skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define "home server." Consumer-grade NASes are so powerful they can pretty much do anything you'd do with a "home server."

On my smart TVs, I installed Kodi. I have an off-the-shelf NAS that serves the files via NFS. It can do Plex, if that's your cup of tea. (But I prefer Kodi, because most of things I do are audiophile grade and I don't want the kind of transcoding that Plex does.)

The NAS is basically a super-powerful server in a tiny footprint. I just use it for files, because I just don't care to take the time to learn how to do anything else. One critical feature is that it's point-and-click RAID. I've hot-swapped drives after a failure with no downtime; all point-and-click over the web interface.

But, one thing I want to do is self-host my own website, and self-host a mastodon node. Maybe if I was independently wealthy I'd take the time to figure it out, like when I ran a dial-up BBS when I was younger.
I think we're facing a copyright extinction event. The whole concept is out of touch with the new reality - when you can generate 100 variations for your text, code or image with the click of a button, what does it even mean to hold copyright over the original?

"In the style of" killed copyright in 2022.
The Waning of Materialism (2015)
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But each of those flights carries 100+ passengers + tons of cargo.

Does taylor swift or ursula von der leyn really need a private plane for traveling 50km?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/02/revealed-a...
As an academic (CS), I'm able to write one or two decent papers a year, in a very good year, three.

Looking at colleagues who write ten a year I already get existential angst, and have to actively tell myself that life is not a competition and some things are more important.

Writing fifty (while also teaching, writing grants, mentoring students, etc.) seems mind-numbing, even just in terms of the relatively routine tasks of formatting or proofreading papers, aligning figures, corresponding with reviewers, editors, co-authors, etc.
Battle rope, amazing for working out on the terrace.
In the book "non-things" by "Byung-Chul Han" the author talks about this feeling, the never ending information bombing (a society problem in his opinion)

Han suggests that this overload of information has led to a kind of "information fatigue," where people are unable to process or make sense of all the data and information that they are exposed to on a daily basis. This can lead to a feeling of disconnection and alienation, as people struggle to navigate the constant influx of information and find meaning in their lives.

the author suggest this also has personal/society consequences, tho I don't agree on that 100%, but his argument is that this information bombing is making us forget about other "important things on life". first chapter of the book I think will help you understand your feelings better and maybe understand that this is a more modern problem, the old philosophers didn't manage to describe the "phone-sapiens" .
Since it's all a yaml file I just use vscode's remote-ssh to check (files opens in vscode, one click opens a shell at the bottom (ie for docker-compose ps), nice thing is that remote-ssh also allows dragging and dropping files to the server without needing anything else, rarely need that though). If you add the `restart: unless-stopped` line, all containers just come up again after crashes/reboots.

On Arch I just `sudo systemctl enable docker` (after `sudo pacman docker docker-compose`), I wrote a bit about it here: [0]. This starts docker automatically, and docker automatically starts any containers with the above mentioned line in their service entry.

[0]" https://blog.hmrt.nl/posts/wordpress_using_swag/
Minification isn’t just about reducing size of the output, it also has the very important side effect of obfuscating the output to make it difficult if not practically impossible for reverse engineering and compromising of IP. That is a critical aspect that businesses will always opt for. And business use cases drive things like Typescript into existence.
Wait until you hear about air conditioning.
I'm guessing if it were DOD or someone else official, they'd have a cover for just such an occasion. They'd place those things in conjunction with, for example, a local university's earth sciences department, and say they're weather stations.
> Copyright is not something that can be signed over by a terms-of-use change of a hosting provider

Agreeing to GitHub's terms doesn't try to assign copyright over your code, it grabs licence to use your code however they see fit which is¹ legally quite different.

Of course the real fun comes if someone agrees to their terms then uploads some of my code which they have to right to assign the licence to GitHub for. What come-back do I get in that case if I don't want my stuff used that way?

It seems odd to me that MS² who for many years strongly spoke against touching anything with the remotest whiff of GPL because of what it could legally do to your release requirements, are now more than happy to hoover up all the GPL covered code in GitHub and potentially mix it into their users' work output via copilot.

