skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To start, you have to treat copyrighted works on Github as a whole (say the entire project/repository or at least substantial parts of it) rather than look at the few lines that copilot copied in isolation. With that context:

1. The derived work is transformative. It uses the original as inspiration but the end result is substantially different.

2. Only a trivial amount of the work is copied (a few lines of code out of thousands/millions).

3. It is hard to prove that the creators of the original work were damaged by copilot (for example did they lose any customers or revenue?) This is normally the single biggest test in such cases.
ironic how the post suggests they are not entirely harmless and you suggest a holy grail that we don't know much about
Thank you, that was fascinating. I especially liked the illustration of how some pigments, like Prussian Blue and Alizarin Crimson, can create a range from dark to light depending upon the paint application, while others cannot.
You don't. You need to find another team.
I disagree. I expect more from a CEO of a billion dollar company to communicate more precisely.
I’ve been in a special program for adhd through Duke University. Treatment is not supposed to be meds OR coaching, it’s meds AND coaching. While I do appreciate having a team psychiatrist, psychologist, and medical the biggest asset is the flexibility of treatment. CBT techniques did not work for me and the workbook was not a good fit, having a team of specialists that I can contact at any time has been key. Some people can do it with just medication or CBT but most cannot. Another issue is the lack of inclusion of comorbid diagnosis which is more common than not with adhd patients. Getting the diagnosis is great it can be liberating but it can also be traumatic especially when the diagnosis is medication only. It is often the case that developers making the apps narrow the demographic to the point of no real benefit. I personally have often wished for more services such as financial management, meal planning, and work. Apps themselves are limited by the data structures as well. Most adhd patients do not think linearly and it is a disservice to force that on to us. CBT for me was masking heavy which often affects physical health and has been shown to shorten already shorter average life spans significantly. CBT can be harmful and I am wondering why it was chosen. Mindfulness as well is problematic for individuals with adhd.
In this case it's more like "warp fast and breach the core".
I'm confused. As the article states, the speakers do wake spuriously and record conversations. So the speakers do eavesdrop, even if it's unintentional. The article goes on to say that, even those the speakers do eavesdrop, they don't use the conversation for ad targeting. I find that hard to believe. The speaker doesn't know it's listening erroneously. If I say "Alexa, order sponges," it's totally within the realm of possibility that Amazon shows me advertisements for Dawn dish soap, and I posit this is true for any prompt I give the speaker. This article doesn't add up.
Panic at compile and run time are two very different things. must will panic before you ship your code to production no should want to make panic at runtime look nice
I don’t have any insight about the delay but this year I read A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman, a memoir of the project manager behind the original proposal for this mission. While not exclusively about Psyche it was a great book with an interesting behind-the-scenes into the NASA mission selection process. It got me excited for the mission and sad about the delay.
I don't have any inside information, but as I understand it's basically just a spending commitment. The online auctions still take place, however the purchaser will gain some sort of bonus for agreeing to a certain amount of spending over the next year.

The deals seem to be rather secretive, but from what I can tell bonuses can be anything from a straightforward discount, to a guaranteed amount of impressions for some campaign, to things like guaranteeing that the client will win a certain percentage of auctions above some price.
I don't really have a strong opinion on whether they are or aren't, nor a desire to get a definitive answer. What I've realized though is that these "products" like alexa and google home exist solely for the benefit of Amazon, Google et al, as data collection devices (irrespective of whether they eavesdrop outside of activation). They are not useful to me (alexa favouring some stupid Amazon music over my connected spotify account was the death knell*) and I don't see a reason to give these companies another window into my life, even if they do it within their TOS, so I don't use them. Whether or not they are actually eavesdropping for some definition is not worth thinking to hard about

*re the spotify thing, I don't know if this was an experiment or just a reset of settings somehow, but I had specifically connected spotify, and had Alexa revert to playing "previews" (clips of songs I asked for) on amazon music instead of using my paid spotify subscription. I also noticed that it would routinely play a nonstandard version of songs on spotify that did not coincide with the same search using the spotify app. Like if I searched for a common song, I would get an obscure concert version or a cover, when the usual version would be the first hit searching on the spotify app. Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by stupidity I guess, but it didn't win Amazon any points in my book
Mobile Linux 2022: Gnome Shell on Mobile with PostmarketOS and Oneplus 6
Thanks. I’ve never heard this in the states.
Falling Chinese rocket expected to enter Earth’s atmosphere in less than 2 days
I agree with all of what you wrote, but I still do not understand what the that has to do with

>we pay people the lowest amount we can that is enough to keep them from going to another job.

