skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless the copilot spits out complete programs or libraries that are 1:1 to someone elses who cares? Caring about random small code snippets is dumb.
There desperately needs to be a fork of Firefox that sheds the terrible organisation that is Mozilla. They have destroyed a great product and paid themselves handsomely to do so. Technically incompetent, but full of cunning.
I absolutely will never conduct interviews for a company again if I’m going to be punished depending on how they work out. Some people interview well and their behavior on the job does not match what you expected due to a large number of reasons from team fit to personal issues.
Inqtel also funds Anaconda, Mongodb and Gitlab, interesting
The legal world tends to be less interested in these kind of logical gotchas than engineering types would like. I don't see a judge caring about that brain framing at all.

Not to mention, if your brain starts outputting Microsoft copyright code, they're going to sue the shit out of you and win, so I'm not sure how that would help even so.
So if I read the windows explorer source code, then later produced a line for line copy (without referring back to the source). Microsoft couldn't sue me?
One potential reason is that their release cycle is too fast for the official Debian repositories, and they don't want to slow it down. Supporting old versions is a cost they don't want to bear.
Being in the industry helps. Not that this is privileged information, but it would be a bit difficult to figure out from the outside.
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> The brain is also just a "complex math program"

Source?
"A good photographer can take a great photo with low-end gear"

Yet an even better shot with better gear.

"A bad photographer with good gear doesn't produce good photos"

Yet still a better photo compared to low-end gear.

My point is that better gear tends to produce better photos at a technical level, regardless of skill. Skill and gear are parallel tracks, not things at odds with each other.

The categories of photography where gear is less important, are fairly limited. Using a mobile phone and some artistic skill you can make quite decent photos of people, large animals that are close, a building here and there, and some landscapes.

Yet if you look at the types of photography where you find the gear-heads, you'll find that most often high-end gear is required, and just skill doesn't cut it.

In wildlife and sports photography, you need big glass. Even if you have it, you may notice your neighbor has AI focus detection and 40fps capturing. He has keepers, you miss the shot or have out of focus ones. Skill cannot compensate for these massive differences in capability.

In macro photography, you need highly specialized gear and lighting equipment. It's a gear-heavy discipline.

In higher-end portrait photography, you need large aperture lenses and lighting systems that do not overheat.

In landscape photography where you want maximum detail, you require high MP cameras, specific lenses and decent tripods.

In none of these cases can you compensate the need for gear with skill.
> “AI” is just fancy speak for “complex math program”

Not really? It's less about arithmetic and more about inferencing data in higher dimensions than we can understand. Comparing it to traditional computation is a trap, same as treating it like a human mind. They've very different, under the surface.

IMO, if this is a data problem then we should treat it like one. Simple fix - find a legal basis for which licenses are permissive enough to allow for ML training, and train your models on that. The problem here isn't developers crying out in fear of being replaced by robots, it's more that the code that it is reproducing is not licensed for reproduction (and the AI doesn't know that). People who can prove that proprietary code made it into Copilot deserve a settlement. Schlubs like me who upload my dotfiles under BSD don't fall under the same umbrella, at least the way I see it.
I have this strong emotion of comfort associated with just knowing a project or problem can be solved. Whether it’s programming or renovating my home, I seek confirmation that every sub-task can be done before I embark on the project. This usually requires little experiments.

Being able to totally override anything in Python (but rarely ever doing so) gives me that comfort.

Seeing a small section of my back deck totally renovated before doing the actual project gives me that comfort.

Having a million css options that I’ll rarely use gives me that comfort.

I dunno if others have this feeling? For me it’s not just rational or preparatory, it’s emotionally driven. I feel anxious about a project until I know I have all the tools and parts to complete it, even if inefficiently.
> I’m not a lawyer, but

Should have stopped there.
> If someone takes your open source code and incorporates it into their proprietary software, then they are effectively using your work for their private gain.

And then if we can close that loop by taking their proprietary software and feeding it into a NN to re-liberate it isn't that a net win for software freedom?

Today crossing the sourcecode->bytecode veil effectively obfuscates the implementation beyond most human's ability to modify the software. Humans work best in sourcecode. Nothing saying our AI overlords won't be able to work well in bytecode or take it in the other direction.

I guess what I'm saying is, today a compiler is a one-way door for software freedom. Once it goes through the compiler, we lose a lot of freedom without a massive human investment or the original source code. Maybe that door is about to become a two way door with copyright law supporting moving back and forth through that door?
Overgeneralization detected! I live tiny, and spend less than I used to. I'm not in US though. But I think the general principle is the same everywhere: many of those who come to alternative homes do it not to save (especially from IT crowd), but for the fun of trying something different, and they happily spend a lot. But some do it to practice self-restraint. Others to keep themselves busy with DIY. Many different goals, many different compromises, all of that leading to different budgets.
You can also run `jc -h --dig` to get the parser details that include the schema.

