skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key word is fan fiction. Almost every single word in fiction is a creative expression and thus copyrightable.

But works of non-fictional literature (of which source code is an example) have to work harder to justify their copyright.

Many of the snippets of code generated by copilot contain zero creative expression. They are just mechanical implementations of an algorithm.

You mentioned setting and plot. The source code equivalent is architecture. Copilot generated snippets are usually too short and too algorithmic to have their own architecture.

What makes a derivative work derivative is that it copies creative expressions from the parent work. If you edit them out, then it’s not a derivative work anymore.
I mean he could have watched 2 videos of the LPL channel as research and he'd know better that not all locks can be just opened by a rake tool..
Do we have access to the sauce code of the Viewpoints team?

Sounds like they had a very effective method to generate communication stacks.
Hello from Hong Kong, I’m a researcher working on speech to facial mesh models that’s language-agnostic. Currently it’s a comfy Sunday afternoon and I’m at my desk downloading a huge dataset. Feel free to reach out in the comments, I have lots of free time while waiting for it to download. Good day to everyone!
Halo from Indonesia,

Banging my head for whole day because of somehow nodejs does not behave like I wanted to. Maybe I need to take a break, clearing my mind. Thanks for this post.
They need to hire the lock-picking lawyer as a consultant.
I write open source code to benefit others and to put more learning material in to the world. If I was so paranoid about other people using it I would have made it proprietary.
Musk spent half the year trying to not purchase Twitter for 44 billion. What happened was that he (unluckily or foolishly, pick your poison) signed a watertight buy agreement just before the wider stock market experienced a crash. He did try to get out of the deal, but that's not the same as saying that owning Twitter is something he no longer wanted.
Did you consider that perhaps having students from less wealthy and educated families enroll would cause "declining results"? The best way to ensure perfect scores is to exclude underperforming kids from families where parents didn't go to university and/or have to choose between soap and bread at the supermarket instead of educating their child.

I'm still genuinely amused every time I see a Westerner living in a democratic country claim their government is dysfunctional, lying, stealing and bad. First, compared to what country? Second, can't you elect a different government? If enough people agree with you they would vote for it, and if not enough agree then perhaps you are in a minority. If unlike many people on this planet you have a mechanism for peaceful replacement of power it seems strange to call for a revolution.
4% of broken into homes use lock picking.
Salute. But we can haz a little cuteness here
Yeah if you don't federate with anyone. Otherwise people will send you stuff to rack up your bill. I say just run it from your house, and use wireguard and haproxy with a VPS to get the traffic to and from the wider Internet if you don't have IPs and/or don't want your home network getting DOSed.
I have a several properties, the lot that has my primary residence has another structure on it that is rented out, the property is almost net neutral (barring the cost of my own utilities.) The other properties are rented and net positive.
I oscillate between this (having an expanded brain capacity) and the exact opposite (a more limited brain capacity, the ability to take things one at a time, be eternally optimistic, not have your mind race all the time, sleep instantly when you lie down).
Out of interest roughly how much "flight capacity" (self motion ability post orbit injection) do literal internet satellites have?

Are we talking small gas thrusts, magnetorquer's, etc?

If it's mag torque, how much GMF modelling is involved?
> You don't turn a plane in flight by slamming the yoke as far left as you can.

Sometimes you do, depending on what type of plane it is and what you need to do.

We'll have a clear picture in a year or two; I'm still holding out for the fail whale's return.
Assuming the content is still interesting…. It’s because everyone is on the web now. It’s not sma limited club anymore. So there is much more noise.
> It’s become a vanity project for billionaires anyway so let them figure out putting a man there.

That is one prominent billionaire's idea for stuff to do in the next decade yes... But he wasn't a major factor considered by NASA when the current projects were funded.

Otherwise I'd probably agree Mars might have gotten too much federal funding vs other projects in the last decade.
Thanks so much for posting this, I love the spirit of it. I'm passionate about my sobriety journey. I just got home from a dinner party of ex coworkers and friends. Being the only one not drinking is hard for me and a huge change. I used to lead the charge with booze, it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away. It made everything more fun. Well, that can only last so long when you abuse it so much and it fucks up your life.

I successfully made it through tonight and will hopefully have many more successful nights. Love and strength to anyone else out there in a similar boat.
The fact that they're starting to realize their fuckup (among many other reasons such as not giving advanced warning as so legally required etc).

https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1589075543420325888
The Beatles are back!

Joking aside, the Beatles may almost be like xkcd. In that they just might have a song for most if not all of the most basic human interactions and emotions.

Here, "Hello, Goodbye".

You say, "Yes", I say, "No"
You say, "Stop" and I say, "Go, go, go"
Oh no

You say, "Goodbye" and I say, "Hello, hello, hello"
I don't know why you say, "Goodbye", I say, "Hello, hello, hello"
I don't know why you say, "Goodbye", I say, "Hello"
Hello from another surprisingly-real-but-currently-text-based being.

