skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Tell me you don’t use Copilot without telling me about it.

> You don't accept arguments against the use of Copilot from people unless they... use it?

> That's a nifty way to ignore any and all criticism of Copilot, or indeed any discussion about any ethical issue ever.

"I only listen to people who agree with me, but to make that sound legitimate, I have a somewhat indirect way of saying so."
The fact that it's the first major development to be started at GitHub after their acquisition by Microsoft is such a hit too. Way to spend their social capital. I can't imagine the money they made from Copilot subscriptions was worth it since companies have certainly stayed away from this...
All I have to say is if my firmware barf's after being up for 8.919 million years I won't care.
Here is a mini-dsl that I think has a really neat syntax: einops

e.g. how to upsample an image 2x

from einops import rearrange, repeat
rearrange(repeat(img, 'h w c -> h w r1 r2 c', r1=2, r2=2), 'h w r1 r2 c -> (h r1) (w r2) c')

there is something that is just so elegant to me about einops. I wish there were even more operations, but it's simplicity is nice too.
It’s actually not stupid. It’s genius. If you can do it at scale without damaging the company’s reputation, you’ve won the lottery.

You make big promises to employees, maybe give a carrot to a very select few. Everyone else will either accept the long hours and grueling culture or they’ll leave, and if they leave, they’ll go before their RSU compensation vests. So the other thing you do is weigh compensation heavily on RSUs instead of salary. If you leave before the 4 year vest, you get massively screwed and walk away with a small fraction, since vests don’t really kick in until years 3 and 4.

Now here’s the kicker. If the company does well and the value of your RSUs to up, you get nothing extra. You can get promoted and if your existing RSUs are putting you near or at the bottom of the next compensation band, you take more responsibility but without any meaningful compensation increase.

Now if the company does poorly, you’ll get extra RSUs, in 1.5 to 2 years out. You can hang around for that carrot, but they’ll work you like a machine. And it’s not just the labor. It’s the gaslighting and sociopathic behavior - “you’re so great at X, but you really didn’t do a, b, and c. You’re really just being your own bottleneck. Oh you’re working extra hours? Your fault for not scaling yourself better.”
You meant to say "implicitly"? Even then, no, the terms are much more specific.
I recently did a contract with a company in the logistics (warehouse/delivery) business for a product you've heard of. Their turnover rate is over 100% every year. The industry is crazy.
Can MAME[1] emulate Vectrex games on a normal screen now?

I searched for a few minutes, but the results seem to be about using MAME to control an original Vectrex vector display, (such as: https://trmm.net/Vectrex/), not emulation of Vectrex on an LCD display,

[1] https://wiki.mamedev.org
Microsoft has owned Github for how many years... and this is the _first_ test?
Fine, but what happens if Copilot is so successful that it ends up actively harming the very projects that it requires for training material? If you value Copilot then you should be concerned about that, even if you don't care at all about any ethical considerations.

Seems very similar to a "tragedy of the commons" type of situation.
NASA astronaut Jim McDivitt, who led Gemini and Apollo missions, dies at 93
There's also "translate to English", so you can instead treat it directly as a key and use that, or treat the English text as a key and change/add to the file if it's just something like a typo.

Don't recall about the second, we only had translations on one site and it's been a few years.
"What lessons did we learn?" is an excellent question, but it's the reaction of a seasoned professional. The reason we have to teach that outlook to new grads is people don't think that way by default. It's unrealistic to expect that reaction from the general populace.
I'm not sure what problem you're experiencing here.

Your engagement has dropped (likes and clicks, etc) because people are engaging with other accounts that are just there to get "likes and clicks" so you want to delete your account and start over in order to get more engagement (likes and clicks)?

Is this correct?
This is a heretical idea in *most circles. Same experience with job offers!
If the tech becomes open (and all indicators point to it being open in the near future) then it will become impossible to shut down. This has already happened with Stable Diffusion and the related model leaks.

