skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any actual details on this? I get that this is a blog post, but the only links I see on the page are to other blog posts. It leaves a lot of questions.

Is this blog post a legally enforceable contract? Is Microsoft specifically indemnifying all users of Copilot against claims of copyright infringement that arise from use of Copilot?

The blog post says that "there are important conditions to this program", and it lists a few, but are those conditions exhaustive, or are there more that the blog post doesn't cover? For example, is it only in specific countries, or does it apply to every legal system worldwide?

What guarantees do users have that Microsoft won't discontinue this program? If Microsoft gets kicked in the teeth repeatedly by courts ruling against them, and they realize that even they can't afford to pay out every time Copilot license-launders large chunks of copyrighted code, what means to users have to keep Microsoft to its promises?
It's based on data from councils and tfl, so council run parks are included (e.g. Gunnersbury near where I live) but not royal parks (like Richmond park)
" The lack of new variable declaration keyword makes scopes less explicit"

You can declare variables (such as x in the above main() function) with var to create a mutable value, or with let to create an immutable value.
I would heartily disagree. When I go to buy some software, which I purchase via one-time purchase, I do not care one bit that they also offer a subscription. If the subscription is a ripoff, then those customers are effectively subsidizing my purchase. And if it's a great deal, then maybe I should consider subscribing instead of paying a lump sum. Either way, I'm not hurt by the additional payment option existing.
First, style is not copyrightable. I could draw something in a Studio Ghibli style and they could do nothing about it, legally speaking.

Second, the way we've seen generative AI be used is not really the same as it was touted originally, that a mere prompt could replace an entire artist's work. A year later, we see that most people, artists included, don't use it as a verbatim text to image machine, they use it as a tool. See apps like ComfyUI or others which allow Node based or layer based image creation and editing, which even Photoshop now has. It's the same as Copilot and ChatGPT, it's not replacing any programmers, just increasing their productivity Given that, it is not looking like generative AI is hurting one's professions, quite the opposite.
I do an online sudoku which sometimes processes the numbers and arrow keys out of order. I feel like I'm being gaslit.
Also useful for tracking your car in case it's stolen.
What about those that are running the iOS 17 developer beta?
I use a <firstinitial><secondinitial><surname>@gmail.com and have been getting Facebook resets every week or two for years. But I know at least two people in two countries with a similar name keep giving out the wrong address from all the crap I get confirming their hair appointments and organising their BBQs, so it seems benign rather than a hacking attempt.

I take it as karma for all the junk <verycommonname@>hotmail.com must get whenever I use a public wifi network. Sorry verycommonname!
> Everybody seems to be saying this, but I really don't think there's even 50% chance of it happening.

That's true it's probably 99% plus it happening or at-least that's the conclusion that the experts and lawyers hired to help evaluate AI startup valuations are coming too. Hired by banks, venture funds, short selling shops, etc plenty of people who don't depending on it being ok to make money.

> "yes we're using copyrighted works, but we're doing it at scale and blending it, so that's ok"

I mean you know collages are legal right? You literally take 100s of copyrighted pictures and put them together and suddenly it's perfectly legal and ok.
Or we could start allowing the remuneration of donors, and not just everyone else involved in the transplant process. Paying for kidneys is legal in Iran, and guess what? No shortage there.
This is my approach too, I've found that it's quite easy to bookmark pages liberally and then I can just locally search my bookmarks from the URL bar.
Let Microsoft first publish a Copilot model that's trained on the internal codebases of Azure, Windows and Office. That's the only way Microsoft can convince me that they truly believe Copilot is non-infringing technology.
Whats the usual update schedule?
It's borderline legal advice and you have to be very careful with predicting how judges will rule on future cases.

