skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I feel most decent engineers can get rehired elsewhere with 14 weeks of runway.

Oh, sweet summer children and children of recession free economies for IT.

If job openings fall to 10-20-30% of current ones and tens, hundreds of thousands of IT workers are fired, good luck getting hired quickly, when any of the few good remaining job opening has hundreds of good applicants.

We'll be back to the days of:

Sure, you can code, your algorithms are efficient and your CV is impressive, but can you tell me how many overloads of string.contains are there in the Foo lang standard library? Ah, you say that's unfair? Well, the previous 10 candidates where just as good as you so we need more. We need you to hit the ground running, be productive the first week and be coaching our experienced devs within the first month.
If I remember correctly that only works if you can prove that your system has "substantial non infringing use".
The only ARM64 option with ECC that I know of is Ampere's rather expensive development workstation [0].

[0] - https://solutions.amperecomputing.com/systems/altra/kraken-c...
The part of GitHub Copilot to which I object is that it's trained on private repos. Where does GitHub get off consuming explicitly private intellectual property for their own purposes?
Farmers plant their crops out in the open too. Should Boston Dynamics be allowed to have their robots rob those fields empty and sell the produce without having to at least pay the farmer? They'd be walking and plucking just like any human would be.

Some source code might be published but not open source licensed. At least some such code has been taken with complete disregard of their licenses and/or other legal protections, and it's impossible to find and properly map out any similar violations for the purposes of a legal response.
> or financially get them out from under Google's thumb

Ultimately, the seeming disinterest in this as one of their goals is the primary issue I have. My feelings on whether they should be investing more or less money into other initiatives are secondary.

I'm opinionated here so perhaps viewing things through that biased lens but that sentiment seemed echoed in the uproar around the cuts.
Copyleft wouldn’t need to exist without copyright because there would be no proprietary software to fight against.

Sure, there would be software with code not published, but if it was ever leaked which it often is, you could do whatever you want with it.

But in a world where copyright does exist, copyleft is a tool to fight back.
I highly recommend Borg Backup. I had to give up on Duplicati years ago, perhaps they're OK now. But Borg is magic.

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg
What made you think every company had unlimited PTO?!
oh nice haha thanks tosh!
GP said they have overhired, which is definitely bad managing, or that employee aren't productive, and if >5-10% employees are non-productive that is a managing or interviewing problem as well.

But saying it has nothing to do with employee is also not correct. If someone is signing up for a company that does not manage its finance sustainably, they should expect this. And company would only overpay if they aren't focusing on cost at that moment. So for all the folks who managed to double their CTC in COVID period should be prepared for this case.
Apple is quietly replacing noise cancellation because ongoing patent lawsuit
I think that was some of the findings in the linked research. Certain artificial sugars were changing insulin response in subjects. I'm just a sample size of 1, and they're a sample size of 100 but I think it's clear that the beliefe that ALL the artificial sugars are inert and pass right through us is false... sometimes.
> since those are benevolent All Natural substances harvested under blue skies to a background of chirping birds and gentle breezes.

No shit Science? This is reasoned discourse?

One of the most critical components of our world-wide health system, sugar and diabetes. And this is the response.

It makes it difficult to truly (no fucking pun intended) assess risk in life.

This isn't about cheap rebellion. That's not the relationship you build for.

One reason of hundreds.
I feel like people are forgetting the real value of verification. If you aren't verified, someone will pretend to be you on Twitter. Prominent people aren't paying $8 to get a check, they're paying $8 to make sure they can't be easily impersonated, which I think is really worth it.
The brain is also just a "complex math program". Since math is just the language we use to describe the world. I don't feel this argument has any weight at all.
I don't care about the money. I support this because it will establish case law that other companies can't ignore licenses as long as they throw AI somewhere in the chain.

If "I took your code and trained an AI that then generated your code" is a legal defense, the GPL and similar licenses all become moot.
Not the previous commenter, but yes, they'll need to remember to rotate it towards magnetic North. And also to compensate for any ground movements that may shift the building or the sensors.
Companies that come crawling back on their knees to you are usually ready to substantially up your comp. or improve your work duties, considering the position they must be in to be trying it.
Without going into specifics of engineering and material advances, my instinct would be to buy the thing where if something went wrong with a seal or a closure, the water would remain contained. Side loaders assume by nature that nothing will go so wrong that everything fails and water leaks out the front.

If I was purchasing for harsh conditions and intermittent supply with standard Earth gravity, I, too, would choose top loaders.
Well they are a special case here however since they don't solve a specific problem nor build a programm per se but instead (re)build a programm after existing specs. Their explicit goal is to match the behaviour of another piece of software with a translation layer.

