skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point. I was thinking that during the curation phase of the dataset they should check for a LICENSE.txt file in the repo, and just batch exclude all copyleft/copyright containing repositories. This obviously won't handle every case as you say, and when it does generate copyleft code it will fail to attribute, but hopefully not having copyleft code in its dataset or less of it reduces the chance it generates code that perfectly satisfies its loss function by being exactly like something its seen before.

The main problem I see with generating attribution is that the algorithm obviously doesn't "know" that it's generating identical code. Even in the original twitter post, the algorithm makes subtle and essentially semantically synonymous changes (like the changing the commenting style). So for all intents and purposes it can't attribute the function because it doesn't know _where_ it's coming from and copied code is indistinguishable from de novo code. Copilot will probably never be able to attribute code short of exhaustively checking the outputs using some symbolical approach against a database of copyleft/copyrighted code.
It shouldn't be any worse than normal high beams, and in fact should be better, since it can still illuminate the sides of the road when there's an oncoming car, or a car driving in front of you.

https://youtu.be/r3gMna26BZg?t=462
Remember your A-B-WTTNSs, got it ;)

Humor aside, that is good to know, thanks!
Most cities don't count apartments that are vacant less than x months as a vacancy, specifically because of what you're describing. Yes, apartments need to be empty, and folks move out and new folks move in, that usually happens within a couple months of the units being vacant. Some percentage of vacancy is also a healthy stat for a city, because it shows they're keeping up with growth.

The issue here is that there are units being held as vacant for long periods of time, in a saturated market, to drive prices up, and a central algorithm is being used by a large percentage of the market, that allows them to do this in a coordinated manner.

This is effectively textbook collusion, obfuscated by technology. People should be losing their real estate licenses over this, and honestly, folks should be reporting any company using this service to the real estate commission in their state for collusion, because this is normally something real estate commissions take seriously.
I don't think that Microsoft can claim to be blameless here "because it is too hard".

If we have 32 000 copies of the same code in a large database with a linking structure betwen the records then we should be able to discern which are the high provenance sources in the network, and which are the low provenance copies. The problem is after all, remarkedly similar to building a search engine.
Thanks, just installed it and it has what I need in a weather app
Not related to the parent's point. The 40 hour work week is not based on beliefs about productivity but is what organized labor was able to wrangle.
I do remember reading that so I should have specified that in its current state it shouldn't be there. Or at least we shouldn't depend on it being there
The parent is not arguing anything about productivity.

The point is that the 40 hour work week has nothing to do with productivity.
They could have spent effort (read: money) to validate the content of the corpus the model is trained on.
So it is natural for it to dry up and go salty dust to blow around for a while, and not an ecological disaster caused by climate change or excessive agricultural water use?

Honest question
Does that dimmer needs to have high light beam to start working? If sensitivity is adjusted so that low lights are enough, I don't see an issue.
https://readingeggs.com

Good app and stays with a kid until they're at about grade 6.
They have physical books, installable apps and a website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg-63aSls68
Like the Mohicans, there's still quite a few of us.
Just remember that is as far as I know a US only thing.

You'll be embarrassing yourself in most western countries with the swag/gifts approach.
Not really, unless you can produce a verbatim copy of existing artwork out of stability's stable diffusion.
I don't really understand how renting could ever be more efficient. Landlords wouldn't rent out houses as a profession if they couldn't make money doing it. That money comes from renters paying more than the cost of home ownership by definition.
Algorithms cannot be copyrighted. What is copyrighted is the creative expression of an algorithm. The variable names, the comments, choosing a for loop vs a while loop, or a ternary operator over an “if”, the order of arguments to a function, architectural decisions, etc.

Copyright is formed when a human makes a choice about equivalent ways of implementing an algorithm.
I read the first few dozen pages of the “Contact” screenplay, and that’s definitely an early draft. It’s nothing like the opening of the real film.
It’s not “oops we didn’t know” it’s, “someone published a project under a permissive license which included this code.”

If your standard is “Github should have an oracle to the US court system and predict what the outcome of a lawsuit alleging copyright infringement for a given snippet of code would be” then it is literally impossible for anyone to use any open source code ever because it might contain infringing code.

There is no chain of custody for this kind of thing which is what it would require.
Billy Idol warned us:
https://youtu.be/lDGVRwU9b1g
https://youtu.be/Dt03G-24WDg
The chilling effect of this decision is something everybody who uses open source software should be worried about.
I've seen his act. It's just so much fluff
Very nice article, however in 2022, why using C arrays as parameters in C++ code, when std::span, std::vector exist?
They are pretty wide, don't worry. But there are other safety features for AUDI:

- Night vision camera. Not sure if it will actually help - you don't watch your screen when driving.

