skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If github or google indexes source code using a neural net to help you find it, given a query, is that also illegal? If you think of copilot as something that helps you find code you’re looking for, is it all that different, and if so, why?

In this case, wouldn’t the users of copilot be the ones responsible for any copyrighted code they may have accessed using copilot?
Have you lived there?
I don't think this is possible for co-pilot to do?

(If it was, please tell me how, since that would save me $5/year across multiple libraries..!)
The proper way to think about these LLM is similar to plagiarism.

Seems to me the underlying data should be opt-in from creators and licenses should be developed that take AI into consideratiin.
"Massive missed opportunity" lol. How big is that market compared to the Model S/3 and Model X/Y markets?
Ferro rods are pretty cheap on eBay/aliexpress and they do work. They're a lot more trouble for everyday use though.
In their OpenConnect network they keep the most demanded titles and the latest releases. And IIRC that refreshes nightly (with new releases and whatever is hot that day)

https://openconnect.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600356180...
Some photography wisdom:

* To take more interesting photographs, put yourself in more interesting places
* The best zoom lens is a good pair of sneakers
* The best camera is the one you have with you
* It’s easy to delete extra pictures, but it’s impossible to recreate a moment.
* The pictures are there, and you just take them.
Sure, but given the timetable for changing the law, it still seems pretty reasonable to apply the same standard to Microsoft (and by extension Github) in the meantime
> So when Brexit happened, and all those predictions happened

None of them happened. There weren't rampant food, fuel, and medicine shortages and mass deportations, and Britain didn't become a Mad Max wasteland.

The pound lost a few cents, and then a couple of years later, when everything was dropping against the dollar (because of US interest rate decisions) and all of Europe is having fuel problems for obvious reasons, these things also happened to Britain. What part of not doing Brexit would have prevented this, and how did Brexit also cause these problems in the EU?

This doesn't make all of the Tory/UKIP lies about the benefits of Brexit more truthful, but time shows Remoaner statements about the consequences of Brexit were at least wild exaggerations, if not outright lies themselves.

I would say that Corbyn's 70/30 Remain/Brexit evaluation turned out to be the most realistic assessment, but he was hated and destroyed for it by both the Remoaners and Brexiteers.
Funny that you never see them on the front page.
Oh, come on. Stating pronouns can be really helpful at times. It’s not always just virtue signaling.
> Those for Brexit agreed that there would be up to a decade of economic damage.

Those for Brexit never argued such a thing before it was obvious things were going to be bad. The day before the referendum you had Farage on the radio saying that leaving the single market would be stupid and that the EU would just fold and let the UK in with its own rules. Remember the “pro cake and pro eating it”?
I guess you just decided to jump off the deep end with non-sequitur.

I am black and I didn't say I live in Sudan. Sudan is not in West Africa.

I knew you were white because you said people who think minorities are token hires is something that only happens in movies.

Minorities can be racist, but a white person would be the first to say something so naïve.

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> Your views are white and black and that's not reality. The world is not a movie. Most people in the world are not even white or black. Why are you excluding them?

Scraping the bottom of the barrel until your fingers bleed here... I didn't mention your race until you outed yourself with your ignorant remark.

You're white, I'm black, that's the only reason why white and black were mentioned. Which aspect of my original comment relies on a specific race to be true?

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> Why do you think it is fair to let in less qualified black students over more qualified asian and Indian students?

When you're out of things to say it's best to desperately shove words into your detractor's mouth.
A good camera isn't necessary for a good photo... but it makes it a hell of a lot easier.

For me, upsides of a good camera include:

* More precise control over photographic characteristics (most important for artistic purposes: depth of field and exposure time)
* Higher information-theoretic entropy of image (which leads to better perceived photo quality and more flexibility in post-processing)
* Ability to bypass or customize automation around color science, de-noising, etc. so that you're not stuck with whatever style the device has built in
* ILCs allow you to select a lens and other optical components that match the artistic goals you have in mind (esp. focal length)
> that then reproduces near replica's of my code

Copying a few lines is not the same as copying the whole thing. Sharing quotes from a book is not copyright infringement.
What does DRM have to do with this? They'll connect what you watch on Peacock with what you watch on Netflix on your computer? Do you have a reference?
I am not sure what you mean by context-free languages because literally none of the modern languages have context-free grammars. This includes HTML and XML although I would not call them programming languages per se. C++ grammar is undecidable. On the other hand, TeX's core typesetting language (i.e. not using its macro facilities) is context-free. Quite trivial in fact. Pascal, which is the language used to build TeX is context-free (even LL(1)), as well, which cannot be said about, say, C.

