skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By default, and in the most common configuration, the Tailscale “idea” is to intercept all network requests made to a reserved IP range (100.x.x.x) that cannot have public services on it (similar to 192.168.x.x). Each of your devices gets a static IP and can reach any other of your devices using their static IP. All traffic will be encrypted, and it will work really really hard to get through all NAT gateways and firewalls in-between.

As those static IPs are in a reserved range, they will never clash with a public service like a website and Tailscale does not mess with your regular traffic.

You could make things more complicated by setting up exit nodes and exposing subnets, but that’s the general idea. So simple, it’s brilliant for their standard use-case.
> It’s currently unclear if training deep learning models on copyrighted material is a form of infringement

What? It's clearly a derived work.
I wonder what wiring bypasses were necessary and how the person made it all work.

Mussk notoriously hates this kind of thing, and after people rigged it like this previously he mandated it be made impossible to do every again.

I wonder how many gallons of fuel the generator went through. The most interesting part would be to learn what the final MPG was over time in this scenario!
The passive sonar from their own prop noise would easily show a mountain. There is a reason about 30 people were demoted due to the incident. Bottom line is they weren’t paying attention to their sonar.
Multiple bank accounts, even if you operate primarily with cash, are a requirement for normal living. You always want a backup, preferably isolated from the original.
With the threat of a much higher bill if done wrong. That $2.50 vultr instance provides a lot more like 20 gigs of storage nevermind security of a fixed bill.

You might be able to save a little, you might pay a lot more. Hedge your bet and use vultr.
This blog post has nothing to do with workers and everything with “just don’t use React with hooks”
So, in other words, you liked free speech until free speech became more prevalent when it became available to the masses via technology?

Part of accepting free speech is being tolerant of speech you may find offensive.
I just yesterday went to a Korean restaurant in Orange County CA that had robot waiters.

It was very exciting since I haven't witnessed it in the real world, and my daughter was in awe. Not quite sure how efficient it really was, more a novelty if anything.
This is not remotely the same, scale and barrier to entry matter. With stable diffusion I can pick any artist right now and create over 1000 derivative works by tomorrow morning in his style to the same degree of expertise with no training involved and no work required.
I'm running into this. A family member is in the hospital, but she took care of all the bills and whatnot. Her husband is having a very hard time figuring out how to pay bills, etc. I've been helping him out but the situation is teaching me how hard it is to do things for someone outside of technology these days.
You are suggesting banning children from the internet all around the world, which I am pointing out would be the same as banning children from bars all around the world.

Both are Equally non starters because you’re talking about enforcing one set of laws all around the world.

Your suggestion can not work.
It also doesn't make any sense. Copilot suggesting to me the signature of a function from some library is not actually the same as executing that library. That library still needs to be downloaded onto my computer to be executed. And who will write new features to a library if not for the people who are interested in that?
It strips GPL, or any license.
In every case that I've messaged a doctor through Epic, a nurse replies. I doubt that the doctors are being interrupted at random moments to field these inquiries.
Sure, all valid issues. It for sure would expose the general vicinity.

In terms of noise, keep in mind that submarines have all sorts of concessions already. A diesel-electric sub is quieter than a nuclear sub, but it has to surface every two days or so to get air to run its very noisy diesel generators.

I think a battery powered electric drone should be far quieter than any sub technology we have (steam/nuke is loud, diesel is louder). The quiet systems we have are all electric and therefore have limited energy capacity.
That mentions everything: Parsing the content, showing it to/sharing it with other users, using it to improve and provide the service. GitHub and all of its features are "the service".
Agree, the argument seems pretty threadbare. Millions of programmers use open-source software every day and incorporate it into their own projects without ever engaging the authors of the code upon which they rely.

