skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What does ownership even mean if the government can force you to do things like this?

Ownership is always limited in various ways. Property rights are a social arrangement, in which the community agrees to recognize and enforce certain exclusive rights for individuals, but under set conditions.

One of the conditions of land ownership in the UK is that if you find something of great historical importance, you don't get to keep it. That's a perfectly reasonable arrangement, in my opinion. The idea is that ancient objects such as these coins are the heritage of the entire community.
The main point of points is that they are not supposed to be equivalent to x amount of time.

They're supposed to represent a measure of complexity.

How much time that then takes depends on who does the work, the order in which tickets are implemented, how much distraction there is, luck (do you encounter any unforeseen problems), and so on.

They're then used to see how many issues will fit in a sprint, which is a measure of time. So everybody ends up treating them as representing time anyway...
When I first started using TechCrunch, I found myself overwhelmed with the cluttered and overloaded user interface, which made it difficult to quickly find the information I was looking for.

That's why I decided to create "A Readable TechCrunch Feed," a simplified version of TechCrunch that focuses on delivering the most important news and updates in a clean and easy-to-read format. As I developed the tool, I found myself constantly frustrated with the bloated and cluttered nature of the original TechCrunch site, and I knew that others in the tech community would benefit from a streamlined version that focused solely on the content.

Overall, I created this tool out of a desire to improve the user experience for others who share my frustration with the overloaded UI of TechCrunch. By simplifying the site and making it easier to navigate, I hope to help others stay up-to-date on the latest tech news and trends without feeling overwhelmed or bogged down by excessive information.
I think they mean it from a softer perspective - Scrum encourages more time ensuring all the team and tasks are clearly directed towards an outcome for that sprint.

Just putting outcomes as cards on a kanban board will not have that same effect in all instances, as it's more about the soft points of engagement and teamwork driving towards that common goal.
Except, if you look closely, the AI-generated duplicates are far from identical too.
I try to keep up with the AGE breaker development, I thought there were at least one or two labs/companies trying to develop them.

I think IIRC that the crosslink breakers (referring to AGE above for those OOTL) mainly struggle from delivery being difficult? Because many of the AGEs we care about can end up in some bizzare, hard-to-reach places? I think?

I don't think this is directly related but there was one therapy for cellulite that just had an enzyme that dissolved collagen. I just learned that they (sadly, in the long run for the research field in that area) had to shutter that after only two years or so, apparently due to the bruising and discoloration of skin long term (https://investor.endo.com/news-releases/news-release-details...). I guess I can only feel so bad as they were marketing pretty heavily to people who were rich enough to pay for the cosmetic surgery out of pocket, and were as well in a category of middle-aged "luxury" buyers (from the official website -- I don't think the wayback machine will show the pictures [warning, very butt focused], but perhaps for the better, the saved version has the desktop and mobile transcript. Confetti for a medical drug advertisement website. Incredible: https://web.archive.org/web/20210124142605/https://www.qwo.c...)

Lipofuscein I'd love to learn about, I have not heard of that before.
Let's leave copilot/AI aside for a moment.

Do you actually have the necessary rights to upload some else's code to github?

When you upload to github, you give it special rights not merely for redistribution and CI stuff.

You give Github the rights to use the code for other github projects. That alone might not be compatible with some licenses (think GPL virality).

So if your software is BSD or anything without attribution I can probably upload it without problems.

But if your license requires so much as attribution, can I give Github the rights to use the code for any other internal project they might have?

Remember that in Github TOS you give grants for any github service, and in some special cases it requires this to be without attribution.

IANAL but I think I lack the necessary rights here, regardless of copilot.
Is this an attempt at viral marketing for the new Oppenheimer movie?
> it seems more difficult to find competent developers for boring stacks, because they're always looking for the next challenge, the next thing they consider interesting or what looks good on their profile (vs what is best for their employer).

The people who job hop every 18 months and have flipped from ML to web3 to LLM's in the past 4 years are not the people you want to hire. If someone has 5-6 years experience writing Java code, they'll be fine if your tech stack is C#, and vice versa. There might be a bit of a learning curve pulling people from python or rails onto typed languages (or vice versa), but in my experience that's something that can be overcome easily enough. If you're willing to give someone a month to ramp up with the expectation they'll stay longer than 2 years, that seems to be a nice tradeoff to make.
Cinebench uses Intel Embree, which is library that is hand optimized for x86 instructions.

It should not be used to compare ARM vs x86 CPUS. Geekbench is better here.
There's always exceptions in popular medicine. No doubt a small minority of people get no benefit, or may even be mildly harmed by the medicine. But Metformin, in particular, is one of the most popular drugs in the world, and it's strong safety profile is well established. "All-cause mortality is lower in people on Metformin". So, I don't think there will be any big surprises found in its safety, but maybe we'll find that a certain minority of the population aren't suited for it.
I'll see if I can dig some up, but there have been similar examples to the image reproduction case that have come out from codepilot, all it took was using some more unique method names (i.e. ones that were very specific to a particular code base) and oh look there comes the "totally not copied, honest gov'nor" code.

