skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
because you don't have to turn your head to check; and sometimes you can't hear cars approaching (especially EVs or when there's wind that masks the sound). Mirrors don't provide full visibility and it's also harder to judge the distance and speed of approach (which the radar provides).
MIT still requires the license text to be included with the source. Copilot, if it is not fair use, violates the license of MIT code it re-emits.
It's impressive to see / hear a good operator communicating right in the middle of a pile of noise. When I saw it done, it was with an older tube receiver, warmed up and stable, running a 100Hz crystal filter in tandem with a BFO.

A friend and I used to "tap" out Morse during church. There is a rhythm to it I find difficult to explain, but when one puts a bit of emphasis on the dash, tapping it all out comes through just fine. It's weird. At first it's just tapping, then one groks the other person's flavor of emphasis on the "dash" or "dah" and the characters sort of appear in the mind.
I had not even read the CoC at that point. But it is somewhat similar in practise to the old Discord stuff. Hateful exclusionary Dog whistling mostly, nothing outright actionable, nothing you could take to court, but well understood what it means and how certain people will be treated under it.

The current rules under Lenny are ~dont be an asshole, dont cause drama, respect people.~ And yet people are lying about, brigading, spamming, and trying to destroy the project (and apparently harassing and sending threatening messages to Lenny) because he did not adopt a different CoC.
The more I have to unpack my person and splay my things out for inspections, the less secure I am. Even against basic stuff like accidentally leaving something. The main goal when traveling is to keep your shit together, and the TSA forces you to the exact opposite for theater. So I gave up wearing the money belt through airports, and just leave it in my bag.

I'm certainly not arguing against the device overall - they're still useful when you get to your destination. It just seems the destruction of individual safety by technocratic authoritarianism is right at home in a thread about "cashless society".
It’s not illegal, it’s at worst a fancy code search tool that Github has the right to show you the results via the license you grant them when you upload and make public code on Github which is way stronger than other search engines like Sourcegraph have to show public code.

It doesn’t mean you have the right to use any of the code it generates but Copilot itself isn’t illegal in any meaningful sense.
Zuckerberg: WhatsApp Is 'Far More Private and Secure' Than iMessage
It’s not making money off of open source, it’s making money off of hosting open source.
Ask HN: Suggestions for reading material to be a manager
Any good books to read or suggestions for where I can find reading material on being a good manager/line-manager?
I'm a software engineer and I'm going to be managing a software engineer.
_Maybe_ software is fundamentally different to other "creative works" which rely on copyright protection, but it's not immediately clear it is, and as far as I know it's certainly not a "special edge case" as defined in copyright law in general.

So "Can this AI regurgitate the vast majority of the creative aspects of an original/novel piece of software" is not the test that, for example, the music industry uses when determining if a sample is infringing. The test there is "is a sample, however small, identifiable as part of a copyright work by a reasonable person trained in the art?"

You can't own copyright in a composition of a single middle c note. But lawsuits have been won for copyright infringement of melodies of 2 bars (fewer than about 16 consecutinve notes). Men At Work lost a copyright case for the flute melody in Land Downunder which is the same as a 90 year old tune Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gunmtree https://www.claytonutz.com/knowledge/2010/february/men-at-wo...

Whether that's done by a flute player or an AI, really doesn't make any difference as far as copyright law sees things.

(Whether copyright law is a "good fit" for source code, and whether it makes sense to apply laws meant for books/literature/music/film to software is a different but very good question. I don't have much in the way of other ideas which take original author's efforts and potential rights to benefit from then though...)
Do I still have hope to become a self-taught programmer at 25?
Hello I'm 25 and I have taken cs intro course 2 years ago and I have not practiced my skills since then I don't practice programming because I spend hours thinking and hours debagging.. but I have no other option I live in a third-world country and I have no other option
I want to continue learning to program so I can get a job but I don't know what to learn next I only find tutorials about web development and I don't want to become a web developer I want programs I know a thing or 2 about programming variables, loops, and functions. can you tell me what to learn next thank you
And if that's the case, the legal ruling shouldn't stop at code. It should encompass any images or text that aren't in the public domain, don't have copyright owned by the training entity, or otherwise permit this use. Which probably throws a massive spanner into a lot of machine learning. Which may well be fine but would probably be a big setback for ML generally.

