skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was inevitable. Copyright law has always used a "color of your bits" argument [0]. GPL and other libre/free/open licenses were a great hack to circumvent draconian copyright laws but the laws themselves are not designed for a rigorous treatment of similarity (maybe even by design?).

Also, it's worth noting in the example of ChatGPT emitting LGPL code without attribution or license, the code is actually different [1]. Is the difference enough to circumvent a copyright violation claim? I don't know but a big part of determining whether it does is now muddled because of the way the system was designed. Even if we could get an entropy distribution on which training data was used to generate the text, it's not even clear the courts could use it in any meaningful way.

[0] https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23

[1] https://twitter.com/DocSparse/status/1581461734665367554
Why unlimited vacation is bad
I really appreciate that EFF has a convenient way to reach out to reps. If you’re a US citizen and reading this thread, I highly recommend using EFF’s tool to write to your reps. They have a pre written message and it takes 30 seconds to send it out.
He'll never be able to make up for what he's done. Even if he had a hundred lungs and kidneys, he couldn't replace what he took. I do hope he finds some way to contribute to society while behind bars though.
The general assumption by their investors was they had a path to profitability. Critically they don’t need to convince most investors just enough to keep going.

If you really want to understand VC’s from a finance perspective it comes down to trying to value intangible assets. Having ongoing customer relationships is inherently valuable. Lyft could for example sell their customers email address to scammers, but the goal is to leverage those relationships more sustainably thus extracting vastly more money.

For a rapidly growing unprofitable company it really just becomes a question is the long term value of those intangible assets (software, customers, patents etc) worth more than the current burn rate. If it is then you have a profitable investment in a company that will eventually become profitable or get bought out by someone else.
Well also the 4th amendment.
I meant to say that I don't see anyone outright claiming that ai-induced poverty and dispossession is "actually a Good Thing" and those affected by it would "deserve it". Stating something like that would be way too stupid even for those completely detached from the everyday reality of normal people. On the contrary, constant attempts are made to smooth these things over by talking about UBI and how people will be free to pursue Things That Matter (tm).
No Zik-Zak or Network 23?

https://www.maxheadroom.com/index.php?title=File:Mh-zik-zak-...
They're just people running the peer review and production systems (think the online submission system, solving technical issues, writing emails, etc). It's in the name: assistant. They're not the people looking for peer reviewers or doing anything scientific.
California jury finds Tesla Autopilot did not fail in crash case
So is the only universal truth that there is no universal truth, and if so, why?
Cynically, I know each time these platforms do such a thing the response will be less and less effective. The bad-faith actors in government pushing for this know that and have demonstrated that they just need to wait a little while between attempts before resistance diminishes enough to make its passage viable.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25807559
I don't think Copilot violates GPL because it is a web service

I think the problem here is: by auto completing GPL code to developers it might open the opportunity of your company getting sued for using GPL illegally
Nostr
laughable assertion. I can find people equally dissatisfied with the US. in the aggregate the Chinese people approve of their government at a level westerners literally cannot comprehend. These include studies from western institutions like Harvard, and are so readily available that if you claim to not have heard of them you are either 1. arguing in bad faith or 2. completely unqualified to comment on the Chinese people.
Someone shared this yesterday and I didn’t get what what’s interesting about it. It just looked like a normal GoL simulator. I didn’t realize you could zoom in and out. This is so cool. Thanks for sharing.
I have never understood the relativism about math fundamentals. What does it matter what we "agree to" or not? Either it is true or not. There is like no room for "kinda true but really it ..." in '1 + 1 = 2'. And I am not talking about notation semantics here.
https://archive.ph/th69T
So annoying. So many great products end up eaten alive by bean counters and product managers trying to "improve" things.

Just curious, what advantage does YoutubeMusic have over just playing songs & full albums in YouTube, other than the warm glow of being on the right side of copywrite laws?
> Also, Arduino is not the only game in town. I recently bought two Nucleo G431KBs...

ST's development boards are great. They're fairly inexpensive, especially in the Nucleo line; they cover an extremely wide range of microcontrollers; they come with real debug probes, not just serial ports; and many of them have Arduino-compatible pinouts and/or are supported by the Arduino IDE. Plus, they've got their own Eclipse-based IDE which you can graduate to once you've outgrown the Arduino framework.
Having visible scan-lines should help a lot?
Why do you get that impression?
From reading recent interview experiences on Reddit, the thing got way worse now that you have thousands of unemployed engineers competing for scarce positions.
Now it's leetcode hards AND takeaway assignment.
The foundations of mathematics are deeper than that basic assumption. I can for example say 1 + 1 = 10 in base 2, but people imply the base when when saying 1 + 1 = 2 as well as a great deal of other details few people actually care about.
No, what I mean is your code scaling is now directly tied to how your DB scales. Your SP code can be impacting the rest of your DB, and vice-versa. I have seen large SP based systems to require Oracle boxes to be scaled up at enormous cost (hundreds of thousands or even millions of lines of SP).

