skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My goal is to make $240 from it in 30 days so I can use it for free for the next year
And even worse, it barely makes the news when it concerns us. The stark reduction in ecosystem complexity and loss of animal life ("Holocene extinction") is much more concerning to me. Even though some may call it aesthetics, but that's pretty cruel in its shallowness. "Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture"... https://ourworldindata.org/land-use
Gold Heist Worth Millions at Toronto's Airport
It's just unfortunate nomenclature. Space(time) is a set of dimensions. It's not a substance, like a ruler, anymore than temperature is a substance in a thermometer. The word "bend" misleads us by equivocating "bending" a ruler (forcefully rearranging its atoms into a new shape) with "bending" spacetime (e.g. changing how fast someone's clock ticks).
Did it notify you automatically if you had plagiarized something, or did it flag you internally for manual review?
> GPL and other libre/free/open licenses were a great hack to circumvent draconian copyright laws

The GPL relies on copyright law.
Yeah, this "we can't build anymore" shit is _often_ just people complaining about not being able to externalize costs that they don't want to pay for.
to be even more pedantic, hawking radiation isn't exactly created by gravity
500 years ago there were flourishing civilizations in many parts of the world specially Asia and there were tradesmen and tradescraft of all sorts practiced by the population. Those mind boggling buildings and roads did not build by themselves.
Please don't use scarequotes to demean a religion and its adherents. Being welcoming of others with varied backgrounds is wonderful and something I'm hopeful more of us can do on HN; it's a great way to give broader perspectives a home and give us all more opportunities, both to connect as well as to build.
powershell is still built on crap

I had it randomly throwing exceptions the other day that a path was too long

(it was only about 300 characters...)
Also I wonder how this will hold with certain technology. For example apps written with Qt or GPL are very likely to be GPL licensed, unlike apps written in JavaScript which are often licensed under MIT. The likeness of copilot/chatgpt splitting gpl licensed code is the quite higher in Qt/GTK projects...
Climate diplomacy is hopeless, says author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline
I don't think the reasoning is solid at all. I mean yes, a theoretical superintelligent AI would be very dangerous, but I see exactly no reason to think that current models could get there.
Maybe also take a look at the Mister project if you haven't already. Same idea of using FPGA to reproduce old hardware but broad support for many home computers, game consoles, and arcade boards
which doesn’t disprove their comments.

what exactly are you trying to say?
> > I fully agree that continually denying yourself something that makes you happy isn't a virtue.

> Murder? Mayhem? Destruction? Greed?

The bar is so low you consider not being a dangerous sociopath a virtue?
Will never happen due to corporate politics.

Some Netflix VP would have to sign off on the transaction and then will wind up fired from the embarassment of having Redbox make the DVD business grow.
Is it irony that doing this (or even your comment) would likely land you in really big trouble under the purpose of this act?
TL;DR no, but it will make it bitter and astringent because more caffeine and catechins will be extracted.
Sadly, after seeing so many deny the threat of covid as it was killing hundreds of thousands, I’m not sure people are capable of seeing the tip of their nose.
My last experience trying to contribute was terrible, so it is unlikely.
You could probably do that w/ 1 line of code depending on the variable name :)
Fasting from sexual desires is the hardest part for me.
Global average rise seems like an uninteresting point. We recently read that on the highly populated US Gulf Coast, sea level rise was +5 inches since 2010, which is rather a lot. These are rates that amount to a noticeable difference in one lifetime.
> On a more serious note, I really wonder where the line is drawn for copyright.