Any higher court ruling might well draw some lines between different domains, but be clear that a ruling against GitHub would almost certainly be a ruling for copyright maximization and against fair use in other respects. So be careful what you wish for.
Copilot is trained on and returns AGPL code verbatim. It’s game over. If these licenses are not enforced it defeats the entire purpose.
That was my first thought as well. Perfect font sizing, clean & elegant design.
What do you use for knowledge management?
I fix computers for a living and i'm always finding it difficult to keep track of information I pick up along the way.

I currently use ZohoCRM for my CRM, but it doesn't really have anything for knowledge management. I tried there wiki implentation but I dunno, It feels weird to tie that information into a closed platform.

I was wondering what people use to keep track of information. I am currently hosting a local MediaWiki Server to organize specific information for my business operations. I want to move away from a local server because I don't want to maintain a local server any more.

I was thinking about moving my MediaWiki to a VPS instance but I'm wondering of there is a better way to track my information. I want to find any easy way to store links to information from my web browser to a open platform of some kind that handles different media types. I would also like it to be cross-platform as I want to be able to access the information from my mobile devices.

My use case for easily accessibility:

- I need to document procedures to follow (If I forget something)

- I often run across interesting vendors/hardware that I can recommend to my customers that are not well known.

- I want to either link to or recreate a resource online that contains tips/tricks that I can use to resolve an issue.

I can do this all online by searching the net, but I often forget what search terms to use or even what I am looking for. Remembering things by keywords is great sometimes, until it's not. I also want to use some kind of hierarchical structure to find things.

I needs to be accessible and I need to be able to export data out of it using a standard file format like text files preferably.

What do you use?
tl;dr: 51 days is the wraparound point of a signed 6-byte counter running at 33 MHz, used to invalidate stale data from instruments.
He is in fact the richest rapper according to Forbes, apparently with about $2 billion net worth, twice as much a JayZ
You're talking about laptops which you're right, are probably more popular than desktops, but taking a look right now at a few different laptops near me shows they have break as a function key. Take 3 data points as you will.

I'll take that bet and offer up a break key from my active keyboard if I'm wrong.
What do you mean? Any corporation you're trying to transact with can already tell you to get lost, regardless of how you try to pay them.
Yes because it turned out so badly the last time. Microsoft went from being one of the three most valuable companies in the US in 2000 to being one of the three most valuable companies in 2022.

Also back then, Microsoft had 90%+ share of the PC operating system market and was bundling IE in its operating system. I’m glad the DOJ forced MS to change its ways.
There's no reasonable equivalence between the two events you're referring to. If you wanted a recent rightist event comparable to CHAZ, you could go with the Malheur standoff, perhaps.

Also, "no armed confrontation with police" and your last paragraph are disingenuous at best.
Apple is probably mad busy lobbying on behalf of China's tech industry, like how they fought the Uigher forced labor bill. Apple has sunk so much investment in China that their all-in China-first strategy is starting to hurt them now.
> progress

Loss of anonymity in transactions is not «progress». It is the opposite.

> if they want to use new things that are accessible only through certain tools

The issue is with "things being from some point on accessible only through certain tools*.
As a current player, I feel a lot of the bad things talked about Jagex are more on the management side rather than the development side. Most of the known OSRS devs and community staff are held in pretty high regard, and my limited interaction with the RS3 community suggest some of the same. The most regular complaints are about how many microtransactions are in RS3, how poorly the devs are paid (though, that's also the video game industry as a whole), and specific events that seem to be very much streamlined through by management and then later patched up after community backlash.