Not because of slow queries, but just the cost of executing the stored procs themselves.
Ahh, I wanted to go see this talk at KubeCon yesterday but the room was completely full. Glad to see the finer points got posted here.
The unwashed masses that led J6 "did their own research" yet still qualify as brainwashed zombies. There's so much shit in the channels and so much polarization that appealing to people learning how to think critically will fix everything is one of the biggest myths of the 21st century. And in my opinion, this attitude is wildly elitist. Because lets face it, critical thinking is only something a small %age of humans are good at, and I don't include myself it that sub-population and I'm pretty goddamn smart, smart enough to know when I'm stupid.
if it's fair use then it doesn't matter what's in the license

Microsoft's position on Copilot is that it's fair use:

> When questioned, former GNOME developer and (at the time of writing) GitHub CEO, Nat Friedman, declared publicly “(1) training ML systems on public data is fair use (2) the output belongs to the operator”.

https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot/if-software-is-my-copi...
No, I mean I tell people that straight up who I'm interviewing.
Welding.
> It is also very unpopular to tell people that they need to change.

Part of the problem is that the things a person can do are almost entirely negligible, compared to industry, or require systematic changes of how housing, cities, and jobs are structured, which isn't something an individual can really influence.
Although LLMs are impressive, we should keep an eye on the potential risks. They have the ability to generate hallucinations and should be monitored closely. It's not just the tech industry that's worried, governments all over the world are concerned too.
After you give notice, at most, the business needs about a week to decide what to do with the work you were handling. In tech, most projects can be deferred, and most services can go into KTLO.

Ideally, sure. In real life the employee needs to do a brain dump of handover documents because no one writes anything down.
Relevant: https://phys.org/news/2021-02-stationary-hawking-analog-blac...
> Water-based batteries have less fire risk FWIU

CAES Compressed Air Energy Storage and Gravitational potential energy storage also have less fire risk then Lithium Ion batteries.

FWIU we already have enough abandoned mines in the world to do all of our energy storage needs?

Could CAES tanks filled with air+CO² help suppress wildfire?
Do you believe it is possible for one person to understand multiple topics in different fields as well as the experts in those fields? That seems like a massive unspoken assumption in your point of view here. If not, it seems like some level of trust in experts is the only possible way to know much about the world beyond the rudiments.
The cool thing about gravity is that it doesn't bend anything it just alters space so that straight things are bent.
You'll probably finetune for one step for each of the 5 examples. Choose the learning rate carefully to get the results you want without much forgetting.

Total time is mere seconds.

If you save the adam optimizer parameters from previous runs, you'll do even better at preventing forgetting.
The new feature we're announcing is the server-side + browser-side logs ingest, query interface, and alerting engine. Our web session recording product is something we've had around but now closely integrates with logs to help you debug.
Why isn't it logging? You can send us raw logs if you like as well:
https://www.highlight.io/docs/getting-started/backend-loggin...
https://tsqlt.org/

Not making an argument for, or against stored procedures, but just putting this link here as seeing quite a few comments regarding difficulty testing stored procs.

It was a fair number of years ago, working on an enterprise data warehouse, but the linked testing library was a bit of a revelation when testing SQLServer stored procs. Basically made unit testing stored procs straightforwards and natural.

Haven't used it since, but hopefully helpful for someone, and I do wonder if there are similar testing frameworks for other DBs?
Not to minimize, but to put in perspective (from the article):

But because the world's oceans are so huge, the melt just from the ice sheets since 1992 still only adds up to a little less than inch (21 millimeters) of sea level rise, on average. Globally sea level rise is accelerating and melt from ice sheets has gone from contributing 5% of the sea level rise to now accounting for more than one-quarter of it, the study said. The rest of the sea rise comes from warmer water expanding and melt from glaciers.

Though they're happy to call this "devastating", and it sure does sound bad -- that label by itself isn't helpful, because it doesn't tell what danger we're facing and how much time we have to brace for it.

That is -- it's sounding the alarm, without providing specifics as to what even the approximate level of danger to anyone's survival is, in real terms. Which probably has a lot to do with why this stuff barely gets reported, and why people mostly shrug when they hear about it (on top of the psychological and other sources of denial).
You Shouldn't Convert to Bidets
https://twitter.com/RT_com

The "state-funded media" flag is gone.
The submitter trimmed/edited the title. The real one is:

"GitHub Copilot Emits GPL. Codeium Does Not."

Why?
Slack Technologies vs. Pirani
Don't think in terms of memorisation, but compression. These models are trained to compress knowledge and then to leverage it to produce useful text. They're not remembering it, or storing it in a traditional sense that computers might. It's similar to the loose way humans remember little facts and things that we've seen or heard a lot.