Any company that is using copilot or similar is walking right in to a massive legal minefield. Any engineer that chooses to use Copilot without explicit approval from the company should seriously worry about what target they're putting on their back. You don't want to be putting yourself in a position where your employer can say "They did this without our approval" or worse "Despite explicitly having told them not to", should there end up being legal action. Someone is going to establish precedence one way or another at some point, don't let it be you.
I used to work in construction and was lucky enough to find an escape route before my body eventually gave in to the daily punishment. The toll wasn't just physical either, after working hectic long hours, day in day out, constant travelling, working away from home for weeks at time and far too many night-shifts, there was an inevitable mental breakdown. I found my feet again eventually but it wasn't easy.

Driving a taxi isn't hard work and if you think it is then I congratulate you for having such a blessed and entitled life that you are able sit in judgement and call me ignorant.
PSVR2 hardware authentication has been cracked on PC
> why don't we just train it on a CS curriculum instead of millions of examples of code written by humans?

I've never studied computer science formally but I doubt students learn only from the CS curriculum? I don't even know how much knowledge CS curriculum entails but I don't for example see anything wrong including example code written by humans.

Surely students will collectively also learn from millions of code examples online alongside the study. I'm sure teachers also do the same.

A language model can also only learn from text, so what about all the implicit knowledge and verbal communication?
He invested in Apple, not Goldman Sachs. If the latter defaults on deposits, it a damage to reputation damage, sure. But again, cap on balance and FDIC insurance should ensure that customers would get their money back and it probably would not even affect other services.
We were running nix in production and it was an absolute mess

While the language is declarative your configuration is scattered, debuggers are absent, and you're ultimately interacting with a a layer on top of what the original package was designed to do.

This makes it hard to figure the system out, how to debug, and occasionally support is missing.
As a motorcycle drivers myself, I think that the obsession of my fellow drivers with producing loud noises is childish.

I really enjoy the acceleration though (when it's safe to e.g. accelerate away from a traffic light or when getting on the freeway).

The feeling of way faster responding control, and being exposed to wind, smells, sounds makes it a very relaxing immersive experience for me.
We target both x64 and arm, and I'm not aware of any restrictions we place on STL usage. That said, we don't target embedded devices, so your world is _definitely_ different to mine!
The parody here is so perfect, they even created the technology they don't bother to define.
Indeed. You can even argue that scrum is one implementation of Kanban.

Kanban afaik just describes having a swim lane task board. The process for managing that board is left as an exercise to the reader.
“It depends on the circumstances” seems to me like cover for “we made up some random rules that made sense at the time”.

If you cover a song on YouTube, you can apparently be demonetised or attract copyright strikes from the original artist. But in software, you tell me an algorithm and I code it up, that’s an original work.

The lines all seem pretty arbitrary to me.
Thanks. I found it annoying that the author never says what kanban is. By leading the title with scrum, you can argue that it’s for those familiar with it. But then the article neglects to describe the alternative it claims is better.

It’s akin to saying, “You don’t need yoga; just do twiddlebop right,” and never saying what twiddlebop is.

It’s also rife with meaningless declarations, like the one about “pushing decisions to the edge of the team.” WTF is that supposed to mean?
Possession of land doesn't give absolute untrammeled rights in most countries, e.g.:

* Exceptions exist for subterranean mineral wealth, e.g. mining licenses can be issued against the wishes of a land owner

* Similarly the landowner has no exclusive right to the air above the property beyond some low altitude

* Compulsory acquisition can be invoked by the state

In many cases the landowner is compensated, though they may not like the amount. In the case of treasure in the UK the 1996 Act provides for a reward of "up to the market value". In those case the treasure hunters weren't on their own land and (https://www.herefordshirehoard.co.uk/the-story):

"The judge who sentenced the men said they had cheated not only the landowner, but also the public of ‘exceptionally rare and significant coins’.

Had the metal detectorists stayed on the right side of the law they could have expected to receive, as the judge pointed out to them, a half share or a third share of the hoard’s value."
The Forlorn Hope from the Donner Party did this study a while back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party#%22The_Forlorn_Ho...
There is a difference between can't and doesn't want to.
> Use domains/subdomains as usernames by just...

Username should be owned. Domains are leased.
What your innovation team is missing is a dinosaur whisperer
Accelerate your innovations by learning how to communicate internally with your stakeholders.
The Netherlands lost a lot of paintings before the government stepped in and funded the Rijksmuseum. Then for a 150 years they bought as many of them back as they could.

