skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not to mention that Russia - Rosatom - will again play a big role in Western European energy when it comes to nuclear.

Good thing that 1), nuclear fuel storage in europe tend to have almost decade long stockpiles, 2), there are plenty of alternative to Rosatom to buy nuclear fuel from, 3), nuclear fuel is fairly easy to import compared to massive amount of natural gas.

Sweden is only a stone throw away and they have nuclear fuel production that they sell as exports. They also acquired the design and patents to produce nuclear fuel that fit power plants from Rosatom. Those 20% of fuel that Russia sell is a solvable problem, but as with anything it would cost money, investments and a bit of time to ramp up production.
Not adding a fairly standard CoC resulted in death threats and and people attempting to take down PolyMC and prevent people from using it and it from keeping up development.

Talk about an overreaction.
Can you provide some details? The state where I am living (Illinois) goes through hoops to ensure that everyone can get an ID card, such as it being free if you are homeless.
Russia Bombards Ukraine with Iranian ‘Kamikaze Drones’
The author contrasted their role with that of a union and implied that they had less influence (leading me to guess they were non-voting, but wondering the same thing you asked).
It’s odd how in my own personal experience, the only way that I know that Kanye is “the most successful rapper of all time” is people telling me that he is the most successful rapper of all time. I actually hardly ever hear his music, or see him performing anywhere, as compared to other rappers who, if I were to volunteer an opinion based on my own experiences I would think of as “most successful rappers of all time”, like Eminem, or Dre, or JayZ or even Snoop.

It’s almost as if his whole thing was to successfully market himself to be associated with the title of the “most successful rapper of all time”.

But I have to give him that other than such an illustrious title, I do hear of him in countless contexts other than music: his marriage, his shoes, his renaming himself, his presidential ambitions, his beefs with other actual artists, and now his purchase of 4chan.
> Given that, why wouldn't this just be upstreamed into gzip?

I suspect to keep the standard gzip as simple, small, and stable, as possible. It does the job, does it well enough, with minimal dependencies, has done for many years, and can do so in a wide array of systems including very small environments (in part due to the minimal dependencies).

Core tools like that typically don't get major updates, just security & stability patches as needed and maybe the occasional safe & easy change for performance reasons or to widen the number of supported environments.
> This comparison isn’t valid: you’re using a shared blockchain service with high transaction costs but then saying the comparison can’t use a shared service.

The parenthesized bit immediately following what you quoted (in addition to other parts of the comment and its grandparent) specifically explains why the comparison can't use a shared service: who's going to run it while being trustworthy for all users of it?

> So you’re saying I can process blockchain transactions without a reliable, high-speed network connection?

You need one for any other database, especially a shared one as you suggested above. In fact, it'd need to be more reliable and more high-speed for a non-blockchain solution; even full nodes don't require continuous uptime (that's only needed for mining or staking, neither of which is necessary to query and post transactions), and blockchain transactions tend to be pretty light on bandwidth.

> Just like it is currently, except with hefty transaction fees.

1. Citation needed on "hefty transaction fees". There are blockchains other than Ethereum, in case you weren't aware.

2. You're forgetting (or perhaps deliberately ignoring) that it's considerably easier to "figure out where things are being faked in-person" when the evidence of fakery is permanently in the public record. There's also far less room for plausible deniability on the faker's part.

> “uncensorable” is just meaningless blockchain marketing fluff

You might be surprised to learn that traditional database records, unlike those on blockchains, are trivial to destroy or otherwise tamper with. The inability to cover up fraud by editing transactions after-the-fact is nowhere near as meaningless as you assert.

> Whether those records are paper, actions tracked on a website, PKI signed documents, or transactions recorded on a blockchain is a rounding error on the difficulty of setting up the real world legal system and monitoring which actually prevent cheating.

And setting up said real world legal system and monitoring is considerably easier when the digital records are auditable by pretty much anyone and effectively impossible to modify.

> all a blockchain tells you is that you paid more to store the receipt, not that it was accurate

A blockchain tells you that the receipt was not and will never be modified. If there's an inaccuracy, that makes it much easier to detect it. If there's a pattern of inaccuracies, that makes it even easier to detect it and quantify it. What would've previously taken weeks or months worth of wrangling records from filing cabinets or arbitrary databases can instead be done in minutes or even seconds - freeing up time for the actually-hard parts of such investigations.
Could you help me understand the link between the two?
Maybe it’s because my brain is tired, but I had to reread the article several times to understand that the takeaway isn’t about something counterintuitive about the behavior of web workers, but about counterintuitive behavior discovered in their own app when attempting to apply web workers to solve a then-misunderstood problem.

