skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You turn on VPN meanwhile your OS, Adobe CC, Office, etc is busy phoning home with all kinds of fingerprintable if not personally identifiable data. Even Firefox phones home with tons of data at launch and exit with telemetry off.

Getting real anonymity online is way more complicated than I think most people realize. Then again maybe that’s fine, it depends on your threat model.
Or more to the point, “this picture contains copyrighted material, which must be censored because…”

etc.

I tried to be as general as possible.

The training data for a self-censorship neural network could be as robust as any given society would like.

An algorithm based on self-censorship of generated output wouldn’t require censorship within the training data for the generative neural network.

I can imagine some other advantages to that approach.
Maybe I haven't had enough coffee today, but what does "IC" stand for?

Do you have any tips/advice for someone who feels slightly stuck in an industry/tech stack? Ideally I want to switch jobs at some point away from what I've been doing, but don't have the ability to gain experience with language 'x' in a "professional" setting.

Due to this, I find it challenging to apply (or even consider applying) to positions that I find really interesting.
Subset.

Hey man, I don't think you've spent enough time learning about technology nor humanity to argue any of this.

Your own fault for a bad conversation.
I am feeling very greedy but ....

With all that intelligence if GitHub Copilot can't produce easy to use and manage full stack framework yet with distributed database inbuilt in either any existing programming language or perhaps a new one created by itself then its not useful for me.
Copyright no longer (and perhaps never) serves as a tool to further the creative/productive output of the society. It should be demolished and rewritten, and when in doubt, it should allow rather than disallow.
And because drivers are now the majority, we can rob the people who don't drive to pay for the infrastructure to support our unsustainable lifestyle!

Go democracy!

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Sorry for the sarcasm. I'm more and more leaning towards libertarianism nowadays.
GitHub doesn’t have a monopoly on “hosted git repositories”.

By the time MS bought Nokia, it was already a has been in mobile and the acquisition was a total failure and the game market is competitive.
Individual contributor. As opposed to a manager.
How do you do contract work where you get paid a significant amount without even meeting the person? How does a company or a person trust you to give you some work without even meeting in person. You must be doing something super right that some of us might not know that would open doors for us.

Can you please elaborate?
Don't worry, I'm a "me" too.
> 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 you can exercise some discipline when using copilot, but what about your coworkers? Many companies might not want their employees to insert copyrighted codes into their projects accidentally.
I think that lots of people do the latter. I was part of a group doing algorithms challenge for fun, and most of them folded on the first challenge that wasn’t easy or obvious. I believe because they were not able to separate the problem space from the language space. The solution was fairly easy when you think about it in terms of sets (even though a transformation was required), but not when you were thinking in terms of the data constructs of the language initially provided (array of numbers).
I’m hearing they’ve laid off low performers…
>But how will you feel if Copi­lot erases your open-source com­mu­nity?

Jesus Christ, dramatic much? Are people that stumble upon a piece of code while googling how to do something, and end up copying and pasting the code from the repo, really building the open source community? Because that's essentially what it is. Whether I use copilot to generate a tedious function, or I copy it from your open source repo I'm on the same level of being a member of your open source community.

This whole thing feels like artists screaming how AI generated art is horrible, trying to figure out how to sabotage it, or how to start lawsuits - just because their value went down just a bit. Same thing with developers.
That doesn't work, though - the problem is you have automated crime. When you do this, you can no longer handle this on a case by case basis - you have to resort to automating justice.

And at this point, you are getting both attacked and supported by AI, and not really better off in a meaningful way.

There's no good way of solving this issue, without general intelligence, and the problems that will bring (what reason does a generally intelligent AI have for supporting us or not enslaving us).

This is why all AI research IMO is unethical. Point me to a single AI use that has not already been abused, maybe I will change my mind, as it stands though we should be prosecuting the people misusing this technology, or at least irresponsibly releasing it, as fast and as quickly as possible before we get the point we are no longer fighting bad actors but the machines themselves.
There might well be 5 separate regulations forbidding it. That's a different question.

The safest class of substances I can think of are unusual isotopes.

They're chemically identical to the regular elements, which is what matters for life forms, but can be detected by scientific instruments.
> I think there is a huge shadow economy with cash money only.

Oh yes absolutely. The number of $100 bills are more than $1 bills and less than 20% are in circulation inside US [1], meaning significant portion of that is being used for shadow economy. I am pro cash, but the US could probably print less $100 bills. Of course, there is also other currencies, financial instruments and crypto that can be used instead of $100 bills.