Some changes do get into the game without player approval. The idea behind them is that some changes are necessary for the long-term integrity of the game (in-game economy, gear balancing, etc). They are always controversial.
> The problem is when they go bad, it gets really bad

Deepwater horizon was really bad. Plenty of coal accidents are real bad.

Not having energy is really bad.

Nuclear is the safest form of energy - and catastrophic failures are found in other forms of energy production.
> Lotteries were originally run by organized crime.

In BC, they still are.

“B.C. disbanded RCMP unit after report warned possible crime figure bought stake in casino”

https://globalnews.ca/news/6403415/organized-crime-bc-casino...

“BC Lottery Corp. didn’t block mysterious casino cash due to ‘hundreds of millions’ in estimated losses: inquiry”

https://globalnews.ca/news/7607782/bc-lottery-corporation-my...

“Lottery corporation was aware of suspicious cash at B.C. casinos, former VP says”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ex-lottery-v...

“B.C. lottery CEO 'blown away' by organized crime threat”

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-lottery-ceo-blown-away-by-organize...

Our previous government was literally criminal. An excellent investigative journalist wrote a book about it. Well worth becoming aware of what went on.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57427971-wilful-blindnes...
Copilot is great and this is a waste of time.
Ahh, good point, I forgot about the fact that the home office deduction is only available to self-employed people as of 2018.
Wired headphones get power from whatever they are plugged into.

Once you decide you don’t want to physically connected to the grid while wearing the headphones, you’re going to carry a battery around (or generate power with solar or something). If you’re also carrying some additional device (eg. a phone or mp3 player) along with the headphones and you’re wired into that device, you could have that device handle the power.

Nowadays I’m frequently switching my listening and speaking between different devices, some of which are on my person and some aren’t. So plugging the headphones whatever I’m currently using would be inconvenient and restrict my freedom of movement. Therefore it’s nice to have for the headphones to contain their own battery and do automatic switching between different input devices.

Solar sounds like a gimmick to me, the battery life of the headphones is not any issue anymore.
Bah, what a dumb argument. There's a whole ocean between "we don't really support Docker, you're on your own" and "if you dare ask this again, you'll get banned." That's not the Kubernetes guys being religious here.

Also, it doesn't even make sense on the engineering point of view. I understand not liking Docker the company or Kubernetes the product, but Linux namespaces are a kernel level facility, and banning people because they dare ask how to integrate this product with a native subsystem seems absolute zealotry from people with oversized ego.

Nothing wrong with that, but let's call a spade a spade. It's their project, so it's their right to be a prick about it, but that shouldn't stop other people to call them out on it.
For me it was trying to build an AWS Lambda function where I'd deploy a new version and visit the URL, then wait for the CloudWatch logs. And wait. And wait. It might only be two minutes but that is long enough for me to want some tea, maybe look at some other issue filed that morning and see if I can make progress in diagnosing it, and WHOOPS I GOT DISTRACTED FOR HALF AN HOUR.

fly.io is instantaneous. I deploy, I see the result, I fix it, I deploy again and figure out the next problem. It is a pleasant environment to develop in.
Sharing with license intact. If GH is sharing with the license and attribution stripped, then just punting IP vetting to pilot users, it seems to exceed their rights.
Wait, I'm not sure what you are trying to say? Can you clarify?
It could potentially under "fair use," which completely overrides any and all copyright claims if the conduct is found to be, indeed, "fair use."

Fair use in code is broader than just copying. For example, in Google v Oracle, APIs were found to be not copyrightable. Even if you copied the names of, say, 86,000 different functions in a proprietary library, you did not violate copyright.

Then comes the second problem. Let's say there is a function, say, `AddTwoNumbers(int a, int b)`. Just because John Fitzgerald in 1999 implemented that as `return a + b;" doesn't mean you can't too. There's a degree where you can copy the code that made a function work, even if that code existed earlier. It's fuzzy but it is legally real.