- BEEP, BEEP when approaching an invisible human/animal that is too close to car on a lane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0wwcU_IlwE
Has the CIA Done More Harm Than Good?
You want someone extremely motivated, who needs to share your vision and passion and probably needs some specific knowledge or training. That person is hard to hire for 200k, not to mention the almost nothing you're offering, if you're hiring on the open market or otherwise trying to convince people in a relatively short period of time. The only option I can think of is someone you have a strong relationship with, who has known you long enough to believe in you. No shortcuts there, but I think that is the solution you're referring to.
I'm sure TheFrackingGuy is completely unbiased
I would have hoped to see some benchmark latency numbers. What does it mean to easily handle a 1M clients?
Huh? What's an example of this? The author talks about the phenomenon like it's so widespread it hardly needs to be explained, but I honestly have very little idea what they're even talking about. Every major open-source project I'm aware of is still permissively-licensed
Product vs. Engineering
Yes, although all those things you said could be true at the same time -- it's both natural for it to happen, but perhaps not on the same time scale which has been accelerated by agricultural uses; It's largely a closed body of water so there's not a whole lot of water flowing in to replace what gets pumped out, or to be diverted.

Just because it's happened multiple times before, doesn't mean it wasn't an ecological disaster for the lake/marsh ecosystems.

And by the same implication you're making, is it not natural for it to be fuller than it currently is?
I like the remote editing stuff in VSCode, but I often end up having to rsync things at some point since I need to test code on remote servers, but I sometimes need access to other resources only available on my local machine. I can use VSCode for the editing, but I can use mutagen for the syncing. VSCode also ate some of my remote work before so I started using an extension that created periodic backups on the remote so that if it happened again I wouldn't lose much if any work. That hasn't happened in a while, but it was bad enough that I want to ensure it doesn't happen again. I tried an rsync extension, but it was flaky and poorly maintained. With something like git I'd have to create WIP commits, remember to push & pull and then remember to clean up the changes before merging.
The Royal Canadian Mint seems to be pretty on the bleeding edge of their industry.
Depending where you stand philosphically, I witnessed that "paying it forward" works. In this instance, if people start using whois abuse reports they will become more effective. Also, the few reports I submitted were always processed and led to (at least) a website reset.
It is also improving a lot over time. What little there was support for back in Linux 5.3 is not sufficient.
Austrian beekeepers developed a feed supplement against American foulbrood (AFB)
So despite your clearly large intellect, it seems like you didn't understand the English verb "to brag."

I would say this in response, what you describe: being good at middle and high and able to get perfect grades there, isn't particularly impressive. Most good students can excel in high school. You note that things got harder for you in college, this is more normal, "smart kids" usually get found out in college when the work becomes harder. I'm not sure if you went on to postgrad education but I'd hazard a guess that if you went on to do a PhD you would have had a big shock.

My point is this, being able to "ace" teenager level work isn't actually all that big of a deal. I went to a private all-boys school where there were many, many boys who aced every piece of homework and tests they took. It didn't mean they were super special, that's just what you get when schools select for the brightest kids. Now, if they went straight from school and then aced their PhD in a year, that would actually be unusual.
That should be the headline here surely.
What software would you recommend to maintain a 'community garden', collectively with others? Where the tech isn't in-your-face and leaves room to be creative together, stimulating people to contribute. Of course, this could be any forum or collaboration software combined with good old community-building, but maybe there's software that particularly fits this 'gardening' idea.
AFAIR, they're open but not upstreamed, and a little persnickety for it.
it's more efficient in a physical sense, in other words, construction and heating.
> > Is it a valid defense against copyright infringement to say “we don’t know where we got it, maybe someone else copied it from you first?”

> I mean, in humans it's just referred to as 'experience', 'training', or 'creativity'. Unless your experience is job-only, all the code you write is based on some source you can't attribute combined with your own mental routine of "i've been given this problem and need to emit code to solve it". In fact, you might regularly violate copyright every time you write the same 3 lines of code that solve some common language workaround or problem.

Aren't you moving the goal posts? This is not 3 lines, but instead is 1 to 1 reproducing a complex function that definitely has enough invention height to be copyright able.
Also this depends on jurisdiction.
> Wow is it slow to POST

My understanding is that it is intentionally slow the first time you boot but should be normally slow after that. Apparently it is trying how fast it can clock the memory or something like that.
The developers [0] of this app have a whole series of different Privacy Friendly Apps, if you search for "org.secuso" on f-droid you can see them all.

[0] https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/index.php
Let’s be even more clear: the regulations are so overly specific that they don’t even provide any guidance let alone recourse for things they don’t cover. I’m less concerned about the slow movement on proven technology, and more concerned that any amount of novel privately automated technology is just free to let loose on society with no restriction.
Even if you use it for personal projects.