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[1] in my not-at-all-legally-trained understanding

[2] current owners of GitHub, for those not paying attention
Yeah, I want to upgrade to this, but the with the RX 7900 XTX as GPU. Nvidia drivers suck on Linux.
Hedy: Textual Programming for the Classroom
Prices of some Tesla models cut in South Korea
Except that not only Stability AI have already admitted to training on copyrighted images without the permission or attribution of many artists [0], they already have a commercial SaaS API platform which uses the model [1]; effectively throwing out the sloppy 'fair use' or 'transformative' purposes claims as any artist can see all the digital art that Stability trained on without permission or attribution [2] and even producing outputs of famous copyrighted images verbatim.

There is no difference between the two. Given that another project called Dance Diffusion was trained on public domain music and audio and permission by musicians, it is clear that Stability knew that they would be sued to the ground if Dance Diffusion was trained on copyrighted music. [3] They already seem to have admitted and felt guilty into trampling over the copyright and watermarks of images and knowingly avoided doing the same with music.

My point is, use and train on public domain content only and content that has the permission of the creator. This applies to all of them; DALL-E, Copilot, Stable Diffusion. Clearly wasn't a problem to use public domain music with Dance Diffusion was it?

[0] https://venturebeat.com/ai/stability-ai-to-honor-artist-opt-...

[1] https://platform.stability.ai/

[2] https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1603147709229170695

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/07/ai-music-generator-dance-d...
It's the same argument people make about why crypto doesn't have to follow the laws on Know Your Customer. Because someone designed the crypto to break that law, so their hands are tied, it's too technically hard to comply.
This page seems fake to me. No contact informations. All "follow us pages" such as twitter, facebook etc link to the root of the page.
I'm not sure that's the case if the repo is private and the code is not shared/disseminated to others. If you buy a book, you are not allowed to distribute copies of it, but you can loan it or sell your copy, or store it wherever you like. Copilot does allegedly distribute copies of code that it doesn't have the copyright to.
>On the other side, they could argue that it's like a human learning how to code over a decade of looking at the internet, and that human doesn't need to DM every code author to ask if they can learn from their content (and the risk for the author is similar given the human might one day recall some author's code verbatim and not give attribution).

It might not be that easy, I think Wine developers are not allowed to read code related to Windows, even if this code is published on GitHub. The fact you looked at the code was decided to be a risk.

You also have cases with a NN producing an identical output, so you either prove your NN NEVER produces copyrighted code or you have to have a second process that is 100% correct and double checks the NN output and check for plagiarism.

I am against Microsoft in this case because they decided not to put their proprietary code in the NN , would have been funny to have the AI write an open source Windows re-implementation when you feed it the Win APi documentation.
Here's a link to the case itself so you won't have to guess about anything. https://githubcopilotinvestigation.com/
I'd recommend replacing calculus (and several of its precursor classes) with something more practical. A year of finance, or understanding numbers in the news (poll results, statistical significance, interest rates, numbers like market indices and marginal tax rates, etc.)

Right now we teach proofwriting in the context of a geometry class. It's a good thing that students learn to understand the basic concept of proofs, but it seems odd that we're literally re-using the curriculum from ancient Greece. I'd love to see it replaced with a class designed from the ground up for proofs as they are actually done today.

Students should absolutely keep learning mathematics, as much as they can handle, but the entire curriculum (especially after basic algebra) could use reconsideration. Calculus is still crucial on a track for mathematicians and scientists, but most students don't need it and their time would be better spent elsewhere.
I'm hopeful modules will come fast, they seem to fix that issue. Modules are already in C++20, but most compilers don't support them well enough yet.
That only holds up if there is only a single tax recipient that is controlled by the same entity as the entity that controls the money printing. That is almost never the case, as there are local taxes, rebates, fines, deductions and exemptions. In fact, even the central and local governments pay each other.
All the strife and bad blood and still his happiness needs to come out of a needle. Maybe what the previous posters wanted to point out is that if he’d have cared more about his fellow man, he’d have made connections that are less shallow than the ones based on his excessively pompous prose or his other performative exploits. Maybe those visitors wouldn’t have stayed vistors.

Hard to say, personally my experience is that the junkie lifestyle seems less hollow and more appealing than it is, no matter the quality of the substance.
My understanding is that code presented for learning/demonstration purposes are allowed to be copied verbatim.
> The AWE32 was amazing. I remember being so frustrated that essentially no games seemed to take advantage of it.

