skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could argue that mocking the Getty logo like that is some form of fair use, which would be a backdoor through which it can end up as a legitimate element of a public domain work, in which case it would be fair game.

I agree with you that it is also possible that people posted Getty thumbnails to some sites as though they are public domain, and that is how the AIs learned the watermark.
No, you literally get an error on the display if you have Siri disabled systemwide and try to use CarPlay.
I think they are actually asking for a server. I used mullvad vpn in the past, and it looks like it creates a local ipsec server, and than tunnels that traffic through wireguard to mullvad.

The user is probably looking for something similar, as ios only supports ipsec/ikev2/l2tp natively. If you want to use wireguard or openvpn you have to get creative.
How limitless green energy would change the world
Except for the ones with screw tops or crown caps.
The illustrated history of how sugar conquered the world (2017)
Radio and TV didn't have algorithmic feedback loops built to custom-prey on said dopamine receptors, and evolve themselves.
> For myself, I am skeptical of intellectual property in the first place. I say go for it.

If we didn't live in a Capitalist society, that would be fair. But we currently do. That Capitalist society cares little about the well being of artists unless it can find a way to make their art profitable. Projects like DALL-E and Midjourney pillage centuries of human art and sell it back to us for a profit, while taking away work from artists who struggle to make ends meet as it is. Software Developers are generally less concerned about Copilot because they're still making 6 figures a year, but they'll start to get concerned if the technology gets smart enough that society needs less Developers.

An automated future should be a good thing. It should mean that computers can take care of most tasks and humans can have more leisure time to relax and pursue their passions. The reason that artists and developers panic over things like this is that they are watching themselves be automated out of existence, and have seen how society treats people who aren't useful anymore.
> Precisely. Would it be okay for me to publish some code as GPL because my buddy gave it to me and promised that it was totally legit and I could use it and it definitely wasn't copy-pasted from one of the Windows source leaks?

But where do you draw the line? What if you accidentally came up with the same or similar solution to something in windows? The code might not be from your friend either, it could be from N steps of copy paste, rework, reformating, refactoring, etc.
60 years after the Cuban missile crisis Russia's threats reignite Cold War fears
Short-term thinking which will lead to the death of the US semiconductor manufacturers when China is forced to build a chip industry from scratch and become an overwhelming competitor for those US manufacturers.

Short-term thinking to kill off the semiconductor geese which are laying golden eggs.
Hounded at home, China's video game firms welcomed in Europe
I have a bit of a counter-point: I find things that just suddenly change disorienting. Line jumps, UI elements just appearing - every non-animated change. This doesn't happen in the physical world and it startles me for a moment (longer than a transition would have lasted for).
I don't know specifically what DALL-E was trained on, but if it's art for which the artists' have not consented to it being used to train AI then that's problematic. I haven't seen any objections to DALL-E on that basis specifically though, whereas all the discussion of Copilot is around the fact that code authorship & Github accounts are not intrinsically tied together, making it impossible to have code authors consent to their code being used, regardless of what ToS someone's agreed to.

> For myself, I am skeptical of intellectual property in the first place. I say go for it.

I'm in a similar boat but this is precisely the reason I object so strongly to Copilot. IP has been invented & perpetuated/extended to protect large corporate interests, under the guise of protecting & sustaining innovators & creative individuals. Copilot is a perfect example of large corporate interest ignoring IP when it suits them to exploit individuals.

In other words: the reason I'm skeptical of IP is the same reason I'm skeptical of Copilot.
Tor's traffic is clandestine.
IIRC, Nevada posted the lowest average. (Nevada requires the ACT for high school graduation.)

I define Nevadans as a minority in the U.S. It is obvious that this standardized test discriminates against this minority.