Definitely not a better title, but a clearer synopsis: web workers [were] not the [appropriate solution to the problem we set out to solve, in fact their constraints helped us discover an extant problem and address it. Nothing peculiar or otherwise about web workers was implicated].

It’s possible this realization has broader value: digging in to better understand a problem and finding the appropriate solution is different than you presupposed are important skills! But I do think the title and summary do it a disservice. And I’m wary of how that might mistakenly influence people to reflexively dismiss web workers for appropriate use cases.
I suspect the real purpose of the Poseidon nuke torpedo is to avoid the difficulties of detecting subs by over-pressuring an enormous area all at once, like fishing with dynamite
I think treat is probably a better term to use until we have better data.

Psychedelics could be an interesting line of study for personality disorder treatment as well.
There is nothing ironic about expressing experience and knowledge which informs the position in debate.

My history informs my claim, but I'm not saying that my experience defacto overrides or invalidates any other claim, experiential or otherwise.

Perhaps it would be ironic if I refuse to hear contrary ideas due to my special class as a victim. I did not do this and think it is toxic to debate.

Moreover, I specifically don't identify as a victim.
"It's not a problem that it steals code because it doesn't work that well right now" is not a valid argument, don't pretend that AI doesn't advance on a daily basis.

Reminds me of people who defend AI art with "you can tell it apart from real art" yeah no, at the rate we're moving you won't be able to tell at all in a year or two.
Read my new book.
Does this work well?

What happens when you need to make a change in the english version? Do you just search/replace through all the translations?

Does django do anything to make this easier, or does it work with any i18n library?
There are lots of comments arguing for or against Copilot on a value judgment, and having an opinion on it being ethical or legal, etc isn't going to be the same for everyone. But I think regardless of where you stand, there should be some sort of legal ruling to clarify the gray areas that Butterick breaks down.
Open source? They used everything on github with no regard for license, which would have included plenty of code under conventional copyright. Microsoft is now profiting from that code.
I have seen it, also in healthcare. When the software gets in the way of providing care, or the implementation is so buggy it can put patients at risk, or when the burden it places on providers impedes their ability to work, then they will protest.

We need more of this.
So it is; for some reason the Google result said it was from a few days ago.
New tech creates winners and losers, and losers inevitably complain. See looms, VHS, Napster, etc. The more of this complaining I see, the more it falls flat. The only interesting thing is which side different communities end up being on.

To be fair, record companies were not in the least bit sympathetic. Open source contributors are easier to identify with, though imo it doesn't actually make their concerns more valid
Some Artificial Neural Networks have been shown to significantly (at least up to 50% concordance) model brain function.

Not the mention the laborious work of neuroscientists to build out the connectome of the human brain.
Ahhh, the classic money shift.
I'd be rather saddened if Copilot was shut down or neutered because of a few vocal few protesting against it.

It's been a massive productivity improvement to our senior devs, and I got so used to it that it's an annoyance when Copilot doesn't respond.
If that code managed to hit production, then the problem is with the management and engineering leadership, not Copilot.
>Why were they fine using state of the art tech then?

Because they're not against "state of the art" or even the notion of "state of the art" things in general, they're against smartphones in particular.

People are also able to finding smartphones (and the requirement to have one for many aspects of dealing with the government and corporations) bothersome and annoying without having to (a) hate new technology in general, (b) have it be due to them being old.

Amazingly (I know right? Who would have thought!) this can be true even if some people back in the day disliked landlines.

It's almost like each technology is not just some magic miracle everybody should adopt with no downsides and all fun and games, but something that people can be pro or against it on a preference basis (in fact, some tech can also have bjective negative consequences and side-effects).

Case in point I always disliked smartphones, and they become a thing at the time I was a teenager. And I know kids who were born with them who hate them. So there's that.
Let me say I'm not a fan of systemd at all, it's one of the many reasons I run FreeBSD on my daily desktop (though not the main one for that matter)

But I wonder what the drawback is of systemd in this case. Does it expose vulnerabilities? For something like this that boots a clean image every time I would normally not care about the init system as I'd never interact with it.
RethinkDB is effectively dead. If real-time is not your main goal, you’d be wise to use a managed Postgres or MySQL service and use your time solving the business problems you want to solve. Postgres/MySQL should by the default choice unless you are absolutely sure you needs a specific database for a specific problem.
No idea really, I'd never heard of the project until it popped up here.