Forbidding people who have seen the "source" programm is most likely to protect their version from going from "matching behaviour" to "behaving like", as in the same code, point. This might also be intended to build a safeguard for good intentioned developers to not break their (most likely existing) own NDAs accidently.
> As a user you can see topics, you can't see behavior.

True, but not really a good argument for the "trust us, this person needed banning, no we will not give any details"-style of moderation that most companies have applied so far. And you can see topics, so you'll generally notice when topic are being banned, not behavior, because they usually don't align perfectly.
If they'd just called them "premium matrix multiplications" I bet the field never would have caught on.
*net not gross fyi
Haha...I will always remember Flooz [1] as my personal 'WTF is going on'?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com
Well, yes, that's kind of the conclusion I was going for.

To generalize further, it's possible that a rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock situation could result, with an arbitrary length of A beats B, B beats C, C beats D....ZZZ beats A.

Then we potentially look for something akin to a universal Turing machine: an algorithm that is capable of beating any other algorithm no matter what their strategy, perhaps(?) by simulating the algorithm that beats them.
Amazon Prime is Kozmo with a profitable version of the business model.
Mostly just a reverse argument to authority, which isn't the fallacy an argument to authority is, AFAIK.
> Firefox is the one thing standing between all web protocols being decided by Google and an open net.

They're not. Mozilla management is ok to take money from Google for acting as a fig leaf and greenwash Google's "standards" and out-of-control complexity. There's no way around the fact that they're fully complicit in having turned the web into a monopolistic PoS that inspires no-one and doesn't provide economic incentives for anyone except Google. They give a shit to users, and now upper management wants to become even more like Wikimedia foundation and engage in mindless fundraising business only benefitting management.
I'm talking about the WinRE partition, which is required to boot Bitlocker encrypted boot partition (and Bitlocker is enabled by default). Enabling Bitlocker without one results in an error message, and Windows happily recreates/resizes the WinRE partition on every (OS) upgrade by simply reducing the size of the main partition. It has been a long time that the size of the ESP is not enough for all the stuff that Windows wants to do on preboot.

For the record, and showing again the unfairness of the entire MS monopoly situation, most commercial UEFI implementations out there happen to understand NTFS. This allows e.g. a Windows pendrive to boot no matter how the user formats it.
A browser isn't a amalgamation of billions of pieces of other works. A browser executes and renders code it's served.

Copilot's corpus is quite literally tomes of copyrighted work that are encoded and compressed in its neural network, from which it launders that work to create similar works. Copilot itself, the neutral network, is that corpus of encoded and compressed information, you can't separate the two. Copilot stores and distributes that work without any input from rightsholders, and it does it for profit.

A better analogy would be between a browser and a file server filled with copyrighted movies whose operator charges $10/mo for access. The browser is just a browser in this analogy, where the file server is the corpus that forms Copilot itself.
Isn't it inconsistent to both say "moderation decisions are about behavior, not content", and "platforms can't justify moderation decisions because of privacy reasons".

It seems like you wouldn't need to reveal any details about the content of the behavior, but just say "look, this person posted X times, or was reported Y times", etc... I find the author to be really hand-wavy around why this part is difficult.

I work with confidential data, and we track personal information through our system and scrub it at the boundaries (say, when porting it from our primary DB to our systems for monitoring or analysis). I know many other industries (healthcare, education, government, payments) face very similar issues...

So why don't any social network companies already do this?
> Sharing quotes from a book is not copyright infringement.

It is if I take those quotes and publish them as my own in my own book.
Reddit is a sewer. I don't think the Ex-CEO has demonstrated any moderation skills.
I've been blogging forever, but the audience left and went to all the walled gardens, so I was forced to follow. I usually post longer things I write here and elsewhere to my blog as a reference, but I'd be surprised if anyone ever referenced something I posted there.
Check out the Velocopedia project for something else along this line of thinking: http://www.gianlucagimini.it/prototypes/velocipedia.html

Turns out nobody quite knows how to draw a bicycle. They get the gist but the details don't make sense.
As a Go player myself, I agree that Go-wise this result isn't impressive. But isn't the point that it's an "attack" on the AI? Like for password leaks, failed hash functions, etc, we don't care that it's 100% broken, just that there are tiny artifacts that can be exploited.
VoLTE is far superior to 3G calling and deserves its own category here imo. Night and day difference.
Tangled up in Blue.
I've never had a Pebble and mostly wanted to comment on the Garmin/smartwatches part of your comment.