Don't even get me started on people taller than two meters. ACT won't even show that data because it is so telling.
I thought the same thing. But then shouldn't CP look at things it's not supposed to use and see if that's happened? How is that any different than you committing your API to Platform X and shortly thereafter Platform X reaches out to you...because GH let them know?
I’ve been using unison for what feels like 14 years. Once working it was great but it always took me a while to figure out the exact command line options I wanted. Beautiful tool.
> The user is probably looking for something similar, as ios only supports ipsec/ikev2/l2tp natively. If you want to use wireguard or openvpn you have to get creative.

Hm? There's been an official Wireguard app on the App Store for years[1]. I've been a happy user of it since day 1.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wireguard/id1441195209
If the code is public, my guess is that someone else stole it and added it to an open source repo without authorization. Microsoft may have then picked it up from there.
Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the waters around Alaska
I mean it starts like this, but if Copilot gets a pass, companies might just use AI as a way to launder code and avoid complying with Free licenses.
The iOS documentation seems to suggest this may not be necessary, though I'm not well versed in the iOS API.

Setting up a double VPN client/server system seems unnecessarily complicated to me. I wonder what drove Mullvad to this solution.
Is that a breach? As far as I know, the description of that is "a google-internal audit found that some information was accessible but shouldn't have been, and found no evidence that that was accessed or used by anyone".

"Breach" usually implies actual misuse or access.
Just to be clear, because it's in the title, the reporter was threatened with a lawsuit for looking at source code. I cannot find anyone acually sued for it. BTW, here's an article saying said reporter wasn't sued: https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2022/02/15/missouri_html_hac...

Anyone with a mouth can run it and threaten a lawsuit. If fact, I threaten to sue you for misinformation right now unless you correct your post. Fat lot of good my threat will do because no judge in their right mind would entertain said lawsuit because it's baseless.
Hi Genbox, thanks for the kind words. I've never heard of sharplab.io - the speed of C# compilation is not very high on the priorities of CE right now (though we have some issues filed, and some (stale) PRs to help). We welcome help improving it!

If you're talking about the speed of other languages than C#, then most of the time is in the compilers itself, not the fairly limited pre- and post-processing we do. We have a pretty sophisticated setup (at least, I think it is...) for handling the 1,500 compiler/language combinations, hundreds of libraries etc (around 2TB of data), but there's always tradeoffs between fast start-up time, manageability and simplicity of adding new compilers, and the run-time performance of running the compilers etc.
Her wiki entry is far too verbose for the number of published articles, I've never seen another scientists page that references all the publications and authors they've published with. This section should be a few lines at best summarising her research work.
> No content should ever be taken down automatically just because a bunch of random people report it.

Serious question, why not?
https://digitalorganizationdad.substack.com and https://mattchung.me
Godbolt does more than C++. I often share Java byte code snippets from there
I'm guessing they don't want to deal with it.

This is actually good, if more people chose not to use Medium because of issues like this, Medium would adapt or die.
Why does it have to be related to C++ compilers? Compiler Explorer supports a number of languages, including C#:

$ curl -sL https://godbolt.org/api/languages
Id | Name
csharp | C#
fsharp | F#
vb | Visual Basic
go | Go
c | C
c++ | C++
fortran | Fortran
assembly | Assembly
circle | C++ (Circle)
circt | CIRCT
hlsl | HLSL
cppx | Cppx
crystal | Crystal
dart | Dart
erlang | Erlang
carbon | Carbon
hook | Hook
cppx_blue | Cppx-Blue
cppx_gold | Cppx-Gold
mlir | MLIR
cuda | CUDA C++
analysis | Analysis
python | Python
racket | Racket
ruby | Ruby
typescript | TypeScript Native
d | D
ada | Ada
cpp_for_opencl | C++ for OpenCL
openclc | OpenCL C
llvm | LLVM IR
cpp2_cppfront | Cpp2-cppfront
rust | Rust
ispc | ispc
java | Java
kotlin | Kotlin
nim | Nim
pony | Pony
scala | Scala
solidity | Solidity
clean | Clean
pascal | Pascal
haskell | Haskell
ocaml | OCaml
swift | Swift
zig | Zig
$
for those interested, you can do the same thing with a $20 usb dtv receiver and rngd using the rtl-sdr entropy project

http://blog.cros13.net/2014/08/cheap-entropy-using-your-rtl-...
I think you're right: they seem to be asking why they can't run an indefinite task that connects to a VPN server.

