skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried fastmail once when I was looking for a new provider. Free trial, they said. So I created an account, switched over my MX records, changed my mail client, etc. Seemed fine.

That is, until I received an email from my father. I couldn't open it. It was so perplexing that I eventually opened a ticket with support to see what I screwed up. Turns out their "free trial" only worked with other fastmail addresses until verified my account. The only supported method of verification was to create a paid account. Support wouldn't or couldn't help until I verified. I was pretty pissed; felt like I got bait and switched. What good is a trial that only works with a service that (relatively) very few people use? I closed my account, moved to purelymail, and haven't looked back.

I still have no idea what email my dad sent me. They might be a great service otherwise, but this gave me a very sour experience.
I just hope it doesn't end in Microsoft paying some (from their perspective) small fine that is just the cost of doing business.
Getting rid of the ICE should be triggering a pre-Cambrian explosion of creative car design but so far, everything is just a bigger box on wheels. No doubt this BYD model will have impressive specs, but rewards have surely got to come for the manufacturer who can put some curves back into cars. Industry needs a Jonny Ives
In theory. But in practice, the tradesman hours would be so underpaid compared to SWE hours that I'd either want back into SWE full-time or to have those hours completely free of work as personal & family time. The opportunity costs here don't work out. Spending time away from my family for less money is not a good deal.

Health is the opportunity cost otherwise, but it's hard to price health. And I don't mean that it's priceless; the price is ambiguous - is my health worth less or more than what half my salary buys me?

For software engineers, this is a difficult question to answer. If I were working an entry-level job, my health would be more valuable to me. If I were at the peak of professional development (a figurehead at a massive company or someone whose work changes the world), my work would be more important. SWE work makes a lot of money, but somewhere in the range of where I value my health.

How much $ a year is your health worth to you? Not a rhetorical question, would be interesting to see some answers if anyone can come up with a figure.
I’m surprised it’s taken this long to see something like this on HN.

Maybe something like this could be a propellant for legitimate copyright reform.
I worked on a hay farm for a few years, and I constantly had injuries to my back muscles. Other employees had constant knee pain and neck pain. Nobody that worked there looked healthy. I was always tired and hated going to work. I feel way healthier working in tech.
Did your home have poor ventilation? I don't know if I need to worry about this as each of my rooms has (modern I think) vents.
The range of possible outcomes is enormous, I'll just wait by the sidelines but cherish the thought that moving out of GitHub when Microsoft bought it was the right decision. They can't be trusted, this has been proven over and over again and yet people keep falling for it. It's the fox guarding the chickens. I wrote about my misgivings at the time:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/what-is-wrong-with-microsoft-buy...
The assumption is that "the first to climb K2" is the same as "the first to discover America" i.e. a racial achievement masquerading as a human achievement.
Time for your provider to run Whisper on all your voicemails to transcribe them to text, then ask ChatGPT to summarize them and send you a daily summary & transcript.
Yes. The law is worthless for jobs that have complex pay structure. I wonder if this will cause a shift toward more variable comp in jobs that traditionally didn't have it. That would not be good for workers.
Nah, that's emacs you're thinking of ;)
But why stop there? What's the difference between Microsoft, Google, Meta, and OpenAI in this regard?

All of those build their models based on the same sources and it's therefore a much more general issue than just one particular company being sued.
If it reaches a decision, I’m curious how it will affect “education”. If you study a hundred repos to learn how to do a thing, and then produce something of your own that happens to be similar (because that’s how you learned), are you under any particular obligations?

One hopes Oracle et al are not further inspired by such an outcome.
An epic battle between the growth PM, the revenue PM, and legal
I've got a slew of different computers doing different things. All of them are networked together via Tailscale.

Ubuntu 22.04 Server for the host, everything else runs in LXC containers. This is all setup on ZFS.

- https://znc.in/ IRC bouncer

- https://caddyserver.com/ Caddy Webserver for a few personal websites

- https://github.com/AndroidKitKat/waifupaste.moe/ My personal pastebin

- https://transmissionbt.com/ Torrent client that I actually use for Linux ISOs. Primarily seed different versions of Ubuntu and the latest Arch. I am looking to seed other, lesser-seeded distros, too.

- It also runs Samba

A second, dedicated computer also running Ubuntu Server 22.04. It only runs https://pleroma.social for me and a few of my friends.

A third computer, this time an M1 Mac Mini that is my Plex box. It's running the latest version of macOS Ventura and runs all the *arrs and qBittorrent. It also runs Plex itself, because it's one of the only computers that I found that was low power enough but still supported hardware transcoding in Plex. I've been meaning to find a replacement for it running Linux + an AMD GPU (I have an rx470 sitting around somewhere), but no real good deals have turned up.
Steve Ballmer once called Linux and the GPL License a cancer because to copy a portion of code from a copyleft project, minimal as it may be, would make the whole project require a copyleft license.

