skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Musk's acquisition of twitter was, among many other things, an attempt to use his wealth to steer the marketplace of ideas. The man lives in a world where he can freely attempt to destroy anyone who tells him "no" without consequence. The New York Times, then, would seem to have been fully warranted in their apprehension regarding social giants like twitter.
This is not a thread for lawyers to discuss only.
Half the countries in the EU don't use the Euro. Many economists recommend against a currency union without possibility of fiscal transfers to deal with asymmetric shocks, predicting what happened in the years after 2008.
> I personally predict that a year from now, a lot of companies (especially ones in the tech sector fueled by immense amounts of cheap debt and the assumption ad revenue always goes up) will collapse.

That is likely the wrong prediction.

The thing to be worried about is stuff like commercial real estate and all the vacancies in places like downtown SF and Portland (plus Mall vacancies and everything else--other than self-storage of course).

Those vacancies are currently being floated on cheap debt and rolling that over is going to get much more expensive. But it takes time to push a business into insolvency, so the delay you cite is certainly real.

That can rollover into a financial crisis via CMBS.

I doubt that this recession will be primarily about tech, although it might hit tech harder than 2008 did. I doubt it changes anything fundamentally about the tech sector though other than clearing out some unsustainable companies with high debt-to-equity ratios.
At this point we are back in the territory that the idea and the expression of the idea are inseparable, therefore the conclusion will be that copyright protection does not apply to code.

Personally I think this has the potential to blow up in everyones faces.
"Without attribution" is a condition of the licence that applies to third-parties. It is not a condition of the licence that applies to Github.
> There is not a understood natural phenomenon which we could not capture in math.

If all you have is a hammer...

The nature of consciousness is an open question. We don't know whether the brain is equivalent to a Turing machine.
Looking at the Witcher 2, 3 and CP2077, I'm highly skeptical that the engine was the problem.

I also have my doubts if they would haven been able to do the same thing better on older consoles with Unreal Engine.

Most of the worst issues with CP2077 have nothing to do with the game engine, things like the NPC AI and broken difficulty curve, the rough melee combat and hiring a shady testing company.

The one thing that could be blamed on the engine is the potentially difficult tooling for the content creators, which can easily be solved, just look at the amount of mods out there.

From the outside, this looks more like a business decision rather than a technical one, that's not to say that it could not work out for CDPR if Epic works with them very closely, however I'm very annoyed when games journalists imply that CP2077 would have been amazing at launch if they would have used Unreal.
Perfectionism with a hint of imposter syndrome.
I’m a college student right now with not a lot of extra time on my hands, but occasionally I have an idea for a blog post. When that idea comes, I search for other blogs on the topic and think, “wow, what a great blog post… I don’t think I’d be adding much in my own words.” Then I don’t write anything.
Anybody struggle with this? If so, how do you overcome it?
My pet (uneducated) theory is that AI needs to have a parent layer "consciousness" before it can become an AGI. Think of that voice inside your head and your ability to control bodily functions without needing to do it all the time. My model is our brains have many specialized "sub AIs" operating all the time (remembering to breathe for example) but then the AI behind the voice can come in and give commands that override the lower level AIs. What you think of as "me" is really just that top level AI but the whole system is needed to achieve general intelligence. Sort of like a company with many levels of employees serving different functions and a CEO to direct the whole thing, provide goals, modify components, and otherwise use discretion.
The only reason that seems far right to you is that the Overton window has radically shifted. Not being beholden to the EU and controlling your borders was perfectly normal 30 years ago.

Hell, the whole “not letting anyone in just because they claim to be a refugee” aspect was normal in Europe…10 years ago?
It might be. If your brain generated verbatim someone's code without following its license, you would also break copyright, wouldn't you?
Yes, but we aren't here talking about whether copyright should exist. We're talking about whether Copilot violates it.
Not sure if I'm missing a subtle nuance in your point but to me those "artifacts" are completely expected. Those artifacts like 3 arms are the patterns / outputs in the model, but since it doesn't have a fundamental understanding of the patterns/objects like arms, it just blends many images of arms together and create things like 3 arms. Also why there are so many eyes, arms, legs and other things in other generative programs. It just spits out the training set in random configurations (ish).

I suspect also the reason the images look OK at a glance is because the images as a whole also represent patterns in the model so they actually come from "real life" / artist created images and thus have some sense of cohesion. But making the AI have all the right patterns so it never makes a mistake at all scales of the image while also being able to combine the pattern with real understanding of what they are conceptually is the real trick but until then it will be a "salad bowl collage" thing at random intervals.