Having true JSON Schema[0] is being considered, but on the back-burner due to the sheer number of parsers to build schemas for. Also, it is more difficult to accurately define the schema for a small subset of parsers since their command output are so variable.

[0] https://json-schema.org/
> It seems like the end goal of copyleft was to fight back against copyright, not to have copyleft.

Whether this was the original motivation depends on whom you are asking.

You may disagree, but the "Free Software" movement (RMS and the people who agree with him) essentially wants everything to be copyleft. The "Open Source" movement is probably more aligned with your views.
we had to save the people from a 99.98% survivable virus..........
You mean to tell me that no one has ever perfectly replicated an example that they read somewhere? There's only so many ways to write AABB collision, fibonacci, or any number of other common algorithms. I'm not saying there aren't things to consider but I'm sure I've perfectly replicated something I read somewhere whether I'm actively aware of it or not
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It seems like almost every non corporate org has been misdirected in to harmful social justice work. Wikipedia spending 98% of their budget on non Wikipedia related expenses for example. Mozilla working on censorship and deplatforming efforts, even the Tor project feels compromised.

Pretty much the only org that still has its original goals in tact seems to be the EFF. I’d be happy to donate to Wikipedia again if they actually spent the money on their tech. I don’t care if they want to rewrite the whole site in Rust, it’s better than spending it on non tech rubbish.
> It can't be "fair use" to take other peoples' works at zero cost, and use it to build a commercial product without compensation.

You just described open source software.

That's the whole heart of this lawsuit, and equally Copilot. It was trained on OSS which is explicitly licensed for free use.
Tesla can't even release two cars they promised and already designed - Cybertruck and Roadster. Semi, announced in 2017 just started shipping in limited quantities. They can't ramp up production fast enough for the cars they are already producing to satisfy demand. There is no way they have capacity to work on a van in addition to that.

P.S. But, but they have time to work on "humanoid robot"?
If a license requires attribution, and you reproduce the code without attribution using your editor plugin, it seems to me the infringement is on the editor plugin.

Note that even licenses like MIT ostensibly require attribution.
Hey thunkle. Sounds like a tough spot to be in, but as you said, there's always a bright side, and who knows what lies ahead. What would be a good way to contact you?
Yes, I think my personal Overton window is around 3 years behind. It hasn't caught up with what we're now happy to call 'Far right'.

As far as I can tell, anything remotely right wing is now 'Far right' amongst a growing band of idiotic and insufferable liberal moralisers, so the moniker has effectively lost all meaning.

It's a lost cause us discussing this. I think if you describe how the UK has been governed in the last 10 years as 'far right', you're an idealogue and completely irrational. You're convinced I'm blissfully ignorant with an unintentionally warped political compass, or I'm a crypto right-winger. Oh well.
Explain yourself. There is not a understood natural phenomenon which we could not capture in math. If you argue behavior of the brain cannot be modeled using a complex math program you are claiming the brain is qualitative different then any mechanism known to man since the dawn of time.

The physics that gives rise to the brain is pretty much known. We can model all the protons, electrons and photons incredibly accurately. It's an extraordinary claim you say the brain doesn't function according to these known mechanisms.
I find TikZ quite amazing. You make a picture by describing a picture. It's completely unlike anything else.
Then there's channels like stuffmadehere that consistently produce hit videos, due to their superb quality. It's not luck if you can do it many times over.
Yeah, did the google interview late this summer and then they froze hiring. Got contacted by a recruiter from google last month. Told him I had already interviewed. He told me I should just wait until the freeze is over and not interview again.
It seems like the ideal way to proceed is to make the AI output unique and creative. Perhaps that requires AGI because currently the model has no understanding of art.
On my first iPhone, I could get train information on my phone with a 1 bar EDGE connection in a few seconds. Totally impossible in 2022, you indeed need a relatively decent LTE connection. I suspect this has to do with increased congestion on the cell towers.
I don't get why Signal being tech-centric (whatever that means) should disallow their lawyers from sending DMCA takedown requests.
Thanks. So far I'm developing software to run only on my hardware, 64 bit x86, and only on Windows, Windows 7 Professional or some version of Windows Server. The main purpose is just for my Web site. In time I will write more software to process, some of it could be called statistics, some relevant data essentially independent of the Web site itself.

