skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s the bound?
if the suit against copilot fails then the GPL is effectively dead

(along with all other licenses that require attribution)

as it will allow you to launder code automatically through an LLM to remove copyright

however if the suit is successful: every company/individual that has used it is likely suddenly liable for millions of claims of copyright infrigement

I look forward to sending out demands for settlement to everyone that's ever publicly admitted using copilot

$150,000 per infringement with wilfulness, less without
Twitter once muzzled Russian and Chinese state propaganda. That's over now
I believe that laundering licensed or copyrighted content for reuse that fails to recognize the original authors or usage restrictions is likely to be one of the biggest commercial applications of generative machine learning algorithms.

I also believe this is where a lot of the hype about "rogue AIs" and singularity type bullshit comes from. The makers of these models and products will talk about those non-problems to cover for the fact that they're vacuuming up the work of individuals then monetizing it for the profit of big industry players.
I used a VPN.
Is it any surprise though? When for-profit entities operate in overseas territories and wish to remain in business there, of course they are subject to their laws.

This is why non-profit entities and decentralization are important.

You can't have it both ways.
i recommend the Jollo LNT license for all your pointless theatrical "copyright" needs. it does not use swear words, unlike "WTFPL", and is even more ambiguous. ive tried submitting it to the FSF before for review, but they were confused by it http://jollo.org/LNT/doc/licensing
You severely overestimate what "the cheapest stuff" (or maybe more accurate "the low-endest stuff") is.
Douglass was such a mind. I need to actually read through his various memoirs and essays/correspondence.
Samsung is just 2 years behind TSMC, and is in much more neutral country. Even Intel which is in its worst shape in a while is 4 years behind TSMC and is catching up. I highly doubt loosing 2 years of progress is even a discussion point for the war between two countries.

War between China and Taiwan(with US as an ally) will set the world decades or even centuries behind even if nukes are not used. If nukes are used, it will set the world millenia behind.
I... don't see how you read what he said that way at all?
I doubt it, plant "milks" face the same issue, they can't display "milk" on the crate, so they do stuff like that: https://www.alpro.com/de/produkte/not-mlk/not-mlk/alpro-not-...

Maybe the "Ch*mpagne of beers"

They probably don't sell that many beers in France anyways, I've never seen that brand here
Oh sorry I've got mixed up with who runs what model, I thought coheres one was Claude, but that's anthropic. Wasn't trying to say it was based on another.
the problem is violating gpl doesn't turn into financial damage because the product is free. So not following license means there's no way to recover the cost of a lawsuit.
1 + 1 = 2

What does that even mean? What's "true" about that? It's agreed that it's true, therefore it's true.
I've found that the bugs that GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 make are actually... somehow more nefarious because it understands enough to make very complex bugs.

The complexity of the bugs you get are usually 10x as complex as the code's main logic you wrote. So you need to write very simple code.

Unfortunately, these GPT models are very complex. The bugs they produce will take an order of magnitude better model to fix.
Given how cautious corporate lawyers usually are, I'm surprised any company allows the use of AI for code generation. The USPTO has been pretty clear that AI generated material is not copyrightable, as to qualify for copyright a work has to be the creative act of a human. So any company allowing AI to generate code runs the risk of not owning the copyright on it.
My argument is not that 'I found interview easy and hence not so bad'. My argument is that in Lyfts case engineering hasnt been the problem with why its business is failing.

> Then the question becomes what exactly are you paying top dollar to these engineers for?

Again Engineering is one vector in a company's success but not the only one. It might well make sense for Lyft to pay well for good engineering talent there. Maybe not paying well might have doom'd them much faster.

Your take on OSS is also a naive one . OSS helps in off boarding long term maintenance costs (if the project becomes popular enough) and staves off bit rot. It helps attract talent , creates industry standards etc. Engineering is feature multiplier and for some companies it does make sense to OSS.
My biggest qualm with Go is exactly this. Especially when deserialising data, data that wasn't sent vs empty/default data can be quite different things, yet you have to be very wary of the values you are processing. Ints default to 0, bools to false... Fuck.
CEO celebrates worker who sold family dog after he demanded return to office
I got mixed up with the models, Claude is from anthropic.
Is not ok, but Microsoft couldn't care less (because they are not going to get fined).
Some of those concerns apply to any database. Your query could slowdown if the database picks a bad plan, so you could say you will never trust the db to scale. That's separate from scaling the stored proc - just using the db can run into a scaling issue.
Content and controversy in generative AI models
At risk of sounding hyped-up, I’d say that generative A.I. could be a major factor for the success of “the metaverse” in that it would make it easier for brands and users to create interesting 3-d objects and environments. I’d also look at progress in things like neural radiance fields that could make it possible to take a moderate number of pictures of a place and create a VR model you can visit.
> 2 weeks notice is the gold standard

In the US...

