skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. I think we were at the same place.
That’s cool but do they have ways to ensure the machines are running unmodified code? I think for such a system to work you would need a central server that is constantly monitoring the hashes.
Why? One more flag to remember whereas redirection works for any program.
I had an interview yesterday somewhere where they said they were really excited to move me forward, only to find out today that they're putting the position on hold :(
They do because it’s cheaper to hire a coder to twiddle than a lawyer to litigate.
Emergent pheneomena both perhaps?
Well, if the trackers also hosted mixed-up blocks of data for all the torrents they tracked and their protection was "LOL make sure you don't accidentally download any of these tiny data blocks in the correct order to reconstruct the copyrighted material they may be parts of wink"
Meanwhile the apple firmware cannot read vFAT ESP. Apple wants ESP to be HFS.
> irregardless of license

Hard no. Please stop using open source code if this is how you think of it.

Without licenses being respected, we don't get open source communities.
Is stable diffusion any different when including a famous artwork or artist in the prompt? The images produced are eerily similar to training data.
I can "behave well" and still be a bad actor in that I'm constantly spreading dangerous disinformation. That disinformation looks like signal by any metadata analysis.
Also if you're doing a camper conversion it adds a lot of weight to the vehicle, especially if you use heavy things like particle board.
No human perfectly reproduces the learning material they used.
If that was true, one might as well just higher engineers from Twitter and make a new platform from the code they remember!
If it wasn't Butterick I wouldn't be interested.

But I write this to you in Hermes Maia
Yeah and that's probably why IoT devs absolutely crank up the data rate and spew dozens of Bluetooth advertising packets in the air for no apparent reason, probably significantly reducing battery life that could have been 5yrs, for applications that really don't need instant response.

Something like msgpack might be able to compress ints to some degree since it can represent them as smaller data types.
You can also encapsulate things into web components, then use them in Elm.

https://elmprogramming.com/interacting-with-web-components.h...
Oh yeah, everything they teach about software tooling is out of date, so it wouldn't do any good to spend more time on it. At least physics doesn't go out of date so quickly.
No, you have to install and enable zsys yourself.
Assuming perfect information, Jim's skill being transferable, and Jim's performance eval being objective, you'd expect that the company would profit from transferring Jim and other top performers to their profitable products, and cutting the worst employees from those projects (after all, even a department making profit is likely to have some employees on the low end of the performance bell curve).

Of course that isn't as easy because of morale, team cohesion, performance evals rarely being comparable across teams, and people being not as fungible as the above suggests. Not to mention all the work this takes, in a time when you probably have other worries. So maybe it's not "really weird", just "not immediately obvious"
Thanks, I feel like people are always trying to make sure everything is done in some super formal way. The authors decided to put this in so they did, they don't need some formalized criteria for "Good Movement" or whatever.
Parts of Tesla almost exclusively use Scala.
It's an absurd premise to begin with: The scale at which quantum effects propagate and are observed is radically different than the scale at which the neurons in your brain operate.

The functional channels for neurons are well understood, even if we're still diagramming out all the types of neurons. Voltage gated calcium channels are pretty damn simple in the grand scheme of things, and they don't leave space for quantum interactions beyond that of standard molecular interactions.

The only part of the brain we don't understand is how all the intricacies work together, because that's a lot more opaque.
In Tucson, with 350 days of Sun, until fairly recently, electricity was generated from COAL. Now natural gas.
I hope so, and I don’t wish any harm to my British friends (well, I hope everyone will be ok, I certainly don’t wish any harm to my fellow Europeans on the continent either).

But there are many reasons why the EU could fare better over the long term. More people (and a bigger unified internal market), more land (and natural resources), more industry, for a start. The thing with the UK is that a lot of that is self inflicted and mind bogglingly stupid. Why are the conservatives still in power? The whole political system is holding the country back.
also the map is not the territory
I wish we'd just stopped at "users won't pay" and realized that, if people aren't willing to pay for it, maybe it's not a product worth building.
Putting in a hiring freeze for a full YEAR, even with the most drastic outlook, is such an absurd thought that this doesn’t seem likely to me.
As my lawyer friend told me, a class action lawsuit is a lawyer's startup. A lot of work for little pay with the chance of a huge payout.
I believe fair use is the way to go then. SD would definitely be so, in my opinion.
No, they're not. NYC is stupid expensive to live in, and this is why we have a thing called "cost of living".
I agree with most points except [[ ]] instead of test.

The explanation for that wasnt really an explanation either ...
At how many tweets in the thread do you just go "maybe I should just write this as a blog post?"
Open source does not mean public domain. Open source specifically attaches limitations on how the code may be reused.
> On a huge platform it can simultaneously be true that platform moderation is almost always focused on behavior instead of content, and a subset of people and topics are being censored.