People's expectations have already been set by this technology, and they are only going to want more. Also, AI researchers are still publishing their work out in the open for anyone to reproduce.

If there was a Copilot model out in the wild like with Stable Diffusion then this ceases to be a valid question, regardless of the model's legality. All it takes is a single leak or decision by another entity to release their own code generation model.
I don't think the NTLM thing of 7+7 has been true since Windows 2000 and the introduction of Active Directory.

it's been a long time, I know that.
> Here are a few thoughts I haven't formulated before:

> It seems clear enough to me that training AIs on copyrighted works is typically or commonly a fair use under existing law, because the AIs can and commonly do learn non-copyrightable elements and aspects of those works. It's very obvious from enormous numbers of examples that current AI systems are capable of learning much more abstract features of human culture (grammar, concepts, facts, cultural tropes, and many others).

I said it already in a previous discussion, I would be very careful with comparing ML with how humans learn. To me there are still a lot of examples that show that AIs don't understand prompts (see e.g. the discussions around the "horse riding astronaut" prompts för stable diffusion et al.) and it seems like they really are just doing sophisticated pattern matching. If that is what they do aren't they themselves covered by the licenses/ restrictions placed on the "patterns" they "choose" from?
The Cyber Express is announcing the launch of the India Edition of World CyberCon 2022 with a focus on India’s potential in the cybersecurity Realm.
There was an app called Stocard that I used at one point. I prefer to have minimal keychain items.

The problem with the app barcodes is simply that they are slow to load, nonstandard, and not open source.

I think a common standard, lightweight, open source app would be perfect. Stocard is proprietary, but at least it loads quick and organizes all of the cards in a uniform way.

I don't like these slow, buggy apps that bury their barcodes.

The brightness problem is real, and getting the angle right can also be a challenge, although that seems like an issue with the current quality of barcode/QR readers. I assume that could be solved if anyone cared.

Keychain barcodes are insecure, easy to damage, easy to lose, and provide zero real identity guarantee.

Phones at least can offer the level of identity guarantee that 2FA does, and largely solves those other problems.
That plus fleet of ec2 for real heavy loads.
Both what?

Do you not believe that some people are more knowledgeable or can have insights on any topic.

Do you have a point you are trying to make?
Open-source licenses have terms that apply to the source code, not "execution", so I really don't understand your point?
The Bruce Willis Deepfake Is Everyone's Problem
> I’ve tried Triplebyte to a resounding failure.

Just chiming in to say that this has also been my experience as of late, too. One of the interesting trends I've noticed is that some random company will send out a message expressing interest due to your profile/skills/background, you tell them you're interested in speaking further, then they pass on you saying you don't have the profile/experience/background they're looking for. Seriously, yes, this has happened to me probably about ~5 times in the last month. Absolutely ridiculous.

Wish I had something to offer on solutions for you, but other than "bust ass and hope for the best", I really don't know of any silver bullet kind of advice. Other than the usual stuff - networking, improving interview skills, blah blah blah, you've heard all that before, I'm sure.

Good luck!
I don’t think anyone really cares about that kind of stuff, though. Like, there are loads of examples of similar things which no one (rightfully) bags an eye at. Like if I take a photograph of you out in the public and sell the photo for $1 million, would you expect compensation? Or if someone compiles a list of the best restaurants in the world and sells that list, do you think the restaurants should be compensated?

The value that is being derived here is in the curation of the material, not the material itself.
> And the absolute worst interpretation of AI is that it's just a very well-compressed search engine index for its training set data[1].

I don't think this parallel makes sense because a search engine links to copyrighted works, each of which is still governed by its original copyright, while these AI create derivative works or reproduce the original works without even attribution.