Perhaps the author means that there’s a possibility that the programmer to whom the code was suggested won’t necessarily know its provenance and how to engage the community from whence it came. If so, that’s a stronger argument, but I don’t know that it’s the best one they can make.
The tweet has been removed?
Agreed. I haven't commented on morals, ethics, or even witb judgement on what ought to be legal or not.
Yep. As soon as I hear the opening melody in Hand Covers Bruise, I know I'm about to start typing and not look up for 3 hours.
Even if it does, it may not matter. For example, APIs are not copyrightable (see Google v Oracle), and if there is only one obvious efficient way to make something work, it does not follow that the user must be prohibited from using that way even if someone else did it first.
Given PSD2, its lackings and its bad implementations, some of us going towards the right of not having one - it is just the right of not being involved in lunacies.
One of the pages talks about a problem he got talking to mathematician on sci.math. Where do mathematicians talk about math and collaborate on problems nowadays?
Proof of work was invented from the start, as an anti-spam measure. The user sends data to a server and alongside of that, sends some proof of work data. This simple system has a downside though, that is ASICS. A specialized ASICS hub of servers, can create as much spam as they wish, because proof of work for the specialized system is trivial to compute. One solution to that problem, is for ASICS hubs, to create the proof of work, and sell it to users. Add on top of that a public database of what ASICS proof of work was sold to who, and you've got Bitcoin. It is really that simple. Instead of fighting the ASICS hubs, you work with them.

This technique, is so simple it should not be even be considered a technology, it is just a technique. A myriad of technologies can use this technique to add some additional properties, to an already existing technology. For example, in the IOT world, an oven connected to the internet, could be used only by a particular key in the blockchain, thus proving ownership to control the oven. One microtransaction can turn on the oven, or turn it off.

The most important aspect of bitcoin, is of course spam prevention. Gmail servers just block any unknown mail provider, just in case they are spammers. When spam was limited to email messages, that was a viable solution for the internet. This however is gonna change.

Synthetic data, i.e. deepfakes, are really gonna take off right now. Synthetic faces of people can be uploaded by the tens of millions to facebook each day. Synthetic photographs of places can be uploaded to Insta. Synthetic conversations can can be uploaded to twitter by the billions. Synthetic songs can be uploaded to bandcamp, terabytes of them every day. Synthetic videos can be uploaded to youtube, or tik-tok, petabytes every day.

The advertisement based free model of posting information on the internet, will go down in flames in less than 4 years.

A new technique is going to emerge, in which we send value to the hosting providers, for our information they are willing to host for us. That value, trillions and quadrillions of microtransactions, less than a cent each per day, it is difficult to track, but it can be done, the question which arises is, what can someone gain doing that?
> If you don't like it, you are free to host your code on your own servers.

From the article:

> “Dude, it’s cool. I took SFC’s advice and moved my code off GitHub.” So did I. Guess what? It doesn’t mat­ter. By claim­ing that AI train­ing is fair use, Microsoft is con­struct­ing a jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for train­ing on pub­lic code any­where on the inter­net, not just GitHub.

And:

> when it comes for their own field, they are suddenly very worried

From the article:

> First, the objec­tion here is not to AI-assisted cod­ing tools gen­er­ally, but to Microsoft’s spe­cific choices with Copi­lot. We can eas­ily imag­ine a ver­sion of Copi­lot that’s friend­lier to open-source devel­op­ers—for instance, where par­tic­i­pa­tion is vol­un­tary, or where coders are paid to con­tribute to the train­ing cor­pus. Despite its pro­fessed love for open source, Microsoft chose none of these options. Sec­ond, if you find Copi­lot valu­able, it’s largely because of the qual­ity of the under­ly­ing open-source train­ing data. As Copi­lot sucks the life from open-source projects, the prox­i­mate effect will be to make Copi­lot ever worse—a spi­ral­ing ouroboros of garbage code.
> show it to you and other users...analyze it on our servers...share it with other users...perform it

I don't know, sounds pretty similar to training on ML programs, even if they don't explicitly say "machine learning" in the ToS.
> No, I didn't miss it.