Whenever I'm in a museum abroad I always like to visit the Dutch/Flemish masters section. There are good ones in Spain but those are honourable spoils of war. The American museums are wealthy industrialists buying paintings at an auction.
Interesting stuff, glad to see that the research is continuing in this area. I'm thinking about experimenting with topical alagebrium just to see if it does anything. I recall a study in mice that found a very significant effect on skin wrinkles in aged animals.

And it's lipofuscin, I mistyped it. Basically oxidized junk molecules that never seem to get broken down and just accumulate within the cell with age. Interestingly, piracetam seems to have a positive effect on this in rodent brains.
The more "fun" thing these days is when you can't cheat in _single_ player, because that eats into DLC sales :)
So I was trying to figure this out, but basically passkeys are a private-public key pair as opposed to passwords that are a shared secret? And I guess authenticating with a passkey is basically doing a signature or some other proof that doesn't expose the private key.

Since passkeys are generated using an algorithm, there's no risk of people reusing them or choosing weak ones (and will force people to use password managers).

And at the root you still have a shared secret password/pin to unlock your password manager or device containing the password manager.
It's almost as if half the elected officials are paid by the ultra wealthy to block all legislation that isn't about social wedge issues. As if gay rights is what's causing the planet to heat and inflation to eat away at our earnings.

And then the billionaires use their propaganda networks to point to the lack of progress and say, "see, it's impossible, let's not tax billionaires. In fact, this study the billionaires just did shows that taxing the billionaires will just make things worse, and the real problem is kids knowing that gay people exist."

And, well, propaganda works.
Yes, that's why any serious effort in producing software compatible with GPL-ed software requires the team writing code not to look at the original code at all. Usually a person (or small team) reads the original software and produces a spec, then another team implements the spec. This reduces the chance of accidentally copying GPL-ed code.
I am talking about Ruzzians === the Z patriots. They are so brainwashed that they actually believe the LGBTQ and Israel and other evil gangs are up to pervert Russia. The Z-eds are also proud of Putin's crimes and the dictatorship, they even try to explain why democracy is bad. This failled empire needs to fail from inside like URSS did and the other communist countries, and time needs to pass so tne non brainwashed generations can grow.

I am not sure what you want from EU, we are not USA to democratize them with force.
The western EU thought that with economy they can prevent idiotic wars, this work for EU, we no longer have wars here and the population is very anti -war.

Not sure what happens in Baltic states but please don't fucking tell me Ruzzian propaganda on how well URSS or Russia is treating minorities, the fucking bastards of Putin and his gang are not respecting nationalities living in their own independent countries.

I know that Ukraine is almost as bad as Russia so pushing propaganda on how bad Ukraine is just pushes Russia even lower.

So for Romanians Russians or FSB trolls should not waste their time, maybe you can fool some westerner with how well you love minorities.

TLDR easter europe knows Russia well, Putin played EU and Germany but he made a bet and his dice did not favored him, but he will push this stupid SMO to the his death.
Here’s the example of copilot regurgitating GPL code verbatim:

https://codeium.com/blog/copilot-trains-on-gpl-codeium-does-...

It produces an almost exact copy of some training data.
Yes, you need the protection. You shouldn't be protecting yourself because it takes time from your work.

Or do you enjoy explaining how project priorities work at length for the fifth time in two weeks? Do you enjoy sales just "quickly popping by" your desk to request "a small tiny feature I promised the client we'll have done by end of week".

This is why in Agile we have the Scrum Master who fields all requests like that and tells Marketdrone A to fight Marketdrone B on whose task is more important, because team only has enough time to complete either task on the next sprint. Every time someone tries to interfere with the team's work they firmly direct the person to the SM. In a few actual cases the team's SM has physically removed the over-eager middle manager out of the team's space with their "few quick requests and improvements".

I'd really want to know what kind of tasks can't be completed in two weeks in your opinion.

The tasks in a sprint aren't "build a house from scratch" -level, you split them until they're in manageable chunks of time. In a single sprint you might have the task of clearing the plot from any trees and laying down the markers for the house's base.

Then the client comes in and approves the direction or asks you to make the bathroom a bit bigger or move the house 5 meters to the east - which is still easy because the "house" is just stakes in the ground with string connecting them.

And again you pick 2 weeks of work you know your team can finish and the client checks that everything looks good. etc etc.

It really isn't complicated. I think the majority of HN has only been subjected to cargo-cult Agile or some kind of Agile-ish system where you just use the terms, but none of the actual processes.
> it simply LEARNS from it as a human coder would learn from it.

It doesn't LEARN anything, let alone like a human coder would. It has absolutely zero understanding. It's not actually intelligent. It's a highly tuned mathematical model that predicts what the next word should be.
I’ll stick to passwords in a password manager thanks.
I think of large models, ones such as CoPilot, as lossy compression with content addressable retrieval. If you type the first few parts of some content it has stored then it will retrieve the rest for you.

