skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The code that was regurgitated by the model is marketed as "AI generated" and available for use for any project you want. Including proprietary ones. It's laundering open-source code. All of the decades of knowledge and uncountable hours of work is being, well, stolen. There is nothing being given back.

Leaving GitHub wont change that, OpenAI is training its models on every bit of code they can have, sourcehut, codeberg etc.
If its public, they will train on it.

Also from my experience of trying to leave GitHub, you just end up having a couple of projects on your alternative platform, and everything else on GitHub.
You are still active on GitHub, probably even more than your new alternative.

And if you want to build a community, you will quickly find out that the majority want to stick to GitHub, and leaving it can kill your projects chances of getting contributions.

Personally if the courts decide its fair use, that's it, I'm going back, its the best got platform out there, gitlab doesn't even compare in free features.
However I have been eyeing Gitea and Gitea Actions, with it Codeberg could become a realistic choice for me.

To end it, here is a Hot take, I really hate Sourcehut.

it hard to use, the ui is .. Not great and trying to browse issues or latest commits is a nightmare.

Every time a project uses it, its a pain to deal with.
There have been an increase in articles and blog posts about the sad state of the Windows desktop for the past year or so. What bothers me is that it doesn't appear that any journalists have attempted to get Microsofts take on this. It's just complaining, valid as it may be, but apparently Microsoft seems to believe that this is how it should be, and I'd really like to hear the CEO of Microsoft explain to me why a tool that's suppose to be about work and productivity now looks like a traveling carnival. Do they need to money, do they no longer see Windows as a tool for professionals?
Well, 20% is really not comparable with France's 100%, is it? Or it is comparable, but quite unfavourably.
I don’t agree with it, but I understand why people ride these on the sidewalk rather than the roads. A pothole under a 700c road bike wheel will be a jarring annoyance. A pothole under a scooter wheel will knock you off into the path of an oncoming cement truck.

The weight of the devices seems immaterial when the human riding it is 50kg to 100kg. You’re getting tackled by at least 50% of a linebacker but with 0% of the body armor.
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because it would “target minorities unfairly” as they say

Is it true, that Paris police target minorities unfairly?

And, it is interesting that you chose to compare Paris with a very large population, to an "the average of US cities". Would it be more reasonable to compare to the megas in the US, like NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles? Better, it would be more reasonable to compare to large European cities: Berlin, Frankfurt am Maim, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Milan, Madrid, etc.?
Is it manual work? How does it work?
I'm not that special, either. But I also don't give two figs that the Start menu includes a link to TikTok, or that the pre-loaded Solitaire is a mobile game straight out of the fifth circle of hell.

I don't click on shit in the start menu, I don't play Solitaire, and I have way more important things to get upset over.
No, still blocked. Incognito mode blocks referrer though.
I for one welcome our GPT overlords co-workers
> It's a stochastic parrot

Stopped reading right there. The author clearly has no clue of how neural networks work or what makes them tick.
Rental escooters are a MENACE - and i'm not old either - just been nearly mown down by one several times.
When I read the story about GM dropping CarPlay, I thought to myself that it’s just the beginning. All or most manufacturers are going to pull crap like that - all that indignant postering about never buying a GM will be in vein. Soon it’ll be: “I’m never buying GM, Ford, Toyota, Chevrolet…”
Traveling the world and going on a date in every country
I'm used to call it power supplier, hence wasn't sure about the translation (my English is at fault here).

And indeed if you say "calcolatore", I interpret that as the calculator app (or any small math-only calculators used in school)
I don't like posting video links but this doco is worth watching if you're into Joy Division (this is a deeplink where Peter Saville explains where the famous cover came from):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFO5SgDE2lk&t=1868s
You've concluded that paying nothing is a result of living in the UK, but the UK applies a means test and a purpose test to that help: free is only for people with savings below some threshold or for some medical situations.
Sadly yes. My newest device is a T480s that I use as daily driver (without issues) but I likely will never get that shiny ThinkPad carbon :/
Supply is still limited.

Demand skyrockets (heh).

Price increases.

User moans and complains.

Supply will increase.
> I am sure I will get all kinds of hate for saying this: despite the extra up front cost, apple stuff is a better value.

No it isn't better value, it's expensive for what it is, especially when you can find $200 refurbished Asus Vivobooks out there with a Ryzen 5/7 APU and run linux on them. Apple products are insanely expensive and are often plagued by specific problems due to Apple obsession with (thin) design at the expense of usability.
Encyclopedias exist today as well, and already fit on USB sticks. Still, Britannica has yet to topple the Chinese political system, and ChatGPT will not succeed either.