For example, you can ask ChatGPT about obscure Wikipedia content – obscure things that it's almost certainly read. You'll find it doesn't have any recollection of the information.

Larger models should enable LLMs to draw on more the information they're trained on, and in more depth.
>It's a concerning level of paranoia to suggest that multiple and separate data collection sources, including the city government, local police, state police, the FBI, justice advocates and local journalists, are ALL manipulating statistics to create a narrative that SF is safer than your perception.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

>Please go read the threads about the Bob Lee suspect arrest, so you can see all of the people who were making the same mass-hysterical argument you're making, but admitting how they now regret getting caught up in that "SF is the Thunderdome" hysteria.

Yes, you really disproved SF as a violent and lawless place with that argument.
My family buys their own phones but I’m assumed to be tech support when things go wrong. I do not want the responsibility of locking down their phones (and neither they do).
It's going to be an uphill battle just to get people to even understand what the problems are. And this is even a technical forum. Now imagine trying to explain these nuances to a judge or jury.
And yet here you are, reading and participating in a thread for which you do not come here.
You may want to check out the list of the sponsors of this bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/120...

And that's just the sponsors, not the people who will vote for it. Some on that list do belong in nursing homes, but age is not a factor. It's mostly just the political establishment and newcomers hoping to join that establishment.
Interesting, and I guess this applies to plenty of modern standards (e.g. my work won't use wireguard because it isn't approved by some nonsense security standards.

But on the other hand I don't think the sensible solution is to leave everything unregulated! I am very glad that building regulations exist!
How to become a “designer who codes” (2019)
Where does the FAQ say that? I see that it says it was trained, in part, on open source code. That's pretty vague in terms of determining permission.
I'm a little confused what you mean by JS lacking a short syntax for lambdas.

let multiply = (a, b) => a * b;

Is this not a lambda?
3, and there's absolutely no need for hadoop, particularly with MSQ
> Thieves, scammers

Which means they do have things to hide. There are lots of thieves in places of power, and that is a compelling reason not to let them have our data.
The danger about AI and drones/robots is scaling.

It's difficult to find 100 people to execute an operation on the same day, most likely some of them would be informants and the information would leak.

But you can buy 100 drones under false pretense and distribute them, maybe even in different cities. Imagine a LLM talking with 100 delivery agents and saying something like "I need you to deliver the drone at this address, unpack it, charge it, plug a stick with this software I'm emailing you with and leave the window open for an artistic experiment I'm doing"
Not fully comparable because passwords usually give you more than just read access.
That definition aligns with my own.

Note that the definition says that the "desire"—the intent—is the injury or harm itself.

It's not malice if you steal someone's car because the point isn't to make them feel bad, the point is to acquire a car.

I don't consider depersonalization to imply malice either. Depersonalization can make it easier to maliciously harm someone, but seeing a user as a potential source of revenue isn't malice. The intent isn't to harm them at all, the intent is to generate revenue. The harm is incidental.
The problem becomes they add some feature like a camera subapp with decals/mlbullshit to get your permission, but once they have that permission they can do whatever the fuck shady thing they want with it.
Even friends of mine who are otherwise very conscious about social issues ignore climate change or push it all the way down. People seem to think corporations need to change and anything to suggest they need to change their lifestyle is basically drowned in cognitive dissonance. There’s also a significant amount of e we h as whataboutism even here in HN. Meat & dairy, car culture, fast fashion, consumerism especially that of low quality goods, travel, …etc are all things that could change or adapt. I just don’t see that happening.
Honestly, at this point I just want Musk to take time off and get help. The man has gone off the deep end.
The “invented persona” behind the GISAID viral sequence database
Response to Tom's “10 principles for writing for AI”
They do not. This is pretty easily provable. I was in a CS class that had an automated plagiarism checker over 20 years ago.

(And since Brian Kernighan was teaching it, I'm inclined to believe in it.)
I see. You are asserting axiomatically consistent systems are 'universal truths' in the context of things that people say online. However, math is about processing statements, and does not make an assertion about the truth of those statements in the real world, just on whether they were processed correctly.
As a datapoint: I once successfully fielded a copyright case on about 15 lines of code.
Do you have a source beyond your own "clear" interpretation of this verse? I think if you dig deeper you will find that it's what the tradition says, what the recognized commentary on these verses say, and certainly if you ask Muslims what they think it's about, this is what they'll point to. That matters too.
There are now predictions that the Gulf Stream won't shut down, but the Antarctic equivalent may, which would be just as bad.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/climate-change-ocean-circulat...