Minimum wages, labor laws, safety standards, anti trust laws, and all of that can exist, but I am still going to expect buyers to pay the least a seller is willing to accept. And conversely, a seller is going to demand the most a buyer is willing to pay.
Scifi story: private interests bribed management at JPL to scuttle the mission so they could send a secret mission to collect the loot for themselves... or protect their precious metal cartel from devaluation.
I outlined the problem with opt in here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33470079#33476189

the people who would opt in aren't likely to be the problem. The problem with your pickpocket example is that you lose something when someone picks your pocket, but you lose nothing when someone checks to see what ports are open.

In fact, that's something that's already happening all the time anyway. The only difference is that in this case the person checking for your failures to secure your devices will notify you of the problem instead of exploiting your devices like everyone else will (assuming that they haven't already).

This should not only help people secure their devices, but it should also make the internet a better place for everybody.
Informed developers don't use CRA anymore.
I didn’t see mention of federal or state political activities in terms of cdc’s actions. I would have thought these would be significant/noticeable…. I don’t live in the us - did the cdc have executive action authority or was it advisory?
I think the Predictive Processing model would describe it as each layer only signaling “surprisal” to the layer above when the input diverges from the prediction. You could call this filtering if you like, or just an efficient delta representation.
The practical deep learning course from fast.ai is what I've been working my way through, at a much slower pace, I am sure, than someone would if they were writing code for a living. The difficult technical hurdles are getting used to (i) Python if you've never used it and (ii) Jupyter notebooks if you've never used them. I'm using Paperspace.com for my GPU instances.

https://course.fast.ai/
> But for companies to use this data gathered without people’s consent to target them with ads would a) invite a beatdown from government regulators that would make the Federal Trade Commission’s $5 billion fine of Facebook for privacy violations look like a parking ticket...

Yeah, but I'm certain they'd pass these data along (and potentially much more of it) to some government entity if served with a national security letter or some other secret legal order. The 'customer' may never even find out about it.

So go ahead and install as many commercially controlled mics as you want, citizens. What's the worst that could happen?
Maybe you could start with just a full phone teardown? Follow the guide here - https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+XR+Teardown/114123.

The logic board is where the soldering iron might come in handy but i think components on modern electronics are too small and integrated for that to be of much use for a beginner. Plenty of other good ways to get into electronics & soldering though like maker kits, simple breadboard kits or maybe an older electronic component.
It's a decent metric until you start to use it as a metric. Like most numeric measures of productivity I guess
Yeah, I think a lot of people are missing that these layoffs are not necessarily about Twitter's financial situation. They are very much about it's cultural situation -- both the culture within the company (reputation for being unable to ship), and the relationship of the company with the wider culture (blue checks, narrative control, cathedrals, etc).
Need to have equipment and skill to weld.
I’ve been using this for couple months now on linux. Impressive piece of software. No issues so far.
Exactly. Think hard about marriage or a tattoo. A mastodon server? Who has time to stress about that. Pick anything and pick another one later.
> isn't gravitomagnetism more of a useful fiction than anything people actually believe models reality?

No, it's a real effect and has been measured.

> the equations look similar, but there's no physical justification

Yes, there is; the justification is classical, not quantum, and does not depend on having any quantum theory of gravity. GR is a classical theory, and gravitomagnetism is present in it, similar to the way ordinary magnetism is present in classical electrodynamics. The difference is that electrodynamics is based on a vector field (the 4-potential) while GR is based on a tensor field (the metric); but that difference just changes some particular numerical coefficients in the equations for gravitomagnetism as compared to ordinary magnetism (for example, the gravity analogue to the Lorentz force has a factor of 4 in front of the v x B term). But these are classical fields, not quantum fields.
This is what I am thinking too.
Yes that will require a few court ruling just like how court recognised GPL is a valid license to stop corporations from violating it. Ultimately, we don't want a blanket ban or approval for MSFT to use FOSS code. License can help make it possible to have nuance and a case by case basis.
Amen. I was married to a narcissist for an unfortunate season of my life.

While going through counseling in the aftermath of that experience, I started recognizing scary correlations between how she treated her surroundings and how tech companies treated their surroundings.

If you look at the set of guidelines that we use to determine narcissistic behavior, and then replace it with "Uber|Google|Facebook|Stripe|Tesla|Apple|Amazon|Sendgrid|Shopify|Twitter|Intuit|Etc", it's disconcerting how much overlap there is.

That's why I bought www.narcissitech.me, so one day I can log how blatant and dominant these companies are.

