skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're asking for people to be okay with potential copyright violations and a removal of attribution because of the common need. Like all things, there must be balance. Open source would not exist if the only use of its output was to train ML models that hide where the code comes from. Part of the allure of open source--maybe the biggest allure, honestly--is the community aspect. I get to find friends, contribute philanthropically, and feel proud of my contributions. Copilot removes any incentive I have to produce code for free.
Not everyone believes in intellectual property and good luck enforcing that license worldwide.
It's probably the reverse - the data can probably fit in a few commercially available hard drives, the API calls to discover and download all repository without running afoul of the rate limiters and whatever other anti-crawling strategies can take years if you're running it single threaded (a single IP can effectively be considered single threaded).
Sadly, Swift will remain a niche language, much like Objective-C was.
If an ai model is allowed to emit copy-left code verbatim in proprietary software, you can effectively create a gpl 3 stripper. I don't think that ultimately serves your goal of intellectual sharing
> The election will be over.

And the massive one-time catchup for public service loan forgiveness will be complete, and the broader forgiveness program will be largely complete for timely applicants for whom DOE has current income information, and in income verification for much of the rest of those eligible. And for everyone who still has to pay after all that, the new income driven plans that have a capped period, take a lower percentage of discretionary income, and count more income as discretionsary will be available.

> The recession will be starting (again?) or hitting full stride

Maybe.

> We've sent gazillions to Ukraine, which ironically lengthens the war

Russia’s ongoing regional war of conquest that started not later than the invasion of Georgia from which it has not still withdrawn in 2008 is not going to get shorter or have less economic consequences for the US if they manage to steamroller Ukraine in part because Western support collapses now.

> Serious question: What happened to the Democratic party?

They... set up a system which wipes out an enormous share of student debt off the bat, and makes it much easier to deal with what remains, where the people who most needed the pause will, if they still have any debt when it is done, still not have any payments due, but also be ticking down their maximum repayment period.
I don’t think I could argue with the assertion that it was created for them and not by them, but there are plenty of Boomers around.

The Ford Mustang was introduced 18 years after the end of World War 2.
Wait until you see how much damage coal does to your body.
Totally agree. Would add that it’s comical how perturbed people get when you’re buying something in person and they start asking you for your phone number/email etc. and your tell them no. You get this “does not compute” look, and a response like “well the system needs your phone number”!
This is exactly correct, and there are companies out there that prey on this.

Many companies will set kiosks in areas with a large number of unbanked so they'll go to these kiosks at the local 7/11 or whathaveyou and then charge anywhere from $3-$5 fees.

But it gets worse. If someone has a $100 bill and they put in $3, that kiosk will take that $3 as a payment fee and apply $0 towards the bill itself. Not only that, it happens more than you'd think.

People flat don't understand the predatory nature of many of these companies.
Oh, really?

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdgasleck_in_der_Nordsee

https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/elgin-gasaustrit...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02648...
> It's been a massive productivity improvement to our senior devs

I would hate to work at a place where advanced-but-untrustworthy autocomplete would, at all, impact the productivity of a senior engineer.

Not only does this indicate that your senior engineers' productivity is measured poorly (lines of code), but also that your senior engineers are paid to type, rather than to think.
just curious, what prevents you from getting an extra phone number and a phone just to go about your day to day needs? You need not share that number with anyone else? Heck, you can even switch it off, or silence it all the time.
> This spectacle of feverish enterprise was productivity, this crowding flight of happy and fortunate rich people–every great city was as if a crawling ant-hill had suddenly taken wing–was the bright side of the opening phase of the new epoch in human history. Beneath that brightness was a gathering darkness, a deepening dismay. If there was a vast development of production there was also a huge destruction of values. These glaring factories working night and day, these glittering new vehicles swinging noiselessly along the roads, these flights of dragon-flies that swooped and soared and circled in the air, were indeed no more than the brightnesses of lamps and fires that gleam out when the world sinks towards twilight and the night. Between these high lights accumulated disaster, social catastrophe. The coal mines were manifestly doomed to closure at no very distant date, the vast amount of capital invested in oil was becoming unsaleable, millions of coal miners, steel workers upon the old lines, vast swarms of unskilled or under-skilled labourers in innumerable occupations, were being flung out of employment by the superior efficiency of the new machinery, the rapid fall in the cost of transit was destroying high land values at every centre of population, the value of existing house property had become problematical, gold was undergoing headlong depreciation, all the securities upon which the credit of the world rested were slipping and sliding, banks were tottering, the stock exchanges were scenes of feverish panic;–this was the reverse of the spectacle, these were the black and monstrous under-consequences of the Leap into the Air.