In most of the rest of the world 1 to 3 months is normal and expected.
It's not hard to imagine a scenario where it remains very expensive to train and run these LLMs and the engineering breakthroughs needed to solve the known problems are slow in coming, and so we enter a period of stagnation. I would say this is a more likely scenario than the one in which we are standing on the verge of a new era of super-intelligent AI.
The only thing I find unfair (on what I understood) about the Digital Markets Act, it's how it looks like it was made to target Apple and only Apple

Why I can't install Steam on my Xbox or PS5? Since we are here talking about open market, we should not target one company but make it all open.
That's not my experience when interacting with people communicating in a second language. They generally appreciate the opportunity to learn and improve their (in most cases) English. They also usually love to be taught idioms so that they don't stick out like a sore thumb!
Building a large scale unsupervised model anomaly detection system
LyftLearn is Lyft’s ML Platform. It is a machine learning infrastructure built on top of Kubernetes that powers diverse applications such as dispatch, pricing, ETAs, fraud detection, and support. In a previous blog post, we explored the architecture and challenges of the platform.

In this post, we will focus on how we utilize the compute layer of LyftLearn to profile model features and predictions and perform anomaly detection at scale.
There's also big in-group out-group thinking going on here. People generally see members of the in-group as individuals like themselves, and the out-group as some kind of monolith. They have some empathy for the in-group but none for the out-group.

If a driver runs a stop sign, it reflects badly on that driver. If a cyclist runs a stop sign, it reflects badly on ALL cyclists, etc. It works the other way around too.
I think their comment was to the contrary, that the copyright/legal implications of 'stolen' code could seriously hobble the wider development, proliferation, adoption, and commercialization of AI software.
As long as the AI doesn't produce this function, you're fine:

private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex {
if (fromIndex > toIndex)
throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex +
") > toIndex(" + toIndex+")");
if (fromIndex < 0)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(fromIndex);
if (toIndex > arrayLen)
throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException(toIndex);
}

On a more serious note, I really wonder where the line is drawn for copyright. I see a lot of people claiming that AI is producing code they've written verbatim, but sometimes I wonder if everyone just writes certain things the same way. For the above rangeCheck function, there isn't much opportunity for the individual programmer to be creative. Perhaps there is a matter of taste on what exceptions you throw, or in what order. But the chosen ones are certainly what most people think of first, and the order to validate arguments, then check the low value, then check the high value, is pretty much what anyone would do. Perhaps you could format the error message differently. That's about it. So when someone "rips off" your code wholesale, it's could just be that everyone writing that function would have typed in the exact same bytes as you. You know your style guide is working when you look at code, think you wrote it, but actually you didn't!
How many times are we going to go through this before we accept that nobody involved in generative AI cares about pesky things like licenses and copyright?

One of the main reasons corporations love it so much is because it effectively lets them profit off of the work of others with no consequences.
The title is true, but the claim that coedium is not violating licenses is false.

Many licenses still require attribution and Coedium is violating them.
Have you tried phind.com ? It scrapes sites so it can get additional context
But they don't sell software, they are a middleman selling labor (drivers). They were never going to have software product style scaling.
I used to deal with stored procedures in legacy systems and honestly it was not bad.

The first concern was getting the stored procedures into version control and creating a mechanism to update the systems based on the things in version control upon deployment. After that it was smooth sailing.

Why are stored procedures to be avoided?
I think a hybrid approach with a high bypass turbo fan powered by an electric motor. The fan could then switch over to a https://newatlas.com/automotive/inside-out-wankel/ when at cruising altitude. Using biofuels, or carbon air capture, we get long range and a closed carbon cycle.
How much if this is due to someone ripping off GPL code and stuffing it in a repo under a different license that got fed to copilot training?
Archon might be my favorite game of all time...But what's this with the overpowered unicorn? Was it way more powerful than the dark side equivalent (basilisk?)? Did they release another 8-bit version or something?
Spoken like someone who hasn't had to spend weeks with off-the-charts smoke-based air quality problems, followed by hundreds of thousands of people having to replace air filters in houses and cars.
Ask HN: How do you engage and motivate your development team?
How good is it at scaling? And will it still retain the emergent capabilities of the huge transformer LLMs?

Isn't this basically the bitter lesson again? Making small improvements work but in long term it won't give the same impressive result?
If you read a negative connotation into "slow the development of AI", that's what you get. It's how I'd interpret that comment, too.
> Now that electric buses exist, I would much rather live in a city with a fleet of electric buses than electric streetcars

Nah, this just makes it obvious you never commuted using public transit tbh. Trams feel much more stable, have more room, and their routes are easier to reason about. Trams always end up more desirable than buses, which sway, feel crowded, and rattle due to uneven road surface.
You seem to be going around to everyone who replied to you yesterday and responding in anger. If you're having a bad day, it might be better to not reply.
I think the concern is that the only reason that source attribution comment is there is because they haven't figured out how to better plagiarize/launder code.