As soon as you start thinking about copyright, you end up realizing it's all non-sense. Stephan Kinsella (a patent lawyer!) is the leading thinker on this, and his videos, essays, and podcasts are worth listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0RXfGGMGPE
Code snippiets are not poems. I don't see how society benefits from granting an exclusive right to a few lines of C.
We don't have a single test that shows that GR is wrong in any way and we have many tests that show that it is exactly right to any arbitrary precission we can dream of achieving.
IANAE but from what I've seen, there's been a lot of different potentially "game-changing" breakthroughs in energy storage, but the bottleneck lies in manufacturing capabilities. "Undecided with Matt Ferrell" on Youtube has great content on recent energy storage developments.
Can confirm there's still a large performance difference in classical network methods sockets) when you're trying to reach 10Gb. All the nice things implemented down there have an interesting effect if you're using lots of parralel streams and applications, but for those of us streaming lots of data in real-time, jumbo frames are still very much useful. I noticed a 10 to 20% cpu load difference between the two. I've even forgone IP fragmentation for these kinds of streams, application-level packet fragmentation/reassembly with an acceptable loss rate.

Now we're moving to 100Gb and soon 400-800Gb and anything helps up there. I'm waiting for someone to standardise some way to reassemble jumbo frames into large 1MB+ 'application packets' using custom headers and reassembly algorithms directly in NICs (hopefully something standard like P4) before DMA-dispatching them to user memory.
Another part of the problem is it means telling people to do the opposite of "keeping up with the Joneses".
But a 2008 car is already prone to these kind of attacks anyway, you’re looking at a 90s one to avoid these, but you’re open to other kinds of attacks.

Better to live in an area where this is not a problem or carry insurance.
It's even worse. You can pay with crypto someone on the net to take delivery of a drone, charge it, flash it with your software, and place it at some address, under a pretense like "oh, it's just an artistic project". So one could organize terrorist operations on the other half of the globe. Trace that.

Of course, after the first few such acts, countermeasures will be deployed, drones sales tracked, people in general be suspicious about them. Rope/mosquito nets would be a cost effective defense of high importance targets as already seen in Ukraine.
No, I’m saying having a finite number of neurons doesn’t imply a particular number of brain states. Scaling laws actually don’t apply very strictly to brain size. For example, whales have very large brains but aren’t generally thought to be more capable of reasoning than humans. Women generally have smaller brains than men but aren’t thought to be less capable of reasoning.
That's why copyright holders for reference works have been using copyright traps for ages. That's where you include a fictional town in a map, a nonsense word in a dictionary, or a fake person in your phone book. If your competitors reproduce the trap, then that's clear evidence you can use in court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_trap
Sorry but you are the one that needs to slow down and understand what people are trying to say. According to the tax law, it is now a stipulation that all Software Engineers (SWEs) are classified as R&D professionals. This is not a matter of personal interpretation or opinion.
Eternal is the key word, too. That's the problem with doing this in law: It will just get introduced over and over perpetually until finally it slips through, and then it's pretty much with us forever. The bad guys only have to win once. The good guys have to win every time.
Pretty cool--it seems very focused on FPGA type RF backends, so stretches a bit what I'd personally call RF breadboarding (compared to actual RF circuits, power dividers, etc).

I feel there's definitely a need for generally making RF equipment more hobby friendly. I've long had the thought to make a modular RF test station, similar to the NI-PXI [1], but you know, not $50k. Similarly at one point I actually starting making prototypes of a simplified, low-frequency clone of the X-Microwave [2] system, which feels more like what I mean by RF breadboard.

[1] https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/hardware/products/pxi-rf-multi...

[2] https://quanticxmw.com/reference-design-kits/
They are deterministic in the sense that you get the same output given the same input. We interpret their output as a probability distribution over words. But we can do this because we intentionally normalize the word scores.
Doubtful. More likely it's because they see an unrestricted web browser as a threat to their app store moat. Same reason they ban sideloading.
Depends on the company but this is the default most client-facing jobs. It removes the possibility of a representative from passing along info to company clients and also eliminates the ability of reps to copy client data to take with them to new jobs.
It is consistent with the scope of intellectual curiosity. With the occasion of a kind greeting to all.
Yeah, I wouldn't touch MS Windows or Bing either. Is Duckduck Go and Linux for me. If ChatGPT starts charging for basic service, I might pay.
> But the choice of dates is pretty arbitrary.

