skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Condolences. You can think of it as "bullet dodged", but that's not much consolation when it keeps happening.

Take-homes are much better than Leetcode interviews, but smashing yourself with a hammer in the thumb is much better than in the face.

I think some companies do an initial take-home "screen" just to filter to the candidates who are interested/desperate enough to invest in the "proof-of-work".

To reduce the jerky blow-off rate, are you getting at least a solid call with a manager or engineer (not just a recruiter phone screen) as a sign of their investment, before you invest in the take-home?

Balanced dynamics and mutual investment are good.
Ok, looks like that doesn't include a park in which vehicles are forbidden then.
You made the assumption the start screen explicitly asked users to not make, that is apply their local laws to the question.
Would you be happy to work with any and all your peers who have the same degree?
if I type ctrl+space, will it give me the correct auto-completion? despite what type-system galaxy brains might think, this is 95% of the value
tbh I think it's just that, as is normal, they need to be tested in court in a slightly new configuration. Law moves more slowly than innovation.

Many licenses are reasonably clear that this kind of use is not acceptable, as is easily demonstrated by these "AI"s frequently producing exact matches without license statements. Which is unambiguously not allowed by many licenses. The legal case is pretty straightforward, there just needs to be some high level precedents set for smaller courts to follow, and that takes time and money to push through.

Who, exactly, will be penalized for the output? ...that I can kinda see going to either party. But regardless it'll eventually have a chilling effect on training on legally-questionable data. We're just still in the chaotic early days and the hammer hasn't fallen yet, and there's a decent chance the money to be made will exceed the penalty (which is crazy, but seems to be the norm).

It's either that or abandon all IP protections, and that seems less likely to happen.
I hope we can keep this in the headlines. r/programming was the subreddit I mostly posted stuff from my reading list (one of the top submitters) to get feedback from comments and now I can't get in. Has the community from r/programming moved somewhere else? I'm posting here if anyone is interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/softwarecrafters/
> Additionally, though, the contract indicates that if the customer engages in these activities, that Red Hat reserves the right to cancel that contract and make no further contracts with the customer for support and update services.

Without first-hand experience, that's the same business model that Adacore (of the GNU Ada Translator) were said to use, back when they weren't really having an open source option. That last part seems to have changed, though.
I'm very curious which library it was
> Yeah that’s what I expected. Not a bunch of silly questions, but actually ambiguous ones

The fact that there's no clear consensus on most of the questions means they are ambiguous, no?
Yes, any liquid or solid works to maintain contact. Gas eliminates contact. Otherwise you could say shoes prevent contact!

Just like "contactless" payment cards, which for some reason involves the word "tap" as well, even though tapping is the act of making brief contact, and is not required for the communication to succeed, and that successful communication could be referred to as making contact, but I digress.
That is really terrible - sorry that happened to you.

The company I got the take home test from is a well known and established leader in its domain - not anything like the one you described above.
We don't need Open Source licenses to change to deal with AI. We need AI to respect Open Source licenses, or not use code under those licenses.

I sincerely hope that one of the many court cases produces a verdict that says AI-generated code is, in fact, subject to the licenses of the inputs. Then there will be a lot of screaming and wailing, as people go "but how can we train AI if we have to respect licenses?!". And then people will figure out how to actually respect Open Source software licenses (and, for that matter, proprietary ones).
> How do you estimate how much life is left on any given part of the physical flash?

In proportion to how many times it's been rewritten already, or by checking the error rate for what's already written there.

> This is one of those areas where neglecting the optimizations qualitatively changes the result.

It mostly changes how much error correction you have to use. But the nature of it also allows other optimizations.

Suppose you're going to use multi-drive array. Now you could stripe the error correction across devices and use the same system to recover from device failures, which at the same level of total error correction is more resilient.
They are just trying to traverse the Causeway of Gibraltar [orca/whale perspective] and are being harassed by stupid noisy critters leaping out of the land to block their way and annoy them. So one of them "kicked" a boat.
The ship failed. What we don't know yet is whether the carbon fiber hull is why.
I'm rolling my eyes at the "Do you have NO empathy" bit. Is it empathy that drives one to lie by omission to obfuscate the death of others? Is that the word for it?

You don't have to tell the family you're certain they are dead, if you aren't, but you should tell the family "We heard a sound consistent with implosion at the same time we simultaneously lost communications and telemetry from the sub. The most rational explanation is that they are all dead." Once you've told the family, you should tell the public.