The closest thing to the brain it looks like to me is simply the hierarchical nature of it which seems similar to v1/v2/the vision system in humans but I've only been told that, I'm no neuroscientist.
What narrative is there to control? It's not like Twitter was about to put a big post out saying we fired him. He put all of this out their on his own. He wouldn't even need to bring up being fired in interviews, just say he left
But isn’t that argument just an organizational one? You don’t have to use the parts you don’t want.

And narrowing the toolset is impossible without dictating terms to others on what tools they don’t get.

One loose analogy is that 99% of stuff in Home Depot I won’t need. But it all makes my walk a bit longer and makes finding stuff harder and there’s probably some tools I didn’t know about that would make my life easier. But should I advocate that a lot of it should be eliminated?
Related: why many calendar "reforms" never catch on: who wants to have their birthday fall on a Tuesday every year of their life ?
I use borg with a Hetzner storage box [0]. Works very well for me.

[0] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box?country=us
I find titles such as this one offensive. Who is "we"? Because everyone who isn't a complete idiot knows that animals are not stupid. Crows, cats, dogs, pigs, snakes, insects - clearly not stupid.

Arrogance seems like the major component but it binds really well with ignorance. As a kid, it never occurred to me that certain creatures appear dumb because they have trouble navigating our world. Well, no shit. Almost nothing is built to help anyone but us. Animals do not have the same vision or hearing as us. Doesn't make them stupid.
Dang it. I was coming back to delete that comment. It was a stupid one.
Use a 'site:<domain>' restriction for a more precise search:

<https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aeverything2.com+when+having...>

Raw:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aeverything2.com+when+having+sex+in
> What's happened is that they have mistaken their own resentment at journalists' unearned checkmark privilege for something that journalists themselves care deeply about and are either willing to pay for or are mad that other people will be able to buy.

This is telepsychology.
Let's take the core points at the end in reverse order:

> 3: Could you still moderate if you canʻt read the language?

Except, moderators do read the language. If think it is pretty self-serving to say that users views of moderation decisions are biased by content but moderators views are not.

> 2: Freedom of speech was NEVER the issue (c.f. spam)

Spam isn't considered a free speech issue because we generally accept that spam moderation is done based on behavior in a content-blind way.

This doesn't magically mean that any given moderation team isn't impinging free speech. Especially when there are misinformation policies in place which are explicitly content-based.

> 1: It is a signal-to-noise management issue

Signal-to-noise management is part of why moderation can be good, but it doesn't even justify the examples from the twitter thread. Moderation is about creating positive experiences on the platform and signal-to-noise is just part of that.

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> because that's what everyone expects to happen and plans for.

generals are always fighting the last war.
> Musk deserves credit for avoiding that 4th failure, but that's not the same as saying the business was viable without govt support. That's where I think you're initial response is off the mark.

You can't seem to understand that NASA offer is not the same as closing the company without it. While NASA offer was nice, I never heard Musk saying certainly that without that offer - after Falcon-1 flew successfully - SpaceX would close.

Government takes risk just like commercial companies take risk. Nothing unusial here. Taking such risk means that some ventures will fail, but overall it will get better than without taking risk.
Pretty locked down as far as I know. I really just use it stock out of the box and connect it to my Strava account. Strava does have a pretty cool API though.

https://developers.strava.com/

The Coros I have was around $400USD refurbished on Amazon. I considered the Apple Watch Ultra which was nearly 2x the price but wanted something made by a company focused on runners rather than a consumer products company making a running watch.

Overall I’ve been extremely happy with it as a semi-serious runner.
https://letterboxd.com is the best source for scoping out a movie now. The ratings histogram for each film is incredibly informative about quality. It also happens to be my favorite social network right now since it's so focused.
One of the authors here! Great to see some discussion in the paper. Your summary of computer Go vs human rule sets seems right to me. But I think there might be a slight misunderstanding. We had friendlyPassOk set to false for all of our evaluation except one game which was played not against our adversarial policy, but one of my co-authors Tony who was trying to mimick the adversarial policy.

We evaluated KataGo under Tromp-Taylor with "self-play optimizations" described in https://lightvector.github.io/KataGo/rules.html which basically involves removing stones that can be proved to be dead using Benson's algorithm. This was the same evaluation used in the KataGo paper, and KataGo trained using these rule sets. (KataGo was also trained with some other rules -- it was randomized during training so it transfers across rules, and KataGo gets the rules as input.)

You might find this discussion of our paper at https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/yjryrd/com... by the lead author of KataGo interesting. He wasn't that concerned about the rule set, primary concern was that we evaluate in a low-search regime, which is a fair critique. But he overall agrees with our conclusion that self-play just cannot be relied upon to produce robust policies sufficiently OOD.
> These essays are not all terrifying verdicts on the fate of a corrupted humanity.