It seemed so, or that you were ignoring it, from what you write. Perhaps offer more clarity in future to avoid such confusion.

> the article only says they can be charged from indoor light

The article says they can be charged from indoor light. Adding “only” there I think is needlessly negative. The article goes on to describe how this is expected/hoped to be useful, charging between uses even if (unlike direct sunlight) it is not enough to maintain power during prolonged use, which strongly implies a useful amount of energy if thought to be harvestable in typical indoor conditions.
Miracle Max: Look, I'm retired. And besides, why would you want someone the King's stinking son fired? I might kill whoever you wanted me to miracle.

Inigo: He's already dead.

Miracle Max: He is, huh? I'll take a look. Bring him in.

We screw up everything. The question is, can we leave places alone and screw up others instead? Screwing up the moon is probably better than screwing up Yosemite, or the Great Barrier Reef.
Stock photography seems to be the obvious instance - why bother paying for the labor to make a stock photo, when you can have a generative AI system create the photo for you?

And furthermore, has anyone demonstrated that it is or is not possible to fully, or substantially, recreate any given existing work using the right input prompts?

I’m interested to know more of the legal details, but my understanding of copyright law is such that it preserves the value of intellectual labor.

edit: on a certain level, the cat is already out of the bag, but that doesn’t mean that we should ignore the law, without some indication from lawmakers or government that they intend to adjust said laws
He wrote the book on it. https://practicaltypography.com/
I really don't care if my code gets ingested and regurgitated by Copilot, but it seems rather a stretch to imagine that this is fair use, in part because it separates me from the legal protections afforded by the licenses I released my software under. In my ideal world, Copilot would be legally viable, and releasing my software without restriction wouldn't be risky.

As a long-time open source software developer, I have favored the 2-clause BSD and MIT licenses because they are the simplest licenses that provide me some liability protection. I would release code into the public domain if that didn't increase the likelihood of being sued, whether for liability, or for someone else claiming intellectual rights to code I actually wrote.
A bunch of us were pretty grumpy about Diebold touchscreen voting machines, imprinting our ballots with our voter ids, automatic signature verification, new tabulators.

We activists organized, got press, managed to make election integrity a campaign issue, and nudged some laws and rules towards sanity.
You can read the CoC here: https://github.com/PolyMC/PolyMC/blob/aecd158d3c9fce7e42143c... Doesn't seem to exclude any normal behaviour.

Considering the torrent of transphobic posts related to this issue, this could be a hostile account takeover or maybe a transphobic developer. I associate the language used here with 4chan above all else, though some far-right groups use the same lingo.
I know what you meant. I was implying that a 101-105 key keyboard has not been standard for a decade or more.

I would be willing to bet that none of the ten most popular/best-selling computers in the country for the last 5-10 years have had a key that says “break”.
It is not untrue but it is incomplete. It may make things worse. But it could cure. A cure is possible.
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.

Not only that but being able to dedicate 8 to 10 hours a day to your craft for 40 years bring it to a level that you can't reach with casual practice.
I read somewhere E. O. Wilson stating that were he to start over again he would go into research of life in the soil. He also said there is so little we understand about the things just beneath our feet.
I Spent $10K on DSLR Camera Gear, but You Can Just Buy a Pixel 7 Pro
Which is why kubernetes got adopted - everyone pretends they are Google, having Google problems, when they, in fact, don't.
Many courts, especially those in the Northern District of California (where a case would likely end up litigated), are very proficient and literate about software and copyright law. See Judge William Alsup’s cases if you want to see some examples that illustrate the court’s competence. And these judges frequently have technical consultants on staff to assist with technological issues.
I think it's very hard to skim for some reason.
VariBAD: A Very Good Method for Bayes-Adaptive Deep RL via Meta-Learning
It also discriminates across the middle class - it enables to nickel and dime them like never before (never mind the privacy implication and total government control of your wallet and purchases aspects)...
Postgres is more than good enough for almost every imaginable use case. Administration can be a bit of a problem if you're not familiar with it but AWS and most other clouds have managed options if you choose to move to the cloud.