What people are engaging in here, you included, is some kind of baffling Just World bias. That is, this unusual circumstance has happened - the sub imploded, the government knew, the government waited days to tell the public, and now you and others are defending the government's actions - as if, because it happened this way it must be justified in happening this way. In reality, of course, it's completely irrational - that's why you don't even bother to defend the course of events rather than imply I lack empathy (which, again, backwards because you are defending lying to the bereaved for no gain, in order to deceive them into believing their loved ones are huddled in the cold and dark and slowly suffocating when you know they are not).

There is absolutely no reason to temporarily conceal the deaths. The government should have notified the families with their information, and then the public.
The existing licenses cover AI training just fine, what we lack is sufficient legal precedent and enforcement. An AI product - more specifically, the model weights - is a derivative work of the original works used for training; AI training is a process of algorithmic compression of the originals.

Therefore, the resulting model should abide by all the license requirements imposed on the original - for example, if the model is trained on GPL code and can generate code, then any binary distribution should also be freely available for derivation in source format, and that includes all the algorithmically compressed training material (weights), which has become part of the model. If the source is AGPL, then that service cannot be made available on a website without disclosing said source and respective model weights.

Any other interpretation of the nature of copyright - which by definition, only covers human produced material - is just a variant of the proverbial "man that can't understand something because their paycheck depends upon them not understanding".
Horse is a fun one. I started to wonder does putting saddle and reins on one change things... So if you ride without them it is fine, but if you put those on it becomes a vehicle...

Travois is other one I kinda struggled... Just a a-frame even if you drag it in clearly is not one to me.
I think open source licenses didnt even arrive in the 2000 to deal with the web.

The original intend was to make the source code available, done by distributing the compiled program. With SAAS companies (FAANG...) can just use open source on the servers, never distribute their program, only the output. Therefore not requiring making their changes available to the public.
"It's hard to read the comedies. A lot of the humor is hidden in the way Shakespeare encoded his "stage directions" in the text."

Agreed, I didn't express what I said well. The comedies make much more sense to me now but are easily lost on 12-year-olds unless carefully introduced and explained well.

At my school it didn't help that anything likely to titillate the minds of 12-year-old boys was expurgated from the text (our school editions were first published in the 1940s/'50s or earlier and had been used by the school for decades so the editing had a sense of prudery about it). Of course that they were censored was never mentioned by the teachers but when I was about 15 I discovered the fact by accident after using one of my father's editions for homework. Not sure of the play now but it wasn't one of the comedies (I think it was Julius C.). This 'naughty' edition was a hit when I took it to school, the kids were rightly annoyed to see large chunks of text missing from their school editions. For example, any part with bastard in it was removed, and that was just for starters.

Had the comedies not been hacked about I'm sure they would have made more sense. Fortunately I don't think that nonsense goes on any longer.

"They're still better in performance, where the actors and director have done the "translation"."

Very true, every once in a while we had a troupe called The Young Shakespeare Players come to the school and perform everything from Lear to Julius Caesar to The Scottish play to the comedies and they performed them in ways that would bring out the best for school kids.

I suppose I'm sensitive to the way Shakespeare is introduced to schools because I'm a techie whose primary interests were technical and science subjects and I was only mediocre at English and languages school, so it would have been easy for me to end up among the group that found Shakespeare a drugery and that was so for some. Their attitude was the words didn't make sense so why bother studying it (the same went for poetry, I recall some kids just giving up on Eliott's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Waste Land). Fortunately, I caught the Shakespeare bug and I'm very glad I did.

Incidentally, we had a little textbook just called English Essays, it contained works by Addison, Steele, Bacon, Hazlitt, Lamb and so on. I just fell in love with many of these essays such as Old China,
A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig, On a Sundial, Sir Roger de Coverley and so on—I remember them as if it were yesterday. The language is so beautiful and eloquent yet they lose nothing for being very short. They were very formative, they brought great writing in small digestible amounts to kids like me who would normally prefer to be reading say Scientific American than novels like Thackeray's Vanity Fair, which I recall I struggled to get through. I cannot understand why these wonderful essays seem to have fallen out of favor with educators.

—

Edit: Re stage directions as we have them are almost never Shakespeare's own writing. I have a reprint collection of the earliest folio editions and they are a little too Spartan for me (they're harder to follow).
I am not so familiar with the uk. It seems you are right. From what I read it is possible, but you have a less beneficial arrangement, since you pay more tax.

> You’ll need to ensure you pay the correct PAYE tax and National Insurance (NI) for any contract which is inside IR35 because you are, in the eyes of HMRC, an employee. You can, however, manage this through your limited company.

https://www.crunch.co.uk/knowledge-tax/can-ir35-contractors-...

I wonder if 2 companies is enough to bypass this.
What was your answer on the wheelchair? Same as for bicycle, or different? If different, what about a wheelchair but the person in it doesn’t need a wheelchair, they just enjoy the sporting aspect of arm-powered vehicles?