Those of us who've physically visited Hibbing are unconcerned about such verdicts, "Elston Gunn".
I thought it was simultaneously annoying and interesting so it sort of cancelled itself out.
what would you map those buttons to?
Trudeau Vows 2% Tax on Buybacks, Boosts Clean-Tech Credits
Fair enough. Sorry if I sounded pushy in my initial comment.
True, that’s another good point.
I was thinking of something similar as a counter argument and lo and behold, it’s a real thing maths has solved with a real implementation.
Attribution and inclusion of copies of licenses are stipulations in almost all of the popular open source licenses, including BSD and MIT licenses.
D-fructose and D-glucose interconvert in basic environment.
You cannot convert L-glucose to D-glucose and vice-versa.
>Explain yourself.

Why? Burden of proof is on you.
Licenses get to set terms of redistribution. But training of the ML model -- the thing described by your #3 -- is not redistribution (imho). So maybe it's as unenforceable as saying left-handed people can't read your code.

The redistribution happens later, either when copilot blurps out some of your code, or when the copilot user then distributes something using that code (I'm curious which). At that point, whether some use of your code is infringing your license doesn't depend on the path the code took, does it? (in which case #3 is moot)
I think in the case of open source code, most of it still would have been written if no copyright protections existed.
Wedding Photographer Says More Clients Are Requesting Blurry Pictures
They were missing a blockchain!
Yeah, it's interesting how much reddit's content moderation at a site-wide level is basically the opposite of what he said in this thread. Yeah, good content moderation should be about policing behavior... so why weren't notorious brigading subs banned?
This. Or they ship you something that is defective, worth far less, etc., etc.
> which Copilot doesn't have a license to distribute

when you upload code to a public repository on github.com, you necessarily grant GitHub the right to host that code and serve it to other users. the methods used for serving are not specified. This is above and beyond the license specified by the license you choose for your own code.

you also necessarily grant other GitHub users the right to view this code, if the code is in a public repository.
I mean remember when the wuhan lab thing was a total conspiracy theory. Or when masks were supposedly (not airborne) not needed and you just had to wash your hands more. All sorts of fringe stuff sometimes turns out to be true. But you know sometimes you get pizzagate but it’s the price we pay.
It burned through 20% of that cash in one quarter and we're not even really in a recession yet...
> The cost of being a jerk online is too low - it's almost entirely free of any consequences.

Couldn't agree more here.

Going back to the "US Postal service allows spam" comment made by Yishan, well yes, the US postal service will deliver mail that someone has PAID to have delivered, they've also paid to have it printed. There's not a zero cost here and most businesses will not send physical spam if there weren't at least some return on investment.

One big problem not even touched by Yishan is vote manipulation, or to put it in your terms, artificially boosted reputation. I consider those to be problems with the platform. Unfortunately, I haven't yet seen a platform that can solve the problem of "you, as an individual, have ONE voice". It's too easy for users to make multiple accounts, get banned, create a new one, etc.

At the same time, nobody who's creating a platform for users will want to make it HARDER for users to sign up. Recently Blizzard tried to address this (in spirit) by forcing users to use a phone number and not allowing "burner numbers" (foolishly determined by "if your phone number is pre-paid"). It completely backfired for being too exclusionary. I personally hate the idea of Blizzard knowing and storing my phone number. However, the idea that it should be more and more difficult or costly for toxic users to participate in the platform after they've been banned is not, on its own, a silly idea.
Would you use an AI text generator to write a thesis? No, there's a risk a whole chunk of it will be considered plagiarism because you have no idea what the source of the AI output is, but you know it was trained with unknown copyrighted material. This has nothing to do with the way humans learn, it's about correct attribution.

There is no technical reason why Microsoft can't respect licenses with Copilot. But that would mean more work and less training input, so they do code laundering and excuse it with comparisons to human learning because making AI seem more advanced than it is has always worked well in marketing.

Edit: And where do you draw the line between "learning" and copying? I can train a network to exactly reproduce licensed code (or books, or movies) just like a human can memorize it given enough time - and both of those would be considered a copyright violation if used without correct attribution. If you trained an AI model with copyrighted data you will get copyrighted results with random variation which might be enough to become unrecognizable if you're lucky.
If only you could, with Word docs. Sadly you can't in any meaningful way.
Nobody wants to answer this, because to mention a controversial topic is to risk being accused of supporting it.

You could look at what famous people have gotten into trouble over. Alex Jones or Kanye West. I assume there have been others, but those two were in the news recently.
We need a more permissive MIT- or BSD-style license.