I would also be quite hesitant to claim that Knuth, who literally pioneered modern LR parsing theory (and deservedly got a Turing award for it) somehow lacked knowledge or awareness of cutting edge parser design techniques.

Finally, there is absolutely good reasons to design TeX as Knuth did. That TeX withstood the test of time for over three decades is a perfect testimony to that.
The common practice in copyright cases is to calculate damages based on the theoretical cost that the infringer would have paid if they have bought the rights in the first place. This method was used during the piratebay case to calculate damages caused by the sites founders.

They did not actually calculate damages in terms of lost movie tickets or estimates vs actually sales number of sold game copies. When it came to pre-releases where such product wouldn't have been sold legally in the first place, they simply added a multiplier to indicate that the copyright owner wouldn't have been willing to sell.

For software code, an other practice I have read is to use the man-hours that rewriting copyrighted code would cost. 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.
China is definitely not a “planned economy” in a sense that you meant it. Also, every economy is planned in some sense. Every government plans how much it’s going to make and spend.
That's the goal. To stifle using someone else's work.

Like, copyright laws are also stifling my innovative business creating BluRays of Disney films and selling them on Amazon.
Does this affect SIM swap attacks? (Not sure if that counts as an activation/upgrade.)
Genuinely one of the worst takes I've ever read. I'm not against the 'slippery slope' argument in principle, but this example is ridiculous.
But that isn’t what is being alleged
This reminds me of the SCO vs Linux lawsuits.
I think the commenter you replied to was talking about using the functional, non-copyrightable elements of the copyrighted code. Clean-room is not even required by case law. There's precedent that explicitly calls it out as inefficient.

More important, the rule urged by Sony would require that a software engineer, faced with two engineering solutions that each require intermediate copying of protected and unprotected material, often follow the least efficient solution (In cases in which the solution that required the fewest number of intermediate copies was also the most efficient, an engineer would pursue it, presumably, without our urging.) This is precisely the kind of “wasted effort that the proscription against the copyright of ideas and facts . . . [is] designed to prevent.” (Sony v. Connectix)
In fact that type of spam is more annoying than the BUY @#$@$ NOW generic bot-spam, as it is way more insidious.
I've followed HN through the pandemic and I found it pretty balanced on the lab leak theory. I've personally always been open to the idea and I've not noticed a huge wave of "mob" behaviour either way.
I had the exact same reaction. I have little "README.md" text files scattered about to remind me how to do things and never thought to make an interactive post-it note.
> A programmer can read available but not oss licensed code and learn from it. Thats fair use. If a machine does it, is it wrong ?

Just because both activities are calling "learning" does not mean they are the same thing. They are fundamentally, physically different activities.
Yeah, that's a good argument to fully disprove this as a loss to society, and instead as a gain.
But why is the next step quantum? And why is this the final step?
Australian Cyber Security Centre Annual Cyber Threat Report (2022)
Looks like a really interesting platform with extremely reasonably pricing. I might have to try it out soon.

Question on your 2FA though. It says "Partial" and lists that you don't have app access. What does that mean you do have though? FIDO/webAuthn?

If I was self-hosting the open source version at auth.mydomain.com would I be able to export the data, load it into your cloud offering and point the domain to your service for a hiccup free transition for site users? What about the reverse?

I like what I see so far though. Definitely a project to keep an eye on.
How does it compare to keycloak?
Does that mean any perfectly optimal function is copyright-free?
Cool, two companies, one (Shopify) which saw a huge bump in revenues during COVID thanks to a rise in internet purchasing and is seeing the numbers slump back to normal as shopping habits revert to the mean, and the other (Lyft) that's in an industry that declined throughout COVID due to pandemic concerns and hasn't surged back in the face of competition from both Uber and traditional cabs.

Again: I have data about the entire economy. That data tells a story that's mixed but relatively positive.

You have two specific examples, each of which represent a corner of entire economic sectors, and those sectors represent only a fraction of the total economy.

And I'm supposed to conclude that you're the one who has it right?
> do you mean to post it on the website itself?

Correct. This is why basically every business website has a blog. Think of it as increasing your search surface area.

> value-add of hiring a digital marketing agency versus doing the work myself

I dunno, man. An agency can be crazy expensive for very few results. But then again, asking me is like asking a construction worker if they would ever hire a general contractor for a project. It's only a ripoff if you know how to do it.

Personally, if you don't mind acting as your own PM, you can get a lot of good, affordable work done on Fiverr or Upwork. Things like the graphic design and writing. Then make sure you build something that acts as a lead/customer funnel so you can track everything.