Finally, there is your third problem, which is that you risk a "safe harbor"-esque judgement. Just because YouTube has occasional copyright-violating content doesn't make YouTube illegal. Similarly, the person suing here risks a finding that GitHub Copilot is legal as long as any occasional long proprietary code regurgitations are removed as needed.

If your code falls under the first two conditions, copyright be damned, license be damned, it's all irrelevant. See also Linux copying Unix.
Yes, and the person I replied to explained how to prevent that, but seemed unsure about auto-update capabilities of the launcher itself, so I provided that information.
AI model can accurately predict human response to novel drug compounds
Mastercard tries to make crypto less scary for banks
>working out how to report them as sick

Welcome to the new world. Teacher submits attendance on the computer at the beginning of every class period; if the student is absent and there's no excuse recorded then the system immediately starts robocalling all the family contacts.
Earth's magnetic field is way too small to orient magnets in someone's pocket. The level of friction is substantial! For example: Even the strongest rare earth magnets do not self-orient when sitting on a table. There's a reason compasses require very-low friction bearings (either needle point or water).
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I fail to see the connection between carrying a concealed weapon and opening a bank account. How does one correlate to the other?

If I am a licensed pyrotechnician and have legal access to high explosives, does that also mean I should be able to open a daycare with no additional checks or licenses?

What am I missing?
An oddly rude response.
Uncancelable until they are dns blacklisted that is
I think this is one of the areas that airlines are super good at. Every single plane needs strict regular maintenance and tons of checklists in order to take off, so something like a 50-day requirement for a reboot would be in that list of items, and if the people aren't following those lists of items you're going to have things like turbine failures, so they get done.

Maybe if there's a really badly run airline it might be a problem, but there are much more severe problems than software in a case like that.

Boeing gets away with this software issue because it's not really a big issue. The scary point the media can tell you because you don't have context to understand why it's mundane.
I likewise, given how often people don't read things before responding to or about them, don't give the benefit of the doubt when someone's response looks like they may not have considered details that are openly presented.

Feel free to be a cynic, it is often a healthy position IMO, but you'll be less stressed if you try not to let yourself get offended (or just surprised) when others are too, or consider how others might read you incorrectly which can be corrected with a little detail of your PoV (other than it is contrary to another one) up front.
Thanks. If run as an unprivileged user, the dd command will not consume ALL of the disk space (so privileged processes will not be disrupted). It will consume up to the free space limit (default 5%) as described here: http://blog.serverbuddies.com/using-tune2fs-to-free-up-disk-...

The zerofree command looks useful, but I don't know how portable it is. The dd method works across many platforms (such as AIX).
> Sure but unless you bring down capitalism people will still need to work to eat and most will want to use their hard-earned creative skills to make a living.

The concept of a UBI (universal basic income) isn’t inherently in conflict with capitalism. I believe that it is actually in coherence with the idea of Universal Human Rights, as defined by the UN in the 1940s.

Perhaps that would be the culmination of anything good about capitalism.
The community argument is weak but it’s just content marketing, not a thesis. The goal of the article is to generate leads for potential members of a class action lawsuit.
The 10 most popular/bestselling computers in the last 10 years definitely would include the Dell optiplex line that comes standard with a full size keyboard that has a Pause/Break key.
> If they re-released Copilot as FOSS, a lot of the valid criticisms would evaporate.