Narcissists are difficult because they're dominant and deflect responsibility and don't care how that affects you. Tech companies are dominant and blame some other service or system or government or rogue employee and don't care when their buggy system or faulty algorithm costs you hours or days or weeks or years of your time or life or data.
It's pretty trivial to construct negatives that can be proven. E.g. take a solid colored object and prove it's not a specific color. You can prove the negative statement by proving a positive statement about the true color of the object, e.g. by direct observation, measuring the wavelength of emitted light, etc.

Similarly, you could prove a speaker doesn't eavesdrop by proving it performs a finite set of operations, none of which are eavesdropping.
Yep I deleted my account as soon as my archive downloaded
See, this bomb has no fuse. It's just an inert mass of TNT in a metal shell. You can bang on it with a hammer, nothing will happen! You can scoop some of the TNT and drop it into your fireplace, and it will burn peacefully. It's completely safe to keep it in your house.

Now prove it's never going to explode.

Do you notice how a perceived risk of something really bad happening skews people's perception?

There is an obvious risk of turning a smart speaker into a eavesdropping device, because

- It has to listen to your commands.

- It has to send the commands it hears to a computer outside your control for processing.

- It receives firmware updates which you also do not control, and cannot inspect.

A perfect moral hazard.

If I were to use a smart speaker, it must have open-source firmware which I can inspect and flash, and it, or its processing software on my home server / router / NAS, should be firewalled off the internet. That would be a proof.
Flies have been around since the Triassic [1] so could there be convergent evolution of zebra-like stripes at different points in Earth’s history, similar to how crab-like exoskeletons have evolved multiple times [2]?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Are you suggesting that mainstream media would use a twitter account with no former activity and no followers as a source for a news article?

Sounds about right
Not at all comparable. One is a problem that has a clear solution while the other requires numerous novel solutions.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xu8u9ZbCJgQ
This is very fun and yet to the point. :)
So spammers can now pay $8 to better circumvent spam systems? Sounds like a terrible idea ripe for abuse.
They've had loads of problems and they've fixed almost all of them. And they have strangleholds on business because they made themselves into such an invaluable and reliable platform. They've done the opposite of what Musk is doing to alienate advertisers. They obviously leveraged their position in search, but they did a lot of things right to get to where they are.
> Instance owners can read DMs.

"Admins of <website> can read data on <website>" is just a tautology. It's true of everything you use on the internet where you don't own the server, and even then it's dubious.

If people don't get that about mastodon they probably don't get it about everything else they use either, so this recurring argument just seems like FUD...

[note: Edited <service> to <website> above because people keep coming at this from the angle of chat clients that run on your phone, and we're talking about websites here - a website can't have "e2e" encryption because it is both ends. That said, some of y'all believe way too hard in the perfectness of e2e in general and I addressed that in some of my replies]
The thread you linked to does in fact explain that it is behaving as expected, powered by Birdwatch contributors
I like the second snippet (The actual CopyFile function). It's verbose at the right level – from the single glance I know what will happen in all possible execution paths.

No additional cognitive load on figuring out what's going on behind the scenes on errors. Priceless.
Most great frameworks and libraries start out as a massive amount of code by a single developer. Ver few good frameworks were designed by committee.

A single opinionated developer laying the foundation and core architecture is important for getting a coherent developer experience.
> after skimming it, I don't understand how they want to create it in reality

That's because nobody knows how to do that, and statements in papers like these that claim it can be done are basically hand-waving.
Do you have data to back this up? It seems like an absurd claim based on the developers I know.
There is place like that already: 4chan. How is that working so far as a public square?
One day, I got a knock at the door from a canvasser that started a conversation with "Since you've voted in every election," which is how I learned that it isn't just voter registration information that is public, but so is the record of whether you've voted or not.
So the things that are covered by copyright in software are the creative choices... like, the overall structure of the code, the specific classes, and interfaces, etc. Like, there's a zillion ways to organize code (certainly some better than others!) and this is where clean-room design comes into play. It is really unlikely that in a decent sized codebase that the classes, or types, or whatever are going to be substantially similar.
Maybe zebra print socks will stop these ankle biting mosquitos that have invaded california
I've been getting messages and mail in Oregon and I think they're just making things up. They even tried to shame me for voting in the general elections, but not the midterms. This is of course nonsense, but its probably easier to mail out a thousand of those than to research each voter.
There's an easier way of explaining this.

Consider this simple situation in a network that uses the identity function as activation function for every neuron:

input output
0.2 o─────────o = (0.2 * 0.2) = 0.04
w1 = 0.2

Now let's say the expected output was 0.06 instead of 0.04.
What change would you make to w1?
The answer is that you would make w1 = 0.3, because (0.2 * 0.3) = 0.06

Now consider a slightly more complicated situation:

input hidden output
0.2 o─────────o─────────o = (0.2 * 0.2 * 0.4) = 0.016
w1 = 0.2 w2 = 0.4

What changes would you make to w1 and w2 to get 0.06 as a result?
You have multiple options here...