And you're right that iOS does have an API for this: the NetworkExtension framework explicitly allows for custom VPN solutions[1].

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension
it's really only nuanced when you have small team and a very tightly scoped project.

for anything that can plausibly grow in scope and team size (which, let's be honest here, is most complex projects), it almost never makes sense to go without an existing ecosystem. it becomes difficult to hire, difficult to train, difficult to pass off maintenance, slows down velocity of shipping, makes your team gradually re-invent a worse version of the framework/tooling you initially tried to avoid, etc.

i've been on both kinds of projects. when i build something solo it's a work of art in code size, API consistency, and performance...and that feels truly amazing. but unfortunately it's not something that is feasible with bigger and more diverse-skillset teams. ever-growing scope and shipping features quickly usually means giving up performance and well thought out design.
They avoided answering this question at all costs.

Because it exposes their direct hypocrisy in this, its fair use for OSS but not for us.

Questions here are very important, and its no surprise GitHub avoided answering anything about CoPilot's legality:

https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/
Please don't post ideological flamewar comments to HN. It leads to flamewar hell, an information-free entropic state that we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>But of course that's their function -- to sort.

Or, their function is to evaluate macro trends in education.
> Some say that it's no different from a person looking at existing code or art and recreating it from memory or using it as inspiration.

Hah, no, the model encodes the code that it was trained on. This is not "recreating from memory", this is "making a copy of the code in a different format." (Modulo some variable renaming, which it's probably programmed to do to in order to obscure the source of the code.)
If they released all the source, I'd be able to run the nice drawing app from windows inkspaces again, unkilling the app they want dead
That’s true to some degree but I think you will struggle to find a single nation who’s actions aren’t at least in some part fuelled by the personal desires of the political/business/military elite.
A properly mixed Binaural sound sounds so good even on Stereo channels, lookup virtual barber shop on youtube, it always gives me goosebumps.
Also afaik tracks are never mixed for stereo/mono. They start as multi channel, if ogg ever gains I think it has multi channel support. It must bring some spatial audio into masses, with smaller downloads and quality streaming.
Also its very good for cinematic audio in videos.
Streaming data in Postgres to 1M clients with GraphQL
You should be fine. The GP seemed to have forgotten they're not posting on FB"s internal workplace.
This just means that if you use Copilot for work, you're exposing yourself and/or your employer to unknown legal liability. =)
WHAT?! :> I'm at ACL and can't hear a fucking thing. ;)

I wonder about the limits of the muscles of the eardrum (TT and stapedius) to prevent hearing damage. For example, I recall awaking one morning being unable to hear because those muscles were isometrically flexing to a degree that prevented the eardrum from move normally. I thought I lost my hearing but then they started to relax over a few minutes.

I don't know if anyone else can, but I can consciously make both eardrums vibrate creating a sound like a rumble.

Last thing: I can hear my left eye move. I have a SCDS that I was able to identify myself as it's the only condition with this rare symptom. There is a tiny hole in the thin, porous bone between my inner ear and brain. It can be fixed surgically but requires brain surgery that effectively jacks the brain up and out of the way to be repaired by a surgical otolaryngologist. Eating chips is horrendously loud. Exercising leads to hearing my pulse. The risks of surgery though make me think it's worth enduring annoyances, although I don't know if it's causing extra cognitive load (distraction filtering) or balance problems. Oh and tinnitus from hell.. REEEEEE.
It worked out justified in this case.

The VAST majority of cases it does not.
I never thought about it before but if someone had asked me I probably would have guessed the same - humans are probably biased to assume hearing must involve ears.