Of course it's not! It must be comfortable for farmers, and the farming season starts just now. I'm not a religious but I respect Islam as the most wise of religions, like an iPhone among other cell phones. I want to try fastening because I see some wisdom in having a month with feeding like that and I consider these days of year as totally not arbitrary.
Agreed, it's a fine anecdote but easy to draw the wrong conclusion of "rules hamper progress and counterproductive". I think the main challenge is to attract the right talent to the rule-making body.
One question that pops to mind with AI applied to sales and marketing is: In a world already flooded by generic (albeit human-produced) what will happen when we crank that to 11 (billion) and have LLMs produce uninspired marketing copy and sales emails at a scale never seen before? How will the world react?
It's up to PyPI what to call it, but I would have said OIDC publishers.
Not quite, I am saying universal truths aren’t inherently something you are going to make a great deal of money from.

A list of previous baseball games listing just dates and teams isn’t particularly interesting even if it’s absolute truth. Meanwhile a less accurate list of future games with teams and dates is something people might actually care about.
"Write good code and you won't have bugs" :)

I think it's good practice to enforce consistency rules both in the DB and in code. If you make a mistake in your code, the DB won't allow it, and vice versa.
The crux of this is at what point is the code being copied, and is that copying allowed under the license? For example, maybe --

* Training an AI with the code is allowed legally.

* Storing model weights is allowed legally.

* Querying the AI with those model weights is allowed legally.

Or maybe not.
Polished UI saves user time, and when your users are engineers it is definitely put into my calculations when we're looking at these venders versus in house.
> This. With all of this AI/image recognition stuff, it'd be relatively easy to allow people to maintain a list of filters and when someone posts nudity, profanity, etc., just obscure it in their feed and present a "this is something you asked us to filter out <keyword>, proceed with caution" or just hide it entirely. Put the individual in control, and force them to create a list (if they wish) on next app open with a timestamp of if/when they declined to set something.

Or even without AI tools. All this stuff is a complete non-issue on my extended-friend-group WhatsApps and my family text message threads. It was never a problem when I ran a private forum for people I knew, years and years ago. Mixing private communication with people you know with a global broadcast system seems to be what causes the problem to exist in the first place. Ordinary actual-humans-you-know communication channels don't need some 3rd-party censor, and for the most part don't even call for end-user-tunable censorship tools, beyond being able to leave & form groups or maybe set images to click/tap-to-view or something. Nothing sophisticated, certainly.
Yes that do sounds useful though you are right it depends on the implementation .
Honestly I had been assuming that the SSO spam was already AI generated, just by something much weaker than ChatGPT.
Employees allowed to take off as much time as they would like end up taking fewer days off compared with those who are given a set number of days per year, according to a 2017 survey by HR platform Namely.

Which was the precise intent of the policy from the very start.
"Under the new rule, though applicants may claim a copyright for an arrangement or editing of such material, the original work is ineligible"
Even framing it as "nothing to hide" implies that hiding is the exception. Shouldn't it be the default?
As I point out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35657036 the costs of having employees that "write emails" scales linearly with the number of submissions that are eligible for peer review, not with the number of papers that are successfully published.
I’d like to say it was all part of a secret plan to not draw attention to ourselves until we were ready. But it wasn’t.

The sad truth is, we were always low on money and bootstrapping. We spent a lot of time building, and very little time pitching.

We pitched about 10 VCs total in this whole time. I remember being at an event where Reid Hoffman spoke, he said he pitched 99 VCs before he got investment.

But we spent zero on marketing and PR, and 11 million people in 100 countries downloaded our Groups app. But the app is not that interesting, people don’t understand that most of our users are community leaders.

What people don’t get is that in this space, you need ALL THE FEATURES that Big Tech platforms offer before people will switch. It simply took us 10-12 years to get to this point. I picked a hard problem, but a very rewarding one in the end.

