skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully they'll react as if you were an irrational pedant, because I have been participating in society without a car my entire adult life just fine.
My understanding of the physics is that SQUIDs only work at distances of max of 50-100mm, not more...
I don’t, but I will point out that finding a system that performs in parallel faster than Erlang wouldn’t be difficult. The BEAM is getting better/faster over the years, but it’ll never be as fast as the JVM, much less something closer to the metal.
There are two issues -- (1) feeding copyrighted material in to an AI model, and (2) getting copyrighted material out.

The latter is obviously a violation of copyright, full stop.

The former, to me, is obviously not a violation. If it were, that would massively tilt the playing field in favor of large corporations. It would become very hard to independently train your own models. Philosophically, I go by the principle that if it's (il)legal to do yourself, then it should be (il)legal to do the same thing with an AI's assistance.

The massive complicating factor is that nobody knows how to do (1) without also doing (2) as a side effect, because we don't understand how deep learning works well enough to control it.
This is better example for Japan. Famous cheap restaurant franchise introducing robots. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Food-Beverage/Japan-s-Skyla...
I don't understand why GitHub decided to run the project this way. This is a great idea but they messed the whole thing up. They could have make it opt-in from the very beginning and ask people to waive their rights, and I'm sure lots of people and lots of big projects would still be interested in joining the initiative. They could reward participants with, say, 3 year of Copilot access after it is officially launched, and people would love that. But instead they just take code without asking or attribution and keep pushing it, and now we are in this situation.
A few snippets of code is not a product. If there was an open-source money-making product and someone builds a competing product using considerable help from CoPilot then that is a stronger case for damages then if someone just used some snippets of code in their own product.

But at that point, it would be just like someone cloning the Github code without following the license and in that case, it should become obvious that there is a clear violation harming the creators. But in most use cases of CoPilot, where-in people are just using it to build their own product, I doubt there is a cause for damages.
The problem is Woodpecker is just not up to the standards of other CI systems.

That, along with many messing advanced features pushed me towards gitlab.
MS needs to give up and terminate Copilot.

The potential legal issues are there, but that's not why Copilot should die.

Copilot should die for any (or a combination of all) these reasons (and more which I don't mention):

- the operator has to already understand the emitted code to be able to determine if it is what is needed, or to modify it if it is close but not quite right

- the operator may have a false sense of capability, leading to bugs and other problems that would appear later (in production?)

- wrong suggestions are a distraction from the careful mental structures which one maintains while writing software

- any problem that Copilot can solve with guaranteed correctness is probably trivial or already met by a (battle tested) library

Forgive the analogy, but effective automated code generation is like autonomous driving systems. Anything less than 100% accuracy is a risk, and in these examples risk of incorrect behavior is not acceptable.

Copilot seems like a pointy-haired boss fantasy where they can hire only junior programmers and expect successful software products.
> I continue to believe that corporations and startups, even friendly ones like Honeycomb, are not pleasant places to work at.

I have lots of thoughts about the necessity to work and how that can drain a lot of enjoyment out of intellectual pursuits, but I will say that, of profit motivated companies, Honeycomb is an exceptional one to work for filled with wonderful humans who care about each other. I really enjoyed my tenure there, made lifelong friends, and became a better engineer. It's a really special place and I hope they keep that up as they grow.
There's an aquatic cave in Death Valley called Devil's Hole; divers have gone to ~600 ft, but the cave is likely over twice as deep.

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake 1,500 miles away caused 4 ft high waves at Devil's Hole: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-earthquake-triggers-4-fo...

It may be that the aquifer in Devil's Hole is somehow connected to a network of underwater aquifers thousands of miles away in Mexico… but we just don't know, and have no way of knowing right now.
the tweet was deleted :/
I'm sure you see you've been downvoted. But I want to say I agree with you on the millions / billions bit.

While I understand the rub about licenses, the fact is the vast majority of code is not all that original or unique. Some fringe amount is, and those edge cases are worth discussing.

But the rest? Likely not all in all all that special. Yes, we get paid good money to do it. But is that a function of what it takes to do the work, or the demand for the skill (relative to supply of that skill)?

Frankly, I think some ppl just plain ol' fear Copilot. And either don't want ro admit it, or they have buried that fear. I'm not advocating ignoring the law / licenses. But putting a licence and lipstick on what is an everyday pig doesn't make that pig a unicorn. Does it?
Killbots disrupt the suspension of disbelief that we currently use to excuse many killings by law enforcement: We find it morally acceptable for someone to use deadly force to protect themselves, and we use this to shortcut a more extensive analysis of the morality of killings by law enforcement.

In many cases the deadly force wasn't actually necessary or the need was so absurdly induced by the wielder that they should be culpable by the outcome. But the line is really hard to see when you weren't there, in their shoes, so we tend to defer judgement. At the very minimum this does provide a limited check on the use of deadly force.