I share your sentiment about the earlier stages of the internet. Even though there already were several million users worldwide when I came of the age to explore technology, it still had the feeling of a close-knit community of enthusiasts and experts.

Good times :-)
Pissing blood and on pain meds here in Seattle, and loving your post. HN is by far my favorite site. Every once in a while we get something out of left field like this for a bonus. Oh, and I’m cobbling together a tech publishing product when I can think straight.

Thank you, stranger-yet-not-stranger!
> When we finally understand how the brain actually does it

If you dig into how neurons work in the brain you'll discover that a single neuron has the complexity of a large neural network internally and it's behavior is not nearly as simple as the typical model explanation. Different ion channels, time-dependent behavior, up/down regulation of neurotransmitter receptors and release, and much more.

It is entirely possible that the brain "does it" by throwing vastly more computing resources at the problem than we previously believed.
I go through phases of being passionate and fixated on something, always reading about them, buying them, etc. Sometimes say, knives, sometimes computers, gadgets, etc.

Right now on colognes. Kinda just hit me out of nowhere. Learning a ton about different notes, how they change over time, etc. I must have bought 25 in the past couple months. So, I guess that's my current passion.
Hello from New England, USA.

I'm currently working on trying to get my first customer. Sales doesn't come naturally to me, so I am trying to figure it out. The great thing is that I have a product that I am really passionate about (I fell into that trap, but I think there's a market) - a cloud-based true random number generator that can replace a quantum RNG.

I also just recently got back from the piano where I played a Bach Partita. I think playing Bach is a bit of a quasi-religious experience for me - I just shared an experience of sublime beauty with 337 years worth of people.

Have a good night or day.
GitHub was stagnant before and GitLab had basically overtaken it. Since the acquisition they have massively picked up the pace and delivered several exceptionally good features.

GitLab is still a very viable alternative but there is just very little reason to want to leave GitHub. The vast majority of devs either don’t care about or enjoy copilot. It’s just a small number of HN whiners who make most of the noise on the topic.
Where are the crewed eVTOL videos?
These people all don’t appreciate that social media is a regulated business now.

It’s a Silicon Valley thing to treat that as an optional cost center but Elon is fucking around and will find out in Europe and Asia in relatively short order
A steel cable one square inch in cross section and a mile long weighs <19k lb on Earth, a bit less on Venus. Cheap mild steel has tensile strength 50k lb/in², and can be as much as 10x as strong. So, self-supporting steel 3 miles to 30 miles.

Getting 250 tons of high-strength steel cable (sheathed against corrosion) to Venus is left as an exercise for the reader. Likewise, a big enough balloon to hold that up. And a strong enough winch.

But in practice, you would make the cable of carbon extracted from atmospheric CO2, instead, and it could support itself all the way down to the surface, 50 mi below. You would need to protect the end against acid vapor corrosion at 470 C: another exercise for the reader.
Someone should document all of the strident defense of Musk recently. If Twitter does not succeed, my guess is that many of them will attribute it to anything other than Musk’s management.

Some ideas for that story might be:

- Elon never had a chance because woke celebrities and activists pressured advertisers to not renew their contracts with Twitter

- Twitter employees were too lazy and entitled, or maybe they intentionally sabotaged Musk’s plans for ideological reasons

- The government unfairly cracked down on Twitter, which would have been desirable a year ago but is completely unnecessary now that the good guys are in charge

- Well, Twitter’s revenue and userbase might have cratered, but really Elon won in the end because now it is a place for free speech. He never cared about the money, why are you so focused on the money?

- Twitter might have failed but it was going to fail before Elon bought it anyway so it’s not really his fault

- Elon easily could have made Twitter profitable but he realized that the cultural problems ran too deep so he turned his attention to more important projects
I spent my morning working on a science fiction novel. (I won't post more here, but you can find it through my profile if you're interested.)

Are there any other writers in the house?

On a completely unrelated topic, one of my earliest "internet" memories was wandering into open source communities and trying to figure out this CVS thing and connecting it to GNU Savannah so that I could download some code. Those were some very formative times. The community was a bit more "prickly" than we're used to with Rust and some of our modern open source projects, but they were committed to technical excellence, and the fact that a random kid could show up and be in conversation with these people at so clearly far above my own level was (and still is!) nothing short of astonishing.
I watched it, and either my memory sucks, or that wasn't the plot.
I am passionate about being a pcb historian. Imagine living in the year 2100 and coming across a motherboard for an Apple 2, or any device made around this time. I love finding out reasons why pcb’s were/ are designed a certain way.
Hello from Montana! I'm currently playing with a Lora module and hoping I can cross country ski if there's enough snow next week.
Everything GitHub has done since Microsoft's acquisition has been great! The product is getting so much better – Copilot is wonderful, Actions are great, issue improvements. More please!
If the sun is going the wrong way across the sky, it’s not because of the hemisphere you’re on.