Indeed, if an AI was just and index for the training set there would be less of a problem because the origin of a work could be found and its license honored.
yeah, don't worry, this project isn't in contention for anything.
I use Youtube and rest of the internets without adblock for at least two months. I did not notice that
Nah, scaling will be hard. I came to realisation that I don’t want any clusters, let them manage it :)
Maybe they covet ilrwbwrkhv's worldly possessions, due to their financial success stemming from their ability to reliably write files to local storage devices.
Depends on the quantity and reason for layoffs. Meta, I would avoid at this time. Microsoft is doing fine, despite this small layoff.
LM is still this way, the algorithm hasn't changed, it's just not often used/stored except in the case of quite old legacy systems. NT hashes, commonly referred to as NTLM hashes, are indeed not length restricted and do not break your password up into 7 + 7 chunks.
I think you should differentiate between Erlang and BEAM. I've not used both except for toying, but while the BEAM looks really really cool, Erlang does not. I use Scala and I'm pretty darn sure that it is way above Erlang in almost any regard, especially for concurrency and parallelism. However, to get what BEAM offers on the JVM you have to go with Akka (which I used a lot) and I think Akka falls short of BEAM in some regards, especially debugging.
> I read this trivia in the ARRL handbook. Extremely well written covering everything HAM.

> [...] a standard mode of unambiguous communication over international frequency spectrums

That's exactly the context that's missing for most participants in this thread :) Thanks for making it explicit for us! When you lead with "There is no word in English dictionary with HH", it sounds like the context is literally the English dictionary. What you're actually judging against is the practical lexicon of radio operators, which is very different and worthy of investigation independent of the lexicon the rest of us plebians use ;)
50^24 is roughly 59.6 duodecillion, if you were curious.
This is basically what General Petraeus said would happen.
The traditional, non-computerized way to pay bills (utility for example) is to simply mail a check. That usually still works.
We are only 60 years past room sized computers. I don't think it's far off at all.

In fact, in a sort of prisoners' dilemma situation it behooves us to make sure people believe this technology can do exactly what optimism suggests because those who will benefit from such capabilities would benefit from downplaying their reality.

Profit People screw everything up by lacing it with control. The first thread of which is narrative. So, I see your rationally tempered perspective and raise you a wild-eyed vision.
No, they aren't. Perhaps you're having trouble telling the difference between people who don't understand your argument and people who disagree with it?
I mean Russia Gate in the conspiratorial Trump as Russian agent sense, which seems unsupported by evidence.

But yes it seems clear that he was Russia’s preferred candidate, though it’s unclear to me whether that made any measurable or meaningful difference. Failing to campaign in the upper Midwest or rust belt as a democrat seemed like an avoidable self-own.
License their logistics software to who? Lyft? Bolt?

Very few business wants/can to enter ride sharing, food delivery industry.
Let’s not fall for this modern monetary theory chestnut. Paying taxes didn’t save the Zimbabwean dollar. Taxes aren’t what makes money work.
> It's unclear how Konami will react to losing the domain, and whether it even has any recourse to get it back.

URDP. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/help/dndr/udrp-en
1,400+ points now. and climbing. 8 comments... fishy for sure
Maybe the solution here is do adopt the approach from humans: if you independently produce someone's copyrighted work and then discover about it - you'll drop it.
The same approach could be used here, they can add a check for the similarity between the output and the original training material, if it is above a threshold, they'll drop the suggestion (maybe they are already doing that).
I am 50 and constantly learning new things. You’ll be fine at 25. Stop worrying about age and put in the work.
>If you don't know Microsoft's history, a lot of what more informed people are worried about seems overblown.

Or maybe they do know about it, and don't agree with you. Do you allow for such an option?

https://github.com/features/copilot

"What can I do to reduce GitHub Copilot’s suggestion of code that matches public code?

We built a filter to help detect and suppress the rare instances where a GitHub Copilot suggestion contains code that matches public code on GitHub. You have the choice to turn that filter on or off during setup. With the filter on, GitHub Copilot checks code suggestions with its surrounding code for matches or near matches (ignoring whitespace) against public code on GitHub of about 150 characters. If there is a match, the suggestion will not be shown to you. We plan on continuing to evolve this approach and welcome feedback and comment."
> It's a bit odd that 'The Economist' doesn't mention that the persisitence of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa is fundamentally an economic problem.