For a killbot it couldn't be more clear: the operators life was not at risk, erasing the fiction that it was automatically excusable for personal protection and forcing us to justify the killing on a more complex basis.

Not that we can't-- I think sometimes we could, but probably in many situations we can't. E.g. right now, a gunman "safely" barricaded in a house eventually gets stormed in and killed. In a killbot equipped world, I don't think we could morally send in a killbot-- I think we'd have to wait for them to try to escape at least. And if we couldn't kill them with a killbot, well then that opens questions about the morality of doing the same thing with people.

I'd feel better about bots with less lethal weapons: nets, incapacitating gasses, tranquilizer darts, stun guns, etc. They may be radically less effective but one of the advantages of keeping the operator safe from harm is that a less effective weapon is easier to justify: its failure won't get the operator killed.

Aside, -- the specific application here with an interchangeable cartage just sounds like asking for trouble when someone leaves the wrong munition loaded.
Is this the point? if a company really absolutely rely on an open source/ free softwarem, they have obvious benefits to help develop it.
I'm frequently worried that I'm going to install malware on my machine doing this one of these days.
The Luddites weren't some cult of ignorant technophobes, they were highly-skilled middle class craftsmen and small business owners who went from being able to provide for their families to dying in utter destitution. The remainder of them were tried for machine breaking and were either executed by the state or exiled to penal colonies. They risked everything because everything was at stake, I have a hard time saying that their situation and outcomes were "good", and I have a hard time saying the same about similar situations that are playing out today.
Human's aren't even allowed to do this. It has to be done clean room - this is not learning, it's copying and has been proven so.

The only implementation that would be allowed is if they had to describe the code via a specification and Codepilot was able to generate it from scratch. It does not do that - it just reorganizes stuff it's already seen, which is a copyleft violation in humans, therefore it should be for a machine created by humans.

The code has had its license violated.
You can buy a pair of shoes and a smartphone for about the same amount of money (pick your number!) and they'll wear out in about the same amount of time.
I don't think there will be a ruling like "anything from a neural net is yours", that'd be a bit ridiculous for very obvious reasons.

I'm no copyright law expert and I'm certainly not a lawyer, but it seems to me that in your examples you're setting out to violate copyright as a goal, which seems like it would be a factor in a court case.

To answer your last question, your examples are pretty clearly distinguishable from Copilot in their final states that you describe. IDK exactly *when* during overfitting that line is crossed, maybe it's crossed the moment you personally decide to knowingly publish copyrighted content and has nothing to do with the neural network itself?
I found this quoted passage quite interesting too.

> An extremely dull future awaits of energy flows being largely local or in grids where the best meteorologists and machine learning engineers rake the table.

One thing I'm not sure about -- do we actually have enough lithium to sustain ~ the current price at much higher consumption levels?
Yeah. I feel weird that BLM movement is treated as a global problem, like OSS project or GCP API page have static banner for that. I completely agree for BLM and racial crimination is a worldwide problem, but BLM (specifically blacks are killed by police) is a specific problem in the US.
People that understand how infrastructure works knows that k8s is not complex.

Everyone else gotta complain about it just because.
> The problem is when they go bad, it gets really bad.

Not really. If you actually measure it, its not actually that bad.

> We were extremely lucky with Chernobyl that young men sacrificed themselves, else a large chunk of Europe would be uninhabitable.

Often claimed but, the scientific bases for this claim is beyond shake. Maybe at the very worse you could say that radiation that was slightly dangerous would have been measurable all over Europe, but even that is a stretch.

> The problem is when they go bad, it gets really bad.

Fukushima killed people because of rush unnecessary evacuations. Nobody actually died of radiation, maybe a very small group of people will have a slightly higher likely-hood of getting cancer, but even that will most likely not even be measruable.

The actual earth quake and the water killed far more people. The nuclear event made the news because its a novelty, while we have seen many people killed by earthquake and water.

> sooner or later we’re not going to get so lucky.

Given that safety increases over time, even the chance of a minor incident is increasingly less likely.

And if we actually built modern plants not 1970 design we could make it almost impossible for any significant risk to exist at all. But of course research and progress has essentially been stopped.
Arduino’s are very power hungry compared to low power electronics. RFID tags for example are extremely low power.

That said, there are solar powered scientific calculators which have dramatically more computing power and much larger displays than what people think of a solar calculators and still operate indoors at low light levels. Ex: TI-36X Pro

A modern redesign could probably probably get ~1 GFLOPs, but those things are more designed for standardized tests than to be a useful tool.
Was this term coined on HN? I remember first seeing it (used in an AI context) from this 2019 comment under "Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21167689

Most of the predictions in that first comment came true.
“How are there 70 year olds today that worked throughout the 90s and 2000s without coming across a computer?”