I can understand that maybe for a server farm on a few million square feet of rack space, and some millions of processors, one way and another they could save significant $ (a) powering the computers and (b) removing the resulting heat from the building. My startup is not there yet. Also I can understand that my AMD FX-8350 processor can use a few more Watts per computation than some recent processors with simpler instruction sets and smaller line widths, but I'm not worrying about that now either.

I am pleased that Microsoft is working hard to get .NET to run on a variety of processor instruction sets and operating systems -- for me it means that Microsoft will continue to support the .NET I am depending on.
ADS-B is mandatory these days, and Aireon [1] has a constellation of satellite receivers for 24/7 global coverage.

[1]https://aireon.com/
By "some operating systems and disk management tools" you mean MS Windows and Windows tools.

Obviously, I do not use unpartitioned SSDs/HDDs with Windows. On the other hand, With Linux and *BSD systems they work perfectly fine, regardless whether they are internal or removable.

For interchange with Windows, I use only USB drives or SSDs that are partitioned and formatted as exFAT. On the unpartitioned SSDs/HDDs I use file systems like XFS, UFS or ZFS, which could not be used with Windows anyway.

Any SSD/HDD that uses non-Windows file systems should never be inserted in a Windows computer, even when it is partitioned. When a SSD/HDD is partitioned, it may be hoped that Windows will not alter a partition marked as type 0x83 (Linux), but Windows might still destroy the partition table and the boot sector of a FAT partition. It happens frequently that a bootable Linux USB drive is damaged when it is inserted in a Windows computer, so the boot loader must be reinstalled. So partitioning an USB drive or SSD does not protect them from Windows.

>> 100% of the capacity, with no wasted sectors.
> You will never have that.

I thought that it is obvious that I have meant 100% of the capacity available for users, because there is no way to access the extra storage used by the drive controller and also no reason to want to access that, because it has a different purpose than storing user data, so your "correction" is pointless.
Remember, North and South Korea is an eventual reunification. If you allow North Korea to have nuclear weapons, and remove US forces from South Korea, North Korea will threaten nukes on the South and the rest of the world for interfering in what they deem their sovereignty over all of Korea.
> an ease with leaving twitter if these get enacted

I'll believe that one when I see it; feels very much like celebs announcing they're moving to Canada.

More broadly, I think the original tweet thread picks up on something interesting: that blue-check group is bifurcated into actual-clout-havers, e.g. Steven King, who really could/would walk away, and epsilon-from-irrelevant journos who have it as a facet of their employment, who really couldn't. There's a small overlap of journos-with-actual-clout, but they're the exception.

Low-clout journos are riding on the cachet generated by the other group, and benefit more from Twitter than they contribute. This is obviously anecdotal so I can't cite or anything, but in conversations with non-tech people IRL I tend to notice a stack of assumptions: Steven King == blue check == important =?= rando journalist =?= also important? If you're a reporter in Columbus, OH or whatever, the effectiveness of that platform, handed to you by the Twitter gods, vastly outstrips your "actual" impact.

Steven King doesn't care. Journalist who wants to believe they're a member of the same club as Steven King definitely cares.
This will fail very quickly. The licence that project owners publish with their code on Github applies to third parties who wish to use the code, but does not apply to Github. Authors who publish their code on Github grant Github a licence under the Github Terms: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...

Specifically, sections D.4 to D.7 grant Github the right to "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."
I think if this is successful it will be very bad for the open world.

Large platforms like github will just stick blanket agreements into the TOS which grant them permission (and require you indemnify them for any third party code you submit). By doing so they'll gain a monopoly on comprehensively trained AI, and the open world that doesn't have the lever of a TOS will not at all be able to compete with that.

Copilot has seemed to have some outright copying problems, presumably because its a bit over-fit. (perhaps to work at all it must be because its just failing to generalize enough at the current state of development) --- but I'm doubtful that this litigation could distinguish the outright copying from training in a way that doesn't substantially infringe any copyright protected right (e.g. where the AI learns the 'ideas' rather than verbatim reproducing their exact expressions).

The same goes for many other initiatives around AI training material-- e.g. people not wanting their own pictures being used to train facial recognition. Litigating won't be able to stop it but it will be able to hand the few largest quasi-monopolisits like facebook, google, and microsoft a near monopoly over new AI tools when they're the only ones that can overcome the defaults set by legislation or litigation.

It's particularly bad because the spectacular data requirements and training costs already create big centralization pressures in the control of the technology. We will not be better off if we amplify these pressures further with bad legal precedents.
Helium charges 0.00001$ per packet (about 24 bytes) using Lora protocol.