Is it really though? I'm always curious to understand how malaria eradication in the US was so successful, primarily because, at least now anyways, we have a shit ton of mosquitos in the South. Why doesn't malaria rise up in the US again? Is the geography and climate of Africa just much more conducive to malaria?

The CDC has a good page about the eradication of malaria in the US, https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/elimination_us.htm..., and I understand the measures that were taken. But again, many days if I go out without slathering myself in bug spray in the summer I'll be covered with mosquito bites, so I don't understand why malaria isn't more common. Are our mosquito species just different?
Even for the term extension that is attributable to Disney, you can also attribute it to Germany and the formation of the EU. "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" is funny, yes, but also an oversimplification.

This is also why I fully expect Steamboat Willie to fall out of copyright protection in January 2024 - right on schedule. There's a few countries that have supra-EU copyright terms, but none of them are dealmakers. Nobody is demanding we match Mexico's life+100 terms, for example.
Not sure, but I've been experiencing dramatically worse load times on Twitter in the last month or so.
Not sure if they edited their comment, but the end of it contradicts your interpretation:

> I won't be afraid of accidently violating copyright myself, because I won't be trying to bait it into reproducing heavily copy&pasted cherrypicked examples, and I won't use 20 lines of its output with zero modification.
Maybe to cut down on bad reviews and spurious support requests?
It would be quite incredible to be able to lend out and charge interest on $1000 when only having $100. On the surface, that's pretty dumb and it's history has entirely fraudulent roots. However, it ultimately provides the needed entropy in the system to appropriately incentivize participants in the economy to produce goods and services at the lowest possible cost (in other words, optimize quality of life - or at least starvation avoidance).

It isn't at all clear to me however that the current system is optimal as it favours participants closer to the money printing source yet these participants are not providing any goods or services - just measures of value. The size of the financial services sector of an economy is likely a reasonable proxy for how suboptimal the system is.
> He mentions this in the vid, a few minutes in.

transcript >>> video
> Contaminated soils abound across the industrialized world, it's just that most people have no idea.

Like all the radon and the heavy metals in the ground, water, and dust in Niger and Kazakhstan?
Mississippi River’s low water level reveals shipwreck
I don't usually cry and find it hard to cry even when I want to. But the tears were just flowing freely as I was finishing up When Breath Becomes Air, especially the epilogue.
> Was any data lost between the two services?

Undoubtedly.
Don't. That's backwards thinking. Go the other way. Host your website and other services from your home IP (and syndicate elsewhere). Participate in the internet as an equal. It's not going to significantly change the chance you'll ever get DoS'd or otherwise "attacked" or your vulnerability to such things. By far the biggest attack surface on any end-user computer is the browser automatically running untrusted code from anywhere.
> The stream interface is the core of the library, so let’s discuss it first. It is remarkably simple

It's interesting (odd?) that the interface doesn't just expose a function to get the next value, similar to a lazy list in Haskell, which also goes well with the original statement in the post that a stream is basically a function. The 'sine_wave' stream for example is 90% filling the array and 10% actual stream logic, which I imagine you're duplicating in other stream implementations.
> Yet again, I like that Musk and Kanye kind of people claim that they want free speech because at least we can hold them responsible when they don't deliver it.

What does "holding them responsible" look like? Making pseudo-anonymous comments on HN calling them out?

Giving them the benefit of the doubt at this point that they are acting in good faith seems hopelessly naïve and exactly the smokescreen they are looking for. They're saying whatever Bullshit(tm) it takes to get through this week with the best possible outcome, and you want to circle back in a couple years? No one will care or remember remember what the initial statement was.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit#Lying_and_bullsh...
In todays market be leery of companies who aren’t showing fiscal restraint. Look more at the strength and market positioning of the company, and don’t join a company whose business you don’t understand.