He made this exact point in a previous post. Some topics look like they're being censored only because they tend to attract such a high concentration of bad actors who simultaneously engage in bullying type behavior. They get kicked off for that behavior and it looks like topic $X is being censored when it mostly isn't.
> No one ever plays games to completion like this.

Oh I wish.
But who cares? Who else is willing to fund litigation on this important legal question? The real justice here is declarative and benefits everyone.

No matter who litigates and for what reasons it will be extremely valuable for good precedents to be set around the question of things like Copilot and DALL-E with respect to copyright and ownership. I'd rather have self interested lawyers dedicated to winning their case than self interested corporations fighting this out.
I expect I'd love it but I've been holding off until I find out whether MS lets devs on their core products use it.

If not, it's a pretty clear sign they consider it radioactive.
Are you against policing? Because that's government enforcement. Admittedly policing in the US is god awful, but I still think most people would rather have it than no police force at all.

Government enforcement of this kind of law is really no different. It wouldn't be the legislature doing it.
Depends on how closely they reuse the code. Writing it verbatim or nearly? Yes.
To me, stevia tastes distinctly like the aroma of burnt hair. It’s intolerable.
yes, of course that's what it is. plaintiffs if they win will get a few pennies, lawyers will get a lot.
Metamathematics
Wow, and now we all learned that nothing should be censored thanks to this definitely real situation where the same outcome occurred when you censored both the victim and perpetrator
Unlike Rust code, activism is an area where statements have a chance to be incorrect or misguided. And just like Rust code, you're welcome to review anything you read, and see if you like it or not.

The whole point of activism is to bring issues to an audience that wasn't prepared to hear such statements at a given time: this is why some people get annoyed when they read Notepad++ release notes for the first time!

Being "right" doesn't have anything to do with activism: there's lots of activism within, say, flat earthers, but that doesn't make Earth any less round. Still, in this particular point in time, stating support for women in Iran is probably the mildest form of activism anyone could push for.
I'll just assume all my users live there then. That'll close some bugs.
The most important part of this is not whether the lawsuit will be won or lost by one of the parties, but what is the legality of fair use in machine learning, and language models. There's a good chance that it gets to Supreme Court and there will be a defining precedent to be used by future entrepreneurs about what's possible and what's not.

P.S. I am not a lawyer.
If the Twitter layoff is ran like the Tesla one, they’ll get 1 week severance and an Uber ride home.
The thing to understand with PowerShell is that the way it pipelines objects is enabled by the fact that it is all happening in-process within one .net runtime. It is significantly more difficult to achieve anything similar with several independent processes being piped together
Is it the role of the tool (in this case copilot) to include the license information? Or is it the responsibility of the organization using the code to make sure that it wasn't copied from somewhere?

What if, instead of a tool, you had a random consultant do some work, and it was found out that he asked a ton of stuff on Stack Overflow and copied the CC-BY-SA 4.0 answers into his work? What if it was then found out that one of those answers was based on copying something from the Linux kernel? Who is responsible for doing the license check on the code before releasing the product?
What they're doing is a service, though. Say that $10 million worth of damage against others has been done. If the law firm does not act, the villainous curs who caused that damage get to keep their money and are incentivized to do it again. If the law firm does act and prevails, then the villains lose their ill-gotten gains (in favor of the law firm and, sometimes, to an extent, the injured parties). That's preferable. Not ideal, but certainly better than nothing.
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Is a startup founder looking for a big payout succumbing to greed?

These people are just following incentives.
Have Prius camped in the bay area for a few months. It is possible to do this gradually if you're not straight off-roading. Slowly building out the interior, taking things one step at a time. Pros and cons, of course, but the freedom of being on wheels, just driving, without pressure to go back to a particular spot at night has been immensely freeing.
I brought a class action suit against Sharp and I was the class representative. They settled. The judge awarded me a whopping $1,000 from the settlement money. From the time I put into it, including 3 or 4 full days in NYC because my deposition coincided with a snowstorm, I didn’t exactly come out ahead financially.

Obviously this is different for the reasons you stated, but I didn’t want people to think bringing a class action lawsuit forward is a way to get rich. It’s a bit of a joke, really.
It would be good to have a definitive and simple line for fair use that could be applied to all forms of copyright. Right now fair use is defined by four guidelines:

The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes

The nature of the copyrighted work

The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole

The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

A programmer who studied in school and learned to code did so clearly for and educational purpose. The nature of the work is primarily facts and ideas, while expression and fixation is generally not what the school is focusing on (obviously some copying of style and implementation could occur). The amount and substantiality of the original works is likely to be so minor as to be unrecognized, and the effect of the use upon the potential market when student learn from existing works would be very hard to measure (if it could be detected).

