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> I love free software and whatnot, but I have a feeling this situation would've been quite different if copilot was made by the free software community and accidentally trained on some non free code..

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?

> If you can't trust that the code in a project is compatible with the license of the project then the only option I see is that copilot cannot exist.

It might be possible to feed it only manually-vetted inputs, but yes; as it currently is, Copilot appears to be little but a massive copyright-infringement engine.
If they’d open source their software I wouldn’t have to wait two months till they finally release the pdbs for the kernel after every 2XH1 / 2XH2 update.

It’s so annoying that they are sooooo slow at this and we have to keep our users from upgrading after every release.
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the dumping of agricultural products is bad for local farmers but good for low income folks, no one forces jordans to buy the 3x cheaper imported wheat over the local variety. this is still a win for the people. I only hope these variety will find gourmet use and/or be saved for preservation. coming from farmer family, really missing a lot of products: canapy cloth, local cereals, mulberry, local tench, local nuts, etc...
I think it won't become a legal problem until Copilot steals code from a leaked repository (i.e. the Windows XP source code) and that code gets reused in public.

Only then will we see an answer to the question "is making an AI write your stolen code a viable excuse".

I very much approve of the idea of Copilot as long as the copied code is annotated with the right license. I understand this is a difficult challenge but just because this is difficult doesn't mean such a requirement should become optional; rather, it should encourage companies to fix their questionable IP problems before releasing these products into the wild, especially if they do so in exchange for payment.
With 2 million users, I imagine it would be on the order of thousands of posts per day, and maybe hundreds of reports?
Yeah, sway is wlroots. But GNOME and KDE are both doing their own thing, so the point is in generally perfectly valid.
The songwriter copyright is expired but there is still a freshly minted copyright on the video and the audio performance.

This becomes particularly onerous when trolls claim copyright on published recordings of environmental sounds that happen to be similar but not identical to someone else's but they do have a legitimate claim on the original recording.
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I think people may be drastically over-valuing their code. If it was emitting an entire meaningful product, that would be something else. But it’s emitting nuts and bolts.

If the issue is more specifically copyright infringement, then leverage the legal apparatus in place for that. Their lawyers might listen better.

This is not a strongly held opinion and if you disagree I would love to hear your constructive thoughts!
Then the culture of pretty much fucked up.
Trying to "gotcha" someone being helpful and replying to comments is quite rude. No one working at Facebook would reply yes to that comment, which makes it quite worthless.
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Lol. I know of your name for some reason, though it's not because of Medium or Twitter.

Anyways, others have already said it, but I'll say it again.

Substack. So long as you aren't calling for violence on others, insurrection, all that jazz; you should be fine. Besides, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) is tame in comparison to other authors and even philosophers that people write/talk about. Probably smarter than some of them too.

Sure, he said some words that some people today don't like, but when one considers context of the times, it should be allowable. Especially when considering things like the creative license of authors and artists.

A few things though to consider before using Substack.

1. They say your posts can be as long as you want, but due to the nature of Gmail limitations, it's essentially artificially limited by gmail. So if you want people to be able to read your entire article in their email, make sure you don't use too many large data pictures, etc stuff like that.

2. The site is constantly saving your work in the event of a power outage, or network error. The latter happens somewhat often with them, due to the nature of the beast, and of humans. When cloudflare was getting some flak over Kiwifarms a few months ago, it ended up getting some sort of attack that took down Substack somewhat as well if I understand correctly. It only lasted a few hours though, tops. So pay attention to when the network error message pops up, and stop typing till it goes away.

3. Their setup is still being worked on and added to, so if you think it looks a little bland, don't worry you are not alone. But that sort of works for it as well, as it helps keep things low cost I bet.

And

4. You can monetize through Stripe.
> Maybe I shouldn't have used the word exploit. I didn't mean that the tenant is cheating the landlord, I just meant that there is an inefficiency in the market and the tenant is able to use it to their advantage.

And that's a fair point — I just think that "the market" tends to be a harmful concept for basic needs like housing, especially when there are controlling interests whose sole motivation is to maximize profit. I have an inherent distrust of software (https://xkcd.com/2030/), and the fact that programs like YieldStar rely on proprietary formulations and non-public data (or at least data that isn't possible for the average person to reasonably acquire on their own) means you are trusting them to provide a fair valuation when there's a bit of a conflict of interest for them not to. "The market" has been a pretty poor regulatory of corporate malfeasance.