But it looks like everyone in the commit comments is having fun posting photographs of cats to each other, which I suppose must be some "in joke" of the project. So I guess it's a funny prank they are doing, like an April Fool, but in mid-October.
Contractors can afford to build housing when their is demand and profit involved. They didn’t stop building after 2008 because of zoning, they stopped building because demand fell off a cliff. Once demand recovered, the industry was depleted of talent and capital to get started very quickly, zoning had very little to do with it.
Why not `semgrep-py`?

Though, as I tried to type that, I typed semgrep.py twice. The dot name really seems like a file extension, though. I'm torn.

Also, first time trying the tool and I love it!
Idealy you should just point your phone at a QR code and get the web app.

But downloading an app, or using a large display are probably better for sales.
And would therefore have to follow the license of the code they took it from. That's exactly the point. Copilot is reproducing the same code but without the license.
The SQLite CoE[1] comes to mind. It is the one that gets closest to exclusionary[2], but even so it's still generally well-regarded on HN when it's discussed.[3][4].

1. https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

2. In that it assumes a Christian God. Rules: 1, 10, 21, 41, 42, 49, 50, 58, 60, 62, 70, 72.

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18273530

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18313131
I think the majority of beauty industry 'personalities' are assholes. Some are finding success without manufacturing insecurity though, so I don't think it has to be table stakes.
I would argue (as the court did) that google's use is transformative because the end result "book search" is in a different marketplace from "books." The end result / output of these generative AI systems trained on stock media and art is..."stock media and art."

That's kind of what this whole article is about. Just training the systems in research is arguably fair use but creating the entire pipeline might not be and the "loophole" here is trying to claim no responsibility for the training at the center of it because that was technically done by a 3rd party (...funded by the final creator of the full entire pipeline.)
The criticism is that AI works are not transformative, but are recognizable “regurgitation” of training set.

It’s not that AIs are too good. They look like crude knockoff products to trained eyes. And crude knockoffs are usually considered bad things.
The horse seems well out of the gate.
It strips the (mandatory, in a lot of cases) licence text. But the licence still applies.

(Or I guess more technically, the original authors copyright still applies, and the rights granted to use the work under the license as an exception to the strict limitation under copyright - do not apply...)
I'm not claiming he doesn't have bipolar.

I'm pointing out that his behavior could be the result of it, because he's a narcissist, or some combination of the two
The less overt version of that is to figure out what mistakes copilot already makes (either things that are common in tutorials but not good in production, or things that are outdated, like hashing passwords with md5), and then systematically looking for software that includes such copilot suggestions.
the EHRs in the vision care space have been neglected even longer. At least Epic's is being worked on.
I've been trained on open source code, and there are likely many algorithms that I've internalized that are very similar to the "standard" way of performing an operation.

Is there a reason why an AI being trained on the same open source code isn't a similar situation? I agree that wholesale pasting of code chunks is an issue, but that hasn't been my experience with Copilot.

I'm not arguing for Copilot here...I'm genuinely curious why this would be considered any different.
It’s even simpler than that I’m afraid. It’s “we found a bug in our glue code with another library and we found it by debugging after overengineering.” It doesn’t implicate any of the technologies they use, just an oversight in their prior root cause analysis process.
Honestly, Github Copilot seems fine. It's just a tool that you're responsible for using responsibly. If I Google something, and copy and paste that, then Google is not responsible for my infringing. It's just "intelligent autocomplete".
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Fukushima was actually preventable. There were other reactors in the Tsunami zone that were fine because they were designed for these magnitude events. The fact that Fukushima happened as it did was because engineers with knowledge on international standards were not let into the decision making process. If anything Fukushima is an argument about the dangers of allowing energy production to be controlled by a private company that will focus on its bottom line moreso than engineering best practices (this might ring familiar to people affected by PG&E wildfires). (1). That being said, fukushima still worked as intended and no radiation leaked out.

And plane crashes can and did endanger entire countries in the past, such as 9/11 where hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afganistan civilians went on to die because of a plane crash in new york city. However, we responded to 9/11 by engineering better protocols, like installing a door lock to the pilots cabin and preventing the carrying on of certain blades. There were other times too when a plane crash threatened an entire country, such as when the soviet union shot down an airliner and caused a serious diplomatic incident as a result.

1. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2014.037...
I wouldn't be so confident one way or another, this is too new. I think it's going to make a lot of things way more accessible and enable people to express their creative voice who couldn't before. On the other hand you're looking at the destruction of a lot of professions, and possibly overnight with the speed things are moving at. I think if we told every software engineer their skills were entirely obsolete and they had change career tomorrow the reception would be much colder.