Otherwise the tool can go in the other direction and literally say "hey how about this function from project $foo?" with a full attribution. Apparently Google Bard does bother to do that.
It feels like fishing for problems. For a system that was accurate & working well.

The test isn't about funding. That's poor spirited. The test is about journalistic independence. NPR and the Guardian ought be hallmark leaders by any metric one could make worth a salt.
Atrocities are those plywood 'houses' and whole urban sprawl in USA and Canada. They have enormous environmental cost, in contrast of those ideas of Corbusier.
And even then, you suburban cardboard bungalow inside is Corbusier, just think a second about that.
imgur is terrible and compresses png to jpg in some cases
Damn, just looking at this image for a minute can trigger an intense wave of nostalgia for my childhood.
And this is why I hate Windows in an industry automation environment. Dislike having to troubleshoot why that USB NIC or Serial device being destroyed by plugging it into another port. Had to write a PowerShell script for the USB NIC issue to reapply NIC settings with a reboot.

Also, always locking an open file is repulsive. Other OSs allow for renaming an open file. Not Windows! Thumbs.db being locked because File Explorer keeps the file open / locked preventing deleting an empty folder and wastes so much time waiting for Windows to unlock the file.

You have to pay me to use Windows!
So in a way, some Kenyans have taken the work of some other Kenyans, in what looks like a dystopia: “OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic” [0]

[0] https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
Great to see Bach on HN, and WTK II as well - there is so much to say about Bach, especially the conventions and freedom of expression in his keyboard works. I am probably not the right one to articulate These thoughts.

I can only say, the joy of Bach is hard to put into words. It is the emotional and at the same time almost mechanically feeling musical nature of his works, how he makes two or more voices "sing" together - I can't imagine my adult life without discovering Bach's keyboard music when I was in an especially hard time.

The unity of learning and listening also can't be overstated. Bach made me really appreciate my tiny glimpse into the Western musical tradition and also opened other worlds for me.

And his works are unbelievably enjoyable to play, even when imperfect. Listening to or playing Bach can sometimes feel like rediscovering life itself, without intending to sound dramatic, I mean it exactly like that. It seems like a miracle that another human could feel and even create the perfect interplay of rhythm, harmony, melody and patterns in Bachs work. And at the same time it feels like his work was driven by an unstoppable, deterministic, positive energy.

I know I'm rambling, but I really love Bach.
Back to where I started: I might be unable to express my admiration and thankfulness for his work in a readable or useful way.

But I'd almost go so far as to say that Bach instilled some kind of hope, faith and appreciation of human life itself in me, at a time when I was ready to just give up on my life.
When big donors say to Big U:

"I'll donate again when you reduce your ratio of admins to faculty to what it was in the 60's"

Then we might see some change.
Nope, midwest US. Two weeks notice is social etiquette as a minimum to avoid burning a bridge, so to speak. There's nothing against giving further notice.

Thinking back on it, though, I would absolutely not give further notice if I was only doing "busy" work (as someone suggested elsewhere). I try to maintain a good relationship with my employers as a professional courtesy. Putting out notice beyond what active work I have would, I think, send a signal that I'm looking to collect an easy pay check and disconnect. Lining up my resignation with my active work sends a message that I am still invested in contributing to my team's success, and that's a good way to have people be more than happy to give you referrals or networking opportunities in the future.
As an employer, the flipside of this is that there needs to be some value in having someone there that you know is leaving. If someone has been halfway checked out because they've been interviewing elsewhere, it might not be worth keeping them around for six weeks. They can't start any long-running work, or anything with any dependencies, and many people's work quality drops significantly after putting in their notice.

It's a nice idea, for sure; but most jobs can be transitioned in 2 weeks. Anything longer than that and all sense of urgency is lost ("We can transition that in a month", etc).

I've quit both ways -- with a long notice period and a short one, and short notice periods are the only times that there's been an actual transition plan.
Punitive damages can occur even if no financial loss has occurred.

I would also imagine those companies whose business is built around the open source development they do -- open core, SaaS, or otherwise -- would have a claim to financial damages as a result of stolen code.
See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35657567
You're absolutely right.

At the end of the day, all we are doing is create, read, update, and delete data.

I mean if you take away all the complexity associated with ranking and scale (not everything has to be Google scale), that is exactly what a web search is as well, right?