Short-term profit is usually at the cost of longevity. In the case of housing, there is a difficult to quantify 'human cost'. People are generally healthier, more productive, and contribute more to their local economy when they aren't stressed and experiencing financial hardship.

But I digress. I think we both understand each other, agree on a few things, and disagree on others.

> And I think you're on the right track when you mention large investors buying investment property.

Rates rising has definitely cooled the market in my city, albeit prices are still at least 100k over where they were even a year ago. I worry though that the recession we may or may not already be in will simply be an opportunity for big players to swoop in and buy even more supply.

I don't really see things improving without significant changes to things like zoning laws, short-term rentals, and limiting mass-ownership of property (so new supply actually goes to buyers and not speculators).
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The G4? Not much. The G4's FireWire spinning disk RAID? Quite a bit. I'm plotting possible replacements.
No. I agree with OP’s interpretation and I agree with representing the work as written in expressing that interpretation.

I wouldn’t host any content I consider racist. If this is what OP describes, I would host it. I would want to review it first and discuss any concerns if they arise. And I also have a lot on my plate so it would take some coordination on expectations/requirements and time to set up. But “in today’s culture”, as an anti-racist myself I’d gladly support this piece as described.

Edit: Sorry should’ve made it explicit! OP if you want to be hosted by a rando human on HN who is interested in your piece, instead of a platform, I’m easy to contact.
Sorry but "provide more virtual resources than you physically have" isn't another way to say "overcommit"?
There are so many "could"s in this article and not a lot of evidence of any kind that this will be done. Meta is not going to serve ads based on eye tracking data. It would be stupid for them to this on their halo product or frankly, on any of their vr products. They need these products to succeed and they are not so naive as to jeopardize their nacent platform on some silly ad scheme at this stage. I understand the hate for meta on hacker news, but it's really a shame for it to be based on no evidence at all.
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I remember that. After a while I was “randomly” chosen to meta-mod all the time. But I know others were almost never chosen.

Clearly the actions were reviewed so people’s percentage change could be adjusted based on seeming fairness.
As an avid reader for the last 40 years, this does not apply to me.
I just tried clicking "Browse" (second item in left bar, below "Main page") and "Computer science" is in the middle of the first box:

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/School:Computer_Science

Which leads to "Core Courses" and "Full Course Listing".

It also works if on the main page, the middle of the top box lists subject areas, you can click "Technology" which has a subcategory "Computing" which lists "Computer science".

It also works if you click on "Schools" in the main page, which lists "School:Computer Science".

I agree it should maybe be more primary how to access the subject hierarchy. But it is there in multiple ways.
Realistically, wikiversity is the wikimedia project that has taken off the least (maybe except wikinews and wikispecies). The amount of content is relatively small. If you want a structured learning resource, i think wikibooks is a better bet.
> it’s not even based on fact

Pardon? What specifically of the very specific, widely accepted points of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33215270 was not based in fact?

If you think my points are issues with the mainstream left rather than the far left I don’t think you’ve been reading the posts you keep writing replies to.
Nope. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs
"Liming the ocean" is a very interesting idea I had thought of but not seen published before.

Idea is that dissolved CO2 reacts with alkali metals and precipitates out, raising pH and making atmospheric CO2 more soluble. Best place to do it is on cliffs and beaches where waves crash and stir things thoroughly.

Putting iron compounds in ships' and overseas airliners' fuel would be useful too.

The rabid reaction to that experiment, spreading iron dust, mystifies me. Winds off the Sahara dump thousands of tons of iron silicate dust in the south Atlantic and Mediterranean most years, naturally.
I've never worked somewhere that didn't have me sign some kind of broad NDA-esque clause saying I wouldn't share proprietary or non-public info for a certain period after release (imo, completely reasonably). This blog post is literally nothing BUT non-public proprietary info. Like the parent I'm really surprised the blog author feels comfortable sharing all this. Even if it ended up being technically legal, I have to imagine this kind of thing is extremely frowned upon.
>60+ monuments across the globe

That might be impressive, but it doesn't prove that he's notable. Have there been articles about him or his work in newspapers, art magazine, etc? Have art critics commented on his work? If so, that could be used to establish notability, and be used as sources for an article about him.
I don't think so. Every major literary magazine (including online ones) publishes articles and stories with racial language in them; readers generally understand the distinction between replication for the purposes of analysis, literary use, and gratuitous use.
Well, there you go. Jupyter isn't very much like binding.pry, because it lacks the debugger-ness.