Oh, they saw the clerks using them in the office when they came in each week for their paychecks, and later on, engineers and maybe even other contractors bringing laptops on-site, perhaps even helped support a kid doing a CS degree, but plenty of 70 year olds today never had a work-related reason to touch one.

My dad spent 50 years doing construction. His employer did attempt to teach him how to use the laptop they got him those last few years he worked in the early 2010s, but settled on basically providing him an on-site secretary (recent college grad) to use it for him.
You should read the article before commenting.

The WAY it was done with copilot is the problem: no attribution, just shoving all legal liability off on the end “programmer” without providing the attribution required TO COMPLY WITH LICENSES as the diligent programmer tries to clear all the code copilot handed it without meta data.

Go read the article before arguing further, please.
Otherwise you are wasting all of our time.
Let's not let journalists provide counter argumentation/investigation to the dogma! /s

Having that kind of media is super important if you want to live in a democracy

Otherwise we give up and replicate the soviet union, is that what you want?
Please break up your thesis into paragraphs, its quite hard to read en masse.

You might like to qualify your stats - eg annual vehicle sales are 90M - where? worldwide or US or lol. 50kWh for a car battery? Where did that come from?

Please slow down a bit and bring us outsiders in on your vision for energy usage.
A trigger on a timer that notifies the fuck-it-provider (email, calendar entry, text message, whatever) that they need to go back and enter a value.
Yes, lawmakers should come ASAP and make everybody pay rents that will ultimately not even be pocketed by the median creator/developer. What a fantastic vision! What a feast for the capitalist beast …
> That sounds cherry-picked. Just because some high profile, highly-retweeted person says something doesn't make it not cherry picked.

It's his code. This "high profile, highly-retweeted" crap is an appeal to emotion. He has a specific and legitimate interest in protecting his own intellectual property. It's not "cherry-picking" to report a crime being committed on your front lawn.
IRC and old home pages were better. You found out weirdos like you, with cool series, scientific content, fantranslated game ROMs, indie/libre software games, endless discussions at Slashdot...
pigz only parallelizes compression. Decompressing with pigz is single threaded, except perhaps a separate thread is used for crc calculation.

A decade ago I implemented parallel decompresssion for pigz. This is used in Solaris kernel zone suspend and resume, which was the reason I did the work. I submitted a PR for it but madler never got around to reviewing and merging it. Since then there has been a lot of code churn that makes it a pain to apply to the current version.
This would address some regulatory vulnerabilities, for a little while anywat.

Meanwhile, the real underlying vulnerabilities in the system remain wide open with an ever growing attack surface. I'm of course referring to wallets, smart contracts, etc.

Reference:

https://davegebler.com/post/musings/web-3-0-the-great-con
Steamboat Willie was released in 1928.

People probably would have less of a problem if microsoft breached the license on 100 year old code.
I'm happy to learn and adapt, the point is, I shouldn't have to. Any system which creates a history of who, was where, and when, aggregated in a single data source is incredibly dangerous and the primary reason I use cash transactions for everything. Cash has worked just fine as a form of legal tender for over 3000 years. I have a really hard time passing the reasons cited for deprecating it through Hanlon's razor.
Who decides what damages should be paid?
Wait, does ripgrep understand json or something??
I am Traders Joe fanatic. I luuuuv Traders Joe. I know TJ is owned by one of the Aldi brothers though I can never remember which one. It doesn’t matter I like both TJ and Aldi (America). My other favorite grocer is Costco and Hmart (Korean).
This assumes there is no margin of error baked into the 51 day rule, which surprises me.
The election will be over. The recession will be starting (again?) or hitting full stride. We've sent gazillions to Ukraine, which ironically lengthens the war and the associated economic fallout. And now it's time to pay again?

Serious question: What happened to the Democratic party?
Fascinating analysis. I know planes get used a lot, but I'm surprised that they go for such a long time without ever being powered down.
This quote:

> In a computer program, the lowest level of abstraction, the concrete code of the program, is clearly expression, while the highest level of abstraction, the general function of the program, might be better classified as the idea behind the program.

Seems to be trying to force everything associated with programming into a false “expressive/abstract idea” divide. Abstract ideas are distinct from expression and not subject to copyright, but not everything outside of the scope of copyright is abstract rather than detailed: notably, functional elements.
Descriptions of what the app does are very vague. What does it actually do?
I have one but didn't want it be a barrier to my funds. So I called the bank and they hit a button that it is no longer required. Perhaps email for second factor?
Is there a technique to scan for software that includes copilot suggestions? Or is this just theoretical? Sounds impossible given MS/GH's monopoly on access to the model input data.
Even if it would be best for the company, "managing VMs" is less impressive on a resume than "set up auto-scaling and server IAM utilizing fly.io and Tailscale".
The problem is that UBI is in conflict with arithmetics. Short of near-total redistribution, it's impossible to provide a decent level of UBI for everyone. Total redistribution doesn't work, because economy needs markers as ways of price / demand discovery, and markets apparently lead to power-law distribution, not flat.

