I might physically get sick. That does keep people away from this technology.”

This is perfectly true! When it happens on my oculus quest 2, I immediately feel dizzy. BUT I can count the number of times it happened to me over a hundred hours of play on my fingers. (Notably I can reproduce one IO related freeze in Synthriderz' Lindsey Stirling Experience)

Also, this article doesn't mention brain rewiring: if we hand over modern smartphones to the average 2002 computer person, they would have no idea how to use it "where's the cursor", " how do I move windows", "why is my screen getting junk on its top without my will", " why isn't there a button to switch programs"? We just upgraded our brains to handle that. Same could happen with VR.

I'm definitely not a metaverse advocate, I still fail to see it immersive enough and cheap enough to work, and it requires a huge shift back to actually giving attention (which is ironic considering Facebook killed that attention). But I think the Oculus Quest 2 is an excellent game console (which implies it is not for everyone and that's fine)
> user interfaces that utilize large numbers of text labels

That, happens to be exactly what I want (icon + label for most things).
I have a $50 yubikey nano plugged into each of my multiple-thousand-dollar computers, protecting my accounts containing/accessing client data worth millions.

If anything under $100 is too much to secure your account, just use SMS 2FA, or disable 2FA entirely.
Yeah, at least Old School Runescape gets weekly updates. It's apparently bigger than something like Elder Scrolls Online. Community is also really active, with an open-source client (https://runelite.net) and one of the best game wiki's I've ever seen (https://osrs.wiki).

Fun fact, JaGex at some point decided they wanted to ban the RuneLite client, riots ensued, and now RuneLite is actually listed on the official website.
Yes, sorry, I should have also wrote "where one can stand".
The problems have almost nothing to do with deep learning stuff. They are on the companies who develop such products.

If a company use someone's code for a commercial product (a normal app), they do need to follow the license accordingly. If a company use someone's code for a commercial product (model training), they don't need to follow anything.

If a company use someone's art piece for a commercial product (a normal game), they do need to get consent, and pay for the right to use to the hosting platform or artists themselves if it is not royalty free. If a company use someone's art piece for a commercial product (model training), they don't need to get consent or pay for anything.

All the problems actually happen before the technical details, making the entire pipeline questionable.
From GitHub’s Terms of Service [0]:

> Except to the extent applicable law provides otherwise, this Agreement between you and GitHub and any access to or use of the Website or the Service are governed by the federal laws of the United States of America and the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict of law provisions. You and GitHub agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts located in the City and County of San Francisco, California.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...
But why? It really seems to me that things like Copilot will save millions of man hours and make the world a better place. The only harms people have come up with are highly speculative and far smaller in magnitude.
Fwiw big players regularly give free keys to e.g. OSS maintainers. Dunno if it’s still active but Pypy has a program for maintainers of crates flagged as sensitive (or something like that), you can get two Titan keys courtesy of google.

I also have a pair of github-branded yubikeys from a long time ago but I don’t remember what that program was.

> cost has been prohibitive.

A titan is 35 or so, hardly prohibitive. And if you have access to anything important your company ought be glad to get you one or two, or yubis.
ha this article reads just like I expected, they probably tried to use the Report feature on Telegram that's piped to the null route
If a town is easier to walk in than to drive in, I will walk. I have never lived in such a place, so I drive.
This.

Also, advertising every file in torrent (of unsuspecting user) to entire world would be a HUGE privacy flaw.
Both BMW and Toyota have hydrogen cars.

We are talking about the infrastructure of EVs not EVs them selfs. The price is dropping on EVs, but that won't matter if most people can't charge them. Which is the problem.

Vandalism is becoming more and more of a problem with EV charging stations. People are stealing the Copper wires. That will be a major issue at apartment complexes if they install charging stations.

The US. department of energy is pushing to have $1 per kilogram by 2030. ($2 per kilogram by 2025). The Toyota Mirai can go 402 miles on 16.8kg of hydrogen. And it takes 5 minutes to fill up.
> I’m not ordinarily a fan, but VS Code has shown us how good an Electron-based IDE can be

yes, if you invest hundreds of millions of dollars and spend hundreds of man years on trivial things like "we can't make terminal output fast because web tech".

Do not mistake a single success story achieved through insane effort and unlimited money with "this is the way".
I agree with that.