REPLs without the debugger bit aren't nearly as good. That's why I mentioned debugger for JS and binding.pry (implicitly, for Ruby).

binding.pry pops you into a terminal REPL with the local binding in scope, just like the eval function of your debugger; except you can start writing loops, define new variables, and more rarely, new functions, right there.

When writing code with a test-first model, you set up the data fixture then pop a binding.pry in the implementation, right where you expect to start implementing it, and run the test. You can then implement the logic in the middle of the test execution - in the middle of your debugger session - and because the REPL is so expressive, you can do a lot. You then copy & paste out those lines and save them in the implementation logic, and shuffle the binding.pry on to the next spot.

Or in a hobby project, you can fly by the seat of your pants, and write code live on the server. There's a remote version of Pry if multiple workers sharing a terminal start fighting each other to own keystrokes.
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I think Wayland's security model was more worried about reading inputs than writing them (i.e. preventing keyloggers). Of course https://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/security/XACE-Spec.htm... also exists, so...
This is no longer the case. You can implement VPN via NetworkExtensions: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension
> Furthermore my understanding is they ushered in an amazing era of translation and learning where great state resources were directed to supporting linguistic, cultural and pedagogical achievement and were explicitly pluralistic in terms of state policy on the religions of their subjects. (Source: BBC video series on the Moorish period)

> Compare Spain today; you can barely get around without being fed jamon. My understanding is that historically there was actually a purposeful, vindictive re-introduction of pork in to (nearly all) Spanish food to "flush out" any Muslims in hiding after the Moorish period and this culture of ham-in-everything has basically continued to the present. (Source: Traveling with a Muslim in Spain)

Jews were also victims of such dietary inquisition (sometimes literally).
>Asking to speak with folks the old fashioned way seems quaint to the point that I genuinely am appalled by your harshness here…

I think it was the "just slip through the back door!" part which is more than fair. I turn around with a sharp blade and your dumb ass is standing there and now both our lives are over.
Multiple editors, depending on what I want to do:

- VSCode: JavaScript/Python dev
- Notepad++: Fast copy/paste, JSON formatting, document viewing, or converting from a rich-text format to plain text for pasting in a web comment. Because it also saves tabs, it's helpful for temporary sticky note type text. I rarely ever code here.
- textEdit: On Mac because it's easier to type here and then paste into HN comment.
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Have you ever read your employment contracts? I've never worked somewhere that would allow something like this to be shared so soon after departure.
I mostly remember medium articles starting to show up at the same time as svtle ones, and the svtle ones were always more interesting
Counter-point: Smooth scrolling is an essential feature for me. I bought a specific mouse for this because I find sudden line-jumps so disorienting.
They have applications beyond cryptography. One use case is to generate a unique random ID at startup. You can't do that without some sort of entropy source.
You'll never be able to push it to the fringes because there will never be a legal universal agreement even from country to country on where to draw the line.

And as computers get more powerful and the models get more efficient it'll become easier and easier to self host and run them on your own dime. There are already one click installers for generative models such as stable diffusion that run on modest hardware from a few years back.
That's a great summary. Personally, I'd add just one more before the pitch:

(D) Uncover how amazing their future would be, if they could resolve what's stopping them

You want them to be articulating the implications of a solution — i.e., the benefits — so that they really feel the need. Then you don't even have to pitch that hard; you just gently offer your solution to resolve the need they're actively feeling. (As a bonus, you also get to hear the benefits in their words. That lets you use those words to refine your sales pitch for the next prospect.)

Anyway, these 4 steps are really just a Twitter-ified version of SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham [1] — a book which, despite its age and its title, is a very good sales book.

(The reason its so good is because it's one of the only ones that uses actual data. They studied many actually successful salespeople, identified the patterns and formed hypotheses about what works, then taught that to new/struggling salespeople to validate their hypotheses. The SPIN acronym is the mnemonic for what they found.)

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/SPIN-Selling-Neil-Rackham/dp/00705111...
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The NSA would suffer reputational damage by doing this. Random cracker might do so too but it’s definitely a different market.
The author thinks that quoting Mark Twain will get him permabanned from Medium without the ability to appeal successfully? On what factual grounds?

Considering the fact that the theoretical chance of that happening has gotten a link to his blog to the front of HN, I would be fascinated to see Medium employees justify “No quoting literature with mean words no matter the context” to the posters on here if they chose that route.