But it's associated with crypto so people hate it.

It also undercuts everything by a factor of 100x and is ubiquitous in US and western Europe.
I haven't observed any journalists reacting the way that you describe
While there's definitely a similarity it's also important not to over generalize. For example the human vision system and stable diffusion may end up using similar feature decomposition, but that doesn't mean the rest of the brain works anything like that.

I strongly suspect that if we do ever fully map the "architecture" of the brain, the result will be a massive graph that's not readily understandable by humans directly. This is already the case in biology. We'll end up with a computational artifact that'll help us understand cause and effect in the brain, but it'll be nothing like a tidy diagram of tensor operations like in state of the art ML papers.
The only reason people do this is to verify that the connection is working, which it often isn't, as detailed in the article.

> Hello?

> Hi, this is Bob calling from Bob's car repair about your 1979 Ford F-350. It appears that..

> Hello?

> Hello, can you hear me?

One or two instances of that and suddenly everyone wants to have the "How are you" conversation every start.
Just to be clear; I cannot prove that they have used my code, but for the sake of argument, lets assume so.

They would have directly used my code when they trained the thing. I see it as an equivalent of creating a zip-file. My code is not directly in the zip file either. Only by the act of un-zipping does it come back, which requires a sequence of math-steps.
Attributions are fundamental to permissive licenses as well. It's worth reading the licenses in question. MIT:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

This is the "attribution" requirement that even a Copilot trained on only-MIT code would miss.

If it were just about sharing code, there are public domain declarations and variants like CC0 licenses
That sounds amazing - there are some similarities with Amie, but customizable views is something I'm looking forward to try out

Thank you - it's quite unfortunate that there isn't a "free plan"
Creations by AI should obviously be protected by fiat as well. Anything else is a ridiculous double standard that will stifle progress.
Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com
No, why would it?

Generally speaking, about two-thirds of iOS users upgrade to the newest version within 2 months.

You might be worried about people on old devices who can't upgrade, but this seems designed especially for Pencil users, and as far as I can tell, all iPads that support the Pencil (like the first iPad Pro) support the current version of iOS.
If a government has a history of interfering in your internal affairs to cynically advance their interests, maintains harmful policies against you for not aligning with their interests, and has an aggressive diplomatic posture, then it is logical to adopt a hostile stance towards that country until that pattern of behaviour changes.
"[The NYT] decided tech was a major power center that needed scrutiny and needed to be taken down a peg, and this style of coverage became very widespread and prominent in the industry ... the press should try to normalize coverage of the tech industry as just another business sector."

The irony here is that a prominent member of the 'tech industry' (with enthusiastic support from other prominent tech industry luminaries) just bought one of the most important social media networks with the specific intention of making substantial changes to the way information is disseminated in the United States. That may turn out for the best, or it may not -- it doesn't matter.

What does matter: the NYT's decision to focus skeptical reporting on tech as an "important power center" sure seems to have been vindicated.
I grew up in Indiana in the 70s and never learned that factoid. Thanks.
Thank you - this is a basic prerequisite for any productivity app imo
I don't think it does stand on its own, because it doesn't actually engage with the point. We know exactly why this happened. It's not because "crazy people" (whatever those are) exist. It's because there is a concentrated campaign of lies directed at a large portion of the population who don't have the tools to distinguish that they are lies.

Your remark seems to hand-wave all responsibility onto "crazy people" (whoever those are) instead of admitting that there is a severe problem with how members of this country fail to communicate with each other. It's really important to talk about this issue. It matters for the future of this country, far more than just about anything else does.
Any setting for today's connection on capped mobile data? 2.7 KB/S max.
How would you ever prove the parameters of a model were generated by specific training data? Couldn't multiple sets of training data produce the same embeddings/parameters? I imagine there could be infinite possible sets of training data that would lead to the same results, depending on the type of predictive software.
I've been a continuously hired coder for 20 years, with zero qualifications, and have never experienced anything but demand even in recession.

There's always non FAANG boring crud apps to code.
This is demonstrably false. It is a system outputting character-for-character repository code.[1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33457517
which is for MCUs only and is like a bare metal language without any libraries, its use is very limited.

all I need is that rust's stdlib can be linked dynamically just like c/c++/java/whatever, if that happens I'm ready to switch to it.
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I'm planning to put my meetup on "permanent standard time" once we switch; so when the clocks "spring forward" in spring, I'll move the nominal meetup time forward an hour, so we continue to meet at the same time.

Standard time forever!
Helium has a competitive Lora network at 100x less cost, in western Europe and US.

Ducks