I did use RethinkDB way back when there was a commercial company behind it but it was not stable enough under high load. It would occasionally crash with segfaults. Maybe those issues are now fixed but if you need reliability then Postgres is the way to go.
> just above duck and fart jokes

This comment quacked me up.
One issue I see with Copilot is that they get free access to all open-source data on GitHub, but using GitHub APIs to download the data yourself isn't possible (rate limiting). This is an unfair advantage. Copilot is not only making money off of open-source, they are making money off of open-source in a way others can't.

I would love to see a lawsuit which requires GitHub to provide their full Copilot dataset.
Show HN: Pde.js; a plugin for Editor.js inspired by Preact's reconciliation
Alas I’ve never been wealthy enough to see how this works in practice. At my level (can borrow about 4 months worth of living cost) you do have to pay it off eventually, you just get quite favorable interest rates in the meantime.
Submitted 2 days ago:

I Spent $10K on DSLR Camera Gear. You Can Just Buy a Pixel 7 Pro

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33215908

(7 points, 1 comment)
>technically-mandatory-but-not-mandatory-if-you're-in-a-hurry

:/
Yes, there was a protest in Seattle, SF, NYC a few weeks ago against Google's Project Nimbus (used by apartheid regime).
Last I heard we're due a new Hawaiian island in about 5 thousand years. Loihi is still almost a kilometer down and slowly climbing.

Edit: seems like the first reservations are in 50,000 years, not 5000
Most machine learning is assigning weights in a chain of matrix multiplications and normalization functions.

There is no known experimentally verifyiable model of toddlers' brains, let alone one based on matrix multiplication and normalization. Developing such a model would be a noteworthy achievement.

Therefore these are different.
I’m thinking about a simple blog. Someone convince me that I should use fly.io and caddy and how/why deployment and subsequent blog/post updates would be easy and uncomplicated.
Wickard actually had to do with interstate commerce though. Filburn's actions could reasonably cause interstate grain prices to go down. What's interstate about a state run lottery?
Dont (non active noise cancelling) headphones already not use any power?
Abolish all copyright. We're all happily pirating movies and music but code is for some reason sacred.
It is impossible to reduce this to a blanket statement driven by a single variable, which is precisely what most opinions on many topics end-up being on HN and elsewhere.

Example from personal experience: Over a decade ago I hired someone for a sales position at the request of a customer. The guy had no experience in sales and just-about zero domain knowledge.

It took about a year to get him comfortable with the domain and the sales process. I think I can say I personally devoted hundreds of hours to this task.

What happened?

He sucked as a sales person. Never sold enough product to even cover his salary. Armed with all that training and new domain knowledge, he left 18 months after starting.

Where did he go?

He landed himself a job with a competitor. Of course! He sounded like a f-ing expert! He used my words (the real domain expert) to get hired. He has made a ten+ year career on top of what we taught him. We never recovered any of the time, money and effort expended to help him out.

Why did you hire him?

What kind of an idiot keeps someone like that around?

His son had a brain tumor.

One of our customers told me this guy needed a serious break because of the medical bills and being a single dad of two kids.

That's why.

I was just trying to help someone out. Instead, we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars training and paying him, only to, quite literally, train an employee for a competitor. Imagine my surprise when a competitor, quite literally, gets someone we spent an entire year training.

Brilliant.

I am one of those people who has always liked helping others. This guy blew that fuse in my brain, likely permanently. I have never gone out of my way to help an employee since. Small things here and there, sure, nothing more.

This is why I say you can't reduce reality to single-variable explanations. There's a word for that: Fantasy.
Lol what? Plenty of senior devs, leads and managers deal in absolutes.
> As Copi­lot sucks the life from open-source projects, the prox­i­mate effect will be to make Copi­lot ever worse—a spi­ral­ing ouroboros of garbage code.