I wonder if this is like an implanted memory that you have or what?
This is kind of a weird take. I used to work at JPL but I didn't stay due to it not being the right cultural fit for me.

With that said, my perspective as a former NASA insider is that JPL is known for the exact opposite, underperforming and overdelivering.

I mean, they have a nearly perfect track record of mission success (sorry Beagle) and when the missions do succeed they often persist for many times over the original lifetime requirement.

Additionally, and yes this is a vast oversimplification, if you just look generally at space exploration missions, they are far more prolific than any other NASA center.
Hello from California!

I am passionate about low (no) resource NLP and currently doing a couple projects in the space. Please feel to reach out!
Yes, every single person on Twitter is required to post how it's now Shitter, how they're leaving for a mastodon instance, and then later how they're returning to Twitter because their instance was too full of racists and fascists.

Some are speed running it: https://journa.host/@richard_schultz
but this doesnt really explain what makes gpl superior to mit. in my experience, gpl is expensive, and i have seen plenty of fair contribution, ownership, and community making things better with mit. what i was trying to say was that code published in the open will inevitably be abused by humans and machines alike. the difference between gpl and mit, in my view, is that more permissive licenses are less at odds with this reality. with copyleft there will always be lawsuits
Xbox was good! (But Windows remains very, very bad.)
If you don’t want people to use your code, consider making your repos private.
Yeah, I too don't understand why the earlier system was 'classist'? It seemed like a better way to be sure that someone was who they said they were? The proposed mechanism of paying to get a check-mark seems suspect. I understand paying for extra features, but paying to say "I am who I am" seems like it could get abused and not a good idea. Now only people who think they need to pay for it and think it worthwhile will get it and that seems like classist in a different way.
Damn, robots one day, electric bikes the next. You are enviably handy. And TIL about full face downhill mountain biking helmets.
You certainly like to use repetition in your rhetoric.
Ultimately it's not up to you to determine what the team's priority should be, as you're not in a leadership position. By attempting to behave as if you're in such a position you're merely adding to your own stress.

Enjoy the happy hours and the camaraderie with your teammates, meet the expectations of your team and grow on a personal and individual level. You're perfectly capable of improving your own skill set and knowledge base independently.
Hello,

I am posting this from NixOS. I am so passionate about it I became a NixOS maintainer, working on packages that bypass Internet censorship so they are available from nixpkgs.

The killer features for me are rollbacks, insulated packages, declarative configuration. I will most likely never worry about breaking my system and being greeted with a black screen with a blinking cursor again.
I've had an MG Midget (74) for the last 18 years or so. I'm doing a full body restore on it, and it's currently stripped down to the shell. I've built a rotisserie so I can access the bottom and replace some rusted floor panels.
There is a limited market for stuff. If you manage to massively increase the supply the price will go down.
I agree your example is a Lovecraftian horror, but you test it by running it on every platform. How else would you test it?
From TFA

>>> When working in try/catch languages like JavaScript, I often easily forget which functions can throw. Even if I do remember, it’s easy to think “I think this gets caught somewhere up the call chain”.

...yeah, because what we really need are fckn CHECKED EXCEPION

I really never understood the gate for them. Exceptions can be thrown from a function? Then should be parti of the signature!!!

There are a lot of exceptions that can happen? Good, then keep track of them! Or handle them, or wrap them. With CHECKED exceptions there is no way to work only on the happy path
So... are there any countries in the world that are not socialist by your definition? Maybe China? It has, perhaps, lower taxes and better public schools.
I’m definitely not allowed to say, sorry!
Good luck on that journey and congrats on making it through that dinner.
> he (Musk) doesn’t even know who the customer is! (It’s, um, the ad buyer, stupid.)

Up until now, but ... who wants that really? Ads SUCK. If Ads are the customers, users are the product. I like the idea of turning Twitter into the product.

Why should I listen to a chirp from this guy? He doesn't understand what is happening.
The way I am reading the link, it was 4% of all 3.7 million household burglaries or 148,000 subject to raking.

Regardless, if someone is intent on breaking into a house, I doubt a locked door is going to do anything. Not only are windows abundant, but even exterior doors seem to have gotten cheaper and thinner than days of yore.
This is really enlightening to read. I had no idea people held such notions about digital nomads.

I started my DN life 14 years ago while living in the US. In my company we had a number of remote workers around the country, and servicing clients around the world. Working from home, I realized I didn't have to stay in one place with bad air pollution. So I moved to a ski resort area in Colorado. Initially it was just for a month, but then it became 3 months, and then it became 3 years.