> Maybe in the end it will be better to have this shadow world.

It's hard to tell, but we do know that forcibly trying to remove the shadow economy is extremely tough on normal people while bigger players are already diversified with alternatives (gold, crypto, other currency) to have much impact. See India for recent example [2].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/04/there-are...

[2] https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/04/news/india/india-cash-crisi...
If I leave my door unlocked, is it ok for you to come into my home and have a party ? Could I do that at your house or place of business ?

What if you intentionally or unintentionally took down a server that controlled important infrastructure which people depended greatly on? Flood warning system for example ?

Grow up.
Basically by just being careful: because these are purely rough and ready internal tools, I can be a bit picky about what gets used where, and why. For the most part I don’t have much history navigation at all, let’s me cheat :)
there was some pretty serious protesting against honorlock at my school cause it's invasive shady shit nobody should have to use. no actual demonstrations though since a lot was zoom at the time (and also bc signing a petition worked fine).
>While most GPUs support FP64, unless you pay for the really high-end scientific computing models, you're typically getting 1/32nd rate compared to FP32 performance.

I wonder if there is a hardware reason for this or It's just market segmenting by nvidia.
I am someone who has been interested in cloud freelancing for a very long time except freelancing and cloud don't seem to go well together for me. I've had zero callbacks when I tell them I'm a freelancer.

The companies I've worked with in the past have even the dev environments on the cloud pretty locked down and access to any higher environments are usually locked down even more. Given that cloud has a lot of important data and companies are usually very selective in how they give out access. How do you do freelance work when it comes to cloud?

Can you please elaborate? If cloud freelancing is something that looks like it could be within my reach it would make my family and I's life easier in so many ways.

PS: I'm from a relatively third world country so please factor that in.
So code and mechanical music (i.e. a recording) aren't exactly the same, but code and music compositions are more similar. Can you use a tiny snippet from a composition and still infringe copyright? Yes, you can. Maybe not however short, but there will come a point.
> You have the choice to turn that filter on or off during setup.

Notice that Copilot often gives code that verbatim matches opens source software, even when that filter is on. For example: https://twitter.com/DocSparse/status/1581461734665367554?s=2...

Their approach of "matches or near matches (ignoring whitespace)" is clearly inadequate, and it's honestly insulting that they think this is enough. Even if Copilot just changed the case of a single letter, their filter wouldn't catch it.
I just feel like there’s no other choice. I check out Fox News, Infowars, and other conservative news every once in a while.

It’s incredible what they report. Everything is charged against democrats, and everything is a conspiracy. Of course, left leaning news sites demonize republicans in the same way, but it tends to be less extreme.

I think that in general censorship is wrong, but I just see so few options. I think the state of the US is more worrying than issues like climate change. Hopefully someone can fix it without war.
Not the user you directed your question to, but it depends on the outcome you want. I know people who only interview at one or two places between jobs because they're so particular about what they want. I also know people who are over-employed. Juggling multiple interviews at once should come easily to these people. Theoretically, I could see someone juggling 15-20 sets of interviews at one time. So pick your poison.
The concept of fair use applies to small volumes of work.

Clearly, training on large volumes of data is not small volumes in any sense of the word. The argument that it is fair use is itself flawed.
Yeah I’m sure the older people who don’t want cellphones are going to love biking and walking everywhere.
So all the managers?
Laziness is efficiency. People drive because they are lazy and driving is the most efficient use of their resources. People also walk because they are lazy and walking is the best use of their resources. Driving is so prevalent because 1) we don’t incorporate the full cost (social, environmental, etc.) into driving, 2) driving is often the locally (individually) most efficient choice while being globally (socially) the suboptimal. We should engineer and environment where the globally optimal choice is the lazy choice.
> The key is: you must make enough profit to justify dedicating engineering and legal techniques to defend your scraping.

That's why web scraping is a huge SaaS market these days (I'm part of one too @ scrapfly.io).

Loads of our customers are tiny businesses and entrepreneurs that could no way afford the engineering effort required to scrape any of these websites and honestly empowering small folk against these giant, untouchable corporations is the best part about my job :)
Clean room implementation only happens for very special codes, like codecs or efficient matrix multmul that took billions of trials to develop with AI. Not for 2-3 lines of code snippets that do one simple thing and are already covered online in hundreds of places.
How do you expect to have a discussion with a Republican if you hold them with such contempt? You realize that they represent roughly half of the country right?

I didn’t really care about your point about Kanye, I can more about people sowing division.
> nobody would care about it.