OTOH, detection of mechanical vibrations seems like the kind of adaptation to evolve early. Hearing is in some sense just a refinement of that, so at the very least the groundwork for it must be old.
Re-wording so it doesn’t sound like I’m trolling.

Commodity and housing prices have had steep price increases well before central banks printed money excessively.
this is really nice!! I'll be using this instead of Powerthesaurus, for sure.

Could you turn the suggested words into hyperlinks, please?
How do you know?

Is this a calculated likelihood given certain established premises? How do you figure that injury
to the physiology that performs cognition has a trivial impact compared to not showing up to school for some time? From what basis do we derive that certainty?

We haven’t done so, have we?

We’d want to be sure, right?

And: In what way were lockdowns unnecessary? It isn’t and it never was safe for children to be infected. There is irreversible harm to children from it at an indefensibly high rate. It is obvious in children in my vicinity. I’m fairly sure my own son has lingering digestive issues after his bout. I may never know because society will not look.

Nonetheless, lockdowns certainly were a bad fit to the main mode of transmission which is infectious aerosol.
Since you obviously have, would you care to provide sources for those of us who haven't?
> But where do you draw the line? What if you accidentally came up with the same or similar solution to something in windows?

Yes, I agree that it's unclear how to deal with that in the general case at scale. Although cases like OP make me think that we could maybe worry about the grey area after we've dealt with the blatant copies.

> The code might not be from your friend either, it could be from N steps of copy paste, rework, reformating, refactoring, etc.

Well, my personal tendency would be to apply the same standard to Microsoft that they would apply to us. How many steps of removal is needed to copy MS proprietary code and it be okay?
This makes no sense.

Absolutely nobody is arguing to make the world shittier
When you trigger an UE, does it happen from the cellular mobile device or the cell tower? I assume the mobile device.

In either case, I would imagine it requires a directional and high-gain setup to reach 3,8km. Does that not limit the potential of the attack vector on large scale?
richbell> Blaming "the market" is a convenient way to cast blame away from people responsible onto a nebulous concept.

That sounds like a rejection of Supply & Demand forces.

> However, there are a significant number of external factors that you refuse to acknowledge, like government regulations specifically enacted to protect tenants from this type of exploitation.

All that does is make for higher rents and lower supply.
> Those are effectively cases of cryptomnesia.

Disagree, outputting training data as-is is not cryptomnesia. This is not Copilot's first case. It also reproduced ID software's fast inverse square root function as-is, including its comments, but without its license.

> If you don't want broad access your work, don't upload it to a public repository. It's very simple.

This is actually both funny and absurd. This is why we have licenses at this point. If all the licenses is moot, then this opens a very big can of worms...

My terms are simple. If you derive, share the derivation with the same license (xGPL). Copilot is deriving my code. If you use my code as a derivation point, honor the license, mark the derivation with GPL license. This voids your business case? I don't care. These are my terms.

If any public item can be used without any limitations, Getty Images (or any other stock photo business) is illegal. CC licensing shouldn't exist. GPL is moot. Even the most litigious software companies' cases (Oracle, SCO, Microsoft, Adobe, etc.) is moot. Just don't put it on public servers, eh?

Similarly, music and other fine arts are generally publicly accessible. So copyright on any and every production is also invalid as you say, because it's publicly available.

Why not put your case forward with attorneys of Disney, WB, Netflix and others? I'm sure they'll provide all their archives for training your video/image AI. Similarly Microsoft, Adobe, Mathworks, et al. will be thrilled to support your CoPilot competitor with their code, because a) Any similar code will be just cryptomnesia, b) The software produced from that code is publicly accessible anyway.