Also, if we agree that GitHub copilot enables you to be more productive as a developer. Can we argue that it could help open-source communities by helping them finish projects faster?
A timeout at that level should mean “no progress” for 30s, not that a request/response needs to finish in 30s. An naive timeout that a dev randomly implements might be the latter and would be the source of my past frustration.
Would you mind sharing the source? Sounds like something others could build on.
Website Fidelity
I am sorry, I was being sloppy there.

There are several systems of axioms we can use to base mathematics on.

A common such is ZFC, Zermaelo–Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice. Among its axioms are assertions like "there is a set which is empty", "there is an infinite set" and "if A and B, then in particular A".

Another is Martin-Löf type theory in one of its flavors, perhaps homotopy type theory.
also it seems intellij community edition is going away.
Jetbrains has a lot more IDEs than just IntelliJ.
Loved this soundtrack ever since the release of the movie!
Fun fact: a lot of tracks are reusing parts of a previous Nine Inch Nails album called "Ghosts I-IV" also featuring Atticus Ross.
> A human being doesn't violate copyright in learning from a copyrighted work, including when that human being is later more able to produce other works based on that learning

Not really.

A human being learns by doing, it takes a lot of time, their knowledge is not transferable, and, above all, they buy the material they learn from (most of the time)
It's not fair use, it's "I paid for the entire opera" , sometimes multiple times: different editions, movies, tv shows, etc.

Secondly, it's not true that derivative material is automatically copyright free.

It is in all honesty the contrary, most derivative work that reached popularity is plagued with plagiarism, lack of attribution, undisclosed ghost authors etc. all things that get settled with a contract or in court if the publisher thinks it's worth it.

Otherwise the publication simply disappears.

In other cases the work is licensed, so that the publisher can use someone else's IP and literally resell other people's ideas and/or change them the way they like (or the license permits), without having to create new material and take the risk that nobody will notice it.

Case in point (among too many)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_disputes_over_the_Harr...
It depends on what the AI is learning.

If the AI is learning to repeat text (e.g. Copilot) or images (e.g. Dall-E), then that makes it possible to reproduce the copyrighted works, so I would agree that that case is not fair use. -- It would be akin to compressing and distributing those works.

If the AI is learning patterns -- such as "muggle" being a noun that relates to Harry Potter, or that the lemma for "muggles" is "muggle" -- then that is less clear. You can avoid the situation by creating your own sentences with those terms in them, and annotating those sentences instead of the copyrighted ones. That way, the AI is still learning the same information.
What are the odds of a redesign adding color / borders / 3d? The UI fashion is still trending towards a uniform single-colored surface. Hard to imagine them adding borders, let alone color
They wrap up studies into API calls or applications, which being sold to developers or end users.

These second-tier AI company don't need the be the best. "Good enough" with competitive pricing will do.
Sir, you and this comment section should get a room.
> I believe the argument is that you shouldn't accept arguments against the use of copilot from people unless they have tried to use it.

I disagree, and this does not hold up generally: We can, and should, argue things we have not tried or experienced, like heroin and murder. What makes it so that this has to be tried?

> It's the bare minimum to make an informed opinion.

Only if the usefulness is what is in question. But it is not.
Hello Neoclassical Economics: Humans are rational actors in an ideal market, in which supply and demand is rationalizing out anything bad.

Is that really the world we live in? Have you met rational humans? Are we living in ideal markets?

Truth is, bad situations of all sorts are springing up and remaining in place long-term. A closer look at each individual issue (as done in this thread) reveals complex factors that need to be adressed. Using a simplistic model from economics to ignore any and all ethics (term used loosely for any attempt to do what's right) is not valid imo.
Because its a net good to the world its not a problem. It the benefit is orders of magnitude greater than the harm then its good.
Cloudflare and Yubico are in partnership to provide YubiKeys at a discount:

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/zero-trust/phishing-resi...

Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33020078
> "...indicated that more than 65 percent of people experienced symptoms of cybersickness, and more than one-third of these people experienced severe symptoms."

That sounds about right from my anecdata. I enjoy VR, but I have to treat it like drinking: I know it'll make me feel crappy afterwards.
If you are not that a hacker but already own a Smartwatch such as the Apple Watch, Authy[1] is a pretty rock solid option. I use Authy for a few key credentials, and I have used my watch for the keys.

FYI, Authy was bought and is now owned by Twilio

1. https://authy.com