The other way I would “problematize” (to borrow the author’s wording) your crystal-clear understanding is to ask about the matchbox car, then the remote control car, then one of those kid-size toy cars that the kid drives around (then a small one-person electric car, then a full-size electric car).

I suppose another angle would be, are bicycles okay? What about battery-powered bicycles? Does it change if we add a small petrol motor to recharge the battery?
The sheer size and endless bike shedding in this comment section proves that the author is after something here.
How to Kill a Decentralised Network
LLMs need to be augmented to provide insights about the material in their training data that is relevant to fragments of their generated responses. This would be valuable for many reasons. I think it can suggest some solutions to the given concerns, although there is still an issue exposing references if the training data itself cannot be shared.
The software is running on an entirely different platform with different priorities. Security being the main one.
This would of course have a positive impact on your vascular health and your brain right ?
People on certain apps often have links to profiles that I basically can't read because every post is NSFW. I used to be able to at least peek with Nitter but now I just insta close most Twitter links.

I'm pretty sure a few explicit Google searches with "site:twitter.com" should pull up plenty.

And I'm not talking softcore, unless my descriptions are way off base.

Granted those aren't necessarily unwittingly, I can usually guess it's going to be like that, but I've definitely "fallen into a rabbit hole" so to speak at other times.

On reddit, if you're not subbed to porn subreddits, you normally wouldn't see it. Though the homepage was still jacked up enough a few days ago that I was seeing softcore stuff on page 1 or 2 with the country set to Mexico.
In most countries operating as a limited company would solve that. The "consequences" as a personal freelancer would involve paying some more tax, which is not desirable, but is an option.
Technically of course Firefox failed to live with an old kernel and insane JS code.

Morally it's Google. Google is like Bitcoin. A huge natural ressource hog for a questionable benefit. Here the benefit is tracking users to make advertising billions. For that goal a billion of smart phones need several extra GB of memory an significantly larger batteries. What is the ecological footprint of that?

Typing on a seven year old smart phone with 2 GB (SailfishOS, so yes it is maintained. Maybe not perfectly, but better than many Androids half as old). It works quite well on reasonable pages even without add blocking. Of course super heavy pages won't work and for Google search I haven't even consented. Occasionally
I get reminded of that when some site embeds it. Well, a good reminder for me not to use them.
> I don't feel secure enough to ask to skip takehome assignments.

But you feel secure to have your time and self confidence burned? Because you will be ghosted or sent generic rejection email.
I think you're confused. According to the text I quoted, it's not the case that student loans delinquencies are hidden, and so students take on even more student debt to get an even more expensive degree and presumably a shot at an even higher paying job. No, instead they go and buy more expensive cars and houses. If you take on as much debt as you can for the purpose of consumption, you're shit with money. The fact that grads make more money than non grads is irrelevant here.
That’s tivoization, and the GNU Affero GPL license cover that case already. It’s not very common, however.
1. At what point an intelligence trained with copyrighted work is derivative work of the trained materials?

2. Why making a difference between AI and HI (Human Intelligence)?

3. Given the fast development in the field, when does the difference made above (if any) start being outdated and unrealistic and how do we future-proof against this?
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715
These are the posts the article is referring to:

Part 1: https://blog.janestreet.com/oxidizing-ocaml-locality/

Part 2: https://blog.janestreet.com/oxidizing-ocaml-ownership/
This lead me to question about size. Clearly a traditional animal dragged sized one is a vehicle. But those small ones pulled by hand are not.

Same goes for things like kites and quadrocopters.
Come on now! "a peculiar interpreted code" crashes your interpreter and you blame those that (allegedly) auto generated it? I realise there is a bit of tongue in cheek in there and Firefox is an amazing product, but although it's certainly not normal for a function to declare 20k variables it is not outside the realm of the language. Furthermore, 20k is not that much if you take the amounts of RAM current devices have.

Don't get me wrong. I don't think assigning blame is the most important thing to do when troubleshooting. I'd rather not, but when that process starts it should be factual.

So, sorry, its not Google's fault... Then we also throw Linux under the bus. "it's not our code, it's Linus" here is the code. But, that Linux kernel code that kills a process if it accesses too far from it's stack pointer has the following comment:

"Accessing the stack below %sp is always a bug (...)"

I haven't got time to look at the history how it was changed and why in the Linux kernel and it became "not a bug". If someone knows more, please do explain.

So is it a "bug in Firefox" Or "bug in old Linux"? I can't say with absolute certainty without researching how exactly the stack allocation in old Linux kernel works, how is it documented etc.