- w1 = 0.3 and w2 = 1.0

- w1 = 1.0 and w2 = 0.3

- w1 = 0.5 and w2 = 0.6

- w1 = 0.6 and w2 = 0.5

- many others

As you can see, you have multiple ways of arriving to the same result. How do you go about finding these numbers?

Let's say you try to find w1 and w2 via bruteforce, which is trying every number until you get the right result.
How many attempts you need? A lot, considering you have to try different floating point numbers and there are a lot of possible numbers.

And for a slightly larger network (that's still tiny), it would take just simply too many attempts:

input hidden output
o────────┬o────────┬o
o────────┼o────────┼o
o────────┼o────────┼o
o────────┼o────────┼o
o────────┴o────────┴o

So what can you do to do better than bruteforce?

You know so far:

- how far you are from the result (the difference between the output and expected value)

- the sign of that difference

Therefore you know if you have to go higher or lower. Now what you can create a loop where you make make adjustments to the weights so that you go higher or lower depending on what your difference was... great.

It's a little bit like playing golf. You know how hard you have to hit the ball and what direction you have to go. And as you start approaching you start hitting softer.

But how do you do this when you have multiple layers? Well, you have to compute how much each node contributed to the difference in the expected result, by using the values from the weights. Once you do this, you can adjust the weights up or down depending on where you have to go. And do this for each layer, propagating the blame for the differences in result backwards ("backpropagation").

This would be a little bit like playing pool instead of golf, where one ball hits another and then another.

The actual situation is more complicated since you have multiple inputs and expected outputs and you have to work with the same weights for all of those.
Why on earth is it publicly available? Something like that could be abused pretty easily. I guess it lets non-voters verify that no one has stolen their vote, but still..
It's new hot topic, everyone feels being architect and showing others brave new world:))

You can read more by googling for fly.io, sqlite https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/ and listen this episode https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9jaGFuZ2Vsb2cuY29...
i think you’d find that the vast majority of the time people are removed from spaces due to behavior, not beliefs, despite their personal conspiracy delusions that it’s belief.

as i mentioned above, people who think it’s oppressive when they’re asked to have common courtesy. for example many people have been banned because they can’t stop insulting people of different races—they’re being banned for behaviors, they refuse to have common courtesy. they cry loudly when asked not to be abusive. that’s a behavior. and most of the time these weirdos are banned, it’s because they’re too socially inept to understand basic social skills.
Well, now you done confirmed it!
For copyright purposes the printing press is not transformative. No contradiction here.
Indeed, but if someone is a “professional” van builder it could be a market edge if other vendors are not offering that approach
In Wisconsin, the state provides a list of who has requested an absentee ballot, who has returned it, who has voted early, and who is just registered. These are updated around daily and can be accessed by anyone with the right knowledge (and possibly cash).
You would think the opposite would be true... amplifying tweets sounds an awful like turning it into a cesspool of marketers like LinkedIn.
Mastodon is like the 1990’s internet came back. It’s the balkanization of social, just like it used to be. The problem is that each group will eventually split for w/e reason into 2 smaller groups. Rinse and repeat. The irony being the end state is a server for each individual as a group!

Federation is not the answer ultimately because centralization is how money is made. It’s also how the world works, but with certain expectations based on context.

Mastodon is like Linux on the desktop - it won’t work for most people.
I’m keen to see if they can maintain the velocity with which they shipped paid verification. If they are able to and with significantly few staff, it seems like a big win.
This has nothing to do with federation. It's just a fact of life on any hosted internet service.
I don't think it's correct or useful to make an equivalence between Twitter and Mastodon.

Mastodon is software. It implements the ActivityPub protocol. People run Mastodon instances of their own to connect to other ActivityPub systems. There are other ActivityPub implementations, Mastodon is just one. It's not a platform like Twitter any more than WordPress is like the NYTimes.
Maybe they should consider rebranding, then. The word comes from Tolkein's Lord of the Rings series - the palantir were telepathic communication devices which were often used to deceive others by showing selective truths and lies of omission.
It's the same in that way, yes: both are federated protocols where you need to trust the owner of your server. But with Mastodon there are within-server interactions like the local timeline (https://cfenollosa.com/blog/you-may-be-using-mastodon-wrong....) that have no equivalent in email, so if you decide to try to avoid this risk by self-hosting you're giving up something that a lot of Mastodon users really enjoy.