Look, MySQL and NGinX took 10 years before VCs funded them. But to be fair, they grew a lot whereas Qbix didn’t. Maybe I and my team simply suck at making things viral. But I believe this year will change that.

Networking is hard. I’m a guy who came from an immigrant family in Brooklyn. I never moved to the West Coast. We applied to HN with Qbix every other year since 2011. Never even got invited to the interview.

Now, I personally know Noam Chomsky, Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang, Tim Berners-Les (see the photo at https://wefunder.com/Qbix), the Rohingya Project guys, Queen Diambi of a tribe in the Congo, the hed of United Nations Capital Development Fund, the head of CoinDesk, and many more randomly assorted people I met over the years. But it took years.

And I still don’t know very good VCs. And many VCs still look at our open source project as ”too big”. They prefer to invest in small feature companies, which we can now spin off from our accelerator.

If you want to introduce me, I’m very happy to take a meeting and demo on Zoom.

And if you want to support it, just go to https://wefunder.com/Qbix and kick in $100 or something. We are gearing up launch the 5th of November this year — and you’ll definitely not forget that :)
But will the competitors allow for third party worlds connecting to their headset... This will be a walled garden.
It's not so much an ability to understand as it is a desire to not understand in order to be able to ignore the rightsholders' licensing terms.

Plenty of tech companies exist by putting a thin layer on top of the hard work of others and if those others can be ignored then that's what they'll do.
the article cites that 6mo tweet that everyone else cites. I don't think it is known if the user had public code suggestions turned off at the time, either; he wouldn't/didn't answer the question at the time.

Also if I am remembering correctly, and I make no guarantee that I am, this tweet is from a person with a strong dislike for Microsoft, and if I am right about that, I would not put it past this person, or anyone else with a strong dislike of Microsoft, to craft a situation to make Microsoft look bad solely to hurt Microsoft.

I've tried to make Copilot give me GPL code snippets while I have "suggestions matching public code" set to "blocked" and I can't make it happen.

so even if this was a problem 6 months ago, it would take some convincing to get me to believe that this happens today.
I respect plumbers and every other honest profession that do not harm others.
Yeah, it's been a second since I've used IntelliJ/Spring, but I recall that being the case as well.

Gradle is something I've never messed with, but that makes sense.
> I used to live in MA. People complained about it all the time. Same goes for when I lived in NYC.

The difference is you don't often hear complaints about MA unless you also live in MA. At this point, pretty much the entire country is sick of hearing Californian's complain...

I think the issues in NYC are similar to that of California's mega-cities (LA, SF), which is why we hear more about them.

These cities went from lawlessness and chaos, to law-and-order cities a few decades ago. Things got great, and then collectively people forgot what it used to be like... and fell into the same trappings. Today, these three mega-cities are facing lawlessness and chaos again - and I predict a law-and-order decade is coming soon.

Anecdotally (which isn't worth much I know), and having lived in CA my entire life, I have noticed an increase of complaints from fellow CA citizens. People are tired of the fires, power outages, water shortages, homelessness, etc. All are related to policy decisions made sometimes decades ago, and we're just now paying for it.

I think if you truly love where you live, recognizing these issues is a necessity. Pretending issues are the same everywhere and are something that "just happens" or are caused by external forces is akin to keeping our collective heads in the sand. Decisions have consequences - so we better make good ones.
In economics, the closest analogy might be economic substitutes. Who was to predict that electricity would displace oil lamps but the electric pioneers? The car to replace the horse-drawn carriage? Internal combustion to replace steam? The standard shipping container to replace irregular loading? Integrated circuits to replace mazes of wires and vacuum tubes? Spreadsheets to replace calculation workers? The Internet to quite nearly replace all uses of technical books? Government planners are not these pioneers and can never make universally applicable rules which hold their fairness into an unknowable future.
Scene, a courtroom, 2026:

"So Mr Zim, you're accusing X of using your copyrighted code. But you've admitted you used AI to generate that codebase, so you don't own the copyright. Please prove exactly which lines of code you do own the copyright to?"
When these articles were published, I was certain Microsoft had a plan to betray everyone's trust as they always do.