My general observation is some companies use layoffs as a periodic way to get rid of folks without performance reviews. (“Position was eliminated” doesn’t lead to law suits) Also, when companies do multiple rounds, they get less generous on each subsequent round.
RealPage seems to have recognized that multiple competing landlords in the same region who are independently setting rates and concerned about vacancy is a kind of prisoner's dilemma situation. Seems obvious they exploited that opportunity. Absolutely diabolical.
Easy, encounter financial stress. A lot of wealthy capitalists were motivated by escaping poverty.
Early in my career I joined a large company right when they went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Worked there for a year, then moved on. They shut down the office where I had worked a year or two after that. I don't regret working there at all. And I doubt Microsoft is even close to the same situation. They employ a couple hundred thousand people, so laying off 1000 is nothing. It's like a 200-headcount company letting go of just one person.

Either way, I think it's fine to join a company that is downsizing, since presumably the area you got hired is a department that isn't part of the downsizing. Of course there are horror stories of people who got laid off immediately after getting hired, but that's just bad luck. Most of the time there is a budget for you, or the position wouldn't be advertized in the first place. If you end up doing valuable work on a valuable team, you should be safe from any cuts - and you can ask those questions during the interview process.

From my perspective, any job where you get paid to work on something interesting and learn new stuff is worth considering.
The lack of VirtualLink/USB-C on nvidia cards seems like a major loss going forward.

Video cards are realistically the only component in a desktop actually hooked up to enough power to cover the full USB-PD spec(240w currently?) + the rest like display/audio/hub.

I can only hope the upcoming AMD 7000 reference series still has a USB-C port. In fact I would be perfectly happy with a card with nothing but USB-C ports on it.
It’s offshore USD not controlled by the US government. That’s the whole point. Its users may transact USD completely outside the US’s financial tendrils. That’s the unique selling proposition, and why it’s commonly used by offshore exchanges.
Eric Ries “Lean Startup” has genuine life advice value I think
I'll repeat something I asked elsewhere here.

From what I understand, it is not proven that the AI uses the knowledge of concepts and logic to write the new code. It is likely that it actually performs instead a very optimized stitching of code it previously saw.

Is my understanding outdated here?

From the ethical point of view, I'd say you're making some assumptions here that result in it being ethical when a human does it, and those assumptions might not hold for an AI.

For example, you're assuming a win/win outcome, where your learnings from copyrighted open source code don't harm the original authors ability to find work, or the value of their code.

With an AI I think there are possibilities we're looking at a win/lose situation, where Microsoft wins big, and maybe some other developers that also profit of their use of copilot, but where the original authors of the code that went to train it see their skills be devalued over time as a direct consequence.

In my opinion, a win/lose is unethical. What I'm not convinced is that we're looking at a win/lose, but I think there's a possibility.
That post is the wrongest thing I've read this week. It's so wrong I don't know where to start.

We shall see in three weeks who is correct.

When the gloves come off, lol.

The pants have already fallen down... might as well take the gloves off too.
14 MPG @ 80 MPH

24 MPG @ 50 MPH

Last minute of the video
Yes and no. Yes, because it could demonstrate how much you like the company to be willing to look beyond the immediate-term risk of becoming part of any near future layoffs. Also, it shows that you are brave and confident in your own ability to find another job if it does happen. This could lead to the employer giving you more compensation and benefits to counter the reduction in interest from other candidates.

No, it may not be wise because it may result in you actually getting laid off soon after joining or having your offer rescinded 1 hour before start. As a great man once said, it all depends on your risk tolerance.
> As for Apple's private relay: it's a cute idea, but Apple has other telemetry endpoints it can use to see what you're doing on a device.

For Apple, it is a privacy breach only if its 3p services tracking users on iDevices. 1p is perfectly fine. 2p is kind of okay.