skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good strategy is to lower your compensation expectations significantly. You might get paid 40% or 50% of previous pay, but you still have solid ground under your feet and for once you might get an interesting project you always wanted to do, using some tech you never had time to try. Add it's not slavery, you can change jobs again when market improves.
There's a crow that drops nuts on the road on my way home from work. I always try to hit them for him so he can get the nuts out. :)
> Today they're filing a lawsuit against copilot.

> Tomorrow it will be against stable diffusion or (dall-e, gpt-3 whatever)

> And then eventually against Wine/Proton and emulators (are APIs copyrightable)

Textbook definition of F.U.D.
>I expect nothing from managers.

You don't expect them to pay you? Treat you with respect? To observe labor laws? Surely, you expect something from them. Being willing and able to walk away is not the same thing as saying you have zero expectations.
In word you can go to document properties or whatever and set the Title and some other fields to control what gets into the PDF.
I don't know why we're treating it as anything less than a human brain. A human can replicate a painting from memory or a picture of mickey mouse and that would likely be copyright infringement, but they could also take a drawing of Mickey Mouse sitting on the beach and given him a bloody knife & some sunglasses and it'd likely be fair use of the original art.

The AI can copy things if it wants, but it can also modify things to the point of being fair use, and it can even create new works with so little of any particular work that it's effectively creativity on the same level of humans when they draw something that popped into their heads.
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> No, whatʻs really going to happen is that everyone on council of wise elders will get tons of death threats, eventually quit...

Yep if you can't stand being called an n* (or other racial slurs) don't be a reddit moderator. Also I've been called a hillary boot licker and a trump one.

Being a reddit moderator isn't for the thin of skinned.I hosted social meetups so this could have run out in the real world..Luckily I had a strong social support in the group where that would have been taken care of real quick. I've only had one guy that tried to threaten to come and be disruptive at one of the meetups. He did come out. He did meet me.

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> even outright flamewars are typically beneficial for a small social network:

He's absolutely correct. It also helps to define community boundries and avoid extremism. A lot of this "don't be mean" culture only endorses moderators stepping in and dictating how a community talks and how people who disagree are officially bullied.
Okay, that hadn't occurred to me. I did wonder if mounting was a problem, if VFAT has "last mounted time" or other metadata that gets written per-mount.
Is this why we are still studying birdsong when birds are obviously not singing, but talking to each other in phonemes and words?
knowing your opponent's hypothetical moves exactly seems like cheating to me!

what would be interesting would be an agent that bluffs (and punches above its weight because so), since so many game playing ais assume that their opponent is playing optimally.
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There's also the fact that there's no alerts about people replying to you or commenting on your posts. You have to explicitly go into your profile, click comments, and then you can see if anyone has said anything to you.

This drastically increases time between messages on a topic, lets people cool off, and lets a topic naturally die down.
Looks bad for Musk, firing someone like that.
I think your moderation has made me better at HN, and consequently I'm better in real life. Actively thinking about how to better communicate and create environments where everyone is getting something positive out of the interaction is something I maybe started at HN, and then took into the real world. I think community has a lot to do with it, like "be the change you want to see".

But to your point, yeah my current company has feedback guidelines that are pretty similar: criticize the work, not the worker, and it super works. You realize that action isn't aligned with who you want to be or think you are, and you stop behaving that way. I mean, it's worked on me and I've seen it work on others, for sure.
Reddit uses an army of free labour to moderate.
the what's new did not work for me, but you can just read the source code:

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/Ghidra...
Fair enough. Yeah your plans of "compounding" and "bibliographic concordance" (thanks for the new word) sound good.

I was going to suggest this (but scratch it, your above idea is better): A small section called "a note on moderation" (or whatever) with hyperlinks to "some examples that give a concrete sense of how moderation happens here". There are many excellent explanations buried deep in the the search links that you post here. Many of them are a valuable riffing on [internet] human nature.

As a quick example, I love your lively analogy[1] of a "boxer showing up at a dance/concert/lecture" for resisting flammable language here. It's funny and a cutting example that is impossible to misunderstand. It (and your other comment[2] from the same thread) makes so many valuable reminders (it's easy to forget!). An incomplete list for others reading:

- how to avoid the "scorched earth" fate here;

- how "raw self-interest is fine" (if it gets you to curiosity);

- why you can't "flamebait others into curiosity";

- why the "medium" [of the "optionally anonymous internet forum"] matters;

- why it's not practical to replicate the psychology of "small, cohesive groups" here;

- how the "burden is on the commenter";

- "expected value of a comment" on HN; and much more

It's a real shame that these useful heuristics are buried so deep in the comment history. Sure, you do link to them via searches whenever you can; that's how I discovered 'em. But it's hard to stumble upon otherwise. Making a sampling of these easily accessible can be valuable.