So if anything I'd thank Google for exposing the bug ;-)

On a side note, I've recently experienced a similar JS/firefox/web site bug. There is this open-source ecommerce software called shopware. They use symfony (yes, PHP i know...) and the most recent major version simply freezes Firefox when one goes to the admin interface and looses connectivity. Not just freezing one tab, no, freezes entire Firefox, multiple open windows. This is on up to date Arch with a new Linux kernel so it's definitely not this issue,but it does happen in Firefox and not in Chrome.

JavaScript bugs like this are hard to find. I think AI may be one tool that will help us find them faster (intentionally or not).
> It is interesting though that we find ourselves working around a bug we did not introduce triggered by code we do not control.

I used to be part of a team developing a popular browser WYSIWYG editor. Every release of any of the supported browsers was a coin toss regarding introducing new bugs.

From this perspective developing for the still supported back then IE8 was easier, because there was no chance for it to ever change.
A national can deposit mandate might help eh.
I use it on daily basis. Wonderful tool. Supports attachements. A must have.
Yeah it all sucks. I've tried just about everything. Massive latency. Enough for a bad guy to get away in many cases. I've seen even upwards of 30 seconds. We really need WebRTC. Badly.
> You probably dodged a stressful position.

Word - I never considered this possibility. But now that you mention it, the hiring manager I spoke to had this smug swagger about him and a condescending sneer about my current company and open source in general. Not good vibes at all. As a member of his team, I might have placed myself in a position that is bad for my mental health. Thank you for sharing this perspective, really helped.
> licenses didnt even arrive in the 2000 to deal with the web.

The first version of the AGPL dates from 2002.
Seems to me your saying the problem is that independents and corporations make the standards rather than governments and nonprofits...
> Many licenses are reasonably clear that this kind of use is not acceptable, as is easily demonstrated by these "AI"s frequently producing exact matches without license statements. Which is unambiguously not allowed by many licenses.

Demonstrations that AIs can spit out exact copies are helpful, but misleading; that could lead down the road of "we put in filters so it can't ever emit an exact copy", and that's not sufficient. It's also a license violation to train an AI on Open Source code, generate "new" code from that model even if it's not an exact copy, and ignore the licenses of the input.

License violations don't suddenly become acceptable just because you're violating a million licenses at once.
The First Amendment is a constant, like a straight line, applicable to every American and all speech. The First Amendment gives you the right to say anything. However, the courts have recognized that there are a few rules that supersede even the First Amendment -- the classic "can't say fire in a crowded theater," but also libel, blatantly false advertising, etc. It's not that the First Amendment doesn't apply, but some other law or rule has higher priority, i.e. above that flat, constant line that is the 1st.

A government official privy to classified information is subject to secrecy rules that supersede the 1st. The question at issue is whether a journalist who becomes privy to the the same classified information is subject to the same rules. "The question before the court was whether the constitutional freedom of the press, guaranteed by the First Amendment, was subordinate to a claimed need of the executive branch of government to maintain the secrecy of information." i.e. which takes priority, the 1st, or rules about secrecy (the Espionage Act, in this case).

From your wikipedia article: "New York Times v. United States ... did not void the Espionage Act or give the press unlimited freedom to publish classified documents." The Court did not say that journalists have free reign, they simply refused to grant an injunction against publication. While this, and subsequent cases, certainly signal wide breadth of press freedom, it's not absolute and not a guarantee against a future prosecution.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/22/521009791...

FBI Director James Comey demurred. "That's a harder question, as to whether a reporter incurs criminal liability by publishing classified information," Comey said.

freedom of the press is not absolute, even in the U.S. According to a recent paper from the Congressional Research Service, the question is far from settled

The justices didn't block the government from exercising what's called "prior restraint" — that is, preventing a news organization from publishing or broadcasting news.
So what are the suggestions? What kind of closes should be added?
> Counterexample: all open source software

Reality example: Open source only exists because people earn a living doing something else. It’s cost is very far from zero. In fact, if we accounted for it I would bet FOSS is, as a category, the most expensive software on the planet.

Nothing is free. A sad yet necessary truth that must be understood.
No amount of licensing will matter so long as "AI" merchants don't give half a single fuck about intellectual property rights.
Same, I agreed with the majority only 11% of the time.
It looks like the chips themselves should support change of ownership. Whether an OEM ships them in an unlocked (transferrable) state is up to them.

https://opentitan.org/book/doc/security/specs/ownership_tran...
I think this missed one more axis, or didn't go deep enough.

What if someone mines under the park? And uses things like carts or mining vehicles there? Are those "in" the park or not?
Can you not with the victimhood mentality? There isn’t a single major social network — let alone many — on which explicitly calling for genocide does not run afoul of the moderation policy, and we both know it.