You don't have to go to Bali to be a DN.

And using "resources and connections to wangle living someplace" is not necessary. You are free to go as long as your current boss doesn't object. Do you think this is some kind of special treatment only afforded to a certain group of people?

Even if your boss or company does not explicitly allow you to work from abroad, you can often do it without even being noticed (or as they say, ask for forgiveness instead of permission). If you do your job well, who cares where you are at the moment...

Regarding cost of living, hell yes. In the spirit of capitalism, it would be irresponsible to not live where your money serves you best. If you lived in SF, earning 250k, and paying 3k/mo for an apartment, you could instead live well on the beach in Thailand for 3k in total (less actually). Think of how much you could save if you still earned that 250. And imagine the great food, every day massages, friendly happy people! who don't shoot you, and fantastic weather!

I don't know why I'm telling you all this. It's better for us DNs if the rest of you stay locked in your US lives.

And for those who want to talk about taxes, I have to file in two countries, and I pay 45% total tax rate. Even so, when I work remotely in SEA, I get a lot of quality of life for my work (and I work only a few months at a time, then take a few months off).
That's kind of like putting even money on low, mid, high in roulette.
That sounds terrible, so sorry to hear that. I hope you recover soon!
I used to be a die hard progressive and campaigned for candidates. Liberals used to have the same basic understanding of American principles, culture and constitution as their counterparts. ACLU was pro-free speech. Die hard progressives were about net neutrality, freedom of expression and against 3 letter agencies. It's the 10-20% left has gone way past the basic rationality and is on the same basic scale as QAnon to me. They can't agree on things like biological facts and everything is racist/sexist, trying to force their ideology by supressing free speech. Total lunacy.

May be your tolerance for normal things have diminished and you find normal speech "offensive".

I haven't found anything sexist/racist on Twitter or elsewhere on places like /r/conservative. It's most likely your definition of racist/sexist that's changed.
I knew I’d find you here! Really enjoy following you on Twitter!
Would it be possible to build a business that were completely public and transparent?

Every dollar that was spent would be published publically. All source code would be made free and permissive, open source. Users would always own their own data and could frictionlessly share with each other.

There would be no advertisements. All analytics would require explicit opt in and be visible to the general public.

The app would be localized to all languages, using heuristics and machine learning to perform the bulk of the translations, with human verification.

The app would be an attention focuser, calendar, general search, peer-to-peer connecting, encrypted, public monstrosity. It would be subtle and discrete, running just out of reach of direct human interaction.

u0.vc
I hold that whatever is fair use for an API is not even close to what is fair use for the source of actual implementation, let's see what the court has to say on that.
Hi, I know this isn't a "Who's Hiring" thing but I would like to get some fulltime offers. check my profile for my github. Any recruiters? LUL.
Hello from New Zealand!

I am happily working on my startup/side-gig this weekend:

https://atomictessellator.com

What’s New Zealand like? Imagine if you gave hobbits computers and then travelled 200 years into the future!

If anyone here is in Auckland and would like to geek out sometime hit me up.
I love niche forums like HN because it satisfies my itch for mind expanding content. The closest I got to that was OG StumbleUpon, if you know, you know.

I'm unfortunately not passionate about much nowadays; in treatment for stage 4 cancer, so I'm fairly exhausted all the time. I'm glad I can still maintain my cognitive abilities during chemo so I can still do my job.
It doesn't necessarily mean there are no security pins. I can easily rake open a Master Lock 140D, despite those having spool pins.
I also have the feeling that some of the most vocal “I’m leaving Twitter, Twitter is dead” folks are actually quite toxic and negatively influence the platform. Maybe the experience for those who stay will be improved.
Customers can easily measure the convenience aspect. Your comparisons (let’s say, a high res monitor or powerful engine) have specs consumers can objectively if not easily qualify. With a lock design, security is its raison d’etre. You assume by the time they’re marking the price up hundreds or thousands of percent for secondary features, that they’ve covered the primary one. And unlike say, a 1080p vs 4k display, you kind of have to trust that they did because we don’t have consumer friendly scales for lock design integrity.

You could compare this lock to a good one with a car analogy if it would have taken 2% more cost to turn a Civic into a Mercedes but Honda chose not to. The cost to make this lock reasonably secure isn’t really an issue.
Thank you kind stranger. Appreciate it.
English is so much easier for native German speakers to learn than for native Chinese speakers that it's tough to draw many conclusions from that.

Imagine you studied Chinese for years, moved to China for a job and struggled to read all the documents at work. Then a Japanese person mentioned how at their office at a subsidiary of a Chinese company, they all just read Chinese documents.

While the rationale might be perfectly reasonable, you'd still need more time to adapt because you were crossing a much wider linguistic chasm.