The blocks retrieved are very small and many of them occur frequently. “if” followed by “(“ for example — hardly worthy of copyright, but we also know that they were literally taken from copyrighted material.

(I don’t think the model starts out with any existing knowledge of syntax / grammar of, say, Python?)

Even if some of that material was public domain, a lot of it wasn’t and at best requires attribution; at worst, full licensing conditions.

To put it another way: it doesn’t matter how many vegetable ingredients they throw into the sausage or how elaborate the sausage making machine is: if they put pork in, the stuff that comes out ain’t vegetarian.
Yep, or if you are working on a project to build a control system for a new factory which is going live in 18 months, it's pretty reasonable for your management team to want to know that you have confidence you can build the control system within a year.

If not, they will probably want to cut the scope or put other risk mitigation in place.
Dorsey also has stakes in Musk's Twitter.
I can meet you in the middle on "considerably less attractive" :-)

For what it's worth, if I wanted zero-cost then the way I'd probably write that in Common Lisp would be with a more spartan abstraction like:

(deftype f () 'double-float)
(deftype points () '(simple-array (2 *) f))

(-> euclidian-distance (f f f f) f)
(defun euclidian-distance (x1 y1 x2 y2)
(sqrt (+ (expt (- x2 x1) 2) (expt (- y2 y1) 2))))

(-> point@ (points integer) (values f f))
(defun point@ (points i)
(values (aref points 0 i)
(aref points 1 i)))

I'll grant you that's a kludge compared with your example. It wouldn't hold me back though. And I wouldn't consider trading in my lovely late-bound programming environment for an issue of this magnitude.
Xiaomi have required this for a while now, not sure exactly when but at least since 2016.

The other big Chinese brands that have cheaper high end handsets don't offically support unlocked bootloaders as far as i know. They subsidize their handsets with all the junk that their custom Android UIs push, so don't want owners to flash a custom ROM.

The top 3 phones in the LineageOS install stats page are Xiaomi for this reason.
https://stats.lineageos.org/

Often phones that do support unlocking (without the hoop jumping) you have to pay a premium for, like the Pixel.
I played it from day one on hardware which was barely matching the minimum specs. Never had any game breaking bugs and it usually only crashed during long sessions, if at all.

Software stacks nowadays are such massive pieces of garbage that it is kind of surprising things are not falling apart repeatedly. Which also means having the "right" parts and pieces together you actually may see this happening, unfortunately.
The author is Polish, and in Polish, double negatives are grammatically and semantically correct. Therefore it's understandable that he might use a double negative in English too.
Not to be confused with Star Trader (1974).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trader
I'm only aware of drivers, which were not sandboxed due to the nature of drivers (at least in late 90ties there was pobably not much of abstraction on that level, kernel features, hardware features available?)
It's sorta like Valve et al having "no management/hierarchy" - there is still one, it's just not codified/official.
I understand the sentiment, but I think it is misguided and therefore - counterproductive.

First, LLMs learn patterns, not just copy and paste. If they generate verbatim copies of any non-trivial-enough part that would be the subject of a copyright license, yes, it would be copyright infringement. Yet, could anyone give such practical examples? And if so, how do they differ from a software engineer who copies and pastes code?

Second, if the code is hosted anywhere else, there is no guarantee that Copilot (or another model) won't learn from that. The only way to make sure no one and nothing will learn from open-source code is to make it as closed as possible.

Third, for me, the crucial part of open-source code is maintenance. GitHub is there and works well both as a platform for creation (I consider GitHub the most productive social network) and an archive. "No GitHub" (even as a mirror) means that the code is likely to be stored in places less likely to engage collaborators and less likely to last long.
People with limited mobility tend to disagree.
Do You Even Test?
"just upgrade every backbone router to handle it" - you've just recreated the same problem.

Routers don't run packet addresses through software, they run then through silicon ASICs which know the address is 32 bits, that's it.

Your solution is literally how Cisco implemented IPv6 on a bunch of it's switches: the IPv6 routing path goes through the firmware and is slow as hell compared to the pure ASIC IPv4 handling. It didn't catch on because it was terrible at any scale (we were building Hadoop clusters, 100+ big data nodes with constrained throughout is money down the drain).
See also https://digitale-sammlungen.de, 1.2 million works from the Bavarian collections.
Unfortunately not Public Domain :-/
Isn't Amazon self-insuring its fleet?
"I'll see if I can dig some up, but there have been similar examples to the image reproduction case that have come out from codepilot, all it took was using some more unique method names "

You mean, like the example the article used?

https://web.archive.org/web/20221017081115/https://nitter.ne...

"sparse matrix transpose, cs_"

Generated the authors matrixes code.