Actual social media/ad strategy is going to really depend on your market. If you don't want to spend a lot of time figuring that out, at least find an agency that specializes in your market/vertical and make sure you are paying for results and not just work done.
They have three examples, and all of them ended with the person leaving; it just sounded to me like they were implying that the person leaving represented a failure on their part as a moderator. That, had they moderated better, they could've prevented people leaving.
> The best zoom lens is a good pair of sneakers

I don't like this one, because it implies that you never want to change focal length for artistic/aesthetic effects, but this is one of the most important characteristics you can change!
No, any job is just a method to exchange labor for money. I expect nothing from them but to keep their end of the bargain. I keep myself in a position where I just need a job, not the specific job.

A job is not a marriage. I’ve been through many “uncertain times” in over 25 years.

I depend on my savings, network, skillset, updated resume and updated career document, not “trusting” a for profit company.
> A programmer can read available but not oss licensed code and learn from it. Thats fair use. If a machine does it, is it wrong ?

You can learn from it, but if you start copying snippets or base your code on it to such an extent that its clear your work is based on it, things start to get risky.

For comparison, people have tried to get around copyright of photos by hiring an illustrator to "draw" the photo, which doesn't work legally. This situation seems similar.
For sure. I am not going to drop 1k + VAT based on hype alone.

The reason I am not even considering nvidia is the 4080 12gb shenanigans. Simply cannot tolerate attempts like that. Straight up offensive
“Responsible” according to whom? As if everyone agrees. Hint: we all have our own opinions.

You’re free to give away your money as you see fit, but man, such sanctimonious and collectivizing language is lame.
>Also we're not allowed to remember that just a year ago the UK was crushing Europe in vaccine access so badly the EU was openly talking about seizing British assets to try and catch up; the unique performance of the UK in this area was due to it ignoring the EU joint acquisition programme.

It's only you guys that made this a competition in the first place. If anything it's good for you this whole episode has been memory holed since it made the UK look like a bunch of selfish pricks. Meanwhile the UK had the highest number of total COVID deaths per capita in Western Europe.
This sounds like work to me

> For booting the computers, I either boot them from Ethernet or I boot them from a small USB memory that uses a FAT file system for storing the OS kernel, either in the format required by UEFI booting, or, when booting Linux in legacy BIOS mode, together with syslinux, which loads the kernel.

Creating boot USB drives (which I think need partitions don't they?) or setting up a PXE boot server would take me a lot more effort than an extra minute with gdisk to create partitions before formatting the disk.
I've seen those, but they cost a fortune. Even the smallest 32core CPU with 128GB RAM and a couple of nvme ssds costs more than 10k.
Static types are not required for things like type inference and optimizing compilers. It's just that many dynamic languages are not written with performance in mind, and have semantics that make optimization impossible.

Julia was designed from the ground up to have C level performance, and well written Julia code does that easily in throughput focused scenarios.

Julia's intermediate representation which it compiles dynamic code down to is statically typed, and any dynamism just manifests itself as the compiler waiting until the types are resolved at runtime before running again and generating new specialized code.

If your code is written so that the types are all inferrable, there's no pauses.
Copilot does include the licenses...

Start off a comment with // MIT license

Then watch parts of various software licenses come out including authors' names and copyrights!
bruh, come on! you're gonna ruin it for the rest of us
When starting to think about how to transition to a solo founder a few years back, there were so many thoughts going through my mind.

In this blog post, I tried to outline my thoughts on transitioning from employed developer to solo founder and how you can start your journey.

If you are already a solo founder - how did your journey look?

If you are an employee wanting to transition to solo founder - what is your plan to get there?
Amperity in Seattle uses Clojure
AstraZeneca password lapse exposed patient data
They determined the other `isEven()` function was cribbed from Eloquent Javascript because of matching comments. I wonder if the complaint just left off telltale comments from that Mastering JS one?
Jotain suomessa ?
That was out of abundance of caution, not based on any legal precedent.

In fact, the little precedent that exists over learning from copyrightable code is in favor of it.

More important, the rule urged by Sony would require that a software engineer, faced with two engineering solutions that each require intermediate copying of protected and unprotected material, often follow the least efficient solution (In cases in which the solution that required the fewest number of intermediate copies was also the most efficient, an engineer would pursue it, presumably, without our urging.) This is precisely the kind of “wasted effort that the proscription against the copyright of ideas and facts . . . [is] designed to prevent.” (Sony v. Connectix)
I have taken this approach for secondary drives where I want to use the entire drive as a big filesystem for data.

For the system disk I have always partitioned it though. I generally create at least /, /var, /home, and /usr. That way it's less likely that a runaway process can fill up the entire disk, at worst it might fill up /home or /var.