That changes nothing at all. A FOSS license is, in a legal sense, no different then a proprietary one. If it’s illegal it’s illegal regardless of whether it’s FOSS.
Why should Copilot engineers, and the company that invests in it, not be rewarded for their incredible product and SaaS offering they spend resources on providing?
Same story from:
CNN Business - Kanye West to acquire conservative social media platform Parler - https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_ad4adf7e27837537f8b07523ab...
Associated Press - Kanye West to buy conservative social media platform Parler - https://apnews.com/article/kanye-west-parler-5b1cbdb1f311ae9...
Reuters - Kanye West to buy social media app Parler - https://www.reuters.com/technology/parler-be-acquired-by-kan...
Ah, my bad. Going to leave it as is because I doubt I'm the only one who's going to parse that wrong and it's good to make sure nobody incorrectly thinks they're secure.
I'm gonna guess that Microsoft GitHub (tm) would shut you down pretty quickly if you tried to clone tens or hundreds of thousands of repos in a short window of time, b/c of course that's sketchy/abusive use of their infrastructure, right?

But of course if the data is already sitting in object storage inside your cloud environment and all you have to do is run some MapReduce jobs to get at it...

Hence: unfair, anticompetitive, intellectual-property-right-abusing behavior. Microsoft GitHub (tm) can prevent anyone else from running the kinds of analysis they do by simple "operational security", while running literally any kind of analysis, model training, etc. they want. Don't like it? But their commercial services and products so you can run Microsoft GitHub (tm) on your very own Microsoft Azure (tm) infrastructure, using Microsoft Visual Studio Code (tm) and Microsoft GitHub Codespaces (tm) so work on _your_ code privately.

Best of all, you can still still take advantage of the huge library of "free" code offered by Microsoft GitHub Copilot (tm) to ensure your private, proprietary codebase still has all of the advantages of Open Source Software, brought to you exclusively by the Microsoft GitHub Platform (tm).
Only if they are wired. The article is about wireless headphones and people forgetting to charge them. It's a bit advertorial-ish because this is exactly the product that a brand has launched just now.

Technically it could help but just like solar-powered garden lights, it's a race you can't win with ambient light.

If someone were to find an amazing headmounted-solar-power-source, it would have to be so good you'd be able to charge your mobile devices with it (or you'd have to walk in the sun all day long to keep it going and have enough of a charge for the night).
Good idea! I opened an issue here: https://github.com/returntocorp/semgrep/issues/6331
Wow, man, that must be insanely frustrating

I've only had much experience with US culture in the USA, and living in Japan. I guess the language/cultural barrier between the US and Japan is still substantial enough that US politics don't really make their way into the Japanese zeitgeist, since I never heard anything about US politics from anyone I know living there other than Americans.
This isn't about supernatural powers, it's about low-quality internet comments. We're against them.

The comment was obviously unsubstantive regardless of how "wry and pithy" it felt to you. You've been posting other ones in other threads too, which is why my request was in the plural.
He is me. Allowing large companies to ignore licenses and giving them a tool to launder licensed code at scale is a significant threat to the integrity of open source licenses.
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I'm just the right age to have learned about the enormous potential of deep sea mining by being taught about it in grade school! we were gonna vacuum up manganese nodules!
It's more nuanced.

Copilot exists publicly, which also means some copilot-lite thing trained on a smaller subset of repos probably exists privately in many different places. It may not be as good today, but these private instances will improve over time. Since the demand for a copilot-like service exists, eventually a large VC-funded public instance will show up.

In that lens, it is more sensible on the individual level to prepare for a world where copilot thrives than to put all of your eggs in the "ban copilot" basket.
Context (I work at Oscar):

Oscar (no longer a startup; IPO'd last year) ran their own mesos cluster for the same reasons anyone uses k8s today: to help teams deliver in parallel. "Startup headcount" can mean different things to different people, but the company employs hundreds of software engineers, and has been around for over a decade. Kubernetes was not an option when they hit those scaling constraints—but now that k8s has established itself so firmly, Oscar's moving to a managed k8s setup.

My experience before Oscar was mainly in a Spring monolith—which, yes, made some microservice overreaches pretty clear in my team's corner of the codebase—but even so, it'd be madness to coordinate all the org's development through e.g. a Jenkins instance and a bunch of ansible.