I remember when I started working on generative models in 2015, you could barely generate a picture of a blurry 40x40 pixels face. Two years later 1024x1024 almost indistinguishable from reality. Now every week we have a new revolutionary application coming out.
> But then Meta is using those academic non-commercial datasets to train a model, presumably for future commercial use in their products. Weird, right?

This is a very strong and likely inaccurate presumption.
"You're not forced to work with anyone you don't want to for any reason."

I think that is the point here. The developers had a disagreement, and now some of them and some community members, and a crowd of previous completely uninterested people are now sending death threats and spamming the forums and github. Some people do not seem to think that their is enough room in this world for disagreement and deciding to work separately.
> If there's a long line it means the restaurant is understaffed. I'd leave in that case.

Good for you? What even is the point of such a comment?

> You can read the menu as long as you'd like before you get on the line to order. The waiter can always come back. I mean really...

Waiter? What kind of places do you think we're talking about?

> I can see some larger chain restaurants having this feature but no mom and pop shop is going to need or care to translate their menu unless its a tourist destination.

Again with an utterly bizarre comment. As if chain restaurants just didn't matter at all, or machine translation software didn't exist?

> Besides, not many people travel as they don't have the money.

Talk about out of touch. At least before the pandemic, there was probably more world travel than there ever had been in history.
What does this comment even mean?

I cannot parse what you are suggesting.
I wonder what Dictionary companies thought about Autocomplete...
Truly beats me. I mean, if you were confident in your hypothesis, then why in Heaven's name would you file a lawsuit (a lawsuit!) against fellow scientists who are poking holes in the theory.

Truthfully, these days it's really beginning to seem as though I'm living through the wrong century. I mean it's like something broke in the world, and basic common sense went took a looong vacation.
This is why I have a DSLR, and why my DSLR costs me less per year than my phone camera: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=RCT-YMgjm9k
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It's not clear to me that model theory has much to say about Lean; do you have any resources on this? plato.stanford.edu does hedge that while modern model theory focuses on first-order logic, there's a broader sense of model theory which can be used to study even natural languages. But if you try to study type theory as natural language statements you aren't going to get much out of it. Going about it that way, the models you'll come up with are going to be of the form "doing some formal symbol manipulation X has certain formal symbol results Y" which will be neither illuminating nor useful. I did find an abstract[0] which claims that model theory has historical roots in type theory but I'm doubtful I have any way to access it.

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-symbolic...
"Good artists borrow, great artists steal."

A lot of artists get started with tracing before taking off the training wheels. You also see new art styles quickly proliferate across the entire community, so clearly there's some unspoken copying happening.

These models are producing new works in nearly identical styles. That's something a trained human could conceivably do.
It's best to treat copilot like an eager intern who can churn out boring code for you. It still needs to be reviewed.
> No match for domain "GITHUBCOPILOTCLASSACTIONLAWSUITSETTLEMENT.COM".

> Last update of whois database: 2022-10-17T23:07:12Z <<<

Just sayin'...
Nuclear energy is the future. It's the lowest-carbon and the safest form of energy we know of.

China knows this, which is why they're adding 150 new nuclear power plants in the next 15 years. [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-cli...
Oh man. I want to continue using co-pilot. It has improved my productivity and made me excited to do things that I previously felt like a chore.

Also, programmers please do not hinder on other programmers work. If you do, someone higher up in the ladder with eat your cake at every opportunity.
the horse is out of the gate on photocopiers and before them printing presses but that doesn't make using them without the rights to what you are copying legal
You don't need to license it, you can just publish it with a declaration that as the author, you are releasing your work in to the public domain. However, in terms of licensing I believe MIT is the most permissive.
YMTC can certainly be the dominant player with mediocre components under Apple's China-first strategy.
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- scraping and automating dms to a competitors twitter support handle or company profile
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- scraping data for SMBs from public city, county, state, or federal databases (for any licensed professional)
- how to incorporate ringless voicemails and sms into your outbound sequences

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Care to expand on the burner phone part?
I think that the argument, overall, is that there are questions as to the legality of certain applications of the technology.

Society needs to change the laws regarding the preservation of value of intellectual labor, as has long been suggested.

Acting like the law doesn’t matter is a bad thing, if we are making value judgements.
I had it happen to me earlier this year, and yes it was faintly bizarre. Why do they still need this? Similar to, "what exactly is the hotel/flight clerk typing in when I'm checking in? Why do they need to type so much info, when nothing has changed from when I booked the flight?"
Artists and engineers do exactly this. It just takes a decade.