[1] 3rd paragraph here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27166919

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27162386
Nice. You know I hadn't once bothered to click the "big plus button" UI element. I headed straight for the "three dots" UI element > Settings > Import/Export submenu, every time. Joke's on me for not exploring Aegis's interface more fully ;)
Ditto. Good stuff
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> I would find it a big stretch to say Github's intent here is to illegally distribute copyrighted code.

Almost everything on GitHub is subject to copyright, except for some very old works (maybe something written by Ada Lovelace?), and US government works not eligible for copyright.

Now, many of the works there are also licensed under permissive licenses, but that is only a defense to copyright infringement if the terms of those licenses are being adequately fulfilled.
The legal theory for copilot is that training an ML model is fair use, not that the license allows it. If it is fair use then you can't prohibit it by license, no matter what you put in your license.
I just highlight the hypocrisy of HR people.

They are doing the dirty job to maximise shareholders’ profits at the expense of workers, all while abiding religiously to the current political correctness policy.

I just think that this in your face virtue is modern pharisaism.
You'll be excited to hear that for $800 you can now get an Apple watch with one more button to assign to a sports thing!
Your "different approach" sounds almost exactly like the approach proposed in the fine article for the "ESP too small" case (a case which you assume as a given).
As I was reminded this morning by the incredible colors of the sunrise over a fog-covered lake, photography is hardly about the camera at all, and mostly about the light.
Winnebago Revel and the Storyteller are the main Sprinter builds. They're both > 150k. Almost bought one instead of an apartment building...
> If a machine does it, is it wrong ? What is the line between copying and machine learning ?

What is the difference between a neighbor watching you leave your home to visit the local grocery store and mass surveillance? Where do you draw the line?

It is pretty simple, actually.
Signal offers more to the table to prove it's secure and respects users privacy.

Whatsapp/Meta claim so, but have no proof. As with your comment, without proof we can't be convinced.
> A better approach IMHO, typically found in the Win32 API for example, is to take an extra argument which receives the buffer size needed to hold the whole output, in addition to the size of the buffer you pass.

This is exactly what the function in question does and is what lead to the buffer overflow. Basically, this sort of API requires you to continue decoding (so you can calculate the length), but stop writing to the output buffer once the buffer is full. The function had a bug that lead it to keep writing to the buffer in some cases even after it was full.
Not sure, TypeScript didn't exist back then :)
The crux of the issue: Is the code that is being generated being used in a way that it's license allows? That's it. I'm confident that this problem would go away if copilot said:

//below output code is MIT licensed (source: github/repo/blah)

And yes, the "users" are responsible, but it's possible that copilot could be implicated in a case depending on how it's access is licensed.

Stable diffusion has this same problem btw, but in visual arts "fair use" is even murkier.

For code, if you could use the code and respect the license, why wouldn't you? Copilot takes away that opportunity and replaces it with "trust us".
Not just "change in microbiome". It caused a change such that a gut flora transplant to mice caused the mice to have the same glucose reactions. So the artificial sweeteners change glucose metabolism, at least partly mediated by gut flora.

(This has actually been known for at least 3 or 4 years.)
> Bad actors are people who act bad all the time

I'd argue that bad actors are people that behave badly "on purpose". Their goals are different than the normal actor. Bad actors want to upset or scare people. Normal actors want to connect with, learn from, or persuade others.
It's worth noting that Twitter gets a lot of flak for permanently banning people, but that those people were all there under their real names. Regardless of your opinion on the bans, verifying that they were indeed banning e.g. Steve Bannon would not have helped the decision making process around his ban any easier.
Stripe is a growth company. When it doesn't grow, it has to scale back.

> nominal consumer expenditures, has remained strong.

Compared to when? Not last year for sure.
the actual copying isn't a problem, it's distribution. if i buy access to a PDF i'm not going to get in trouble for duplicating the file unless i send it to someone else.

when someone uploads their copyrighted text to a web page they are distributing it to whoever visits that page. the browser is just the medium.
So for iseven can we go for how much a student might accept 20 an hour say and multiply that by the one minute required to create it and offer them 33 cents?
These reasons are why my Canon 7D sees a fraction of the use that my Ricoh GR III sees.
A camera small enough to fit in my pockets with a superb image quality and a stabilizer that makes up several stops so no flash is needed.
I don’t get this. Is it a phone number? A phone number starting with a capital letter O, like in OOP or ORM?
Google Enters into Stipulated Agreement to Improve Legal Process Compliance
> Of course, there would be some complexities around handling read position as lines are being rotated out from under you.

that seems solvable to me, but multiple simultaneous readers... that seems like it might be a bit more challenging...
"A good camera isn't necessary for a good photo... but it makes it a hell of a lot easier."