Modern authoritarian states are extremely adept at controlling the spread of information. LLMs are not even a drop in the bucket for what the state apparatus can do. If sharing USB sticks with LLMs that talk about the Tiananmen massacre ever became popular, you would get USB sticks that talk about how these are Western lies the very next day.
This same illustration was used for a book entitled,

Professional Software Development For Students by, Mike G. Miller

https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Software-Development-Mik...

I'm sure it's purely coincidence.

I met Peter Hook one time. He seemed pretty unimpressed by me.
This is a strong indicator that existing providers enjoy artificially limited competition, i.e. licensing/regulations need to be revised
> ToS doesn't supercede copyright though, does it?

It does unless you can afford to sue Microsoft.
We had this debate in France in 1955. We use the word "ordinateur" for "computer", which comes from the latin "ordinator" which means something that order things, it shares the same root as the word "order".

It was picked over the word "calculateur" which is the French equivalent of "calculatore" after IBM France shared a letter wondering if "calculateur" was too restrictive and didn't properly express the machine capabilities. To which Jacques Perret answered "why not ordinateur?"

https://journals.openedition.org/bibnum/534
I'll believe that premise when Elon goes under the knife and becomes queen of the Borg.
I think a better analogy would be: "ChatGPT as a Crappy Primary School Teacher", has hard-coded traditionalistic morales, and can answer anything but information quality is strictly not guaranteed.
Raspberry Pi could include that with Mathematica in their default OS install :)

I guess they are still a bit too heavy for small ARM boards but they are probably implemented in a way that is amenable to lots of systems engineering / demoscene optimizations.

Maybe demoscene will branch off into optimizing AI - ”here’s my llama 64kb demo…” :D

How much disk space does an LLM like GPT-4.0 need?
I bet they took a couple tries
to come up with them.
This is what I noticed too.

We have a kid with no experience in the real world telling us what they think. Why should we care? I actually don't
It’s pretty ironic that the argument that LLMs are stochastic parrots actually sounds like the actual parrot.

I think we’re now way past that now with LLMs now quickly taking on the role of a general reasoning engine.
I'm in a similar boat. I use MacOS with the work-issued laptop, and due to a longstanding effort from Apple to make inroads in education, I used Macs at school since OS8. But for everything else--gaming, web, Telegram, remote admin--I think Win 11 is fine.

I ran Gentoo exclusively on multiple boxes for years. I still use NixOS to host a few workloads for friends and family. But if I want to just __do stuff__, Windows is still the easiest way to just plug anything in, run any program, sync any thing, whatever...and now it has a bunch of trapdoors to more native Cygwin-type things...and I just don't want to reboot or keep two systems up to date anymore.

But yes, there's sketchy telemetry and phone home, and I'd _rather_ run something where the code's at least _theoretically_ been reviewed by someone who's not in the state's pocket. But I'm just tired, and it's good enough...
True. So are the ruling parties of Hungary and Russia.
That's one theory. There's a competing theory that corporations have obligations to shareholders, customers, employees, and the community in which they operate. And as a practical matter, corporations can usually get away "doing the right thing" if they really want to, as it is good for the company's reputation in the long run, and therefore at least theoretically good for shareholders.
I have never had an issue despite living in a large european city. Maybe the reason is that, unlike some people, I don't blindly step into bike lanes.
It either works or it doesn't. Workarounds are usually permanent.

Example: I booted a friend's Thinkpad t440p with an Ubuntu 22.04 pen drive to check that she was OK with it and that there were no issues. All went well (screen, touchpad, USB, printer, scanner) except resume from sleep: the pointer froze. An internet search returned the workaround from many years ago

sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse

It worked and my friend was OK to add it to systemd post resume script. Given the age of the workaround it will never be fixed so it's up to the user. Maybe the kernel or the distro should make some checks on the hardware and take care of it but I guess that there are thousands of those combinations. Lenovo is doing that work with Microsoft for their hw on Windows, they are not doing it with Canonical on Ubuntu nor they are sending patches to the kernel.
I get the feeling this doesn’t just apply to cars. Too many wealthy people and a huge gap is a cancer
> The bloodiest wars were not religious, or I should say, not traditionally religious

The bloodiest war fought on European soil, right up until World War One, was the Thirty Years' War. The world wars' higher death toll can be attributed to 20th century technology; the Thirty Years War was fought with 17th century weapons yet still led to the death of 5-8 million people. And sure, while there were political motivations involved - you could say the same of any religious war, including the Crusades - the driving force was the schism between Protestants and Catholics.
I work in Paris but live in the suburbs (I wasn't asked to vote).
I use neither scooter nor bikes (I walk and use public transport).

My anecdotal experience is that those scooters (as in "trotinette" in French, not what we call "scooter" in French) where a plague, drivers are completely careless and dangerous and despite the law, they where always parked in the middle of the street at annoying places. I have no such griefs against bikes, even if they are much more numerous (I have other complaints again those, like the fact they don't respect traffic lights, but it's far from being so annoying).