- H.G. Wells, The World Set Free (1914), speaking of the consequences of the coming availability of limitless energy production.

https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/the-world-set-free/

This book was about 100 years ahead of its time, in my opinion. It predicted the world wars, atomic weapons, and cheap clean energy would all arrive at once, in about 1950. It even has an insightful passage on gender identity, and one of the villains is clearly based on Putin.
The court’s summary also mentions this aspect of differing marketplaces:

“… the revelations [i.e. the information served by Google Book Search] do not provide a significant market substitute for the protected aspects of the originals.”

This doesn’t apply to AI image generators which are clearly a “market substitute” for the protected originals used to train the system. For this reason I’d expect someone like Getty to want to revisit Authors Guild v Google sooner rather than later.
The funny thing is that even the MIT license requires attribution, which of course Copilot doesn't provide.
I think the basic assumption is that you are diagnosing someone that you do not know and have never met, and that by doing so, you are engaging in folly.
>...Instead, what they don't want, is a centralized platform preventing consenting parties from engaging with each other

Who doesn't want that? The billions of people that interact with Twitter and Facebook, or the people who are sympathetic to the fringe racist beliefs that dominate "free speech" sites?
If someone bought a copy of an educational book like "Learning Go" and used some code snippets from it in their own product, that's fair use. But if someone released the book as their own product titled "Learning Go Better" then that is a clear violation.

For open-source projects, CoPilot is in the realm of fair-use for snippets but it can be mis-used just like Github can be mis-used if someone blatantly copies a repository.
So only the mainstream media can engage with propaganda and conspiracy theories? is there something you don't understand in the definition of "dogma"?

Waiting for Swedes? The same who said they will not share the result of the investigation? The same who tried to downplay the sabotage?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63084613

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2022/09/29/russian-s...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/03/nord-stream-russia-sabo...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a41412695/nord-str...
Pretty sure we used or still use pigz when it's time to create a db replica...
Never heard of Top Gear?
Your comment amounts to "sometimes crime occurs; therefore, laws are pointless."`
I understand.

But that's not the type to fear Copilot. Yes, they might object to the license violation. I get that. I acknowledge that. But when you're that intelligent and that creative you don't fear being replaced - displaced? - by something like Copilot. Nah. That's a fear for the mundane and the common. That's a fear for the rest of us.
I really miss the simplicity of Rancher and their Cattle orchestrator circa 2016 or so.

Kubernetes is way, way to much for many teams to be able to operate properly. It can be done the right way, and it absolutely has it’s use cases, but I see so many people using it that really shouldn’t be.
Zhong Shanshan
From what I've seen on the art side of things, the more a certain work has been copied in the real world (and thus in the training set multiple times), the more likely it is you're able to get a very close copy out of the model with the right prompts.

For example, I'm pretty sure this is why some models turn up a near exact version of The Girl With The Pearl Earring.
> "People's legal rights are being violated!" (you definitely don't know that, no one knows that, the article is 100% right about that)

I'm not sure what the argument being made here is. If you make something opaque enough that no one can tell if it's violating legal rights, no one is allowed to say anything about it? This seems uncomfortably close to "it's only a crime if you get caught"
> The poster earlier claimed that no English word contains the digraph "hh"

Context, my friend.

If you pick up regular non-colloquial words & unconjugated words, there actually is no word with a double H. I read this trivia in the ARRL handbook. Extremely well written covering everything HAM.

But like others are posting to prove a point in contrary, fishhook beachhead exist - but are either conjugated or colloquial. By that reasoning, every second word in Asian languages such as Vietnamese/Laotian has double H when scripted - but is it to be considered a standard mode of unambiguous communication over international frequency spectrums?
Other people doing it doesn't make it okay.
I use fzf with an text file which lists all files installed by a package with the package name. That way if I know the header name, I can get the package name. If I know the package name, I can get all its files.
Well, yeah, they aren’t going to tell you “the performance metrics on which I am evaluated are based on this, and the level of employee surveillance is intense enough that I know people who have been dismissed for making up info for customers that don’t provide it”, but...
I don’t mean this to sound passive aggressive; I’m genuinely unsure: are you using “UI/UX” correctly here? if you’re getting exactly what you want from it, is that not good UX?
Digital currencies that are functionally equivalent to cash are now possible, using agent-based systems. The zero-knowledge proofs and homomorphic encryption is scalable, if only a pseudo-random subset of the nodes need to prove the transfers are correct.

Anything less privacy- and liberty-conserving is a strict downgrade from cash.

Why should anyone prefer some band of zealots controlling their financial lives?