Not true. I had no idea who produced it when I heard it in the movie, and I liked it so much I played the whole album on repeat for days while working (coding).

> you will easily find more atmospheric, nuanced and better produced songs than this.

C'mon, you can't leave us hanging. Throw a few recommendations here!

I listen to techno but I usually don't like minimal, I find it too boring (prefer old school psy trance and goa myself, that should tell you direction I lean to). I really liked the SN soundtrack tho.
From the text:

>We need the legal right to do things like host Your Content, publish it, and share it. You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time. This license includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video.

>This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use

I would say they would have a pretty hard time to justify using the content for AI training (and selling) based on that license. Copilot didn't exist at the time when many agreed to that license, so an argument saying Copilot is part of the service would be difficult to pull off. Moreover they don't even provide copilot to people hosting on GitHub.

Note that MS themselves are not claiming that they are allowed to use the code due to their terms of service. They claim they can do it due to fair use.
Tools like Packj[1] that check for typosquatting and install packages under a sandbox can help in avoiding accidental installation of malicious packages. Disclaimer: I’m one of the devs.

1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj
Because the conventional wisdom has been that the women’s products are more expensive.
You’re right. It’d definitely decrease maintenance. I’m not sure how much maintenance is from usage vs wear from the weather (especially in cold areas)
I did that too, but would never use Hugo for any website again!

Instead, I would now use Astro[1] for any static site or blog.

YMMV, but if you don't already love golang and their weird template language, Astro is just HTML and TypeScript and is overall simpler and less time-consuming to understand.

(I mean it will get hella complicated if you want it to, and let you integrate React or Svelte or blah blah, but out of the box it works great for generating static sites like blogs, or just regular-ass websites.)

[1]: https://astro.build
> It is genuinely useful. I don't care that it reproduces copyrighted content.

Plagiarizing is already understood to be a genuinely useful practice.
Only if it's not microsoft's leaked code, I guess :)
I am glad all the legal bs didn't stop MS from making the product. Copilot is surprisingly effective, it truly makes life easier for me, as a developer. The fact is that if you give your code away publicly, you cannot finely control what the world does with it. If this is not acceptable to you, keep your IP private.

If these guys manage to shut down or cripple Copilot using legal mechanisms, you can bet there will be a Chinese/Russian alternative that will be even more indifferent to your LICENSE.md, and you won't be able to get it shut down using the courts.
China's armed forces recruiting dozens of British ex military pilots
I took apart an old bluetooth speaker set, took the gumstick receiver/amplifier/battery charger combo, and slapped that into a set of headphones with an 18650 cell on each side. Lasted days straight. That was a decade ago. I'm surprised nobody's bothered to make large cans with large battery capacity.
It doesn't matter how it's used. Do you think Microsoft would be happy with someone training a model on Windows source code, as long as they didn't use it to reproduce the code?
But as it turned out, this was just more fear than harm. These radiation turned out to have almost no health consequences in the population. (And 500kBq is not much. The human body is already 5kBq naturally)

> What if the next accident happens not in the Soviet Union or Japan, but in one of the power plants next door?

That would be terrible. But how does it compare to other terrible events such as the flood of last year, arguably caused by global warming?

You were victim of the fear propaganda of the 80's, but people today are victim of the energy crisis in Germany, which is partly caused by the choice to discontinue nuclear.
You can try it for free. Just setup a tunnel and see if it meets your needs.
Blame the obsolescence of your cell phone on the Android ecosystem and Google’s poor stewardship of Android.

Microsoft also licenses its operating system to third parties and you PCs can get updated by the end user without having to worry about the OEM. Microsoft Windows 7 which just went out of support in 2020 ran on my 2006 era Mac.

As far as phones, Apple released a security patch for the 2013 iPhone 5s less than four months ago.
> many restaurants refuse to accept cash due to combination of incentives from credit card networks like Visa and Mastercard and desire to create a frictionless experience for high-value customers

This is puzzling... How does refusal to accept cash from X create a frictionless experience for Y?
"You have technicians here making noise. They're not artists because nobody can play the guitar!" (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs3ocG5yW88)
I don't see how. Currently, it's optional for everyone. You would be mandatory increasing inequality for 99.9% of people, as opposed to what, the current 5% of lotto ticket buyers?
It became your GPU.
There is a very easy theoretical solution to this, discourage platforms beyond a certain size and incentivize topical groups instead of geography. It's just hard to make these kind of regulations at this point, now that everyone got hooked on ad money and data mining.
>On the surface, that's pretty dumb and it's history has entirely fraudulent roots.