In a legal context certain words have immense power. In the context of copyright 'transformative' is one such case. It's a very fine line between 'transformative' and 'derivative' and you don't get to preempt the judiciary about how they will see things.
Same story in Portland - we’ve always had a yard debris bin, that now doubles as any biodegradable food compost. Trash cans are smaller and only gets picked up once every other week. If you’re careful about food waste and recyclables, it works out just fine.
Another Russian mercenary group shows discontent with the Kremlin
The freeze was a crisis entirely of Texa's own making because they're refusing to winterize their plants as freezes become increasingly common and more dangerous. The fact that you want to blame the feds for Texas complete ineptitude is disgusting as someone that had to deal with the freeze in 2021.
Honestly, for most applications at home, I struggle to justify even 1 Gbit/s. At my location, I have the option to upgrade to a 1 Gbit/s connection at the click of a button. I currently get 500/500 Mbit/s for ~45€ per month. 1 Gbit/s would cost around 100€ per month.

I often think about how I could justify the increase in price for myself, but I always come to the conclusion that I just don't need it. And I am a heavy internet user. I download a lot, and I upload a lot (which is why I'm very grateful for my 500 Mbit/s in upload speed). But even with "just" 500 Mbit/s, downloading a 100 GB game takes about 30 minutes. And that's provided I have an endpoint available that can supply the full 500 Mbit/s, which is surprisingly often not the case.

If I happen to need 100 GB of data, I can wait 30 minutes.

Disclaimer: I'm talking about uplink here. Internally, between my PCs, my home server and my NAS, I'm currently looking into getting 10 Gbit/s set up. And yes, I'm sure there are some use cases out there that benefit from 1 Gbit/s uplink. But I, as a power internet user, have decided for myself that I just don't need it, which means that the average Joe definitely doesn't need it.

Still, I think it's great that it's available here and I'm all for getting that expanded further.
At some point in my life, I was forced to use 7/0.7 Mbps ADSL after having 50/50 Mbps and that ADSL was very oversubscribed (high packet loss and huge speed drops to <2 Mbps during weekends or evenings). Later on, I had FTTH, but I couldn't control the router (fibre was terminating at the landlord's house, and I had cat5e from the router to the place where I lived, and the landlord kept the router in the worst place possible so it was overheating during the summer).

Since then, I have tried to be in control of network hardware, and I now avoid *DSL, even though VDSL is decent nowadays. But the reason for 25 Gbps for me is "just because", as ISP charges the same monthly amount as I pay now (there is a setup fee for 25, though).
On the contrary, I'd argue a web client is important for a number of reasons. Many apps, such as Instagram, aren't properly supported on iPadOS. In this case, a web client neatly solves various usability, window management, and accessibility issues.
> Google books was fair use because it was a public benefit

What are the odds the market leaders in LLM right now are just the current day version of Borland-style compilers before open source takes it over?

I've heard arguments the infrastructure part is a long term barrier to entry for OSS development, which will continue to remain in the future. But I don't know enough about it.

Who knows maybe the legal/gov world will move slow enough to miss the bulk of the money-extraction opportunities before OSS takes over and the reality of this problem never going away fully kicks in.
That’s it in a nutshell. The current cost of a Synchrotron is more then the cost of the equivalent capability using non-synchrotron technologies.

It might seem crazy but it turns out Synchrotrons are pretty rare machines too… and they are less “operationalised” in an industrial sense than the crazy tech inside the EUV machines… between the vacuum levels needed and the various linear or circular accelerator technologies available, at the end of the day it’s just way more of a pain in the ass to maintain a large industrially pure vacuum machine operating at continuous round the clock fashion. which might seem nuts but talk to anyone who’s works with high vacuum systems about vacuum purity, out gassing and contamination and yeah… it will make sense pretty quickly.
I don't really understand the meaning of sophomoric discussion, but, is it basically being open to, and discussing thoughts, ideas, concepts, etc., that you're not an expert in?

Isn't talking about, and exploring things that you're not an expert in, good, rather than bad, as that's how you learn new things?
How? By buying tickets like everyone else?
Never gonna happen. The US gov't will never willingly cede control of all the testing and missile ranges and the economic/military power projecion the islands provide it.