If I was writing this website, I would delete this sentence, because it is actually really idiotic.

1. This is an opinionated statement, except that there's nothing backing this opinion. This is fearmongering, that GitHub Copilot will get worse unless we sue Microsoft.

2. Lawsuits are not about concerns about a product's creator potentially damaging their own product. Lawyers suing Microsoft don't get a "we're protecting Microsoft from Microsoft's own bad decisions!"

The argument, completely unfounded, is that GitHub Copilot will undermine... GitHub Copilot. So, if you like GitHub Copilot, you should also be on board with suing Microsoft, so that we don't damage GitHub Copilot. What??? Good luck proving that line of argument in a court - you'd get laughed out of the room. Courts don't react well to hazy predictions about mayhem, from the suing lawyers, that have no historical facts to base them on.
110% this. For a small business with a small amount of users, I always suggest to *use the simplest thing that'll save you the most time and money to deploy your service*.
How many millions of account were created before Co-pilot existed at all? It certainly wasn't in the ToS then except maybe in some extremely vague way.
They had T1 and ISDN at least since the 70s.

The landline is special because laws require a line-powered phone system that can survive outages. It's a minimal and reliable layer of infrastructure which still makes perfect sense for people with limited communications needs.
Ask HN: Who Here Uses Lesswrong?
lesswrong.org is a popular forum dedicated to rationalism/Effective Altruism/AI alignment. I'm curious as to how much overlap there is between the techy hacker culture of HN and the EA rationalists
This is a bit off-topic, but I wonder if there are people/teams right now creating git repos, doing the source code equivalent of "SEO" on it, and embedding backdoors in stupidly overoptimized for the training process code?

I wonder when we'll hear about the first big hack that gets traced back to production code pushed live after CoPilot "suggested" eval(base64decode({webshell}))
It seems like there's no good license that places absolutely no restrictions or requirements on people using your code (such as attribution and respecting patent rights) worldwide.

I want my code to be used the way people treated text in the old days. There's texts that have been re-written, added to and edited by thousands of people over the centuries and yet they don't come with thousands of pages of attribution notices because why would they?
Fair use is unusually permissive in the US, but most countries have very complex copyright rules to allow e.g. a televised interview in a room with contemporary paintings, without getting permission from the copyright holders of those paintings. It'd certainly make for interesting cases.
We tested it and experienced intermittent deploy failures so we didn't go with it.
That's good!

Acting like it's a bad thing is just ludditery.
I do have to wonder if Copilot will last. It's going to become a legal minefield and I can't imagine for a second that Micrsoft will want to be in the crosshair for another antitrust case.
Where are they being sold? Could not find them at the company's website.
The example given is "sparse matrix trans­pose in the style of Tim Davis", but someone who wanted something with such specificity would be able to just take it from Github anyway, perhaps with a little more searching.
Postgres vs. File Systems: A Performance Comparison
What's the difference between a stablecoin and cash app or paypal? Stablecoin is just a fancy term for fiat as tokens but any non-bank entity that holds fiat and gives you access to it.
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/split.1.html
He created an artifical hard deadline. Some of these people's job evaluations depend on meeting that deadline. What the fsck did he expect would happen?

If he doesn't want this, then he needs to switch to either soft deadlines or individual functional unit deadlines or ...

This is ALL on Linus.
100% correct takes in the piece, this is just ridiculous

>"Tim Davis gave numer­ous exam­ples of large chunks of his code being copied ver­ba­tim by Copi­lot, includ­ing when he prompted Copi­lot with the com­ment / sparse matrix trans­pose in the style of Tim Davis /."

Copilot regurgitates code and blatantly violates licenses, not even sure what there is to argue about. Not only does it seem straight up illegal and sideline open source communities, I think the next logical step of this is that people who want to avoid having their work vacuumed up and their rights violated simply to move to proprietary software, which would be a huge disaster for open source.