I was gifted a Garmin Vivoactive 3 a few years ago. Like you, I've come to the exact same conclusion regarding the Garmin watches. It is slow and annoyingly needs to connect to their servers to do anything (couldn't even access my own data when they were hacked). I still use it mostly when i run/cycle but battery life is slowly going away.

Also, i want to stress the point that while smartwatches are nice for certain applications, they mostly are toys. Yes, the data is interesting, but how many of us really do something from that data? I know I don't. And if you really need this data (professional athlete or whatever), most of the time, someone will pay the gadget for you.

For a lot of reasons (price, planned obsolescence, privacy), i'll probably get a g-shock that'll last years on a coin cell that's easily replaceable everywhere.
Another really cool toy we need to start hacking is the Sony FES U [0]. This thing has e-ink on its strap, and it runs Free RTOS. It's the sickest watch concept I've seen in years.

[0]: https://fashion-entertainments.com

[1]: https://fashion-entertainments.com/fes-watch-u/fw/oss.html
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How much do you think cars cost in US?

This price is directly compatible to well-configured F-150 or Mercedes Sprinter.

Any equipped class B is way more than this. I know people who installed stuff themselves and saved bunch of cost this way.
I think those are comparing very different organizations with different aims. There's a big difference between employing a bunch of people to actually build a complex product that you expect normal people to actually use, vs supporting the governance of OSS projects that are built by other people, largely employed by companies using or offering services around those projects.
That was a nice short clip, and looking into it, the voice of Anna Ford was initially lost on me (not being British).

I found the German one to be the interesting too in that it was more "regular person" interview content (which was all in English) and the thoughts that they had about the Brexit, the promises that they were given and what they're seeing now. The FT video had a much more business orientation, which while informative on the, well, financial side of it didn't capture the common person's experience as much.
Obviously nobody's going to be able to provide you with a definitive answer, but almost certainly because it was built using some API requirement that doesn't exist in 16.1...? And it's quite likely the iOS API wasn't finalized for release until the app was?

You don't need conspiratorial thinking about forcing an update to a minor version of an OS for goodness' sake. If Apple wanted to force updates, they wouldn't be doing it via some random app most people have no need for.
Javascript off by default makes websites better more often than it breaks websites. I find that whitelisting sites that need first party javascript doesn't take much time and covers 99% of cases; very rarely does a website actually require 3rd party javascript to be whitelisted.
> Low performers always 100% of the time get dropped during layoffs.

This is totally not true. Usually they make jobs redundant not people. If there's a pool of people doing the same job and that headcount is reduced then it will often be the lowest performers that go however some places have done LIFO or cut the most expensive.

However if you're doing layoffs and you reduce your frontend team the it's likely low performers from the backend team get to stick around.
This is less an adversarial policy and more just a bug or bad config in katago.

It should probably reject friendly-pass mode (which is a flag iirc) and refuse to pass in tromp-tailor rules except under extreme circumstances.
Free speech loudmouths never fail to contradict themselves, it’s one of the few things that are always true. Anyone who thinks they have the secret for freedom in their minds (and nobody else has) is obviously too narrow-minded to have any interesting idea about the complex (and collective) subject that is “freedom”.
Where do you park so you don’t get bothered by police?
This product is targeted at actual users of "IoT", think remote monitoring in remote locations. Not "smart microwave" style IoT.

Not sure there is any automatic solution for compression here. If you know your own use case you are in the best position to choose where to sacrifice accuracy with a lossy compression scheme. But this relies on understanding of the accuracy of the input data, possible ranges of values, importance of accuracy in different fields etc. Not sure how an automated algorithm could take these real world constraints into account.

A clever compression algo can't help you if you try compress 4 doubles, but in reality you only needed byte precision on some fixed 0-100% range.
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Here is a podcast episode with Chelsea Finn where we discuss the biggest bottlenecks in RL and robotics such as Sim2Real transferability, distribution shifts, and much more!
TL;DR: Run your platform to confirm to the desires of the loudest users. Declare anything your loudest users don't want to see to be "flamewar" content and remove it.