The overwhelming support of Parisians to remove them is not a surprise (they would get a huge backlash if they wanted to do the same with bikes, which kind of prove the fact that they cannot be put in the same boat).

Also there is the ecology argument which Parisians are typically somewhat concerned with (those crap scooter were fragile - so they had a short life expectancy despite having a large impact to build because of the battery and electronic - and the operators had no infrastructure to charge them cleanly - which means that overall they were probably much more ecologically harmful that even cars)
ChatGPT Lifts Business Professionals’ Productivity and Improves Work Quality
I'm well aware and I find it somewhat amusing.

The problem is the interpretation people give to the word. If I say computer, people think of something with keyboard + mouse and a screen, or maybe a laptop (funny enough, they will not think of their phone).

If I say "calcolatore", we envision one of those devices to do math operations, used in school (are those still a thing?)
Not everyone wants to tinker when it isn't part of the job description.
I’m curious about a reference for this.
You don't give up GitHub as long as you're employed in many companies that have accepted it and are looking for information on pretty much most open source software these days. The only thing is to just host your own projects elsewhere. I did this a long time ago because I was unhappy over GitHub's interface. I am realizing further that all I need is a web page and a link on my personal web site. If I really wanted to publish a project, I'd probably find other avenues. I think SourceHut does look nice if I cared enough.

In some cases, "GitHub" has become a required skill in some jobs now (not git, mind you, but _GitHub_). I personally fumbled a little bit when I was asked that - what is it? The CI/CD stuff specifically, or the "using git" part which is the skill? :) I was a bit befuddled.
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Do you have any resources you'd recommend to form a better understanding of how NNs tick? I'd like to get a better intuitive grasp on whats going on - I've mostly just been responding to that with "Well, if stochastic parrotism can do all this..."
With all due respect, I don't think anyone has alleged the JWZ of sexual misconduct

https://geekfeminism.fandom.com/wiki/Richard_Stallman
Unfortunately things are not so simple. You can find satire of Xi Jinping on TikTok right now: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/xi-jinping-winnie-the-pooh?l..., but not on Midjourney anymore. So, ironically, banning TikTok would suppress speech critical to the CCP more than banning Midjourney, a US company.
I love DAB (digital radio) in the UK!!! Unless you’re in … town … or … then … lucky … hear … word.

(It’s all or nothing. When the signal is low it cuts out all the time)
When you have high levels of confidence that the background will be ocean water and the weather is likely to be decent (or at least, decent enough to be diving), then it may be the case that yellow is more visible.

International Orange is designed to be maximally visible under as many different conditions as possible, so may not be the most visible in every single circumstance.
Writing prompts and engineering together = prompt engineer. The engineering depends on the prompt and the prompt depends on the engineering. Just like an ML engineer, or a QA engineer, or [anything] engineer. How specific the job title gets really depends on hiring criteria and daily job function.

Otherwise, the job title would be "prompt writer".

Your point is what, that existing engineering titles cover this effort? Sure, you can just call all of it software engineering, but sometimes it's useful to be more specific. The LLMs are so powerful now that this new, more specific title makes sense to me, and clearly those using this new title. We'll see how it pans out over the next few years.
> general governmental inefficiencies and some level of systemic bias against

Imagine trying to get government permission to drive a car, but you don’t want to talk to anyone who has ever driven a car, or engage with the “overly burocratic” process for getting a drivers license.
You might end up feeling like the system is biased against you, but it should be obvious that you are just being intentionally difficult at every step.
Musk should have brought on people with experience rather than try to sidestep the system. This isn’t like his self driving cars where he can just put it out I beta and blame end users for getting killed or killing others.
Couldn't it be WhatsApp and TikTok what a "general customer" wants actually?

Could it be MS has stats from MS Store to actually see what users install (say I have WhatsApp from the Store, among several others, not mentioning Office). We don't have numbers from the telemetry, but they have, so we guess, but they may actually know. Not something unrealistic for me.

As side note, I find astonishing things, for good or bad, when looking out of my nerdy bubble.
Thanks. I have to admit it makes sense. But I'm having a hard time making it concrete like "money in the bank". Could you give an example?
That’s a rural town. I explicitly said “urban”.
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I am reading all this and wondering how I - and my whole generation of peers - survived. I was walking to school (~15 mins on foot) alone (well, sometimes with my class mates) since I was 7. Playing outside without parental supervision (well, when not reading books, on which to be honest I spent a lot of time, being a geek) since about the same age. Going to relatives on public transport (~20 min) since about the same age. Going to high school on public transport (~1hr one way) since about 13. In fact, most of the day I didn't see my parents and they didn't see me - they were at work and I have been at school, or at the relative's or at home mostly tending to myself, doing chores, or homework, or reading books. Literally everybody my age was the same. I don't remember anybody having stay-at-home parents or somebody supervising non-toddler child the whole day. This probably sounds as insane to some Americans as the American idea that school age kids need constant adult supervision sounds to me. But from what I read in the literature it used to be this way in the US too. Just somehow people got super-paranoid one day...
> Unfortunately moving to Gitlab or Sourcehut doesn't really help, because the underlying model (GPT-x) is trained on the entire internet, so that includes all scrape-able websites. The only way for your data not to be used in GPT (and therefore Copilot) is to not to put it on any website or make it very difficult to access, like encrypting it.