If Github Co-Pilot includes GPL code then produced works should have GPL too, right? It is known that it produces verbatim copies of sections of code, so the 'derivative' explanation doesn't hold water.

Alternatives may be to copy CC0-only (which can't be guaranteed, also who'd believe you lol) or target license-only - as in, if my project is MIT, go with MIT projects to source from, if I'm GPL, include GPL and so on.
when does part 3 come out where you talk about Training GPT-3?
Just pfsense, transmission, samba and a valheim server.
I'm wondering why WotC/Hasbro isn't seeing the danger here - abusing your monopoly is how you get shut down by antitrust !
I think https://github.com/quick-lint/cpp-vs-rust/blob/f8d31341f5cac... indicates Rust is using Mold too. And I get the impression that the thing unit being benchmarked is a single crate—that is, one crate 8×, 16×, 24× the size (which puts the burden on the compiler, in areas that don’t parallelise well), rather than 8×, 16×, 24× as many crates (which puts the weight on the linker and on well-parallelised parts of the compiler).

On the hardware in question, which has loads of cores, I’m very confident that Rust would fare considerably better with 24 17.1k-line crates (410k lines, larger due to duplicating the entire thing rather than just the lexer) than with the one 104.4k-line crate apparently tested.
Thanks, I think the gant format might be too restricting in the end, but I'll see how far I can get.
> “Your honor, we needed so many works that it was simply not practical to ask permission of the creators.” I don’t find this argument convincing given the ability today to license many content types at scale for TDM, including images, music and yes, journal articles (See “Full disclosure” above), but it is an argument often offered by infringers.

Why is this type of argument even valid? Isn't this fundamentally saying, "The cost of not infringing copyright is massive, so we will glibly infringe!"

So it is not okay to infringe copyright at a small scale but okay to do it in a large scale? How can such a line of argument be sensible in court? But apparently infringers are using this line of argument. So how? Is it not absurd?
Just subscribed. Looks useful!
Has there been a law suit filed on the image generation side? Dalle and Stable Diffusion trained on images on the web, a lot of which weren't even freely licensed. So I would think similar legal arguments would apply there.
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Seconded. I hadn't heard that he'd gone.
What is good about the massage gun?
On HN, it is generally considered polite to add a disclaimer to a post where you discuss your own company.
I wrote a ruby script that kills all chrome processes that take more than x
amount of memory, so my browser tabs and windows become placeholders for the links without taking huge amounts of memory..
What recent information about FAANG (and presumably Twitter) pushed you over the edge? Genuine question in case it comes across sharp, for all those except Netflix I haven't respected their business practices or ethics for at least a decade.

The UI/UX problems of Mastodon really are due to the federation model, they aren't inevitable when moving away from a corporate walled garden. Bit of a dead horse on HN, but RSS really does most of what Mastodon does better, throw in WebMentions and you have all the social features too. To the original thread here, it's be very cool to see indieweb support on omg.lol since everyone gets a subdomain and webpage already!
News of the metaverse can either be exciting or nauseating. On one hand, visionaries look forward to a more connected and immersive future. On the other hand, critics warn of useless technologies and dangerous investments. Although there is a great deal of controversy in the metaverse for business, there is a wealth of opportunity in the technologies that surround it. Let's figure out how businesses can use the metaverse trend.
full screen popup/overlay "Sign up for daily email alerts"

This popup appears within a half second of the page loading. It's so abrupt and disruptive to my mind. My eyes have JUST located where to start reading and then BAM THIS GIANT POPUP TAKES OVER THE SCREEN.

I'm exiting your page immediately. I don't care if you have a free recipe for alchemy. I wish I had an easy way to outright block the domain so I could keep track of the offenders.

Popups and overlays have ruined the modern web.
I ended up using an extension called Tabs Aside (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabs-aside/) and watch later for this. Then have an extension to open a random bookmark or shuffle through the watch later playlist.

It's not so much about hoarding as much as it is about a broader range of content. The internet can only be focused on discussing so many things in a day. I find that not saving news articles and current events really helps in this regards to maintain a useful list of things to read through that might be worth learning about more or exploring.
I would imagine the FBI to be able to trace the holders of all the big withdrawals through the blockchain.
That's a good point, but the subject of the thread is Microsoft. I'm pretty sure that Google will happily train their models on the contents of your Gmail account, I wouldn't trust Facebook with my birthdate and OpenAI is likely doing the exact same thing.