Particularly true if you have a good, modern smartphone and are in poor lighting. I witnessed this the other day in Carlsbad Caverns. I was astonished at how good the photos came out from those in my group using iPhone 12, iPhone 8, and Samsung Galaxy (not sure of the exact model, but at least 2 years old).
Hyped Mystery Square Enix Game Turns Out to Be NFT Junk
maybe he was emulating the chief twit, who continues to denigrate the company even after he bought it

or are we already ad the mad king stage where everyone is forced to laugh when Elon posts a bad meme about twitter but if one of the peasants makes the same joke you get fed to the dragons?
How Elon Wins
you're right that's something we need to improve. Thanks for the extensive feedback.
> A programmer can read available but not oss licensed code and learn from it. Thats fair use.

If a human programmer reads some else's copyrighted code, OSS or otherwise, memorizes it and later reproduces it verbatim or nearly so, that is copyright infringement. If it wasn't, copyright would be meaningless.

The argument, so far as I understand it, is that Copilot is essentially a compressed copy of some or all of the repositories it was trained on. The idea that Copilot is "learning from" and transforming its training corpus seems, to me, like a fiction that has been created to excuse the copyright infringement. I guess we will have to see how it plays out in court.

As a non-lawyer it seems to me that stable diffusion is also on pretty shaky ground.

APIs are not copyrightable (in the US), so Wine is safe (in the US).
Alright so you've provided your analysis, give your take of a solution that you would be proud of.
This comment is 1 minute old and I only see a plain black profile picture.

Or is your comment itself the joke?
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Usually squads that aren’t totally “essential”. We ended up firing a lot of our analytics department since our new head wasn’t as data oriented.
I'm not confident in this stance - sharing it to have a conversation. Hopefully some folks can help me think through this!

The value of copyleft licenses, for me, was that we were fighting back against the notion of copyright. That you couldn't sell me a product that I wasn't allowed to modify and share my modifications back with others. The right to modify and redistribute transitively though the software license gave a "virality" to software freedom.

If training a NN against a GPL licensed code "launders" away the copyleft license, isn't that a good thing for software freedom? If you can launder away a copyleft license, why couldn't you launder away a proprietary license? If training a NN is fair use, couldn't we bring proprietary software into the commons using this?

It seems like the end goal of copyleft was to fight back against copyright, not to have copyleft. Tools like copilot seem to be an exceptionally powerful tool (perhaps more powerful than the GPL) for liberating software.

What am I missing?
This is not true. There were a small number Labour MPs who wanted to leave, including Gisela Stuart, Kate Hoey, and Graham Stringer, but by the time of the referendum, Jeremy Corbyn had long changed his mind, accepted we should remain in the EU, and campaigned for that: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/22/corbyn-fina...
Definitely, this is a hard tradeoff to make. Users very often care more about having access to their messages than them being not accessible to authorities/advertisers/etc, and they are very often not very savvy. As you say they also probably don't choose the most secure passwords.

Signal on the other hand sides on the side of security so much that it makes the app purposefully less useable, e.g. with their pin feature. But it doesn't have this backup problem. It's not a situation that has an easy solution atm.

But I think it's important to note that the belief of many users is wrong that end-to-end encryption implies that message content is unavailable to governments unless they get unlocked access to devices of communication partners.
The symlinking .bat files for initrd ended up completely bricking my Ubuntu installation a few months ago, so... take heed? I am unimpressed by the quality and robustness of that whole stuff, though, but ended up writing essentially this article into my notes for the next Arch installation I make, where I think there's a fair chance that EFI will live in /efi but be symlinked in /boot.

There's a whole other problem, though, of my wanting to use secure boot. Ubuntu was the easy out for that. At the moment, it's just disabled on my machines, which is far from optimal.
Funny you should mention that! https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018840/are-we-quantum-compute...
Fructose is about 50% sweeter than sugar (sucrose), so you can save calories by substituting 2/3 of the quantity of sucrose with fructose
"Using such calculations they would likely estimate the man hours based on number of lines of code and multiply that with the average salary of a programmer."

The average salary of a programmer in which country?

So much programming is outsourced these days, and in some places programmers are very cheap.
Does anyone have a problem with it, so long as the material it trained on was with explicit permission/license and not potentially in violation of copyright?

That's where the line is for it to be suspect IMO.
And the composition!
Many licenses have constraints, whether this wording is the best way to do it is up for discussion, but it's certainly possible to do it.
For this clause to have any positive effect, you need to 1) be willing to pursue legal action against violators and 2) actually notice that the clause has been violated.

Such language must be carefully written. What is the definition of “construction” and “operation” in a legal context? What is a “predictive software generation system”? That’s a very specific use case, you sure you covered everything you want to prohibit?

You’ve inserted your clause in such a way that this dependency cannot be used in any way to build anything similar to a “predictive software generation system”, even with attribution, as it would fail clause 3.