Having the entire git history decorates specific chunks (at least entire commits) with context by the commit message. So you may not only process the entire repo at one specific state in time, but the entire history in at this point in time.
There is valuable knowledge while making sense of it; But this is not accessible to us. It relies in the knowledge base of one company (or two).
I use computers until they are ready to go into laptop graveyard, no need for resale value.
Didn't we say the same thing about Wikipedia?
I agree that AI usage of code is somewhat murky with current licenses,which obviously don't mention it either way.

Free software has a principle of "freedom to run, to do whatever you wish" (freedom 0), so arguably has said that training AI is OK. (We could quibble over the word Run, but the Gnu.org,and RMS clearly say "freedom 0 does not restrict how you use it."

GPL code can be used by the military to develop nuclear weapons. Given that the is a guiding principle of the FSF its hard to argue that the current usage is not OK.
This. The last 10 years have seen so many improvements:
- Around the Seine, Rivoli, or left-bank, 3 streets went from almost-highway to cycling friendly shared road.
- Many 2 lanes streets got reduced to 1-lane + 1 protected bicycle lane.
- many large "roundabouts" offer a safer path.
The right bank clearly lags behind the left bank, but it's getting better every year.
> technically there is even a possibility of overriding a weak personality

Similar reflections here. There was even a site called GPT My Life that lets you delegate planning your day to GPT. I imagine this is a proto-version of that.
Uh, the article isn't about that at all. It's about how cluttered, user-hostile, and specifically kid-unfriendly Windows has become in the latest iteration. Linux isn't the answer because it replaces those "features" with different kinds of user-hostility (everything is geared towards people who are on the road to becoming software developers, or are close friends with someone who is).
It's a matter of degree. Sometimes things are worse than other things without that other thing being perfect.
In Paris each years 90 persons are not "nearly mown down" by rental escooters but killed by cars, taxis and motorcycle. Plus thousands of people killed by toxic gases from cars, taxis and motorbikes.
Have you ever tried to develop GUI applications for GNOME versus macOS/Windows tooling?
> Sounds like hell. They will quickly be turned away from Linux and want something simpler. Yak-shaving in lieu of work sounds cool, but it sucks when you really need to do stuff other than dick around in the terminal.

Kids did fine with Amiga or Atari ST back in the days. Linux isn't a problem at all, they'll get used to it. And Valve/Steam proton platform allows them to run plenty of games.
If we are being honest as a community, open source developer are pretty far down the list of groups with valid grievances against this current wave of AI for how they are trained. There is at least a debatable case that these systems are operating in the spirit if not the exact letter of general open source licenses. It is a much harder argument to make for the AI trained on writing and art that is clearly copyrighted. If you have ethical questions about Copilot, you really should be against this entire crop of AI systems.
Australian resident here -

Like the other poster I agree it's a band-aid. I agree it's not the world's best connection (there is considerable latency sometimes). I agree I shouldn't have to be paying Elon Musk 140 bucks a months to get a decent connection but ... I am, because that's all I can get here.

We're just outside Perth, less than a k from a new(ish) suburb development and our only NBN option is "Fixed Wireless", which guarantees 25Mbit at least once in a given 24 hour period. WTF! There was one non-NBN wireless option which according to all reviews actually managed to be worse, and 5G here is bad, plus Telstra won't (yet?) sell us a 5G 'home' connection. AFAICT my options are starlink or paying $22k to get a fibre put in.

So far it works well for us here, regularly exceeding 200Mbps, fingers crossed our cell isn't going to become oversubscribed anytime soon. I also hope that they spin up a Perth exit node, because AFAICT our traffic pops out in Sydney at the moment, adding to the latency.

But really I hope the government gets its act together and sorts out the NBN for more people. Tony Abbott has a lot to answer for.

(I understand from what I've read that the problems with starlink in the US are a lot less of an issue here, because the populations are an order of magnitude different...)
People always say this, but in the last half decade I've put Linux (ubuntu varieties) on multiple desktops with near 0 additional effort needed. At most I needed to install a proprietary Nvidia driver which was easily done without using terminal. I've spent far more time trying to decrapify Windows than getting Linux to work.

Now laptops are a different matter.