The GPL is good for some purposes, but too restrictive for others.
Is google supposed to be a positive or negative example here, that is with all the recent complaints about SEO spam and search quality dropping?
The fact that the laws are inconsistent and expensive to defend against leads companies like Microsoft to take this conservative approach that slows down progress.
One of the authors here! We evaluated our matches using KataGo. In fact, our adversary is just a forked version of KataGo. We use the same modified Tromp-Taylor rules for eval. We elaborate on that more in the Reddit thread you link at [3]

Our Tweet was confusing: 280 character limit means something had to be cut, but this has caused confusion in a bunch of places, so we should have been more precise here -- sorry about that!
I commented on another comment discussing this and they thought the opposite. I also thought it was relatively a good idea, albeit distracting.
This criticism could be applied to Discord (Nitro), Youtube (Premium), and Snapchat (Plus). Heck, even Tinder to some extent. Twitter isn't the first to do something like this.

I'm not sure how viable a source of income it will be but I have no doubt there are users who are willing to pay for it.
And Computer Modern Roman is as ugly as fudge.
There is quite a bright line between "needing to spend a significant amount of money to be allowed to fly somewhere" and "needing to spend a significant amount of money to be allowed to vote".

In case you hadn't noticed, there are places in the US where the process of applying for and receiving a government-approved ID is much harder (in terms of time and money) for some groups of people than for others, and (not coincidentally) the groups most likely to be disproportionately burdened are the groups who are more likely to vote for the party in opposition to the one that introduced these rules.
It's worth reading the passage in its entirety and how a court would interpret it:

> We need the legal right to do things like host Your Content, publish it, and share it

> This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service, except that as part of the right to archive Your Content, GitHub may permit our partners to store and archive Your Content in public repositories in connection with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault and GitHub Archive Program.

If Copilot is straight-up reproducing work, and it is a service that users have to pay to use, then it seems like Copilot is "sell[ing] your content" and thus the license does not apply.

More generally, a court is likely to look at the plain English summary and judge. Copilot is not an integral part of "the service" as developers understood it before Copilot existed.
>" If you don't know who the useless colleague is, it's probably you!"

My problem is that I have an almost crippling sense of impostor syndrome and I undervalue my contributions constantly. I don't feel entirely useless, but I do feel like an under-performer - despite probably being an average developer in my cohort.
True you don’t want to advertise on anti China stuff (even if true)
It wasn't a point in time. I was laid off a couple weeks after 9/11--and there were many subsequent layoffs at many companies through ensuing weeks and months. It probably began around Spring of 2000. I was at an analyst conference around that time when Cisco reported down-earnings.
Actually these new Ford vans do no get great gas mileage at all. I've owned a 2016 (lived in for 2 years), a 2022 and soon a 2023. The AWD High roof model gets 14-16 mpg before you mess with tires. I'm guessing this Trail model with the 3.5" lift and 30+inch tires will be 12mpg or less. 12-15mpg is a really easy target to hit with lots of massive vehicle platforms...
Tesla and SpaceX are not traditional members of the "tech" industry imo.
In short, in my experience it's good for toy projects but nothing "heavy"
Back in my XDA developer days I think the preferred terms were soft-brick (that can be recovered by reflashing the device) versus hard-brick (that puts the device in an unrecoverable state)
You can get a gizmo called a Chargie that lets your phone control charge rate and max charge% over Bluetooth to this little interposer dongle that sits between the charger and phone. Getting enough to equip all my usual charge points would exceed the cost of a replacement battery, but I guess if they last for more than one phone it's possibly worthwhile.
Rates don't have to rise any more to cause a recession. Holding rates at this level should be more than enough. And Powell has indicates that they're going to go higher than expected and likely hold it there longer than the street expects.

You should really listen to him rather than your own ideas about what the CPI is going to do.
I'm in the exact same position. Only now that my 5-inch 16:9 from 2016 completely died (and I can't get replacement batteries anywhere) did I begrudgingly buy a Pixel 4a.
Lap? Reset? The buttons on there only talk to the OS, apps don't have their own buttons to use.
I think all this just revolves around humans being generally insane and emotionally unstable. Technology just taps into this, exposes it, and connects it to others.
People would likely not share any code if they could not trust that their work would be respected, and attributed. So yes, I believe it to be fundamental to open source.
That's rubbish.

There were some grassroots efforts around 2015 to make the mod log public and transparent (so it'd say what was removed, by who, and optionally why), but it was unfortunately opt-in and never gained large adoption.
This would've not impacted you, if you did move - they stop offering the feature to new customers, but will keep it working for existing users.

I've had a couple of free emails with custom domains setup probably 15 years ago (Microsoft went through a few different names for this service since) and they work to this day. The only difference is I can't create new email accounts in the custom domains.
One reason that 3DO consoles were expensive is that the manufactures made nothing from game sales, unlike most consoles. There was a fee for making 3DO games, but it was small and only went to the 3DO company, not the manufactures.