And unless I'm really space-constrained, I'll leave some unpartitioned space as well, for later flexibility.
I think of things like: a cooperative is unlikely to ship all their jobs overseas, so they will invest locally in the business instead. They will probably also be less inclined to pollute because the decisions are not made by people who live in the fancy clean neighborhood, but live all over the area.
Recruiters are always willing to waste your time especially since their job is to provide their employers options, and besides they need their pay as well. If they aren't recruiting, then they aren't justifying their own salaries. So while you might be getting interview or connection requests, that doesn't correlate to actual hiring.
This kind of sentiment always shows up in this kind of thread; I think a lot of people don't really grok that being far enough to one side causes an unbiased forum to appear biased against you. If you hate X enough, Reddit and Twitter are going to seem pro-X, regardless of what X is.

(And, separately, almost no one who argues about anything being "communist" is using the same definition of that word as the person they're arguing with, but that's a different problem entirely)
I do think it's good advice for folks just getting into photography that you don't have to have every lens to get close to the image you want.
Eh, we might go there, but I don't think the core algorithm that's running in our heads has much to do with quantum-level.
Now private messages can land you in prison
Is it? A similarly casual clause in the OCB license prevented OCB from being used by the military for many years (granted, it prevented OCB from being used almost everywhere else, too).

I have no idea if this license language works or doesn't, but this is hardly the least productive subthread on this story. It's concrete and specific, and we can learn stuff from it.
Wine/Proton are safe because there is controlling 9th and SCOTUS precedent in favor of reimplementation of APIs.

The reason why those wouldn't apply to Copilot is because they aren't separating out APIs from implementation and just implementing what they need for the goal of compatibility or "programmer convenience". AI takes the whole work and shreds it in a blender in the hopes of creating something new. The hope of the AI community is that the fair use argument is more like Authors Guild v. Google rather than Sony v. Connectix.
IRC had tons of independent little servers doing their own thing.

We have huge companies spanning the entire globe; if you get banned from one you're out world-wide.

This is where federation can help, IF it truly is a bunch of smaller servers rather than ending up one large one.
Yes, that added clause is nonsense. On top of being nonsense, there is significant precedent.

Remember the lawsuit of HiQ labs vs LinkedIn? Scraping, or viewing public data on a public webpage is legal.

https://gizmodo.com/linkedin-scraping-data-legal-court-case-...
But if I refresh liberally, most/all of the sync problems go away ?
Each of the examples had something bad happen in the lead-up to the person leaving.
We've come all the way around on the poor old Lubitel: hipsters now crave them because of the "swirly" bokeh. Some examples here[1].

[1]: https://wkoopmans.ca/notebook/?p=15347#
Do the TypeScript team code with their eyes closed?
Yeah, there's definitely quite a bit of evidence. But also, they're better - not perfect. The issue you pointed to is real and does happen. But it's not as ubiquitous as "investor funding companies putting aside all other concerns in pursuit of profit" and the harms that stem from it tend to be more contained.
the experimental Servo browser engine

How is building a new browser engine not supporting Firefox?
Very good point about the "fog of war". If HN had a reply-notification feature, it would probably look differently. Every now and then someone builds a notification feature as an external service. I wonder if you can measure change in the behavior of people before and after they've started using it?

Of course, that also soft-forces everyone to move on. Once a thread is a day or two old, you can still reply, but the person you've replied to will probably not read it.
There has been a labour shortage for years now in these sectors. It hasn’t helped their situation and both pubs and shops keep closing. These people have few reasons to be happy.
> I should probably declare configuration bankruptcy and try starting over from scratch.

Give Doom a try. Even if you're not a Vim (Evil) user. What I like about Doom, is that it has nice package management and an easy-to-navigate structure of modules. Also, it has a relatively small core and doesn't get in the way of you changing things around. It includes CLI tool you can use to update packages and verify the validity of your config. And because of macros like map!, after!, add-hook!, defadvice!, undefadvice!, add-transient-hook!, cmd!, etc. it seriously cuts down a lot of boiler-plate in the config.

I don't even use most of the "official" modules included, I use them as some kind of recipes to borrow ideas from. If for any reason in the future, I decide to leave Doom and build my config from scratch, I probably still end up using a bunch of things from its core.
I wrote that exact function the other day, and I've never even heard of that book.
Any function devoid of "creativity" is. No choices equal no creativity.

As a note the same applies to logos. Very simple logos that are only some lines and shapes, do not have copyright (in usa)
I don’t quite agree. Msft took a conservative approach to copyright to protect their own business.

Meanwhile open source software has had an immeasurable benefit to society. My computer, tv, phone, light bulb, etc all benefit from OSS—running various licenses, and only a subset using a copyleft like license.