When a machine do this, are we going to give the same answers? Their purpose is explicitly commercial. Machines operate on expression and fixation, and the operators can't extract the idea that a model should have learned in order to explain how a given output is generated. Machines makes no distinction of the amount and substantiality of the original works, with no ability to argue for how they intentionally limited their use of the original work. And finally, GitHub Copilot and other tools like them do not consider the potential market of the infringed work.

API's are generally covered by the interoperability exception. I am unsure how that is related copilot or dall-e (and the likes). In the Oracle v. Google case the court also found that the API in question was neither an expression or fixation of an idea. A co-pilot that only generated header code could in theory be more likely to fall within fair use, but then the scope of the project would be tiny compared to what exist now.
Sure, but what about the psychological impact / feelings of people when reading all the news of hiring freezes?

For example engineers that were laid off at Stripe in Seattle ordinarily have a good chance of getting a job at Amazon, but now Amazon isn't hiring. That combination certainly causes folks to feel uneasy.

Additionally, cities like Seattle are expensive and not all companies pay equally well. If you bought a house on a single income but suddenly cannot find a new job paying enough to pay your bills, then that's a problem too. Previously there were lots of jobs of similar pay to go around. In the current economy that is no longer the case. Suddenly you will need to make some tough choices.
Yes we can argue that nobody should have put themselves into such a position in the first place, but buying a house is incredibly difficult in markets like Seattle and San Francisco, and so I don't blame people who are now in this predicament.
If you are interested in learning about the intersection of Artificial Neural Networks and Biological Neural Network research, I recommend "The Self-Assembling Brain - How Neural Networks Grow Smarter" by Peter Robin Hiesinger. He attempts to bridge research from both fields of study to identify where there are commonalities and differences in the design of these networks.
They should use github instead of sending "(final, 2nd revision, really final, amended)" emails.
A good use of IOT is agriculture. At proper cost, having satellite connected devices across huge sprawling farms would be extremely useful. There are already solutions, like LoRA, but these have their own disadvantages.
These are good ideas that might help manage an online community! On the other hand, they would be bad for business! When a high-profile athlete weighs in on a complicated geopolitical matter and then (say) gets the continent wrong, that will generate tons of engagement (money) for the platform. Plus there's no harm done. A platform probably wants that kind of content.

And the whole reason the platform wants the athlete to post in the first place is because the platform wants that person's real-world reputation to transfer over. I believe it is a property of people that they are prone to more heavily weigh an opinion from a well-known/well-liked/rich person, even if there is no real reason for that person to have a smart opinion on a given topic. This likely is not something that can be "fixed" by online community governance.
The problem wasn't just the referendum itself, but again in 2019. Corbyn said he had "a neutral stance on Brexit".

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50530163

The actual referendum was very close, and there was a lot of room for Labour to argue that it wasn't intended to be binding, or at least a Brexit In Name Only. The result was that Labour was creamed and the Tories got a real majority, whereas previously they'd been saddled with UKIP.

Corbyn also failed at the referendum, arriving at a belated and wishy-washy stance, and without compelling Labour to follow it. Had he resigned then, things might have been very different. Instead, he continued to lead Labour in a way that left people confused about where they stood on Brexit when put in the form of a Parliamentary election. Nobody could read the results as anything but "The nation voted strongly for Brexit."

I don't believe that really reflects what voters wanted, but elections are poor tools for sending messages. What they do is put people in office, and the people in office were people strongly for Brexit.
A Collection of Definitions of Intelligence
Sure, add on a little extra for the depreciating currency and currency risk (euro has been losing value vs USD) and likely at the time Apple was setting the price it was close to parity with the dollar.
My understanding is that you are right.

As for when it would be useful to override `ne`, very hard to say. The only case I can think of would be to add temporary debug info.
> The elm philosophy seems to be to rewrite everything in Elm, and to disincentivize binding.

Or to use web components https://elmprogramming.com/interacting-with-web-components.h...
Thank you!! People constantly conflate the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation.
Somewhat true. Just tried it, yet again. It looks like it improved. I might use it as my social media browser, so it's easier to focus / disable social media and HN on my main browser.

Right click on text, there's no dictionary lookup menu item

The border around input fields look weird
Wait, you really thought every company had unlimited PTO? Like, every single one?
That's fair. Signal is open source and that certainly helps.
> The end result is … well, 4Chan.