> Meanwhile the long-standing concern about a shutdown of the ocean circulation in the North Atlantic sometime in the 21st century appears to be subsiding. A Swiss study[1] published this month found that, contrary to past belief, the circulation did not fail at the end of the last ice age, suggesting, the researchers say, that it was more stable than previously supposed, and less likely to collapse. [1] - https://www.unibe.ch/news/media_news/media_relations_e/media...

> A new analysis by Australian and American researchers, using new and more detailed modeling of the oceans, predicts that the long-feared turn-off of the circulation will likely occur in the Southern Ocean, as billions of tons of ice melt on the land mass of Antarctica. And rather than being more than a century away, as models predict for the North Atlantic, it could happen within the next three decades.

> It predicts a 42 percent decline in deep-water formation in the Southern Ocean by 2050. This is more than twice the 19 percent they predict for an equivalent event in the North Atlantic.

> And after 2050, their model predicts that things will get even worse. Deep-water formation “looks headed towards collapse this century,” the coordinator of the study, Matthew England of the University of New South Wales, told Yale Environment 360. “And once collapsed, it would most likely stay collapsed until Antarctic melting stopped. At current projections that could be centuries away.”
I'll still be driving my land cruiser in 2035.
The really crazy part is that I have multiple friends and family that would turn over their info to me with no questions asked.
> A funding body grants you money and demands open-access. They often state very clearly that costs for publications (submission or publication fees, open access fees etc) cannot be paid from grant money.

I don't believe you. Show me one source for this, and from a decently sized funding body if it's such common practice.
Just opening it in GIMP and scaling back down to 200x320 seems to work fine, I don't notice any weird artifacts or anything.
Bigger question is whether Microsoft used all of their internal code to help train. If not is is a good indication of trust
Notes from quick read of paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10866. Title of popsci is overreaching, this is a drop-in subquadratic replacement for attention. Could be promising, but to be seen if it is adopted in practice. skybrian (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35657983) points out
new blog post by authors, and prev discussion of older (march 28th) blog post. Takeaways:

* In standard attention in transformers, cost scales quadratically with length of sequence, which restricts model context. This work presents subquadratic exact operator allowing it to scale to larger contexts (100k+).

* They introduce an operator called "Hyena hierarchy", a recurrence over 2 subquadratic operations: long convolution, and element-wise mul gating. Sec 3.1-3.3 define the recurrences, matrices, and filters. This is importantly, a drop in replacement for attention.

* Longer context: 100x speedup over FlashAttention at 64k context (if we view flash attention as an non-approx engg optimization, then this work is improving algorithmically, and getting OOM over that). Associate recall, i.e., just pull data, show improvements: Experiments on 137k context, and vocab sizes of 10-40 (unsure why they have bad recall on small length sequence with larger vocab, but they still outperform others)

* Comparisons (on relatively small models, but hoping to show pattern) with RWKV (attention-free model, trained on 332B tokens), GPTNeo (trained on 300B tokens), with Hyena trained on 137B tokens. Models are 125M-355M sized. (Section 4.3)

* On SuperGLUE, zero-shot and 3-shot accuracy is ballpark similar to GPTNeo (although technically they underperform a bit for zero-shot and overperform a bit for 3-shot). (Table 4.5 and 4.6)

* Because they can support large (e.g., 100k+) context, they can do image classification. They report ballpark comparable against others. (Table 4.7)

Might have misread some takeaways; happy to be corrected.
Will boiling water ruin green tea?
This is a common misunderstanding of the recent guidance[0] that ignores substantial portions of it.

The Copyright Office was pretty clear that works that incorporate AI-generated content can be copyrighted if there is sufficient human input. If there isn't substantial human input in judiciously curating and integrating AI-generated code, the company has bigger problems than copyright.

Here's the most relevant quotation from the guidance clarifying when AI-assisted works can be copyrighted:

> In other cases, however, a work containing AI-generated material will also contain sufficient human authorship to support a copyright claim. For example, a human may select or arrange AI-generated material in a sufficiently creative way that “the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship.” [33] Or an artist may modify material originally generated by AI technology to such a degree that the modifications meet the standard for copyright protection.[34] In these cases, copyright will only protect the human-authored aspects of the work, which are “independent of” and do “not affect” the copyright status of the AI-generated material itself.[35]

> This policy does not mean that technological tools cannot be part of the creative process. Authors have long used such tools to create their works or to recast, transform, or adapt their expressive authorship. For example, a visual artist who uses Adobe Photoshop to edit an image remains the author of the modified image,[36] and a musical artist may use effects such as guitar pedals when creating a sound recording. In each case, what matters is the extent to which the human had creative control over the work's expression and “actually formed” the traditional elements of authorship.[37]

[0] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05...
Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose
> Tech illiterate people are barely installing new apps on their phones, let alone separate app stores.

Can you back that up with data? My family’s phones are full of apps.