To be safe, we'd have to get Microsoft to agree to indemnify users (if they really believe using this is safe, they should do so), or wait until a court case on copyright as it regard to training corpus for large models is decided and appeals are exhausted.
Out of curiosity - has no one sued OpenAI/GitHub for this? I remember seeing threads like this since Copilot was launched. If there was enough legal pressure, I'd imagine OpenAI/Github training this using opt-in repos instead of using the model which they currently have.
UN isn't like a court of justice, or parliament. It's more like a council of thieves. It's the only premise on which you can have US, France, Russia and North Korea at one table together.

So the the "chief thieves" run the show, not because it's fair but because they run the show, and other thieves play as these allow them.

The veto is just a formalization of the fact that these countries will happily stop your plans by force, even if they are legitimate plans.
Why Some Feedback Hurts (and What to Do About It)
I was able to learn that deeper knowledge without learning C, via Sinclair Basic, Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal, Z80 and 80x86 Assembly, before eventually learning C.

And it wasn't even proper C, it was RatC at the time.

There are plenty of alternatives to expand our brain in systems programming, and even better they show we don't need to compromise on security to do it.

However, yes one needs to learn C, because it has snuck everywhere and as the COBOL of systems programming languages (ruffly 10 years younger), it isn't going anywhere.
From the article, in 2013 Toyota initially petitioned for the rule to be reevaluated and later both Volkswagen and BMW asked for an import exemption.
Imagine a line of business web app, where once you are logged in and use the app it downloads this. How is this much different from downloading a desktop app that needs to download a few meg of libraries.

It definitely is not needed for blogs, wikis, news sites etc. This would be for web applications.
It's not really a vaccine though. More like an immune booster to activate killer T cells that recognize a patient's individual cancer.
Increasing disinterest in fatherhood among childless men in the US
That’s the whole interview? seems kinda short. It does remind me how much I miss “comedians getting coffee”. Seinfeld has such quick wit. Really admire him.
Absolutely, like an NTSB investigation. There is no benefit in assuming any particular conclusion beforehand. Qualitative and quantitative analysis to discover the factors. Perhaps something is amiss or something is beyond human reach. All-in-all, the US education system has steadily declined since the 1960's. A foreign language and Latin were required of everyone, even those not going to college. Financial skills, driving skills, physical education, workshop, drafting, and so on were standard. There's no need to revisit the culture of the past, but there is room to insist on excellence, preparedness, and instilling curiosity rather than drown students in counter-productive standardized tests and throw teachers on food stamps into classrooms with 50 students without resources. The Finish approach is worth copying.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/08/30/what-fin...
This is my favorite kind of schema -- do not UPDATE Person.Name, instead INSERT into PersonNameChange.

With the right indexes and lateral joins/cross applies you can make the aggregate you need when you query instead of when you write.
Just witnessed a missile strike on Kyiv city
There’s just been two more explosions.

The first was unheralded, but for the second, first there was gunfire - I grabbed the camera and went to the window, opened it, and I could hear a loud droning noise, an engine - and then I saw a bright white missile in the sky, completely uncamouflaged, flying at a moderate altitude, perhaps 500m? it flew slowly, right-to-left in my field of view, and then began to dive towards its target, the sound of the engine becoming increasingly louder and stronger, and then it plunged below the line of buildings (I’m on the 15th floor) and I could see it no more, then the inevitable crack-bang - different to the explosions from a few days, not so large, but where I had the window open I felt the blast wave come to my face and body, and then of course with sick certainty the unfurling column of dark grey smoke shooting up from the impact site.

I’m hoping not too much additional damage is being done to the electricity infrastructure, although on the face of it, that explosion was simply in central Kyiv, not a very long way from the Samsung building which was hit last time.

I’m amazed at how slow the missile was. It was not rocket powered, but had an engine. I understand now how they can be shot down. There is time to aim and fire a missile.

I can hear more gunfire now, and another explosion just happened.

I was able to grab two or three photos, but it’s a wide-angle lens, so the missile is very small. Not publishing, don’t want to give information to the Russians.

Emergency services’ sirens now.
That's a bullshit question, backed up by partisan nonsense.

Here's what the American Bar Association has to say about "rule of law." It is a bit more measured and nuanced than the partisan OP.

https://www.americanbar.org/advocacy/rule_of_law/what-is-the...

Why was this not downvoted to hell?
This exact code can be found 1000 times on github and many of those are MIT licensed https://github.com/search?q=%22cs+*cs_transpose+%28%22&type=.... Copilot, or any other developer or person, has no way of knowing where the original implementation came from or it's original license. The cat is out of the bag, get used to it.
I hope that you got to see many more Carp games, Yoshikatsu-san.
Just wanted to inform that I have applied to the s/w engineering position.
Thanks
Unfortunately, people were not so forward-thinking when exploitation of the sea began, and thus we are now stuck with the situation that we do depend on it being there. The damage from it going away would be pretty major, both ecologically, but also in terms of economics for that area. It's a fairly productive area for agriculture, and a lot of that would be impacted. More than it is already.
I'm not that smart, but for a lot of things I put in a bit of effort and care, seemingly more than average. So in a programming context if I have to add some feature, for example, I won't just do the first thing that works, but try to think ahead on the long term a bit, think about good API design, maybe UX, write decent docs, etc. Plus I tend to be fairly pro-active in many things.