Microsoft's business model is betrayal. Github is Microsoft.

HNers got mad at people who pointed this out, and now here we are.

You were warned, but you decided to believe again in the most vile people in the history of computing.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/github-is...
Maybe. Post it somewhere highly visible online, to check if everyone agrees with it. Make other statements like it. See how many you can make that remain disagreement free. I'll save you some time. As long as people engage with what you say, you'll just keep finding alternative ways to view things, no matter what you say.
Holy cow, that's a lot of dedication and endurance! What kept you going despite the unusually high amount of failures?
Some conservatism is warranted here. Even if GPT-4 is downloadable, most people cannot run it unless you have pretty beefy graphics card which means we basically are talking about PCs. Laptops are out of league. We are already around 3nm landmark, GPUs are reaching up to 400 watts, 3D chiplets might add some life to scaling but I think budget now is limited. It isn't 1990.

What I anticipate here is that when enough of the population has generated enough of text/images out of these, people would get an intuitive feel for AI generated content and it would not get as much traction which would push down such content producers further leaving them no choice but to either really care about creation process or get out of the arena.
I don't know. The company that provides my password manager is probably one of those companies that I'd like to know has an intellectually honest approach to communication.

They are in the business of trust.
That latter part is why a number of corporate lawyers are probably deciding "don't touch this with a 10 foot pole for now".
You don't need to comment with the same link as your post.
Sponsored in part by PG&E a major cause of wildfires. Seems like a bit of deflection to me.
> Copyright law has always used a "color of your bits" argument

This is an excellent point in the context of this question. Typical computer programmer responses like "but there are only so many ways to write a function that does X" or "how small of a matching section counts as copyright infringement" ignore the color of the bits.

A judge can look at ChatGPT or Copilot, decide that it took in license-limited copyrighted data in its training set, observe that a common use is to have it emit that data - to emit bits that are still colored with copyright - and tell OpenAI, or Copilot, or their users that they are guilty of copyright infringement. There may be no coherent mathematical or technical formula to determine the color of a bit, but that's understandable, because the color doesn't exist in mathematical, technical, coherent domains anyways: Only the legal domain sees color, and it can take care of itself.
Of course it does
Yeah, I'm having trouble understanding this. This sentence is very confusing to me:

> While this gives you more flexibility, the tricky detail is that filtering happens only after your data is fetched. This is not different from fetching the results and filtering them inside your application. It just saves you some keystrokes.

> It just saves you some keystrokes.

No, it saves transferring tens of gigabytes to my application. I assume I'm missing something here, or maybe my data is different.
> Gazprom was specifically sanctioned as a government-related entity.

Gazprom was sanctioned in February 2022, Bulgaria was cut off from Russian gas in September 2022, with most other countries still buying Russian gas for months. Why specifically Bulgaria (whose role in freezing the assets was minimal) and why 6 months later? There's simply no connection to the frozen assets.

> Either EU decided to engage in an economic war with Russia, willing and aware of possible consequence

That's what I've been saying since my first comment from this thread - EU engages in economic war, but cutting out the gas was not an EU action, it's the Russian retaliation.

> When you start to remembering things that didn't actually happen - it's a bad sign, man.

Wait, you're claiming that Russia did not invade Ukraine?

> You can't act like a guarantor of peace and then confess that you were totally lying without hurting your credibility.

More like an appeaser of the imperialistic invader / aggressor.

> Russia claims that Ukraine wants to genocide people of Donetsk

Oh right, 2013 Donetsk was the scene of a genocide while 2022 Mariupol is the face of liberation. Honestly can't fathom this doublethink.
Similar idea, also illegal, leave a half empty bottle of booze laced with poison in the boot.