You have to consider that novel licenses make it difficult for any party that respects licenses to use your code. It is difficult to make one-off exceptions, especially when the text is not legally sound. So adoption of your project will be harmed.

So if you are serious about this license, you need a lawyer.
It doesn’t imply that at all.
Best does not mean only.
Just like good people can try to do good things and end up screwing things up badly, bad people can do bad things that have positive effects.
F* around in the machine shop.
I did not see that coming.
Being right more often than a stopped clock doesn't make you a good timepiece either, though.
Golding didn't join the Tories. He tried to join and was rejected. The Tories have not been taken over or absorbed by Britain First.To say so is an absurd lie. Any fool with £20 can join a political party but that doesn't mean they determine policy or have any control. Do you really think Rishi Sunak or Suella Braverman take their orders from Britain First nutcases?
> well, you are wrong.

For someone who is "not following whatsbook closely lately" that is again a bold claim to make.

But anyway, business messages are also encrypted. Businesses are allowed to designate other accounts to receive messages, in which case those other accounts are sent copies of those messages using a different key. It's similar to sending messages to multiple devices. This is disclosed [1] and needed to support things like auto responders.

Group chats are also encrypted using a shared sender key and this is described in the whitepaper starting page 10 [2]

1 - https://faq.whatsapp.com/567302067179554/?locale=en_US
2 - https://www.whatsapp.com/security/WhatsApp-Security-Whitepap...
That seems like a really bad choice of an example for this, but as I haven't read the document I don't have any other context beyond what you've posted here, I have to take your word for it that that's the purpose of this snippet.

However, if you are looking to understand the reasoning behind this lawsuit, there are lots of better examples online where Copilot blatantly ripped off open source code.
Me too. I was laid off at the beginning of October. I got three good offers, picked the best and signed the contract.

I went through about 15 interviews and applied to maybe 50 positions.
`jc` is available today as a compiled binary with all dependencies self-contained. The binaries and OS package installers are available under the GitHub Releases:

https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc/releases

This is still python under the hood and not as small of a binary as I would like, but it does work.
Because we don't understand quantum physics, and we don't understand the brain. I don't think we know if it's the final step. There could be wizard jelly or something at the bottom.
Rules against hate speech will disproportionately affect males. Does that mean they’re biased against men? If so, is that even a bad thing?
yeah its very easy to become gear obsessed and a collector thinking that there will be utility

lighting > lens > body

in that order
First, I'm looking at apartments on the market RIGHT NOW that are under $3k. You can apply for these right now.

We're also using an extreme, living in Manhattan is a luxury. It is one of the most expensive places to live on the planet. Even using this extreme your argument doesn't hold water. You would do well on $200k paying $3.5k/m in rent. That's high, but shouldn't kill you.

I would argue that using the median or average in an area that has so much luxury housing is also dishonest. I know people paying over $5k for STUDIO APARTMENTS in NYC.

They love the building, I dunno!

JC median 1br is $3k, north bergen nj 2br is $2,400.... but there are plenty of 1 and 2br in JC and NB that are under $2k on the market right now. Thousands of units, actually.

Including kids, or if you have a stay at home spouse or something, you're right. You can't really live in the area on $200k. That is a problem. Your wife needs to work and bring in at least $80k, especially if you have more than 2 kids. But we're kind of moving the goalposts here, aren't we?
Yeah. You need six months of emergency fund, minimum. I would say close to 1yr honestly, depending on your risk tolerance, for senior tech roles, unless you're willing to take a real shit job while you look for something else.
Being “politically correct” while sending an email doesn’t seem hypocritical to me.
Can you expand more on why this is problematic to you?

This doesn’t seem to be a case of maximizing shareholder profits because it doesn’t seem like it was part of the layoff plan, but a directed termination because of behavior (as noted in the important part of the email).
I've heard "near-shoring" before but always in the context of hiring workers from Mexico or other countries further south that share time-zones with the US.
The P/E is quite low.

Basically investors aren’t buying into all the money being spent on AR/VR.

Plus I believe they have a lot of other crazy expenses.

As far as I can tell they still are still printing cash.

The low stock value seems to be self inflicted.
To quote the article...

> MAYBE sometimes an advertiser will get mad, but a backroom sales conversation will usually get them back once the whole thing blows over.
Always consider that maybe you don't fully understand what it actually does.
Critically, tech workers are compensated highly because they are working on investments. We're not laying bricks where it's easy to measure what we accomplished in a given day, we are usually building products and tech stacks that are projected to bring in FUTURE cash.

When interest rates were held low, the planning horizon was very long and we got a huge expansion in future-looking projects. Now that horizon is shrinking and disproportionately impacting the jobs that are associated with future investments rather than ongoing operations.