But that doesn't make it right in this case and, conveniently, someone has decided to bring suit. The funny thing is that Microsoft depends on Copyright law for their existence and now they want to change the rules to favor them when it suits them. In fact one of the first things that Bill Gates ever did that I remember is bitch about people copying the software that he wrote.
A traditional videogame controller is not much more than a few switches and perhaps a few potentiometers, see for instance the pinout for the Master System: https://www.smspower.org/Development/ControllerPort

That is, someone who started playing videogames in the SMS/NES days might have formed a mental model of the controller being mostly a passive device, with at most a few active chips to multiplex the pins in the interface, to allow for more buttons than there are pins.
Does omg.lol support any indieweb features like webmentions?

Would be a great fit since every user already gets a (sub)domain and homepage!
Very cool! Since this is all exposed to the internet, how do you keep it secure? I’ve got a spare laptop and a static IP, but I’m concerned about exposing my home server to attacks. Right now I’ve just got it all running in Tailscale, but I’d like to safely host public-facing apps too.
Why make the same comment twice in one thread?
The most thoroughly commented embedded CMakeLists file
I think one of the interesting things that will be covered in this lawsuit is whether the licence under which the code is released applies at all in the case of screen scraping.

The current understanding of screen scraping is that it is allowed, despite what is in the websites terms. Effectively if a human can access the content freely without having to actively agree to a license or terms you can scrape the content. You can't republish verbatim, but you can data mine and perform an analysis and publish that. This is how the legal status of all AI training data scraped from the web is being interpreted.

When it comes to open source code I suspect it will be found to be similar, if the code is freely visible on the web by a human without an active agreement to view it, then it will be possible to "scrape" it. I don't think the license the code is under will apply if that is the case.

Obviously in this case is GitHub "scraping" its own site for the training data? Probably not, that may come back to bite them.

This then also opens up all sorts of interesting questions of whether you can copy paste code from a website and use it internally (not republishing), despite the license attached to the code. If it is freely visible.

Clearly a test case, this one, is needed to clarify the situation. And just because it's legal, it doesn't mean it's moral or ethical.

We may yet see the outcome of this case change the current interpolation of legal screen scraping, it's going to be an interesting time.

On top of all this there is then the question of an AI model reproducing code (or and image or music) verbatim. That obviously needs to be clarified by the courts too.
"Oi Siri me old dahling', show us the nearest Gary Glitta' will ya?"

Could work ..?
With this type of text to speech and ChatGPT like LMMs it won't be a year before it will be really hard to tell a human phone caller from an AI one.
Global warming being caused in part by internal combustion engines and aviation results in less snow for skiers... Solution? Chopper some more snow in to counter the effects of I.C.E's and aviation. Huhmmmm.... Does anyone else spot a dichotomy in thinking here?
Doesn’t feel very clear cut. It the images aren’t kept after they are fed into training, then it’s hard to say where there is PII stored.

Selling privacy for money is legal, that’s what every store membership card where you get a member rebate does (in which case they of course associate all your purchases with the account).
MATXScript: A high-performance Python AOT compiler
MATXScript(Matx) is a high-performance, extensible Python AOT compiler that compiles Python class/function to C++ without any runtime overhead. Typical speedups over Python are on the order of 10-100x. Matx supports pmap which can lead to speedups many times higher still.

Currently matx is widely used in Bytedance. Including:

1) Unify the training and inference for deep learning.

2) Accelerate some offline MapReduce tasks.

3) Provide flexibility for some C++ engines, etc.
How do these email addresses do against spam filters? In my experience trying to send an email from any domain on a non-standard TLD (regardless of properly configured SPF and DKIM) gets heavily penalized and almost always ends up going straight to the recipient's junk mail folder.
Right, but that's still a performance optimization and not anything like what OP is implying.
Spot on. The author acknowledges that cookies are actually more privacy friendly, but then concludes with “it is what it is”. Kind of disappointing.

This is my major gripe with all the privacy friendly analytics (disclaimer: I authored two, namely Fathom when it was still open-source and Koko Analytics) tools that submerged over the past few years. Elaborate work went into bypassing cookies, only to make things worse from a privacy perspective in the end.
If the model is being trained on the code and is not copying and pasting it or including it directly from the various repositories then I would think a blanket attribution that covers all material used to train the model, basically a giant list of all of the authors, added to the Copilot repo should cover the attribution requirement.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out, to my understanding, these language models are strictly statistical in nature so they aren't creating a database of code that they paste snippets from. They're looking at all the examples and encoding the statistical likelihood that one token follows another and are then just feeding in the pre-amble (the code you wrote) and generating the chain of tokens that most likely follows that. It seems like it would be the same process if a person were to read a lot of code, identify patterns e.g. an <a> tag has an href= attribute or other more complex configurations, and then writes code based on that understanding. If you can prove that is infringing then you could potentially prove that the act of reading other people's code and then writing your own based on what you have learnt is infringement even if it doesn't exactly match the code that other people have written! I hope this can be effectively explained in court.
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You are correct and that is why what I suggested doesn't broadly happen. There is value in specialization. Yet we can't help but ponder whether there might be a better way and what it might involve.
The power imbalance is tricky, I agree. We have to safeguard good users and restrict bad actors, all at the same time.