Frankly, from a realpolitik standpoint, I would be supremely annoyed at the government if it were to allow secession. It's really too valuable of a landmass to let go. Doing so would drastically alter the pacific theater as china continues a military buildup, threatens Taiwan, and manufactures islands in the south china sea.
Would be nice if either CitizenLab or Apple had published some IOCs...
More like they saved money on their next share buyback.
Eh, the data feeds have narrowed, or at least they have since the last time I looked at them. It used to have exports of things like soundtracks. You wouldn't think that was valuable but I ended up using it.
In general, are these exploits in memory only? If I reboot my phone, is that likely to impact anything? Or is it usually possible to persist them to the file system?
One CVE is in Wallet and Citizen Lab mention PassKit. My guess is that BlastDoor deserializes the PassKit payload successfully, then sends it to PassKit which subsequently decodes a malicious image outside of BlastDoor.
Unfortunately that's pretty improbable due to Google's dominance and the changes in the tech landscape. When non-computer-literate people are making Google searches every day on their phones because it's pre-installed as the default, that's a difficult fight to win.
You do make some valid points but I wouldn't want to work on any kind of large scale codebase that used Javascript over Typescript. Even working in a Typescript codebase of hundreds of thousands of lines I've seen poorly named functions returning data types you wouldn't expect and poorly named variables. I can only imagine the hell if it was a pure javascript codebase and the actual types these things were returning weren't defined somewhere and you had to rely on the debugger for everything or delve through the codebase. Now your IDE catches it before you even run the code. I suppose if we were trying to extend this to the analogy, it's more productive and economical for any company with a substantial fleet of vehicles to run the newer models than it is trying to keep the old ones on the road.
Do we really need to increase the cost of generators by adding safety features against gross negligence?

Adding that feature in will makes people think that it’s safe to run generators indoors because the sensor will cut off when it’s not. Except inevitably the sensor will fail or the co will end up moving to a basement and killing someone
I appreciate that you called out that it was generated by ChatGPT. Regardless of how the post lands with the HN community.
I passed by this link so any times. My interest was piqued only after the fediverse-enabled part was added.
Yeah, but that operation was rushed seemingly so that the team involved would get more glory. No one from the International Xenotransplantion Association, nor any other collaborators in academia, were consulted prior to the procedure.

Source: I know people "close to the matter" since my mom started the collaboration with Revivicor while she was at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Thanks a lot for this. I really appreciate kagi and the work you put in to it.

Now more than ever do we need a user friendly search engine.
Also, extracting for a new purpose is fair use of long standing, distinct from something like sampling for the same purpose of composing music.

Siskel and Ebert didn’t need to pay rights holders to extract from their works for public criticism.
I liked that Google lets you register a different handler for SMS which is at least part way to letting us shut off that 0-click crap channel.
No wonder I got downvoted

This was shared just recently on HN and it perfectly describe the issue:

https://notes.volution.ro/v1/2023/09/remarks/64299f31/

I have some more, perhaps it is time for me to start blog posting.. we shall see
I’ve almost completely stopped my usage of the produce bags because I realized I was just putting things in them out of habit. There’s nothing wrong with putting three broccoli crowns or a cucumber directly into your shopping cart, and this applies for most things I buy. Loose green beans or brussel sprouts are about the only thing I bag anymore.
Or Microsoft just sees this as the less bad option. An acceptable tax, handing out some money extraction to white collar folks so the pressure on gov to cripple them doesn't come as fast.
Probably 3 - sandbox escape, being able to launch a process in privileged mode and something that adds to the kernel table of allowed hashes.

But it is totally possible for them to have been able only to identify one of them if they didn't intercept the whole attack.
> Most of American history?

If you’re suggesting that for “most of American history”, people could openly share whatever opinion they wanted and face no retribution, you’re too out of touch with reality to communicate with. Enjoy the day friend.
> The actual problem is that “tolerance” is undefined in that statement.