This is again a conspiracy theory typically promoted by adherents of the long discredited pseudoscience known as Austrian Economics. Don't fall for this. The fact that it's working at the set interest rates is proof that the system is not a fraud, because the bank should absolutely be able to make more good loans when it knows it can. It's only a fraud if it there are no regulations or safety nets and the banks become insolvent and everybody loses their money. Which right now is mostly a problem that crypto has. Central banks have become increasingly good at preventing it from happening with their own currencies.

>it favours participants closer to the money printing source yet these participants are not providing any goods or services - just measures of value

Well this isn't true. Providing liquidity and assuming risks are actual valuable financial services that the current system gives. The demand for these services won't go away if you change how the banks work. And the alternative is even worse anyway, where banks wouldn't be able to make money from loans at all, and they would just charge everyone mandatory increasing deposit/withdrawal fees. Hey this is starting to sound a lot like crypto.

The "rich get richer by doing nothing" effect is just a common feature of capitalism. In that aspect crypto is again, even worse. It provides no goods or services either, the entire thing is a waste, built on a technological fraud and propped up by "whales" who don't want to lose their investment.
Last time I tried, I got a 404 Competent Military Not Found error. :/
Google Search links to the original content. Copilot doesn't.
My still living parents grew up in a rural part of GA and very much remember a time when everyone didn’t have a landline.
> Many companies might not want their employees to insert copyrighted codes into their projects accidentally.

They can opt not to pay for this entirely voluntary service.
> perverts absolute free speech into a weapon used by the powerful to deceive and subvert democracies.

Controls on speech get perverted far worse and far faster, every single time. There is no perfect system where we can make everyone infinitely wise.
Well the company is my company so I have to do it
I have the first version of those Adidas headphones, that do not come with the solar panels but are otherwise the same.

I wear them 8 hours per day at the office, at the gym, while jogging etc. Light and stay on your head well. Highly recommended.

The new version looks to be twice the cost so I don't think I'll upgrade anytime soon but I'd probably get them if these fail out of warranty.
By the way, Amazon's CodeWhisperer does that.

> in very rare cases, an independently generated code recommendation may resemble a unique code snippet in the training data. By notifying you when this happens, and providing you the repository and licensing information, CodeWhisperer makes it easier for you to decide whether to use the code in your project and make the relevant source code attributions as you see fit.
That didn't take long to sell out.
My dad is 80 and uses an Android all of the time - mostly by voice.
A thousand times this. People were so grossed out by Deno resolving imports from URLs... but browsers have allowed this forever, Deno was just aligning to how the web already works.
> drive to an ATM to deposit a check

If you think of it like that, then it's awfully inconvenient. But what you do, what I think most of us used to do, is pair that errand with another, like grocery shopping. Chances are fairly good there is an in-network ATM in route to the grocery store, if not at the grocery store. It only adds a minute, maybe a few minutes, to a trip you were going to make anyway.
why must it change, why is this different? genuinely curious
> I quote this too much, but all the nuclear waste the US has ever generated would sit in a single football field, 10 yards high.

Well you couldn't because you'd have a stew of fissioning soup. But once you include all the concrete and steel and low level waste that needs decades of storage it's about the same size as a 4hr battery for the entire country.

> But this concentration is a blessing because you don't need to mind nearly as much material

> 3) The main issue with solar/wind though, is that we literally don't have enough material to build enough of it. Not to mention the battery storage. It's not a matter of we can't mine fast enough, we literally don't know of the mineral reserves needed. Here's a presentation going over a report that find this

False. If it's a problem for PV it's a much worse problem for existing nuclear plants.

Olympic dam is one of the world's largest uranium mines. It produces 7.5g of silver and 30kg of copper for every kg of Uranium.

You need 10kg of natural uranium for 1kg of PWR fuel.

PV is made of sand, copper, and silver.

70g of silver is enough for 3.5kW net of solar at 5mg/Watt (after needing 5g for the fuel and control rods which you have yet to supply indium, cadmium, and zirconium for).

The solar panels will produce ~1.8TJ in their lifetime and be recyclable. The nuclear fuel will produce 500GJ and require large quantities of steel and concrete for storage and transport.

You get triple the net energy from a uranium mine compared to nuclear.

The silicon, glass, frame, and power electronics take less resources than the rest of the plant.

The story for wind is not so hilariously one sided (for example it uses more concrete than nuclear), but it's still fine. The blades of a >3MW turbine have about the same energy density as packaged nuclear waste. There are also at least 3 storage technologies undergoing commercialisation that use abundant materials.