Perhaps the elderly are just … wiser?
These requirements to use smartphone for everything is a cancer.
I've seen two systems that deal with a huge volume of data where parallelism,
speed and throughput were critical. One was a mobile network operator call billing system, the other one a stock exchange. First one was written in C, the second one I'm not certain, but my understanding is that it was C too.
I hope I don’t sound jaded but am I the only one who finds this a bit boring and lacking what music should not? I’m in my 40s and dabbled myself with music making and jamming electronic instruments with others and when I see a clean instruction led process that has no room for human touch, may it be mistake that blends it naturally or unpredictibility it somehow appears dull. Im sure this will get downvoted in perpetuity but I got something off my chest.
Helps you maximize your AAdvantage points, which isn't entirely in AA's interest.
My math teacher would say that the wise Indian parks his horses the direction of escape. Why not back into the parking spot and pull out forward? The overreliance on tech is frightening.
My 2 cents,

1. I think if you don't want your code re-used in CoPilot you should have that right

2. I think if CoPilot gets smart enough that it can read your open source code and then reproduce the algorithms without copying your code that should be fair use. It's the same thing a human would do. AFAIK CoPilot can not do that but I can certainly imagine it's not too many years away from that.

3. I think I would opt into sharing all my open source code mostly unrestricted with services like CoPilot. I think the group of people that choose to share their code with AI will do better over all than those that lock their code behind licenses.

Note that I'm referring to snippets of code. I don't know what a good definition of snippet is. In other words, if AI helps me write chunks of 10-100 lines at a time I don't see a problem. Effectively, S.O. answer level of snippets. Whereas, if I tell AI "create LibreOffice" and it clones the millions of lines of code, I think that is a problem. I don't know where the cut off is.
I hadn't heard of it but it's a good rule! There are too many examples of code that was abstracted out to be shared between uses that end up evolving independently, and the abstraction ends up with a bunch of if-statements and confusion.
If you look at the github history, it looks like people were literally griefing and deleting all of polymc. So it looks like he did not remove developers until after they threw a temper tantrum and started trying to destroy the project. What is a owner supposed to do when people you gave authority to start accepting PRs that delete all the content or replace the readme.md with trolly memes and harassment?

OR maybe some were removed before. All I know is clearly this targeted harassment campaign are not being forthright and truthful, otherwise the github history would not show what it shows.
Why's it called the "Pink Tax" when it looks like the woman's variants are cheaper more often than not? I suppose "Blue Tax" sounds like it's related to cops.
I think there should be a “method of last resort” for essential services. Mail service, for example.
As a working neuroscientist, I’ll co-sign this!

Understanding 50% of the brain, whatever that would even mean, is an utter fantasy.
I'm now 47 and I can empathize with her. I'm old enough to also fondly remember a vastly different internet.

I still use some of "the old internet" like IRC and even some forums, and it's wonderful to see how much of it thrives. but it's definitely much, much smaller. I fear that in a few years, the ones maintaining some of it will have moved on.
Copilot is not selling code, they're selling GPU time.
If you're ready to buy a hundred GPU/TPUs to train a new Copilot that is just as good, but for free, then go do it please, everyone will thank you
Terms like Pokemon Exception Handling, Ostrich Algorithm and more
The book "3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes" contains a bunch of these shader tricks with different levels of precision (e.g. 1cm across the whole solar system etc.)
I think the sentences are slightly too long, lack punctuation, and are...monotone? I don't know, but I agree.

Maybe I also need more sleep.
It doesn't indicate either of those things. It's a great tool when you're working on complex code that just reaches the limit of your working memory/attention, and has often suggested good and clean improvements for me. You may dislike it but there are people it helps.
is this something you’ve picked up from this kind of device, or just something you’ve learned naturally?
Can’t we just use some form of ultrasonic wave from one end and detect at other end ?
Expect you're not licensing functions, you're licensing a repository.
If I use a sentence or even a paragraph from a copyrighted book, it's not copyright infringement.
This is my gripe as well. We used `ON CONFLICT ... DO NOTHING` for a table with ~10k entries that are frequently upserted.

By the time we reached a few thousand entries, we had primary keys in the millions. I personally don't care that there are gaps in the sequence, but gaps of hundreds of thousands definitely leaves a lot to he desired. I think you can circumvent this behaviour by changing from `DO NOTHING` to `DO UPDATE` and doing a dummy write, but that too leaves much to be desired.

I also discovered that `ON CONFLICT` doesn't really work with a high number of concurrent writes. We had to implement our own upsert logic using advisory locks.
Cell phones are pretty old. “Sprint” was an acronym for “South Pacific Railway Internal Network Technologies.” Used by passengers on railways since the 1920s.
I don't think any of these are true (that this particular argument constitutes or delves into pedantry, what 'natural language' is, etc) but we've probably extracted what pedantifun was to be had already.
How do you stay on trail when you’re hallucinating signposts?
> For final projection, clipping, z buffering, etc., single precision is almost certainly enough.