I remember reading a post by a maintainer saying their job is to manipulate strings or something to that effect. iirc it was a gofmt maintainer who said that but I can't find that post now.
It is easy, you put small BLDCs in the wheels. No need to push on air while you are on the ground. You could also have basically a super car drone or a maglev rail under the plane, launch it into the sky.
The comment is arguing quite the opposite.
Maybe I misunderstood, but the comment seemed to dismiss copyright issues as a cheap way to kill AI ("soft underbelly"). I think stealing code is a pretty serious deal and the onus is on AI software companies to make sure they aren't doing it; it's not "slowing the development of AI" to keep them accountable.
Training AI on code is clearly not the same as stealing it.
It serves the people whose houses are burned and the even larger population who has to live in smoke-polluted air for days or weeks at a time. The prize targets extreme wildfire events, as it says explicitly. Not one of the prizes relates to quashing anything, it's all detection and tracking.
By the time it does, it's no longer a "computer" it's a form of life, and that's not "training data", that's "experience", thus by all intents and purposes it's a "person" and so it is still true that a "computer" cannot possess the free will required to express ones self creatively
You can, you just sacrifice the salary you'd otherwise of received
Wildfire suppression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildfire_suppression#Tactics

History of wildfire suppression in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wildfire_suppressio...

Controlled burn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_burn

> A controlled or prescribed burn, also known as hazard reduction burning, [1] backfire, swailing, or a burn-off, [2] is a fire set intentionally for purposes of forest management, fire suppression, farming, prairie restoration or greenhouse gas abatement. A controlled burn may also refer to the intentional burning of slash and fuels through burn piles. [3] Fire is a natural part of both forest and grassland ecology and controlled fire can be a tool for foresters.

Hydrogel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogel

Aerogel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel

Water-based batteries have less fire risk FWIU

"1,000% Difference: Major Storage Capacity in Water-Based Batteries Found" (2023) https://scitechdaily.com/1000-difference-major-storage-capac...

> The metal-free water-based batteries are unique from those that utilize cobalt in their lithium-ion form. The research group’s focus on this type of battery stems from a desire for greater control over the domestic supply chain as cobalt and lithium are commonly sourced from outside the country. Additionally, the batteries’ safer chemistry could prevent fires.
To be fair, they’re guilty of not silencing a couple of their opinion hosts for a couple of days. Multiple anchors angrily shut down the story on-air on more than one occasion, and Tucker Carlson was so skeptical he made an enemy of Trump.

Maybe someone should have gone after the politicians and media and filmmakers that claimed Diebold stole the Ohio election for Bush and this could have been nipped in the bud.
"if asked"
People love to dump on Corbusier for all the ills of 20th C city planning. Worth noting

- These congresses were groups of architects (generally of private houses) struggling to come to terms with how to plan massive cities. At a time of population explosions, new ways of living, modern construction technology etc. City planning really didn't exist as a discipline. No hard science or social science around cities. Etc. You cant really blame them for not getting things right.

- Much of this work led to postwar quickly and cheaply built social housing. Which was much needed in the postwar world however turned worse later especially when public housing became segregationist ghettos for lower classes in the late 20th C. You cant really blame these early modernists for that.

- Corbusier in fact had many of the ideas that did stick (as opposed to many of the other attendees) - the unitee d'habitation was an incredible system. He obviously didn't understand streets or social interaction in a way that Jane Jacobs did much later but he did understand mass production, concrete and internal apartment planning in ways that led the world.
As a native Syriac speaker, saying Mongolian has Arabic influence is like saying it has Hebrew influence.

Syriac =/= Arabic. And Mongolian is influenced by Syriac not Arabic

and if you are wondering :) yes, a lot of letters ARE Syriac rotated 45 degrees
"Clearlink, like many others, has struggled to adapt to a teetering economy and recently undergone a round of layoffs. To jumpstart the firm, Clarke sent a company-wide email on April 3 saying that people who live within 50 miles of the company’s new headquarters in Draper, Utah, would be required to come into the office four days a week, with limited exceptions, starting April 17. The decision, he wrote, was made to improve the company’s performance amid a “challenging” environment."

That's a lot of words to say, "the beatings will continue until morale improves"
I can buy that. But I’ll bet you the marginal cost of all the added complexity will (as scales of economy in the EV manufacturing process) more than offset marginal engine efficiency gains, especially if electricity prices stay significantly cheaper than gasoline.

I think the reality is the ICE is a technology whose time has come. It’s overly complex and has to be close to optimal given the sheer time and energy spent perfecting it. The EV is far from optimality and it’s improvement rates will likely be staggering over the next 20 years. It’s ok. The ICE had its day, and it was cool. Now it’s time for flying drone cars.
Is there any practical difference between owning the copyright on a badly defined ~30% of a codebase and 100% of the codebase? In either case, no sane company is going to buy the code if one of your employees tries to leak it to them, which I assume is your concern.
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They gave an example of this in the launch live stream, about 12 minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/live/outcGtbnMuQ