Gravis Ultrasound (?) falls into the same category for me. Really interesting and capable hardware that didn't penetrate the market enough to warrant significant investment by game developers.

And once 16-bit/44KHz audio and powerful enough CPU's became common, the need for hardware accelerated audio generation for games really diminished. It's all now logically pretty similar to the DAC section of a SB16 with a bunch of software driving it.

It's nice that the level of capability is as high as it is, but I do miss some of the unique hardware designs from that era.
You could make this kind of "just" and "bog standard" argument for anything. Just using an image for educational or illustrative purpose, just using a song for a political rally etc etc.

The fact is as a society we have decided to reward creators with copyright as a means to commercialise their creation and get compensation. Who is to say programmers are not creators and the compensation they want for open source licenses is attribution?

Microsoft really should have known better than to touch OpenAI without a 10 feet barge pole.
That's exactly what I saw today. Got my initials. :-)

As comparison: I've got a two letter GitHub account and joined in late 2009, so 1.5 years after its founding.
> It is known that it produces verbatim copies of sections of code

This happens only rarely, like under 1% of the time. It happens mostly for well replicated code and not so much for code that only appears once. It can be filtered out with search and bloom filters of ngram hashes.

But the prompter can goad the model into copyright infringement by quoting the start of a copyrighted text verbatim, and asking for completion. The longer and more precise the prompt, the higher the chance of regurgitation. So, when it happens, we're often "asking for it".

Both regurgitation and hallucination seem to be LM problems we can tackle. They are complementary - in one we don't want the model to replicate the training data exactly (be creative), in the other we don't want the model to invent facts out of thin air (be factual). Both can be tackled by using search for reference testing.
In other words: there's an opportunity here for a startup offering subscription-based Canaries as a Service - someone will come every day to the customer to deliver new canaries and take spent ones. Canaries become the startup's responsibility, so the mine can focus on its core competency; something opex over capex, synergy etc. Invest now!
I agree with you. I love using copilot (and similar tools) and I’ve found it is exceedingly good at predicting patterns in my own coding. It has saved me a lot of time, and I would hate for it to go away or be crippled because of lawsuits like this. I could care less if my own code is used for training. My code isn’t precious, it’s what I do with it that is important.
In simple terms, WebRTC is the technology that provides peer-to-peer communication between web browsers and mobile applications. It is known as Web Real-Time Communication, which refers to open-source projects and allows transmission of audio, video, and data. To find out the other reasons for the technology’s complexity and how to overcome them, read our article, which also describes the WebRTC use cases and the future evolution of the technology.
Can’t draw conclusions unless the subjects themselves are humans, and unless the studies have replicable results. It’s either that or everything is mere speculation.
There is probably more than one cause, but consider the headphone jack one. Apple decided it wanted to get rid of it. Reasons were that they could make regular headphones less convenient (needs dongle) while simultaneously convincing people that air pods are the thing to have. They didn't have to market 'against' the headphone jack, only add friction to use it (via dongle) while heavily marketing 'for' air pods. Nokia wouldn't have gotten away with this, but Apple could because of clout, product status symbology, and massive cash spends available for ads. Most people don't really like the loss, but the idea of not having the latest phone was worse, so they bought them. Other phone manufacturers then follow suit because they see apple sales and think, they must be doing the right thing. Meanwhile, we hate it.

Telsa was the same for cars. They came out with a bunch of style choices that most people don't really care for, but the status of having a telsa (at least until recently) was a more powerful driver so they bought the car. Other auto manufacturers interpret this as that its what the consumer wants (or will accept) and change accordingly, especially if it also saves them money. Then boom, we get cars with crappy UI.

So I guess my theory is that if an industry has a clear leader whose product offers status along with function, they can make the customer accept pretty much whatever they want. After that, the competition just copies it hoping to keep what market share they have.
At what point does human enjoyment become waste of energy? And so what if energy is wasted? Is greenhouse gas the problem?

Paradoxically, global warming benefited Europe this winter, reducing the influence of the Russian gas embargo.

In any case, European countries have lower greenhouse gas emissions per citizen than, say, the US or Australia (since we actually have emissions taxes).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...
Anything you can get your hands on written by Gerald Weinberg.

This is a good place to start:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quality-Software-Management-Systems...