It always surprises me when people don't do that kind of stuff; which happens surprisingly often IMO. People add stuff with the shittiest of APIs, without thinking more than a week ahead, or write documentation that barely even qualifies as English (from native or very proficient speakers).

As a result, people have often considered me "very smart". But I'm not. I'm not dumb either, but certainly not some sort of programming whizkid.

Point being: attitude counts for quite a bit.

I think everyone knows a few people who are not necessarily "dumb" in the sense that their brains aren't computing well enough, but are nonetheless "dumb" because of their attitude towards certain things. If you never take an interest in anything, or just always go for the simple explanations and solutions you will forever stay dumb, no matter how smart you are.

Innate ability and education also counts. I have no idea how much share each have, although lack of innate ability can certainly be a ceiling to what you can achieve, even with the best attitude. But as the post says: for most things that doesn't actually matter all that much.
My favorite was the one talking about their "constitutional right to privacy" before dropping their full address in the FCC complaint.
Oh, oh, do orange turn signals next!
2 things:

1. you make it out like a translation from e.g. English to Spanish wouldn't fall under copyright. That's incorrect, in most juristictions I am aware of, it actually fall under the copyright of the original work and fall under its own copyright.

2. When will copilot be released open source, it is pretty clear by now that it is a derivative of all the OSS code so how about following the licensing?
But the fact that most people aren't geniuses shows that being a genius doesn't confer that much of an evolutionary advantage. In fact it might even be evolutionarily negative - in general, more years of academic education correlates with having fewer children.
Does it have a brand name we can google or something like that? That seems remarkable (I'd imagine you'd need an incredibly dense matrix of LEDs).
https://archive.ph/ucKb6
That is a great metaphor. I find it very calming to tend to my website[0].

The operating system is the soil and the html-pages the green stuff.

[0] https://chai.guru/www
They love to pull people over for minor road behavior depending on who they expect you might be. Like in California, they definitely don’t pull everyone over for failure to signal. But they sure do pull some people over for just that.
It is _ridiculously_ slow on first boot after a cleared CMOS due to the extra memory training - as in minutes. 20 seconds to post is the normal time after that initial boot and a decent time at that for these boards.
They’re extremely conservative there as well. Just very bad.

Same as side mirrors, apparently the technology of using curved mirrors to reduce blind spot has yet to make it across the pond.
Also interesting piece about why US was stuck in decades of same light design because of more stupid regulations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2J91UG6Fn8
> It's definitely not under the hood.

Really? I'd love to see some references to that.

I know there's some operations to convert a javascript string to UTF8, but everything which measures a string counts using 2-byte UCS2 items. For example, array-style indexing, string.length, str.charCodeAt(), split(), slice(), indexOf(), etc.

Also lots of DOM APIs use those weird string lengths too. For example, input element selectionStart / selectionEnd fields measure the selection range by counting surrogate pairs, not characters.
Can't help but think if the police are driving SUVs that are high off the ground, they wouldn't see this problem or be as affected.

Not that you're not right!

Another problem is aftermarket HID and LED lights which might not have any sort of legal pattern at all.

I liked reading (for years) this site regarding automotive headlamps, and there are problems:

https://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/bulbs/Hid/conversio...

this site has been around for a while, see what they said about the NHTSA and glare in 2000:

https://www.danielsternlighting.com/nhtsa/NHTSA.html
I'm looking at the C maxArray example and see that the for loop:

for (i = 0; i < 65536; i++)

gets compiled as

.L2:
add rax, 8
cmp rax, 524288
jne .L4

Is there any fundamental reason why the loop increments with 8 instead of 1? Or is this completely arbitrary? Thanks.
AP is another form of standardized testing. GPA is totally arbitrary, there are schools that graduate students with elementary school skills with 4.0s, same with letters of recommendation. Personal essays can be gamed by hiding editors.
It is completely impractical to store a table of hash values that is large enough to be able to reverse the hash. No HDD will be big enough.

Moreover, as I have already written, this possibility is easily circumvented by also hashing a time-varying value and a value unique to each computer, not only the RNG output.
> You may find it interesting the NHTSA is pushing for breathalizers in cars starting in 2026.

Yeah, another idiocy. They aren't reliable and need constant calibration, good luck driving a car full of drunks as designated driver...
Matrox was a leader in PC graphics before 3D acceleration happened.
tldr Don't use autopilot for anything work related.