If you do this in the GPU then you would need it to handle double precision data.
Only if you're extremely dishonest in comparisions.

Checklists at its core is just a list of common/required actions grouped in a list to don't forget during routine tasks. There is nothing limiting here, it is just a tool to aid repetitive/rare/complex tasks.
Software developers should universally reject payment in crypto, but especially monero. I know I would if you tried to pay me with that. It's the same situation as tornado cash. By using it you're providing cover for north korea and other sanctioned entities to launder money: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/02/12/north-korea-is-e...

It has no other real legal or legitimate use case, it otherwise works the same as other cryptos. You could just pay those developers in cash. Most developers I've known that aren't hardcore crypto zealots prefer to get paid in cash.
Bizygomatic width is highly sexually dimorphic when adjusting for allometry
In this next episode of corporation name seems like a cool corp but reveals as selfish and malicious inc. we could saw corporation name act selfishly and maliciously as in every other episode. See you next time kids.
And from your addendum:

So, use random usernames on the computers you use for this stuff, in case you misconfigure something.

...or a username that is so common as to be meaningless, like "user", "Administrator", or even "root".
Training must be opt in, not opt out.

Every artist, every creative individual, must EXPLICITLY OPT IN to having their hard work regurgitated anonymously by Copilot or Dall-E or whatever.

If you want to donate your code or your painting or your music, so it can be used ("written", "painted"), in whole or in part, by everyone else, without attribution, then go ahead and opt in.

Otherwise, you can't use the artist's or author's creative work for training.

All these code/art washing systems, that absorb and mix and regurgitate the hard work of creative people must be strictly opt in.
True cost of using wind and solar to meet demand was $272 and $472 per MWh [pdf]
I got smacked with this just last week.

My answer was just import into MS Access.

Note: if you're pulling in a lot of S3 list_objects_v2() data, and have some honking big object sizes, the Long Integer type craps out at representing a 2Gb file. You need to use Double.
> Why couldn’t Microsoft pro­duce any legal author­ity for its posi­tion?

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

They don't owe anyone anything beyond what they agree to provide to users of Copilot via its license agreement or to GitHub users whose code it has used in accordance with that license agreement. Those agreements define what they owe. That's it.

The only way those license agreements don't hold up in court is if they are somehow deemed invalid. I do not see Microsoft making that kind of mistake.

This website is designed to get people angry, and that's all it is going to accomplish.
We had users complain about migrating to MS Teams as the text part of it is almost entirely a piece of shit that every competitor does orders of magnitude better but management said "fuck it, we're migrating regardless", throwing oh-so-great arguments like "our customers also use it"
To address the second part:

> and yet the plane appears to have no mechanical backup instruments[?]

This is unlikely in a modern aircraft because mechanical instruments to back up e.g., the artificial horizon / attitude indicator or directional gyro (DG) / heading indicator are:

1) Mechanically complex - the attitude indicator and DG make use of gyroscopes which rotate at up to 24,000 RPM along with other mechanisms. They are typically powered by vacuum or electric motors which consume relatively more power (or require vacuum lines and a vacuum pump)

2) Expensive to maintain - see (1) - they need to be serviced somewhat regularly

(3) Heavier than their solid-state counterparts

(4) Have [dramatically] different failure modes - instead of a display going dark, a DG will slowly drift as the gyroscope precesses, giving erroneous values. Same with the artificial horizon. This can lead to catastrophic results under instrument meteorologicalconditions (IMC) where the pilots rely solely on instruments to maintain essential things such as heading and level flight.

(5) Because of (4) they require additional redundancy to ensure instruments can be cross-checked with one another. This compounds (2) and (3)
And for Julia, Quadmath.jl or DoubleFloats.jl
I was able to find an archived page of hers using ringo-ring back in 2010, which I believe predates Sci-Hub’s launch in 2011; not able to find reference to “home/ringo-ring” anywhere else, but given prior information, very least seems plausible.
> The same copyright laws that the open source proponents are complaining about MS breaking?

As long as Microsoft can and will wield those laws against me? Darn tootin'
Its definitely possible for something to work and still suck to use. Just because you can get there eventually doesn't mean the experience of clicking through a dozen menus to find where a button has been moved with this update is a good one.
> Also known as the longest description of stockholm syndrome known to man

Periodic reminder that “Stockholm Sybdrome” was invented, with no clinical basis whatsoever, by someone responsible for a use of excessive violence by law enforcement as a means of leveraging cultural misogyny and public trust in credentials to deflect criticism of the violence they had counselled, so metaphorical references to it that don’t mean to evoke a manipulative abuse of trust/position/credentials for victim blaming should probably be reconsidered.