To your specific point around not assuming malicious intent/empowering users to take action, we're revamping the ways that we ask users for more information about their businesses. And we’ve set a higher bar for the speed to resolve these issues. In the majority of cases, we want to allow users to continue operating during this time. In the specific example of a fast growing subscription business, they would continue to operate without issue, while providing documentation to Stripe to support their growth (if they had triggered any of our fraud detection systems).

In the last three months, we’ve also reduced the rate that users contact support with Risk-related questions by 45%. So, we're encouraged by our progress but there is still lots of work to do.
I run a bunch of VMs on ESXi:

Vaultwarden, DNS, node-red, mqtt, zigbee2mqtt, nginx reverse proxy, unifi controller, truenas passing a SAS controller, plex passing an nvidia quadro + more.
Not necessarily -- for instance, it could be that the mould for 1x1 bricks is too short and the mould for the 2x1 bricks is too long. Now if someone builds pillars from 1x1 and 2x1s respectively, the differences accumulate.
This seems to be blogspam, I first read this article over here (years ago I think), which seems to be the original one: https://blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/canary-resuscit...
I don't know for him, but in my case I'm trying to boycott all GAFAM content, so I take it poorly when someone tries to force me to use them (especially when alternatives exist).
>lines here that should not have been crossed without the authors explicit permission, regardless of the utility of the tool they built.

Fyi... Google Books (scanned and OCR'd books) eventually won against the authors filing lawsuits of copyright infringement. So there is some precedent that courts do look at the "utility" or "sufficiently transformative" aspect when weighing copyright infringement.

https://www.google.com/search?q=google+books+%22is+transform...

But courts in Europe may judge things differently.
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Always use more than one IPSP so that you can spread your risk and if you ship physical goods hold on to them until the money hits your account and explain that to the buyer. If they're not comfortable with that give them an alternate, such as a direct transfer into your account.
I don't think I've ever come across the word "moorish" ever in the UK, boggy would be what we'd use instead. Regardless of that I'm pretty sure that the stress for moreish is on the ish (often with a very slight pause beforehand as in more-ish), whereas the stress for moorish would be on the moor, so you'd be able to tell the difference even with accents where "more" and "moor" sound the same.
Yeah but they probably have more than 6 users? This is cool and shit, but they're profiting and I guess I'm fine with that.
There have been
plenty of discussions of this subject here.

Eg

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=copilot+copyright
it's not just trained on GPL code. it's trained on code of incompatible licenses, which means that the code is produces is potentially unlicensable in general. There's of course also the question of attribution, which many licenses require
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- We actually find the opposite. Without the promo code people are reluctant to try it. I think because it's new and - to you next point - not cheap.
- This is a real concern for us and one of our primary product develop tracks it to change this. Our mission contains the phrase 'regardless of resources' and as a $25 DTC product we are not doing that yet. Hopefully much more to come on this soon.
- Interesting. We kinda have to know the grade level to send the right books. About 10% of parents know their child's reading level but 90% the only info we get is grade level and ahead/ behind etc... I haven't heard that as a privacy concern. We could do more to explain why we want this.
- We can explain how to add siblings better up front. It is there, but it's small and easy to miss.
- Agree. Right now as we are getting started we have made it binary - our main goal was that Ello would work for those who really wanted no data sharing, and to give parents that option very easily and clearly. As we start to build out more product features that rely on processing audio we should make privacy modular rather than binary.
- Again agree. We're working on that. We definitely need to get parents/kids to the 'aha' moment sooner and not have a 5 day shipping delay. What do you mean by it feeling like a growth hack? It feels like the opposite to me - a growth killer!

Would love any more thoughts as you get the box and they start using it. Thanks you!
The DOE Office of Science funding is generating papers as results. If my interpretation is correct, the technology discussed is _potentially_ useful.

To me the downside of marketing results aggressively to justify one’s funding is that the quality signal can become inversely correlated. Is this valuable research or is someone who knows to play the DOE game inflating a metric to secure their next round of funding and/or expand their turf? Does this negatively impact researchers who do not have access to a comparable marketing apparatus?
If you don't mind me asking, which brand and model did you get?
Delete all the tabs now and watch the world continue.
I don't understand why you are trying to create a standard when there is already one.
My android phone can wirelessly share battery to an IPhone, my external battery can also charge wirelessly androids or iphones.

heck, even induction cooktop can charge phones.

> is able to be completely flat

Did you looked it up on amazon ? There are tons of flat charger.
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Yes, but the vibe usually isn't as strange as with this particular one.