Disagreed. You can be pedantic about semantics and doublethink your way out of anything, but that's not productive discourse, so I'll dismiss that out of turn.

> If you make it concrete the “paradox” either disappears or is obvious.

Strong Disagree. If you make it concrete, then you introduce a catch-22 by forcing others to conform to your perspective before a discussion can be begin. If there's any paradox at all in this, it's here.

> It is just a problem of lazy definitions and not defining your terms.

Lets start with tolerance then, because your example (Say we define it as: “I will not initiate violence.”) provided above is WAY off base:

> Tolerance: the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with

You can concretely define your terms all you want, doesn't mean people will agree, use, or perceive your use of them in that way.
Related ongoing thread:

iOS 16.6.1 fixes two vulnerabilities known to be actively exploited in the wild - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37423506 - Sept 2023 (7 comments)
Related ongoing thread:

NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37425007 - Sept 2023 (30 comments)
I've never met a person who threw away a phone because of the lack of updates.
Android Messages, the competitor to iMessage. The parent claimed that Google resists encrypting anything so they can mine your data. I was merely trying to ask for accuracy. I don't know the technical aspects of every Google messaging app but as the other responses in the thread confirm, Messages is end to end encrypted by default for non-SMS messages.
Obviously... that would make a whole pile of assumptions and my put you in an even more difficult spot.
Your comment does not make sense at all.

You are confusing security (no exploits) with privacy (encryption). The iMessage system is really private (no third party not even Apple can read your messages) but traditionally full of security holes (messages once decrypted can harm the rest of your device).
This looks exciting! I was at a shop where we adopted retool to take the burden off of the engineering team for internal tooling, and I think this is taking it to the next level. Looking forward to see more.
None of that is my problem. My belongings belong to me. I don't care if a bean counter somewhere was slightly happier about it before it got to me. The moment the car is my car, it's no longer their car to start charging me access to.
sure, that's why China is banning gov't officials from using their devices...
The traditional key to passive income is picking your parents wisely.
Most pigs only exists because we run extensive operations to breed them. I'm not saying this invalidates your argument, but the people responsible for their execution are also responsible foe their birth - they were created with destruction in mind. It's not like we pluck them out of the wild. Remove this moral claim to take their lives, and we probably won't eat much meat at all anymore, or do much drug research at all.
Because they applied to YC with that idea. That opens a very large can of worms.
At the top tier margin, not on average, I assume.
They aren't "suppressing" them. They don't like that community solar wants to skim the easy parts, and let the grid handle the hard, expensive, parts.
> without any plot fundamentals that felt like a deep betrayal to the universe.

1. Luke went from the most optimistic and positive Jedi in the world, who found the good in Darth Vader, to a dude who tried to kill his own nephew without any explanation on how he got to that point aside from "I had a bad dream". Pathetic even if you ignore he also had dreams about becoming Darth Vader himself, and overcame those.

2. They completely destroyed any sense of time or speed with their "this turtle is so slow but too fast" race as the main plot point

3. Leia went into outer space unconscious but magically flew back in without dying???

4. They kept the elderly Leia around, instead of having her do a hero's sendoff at the end. Instead, they killed the only good character that was set up perfectly to be the new cutthroat cunning but likable leader of the rebellion.

5. They ruined every other fight in star wars with the hyperspace joust. Why was any other fight a big deal when they could have just rammed a few ships with jump drives into the star destroyers, or hell, the death star.

6. Rey is somehow the strongest force user now despite no training. Every other Jedi that got to be that strong had a lifetime of training and tribulations, but now Rey can just beat kylo ren, a lifelong trained Jedi Skywalker with the power of the dark side, just because she's a Mary Sue.