IMHO, the realistic option is a thick enough safety net for those who is going through a rough spot, for the disabled, etc, via both taxes and charity. But the vast majority will have to work, in one way or another, until machines completely take over, like in the Culture books by Ian Banks.
> A lot of artists get started with tracing before taking off the training wheels.

Sure, but only privately. Publishing something you traced is a massive no-no, and selling it even more so.
It doesn't look very powerful. That said, (a) I think a rake is also fine, (b) I think we need aggressive enforcement of noise by-laws, including confiscation and destruction of offending machinery, and leave it up to the provider to work out how to clean up leaves without being an asshole.
It regenerates the comments from the Quake 2 fast inverse square root function.
Fellow alien here. Agree with Andre. Just embrace who you are and give it time. You've got a lot of life left to live and plenty of time to find fellow aliens to hang with.
Awesome, way to go guys!
yep. This class of fallacy has its own wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_probability
The issue with this thought is that not all students are motivated by the idea of designing games. Schools that have CS programs that focus on games already make developing a game a part of the curriculum.
And France having maintenance issues is in large part because of the anti-nuclear campaign that increasingly started to attempt to move away from nuclear. For a while even in France they basically just wanted to run the reactors out and switch to renewables.

So the politics goes like this, cause maintenance delay, condemn nuclear for maintenance delay. Seriously, these delays are being handled in a reasonable time-frames and most of the reactors will be back when they are really needed.

Consider that with the age of these reactors, wind-farms would have to be mostly rebuilt to a larger degree.

Also, if we actually made progress on technology then we could have had moved on to air-cooled designs but sadly we can't have nice things.
Microsoft has been nailed for this exact kind of thing in the past. This isn't hypothetical.
Ask HN: What Happened to Twitter?
I setup my Twitter account in 2010 and have amassed ~12000 followers. People seemed to like my stuff, and I made a lot of friends (tweeps) on there in the process. I'm still just as active, but I've noticed a sharp decline in engagement with my account. Retweets, hearts, and replies have all dwindled, everyone seems too busy and focused on whatever flavor-of-the-month celebrity or political figure is tweeting.

They don't care about small little niche accounts anymore. It's all about k-pop and African memes, and replying to Elon Musk's tweets and other fandom. People just don't seem to have the time to focus on the smaller accounts.

I mostly tweet web development stuff, and was seriously considering pivoting to another topic just to get back that original engagement that I used to enjoy. And further, the web development scene now has countless copycat accounts doing 'threads' where they explain basic HTML/CSS/JS and other concepts, and the engagement for that is pretty high.

But it's basic stuff you can just read in various man-pages/Docs and just re-cycled for Twitter to get likes and clicks. It's not groundbreaking research or niche content, or, original in any way.

So what's happening here? Should I delete my account and re-spawn somewhere else where I've a greater chance at being heard?

BTW: I'm not revealing the account in question for privacy reasons.
Can respond at will? Yeah, about that. I have no doubt the patients using the doctor messaging feature will expect a prompt if not immediate answer. The system is definitely imposing an unpredictable work schedule on doctors with no compensation. If you're expected to respond to patient messages, you can't go do something else with your life.
How about the decision tree for even a simple recurrent NN.
They're trailing, hard, because they dumped a bunch of time/effort/money into hydrodgen and also didn't want to self-compete with their hybrids. Don't go around saying this too loud though. There's lots of fanboys around these parts and they tend to consider discussion of this topic unwelcome.
If it was too-secret-project-x, why tell the normal navy? Especially if it didn’t have or require a pilot that could get killed if someone shot it down.
2^47/(32MHz) ~= 50.9 days

Not much of a margin there.
I think you can still get a reddit account without giving them even an email address, and definitely not a phone number.
And if the code generated by copilot was attached to a license that you had to obey? Suddenly your propriety solution must be released as open source or rewritten, because copilot is effectively laundering open source code?

Life's a lot easier when you can just copy whoever did the hard work without crediting/paying/etc for it.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Our laws and rules were created for a cultural context that is quickly becoming outdated. I feel there are many valid criticisms of AI today, but demonizing the technology doesn't allow for fruitful discussions. We need to evolve our thinking and we need to be open minded to do so first.
This is a really good analysis of the issue from the just the verbage from FAA. Well done.
Indeed, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33194623 for some initial thoughts on how this problem (and others) could be rectified