They’re all available as ebooks as well, I think the QSM series was split up and went on to become this:

https://leanpub.com/b/qualitysoftware

And then these ones have the same titles as their paperback counterparts:

https://leanpub.com/b/peopleskillssoftbutdifficult
What if a library builds AI models from the content they host? The Internet Archive, for example.
Am I right in thinking that Gstaad is like the Aspen of Switzerland, one of the richest ski resort towns? Is this why they can get away with helicoptering in snow?
I've been collecting nerdy tech information on and off for 30 years. I say "on and off" because it seems to come in waves. It happens between spans of time when I'm building something important or profitable (not necessarily related).

Examples:

In 2004 I built my own web crawler and RSS feed reader in PHP in an attempt to build my way out of the information problem. I learned that tools do not help with this problem, but it did lead to a good software development job where I was able to put what I learned to use.

In 2006 - 2007 I went down a deep rabbit hole with the possibility of server side JavaScript. That led to participating in the development of the Node.js runtime, CommonJS and Promise specifications, and a career doing some pretty cool stuff with JavaScript.

In 2014 - 2016 I went down a rabbit hole on video streaming which led me through a startup (which failed) and then a job at a major consumer streaming platform (which has been wildly successful). I got to build some state of the art technology because I had remembered and acted on some of that information I was hoarding.

Now I feel like I've missed out on information hoarding while I've been building cool stuff in my dream job. I don't regret my time away from the information hurricane, but I am having fun getting back into it to see what comes up next (it is NOT AI or Web3 ;-) )

For everything, there is a season.
Unfortunately, he's right.

I'm not saying he's right as a rationale for a ban - that's subjective and depends on the goals of the subreddit.

But he's right in that if your genre is indistinguishable from what computers can produce, you're in trouble and you better get off your ass and do something about it.
In case anyone else is looking into browser options, I can't recommend https://arc.net/ more highly. I never thought I'd move away from Chrome, but then again, I never considered that they'd gather so much users that they can't make fundamental UX improvements any more without massive friction.

Arc is just better for me in terms of staying organized. Everyone seems to have their own favorite feature, but "Spaces" are the killer feature for me.
Tried really hard to avoid the term "hit by a bus" but yes this is exactly what is meant.

But looking for something more specific - like, how is that specifically planned out in a project? How does being "open source" affect the plan, vs closed?

Or even, what is the specific plan for if Linus gets hit by a bus? Hold a vote? Heir-apparent, decided by Linus himself? Split the responsibilities evenly?

Also, to ask from another viewpoint, what historical case studies are there? Seems like in the open-source community at least everyone is young enough that this hasn't been much of an issue yet.
Software Unscripted and Data Skeptic are great podcasts, but honestly, I don't think there's a whole lot of other quality audio technical content about software. And I haven't had much luck listening to courses while driving.

[1] https://taylor.town/podcasts

Rather than limiting yourself to "career" content, maybe try enriching yourself with some classic literature and non-fiction?

I personally love listening to essay collections on readtrips! I highly recommend Gibson's Distrust That Particular Flavor and any collection from David Foster Wallace.

[2] https://taylor.town/eschew-the-new

Rather than listening, also consider taking the time to dictate some essays or short stories! Phones have very good speech-to-text nowadays, and you could probably knock out an entire first-draft of something :)
You'd be surprised to see how often this occurs. Sometimes, for piloted projects, especially during the prototyping phase, a single point of failure—or, as pestatije pointed out, "bus factor" — sometimes inevitable. So you either run the risk of that person being no longer available, or, even during the initial stages (which can be expensive in human resources), partner up, right from the beginning.
Is the actual complaint linked or quoted somewhere in the article? I've re-read it twice and it spends most of its wordcount explaining what open source is, mentioning a previous case and describing the implications of the attribution requirement with regard to the DMCA. There are plenty of links but they go in all kinds of places except to the ruling itself.

Your response is not very helpful beyond telling me I lack information I'm unaware of and couldn't find.
Also, marijuana is not legal in the US at large, which California is a part of. Hard to judge the situation when it's legal but not really legal. Banks still refuse to help companies in the marijuana industry for example, as it is illegal on the federal level.
Search for Gstaad Schnee Helikopter and you will find plenty of German sources for this news. HN doesn't accept foreign language submissions, though.
Wait, this is really cool.