My take: "Flamebait" is a completely accurate label for the content your loudest users don't want to see, but it's by definition your loudest users who are actually doing the flaming, and by definition they disagree with the things they're flaming. So all this does is reward people for flamewars, while the moderators effectively crusade on behalf of the flamers. But it's "okay" because, by definition, the moderators are going to be people who agree with the political views of the loudest viewers (if they weren't they'd get heckled off), so the mods you actually get will be perfectly happy with this situation. Neither the mods nor the loudest users have any reason to dislike or see any problem with this arrangement. So why is it a problem? Because it leads to what I'll call a flameocracy: whoever flames loudest gets their way as the platform will align with their desires (in order to reduce how often they flame). The mods and the platform are held hostage by these users but are suffering literal Stockholm Syndrome as they fear setting off their abusers (the flamers).
Another alternative is duox-matok's technology, that increases the surface area of sugar or something similar, and this allows to use 30%-50% less sugar for the same sweetness effect.
The one specific person I saw that was laid off today was in their bike-share division, so it apparently is involved in the layoffs.
Just today I ranted about how much Firefox sucks nowadays. It would never actually load the page until it was restarted. And after doing so it took 2-4x as long as Chrome for the same page.

Can Mozilla ever not?
it doesn't imply it's a service you want, but rather, if you do want it, you can opt-in to the service by joining the lawsuit when the time comes

if you feel the class doesn't represent you, you can just not opt-in
> The brain is also just a "complex math program".

This is not a fact.
The issue is not the strawman you put up, where you mention it is scary to the leaders that people are getting access to information and making choices. The issue is that people are riling up large groups of people based on lies and making deadly threats (like Trump's "beat up the people in the crowd who are protesting"), leading to threats, attacks on govt - these attacks are based on absolute lies, and deadly threats of violence and some of them end up happening. Also your broad arguments about "authoritarian regimes did things, so they are bad". It's the specifics that matter. Dictators who controlled everything in say Russia also controlled the production of milk, that doesn't mean milk deliveries are authoritarian and bad.

Everyone is not on the same level now. Some are willing to make incredibly outlandish claims about stolen elections, and make personal threats to others, they are fine with that and they have enough power to make it hard to stop them or counter their reach.
I had to stop meditating for a while because of the disturbing shit that would surface during it. Still happens sometimes, but I'm more ready for it now, and see it as part of the benefit. Had to change my mindset, though.
A major problem with the technology media is that they don’t investigate the companies, because they have to stay on their good side in order to be invited to the events, and to get the information. When they criticize the company the company freezes them out; i.e. Apple.
Somewhere in the complex math is the origin of whatever it is in intellectual property that we deem worthy of protection. Because we are humans, we take the complex math done by human brains as worthy of protection by fiat. When a painter paints a tree, we assign the property interest in the painting to the human painter, not the tree, notwithstanding that the tree made an essential contribution to the content. The whole point is to protect the interests of humans (to give them an incentive to work). There is no other reason to even entertain the concept of "property".
Not always, but the sanctions forbid ships from docking at both USA and Cuban ports, which presents a major obstacle to the import or export of physical goods.
Slashdot moderation is largely done by the users themselves, acting anonymously as "meta-moderators." I think they were inspired by Plato's ideas around partially amnesiac legislators who forget who they are while legislating.
In a big company with thousands of employees, for sure. You probably won't even see the same faces. It's totally impersonal. In a smaller company, it's different. I actually left a (small) company in very good terms, but yet, I feel it would be weird going back there.
Both services already accept DMCA notices to take content down.
For stuff like that I go by what pg wrote years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

Empty comments can be ok if they're positive. There's nothing wrong with submitting a comment saying just "Thanks." What we especially discourage are comments that are empty and negative—comments that are mere name-calling.

It's true that empty positive comments don't add much information but they have a different healthy role (assuming they aren't promotional)
Attributions are fundamental to open source? I thought having source openly available was fundamental to open source (and allowed use without liability/warranty) as per apache, mit, and other licenses.

If they just stick to using permissive-licensed source code then i'm not sure what the actual 'harm' is with co-pilot.

If they auto-generate an acknowledgement file for all source repos used in co-pilot, and then asked clients of co-pilot to ship that file with their product, would that be enough? Call it "The Extended Github Co-Pilot Derivative Use License" or something.
Identity theft is a crime. If a platform facilitates this, it should be liable.
First one doesn't really hold in my opinion, 5GHz WiFi has been available for over a decade and won't be interrupted by a microwave. Probably easier to upgrade to a relatively recent WiFi setup than connecting a cable in most cases.
> rather than an aggrieved individual looking for justice.

How an aggravated individual can seek justice from a big multinational corporation? That's not possible unless that individual is a retired billionaire wanting to become a millionaire.
Your code is not in that thing. That thing has merely read your code and adjusted its own generative code.

It is not directly using your code any more than programmers are using print statements. A book can be copyrighted, the vocabulary of language cannot. A particular program can be copyrighted, but snippets of it cannot, especially when they are used in a different context.

And that is why this lawsuit is dead on arrival.