And? Your opinion of whether that's bad is subjective, yet the people there are happy with the result (presumably, as they keep using/visiting it).

> Self-moderation" doesn't work, because it's work.

So in other words: "I'm too lazy to curate a non-threatening experience for myself which is my responsibility because the offense being taken is my own." Whether or not you're willing to filter things out that upset you is a personal problem, not a platform problem.

> Advertisers aren't going to just "accept" that their money is supporting content they don't want to be associated with.

It's not. Twitter isn't creating the content nor are they financing the content (e.g. like a Netflix type model). It's user-generated which is completely random and subject to chaos. If they can't handle that, they shouldn't advertise there (hence why a pay-to-play option is best as it prevents a revenue collapse for Twitter). E.g., if I I'm selling crucifixes, I'm not going to advertise on slutmania.com

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Ultimately, people need to quit acting like everything they come into contact with needs to be respectful of every possible issue or disagreement they have with it. It's irrational, entitled, and childish.
> In western culture it is usually considered offensive to use a characteristic that is a consequence of birth as an insult.

The problem is the insult, not the characteristic that is a consequence of birth. "You're retarded" is offensive, while "you're Asian" isn't. What about "You don't have legs" said to a person born with no legs? It might or might not be offensive, depending on the context.

> Therefore, using the term 'retarded' is culturally associated - exclusively - with insulting a person's actions by comparing them to someone who is disabled with the implication that a disabled person would necessarily act foolishly or irrationally.

I get how calling someone retarded might be considered offensive, but jesuscript specifically said that Stripe was not retarded. How is that offensive? Would you be offended if I said you were not retarded?

> Or do I need to Tasuki that further for you?

Oh please do tasuki that further for me, I'm a simple man and not offended by you suggesting so.
> Your code is open source ....

So why MS can screw only with some licenses that you call "open source".
Your example with a human reading a book would also work with code available licenses or decompiled binaries.

I would have been fine if the open source code was used to create an open model or if MS would have put his ass on the line and also train the model with all the GitHub code because they claim there is no copyright issue.
If organisations are going to ignore the licenses attached to my OOS and that's legimitised in the law, then that's a surefire way to irreparably damage the open source ecosystem
Tech has received almost universally fawning coverage for the at least 2 decades that I've been following it. The only tiny hints of holding it to account came from the RMS Free Software folks.

The idea that the press should be focusing on fawning coverage instead of highly investigative reporting when there's a whole ecosystem of tech news, Youtube videos, and conferences and WWDCs and Google IOs to do that seems completely nonsensical.

The correct criticism of the NYTimes here should be why their investigative coverage does not extent to other areas where it might be missing.
What is Gb/s per watt of power between 2x400Gb/s servers and a single 800Gb/s ?

Following these reports since 2015, when I compared estimated cost of your 9Gb/s server to F5 load balancer :)
That's entirely fair - and I'm not angry, just not convinced in their arguments, especially when the motive is likely not genuine.

As an aside - I'm almost positive MSFT/Github expected this and their legal teams have been prepping for this moment. Copyright Law and Fair Use in the US is so nuanced and vague that anything created involving prior art by big-pocket individuals or corporations will be litigated swiftly.

I expected one of these lawsuits to come first from Getty or one of the big money artist estates against OpenAI or Stability.ai, but Getty and OpenAI seem to be partnering instead of litigating.
Hacker News top search result for "Twitter", from two years ago:

Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23155647

Forever is a long time...
I have a friend from highschool who does class action lawsuits. He spends a very large amount of money funding his suits on things like expert witnesses among other things, only 1 in 5 pays off, so it has to pay off well. His model is similar to venture capitalism. Most of these cases take 5-7 years to execute. So he basically takes out loans from another laywer to fund them. His average pay for the last 10 years has been around $140k/year. Some years he makes nothing and pays out a lot, others he makes several million and pays back all the loans. Another way to think of it is like giving money to tax fraud wistleblowers.

Yes he does think of it somewhat like that, establishing himself in an area. However a lot of his work comes from finding people aggrieved by something not them finding him.
Its also used on simple GPUs? As In, lots of math functions stamped down to low level operations ala RISC?

https://alchitry.com/projects/gpu
http://ijsetr.com/uploads/435216IJSETR3253-390.pdf
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For BIOS boot, the BIOS looks at the first couple of blocks on a hard drive for the boot code. This is the first GPT partition that gets created, and the future grub-install code injects the BIOS bootloader there. Thus, to support BIOS and UEFI, you need the BIOS bootloader at the beginning of the drive.
So are you ok with it being illegal for humans to learn from copyrighted books unless they have a license that explicitly allows learning? That does not sound like a pleasant consequence.