And this is just what I can remember on my phone while sitting at this bar. If you think this movie wasn't a deep betrayal to the universe, you didn't pay any attention to it.
Surveillance footage shows killer Danelo Cavalcante 'crab walk' out of US prison
While I sympathize with the sentiment, how would this "sovereignty" for Hawaii look like? As far as I could tell, their economy could not function on its own. Go back to hundreds of years ago with no hospitals, etc? Would population appreciate that? With large military bases present, it's a moot point anyway. If a country of Germany's size is not able to function as a sovereign country, what chances Hawaii has?
A TBM is only 15 million or so
I agree that foundational technological advancement has slowed.

Most “tech” innovation today, and market cap acceleration, is from innovative use of technology to simplify, scale, and leverage existing business categories.

Not innovative advancement of technology.

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We now have a company that manages and leverages the biggest network of scrapbook creators the world has ever seen!!! :)

Their impact has been unprecedented in range and unexpected side effects.

But at the end of the day, only a small fraction of their “innovation” has has an a hint of foundational flavor. Some papers and opened up software of fine tuned tech, but nothing ground breaking.

And the product itself, whether you are a creator, advertiser, or audience, isn’t a technology.

It’s just a highly commercialized scrapbook.

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Google is asymptotically approaching the same. Though a fraction of their impact is new technology in published papers or into products.

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A small portion of Apple is always focusing on foundational work specific to new device forms and user interfaces.

Their full stack approach to computing devices isn’t as foundational but is unique (in vertical scale) and significant.

Their expansion of services and media, and treating apps like media, is just tech in subservience to regular business.

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AWS and cloud computing done at Amazon was foundational work.

But now that, and most everything else is just tech optimized for business ends.

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Microsoft is mostly optimizing tech, for others to use. They do basic research, but it’s not maturing into ground breaking products, seemingly any time soon.

Kudos to them although the impact of their quantum computing and other advanced projects is 99% PR. And 1% hope that Microsoft won’t fumble commercialization.

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Netflix, optimizing tech for regular media distribution.

Uber? Do I need to say anything?

TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, and so many others, are glorified pinup boards with pinup ads.

Old Silicon Valley wants its valley back. And it’s silicon.

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AI first companies seem to be the only ones carrying the foundational computing tech torch - that I am aware of.

NVidia is the foundational tech breakout on the big company, hardware side.

And OpenAI, etc. on the small company, algorithm side.

Tesla broke new ground, but progress has slowed, so going forward they are a definite maybe.
Please... Androids no better. At least Apple will have it patched within the year of discovery. Can't say the same for other Android vendors.
Reminds me of how my friend made 10 million dollars before he turned 30 by STRICTLY following the below regimen:

1) Get up every day before 6AM

2) Remove all sugar from diet

3) Read one book a week

4) Inherit 10 million dollars from parents

5) Exercise 90 minutes five times a week

6) Buy a standing desk
What’s unclear about it? It’s a closed source product by a for profit company

It would be nice if it were open source, but I don’t see anything that’s unclear about the IP.
They do: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102174
1) What does this topic have to do with Android?

2) EU politicians don't know about Android updates because they don't understand how SW works and most probably have iOS anyway. The only time they hear about tech is when some Joe Schmoe insults them on Facebook so they send the courts after Facebook to doxx that person and get Facebook to moderate and ban "hate speech" on their platform. All in a day's work.

Granted, US politicians don't understand how tech works either, judging by the senate hearing of TikTok CEO ("Mr. CEO, can TikTok access my WiFi?"), but they have a powerful local tech industry to tell politicians what they should lobby for, while the EU doesn't.
What kind of use cases do these sub 10B param models serve? Are they mostly useful for code completion?
The only thing preventing this would be grsec for iOS.
Fast X

Critics 56%

Audience 84%

That movie wasn't fun.
It was the first part in the series where hoped the bad guy wins.

In the previous films the nonsense physics was at least entertaining.
I would argue that we settled a precedent that states could choose to leave unilaterally, not that they could leave at all.