So far I’ve only got a couple of pieces of information: a link to a blog and the promise of some groundbreaking new literary analysis that’s ~too critical and offensive to the algorithm to even try posting~. It kind of reads like an ad.

I am familiar with Twain’s work, I’ve read it, along with lots of critiques and articles (he is one of the most popular and analyzed authors in US history)
Eh. Sway uses wlroots, but KDE is a completely different option that they didn't list so it comes out in the wash.
Patents and copyrights are totally different, and should be treated as such. The issue isn't about whether someone copies the algorithm, it's whether they copy the written code. Nothing in an algorithms textbook is patentable either, but if you copy the words describing an algorithm from it, you are stealing their description.
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Am I misunderstanding this or is this person actually asking about an VPN client rather than a server? I don't think running a server makes sense in the context of redirecting DNS packets.

Surely iOS allows some kind of soft VPN API that this developer can use?
If a large % of rentals in an area are using this algorithm, then it becomes a feedback loop fully controlled by this algorithm.

I get so tired of watching people declare things with an air of authority that are absolutely not true if you apply a modicum of thought to it.
Is there a trick to make the typescript compiler run? All the other examples seem fine out of the box. No matter what I write, the ts compilation fails.
This feature is available indeed but I don't feel like it's significant improvement - sensors are too slow to react, too imprecise and moreover drivers seem to rely on them too much, are lazy and don't care about others - for example high beams should be disabled before other car ahead is already visible on winding road , same goes for hills and multitude of other various scenarios where automatic sensors and software just doesn't work.
Tbh it seems that this is another "arms race" just like with car size/SUVs dominance and this arms race can make driving at night really painful experience
To be honest, it would probably benefit all of humanity if we stopped rewriting the same code to then fix the same bugs in it, and instead just used each other's algorithms to do meaningful work.

I work for a large tech company whose lawyers definitely care that my code doesn't train an AI model somewhere much more than I do. On the contrary, I would really like to open source all of my work - it would make it more impactful and would demonstrate my skills. It makes me a bit sad that my life's work is going to be behind lock and key, visible to relatively few people. Not to mention that the hundreds of thousands of work hours, energy and effort that will be spent to replicate it all over my industry in all other lock-and-key companies makes the industry as a whole tremendously inefficient.

I hope that AI models like Copilot will finally show to the very litigious tech companies that their intellectual property has been all over the public domain from the start. And we can get over a lot of the petty algorithm IP suits that probably hold back all tech in aggregate. We should all be working together, not racing against each other in the pursuit of shareholder value.

Historically, mathematicians used to keep their solutions secret in the interest of employment in the middle ages. So there used to be mathematicians that could, for example, solve certain quadratic equations but it took centuries before all humanity could not benefit from this knowledge. I believe this is what is happening with algorithms now. And it is very counter-progress in my opinion.
How is the last example different from an incumbents paradise? To me it looks like a road to autocracy.

As for the demarchists, The Orville had an episode about this. There are many reasons it does not work in practice at a medium or large scale.
If the new supply uses the same algorithm, it does not solve the problem.
It would be nice if our kids didn't die of climate change. Or their kids
The brain doesn't compute it, the cochlear is an fft! It is a cone shaped structure (that is curled up) that is covered in hairs and neurons. The fatter end is used for low freq and the thinner end is used for hi freq. So the brain takes audio in the frequency domain, not as continuous samples!

(I did an Anatomy degree almost 20years ago now, all from memory)
I am talking about an effect. (You are talking about… people like me? Being extremely annoying? Because I’m not talking about a different aspect than the one I am talking about?)

How can we measure this effect?

How do you know that it’s not the measured cognitive deficit after the infection and only school closures? How was it measured?

We’d want to analyse and investigate the effect, right?
The tl;dr for those who don't watch is that healthy grasslands need grazing herds. When we run herds of livestock over land in a controlled manner, we reverse desertification and create healthy land. When we take the animals away, or don't run them correctly, we create deserts.
I've always said that computer science has a PR problem.

Formally verified applications is such a foreign concept to people that when you say "verified correct" they get skeptical and mistrust the whole concept.

Saying something is "secure" when it has been formally verified will be received with a grain of salt, but it is much easier to say than:

"we wrote a detailed specification that define the whole system via algebra, and then we let a theorem prover run all possible permutations of the specification It has now tested a billion edge-cases and we have reached a state where it no longer finds any deviation from the specification."

At least it is provable better than someone saying "it is secure because we think it is".
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