At this point, I even didn't touch to the fact that humans are trained much more differently than neural networks.
I don't think this has too much with celebrities, but about exempting "problematic people" from being repeatedly banned by algorithmic and applied AI systems. IOW, they don't have controls over internal mechanisms of so-called algorithms, and a separate suppression system is used to reduce harm.
Did you look at the actual fields that diffed compared to what doesn't?

It's likely only things like referrer and device groupIDs which are easily excluded if the goal is to track a user across browser modes.
my list of icon resources here: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#ico...
Oh. That's depressing. Maybe AI-augmented cars will perform better in that regard.
Exactly. Sales is solving other people's problems, which we find out about by asking a key question or three, and then listening. IF we have a good fit, we see if the other person is even interested in resolving the problem. THEN we explore the possible value to them, which will assist in price negotiations.
I too find most web animations and motions to be an annoyance. I wonder if more sites will allow users to specify their animation preferences similar to the way many sites allow users to specify their day/night preferences.
> I can consciously make both eardrums vibrate creating a sound like a rumble

I can as well when I consciously try to pop my ear drums.
You're thinking of trademarks.
Deal with what exactly? How is Medium supposed to “adapt” to someone’s theoretical issue with critiquing Mark Twain? Right now OP is… choosing not to post something.

I suppose Medium could request access to his hard drive, grep for documents containing slurs+”twain” and force-post them to alleviate his anxiety?
You can't judge these things by upvotes. Sensationalism, indignation, and flamebait routinely attract plenty of upvotes.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

We're just trying to avoid the dead-end discussions that low-quality internet comments lead to, including name-calling, fulmination, snark, and the other things that the site guidelines ask people not to do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> You did not acknowledge or address KerrAvon's point at all.

Sure I did. Leaving 50% vacant is leaving a lot of money on the table.
To some extent I agree with your opening. That is, plenty of cases CP is showing how mundane most code is. It's one commodity stitched to another stitched to another.

That's not considering any legal / license issues, just a simple statement about the data used to train CP.
Software Engineer is just a job-title like "Accountant". We should also have "Certified Software Engineer", which is not a job-title, but accreditation. Like "CPA" is. You can do accounting without being a CPA, but it helps your clients know you know something about what you are doing.
Curious to see where this goes. Video, even just snippets, is just so attention and time consuming. I prefer mediums I can scan quickly or consume passively without my full attention.
There are many direct air carbon capture technologies under development. Most should cost between $50-200 per ton of CO2 they capture. That translates to $1 to "undo" a gallon of gasoline.
I appreciated the write-up but i think it runs into one of the issues I've encountered myself messing around with netlogo, where for complex agent-based stuff, you sort of end up baking the result into your modeling choices. For the three civ variables, there are no constraints or trade-offs between them, and all comparisons are monotonic (more power + detection always better, less visibility always better). It's cool to see the visualizations and quantify the progression, but I don't think you need to run the sim to predict the result.
While it doesn't work for consumer accounts, https://support.google.com/a/answer/9230474?hl=en already exists, and https://cloud.google.com/cloud-provider-access-management/ac... goes further, requiring your consent before access. Although it doesn't work for certain legally mandated things
> Do you really consider this an endless stream of new JS frameworks popping up every day?

“Everyday” in the case of js frameworks has always been hyperbolic to me, but I think something that perhaps isn’t unfair is “once you’ve mastered a given framework, there’s a new one you have to learn.”

It certainly seems to be more development than in other languages. Seems. Seems. Seems. I could be wrong about that though.
Because you were already willing to waste time panning his code on a public forum. Maybe do something constructive instead of destructive if your time is so precious.
How does that address "Information you're waiting for being loaded once some process completes"?

Do you want to delay the entire page until absolutely everything is loaded?

Maybe you want some clever code checking that you only go from blank to filled, and you'd better have the size ready up-front?
I think the tag based system infers everyone is treated the same. Everyone can get the tag.

That's opposed to an Id or different account types, where if you didn't register with a specific type, you cannot be granted that same exemption
Not sure how you’d get caught if your code is kept private.